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._
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=Daar niets goeds in is, gaat niets goeds nit=--Where 20 no good is in, no good comes out. _Dut. Pr._
=Daar 't een mensch wee doet, daar heeft hij de hand=--A man lays his hand where he feels the pain. _Dut. Pr._
=Daar twee kijven hebben ze beiden schuld=--When two quarrel both are to blame. _Dut. Pr._
=Daar zijn meer dieven als er opgehangen worden=--There are more thieves than are hanged. _Dut. Pr._
=Dabit Deus his quoque finem=--God will put an end to these calamities also. _Virg._
=Da capo=--From the beginning. _It._ 25
=D'accord=--Agreed; in tune. _Fr._
=Da chi mi fido, / Guardi mi Dio. / Da chi non mi fido, / Mi guarderò io=--From him I trust may God keep me; from him I do not trust I will keep myself. _It. Pr._
=Dachtet ihr, der Löwe schliefe, weil er nicht brüllte?=--Did you think the lion was sleeping because it did not roar? _Schiller._
=Da die Götter menschlicher noch waren, / Waren Menschen göttlicher=--When the gods were more human, men were more divine. _Schiller._
=Dádivas quebrantan peñas=--Gifts dissolve rocks. 30 _Sp. Pr._
=Da du Welt nicht kannst entsagen, / Erobre dir sie mit Gewalt=--Where thou canst not renounce the world, subdue it under thee by force. _Platen._
=Dafür bin ich ein Mann, dass sich aushalte in dem was ich begonnen, dass ich einstehe mit Leib und Leben für das Trachten meines Geistes=--For this end am I a man, that I should persevere steadfastly in what I have began, and answer with my life for the aspiration of my spirit. _Laube._
=Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book.= _Goethe._
[Greek: daitos eïsês]--An equal diet. _Hom._
[Greek: Dakry' adakrya]--Tearless tears. _Eurip._ 35
=Dal detto al fatto v'è un gran tratto=--From saying to doing is a long stride. _It. Pr._
=Da locum melioribus=--Make way for your betters. _Ter._
=Dame donde me asiente, que yo me haré donde me acueste=--Give where I may sit down, and I will make where I may lie down. _Sp. Pr._
=Dames quêteuses=--Ladies who collect for the poor. _Fr._
=Dämmerung ist Menschenlos in jeder Beziehung=--Twilight 40 (of dawn) is the lot of man in every relation. _Feuchtersleben._
=Damna minus consueta movent=--Losses we are accustomed to, affect us little. _Juv._
=Damnant quod non intelligunt=--They condemn what they do not understand. _Quinct._
=Damn'd neuters, in their middle way of steering, / Are neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red-herring.= _Dryden._
=Damnosa hæreditas=--An inheritance which entails loss. _L._
=Damnosa quid non imminuit dies?=--What is 45 there that corroding time does not impair? _Hor._
=Damnum absque injuria=--Loss without injustice. _L._
=Damnum appellandum est cum mala fama lucrum=--Gain at the expense of credit must be set down as loss. _Pr._
=Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, / And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer. / Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike; / Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike.= _Pope._
=Danari fanno danari=--Money breeds money. _It. Pr._
=Dance attendance on their lordships' pleasure.= 50 _Hen. VIII._, v. 2.
=Dan Chaucer, well of English undefiled, / On Fame's eternal bead-roll worthy to be filed.= _Spenser._
=Dandies, when first-rate, are generally very agreeable men.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=Danger for danger's sake is senseless.= _Victor Hugo._
=Danger is the very basis of superstition. It produces a searching after help supernaturally when human means are no longer supposed to be available.= _B. R. Haydon._
=Danger levels man and brute, / And all are fellows in their need.= _Byron._
=Danger past, God forgotten.= _Pr._ 5
=Dannosa è il dono che toglie la libertà=--Injurious is the gift that takes away our liberty. _It. Pr._
=Dans l'adversité de nos meilleurs amis, nous trouvons toujours quelque chose qui ne nous déplait pas=--In the misfortune of our best friends we find always something which does not displease us. _La Roche._
=Dans la morale, comme l'art, dire n'est rien, faire est tout=--In morals as in art, talking is nothing, doing is all. _Renan._
=Dans l'art d'intéresser consiste l'art d'écrire=--The art of writing consists in the art of interesting. _Fr._
=Dans le nombre de quarante ne fait-il pas un= 10 =zéro?=--In the number forty is there not bound to be a cipher? _Fr._
=Dans les conseils d'un état, il ne faut pas tant regarder ce qu'on doit faire, que ce qu'on peut faire=--In the councils of a state, the question is not so much what ought to be done, as what can be done. _Fr._
=Dante was very bad company, and was never invited to dinner.= _Emerson._
=Dante, who loved well because he hated, / Hated wickedness that hinders loving.= _Browning._
=Dantur opes nulli nunc nisi divitibus=--Wealth now-a-days goes all to the rich. _Mart._
=Dapes inemptæ=--Dainties unbought, _i.e._, home 15 produce. _Hor._
=Dapibus supremi / Grata testudo Jovis=--The shell (lyre) a welcome accompaniment at the banquets of sovereign Jove. _Hor._
=Dare pondus idonea fumo=--Fit only to give importance to trifles (_lit._ give weight to smoke). _Pr._
=Dare to be true, nothing can need a lie; / A fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.= _George Herbert._
=Daring nonsense seldom fails to hit, / Like scattered shot, and pass with some for wit.= _Butler._
=Darkness visible.= _Milton._ 20
=Darkness which may be felt.= _Bible._
=Dark night, that from the eye his function takes, / The ear more quick of apprehension makes.= _Mid. N. Dream_, iii. 2.
=Dark with excessive bright.= _Milton._
=Das Alte stürzt, es ändert sich die Zeit, / Und neues Leben blüht aus den Ruinen=--The old falls, the time changes, and new life blossoms out of the ruins. _Schiller._
=Das Alter der göttlichen Phantasie / Es= 25 =ist verschwunden, es kehret nie=--The age of divine fantasy is gone, never to return. _Schiller._
=Das Alter wägt, die Jugend wagt=--Age considers, youth ventures. _Raupach._
=Das arme Herz, hienieden / Von manchem Sturm bewegt, / Erlangt den wahren Frieden, / Nur, wo es nicht mehr schlägt=--The poor heart, agitated on earth by many a storm, attains true peace only when it ceases to beat. _Salis-Seewis._
=Das Auge des Herrn schafft mehr als seine beiden Hände=--The master's eye does more than both his hands. _Ger. Pr._
=Das begreife ein andrer als ich!=--Let another try to understand that; I cannot. _A. Lortzing._
=Das Beste, was wir von der Geschichte haben,= 30 =ist der Enthusiasmus, den sie erregt=--The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm which it excites. _Goethe._
=Das Edle zu erkennen ist Gewinnst / Der nimmer uns entrissen werden kann=--The ability to appreciate what is noble is a gain which no one can ever take from us. _Goethe._
=Das einfach Schöne soll der Kenner schätzen; / Verziertes aber spricht der Menge zu=--The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people are satisfied with ornament. _Goethe._
=Das Erste und Letzte, was vom Genie gefordert wird, ist Wahrheitsliebe=--The first and last thing which is required of genius is love of truth. _Goethe._
=Das Geeinte zu entzweien, das Entzweite zu einigen, ist das Leben der Natur=--Dividing the united, uniting the divided, is the life of Nature. _Goethe._
=Das Geheimniss ist für die Glücklichen=--Mystery 35 is for the favoured of fortune. _Schiller._
=Das Genie erfindet, der Witz findet bloss=--Genius invents, wit merely finds. _Weber._
=Das Gesetz ist der Freund des Schwachen=--Law is the protector of the weak. _Schiller._
=Das Gesetz nur kann uns Freiheit geben=--Only law can give us freedom. _Goethe._
=Das Gewebe dieser Welt ist aus Nothwendigkeit und Zufall gebildet; die Vernunft des Menschen stellt sich zwischen beide, und weiss sie zu beherrschen=--The web of this world is woven out of necessity and contingency; the reason of man places itself between the two, and knows how to control them. _Goethe._
=Das glaub' ich=--That is exactly my opinion. 40 _Ger. Pr._
=Das Glück deiner Tage / Wäge nicht mit der Goldwage. / Wirst du die Krämerwage nehmen, / So wirst du dich schämen und dich bequemen=--Weigh not the happiness of thy days with goldsmith's scales. Shouldst thou take the merchant's, thou shalt feel ashamed and adapt thyself. _Goethe._
=Das Glück giebt Vielen zu viel, aber Keinem genug=--Fortune gives to many too much, but to no one enough. _Ger. Pr._
=Das glücklichste Wort es wird verhöhnt, / Wenn der Hörer ein Schiefohr ist=--The happiest word is scorned, if the hearer has a twisted ear. _Goethe._
=Das grosse unzerstörbare Wunder ist der Menschenglaube an Wunder=--The great indestructible miracle is man's faith in miracle. _Jean Paul._
=Das Grösste, was dem Menschen begegnen= 45 =kann, ist es wohl, in der eigenen Sache die allgemeine zu vertheitigen=--The noblest function, I should say, that can fall to man is to vindicate all men's interests in vindicating his own. _Ranke._
=Das hat die Freude mit dem Schmerz gemein, / Dass sie die Menschen der Vernunft beraubt=--Joy has this in common with pain, that it bereaves man of reason. _Platen._
=Das Heiligste, die Pflicht, ist leider das, was wir am öftersten in uns bekämpfen und meistens wider Willen thun=--Duty, alas! which is the most sacred instinct in our nature, is that which we most frequently struggle with in ourselves, and generally do against our will. _R. Gutzkow._
=Das Herz gleicht dem Mühlsteine der Mehl gibt, wenn man Korn aufshüttet, aber sich selbst zerreibt, wenn man es unterlasst=--The heart is like a millstone, which yields meal if you supply it with grain, but frets itself away if you neglect to do so. _Weber._
=Das Herz und nicht die Meinung ehrt den Mann=--It is his heart, and not his opinion, that is an honour to a man. _Schiller._
=Das höchste Glück ist das, welches unsere= 5 =Mängel verbessert und unsere Fehler ausgleicht=--The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings. _Goethe._
=Das Hohngelächter der Hölle=--The scoffing laughter of Hell. _Lessing._
=Das Ideal in der Kunst, Grösse in Ruhe darzustellen, sei das Ideal auf dem Throne=--Let the ideal in art, the representation of majesty in repose, be the ideal on the throne. _Jean Paul._
=Das ist die wahre Liebe, die immer und immer sich gleich bleibt, / Wenn man ihr alles gewährt, wenn man ihr alles versagt=--That is true love which is ever the same (_lit._ equal to itself), whether everything is conceded to it or everything denied. _Goethe._
=Das Jahrhundert / Ist meinem Ideal nicht reif. Ich lebe / Ein Bürge derer, welche kommen werden=--The century is not ripe for my ideal; I live as an earnest of those that are to come. _Schiller._
=Das Kind mit dem Bade verschütten=--To throw 10 away the child with the bath, _i.e._, the good with the bad. _Ger. Pr._
=Das Kleine in einen grossen Sinne behandeln, ist Hoheit des Geistes; das Kleine für gross und wichtig halten, ist Pedantismus=--To treat the little in a large sense is elevation of spirit; to treat the little as great and important is pedantry. _Feuchersleben._
=Das Leben dünkt ein ew'ger Frühling mir=--Life seems to me an eternal spring. _Lortzing._
=Das Leben eines Staates ist, wie ein Strom, in fortgehender Bewegung; wenn der Strom steht, so wird er Eis oder Sumpf=--The life of a state, like a stream, lies in its onward movement; if the stream stagnates, it is because it is frozen or a marsh. _J. v. Müller._
=Das Leben gehört den Lebendigen an, und wer lebt, muss auf Wechsel gefasst sein=--Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes. _Goethe._
=Das Leben heisst Streben=--Life is a striving. 15 _Ger. Pr._
=Das Leben ist die Liebe / Und des Lebens Leben Geist=--Life is love, and the life of life, spirit. _Goethe._
=Das Leben ist nur ein Moment, der Tod ist auch nur einer=--Life is but a moment, death also is but another. _Schiller._
=Das Leben lehrt uns, weniger mit uns / Und andern strenge sein=--Life teaches us to be less severe both with ourselves and others. _Goethe._
=Das Nächste das Liebste=--The nearest is the dearest. _Ger. Pr._
=Das Nächste steht oft unergreifbar fern=--What 20 is nearest is often unattainably far off. _Goethe._
=Da spatium tenuemque moram; male cuncta, ministrat / Impetus=--Allow time and slight delay; haste and violence ruin everything. _Stat._
=Das Publikum, das ist ein Mann / Der alles weiss und gar nichts kann=--The public is a personage who knows everything and can do nothing. _L. Roberts._
=Das Recht hat eine wächserne Nase=--Justice has a nose of wax. _Ger. Pr._
=Das Reich der Dichtung ist das Reich der Wahrheit / Schliesst auf das Heiligthum, es werde Licht=--The kingdom of poetry is the kingdom of truth; open the sanctuary and there is light. _A. v. Chamisso._
=Das Schicksal ist ein vornehmer aber theurer= 25 =Hofmeister=--Fate is a distinguished but expensive pedagogue. _Goethe._
=Das schönste Glück des denkenden Menschen ist, das Erforschliche erforscht zu haben, und das Unerforschliche ruhig zu verehren=--The fairest fortune that can fall to a thinking man is to have searched out the searchable, and restfully to adore the unsearchable. _Goethe._
=Das schwere Herz wird nicht durch Worte leicht=--Words bring no relief to a saddened heart. _Schiller._
=Das Schwerste in allen Werken der Kunst ist dass dasjenige, was sehr ausgearbeitet worden, nicht ausgearbeitet scheine=--The most difficult thing in all works of art is to make that which has been most highly elaborated appear as if it had not been elaborated at all. _Winkelmann._
=Das Siegel der Wahrheit ist Einfachheit=--The seal of truth is simplicity. _Boerhave._
=Das sind die Weisen, / Die durch Irrtum zur= 30 =Wahrheit reisen; / Die bei dem Irrtum verharren, / Das sind die Narren=--Those are wise who through error press on to truth; those are fools who hold fast by error. _Rückert._
=Das Sprichwort sagt: Ein eigner Herd, / Ein braves Weib sind Gold und Perlen wert=--A proverb says: A hearth of one's own and a good wife are worth gold and pearls. _Goethe._
=Das Talent arbeitet, das Genie schafft=--Talent works, genius creates. _Schumann._
=Das Unglück kann die Weisheit nicht, Doch Weisheit kann das Unglück tragen=--Misfortune cannot endure wisdom, but wisdom can endure misfortune. _Bodenstedt._
=Das Universum ist ein Gedanke Gottes=--The universe is a thought of God. _Schiller._
=Das Unvermeidliche mit Würde trage=--Bear 35 the inevitable with dignity. _Streckfuss._
=Das Vaterland der Gedanken ist das Herz: an dieser Quelle muss schöpfen, wer frisch trinken will=--The native soil of our thoughts is the heart; whoso will have his fresh must draw from this spring. _Börne._
=Das Verhängte muss geschehen, / Das Gefürchte muss nahn=--The fated must happen; the feared must draw near. _Schiller._
=Das Volk ist frei; seht an, wie wohl's ihm geht!=--The people are free, and see how well they enjoy it. _Mephisto, in "Faust."_
=Das Volk schätzt Stärke vor allem=--The people rate strength before everything. _Goethe._
=Das Vortreffliche ist unergründlich, man mag damit anfangen was man will=--What is excellent cannot be fathomed, probe it as and where we will. _Goethe._
=Das Wahre ist gottähnlich; es erscheint nicht unmittelbar, wir müssen es ans seinen Manifestationen errathen=--Truth is like God; it reveals itself not directly; we must divine it out of its manifestations. _Goethe._
=Das Warum wird offenbar, / Wann die Toten aufersteh'n=--We shall know the wherefore when the dead rise again. _Müllner._
=Das was mir wichtig scheint, hältst du für= 5 =Kleinigkeiten; / Das was mich ärgert hat bei dir nichts zu bedeuten=--What is to me important you regard as a trifle, and what puts me out has with you no significance. _Goethe._
=Das Weib sieht tief, der Mann sieht weit. Dem Manne ist die Welt das Herz, dem Weibe ist das Herz die Welt=--The woman's vision is deep reaching, the man's far reaching. With the man the world is his heart, with the woman her heart is her world. _Grabbe._
=Das Wenige verschwindet leicht dem Blick, / Der vorwärts sieht, wie viel noch übrig bleibt=--The little (achieved) is soon forgotten by him who looks before him and sees how much still remains to be done. _Goethe._
=Das Werk lobt den Meister=--The work praises the artist. _Ger. Pr._
=Das Wort ist frei, die That ist stumm, der Gehorsam blind=--The word is free, action dumb, obedience blind. _Schiller._
=Das Wunder ist des Glaubens liebstes Kind=--Miracle 10 is the pet child of faith. _Goethe._
=Data fata secutus=--Following what is decreed by fate. _M._
=Dat Deus immiti cornua curta bovi=--God gives the vicious ox short horns. _Pr._
=Dà tempo al tempo=--Give time to time. _It. Pr._
=Date obolum Belisario=--Give a mite to Belisarius!
=Dat Galenus opes, dat Justinianus honores /= 15 =Sed Moses sacco cogitar ire pedes=--Galen gives wealth, Justinian honours, but Moses must go afoot with a beggar's wallet.
=Dat inania verba, / Dat sine mente sonum=--He utters empty words; he utters sound without meaning. _Virg._
=Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas=--He pardons the ravens, but visits with censure the doves. _Juv._
=Daub yourself with honey, and you'll be covered with flies.= _Pr._
=Dauer im Wechsel=--Persistence in change. _Goethe._
=Da veniam lacrymis=--Forgive these tears. 20
=Da ventura a tu hijo, y echa lo en el mar=--Give your son luck and then throw him into the sea. _Sp. Pr._
=Davus sum, non Œdipus=--I am a plain man, and no Œdipus (who solved the riddle of the Sphinx). _Ter._
=Dawted dochters mak' dawly wives=, _i.e._ petted daughters make slovenly wives. _Sc. Pr._
=Day follows the murkiest night; and when the time comes, the latest fruits also ripen.= _Schiller._
=Day is driven on by day, and the new moons= 25 =hasten to their wane.= _Smart, from Hor._
=Daylight will come, though the cock does not crow.= _Dan. Pr._
=Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.= _Bible._
=De adel der ziel is meer waardig dan de adel des geslachts=--Nobility of soul is more honourable than nobility by birth. _Dut. Pr._
=Dead men open living men's eyes.= _Sp. Pr._
=Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection.= 30 _Byron._
=De alieno largitor, et sui restrictor=--Lavish of what is another's, tenacious of his own. _Cic._
=Deal mildly with his youth; / For young hot colts, being raged, do rage the more.= _Rich. II._, ii. 1.
=Deal so plainly with man and woman as to constrain the utmost sincerity and destroy all hope of trifling with you.= _Emerson._
=Dear is cheap, and cheap is dear.= _Port. Pr._
=Dear son of memory, great heir of fame.= 35 _Milton on Shakespeare._
=Death and life are in the power of the tongue.= _Bible._
=Death-bed repentance is sowing seed at Martinmas.= _Gael. Pr._
=Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.= _Bp. Hall._
=Death but supplies the oil for the inextinguishable lamp of life.= _Coleridge._
=Death comes equally to us all, and makes us= 40 =all equal when it comes.= _Donne._
=Death finds us 'mid our playthings--snatches us, / As a cross nurse might do a wayward child. / From all our toys and baubles.= _Old Play._
=Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.= _Jean Paul._
=Death is a black camel that kneels at every man's door.= _Turk. Pr._
=Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man eternity is seen looking through time.= _Goethe._
=Death is a fearful thing.= _Meas. for Meas._, 45 iii. 1.
=Death is a friend of ours, and he who is not ready to entertain him is not at home.= _Bacon._
=Death is but another phasis of life, which also is awful, fearful, and wonderful, reaching to heaven and hell.= _Carlyle._
=Death is but a word to us. Our own experience alone can teach us the real meaning of the word.= _W. v. Humboldt._
=Death is but what the haughty brave, / The weak must bear, the wretch must crave.= _Byron._
=Death is sure / To those that stay and those= 50 =that roam.= _Tennyson._
=Death is the only physician, the shadow of his valley the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering fatigue of years.= _George Eliot._
=Death is the quiet haven of us all.= _Wordsworth._
=Death is the tyrant of the imagination.= _Barry Cornwall._
=Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.= _Sen._
=Death joins us to the great majority; / 'Tis to be borne to Platos and to Cæsars; / 'Tis to be great for ever; / 'Tis pleasure, 'tis ambition, then, to die.= _Young._
=Death lays his icy hand on kings.= _Shirley._
=Death levels all distinctions.=
=Death lies on her, like an untimely frost, / Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.= _Rom. and Jul._, iv. 5.
=Death may expiate faults, but it does not= 5 =repair them.= _Napoleon._
=Death opens the gate of fame, and shuts the gate of envy after it.= _Sterne, after Bacon._
=Death pays all debts.= _Pr._
=Death puts an end to all rivalship and competition. The dead can boast no advantage over us, nor can we triumph over them.= _Hazlitt._
=Death rides in every passing breeze, / He lurks in every flower.= _Heber._
=Death's but a path that must be trod, / If= 10 =man would ever pass to God.= _Parnell._
=Death shuns the wretch who fain the blow would meet.= _Byron._
=Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, / And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.= _Byron._
=Death stands behind the young man's back, before the old man's face.= _T. Adams._
=Death treads in pleasure's footsteps round the world.= _Young._
=Death will have his day.= _Rich. II._, iii. 2. 15
=De auditu=--By hearsay.
=Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine; the former angular, the latter circular and radiant of the underlying unity.= _A. B. Alcott._
=De beste zaak heeft nog een goed' advocaat noodig=--The best cause has need of a good pleader. _Dut. Pr._
=Debetis velle quæ velimus=--You ought to wish as we wish. _Plaut._
=De bonne grâce=--With good grace; willingly. 20 _Fr._
=De bonne lutte=--By fair means. _Fr._
=De bon vouloir servir le roy=--To serve the king with good-will. _M._
=Debt is the worst kind of poverty.= _Pr._
=Debt is to a man what the serpent is to the bird; its eye fascinates, its breath poisons, its coil crushes both sinew and bone; its jaw is the pitiless grave.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=Debts make the cheeks black.= _Arab. Pr._ 25
=De calceo sollicitus, at pedem nihil curans=--Anxious about the shoe, but careless about the foot. _L. Pr._
=Deceit and falsehood, whatever conveniences they may for a time promise or produce, are, in the sum of life, obstacles to happiness.= _Johnson._
=Deceit is a game played only by small minds.= _Corneille._
=Decency is the least of all laws, yet it is the one which is the most strictly observed.= _La Roche._
=Deceptio visus=--Optical illusion. 30
=Decet affectus animi neque se nimium erigere nec subjicere serviliter=--We ought to allow the affections of the mind to be neither too much elated nor abjectly depressed. _Cic._
=Decet imperatorem stantem mori=--An emperor ought to die at his post (_lit._ standing). _Vespasian._
=Decet patriam nobis cariorem esse quam nosmetipsos=--Our country ought to be dearer to us than ourselves. _Cic._
=Decet verecundum esse adolescentem=--It becomes a young man to be modest. _Plaut._
=Decies repetita placebit=--Ten times repeated, it 35 will still please. _Hor._
=Decipimur specie recti=--We are deceived by the semblance of rectitude. _Hor._
=Decipit / Frons prima multos=--First appearances deceive many.
=Decision and perseverance are the noblest qualities of man.= _Goethe._
=Declaring the end from the beginning, and from the ancient times the things that are not yet done.= _Bible._
=Decori decus addit avito=--He adds honour to 40 the honour of his ancestors. _M._
=Decorum ab honesto non potest separari=--Propriety cannot be sundered from what is honourable. _Cic._
=De court plaisir, long repentir=--A short pleasure, a long penance. _Fr._
=Decrevi=--I have decreed. _M._
=Decus et tutamen=--An honour and defence. _M._
=Dedecet philosophum abjicere animum=--It does 45 not beseem a philosopher to be dejected. _Cic._
=De die in diem=--From day to day.
=Dedimus potestatem=--We have given power. _L._
=Dediscit animus sero quod didicit diu=--The mind is slow in unlearning what it has been long learning. _Sen._
=Deeds survive the doers.= _Horace Mann._
=Deep calleth unto deep.= _Bible._ 50
=Deep insight will always, like Nature, ultimate its thought in a thing.= _Emerson._
=Deep in the frozen regions of the north, / A goddess violated brought thee forth, / Immortal liberty.= _Smollett._
=Deep on his front engraven / Deliberation sat, and public care.= _Milton._
=Deep subtle wits, / In truth, are master spirits in the world.= _Joanna Baillie._
=Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep 55 silence.= _Alfieri._
=Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself.= _Milton._
=De ezels dragen de haver, en de paarden eten die=--Asses fetch the oats and horses eat them. _Dut. Pr._
=De facto=--In point of fact.
=Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.= _Ward Beecher._
=Defeat is nothing but education, nothing but 60 the first step to something better.= _Wendell Phillips._
=Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perception.= _Emerson._
=Defectio virium adolescentiæ vitiis efficitur sæpius quam senectutis=--Loss of strength is more frequently due to the faults of youth than of old age. _Cic._
=Defendit numerus junctæque umbone phalanges=--Their numbers protect them and their compact array. _Juv._
=Defend me, common sense, say I, / From reveries so airy, from the toil / Of dropping buckets into empty wells, / And growing old with drawing nothing up.= _Cowper._
=Defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.= _Maréchal Villars._
=Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments.= _Shenstone._
=Defer no time; / Delays have dangerous ends.= 1 _Henry VI._, iii. 2.
=Defer not the least virtue; life's poor span /= 5 =Make not an ell, by trifling in thy woe. / If thou do ill, the joy fades, not the pains; / If well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains.= _George Herbert._
=Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, / To-morrow's sun to thee may never rise.= _Congreve._
=Deficiunt vires=--Ability is wanting.
=Defienda me Dios de my=--God defend me from myself. _Sp. Pr._
=Definition of words has been commonly called a mere exercise of grammarians; but when we come to consider the innumerable evils men have inflicted on each other from mistaking the meaning of words, the exercise of definition certainly begins to assume rather a more dignified aspect.= _Sydney Smith._
=Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time /= 10 =Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, / And that so lamely and unfashionable, / That dogs bark at me as I halt by them.= _Rich. III._, i. 1.
=Deformity is daring; it is its essence to overtake mankind by heart and soul, and make itself the equal, ay, the superior of the rest.= _Byron._
=De fumo in flammam=--Out of the frying-pan into the fire. _Pr._
=Dégagé=--Free and unrestrained. _Fr._
=De gaieté de cœur=--In gaiety of heart; sportively; wantonly. _Fr._
=Degeneres animos timor arguit=--Fear is proof 15 of a low-born soul. _Virg._
=Degli uomini si può dire questo generalmente che sieno ingrate, volubili simulatori, fuggitori pericoli, cupidi di guadagno=--Of mankind we may say in general that they are ungrateful, fickle, hypocritical, intent on a whole skin and greedy of gain. _Machiavelli._
=Degrees infinite of lustre there must always be, but the weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him, and which, worthily used, will be a gift also to his race for ever.= _Ruskin._
=De gustibus non disputandum=--There is no disputing about tastes.
=De hambre a nadie vi morir, de mucho comer a cien mil=--I never saw a man die of hunger, but thousands die of overfeeding. _Sp. Pr._
=De haute lutte=--By main force. _Fr._ 20
=De hoc multi multa, omnes aliquid, nemo satis=--Of this many have said many things, all something, no one enough.
=Dei gratia=--By the grace of God.
=Dei jussu non unquam credita Teneris=--Fated she (_i.e._, Cassandra) never to be believed by her Trojan countrymen. _Virg._
=Deil stick pride, for my dog deed o'd.= _Sc. Pr._
=Deil tak' the hin'most! on they drive, / Till= 25 =a' their weel-swall'd kytes belyve / Are bent like drums, / And auld guid man maist like to rive / "Bethankit" hums.= _Burns._
=Dein Auge kann die Welt trüb' oder hell dir machen; / Wie du sie ansiehst, wird sie weinen oder lachen=--Thy eye can make the world dark or bright for thee; as thou look'st on it, it will weep or laugh. _Rückert._
=De industria=--Purposely.
=De integro=--Over again; anew.
[Greek: Dei pherein ta tôn theôn]--We must bear what the gods lay on us.
=Dei plena sunt omnia=--All things are full of God. 30 _Cic._
=Déjeûner à la fourchette=--A meat breakfast. _Fr._
=De jure=--By right.
=De kleine dieven hangt men, de groote laat men loopen=--We hang little thieves and let great ones off. _Dut. Pr._
=Del agua mansa me libre Dios; que de la recia me guardaré yo=--From smooth water God guard me; from rough, I can guard myself. _Sp. Pr._
=De lana caprina=--About goat's wool, _i.e._, a worthless 35 matter.
=Delay has always been injurious to those who are ready.= _Lucan._
=Delay in vengeance gives a heavier blow.= _J. Ford._
=Delay of justice is injustice.= _Landor._
=Delectando pariterque monendo=--By pleasing as well as instructing. _Hor._
=Delenda est Carthago=--Carthage must be destroyed. 40 _Cato Major._
=Del giudizio, ognun ne vende=--Of judgment every one has some to sell. _It. Pr._
=Deliberando sæpe perit occasio=--An opportunity is often lost through deliberation. _Pub. Syr._
=Deliberandum est diu quod statuendum est semel=--We must take time for deliberation, where we have to determine once for all. _Pub. Syr._
=Deliberate treachery entails punishment upon the traitor.= _Junius._
=Deliberate with caution, but act with decision;= 45 =and yield with graciousness or oppose with firmness.= _Colton._
=Deliberat Roma, perit Saguntum=--While Rome deliberates, Saguntum perishes. _Pr._
=Delicacy is to the affections what grace is to the beauty.= _Degerando._
=Delicacy of taste has the same effect as delicacy of passion; it enlarges the sphere both of our happiness and misery, and makes us sensible to pain as well as pleasures, which escape the rest of mankind.= _Hume._
=Deliciæ illepidæ atque inelegantes=--Unmannerly and inelegant pleasures. _Catull._
=Deligas tantum quem diligas=--Choose only him 50 whom you love.
=Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, / To teach the young idea how to shoot.= _Thomson._
=Deliramenta doctrinæ=--The crazy absurdities of learned men. _L._
=Delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi=--Whatsoever devilry kings do, the Greeks must pay the piper. _Hor._
=Deliriums are dreams not rounded with a sleep.= _Jean Paul._
=Deliverer, God hath appointed thee to free the oppressed and crush the oppressor.= _Bryant._
=Dell' albero non si giudica dalla scorza=--You can't judge of a tree by its bark. _It. Pr._
=De loin c'est quelque chose, et de près ce n'est rien=--At a distance it is something, at hand nothing. _La Fontaine._
=Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus aprum=--He 5 paints a porpoise in the woods, a boar amidst the waves. _Hor._
=De lunatico inquirendo=--To inquire into a man's state of mind.
=Delusion and weakness produce not one mischief the less because they are universal.= _Burke._
=Delusion may triumph, but the triumphs of delusion are but for a day.= _Macaulay._
=Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.= _Bovee._
=Delusive ideas are the motives of the greatest= 10 =part of mankind, and a heated imagination the power by which their actions are incited. The world in the eye of a philosopher may be said to be a large madhouse.= _Mackenzie._
=Del vero s'adira l'uomo=--It is the truth that irritates a man. _It. Pr._
=De mal en pis=--From bad to worse. _Fr._
=De male quæsitis vix gaudet tertius hæres=--A third heir seldom enjoys what it dishonestly acquired. _Juv._
=Demean thyself more warily in thy study than in the street. If thy public actions have a hundred witnesses, thy private have a thousand.= _Quarles._
=De medietate linguæ=--Of a moiety of languages, 15 _i.e._, foreign jurymen. _L._
=Dem Esel träumet von Disteln=--When the ass dreams, it is of thistles. _Ger. Pr._
=Dem Glücklichen schlägt keine Stunde=--When a man is happy he does not hear the clock strike. _Ger. Pr._
=Dem harten Muss bequemt sich Will' und Grille=--To hard necessity one's will and fancy (must) conform. _Goethe._
=Dem Herlichsten, was auch der Geist empfangen, drängt Stoff sich an=--Matter presses heavily on the noblest efforts of the spirit. _Goethe, in "Faust."_
=Dem Hunde, wenn er gut gezogen / Wird= 20 =selbst ein weiser Mann gewogen=--Even a wise man will attach himself to the dog when he is well bred. _Goethe._
=De minimis non curat lex=--The law takes no notice of trifles. _L._
=Dem Menschen ist / Ein Mensch noch immer lieber als ein Engel=--A man is ever dearer to man than an angel. _Lessing._
=Democracies are prone to war, and war consumes them.= _W. H. Seward._
=Democracy has done a wrong to everything that is not first-rate.= _Amiel._
=Democracy is always the work of kings.= 25 =Ashes, which in themselves are sterile, fertilise the land they are cast upon.= _Landor._
=Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-cancelling business, and gives in the long-run a net result of zero.= _Carlyle._
=Democracy is the healthful life-blood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.= _Coleridge._
=Democracy is the most powerful solvent of military organisation. The latter is founded on discipline; the former on the negation of discipline.= _Renan._
=De monte alto=--From a lofty mountain. _M._
=De mortuis nil nisi bonum= (or =bene=)--Let nothing 30 be said of the dead but what is favourable.
=De motu proprio=--From the suggestion of one's own mind; spontaneously.
=Dem thätigen Menschen kommt es darauf an, dass er das Rechte thue; ob das Rechte geschehe, soll ihn nicht kümmern=--With the man of action the chief concern is that he do the right thing; the success of that ought not to trouble him. _Goethe._
=Den Bösen sind sie los; die Bösen sind geblieben=--They are rid of the Wicked One, (but) the wicked are still there. _Goethe._
=De nihilo nihil, in nihilum nil posse reverti=--From nothing is nothing, and nothing can be reduced to nothing.
=Denique non omnes eadem mirantur amantque=--All 35 men do not admire and love the same things. _Hor._
=Den Irrthum zu bekennen, schändet nicht=--It is no disgrace to acknowledge an error. _R. Gutzkov._
=Denken und Thun, Thun und Denken, das ist die Summe aller Weisheit von jeher anerkannt, von jeher geübt, nicht eingesehen von einem jeden=--To think and act, to act and think, this is the sum of all the wisdom that has from the first been acknowledged and practised, though not understood by every one, _i.e._, (as added) the one must continually act and react on the other, like exhaling and inhaling, must correspond as question and answer. _Goethe._
=Denke nur niemand, dass man auf ihn als den Heiland gewartet habe=--Let no one imagine that he is the man the world has been waiting for as its deliverer. _Goethe._
=Den leeren Schlauch bläst der Wind auf, / Den leeren Kopf der Dünkel=--The empty bag is blown up with wind, the empty head with self-conceit. _Claudius._
=Den Mantel nach dem Winde kehren=--To trim 40 one's sails (_lit._ to turn one's cloak) to the wind. _Ger. Pr._
=Den Menschen Liebe, den Göttern Ehrfurcht=--To men, affection; to gods, reverence. _Grillparzer._
=Denn geschwätzig sind die Zeiten, / Und sie sind auch wieder stumm=--For the times are babbly, and then again the times are dumb. _Goethe._
=De non apparentibus, et non existentibus, eadem est ratio=--Things which do not appear are to be treated as the same as those which do not exist. _Coke._
=De novo=--Anew.
=Den Profit som kom seent, er bedre end aldeles= 45 =ingen=--The profit which comes late is better than none at all. _E. H. Vessel._
=Den rechten Weg wirst nie vermissen, / Handle nur nach Gefühl und Gewissen=--Wilt thou never miss the right way, thou hast only to act according to thy feeling and conscience. _Goethe._
=Den schlecten Mann muss man verachten / Der nie bedacht was er vollbringt=--We must spurn him as a worthless man who never applies his brains to what he is working at. _Schiller._
=Dens theonina=--A calumniating disposition (_lit._ tooth).
=Deo adjuvante non timendum=--God assisting, there is nothing to be feared.
=Deoch an doris=--The parting cup. _Gael._
=Deo dante nil nocet invidia, et non dante, nil= 5 =proficit labor=--When God gives, envy injures us not; when He does not give, labour avails not.
=Deo date=--Give unto God. _M._
=Deo duce, ferro comitante=--God my guide, my sword my companion. _M._
=Deo duce, fortuna comitante=--God for guide, fortune for companion. _M._
=Deo ducente=--God guiding. _M._
=Deo favente=--With God's favour. 10
=Deo fidelis et regi=--Faithful to God and the king. _M._
=Deo gratias=--Thanks to God.
=Deo honor et gloria=--To God the honour and glory. _M._
=Deo ignoto=--To the unknown God.
=Deo juvante=--With God's help. 15
=De omnibus rebus, et quibusdam aliis=--About everything, and certain things else.
=De omni re scibile et quibusdam aliis=--On everything knowable and some other matters.
=Deo, non fortuna=--From God, not fortune. _M._
=Deo, optimo maximo=--To God, the best and greatest. _M._
=Deo, patriæ, amicis=--For God, country, and 20 friends. _M._
=Deo, regi, patriæ=--To God, king, and country. _M._
=Deo, regi, vicino=--For God, king, and our neighbour. _M._
=Deo, republicæ, amicis=--To God, the state, and friends. _M._
=Deorum cibus est=--A feast fit for the gods.
=De oui et non vient toute question=--All disputation 25 comes out of "Yes" and "No." _Fr. Pr._
=Deo volente=--With God's will.
=Depart from the highway and transplant thyself in some enclosed ground; for it is hard for a tree that stands by the wayside to keep her fruit till it be ripe.= _St. Chrysostom._
=De paupertate tacentes / Plus poscente ferent=--Those who say nothing of their poverty fare better than those who beg. _Hor._
=De' peccati de' signori fanno penitenza i poveri=--The poor do penance for the sins of the rich. _It. Pr._
=Dependence goes somewhat against the grain= 30 =of a generous mind; and it is no wonder, considering the unreasonable advantage which is often taken of the inequality of fortune.= _Jeremy Collier._
=Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity than any other motive whatsoever.= _Addison._
=Depend upon it, if a man talks of his misfortunes, there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him.= _Johnson._
=De pilo=, _or_ =de filo, pendet=--It hangs by a hair. _Pr._
=De pis en pis=--From worse to worse. _Fr._
=De plano=--With ease. 35
=De præscientia Dei=--Of the foreknowledge of God.
=Deprendi miserum est=--To be caught is a wretched experience.
=Depressus extollor=--Having been depressed, I am exalted. _M._
=De profundis=--Out of the depths.
=De propaganda fide=--For propagating the Catholic 40 faith.
=De publico est elatus=--He was buried at the public expense. _Livy._
=Der Ausgang giebt den Thaten ihre Titel=--It is the issue that gives to deeds their title. _Goethe._
=Der beste Prediger ist die Zeit=--Time is the best preacher. _Ger. Pr._
=Der Böse hat nicht nur die Guten, sondern auch die Bösen gegen sich=--The bad man has not only the good, but also the evil opposed to him. _Bischer._
=Der brave Mann denkt an sich selbst zuletzt=--The 45 brave man thinks of himself last of all. _Schiller._
=Der civilisierte Wilde ist der schlimmste aller Wilden=--The civilised savage is the worst of all savages. _C. J. Weber._
=Der den Augenblick ergreift / Das ist der rechte Mann=--He who seizes the moment is the right man. _Goethe._
=Der Dichter steht auf einer höhern Warte / Als auf den Zinnen der Partei=--The poet stands on a higher watch-tower than the pinnacle of party. _Freiligrath._
=Der echte Geist schwingt sich empor / Und rafft die Zeit sich nach=--The genuine spirit soars upward, and snatches the time away after it. _Uhland._
=Derelictio communis utilitatis contra naturam=--The 50 abandonment of what is for the common good is a crime against nature. _Cic._
=Der Erde Paradies und Hölle / Liegt in dem Worte "Weib"=--Heaven and Hell on earth lie in the word "woman." _Seume._
=Der Fluss bleibt trüb, der nicht durch einen See gegangen, / Das Herz unsauber, das nicht durch ein Weh gegangen=--The river remains troubled that has not passed through a lake, the heart unpurified that has not passed through a woe. _Rückert._
=Der Frauen Zungen ja nimmer ruhn=--Women's tongues never rest. _A. v. Chamisso._
=Der Friede ist immer die letzte Absicht des Krieges=--Peace is ever the final aim of war. _Wieland._
=Der Fuchs ändert den Pelz und behält den= 55 =Schalk=--The fox changes his skin but keeps his knavery. _Ger. Pr._
=Der Fürst ist nichts, als der erste Diener des Staates=--The prince is nothing but the first servant of the state. _Frederick the Great._
=Der Geist, aus dem wir handeln, ist das Höchste=--The spirit from which we act is the principal (_lit._ the highest) matter. _Goethe._
=Der Geist der Medicin ist leicht zu fassen; / Ihr durchstudiert die gross' und kleine Welt, / Um es am Ende gehn zu lassen, / Wie's Gott gefällt=--The spirit of medicine is easy to master; you study through the great and the little worlds, to let it go in the end as God pleases. _Mephisto, in "Faust."_
=Der Geist, der stets verneint=--The spirit that constantly denies, that says everlastingly "No." _Goethe's "Mephistopheles."_
=Der Geist ist immer autochthone=--Spirit is always indigenous, _i.e._, always native to the soil out of which it springs. _Goethe._
=Der geringste Mensch kann complet sein, wenn er sich innerhalb der Gränzen seiner Fähigkeiten und Fertigkeiten bewegt=--The humblest mortal may attain completeness if he confine his activities within the limits of his capability and skill. _Goethe._
=Der Glaube ist der rechte, der, dass er der rechte bleibt, nicht gezwungen ist einen andern irrgläubig zu finden=--That faith is the orthodox which, that it may remain such, is under no necessity of finding another heterodox. _Börne._
=Der Gott, der mir im Busen wohnt, / Kann= 5 =tief mein Innerstes erregen; der über allen meinen Kräften thront, er kann nach aussen nichts bewegen=--The God who dwells in my breast can stir my inmost soul to its depths; he who sits as sovereign over all my powers has no control over things beyond. _Goethe._
=Der grösste Mensch bleibt stets ein Menschenkind=--The greatest man remains always a man-child, or son of man. _Goethe._
=Der grösste Schritt ist der aus der Thür=--The greatest step is that out of the door. _Ger. Pr._
=Der gute Mann braucht überall viel Boden=--The good man needs always large room. _Lessing._
=Der gute Wille ist in der Moral alles; aber in der Kunst ist er nichts: da gilt, wie schon das Wort andeutet, allein Können=--Goodwill is everything in morals, but in art it is nothing: in it, as the word indicates, only ability counts for aught. _Schopenhauer._
=Der Hahn schliesst die Augen, wann er krähet,= 10 =weil er es auswendig kann=--The cock shuts his eyes when he crows, because he has it by heart. _Ger. Pr._
=Der Handelnde ist immer gewissenlos, es hat niemand Gewissen, als der Betrachtende=--The man who acts merely is always without conscience; no one has conscience but the man who reflects. _Goethe._
=Der hat die Macht, an den die Menge glaubt=--He has the power whom the majority believe in. _Raupach._
=Der hat nie das Glück gekostet, der's in Ruh geniessen will=--He has never tasted happiness who will enjoy it in peace. _Th. Körner._
=Der Hauptfehler des Menschen bleibt, dass er so viele kleine hat=--Man's chief fault is ever that he has so many small ones. _Jean Paul._
=Der Himmel giebt die Gunst des Augenblicks; /= 15 =Wer schnell sie fasst, wird Meister des Geschicks=--Heaven gives the grace needed for the moment; he who seizes it quickly becomes master of his fate. _Raupach._
=Der Himmel kann ersetzen / Was er entzogen hat=--What Heaven has taken away, Heaven can make good. _Rückert._
=Der Historiker ist ein rückwärts gekehrter Prophet=--The historian is a prophet with his face turned backwards. _F. v. Schlegel._
=Der höchste Stolz und der höchste Kleinmuth ist die höchste Unkenntniss seiner selbst=--Extreme pride and extreme dejection are alike extreme ignorance of one's self. _Spinoza._
=Der höchste Vorwurf der Kunst für denkende Menschen ist der Mensch=--The highest subject of art for thinking men is man. _Winkelmann._
=Deridet, sed non derideor=--He laughs, but I am 20 not laughed at.
=Der Irrthum ist recht gut, so lange wir jung sind; man muss ihn nur nicht mit ins Alter schleppen=--Error is very well so long as we are young, but we must not drag it with us into old age. _Goethe._
=Der ist edel, / Welcher edel fühlt und handelt=--He is noble who feels and acts nobly. _Heine._
=Der Jugend Führer sei das Alter; beiden sei / Nur wenn sie als Verbundne wandeln, Glück versichert=--Be age the guide of youth; both will be happy only if they go hand in hand (_lit._ as confederates) together. _Goethe._
=Der Jüngling kämpft, damit der Greis geniesse=--The youth fights that the old man may enjoy. _Goethe._
=Der kann nicht klagen über harten Spruch,= 25 =den man zum Meister seines Schicksals macht=--He cannot complain of a hard sentence who is made master of his own fate. _Schiller._
=Der kleine Gott der Welt bleibt stets von gleichem Schlag / Und ist so wunderlich, als wie am ersten Tag=--The little god of the world (_i.e._, man) continues ever of the same stamp, and is as odd as on the first day. _Goethe._
=Der Krieg ist die stärkende Eisenkur der Menschheit=--War is the strengthening iron cure of humanity. _Jean Paul._
=Der Künstler muss mit Feuer entwerfen und mit Phlegma ausführen=--The artist must invent (_lit._ sketch) with ardour and execute with coolness. _Winkelmann._
=Der Lebende hat Recht=--The living has right on his side. _Schiller._
=Der Mann, der das Wenn und das Aber= 30 =erdacht / Hat sicher aus Häckerling Gold schon gemacht=--The man who invented "if" and "but" must surely have converted chopt straw into gold. _G. A. Bürger._
=Der Mann muss hinaus ins feindliche Leben=--A man must go forth to face life with its enmities. _Schiller._
=Der Mensch begreift niemals wie anthropomorphisch er ist=--Man never comprehends how anthropomorphic his conceptions are. _Goethe._
=Der Mensch denkt, Gott lenkt=--Man proposes, God disposes. _Ger. Pr._
=Der Menschenkenner steht überall an seinem Platze=--He who knows man is everywhere in his place. _Klinger._
=Der Mensch erfährt, er sei auch wer er mag, /= 35 =Ein letztes Glück und einen letzten Tag=--No man, be he who he may, but experiences a last happiness and a last day. _Goethe._
=Der Mensch hat nur allzusehr Ursache, sich vor dem Menschen zu schützen=--Man has only too much reason to guard himself from man. _Goethe._
=Der Mensch ist ein nachahmendes Geschöpf und wer der vorderste ist, führt die Herde=--Man is an imitative being, and the foremost leads the flock. _Schiller._
=Der Mensch ist entwickelt, nicht erschaffen=--Man has been developed, not created. _Oken._
=Der Mensch ist frei geschaffen, ist frei, / Und würd' er in Ketten geboren!=--Man has been created free, is free, even were he born in chains. _Schiller._
=Der Mensch ist frei wie der Vogel im Käfig; er kann sich innerhalb gewisser Grenzen bewegen=--Man is free as the bird in the cage: he has powers of motion within certain limits. _Lavater._
=Der Mensch ist im Grunde ein wildes, entsetzliches Thier=--Man is at bottom a savage animal and an object of dread, as we may see (it is added) he still is when emancipated from all control. _Schopenhauer._
=Der Mensch ist nicht bloss ein denkendes, er ist zugleich ein empfindendes Wesen. Er ist ein Ganzes, eine Einheit vielfacher, innig verbundner Kräfte, und zu diesem Ganzen muss das Kunstwerk reden=--Man is not merely a thinking, he is at the same time a sentient, being. He is a whole, a unity of manifold, internally connected powers, and to this whole must the work of art speak. _Goethe._
=Der Mensch ist nicht geboren frei zu sein /= 5 =Und für den Edeln ist kein schöner Glück / Als einem Fürst, den er ehrt, zu dienen=--Man is not born to be free; and for the noble soul there is no fairer fortune than to serve a prince whom he regards with honour. _Goethe._
=Der Mensch ist selbst sein Gott, sein Beruf ist: Handeln=--Man is a god to himself, and his calling is to act. _Tiedge._
=Der Mensch ist, was er isst=--Man is what he eats. _L. Feuerbach._
=Der Mensch liebt nur einmal=--Man loves only once. _Ger. Pr._
=Der Mensch muss bei dem Glauben verharren, dass das Unbegreifliche begreiflich sei; er würde sonst nicht forschen=--Man must hold fast by the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible; otherwise he would not search. _Goethe._
=Der Mensch muss ein Höheres, ein Göttliches= 10 =anerkennen--ob in sich oder über sich, gleichviel=--Man must acknowledge a higher, a divine--whether in himself or over himself, no matter. _Hamerling._
=Der Mensch versuche die Götter nicht=--Let not man tempt the gods. _Schiller._
=Der Mensch war immer Mensch, voll Unvollkommenheit=--Man has ever been man, full of imperfection. _J. P. Uz._
=Der Mensch, wo ist er her? / Zu schlecht für einen Gott, zu gut für's Ungefähr=--Man, whence is he? Too bad to be the work of a god, too good for the work of chance. _Lessing._
=Der Muth der Wahrheit ist die erste Bedingung des philosophischen Studiums=--The courage of truth is the first qualification for philosophic study. _Hegel._
=Dernier ressort=--A last resource. _Fr._ 15
=Der Pfaff liebt seine Herde, doch die Lämmlein mehr als die Widder=--The priest loves his flock, but the lambs more than the rams. _Ger. Pr._
=Der preise glücklich sein, der von / Den Göttern dieser Welt entfernt lebt=--Let him count himself happy who lives remote from the gods of this world. _Goethe._
=Der Rathgeber eines Höheren handelt klüglich, wenn er sein geistiges Uebergewicht verbirgt, wie das Weib seine Schönheit verhüllt um des Sieges desto gewisser zu sein=--The adviser of a superior acts wisely if he conceals his spiritual superiority, as the woman veils her beauty in order to be the more certain of conquering. _Zachariae._
=Derrière la croix souvent se tient le diable=--Behind the cross the devil often lurks. _Fr. Pr._
=Der Ring macht Ehen, / Und Ringe sind's, die= 20 =eine Kette machen=--The ring makes marriage, and rings make a chain. _Schiller._
=Der Rose süsser Duft genügt, / Man braucht sie nicht zu brechen / Und wer sich mit dem Duft begnügt / Den wird ihr Dorn nicht stechen=--The sweet scent of the rose suffices; one needs not break it off, and he who is satisfied therewith will not be stung by the thorn. _Bodenstedt._
=Der Schein regiert die Welt, und die Gerechtigkeit ist nur auf der Bühne=--Appearance rules the world, and we see justice only on the stage. _Schiller._
=Der Schein, was ist er, dem das Wesen fehlt? / Das Wesen wär' es, wenn es nicht erschiene?=--The appearance, what is it without the reality? And what were the reality without the appearance? (the clothes, as "Sartor" has it, without the man, or the man without the clothes). _Goethe._
=Der Schmerz ist die Geburt der höheren Naturen=--Pain is the birth of higher natures. _Tiedge._
=Der Sinn erweitert, aber lähmt; die That= 25 =belebt, aber beschränkt=--Thought expands, but lames; action animates, but narrows. _Goethe._
=Der Stärkste hat Recht=--The right is with the strongest. _Ger. Pr._
=Der Stein im Sumpf / Macht keine Ringe=--You can make no rings if you throw a stone into a marsh. _Goethe._
=Der Tod entbindet von erzwungnen Pflichten=--Death releases from enforced duties. _Schiller._
=Der Umgang mit Frauen ist das Element guter Sitten=--The society of women is the nursery of good manners. _Goethe._
=Der Verständige findet fast alles lächerlich,= 30 =der Vernünftige fast nichts=--The man of analytic, or critical, intellect finds something ridiculous in almost everything; the man of synthetic, or constructive, intellect, in almost nothing. _Goethe._
=Der Vortrag macht des Redners Glück=--It is delivery that makes the orator's success. _Goethe._
=Der Wahn ist kurz, die Reu' ist lang=--The illusion is brief, the remorse is long. _Schiller._
=Der Weg der Ordnung, ging er auch durch Krümmen, / Er ist kein Umweg=--The path which good order prescribes is the direct one, even though it has windings. _Schiller._
=Der Weise hat die Ohren lang, die Zunge kurz=--The wise man has long ears and a short tongue. _Ger. Pr._
=Der Weise kann des Mächtigen Gunst entbehren,= 35 =/ Doch nicht der Mächtige des Weisen Lehren=--The wise man can dispense with the favour of the mighty, but not the mighty man with the wisdom of the wise. _Bodenstedt._
=Der Wille ist des Werkes Seele=--What we will is the soul of what we do. _Ger. Pr._
=Der wird stets das Beste missen / Wer nicht borgt, was andre wissen=--He will always lack what is best who does not give credit to what others know. _Rückert._
=Der Witz ist die Freiheit des Sklaven=--The witty sally is the freedom of the slave. _Ruge._
=Der Zug des Herzens ist des Schicksals Stimme=--In the drawing of the heart is the oracle of fate. _Schiller._
=Descend a step in choosing thy wife; ascend a step in choosing thy friend.= _The Talmud._
=Description is always a bore, both to the describer= 5 =and the describee.= _Disraeli._
=Deserted, at his utmost need, / By those his former bounty fed, / On the bare earth exposed be lies, / With not a friend to close his eyes.= _Dryden._
=Desiderantem quod satis est, neque / Tumultuosum sollicitat mare, / Non verberatæ grandine vineæ / Fundusque mendax=--A storm at sea, a vine-wasting hail tempest, a disappointing farm, cause no anxiety to him who is content with enough. _Hor._
=Desideratum=--A thing desired, but regretfully wanting.
=Desine fata Deum flecti sperare precando=--Cease to hope that the decrees of the gods can bend to prayer. _Virg._
=Desinit in piscem mulier formosa superne=--A 10 beautiful woman in the upper parts terminating in a fish. _Hor._
=Désir de Dieu et désir de l'homme sont deux=--What God wishes and man wishes are two different things. _Fr. Pr._
=Desires are the pulse of the soul.= _Manton._
=Des Lebens Mühe / Lehrt uns allein des Lebens Güter schätzen=--The labour of life alone teaches us to value the good things of life. _Goethe._
=Des Mannes Mutter ist der Frau Teufel=--The husband's mother is the wife's devil. _Ger. Pr._
=Des Menschen Engel ist die Zeit=--Time is 15 man's angel. _Schiller._
=Des Menschens Leben ist / Ein kurzes Blühen und ein langes Welken=--The life of man is a short blossoming and a long withering. _Uhland._
=Despair defies even despotism; there is that in my heart would make its way through hosts with levelled spears.= _Byron._
=Despair is like froward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness.= _Charron._
=Despair is the only genuine atheism.= _Jean Paul._
=Despair takes heart when there's no hope to= 20 =speed; / The coward then takes arms and does the deed.= _Herrick._
=Despair--the last dignity of the wretched.= _H. Giles._
=Despatch is the soul of business.= _Chesterfield._
=Desperate diseases need desperate remedies.= _Pr._
=Despise anxiety and wishing, the past and the future.= _Jean Paul._
=Despise not any man, and do not spurn anything;= 25 =for there is no man that has not his hour, nor is there anything that has not its place.= _Rabbi Ben Azai._
=Despise not the discoveries of the wise, but acquaint thyself with their proverbs, for of them thou shalt learn instruction.= _Ecclus._
=Despise your enemy and you will soon be beaten.= _Port. Pr._
=Despite his titles, power, and pelf, / The wretch concentred all in self, / Living, shall forfeit fair renown, / And, doubly dying, shall go down / To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, / Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung.= _Scott._
=Despondency comes readily enough to the most sanguine.= _Emerson._
=Desponding fear, of feeble fancies full, / Weak= 30 =and unmanly, loosens every power.= _Thomson._
=Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement, and the means justified by actually effecting that end.= _J. S. Mill._
=Despotism is essential in most enterprises; I am told they do not tolerate "freedom of debate" on board a seventy-four.= _Carlyle._
=Despotism is often the effort of Nature to cure herself from a worse disease.= _Robert, Lord Lytton._
=Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom.= _Landor._
=Despotismus ist der schwarze Punkt in aller= 35 =Menschen Herzen=--Despotism is the black spot in the hearts of all men. _C. J. Weber._
=Desque nací lloré, y cada dia nace porqué=--I wept as soon as I was born, and every day explains why. _Sp. Pr._
=Des Rats bedarf die Seele nicht, die Rechtes will=--The soul which wills what is right needs no counsel. _Platen._
=Destiny is our will, and will is nature.= _Disraeli._
=Destitutus ventis remos adhibe=--The wind failing, ply the oars.
=Destroy his fib or sophistry--in vain! / The= 40 =creature's at his dirty work again.= _Pope._
=Des Uebels Quelle findest du nicht aus, und aufgefunden fliesst sie ewig fort=--The well-spring of evil thou canst not discover, and even if discovered, it flows on continually. _Goethe._
=Desunt cætera=--The remainder is wanting.
=Desunt inopiæ multa, avaritiæ omnia=--Poverty is in want of many things, avarice of everything. _L. Pr._
=Des Zornes Ende ist der Reue Anfang=--The end of anger is the beginning of repentance. _Bodenstedt._
=Deteriores omnes sumus licentia=--We are all 45 the worse for the license. _Ter._
=Determined, dared, and done.= _Smart._
=Detested sport, that owes its pleasures to another's pain.= _Cowper._
=De tijd is aan God en ons=--Time is God's and ours. _Dut. Pr._
=Det ille veniam facile, cui venia est opus=--He who needs pardon should readily grant it. _Sen._
=Detour=--A circuitous march. _Fr._ 50
=De tout s'avise à qui pain faut=--A man in want of bread is ready for anything. _Fr. Pr._
=Detraction's a bold monster, and fears not / To wound the fame of princes, if it find / But any blemish in their lives to work on.= _Massinger._
=De trop=--Too much, or too many; out of place. _Fr._
=Detur aliquando otium quiesque fessis=--Leisure and repose should at times be given to the weary. _Sen._
=Detur digniori=--Let it be given to the most worthy. _M._
=Detur pulchriori=--Let it be given to the fairest. _The inscription on the golden apple of discord._
=Deum cole, regem serva=--Worship God, preserve the king. _M._
=Deum colit, qui novit=--He who knows God worships 5 Him. _Sen._
=Deus avertat=--God forbid.
=Deus ex machina=--A mechanical instead of a rational or spiritual explanation (_lit._ a god mechanically introduced).
=Deus hæc fortasse benigna / Reducet in sedem vice=--God will perhaps by a gracious change restore these things to a stable condition. _Hor._
=Deus id vult=--God wills it. _War-cry of the Crusaders before Jerusalem._
=Deus major columna=--God is the greater support. 10 _M._
=Deus mihi providebit=--God will provide for me. _M._
=Deus omnibus quod sat est suppeditat=--God supplies enough to all. _M._
=Deus vult=--It is God's will.
=Deux hommes se rencontrent bien, mais jamais deux montagnes=--Two men may meet, but never two mountains. _Fr._
=Deux yeux voient plus clair qu'un=--A ghost 15 was never seen by two pair of eyes (_lit._ two eyes see more clearly than one). _Fr._
=Devil take the hindmost.= _Beaumont and Fletcher._
=Devine si tu peux, et choisis si tu l'oses=--Solve the riddle if you can, and choose if you dare. _Corneille._
=Devise, wit; write, pen; for I am for whole volumes in folio.= _Love's L. Lost_, i. 2.
=De vive voix=--Verbally. _Fr._
=Devote each day to the object then in time,= 20 =and every evening will find something done.= _Goethe._
=Devotion in distress is born, but vanishes in happiness.= _Dryden._
=Devotion, when it does not lie under the check of reason, is apt to degenerate into enthusiasm (fanaticism).= _Addison._
=De waarheid is eene dochter van den tijd=--Truth is a daughter of Time. _Dut. Pr._
=Dewdrops are the gems of morning, but the tears of mournful eve.= _Coleridge._
=De wereld wil betrogen zijn=--The world likes 25 to be deceived. _Dut. Pr._
=Dexterity or experience no master can communicate to his disciple.= _Goethe._
=Dextras dare=--To give right hands to each other.
=Dextro tempore=--At a lucky moment. _Hor._
=Diamonds cut diamonds.= _Ford._
=Di bene fecerunt, inopis me quodque pusilli /= 30 =Finxerunt animi, raro et perpauca loquentis=--The gods be praised for having made me of a poor and humble mind, with a desire to speak but seldom and briefly. _Hor._
=Dicam insigne, recens, adhuc / Indictum ore alio=--I will utter something striking, something fresh, something as yet unsung by another's lips. _Hor._
=Dicenda tacenda locutus=--Saying things that should be, and things that should not be, said. _Hor._
=Dicere quæ puduit, scribere jussit amor=--What I was ashamed to say, love has ordered me to write. _Ovid._
=Dicique beatus / Ante obitum nemo supremaque funera debet=--No one should be called happy before he is dead and buried. _Ovid._
=Dicta fides sequitur=--The promise is no sooner 35 given than fulfilled. _Ovid._
=Dicta tibi est lex=--The conditions have been laid before you. _Hor._
=Dictum de dicto=--A report founded on hearsay.
=Dictum factum=--No sooner said than done. _Ter._
=Dictum sapienti sat est=--A word to a wise man is enough. _Plaut. and Ter._
=Did charity prevail, the press would prove / A= 40 =vehicle of virtue, truth, and love.= _Cowper._
=Did I know that my heart was bound to temporal possessions, I would throw the flaming brand among them with my own hand.= _Schiller._
="Did I not tell you that after thunder rain would be sure to come on?"= _Socrates to his friends when, after a volley of upbraidings, Xantippe threw a jugful of water at his head._
=Didst thou but know the inly touch of love, / Thou wouldst as soon go kindle fire with snow, / As seek to quench the fire of love with words.= _Two Gen. of Ver._, ii. 7.
=Did you ever hear of Captain Wattle? / He was all for love and a little for the bottle.= _C. Dibden._
=Die Aemter sind Gottes; die Amtleute Teufels=--Places 45 are God's; place-holders are the devil's. _Ger. Pr._
=Die alleinige Quelle des Rechts ist das gemeinsame Bewusstsein des ganzen Volks; der allgemeine Geist=--The only fountain of justice is the common consciousness of the whole people; the spirit common to all of them. _Lasalle._
=Die Alten sind die einzigen Alten, die nie alt werden=--The ancients (_i.e._, the Greeks and Romans) are the only ancients that never grow old. _C. J. Weber._
=Die Anmut macht unwiderstehlich=--Grace makes its possessor irresistible. _Goethe._
=Die ärgsten Studenten werden die frömmsten Prediger=--The worst-behaved students turn out the most pious preachers. _Ger. Pr._
=Die Armen müssen tanzen wie die Reichen= 50 =pfeifen=--The poor must dance as the rich pipe. _Ger. Pr._
=Die Augen glauben sich selbst, die Ohren andern Leuten=--The eyes believe themselves, the ears other people. _Ger. Pr._
=Die Augen sind weiter als der Bauch=--The eyes are larger than the belly. _Ger. Pr._
=Die besten Freunde stehen im Beutel=--Our best friends are in our purse. _Ger. Pr._
=Die Bewunderung preist, die Liebe ist stumm=--Admiration praises, love is dumb. _Börne._
=Die Blumen zu pflegen, / Das Unkraut zu= 55 =tilgen, / Ist Sache des Gärtners=--The gardener's business is to root out the weeds and tend the flowers. _Bodenstedt._
=Die Botschaft hör' ich wohl, allein mir fehlt der Glaube=--I hear the message, but I lack the faith. _Goethe._
=Die Damen geben sich und ihren Putz zum besten / Und spielen ohne Gage mit=--The ladies by their presence and finery contribute to the treat and take part in the play without pay from us. _The Theatre Manager in Goethe's "Faust."_
=Die Dämmerung ist das freundliche Licht der Liebenden=--The gloaming is the light that befriends the wooer. _Seume._
=Die de wereld wel beziet, men zag nooit schoonder niet=--Whoso considers the world well must allow he has never seen a better. _Dut. Pr._
=Die Dornen, die Disteln, sie stechen gar sehr,= 5 =doch stechen die Altjungfernzungen noch mehr=--Thorns and thistles prick very sore, but old maids' tongues sting much more. _C. Geibel._
=Die een ander jaagt zit zelfs niet stil=--He who chases another does not sit still himself. _Dut. Pr._
=Die Ehe ist Himmel und Hölle=--Marriage is heaven and hell. _Ger. Pr._
=Die eigentliche Religion bleibt ein Inneres, ja Individuelles, denn sie hat ganz allein mit dem Gewissen zu thun; dieses soll erregt, soll beschwichtigt werden=--Religion, properly so called, is ever an inward, nay, an individual thing, for it has to do with nothing but the conscience, which has now to be stirred up, now to be soothed. _Goethe._
=Die Einsamkeit ist noth; doch sei nur nicht gemein, / So kannst du überall in einer Wüste sein=--Solitude is painful; only be not vulgar, for then you may be in a desert everywhere. _Angelus Silesius._
=Die Eintracht nur macht stark und gross, /= 10 =Die Zwietracht stürzet alles nieder=--Only concord makes us strong and great; discord overthrows everything. _Gellert._
=Die Erde wird durch Liebe frei; / Durch Thaten wird sie gross=--Through love the earth becomes free; through deeds, great. _Goethe._
=Die Erinnerung ist das einzige / Paradies, aus dem wir nicht vertrieben werden kann=--Remembrance is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven. _Jean Paul._
=Die Fabel ist der Liebe Heimatwelt, / Gern wohnt sie unter Feen, Talismanen, / Glaubt gern an Götter, weil sie göttlich ist=--Fable is love's native world, is fain to dwell among fairies and talismans, and to believe in gods, being herself divine. _Schiller._
=Die Frauen sind das einzige Gefäss, was uns Neuern noch geblieben ist, um unsere Idealität hineinzugiessen=--Woman is the only vessel which still remains to us moderns into which we can pour our ideals. _Goethe._
=Die Frauen tragen ihre Beweise im Herzen,= 15 =die Männer im Kopfe=--Women carry their logic in their hearts; men, in their heads. _Kotzebue._
=Die Freiheit der Vernunft ist unser wahres Leben=--The freedom of reason is our true life. _Tiedge._
=Die Freiheit kann nicht untergehn, / So lange Schmiede Eisen hämmern=--The sun of freedom cannot set so long as smiths hammer iron. _E. M. Arndt._
=Die Freude kennst du nicht, wenn du nur Freuden kennest; / Dir fehlt das ganze Licht, wenn du's in Strahlen trennest=--Joy knowest thou not if thou knowest only joys; the whole light is wanting to thee if thou breakest it up into rays. _Rückert._
=Die Freudigkeit ist die Mutter aller Tugenden=--Joyousness is the mother of all virtues. _Goethe._
=Die Gegenwart ist eine mächtige Göttin; Lern'= 20 =ihren Einfluss kennen=--The present is a potent divinity; learn to acquaint thyself with her power. _Goethe._
=Die Geheimnisse der Lebenspfade darf und kann man nicht offenbaren; es gibt Steine des Anstosses, über die ein jeder Wanderer stolpern muss. Der Poet aber deutet auf die Stelle hin=--The secrets of the way of life may not and cannot be laid open; there are stones of offence along the path over which every wayfarer must stumble. The poet, or inspired teacher, however, points to the spot. _Goethe._
=Die Geisterwelt ist nicht verschlossen; / Dein Sinn ist zu, dein Herz ist todt=--The spirit-world is not shut; thy sense is shut, thy heart is dead. _Goethe._
=Die Geschichte der Wissenschaften ist eine grosse Fuge, in der die Stimmen der Völker nach und nach zum Vorschein kommen=--The history of the sciences is a great fugue, in which the voices of the nations come one by one into notice. _Goethe._
=Die Geschichte des Menschen ist sein Charakter=--The history of a man is in his character. _Goethe._
=Die Gesetze der Moral sind auch die der= 25 =Kunst=--The laws of morals are also those of art. _Schumann._
=Die Glocken sind die Artillerie der Geistlichkeit=--Bells are the artillery of the Church. _Joseph II._
=Die goldne Zeit, wohin ist sie geflohen? / Nach der sich jedes Herz vergebens sehnt=--The golden age, whither has it fled? after which every heart sighs in vain. _Goethe._
=Die Götter brauchen manchen guten Mann / Zu ihrem Dienst auf dieser weiten Erde. / Sie haben noch auf dich gezählt=--The upper powers need many a good man for their service on this wide earth. They still reckon upon thee. _Goethe._
=Die Götter sprechen nur durch unser Herz zu uns=--The gods speak to us only through our heart. _Goethe._
=Die grosse Moral--das Interesse, sagte Mirabeau,= 30 =tötet in der Regel die kleine--das Gewissen=--The great moral teacher, interest, as Mirabeau said, ordinarily slays conscience, the less. _C. J. Weber._
=Die grössten Menschen hängen immer mit ihrem Jahrhundert durch eine Schwachheit zusammen=--It is always through a weakness that the greatest men are connected with their generation. _Goethe._
=Die grössten Schwierigkeiten liegen da, wo wir sie nicht suchen=--The greatest difficulties lie there where we are not seeking for them. _Goethe._
=Die het in het vuur verloren heeft, moet het in de asch zoeken=--What is lost in the fire must be searched for in the ashes. _Dut. Pr._
=Die Hindus der Wüste geloben keine Fische zu essen=--The Hindus of the desert take a vow to eat no fish. _Goethe._
=Die höchste Naturschönheit ist das gottgleiche Wesen: der Mensch=--The most beautiful object in Nature is the godlike creature: man. _Oken._
=Die höchste Weisheit ist, nicht weise stets zu sein=--It is the highest wisdom not to be always wise. _M. Opitz._
=Die Hölle selbst hat ihre Rechte?=--Has Hell itself its rights? _Goethe._
=Die Ideale sind zerronnen, / Die einst das trunkne Herz geschwellt=--The ideals are all melted into air which once swelled the intoxicated heart. _Schiller._
=Die Idee ist ewig und einzig.... Alles was= 5 =wir gewahr werden und wovon wir reden können, sind nur Manifestationen der Idee=--The idea is one and eternal.... Everything we perceive, and of which we can speak, is only a manifestation of the idea. _Goethe._
=Die Irrthümer des Menschen machen ihn eigentlich liebenswürdig=--It is properly man's mistakes, or errors, that make him lovable. _Goethe._
=Diejenige Regierung ist die beste, die sich überflüssig macht=--That government is best which makes itself unnecessary. _W. v. Humboldt._
=Die Kinder sind mein liebster Zeitvertreib=--My dearest pastime is with children. _Chamisso._
=Die Kirche hat einen guten Magen, hat ganze Länder aufgefressen, und doch noch nie sich übergessen=--The Church has a good stomach, has swallowed up whole countries, and yet has not overeaten herself. _Goethe, in "Faust."_
=Die Kirche ist's, die heilige, die hohe, / Die zu= 10 =dem Himmel uns die Leiter baut=--The Church, the holy, the high, it is that rears for us the ladder to heaven. _Schiller._
=Die Kleinen reden gar so gern von dem was die Grossen thun=--Small people are so fond of talking of what great people do. _Ger. Pr._
=Die Klugheit sich zur Führerin zu wählen / Das ist es, was den Weisen macht=--It is the choice of prudence for his guide that makes the wise man. _Schiller._
=Die Kraft ist schwach, allein die Lust ist gross=--The strength is weak, but the desire is great. _Goethe._
=Die kranke Seele muss sich selber helfen=--The sick soul must work its own cure (_lit._ help itself). _Gutskow._
=Die Krankheit des Gemütes löset sich / In= 15 =Klagen und Vertrauen am leichtesten auf=--Mental sickness finds relief most readily in complaints and confidences. _Goethe._
=Die Kunst darf nie ein Kunststück werden=--Art should never degenerate into artifice. _Ger._
=Die Kunst geht nach Brod=--Art goes a-begging. _Ger. Pr._
=Die Kunst ist eine Vermittlerin des Unaussprechlichen=--Art is a mediatrix of the unspeakable. _Goethe._
=Die Leidenschaften sind Mängel oder Tugenden, nur gesteigerte=--The passions are vices or virtues, only exaggerated. _Goethe._
=Die Leidenschaft flieht, / Die Liebe muss bleiben;= 20 =/ Die Blume verblüht, / Die Frucht muss treiben=--Passion takes flight, love must abide; the flower fades, the fruit must ripen. _Schiller._
=Die letzte Wahl steht auch dem Schwächsten offen; / Ein Sprung von dieser Brücke macht mich frei=--The last choice of all is open even to the weakest; a leap from this bridge sets me free. _Schiller._
=Die Liebe hat kein Mass der Zeit; sie keimt / Und blüht und reift in einer schönen Stunde=--Love follows no measure of time; it buds and blossoms and ripens in one happy hour. _Körner._
=Die Liebe ist der Liebe Preis=--Love is the price of love. _Schiller._
=Die Liebe macht zum Goldpalast die Hütte=--Love converts the cottage into a palace of gold. _Hölty._
=Die Lieb' umfasst des Weibes volles Leben, /= 25 =Sie ist ihr Kerker und ihr Himmelreich=--Love embraces woman's whole life; it is her prison and her kingdom of heaven. _Chamisso._
=Die Lust ist mächtiger als alle Furcht der Strafe=--Pleasure is more powerful than all fear of the penalty. _Goethe._
=Die Lust zu reden kommt zu rechter Stunde, / Und wahrhaft fliesst das Wort aus Herz und Munde=--The inclination to speak comes at the right hour, and the word flows true from heart and lip. _Goethe._
=Die Manifestationen der Idee als des Schönen, ist eben so flüchtig, als die Manifestationen des Erhabenen, des Geistreichen, des Lustigen, des Lächerlichen. Dies ist die Ursache, warum so schwer darüber zu reden ist=--The manifestation of the idea as the beautiful is just as fleeting as the manifestation of the sublime, the witty, the gay, and the ludicrous. This is the reason why it is so difficult to speak of it. _Goethe._
=Die Meisterhaft gilt oft für Egoismus=--Mastery passes often for egoism. _Goethe._
=Die Menge macht den Künstler irr' und scheu=--The 30 multitude is a distraction and scare to the artist. _Goethe._
=Die Menschen fürchtet nur, wer sie nicht kennt, / Und wer sie meidet, wird sie bald verkennen=--Only he shrinks from men who does not know them, and he who shuns them will soon misknow them. _Goethe._
=Die Menschen kennen einander nicht leicht, selbst mit dem besten Willen und Vorsatz; nun tritt noch der böse Wille hinzu, der Alles entstellt=--Men do not easily know one another, even with the best will and intention; presently ill-will comes forward, which disfigures all. _Goethe._
=Die Menschen sind im ganzen Leben blind=--Men are blind all through life. _Goethe._
=Die Menschheit geben uns Vater und Mutter, die Menschlichkeit aber gibt uns nur die Erziehung=--Human nature we owe to father and mother, but humanity to education alone. _Weber._
=Die Milde ziemt dem Weibe, / Dem Manne= 35 =ziemt die Rache!=--Mercy becomes the woman; avengement, the man. _Bodenstedt._
=Die Mode ist weiblichen Geschlechts, hat folglich ihre Launen=--Mode is of the female sex, and has consequently their whims. _C. J. Weber._
=Die monarchische Regierungsform ist die dem Menschen natürliche=--Monarchy is the form of government that is natural to mankind. _Schopenhauer._
=Die Moral steckt in kurzen Sprüchen besser, als in langen Reden und Predigten=--A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse. _Immermann._
=Diem perdidi!=--I have lost a day! _Titus, on finding that he had done no worthy action during the day._
=Die Mütter geben uns von Geiste Wärme, und die Väter Licht=--Our mothers give to our spirit heat, our fathers light. _Jean Paul._
=Die Natur ist ein unendlich geteilter Gott=--Nature is an infinitely divided God. _Schiller._
=Die Natur weiss allein, was sie will=--Nature alone knows what she aims at. _Goethe._
=Die of a rose in aromatic pain.= _Pope._
=Die Phantasie ward auserkoren / Zu öffnen= 5 =uns die reiche Wunderwelt=--Fantasy was appointed to open to us the rich realm of wonders. _Tiedge._
=Die Rachegötter schaffen im Stillen=--The gods of vengeance act in silence. _Schiller._
=Dies adimit ægritudinem=--Time cures our griefs. _L. Pr._
=Die Schönheit ist das höchste Princip und der höchste Zweck der Kunst=--Beauty is the highest principle and the highest aim of art. _Goethe._
=Die Schönheit ist vergänglich, die ihr doch / Allein zu ehren scheint. Was übrig bleibt, / Das reizt nicht mehr, und was nicht reizt, ist tot=--Beauty is transitory, which yet you seem alone to worship. What is left no longer attracts, and what does not attract is dead. _Goethe._
=Die Schönheit ruhrt, doch nur die Anmuth= 10 =sieget, / Und Unschuld nur behält den Preis=--Beauty moves us, though only grace conquers us, and innocence alone retains the prize. _Seume._
=Die Schulden sind der nächste Erbe=--Debts fall to the next heir. _Ger. Pr._
=Die Schwierigkeiten wachsen, je näher man dem Ziele kommt=--Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal. _Goethe._
=Dies datus=--A day given for appearing in court. _L._
=Dies faustus=--A lucky day.
=Dies infaustus=--An unlucky day. 15
=Die Sinne trügen nicht, aber das Urteil trügt=--The senses do not deceive, but the judgment does. _Goethe._
=Dies iræ, dies illa, / Sæclum solvet in favilla / Teste David cum Sibylla=--The day of wrath, that day shall dissolve the world in ashes, as David and the Sibyl say.
=Dies non=--A day when there is no court.
=Die Sorgen zu bannen, / (Das Unkraut des Geistes), den Kummer zu scheuchen, / Die Schmerzen zu lindern, / Ist Sache des Sängers=--To banish cares (the wild crop of the spirit), to chase away sorrow, to soothe pain, is the business of the singer. _Bodenstedt._
=Die Sorg' um Künft'ges niemals frommt; Man= 20 =fühlt kein Uebel, bis es kommt. / Und wenn man's fühlt, so hilft kein Rat; / Weisheit ist immer zu früh und zu spat=--Concern for the future boots not; we feel no evil till it comes. And when we feel it, no counsel avails; wisdom is always too early and too late. _Rückert._
=Dies religiosi=--Religious days; holidays.
=Die süssesten Trauben hängen am höchsten=--The sweetest grapes hang highest. _Ger. Pr._
=Diet cures more than doctors.= _Pr._
=Die te veel onderneemt slaagt zelden=--He who undertakes too much seldom succeeds. _Dut. Pr._
=Die That allein beweist der Liebe Kraft=--The 25 act alone shows the power of love. _Goethe._
=Die Thätigkeit ist was den Menschen glücklich macht; / Die, erst das Gute schaffend, bald ein Uebel selbst / Durch göttlich wirkende Gewalt in Gutes kehrt=--It is activity which renders man happy, which, by simply producing what is good, soon by a divinely working power converts an evil itself into a good. _Goethe._
=Die Todten reiten schnell!=--The dead ride fast! _Bürger._
=Die treue Brust des braven Manns allein ist ein sturmfester Dach in diesen Zeiten=--The loyal heart of the good man is in these times the only storm-proof place of shelter. _Schiller._
=Die Tugend des Menschen, der nach dem Geboten der Vernunft lebt, zeigt sich gleich gross in Vermeidung, wie in Ueberwindung der Gefahren=--The virtue of the man who lives according to the commands of reason manifests itself quite as much in avoiding as in overcoming danger. _Spinoza._
=Die Tugend grosser Seelen ist Gerechtigkeit=--The 30 virtue of great souls is justice. _Platen._
=Die Tugend ist das höchste Gut, / Das Laster Weh dem Menschen thut=--Virtue is man's highest good, vice works him nought but woe. _Goethe._
=Die Tugend ist nicht ein Wissen, sondern ein Wollen=--Virtue is not a knowing, but a willing. _Zachariae._
=Die Tugend ohne Lohn ist doppelt schön=--Virtue unrewarded is doubly beautiful. _Seume._
=Dieu aide à trois sortes de personnes, aux fous, aux enfants, et aux ivrognes=--God protects three sorts of people, fools, children, and drunkards. _Fr. Pr._
=Dieu avec nous=--God with us. _M._ 35
=Dieu ayde=--God help me. _M._
=Dieu défend le droit=--God defends the right. _M._
=Dieu donne le froid selon le drap=--God gives the cold according to the cloth. _Fr. Pr._
=Dieu et mon droit=--God and my right. _M._
=Dieu fit du repentir la vertu des mortels=--God 40 has made repentance the virtue of mortals. _Voltaire._
=Dieu garde la lune des loups=--God guards the moon from the wolves. _Fr. Pr._
=Dieu mésure le froid à la brebis tondue=--God measures the cold to the shorn lamb. _Fr. Pr._
=Die unbegreiflich hohen Werke / Sind herrlich wie am ersten Tag=--The incomprehensibly high works are as glorious as on the first day. _Goethe._
=Dieu nous garde d'un homme qui n'a qu'une affaire=--God keep us from a man who knows only one subject. _Fr. Pr._
=Die Unschuld hat im Himmel einen Freund=--Innocence 45 has a friend in heaven. _Schiller._
=Die Unsterblichkeit ist nicht jedermann's Sache=--Immortality is not every man's business or concern. _Goethe._
=Dieu pour la tranchée, qui contre?=--If God is our defence, who is against us? _M._
=Dieu seul devine les sots=--God only understands fools. _Fr. Pr._
=Die veel dienstboden heeft, die heeft veel dieven=--He who has many servants has many thieves. _Dut. Pr._
=Die vernünftige Welt ist als ein grosses unsterbliches Individuum zu betrachten, das unaufhaltsam das Nothwendige bewirkt und dadurch sich sogar über das Zufällige zum Herrn macht=--The rational world is to be regarded as a great immortal individuality, that is ever working out for us the necessary (_i.e._, an order which all must submit to), and thereby makes itself lord and master of everything contingent (or accidental). _Goethe._
=Die Vernunft ist auf das Werdende, der Verstand auf das Gewordene angewiesen; jene bekümmert sich nicht: wozu? dieser fragt nicht: woher?=--Reason is directed to what is a-doing or proceeding, understanding to what is done or past; the former is not concerned about the "whereto," the latter inquires not about the "whence." _Goethe._
=Die Wacht am Rhein=--"The watch on the Rhine." _A German national song._
=Die Wahrheit richtet sich nicht nach uns, sondern wir müssen uns nach ihr richten=--The truth adjusts itself not to us, but we must adjust ourselves to it. _Claudius._
=Die Wahrheit schwindet von der Erde / Auch= 5 =mit der Treu' ist es vorbei, / Die Hunde wedeln noch und stinken / Wie sonst, doch sind sie nicht mehr treu=--Truth is vanishing from the earth, and of fidelity is the day gone by. The dogs still wag the tail and smell the same as ever, but they are no longer faithful. _Heine._
=Die Wahrheit zu sagen ist nützlich dem, der höret, schädlich dem der spricht=--Telling the truth does good to him who hears, harm to him who speaks. _Ger. Pr._
=Die wankelmüt'ge Menge, / Die jeder Wind herumtreibt! Wehe dem, / Der auf dies Rohr sich lehnet=--The fickle mob, how they are driven round by every wind that blows! Woe to him who leans on this reed! _Schiller._
=Die Weiber lieben die Stärke ohne sie nachzuahmen; die Männer die Zartheit, ohne sie zu erwiedern=--Women admire strength without affecting it; men delicacy without returning it. _Jean Paul._
=Die Weiber meiden nichts so sehr als das Wörtchen Ja; wenigstens sagen sie es erst nach dem Nein=--Women are shy of nothing so much as the little word "Yes;" at least they say it only after they have said "No." _Jean Paul._
=Die Weisen wägen ihre Worte mit der Goldwage=--The 10 wise weigh their words in the balance of the goldsmith. _Ecclus._
=Die Weiseste merken höchstens nur wie das Schicksal sie leitet, und sind es zufrieden=--The wisest know at highest only how destiny is leading them, and are therewith content. _Forster._
=Die Welt der Freiheit trägt der Mensch in seinem Innern. / Und Tugend ist der Freiheit Götterkind=--Man bears the world of freedom in his heart, and virtue is freedom's divine child. _Tiedge._
=Die Weltgeschichte ist das Weltgericht=--The history of the world is the judgment of the world. _Schiller._
=Die Welt ist dumm die Welt ist blind, / Wird täglich abgeschmackter=--The world is stupid, the world is blind, becomes daily more absurd. _Heine._
=Die Welt ist ein Gefängniss=--The world is a 15 prison. _Goethe._
=Die Welt ist voller Widerspruch=--The world is full of contradiction. _Goethe._
=Die Welt ist vollkommen überall, / Wo der Mensch nicht hinkommt mit seiner Qual=--The world is all perfect except where man comes with his burden of woe. _Schiller._
=Die Worte sind gut, sie sind aber nicht das Beste. Das Beste wird nicht deutlich durch Worte=--Words are good, but are not the best. The best is not to be understood by words. _Goethe._
=Die Zeiten der Vergangenheit / Sind uns ein Buch mit sieben Siegeln; / Was Ihr den Geist der Zeiten heisst / Das ist im Grund' der Herrn eigner Geist, / In dem die Zeiten sich bespiegeln=--The times that are past are a book with seven seals. What ye call the spirit of the times is at bottom but the spirit of the gentry in which the times are mirrored. _Goethe, in "Faust."_
=Die Zeit ist schlecht, doch giebt's noch grosse= 20 =Seelen!=--The times are bad, yet there are still great souls. _Körner._
=Die Zukunft decket Schmerzen und Glücke=--The future hides in it gladness and sorrow. _Goethe._
=Different good, by art or nature given, / To different nations, makes their blessings even.= _Goldsmith._
=Different minds / Incline to different objects; one pursues / The vast alone, the wonderful, the wild; / Another sighs for harmony and grace, / And gentlest beauty.= _Akenside._
=Different times different manners.= _It. Pr._
=Difficile est crimen non prodere vultu=--It is 25 difficult not to betray guilt by the countenance. _Ovid._
=Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem=--It is difficult to relinquish at once a long-cherished passion. _Catull._
=Difficile est plurimum virtutem revereri, qui semper secunda fortuna sit usus=--It is difficult for one who has enjoyed uninterrupted good fortune to have a due reverence for virtue. _Cic._
=Difficile est proprie communia dicere=--It is difficult to handle a common theme with originality. _Hor._
=Difficile est satiram non scribere=--It is difficult not to indulge in (_lit._ to write) satire. _Juv._
=Difficile est tristi fingere mente jocum=--It is 30 difficult to feign mirth when one is in a gloomy mood. _Tibulle._
=Difficilem oportet aurem habere ad crimina=--One should be slow in listening to criminal accusations. _Pub. Syr._
=Difficilia quæ pulchra=--The really good is of difficult attainment. _L. Pr._
=Difficilis, facilis, jucundus, acerbus es idem; / Nec tecum possum vivere, nec sine te=--Cross but easy-minded, pleasant and sour together; I can neither live with thee nor yet without thee. _Mart._
=Difficilis in otio quies=--Tranquillity is difficult if one has nothing to do.
=Difficilius est sarcire concordiam quam rumpere=--It 35 is more difficult to restore harmony than sow dissension.
=Difficult to sweep the intricate foul chimneys of law.= _Carlyle._
=Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage.= _Channing._
=Difficulties are things that show what men are.= _Epictetus._
=Difficulties may surround our path, but if the difficulties be not in ourselves, they may generally be overcome.= _Jowett._
=Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labour does the body.= _Sen._
=Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death, are the allurements that act on the heart of man. Kindle the inner genial life of him, you have a flame that burns up all lower considerations.= _Carlyle._
=Diffugiunt, cadis / Cum fæce siccatis, amici, / Ferre jugum pariter dolosi=--When the wine-casks are drained to the lees, our friends soon disperse, too faithless to bear as well the yoke of misfortune. _Hor._
=Diffused knowledge immortalises itself.= _Sir J._ 5 _Macintosh._
=Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together.= _Ovid._
=Dignity consists not in possessing honours, but in deserving them.= _Arist._
=Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things.= _Whipple._
=Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as dignity of carriage.= _Bovee._
=Dignum laude virum Musa vetat mori=--The 10 Muse takes care that the man who is worthy of honour does not die. _Hor._
=Digressions in a book are like foreign troops in a state, which argue the nation to want a heart and hands of its own; and often either subdue the natives, or drive them into the most unfruitful corners.= _Swift._
=Digressions incontestably are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading.= _Sterne._
=Dii laboribus omnia vendunt=--The gods sell all things to hard labour. _Pr._
=Dii majores et minores=--Gods of a higher and lower degree.
=Dii majorum gentium=--The twelve gods of the 15 highest order.
=Dii penates=--Household gods.
=Di irati laneos pedes habent=--The gods when angry have their feet covered with wool. _Pr._
=Dii rexque secundent=--May God and the king favour us. _M._
=Diis aliter visum=--The gods have decreed otherwise. _Virg._
=Diis proximus ille est / Quem ratio, non ira= 20 =movet=--He is nearest to the gods whom reason, not passion, impels. _Claud._
=Dilationes in lege sunt odiosæ=--Delays in the law are odious. _L._
=Dilettantism, hypothesis, speculation, a kind of amateur-search for truth, toying and coquetting with truth; this is the sorest sin, the root of all imaginable sins.= _Carlyle._
=Dilexi justiciam et odi iniquitatem, propterea morior in exilio=--I have loved justice and hated injustice, therefore die I an exile. _Gregory VII. on his death-bed._
=Diligence increases the fruits of labour.= _Hesiod._
=Diligence is the mother of good fortune.= _Cervantes._ 25
=Diligentia, qua una virtute omnes virtutes reliquæ continentur=--Diligence, the one virtue that embraces in it all the rest. _Cic._
=Diligent, that includes all virtues in it a student can have.= _Carlyle, to the Students of Edinburgh University._
=Diligent working makes an expert workman.= _Dan. Pr._
=Diligitur nemo, nisi cui fortuna secunda est=--Only he is loved who is the favourite of fortune. _Ovid._
=Dimidium facti, qui cœpit, habet=--He who has 30 begun has half done. _Hor._
=Ding (knock) down the nests, and the rooks will flee awa.= _Sc. Pr., used to justify the demolition of the religious houses at the Reformation._
=Dinna curse him, sir; I have heard a good man say that a curse was like a stone flung up to the heavens, and maist like to return on his head that sent it.= _Scott._
=Dinna gut your fish till you get them.= _Sc. Pr._
=Dinna lift me before I fa'.= _Sc. Pr._
=Dinna scald your ain mou' wi ither folk's kail= 35 =(broth).= _Sc. Pr._
=Di nos quasi pilas homines habent=--The gods treat us mortals like so many balls to play with. _Plaut._
=Diogenes has well said that the only way to preserve one's liberty was being always ready to die without pain.= _Goethe._
=Dios es el que sana, y el médico lleva la plata=--Though God cures the patient, the doctor pockets the fee. _Sp. Pr._
=Dios me dé contienda con quien me entienda=--God grant me to argue with such as understand me. _Sp. Pr._
=Di picciol uomo spesso grand' ombra=--A little 40 man often casts a long shadow. _It. Pr._
=Dira necessitas=--Cruel necessity. _Hor._
=Dirigo=--I direct. _M._
=Dirt is not dirt, but only something in the wrong place.= _Palmerston._
=Diruit, ædificat, mutat quadrata rotundis=--He pulls down, he builds up, he changes square into round. _Hor._
=Dir war das Unglück eine strenge Schule=--Misfortune 45 was for thee a hard school. _Schiller._
=Disappointment is often the salt of life.= _Theodore Parker._
=Disasters, do the best we can, / Will reach both great and small; / And he is oft the wisest man / Who is not wise at all.= _Wordsworth._
=Disce aut discede=--Learn or leave.
=Disce pati=--Learn to endure.
=Disce, puer, virtutem ex me, verumque laborem,= 50 =/ Fortunam ex aliis=--Learn, my son, valour and patient toil from me, good fortune from others. _Virg._
=Disciplined inaction.= _Sir J. Macintosh._
=Discipulus est prioris posterior dies=--Each succeeding day is the scholar of the preceding. _Pub. Syr._
=Discite justitiam moniti, et non temnere divos=--Warned by me, learn justice, and not to despise the gods. _Virg._
=Discit enim citius, meminitque libentius illud / Quod quis deridet quam quod probat et veneratur=--Each learns more readily, and retains more willingly, what makes him laugh than what he approves of and respects. _Hor._
=Discontent is like ink poured into water, which= 55 =fills the whole fountain full of blackness. It casts a cloud over the mind, and renders it more occupied about the evil which disquiets it than about the means of removing it.= _Feltham._
=Discontent is the want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will.= _Emerson._
=Discontent makes us to lose what we have; contentment gets us what we want. Fretting never removed a cross nor procured a comfort; quiet submission doth both.= _Jacomb._
=Discontents are sometimes the better part of our life.= _Feltham._
=Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.= _Spenser._
=Discreet women have neither eyes nor ears.= 5 _Fr. Pr._
=Discrepant facta cum dictis=--The facts don't agree with the statements. _Cic._
=Discretion / And hard valour are the twins of honour, / And, nursed together, make a conqueror; / Divided, but a talker.= _Beaumont and Fletcher._
=Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.= _La Bruyère._
=Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar, of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.= _Bovee._
=Discretion of speech is more than eloquence,= 10 =and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words or in good order.= _Bacon._
=Discretion, the best part of valour.= _Beaumont and Fletcher._
=Disdain and scorn ride sparkling in her eye, / Misprising what they look on.= _Much Ado_, iii. 1.
=Diseased nature oftentimes breaks forth / In strange eruptions, and the teeming earth / Is with a kind of cholic pinch'd and vex'd / By the imprisoning of unruly wind / Within her womb, which, for enlargement striving, / Shakes the old bedlam earth, and topples down / Steeples and moss-grown towers.= _Hen. IV._, iii. 1.
=Diseases, desperate grown, / By desperate appliance are relieved, / Or not at all.= _Ham._, iv. 3.
=Diseur de bons mots=--A sayer of good things; 15 a would-be wit. _Fr._
=Diseuse de bonne aventure=--A mere fortune-teller. _Fr._
=Disgrace consists infinitely more in the crime than in the punishment.= _Bacon._
=Disguise our bondage as we will, / 'Tis woman, woman rules us still.= _Moore._
=Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery, thou art a bitter draught.= _Sterne._
=Dishonesty is the forsaking of permanent for= 20 =temporary advantages.= _Bovee._
=Dishonest men conceal their faults from themselves as well as others; honest men know and confess them.= _Bovee._
=Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.= _Dickens._
=Dishonour waits on perfidy. The villain / Should blush to think a falsehood; 'tis the crime / Of cowards.= _C. Johnson._
=Disillusion is the chief characteristic of old age.=
=Disjecta membra=--Scattered remains. 25
=Disjecti membra poetæ=--Limbs of the dismembered poet. _Hor._
=Disjice compositam pacem, sere crimina belli=--Dash the patched-up peace, sow the seeds of wicked war. _Virg._
=Dismiss your vows, your feigned tears, your flattery; / For where a heart is hard, they make no battery.= _Shakespeare._
=Disobedience is the beginning of evil and the broad way to ruin.= _D. Davies._
=Disorder in a drawing-room is vulgar; in an= 30 =antiquary's study, not; the black stain on a soldier's face is not vulgar, but the dirty face of a housemaid is.= _Ruskin._
=Disorder is dissolution, death.= _Carlyle._
=Disorder makes nothing at all, but unmakes everything.= _Prof. Blackie._
=Disponendo me, non mutando me=--By displacing, not by changing me. _M._
=Disputandi pruritus ecclesiarum scabies=--The itch for controversy is the scab of the Church. _Wotton._
=Dissensions, like small streams at first begun, /= 35 =Unseen they rise, but gather as they run.= _Garth._
=Dissimulation in youth is the forerunner of perfidy in old age.= _Blair._
=Dissimulation is but faint policy, for it asketh a strong wit and a strong heart to know when to tell the truth and to do it.= _Bacon._
=Distance produces in idea the same effect as in real perspective.= _Scott._
=Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it.= _Howell._
=Distinction is an eminence that is attained but= 40 =too frequently at the expense of a fireside.= _Simms._
=Distinction is the consequence, never the object, of a great mind.= _W. Allston._
=Distinction, with a broad and powerful fan / Puffing at all, winnows the light away.= _Troil. and Cress._, i. 3.
=Distingué=--Distinguished; eminent; gentlemanlike. _Fr._
=Distinguished talents are not necessarily connected with discretion.= _Junius._
=Distortion is the agony of weakness. It is the= 45 =dislocated mind whose movements are spasmodic.= _Willmott._
=Distrahit animum librorum multitudo=--A multitude of books distracts the mind. _Sen._
=Distrait=--Absent in mind. _Fr._
=Distressed valour challenges great respect, even from enemies.= _Plutarch._
=Distringas=--You may distrain. _L._
=Distrust and darkness of a future state /= 50 =Make poor mankind so fearful of their fate, / Death in itself is nothing; but we fear / To be we know not what, we know not where.= _Dryden._
=Dites-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es=--Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are. _Brillat-Savarin._
=Ditissimus agris=--An extensive landed proprietor.
=Di tutte le arti maestro è amore=--Love is master of all arts. _It. Pr._
=Diversité, c'est ma devise=--Variety, that is my motto. _La Fontaine._
=Dives agris, dives positis in fœnore nummis=--Rich 55 in lands, rich in money laid out at interest. _Hor._
=Dives aut iniquus est aut iniqui hæres=--A rich man is an unjust man, or the heir of one. _Pr._
=Dives est, cui tanta possessio est, ut nihil optet amplius=--He is rich who wishes no more than he has. _Cic._
=Dives qui fieri vult, / Et cito vult fieri=--He who wishes to become rich, is desirous of becoming so at once. _Juv._
=Divide et impera=--Divide and govern.
=Divina natura dedit agros, ars humana ædificavit= 5 =urbes=--Divine nature gave the fields, man's invention built the cities. _Varro._
=Divination seems heightened to its highest power in woman.= _A. B. Alcott._
=Divine love is a sacred flower, which in its early bud is happiness, and in its full bloom is heaven.= _Hervey._
=Divine moment, when over the tempest-tossed soul, as over the wild-weltering chaos, it was spoken: Let there be light. Even to the greatest that has felt such a moment, is it not miraculous and God-announcing; even as, under simpler figures, to the humblest and least?= _Carlyle._
=Divine Philosophy, by whose pure light / We first distinguish, then pursue the right; / Thy power the breast from every error frees, / And weeds out all its vices by degrees.= _Juv._
=Divine= _right_, =take it on the great scale, is found= 10 =to mean divine= _might_ =withal.= _Carlyle._
=Divines but peep on undiscovered worlds, / And draw the distant landscape as they please.= _Dryden._
=Divinity should be empress, and philosophy and other arts merely her servants.= _Luther._
=Divitiæ grandes homini sunt, vivere parce / Æquo animo=--It is great wealth to a man to live frugally with a contented mind. _Lucr._
=Divitiæ virum faciunt=--Riches make the man.
=Divitiarum et formæ gloria fluxa atque fragilis;= 15 =virtus clara æternaque habetur=--The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting. _Sall._
=Divitis servi maxime servi=--Servants to the rich are the most abject.
=Divorce from this world is marriage with the next.= _Talmud._
=Dla przyjaciela nowego / Nie opuszczaj starego!=--To keep a new friend, never break with the old. _Russ. Pr._
=Do as others do, and few will laugh at you.= _Dan. Pr._
=Do as the bee does with the rose, take the= 20 =honey and leave the thorn.= _Amer. Pr._
=Do as the lassies do; say "No" and tak' it.= _Sc. Pr._
=Dobrze to w kazdym znale['s]['c] przyjaciela!=--How delightful to find a friend in every one. _Brodzinski._
=Docendo discimus=--We learn by teaching.
=Dochters zijn broze waren=--Daughters are fragile ware. _Dut. Pr._
=Doch werdet ihr nie Herz zu Herzen schaffen /= 25 =Wenn es auch nicht von Herzen geht=--Yet will ye never bring heart to heart unless it goes out of your own. _Goethe._
=Dociles imitandis / Turpibus ac pravis omnes sumus=--We are all easily taught to imitate what is base and depraved. _Juv._
=Docti rationem artis intelligunt, indocti voluptatem=--The learned understand the principles of art, the unlearned feel the pleasure only. _Quinct._
=Doctor Luther's shoes don't fit every village priest.= _Ger. Pr._
=Doctor utriusque legis=--Doctor of both civil and canon law.
=Doctrina sed vim promovet insitam / Rectique= 30 =cultus pectora roborant=--But instruction improves the innate powers, and good discipline strengthens the heart. _Hor._
=Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.= _Ward Beecher._
=Does Homer interest us now, because he wrote of what passed beyond his native Greece, and two centuries before he was born; or because he wrote what passed in God's world, which is the same after thirty centuries?= _Carlyle._
=Do faita dicha, por demas es diligencia=--Diligence is of no use where luck is wanting. _Sp. Pr._
=Dogmatic jargon, learn'd by heart, / Trite sentences, hard terms of art, / To vulgar ears seem so profound, / They fancy learning in the sound.= _Gay._
=Do good and throw it into the sea; if the fish= 35 =know it not, the Lord will.= _Turk. Pr._
=Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.= _Pope._
=Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.= _Ben. Franklin._
=Dogs should not be taught to eat leather (so indispensable for leashes and muzzles).= _Ger. Pr._
=Dogs that bark at a distance ne'er bite at hand.= _Sc. Pr._
=Doing good is the only certainly happy action= 40 =of a man's life.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=Doing is activity; and he will still be doing.= _Hen. V._, iii. 7.
=Doing is the great thing; for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.= _Ruskin._
=Doing leads more surely to saying than saying to doing.= _Vinet._
=Doing nothing is doing ill.= _Pr._
=Dolce far niente=--Sweet idleness. _It._ 45
=Dolci cose a vedere, e dolci inganni=--Things sweet to see, and sweet deceptions. _Ariosto._
=Dolendi modus, timendi non autem=--There is a limit to grief, but not to fear. _Pliny._
=Doli non doli sunt, nisi astu colas=--Fraud is not fraud, unless craftily planned. _Plaut._
=Dolium volvitur=--An empty vessel rolls easily. _Pr._
=Dolori affici, sed resistere tamen=--To be affected 50 with grief, but still to resist it. _Pliny._
=Dolus an virtus, quis in hoste requirat?=--Who inquires in an enemy whether it be stratagem or valour? _Virg._
=Dolus versatur in generalibus=--Fraud deals in generalities. _L._
=Domandar chi nacque prima, l'uovo o la gallina=--Ask which was first produced, the egg or the hen. _It. Pr._
=Domestic happiness is the end of almost all our pursuits, and the common reward of all our pains.= _Fielding._
=Domestic happiness! thou only bliss / Of happiness= 55 =that has survived the Fall.= _Cowper._
=Domi manere convenit felicibus=--Those who are happy at home should remain at home. _Pr._
=Domine, dirige nos=--Lord, direct us!
=Domini pudet, non servitutis=--I am ashamed of my master, but not of my condition as a servant. _Sen._
=Dominus illuminatio mea=--The Lord is my light. _M._
=Dominus providebit=--The Lord will provide. _M._ 5
=Dominus videt plurimum in rebus suis=--The master sees best in his own affairs. _Phæd._
=Dominus vobiscum, et cum spiritu tuo=--The Lord be with you, and with thy spirit.
=Domitæ naturæ=--Of a tame nature.
=Domus amica domus optima=--The house of a friend is the best house.
=Domus et placens uxor=--Thy house and pleasing 10 wife.
=Domus sua cuique tutissimum refugium=--The safest place of refuge for every man is his own home. _Coke._
=Dona præsentis cape lætus horæ, et / Linque severa=--Gladly enjoy the gifts of the present hour, and banish serious thoughts. _Hor._
=Donatio mortis causa=--A gift made in prospect of death. _L._
=Don de plaire=--The gift of pleasing. _Fr._
=Donec eris felix multos numerabis amicos; /= 15 =Tempora si fuerint nubila, solus eris=--So long as you are prosperous you will reckon many friends; if fortune frowns on you, you will be alone. _Ovid._
=Done to death by slanderous tongues.= _Much Ado_, v. 3.
=Donna di finestra, uva di strada=--A woman at the window is a bunch of grapes by the wayside. _It. Pr._
=Donna è mobile come piume in vento=--Woman is as changeable as a feather in the wind. _Verdi._
=Donner de si mauvaise grâce qu'on n'a pas d'obligation=--To give so ungraciously as to do away with any obligation. _Fr._
=Donner une chandelle à Dieu et une au diable=--To 20 give one candle to God and another to the devil. _Fr. Pr._
=Donnez, mais, si vous pouvez, épargnez au pauvre, la honte de tendre la main=--Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of holding out the hand. _Diderot._
=Dono dedit=--Gave as a gift.
=Do not allow your daughters to be taught letters by a man, though he be a St. Paul or a St Francis of Assisi. The saints are in heaven.= _Bp. Liguori._
=Do not ask if a man has been through college. Ask if a college has been through him.= _Chapin._
=Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, / Show= 25 =me the steep and thorny way to heaven, / Whilst, like a puffed and reckless libertine, / Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads, / And recks not his own rede.= _Ham._, i. 3.
=Do not flatter your benefactors.= _Buddhist Pr._
=Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose / That you resolv'd to effect.= _Tempest_, iii. 2.
=Do not give dalliance / Too much the rein; the strongest oaths are straw / To the fire i' the blood. Be more abstemious, / Or else good night your vow.= _Tempest_, iv. 1.
=Do not halloo till you are out of the wood.= _Pr._
=Do not lose the present in vain perplexities= 30 =about the future. If fortune lours to-day, she may smile to-morrow.= _Sir T. Martin._
=Do not refuse the employment which the hour brings you for one more ambitious.= _Emerson._
=Do not talk Arabic in the house of a Moor.= _Sp. Pr._
=Do not tell a friend anything that you would conceal from an enemy.= _Ar. Pr._
=Do not think of one falsity as harmless, and one as slight, and another as unintended. Cast them all aside; it is better our hearts should be swept clean of them.= _Ruskin._
=Do not train boys to learning by force or harshness;= 35 =but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be the better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.= _Plato._
=Do not trouble yourself too much about the light on your statue; the light of the public square will test its value.= _Michael Angelo to a young sculptor._
=Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Nerve us with incessant affirmatives. Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.= _Emerson._
=Don't be "consistent," but be simply true.= _Holmes._
=Don't budge, if you are at ease where you are.= _Ger. Pr._
=Don't despise a slight wound or a poor relative.= 40 _Dan. Pr._
=Don't dissipate your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay.= _Goethe._
=Don terrible de la familiarité=--The terrible gift of familiarity. _Mirabeau._
=Don't fly till your wings are fledged.= _Ger. Pr._
=Don't hate; only pity and avoid those that follow lies.= _Carlyle._
=Don't put too fine a point to your wit, for fear= 45 =it should get blunted.= _Cervantes._
=Don't quit the highway for a short cut.= _Port. Pr._
=Don't reckon your chickens before they are hatched.= _Pr._
=Don't throw away the old shoes till you've got new ones.= _Dut. Pr._
=Donum exitiale Minervæ=--The fatal gift to Minerva, _i.e._, the wooden horse, by means of which the Greeks took Troy. _Virg._
=Do on the hill as ye do in the ha'.= _Sc. Pr._ 50
=Do right; though pain and anguish be thy lot, / Thy heart will cheer thee when the pain's forgot; / Do wrong for pleasure's sake, then count thy gains, / The pleasure soon departs, the sin remains.= _Bp. Shuttleworth._
=Dormit aliquando jus, moritur nunquam=--A right is sometimes in abeyance, but never abolished. _L._
=Dormiunt aliquando leges, nunquam moriuntur=--The law sleeps sometimes, but never dies. _L._
=Dos d'âne=--Saddleback (_lit._ ass's back). _Fr._
=Dos est magna parentum / Virtus=--The virtue 55 of parents is a great dowry. _Hor._
=Dos est uxoria lites=--Strife is the dowry of a wife. _Ovid._
[Greek: Dosis d' oligê te, philê te]--Gift both dainty and dear. _Hom._
=Dos linajes solo hay en el mundo, el "tener" y el "no tener"=--There are but two families in the world, those who have, and those who have not. _Cervantes._
[Greek: Dos moi pou stô kai tên gên kinêsô]--Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth. _Archimedes._
=Dost thou love life? Then do not squander= 5 =time, for that is the stuff life is made of.= _B. Franklin._
=Dost thou love me? I know thou wilt say aye; / And I will take thy word. Yet if thou swear'st, / Thou may'st prove false; at lovers' perjuries / They say Jove laughs.= _Rom. and Jul._, ii. 2.
=Dost thou love pictures? We will fetch thee straight / Adonis painted by a running brook; / And Cytherea all in sedges hid; / Which seem to move and wanton with her breath; / Even as the waving sedges play with wind.= _Tam. the Shrew_, Ind. 2.
=Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there are to be no more cakes and ale?= _Twelfth Night_, ii. 3.
=Do that which is assigned you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.= _Emerson._
=Do the duty that lies nearest to you. Every= 10 =duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back.= _Kingsley._
=Do the duty which lies nearest to thee. Thy second duty will already have become clearer.= _Carlyle._
=Do thine own task, and be therewith content.= _Goethe._
=Doth not the appetite alter? A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.= _Much Ado_, ii. 3.
=Doth the eagle know what is in the pit, / Or wilt thou go ask the mole?= _William Blake._
=Do thy little well, and for thy comfort know, /= 15 =Great men can do their greatest work no better than just so.= _Goethe._
=Double, double, toil and trouble, / Fire burn, and caldron bubble.= _Macb._, iv. 1.
=Double, double toil and trouble; that is the life of all governors that really govern; not the spoil of victory, only the glorious toil of battle can be theirs.= _Carlyle._
=Double entendre=--A double meaning. _Fr._
=Double entente=--Double signification. _Fr._
=Doubting the reality of love leads to doubting= 20 =everything.= _Amiel._
=Doubting things go ill often hurts more / Than to be sure they do.= _Cymbeline_, i. 7.
=Doubt is an incentive to truth, and patient inquiry leadeth the way.= _H. Ballou._
=Doubt is the abettor of tyranny.= _Amiel._
=Doubt is the vestibule which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.= _Colton._
=Doubtless the pleasure is as great / Of being= 25 =cheated as to cheat.= _Butler._
=Doubt of any sort cannot be removed except by action.= _Goethe._
=Doubt thou the stars are fire; / Doubt that the sun doth move; / Doubt truth to be a liar; / But never doubt I love.= _Ham._, ii. 2.
=Douceur=--A bribe. _Fr._
=Do ut des=--I give that you may give. _Maxim of Bismarck._
=Doux yeux=--Tender glances. _Fr._ 30
=Dove bisognan rimedj, il sospirar non vale=--Where remedies are needed, sighing is of no use. _It. Pr._
=Dove è grand'amore, quivi è gran dolore=--Where the love is great the pain is great. _It. Pr._
=Dove è il Papa, ivi è Roma=--Where the Pope is, Rome is. _It. Pr._
=Dove è l'amore, là è l'occhio=--Where love is, there the eye is. _It. Pr._
=Dove entra il vino, esce la vergogna=--When 35 wine enters modesty goes. _It. Pr._
=Dove la voglia è pronta, le gambe son leggiere=--When the will is prompt, the legs are light. _It. Pr._
=Do weel and doubt nae man; do ill and doubt a' men.= _Sc. Pr._
=Do we not all submit to death? The highest sentence of the law, sentence of death, is passed on all of us by the fact of birth; yet we live patiently under it, patiently undergo it when the hour comes.= _Carlyle._
=Dower'd with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn, / The love of love.= _Tennyson, of the poet._
=Do what he will, he cannot realise / Half he= 40 =conceives--the glorious vision flies; / Go where he may, he cannot hope to find / The truth, the beauty pictured in the mind.= _Rogers._
=Do what we can, summer will have its flies; if we go a-fishing, we must expect a wet coat.= _Emerson._
=Down, thou climbing sorrow; / Thy element's below.= _King Lear_, ii. 4.
=Downward to climb and backward to advance.= _Pope._
=Downy sleep, death's counterfeit.= _Macb._, iii. 2.
=Do you think the porter and the cook have no= 45 =anecdotes, no experiences, no wonders for you?= _Emerson._
=Do you wish to find out the really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.= _Napoleon._
=Dramatis personæ=--Characters represented.
=Draw thyself from thyself.= _Goethe._
=Dream after dream ensues, / And still they dream that they shall still succeed / And still are disappointed.= _Cowper._
=Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no= 50 =end to illusion.= _Emerson._
=Dreams are but interludes which fancy makes. / When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes; / Compounds a medley of disjointed things, / A mob of cobblers and a court of kings; / Light fumes are merry, grosser fumes are sad; / Both are the reasonable soul run mad.= _Dryden._
=Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.= _Amiel._
=Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on the earth in the night season, and melt away with the first beams of the sun.= _Dickens._
=Dreams are the children of an idle brain, / Begot of nothing but vain phantasy; / Which are as thin of substance as the air, / And more inconstant than the wind.= _Rom. and Jul._, i. 4.
=Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, / Are a substantial world, both pure and good; / Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, / Our pastime and our happiness will grow.= _Wordsworth._
=Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.= _Ham._, ii. 2.
=Dreams, in general, take their rise from those incidents that have occurred during the day.= _Herodotus._
=Dreams in their development have breath /= 5 =And tears and torture and the touch of joy; / They leave a weight upon our waking thoughts; / They take a weight from off our waking toils; / They do divide our being; they become a portion of ourselves as of our time, / And look like heralds of eternity.= _Byron._
=Dreigers vechten niet=--Those who threaten don't fight. _Dut. Pr._
=Dress has a moral effect upon the conduct of mankind.= _Sir J. Barrington._
=Drinking water neither makes a man sick nor in debt, nor his wife a widow.= _John Neal._
=Drink nothing without seeing it, sign nothing without reading it.= _Port. Pr._
=Drink not the third glass, which thou canst= 10 =not tame / When once it is within thee; but before, / May'st rule it as thou list; and pour the shame, / Which it would pour on thee, upon the floor.= _G. Herbert._
=Drink to me only with thine eyes, / And I will pledge with mine; / Or leave a kiss but in the cup, / And I'll not look for wine.= _Ben Jonson._
=Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.= _Bible._
=Drive a coach and six through an act of parliament.= _Baron S. Rice._
=Drive a cow to the ha', and she'll run to the byre.= _Sc. Pr._
=Drive thy business, let not thy business drive= 15 =thee.= _Franklin._
=Droit d'aubaine=--The right of escheat; windfall. _Fr._
=Droit des gens=--Law of nations. _Fr._
=Droit et avant=--Right and forward. _Fr._
=Droit et loyal=--Right and loyal. _Fr._
=Drones hive not with me.= _Mer. of Ven._, ii. 5. 20
=Drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.= _Bible._
=Drudgery and knowledge are of kin, / And both descended from one parent sin.= _S. Butler._
=Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory;--of a constitution so treacherously good than it never bends till it breaks; or of a memory that recollects the pleasures of getting intoxicated, but forgets the pains of getting sober.= _Colton._
=Drunkenness is voluntary madness.= _Sen._
[Greek: Dryos pesousês pas anêr xyleuetai]--When an 25 oak falls, every one gathers wood. _Men._
=Dry light is ever the best=, _i.e._, from one who, as disinterested, can take a dispassionate view of a matter. _Heraclitus._
=Dry shoes won't catch fish.= _Gael. Pr._
=Duabus sedere sellis=--To sit between two stools.
=Du bist am Ende was du bist=--Thou art in the end what thou art. _Goethe._
=Dubitando ad veritatem pervenimus=--By way 30 of doubting we arrive at the truth. _Cic._
=Dubiam salutem qui dat afflictis, negat=--He who offers to the wretched a dubious deliverance, denies all hope. _Sen._
=Ducats are clipped, pennies are not.= _Ger. Pr._
=Duce et auspice=--Under his guidance and auspices. _M._
=Duces tecum=--You must bring with you (certain documents). _L._
=Duce tempus eget=--The time calls for a leader. 35 _Lucan._
=Du choc des esprits jaillissent les étincelles=--When great spirits clash, sparks fly about. _Fr. Pr._
=Ducis ingenium, res / Adversæ nudare solent, celare secundæ=--Disasters are wont to reveal the abilities of a general, good fortune to conceal them. _Hor._
=Ducit amor patriæ=--The love of country leads me. _M._
=Du côté de la barbe est la toute-puissance=--The male alone has been appointed to bear rule. _Molière._
=Ductor dubitantium=--A guide to those in doubt. 40
=Ducunt volentem fata, nolentem trahunt=--Fate leads the willing, and drags the unwilling. _Sen. from Cleanthes._
=Du fort au faible=--On an average (_lit._ from the strong to the weak). _Fr._
=Du glaubst zu schieben und du wirst geschoben=--Thou thinkest thou art shoving and thou art shoved. _Goethe._
=Du gleichst dem Geist, den du begreifst / Nicht mir=--Thou art like to the spirit which thou comprehendest, not to me. _Goethe._
=Du hast das nicht, was andre haben, /= 45 =Und andern mangeln deine Gabe; / Aus dieser Unvollkommenheit / Entspringt die Geselligkeit=--Thou hast not what others have, and others want what has been given thee; out of such defect springs good-fellowship. _Gellert._
=Du haut de ces pyramides quarante siècles nous contemplent=--From the height of these pyramids forty centuries look down on us. _Napoleon to his troops in Egypt._
=Dulce domum=--Sweet home. _A school song._
=Dulce est desipere in loco=--It is pleasant to play the fool (_i.e._ relax) sometimes. _Hor._
=Dulce est miseris socios habuisse doloris=--It is a comfort to the wretched to have companions in misfortune.
=Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori=--It is 50 sweet and glorious to die for one's country. _Hor._
=Dulce periculum=--Sweet danger. _M._
=Dulce sodalitium=--A pleasant association of friends.
=Dulcibus est verbis alliciendus amor=--Love is to be won by affectionate words. _Pr._
=Dulcique animos novitate tenebo=--And I will hold your mind captive with sweet novelty. _Ovid._
=Dulcis amor patriæ, dulce videre suos=--Sweet 55 is the love of country, sweet to see one's kindred. _Ovid._
=Dulcis inexpertis cultura potentis amici; / Expertus metuit=--The cultivation of friendship with the great is pleasant to the inexperienced, but he who has experienced it dreads it. _Hor._
=Dull, conceited hashes, / Confuse their brains in college classes; / They gang in stirks, and come oot asses, / Plain truth to speak.= _Burns._
=Dull not device by coldness and delay.= _Othello_, ii. 3.
=Dumb dogs and still waters are dangerous.= _Ger. Pr._
=Dumbie winna lee.= _Sc. Pr._ 5
=Dumb jewels often, in their silent kind, / More than quick words do move a woman's mind.= _Two Gent. of Ver._, iii. 1.
=Dum deliberamus quando incipiendum incipere jam serum est=--While we are deliberating to begin, the time to begin is past. _Quinct._
=Dum fata fugimus, fata stulti incurrimus=--While we flee from our fate, we like fools rush on it. _Buchanan._
=Dum in dubio est animus, paulo momento huc illuc impellitur=--While the mind is in suspense, a very little sways it one way or other. _Ter._
=Dum lego, assentior=--Whilst I read, I assent. 10 _Cic._
=Dum loquor, hora fugit=--While I am speaking, time flies. _Ovid._
=Dummodo morata recte veniat, dotata est satis=--Provided she come with virtuous principles, a woman brings dowry enough. _Plaut._
=Dummodo sit dives, barbarus ipse placet=--If he be only rich, a very barbarian pleases us. _Ovid._
=Dum ne ob malefacta peream, parvi æstimo=--So be I do not die for evil-doing, I care little for dying. _Plaut._
=Du moment qu'on aime, on devient si doux=--From 15 the moment one falls in love, one becomes sweet in the temper. _Marmontel._
=Dum se bene gesserit=--So long as his behaviour is good. _L._
=Dum singuli pugnant, universi vincuntur=--While they fight separately, the whole are conquered. _Tacit._
=Dum spiro, spero=--While I breathe, I hope. _M._
=Dum tacent, clamant=--While silent, they cry aloud, _i.e._, their silence bespeaks discontent. _Cic._
=Du musst steigen oder sinken, / Du musst herrschen= 20 =und gewinnen, / Oder dienen und verlieren, / Leiden oder triumphiren, / Amboss oder Hammer sein=--Thou must mount up or sink down, must rule and win or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be anvil or hammer. _Goethe._
=Dum vires annique sinunt, tolerate labores: / Jam veniet tacito curva senecta pede=--While your strength and years permit, you should endure labour; bowed old age will soon come on with silent foot. _Ovid._
=Dum vitant stulti vitia, in contraria currunt=--While fools shun one set of faults, they run into the opposite one. _Hor._
=Dum vivimus, vivamus=--While we live, let us live. _M._
=D'une vache perdue, c'est quelque chose de recouvrer la queue=--When a cow is lost, it is something to recover the tail. _Fr. Pr._
=Duo quum faciunt idem non est idem=--When 25 two do the same thing, it is not the same. _Ter._
=Duos qui sequitur lepores neutrum capit=--He who follows two hares is sure to catch neither. _Pr._
=Dupes indeed are many; but of all dupes there is none so fatally situated as he who lives in undue terror of being duped.= _Carlyle._
=Durante beneplacito=--During good pleasure.
=Durante vita=--During life.
=Dura più incudine che il martello=--The anvil 30 lasts longer than the hammer. _It. Pr._
=Durate, et vosmet rebus servate secundis=--Be patient, and preserve yourself for better times. _Virg._
=Durch Vernünfteln wird Poesie vertrieben / Aber sie mag das Vernüftige lieben=--Poetry loves what is true in reason, but is scared away (dispersed) by subtlety in reasoning. _Goethe._
=Durum et durum non faciunt murum=--Hard and hard (_i.e._, without mortar) do not make a wall.
=Durum! Sed levius fit patientia / Quicquid corrigere est nefas=--'Tis hard! But that which we are not permitted to correct is rendered lighter by patience. _Hor._
=Durum telum necessitas=--Necessity is a hard 35 weapon. _Pr._
=Du sollst mit dem Tode zufrieden sein. / Warum machst du dir das Leben zur Pein?=--Thou shouldst make peace (_lit._ be content) with death. Why then make thy life a torture to thee? _Goethe._
=Dusting, darning, drudging, nothing is great or small, / Nothing is mean or irksome: love will hallow it all.= _Dr. Walter Smith._
=Dust long outlasts the storied stone.= _Byron._
=Dust thou art, and unto dust thou shalt return.= _Bible._
=Du sublime au ridicule il n'y a qu'un pas=--There 40 is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous. _Napoleon._
=Dutchmen must have wide breeches.= _Fris. Pr._
=Duties are but coldly performed which are but philosophically fulfilled.= _Mrs. Jameson._
=Duties are ours; events are God's.= _Cecil._
=Duty by habit is to pleasure turn'd; / He is content who to obey has learn'd.= _Sir E. Brydges._
=Duty demands the parent's voice / Should sanctify= 45 =the daughter's choice, / In that is due obedience shown; / To choose belongs to her alone.= _Moore._
=Duty, especially out of the domain of love, is the veriest slavery in the world.= _J. G. Holland._
=Duty has the virtue of making us feel the reality of a positive world, while at the same time it detaches us from it.= _Amiel._
=Duty is a power which rises with us in the morning, and goes to bed with us in the evening.= _Gladstone._
=Duty is the demand of the passing hour.= _Goethe._
=Duty scorns prudence, and criticism has few= 50 =terrors for a man with a great purpose.= _Disraeli._
=Duty--the command of Heaven, the eldest voice of God.= _Kingsley._
=Dux fœmina facti=--A woman the leader in the deed. _Virg._
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=Each animal out of its habitat would starve.= _Emerson._
=Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, / Exhausted worlds, and then imagined new.= _Johnson._
=Each creature is only a modification of the other; the likeness in them is more than the difference, and their radical law is one and the same.= _Emerson._
=Each creature seeks its perfection in another.= _Luther._
=Each day still better other's happiness, / Until= 5 =the heavens, envying earth's good hap, / Add an immortal title to your crown.= _Rich. II._, i. 1.
=Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world, and the old man lives among graves.= _Jean Paul._
=Each good thought or action moves / The dark world nearer to the sun.= _Whittier._
=Each heart is a world. You find all within yourself that you find without. The world that surrounds you is the magic glass of the world within you.= _Lavater._
=Each human heart can properly exhibit but one love, if even one; the "first love, which is infinite," can be followed by no second like unto it.= _Carlyle._
=Each in his narrow cell for ever laid,/ The rude= 10 =forefathers of the hamlet sleep.= _Gray._
=Each man begins the world afresh, and the last man repeats the blunders of the first.= _Amiel._
=Each man can learn something from his neighbour; at least he can learn to have patience with him--to live and let live.= _Kingsley._
=Each man has his fortune in his own hands, as the artist has a piece of rude matter, which he is to fashion into a certain shape.= _Goethe._
=Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.= _Emerson._
=Each man sees over his own experience a= 15 =certain stain of error, whilst that of other men looks fair and ideal.= _Emerson._
=Each man's chimney is his golden milestone, is the central point from which he measures every distance through the gateways of the world around him.= _Longfellow._
=Each mind has its own method. A true man never acquires after college rules.= _Emerson._
=Each must stand on his glass tripod, if he would keep his electricity.= _Emerson._
=Each one of us here, let the world go how it will, and be victorious or not victorious, has he not a life of his own to lead?= _Carlyle._
=Each particle of matter is an immensity, each= 20 =leaf a world, each insect an inexplicable compendium.= _Lavater._
=Each plant has its parasite, and each created thing its lover and poet.= _Emerson._
=Each present joy or sorrow seems the chief.= _Sh._
=Each sin at heart is Deicide.= _Aubrey de Vere (the younger)._
=Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows, / Which show like grief itself, but are not so; / For sorrow's eye, glazed with blinding tears, / Divides one thing entire to many objects.= _Rich. II._, ii. 2.
=Each thing is a half, and suggests another thing= 25 =to make it whole; as spirit, matter; man, woman; odd, even; subjective, objective; in, out; motion, rest; yea, nay.= _Emerson._
=Each thing lives according to its kind; the heart by love, the intellect by truth, the higher nature of man by intimate communion with God.= _Chapin._
=Each year one vicious habit rooted out, in time might make the worst man good.= _Ben. Franklin._
=Ea fama vagatur=--That report is in circulation.
=Eagles fly alone; they are but sheep that always herd together.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=Eamus quo ducit gula=--Let us go where our 30 appetite prompts us. _Virg._
=Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.= _Burke._
=Early birds catch the worms.= _Sc. Pr._
=Early, bright, transient, chaste, as morning dew, / She sparkled, was exhaled, and went to heaven.= _Young._
=Early master soon knave (servant).= _Sc. Pr._
=Early start makes easy stages.= _Amer. Pr._ 35
=Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.= _Pr._
=Earn well the thrifty months, nor wed / Raw Haste, half-sister to Delay.= _Tennyson._
=Earnest and sport go well together.= _Dan. Pr._
=Earnestness alone makes life eternity.= _Goethe._
=Earnestness in life, even when carried to an= 40 =extreme, is something very noble and great.= _W. v. Humboldt._
=Earnestness is a quality as old as the heart of man.= _G. Gilfillan._
=Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.= _Pascal._
=Earnestness is the cause of patience; it gives endurance, overcomes pain, strengthens weakness, braves dangers, sustains hope, makes light of difficulties, and lessens the sense of weariness in overcoming them.= _Bovee._
=Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties.= _Bovee._
=Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand= 45 =sure.= _Browning._
=Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat, / Sighing through all her work, gave sign of woe / That all was lost.= _Milton._
=Earth has scarcely an acre that does not remind us of actions that have long preceded our own, and its clustering tombstones loom up like reefs of the eternal shore, to show us where so many human barks have struck and gone down.= _Chapin._
=Earth hath no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.= _Moore._
=Earth hath nothing more tender than a woman's heart when it is the abode of piety.= _Luther._
=Earth is here (in Australia) so kind, just tickle= 50 =her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.= _Douglas Jerrold._
=Earthly pride is like a passing flower, that springs to fall and blossoms but to die.= _Kirke White._
=Earth, sea, man, are all in each.= _Dante Gabriel Rossetti._
=Earth, that's Nature's mother, is her tomb.= _Rom. and Jul._, ii. 3.
=Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection.= _Burial Service._
=Earth, turning from the sun, brings night to man.= _Young._
=Earth with her thousand voices praises God.= 5 _Coleridge._
=Earth's crammed with heaven, / And every common bush afire with God.= _Leigh._
=Earth's noblest thing, a woman perfected.= _Lowell._
=Ease and honour are seldom bed-fellows.= _Sc. Pr._
=Ea sola voluptas / Solamenque mali=--That was his sole delight and solace in his woe. _Virg._
=East and west, home (hame) is best= _Eng. and_ 10 _Sc. Pr._
=Ea sub oculis posita negligimus; proximorum incuriosi, longinqua sectamur=--We disregard the things which lie under our eyes; indifferent to what is close at hand, we inquire after things that are far away. _Pliny._
=Easy-crying widows take new husbands soonest; there's nothing like wet weather for transplanting.= _Holmes._
=Easy writing's curst hard reading.= _Sheridan._
=Eat at your own table as you would eat at the table of the king.= _Confucius._
=Eat at your pleasure, drink in measure.= _Pr._ 15
=Eating little and speaking little can never do harm.= _Pr._
=Eating the bitter bread of banishment.= _Rich. II._, iii. 1.
=Eat in measure and defy the doctor.= _Sc. Pr._
=Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.= _Ben. Franklin._
=Eat-weel's drink-weel's brither.= _Sc. Pr._ 20
=Eat what you like, but pocket nothing.= _Pr._
=Eau bénite de cour=--False promises (_lit._ holy water of the court). _Fr._
=Eau sucrée=--Sugared water. _Fr._
[Greek: Heauton timôroumenos]--The self-tormentor. _Menander._
=Ebbe il migliore / De' miei giorni la patria=--The 25 best of my days I devoted to my country. _It._
=E bello predicare il digiuno a corpo pieno=--It is easy to preach fasting with a full belly. _It. Pr._
=Eben die ausgezeichnetsten Menschen bedürfen der Religion am meisten, weil sie die engen Grenzen unseres menschlichen Verstandes am liebhaftesten empfinden=--It is just the most eminent men that need religion most, because they feel most keenly the narrow limits of our human understanding. _Cötvös._
=Eben wo Begriffe fehlen, / Da stellt ein Wort zur rechten Zeit sich ein=--It is just where ideas fail that a word comes most opportunely to the rescue. _Goethe._
=E buon comprare quando un altro vuol vendere=--It is well to buy when another wishes to sell. _It. Pr._
=Ecce homo=--Behold the man! _Pontius Pilate._ 30
=Ecce iterum Crispinus!=--Another Crispinus, by Jove! (a profligate at the court of Domitian). _Juv._
=Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigour, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.= _J. S. Mill._
=Eccentricity is sometimes found connected with genius, but it does not coalesce with true wisdom.= _Jay._
=Ecce signum=--Here is the proof.
=Eccovi l'uom ch' è stato all'Inferno=--See, there's 35 the man that has been in hell. _It._ (_Said of Dante by the people of Verona._)
=Echoes we: listen! / We cannot stay, / As dewdrops glisten, / Then fade away.= _Shelley._
=Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror.= _Hawthorne._
[Greek: Echthros gar moi keinos, homôs Aïdao pylêsin, / Hos ch' heteron men keuthei eni phresin, allo de bazei]--Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is he who conceals one thing in his mind and utters another. _Hom._
[Greek: Echthrôn adôra dôra]--An enemy's gifts are no gifts. _Soph._
=Eclaircissement=--The clearing up of a thing. _Fr._ 40
=Eclat de rire=--A burst of laughter. _Fr._
=E cœlo descendit= [Greek: gnôthi seauton]--From heaven came down the precept, "Know thyself." _Juv._
=Economy does not consist in the reckless reduction of estimates; on the contrary, such a course almost necessarily tends to increased expenditure. There can be no economy where there is no efficiency.= _Disraeli._
=Economy is an excellent lure to betray people into expense.= _Zimmermann._
=Economy is half the battle of life; it is not so= 45 =hard to earn money as to spend it.= _Spurgeon._
=Economy is the parent of integrity, of liberty, and of ease, and the beauteous sister of temperance, of cheerfulness, and health.= _Johnson._
=Economy no more means saving money than it means spending money. It means the administration of a house, its stewardship; spending or saving, that is, whether money or time, or anything else, to the best possible advantage.= _Ruskin._
=E contra=--On the other hand.
=E contrario=--On the contrary.
=Ecorcher l'anguille par la queue=--To begin at 50 the wrong end (_lit._ to skin an eel from the tail). _Fr._
=Ecrasons l'infâme=--Let us crush the abomination, _i.e._, superstition. _Voltaire._
=Edel ist, der edel thut=--Noble is that noble does. _Ger. Pr._
=Edel macht das Gemüth, nicht das Geblüt=--It is the mind, not the blood, that ennobles. _Ger. Pr._
=Edel sei der Mensch / Hülfreich und gut / Denn das allein / Unterscheidet ihn / Von allen Wesen / Die wir kennen=--Be man noble, helpful, and good; for that alone distinguishes him from all the beings we know. _Goethe._
=Edition de luxe=--A splendid and expensive edition 55 of a book. _Fr._
=Editiones expurgatæ=--Editions with objectionable passages eliminated.
=Editio princeps=--The original edition.
=Edo, ergo ego sum=--I eat, therefore I am. _Monkish Pr._
=Educated persons should share their thoughts with the uneducated, and take also a certain part in their labours.= _Ruskin._
=Educate men without religion, and you make them but clever devils.= _Wellington._
=Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment= 5 =which is at once best in quality and infinite in quantity.= _H. Mann._
=Education begins its work with the first breath of the child.= _Jean Paul._
=Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.= _Locke._
=Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearing of little children tends towards the formation of character.= _H. Ballou._
=Education does not mean teaching people to know what they do not know; it means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.= _Ruskin._
=Education gives fecundity of thought, copiousness= 10 =of illustration, quickness, vigour, fancy, words, images, and illustrations; it decorates every common thing, and gives the power of trifling without being undignified and absurd.= _Sydney Smith._
=Education, however indispensable in a cultivated age, produces nothing on the side of genius. Where education ends, genius often begins.= _Isaac Disraeli._
=Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.= _E. Everett._
=Education is generally the worse in proportion to the wealth and grandeur of the parents.= _D. Swift._
=Education is only like good culture; it changes the size, but not the sort.= _Ward Beecher._
=Education is only second to nature.= _H. Bushnell._ 15
=Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.= _H. Mann._
=Education is the apprenticeship of life.= _Willmott._
=Education is the constraining and directing of youth towards that right reason which the law affirms, and which the experience of the best of our elders has sanctioned as truly great.= _Plato._
=Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man.= _Wendell Phillips._
=Education is the leading human souls to what= 20 =is best, and making what is best of them. The training which makes men happiest in themselves also makes them most serviceable to others.= _Ruskin._
=Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it.= _A. B. Alcott._
=Education of youth is not a bow for every man to shoot in that counts himself a teacher, but will require sinews almost equal to those which Homer gave Ulysses.= _Milton._
=Education ought, as a first principle, to stimulate the will to activity.= _Zachariae._
=Education should be as broad as man.= _Emerson._
[Greek: Ê hêkista ê hêdista]--Either the least or the 25 pleasantest.
=Een diamant van eene dochter wordt een glas van eene vrouw=--A diamond of a daughter becomes a glass of a wife. _Dut. Pr._
=Een dief maakt gelegenheid=--A thief makes opportunity. _Dut. Pr._
=E'en from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, / E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires.= _Gray._
=Een hond aan een been kent geene vrienden=--A dog with a bone knows no friends. _Dut. Pr._
=Een kleine pot wordt haast heet=--A little pot 30 becomes soon hot. _Dut. Pr._
=Eenmaal is geen gewoonte=--Once is no custom. _Dut. Pr._
=Een once geduld is meer dan een pond verstand=--One ounce of patience is worth more than a pound of brains. _Dut. Pr._
=E'en though vanquished he could argue still.= _Goldsmith._
[Greek: hê eudaimonia tôn autarchôn esti]--Happiness is theirs who are sufficient for themselves. _Arist._
=Effloresco=--I flourish. _M._ 35
=Effodiuntur opes, irritamenta malorum=--Riches, the incentives to evil, are dug out of the earth. _Ovid._
=Efforts, to be permanently useful, must be uniformly joyous,--a spirit all sunshine,--graceful from very gladness,--beautiful because bright.= _Carlyle._
=Effugit mortem, quisquis contempserit: timidissimum quemque consequitur=--Whoso despises death escapes it, while it overtakes him who is afraid of it. _Curt._
=E flamma cibum petere=--To live by desperate means (_lit._ to seek food from the flames). _Pr._
=Efter en god Avler kommer en god Oder=--After 40 an earner comes a waster. _Dan. Pr._
=Eftsoons they heard a most melodious sound.= _Spenser._
=E fungis nati homines=--Upstarts (_lit._ men born of mushrooms).
=Egad! I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two.= _Sheridan._
[Greek: hê gar physis bebaion, ou ta chrêmata]--It is only the character of a man, not his wealth, that is stable. _Arist._
=Egen Arne er Guld værd=--A hearth of one's own 45 is worth gold. _Dan. Pr._
=Eggs and oaths are easily broken.= _Dan. Pr._
=Eggs of an hour, bread of a day, wine of a year, but a friend of thirty years is best.= _It. Pr._
[Greek: Engya; para d' atê]--Be security, and mischief is nigh. _Thales._
=Egli ha fatto il male, ed io mi porto la pena=--He has done the mischief, and I pay the penalty. _It. Pr._
=Egli vende l'uccello in su la frasca=--He sells the 50 bird on the branch. _It. Pr._
=Egli venderebbe sino alla sua parte del sole=--He would sell even his share in the sun. _It. Pr._
[Greek: Hê glôss' omômoch', hê de phrên anômotos]--My tongue has sworn, but my mind is unsworn. _Eurip._
=Ego apros occido, alter fruitur pulpamento=--I kill the boars, another enjoys their flesh. _Pr._
=Ego de caseo loquor, tu de creta respondes=--While I talk to you of cheese, you talk to me of chalk. _Erasmus._
=Ego ero post principia=--I will get out of harm's way (_lit._ I will keep behind the first rank). _Ter._
=Ego et rex meus=--I and my king. _Cardinal Wolsey._
=Ego hoc feci=--That was my doing.
=Egoism is the source and summary of all faults= 5 =and miseries whatsoever.= _Carlyle._
=Ego meorum solus sum meus=--I am myself the only friend I have. _Ter._
=Ego nec studium sine divite vena, / Nec rude quid prosit video ingenium=--I see not what good can come from study without a rich vein of genius, or from genius untrained by art. _Hor._
=Ego primam tollo, nominor quoniam Leo=--I carry off the first share because my name is Lion. _Phædr. in the fable of the lion a-hunting with weaker companions._
=Ego, si bonam famam mihi servasso, sat ero dives=--If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough. _Plaut._
=Ego spem pretio non emo=--I do not purchase 10 hope with money, _i.e._, I do not spend my resources upon vain hopes. _Ter._
=Ego sum, ergo omnia sunt=--I am, and therefore all things are.
=Ego sum rex Romanus et supra grammaticam=--I am king of the Romans, and above grammar. _The Emperor Sigismund at the Council of Constance._
=Egotism erects its centre in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole.= _Schiller._
=Egotism is the tongue of vanity.= _Chamfort._
=Egotists are the pest of society.= _Emerson._ 15
=Egotists cannot converse; they talk to themselves only.= _A. B. Alcott._
=Egregii mortalem, altique silenti=--A being of extraordinary and profound silence. _Hor._
=Eher schätzet man das Gute / Nicht, als bis man es verlor=--We do not learn to value our blessings till we have lost them. _Herder._
=Ehestand, Wehestand=--State of wedlock, state of sorrow. _Ger. Pr._
=Eheu! fugaces, Posthume, Posthume, / Labuntur= 20 =anni, nec pietas moram / Rugis et instanti senectæ / Afferet, indomitæque morti=--Alas! Posthumus, our years glide fleetly away, nor can piety stay wrinkles and advancing age and unvanquished death. _Hor._
=Eheu! quam brevibus pereunt ingentia causis!=--Alas! what trifling causes often wreck the vastest enterprises. _Claud._
=Ehren und Leben / Kann Niemand zurück geben=--No man can give back honour and life. _Ger. Pr._
=Ehret die Frauen! Sie flechten und weben / Himmlische Rosen ins irdische Leben=--Honour to the women! they plait and weave roses of heaven for the life of earth. _Schiller._
=Ehret die Frauen! Sie stricken und weben / Wollene Strümpfe fürs frostige Leben=--Honour to the women! they knit and weave worsted stockings for our frosty life. _Volkswitz._
=Ehrlich währt am längsten=--Honesty lasts 25 longest. _Ger. Pr._
[Greek: Ei de theon anêr tis elpetai lathemen / Erdôn, hamartanei]--If any man hopes that his deeds will pass unobserved by the Deity, he is mistaken. _Pindar._
=Eident (diligent) youth makes easy age.= _Sc. Pr._
=Eifersucht ist eine Leidenschaft, die mit Eifer sucht was Leiden schafft=--Jealousy is a passion which seeks with zeal what yields only misery. _Schleiermacher._
=Eigenliebe macht die Augen trübe=--Self-love clouds the eyes. _Ger. Pr._
="Ei ist Ei," sagte der Küster, aber er nahm= 30 =das Gans Ei=--"An egg is an egg," said the sexton, but he took the goose-egg. _Ger. Pr._
=Eild and poortith are ill to thole=, _i.e._, age and poverty are hard to bear. _Sc. Pr._
=Eild should hae honour=, _i.e._, old people should. _Sc. Pr._
=Eile mit Weile=--Haste with leisure. _Ger. Pr._
=Ein alter Fuchs läuft nicht zum zweiten Mal in's Garn=--An old fox does not run into the snare a second time. _Ger. Pr._
=Ein Arzt darf auch dem Feind sich nicht= 35 =entziehen=--A physician may not turn his back even on an enemy. _Gutzkow._
=Ein Augenblick, gelebt im Paradiese, / Wird nicht zu theuer mit dem Tod gebüsst=--A moment lived in paradise is not purchased too dearly at the ransom of death. _Schiller._
=Einbildungskraft wird nur durch Kunst, besonders durch Poesie geregelt. Es ist nichts fürchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne Geschmack=--Power of imagination is regulated only by art, especially by poetry. There is nothing more frightful than imaginative faculty without taste. _Goethe._
=Einbläsereien sind der Teufels Redekunst=--Insinuations are the devil's rhetoric. _Goethe._
=Ein Diadem erkämpfen ist gross; es wegwerfen ist göttlich=--To gain a crown by fighting for it is great; to reject it is divine. _Schiller._
=Ein Ding ist nicht bös, wenn man es gut= 40 =versteht=--A thing is not bad if we understand it well. _Ger. Pr._
=Eine Bresche ist jeder Tag, / Die viele Menschen erstürmen; / Wer da auch fallen mag, / Die Todten sich niemals thürmen=--Every day is a rampart breach which many men are storming; fall in it who may, no pile is forming of the slain. _Goethe._
=Ein edler Mann wird durch ein gutes Wort / Der Frauen weit geführt=--A noble man is led a long way by a good word from women. _Goethe._
=Ein edler Mensch zieht edle Menschen an / Und weiss sie fest zu halten=--A noble man attracts noble men, and knows how to hold them fast. _Goethe._
=Ein edles Beispiel macht die schweren Thaten leicht=--A noble example makes difficult enterprises easy. _Goethe._
=Eine grosse Epoche hat das Jahrhundert= 45 =geboren; / Aber der grosse Moment findet ein kleines Geschlecht=--The century has given birth to a great epoch, but it is a small race the great moment appeals to. _Schiller._
=Eine Hälfte der Welt verlacht die andere=--One half of the world laughs at the other half. _Ger. Pr._
=Eine Handvoll Gewalt ist besser als Sackvoll Recht=--A handful of might is better than a sackful of right. _Ger. Pr._
=Ein eigen Herd, ein braves Weib, sind Gold und Perlen werth=--A hearth of one's own and a good wife are as good as gold and pearls. _Ger. Pr._
=Einen Wahn verlieren macht weiser als eine Wahrheit finden=--Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth. _Börne._
=Einer kann reden und Sieben können singen=--One can speak and seven can sing. _Ger. Pr._
=Einer neuen Wahrheit nichts ist schädlicher als ein alter Irrtum=--Nothing is more harmful to a new truth than an old error. _Goethe._
=Eine Rose gebrochen, ehe der Sturm sie entblättert=--A rose broken ere the storm stripped its petals. _Lessing._
=Eine schöne Menschenseele finden / Ist Gewinn=--It 5 is a true gain to find a beautiful human soul. _Herder._
=Ein Esel schimpft den andern Langohr=--One ass nicknames another Longears. _Ger. Pr._
=Eines schickt sich nicht für Alle! / Sehe jeder wie er's treibe, / Sehe jeder wo er bleibe, / Und wer steht, dass er nicht falle=--One thing does not suit every one; let each man see how he gets on, where his limits are; and let him that standeth take heed lest he fall. _Goethe._
=Ein Feind ist zu viel, und hundert Freunde sind zu wenig=--One foe is too many, a hundred friends are too few. _Ger. Pr._
=Ein fester Blick, ein hoher Mut, / Die sind zu allen Zeiten gut=--A steady eye and a lofty mind are at all times good. _Bechstein._
=Ein geistreich aufgeschlossenes Wort / Wirkt= 10 =auf die Ewigkeit.=--The influence of a spiritually elucidated (or embodied) word is eternal. _Goethe._
=Eingestandene Uebereilung ist oft lehrreicher, als kalte überdachte Unfehlbarkeit=--A confessed precipitancy is often more instructive than a coldly considered certainty. _Lessing._
=Ein Gift, welches nicht gleich wirkt, ist darum kein minder gefährliches Gift=--A poison which does not take immediate effect is therefore none the less a dangerous poison. _Lessing._
=Ein Gott ist, ein heiliger Wille lebt, / Wie auch der menschliche wanke; / Hoch über der Zeit und dem Raume webt / Lebendig der höchste Gedanke=--A god is, a holy will lives, however man's will may waver; high over all time and space the highest thought weaves itself everywhere into life's web. _Schiller._
=Ein grosser Fehler; dass man sich mehr dünkt als man ist, und sich weniger schätzt, als man werth ist=--It is a great mistake for people to think themselves more than they are, and to value themselves less than they are worth. _Goethe._
=Ein Herz das sich mit Sorgen quält / Hat= 15 =selten frohe Stunden=--A heart which tortures itself with care has seldom hours of gladness. _Old Ger. Song._
=Ein jeder ist sich selbst der grösste Feind=--Every one is his own greatest enemy. _Schefer._
=Ein jeder lebt's, nicht vielen ist's bekannt=--Though every one lives it (life), it is not to many that it is known. _Goethe._
=Ein jeder lernet nur, was er lernen kann; / Doch der den Augenblick ergreift, / Das ist der rechte Mann=--Each one learns only what he can; yet he who seizes the passing moment is the proper man. _Goethe._
=Ein jeder Wechsel schreckt den Glücklichen=--Every change is a cause of uneasiness to the favoured of fortune. _Schiller._
=Ein Komödiant könnt' einen Pfarren lehren=--A 20 playactor might instruct a parson. _Goethe._
=Ein Kranz ist gar viel leichter binden / Als ihm ein würdig Haupt zu finden=--It is very much easier to bind a wreath than to find a head worthy to wear it. _Goethe._
=Ein langes Hoffen ist süsser, als ein kurzes Ueberraschen=--A long hope is sweeter than a short surprise. _Jean Paul._
=Ein leerer Sack steht nicht aufrecht=--An empty sack does not stand upright. _Ger. Pr._
=Ein mächtiger Vermittler ist der Tod=--Death is a powerful reconciler. _Schiller._
=Einmal gerettet, ist's für tausend Male=--To 25 be saved once is to be saved a thousand times. _Goethe._
=Ein Mann der recht zu wirken denkt / Muss auf das beste Werkzeug halten=--A man who intends to work rightly must select the most effective instrument. _Goethe._
=Ein Mann, ein Wort; ein Wort, ein Mann=--A man, a word; a word, a man. _Ger. Pr._
=Ein Mensch ohne Verstand ist auch ein Mensch ohne Wille=--A man without understanding is also a man without will or purpose. _Feuerbach._
=Ein Mühlstein wird nicht moosig=--A millstone does not become covered with moss. _Ger. Pr._
=Ein niedrer Sinn ist stolz im Glück, im Leid= 30 =bescheiden; / Bescheiden ist im Glück ein edler, stolz im Leiden=--A vulgar mind is proud in prosperity and humble in adversity; a noble mind is humble in prosperity and proud in adversity. _Rückert._
=Ein "Nimm hin" ist besser als zehn "Helf Gott"=--One "Take this" is better than ten of "God help you." _Ger. Pr._
=Ein offenes Herz zeigt eine offene Stirn=--An open brow shows an open heart. _Schiller._
=Ein Pfennig mit Recht ist besser denn tausend mit Unrecht=--A penny by right is better than a thousand by wrong. _Ger. Pr._
=Ein Schauspiel für Götter, / Zwei Liebende zu sehn!=--To witness two lovers is a spectacle for gods. _Goethe._
=Ein Theil bin ich von jener Kraft, / Die stets= 35 =das Böse will und stets das Gute schafft=--I am a part of that power which continually wills the evil and continually creates the good. _Mephistopheles, in "Faust."_
=Ein Titel muss sie erst vertraulich machen=--A degree is the first thing necessary to bespeak confidence in your profession. _Goethe, in "Faust."_
=Ein Tropfen Hass, der in dem Freudenbecher / Zurückbleibt, macht den Segensdrank zum Gifte=--A drop of hate that is left in the cup of joy converts the blissful draught into poison. _Schiller._
=Ein unterrichtetes Volk lässt sich leicht regieren=--An educated people can be easily governed. _Frederick the Great._
=Ein üppig lastervolles Leben büsst sich / In Mangel und Erniedrigung allem=--Only in want and degradation can a life of sensual profligacy be atoned for. _Schiller._
=Ein Vater ernährt eher zehn Kinder, denn zehn= 40 =Kinder einen Vater=--One father supports ten children sooner than ten children one father. _Ger. Pr._
=Ein Vergnügen erwarten ist auch ein Vergnügen=--To look forward to a pleasure is also a pleasure. _Lessing._
=Ein Volk ohne Gesetze gleicht einem Menschen ohne Grundsätze=--A people without laws is like a man without principles. _Zachariæ._
=Ein vollkommener Widerspruch / Bleibt gleich geheimnissvoll für Kluge wie für Thoren=--A flat contradiction is ever equally mysterious to wise folks as to fools. _Goethe._
=Ein Wahn der mich beglückt, / Ist eine Wahrheit wert die mich zu Boden drückt=--An illusion which gladdens me is worth a truth which saddens me (_lit._ presses me to the ground). _Wieland._
=Ein wandernd Leben / Gefällt der freien Dichterbrust=--A wandering life delights the free heart of the poet. _Arion._
=Ein wenig zu spät ist viel zu spät=--A little too late is much too late. _Ger. Pr._
=Ein Wörtlein kann ihn fallen=--A little word can 5 slay him. _Luther, of the Pope._
=Ein Wort nimmt sich, ein Leben nie zurück=--A word may be recalled, a life never. _Schiller._
[Greek: Eis anêr oudeis anêr]--One man is no man. _Gr. Pr._
=Either sex alone is half itself.= _Tennyson._
=Eith (quickly) learned, soon forgotten.= _Sc. Pr._
[Greek: Ei ti agathon theleis, para seautou labe]--If 10 you would have anything good, seek for it from yourself. _Arrian._
=Ejusdem farinæ=--Of the same kidney (_lit._ meal).
=Ejusdem generis=--Of the same kind.
=El agujero llama al ladron=--The hole tempts the thief. _Sp. Pr._
=El amor verdadero no sufre cosa encubierta=--True love suffers no concealment. _Sp. Pr._
=Elati animi comprimendi sunt=--Minds which are 15 too much elated ought to be kept in check.
=El corazon manda las carnes=--The heart bears up the body. _Sp. Pr._
=El corazon no es traidor=--The heart is no traitor. _Sp. Pr._
=El dar es honor, y el pedir dolor=--To give is honour; to lose, grief. _Sp. Pr._
=El diablo saba mucho, porque es viejo=--The devil knows a great deal, for he is old. _Sp. Pr._
=El dia que te casas, ó te matas ó te sanas=--The 20 day you marry, it is either kill or cure. _Sp. Pr._
=El Dorado=--A region of unimagined wealth fabled at one time to exist in S. America; a dreamland of wealth. _Sp._
=Elegance is necessary to the fine gentleman, dignity is proper to noblemen, and majesty to kings.= _Hazlitt._
=Elegit=--He has chosen. A writ empowering a creditor to hold lands for payment of a debt. _L._
=Elephants endors'd with towers.= _Milton._
=Elève le corbeau, il te crèvera les yeux=--Bring 25 up a raven, he will pick out your eyes. _Fr. Pr._
=Elige eum cujus tibi placuit et vita et oratio=--Make choice of him who recommends himself to you by his life as well as address. _Sen._
=Elk het zijne is niet te veel=--Every one his own is not too much. _Dut. Pr._
=Ell and tell is gude merchandise=, _i.e._, ready money is. _Sc. Pr._
=Elle a trop de vertus pour n'être pas chrétienne=--She has too many virtues not to be a Christian. _Corn._
=Elle n'en fit point la petite bouche=--She did not 30 mince matters (_lit._ make a small mouth about it). _Fr. Pr._
=Elle riait du bout des dents=--She gave a forced laugh (_lit._ laughed with the end of her teeth). _Fr. Pr._
=El malo siempre piensa engaño=--The bad man always suspects some knavish intention. _Sp. Pr._
=El mal que de tu boca sale, en tu seno se cae=--The evil which issues from thy mouth falls into thy bosom. _Sp. Pr._
=El mal que no tiene cura es locura=--Folly is the one evil for which there is no remedy. _Sp. Pr._
=Elocution is the adjustment of apt words and= 35 =sentiments to the subject in debate.= _Cic._
=Eloignement=--Estrangement. _Fr._
=Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the fancy or the affections, captivates the willing hearers, and subdues their understanding.= _Hume._
=Eloquence is a pictorial representation of thought.= _Pascal._
=Eloquence is in the assembly, not in the speaker.= _Wm. Pitt._
=Eloquence is like flame: it requires matter to= 40 =feed on, motion to excite it, and it brightens as it burns.= _Tac._
=Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy.= _Emerson._
=Eloquence is the child of knowledge. When the mind is full, like a wholesome river, it is also clear.= _Disraeli._
=Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools.= _Colton._
=Eloquence is the painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, still add to it, make a picture instead of a portrait.= _Pascal._
=Eloquence is the poetry of prose.= _Bryant._ 45
=Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.= _Emerson._
=Eloquence is to the sublime as a whole to its part.= _La Bruyère._
=Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative.= _Emerson._
=Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man.= _Emerson._
=Eloquence the soul, song charms the sense.= 50 _Milton._
=Eloquence, to produce her full effect, should start from the head of the orator, as Pallas from the brain of Jove, completely armed and equipped.= _Colton._
=El pan comido, la compañia deshecha=--The bread eaten, the company dispersed. _Sp. Pr._
=El pie del dueño estierco para la heredad=--The foot of the owner is manure for the farm. _Sp. Pr._
=El que trabaja, y madra, hila oro=--He that labours and perseveres spins gold. _Sp. Pr._
=El rey va hasta do poede, y no hasta do quiere=--The 55 king goes as far as he may, not as far as he would. _Sp. Pr._
=El rey y la patria=--For king and country. _Sp._
=El rio pasado, el santo olvidádo=--The river (danger) past, the saint (delivery) forgotten. _Sp. Pr._
=El sabio muda consejo, el necio no=--The wise man changes his mind, the fool never. _Sp. Pr._
=El secreto á voces=--An open secret. _Calderon._
=El tiempo cura el enfermo, que ne el unguento=--It is time and not medicine that cures the disease. _Sp. Pr._
=Elucet maxime animi excellentia magnitudoque in despiciendis opibus=--Excellence and greatness of soul are most conspicuously displayed in contempt of riches.
=El villano en su tierra, y el hidalgo donde quiera=--The clown in his own country, the gentleman where he pleases. _Sp. Pr._
=Elysian beauty, melancholy grace, / Brought from a pensive through a happy place.= _Wordsworth._
=E mala cosa esser cattivo, ma è peggiore esser= 5 =conosciuto=--It is a bad thing to be a knave, but worse to be found out. _It. Pr._
=Emas non quod opus est, sed quod necesse est: / Quod non opus est, asse carum est=--Buy not what you want, but what you need; what you don't want is dear at a cent. _Cato._
=Embarras de richesses=--An encumbrance of wealth. _D'Allainval._
=Embonpoint=--Plumpness or fulness of body. _Fr._
=E meglio aver oggi un uovo, che dimani una gallina=--Better an egg to-day than a hen to-morrow. _It. Pr._
=E meglio cader dalla finestra che dal tetto=--It 10 is better to fall from the window than the roof. _It. Pr._
=E meglio dare che non aver a dare=--Better give than not have to give. _It. Pr._
=E meglio domandar che errare=--Better ask than lose your way. _It. Pr._
=E meglio esse fortunato che savio=--'Tis better to be born fortunate than wise. _It. Pr._
=E meglio esse uccel di bosco che di gabbia=--Better to be a bird in the wood than one in the cage. _It. Pr._
=E meglio il cuor felice che la borsa=--Better the 15 heart happy than the purse (full). _It. Pr._
=E meglio lasciare che mancare=--Better leave than lack. _It. Pr._
=E meglio perder la sella che il cavallo=--Better lose the saddle than the horse. _It. Pr._
=E meglio sdrucciolare col piè che con la lingua=--Better slip with the foot than the tongue. _It. Pr._
=E meglio senza cibo restar che senz' onore=--Better be without food than without honour. _It. Pr._
=E meglio una volta che mai=--Better once than 20 never. _It. Pr._
=E meglio un buon amico che cento parente=--One true friend is better than a hundred relations. _It. Pr._
[Greek: hê men gar sophia ouden theôrei ex hôn estai eudaimôn anthrôpos]--Wisdom never contemplates what will make a happy man. _Arist._
=Emere malo quam rogare=--I had rather buy than beg.
=Emerge from unnatural solitude, look abroad for wholesome sympathy, bestow and receive.= _Dickens._
=Emeritus=--One retired from active official duties. 25
=Emerson tells us to hitch our waggon to a star; and the star is without doubt a good steed, when once fairly caught and harnessed, but it takes an astronomer to catch it.= _J. Borroughs._
=Emerson wants Emersonian epigrams from Carlyle, and Carlyle wants Carlylean thunder from Emerson. The thing which a man's nature calls him to do, what else is so well worth his doing?= _John Borroughs._
=Eminent positions are like the summits of rocks; only eagles and reptiles can get there.= _Mme. Necker._
=Eminent stations make great men greater and little men less.= _La Bruyère._
=Emori nolo, sed me esse mortuum nihil curo=--I 30 would not die, but care not to be dead. _Cæs._
=Emotion is always new.= _Victor Hugo._
=Emotion is the atmosphere in which thought is steeped, that which lends to thought its tone or temperature, that to which thought is often indebted for half its power.= _H. R. Haweis._
=Emotion, not thought, is the sphere of music; and emotion quite as often precedes as follows thought.= _H. R. Haweis._
=Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.= _John Sterling._
[Greek: Emou thanontos gaia michthêtô pyri]--When I 35 am dead the earth will be mingled with fire. _Anon._
=Empfindliche Ohren sind, bei Mädchen so gut als bei Pferden, gute Gesundheitszeichen=--In maidens as well as in horses, sensitive ears are signs of good health. _Jean Paul._
=Empires and nations flourish and decay, / By turns command, and in their turns obey.= _Ovid._
=Empires are only sandhills in the hour-glass of Time; they crumble spontaneously by the process of their own growth.= _Draper._
=Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds.= _Wm. Blake._
=Empirical sciences prosecuted simply for their= 40 =own sake, and without a philosophic tendency, resemble a face without eyes.= _Schopenhauer._
=Employment and hardships prevent melancholy.= _Johnson._
=Employment gives health, sobriety, and morals.= _D. Webster._
=Employment is enjoyment.= _Pr._
=Employment is Nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness.= _Galen._
=Employ thy time well if thou meanest to gain= 45 =leisure, and, since you are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.= _Ben. Franklin._
[Greek: Empodizei ton logon ho phobos]--Fear hampers speech. _Demades._
=Empressement=--Ardour; warmth. _Fr._
=Empta dolore docet experientia=--Experience bought with pain teaches effectually. _Pr._
=Empty vessels make the most noise.= _Pr._
=Emulation admires and strives to imitate great= 50 =actions; envy is only moved to malice.= _Balzac._
=Emulation, even in the brutes, is sensitively nervous; see the tremor of the thorough-bred racer before he starts.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=E multis paleis paulum fructus collegi=--Out of much chaff I have gathered little grain. _Pr._
=Emunctæ naris=--Of nice discernment (_lit._ scent). _Hor._
[Greek: Hena ... alla leonta]--One, but a lion. _Æsop._
=En ami=--As a friend. _Fr._
=En amour comme en amitié, un tiers souvent nous embarrasse=--A third person is often an annoyance to us in love as in friendship. _Fr._
=En arrière=--In the rear. _Fr._ 5
=En attendant=--In the meantime. _Fr._
=En avant=--Forward; on. _Fr._
=En badinant=--In jest. _Fr._
=En beau=--In a favourable light. _Fr._
=En bloc=--In a lump. _Fr._ 10
=En boca cerrada no entra mosca=--Flies don't enter a shut mouth. _Sp. Pr._
=En bon train=--In a fair way. _Fr._
=En buste=--Half-length. _Fr._
=En cada tierra su uso=--Every country has its own custom. _Sp. Pr._
=Encouragement after censure is as the sun= 15 =after a shower.= _Goethe._
=En cuéros=--Naked. _Sp._
=Endeavouring, by logical argument, to prove the existence of God, were like taking out a candle to look for the sun.= _Carlyle, after Kant._
=Endeavour not to settle too many habits at once, lest by variety you confound them, and so perfect none.= _Locke._
=En dernier ressort=--As a last resource. _Fr._
=En déshabille=--In an undress. _Fr._ 20
=En Dieu est ma fiance=--In God is my trust. _M._
=En Dieu est tout=--All depends on God. _M._
=Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.= _Ruskin._
=Endurance is the crowning quality, and patience all the passion, of great hearts.= _Lowell._
=En échelon=--Like steps. _Fr._ 25
=En effet=--In fact; substantially. _Fr._
=Ene i Raad, ene i Sorg=--Alone in counsel, alone in sorrow. _Dan. Pr._
=En el rio do no hay pezes por demas es echar redes=--It is in vain to cast nets in a river where there are no fish. _Sp. Pr._
=En émoi=--In a flutter or ferment. _Fr._
=Energy may be turned to bad uses; but more= 30 =good may always be made of an energetic nature than of an indolent and impassive one.= _J. S. Mill._
=Energy will do anything that can be done in this world; no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged animal a man without it.= _Goethe._
[Greek: En ergmasi de nika tychê, ou sthenos]--In great acts it is not our strength but our good fortune that has triumphed. _Pindar._
=En famille=--In a domestic state. _Fr._
=Enfant gâté du monde qu'il gâtait=--A child spoiled by the world which he spoiled. _Said of Voltaire._
=Enfants de famille=--Children of the family. _Fr._ 35
=Enfants perdus=--The forlorn hope (_lit._ lost children). _Fr._
=Enfants terribles=--Dreadful children; precocious youths who say and do rash things to the annoyance of their more conservative seniors. _Fr._
=Enfant trouvé=--A foundling. _Fr._
=Enfermer le loup dans la bergerie=--To shut up the wolf in the sheepfold; to patch up a wound or a disease. _Fr. Pr._
=En fin les renards se trouvent chez le pelletier=--Foxes 40 come to the furrier's in the end. _Fr. Pr._
=Enflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages.= _Milton._
=En foule=--In a crowd. _Fr._
=England expects this day that every man shall do his duty.= _Nelson, his signal at Trafalgar._
=England is a domestic country: here home is revered and the hearth sacred.= _Disraeli._
=England is a paradise for women and a hell= 45 =for horses; Italy a paradise for horses and a hell for women.= _Burton._
=England is safe if true within itself.= 3 _Hen. VI._, iv. 1.
=English speech, the sea that receives tributaries from every region under heaven.= _Emerson._
=En grace affié=--On grace depend. _Fr._
=En grande tenue=--In full dress. _Fr._
=En habiles gens=--Like able men. _Fr._ 50
=Enjoying things which are pleasant, that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.= _Carlyle._
=Enjoyment soon wearies both itself and us; effort, never.= _Jean Paul._
=Enjoyment stops when indolence begins.= _Pollock._
=Enjoy the blessings of this day, if God sends them, and the evils bear patiently and sweetly. For this day only is ours; we are dead to yesterday and we are not born to to-morrow.= _Jeremy Taylor._
=Enjoy what God has given thee, and willingly= 55 =dispense with what thou hast not. Every condition has its own joys and sorrows.= _Gellert._
=Enjoy what thou hast inherited from thy sires if thou wouldst possess it; what we employ not is an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.= _Goethe._
=Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.= _Goethe._
=Enjoy your little while the fool is seeking for more.= _Sp. Pr._
=Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.= _Condorcet._
=En la cour du roi chacun y est pour soi=--In the 60 court of the king it is every one for himself. _Fr. Pr._
=Enlarge not thy destiny; endeavour not to do more than is given thee in charge.= _Gr. Oracle._
=En la rose je fleuris=--In the rose I flourish. _M._
=En mariage, comme ailleurs, contentement passe richesse=--In marriage, as in other states, contentment is better than riches. _Molière._
=En masse=--In a body. _Fr._
=En mauvaise odeur=--In bad repute. _Fr._ 65
=Ennemi ne s'endort=--An enemy does not go to sleep. _Fr. Pr._
=Ennui has perhaps made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.= _Colton._
=Ennui is a growth of English root, though nameless in our language.= _Byron._
=Ennui is a word which the French invented, though of all nations in Europe they know the least of it.= _Bancroft._
=Ennui is our greatest enemy.= _Justus Möser._
=Ennui is the desire of activity without the fit means of gratifying the desire.= _Bancroft._
=Ennui shortens life and bereaves the day of its= 5 =light.= _Emerson._
=Ennui, the parent of expensive and ruinous vices.= _Ninon de l'Enclos._
=Enough is as good as a feast.= _Pr._
=Enough is better than too much.= _Pr._
=Enough is great riches.= _Dan. Pr._
=Enough is the wild-goose-chase of most men's= 10 =lives.= _Brothers Mayhew._
=Enough--no foreign foe could quell / Thy soul, till from itself it fell; / Yes, self-abasement paved the way / To villain bonds and despot sway.= _Byron._
=Enough requires too much; too much craves more.= _Quarles._
=En papillote.=--In curl-papers. _Fr._
=En parole je vis=--I live by the word. _Fr._
=En passant=--By the way. _Fr._ 15
=En pension=--Board at a pension. _Fr._
=En petit champ croît bien bon blé=--Very good corn grows in a little field. _Fr. Pr._
=En peu d'heure Dieu labeure=--God works in moments, _i.e._, His work is soon done. _Fr._
=En plein jour=--In open day. _Fr._
=En potence=--In the form of a gallows. _Fr._ 20
=En présence=--In sight of each other. _Fr._
=En queue=--Behind.
=Enquire not what is in another man's pot.= _Pr._
=En rapport=--In relation; in connection. _Fr._
=En règle=--According to rules. _Fr._ 25
=En resumé=--Upon the whole. _Fr._
=En revanche=--In revenge; to return; to make amends. _Fr._
=En route=--On the way. _Fr._
=En salvo está el que repica=--He is in safe quarters who sounds the alarm. _Sp. Pr._
=Ense et aratro=--With sword and plough. _M._ 30
=En suite=--In company. _Fr._
=En suivant la vérité=--In following the truth. _Fr._
=Entente cordiale=--A good or cordial understanding. _Fr._
=Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm.= _Longfellow._
=Enthusiasm flourishes in adversity, kindles in= 35 =the hour of danger, and awakens to deeds of renown.= _Dr. Chalmers._
=Enthusiasm gives life to what is invisible, and interest to what has no immediate action on our comfort in this world.= _Mme. de Staël._
=Enthusiasm imparts itself magnetically, and fuses all into one happy and harmonious unity of feeling and sentiment.= _A. B. Alcott._
=Enthusiasm is grave, inward, self-controlled; mere excitement, outward, fantastical, hysterical, and passing in a moment from tears to laughter.= _John Sterling._
=Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the= 40 =passing from the human to the divine.= _Emerson._
=Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding.= _Emerson._
=Entienda primero, y habla postrero=--Hear first and speak afterwards. _Sp. Pr._
=Entire affection hateth nicer hands.= _Spenser._
=Entire love is a worship and cannot be angry.= _Leigh Hunt._
[Greek: En tô phronein gar mêden hêdistos bios]--The 45 happiest life consists in knowing nothing. _Soph._
=Entourage=--Surroundings. _Fr._
=En toute chose il faut considérer la fin=--In everything we must consider the end. _Fr._
=Entre chien et loup=--In the dusk (_lit._ between dog and wolf). _Fr._
=Entre deux vins=--To be half-seas over; to be mellow. _Fr._
=Entre esprit et talent il y a la proportion du= 50 =tout à sa partie=--Wit is to talent as a whole to a part. _La Bruyère._
=Entre le bon sens et le bon goût il y a la différence de la cause à son effet=--Between good sense and good taste, there is the same difference as that between cause and effect. _La Bruyère._
=Entre nos ennemis les plus à craindre sont souvent les plus petits=--Of our enemies, the smallest are often the most to be dreaded. _La Fontaine._
=Entre nous=--Between ourselves. _Fr._
=Entzwei und gebiete=--Divide and rule. _Ger. Pr._
=Entzwei und gebiete! Tüchtig Wort: Verein'= 55 =und leite, Bessrer Hort=--Divide and rule, an excellent motto: unite and lead, a better.
=En vérité=--In truth.
=En vérité l'amour ne saurait être profond, s'il n'est pas pur=--Love, in fact, can never be deep unless it is pure.
=En vieillissant on devient plus fou et plus sage=--As men grow old they become both foolisher and wiser. _Fr. Pr._
=En villig Hielper töver ei til man beder=--One who is willing to help does not wait till he is asked. _Dan. Pr._
=Envy, among other ingredients, has a mixture= 60 =of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good fortune.= _Hazlitt._
=Envy does not enter an empty house.= _Dan. Pr._
=Envy feels not its own happiness but by comparison with the misery of others.= _Johnson._
=Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another's prosperity, like the scorpion confined with a circle of fire, will sting itself to death.= _Colton._
=Envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame, that nobody ever had the confidence to own it.= _Rochester._
=Envy is ignorance.= _Emerson._ 65
=Envy is littleness of soul.= _Hazlitt._
=Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred.= _La Roche._
=Envy is the antagonist of the fortunate.= _Epictetus._
=Envy is the deformed and distorted offspring of egotism.= _Hazlitt._
=Envy is the most acid fruit that grows on the stock of sin, a fluid so subtle that nothing but the fire of divine love can purge it from the soul.= _H. Ballou._
=Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.= _J. Beaumont._
=Envy ne'er does a gude turn but when it means an ill ane.= _Sc. Pr._
=Envy will merit as its shade pursue, / But, like a shadow, proves the substance true.= _Pope._
=Eodem collyrio mederi omnibus=--To cure all 5 by the same ointment.
=Eo instanti=--At that instant.
=Eo magis præfulgebat quod non videbatur=--He shone the brighter that he was not seen. _Tac._
[Greek: Epea pteroenta]--Winged words. _Hom._
=Epicuri de grege porcus=--A pig of the flock of Epicurus.
[Greek: Epi to poly adikousin hoi anthrôpoi, hotan 10 dynôntai]--In general men do wrong whenever circumstances enable them. _Arist._
=E pluribus unum=--One of many.
="Eppur si muove"=--Yet it moves. _Galileo, after he had been forced to swear that the earth stood still._
=Equality= (Gleichheit) =is always the firmest bond of love.= _Lessing._
=Equality= (_i.e._, in essential nature) =is the sacred law of humanity.= _Schiller._
=Eques ipso melior Bellerophonte=--A better 15 horseman than Bellerophon himself. _Hor._
=Equi et poetæ alendi, non saginandi=--Horses and poets should be fed, not pampered. _Charles IX. of France._
=Equity is a roguish thing; for law we have a measure ... (but) equity is according to the conscience of him who is chancellor, and, as that is larger or narrower, so is equity.= _Selden._
=Equity judges with lenity, laws with severity.= _Scott._
=Equivocation is half way to lying, and lying is the whole way to hell.= _W. Penn._
=Equo frænato est auris in ore=--The ear of the 20 bridled horse is in the mouth. _Hor._
=Equo ne credite, Teucri=--Trust not the horse, Trojans. _Virg._
=Erant in officio, sed tamen qui mallent imperantium mandata interpretari, quam exsequi=--They attended to their regulations, but still as if they would rather debate about the commands of their superiors than obey them. _Tacit._
=Erase que se era=--What has been has been. _Sp. Pr._
=Erasmus laid the egg= (_i.e._, of the Reformation), =and Luther hatched it.=
=Er, der einzige Gerechte / Will für Jedermann= 25 =das Rechte / Sei, von seinen hundert Namen, / Dieser hochgelobet!--Amen!=--He, the only Just, wills for each one what is right. Be of His hundred names this one the most exalted. Amen. _Goethe._
=Ere sin could blight or sorrow fade, / Death came with friendly care, / The opening bud to heaven conveyed, / And bade it blossom there.= _Coleridge._
=Ere we censure a man for seeming what he is not, we should be sure that we know what he is.= _Carlyle._
=Er geht herum, wie die Katze um den heissen Brei=--He goes round it like a cat round hot broth. _Ger. Pr._
[Greek: Ergon d' ouden oneidos]--Labour is no disgrace. _Hesiod._
=Erfahrung bleibt des Lebens Meisterin=--Experience 30 is ever life's mistress. _Goethe._
=Erfüllte Pflicht empfindet sich immer noch als Schuld, weil man sich nie ganz genug gethan=--Duty fulfilled ever entails a sense of further obligation, because one feels he has never done enough to satisfy himself. _Goethe._
=Er hat noch nie die Stimme der Natur gehört=--He has not yet heard the voice of Nature. _Schiller._
=Eripe te moræ=--Tear thyself from all that detains thee. _Hor._
=Eripe turpi / Colla jugo. Liber, liber sum, dic age=--Tear away thy neck from the base yoke. Come, say, I am free; I am free. _Hor._
=Eripit interdum, modo dat medicina salutem=--Medicine 35 sometimes destroys health, sometimes restores it. _Ovid._
="Eripuit cœlo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis"=--He snatched the lightning from heaven and the sceptre from tyrants. (_On the bust of Franklin._)
=Eris mihi magnus Apollo=--You shall be my great Apollo. _Virg._
=Erlaubt ist was gefällt; erlaubt ist was sich ziemt=--What pleases us is permitted us; what is seemly is permitted us. _Goethe._
=Ernste Thätigkeit söhnt suletzt immer mit dem Leben aus=--Earnest activity always reconciles us with life in the end. _Jean Paul._
=Ernst ist der Anblick der Nothwendigkeit. /= 40 =Nicht ohne Schauder greift des Menschen Hand / In des Geschicks geheimnissvolle Urne=--Earnest is the aspect of necessity. Not without a shudder is the hand of man thrust into the mysterious urn of fate. _Schiller._
=Ernst ist das Leben; heiter ist die Kunst=--Life is earnest; art is serene. _Schiller._
=Erquickung hast du nicht gewonnen, / Wenn sie dir nicht aus eigner Seele quillt=--Thou hast gained no fresh life unless it flows to thee direct out of thine own soul. _Goethe._
=Errantem in viam reducito=--Lead back the wanderer into the right way.
=Errare humanum est=--It is human to err.
=Errare malo cum Platone, quam cum istis vera= 45 =sentire=--I had rather be wrong with Plato than think right with those men. _Cic._
=Errata=--Errors in print.
=Erringen will der Mensch, er will nicht sicher sein=--Man will ever wrestle; he will never trust. _Goethe._
=Erring is not cheating.= _Ger. Pr._
=Error cannot be defended but by error.= _Bp. Jewel._
=Error is always more busy than ignorance.= 50 =Ignorance is a blank sheet on which we may write, but error is a scribbled one from which we must first erase.= _Colton._
=Error is always talkative.= _Goldsmith._
=Error is but opinion in the making.= _Milton._
=Error is but the shadow of truth.= _Stillingfleet._
=Error is created; truth is eternal.= _Wm. Blake._
=Error is on the surface; truth is hid in great depths.= _Goethe._
=Error is sometimes so nearly allied to truth that it blends with it as imperceptibly as the colours of the rainbow fade into each other.= _W. B. Clulow._
=Error is worse than ignorance.= _Bailey._
=Error never leaves us, yet a higher need= 5 =always draws the striving spirit gently on to truth.= _Goethe._
=Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.= _Jefferson._
=Errors like straws upon the surface flow; / He who would search for pearls must dive below.= _Dryden._
=Error, sterile in itself, produces only by means of the portion of truth which it contains.= _Mme. Swetchine._
=Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them; ... from pure extravagance, and genuine, unmingled falsehood, the world never has sustained, and never can sustain, any mischief.= _Sydney Smith._
=Error, when she retraces her steps, has farther= 10 =to go before she can arrive at truth than ignorance.= _Colton._
=Erröten macht die Hässlichen so schön: / Und sollte Schöne nicht noch schöner machen?=--Blushing makes even the ugly beautiful, and should it not make beauty still more beautiful? _Lessing._
=Ersparte Wahl ist auch ersparte Mühe=--Selection saved is trouble saved. _Platin._
=Er steckt seine Nase in Alles=--He thrusts his nose into everything. _Ger. Pr._
=Erst seit ich liebe ist das Leben schön, / Erst seit ich liebe, weiss ich, dass ich lebe=--Only since I loved is life lovely; only since I loved knew I that I lived. _Körner._
=Erst wägen, dann wagen=--First weigh, then 15 venture. _M. von Moltke._
=Ertragen muss man was der Himmel sendet. / Unbilliges erträgt kein edles Herz=--We must bear what Heaven sends. No noble heart will bear injustice. _Schiller._
=Erudition is not like a lark, which flies high and delights in nothing but singing; 'tis rather like a hawk, which soars aloft indeed, but can stoop when she finds it convenient, and seize her prey.= _Bacon._
=Er wünscht sich einen grossen Kreis / Um ihn gewisser zu erschüttern=--He desires a large circle in order with greater certainty to move it deeply. _Goethe._
=Es bedarf nur einer Kleinigkeit, um zwei Liebende zu unterhalten=--Any trifle is enough to entertain two lovers. _Goethe._
=Es bildet ein Talent sich in der Stille, / Sich ein= 20 =Character in dem Strom der Welt=--A talent is formed in retirement, a character in the current of the world. _Goethe._
=Es bildet / Nur das Leben den Mann, und wenig bedeuten die Worte=--Only life forms the man, and words signify little. _Goethe._
=Eschew fine words as you would rouge; love simple ones as you would native roses on your cheek.= _Hare._
=Escuchas al agujero; oirás de tû mal y del ageno=--Listen at the keyhole; you will hear evil of yourself as well as your neighbour. _Sp. Pr._
=E se finxit velut araneus=--He spun from himself like a spider.
=Esel singen schlecht, weil sie zu hoch anstimmen=--Asses 25 sing abominably, because they pitch their notes at too high a key. _Ger. Pr._
=Es erben sich Gesetz' und Rechte / Wie eine ewige Krankheit fort=--Laws and rights descend like an inveterate inherited disease. _Goethe._
=Es findet jeder seinen Meister=--Every one finds his master. _Ger. Pr._
=Es geht an=--It is a beginning. _Ger._
=Es giebt eine Höflichkeit des Herzens; sie ist der Liebe verwandt.=--There is a courtesy of the heart which is allied to love; out of it there springs the most obliging courtesy of external behaviour. _Goethe._
=Es giebt eine Schwelgerei des Geistes wie= 30 =es eine Schwelgerei der Sinne giebt=--There is a debauchery of spirit, as there is of senses. _Börne._
=Es giebt gewisse Dinge, wo ein Frauenzimmer immer schärfer sieht, als hundert Augen der Mannspersonen=--There are certain things in which a woman's vision is sharper than a hundred eyes of the male. _Lessing._
=Es giebt keine andre Offenbarung, als die Gedanken der Weisen=--There is no other revelation than the thoughts of the wise among men. _Schopenhauer._
=Es giebt kein Gesetz was hat nicht ein Loch, wer's finden kann=--There is no law but has in it a hole for him who can find it. _Ger. Pr._
=Es giebt Männer welche die Beredsamkeit weiblicher Zungen übertreffen, aber kein Mann besitzt die Beredsamkeit weiblicher Augen=--There are men the eloquence of whose tongues surpasses that of women, but no man possesses the eloquence of women's eyes. _Weber._
=Es giebt mehr Diebe als Galgen=--There are 35 more thieves than gallows. _Ger. Pr._
=Es giebt Menschen, die auf die Mängel ihrer Freunde sinnen; dabei kommt nichts heraus. Ich habe immer auf die Verdienste meiner Widersacher Acht gehabt und davon Vortheil gezogen=--There are men who brood on the failings of their friends, but nothing comes of it. I have always had respect to the merits of my adversaries, and derived profit from doing so. _Goethe._
=Es giebt Naturen, die gut sind durch das was sie erreichen, andere durch das was sie verschmähen=--There are natures which are good by what they attain, and others that are so by what they disdain. _H. Grimm._
=Es giebt nur eine Religion, aber es kann vielerlei Arten der Glaubens geben=--There is only one religion, but there may be divers forms of belief. _Kant._
=Es hört doch Jeder nur was er versteht=--Every one hears only what he understands. _Goethe._
=Es irrt der Mensch, so lang er strebt=--Man is 40 liable to err as long as he strives. _Goethe._
=Es ist besser, das geringste Ding von der Welt zu thun, als eine halbe Stunde für gering halten=--It is better to do the smallest thing in the world than to regard half an hour as a small thing. _Goethe._
=Es ist bestimmt in Gottes Rath / Dass man vom Liebsten, was man hat, / Muss scheiden=--It is ordained in the counsel of God that we must all part from the dearest we possess. _Feuchtersleben._
=Es ist das Wohl des Ganzen, wovon jedes patriotische, wovon selbst jedes eigennützige Gemüth das seinige hofft=--It is the welfare of the whole from which every patriotic, and even every selfish, soul expects its own. _Gentz._
=Es ist der Geist, der sich den Körper baut=--It is the spirit which builds for itself the body. _Schiller._
=Es ist freundlicher das menschliche Leben anzulachen, als es anzugrinzen=--It is more kindly to laugh at human life than to grin at it. _Wieland._
=Es ist klug und kühn den unvermeidlichen. Uebel entgegenzugehen=--It shows sense and courage to be able to confront unavoidable evil. _Goethe._
=Es ist nicht gut, wenn derjenige der die= 5 =Fackel trägt, zugleich auch den Weg sucht=--It is not good when he who carries the torch has at the same time also the way to seek. _Cölvös._
=Es ist nicht nötig, dass ich lebe, wohl aber, dass ich meine Pflicht thue und für mein Vaterland kämpfe=--It is not a necessity that I should live, but it is that I should do my duty and fight for my fatherland. _Frederick the Great._ (?)
=Es ist öde, nichts ehren können, als sich selbst=--It is dreary for a man to be able to worship nothing but himself. _Hebbel._
=Es ist schwer gegen den Augenblick gerecht sein; der gleichgültige macht uns Langeweile, am Guten hat man zu tragen und am Bösen zu schleppen=--It is difficult to be square with the moment; the indifferent one is a bore to us (_lit._ causes us _ennui_); with the good we have to bear and with the bad to drag. _Goethe._
=Es ist so schwer, den falschen Weg zu meiden=--It is so difficult to avoid the wrong way. _Goethe._
=Es ist unköniglich zu weinen--ach, / Und= 10 =hier nicht weinen ist unväterlich=--To weep is unworthy of a king--alas! and not to weep now is unworthy of a father. _Schiller._
=Es kämpft der Held am liebsten mit dem Held=--Hero likes best to fight with hero. _Körner._
=Es kann der beste Herz in dunkeln Stunden fehlen=--The best heart may go wrong in dark hours. _Goethe._
=Es kann ja nicht immer so bleiben / Hier unter dem wechselnden Mond=--Sure it cannot always be so here under the changing moon. _Kotzebue._
=Es kann nichts helfen ein grosses Schicksal zu haben, wenn man nicht weiss, dass man eines hat=--It is of no avail for a man to have a great destiny if he does not know that he has one. _Rahel._
=Es kommen Fälle vor im Menschenleben, /= 15 =Wo's Weisheit ist, nicht allzu weise sein=--There are situations in life when it is wisdom not to be too wise. _Schiller._
=Es leben Götter, die den Hochmut rächen=--There live gods who take vengeance on pride. _Schiller._
=Es liebt die Welt das Strahlende zu schwärtzen, / Und das Erhabne in den Staub zu ziehn=--The world is fain to obscure what is brilliant, and to drag down to the dust what is exalted. _Schiller._
=Es liesse sich Alles trefflich schlichten, Könnte man die Sachen zweimal verrichten=--Everything could be beautifully adjusted if matters could be a second time arranged. _Goethe._
=Es muss auch solche Käuze geben=--There must needs be such fellows in the world too. _Goethe._
[Greek: hê sophias pêgê dia bibliôn rheei]--The fountain 20 of wisdom flows through books. _Gr. Pr._
=Espérance en Dieu=--Hope in God. _M._
=Espionage=--The spy system. _Fr._
=Esprit borné=--Narrow mind. _Fr._
=Esprit de corps=--Spirit of brotherhood in a corporate body. _Fr._
=Esprit de parti=--Party spirit. _Fr._ 25
=Esprit fort=--A free-thinker. _Fr._
=Esprit juste=--Sound mind. _Fr._
=Esprit vif=--Ready wit. _Fr._
=Es reift keine Seligkeit unter dem Monde=--No happiness ever comes to maturity under the moon. _Schiller._
=Essayez=--Try. _M._ 30
=Esse bonum facile est, ubi quod vetet esse remotum est=--It is easy to be good, when all that prevents it is far removed. _Ovid._
=Esse quam videri=--To be rather than to seem.
[Greek: Essetai êmar hot' an pot' olôlê Ilios hirê]--A day will come when the sacred Ilium shall be no more. _Hom._
=Es schwinden jedes Kummers Falten / So lang des Liebes Zauber walten=--The wrinkles of every sorrow disappear as long as the spell of love is unbroken. _Schiller._
=Es sind nicht alle frei, die ihrer Ketten spotten=--All 35 are not free who mock their chains. _Ger. Pr._
=Es sind so gute Katzen die Mäuse verjagen, als die sie fangen=--They are as good cats that chase away the mice as those that catch them. _Ger. Pr._
=Es steckt nicht in Spiegel was man im Spiegel sieht=--That is not in the mirror which you see in the mirror. _Ger. Pr._
=Es steht ihm an der Stirn' geschrieben, / Das er nicht mag eine Seele lieben=--It stands written on his forehead that he cannot love a single soul. _Goethe, of Mephistopheles._
=Establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.= _Bible._
=Est aliquid fatale malum per verba levare=--It 40 is some alleviation of an incurable disease to speak of it to others. _Ovid._
=Est animus tibi / Rerumque prudens, et secundis / Temporibus dubiisque rectus=--You possess a mind both sagacious in the management of affairs, and steady at once in prosperous and perilous times. _Hor._
=Est animus tibi, sunt mores et lingua, fidesque=--Thou hast a man's soul, cultured manners and power of expression, and fidelity. _Hor., of a gentleman._
=Est assez riche qui ne doit rien=--He is rich enough who owes nothing. _Fr. Pr._
=Est aviditas dives, et pauper pudor=--Covetousness is rich, while modesty is poor. _Phædr._
=Est bonus, ut melior vir / Non alius quisquam=--He 45 is so good that no man can be better. _Hor._
=Est brevitate opus, ut currat sententia=--There is need of conciseness that the thought may run on. _Hor._
=Est demum vera felicitas, felicitate dignum videri=--True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it. _Pliny._
=Est deus in nobis, agitante calescimus illo=--There is a god in us, who, when he stirs, sets us all aglow. _Ovid._
=Est deus in nobis, et sunt commercia cœli=--There is a god within us, and we hold commerce with the sky. _Ovid._
=Esteem a man of many words and many lies= 5 =much alike.= _Fuller._
=Esteem is the harvest of a whole life spent in usefulness; but reputation is often bestowed upon a chance action, and depends most on success.= _G. A. Sala._
=Est enim lex nihil aliud nisi recta et a numine deorum tracta ratio, imperans honesta, prohibens contraria=--For law is nothing else but right reason supported by the authority of the gods, commanding what is honourable and prohibiting the contrary. _Cic._
=Est egentissimus in sua re=--He is in very straitened circumstances.
=Est etiam miseris pietas, et in hoste probatur=--Regard for the wretched is a duty, and deserving of praise even in an enemy. _Ovid._
=Est etiam, ubi profecto damnnum præstet facere,= 10 =quam lucrum=--There are occasions when it is certainly better to lose than to gain. _Plaut._
=Est genus hominum qui esse primos se omnium rerum volunt, / Nec sunt=--There is a class of men who wish to be first in everything, and are not. _Ter._
=Est hic, / Est ubivis, animus si te non deficit æquus=--It (happiness) is here, it is everywhere, if only a well-regulated mind does not fail you. _Hor._
=Est miserorum, ut malevolentes sint atque invideant bonis=--'Tis the tendency of the wretched to be ill-disposed towards and to envy the fortunate. _Plaut._
=Est modus in rebus; sunt certi denique fines, / Quos ultra citraque nequit consistere rectum=--There is a mean in all things; there are, in fine, certain fixed limits, on either side of which what is right and true cannot exist. _Hor._
=Est multi fabula plena joci=--It is a story full of 15 fun. _Ovid._
=Est natura hominum novitatis avida=--It is the nature of man to hunt after novelty. _Pliny._
=Estne Dei sedes nisi terra, et pontus, et aër, / Et cœlum, et virtus? Superos quid quærimus ultra? / Jupiter est, quodcunque vides, quodcunque moveris=--Has God a dwelling other than earth and sea and air and heaven and virtue? Why seek we the gods beyond? Whatsoever you see, wheresoever you go, there is Jupiter. _Luc._
=Est nobis voluisse satis=--To have willed suffices us. _Tibull._
=Esto perpetua=--Let it be perpetual.
=Esto quod es; quod sunt alii, sine quemlibet= 20 =esse: / Quod non es, nolis; quod potes esse, velis=--Be what you are; let whoso will be what others are. Don't be what you are not, but resolutely be what you can.
=Esto quod esse videris=--Be what you seem to be.
=Esto, ut nunc multi, dives tibi, pauper amicis=--Be, as many now are, rich to yourself, poor to your friends. _Juv._
=Est pater ille quem nuptiæ demonstrant=--He is the father whom the marriage-rites point to as such. _L._
=Est profecto Deus, qui quæ nos gerimus auditque et videt=--There is certainly a God who both hears and sees the things which we do. _Plaut._
=Est proprium stultitiæ aliorum cernere vitia,= 25 =oblivisci suorum=--It is characteristic of folly to discern the faults of others and forget its own. _Cic._
=Est quadam prodire tenus, si non datur ultra=--You may advance to a certain point, if it is not permitted you to go farther. _Hor._
=Est quædam flere voluptas, / Expletur lachrymis egeriturque dolor=--There is a certain pleasure in weeping; grief is soothed and alleviated by tears. _Ovid._
=Est quoque cunctarum novitas carissima rerum=--Novelty is the dearest to us of all things. _Ovid._
=Es trägt Verstand und rechter Sinn / Mit wenig Kunst sich selber vor; und wenn's euch Ernst ist was zu sagen / Ist's nötig Worten nachzujagen?=--Understanding and good sense find utterance with little art; and when you have seriously anything to say, is it necessary to hunt for words? _Goethe._
=Es trinken tausend sich den Tod, ehe einer= 30 =stirbt vor Durstes Noth=--A thousand will drink themselves to death ere one die under stress of thirst. _Ger. Pr._
=Est tempus quando nihil, est tempus quando aliquid, nullum tamen est tempus in quo dicenda sunt omnia=--There is a time when nothing may be said, a time when something may, but no time when all things may. _A Monkish Adage._
=Esurienti ne occurras=--Don't throw yourself in the way of a hungry man.
=Es will einer was er soll, aber er kann's nicht machen; es kann einer was er soll, aber er will's nicht; es will und kann einer, aber er weiss nicht, was er soll=--One would what he should, but he can't; one could what he should, but he won't; one would and could, but he knows not what he should. _Goethe._
=Es wird wohl auch drüben nicht anders seyn als hier=--Even _over there_ it will not be otherwise than it is _here_, I ween. _Goethe._
[Greek: Ê tan ê epi tan]--Either this or upon this. (_The_ 35 _Spartan mother to her son on handing him his shield._)
=E tardegradis asinis equus non prodiit=--The horse is not the progeny of the slow-paced ass.
=Et cætera=--And the rest.
=Et c'est être innocent que d'être malheureux=--And misfortune is the badge of innocence. _La Font._
=Et credis cineres curare sepultos?=--And do you think that the ashes of the dead concern themselves with our affairs? _Virg._
=Et daligt hufoud hade han, men hjertat det= 40 =var godt=--He had a stupid head, but his heart was good. _Swed. Pr._
=Et decus et pretium recti=--Both the ornament and the reward of virtue. _M._
=E tenui casa sæpe vir magnus exit=--A great man often steps forth from a humble cottage. _Pr._
=Eternal love made me.= _Dante._
=Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, / As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.= _Pope._
=Eternity, depending on an hour.= _Young._
=Eternity looks grander and kinder if Time grow meaner and more hostile.= _Carlyle._
=Eternity of being and well-being simply for= 5 =being and well-being's sake, is an ideal belonging to appetite alone, and which only the struggle of mere animalism= (_Thierheit_), =longing to be infinite gives rise to.= _Schiller._
=Et facere et pati fortiter Romanum est=--Bravery and endurance make a man a Roman. _Liv._
=Et genus et formam regina pecunia donat=--Money, like a queen, confers both rank and beauty. _Hor._
=Et genus et proavos, et quæ non fecimus ipsi, / Vix ea nostra voco=--We can scarcely call birth and ancestry and what we have not ourselves done, our own. _Ovid._
=Et genus et virtus, nisi cum re, vilior alga est=--Without money both birth and virtue are as worthless as seaweed. _Hor._
=Ethics makes man's soul mannerly and wise,= 10 =but logic is the armoury of reason, furnished with all offensive and defensive weapons.= _Fuller._
=Et hoc genus omne=--And everything of this kind.
=Etiam celeritas in desiderio, mora est=--When we long for a thing, even despatch is delay. _Pub. Syr._
=Etiam fera animalia, si clausa teneas, virtutis obliviscuntur=--Even savage animals, if you keep them in confinement, forget their fierceness.
=Etiam fortes viros subitis terreri=--Even brave men may be alarmed by a sudden event. _Tac._
=Etiam innocentes cogit mentiri dolor=--Pain 15 makes even the innocent forswear themselves. _Pub. Syr._
=Etiam oblivisci quod scis, interdum expedit=--It is sometimes expedient to forget what you know. _Pub. Syr._
=Etiam sanato vulnere cicatrix manet=--Though the wound is healed, a scar remains.
=Etiam sapientibus cupido gloriæ novissima exuitur=--Even by the wise the desire of glory is the last of all passions to be laid aside. _Tac._
=Et jam summa procul villarum culmina fumant, / Majoresque cadunt altis de montibus umbræ=--And now the cottage roofs yonder smoke, and the shadows fall longer from the mountain-tops. _Virg._
=Et je sais, sur ce fait, / Bon nombre d'hommes= 20 =qui sont femmes=--And I know a great many men who in this particular are women. _La Font._
=Et l'avare Achéron ne lâche pas sa proie=--And greedy Acheron lets not go his prey. _Racine._
=Et le combat cessa faute de combattants=--And the battle ceased for want of combatants. _Corneille._
=Et l'on revient toujours / A ses premiers amours=--One returns always to his first love. _Fr. Pr._
=Et mala sunt vicina bonis=--There are bad qualities near akin to good. _Ovid._
=Et male tornatos incudi reddere versus=--And 25 take back ill-polished stanzas to the anvil. _Hor._
=Et mea cymba semel vasta percussa procella, / Illum, quo læsa est, horret adire locum=--My bark, once shaken by the overpowering storm, shrinks from approaching the spot where it has been shattered. _Ovid._
=Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor=--My aim ever is to subject circumstances to myself, not myself to them. _Hor._
=Et minimæ vires frangere quassa valent=--A very small degree of force will suffice to break a vessel that is already cracked. _Ovid._
=Et monere, et moneri, proprium est veræ amicitiæ=--To give counsel as well as take it, is a feature of true friendship. _Cic._
=Et nati natorum, et qui nascentur ab illis=--The 30 children of our children, and those who shall be born of them, _i.e._, our latest posterity.
=Et nova fictaque nuper habebunt verba fidem, si / Græco fonte cadunt parce detorta=--And new and lately invented terms will be well received, if they descend, with slight deviation, from a Grecian source. _Hor._
=Et pudet, et metuo, semperque eademque precari, / Ne subeant animo tædia justa tuo=--I am ashamed to be always begging and begging the same things, and fear lest you should conceive for me the disgust I merit. _Ovid._
=Et quæ sibi quisque timebat, / Unius in miseri exitium conversa tulere=--And what each man dreaded for himself, they bore lightly when diverted to the destruction of one poor wretch. _Virg._
=Et quiescenti agendum est, et agenti quiescendum est=--He who is indolent should work, and he who works should take repose. _Sen._
=Et qui nolunt occidere quenquam / Posse= 35 =volunt=--Even those who have no wish to kill another would like to have the power. _Juv._
=Et quorum pars magna fui=--And in which I played a prominent part. _Virg._
=Etre capable de se laisser servir n'est pas une des moindres qualités que puisse avoir un grand roi=--The ability to enlist the services of others in the conduct of affairs is one of the most distinguishing qualities of a great monarch. _Richelieu._
=Etre pauvre sans être libre, c'est le pire état où l'homme puisse tomber=--To be poor without being free is the worst condition into which man can sink. _Rousseau._
=Etre sur le qui vive=--To be on the alert. _Fr._
=Etre sur un grand pied dans le monde=--To be in 40 high standing (_lit._ on a great foot) in the world. _Fr._
=Et rose elle a vécu ce que vivent les roses / L'espace d'un matin=--As rose she lived the life of a rose for but the space of a morning. _Malherbe._
=Et sanguis et spiritus pecunia mortalibus=--Money is both blood and life to men. _Pr._
=Et semel emissum volat irrevocabile verbum=--And a word once uttered flies abroad never to be recalled. _Hor._
=Et sequentia=, =Et seq.=--And what follows.
=Et sic de ceteris=--And so of the rest. 45
=Et sic de similibus=--And so of the like.
="Et tu, Brute fili"=--And thou, son Brutus. _Cæsar, at sight of Brutus among the conspirators._
=Et vaincre sans péril serait vaincre sans gloire=--To conquer without peril would be to conquer without glory. _Corneille._
=Et vitam impendere vero=--Stake even life for truth. _M._
=Et voilà justement comme on écrit l'histoire=--And that is exactly how history is written. _Voltaire._
=Etwas ist besser als gar nichts=--Something is better than nothing at all. _Ger. Pr._
=Euch zu gefallen war mein höchster Wunsch; / Euch zu ergötzen war mein letzter Zweck=--To please you was my highest wish; to delight you was my last aim. _Goethe._
[Greek: Heudonti kyrtos hairei]--While the fisher sleeps the 5 net takes. _Gr. Pr._
=Euge, poeta!=--Well done, poet! _Pers._
=Eum ausculta, cui quatuor sunt aures=--Listen to him who has four ears, _i.e._, who is readier to hear than to speak. _Pr._
[Greek: Eurêka]--I have found it. _Archimedes when he found out the way to test the purity of Hiero's golden crown._
=Europe's eye is fixed on mighty things, / The fall of empires and the fate of kings.= _Burns._
[Greek: Eutychia polyphilos]--Success is befriended by 10 many people. _Gr. Pr._
[Greek: Eutychôn mê isthi hyperêphanos, aporêsas mê tapeinou]--Be not uplifted in prosperity nor downcast in adversity. _Cleobulus._
=E' va più d'un asino al mercato=--There is more than one ass goes to the market. _It. Pr._
=Evasion is unworthy of us, and is always the intimate of equivocation.= _Balzac._
=Evasions are the common subterfuge of the hard-hearted, the false, and impotent, when called upon to assist.= _Lavater._
=Even a fly has its spleen.= _It. Pr._ 15
=Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise.= _Bible._
=Even a frog would bite if it had teeth.= _It. Pr._
=Even a haggis could charge down-hill.= _Scott._
=Even a hair casts a shadow.= _Pr._
=Even a horse, though he has four feet, will= 20 =stumble.= _Pr._
=Even among the apostles there was a Judas.= _It. Pr._
=Even beauty cannot palliate eccentricity.= _Balzac._
=Even by means of our sorrows we belong to the eternal plan.= _W. v. Humboldt._
=Even foxes are outwitted and caught.= _It. Pr._
=Even in a righteous cause force is a fearful= 25 =thing; God only helps when men can help no more.= _Schiller._
=Evening is the delight of virtuous age; it seems an emblem of the tranquil close of busy life.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=Even in social life, it is persistency which attracts confidence, more than talents and accomplishments.= _Whipple._
=Even perfect examples lead astray by tempting us to overleap the necessary steps in their development, whereby we are for the most part led past the goal into boundless error.= _Goethe._
=Even so my sun one early morn did shine, / With all triumphant splendour on my brow; / But out, alack! it was but one hour mine.= _Sh._
=Even success needs its consolations.= _George_ 30 _Eliot._
=Even that fish may be caught which resists most stoutly against it.= _Dan. Pr._
=Even the just man has need of help.= _It. Pr._
=Even the lowest book of chronicles partakes of the spirit of the age in which it was written.= _Goethe._
=Even then a wish (I mind its power), / A wish that to my latest hour / Shall strongly heave my breast, / That I, for puir auld Scotland's sake, / Some usefu' plan or beuk could make, / Or sing a sang at least.= _Burns at the plough._
=Even though the cloud veils it, the sun is ever= 35 =in the canopy of heaven= (_Himmelszelt_). =A holy will rules there; the world does not serve blind chance.= _F. K. Weber._
=Even though vanquished, he could argue still.= _Goldsmith._
=Even thou who mourn'st the daisy's fate, / That fate is thine--no distant date; / Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives elate / Full on thy bloom, / Till crush'd beneath the farrow's weight / Shall be thy doom.= _Burns._
=Events are only the shells of ideas; and often it is the fluent thought of ages that is crystallised in a moment by the stroke of a pen or the point of a bayonet.= _Chapin._
=Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.= _Cowper._
=Eventus stultorum magister est=--Only the event 40 teaches fools. _Liv._
=Even weak men when united are powerful.= _Schiller._
=Evêque d'or, crosse de bois; crosse d'or, évêque de bois=--Bishop of gold, staff of wood; bishop of wood, staff of gold. _Fr. Pr._
=Ever, as of old, the thing a man will do is the thing he feels commanded to do.= _Carlyle._
=Ever charming, ever new, / When will the landscape tire the view?= _John Dyer._
=Ever learning, and never able to come to the= 45 =knowledge of the truth.= _St. Paul._
=Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor.= _Rich. II._, ii. 3.
=Ever must pain urge us to labour, and only in free effort can any blessedness be imagined for us.= _Carlyle._
=Ever must the sovereign of mankind be fitly entitled king=, _i.e._, =the man who= _kens_ =and= _can_. _Carlyle._
=Ever since Adam's time fools have been in the majority.= _Casimir Delavigne._
=Ever take it for granted that man collectively= 50 =wishes that which is right; but take care never to think so of one!= _Schiller._
=Every absurdity has a champion to defend it; for error is talkative.= _Goldsmith._
=Every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds.= _Emerson._
=Every advantage has its tax, but there is none on the good of virtue; that is the incoming of God himself, or absolute existence.= _Emerson._
=Every age regards the dawning of new light as the destroying fire of morality; while that very age itself, with heart uninjured, finds itself raised one degree of light above the preceding.= _Jean Paul._
=Every attempt to crush an insurrection with means inadequate to the end foments instead of suppressing it.= _C. Fox._
=Every author, in some degree, portrays himself in his works, be it even against his will.= _Goethe._
=Every base occupation makes one sharp in its practice and dull in every other.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=Every bean has its black.= _Pr._
=Every beginning is cheerful; the threshold is= 5 =the place of expectation.= _Goethe._
=Every beloved object is the centre of a paradise.= _Novalis._
=Every being is a moving temple of the Infinite.= _Jean Paul._
=Everybody is wise after the event.= _Pr._
=Everybody knows that fanaticism is religion caricatured; yet with many, contempt of fanaticism is received as a sure sign of hostility to religion.= _Whipple._
=Everybody knows that government never began= 10 =anything. It is the whole world that thinks and governs.= _W. Phillips._
=Everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is a great deal better to be made in that way than not to be made at all.= _Holmes._
=Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.= _J. F. Cooper._
=Everybody's business in the social system is to be agreeable.= _Dickens._
=Everybody's business is nobody's.= _Pr._
=Everybody's friend is nobody's.= _Pr._ 15
=Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.= _Emerson._
=Every book is written with a constant secret reference to the few intelligent persons whom the writer believes to exist in the million.= _Emerson._
=Every brave life out of the past does not appear to us so brave as it really was, for the forms of terror with which it wrestled are now overthrown.= _Jean Paul._
=Every brave man is a man of his word.= _Corneille._
=Every brave youth is in training to ride and= 20 =rule his dragon.= _Emerson._
=Every bullet has its billet.= _Pr._
=Every Calvary has its Olivet.= _H. Giles._
=Every capability, however slight, is born with us; there is no vague general capability in man.= _Goethe._
=Every child is to a certain extent a genius, and every genius is to a certain extent a child.= _Schopenhauer._
=Every cloud engenders not a storm.= 3 _Hen._ 25 _VI._, v. 3.
=Every cloud that spreads above / And veileth love, itself is love.= _Tennyson._
=Every cock is proud on his own dunghill.= _Pr._
=Every conceivable society may well be figured as properly and wholly a Church, in one or other of these three predicaments: an audibly preaching and prophesying Church, which is the best; a Church that struggles to preach and prophesy, but cannot as yet till its Pentecost come; a Church gone dumb with old age, or which only mumbles delirium prior to dissolution.= _Carlyle._
=Every cottage should have its porch, its oven, and its tank.= _Disraeli._
=Every couple is not a pair.= _Pr._ 30
=Every craw thinks her ain bird whitest.= _Sc. Pr._
=Every creature can bear well-being except man.= _Gael. Pr._
=Every crime has in the moment of its perpetration its own avenging angel.= _Schiller._
=Every day hath its night, every weal its woe.= _Pr._
=Every day in thy life is a leaf in thy history.= 35 _Arab. Pr._
=Every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly until he knows that every day is Doomsday.= _Emerson._
=Every day should be spent by us as if it were to be our last.= _Pub. Syr._
=Every department of knowledge passes successively through three stages: the theological, or fictitious; the metaphysical, or abstract; and the scientific, or positive.= _Comte._
=Every desire bears its death in its very gratification.= _W. Irving._
=Every desire is a viper in the bosom, who,= 40 =when he was chill, was harmless, but when warmth gave him strength, exerted it in poison.= _Johnson._
=Every dog must have his day.= _Swift._
=Every door may be shut but death's door.= _Pr._
=Every established religion was once a heresy.= _Buckle._
=Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.= _Holmes._
=Every evil to which we do not succumb is a= 45 =benefactor; we gain the strength of the temptation we resist.= _Emerson._
=Every excess causes a defect; every deficit, an excess. Every sweet has its sour; every evil, its good. Every faculty which is a receiver of pleasure has an equal penalty put on its abuse.= _Emerson._
=Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.= _Emerson._
=Every faculty is conserved and increased by its appropriate exercise.= _Epictetus._
=Every fancy that we would substitute for a reality is, if we saw it aright and saw the whole, not only false, but every way less beautiful and excellent than that which we sacrifice to it.= _J. Sterling._
=Every flood has its ebb.= _Dut. Pr._ 50
=Every fool thinks himself clever enough.= _Dan. Pr._
=Every fool will be meddling.= _Bible._
=Every foot will tread on him who is in the mud.= _Gael. Pr._
=Every form of freedom is hurtful, except that which delivers us over to perfect command of ourselves.= _Goethe._
=Every form of human life is romantic.= _T. W. 55 Higginson._
=Every fresh acquirement is another remedy= =against affliction and time.= _Willmott._
=Every friend is to the other a sun and a sunflower also: he attracts and follows.= _Jean Paul._
=Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the herd.= _Thoreau._
=Every generous action loves the public view, yet no theatre for virtue is equal to a consciousness of it.= _Cic._
=Every genius has most power in his own language, and every heart in its own religion.= _Jean Paul._
=Every genius is defended from approach by quantities of unavailableness.= _Emerson._
=Every genuine work of art has as much reason= 5 =for being as the earth and the sun.= _Emerson._
=Every gift which is given, even though it be small, is in reality great if it be given with affection.= _Pindar._
=Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.= _Mahomet._
=Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above.= _St. James._
=Every good gift comes from God.= _Pr._
=Every good picture is the best of sermons= 10 =and lectures: the sense informs the soul.= _Sydney Smith._
=Every good writer has much idiom; it is the life and spirit of language.= _Landor._
=Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is the triumph of enthusiasm.= _Emerson._
=Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great or original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.= _Wordsworth._
=Every great book is an action, and every great action is a book.= _Luther._
=Every great genius has a special vocation,= 15 =and when he has fulfilled it, he is no longer needed.= _Goethe._
=Every great man is unique.= _Emerson._
=Every great mind seeks to labour for eternity. All men are captivated by immediate advantages; great minds alone are excited by the prospect of distant good.= _Schiller._
=Every great poem is in itself limited by necessity, but in its suggestions unlimited and infinite.= _Longfellow._
=Every great reform which has been effected has consisted, not in doing something new, but in undoing something old.= _Buckle._
=Every great writer is a writer of history, let= 20 =him treat on almost what subject he may. He carries with him for thousands of years a portion of his times; and, indeed, if only his own effigy were there, it would be greatly more than a fragment of his century.= _Landor._
=Every healthy effort is directed from the inward to the outward world.= _Goethe._
=Every heart knows its own bitterness.= _Pr._
=Every hero becomes a bore at last.= _Emerson._
=Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good; but it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol.= _Emerson._
=Every honest miller has a golden thumb.= 25 _Pr._
=Every hour has its end.= _Scott._
=Every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.= _St. Paul._
=Every human being is intended to have a character of his own, to be what no other is, to do what no other can.= _Channing._
=Every human feeling is greater and larger than the exciting cause--a proof, I think, that man is designed for a higher state of existence.= _Coleridge._
=Every idea must have a visible unfolding.= 30 _Victor Hugo._
=Every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.= _Jesus._
=Every inch a king.= _Lear_, iv. 6.
=Every inch of joy has an ell of annoy.= _Sc. Pr._
=Every individual colour makes on men an impression of its own, and thereby reveals its nature to the eye as well as the mind.= _Goethe._
=Every individual nature has its own beauty.= 35 _Emerson._
=Every inordinate cup is unbless'd, and the ingredient is a devil.= _Othello_, ii. 3.
=Every joy that comes to us is only to strengthen us for some greater labour that is to succeed.= _Fichte._
=Every knave is a thorough knave, and a thorough knave is a knave throughout.= _Bp. Berkeley._
=Every light has its shadow.= _Pr._
=Every little fish expects to become a whale.= 40 _Dan. Pr._
=Every little helps.= _Pr._
=Every little helps, as the sow said when she snapt at a gnat.= _Dan. Pr._
=Every loving woman is a priestess of the past.= _Amiel._
=Every man alone is sincere; at the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.= _Emerson._
=Every man as an individual is secondary to= 45 =what he is as a worker for the progress of his kind and the glory of the gift allotted to him.= _Stedman._
=Every man can build a chapel in his breast, himself the priest, his heart the sacrifice, and the earth he treads on the altar.= _Jeremy Taylor._
=Every man can guide an ill wife but him that has her.= _Sc. Pr._
=Every man carries an enemy in his own bosom.= _Dan. Pr._
=Every man carries within him a potential madman.= _Carlyle._
=Every man deems that he has precisely the= 50 =trials and temptations which are the hardest to bear; but they are so because they are the very ones he needs.= _Jean Paul._
=Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old.= _Swift._
=Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.= _Lowell._
=Every man has a bag hanging before him in which he puts his neighbour's faults, and another behind him in which he stows his own.= _Coriolanus_, ii. 1.
=Every man has a goose that lays golden eggs, if he only knew it.= _Amer. Pr._
=Every man has at times in his mind the ideal= 55 =of what he should be, but is not. In all men that really seek to improve, it is better than the actual character.= _Theo. Parker._
=Every man hath business and desire, / Such as it is.= _Ham._, i. 5.
=Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.= _Timon of Athens_, iii. 1.
=Every man has his lot, and the wide world before him.= _Dan. Pr._
=Every man has his own style, just as he has his own nose.= _Lessing._
=Every man has his weak side.= _Pr._ 5
=Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts the Columbus to his own soul.= _Sir J. Stephens._
=Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.= _Pope._
=Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long.= _Burton._
=Every man, however good he may be, has a still better man dwelling in him which is properly himself, but to whom nevertheless he is often unfaithful. It is to this interior and less unstable being that we should attach ourselves, not to the changeable every-day man.= _W. v. Humboldt._
=Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his= 10 =faults.= _Emerson._
=Every man is an impossibility until he is born; everything impossible till we see it a success.= _Emerson._
=Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.= _Emerson._
=Every man is a rascal as soon as he is sick.= _Johnson._
=Every man is exceptional.= _Emerson._
=Every man is his own greatest dupe.= _A. B._ 15 _Alcott._
=Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men walk as prophecies of the next age.= _Emerson._
=Every man is the architect of his own fortune.= _Sallust._
=Every man must carry his own sack to the mill.= _Dan. Pr._
=Every man must in a measure be alone in the world. No heart was ever cast in the same mould as that which we bear within us.= _Berne._
=Every man of sound brain whom you meet= 20 =knows something worth knowing better than yourself.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=Every man ought to have his opportunity to conquer the world for himself.= _Emerson._
=Every man rejoices twice when he has a partner of his joy.= _Jeremy Taylor._
=Every man seeks the truth, but God only knows who has found it.= _Chesterfield._
=Every man shall bear his own burden.= _St. Paul._
=Every man shall kiss his lips that giveth a= 25 =right answer.= _Bible._
=Every man should study conciseness in speaking; it is a sign of ignorance not to know that long speeches, though they may please the speaker, are the torture of the hearer.= _Feltham._
=Every man stamps his value on himself. The price we challenge for ourselves is given us.= _Schiller._
=Every man takes care that his neighbour shall not cheat him.= _Emerson._
=Every man acts truly so long as he acts his nature, or some way makes good the faculties in himself.= _Sir T. Browne._
=Every man turns his dreams into realities as= 30 =far as he can. Man is cold as ice to the truth, but as fire to falsehood.= _La Fontaine._
=Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into a genius.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an anvil as he is a hammer.= _J. G. Holland._
=Every man who would do anything well must come to us from a higher ground.= _Emerson._
=Every man willingly gives value to the praise which he receives, and considers the sentence passed in his favour as the sentence of discernment.= _Johnson._
=Every man, within that inconsiderable figure= 35 =of his, contains a whole spirit-kingdom and reflex of the All; and, though to the eye but some six standard feet in size, reaches downwards and upwards, unsurveyable, fading into the regions of immensity and eternity.= _Carlyle._
=Every man without passions has within him no principle of action nor motive to act.= _Helvetius._
=Every man's blind in his ain cause.= _Sc. Pr._
=Every man's destiny is in his own hands.= _Sydney Smith._
=Every man's follies are the caricature resemblances of his wisdom.= _J. Sterling._
=Every man's life lies within the present.= _Marcus_ 40 _Antoninus._
=Every man's man has a man, and that gar'd the Tarve= (a Douglas Castle) =fa'.= _Sc. Pr._
=Every man's own reason is his best Œdipus.= _Sir Thomas Browne._
=Every man's powers have relation to some kind of work, and wherever he finds that kind of work which he can do best, he finds that by which he can best build up or make his manhood.= _J. G. Holland._
=Every man's reason is every man's oracle.= _Bolingbroke._
=Every moment, as it passes, is of infinite= 45 =value, for it is the representative of a whole eternity.= _Goethe._
=Every moment instructs, and every object, for wisdom is infused into every form. It has been poured into us as blood; it convulsed us as pain; it slid into us as pleasure.= _Emerson._
=Every morsel to a satisfied hunger is only a new labour to a tired digestion.= _South._
=Every mortal longs for his parade-place; would still wish, at banquets, to be master of some seat or other wherein to overtop this or that plucked goose of the neighbourhood.= _Carlyle._
=Every movement in the skies or upon the earth proclaims to us that the universe is under government.= _Draper._
=Every natural action is graceful.= _Emerson._ 50
=Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.= _Emerson._
=Every newly discovered truth judges the world, separates the good from the evil, and calls on faithful souls to make sure their election.= _Julia W. Howe._
=Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.= _Carlyle._
=Every noble crown is, and on earth will ever be, a crown of thorns.= _Carlyle._
=Every noble life leaves the fibre of it interwoven for ever in the work of the world.= _Ruskin._
=Every noble work is at first impossible.= _Carlyle._
=Every novel is a debtor to Homer.= _Emerson._ 5
=Every offence is not a hate at first.= _Mer. of Ven._, iv. 1.
=Every one believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake.= _Goethe._
=Every one bows to the bush that bields= (protects) =him=, _i.e._, pays court to him that does so. _Sc. Pr._
=Every one can master a grief but he that has it.= _Much Ado_, iii. 2.
=Every one complains of his memory, no one of= 10 =his judgment.= _La Roche._
=Every one draws the water to his own mill.= _Pr._
=Every one excels in something in which another fails.= _Pub. Syr._
=Every one fault seeming monstrous till his fellow-fault came to match it.= _As You Like It_, iii. 2.
=Every one finds sin sweet and repentance bitter.= _Dan. Pr._
=Every one for himself and God for us all.= _Pr._ 15
=Every one has a trial of his own: my wife is mine. Happy is he who has no other.= _Saying of Pittacus._
=Every one is a preacher under the gallows.= _Dut. Pr._
=Every one is as God made him, and often a great deal worse.= _Cervantes._
=Every one is his own worst enemy.= _Schefer._
=Every one is judge of what a man seems, no= 20 =one of what a man is.= _Schiller._
=Every one is poorer in proportion as he has more wants, and counts not what he has, but wishes only what he has not.= _Manlius._
=Every one is well or ill at ease according as he finds himself.= _Montaigne._
=Every one knows best where his shoe pinches him.= _Pr._
=Every one knows better than he practises, and recognises a better law than he obeys.= _Froude._
=Every one knows good counsel except him who= 25 =needs it.= _Ger. Pr._
=Every one of us believes in his heart, or would like to have others believe, that he is something which he is not.= _Thackeray._
=Every one of us shall give account of himself to God.= _Bible._
=Every one rakes the fire under his own pot.= _Dan. Pr._
=Every one regards his duty as a troublesome master from whom he would like to be free.= _La Roche._
=Every one should sweep before his own door.= 30 _Pr._
=Every one sings as he has the gift, and marries as he has the luck.= _Port. Pr._
=Every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.= _Jesus._
=Every one that doeth evil hateth the light.= _St. John._
=Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.= _Jesus._
=Every one thinks his own burden the heaviest.= 35 _Pr._
=Every one who is able to administer what he has, has enough.= _Goethe._
=Every one would be wise; no one will become so.= _Feuchtersleben._
=Every one would rather believe than exercise his own judgment.= _Sen._
=Every opinion reacts on him who utters it.= _Emerson._
=Every other master is known by what he= 40 =utters; the master of style commends himself to me by what he wisely passes over in silence.= _Schiller._
=Every painter ought to paint what he himself loves.= _Ruskin._
=Every passion gives a particular cast to the countenance, and is apt to discover itself in some feature or other.= _Addison._
=Every people has its prophet.= _Arab. Pr._
=Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices. Whoever saw old age that did not applaud the past and condemn the present?= _Montaigne._
=Every period of life has its peculiar temptations= 45 =and dangers.= _J. Hawes._
=Every period of life is obliged to borrow its happiness from the time to come.= _Johnson._
=Every person who manages another is a hypocrite.= _Thackeray._
=Every petition to God is a precept to man.= _Jeremy Taylor._
=Every place is safe to him who lives with justice.= _Epictetus._
=Every pleasure pre-supposes some sort of= 50 =activity.= _Schopenhauer._
=Every poet, be his outward lot what it may, finds himself born in the midst of prose; he has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into the freedom and infinitude of an ideal.= _Carlyle._
=Every power of both heaven and earth is friendly to a noble and courageous activity.= _J. Burroughs._
=Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.= _Disraeli._
=Every race has its own habitat.= _Knox._
=Every reader reads himself out of the book= 55 =that he reads.= _Goethe._
=Every real master of speaking or writing uses his personality as he would any other serviceable material.= _Holmes._
=Every real need is appeased and every vice stimulated by satisfaction.= _Amiel._
=Every rightly constituted mind ought to rejoice, not so much in knowing anything clearly, as in feeling that there is infinitely more which it cannot know.= _Ruskin._
=Every rose has its thorn.= _Pr._
=Every scripture is to be interpreted by the= 60 =same spirit which gave it forth.= _Quoted by Emerson._
=Every sect, as far as reason will help it, gladly uses it; when it fails them, they cry out it is matter of faith, and above reason.= _Locke._
=Every shadow points to the sun.= _Emerson._
=Every ship is a romantic object except that we sail in.= _Emerson._
=Every shoe fits not every foot.= _Pr._
=Every shot does not bring down a bird.= _Dut. Pr._
=Every soo (sow) to its ain trough.= _Sc. Pr._
=Every species of activity is met by a negation.= 5 _Goethe._
=Every spirit builds itself a house, and beyond its house a world, and beyond its world a heaven.= _Emerson._
=Every spirit makes its house, but afterwards the house confines the spirit.= _Emerson._
=Every step of life shows how much caution is required.= _Goethe._
=Every step of progress which the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold and from stake to stake.= _Wendell Phillips._
=Every Stoic was a Stoic, but in Christendom= 10 =where is the Christian?= _Emerson._
=Every style formed elaborately on any model must be affected and strait-laced.= _Whipple._
=Every subject's duty is the king's, but every subject's soul is his own.= _Hen. V._, iv. 1.
=Every tear of sorrow sown by the righteous springs up a pearl.= _Matthew Henry._
=Everything a man parts with is the cost of something. Everything he receives is the compensation of something.= _J. G. Holland._
=Everything calls for interest, only it must be= 15 =an interest divested of self-interest and sincere.= _Desjardins._
=Everything comes if a man will only wait.= _Disraeli._
=Everything, even piety, is dangerous in a man without judgment.= _Stanislaus._
=Everything good in a man thrives best when properly recognised.= _J. G. Holland._
=Everything good in man leans on what is higher.= _Emerson._
=Everything good is on the highway.= _Emerson._ 20
=Everything great is not always good, but all good things are great.= _Demosthenes._
=Everything holy is before what is unholy; guilt presupposes innocence, not the reverse; angels, but not fallen ones, were created.= _Jean Paul._
=Everything in life, to be of value, must have a sequence.= _Goethe._
=Everything in nature contains all the powers of nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.= _Emerson._
=Everything in nature goes by law, and not by= 25 =luck.= _Emerson._
=Everything in nature has a positive and a negative pole.= _Emerson._
=Everything in nature is a puzzle until it finds its solution in man, who solves it in some way with God, and so completes the circle of creation.= _T. T. Munger._
=Everything in the world can be borne except a long succession of beautiful days.= _Goethe._
=Everything in this world depends upon will.= _Disraeli._
=Everything in this world is a tangled yarn;= 30 =we taste nothing in its purity; we do not remain two moments in the same state.= _Rousseau._
=Everything is as you take it.= _Pr._
=Everything is beautiful, seen from the point of the intellect; but all is sour if seen as experience.= _Emerson._
=Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Creator; everything degenerates in the hands of man.= _Rousseau._
=Everything is mere opinion.= _M. Aurelius._
=Everything is sold to skill and labour.= _Hume._ 35
=Everything is sweetened by risk.= _A. Smith._
=Everything is what it is, and not another thing.= _Bishop Butler._
=Everything is worth the money that can be got for it.= _Pub. Syr._
=Everything looks easy that is practised to perfection.= _Goethe._
=Everything rises but to fall, and increases but= 40 =to decay.= _Sall._
=Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed; and to carry the danger to the edge of ruin, Nature causes each man's peculiarity to superabound.= _Emerson._
=Everything springs into being and passes away according to law, yet how fluctuating is the lot that presides over the life which is to us so priceless.= _Goethe._
=Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.= _Sen._
=Everything that happens, happens of necessity.= _Schopenhauer._
=Everything that happens in this world is part= 45 =of a great plan of God running through all time.= _Ward Beecher._
=Everything that happens to us leaves some trace behind it, and everything insensibly contributes to make us what we are.= _Goethe._
=Everything that is exquisite hides itself.= _J. Roux._
=Everything that is popular deserves the attention of the philosopher; although it may not be of any worth in itself, yet it characterises the people.= _Emerson._
=Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for never is life so low as when occupied with the present.= _Landor._
=Everything that tends to emancipate us from= 50 =external restraint without adding to our own power of self-government is mischievous.= _Goethe._
=Everything unnatural is imperfect.= _Napoleon._
=Everything useful to the life of man arises from the ground, but few things arise in that condition which is requisite to render them useful.= _Hume._
=Every thought that arises in the mind, in its rising aims to pass out of the mind into act; just as every plant, in the moment of generation, struggles up to the light.= _Emerson._
=Every thought was once a poem.= _Emerson._ (?)
=Every thought which genius and piety throw= 55 =into the world alters the world.= _Emerson._
=Every time a man smiles, much more when he laughs, it adds something to his fragment of life.= _Sterne._
=Every time you forgive a man you weaken him and strengthen yourself.= _Amer. Pr._
=Every transition is a crisis, and a crisis presupposes sickness.= _Goethe._
=Every traveller has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.= _Dickens._
=Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire.= _Jesus._
=Every true man's apparel fits your thief.= _Meas. for Meas._, iv. 2.
=Every tub must stand on its own bottom.= _Pr._
=Every unpleasant feeling is a sign that I have= 5 =become untrue to my resolutions.= _Jean Paul._
=Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.= _Dan. Webster._
=Every vicious habit and chronic disease communicates itself by descent, and by purity of birth the entire system of the human body and soul may be gradually elevated, or by recklessness of birth degraded, until there shall be as much difference between the well-bred and ill-bred human creature (whatever pains be taken with their education) as between a wolf-hound and the vilest mongrel cur.= _Ruskin._
=Every violation of truth is a stab at the health of society.= _Emerson._
=Every wanton and causeless restraint of the will of the subject, whether practised by a monarch, a nobility, or a popular assembly, is a degree of tyranny.= _Blackstone._
=Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in= 10 =my brother, because he has shut his own temple doors, and recites fables merely of his brother's or his brother's brother's God.= _Emerson._
=Everywhere in life the true question is, not what we gain, but what we do; so also in intellectual matters it is not what we receive, but what we are made to give, that chiefly contents and profits us.= _Carlyle._
=Everywhere the formed world is the only habitable one.= _Carlyle._
=Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of two everlasting, hostile empires, Necessity and Free Will.= _Carlyle._
=Everywhere the individual seeks to show himself off to advantage, and nowhere honestly endeavours to make himself subservient to the whole.= _Goethe._
=Every white will have its black, / And every= 15 =sweet its sour.= _T. Percy._
=Every why hath a wherefore.= _Com. of Errors_, ii. 2.
=Every wise woman buildeth her house, but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.= _Bible._
=Every word was once a poem.= _Emerson._
=Every worm beneath the moon / Draws different threads, and late and soon / Spins, toiling out his own cocoon.= _Tennyson._
=Every youth, from the king's son downwards,= 20 =should learn to do something finely and thoroughly with his hand.= _Ruskin._
=E vestigio=--Instantly.
=Evil and good are everywhere, like shadow and substance; (for men) inseparable, yet not hostile, only opposed.= _Carlyle._
=Evil, be thou my good.= _Milton._
=Evil comes to us by ells and goes away by inches.= _Pr._
=Evil communications corrupt good manners.= 25 _Pr._
=Evil events from evil causes spring.= _Aristophanes._
=Evil is a far more cunning and persevering propagandist than good, for it has no inward strength, and is driven to seek countenance and sympathy.= _Lowell._
=Evil is generally committed under the hope of some advantage the pursuit of virtue seldom obtains.= _B. R. Haydon._
=Evil is merely privative, not absolute; it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity.= _Emerson._
=Evil is wrought by want of thought / As well= 30 =as want of heart.= _T. Hood._
=Evil, like a rolling stone upon a mountain-top, / A child may first impel, a giant cannot stop.= _Trench._
=Evil men understand not judgment, but they that seek the Lord understand all things.= _Bible._
=Evil news rides post, while good news bates.= _Milton._
=Evil often triumphs, but never conquers.= _J. Roux._
=Evil, what we call evil, must ever exist while= 35 =man exists; evil, in the widest sense we can give it, is precisely the dark, disordered material out of which man's freewill has to create an edifice of order and good. Ever must pain urge us to labour; and only in free effort can any blessedness be imagined for us.= _Carlyle._
=Evils can never pass away; for there must always remain something which is antagonistic to good.= _Plato._
=Evils that take leave, / On their departure most of all show evil.= _King John_, iii. 4.
=Evolare rus ex urbe tanquam ex vinculis=--To fly from the town into the country, as though from bonds. _Cic._
=Ewig jung zu bleiben / Ist, wie Dichter schreiben / Hochstes Lebensgut; / Willst du es erwerben / Musst du frühe sterben=--To continue eternally young is, as poets write, the highest bliss of life; wouldst thou attain to it, thou must die young. _Rückert._
=Ewig zu sein in jedem Momente=--To be eternal 40 at every moment. _Schleiermacher._
=Ex abrupto=--Without preparation.
=Ex abundante cautela=--From excessive precaution. _L._
=Ex abusu non arguitur ad usum=--There is no arguing from the _abuse_ of a thing against the _use_ of it. _L._
=Ex abusu non argumentum ad desuetudinem=--The abuse of a thing is no argument for its discontinuance. _L._
=Exact justice is commonly more merciful in= 45 =the long run than pity, for it tends to foster in men those stronger qualities which make them good citizens.= _Lowell._
=Ex æquo=--By right.
=Ex æquo et bono=--In justice and equity.
=Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood.= _H. Ballou._
=Exaggeration is to paint a snake and add legs.= _Chinese Pr._
=Examine the religious principles which have, in fact, prevailed in the world. You will scarcely be persuaded that they are anything but sick men's dreams.= _Hume._
=Examine your soul and its emotions, and thoughts will be to you so many glorious revelations of the Godhead.= _Nourisson._
=Example acquires tenfold authority when it speaks from the grave.= _W. Phillips._
=Example has more followers than reason.= _Bovee._
=Example is a hazardous lure: where the wasp= 5 =gets through, the gnat sticks.= _La Fontaine._
=Example is more efficacious than precept.= _Johnson._
=Example is more forcible than precept. People look at me six days in the week, to see what I mean on the seventh.= _Cecil._
=Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.= _Burke._
=Examples of rare intelligence, yet more rarely cultivated, are not lights kindled for a moment; they live on here in their good deeds, and in their venerated memories.= _Gladstone._
=Examples would indeed be excellent things,= 10 =were not people so modest that none will set them, and so vain that none will follow them.= _Hare._
=Ex animo=--From the soul; heartily.
=Ex aperto=--Openly.
=Ex auribus cognoscitur asinus=--An ass is known by his ears. _Pr._
=Ex cathedra=--From the chair; with authority.
=Excellence is never granted to man but as the= 15 =reward of labour.= _Sir Jos. Reynolds._
=Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul, / But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, / Chaos is come again.= _Othello_, iii. 3.
=Excelsior=--Still higher.
=Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone; but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.= _Jesus._
=Except by mastership and servantship, there is no conceivable deliverance from tyranny and slavery.= _Carlyle._
=Except I be by Silvia in the night, / There is= 20 =no music in the nightingale.= _Two Gent. of Ver._, iii. 1.
=Except in knowing what it has to do and how to do it, the soul cannot resolve the riddle of its destiny.= _Ed._
=Except in obedience to the heaven-chosen is freedom not so much as conceivable.= _Carlyle._
=Except pain of body and remorse of conscience, all our evils are imaginary.= _Rousseau._
=Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it; except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh in vain.= _Bible._
=Except ye be converted and become as little= 25 =children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.= _Jesus._
=Exceptio probat regulam=--The exception proves the rule.
=Exceptis excipiendis=--The requisite exceptions being made.
=Excepto quod non simul esses, cætera lætus=--Except that you were not with me, in other respects I was happy.
=Excerpta=--Extracts. _L._
=Excess generally causes reaction, and produces= 30 =a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.= _Plato._
=Excess in apparel is costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones.= _Wm. Penn._
=Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.= _Marlowe._
=Excessit ex ephebis=--He has come to the age of manhood. _Ter._
=Excessive distrust is not less hurtful than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived.= _Vauvenargues._
=Excitari, non hebescere=--To be spirited, not 35 sluggish. _M._
=Exclusa opes omnes=--All hope is gone. _Plaut._
=Ex commodo=--Leisurely.
=Ex concesso=--Admittedly.
=Ex confesso=--Confessedly.
=Ex curia=--Out of court. 40
=Excusing of a fault / Doth make the fault worse by the excuse.= _King John_, iv. 2.
=Ex debito justitiæ=--From what is due to justice; from a regard to justice.
=Ex delicto=--From the crime.
=Ex desuetudine amittuntur privilegia=--Rights are forfeited by disuse. _L._
=Ex diuturnitate temporis omnia præsumuntur= 45 =esse solemniter acta=--Everything established for a length of time is presumed to have been done in due form. _L._
=Exeat=--Let him depart.
=Exegi monumentum ære perennius=--I have reared a memorial of myself more durable than brass. _Hor._
=Exempli gratia=--By way of example.
=Exemplo plus quam ratione vivimus=--We live more by example than reason.
=Exemplumque Dei quisque est in imagine= 50 =parva=--Each man is the copy of his God in small. _Manil._
Exercise is labour without weariness. _Johnson._
=Exercise the muscles well, but spare the nerves always.= _Schopenhauer._
=Exercitatio optimus est magister=--Practice is the best master. _Pr._
=Exercitatio potest omnia=--Perseverance conquers all difficulties.
=Exeunt omnes=--All retire. 55
=Ex facie=--Evidently.
=Ex factis non ex dictis amici pensandi=--Friends are to be estimated from deeds, not words. _Liv._
=Ex facto jus oritur=--The law arisen out of the fact, _i.e._, it cannot till then be put in force. _L._
=Ex fide fortis=--Strong from faith. _M._
=Ex fumo dare lucem=--To give light from smoke. 60 _M._
=Ex humili magna ad fastigia rerum / Extollit, quoties voluit fortuna jocari=--As oft as Fortune is in a freakish mood, she raises men from a humble station to the imposing summit of things. _Juv._
=Ex hypothesi=--Hypothetically.
=Exigite ut mores teneros ceu pollice ducat, / Ut si quis cera vultum facit=--Require him as with his thumb to mould their youthful morals, just as one fashions a face with plastic wax. _Juv._
=Exigui numero, sed bello vivida virtus=--Few in number, yet their valour ardent for war. _Virg._
=Exiguum est ad legem bonum esse=--It is but a small matter to be good in the eye of the law only. _Sen._
=Exile is terrible to those who have, as it were, a circumscribed habitation; but not to those who look upon the whole globe as one city.= _Cic._
=Exilioque domos et dulcia limina mutant /= 5 =Atque alio patriam quærunt sub sole jacentem=--They exchange their home and sweet thresholds for exile, and seek under another sun another home. _Virg._
=Ex improviso=--Unexpectedly.
=Ex industria=--Purposely.
=Ex inimico cogita posse fieri amicum=--Think that you may make a friend of an enemy. _Sen._
=Ex integro=--Anew; afresh.
=Ex intervallo=--At some distance. 10
=Existence is not to be measured by mere duration.= _Caird._
=Exitio est avidium mare nautis=--The greedy sea is destruction to the sailors. _Hor._
=Ex malis eligere minima=--Of evils to choose the least. _Cic._
=Ex malis moribus bonæ leges natæ sunt=--From bad manners good laws have sprung. _Coke._
=Ex mero motu=--Of one's own free will. 15
=Ex nihilo nihil fit=--Nothing produces nothing.
=Ex officio=--By virtue of his office.
=Ex opere operato=--By the external act.
=Exoriare aliquis nostris ex ossibus ultor=--An avenger shall arise out of my bones. _Virg._
=Ex otio plus negotii quam ex negotio habemus=--Our 20 leisure gives us more to do than our business.
=Ex parte=--One-sided.
=Ex pede Herculem=--We judge of the size of the statue of Hercules by the foot.
=Expect injuries; for men are weak, and thou thyself doest such too often.= _Jean Paul._
=Expediency is the science of exigencies.= _Kossuth._
=Expense of time is the most costly of all expenses.= 25 _Theophrastus._
=Experience, a jewel that I have purchased at an infinite rate.= _Merry Wives_, ii. 2.
=Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.= _A. B. Alcott._
=Experience is a text to which reflection and knowledge supply the commentary.= _Schopenhauer._
=Experience is by industry achieved, / And perfected by swift course of time.= _Two Gent. of Ver._, i. 3.
="Experience is the best teacher," only the= 30 =school-fees are heavy.= _Hegel._ (?)
=Experience is the grand spiritual doctor.= _Carlyle._
=Experience is the mistress of fools.= _Pr._
=Experience is the only genuine knowledge.= _Goethe._
=Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.= _Ben. Franklin._
=Experience makes even fools wise.= _Pr._ 35
=Experience makes us see a wonderful difference between devotion and goodness.= _Pascal._
=Experience takes dreadfully high school-wages, but teaches as no other.= _Carlyle._
=Experience teaches us again and again that there is nothing men have less command over than their tongues.= _Spinoza._
=Experience teacheth that resolution is a sole help in need.= (?)
=Experience that is bought is good, if not too= 40 =dear.= _Pr._
=Experience to most men is like the stern-lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed.= _Coleridge._
=Experientia docet=--Experience teaches. _Pr._
=Experimentum crucis=--A decisive experiment.
=Expert men can execute, but learned men are more fit to judge and censure.= _Bacon._
=Experto credite=--Believe one who has had experience. 45 _Virg._
=Expertus metuit=--He who has had experience is afraid. _Hor._
=Expetuntur divitiæ ad perficiendas voluptates=--Riches are coveted to minister to our pleasures.
=Explorant adversa viros; perque aspera duro / Nititur ad laudem virtus interrita clivo=--Adversity tries men, and virtue struggles after fame, regardless of the adverse heights. _Sil. Ital._
=Ex post facto=--After the event. _L._
=Expression alone can invest beauty with= 50 =supreme and lasting command over the eye.= _Fuseli._
=Expressio unius est exclusio alterius=--The naming of one man is the exclusion of another. _L._
=Ex professo=--As one who knows; professedly.
=Ex quovis ligno non fit Mercurius=--A Mercury is not to be made out of any log. _Pr._
=Ex scintilla incendium=--From a spark a conflagration. _Pr._
=Ex tempore=--Off-hand; unpremeditated. 55
=Extended empire, like expanded gold, exchanges solid strength for feeble splendour.= _Johnson._
=External manners of lament / Are merely shadows to the unseen grief / That swells with silence in the tortured soul.= _Rich. II._, iv. 1.
=Extinctus amabilis idem=--He will be beloved when he is dead (who was envied when he was living). _Hor._
=Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science, as the strangled snakes beside that of Hercules.= _Huxley._
=Extra ecclesiam nulla salus=--Outside the Church 60 there is no safety.
=Extra lutum pedes habes=--You have got your feet out of the mud. _Pr._
=Extra muros=--Beyond the walls.
=Extra telorum jactum=--Beyond bow-shot.
=Extrema gaudii luctus occupat=--Grief treads on the confines of gladness. _Pr._
=Extrema manus nondum operibus ejus imposita est=--The finishing hand has not yet been put to his works.
=Extreme justice is often extreme injustice.=
=Extremes beget extremes.= _Pr._
=Extreme in all things! hadst thou been betwixt,= 5 =/ Thy throne had still been thine, or never been.= _Byron._
=Extremes in nature equal ends produce; / In man they join to some mysterious use.= _Pope._
=Extremes meet.= _Pr._
=Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects; extreme heat mortifies, like extreme cold; extreme love breeds satiety as well as extreme hatred; and too violent rigour tempts chastity as much as too much license.= _Chapman._
=Extremis malis extrema remedia=--Extreme remedies for extreme evils. _Pr._
=Extremity is the trier of spirits.= _Coriol._ iv. 1. 10
=Exuerint sylvestrem animum, cultuque frequenti, / In quascunque voces artes, haud tarda sequentur=--They lay aside their rustic ideas, and by repeated instruction will advance apace into whatever arts you may initiate them. _Virg._
=Ex umbra in solem=--Out of the shade into the sunshine. _Pr._
=Ex ungue leonem=--The lion may be known by his claw.
=Ex uno disce omnes=--From one judge of all.
=Ex vita discedo, tanquam ex hospitio, non= 15 =tanquam ex domo=--I depart from life as from an inn, not as from a home. _Cic._
=Ex vitio alterius sapiens emendat suum=--From the faults of another a wise man will correct his own. _Laber._
=Ex vitulo bos fit=--From a calf an ox grows up.
=Ex vultibus hominum mores colligere=--To construe men's characters by their looks.
=Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.= _St. Paul._
=Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, /= 20 =And catch the manners living as they rise.= _Pope._
=Eyes are better, on the whole, than telescopes or microscopes.= _Emerson._
=Eyes bright, with many tears behind them.= _Carlyle, on his Wife._
=Eyes not down-dropp'd nor over-bright, but fed with the clear-pointed flame of chastity.= _Tennyson._
=Eyes / Of microscopic power, that could discern / The population of a dewdrop.= _J. Montgomery._
=Eyes raised towards heaven are always beautiful,= 25 =whatever they be.= _Joubert._
=Eyes speak all languages; wait for no letter of introduction; they ask no leave of age or rank; they respect neither poverty nor riches, neither learning, nor power, nor virtue, nor sex, but intrude and come again, and go through and through you in a moment of time.= _Emerson._
=Eyes will not see when the heart wishes them to be blind; desire conceals truth as darkness does the earth.= _Sen._
=Ez for war, I call it murder; / There you hev it plain and flat; / I don't want to go no furder / Than my Testyment for that.= _Lowell._
F.
=Fa bene, e non guardare a chi=--Do good, no matter to whom. _It. Pr._
=Faber suæ fortunæ=--The maker of his own fortune. 30 _Sall._
=Fabricando fabri fimus=--We become workmen by working. _Pr._
=Fabula, nec sentis, tota jactaris in urbe=--You are the talk, though you don't know it, of the whole town. _Ovid._
=Faces are as legible as books, only they are read in much less time, and are much less likely to deceive us.= _Lavater._
=Faces are as paper money, for which, on demand, there frequently proves to be no gold in the coffer.= _F. G. Trafford._
=Faces are but a gallery of portraits.= _Bacon._ 35
=Faces which have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.= _Scott._
=Fac et excusa=--Do it and so justify yourself. _Pr._
=Facetiarum apud præpotentes in longum memoria est=--It is long before men in power forget the jest they have been the subject of. _Tac._
=Fach=--Department. _Ger._
=Facienda=--Things to be done. 40
=Facies non omnibus una, / Nec diversa tamen; qualem decet esse sororum=--The features were not the same in them all, nor yet are they quite different, but such as we would expect in sisters. _Ovid._
=Facies tua computat annos=--Your face records your age. _Juv._
=Facile est imperium in bonis=--It is easy to rule over the good. _Plaut._
=Facile est inventis addere=--It is easy to add to or improve on what has been already invented. _Pr._
=Facile largiri de alieno=--It is easy to be generous 45 with what is another's. _Pr._
=Facile omnes cum valemus recta consilia / Ægrotis damus=--We can all, when we are well, easily give good advice to the sick. _Ter._
=Facile princeps=--The admitted chief; with ease at the top.
=Facilis descensus Averno est, / Noctes atque dies patet atri janua Ditis; / Sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras, / Hoc opus, hic labor est=--The descent to hell is easy; night and day the gate of gloomy Dis stands open; but to retrace your steps and escape to the upper air, this is a work, this is a toil. _Virg._
=Facilius crescit quam inchoatur dignitas=--It is more easy to obtain an accession of dignity than to acquire it in the first instance. _Laber._
=Facilius sit Nili caput invenire=--It would be 50 easier to discover the source of the Nile. _Old Pr._
=Facinus audax incipit, / Qui cum opulento pauper homine cœpit rem habere aut negotium=--The poor man who enters into partnership with a rich makes a risky venture. _Plaut._
=Facinus majoris abollæ=--A crime of a very deep dye (_lit._ one committed by a man who wears the garb of a philosopher). _Juv._
=Facinus quos inquinat æquat=--Those whom guilt stains it equals, _i.e._, it puts on even terms. _Lucan._
=Facit indignatio versum=--Indignation gives inspiration to verse.
=Facito aliquid operis, ut semper te diabolus= 5 =inveniat occupatum=--Keep doing something, so that the devil may always find you occupied. _St. Jerome._
=Faciunt næ intelligendo, ut nihil intelligant=--They are so knowing that they know nothing. _Ter._
=Façon de parler=--A manner of speaking. _Fr._
=Facsimile=--An engraved resemblance of a man's handwriting; an exact copy of anything (_lit._ do the like).
=Facta canam; sed erunt qui me finxisse loquantur=--I am about to sing of facts; but some will say I have invented them. _Ovid._
=Facta ejus cum dictis discrepant=--His actions 10 do not harmonise with his words. _Cic._
=Facta, non verba=--Deeds, not words.
=Fact is better than fiction, if only we could get it pure.= _Emerson._
=Facts are apt to alarm us more than the most dangerous principles.= _Junius._
=Facts are chiels that winna ding, / And downa be disputed.= _Burns._
=Facts are stubborn things.= _Le Sage._ 15
=Facts are to the mind the same thing as food to the body.= _Burke._
=Facts--historical facts, still more biographical--are sacred hierograms, for which the fewest have the key.= _Carlyle._
=Factis ignoscite nostris / Si scelus ingenio scitis abesse meo=--Forgive what I have done, since you know all evil intention was far from me. _Ovid._
=Factotum=--A man of all work (_lit._ do everything).
=Factum abiit; monumenta manent=--The event 20 is an affair of the past; the memorial of it is still with us. _Ovid._
=Factum est=--It is done. _M._
=Factum est illud; fieri infectum non potest=--It is done and cannot be undone. _Plaut._
=Fader og Moder ere gode, end er Gud bedre=--Father and mother are kind, but God is kinder. _Dan. Pr._
=Fæx populi=--The dregs of the people.
=Fagerhed uden Tugt, Rose uden Hugt=--Beauty 25 without virtue is a rose without scent. _Dan. Pr._
=Fähigkeiten werden vorausgesetzt; sie sollen zu Fertigkeiten werden=--Capacities are presupposed: they are meant to develop into capabilities, or skilled dexterities. _Goethe._
=Failures are with heroic minds the stepping-stones to success.= _Haliburton._
=Fain would I, but I dare not; I dare, and yet I may not; / I may, although I care not, for pleasure when I play not.= _Raleigh._
="Fain would I climb, but that I fear a fall."= _Raleigh on a pane of glass, to which Queen Elizabeth added_, "If thy heart fail thee, then why climb at all?"
=Fainéant=--Do nothing. _Fr._ 30
=Faint heart never won fair lady.= _Pr._
=Faint not; the miles to heaven are but few and short.= _S. Rutherford._
=Fair and softly goes far in a day.= _Pr._
=Fair enough, if good enough.= _Pr._
=Fair fa' guid drink, for it gars= (makes) =folk= 35 =speak as they think.= _Sc. Pr._
=Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face, / Great chieftain o' the puddin' race! / Abune them a' ye tak' your place, / Paunch, tripe, or thairm; / Weel are ye wordy o' a grace / As lang's my airm.= _Burns to a Haggis._
=Fair flowers don't remain lying by the highway.= _Ger. Pr._
=Fair folk are aye fusionless= (pithless). _Sc. Pr._
=Fair is not fair, but that which pleaseth.= _Pr._
=Fair maidens wear nae purses= (the lads always 40 paying their share). _Sc. Pr._
=Fair play's a jewel.= _Pr._
=Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare, / And beauty draws us with a single hair.= _Pope._
=Fair words butter no parsnips.= _Pr._
=Faire bonne mine à mauvaise jeu=--To put a good face on the matter. _Fr._
=Faire le chien couchant=--To play the spaniel; to 45 cringe. _Fr._
=Faire le diable à quatre=--To play the devil or deuce. _Fr._
=Faire le pendant=--To be the fellow. _Fr._
=Faire mon devoir=--To do my duty. _Fr._
=Faire patte de velours=--To coax (_lit._ make a velvet paw). _Fr._
=Faire prose sans le savoir=--To speak prose 50 without knowing it. _Molière._
=Faire sans dire=--To act without talking. _Fr._
=Faire un trou pour en boucher un autre=--To make one hole in order to stop another. _Fr. Pr._
=Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, / If better thou belong not to the dawn.= _Milton._
=Fais ce que dois, advienne que pourra=--Do your duty, come what may. _Fr. Pr._
=Fait accompli=--A thing already done. _Fr._ 55
=Faith affirms many things respecting which the senses are silent; but nothing that they deny.= _Pascal._
=Faith always implies the disbelief of a lesser fact in favour of a greater. A little mind often sees the unbelief, without seeing the belief, of large ones.= _Holmes._
=Faith and joy are the ascensive forces of song.= _Stedman._
=Faith builds a bridge across the gulf of death, / To break the shock blind Nature cannot shun, / And lands thought smoothly on the farther shore.= _Young._
=Faith builds a bridge from the old world to the= 60 =next.= _Young._
=Faith doth not lie dead in the breast, but is lovely and fruitful in bringing forth good works.= _Cranmer._
=Faith, fanatic faith, once wedded fast, / To save dear falsehood, hugs it to the last.= _Moore._
=Faith has given man an inward willingness, a world of strength wherewith to front a world of difficulty.= _Carlyle._
=Faith in a better than that which appears is no less required by art than religion.= _John Sterling._
=Faith is generally strongest in those whose character may be called weakest.= _Mme. de Staël._
=Faith is letting down our nets into the untransparent deeps at the Divine command, not knowing what we shall take.= _Faber._
=Faith is like love; it does not admit of being forced.= _Schopenhauer._
=Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.= 5 _Channing._
=Faith is loyalty to some inspired teacher, some spiritual hero.= _Carlyle._
=Faith is necessary to victory.= _Hazlitt._
=Faith is nothing but spiritualised imagination.= _Ward Beecher._
=Faith is nothing more than obedience.= _Voltaire._
=Faith is not reason's labour, but repose.= 10 _Young._
=Faith is not the beginning, but the end of all knowledge.= _Goethe._
=Faith is our largest manufacturer of good works, and wherever her furnaces are blown out, morality suffers.= _Birrell._
=Faith is required at thy hands, and a sincere life, not loftiness of intellect or inquiry into the deep mysteries of God.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Faith is taking God at His word.= _Evans._
=Faith is that courage in the heart which trusts= 15 =for all good to God.= _Luther._
=Faith is the creator of the Godhead; not that it creates anything in the Divine Eternal Being, but that it creates that Being in us.= _Luther._
=Faith is the heroism of intellect.= _C. H. Parkhurst._
=Faith is the soul of religion, and works the body.= _Colton._
=Faith loves to lean on Time's destroying arm.= _Holmes._
=Faith makes us, and not we it; and faith makes= 20 =its own forms.= _Emerson._
=Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, / And looks to that alone; / Laughs at impossibilities, / And cries--"It shall be done."= _C. Wesley._
=Faith opens a way for the understanding; unbelief closes it.= _St. Augustine._
=Faith without works is like a bird without wings.= _J. Beaumont._
=Faith's abode / Is mystery for evermore, / Its life, to worship and adore, / And meekly bow beneath the rod, / When the day is dark and the burden sore.= _Dr. Walter Smith._
=Faiths that are different in their roots, /= 25 =Where the will is right and the heart is sound, / Are much the same in their fruits.= _J. B. Selkirk._
=Faithful are the wounds of a friend.= _Bible._
=Faithful found / Among the faithless; faithful only he.= _Milton._
=Faithfulness and sincerity are the highest things.= _Confucius._
=Falla pouco, e bem, ter-te-haô por alguem=--Speak little and well; they will take you for somebody. _Port. Pr._
=Fallacia / Alia aliam trudit=--One falsehood 30 begets another (_lit._ thrusts aside another). _Ter._
=Fallacies we are apt to put upon ourselves by taking words for things.= _Locke._
=Fallentis semita vitæ=--The pathway of deceptive or unnoticed life. _Hor._
=Fallit enim vitium, specie virtutis et umbra, / Cum sit triste habitu, vultuque et veste severum=--For vice deceives under an appearance and shadow of virtue when it is subdued in manner and severe in countenance and dress. _Juv._
=Fallitur, egregio quisquis sub principe credit / Servitium. Nunquam libertas gratior extat / Quam sub rege pio=--Whoso thinks it slavery to serve under an eminent prince is mistaken. Liberty is never sweeter than under a pious king. _Claud._
=Falls have their risings, wanings have their= 35 =primes, / And desperate sorrows wait for better times.= _Quarles._
=Falsch ist das Geschlecht der Menschen=--False is the race of men. _Schiller._
=False as dicers' oaths.= _Ham._, iii. 4.
=False by degrees and exquisitely wrong.= _Canning._
=False face must hide what the false heart doth know.= _Macb._, i. 7.
=False folk should hae mony witnesses.= _Sc._ 40 _Pr._
=False freends are waur than bitter enemies.= _Sc. Pr._
=False friends are like our shadow, close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.= _Bovee._
=False glory is the rock of vanity.= _La Bruyère._
=False modesty is the masterpiece of vanity.= _La Bruyère._
=False modesty is the most decent of all falsehood.= 45 _Chamfort._
=False shame is the parent of many crimes.= _Fox._
=Falsehood and death are synonymous.= _Bancroft._
=Falsehood borders so closely upon truth, that a wise man should not trust himself too near the precipice.= (?)
=Falsehood is cowardice; truth is courage.= _H. Ballou._
=Falsehood is easy, truth is difficult.= _George_ 50 _Eliot._
=Falsehood is folly.= _Hom._
=Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth.= _Colton._
=Falsehood is our one enemy in this world.= _Carlyle._
=Falsehood is so much the more commendable, by how much more it resembles truth, and is the more pleasing the more it is doubtful and possible.= _Cervantes._
=Falsehood is the devil's daughter, and speaks= 55 =her father's tongue.= _Dan. Pr._
=Falsehood is the essence of all sin.= _Carlyle._
=Falsehood, like poison, will generally be rejected when administered alone; but when blended with wholesome ingredients may be swallowed unperceived.= _Whately._
=Falsehood, like the dry rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded.= _Whately._
=Falso damnati crimine mortis=--Condemned to die on a false charge. _Virg._
=Falsum in uno, falsum in omni=--False in one thing, false in everything.
=Falsus honor juvat, et mendax infamia terret / Quem nisi mendosum et medicandum=--Undeserved honour delights, and lying calumny alarms no one but him who is full of falsehood and needs to be reformed. _Hor._
=Fama clamosa=--A current scandal.
=Fama crescit eundo=--Rumour grows as it goes. 5 _Virg._
=Fama nihil est celerius=--Nothing circulates more swiftly than scandal. _Livy._
=Famæ damna majora sunt, quam quæ æstimari possint=--The loss of reputation is greater than can be possibly estimated. _Livy._
=Famæ laboranti non facile succurritur=--It is not easy to repair a damaged character. _Pr._
=Famam extendere factis.=--To extend one's fame by valiant feats. _Virg._
=Fame and censure with a tether / By fate are= 10 =always linked together.= _Swift._
=Fame at its best is but a poor compensation for all the ills of existence.= _Mrs. Oliphant._
=Fame comes only when deserved, and then it is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.= _Longfellow._
=Fame is a fancied life in others' breath.= _Pope._
=Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave.= _Colton._
=Fame is a revenue payable only to our ghosts.= 15 _Mackenzie._
=Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck only at one end of a room, it will soon fall to the floor. To keep it up, it must be struck at both ends.= _Johnson._
=Fame is but the breath of the people, and that often unwholesome.= _Pr._
=Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.= _Milton._
=Fame is not won on downy plumes nor under canopies.= _Dante._
=Fame is the advantage of being known by= 20 =people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.= _Stanislaus._
=Fame is the breath of popular applause.= _Herrick._
=Fame is the perfume of noble deeds.= _Socrates._
=Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, / (That last infirmity of noble minds,) / To scorn delights and live laborious days.= _Milton._
=Fame may be compared to a scold; the best way to silence her is to let her alone, and she will at last be out of breath in blowing her own trumpet.= _Fuller._
=Fame only reflects the estimate in which a= 25 =man is held in comparison with others.= _Schopenhauer._
=Fame sometimes hath created something of nothing.= _Fuller._
=Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else; very rarely to those who say to themselves, "Go to now, let us be a celebrated individual."= _Holmes._
=Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of a man; like light, it can give little or nothing, but at most may show what is given; often it is but a false glare, dazzling the eyes of the vulgar, lending, by casual extrinsic splendour, the brightness and manifold glance of the diamond to pebbles of no value.= _Carlyle._
=Fame with men, / Being but ampler means to serve mankind, / Should have small rest or pleasure in herself, / But work as vassal to the larger love, / That dwarfs the petty love of one to one.= _Tennyson._
=Fames et mora bilem in nasum conciunt=--Hunger 30 and delay stir up one's bile (_lit._ in the nostrils). _Pr._
=Fames, pestis, et bellum, populi sunt pernicies=--Famine, pestilence, and war are the destruction of a people.
=Familiare est hominibus omnia sibi ignoscere=--It is common to man to pardon all his own faults.
=Familiarity breeds contempt.= _Pr._
=Familiarity is a suspension of almost all the laws of civility which libertinism has introduced into society under the notion of ease.= _La Roche._
=Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it.= 35 _George Eliot._
=Famine hath a sharp and meagre face.= _Dryden._
=Fammi indovino, e ti farò ricco=--Make me a prophet, and I will make you rich. _It. Pr._
=Fanaticism is a fire which heats the mind indeed, but heats without purifying.= _Warburton._
=Fanaticism is such an overwhelming impression of the ideas relating to the future world as disqualifies for the duties of this.= _R. Hall._
=Fanaticism is to superstition what delirium is= 40 =to fever and rage to anger.= _Voltaire._
=Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.= _Gibbon._
=Fanaticism, soberly defined, / Is the false fire of an o'erheated mind.= _Cowper._
=Fancy is capricious; wit must not be searched for, and pleasantry will not come in at a call.= _Sterne._
=Fancy is imagination in her youth and adolescence.= _Landor._
=Fancy kills and fancy cures.= _Sc. Pr._ 45
=Fancy requires much, necessity but little.= _Ger. Pr._
=Fancy restrained may be compared to a fountain, which plays highest by diminishing the aperture.= _Goldsmith._
=Fancy rules over two-thirds of the universe, the past and the future, while reality is confined to the present.= _Jean Paul._
=Fancy runs most furiously when a guilty conscience drives it.= _Fuller._
=Fancy surpasses beauty.= _Pr._ 50
=Fancy, when once brought into religion, knows not where to stop.= _Whately._
=Fanfaronnade=--Boasting. _Fr._
=Fanned fires and forced love ne'er did weel.= _Sc. Pr._
=Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart, / How hard thy yoke! how cruel is thy dart! / Those 'scape thy anger who refuse thy sway, / And those are punished most who most obey.= _Prior._
=Fantasy is of royal blood; the senses, of noble descent; and reason, of civic= (_bürgerlichen_) =origin.= _Feuerbach._
=Fantasy is the true heaven-gate and hell-gate of man.= _Carlyle._
=Far ahint maun follow the faster.= _Sc. Pr._
=Far-awa fowls hae aye fair feathers.= _Sc._ 5 _Pr._
=Far better it is to know everything of a little than a little of everything.= _Pickering._
=Far frae court, far frae care.= _Sc. Pr._
=Far from all resort of mirth / Save the cricket on the hearth.= _Milton._
=Far from home is near to harm.= _Fris. Pr._
=Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, /= 10 =Their sober wishes never learned to stray; / Along the cool sequester'd vale of life / They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.= _Gray._
=Far greater numbers have been lost by hopes / Than all the magazines of daggers, ropes, / And other ammunitions of despair, / Were ever able to despatch by fear.= _Butler._
=Far niente=--A do-nothing.
=Far-off cows have long horns.= _Gael. Pr._
=Far-off fowls hae feathers fair, / And aye until ye try them; / Though they seem fair, still have a care, / They may prove waur than I am.= _Burns._
=Far or forgot to me is near; / Shadow and= 15 =sunlight are the same; / The vanished gods to me appear; / And one to me are shame and fear.= _Emerson._
=Fare, fac=--Speak, do.
=Fare thee well! and if for ever, / Still for ever fare thee well! / E'en though unforgiving, never / 'Gainst thee shall my heart rebel.= _Byron._
=Fare you weel, auld Nickie-ben! / O wad ye tak' a thocht and men'! / Ye aiblins micht--I dinna ken--/ Still hae a stake: / I'm wae to think upo' yon den, / E'en for your sake.= _Burns._
=Farewell, a long farewell to all my greatness! / This is the state of man: to-day he puts forth / The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, / And bears his blushing honours thick upon him: / The third day comes a frost, a killing frost: / And when he thinks, good easy man, full surely / His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root / And then he falls, as I do.= _Hen. VIII._, iii. 2.
=Farewell! God knows when we shall meet= 20 =again. / I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins, / That almost freezes up the heat of life.= _Rom. and Jul._, iv. 3.
=Farewell, happy fields, / Where joy for ever dwells; hail, horror, hail!= _Milton._
=Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content! / Farewell the plumed troop and the big wars / That make ambition virtue! oh, farewell! / Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump, / The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, / The royal banner, and all quality, / Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war!= _Othello_, iii. 3.
=Farewell to Lochaber, farewell to my Jean, / Where heartsome wi' thee I hae mony days been; / For Lochaber no more, Lochaber no more, / We'll maybe return to Lochaber no more.= _Allan Ramsay._
=Fari quæ sentiat=--To speak what he thinks. _M._
=Farmers are the founders of civilisation.= 25 _Daniel Webster._
=Farrago libelli=--The medley of that book of mine. _Juv._
=Fas est et ab hoste doceri=--It is right to derive instruction even from an enemy. _Ovid._
=Fashionability is a kind of elevated vulgarity.= _G. Darley._
=Fashion, a word which fools use, / Their knavery and folly to excuse.= _Churchill._
=Fashion begins and ends in two things it= 30 =abhors most--singularity and vulgarity.= _Hazlitt._
=Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting.= _Stedman._
=Fashion is aristocratic-autocratic.= _J. G. Holland._
=Fashion is, for the most part, nothing but the ostentation of riches.= _Locke._
=Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity, and afraid to be overtaken by it. It is a sign that the two things are not far asunder.= _Hazlitt._
=Fashion is the great governor of the world.= 35 _Fielding._
=Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.= _Locke._
=Fashion seldom interferes with Nature without diminishing her grace and efficiency.= _Tuckerman._
=Fashion wears out more apparel than the man.= _Much Ado_, iii. 3.
=Fast and loose.= _Love's L. Lost_, i. 1.
=Fast bind, fast find.= _Pr._ 40
=Faster than his tongue / Did make offence, his eye did heal it up.= _As You Like It_, iii. 5.
=Fastidientis est stomachi multa degustare=--Tasting so many dishes shows a dainty stomach. _Sen._
=Fasti et nefasti dies=--Lucky and unlucky days.
=Fat hens are aye ill layers.= _Sc. Pr._
=Fat paunches make lean pates, and dainty= 45 =bits / Make rich the ribs, but bankrupt quite the wits.= _Love's L. Lost_, i. 1.
=Fata obstant=--The fates oppose it.
=Fata volentem ducunt, nolentem trahunt=--Fate leads the willing, and drags the unwilling.
=Fate follows and limits power; power attends and antagonises fate; we must respect fate as natural history, but there is more than natural history.= _Emerson._
=Fate hath no voice but the heart's impulses.= _Schiller._
=Fate is a distinguished but an expensive tutor.= 50 _Goethe._
=Fate is character.= _W. Winter._
=Fate is ever better than design.= _Thos. Doubleday._
=Fate is known to us as limitations.= _Emerson._
=Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a former state of existence.= _Hindu saying._
=Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad.= _W. R. Alger._
=Fate is unpenetrated causes.= _Emerson._
=Fate leads the willing, but drives the stubborn.= _Pr._
=Fate made me what I am, may make me nothing; / But either that or nothing must I be; / I will not live degraded.= _Byron._
=Fate steals along with silent tread, / Found= 5 =oftenest in what least we dread; / Frowns in the storm with angry brow, / But in the sunshine strikes the blow.= _Cowper._
=Fatetur facinus is qui judicium fugit=--He who shuns a trial confesses his guilt. _L._
=Father of all! in every age, / In every clime adored, / By saint, by savage, and by sage, / Jehovah, Jove, or Lord.= _Pope._
=Fathers alone a father's heart can know, / What secret tides of sweet enjoyment flow / When brothers love! But if their hate succeeds, / They wage the war, but 'tis the father bleeds.= _Young._
=Fathers first enter bonds to Nature's ends; / And are her sureties ere they are a friend's.= _George Herbert._
=Fathers that wear rags / Do make their children= 10 =blind; / But fathers that wear bags / Do make their children kind.= _King Lear_, ii. 4.
=Fathers their children and themselves abuse / That wealth a husband for their daughters choose.= _Shirley._
=Fatigatis humus cubile est=--To the weary the bare ground is a bed. _Curt._
=Fatta la legge, trovata la malizia=--As soon as a law is made its evasion is found out. _It. Pr._
=Faulheit ist der Schlüssel zur Armuth=--Sloth is the key to poverty. _Ger. Pr._
=Faulheit ist Dummheit des Körpers, und= 15 =Dummheit Faulheit des Geistes=--Sluggishness is stupidity of body, and stupidity sluggishness of spirit. _Seume._
=Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null.= _Tennyson._
=Faults are beauties in lover's eyes.= _Theocritus._
=Faults are thick when love is thin.= _Pr._
=Faute de grives le diable mange des merles=--For want of thrushes the devil eats blackbirds. _Fr. Pr._
=Faux pas=--A false step. _Fr._ 20
=Favete linguis=--Favour with words of good omen (_lit._ by your tongues). _Ovid._
=Favourable chance is the god of all men who follow their own devices instead of obeying a law they believe in.= _George Eliot._
=Favour and gifts disturb justice.= _Dan. Pr._
=Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.= _Bible._
=Favours, and especially pecuniary ones, are= 25 =generally fatal to friendship.= _Hor. Smith._
=Favours unused are favours abused.= _Sc. Pr._
=Fax mentis honestæ gloria=--Glory is the torch of an honourable mind. _M._
=Fax mentis incendium gloriæ=--The flame of glory is the torch of the mind. _M._
=Fay ce que voudras=--Do as you please. _M._
=Fear always springs from ignorance.= _Emerson._ 30
=Fear and sorrow are the true characters and inseparable companions of most melancholy.= _Burton._
=Fear can keep a man out of danger, but courage only can support him in it.= _Pr._
=Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.= _Bible._
=Fear God; honour the king.= _St. Peter._
=Fear guards the vineyard.= _It. Pr._ 35
=Fear guides more to their duty than gratitude.= _Goldsmith._
=Fear has many eyes.= _Cervantes._
=Fear hath torment.= _St. John._
=Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions. It has boded, and mowed, and gibbered for ages over government and property.= _Emerson._
=Fear is described by Spenser to ride in armour,= 40 =at the clashing whereof he looks afeared of himself.= _Peacham._
=Fear is far more painful to cowardice than death to true courage.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=Fear is the underminer of all determinations; and necessity, the victorious rebel of all laws.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=Fear is the virtue of slaves; but the heart that loveth is willing.= _Longfellow._
=Fear is worse than fighting.= _Gael. Pr._
=Fear not that tyrants shall rule for ever, / Or= 45 =the priests of the bloody faith; / They stand on the brink of that mighty river / Whose waves they have tainted with death.= _Shelley._
=Fear not the confusion= (_Verwirrung_) =outside of thee, but that within thee; strive after unity, but seek it not in uniformity; strive after repose, but through the equipoise, not through the stagnation= (_Stillstand_), =of thy activity.= _Schiller._
=Fear not the future; weep not for the past.= _Shelley._
=Fear not, then, thou child infirm; / There's no god dare wrong a worm.= _Emerson._
=Fear not where Heaven bids come; / Heaven's never deaf but when man's heart is dumb.= _Quarles._
=Fear of change / Perplexes monarchs.= _Milton._ 50
=Fear oftentimes restraineth words, but makes not thought to cease.= _Lord Vaux._
=Fear sometimes adds wings to the heels, and sometimes nails them to the ground and fetters them from moving.= _Montaigne._
=Fear to do base, unworthy things is valour; / If they be done to us, to suffer them / Is valour too.= _Ben Jonson._
=Fear's a fine spur.= _Samuel Lover._
=Fear's a large promiser; who subject live /= 55 =To that base passion, know not what they give.= _Dryden._
=Fears of the brave and follies of the wise.= _Johnson._
=Fearfully and wonderfully made.= _Bible._
=Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.= 3 _Hen. VI._, iv. 7.
=Feasting makes no friendship.= _Pr._
=Feast-won, fast-lost.= _Tim. of Athens_, ii. 2. 60
=Feather by feather the goose is plucked.= _Pr._
=Fecisti enim nos ad te, et cor inquietum donec requiescat in te=--Thou hast made us for Thee, and the heart knows no rest until it rests in Thee. _St. Augustine._
=Fecit=--He did it.
=Fecundi calices quem non fecere disertum?=--Whom have not flowing cups made eloquent? _Hor._
=Fede ed innocenzia son reperte / Solo ne' pargoletti=--Faith and innocence are only to be found in little children. _Dante._
=Feeble souls always set to work at the wrong time.= _Cardinal de Reiz._
=Feebleness is sometimes the best security.= 5 _Pr._
=Feed a cold and starve a fever.= _Pr._
=Feed no man in his sins; for adulation / Doth make thee parcel-devil in damnation.= _George Herbert._
=Feeling comes before reflection.= _H. R. Haweis._
=Feeling should be stirred only when it can be sent to labour for worthy ends.= _Brooke._
=Feelings are always purest and most glowing= 10 =in the hour of meeting and farewell; like the glaciers, which are transparent and rose-hued only at sunrise and sunset, but throughout the day grey and cold.= _Jean Paul._
=Feelings are like chemicals; the more you analyse them, the worse they smell.= _Kingsley._
=Feelings come and go like light troops following the victory of the present; but principles, like troops of the line, are undisturbed, and stand fast.= _Jean Paul._
=Feelings, like flowers and butterflies, last longer the later they are delayed.= _Jean Paul._
=Fehlst du, lass dich's nicht betrüben; Denn der Mangel führt zum Lieben; / Kannst dich nicht vom Fehl befrein, / Wirst du Andern gern verzeihn=--Shouldst thou fail, let it not trouble thee, for failure (_lit._ defect) leads to love. If thou canst not free thyself from failure, thou wilt never forgive others. _Goethe._
=Feindlich ist die Welt / Und falsch gesinnt;= 15 =Es liebt ein jeder nur / Sich selbst=--Hostile is the world, and falsely disposed. In it each one loves himself alone. _Schiller._
=Felices errore suo=--Happy in their error. _Lucan._
=Felices ter et amplius / Quos irrupta tenet copula, nec, malis / Divulsus quærimoniis, / Suprema citius solvet amor die=--Thrice happy they, and more than thrice, whom an unbroken link binds together, and whom love, unimpaired by evil rancour, will not sunder before their last day. _Hor._
=Felicitas nutrix est iracundiæ=--Prosperity is the nurse of hasty temper. _Pr._
=Feliciter is sapit, qui periculo alieno sapit=--He is happily wise who is wise at the expense of another. _M._
=Felicity lies much in fancy.= _Pr._ 20
=Felicity, not fluency, of language is a merit.= _Whipple._
=Felix, heu nimium felix=--Happy, alas! too happy! _Virg._
=Felix qui nihil debet=--Happy is he who owes nothing.
=Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas=--Happy he who has succeeded in learning the causes of things. _Virg._
=Felix, qui quod amat, defendere fortiter andet=--Happy 25 he who dares courageously to defend what he loves. _Ovid._
=Fell luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksands, poverty or chains.= _Hannah More._
=Fell sorrow's tooth doth never rankle more / Than when it bites but lanceth not the sore.= _Rich. II._, i. 3.
=Fellowship in treason is a bad ground of confidence.= _Burke._
=Felo de se=--A suicide. _L._
=Female friendships are of rapid growth.= 30 _Disraeli._
=Feme covert=--A married woman. _L._
=Feme sole=--An unmarried woman. _L._
=Femme, argent et vin ont leur bien et leur venin=--Women, money, and wine have their blessing and their bane. _Fr. Pr._
=Femme de chambre=--A chambermaid. _Fr._
=Femme de charge=--A housekeeper. _Fr._ 35
=Femme rit quand elle peut, et pleure quand elle veut=--A woman laughs when she can, and weeps when she likes. _Fr. Pr._
=Feræ naturæ=--Of a wild nature.
=Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt=--Men in general are fain to believe that which they wish to be true. _Cæs._
=Feriis caret necessitas=--Necessity knows no holiday.
=Ferme fugiendo in media fata ruitur=--How 40 often it happens that men fall into the very evils they are striving to avoid. _Liv._
=Ferme modèle=--A model farm. _Fr._
=Fern von Menschen wachsen Grundsätze; unter ihnen Handlungen=--Principles develop themselves far from men; conduct develops among them. _Jean Paul._
=Ferreus assiduo consumitur annulus usu=--By constant use an iron ring is consumed. _Ovid._
=Ferro, non gladio=--By iron, not by my sword. _M._
=Fervet olla, vivit amicitia=--As long as the pot 45 boils, friendship lasts. _Pr._
=Fervet opus=--The work goes on with spirit. _Virg._
=Festina lente=--Hasten slowly. _Pr._
=Festinare nocet, nocet et cunctatio sæpe; / Tempore quæque suo qui facit, ille sapit=--It is bad to hurry, and delay is often as bad; he is wise who does everything in its proper time. _Ovid._
=Festinatione nil tutius in discordiis civilibus=--Nothing is safer than despatch in civil quarrels. _Tac._
=Festinatio tarda est=--Haste is tardy. _Pr._ 50
=Fetch a spray from the wood and place it on your mantel-shelf, and your household ornaments will seem plebeian beside its nobler fashion and bearing. It will wave superior there, as if used to a more refined and polished circle. It has a salute and response to all your enthusiasm and heroism.= _Thoreau._
=Fête champêtre=--A rural feast. _Fr._
=Fêtes des mœurs=--Feasts of morals. _Fr._
=Fette Küche, magere Erbschaft=--A fat kitchen, a lean legacy. _Ger. Pr._
=Feu de joie=--Firing of guns in token of joy. 55 _Fr._
=Few are fit to be entrusted with themselves.= _Pr._
=Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men to persuasion.= _Goethe._
=Few, few shall part where many meet; The snow shall be their winding-sheet, / And every turf beneath their feet / Shall be a soldier's sepulchre.= _Campbell._
=Few have all they need, none all they wish.= _R. Southwell._
=Few have borne unconsciously the spell of loveliness.= _Whittier._
=Few have the gift of discerning when to have done.= _Swift._
=Few have wealth, but all must have a home.= 5 _Emerson._
=Few love to hear the sins they love to act.= _Pericles_, i. 1.
=Few may play with the devil and win.= _Pr._
=Few men are much worth loving in whom there is not something well worth laughing at.= _Hair._
=Few men have been admired by their domestics.= _Montaigne._
=Few men dare show their thoughts of worst or= 10 =best.= _Byron._
=Few men have any next; they live from hand to mouth without plan, and are ever at the end of their line.= _Emerson._
=Few men have imagination enough for the truth of reality.= _Goethe._
=Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.= _Washington._
=Few minds wear out; more rust out.= _Bovee._
=Few mortals are so insensible that their affections= 15 =cannot be gained by mildness, their confidence by sincerity, their hatred by scorn or neglect.= _Zimmermann._
=Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered, from the time of the seven sages of Greece to that of Poor Richard, have prevented a single foolish action.= _Macaulay._
=Few people know how to be old.= _La Roche._
=Few persons have courage to appear as good as they really are.= _Hair._
=Few spirits are made better by the pain and languor of sickness; as few great pilgrims become eminent saints.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Few take wives for God's sake, or for fair= 20 =looks.= _Pr._
=Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.= _Johnson._
=Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is from want of application rather than want of means that men fail of success.= _La Roche._
=Few things are more unpleasant than the transaction of business with men who are above knowing or caring what they have to do.= _Johnson._
=Fiandeira, fiai manso, que me estorvais, que estou rezando=--Spinner, spin quietly, so as not to disturb me; I am praying. _Port. Pr._
=Fiar de Dios sobre buena prenda=--Trust in God 25 upon good security. _Sp. Pr._
=Fiat experimentum in corpore vili=--Let the experiment be made on some worthless body.
=Fiat justitiam, pereat mundus=--Let justice be done, and the world perish. _Pr._
=Fiat justitia, ruat cœlum=--Let justice be done, though the heavens should fall in. _Pr._
=Fiat lux=--Let there be light.
=Fickleness has its rise in the experience of the= 30 =deceptiveness of present pleasures, and in ignorance of the vanity of absent ones.= _Pascal._
=Ficta voluptatis causa sit proxima veris=--Fictions meant to please should have as much resemblance as possible to truth. _Hor._
=Fiction is a potent agent for good in the hands of the good.= _Mme. Necker._
=Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.= _Burke._
=Fiction, while the feigner of it knows that he is feigning, partakes, more than we suspect, of the nature of lying; and has ever an, in some degree, unsatisfactory character.= _Carlyle._
=Fictis meminerit nos jocari fabulis=--Be it remembered 35 that we are amusing you with tales of fiction. _Phædr._
=Fidarsi è bene, ma non fidarsi è meglio=--To trust one's self is good, but not to trust one's self is better. _It. Pr._
=Fidati era un buon uomo, Nontifidare era meglio=--Trust was a good man, Trust not was a better. _It. Pr._
=Fide abrogata, omnis humana societas tollitur=--If good faith be abolished, all human society is dissolved. _Livy._
=Fide et amore=--By faith and love. _M._
=Fide et fiducia=--By faith and confidence. _M._ 40
=Fide et fortitudine=--By faith and fortitude. _M._
=Fide et literis=--By faith and learning. _M._
=Fide, non armis=--By good faith, not by arms. _M._
=Fidei coticula crux=--The cross is the touchstone of faith. _M._
=Fidei defensor=--Defender of the faith. 45
=Fideli certa merces=--The faithful are certain of their reward. _M._
=Fidelis ad urnam=--Faithful to death (_lit._ the ashes-urn). _M._
=Fidelis et audax=--Faithful and intrepid. _M._
=Fidélité est de Dieu=--Fidelity is of God. _M._
=Fideliter et constanter=--Faithfully and firmly. 50 _M._
=Fidelity, diligence, decency, are good and indispensable; yet, without faculty, without light, they will not do the work.= _Carlyle._
=Fidelity is the sister of justice.= _Hor._
=Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy.= _Sen._
=Fidelius rident tiguria=--The laughter of the cottage is more hearty and sincere than that of the court. _Pr._
=Fidem qui perdit perdere ultra nil potest=--He 55 who loses his honour has nothing else he can lose. _Pub. Syr._
=Fidem qui perdit, quo se servet relicuo?=--Who loses his good name, with what can he support himself in future? _Pub. Syr._
=Fides facit fidem=--Confidence awakens confidence. _Pr._
=Fides probata coronat=--Approved faith confers a crown. _M._
=Fides Punica=--Punic faith; treachery.
=Fides servanda est=--Faith must be kept. _Plaut._ 60
=Fides sit penes auctorem=--Credit this to the author.
=Fides ut anima, unde abiit, eo nunquam redit=--Honour, like life, when once it is lost, is never recovered. _Pub. Syr._
=Fidus Achates=--A faithful companion (of Æneas). _Virg._
=Fidus et audax=--Faithful and intrepid. _M._
=Fie! fie! how wayward is this foolish love, / That like a testy babe will scratch the nurse, / And presently, all humbled, kiss the rod.= _Two Gent. of Verona_, i. 2.
=Fiel pero desdichado=--True though unfortunate. 5 _Sp._
=Fierce fiery warriors fought upon the clouds, / In ranks and squadrons, and right form of war, / Which drizzled blood upon the Capitol.= _Jul. Cæs._, ii. 2.
=Fieri facias=--See it be done. _A writ empowering a sheriff to levy the amount of a debt or damages._
=Fight on, thou brave true heart, and falter not, through dark fortune and through bright, the cause thou fightest for, so far as it is true, is very sure of victory.= _Carlyle._
=Fight the good fight.= _St. Paul._
=Filii non plus possessionum quam morborum= 10 =hæredes sumus=--We sons are heirs no less to diseases than to estates.
=Filius nullius=--The son of no one; a bastard. _L._
=Filius terræ=--A son of the earth; one low-born.
=Fille de chambre=--A chambermaid. _Fr._
=Fille de joie=--A woman of pleasure; a prostitute. _Fr._
=Fin contre fin=--Diamond cut diamond. _Fr._ 15
=Fin de siècle=--Up to date. _Fr._
=Find earth where grows no weed, and you may find a heart where no error grows.= _Knowles._
=Find employment for the body, and the mind will find enjoyment for itself.= _Pr._
=Find fault, when you must find fault, in private, if possible, and some time after the offence, rather than at the time.= _Sydney Smith._
=Find mankind where thou wilt, thou findest it= 20 =in living movement, in progress faster or slower; the phœnix soars aloft, hovers with outstretched wings, filling earth with her music; or, as now, she sinks, and with spheral swan-song immolates herself in flame, that she may soar the higher and sing the clearer.= _Carlyle._
=Find out men's wants and will, / And meet them there. All worldly joys go less / To the one joy of doing kindnesses.= _Herbert._
=Finding your able man, and getting him invested with the symbols of ability, is the business, well or ill accomplished, of all social procedure whatsoever in this world.= _Carlyle._
=Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together; the head inferior to the heart, and the hand inferior to both heart and head.= _Ruskin._
=Fine by defect and delicately weak.= _Pope._
=Fine by degrees and beautifully less.= _Prior._ 25
=Fine feathers make fine birds.= _Pr._
=Fine feelings, without vigour of reason, are in the situation of the extreme feathers of a peacock's tail--dragging in the mud.= _John Foster._
=Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds. None are truly great without this ornament.= _A. B. Alcott._
=Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.= _Emerson._
=Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so= 30 =useful as common sense.= _Pope._
=Fine speeches are the instruments of knaves / Or fools, that use them when they want good sense; / Honesty needs no disguise or ornament.= _Otway._
=Fine words without deeds go not far.= _Dan. Pr._
=Finem respice=--Have regard to the end.
=Finge datos currus, quid agas?=--Suppose the chariot (of the sun) committed to you, what would you do? _Apollo to Phaethon in Ovid._
=Fingers were made before forks, and hands= 35 =before knives.= _Swift._
=Fingunt se medicos quivis idiota, sacerdos, Judæus, monachus, histrio, rasor, anus=--Any untrained person, priest, Jew, monk, playactor, barber, or old wife is ready to prescribe for you in sickness. _Pr._
=Finis coronat opus=--The end crowns the work, _i.e._, first enables us to determine its merits. _Pr._
=Fire and sword are but slow engines of destruction in comparison with the tongue of the babbler.= _Steele._
=Fire and water are good servants but bad masters.= _Pr._
=Fire in the heart sends smoke into the head.= 40 _Ger. Pr._
=Fire is the best of servants; but what a master!= _Carlyle._
=Fire maks an auld wife nimble.= _Sc. Pr._
=Fire that's closest kept burns most of all.= _Two Gent. of Verona_, i. 2.
=Fire trieth iron, and temptation a just man.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Firmior quo paratior=--The stronger the better 45 prepared. _M._
=Firmness, both in sufferance and exertion, is a character I would wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and the cowardly feeble resolve.= _Burns._
=First assay / To stuff thy mind with solid bravery; / Then march on gallant: get substantial worth: / Boldness gilds finely, and will set it forth.= _George Herbert._
=First cast the beam out of thine own eye, and then thou shalt see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.= _Jesus._
=First catch your hare.= _Mrs. Glass's advice to the housewife._
=First come, first served.= _Pr._ 50
=First deserve and then desire.= _Sc. Pr._
=First flower of the earth and first gem of the sea.= _Moore._
=First keep thyself in peace, and then thou shalt be able to keep peace among others.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=First must the dead letter of religion own itself dead, and drop piecemeal into dust, if the living spirit of religion, freed from its charnel-house, is to arise in us, new-born of heaven, and with new healing under its wings.= _Carlyle._
=First resolutions are not always the wisest, but they are usually the most honest.= _Lessing._
=First worship God; he that forgets to pray / Bids not himself good-morrow nor good day.= _T. Randolph._
=Fishes live in the sea, ... as men do on land--the great ones eat up the little ones.= _Pericles_, ii. 1.
=Fit cito per multas præda petita manus=--The spoil that is sought by many hands quickly accumulates. _Ovid._
=Fit erranti medicina confessio=--Confession is as 5 healing medicine to him who has erred.
=Fit fabricando faber=--A smith becomes a smith by working at the forge. _Pr._
=Fit in dominatu servitus, in servitute dominatus=--In the master there is the servant, and in the servant the master (_lit._ in masterhood is servanthood, in servanthood masterhood). _Cic._
=Fit scelus indulgens per nubila sæcula virtus=--In times of trouble leniency becomes crime.
=Fit the foot to the shoe, not the shoe to the foot.= _Port. Pr._
=Fit words are fine, but often fine words are= 10 =not fit.= _Pr._
=Five great intellectual professions have hitherto existed in every civilised nation: the soldier's, to defend it; the pastor's, to teach it; the physician's, to keep it in health; the lawyer's, to enforce justice in it; and the merchant's, to provide for it; and the duty of all these men is, on due occasion, to die for it.= _Ruskin._
=Five minutes of to-day are worth as much to me as five minutes in the next millennium.= _Emerson._
=Fix'd to no spot is happiness sincere; / 'Tis nowhere to be found, or everywhere.= _Pope._
=Fixed like a plant on his peculiar spot, / To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.= _Pope._
=Flagrante bello=--During the war. 15
=Flagrante delicto=--In the very act.
=Flames rise and sink by fits; at last they soar / In one bright flame, and then return no more.= _Dryden._
=Flamma fumo est proxima=--Where there is smoke there is fire (_lit._ flame is very close to smoke). _Plaut._
=Flatter not the rich; neither do thou appear willingly before the great.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Flatterers are cats that lick before, and scratch= 20 =behind.= _Ger. Pr._
=Flatterers are the bosom enemies of princes.= _South._
=Flatterers are the worst kind of traitors.= _Raleigh._
=Flattery brings friends, but the truth begets enmity.= _Pr._
=Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver, and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.= _Burke._
=Flattery is a base coin, to which only our= 25 =vanity gives currency.= _La Roche._
=Flattery is the bellows blows up sin; / The thing the which is flattered, but a spark, / To which that blast gives heat and stronger glowing; / Whereas reproof, obedient and in order, / Fits kings, as they are men, for they may err.= _Pericles_, i. 2.
=Flattery is the destruction of all good fellowship.= _Disraeli._
=Flattery is the food of pride, and may be well assimilated to those cordials which hurt the constitution while they exhilarate the spirits.= _Arliss' Lit. Col._
=Flattery labours under the odious charge of servility.= _Tac._
=Flattery sits in the parlour when plain dealing= 30 =is kicked out of doors.= _Pr._
=Flattery's the turnpike road to Fortune's door.= _Walcot._
=Flebile ludibrium=--A "tragic farce;" a farce to weep at.
=Flebit, et insignis tota cantabitur urbe=--He shall rue it, and be a marked man and the talk of the whole town. _Hor._
=Flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo=--If I cannot influence the gods, I will stir up Acheron. _Virg._
=Flecti, non frangi=--To bend, not to break. _M._ 35
=Flee sloth, for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.= _Cato._
=Flee you ne'er so fast, your fortune will be at your tail.= _Sc. Pr._
=Flesh will warm in a man to his kin against his will.= _Gael. Pr._
=Flet victus, victor interiit=--The conquered one weeps, the conqueror is ruined.
=Fleur d'eau=--Level with the water. _Fr._ 40
=Fleur de terre=--Level with the land. _Fr._
=Fleurs-de-lis=--Lilies. _Fr._
=Fleying= (frightening) =a bird is no the way to catch it.= _Sc. Pr._
=Flies are easier caught with honey than vinegar.= _Fr. Pr._
=Fling away ambition; / By that sin fell the= 45 =angels; how can man, then, / The image of his Maker, hope to win by it?= _Hen. VIII._, iii. 2.
=Flints may be melted, but an ungrateful heart cannot; no, not by the strongest and noblest flame.= _South._
=Floriferis ut apes in saltibus omnia libant=--As bees sip of everything in the flowery meads. _Lucret._
=Flour cannot be sown and seed-corn ought not to be ground.= _Goethe._
=Flowers and fruits are always fit presents--flowers, because they are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of man.= _Emerson._
=Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of= 50 =Nature, by which she indicates how much she loves us.= _Goethe._
=Flowers are the pledges of fruit.= _Dan. Pr._
=Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.= _Ward Beecher._
=Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm.= _Jean Paul._
=Flowers of rhetoric in sermons and serious discourses are like the blue and red flowers in corn, pleasing to those who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap profit from it.= _Pope._
=Fluctus in simpulo exitare=--To raise a tempest 55 in a teapot. _Cic._
=Fluvius cum mari certas=--You but a river, and contending with the ocean. _Pr._
=Fly idleness, which yet thou canst not fly / By dressing, mistressing, and compliment. / If these take up thy day, the sun will cry / Against thee; for his light was only lent.= _George Herbert._
=Fœdum inceptu, fœdum exitu=--Bad in the beginning, bad in the end. _Livy._
=Fœnum habet in cornu, longe fuge, dummodo risum / Excutiat sibi, non hic cuiquam parcit amico=--He has (like a wild bull) a wisp of hay on his horn: fly afar from him; if only he raise a laugh for himself, there is no friend he would spare. _Hor._
=Foliis tantum ne carmina manda; / Ne turbata volent rapidis ludibria ventis=--Only commit not thy oracles to leaves, lest they fly about dispersed, the sport of rushing winds. _Virg._
=Folk canna help a' their kin= (relatives). _Sc. Pr._ 5
=Folk wi' lang noses aye tak' till themsels.= _Sc. Pr._
=Folks as have no mind to be o' use have always the luck to be out o' the road when there's anything to be done.= _George Eliot._
=Folks must put up with their own kin as they put up with their own noses.= _George Eliot._
=Folle est la brébis qui au loup se confesse=--It is a silly sheep that makes the wolf her confessor. _Fr. Pr._
=Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it= 10 =will follow thee.= _Pr._
=Follow the copy though it fly out of the window.= _Printer's saying._
=Follow the customs or fly the country.= _Dan. Pr._
=Follow the devil faithfully, you are sure to go to the devil.= _Carlyle._
=Follow the river, and you will get to the sea.= _Pr._
=Follow the road, and you will come to an inn.= 15 _Port. Pr._
=Follow the wise few rather than the vulgar many.= _It. Pr._
=Folly, as it grows in years, / The more extravagant appears.= _Butler._
=Folly ends where genuine hope begins.= _Cowper._
=Folly is its own burden.= _Sen._
=Folly is the most incurable of maladies.= 20 _Sp. Pr._
=Folly, letting down buckets into empty wells, and growing old with drawing nothing up.= _Cowper._
=Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.= _Byron._
=Fond fools / Promise themselves a name from building churches.= _Randolph._
=Fond gaillard=--A basis of joy or gaiety. _Fr._
=Fons et origo mali=--The source and origin of the 25 mischief.
=Fons malorum=--The origin of evil.
=Fons omnium viventium=--The fountain of all living things.
=Fontes ipsi sitiunt=--Even the fountains complain of thirst. _Pr._
=Food can only be got out of the ground, or the air, or the sea.= _Ruskin._
=Food fills the wame and keeps us livin'; /= 30 =Though life's a gift no worth receivin', / When heavy dragg'd wi' pine and grievin'; / But oil'd by thee, the wheels o' life gae doonhill scrievin' / Wi' rattlin' glee.= _Burns, on Scotch drink._
=Food for powder.= 1 _Hen. IV._, iv. 2.
=Fool before all is he who does not instantly seize the right moment; who has what he loves before his eyes, and yet swerves= (_schweift_) =aside.= _Platen._
=Fool not; for all may have, / If they dare try, a glorious life or grave.= _George Herbert._
=Fool, not to know that love endures no tie, / And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury.= _Dryden._
=Fool of fortune.= _King Lear_, iv. 6. 35
=Fooled thou must be, though wisest of the wise; / Then be the fool of virtue, not of vice.= _Persian saying._
=Foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting.= _Emerson._
=Foolish people are a hundred times more averse to meet with wise people than wise people are to meet with foolish.= _Saadi._
=Fools and bairns shouldna see things half done.= _Sc. Pr._
=Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.= 40 _Pr._
=Fools are apt to imitate only the defects of their betters.= _Swift._
=Fools are aye fond o' flittin', and wise men o' sittin'.= _Sc. Pr._
=Fools are aye seeing ferlies= (wonderful things). _Sc. Pr._
=Fools are known by looking wise.= _Butler._
=Fools are my theme; let satire be my song.= 45 _Byron._
=Fools ask what's o'clock, but wise men know their time.= _Pr._
=Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.= _Ger. Pr._
=Fools can indeed find fault, but cannot act more wisely.= _Langbern._
=Fools for arguments use wagers.= _Butler._
=Fools grant whate'er ambition craves, / And= 50 =men, once ignorant, are slaves.= _Pope._
=Fools grow of themselves without sowing or planting.= _Rus. Pr._
=Fools grow without watering.= _Pr._
=Fools invent fashions and wise men follow them.= _Fr. Pr._
=Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men much from fools.= _Dut. Pr._
=Fools make a mock at sin.= _Bible._ 55
=Fools mak' feasts, and wise men eat them. / Wise men mak' jests, and fools repeat them.= _Sc. Pr._
=Fools may our scorn, not envy raise, / For envy is a kind of praise.= _Gay._
=Fools measure actions after they are done by the event; wise men beforehand, by the rules of reason and right.= _Bp. Hale._
=Fools need no passport.= _Dan. Pr._
=Fools ravel and wise men redd= (unravel). _Sc. Pr._ 60
=Fools, to talking ever prone, / Are sure to make their follies known.= _Gay._
=Fools with bookish knowledge are children with edged weapons; they hurt themselves and put others in pain.= _Zimmermann._
=Footpaths give a private, human touch to the landscape that roads do not. They are sacred to the human foot. They have the sentiment of domesticity, and suggest the way to cottage doors and to simple, primitive times.= _John Burroughs._
=Foppery is never cured; once a coxcomb, always a coxcomb.= _Johnson._
=For age, long age! / Nought else divides us from the fresh young days / Which men call ancient.= _Lewis Morris._
=For a genuine man it is no evil to be poor.= _Carlyle._
=For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again.= _Bible._
=For a large conscience is all one, / And signifies= 5 =the same with none.= _Hudibras._
=For all a rhetorician's rules / Teach nothing but to name his tools.= _Butler._
=For all he did he had a reason, / For all he said, a word in season; / And ready ever was to quote / Authorities for what he wrote.= _Butler._
=For all men live and judge amiss / Whose talents do not jump with his.= _Butler._
=For all right judgment of any man or thing it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.= _Carlyle._
=For all their luxury was doing good.= _L._ 10 _Garth._
=For an honest man half his wits are enough; for a knave, the whole are too little.= _It. Pr._
=For an orator delivery is everything.= _Goethe._
=For a republic you must have men.= _Amiel._
=For as a fly that goes to bed / Rests with his tail above his head, / So, in this mongrel state of ours, / The rabble are the supreme powers.= _Butler._
=For as a ship without a helm is tossed to and= 15 =fro by the waves, so the man who is careless and forsaketh his purpose is many ways tempted.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=For a' that, and a' that, / Our toils obscure, and a' that; / The rank is but the guinea's stamp, / The man's the gowd for a' that.= _Burns._
=For a tint= (lost) =thing carena.= _Sc. Pr._
=For aught I see, they are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing.= _Mer. of Ven._, i. 2.
=For aught that ever I could read, / Could ever hear by tale or history, / The course of true love never did run smooth.= _Mid. N.'s Dream_, i. 1.
=For a web begun God sends thread.= _Fr. and_ 20 _It. Pr._
=For behaviour, men learn it, as they take diseases, one of another.= _Bacon._
=For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, / And though a late, a sure reward succeeds.= _Congreve._
=For Brutus is an honourable man, / So are they all, all honourable men.= _Jul. Cæs._, iii. 2.
=For captivity, perhaps your poor watchdog is as sorrowful a type as you will easily find.= _Ruskin._
=For contemplation he and valour form'd, / For= 25 =softness she and sweet attractive grace; / He for God only, she for God in him, / His fair large front and eye sublime declared.= _Milton._
=For cowards the road of desertion should be left open; they will carry over to the enemy nothing but their fears.= _Bovee._
=For dear to gods and men is sacred song.= _Pope._
=For ebbing resolution ne'er returns, / But falls still further from its former shore.= _Home._
=For emulation hath a thousand sons, / That one by one pursue; if you give way, / Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, / Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost.= _Troil. and Cres._ iii. 3.
=For ever and a day.= _As You Like It_, iv. 1. 30
=For ever is not a category that can establish itself in this world of time.= _Carlyle._
=For every dawn that breaks brings a new world, / And every budding bosom a new life.= _Lewis Morris._
=For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly.= _Emerson._
=For every ten jokes thou hast got an hundred enemies.= _Sterne._
=For everything you have missed, you have= 35 =gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something.= _Emerson._
=For fate has wove the thread of life with pain, / And twins e'en from the birth are misery and man.= _Pope._
=For faith, and peace, and mighty love / That from the Godhead flow, / Show'd them the life of heaven above / Springs from the earth below.= _Emerson._
=For fault o' wise men fools sit on binks= (seats, benches). _Sc. Pr._
=For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.= _Pope._
=For forms of government let fools contest; /= 40 =Whate'er is best administered is best.= _Pope._
=For Freedom's battle, once begun, / Bequeath'd by bleeding sire to son, / Though baffled oft, is ever won.= _Byron._
=For glances beget ogles, ogles sighs, / Sighs wishes, wishes words, and words a letter; / And then God knows what mischief may arise / When love links two young people in one fetter.= _Byron._
=For gold the merchant ploughs the main, / The farmer ploughs the manor; / But glory is the soldier's prize, / The soldier's wealth is honour.= _Burns._
=For good and evil must in our actions meet; / Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.= _Donne._
=For greatest scandal waits on greatest state.= 45 _Shakespeare._
=For grief indeed is love, and grief beside.= _Mrs. Browning._
=For he being dead, with him is beauty slain, / And, beauty dead, black chaos comes again.= _Shakespeare._
=For he, by geometric scale, / Could take the size of pots of ale.= _Butler._
=For he is but a bastard to the time / That doth not smack of observation.= _King John_, i. 1.
=For he lives twice who can at once employ /= 50 =The present well and e'en the past enjoy.= _Pope._
=For he that fights and runs away / May live to fight another day; / But he who is in battle slain, / Can never rise and fight again.= _Goldsmith._
=For he that worketh high and wise, / Nor pauses in his plan, / Will take the sun out of the skies / Ere freedom out of man.= _Emerson._
=For his bounty, / There was no winter in't; an autumn 'twas, / That grew the more by reaping.= _Ant. and Cleop._, v. 2.
=For his chaste Muse employed her heaven-taught lyre / None but the noblest passions to inspire, / Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, / One line which, dying, he could wish to blot.= _Littleton on Thomson._
=For hope is but the dream of those that wake.= _Prior._
=For I am nothing if not critical.= _Othello_, 5 ii. 1.
=For I am full of spirit, and resolved / To meet all perils very constantly.= _Jul. Cæs._, v. 1.
=For I say this is death, and the sole death, / When a man's loss comes to him from his gain, / Darkness from light, from knowledge ignorance, / And lack of love from love made manifest.= _Browning._
=For it so falls out, / That what we have we prize not to the worth / While we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, / Why, then we rack the value.= _Much Ado_, iv. 1.
=For it stirs the blood in an old man's heart, / And makes his pulses fly, / To catch the thrill of a happy voice / And the light of a pleasant eye.= _N. P. Willis._
=For just experience tells, in every soil, / That= 10 =those that think must govern those that toil.= _Goldsmith._
=For knowledge is a barren tree and bare, / Bereft of God, and duty but a word, / And strength but tyranny, and love, desire, / And purity a folly.= _Lewis Morris._
=For knowledge is a steep which few may climb, / While duty is a path which all may tread.= _Lewis Morris._
=For let our finger ache, and it endues / Our other healthful members ev'n to that sense / Of pain.= _Othello_, iii. 4.
=For loan oft loses both itself and friend.= _Ham._, i. 3.
=For love of grace, / Lay not the flattering= 15 =unction to your soul / That not your trespass but my madness speaks.= _Ham._, iii. 4.
=For lovers' eyes more sharply sighted be / Than other men's, and in dear love's delight / See more than any other eyes can see.= _Spenser._
=For man's well-being faith is properly the one thing needful; with it, martyrs, otherwise weak, can cheerfully endure the shame and the cross; and without it, worldlings puke up their sick existence by suicide in the midst of luxury.= _Carlyle._
=For man there is but one misfortune, when some idea lays hold of him which exerts no influence upon his active life, or still more, which withdraws him from it.= _Goethe._
=For men are brought to worse diseases / By taking physic than diseases, / And therefore commonly recover / As soon as doctors give them over.= _Butler._
=For men at most differ as heaven and earth, /= 20 =But women, worst and best, as heaven and hell.= _Tennyson._
=For men cherish love, for gods reverence.= _Grillparzer._
=For men may come and men may go, / But I go on for ever.= _Tennyson._
=For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; / His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.= _Pope._
=For murder, though it hath no tongue, will speak / With most miraculous organ.= _Ham._, ii. 2.
=For my means, I'll husband them so well, /= 25 =They shall go far with little.= _Ham._, iv. 5.
=For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, to foreign nations, and to the next ages.= _Bacon._
=For nought so vile that on the earth doth live, / But to the earth some special good doth give; / Nor aught so good, but strain'd from that fair use, / Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse.= _Rom. and Jul._, ii. 3.
=For now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face.= _St. Paul._
=For oaths are straws, men's faith are wafer cakes, / And holdfast is the only dog, my duck.= _Hen. V._, ii. 3.
=For of all sad words of tongue or pen, / The= 30 =saddest were these: "It might have been."= _Whittier._
=For of fortunes sharpe adversite, / The worst kind of infortune is this, / A man that hath been in prosperite, / And it remember when it passéd is.= _Chaucer._
=For of the soul the body form doth take, / For soul is form, and doth the body make.= _Spenser._
=For one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.= _Carlyle._
=For one person who can think, there are at least a hundred who can observe. An accurate observer is, no doubt, rare; but an accurate thinker is far rarer.= _Buckle._
=For one rich man that is content there are a= 35 =hundred who are not.= _Pr._
=For one word a man is often deemed wise, and for one word he is often deemed foolish.= _Confucius._
=For our pleasure, the lackeyed train, the slow parading pageant, with all the gravity of grandeur, moves in review; a single coat, or a single footman, answers all the purposes of the most indolent refinement as well; and those who have twenty, may be said to keep one for their own pleasure, and the other nineteen merely for ours.= _Goldsmith._
=For pity is the virtue of the law, / And none but tyrants use it cruelly.= _Timon of Athens_, iii. 5.
=For pleasures past I do not grieve, / Nor perils gathering near; / My greatest grief is that I leave / Nothing that claims a tear.= _Byron._
=For poems to have beauty of style is not= 40 =enough; they must have pathos also, and lead at will the hearer's soul.= _Hor._
=For present grief there is always a remedy. However much thou sufferest, hope. The greatest happiness of man is hope.= _Leopold Schefer._
=For rarely do we meet in one combined / A beauteous body and a virtuous mind.= _Juv._
=For rhetoric, he could not ope / His mouth, but out there flew a trope.= _Butler._
=For rhyme the rudder is of verses, / With which, like ships, they steer their courses.= _Butler._
=For right is right, since God is God, / And right the day must win; / To doubt would be disloyalty, / To falter would be sin.= _F. W. Faber._
=For sacred even to gods is misery.= _Pope._
=For Satan finds some mischief still / For idle= 5 =hands to do.= _Watts._
=For slander lives upon successión, / For ever housed where it gets possessión.= _Comedy of Errors_, iii. 1.
=For solitude sometimes is best society, / And short retirement urges sweet return.= _Milton._
=For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.= _Mer. of Ven._, i. 3.
=For suffering and enduring there is no remedy but striving and doing.= _Carlyle._
=For that fine madness still he did retain /= 10 =Which rightly should possess a poet's brain.= _Drayton._
=For the apotheosis of Reason we have substituted that of Instinct; and we call everything instinct which we find in ourselves, and for which we cannot trace any rational foundation.= _J. S. Mill._
=For the bow cannot possibly stand always bent, nor can human nature or human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.= _Cervantes._
=For the buyer a hundred eyes are too few, for the seller one is enough.= _It. Pr._
=For thee the family of man has no use; it rejects thee; thou art wholly as a dissevered limb: so be it; perhaps it is better so.= _Carlyle, or Teufelsdröckh rather, arrived at the "Centre of Indifference, through which whoso travels from the Negative Pole to the Positive must necessarily pass."_
=For the fashion of this world passeth away.= 15 _St. Paul._
=For the gay beams of lightsome day / Gild but to flout the ruins grey.= _Scott._
=For the greatest crime of man is that he was born.= _Calderon._
=For the narrow mind, whatever he attempts, is still a trade; for the higher, an art; and the highest, in doing one thing does all; or, to speak less paradoxically, in the one thing which he does rightly, he sees the likeness of all that is done rightly.= _Goethe._
=For the rain it raineth every day.= _Lear_, iii. 2.
=For there's nae luck aboot the hoose, / There's= 20 =nae luck ava', / There's little pleesure in the hoose / When oor guidman's awa'.= _W. J. Mickle._
=For there was never yet philosopher / That could endure the toothache patiently.= _Much Ado_, v. 1.
=For the sake of one good action a hundred evil actions should be condoned.= _Chinese Pr._
=For the son of man there is no noble crown, well-worn or even ill-worn, but is a crown of thorns.= _Carlyle._
=For the true the price is paid before you enjoy it; for the false, after you enjoy it.= _John Foster._
=For the world was built in order, / And the= 25 =atoms march in tune; / Rhyme the pipe, and the Time the warder, / The sun obeys them and the moon.= _Emerson._
=For they can conquer who believe they can.= _Dryden._
=For 'tis a truth well known to most, / That whatsoever thing is lost, / We seek it, ere it comes to light, / In every cranny but the right.= _Cowper._
=For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich: / And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, / So honour peereth in the meanest habit.= _Tam. of Shrew_, iv. 3.
=For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.= _Bible._
=For to see and eek for to be seye.= _Chaucer._ 30
=For truth has such a face and such a mien, / As to be loved needs only to be seen.= _Dryden._
=For truth is precious and divine, / Too rich a pearl for carnal swine.= _Butler._
=For use almost can change the stamp of Nature, / And either curb the devil or throw him out / With wondrous potency.= _Ham._, iii. 4.
=For us, the winds do blow, / The earth doth rest, heaven move, and fountains flow; / Nothing we see but means our good, / As our delight, or as our treasure; / The whole is either our cupboard of food, / Or cabinet of pleasure.= _George Herbert._
=For virtue's sake I am here; but if a man,= 35 =for his task, forgets and sacrifices all, why shouldst not thou?= _Jean Paul._
=For virtue's self may too much zeal be had; / The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.= _Pope._
=For want of a block a man will stumble at a straw.= _Swift._
=For want of a nail the shoe was lost, for want of a shoe the horse was lost, and for want of a horse the rider was lost.= _Ben. Franklin._
=For wealth is all things that conduce / To man's destruction or his use; / A standard both to buy and sell / All things from heaven down to hell.= _Butler._
=For what are men who grasp at praise sublime, /= 40 =But bubbles on the rapid stream of time, / That rise and fall, that swell and are no more, / Born and forgot, ten thousand in an hour.= _Young._
=For what are they all in their high conceit, / When man in the bush with God may meet?= _Emerson._
=For what thou hast not, still thou striv'st to get, / And what thou hast, forgetst.= _Meas. for Meas._, iii. 1.
=For when disputes are wearied out, / 'Tis interest still resolves the doubt.= _Butler._
=For where is any author in the world / Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye?= _Love's L. Lost_, iv. 3.
=For while a youth is lost in soaring thought, /= 45 =And while a mind grows sweet and beautiful, / And while a spring-tide coming lights the earth, / And while a child, and while a flower is born, / And while one wrong cries for redress and finds / A soul to answer, still the world is young.= _Lewis Morris._
=For whom ill is fated, him it will strike.= _Gael. Pr._
=For whom the heart of man shuts out, / Straightway the heart of God takes in, / And fences them all round about / With silence 'mid the world's loud din.= _Lowell._
=For who to dumb forgetfulness a prey, / This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, / Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, / Nor cast one longing lingering look behind?= _Gray._
=For who would lose, / Though full of pain, this intellectual being, / Those thoughts that wander through eternity; / To perish rather, swallowed up and lost, / In the wide womb of uncreated night?= _Milton._
=For wisdom cries out in the streets, and no man regards it.= 1 _Henry IV._, i. 2.
=For youth no less becomes / The light and= 5 =careless livery that it wears, / Than settled age his sables and his weeds, / Importing health and graveness.= _Ham._, iv. 7.
=Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.= 2 _Hen. VI._, iii. 3.
=Forbearance is not acquittance.= _Ger. Pr._
=Forbid a fool do a thing, and that he will do.= _Sc. Pr._
=Forbidden fruit is sweetest.= _Pr._
=Force and right rule everything in this world;= 10 =force till right is ready.= _Joubert._ (?)
=Force can never annul right.= _Berryer._
=Force is no argument.= _John Bright._
=Forced love does not last.= _Dut. Pr._
=Forced prayers are no gude for the soul.= _Sc. Pr._
=Force n'a pas droit=--Might knows no right. 15 _Fr. Pr._
=Force rules the world, and not opinion, but opinion is that which makes use of force.= _Pascal._
=Force without forecast is of little avail.= _Pr._
=Foresight is indeed necessary in trusting, but still more necessary in distrusting.= _Cötvös._
=Forewarned, forearmed.= _Cervantes._
=Forget the hours of thy distress, but never= 20 =forget what they taught thee.= _Gessner._
=Forget thyself to marble.= _Milton._
=Forgetting of a wrong is a mild revenge.= _Pr._
=Forgetting one's self, or knowing one's self, around these everything turns.= _Auerbach._
=Forgiveness is better than revenge; for forgiveness is the sign of a gentle nature, but revenge the sign of a savage nature.= _Epictetus._
=Forgiveness is commendable, but apply not= 25 =ointment to the wound of an oppressor.= _Saadi._
=Forgiveness is the divinest of victories.= _Schiller._
=Forgiveness to the injured does belong, / But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong.= _Dryden._
=Forgiveness is not forgotten.= _Ger. Pr._
=Forgotten pains, when follow gains.= _Sc. Pr._
=Forma bonum fragile est=--Beauty is a fragile 30 good. _Ovid._
=Forma viros neglecta decet=--Neglect of appearance becomes men. _Ovid._
=Formerly it was the fashion to preach the natural; now it is the ideal.= _Schlegel._
=Formerly the richest countries were those in which Nature was most bountiful; now the richest countries are those in which man is most active.= _Buckle._
=Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.= _Bovee._
=Formidabilior cervorum exercitus, duce leone,= 35 =quam leonum cervo=--An army of stags would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than one of lions commanded by a stag. _Pr._
=Formosa facies muta commendatio est=--A handsome face is a mute recommendation. _Pub. Syr._
=Formosos sæpe inveni pessimos, / Et turpi facie multos cognovi optimos=--I have often found good-looking people to be very base, and I have known many ugly people most estimable. _Phæd._
=Forms which grow round a substance will be true, good; forms which are consciously put round a substance, bad.= _Carlyle._
=Formulas are the very skin and muscular tissue of a man's life; and a most blessed indispensable thing, so long as they have vitality withal, and are a living skin and tissue to him.= _Carlyle._
=Forsake not God till you find a better maister.= 40 _Sc. Pr._
=Forsan et hæc olim meminisse juvabit; Durate, et vosmet rebus servate secundis=--Perhaps it will be a delight to us some day to recall these misfortunes. Bear them, therefore, and reserve yourselves for better times. _Virg._
=Forsan miseros meliora sequentur=--Perhaps a better fortune awaits the unhappy. _Virg._
=Fors et virtus miscentur in unum=--Fortune and valour are blended into one. _Virg._
=Forte è l'aceto di vin dolce=--Strong is vinegar from sweet wine. _It. Pr._
=Forte et fidele=--Strong and loyal. _M._ 45
=Fortem facit vicina libertas senem=--The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave. _Sen._
=Fortem posce animum mortis terrore carentem, / Qui spatium vitæ extremum inter munera ponat / Naturæ=--Pray for a strong soul free from the fear of death, which regards the final period of life among the gifts of Nature. _Juv._
=Fortes creantur fortibus et bonis: / Est in juvencis, est in equis patrum / Virtus, nec imbellem feroces / Progenerant aquilæ columbam=--Brave men are generated by brave and good: there is in steers and in horses the virtue of their sires, nor does the fierce eagle beget the unwarlike dove. _Hor._
=Forte scutum salus ducum=--The safety of leaders is a strong shield. _M._
=Fortes fortuna adjuvat=--Fortune assists the 50 brave. _Ter._
=Fortes in fine assequendo et suaves in modo assequendi simus=--Let us be resolute in prosecuting our purpose and mild in the manner of attaining it. _Aquaviva._
=Forti et fideli nihil difficile=--To the brave and true nothing is difficult. _M._
=Fortify courage with the true rampart of patience.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=Fortify yourself with moderation; for this is an impregnable fortress.= _Epictetus._
=Fortior et potentior est dispositio legis quam hominis=--The disposition of the law is stronger and more potent than that of man. _L._
=Fortis cadere, cedere non potest=--A brave man may fall, but cannot yield. _M._
=Fortis et constantis animi est, non perturbari in rebus asperis=--It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances. _Cic._
=Fortis sub forte fatiscet=--A brave man will yield to a brave. _M._
=Fortiter et recte=--Courageously and honourably. 5 _M._
=Fortiter ferendo vincitur malum quod evitari non potest=--By bravely enduring it, an evil which cannot be avoided is overcome. _Pr._
=Fortiter, fideliter, feliciter=--Boldly, faithfully, successfully. _M._
=Fortiter geret crucem=--He will bravely support the cross. _M._
=Fortiter in re, suaviter in modo=--Vigorous and resolute in deed, gentle in manner.
=Fortitude is the guard and support of the= 10 =other virtues.= _Locke._
=Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armour of the will, and the fort of reason.= _Bacon._
=Fortitude is to be seen in toils and dangers; temperance in the denial of sensual pleasures; prudence in the choice between good and evil; justice in awarding to every one his due.= _Cic._
=Fortitude rises upon an opposition; and, like a river, swells the higher for having its course stopped.= _Jeremy Collier._
=Fortitudini=--For bravery. _M._
=Fortuito quodam concursu atomorum=--Certain 15 fortuitous concourse of atoms. _Cic._
=Fortunæ cætera mando=--I commit the rest to fortune. _Ovid._
=Fortunæ filius=--A child or favourite of fortune. _Hor._
=Fortunæ majoris honos, erectus et acer=--An honour to his elevated station, upright and brave. _Claud._
=Fortuna favet fatuis=--Fortune favours fools. _Pr._
=Fortuna favet fortibus=--Fortune favours the 20 brave. _Pr._
=Fortuna magna magna domino est servitus=--A great fortune is a great slavery to its owner. _Pub. Syr._
=Fortunam debet quisque manere suam=--Every one ought to live within his means. _Ovid._
=Fortuna meliores sequitur=--Fortune befriends the better man. _Sall._
=Fortuna miserrima tuta est=--A very poor fortune is safe. _Ovid._
=Fortuna multis dat nimium, nulli satis=--To 25 many fortune gives too much, to none enough. _Mart._
=Fortuna nimium quem fovet, stultum facit=--Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much. _Pub. Syr._
=Fortuna non mutat genus=--Fortune does not change nature. _Hor._
=Fortuna obesse nulli contenta est semel=--Fortune is not content to do one an ill turn only once. _Pub. Syr._
=Fortuna opes auferre, non animum potest=--Fortune may bereave us of wealth, but not of courage. _Sen._
=Fortuna parvis momentis magnas rerum commutationes= 30 =efficit=--Fortune in brief moments works great changes in our affairs.
=Fortuna sequatur=--Let fortune follow. _M._
=Fortunato omne solum patria est=--To a favourite of fortune every land is his country.
=Fortunatas et ille deos qui novit agrestes=--Happy the man who knows the rural gods. _Virg._
=Fortunatus' purse=--A purse which supplies you with all you wish.
=Fortuna vitrea est, tum cum splendet frangitur=--Fortune 35 is like glass; while she shines she is broken. _Pub. Syr._
=Fortune brings in some boats that are ill-steered.= _Cymbeline_, iv. 3.
=Fortune can take from us nothing but what she gave.= _Pr._
=Fortune does not change men; it only unmasks them.= _Mme. Riccoboni._
=Fortune favours the brave, as the old proverb says, but forethought much more.= _Cic._
=Fortune has rarely condescended to be the= 40 =companion of genius.= _Isaac Disraeli._
=Fortune hath something of the nature of a woman, who, if she be too closely wooed, goes commonly the farther off.= _Charles V._
=Fortune is like a mirror--it does not alter men; it only shows men just as they are.= _Billings._
=Fortune is like the market, where many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.= _Bacon._
=Fortune is merry, and in this mood will give us anything.= _Jul. Cæs._, iii. 2.
=Fortune is not content to do a man one ill= 45 =turn.= _Bacon._
=Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.= _Lowell._
=Fortune makes folly her peculiar care.= _Churchill._
=Fortune makes him a fool whom she makes her darling.= _Bacon._
=Fortune often knocks at the door, but the fool does not invite her in.= _Dan. Pr._
=Fortune reigns in the gifts of the world, not in= 50 =the lineaments of nature.= _As You Like It_, i. 2.
=Fortune! There is no fortune; all is trial, or punishment, or recompense, or foresight.= _Voltaire._
=Fortune turns round like a mill-wheel, and he that was yesterday at the top lies to-day at the bottom.= _Sp. Pr._
=Forward, forward let us range, / Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.= _Tennyson._
=Forwardness spoils manners.= _Gael. Pr._
=Foster the beautiful, and every hour thou= 55 =callest new flowers to birth.= _Schiller._
=Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets; / But gold that's put to use, more gold begets.= _Shakespeare._
=Foul deeds will rise, / Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.= _Ham._, i. 2.
=Fou (full) o' courtesy, fou o' craft.= _Sc. Pr._
=Four eyes see more than two.= _Pr._
=Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.= _Napoleon._
=Foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of Man hath not where to lay his head.= _Jesus._
=Foy est tout=--Faith is everything. _M._
=Foy pour devoir=--Faith for duty. _Old Fr._
=Frae saving comes having.= _Sc. Pr._ 5
=Fragili quærens illidere dentem / Offendet solido=--Trying to fix her tooth in some tender part, / Envy will strike against the solid. _Hor._
=Fraile que pide por Dios pide por dos=--The friar who begs for God begs for two. _Sp. Pr._
=Frailty, thy name is woman.= _Ham._, i. 2.
=Frame your mind to mirth and merriment, / Which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.= _Tam. of Sh._, Ind. 2.
=Frangas, non flectes=--You may break, but you 10 will not bend me.
=Frappe fort=--Strike hard. _M._
=Fraternité ou la Mort=--Fraternity or death. _The watchword of the first French Revolution. Fr._
=Frauen, richtet nur nie des Mannes einzelne Thaten; / Aber über den Mann sprechet das richtende Wort=--Women, judge ye not the individual acts of the man; the word that pronounces judgment is above the man. _Schiller._
=Frauen und Jungfrauen soll man loben, es sei wahr oder erlogen=--Truly or falsely, women and maidens must be praised. _Ger. Pr._
=Fraus est celare fraudem=--It is a fraud to conceal 15 fraud. _L._
=Frau und Mond leuchten mit fremden Licht=--Madame and the moon shine with borrowed light. _Ger. Pr._
=Freedom and slavery, the one is the name of virtue, the other of vice, and both are acts of the will.= _Epictetus._
=Freedom and whisky gang thegither! / Tak' aff your dram.= _Burns._
=Freedom consists not in refusing to recognise anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us.= _Goethe._
=Freedom exists only with power.= _Schiller._ 20
=Freedom has a thousand charms to show, / That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.= _Cowper._
=Freedom is a new religion--the religion of our time.= _Heine._
=Freedom is not caprice, but room to enlarge.= _C. A. Bartol._
=Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.= _Ruskin._
=Freedom is only in the land of dreams, and the= 25 =beautiful only blooms in song.= _Schiller._
=Freedom is the eternal youth of nations.= _Gen. Foy._
=Freedom's sun cannot set so long as smiths hammer iron.= _C. M. Arndt._
=Free governments have committed more flagrant acts of tyranny than the most perfect despotic governments which we have ever known.= _Burke._
=Free-livers on a small scale, who are prodigal within the compass of a guinea.= _W. Irving._
=Freends are like fiddle-strings; they maunna= 30 =be screwed ower tight.= _Sc. Pr._
=Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all.= _Sterne._
=Free will I be in thought and in poetry; in action the world hampers us enough.= _Goethe._
=Freie Kirche im freien Staat=--A free Church in a free State. _Cavour._
=Freilich erfahren wir erst im Alter, was uns in der Tugend begegnete=--Not till we are old is it that we learn to know (_lit._ experience) what we met with when young. _Goethe._
=Frei muss ich denken, sprechen und atmen= 35 =Gottes Luft, / Und wer die drei mir raubet, der legt mich in die Gruft=--Freely must I think, speak, and breathe what God inspires in me, and he who robs me of these three entombs me. _Chamisso._
=Freits= (prognostications) =follow those who look to them.= _Sc. Pr._
=Frei von Tadel zu sein ist der niedrigste Grad und der höchste, / Denn nur die Ohnmacht führt oder die Grösse dazu=--To be free from blame is to be of the lowest and highest grade, for only imbecility or greatness leads to it. _Schiller._
=Freiwillige Abhängigkeit ist der schönste Zustand, und wie wäre der möglich ohne Liebe?=--Voluntary dependence is the noblest condition we can be in; and how were that possible without love? _Goethe._
=Fremde Kinder, wir lieben sie nie so sehr als die eignen; / Irrtum das eigne Kind, ist uns dem Herzen so nah=--We never love the child of another so much as our own; for this reason error, which is our own child, is so near to our heart. _Goethe._
=Fremdes Pferd und eigene Sporen haben bald= 40 =den Wind verloren=--Another's horse and our own spurs soon outstrip the wind. _Ger. Pr._
=Freno indorato non megliora il cavallo=--A golden bit, no better a horse. _It. Pr._
=Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill-manners.= _Chesterfield._
=Fresh as a bridegroom, and his chin, new reap'd, / Show'd like a stubble-field at harvest-home; / He was perfuméd like a milliner, / And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held / A pouncet-box, which ever and anon / He gave his nose, and took 't away again.= _Hen. IV._, i. 3.
=Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun.= _Goethe._
=Fret not thyself because of evil men, neither= 45 =be thou envious at the wicked; for there shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle of the wicked shall be put out.= _Bible._
=Fretting cares make grey hairs.= _Pr._
=Freude hat mir Gott gegeben=--God has to me given joy. _Schiller._
=Freud' muss Leid, Leid muss Freude haben=--Joy must have sorrow; sorrow, joy. _Goethe._
=Freundschaft ist ein Knotenstock auf Reisen, / Lieb' ein Stäbchen zum Spazierengehn=--Friendship is a sturdy stick to travel with; love a slender cane to promenade with. _Chamisso._
=Friar Modest never was prior.= _It. Pr._ 50
=Friend after friend departs; / Who hath not lost a friend? / There is no union here of hearts / That finds not here an end.= _J. Montgomery._
=Friend, hast thou considered the "rugged, all-nourishing earth," as Sophocles well names her; how she feeds the sparrow on the housetop, much more her darling, man?= _Carlyle._
=Friend, however thou camest by this book, I will assure thee thou wert least in my thoughts when I writ it.= _Bunyan._
="Friend, I never gave thee any of my jewels!" "No, but you have let me look at them, and that is all the use you can make of them yourself; moreover, you have the trouble of watching them, and that is an employment I do not much desire."= _Goldsmith._
=Friends and acquaintances are the surest passports to fortune.= _Schopenhauer._
=Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom.= _Gael. Pr._
=Friends are ourselves.= _Donne._ 5
=Friends are rare, for the good reason that men are not common.= _Joseph Roux._
=Friends are the leaders of the bosom, being more ourselves than we are, and we complement our affections in theirs.= _A. B. Alcott._
=Friends, like mushrooms, spring up in out-of-the-way places.= _Pr._
=Friends may meet, / But mountains never greet.= _Pr._
=Friends reveal to each other most clearly= 10 =exactly that upon which they are silent.= _Goethe._
=Friends should associate friends in grief and woe.= _Tit. Andron._, v. 3.
=Friends should be weighed, not told.= _Coleridge._
=Friends show me what I can do; foes teach me what I should do.= _Schiller._
=Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.= _Emerson._
=Friends will be much apart. They will respect= 15 =more each other's privacy than their communion, for therein is the fulfilment of our high aims and the conclusion of our arguments.... The hours my friend devotes to me were snatched from a higher society.= _Thoreau._
=Friendship can originate and acquire permanence only practically= (pracktisch). =Liking= (Neigung), =and even love, contribute nothing to friendship. True, active, productive friendship consists in this, that we keep the same pace= (gleichen Schritt) =in life, that my friend approves of my aims, as I of his, and that thus we go on steadfastly= (unverrückt) =together, whatever may be the difference otherwise between our ways of thinking and living.= _Goethe._
=Friendship canna stand a' on ae side.= _Sc. Pr._
=Friendship, in the old heroic sense of that term, no longer exists; except in the cases of kindred or other legal affinity, it is in reality no longer expected or recognised as a virtue among men.= _Carlyle._
=Friendship is a plant which one must water often.= _Ger. Pr._
=Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed= 20 =by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it never can be trusted after.= _Landor._
=Friendship is but a name.= _Napoleon._
=Friendship is communion.= _Arist._
=Friendship is constant in all other things, / Save in the office and affairs of love; / Therefore, all hearts in love use their own tongues; / Let every eye negotiate for itself, / And trust no agent.= _Much Ado_, ii. 1.
=Friendship is infinitely better than kindness.= _Cic._
=Friendship is like a debt of honour; the= 25 =moment it is talked of, it loses its real name, and assumes the more ungrateful form of obligation.= _Arliss' Lit. Col._
=Friendship is love with understanding.= _Ger. Pr._
=Friendship is love without its flowers or veil.= _Hare._
=Friendship is love without its wings.= _Byron._
=Friendship is no plant of hasty growth.= _Joanna Baillie._
=Friendship is one soul in two bodies.= _Porphyry._ 30
=Friendship is stronger than kindred.= _Pub. Syr._
=Friendship is the greatest bond in the world.= _Jeremy Taylor._
=Friendship is the ideal; friends are the reality; the reality always remains far apart from the ideal.= _Joseph Roux._
=Friendship is the marriage of the soul.= _Voltaire._
=Friendship is the shadow of the evening,= 35 =which strengthens with the setting sun of life.= _La Fontaine._
=Friendship is too pure a pleasure for a mind cankered with ambition or the lust of power and grandeur.= _Junius._
=Friendship, like love, is but a name, / Unless to one you stint the flame.= _Gay._
=Friendship, like love, is self-forgetful.= _H. Giles._
=Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.= _Emerson._
=Friendship made in a moment is of no moment.= 40 _Pr._
=Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship--never.= _Colton._
=Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.= _Emerson._
=Friendship, unlike love, which is weakened by fruition, grows up, thrives, and increases by enjoyment; and being of itself spiritual, the soul is reformed by the habit of it.= _Montaigne._
=Friendships are discovered rather than made.= _Mrs. Stowe._
=Friendship's as it's kept.= _Gael. Pr._ 45
=Friendship's full of dregs.= _Timon of Athens_, i. 2.
=Friendships that are disproportioned ever terminate in disgust.= _Goldsmith._
=Friendship's the privilege / Of private men.= _N. Tate._
=Friendship's the wine of life; but friendship new is neither strong nor pure.= _Young._
=Friendships which are born in misfortune are= 50 =more firm and lasting than those which are formed in happiness.= _D'Urfey._
=Frigidam aquam effundere=--To throw cold water on a business.
=Frisch gewagt ist halb gewonnen=--Boldly ventured is half done (won). _Ger. Pr._
=From a bad paymaster get what you can.= _Pr._
=From a closed door the devil turns away.= _Port. Pr._
=From camp to camp, through the foul womb of night, / The hum of either army stilly sounds, / That the fix'd sentinels almost receive / The secret whispers of each other's watch; / Fire answers fire, and through their paly flames / Each battle sees the other's umber'd face; / Steed threatens steed in high and boastful neighs, / Piercing the night's dull ear, and from the tents / The armourers, accomplishing the knights, / With busy hammers closing rivets up, / Give dreadful note of preparation.= _Hen. V._, iv. (_chorus_).
=From every moral death there is a new birth; / in this wondrous course of his, man may indeed linger, but cannot retrograde or stand still.= _Carlyle._
=From every spot on earth we are equally near heaven and the infinite.= _Amiel._
=From grave to gay, from lively to severe.= _Pope._
=From great folks great favours are to be= 5 =expected.= _Cervantes._
=From hand to mouth will never make a worthy man.= _Gael. Pr._
=From hearing comes wisdom, from speaking repentance.= _Pr._
=From Helicon's harmonious springs / A thousand rills their mazy progress take.= _Gray._
=From his cradle / He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one; / Exceeding wise, fair-spoken, and persuading; / Lofty and sour to them that loved him not, / But to those men who sought him, sweet as summer; / And to add greater honours to his age / Than man could give; he died fearing God.= _Hen. VIII._, iv. 2.
=From ignorance our comfort flows; / The only= 10 =wretched are the wise.= _Prior._
=From kings and priests and statesmen war arose, / Whose safety is man's deep embittered woe, / Whose grandeur his debasement.= _Shelley._
=From labour health, from health contentment springs.= _Beattie._
=From lowest place where virtuous things proceed, / The place is dignified by the doer's deed.= _As You Like It_, ii. 3.
=From obedience and submission spring all other virtues, as all sin does from self-opinion.= _Montaigne._
=From our ancestors come our names, from our= 15 =virtues our honours.= _Pr._
=From out the throng and stress of lies, / From out the painful noise of sighs, / One voice of comfort seems to rise, / It is the meaner part that dies.= _Lewis Morris._
=From pillar to post=--originally from whipping-post to pillory, _i.e._ from bad to worse. _Pr._
=From saying "No," however cleverly, no good can come.= _Goethe._
=From seeming evil still educing good.= _Thomson._
=From servants hasting to be gods.= _Pollock._ 20
=From small beginnings come great things.= _Dut. Pr._
=From stratagem to stratagem we run, / And he knows most who latest is undone; / An honest man will take a knave's advice, / But idiots only will be cozened twice.= _Dryden._
=From the beginning and to the end of time, Love reads without letters and counts without arithmetic.= _Ruskin._
=From the deepest desire oftentimes ensues the deadliest hate.= _Socrates._
=From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we= 25 =tend, / Path, motive, guide, original and end.= _Johnson._
="From the height of these pyramids forty centuries look down on you."= _Napoleon to his troops in Egypt._
=From the lowest depth there is a path to the loftiest height.= _Carlyle._
=From the low prayer of want and plaint of woe / O never, never turn away thine ear! / Forlorn is this bleak wilderness below, / Ah! what were man should heaven refuse to hear!= _Beattie._
=From the same flower the bee extracts honey and the wasp gall.= _It. Pr._
=From the summit of power men no longer turn= 30 =their eyes upward, but begin to look about them.= _Lowell._
=From the sum / Of duty, blooms sweeter and more divine / The fair ideal of the race, than comes / From glittering gains of learning.= _Lewis Morris._
=From time to time in history men are born a whole age too soon.= _Emerson._
=From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.= _Emerson._
=From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: / They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; / They are the books, the arts, the academes, / That show, contain, and nourish all the world; / Else none at all in aught proves excellent.= _Love's L. Lost_, iv. 3.
=From yon blue heaven above us bent, / The= 35 =grand old gardener and his wife / Smile at the claims of long descent.= _Tennyson._
=Fromm, Klug, Weis, und Mild, gehört in des Adels Schild=--The words pious, prudent, wise, and gentle are appropriately suitable on the shield of a noble. _Ger. Pr._
=Fromme Leute wohnen weit auseinander=--Good people dwell far apart. _Ger. Pr._
=Frömmigkeit ist kein Zweck, sondern ein Mittel, um durch die reinste Gemüthsruhe zur höchsten Cultur zu gelangen=--Piety is not an end, but a means to attain the highest culture through the purest peace of mind. _Goethe._
=Fronti nulla fides=--There is no trusting external appearances (_lit._ features). _Juv._
=Frost and fraud both end in foul.= _Pr._ 40
=Frost is God's plough.= _Fuller._
=Fructu non foliis arborem æstima=--Judge of a tree from its fruit, not from its leaves. _Phæd._
=Frugality, and even avarice, in the lower orders of mankind are true ambition. These afford the only ladder for the poor to rise to preferment.= _Goldsmith._
=Frugality is an estate.= _Pr._
=Frugality is founded on the principle that all= 45 =riches have limits.= _Burke._
=Frugality is good, if liberality be joined with it.= _Wm. Penn._
=Frugality may be termed the daughter of prudence, the sister of temperance, and the parent of liberty.= _Johnson._
=Fruges consumere nati=--Born merely to consume the fruits of the earth. _Hor._
=Frühe Hochzeit, lange Liebe=--Early marriage, long love. _Ger. Pr._
=Fruit is seed.= _Pr._
=Frustra fit per plura, quod fieri potest per pauciora=--It is vain to do by many agencies what may be done by few.
=Frustra Herculi=--In vain to speak against Hercules. 5 _Pr._
=Frustra laborat qui omnibus placere studet=--He labours in vain who studies to please everybody. _Pr._
=Frustra retinacula tendens / Fertur equis auriga, neque audit currus habenas=--In vain as he tugs at the reins is the charioteer borne along by the steeds, and the chariot heeds not the curb. _Virg._
=Frustra vitium vitaveris illud, / Si te alio pravus detorseris=--In vain do you avoid one fault if you perversely turn aside into another. _Hor._
=Fugam fecit=--He has taken to flight. _L._
=Fuge magna; licet sub paupere tecto / Reges= 10 =et regum vita præcurrere amicos=--Shun grandeur; under a poor roof you may surpass even kings and the friends of kings in your life. _Hor._
=Fugere est triumphus=--Flight (_i.e._, from temptation) is a triumph. _Pr._
=Fugit improbus, ac me / Sub cultro linquit=--The wag runs away and leaves me with the knife at my throat, _i.e._, to be sacrificed. _Hor._
=Fugit irreparabile tempus=--Time flies, never to be repaired. _Virg._
=Fühlst du dein Herz durch Hass von Menschen weggetrieben--/ Thu' ihnen Gutes! schnell wirst du sie wieder lieben=--Shouldst thou feel thy heart repelled from men through hatred, do thou them good, soon shall thy love for them revive in thee. _B. Paoli._
=Fuimus=--We have been. _M._ 15
=Fuimus Troes, fuit Ilium, et ingens / Gloria Teucrorum=--We Trojans are no more; Ilium is no more, and the great renown of the Teucri. _Virg._
=Fuit hæc sapientia quondam, / Publica privatis secernere, sacra profanis, / Concubitu prohibere vago, dare jura maritis, / Oppida moliri, leges incidere ligno=--This of old was accounted wisdom, to separate public from private property, things sacred from profane, to restrain from vagrant concubinage, to ordain laws for married people, to build cities, to engrave laws on tablets. _Hor._
=Fuit Ilium=--Troy was.
=Fules are aye fond o' flittin'.= _Sc. Pr._
=Fulgente trahit constrictos gloria curru, / Non= 20 =minus ignotos generosis=--Glory draws all bound to her shining car, low-born and high-born alike. _Hor._
=Full little knowest thou that hast not tried / What hell it is in suing long to bide; / To lose good days that might be better spent, / To waste long nights in pensive discontent.= _Spenser._
=Full many a day for ever is lost / By delaying its work till to-morrow; / The minutes of sloth have often cost / Long years of bootless sorrow.= _Eliza Cook._
=Full many a gem of purest ray serene / The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear; / Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, / And waste its sweetness on the desert air.= _Gray._
=Full many a stoic eye and aspect stern / Masks hearts where grief has little left to learn; / And many a withering thought lies hid, not lost, / In smiles that least befit who wears them most.= _Byron._
=Full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing.= 25 _Macb._, v. 5.
=Full oft have letters caused the writers / To curse the day they were inditers.= _Butler._
=Full of wise saws and modern instances.= _As You Like It_, ii. 7.
=Full seldom doth a man repent, or use / Both grace and will to pick the vicious quitch / Of blood and custom wholly out of him, / And make all clean, and plant himself afresh.= _Tennyson._
=Full twenty times was Peter fear'd / For once that Peter was respected.= _Wordsworth._
=Full vessels give the least sound.= _Pr._ 30
=Full wise is he that can himselven knowe.= _Chaucer._
=Fully to possess and rule an object, one must first study it for its own sake.= _Goethe._
=Fumos vendere=--To sell smoke. _Mart._
=Fumum, et opes, strepitumque Romæ=--The smoke, the wealth, and din of the town. _Juv._
=Functus officio=--Having discharged his duties 35 and resigned.
=Fundamentum est justitiæ fides=--The foundation of justice is good faith. _Cic._
=Fungar vice cotis, acutum / Reddere quæ ferrum valet, exsors ipsa secandi=--I will discharge the office of a whetstone, which can give an edge to iron, though it cannot cut itself. _Hor._
=Fürchterlich / Ist einer der nichts zu verlieren hat=--Terrible is a man who has nothing to lose. _Goethe._
=Für den Dialektiker ist die Welt ein Begriff, für den Schöngeist ein Bild, für den Schwärmer ein Traum, für den Forscher Wahrheit=--For the thinker the world is a thought; for the wit, an image; for the enthusiast, a dream; for the inquirer, truth. _L. Büchner._
=Für eine Nation ist nur das gut was aus ihrem= 40 =eignen Kern und ihrem eignen allgemeinen Bedürfniss hervorgegangen, ohne Nachäffung einer andern=--Only that is good for a nation which issues from its own heart's core and its own general wants, without apish imitation of another; since (it is added) what may to one people, at a certain stage, be wholesome nutriment, may perhaps prove a poison for another. _Goethe._
=Für einen Leichnam bin ich nicht zu Haus; / Mir geht es wie der Katze mit der Maus=--For a dead one I am not at home; I am like the cat with the mouse. _Goethe's Mephistopheles._
=Für ewig ist ja nicht gestorben, was man für diese Welt begräbt=--What is buried for this world is not for ever dead. _K. v. Holtei._
=Für Gerechte giebt es keine Gesetze=--There are no laws for just men. _Ger. Pr._
=Furiosus absentis loco est=--A madman is treated as one absent. _Coke._
=Furiosus furore suo punitur=--A madman is punished 45 by his own madness. _L._
=Furor arma ministrat=--Their rage finds them arms. _Virg._
=Furor fit læsa sæpius patientia=--Patience, when outraged often, is converted into rage. _Pr._
=Furor iraque mentem præcipitant=--Rage and anger hurry on the mind. _Virg._
=Furor loquendi=--A rage for speaking.
=Furor poëticus=--The poet's frenzy.
=Furor scribendi=--A rage for writing.
=Für seinen König muss das Volk sich opfern, /= 5 =Das ist das Schicksal und das Gesetz der Welt=--For its chief must the clan sacrifice itself; that is the destiny and law of the world. _Schiller._
=Fürst Bismarck glaubt uns zu haben, und wir haben ihn=--Prince Bismarck thinks he has us, and we have him. _Socialist organ._
=Fürsten haben lange Hände und viele Ohren=--Princes have long hands and many ears. _Ger. Pr._
=Further I will not flatter you, / That all I see in you is worthy love, / Than this; that nothing do I see in you / That should merit hate.= _King John_, ii. 2.
=Fury wasteth, as patience lasteth.= _Pr._
=Futurity is impregnable to mortal kin; no= 10 =prayer pierces through heaven's adamantine walls.= _Schiller._
=Futurity is the great concern of mankind.= _Burke._
=Futurity still shortens, and time present sucks in time to come.= _Sir Thomas Browne._
=Fuyez les procès sur toutes les choses, la conscience s'y intéresse, la santé s'y altère, les biens s'y dissipent=--Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property. _La Bruyère._
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=Gäb es keine Narren, so gäb es keine Weisen=--Were there no fools, there would be no wise men. _Ger. Pr._
=Gaieté de cœur=--Gaiety of heart. _Fr._ 15
=Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair.= _Chapin._
=Gaiety is the soul's health; sadness is its poison.= _Stanislaus._
=Gaiety overpowers weak spirits; good-humour recreates and revives them.= _Johnson._
=Gaiety pleases more when we are assured that it does not cover carelessness.= _Mme. de Staël._
=Gain at the expense of reputation should be= 20 =called loss.= _Pub. Syr._
='Gainst the tooth of time / And rasure of oblivion.= _Meas. for Meas._, v. 1.
=Galea spes salutis=--Hope is the helmet of salvation. _M._
=Galeatum sero duelli pœnitet=--After donning the helmet it is too late to repent of war, _i.e._, after enlistment. _Juv._
=Gallantry thrives most in a court atmosphere.= _Mme. Necker._
=Gallicè=--In French. 25
=Gallus in sterquilinio suo plurimum potest=--The cock is proudest on his own dunghill. _Pr._
=Gambling is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality.= _Colton._
=Gambling with cards, or dice, or stocks, is all one thing; it is getting money without giving an equivalent for it.= _Ward Beecher._
=Game is a civil gunpowder, in peace / Blowing up houses with their whole increase.= _Herbert._
[Greek: Gamein ho mellôn eis metanoian erchetai]--He 30 who is about to marry is on the way to repentance. _Gr. Pr._
=Games of chance are traps to catch school-boy novices and gaping country squires, who begin with a guinea and end with a mortgage.= _Cumberland._
=Gaming finds a man a cully and leaves him a knave.= _T. Hughes._
=Gaming has been resorted to by the affluent as a refuge from= _ennui_; =it is a mental dram, and may succeed for a moment, but, like other stimuli, it produces indirect debility.= _Colton._
=Gaming is the destruction of all decorum; the prince forgets at it his dignity, and the lady her modesty.= _Marchioness d'Alembert._
=Gammel Mands Sagn er sielden usand=--An 35 old man's sayings are rarely untrue. _Dan. Pr._
[Greek: Gamos gar anthrôpoisin euktaion kakon]--Marriage is an evil men are eager to embrace. _Men._
=Gang to bed wi' the lamb and rise wi' the laverock= (lark). _Sc. Pr._
=Garçon=--A boy; a waiter. _Fr._
=Garde à cheval=--Horse-guards; mounted guard. _Fr._
=Garde à pied=--Foot-guards. _Fr._ 40
=Garde à vous=--Attention. _Fr._
=Garde-chasse=--Gamekeeper. _Fr._
=Garde du corps=--A bodyguard. _Fr._
=Garde-feu=--A fire-guard. _Fr._
=Garde-fou=--A hand-rail. _Fr._ 45
=Gardez=--Keep it. _Fr._
=Gardez bien=--Take care. _Fr._
=Gardez cela pour la bonne bouche=--Keep that for a tit-bit. _Fr. Pr._
=Gardez la foi=--Guard the faith. _M._
=Garments that have once a rent in them are= 50 =subject to be torn on every nail, and glasses that are once cracked are soon broken; such is a good man's name once tainted with just reproach.= _Bp. Hall._
=Garrit aniles / Ex re fabellas=--He relates old women's tales very apropos. _Hor._
=Gar Vieles lernt man, um es wieder zu vergessen; / Um an den Ziel zu stehen, muss man die Bahn durchmessen=--Much we learn only to forget it again; to stand by the goal, we must traverse all the way to it. _Rückert._
=Gâteau et mauvaise coutume se doivent rompre=--A cake and a bad custom are fated to be broken. _Fr. Pr._
=Gâter une chandelle pour trouver une épingle=--To waste a candle to find a pin. _Fr. Pr._
=Gather gear by every wile that's justified by= 55 =honour; / Not for to hide it in a hedge, nor for a train attendant; / But for the glorious privilege of being independent.= _Burns._
=Gather the rosebuds while ye may, / Old Time is still a-flying, / And this same flower that smiles to-day, / To-morrow will be dying.= _Herrick._
=Gathering gear= (wealth) =is pleasant pain.= _Sc. Pr._
=Gathering her brows like gathering storm, / Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.= _Burns._
=Gato maullador nunca buen cazador=--A mewing cat is never a good mouser. _Sp. Pr._
=Gaude, Maria Virgo=--Rejoice, Virgin Mary.
=Gaudeamus=--Let us have a joyful time.
=Gaudent prænomine molles / Auriculæ=--His delicate ears are delighted with a title. _Hor._
=Gaudet equis, canibusque, et aprici gramine= 5 =campi=--He delights in horses, and dogs, and the grass of the sunny plain. _Hor._
=Gaudet tentamine virtus=--Virtue rejoices in being put to the test.
=Gaudetque viam fecisse ruina=--He rejoices at having made his way by ruin. _Lucan, of Julius Cæsar._
=Gave / His body to that pleasant country's earth, / And his pure soul unto his captain Christ, / Under whose colours he had fought so long.= _Rich. II._, iv. 1.
=Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, / Less pleasing when possest; / The tear forgot as soon as shed, / The sunshine of the breast.= _Gray._
=Gear is easier gained than guided.= _Pr._ 10
=Geben ist Sache des Reichen=--Giving is the business of the rich. _Goethe._
=Gebrade duijven vliegen niet door de lucht=--Roasted pigeons don't fly through the air. _Dut. Pr._
=Gebratene Tauben, die einem im Maul fliegen?=--Do pigeons fly ready-roasted into one's mouth? _Ger. Pr._
=Gebraucht der Zeit, sie geht so schnell von hinnen, / Doch Ordnung lehrt euch Zeit gewinnen=--Make the most of time, it glides away so fast; but order teaches you to gain time. _Goethe._
=Gebt ihr ein Stück, so gebt es gleich in Stücken=--If 15 your aim is to give a piece, be sure you give it in pieces. _Goethe._
=Gedanken sind zollfrei, aber nicht höllenfrei=--Thoughts are toll-free, but not hell-free. _Ger. Pr._
=Gedenke zu leben=--Think of living. _Goethe._
=Gedichte sind gemalde Fensterscheiben=--Poems are painted window-panes, _i.e._, when genuine, they transmit heaven's light through a contracted medium coloured by human feeling and fantasy. _Goethe._
=Gedult gaat boven geleerdheid=--Patience excels learning. _Dut. Pr._
=Gedwongen liefde vergaat haast=--Love that is 20 forced does not last. _Dut. Pr._
=Geese are plucked as long as they have any feathers.= _Dut. Pr._
=Gefährlich ist's, den Leu zu wecken, / Verderblich ist des Tigers Zahn; / Jedoch der schrecklichste der Schrecken, / Das ist der Mensch in seinem Wahn=--Dangerous it is to rouse the lion, fatal is the tiger's tooth, but the most frightful of terrors is man in his self-delusion. _Schiller._
=Gefährlich ist's ein Mordgewehr zu tragen / Und auf den Schützen springt der Pfeil zurück=--It is dangerous to carry a murderous weapon, and the arrow rebounds on the archer. _Schiller._
=Gefährlich ist's mit Geistern sich gesellen=--To fraternise with spirits is a dangerous game. _Goethe._
=Gefährte munter kürzt die Meilen=--Lively 25 companionship shortens the miles. _Ger. Pr._
=Gefühl ist alles; / Name ist Schall und Rauch / Umnebelnd Himmelsglut=--Feeling is all; name is sound and smoke veiling heaven's splendour. _Goethe._
=Gegen grosse Vorzüge eines andern giebt es kein Rettungsmittel als die Liebe=--To countervail the inequalities arising from the great superiority of one over another there is no specific but love. _Goethe._
=Gegner glauben uns widerlegen, wenn sie ihre Meinung wieder holen und auf die unsrige nicht achten=--Our adversaries think they confuse us by repeating their own opinion and paying no heed to ours. _Goethe._
=Geheimnissvoll am lichten Tag / Lässt sich Natur des Schleiers nicht berauben, / Und was sie deinem Geist nicht offenbaren mag, / Das zwingst du ihr nicht ab mit Hebeln und mit Schrauben=--In broad daylight inscrutable, Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt not wrest from her by levers and screws. _Goethe._
=Geld beheert de wereld.=--Money rules the 30 world. _Dut. Pr._
=Geld ist der Mann=--Money makes (_lit._ is) the man. _Ger. Pr._
=Geld im Beutel vertreibt die Schwermuth=--Money in the purse drives away melancholy. _Ger. Pr._
=Gelegenheit macht den Dieb=--Opportunity makes the thief. _Ger. Pr._
=Gelehrte Dummkopf=--A learned blockhead; dryasdust.
[Greek: Gelôs akairos en brotois deinon kakon]--Ill-timed 35 laughter in men is a grievous evil. _Men._
=Gemeen goed, geen goed=--Common goods, no goods. _Dut. Pr._
=Gemsen steigen hoch und werden doch gefangen=--The chamois climb high, and yet are caught. _Ger. Pr._
=General abstract truth is the most precious of all blessings; without it man is blind; it is the eye of reason.= _Rousseau._
=General infidelity is the hardest soil which the propagators of a new religion can have to work upon.= _Paley._
=General suffering is the fruit of general misbehaviour,= 40 =general dishonesty.= _Carlyle._
=General truths are seldom applied to particular occasions.= _Johnson._
=Generally all warlike people are a little idle, and love danger better than travail.= _Bacon._
=Generally speaking, an author's style is a faithful copy of his mind. If you would write a lucid style, let there first be light in your own mind; and if you would write a grand style, you ought to have a grand character.= _Goethe._
=Generations are as the days of toilsome mankind; death and birth are the vesper and the matin bells that summon mankind to sleep, and to rise refreshed for new advancement.= _Carlyle._
=Generosity during life is a very different thing= 45 =from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.= _Horace Mann._
=Generosity is catching: and if so many escape it, it is somewhat for the same reason that countrymen escape the small-pox--because they meet with no one to give it to them.= _Lord Greville._
=Generosity is the flower of justice.= _Hawthorne._
=Generosity is the part of the soul raised above the vulgar.= _Goldsmith._
=Generosity should never exceed ability.= _Cic._
=Generosity, wrong placed, becomes a vice.= 5 =A princely mind will undo a private family.= _Fuller._
=Generous souls are still most subject to credulity.= _Sir W. Davenant._
=Geniesse, wenn du kannst, und leide, wenn du musst, / Vergiss den Schmerz, erfrische das Vergnügen=--Enjoy if thou canst, endure if thou must; / forget the pain and revive the pleasure. _Goethe._
=Genius and virtue, like diamonds, are best plain set.= _Emerson._
=Genius always gives its best at first, prudence at last.= _Lavater._
=Genius begins great works, labour alone finishes= 10 =them.= _Joubert._
=Genius believes its faintest presentiment against the testimony of all history, for it knows that facts are not ultimates, but that a state of mind is the ancestor of everything.= _Emerson._
=Genius borrows nobly.= _Emerson._
=Genius can never despise labour.= _Abel Stevens._
=Genius cannot escape the taint of its time more than a child the influence of its begetting.= _Ouida._
=Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere= 15 =of freedom.= _J. S. Mill._
=Genius counts all its miracles poor and short.= _Emerson._
=Genius does not need a special language; it newly uses whatever tongue it finds.= _Stedman._
=Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.= _Owen Meredith._
=Genius easily hews out its figure from the block, but the sleepless chisel gives it life.= _Willmott._
=Genius, even as it is the greatest good, is the= 20 =greatest harm.= _Emerson._
=Genius ever stands with nature in solemn union, and what the one foretells the other will fulfil.= _Schiller._
=Genius finds its own road and carries its own lamp.= _Willmott._
=Genius grafted on womanhood is like to overgrow it and break its stem.= _Holmes._
=Genius has privileges of its own; it selects an orbit for itself; and be this never so eccentric, if it is indeed a celestial orbit, we mere star-gazers must at last compose ourselves, must cease to cavil at it, and begin to observe it and calculate its laws.= _Carlyle._
=Genius in poverty is never feared, because= 25 =Nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.= _B. R. Haydon._
=Genius invents fine manners, which the baron and the baroness copy very fast, and, by the advantage of a palace, better the instruction. They stereotype the lesson they have learned into a mode.= _Emerson._
=Genius is always ascetic, and piety and love.= _Emerson._
=Genius is always a surprise, but it is born with great advantages when the stock from which it springs has been long under cultivation.= _Holmes._
=Genius is always consistent when most audacious.= _Stedman._
=Genius is always impatient of its harness; its= 30 =wild blood makes it hard to train.= _Holmes._
=Genius is always more suggestive than expressive.= _Abel Stevens._
=Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over-influence.= _Emerson._
=Genius is a nervous disease.= _De Tours._
=Genius is ever a secret to itself.= _Carlyle._
=Genius is ever the greatest mystery to itself.= 35 _Schiller._
=Genius is inconsiderate, self-relying, and, like unconscious beauty, without any intention to please.= _I. M. Wise._
=Genius is intensity of life; an overflowing vitality which floods and fertilises a continent or a hemisphere of being; which makes a nature many-sided and whole, while most men remain partial and fragmentary.= _H. W. Mabie._
=Genius is lonely without the surrounding presence of a people to inspire it.= _T. W. Higginson._
=Genius is mainly an affair of energy.= _Matthew Arnold._
=Genius is not a single power, but a combination= 40 =of great powers. It reasons, but it is not reasoning; it judges, but it is not judgment; imagines, but it is not imagination; it feels deeply and fiercely, but it is not passion. It is neither, because it is all.= _Whipple._
=Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.= _Buffon._
=Genius is nothing but labour and diligence.= _Hogarth._
=Genius is nothing more than our common faculties refined to a greater intensity.= _Haydon._
=Genius is nothing more than the effort of the idea to assume a definite form.= _Fichte._
=Genius is nourished from within and without.= 45 _Willmott._
=Genius is only as rich as it is generous.= _Thoreau._
=Genius is religious.= _Emerson._
=Genius is that in whose power a man is.= _Lowell._
=Genius is that power of man which by its deeds and actions gives laws and rules; and it does not, as used to be thought, manifest itself only by over-stepping existing laws, breaking established rules, and declaring itself above all restraint.= _Goethe._
=Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the= 50 =miner who works and brings it out.= _Lady Blessington._
=Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.= _Coleridge._
=Genius is the transcendent capacity of taking trouble first of all.= _Carlyle._
=Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes.= _Simms._
=Genius is to other gifts what the carbuncle is to the precious stones. It sends forth its own light, whereas other stones only reflect borrowed light.= _Schopenhauer._
=Genius loci=--The presiding genius of the place.
=Genius makes its observations in shorthand; talent writes them out at length.= _Bovee._
=Genius may at times want the spur, but it stands as often in need of the curb.= _Longinus._
=Genius melts many ages into one.... A work= 5 =of genius is but the newspaper of a century, or perchance of a hundred centuries.= _Hawthorne._
=Genius must be born, and never can be taught.= _Dryden._
=Genius of a kind is necessary to make a fortune, and especially a large one.= _La Bruyère._
=Genius only commands recognition when it has created the taste which is to appreciate it.= _Froude._
=Genius only leaves behind it the monuments of its strength.= _Hazlitt._
=Genius should be the child of genius, and every= 10 =child should be inspired.= _Emerson._
=Genius, the Pythian of the beautiful, leaves its large truths a riddle to the dull.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.= _Beecher._
=Genius will reconcile men to much.= _Carlyle._
=Genius works in sport, and goodness smiles to the last.= _Emerson._
=Gens d'armes=--Armed police. _Fr._ 15
=Gens de bureau=--Officials in a government office. _Fr._
=Gens de condition=--People of rank. _Fr._
=Gens d'église=--Churchmen. _Fr._
=Gens de guerre=--Soldiers. _Fr._
=Gens de langues=--Linguists. _Fr._ 20
=Gens de lettres=--Literary people. _Fr._
=Gens de lois=--Lawyers. _Fr._
=Gens de même famille=--Birds of a feather. _Fr._
=Gens de peu=--The lower classes. _Fr._
=Gens togata=--The nation with the toga, _i.e._, the 25 Roman.
=Gentility is nothing else but ancient riches.= _Lord Burleigh._
=Gentility without ability is waur= (worse) =than plain begging.= _Sc. Pr._
=Gentle passions brighten the horizon of our existence, move without wearying, warm without consuming, and are the badges of true strength.= _Feuchtersleben._
=Gentle words, quiet words, are, after all, the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing.= _W. Gladden._
=Gentleman, in its primal, literal, and perpetual= 30 =meaning, is a man of pure race.= _Ruskin._
=Gentleman is a term which does not apply to any station, but to the mind and the feelings in every station.= _Talfourd._
=Gentlemanliness is just another word for intense humanity.= _Ruskin._
=Gentlemen have to learn that it is no part of their duty or privilege to live on other people's toil; that there is no degradation in the hardest manual or the humblest servile labour, when it is honest.= _Ruskin._
="Gentlemen of the jury, you will now consider your verdict."= _Lord Tenterden's last words._
=Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in= 35 =our manners.= _Blair._
=Gentleness! more powerful than Hercules.= _Ninon de l'Enclos._
=Gentleness, when it weds with manhood, makes a man.= _Tennyson._
=Gently comes the world to those / That are cast in gentle mould.= _Tennyson._
=Gently didst thou ramble round the little circle of thy pleasures, jostling no creature in thy way: for each one's sorrows thou hadst a tear; for each man's need thou hadst a shilling.= _Sterne's Uncle Toby._
=Gently, gently touch a nettle, / And it stings= 40 =you for your pains; / Grasp it like a man of mettle, / And it soft as silk remains.= _Aaron Hill._
=Genug ist über einer Sackvoll=--Enough excels a sackful. _Ger. Pr._
=Genuine morality depends on no religion, though every one sanctions it and thereby guarantees to it its support.= _Schopenhauer._
=Genuine religion is matter of feeling rather than matter of opinion.= _Bovee._
=Genuine simplicity of heart is a healing and cementing principle.= _Burke._
=Genus et proavos et quæ non fecimus ipsi, /= 45 =Vix ea nostra voco=--Birth, ancestry, and what we have ourselves not done, I would hardly call our own. _Ovid._
=Genus humanum superavit=--He surpassed the human race in natural ability. _Lucret._
=Genus immortale manet, multosque per annos / Stat fortuna domus, et avi numerantur avorum=--The race continues immortal, and through many years the fortune of the house stands steadfast, and it numbers grandsires of grandsires. _Virg._
=Genus irritabile vatum=--The sensitive tribe of poets.
[Greek: Gêraskô d' aei polla didaskomenos]--Always learning many things the older I grow. _Solon._
=Gerechtigkeit ist mehr die männliche, Menschenliebe= 50 =mehr die weibliche Tugend=--Justice is properly the virtue of the man, charity of the woman. _Schopenhauer._
=Geredt ist geredt, man kann es mit keinem Schwamme abwischen=--What is said is said; there is no sponge that can wipe it out. _Ger. Pr._
=Germanicè=--In German.
=Gescheite Leute sind immer das beste Konversationslexikon=--Clever people are always the best Conversations-lexicon. _Goethe._
=Geschichte ist eigentlich nichts anderes, als eine Satire auf die Menschheit=--History is properly nothing else but a satire on humanity. _C. J. Weber._
=Geschrei macht den Wolf grösser als er ist=--Fear 55 makes the wolf bigger than he is. _Ger. Pr._
=Gesellschaft ist die Grossmutter der Menschheit durch ihre Töchter, die Erfindungen=--Society is the grandmother of humanity through her daughters, the inventions. _C. J. Weber._
=Gesetz ist mächtig, mächtiger ist die Noth=--Law is powerful; necessity is more so. _Goethe._
=Gesetzlose Gewalt ist die furchbarste Schwäche=--Lawless power is the most frightful weakness. _Herder._
=Gespenster sind für solche Leute nur / Die sehn sie wollen=--Ghosts visit only those who look for them. _Holtei._
=Get a good name and go to sleep.= _Pr._
=Get money, honestly if you can, but get money.= _Pr._
=Get once into the secret of any Christian act, and you get practically into the secret of Christianity itself.= _Ed._
=Get on the crupper of a good stout hypothesis,= 5 =and you may ride round the world.= _Sterne._
=Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace; / If not, by any means get wealth and place.= _Pope._
=Get spindle and distaff ready, and God will send the flax.= _Pr._
=Get thee to a nunnery!= _Ham._, iii. 1.
=Get to live; / Then live and use it; else it is not true / That thou hast gotten.= _Herbert._
=Get what ye can and keep what ye hae.= _Sc._ 10 _Pr._
=Get your enemies to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.= _Pope._
=Geteilte Freud' ist doppelt Freude=--Joy shared is joy doubled. _Goethe._
=Gewalt ist die beste Beredsamkeit=--Power is the most persuasive rhetoric. _Schiller._
=Gewinnen ist leichter als Erhalten=--Getting is easier than keeping. _Ger. Pr._
=Gewöhne dich, da stets der Tod dir dräut, /= 15 =Dankbar zu nehmen, was das Leben beut=--Accustom thyself, since death ever threatens thee, to accept with a thankful heart whatever life offers thee. _Bodenstedt._
=Gewöhnlich glaubt Mensch, wenn er nur Worte hört, / Es müsse sich dabei doch auch was denken lassen=--Men generally believe, when they hear only words, that there must be something in it. _Goethe._
=Ghosts! There are nigh a thousand million walking the earth openly at noontide; some half-hundred have vanished from it, some half-hundred have arisen in it, ere thy watch ticks once.= _Carlyle._
=Giant Antæus in the fable acquired new strength every time he touched the earth; so some brave minds gain fresh energy from that which depresses and crushes others.= _Murphy._
=Gibier de potence=--A gallows-bird. _Fr._
=Gie a bairn his will and a whelp his fill, an'= 20 =neither will do well.= _Sc. Pr._
=Gie a beggar a bed, and he'll pay you with a louse.= _Sc. Pr._
=Gie him tow enough and he'll hang himsel'=, _i.e._, give him enough of his own way. _Sc. Pr._
=Gie me a canny hour at e'en, / My arms about my dearie, O, / An' warl'ly cares an' warl'ly men / May a' gang tapsalteerie, O.= _Burns._
=Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire! / That's a' the learning I desire; / Then though I drudge through dub and mire, / At pleugh or cart, / My Muse, though hamely in attire, / May touch the heart.= _Burns._
=Gie me a peck o' oaten strae, / An' sell your wind= 25 =for siller.= _The cow to the piper who put her off with piping to her._
=Gie the deil his due, an' ye'll gang till him.= _Sc. Pr._
=Gie the greedy dog a muckle bane.= _Sc. Pr._
=Gie wealth to some be-ledger'd cit, / In cent. per cent.; / But gie me real, sterling wit, / And I'm content.= _Burns._
=Gie your heart to God and your awms= (alms) =to the poor.= _Sc. Pr._
=Gie your tongue mair holidays than your head.= 30 _Sc. Pr._
=Giebt es Krieg, so macht der Teufel die Hölle weiter=--When war falls out, the devil enlarges hell. _Ger. Pr._
=Giebt's schönre Pflichten für ein edles Herz / Als ein Verteidiger der Unschuld sein, / Das Recht der unterdrückten zu beschirmen?=--What nobler task is there for a noble heart than to take up the defence of innocence and protect the rights of the oppressed? _Schiller._
=Gierigheid is niet verzadigd voor zij den mond vol aarde heeft=--Greed is never satisfied till its mouth is filled with earth. _Dut. Pr._
=Giff-gaff maks gude friends=, _i.e._, mutual giving. _Sc. Pr._
=Gift of prophecy has been wisely denied to= 35 =man. Did a man foresee his life, and not merely hope it and grope it, and so by necessity and free-will make and fabricate it into a reality, he were no man, but some other kind of creature, superhuman or subterhuman.= _Carlyle._
=Gifts are as gold that adorns the temple; grace is like the temple that sanctifies the gold.= _Burkett._
=Gifts are often losses.= _It. Pr._
=Gifts come from on high in their own peculiar forms.= _Goethe._
=Gifts from the hand are silver and gold, but the heart gives that which neither silver nor gold can buy.= _Ward Beecher._
=Gifts make their way through stone walls.= 40 _Pr._
=Gifts weigh like mountains on a sensitive heart.= _Mme. Fee._
=Gigni pariter cum corpore, et una / Crescere sentimus pariterque senescere mentem=--We see that the mind is born with the body, that it grows with it, and also ages with it. _Lucret._
=Gin= (if) =ye hadna been among the craws, ye wadna hae been shot.= _Sc. Pr._
=Giovine santo, diavolo vecchio=--A young saint, an old devil. _It. Pr._
=Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, / Suffering= 45 =yet hoping all things.= _Mrs. Hemans._
=Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.= _Goethe._
=Give a boy address and accomplishments, and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.= _Emerson._
=Give a dog an ill name and hang him.= _Pr._
=Give a hint to a man of sense and consider the thing done.= _Pr._
=Give alms, that thy children may not ask= 50 =them.= _Dan. Pr._
=Give a man luck and throw him into the sea.= _Pr._
=Give ample room and verge enough.= _Gray._
=Give an ass oats, and it runs after thistles.= _Dut. Pr._
=Give, and it shall be given to you.= _Jesus._
=Give and spend, / And God will send.= _Pr._ 55
=Give and take.= _Pr._
=Give a rogue rope enough, and he will hang himself.= _Pr._
=Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.= _Diderot._
=Give every flying minute / Something to keep in store.= _Walker._
=Give every man his due.= _Pr._
=Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; /= 5 =Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.= _Ham._, i. 3.
=Give from below what ye get from above, / Light for the heaven-light, love for its love, / A holy soul for the Holy Dove.= _Dr. Walter Smith._
=Give God the margin of eternity to justify Himself in.= _Haweis._
=Give him an inch and he'll take an ell.= _Pr._
=Give him a present! give him a halter.= _Mer. of Ven._, ii. 2.
=Give me again my hollow tree, / A crust of= 10 =bread, and liberty.= _Pope._
=Give me a look, give me a face, / That makes simplicity a grace, / Robes loosely flowing, hair as free; / Such sweet neglect more taketh me, / Than all the adulteries of art; / They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.= _Ben Jonson._
=Give me but / Something whereunto I may bind my heart; / Something to love, to rest upon, to clasp / Affection's tendrils round.= _Mrs. Hemans._
=Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.= _Emerson._
=Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds.... This idea has inspired the genius of Goldsmith, Burns, Cowper, and, in a newer time, of Goethe, Wordsworth, and Carlyle. Their writing is blood-warm.= _Emerson._
=Give me my Romeo: and, when he shall die, /= 15 =Take him and cut him out in little stars, / And he will make the face of heaven so fine / That all the world will be in love with night, / And pay no homage to the garish sun.= _Rom. and Jul._, iii. 2.
=Give me that man / Who is not passion's slave, and I will wear him / In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of hearts.= _Ham._, iii. 2.
=Give me the avow'd, th' erect, the manly foe, / Bold I can meet, perhaps may turn, his blow; / But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, / Save, save, oh! save me from the candid friend.= _Canning._
=Give me the eloquent cheek, where blushes burn and die.= _Mrs. Osgood._
=Give me the liberty to know, to think, to believe, and to utter freely, according to conscience, above all other liberties.= _Milton._
=Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked= 20 =for it.= _Pr._
=Give not that which is holy to the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine.= _Jesus._
=Give only so much to one that you may have to give to another.= _Dan. Pr._
=Give orders, but no more, and nothing will be done.= _Sp. and Port. Pr._
=Give pleasure to the few; to please many is vain.= _Schiller._
=Give ruffles to a man who wants a shirt.= _Fr._ 25 _Pr._ (?)
=Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak, / Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break.= _Macbeth_, iv. 3.
=Give the devil his due.= 1 _Hen. IV._, i. 2.
=Give the devil rope enough and he will hang himself.= _Pr._
=Give thy need, thine honour, and thy friend his due.= _Herbert._
=Give thy thoughts no tongue, / Nor any unproportioned= 30 =thought his act. / Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. / The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, / Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; / But do not dull thy palm with entertainment / Of each new-hatch'd unfledged comrade.= _Ham._, i. 3.
=Give to a gracious message / An host of tongues; but let ill tidings tell / Themselves when they be felt.= _Ant. and Cleo._, ii. 5.
=Give to him that asketh of thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.= _Jesus._
=Give to the masses nothing to do, and they will topple down thrones and cut throats; give them the government here, and they will make pulpits useless, and colleges an impertinence.= _Wendell Phillips._
=Give tribute, but not oblation, to human wisdom.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=Give unto me, made lowly wise, / The spirit of= 35 =self-sacrifice; / The confidence of reason give; / And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live.= _Wordsworth._
=Give us the man who sings at his work! Be his occupation what it may, he will be equal to any of those who follow the same pursuit in silent sullenness. He will do more in the same time; he will do it better; he will persevere longer.= _Carlyle._
=Give way to your betters.= _Pr._
=Give you a reason on compulsion? If reasons were as plenty as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion.= 1 _Hen. IV._, ii. 4.
=Give your tongue more holiday than your hands or eyes.= _Rabbi Ben Azai._
=Given a living man, there will be found clothes= 40 =for him; he will find himself clothes; but the suit of clothes pretending that it is both clothes and man--= _Carlyle._
=Given a world of knaves, to educe an Honesty from their united action, is a problem that is becoming to all men a palpably hopeless one.= _Carlyle._
=Given the men a people choose, the people itself, in its exact worth and worthlessness, is given.= _Carlyle._
=Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade / To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep, / Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy / To kings that fear their subjects' treachery.= 3 _Hen. VI._, ii. 5.
=Giving alms never lessens the purse.= _Sp. Pr._
=Giving away is the instrument for accumulated= 45 =treasures; it is like a bucket for the distribution of the waters deposited in the bowels of a well.= _Hitopadesa._
=Giving to the poor increaseth a man's store.= _Sc. Pr._
=Gladiator in arena consilium capit=--The gladiator is taking advice when he is already in the lists. _Pr._
=Glänzendes Elend=--Shining misery. _Goethe._
=Glasses and lasses are brittle ware.= _Sc. Pr._
=Glaube nur, du hast viel gethan / Wenn dir Geduld gewöhnest an=--Assure yourself you have accomplished no small feat if only you have learned patience. _Goethe._
[Greek: Glauk' Athênaze]--Owls to Athens.
=Glebæ ascriptus=--Attached to the soil. 5
=Gleiches Blut, gleiches Gut, und gleiche Jahre machen die besten Heirathspaare=--Like blood, like estate, and like age make the happiest wedded pair. _Ger. Pr._
=Gleich sei keiner dem andern; doch gleich sei jeder dem Höchsten. Wie das zu machen? Es sei jeder vollendet in sich=--Let no one be like another, yet every one like the Highest. How is this to be done? Be each one perfect in himself. _Goethe._
=Gleich und Gleich gesellt sich gern, sprach der Teufel zum Köhler=--Like will to like, as the devil said to the charcoal-burner. _Ger. Pr._
=Gleichheit est immer das festeste Band der Liebe=--Equality is the firmest bond of love. _Lessing._
=Gleichheit ist das heilige Gesetz der Menschheit=--Equality 10 is the holy law of humanity. _Schiller._
=Gli alberi grandi fanno più ombra che frutto=--Large trees yield more shade than fruit. _It. Pr._
=Gli amici legano la borsa con un filo di ragnatelo=--Friends tie their purses with a spider's thread. _It. Pr._
=Gli uomini alla moderna, e gli asini all' antica=--After the modern stamp men, and after the ancient, asses. _It. Pr._
=Gli uomini fanno la roba, e le donne la conservano=--Men make the wealth and women husband it. _It. Pr._
=Gli uomini hanno gli anni che sentono, e le= 15 =donne quelli che mostrano=--Men are as old as they feel, and women as they look. _It. Pr._
=Gli uomini hanno men rispetto di offendere uno che si facci amare che uno che si facci temere=--Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear. _Machiavelli._
=Gloria in excelsis Deo=--Glory to God in the highest.
=Gloria vana florece, y no grana=--Glory which is not real may flower, but will never fructify. _Sp. Pr._
=Gloria virtutis umbra=--Glory is the shadow (_i.e._, the attendant) of virtue.
=Gloriæ et famæ jactura facienda est, publicæ= 20 =utilitatis causa=--A surrender of glory and fame must be made for the public advantage. _Cic._
=Gloriam qui spreverit, veram habet=--He who despises glory will have true glory. _Livy._
=Glories, like glow-worms, afar-off shine bright, / But looked at near, have neither heat nor light.= _Webster._
=Glorious men are the scorn of wise men, the admiration of fools, the idols of parasites, and the slaves of their own vaunts.= _Bacon._
=Glory and gain the industrious tribe provoke; / And gentle dulness ever loves a joke.= _Pope._
=Glory fills the world with virtue, and, like a= 25 =beneficent sun, covers the whole earth with flowers and fruits.= _Vauvenargues._
=Glory grows guilty of detested crimes.= _Love's L. Lost_, iv. 1.
=Glory is like a circle in the water, / Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, / Till, by broad spreading, it disperse to naught.= 1 _Hen. VI._, i. 2.
=Glory is safe when it is deserved; not so popularity; the one lasts like mosaic, the other is effaced like a crayon drawing.= _Boufflers._
=Glory is so enchanting that we love whatever we associate with it, even though it be death.= _Pascal._
=Glory is the fair child of peril.= _Smollett._ 30
=Glory is the unanimous praise of good men.= _Cic._
=Glory long has made the sages smile, / 'Tis something, nothing, words, illusion, wind, / Depending more upon the historian's style / Than on the name a person leaves behind.= _Byron._
=Glory relaxes often and debilitates the mind; censure stimulates and contracts--both to an extreme.= _Shenstone._
=Glück auf dem Weg=--Good luck by the way. _Ger. Pr._
=Glück macht Mut=--Luck inspires pluck. _Goethe._ 35
=Glück und Weiber haben die Narren lieb=--Fortune and women have a liking for fools. _Ger. Pr._
=Glücklich, glücklich nenn' ich den / Dem des Daseins letzte Stunde / Schlägt in seiner Kinder Mitte=--Happy! happy call I him the last hour of whose life strikes in the midst of his children. _Grillparzer._
=Glücklich wer jung in jungen Tagen, / Glücklich wer mit Zeit gestählt, Gelernt des Lebens Ernst zu tragen=--Happy he who is young in youth, happy who is hardened as steel with time, has learned to bear life's earnestness. _Puschkin._
=Gluttony and drunkenness have two evils attendant on them; they make the carcass smart as well as the pocket.= _Marcus Antoninus._
=Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities= 40 =and the fountain of all our diseases. As a lamp is choked by a superabundance of oil, a fire extinguished by an excess of fuel, so is the natural health of the body destroyed by intemperate diet.= _Burton._
=Gluttony kills more than the sword.= _Pr._
=Gluttony, where it prevails, is more violent, and certainly more despicable, than avarice itself.= _Johnson._
=Gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite / The man that mocks at it and sets it light.= _Rich. II._, i. 3.
=Gnats are unnoticed whereso'er they fly, / But eagles gazed upon by every eye.= _Shakespeare._
[Greek: Gnôthi seauton]--Know thyself. 45
=Go deep enough, there is music everywhere.= _Carlyle._
=Go down the ladder when thou marriest a wife; go up when thou choosest a friend.= _Rabbi Ben Azai._
=Go, miser, go; for lucre sell thy soul; / Truck wares for wares, and trudge from pole to pole. / That men may say, when thou art dead and gone: / "See what a vast estate he left his son!"= _Dryden._
=Go, poor devil, get thee gone; why should I hurt thee? This world, surely, is wide enough to hold both thee and me.= _Uncle Toby to the fly that had tormented him, as he let it out by the window._
=Go to Jericho and let your beards grow.= _See_ 2 _Sam._ x. 5.
=Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.= _Bible._
=Go to your bosom; / Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know / That's like my brother's fault; if it confess / A natural guiltiness, such as his is, / Let it not sound a thought upon your tongue / Against my brother's life.= _Meas. for Meas._, ii. 2.
=Go where you may, you still find yourself in= 5 =a conditional world.= _Goethe._
=Go whither thou wilt, thou shalt find no rest but in humble subjection to the government of a superior.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Go, wondrous creature, mount where science guides. / Go, measure earth, weigh air, and state the tides; / Instruct the planets in what orbs to run, / Correct old Time, and regulate the sun; / Go, teach Eternal Wisdom how to rule, / Then drop into thyself and be a fool.= _Pope._
=Go you and try a democracy in your own house.= _Lycurgus, to one who asked why he had not instituted a democracy._
=Go, you may call it madness, folly; / You shall not chase my gloom away; / There's such a charm in melancholy, / I would not, if I could, be gay.= _Rogers._
=Gobe-mouches=--A fly-catcher; one easily gulled. 10 _Fr._
=God alone can properly bind up a bleeding heart.= _J. Roux._
=God alone is true; God alone is great; alone is God.= _Laboulaye._
=God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, / And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, / A gauntlet with a gift in it.= _Mrs. Browning._
=God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it; the only choice is how.= _Ward Beecher._
=God asks not what, but whence, thy work is:= 15 =from the fruit / He turns His eye away, to prove the inmost root.= _Trench._
=God assists those who rise early in the morning.= _Sp. Pr._
=God blesses still the generous thought, / And still the fitting word He speeds, / And truth, at His requiring taught, / He quickens into deeds.= _Whittier._
=God blesses the seeking, not the finding.= _Ger. Pr._
=God builds His temple in the heart and on the ruins of churches and religions.= _Emerson._
=God comes at last, when we think He is= 20 =farthest off.= _Pr._
=God comes in distress, and distress goes.= _Gael. Pr._
=God comes to see us without bell.= _Pr._
=God comes with leaden feet, but strikes with iron hands.= _Pr._
=God created man in his own image.= _Bible._
=God deals His wrath by weight, but His= 25 =mercy without weight.= _Pr._
=God deceiveth thee not.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=God defend me from the man of one book.= _Pr._
=God desireth to make your burden light to you, for man hath been created weak.= _Koran._
=God does not measure men by inches.= _Sc. Pr._
=God does not pay every week, but He pays at= 30 =the end.= _Dut. Pr._
=God does not require us to live on credit; He pays what we earn as we earn it, good or evil, heaven or hell, according to our choice.= _C. Mildmay._
=God does not smite with both hands.= _Sp. Pr._
=God does not weigh criminality in our scales. God's measure is the heart of the offender, a balance so delicate that a tear cast in the other side may make the weight of error kick the beam.= _Lowell._
=God does with His children as a master does with his pupils; the more hopeful they are, the more work He gives them to do.= _Plato._
=God enters by a private door into every individual.= 35 _Emerson._
=God estimates us not by the position we are in, but by the way in which we fill it.= _T. Edwards._
=God gave thy soul brave wings; put not those feathers / Into a bed to sleep out all ill weathers.= _Herbert._
=God gives all things to industry.= _Pr._
=God gives birds their food, but they must fly for it.= _Dut. Pr._
=God gives every bird its nest, but does not= 40 =throw it into the nest.= _J. G. Holland._
=God gives his angels charge of those who sleep, / But He Himself watches with those who wake.= _Harriet E. H. King._
=God gives sleep to the bad, in order that the good may be undisturbed.= _Saadi._
=God gives strength to bear a great deal, if we only strive ourselves to endure.= _Hans Andersen._
=God gives the will; necessity gives the law.= _Dan. Pr._
=God gives us love. Something to love / He= 45 =lends us; but when love is grown / To ripeness, that on which it throve / Falls off, and love is left alone.= _Tennyson._
=God giveth speech to all, song to the few.= _Dr. Walter Smith._
=God grant you fortune, my son, for knowledge avails you little.= _Sp. Pr._
=God hands gifts to some, whispers them to others.= _W. R. Alger._
=God hangs the greatest weights on the smallest wires.= _Bacon._
=God has been pleased to prescribe limits to His= 50 =own power, and to work out His ends within these limits.= _Paley._
=God has commanded time to console the unhappy.= _Joubert._
=God has connected the labour which is essential to the bodily sustenance with the pleasures which are healthiest for the heart; and while He made the ground stubborn, He made its herbage fragrant and its blossoms fair.= _Ruskin._
=God has delegated Himself to a million deputies.= _Emerson._
=God has given a prophet to every people in its own tongue.= _Arab Pr._
=God has given nuts to some who have no teeth.= _Port. Pr._
=God has given us wit and flavour, and brightness and laughter, and perfumes to enliven the days of man's pilgrimage, and to charm his pained steps over the burning marl.= _Sydney Smith._
=God has His little children out at nurse in many a home.= _Dr. Walter Smith._
=God has lent us the earth for our life; it is a great entail.= _Ruskin._
=God has made man to take pleasure in the use= 5 =of his eyes, wits, and body; and the foolish creature is continually trying to live without looking at anything, without thinking about anything, and without doing anything.= _Ruskin._
=God has made sunny spots in the heart; why should we exclude the light from them?= _Haliburton._
=God has not said all that thou hast said.= _Gael. Pr._
=God has sunk souls in dust, that by that means they may burst their way through errors to truth, through faults to virtue, and through sufferings to bliss.= _Engel._
=God hath anointed thee to free the oppressed and crush the oppressor.= _Bryant._
=God hath given to man a short time here upon= 10 =earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.= _Jeremy Taylor._
=God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another: you jig, you amble, and you lisp, and you nickname God's creatures, and make your wantonness your ignorance.= _Ham._, iii. 1.
=God hath many sharp-cutting instruments and rough files for the polishing of His jewels.= _Leighton._
=God hath yoked to Guilt her pale tormentor, Misery.= _Bryant._
=God help the children of dependence!= _Burns._
=God help the poor, for the rich can help themselves.= 15 _Sc. Pr._
=God help the rich folk, for the poor can beg.= _Sc. Pr._
=God help the sheep when the wolf is judge.= _Dan. Pr._
=God help the teacher, if a man of sensibility and genius, when a booby father presents him with his booby son, and insists on lighting up the rays of science in a fellow's head whose skull is impervious and inaccessible by any other way than a positive fracture with a cudgel.= _Burns._
=God helps the strongest.= _Ger. and Dut. Pr._
=God helps those who help themselves.= _Pr._ 20
=God Himself cannot do without wise men.= _Luther._
=God Himself cannot procure good for the wicked.= _Welsh Triad._
=God is able to do more than man can understand.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=God is a circle whose centre is everywhere, and its circumference nowhere.= _St. Augustine._
=God is a creditor who has no bad debts.= _Ger._ 25 _Pr._
=God is a good worker, but He loves to be helped.= _Basque Pr._
=God is alpha and omega in the great world; endeavour to make Him so in the little world.= _Quarles._
=God is always ready to strengthen those who strive lawfully.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=God is a shower to the heart burnt up with grief, a sun to the face deluged with tears.= _Joseph Roux._
=God is a sure paymaster. He may not pay= 30 =at the end of every week or month or year, but He pays in the end.= _Anne of Austria._
=God is a= _tabula rasa_, =on which nothing more stands written than what thou thyself hast inscribed thereon.= _Luther._
=God is at once the great original I and Thou.= _Jean Paul._
=God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.= _W. Penn._
=God is goodness itself, and whatsoever is good is of Him.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=God is glorified, not by our groans, but by our= 35 =thanksgivings; and all good thought and good action claim a natural alliance with good cheer.= _Willmott._
=God is great, and we know Him not; neither can the number of His years be searched out.= _Bible._
=God is great in what is the greatest and the smallest.= _Herder._
=God is greater than man.= _Bible._
=God is His own interpreter.= _Cowper._
=God is in heaven, and thou upon earth; therefore= 40 =let thy words be few.= _Bible._
=God is in the generation of the righteous.= _Bible._
=God is in the word "ought" and therefore it outweighs all but God.= _Joseph Cook._
=God is kind to fou= (drunk) =folk and bairns.= _Sc. Pr._
=God is light.= _St. John._
=God is love.= _St. John._ 45
=God is more delighted in adverbs than in nouns=, _i.e._, not in what is done so much as how it is done. _Heb. Pr._
=God is, nay, alone is; for with like emphasis we cannot say that anything else is.= _Carlyle._
=God is not a man, that He should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath He said it, and shall He not do it? or hath He spoken, and shall He not make it good?= _Bible._
=God is not found by the tests that detect you an acid or a salt.= _Dr. Walter Smith._
=God is not so poor in felicities or so niggard in= 50 =His bounty that He has not wherewithal to furnish forth two worlds.= _W. R. Greg._
=God is not to be known by marring His fair works and blotting out the evidence of His influences upon His creatures; not amidst the hurry of crowds and the crash of innovation, but in solitary places, and out of the glowing intelligences which He gave to men of old.= _Ruskin._
=God is on the side of virtue; for whoever dreads punishment suffers it, and whoever deserves it dreads it.= _Colton._
=God is patient, because eternal.= _St. Augustine._
=God is spirit.= _Jesus._
=God made all the creatures, and gave them our love and our fear, / To give sign we and they are His children, one family here.= _Browning._
=God is the great composer; men are only the performers. Those grand pieces which are played on earth were composed in heaven.= _Balzac._
=God is the light which, never seen itself, makes all things visible, and clothes itself in colours. Thine eye feels not its ray, but thine heart feels its warmth.= _Jean Paul._
=God is the number, the weight, and the measure which makes the world harmonious and eternal.= _Renan._
=God is the perfect poet, / Who in His person= 5 =acts His own creations.= _Browning._
=God is the reason of those who have no reason.= _Renan._
=God is where He was.= _Pr._
=God is with every great reform that is necessary, and it prospers.= _Goethe._
=God keep me from my friends; from my enemies I will keep myself.= _It. Pr._
=God knows I'm no the thing I should be, / Nor= 10 =am I ev'n the thing I could be; / But twenty times I rather would be / An atheist clean, / Than under Gospel colours hid be, / Just for a screen.= _Burns._
=God Konge er bedre end gammel Lov=--A good king is better than an old law. _Dan. Pr._
=God loveth a cheerful giver.= _St. Paul._
=God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man.= _Mer. of Ven._, i. 2.
=God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.= _Ward Beecher._
=God made man upright, but they have sought= 15 =out many inventions.= _Bible._
=God made me one man; love makes me no more / Till labour come, and make my weakness score.= _Herbert._
=God made the country; man made the town.= _Cowper._
=God made the flowers to beautify / The earth and cheer man's careful mood; / And he is happiest who hath power / To gather wisdom from a flower, / And wake his heart in every hour / To pleasant gratitude.= _Wordsworth._
=God made us, and we admire ourselves.= _Sp. Pr._
=God manifests Himself to men in all wise,= 20 =good, humble, generous, great, and magnanimous souls.= _Lavater._
=God may consent, but only for a time.= _Emerson._
=God moves in a mysterious way / His wonders to perform; / He plants His footsteps in the sea, / And rides upon the storm.= _Cowper._
=God must needs laugh outright, could such a thing be, to see His wondrous manikins here below.= _Hugo von Trimberg, quoted by Carlyle._
=God narrows Himself to come near man, and man narrows himself to come near God.= _Ed._
=God never forsakes His own.= _Pr._ 25
=God never imposes a duty without giving the time to do it.= _Ruskin._
=God never made His work for man to mend.= _Dryden._
=God never meant that man should scale the heavens / By strides of human wisdom.... He commands us in His Word / To seek Him rather where His mercy shines.= _Cowper._
=God never pardons; the laws of the universe are irrevocable. God always pardons; sense of condemnation is but another word for penitence, and penitence is already new life.= _Wm. Smith._
=God never sends mouths but He sends meat.= 30 _Dan. Pr._
=God never shuts one door but He opens another.= _Irish Pr._
=God offers to every man his choice between truth and repose.= _Emerson._
=God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.= _Joseph Roux._
=God only opened His hand to give flight to a thought that He had held imprisoned from eternity.= _J. G. Holland._
=God pardons like a mother, who kisses the= 35 =offence into everlasting forgetfulness.= _Ward Beecher._
=God permits, but not for ever.= _Pr._
=God said, Let there be light; and there was light.= _Bible._
=God save the fools, and don't let them run out; for, without them, wise men couldn't get a living.= _Amer. Pr._
=God save the mark.= 1 _Hen. IV._, i. 3.
=God send us some siller, for they're little= 40 =thought o' that want it.= _Sc. Pr._
=God send you mair sense and me mair siller.= _Sc. Pr._
=God sendeth and giveth both mouth and the meat.= _Tusser._
=God sends meat and the devil sends cooks.= _It. Pr._
=God sends nothing but what can be borne.= _It. Pr._
=God should be the object of all our desires,= 45 =the end of all our actions, the principle of all our affections, and the governing power of our whole souls.= _Massillon._
=God, sir, he gart kings ken that there was a lith in their neck.= _Boswell's father of Cromwell._
=God stays long, but strikes at last.= _Pr._
=God taketh an account of all things.= _Koran._
=God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.= _Sterne._
=God the first garden made, and the first city= 50 =Cain.= _Cowley._
=God, through the voice of Nature, calls the mass of men to be happy; He calls a few among them to the grander task of being severely but serenely sad.= _W. R. Greg._
=God trusts every one with the care of his own soul.= _Sc. Pr._
=God will accept your first attempt, not as a perfect work, but as a beginning.= _Ward Beecher._
=God will not make Himself manifest to cowards.= _Emerson._
=God will punish him who sees and him who is= 55 =seen.= _Eastern saying._
=God, when He makes the prophet, does not unmake the man.= _Locke._
=God works in moments.= _Fr. Pr._
=God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers, and clouds and stars.= _Luther._
=God's commandments are the iron door into Himself. To keep them is to have it opened, and His great heart of love revealed.= _S. W. Duffield._
=God's creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself indeed in every finite form, but compromised by none.= _Henry James._
=God's free mercy streameth / Over all the= 5 =world, / And His banner gleameth, / Everywhere unfurled.= _How._
=God's goodness is the measure of His providence.= _More._
=God's help is nearer than the door.= _Irish Pr._
=God's in His heaven: / All's right with the world!= _Browning._
=God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, / Rests never on the track till it reach / Delinquency.= _Browning._
=God's men are better than the devil's men, and= 10 =they ought to act as though they thought they were.= _Ward Beecher._
=God's mill grinds slow but sure.= _George Herbert._
=God's mills grind slow, but they grind woe.= _Eastern saying._
=God's providence is on the side of clear heads.= _Ward Beecher._
=God's sovereignty is not in His right hand or His intellect, but His love.= _Ward Beecher._
=Gods water over Gods akker laten loopen=--Let 15 God's waters run over God's fields. _Dut. Pr._
=God's way of making worlds is to make them make themselves.= _Prof. Drummond._
=Godfrey sent the thief that stole the cash away, / And punished him that put it in his way.= _Pope._
="Godlike men love lightning;" godless men love it not; shriek murder when they see it, shutting their eyes, and hastily putting on smoked spectacles.= _Carlyle._
=Godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.= _St. Paul._
=Godliness with contentment is great gain.= _St._ 20 _Paul._
=Godly souls have often interdicted the gratifications of the flesh in order to help their spirits in the Godward direction.= _John Pulsford._
=Godt Haandværk har en gylden Grund=--A good handicraft rests on a golden foundation. _Dan. Pr._
=Goed verloren, niet verloren; moed verloren, veel verloren; eer verloren, meer verloren; ziel verloren, al verloren=--Money lost, nothing lost; courage lost, much lost; honour lost, more lost; soul lost, all lost. _Dut. Pr._
=Goethe's devil is a cultivated personage and acquainted with the modern sciences; sneers at witchcraft and the black art even while employing them, and doubts most things, nay, half disbelieves even his own existence.= _Carlyle._
=Going by railroad I do not consider as travelling= 25 =at all; it is merely "being sent" to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.= _Ruskin._
=Going to ruin is silent work.= _Gael. Pr._
=Gold and diamonds are not riches.= _Ruskin._
=Gold beheert de wereld=--Gold rules the world. _Dut. Pr._
=Gold does not satisfy love; it must be paid in its own coin.= _Mme. Deluzy._
=Gold, father of flatterers, of pain and care= 30 =begot, / A fear it is to have thee, and a pain to have thee not.= _Palladas._
=Gold glitters most when virtue shines no more.= _Young._
=Gold has wings which carry everywhere except to heaven.= _Rus. Pr._
=Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding; it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant, accommodates itself to the meanest capacities, silences the loud and clamorous, and brings over the most obstinate and inflexible.= _Addison._
=Gold is Cæsar's treasure, man is God's; thy gold hath Cæsar's image, and thou hast God's.= _Quarles._
=Gold is the fool's curtain, which hides all his= 35 =defects from the world.= _Feltham._
=Gold is the sovereign of all sovereigns.= _Pr._
=Gold is tried in the fire, friendship in need.= _Dan. Pr._
=Gold liegt tief im Berge, aber Koth am Wege=--Gold lies deep in the mountain, but dirt on the highway. _Ger. Pr._
=Gold, like the sun, which melts wax and hardens clay, expands great souls and contracts bad hearts.= _Rivarol._
=Gold that is put to use more gold begets.= 40 _Sh._
=Gold thou may'st safely touch; but if it stick / Unto thy hands, it woundeth to the quick.= _Herbert._
=Gold, worse poison to men's souls, / Doing more murder in this loathsome world, / Than these poor compounds that thou may'st not sell.= _Sh._
=Gold's worth is gold.= _It. Pr._
=Golden chains are heavy, and love is best!= _Dr. Walter Smith._
=Golden lads and girls all must, / As chimney-sweepers,= 45 =come to dust.= _Cymb._, iv. 2.
=Gone for ever is virtue, once so prevalent in the state, when men deem a mischievous citizen worse than its bitterest enemy, and punish him with severer penalties.= _Cic._
=Gone is gone; no Jew will lend upon it.= _Ger. Pr._
=Good actions done in secret are the most worthy of honour.= _Pascal._
=Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.= _S. Smiles._
=Good advice can be given, a good name cannot= 50 =be given.= _Turk. Pr._
=Good advice / Is beyond all price.= _Pr._
=Good advice may be communicated, but not good manners.= _Turk. Pr._
=Good ale needs no wisp= (of hay for advertisement). _Sc. Pr._
=Good and bad men are less so than they seem.= _Coleridge._
=Good and evil are names that signify our appetites and aversions.= _Hobbes._
=Good and evil will grow up in this world together; and they who complain in peace of the insolence of the populace must remember that their insolence in peace is bravery in war.= _Johnson._
=Good and quickly seldom meet.= _Pr._
=Good as is discourse, silence is better, and shames it.= _Emerson._
=Good bees never turn drones.= _Pr._ 5
=Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen, the more select the more enjoyable.= _A. B. Alcott._
=Good bread needs baking.= _Pr. in Goethe._
=Good-breeding carries along with it a dignity that is respected by the most petulant.= _Chesterfield._
=Good-breeding differs, if at all, from high-breeding, only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own.= _Carlyle._
=Good-breeding is benevolence in trifles, or the= 10 =preference of others to ourselves in the little daily occurrences of life.= _Chatham._
=Good-breeding is surface Christianity.= _Holmes._
=Good-breeding is the result of much good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.= _Chesterfield._
=Good-breeding shows itself most where to an ordinary eye it appears least.= _Addison._
=Good-bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine.= _Emerson._
=Good company and good discourse are the= 15 =very sinews of virtue.= _Izaak Walton._
=Good company upon the road is the shortest cut.= _Pr._
=Good counsel is no better than bad counsel, if it is not taken in time.= _Dan. Pr._
=Good counsel rejected returns to enrich the giver's bosom.= _Goldsmith._
=Good counsels observed are chains to grace.= _Fuller._
=Good counsel tendered to fools rather provokes= 20 =than satisfies them. A draught of milk to serpents only increases their venom.= _Hitopadesa._
=Good counsel without good fortune is a windmill without wind.= _Ger. Pr._
=Good counsellors lack no clients.= _Meas. for Meas._, i. 2.
=Good courage breaks ill-luck.= _Pr._
=Good deeds in this life are coals raked up in embers to make a fire next day.= _Sir T. Overbury._
=Good discourse sinks differences and seeks= 25 =agreements.= _A. B. Alcott._
=Good digestion wait on appetite, / And health on both.= _Macb._, iii. 4.
=Good example always brings forth good fruits.= _S. Smiles._
=Good example is half a sermon.= _Ger. Pr._
=Good fortune is the offspring of our endeavours, although there be nothing sweeter than ease.= _Hitopadesa._
=Good gear goes in sma' book= (bulk). _Sc. Pr._ 30
=Good-humour and generosity carry the day with the popular heart all the world over.= _Alex. Smith._
=Good-humour may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society.= _Thackeray._
=Good hunters track closely.= _Dut. Pr._
=Good husbandry is good divinity.= _Pr._
=Good is a good doctor, but Bad is sometimes= 35 =better.= _Emerson._
=Good is best when soonest wrought, / Lingering labours come to nought.= _Southwell._
=Good is good, but better carrieth it.= _Pr._
=Good is never a something into which a man can be borne, but always a something born of the man, which he himself carries, and which does not carry him.= _Ed._
=Good is not got without grief.= _Gael. Pr._
=Good is the delay that makes sure.= _Port._ 40 _Pr._
=Good judges are as rare as good authors.= _St. Evremond._
=Good laws often proceed from bad manners.= _Pr._
=Good leading makes good following.= _Dut. Pr._
=Good luck comes by cuffing.= _Pr._
=Good luck is the willing handmaid of upright,= 45 =energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.= _Lowell._
=Good luck lies in odd numbers.= _Merry Wives_, v. 1.
=Good management is better than a good income.= _Port. Pr._
=Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.= _Emerson._
=Good manners are part of good morals.= _Whately._
=Good manners give integrity a bleeze, / When= 50 =native virtues join the arts to please.= _Allan Ramsay._
=Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy is the best bred in the company.= _Swift._
=Good maxims are the germs of all excellence.= _Joubert._
=Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.= _Ben Jonson._
=Good mind, good find.= _Pr._
=Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, /= 55 =Is the immediate jewel of their souls; / Who steals my purse, steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; / 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands; / But he that filches from me my good name, / Robs me of that which not enriches him, / And makes me poor indeed.= _Othello_, iii. 2.
=Good-nature and good sense are usually companions.= _Pope._
=Good-nature and good sense must ever join; / To err is human, to forgive divine.= _Pope._
=Good-nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.= _Addison._
=Good-nature is stronger than tomahawks.= _Emerson._
=Good-nature is the beauty of the mind, and,= 60 =like personal beauty, wins almost without anything else.= _Hanway._
=Good-nature is the very air of a good mind, the sign of a large and generous soul, and the peculiar soil in which virtue flourishes.= _Goodman._
=Good-night, good-night; parting is such sweet sorrow / That I will say good-night till it be to-morrow.= _Rom. and Jul._, ii. 2.
=Good pastures make fat sheep.= _As You Like It_, iii. 2.
=Good people live far apart.= _Ger. Pr._
=Good poetry is always personification, and= 5 =heightens every species of force by giving it a human volition.= _Emerson._
=Good poets are the inspired interpreters of the gods.= _Plato._
=Good qualities are the substantial riches of the mind, but it is good-breeding that sets them off to advantage.= _Locke._
=Good reasons must of force give place to better.= _Jul. Cæs._, iv. 3.
=Good right needs good help.= _Dut. Pr._
=Good-sense and good-nature are never separated,= 10 =though the ignorant world has thought otherwise.= _Dryden._
=Good-sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, / And though no science, fairly worth the seven.= _Pope._
=Good shepherd, tell this youth what 'tis to love.... It is to be all made of sighs and tears.... It is to be all made of faith and service.... It is to be all made of fantasy, / All made of passion, and all made of wishes; / All adoration, duty, and observance; / All humbleness, all patience, and impatience; / All purity, all trial, all observance.= _As You Like It_, v. 2.
=Good sword has often been in poor scabbard.= _Gael. Pr._
=Good take heed / Doth surely speed.= _Pr._
=Good taste cannot supply the place of genius= 15 =in literature, for the best proof of taste, when there is no genius, would be not to write at all.= _Mme. de Staël._
=Good taste comes more from the judgment than from the mind.= _La Roche._
=Good taste is the flower of good sense.= _A. Poincelot._
=Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired.= _Mme. Girardin._
=Good the more / Communicated more abundant grows.= _Milton._
=Good things take time.= _Dut. Pr._ 20
=Good thoughts are no better than good dreams unless they be executed.= _Emerson._
=Good to begin well, but better to end well.= _Pr._
=Good to the heels the well-worn slipper feels / When the tired player shuffles off the buskin; / A page of Hood may do a fellow good / After a scolding from Carlyle or Ruskin.= _Lowell._
=Good unexpected, evil unforeseen, / Appear by turns, as fortune shifts the scene; / Some rais'd aloft, come tumbling down amain / And fall so hard, they bound and rise again.= _Lord Lansdowne._
=Good ware makes a quick market.= _Pr._ 25
=Good-will is everything in morals, but nothing in art; in art, capability alone is anything.= _Schopenhauer._
=Good-will, like a good name, is got by many actions and lost by one.= _Jeffrey._
=Good wine is a good familiar creature, if it be well used.= _Othello_, ii. 3.
=Good wine is its own recommendation.= _Dut. Pr._
=Good wine needs no brandy.= _Amer. Pr._ 30
=Good wine needs no bush=, _i.e._, advertisement. _Pr._
=Good women grudge each other nothing, save only clothes, husbands, and flax.= _Jean Paul._
=Good words and no deeds.= _Pr._
=Good words cool more than cold water.= _Pr._
=Good words cost nothing and are worth much.= 35 _Pr._
=Good words do more than hard speeches; as the sunbeams, without any noise, will make the traveller cast off his cloak, which all the blustering winds could not do, but only make him bind it closer to him.= _Leighton._
=Good works will never save you, but you will never be saved without them.= _Pr._
=Good writing and brilliant discourse are perpetual allegories.= _Emerson._
=Goodman Fact is allowed by everybody to be a plain-spoken person, and a man of very few words; tropes and figures are his aversion.= _Addison._
=Goodness and being in the gods are one; / He= 40 =who imputes ill to them makes them none.= _Euripides._
=Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.= _Chapin._
=Goodness is beauty in its best estate.= _Marlowe._
=Goodness is everywhere, and is everywhere to be found, if we will only look for it.= _P. Desjardins._
=Gorgons, and hydras, and chimæras dire.= _Milton._
=Gossiping and lying go hand in hand.= _Pr._ 45
=Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it; it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.= _George Eliot._
=Gott hilft nur dann, wenn Menschen nicht mehr helfen=--God comes to our help only when there is no more help for us in man. _Schiller._
=Gott ist ein unaussprechlicher Seufzer, in Grunde der Seele gelegen=--God is an unutterable sigh planted in the depth of the soul. _Jean Paul._
=Gott ist eine leere Tafel, auf der / Nichts weiter steht, als was du selbst / Darauf geschrieben=--God is a blank tablet on which nothing further is inscribed than what thou hast thyself written thereupon. _Luther._
=Gott ist mächtiger und weiser als wir; darum= 50 =macht er mit uns nach seinem Gefallen=--God is mightier and wiser than we; therefore he does with us according to his good pleasure. _Goethe._
=Gott ist überall, ausser wo er seinem Statthalter hat=--God is everywhere except where his vicar is. _Ger. Pr._
=Gottlob! wir haben das Original=--God be praised, we have still the original. _Lessing._
=Gott macht gesund, und der Doktor kriegt das Geld=--God cures us, and the doctor gets the fee. _Ger. Pr._
=Gott mit uns=--God with us. _Ger._
=Gott müsst ihr im Herzen suchen und finden=--Ye must seek and find God in the heart. _Jean Paul._
=Gott schuf ja aus Erden den Ritter und Knecht. / Ein hoher Sinn adelt auch niedres Geschlecht=--God created out of the clay the knight and his squire. A higher sense ennobles even a humble race. _Bürger._
=Gott-trunkener Mensch=--A god-intoxicated man. _Novalis, of Spinoza._
=Gott verlässt den Mutigen nimmer=--God never 5 forsakes the stout of heart. _Körner._
=Göttern kann man nicht vergelten; / Schön ist's, ihnen gleich zu sein=--We cannot recompense the gods; beautiful it is to be like them. _Schiller._
=Gottes Freund, der Pfaffen Feind=--God's friend, priest's foe. _Ger. Pr._
=Gottes ist der Orient, / Gottes ist der Occident, / Nord-und Südliches Gelände / Ruht im Friede seiner Hände=--God's is the east, God's is the west; north region and south rests in the peace of his hands. _Goethe._
=Gottes Mühle geht langsam, aber sie mahlt fein=--God's mill goes slow, but it grinds fine. _Ger. Pr._
=Göttliche Apathie und thierische Indifferenz= 10 =werden nur zu oft verwechselt=--Divine indifference and brutish indifference are too often confounded. _Feuchtersleben._
=Goutte à goutte=--Drop by drop. _Fr._
=Govern the lips as they were palace-doors, the king within; / Tranquil and fair and courteous be all words which from that presence win.= _Sir Edwin Arnold._
=Government and co-operation are in all things the laws of life; anarchy and competition, the laws of death.= _Ruskin._
=Government arrogates to itself that it alone forms men.... Everybody knows that Government never began anything. It is the whole world that thinks and governs.= _Wendell Phillips._
=Government began in tyranny and force, in= 15 =the feudalism of the soldier and the bigotry of the priest; and the ideas of justice and humanity have been fighting their way like a thunderstorm against the organised selfishness of human nature.= _Wendell Phillips._
=Government has been a fossil; it should be a plant.= _Emerson._
=Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.= _Burke._
=Government is a necessary evil, like other go-carts and crutches. Our need of it shows exactly how far we are still children. All governing over-much kills the self-help and energy of the governed.= _Wendell Phillips._
=Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.= _H. Clay._
=Government is the greatest combination of= 20 =forces known to human society. It can command more men and raise more money than any and all other agencies combined.= _D. D. Field._
=Government must always be a step ahead of the popular movement= (_Bewegung_). _Count Arnim._
=Government of the people, by the people and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.= _Abraham Lincoln._
=Government of the will is better than increase of knowledge.= _Pr._
=Government should direct poor men what to do.= _Emerson._
=Governments exist only for the good of the= 25 =people.= _Macaulay._
=Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.= _Wendell Phillips._
=Governments have their origin in the moral identity of men.= _Emerson._
=Gowd= (gold) =gets in at ilka= (every) =gate except heaven.= _Sc. Pr._
=Gowd is gude only in the hand o' virtue.= _Sc. Pr._
=Goza tû de tu poco, mientras busca mas el= 30 =loco=--Enjoy your little while the fool is in search of more. _Sp. Pr._
=Grace abused brings forth the foulest deeds, / As richest soil the most luxuriant weeds.= _Cowper._
=Grace has been defined the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.= _Hazlitt._
=Grace in women has more effect than beauty.= _Hazlitt._
=Grace is a light superior to Nature, which should direct and preside over it.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Grace is a plant, where'er it grows / Of pure= 35 =and heavenly root; / But fairest in the youngest shows, / And yields the sweetest fruit.= _Cowper._
=Grace is in garments, in movements, and manners; beauty in the nude and in forms.= _Joubert._
=Grace is more beautiful than beauty.= _Emerson._
=Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.= _Schiller._
=Grace is the proper relation of the acting person to the action.= _Winckelmann._
=Grace is to the body what good sense is to the= 40 =mind.= _La Roche._
=Grace pays its respects to true intrinsic worth, not to the mere signs and trappings of it, which often only show where it ought to be, not where it really is.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Grace was in all her steps, heav'n in her eye, / In every gesture dignity and love.= _Milton._
=Gracefulness cannot subsist without ease.= _Rousseau._
=Gradatim=--Step by step; by degrees.
=Gradu diverso, via una=--By different steps but 45 the same way.
=Gradus ad Parnassum=--A help to the composition of classic poetry.
=Græcia capta ferum victorem cepit, et artes / Intulit agresti Latio=--Greece, conquered herself, in turn conquered her uncivilised conqueror, and imported her arts into rusticated Latium. _Hor._
=Gram. loquitur; Dia. vera docet; Rhe. verba colorat; Mu. canit; Ar. numerat; Geo. ponderat; As. docet astra=--Grammar speaks; dialectics teaches us truth; rhetoric gives colouring to our speech; music sings; arithmetic reckons; geometry measures; astronomy teaches us the stars.
=Grammar knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hand make them obey.= _Molière._
=Grammaticus Rhetor Geometres Pictor Aliptes / Augur Schœnobates Medicus Magus--omnia novit=--Grammarian, rhetorician, geometrician, painter, anointer, augur, tight-rope dancer, physician, magician--he knows everything. _Juv._
=Grain of glory mixt with humbleness / Cures both a fever and lethargicness.= _Herbert._
=Grand besoin a de fol qui de soi-même le fait=--He has great need of a fool who makes himself one. _Fr. Pr._
=Grand bien ne vient pas en peu d'heures=--Great 5 wealth is not gotten in a few hours. _Fr._
=Grande parure=--Full dress. _Fr._
=Grandescunt aucta labore=--They grow with increase of toil. _M._
=Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other.= _Shenstone._
=Grandeur has a heavy tax to pay.= _Alex. Smith._
=Grand parleur, grand menteur=--Great talker, 10 great liar. _Fr. Pr._
=Grand venteur, petit faiseur=--Great boaster, little doer. _Fr. Pr._
=Grant but memory to us, and we can lose nothing by death.= _Whittier._
=Granted the ship comes into harbour with shrouds and tackle damaged; the pilot is blameworthy; he has not been all-wise and all-powerful; but to know how blameworthy, tell us first whether his voyage has been round the globe or only to Ramsgate and the Isle of Dogs.= _Carlyle._
=Gran victoria es la que sin sangre se alcanza=--Great is the victory that is gained without bloodshed. _Sp. Pr._
=Grasp all, lose all.= _Pr._ 15
=Grass grows not on the highway.= _Pr._
=Gratia naturam vincit=--Grace overcomes Nature.
=Grata superveniet quæ non sperabitur hora=--The hour of happiness will come the more welcome when it is not expected. _Hor._
=Gratiæ expectativæ=--Expected benefits.
=Gratia gratiam parit=--Kindness produces kindness. 20 _Pr._
=Gratia, Musa, tibi. Nam tu solatia præbes; / Tu curæ requies, tu medicina mali=--Thanks to thee, my Muse. For thou dost afford me comfort; thou art a rest from my cares, a cure for my woes. _Ovid._
=Gratia placendi=--The satisfaction of pleasing.
=Gratia pro rebus merito debetur inemtis=--Thanks are justly due for things we have not to pay for. _Ovid._
=Gratior et pulchro veniens in corpore virtus=--Even virtue appears more lovely when enshrined in a beautiful form. _Virg._
=Gratis=--For nothing. 25
=Gratis anhelans, multa agendo nihil agens=--Out of breath for nothing, making much ado about nothing. _Phæd._
=Gratis asseritur=--It is asserted but not proved.
=Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.= _Rousseau._
=Gratitude is a keen sense of favours to come.= _Talleyrand._
=Gratitude is a species of justice.= _Johnson._ 30
=Gratitude is memory of the heart.= (?)
=Gratitude is never conferred but where there have been previous endeavours to excite it; we consider it as a debt, and our spirits wear a load till we have discharged the obligation.= _Goldsmith._
=Gratitude is one of the rarest of virtues.= _Theodore Parker._
=Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul; and the heart of man knoweth none more fragrant.= _H. Ballou._
=Gratitude is the least of virtues, ingratitude= 35 =the worst of vices.= _Pr._
=Gratitude is with most people only a strong desire for greater benefits to come.= _La Roche._
=Gratitude once refused can never after be recovered.= _Goldsmith._
=Gratitude which consists in good wishes may be said to be dead, as faith without good works is dead.= _Cervantes._
=Gratis dictum=--Said to no purpose; irrelevant to the question at issue.
=Gratum hominem semper beneficium delectat;= 40 =ingratum semel=--A kindness is always delightful to a grateful man; to an ungrateful, only at the time of its receipt. _Sen._
=Grau' Haare sind Kirchhofsblumen=--Gray hairs are churchyard flowers. _Ger. Pr._
=Grau, teurer Freund, ist alle Theorie, / Und grün des Lebens goldner Baum=--Gray, dear friend, is all theory, and green life's golden tree. _Goethe._
=Grave nihil est homini quod fert necessitas=--No burden is really heavy to a man which necessity lays on him.
=Grave paupertas malum est, et intolerabile, quæ magnum domat populum=--The poverty which oppresses a great people is a grievous and intolerable evil.
=Grave pondus illum magna nobilitas premit=--His 45 exalted rank weighs heavy on him as a grievous burden. _Sen._
=Grave senectus est hominibus pondus=--Old age is a heavy burden to man.
=Graves, the dashes in the punctuation of our lives.= _S. W. Duffield._
=Grave virus / Munditiæ pepulere=--More elegant manners expelled this offensive style. _Hor._
=Graviora quædam sunt remedia periculis=--Some remedies are worse than the disease. _Pub. Syr._
=Gravis ira regum semper=--The anger of kings 50 is always heavy. _Sen._
=Gravissimum est imperium consuetudinis=--The empire of custom is most mighty. _Pub. Syr._
=Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body, invented to cover the defects of the mind.= _La Roche._
=Gravity is a taught trick to gain credit of the world for more sense and knowledge than a man is worth.= _Sterne._
=Gravity is only the bark of wisdom, but it preserves it.= _Confucius._
=Gravity is the ballast of the soul, which keeps= 55 =the mind steady.= _Fuller._
=Gravity is the best cloak for sin in all countries.= _Fielding._
=Gravity is the inseparable companion of pride.= _Goldsmith._
=Gravity is twin brother to stupidity.= _Bovee._
=Gravity, with all its pretensions, was no better, but often worse, than what a French wit had long ago defined it, viz., a mysterious carriage of the body to cover the defects of the mind.= _Sterne._
=Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the light of a soft moon, silvering over the evening of life.= _Jean Paul._
=Gray is all theory, and green the while is the golden tree of life.= _Goethe._
=Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing....= 5 =His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff; you will seek all day ere you find them; and when you have them, they are not worth the search.= _Mer. of Ven._, i. 1.
=Great actions crown themselves with lasting bays; / Who well deserves needs not another's praise.= _Heath._
=Great acts grow out of great occasions, and great occasions spring from great principles, working changes in society and tearing it up by the roots.= _Hazlitt._
=Great ambition is the passion of a great character. He who is endowed with it may perform very good or very bad actions; all depends upon the principles which direct him.= _Napoleon._
=Great art dwells in all that is beautiful; but false art omits or changes all that is ugly. Great art accepts Nature as she is, but directs the eyes and thoughts to what is most perfect in her; false art saves itself the trouble of direction by removing or altering whatever is objectionable.= _Ruskin._
=Great attention to what is said and sweetness= 10 =of speech, a great degree of kindness and the appearance of awe, are always tokens of a man's attachment.= _Hitopadesa._
=Great barkers are nae biters.= _Sc. Pr._
=Great boast, small roast.= _Pr._
=Great books are written for Christianity much oftener than great deeds are done for it.= _H. Mann._
=Great causes are never tried on their merits; but the cause is reduced to particulars to suit the size of the partisans, and the contention is ever hottest on minor matters.= _Emerson._
=Great countries are those that produce great= 15 =men.= _Disraeli._
=Great cowardice is hidden by a bluster of daring.= _Lucan._
=Great cry but little wool, as the devil said when he shear'd his hogs.= _Pr._
=Great deeds cannot die; / They with the sun and moon renew their light, / For ever blessing those that look on them.= _Tennyson._
=Great deeds immortal are--they cannot die, / Unscathed by envious blight or withering frost, / They live, and bud, and bloom; and men partake / Still of their freshness, and are strong thereby.= _Aytoun._
=Great dejection often follows great enthusiasm.= 20 _Joseph Roux._
=Great edifices, like great mountains, are the work of ages.= _Victor Hugo._
=Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.= _Goethe._
=Great, ever fruitful; profitable for reproof, for encouragement, for building up in manful purposes and works, are the words of those that in their day were men.= _Carlyle._
=Great evils one triumphs over bravely, but the little eat away one's heart.= _Mrs. Carlyle._
=Great fleas have little fleas / Upon their backs= 25 =to bite 'em; / And little fleas have lesser fleas, / And so ad infinitum.= _Lowell._
=Great folks have five hundred friends because they have no occasion for them.= _Goldsmith._
=Great fools have great bells.= _Dut. Pr._
=Great genial power consists in being altogether receptive.= _Emerson._
=Great geniuses have always the shortest biographies.= _Emerson._
=Great gifts are for great men.= _Pr._ 30
=Great God, I had rather be / A Pagan suckled in some creed outworn; / So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, / Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn.= _Wordsworth._
=Great grief makes those sacred upon whom its hand is laid. Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate.= _H. Greeley._
=Great griefs medicine the less.= _Cymbeline_, iv. 2.
=Great haste makes great waste.= _Ben. Franklin._
=Great honours are great burdens; but on= 35 =whom / They're cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.= _Ben Jonson._
=Great joy is only earned by great exertion.= _Goethe._
=Great is he who enjoys his earthenware as if it were plate, and not less great the man to whom all his plate is no more than earthenware.= _Sen._
=Great is not great to the greater.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=Great is self-denial! Life goes all to ravels and tatters where that enters not.= _Carlyle._
=Great is song used to great ends.= _Tennyson._ 40
=Great is the soul, and plain. It is no flatterer, it is no follower; it never appeals from itself.= _Emerson._
=Great is the strength of an individual soul true to its high trust; mighty is it, even to the redemption of a world.= _Mrs. Child._
=Great is truth, and mighty above all things.= _Apocrypha._
=Great is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated; it is the highest achievement of man.= _Carlyle._
=Great joy, especially after a sudden change= 45 =and revolution of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.= _Fielding._
=Great knowledge, if it be without vanity, is the most severe bridle of the tongue.= _Jeremy Taylor._
=Great lies are as great as great truths, and prevail constantly and day after day.= _Thackeray._
=Great lords have great hands, but they do not reach to heaven.= _Dan. Pr._
=Great Mammon!--greatest god below the sky.= _Spenser._
=Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.= _Arist._
=Great men are among the best gifts which God bestows upon a people.= _G. S. Hillard._
=Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.= _Schopenhauer._
=Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality.= _Emerson._
=Great men are never sufficiently known but in= 5 =struggles.= _Burke._
=Great men are not always wise.= _Bible._
=Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.= _T. W. Higginson._
=Great men are sincere.= _Emerson._
=Great men are the fire-pillars in this dark pilgrimage of mankind; they stand as heavenly signs, ever-living witnesses of what has been, prophetic tokens of what may still be, the revealed, embodied possibilities of human nature.= _Carlyle._
=Great Men are the inspired (speaking and= 10 =acting) Texts of that Divine Book of Revelations, whereof a Chapter is completed from epoch to epoch, and by some named History.= _Carlyle._
=Great men are the modellers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do and attain.= _Carlyle._
=Great men are the true men, the men in whom Nature has succeeded.= _Amiel._
=Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.= _Emerson._
=Great men do not content us. It is their solitude, not their force, that makes them conspicuous.= _Emerson._
=Great men do not play stage tricks with the= 15 =doctrines of life and death; only little men do that.= _Ruskin._
=Great men essay enterprises because they think them great, and fools because they think them easy.= _Vauvenargues._
=Great men get more by obliging inferiors than by disdaining them.= _South._
=Great men, great nations have ever been perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.= _Emerson._
=Great men have their parasites.= _Sydney Smith._
=Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by= 20 =being near us; ordinary men gain much.= _Landor._
=Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them, / But in the less, foul profanation.= _Meas. for Meas._, ii. 2.
=Great men need to be lifted upon the shoulders of the whole world, in order to conceive their great ideas or perform their great deeds; that is, there must be an atmosphere of greatness round about them. A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.= _Hawthorne._
=Great men not only know their business, but they usually know that they know it, and are not only right in their main opinions, but they usually know that they are right in them.= _Ruskin._
=Great men oft die by vile Bezonians.= 2 _Hen. VI._, iv. 1.
=Great men often rejoice at crosses of fortune,= 25 =just as brave soldiers do at wars.= _Sen._
=Great men or men of great gifts you will easily find, but symmetrical men never.= _Emerson._
=Great men, said Themistocles, are like the oaks, under the branches of which men are happy in finding a refuge in the time of storm and rain; but when they have to pass a sunny day under them, they take pleasure in cutting the bark and breaking the branches.= _Goethe._
=Great men should drink with harness on their throats.= _Tim. of Athens_, i. 2.
=Great men should think of opportunity, and not of time. Time is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits.= _Disraeli._
=Great men stand like solitary towers in the= 30 =city of God, and secret passages running deep beneath external Nature give their thoughts intercourse with higher intelligences, which strengthens and consoles them, and of which the labourers on the surface do not even dream.= _Longfellow._
=Great men, though far above us, are felt to be our brothers; and their elevation shows us what vast possibilities are wrapped up in our common humanity. They beckon us up the gleaming heights to whose summits they have climbed. Their deeds are the woof of this world's history.= _Moses Harvey._
=Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for.= _Landor._
=Great men will always pay deference to greater.= _Landor._
=Great minds erect their never-failing trophies on the firm base of mercy.= _Massinger._
=Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous= 35 =applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it.= _Colton._
=Great minds, like Heaven, are pleased in doing good, / Though the ungrateful subjects of their favours / Are barren in return.= _Rowe._
=Great minds seek to labour for eternity. All other men are captivated by immediate advantages; great minds are excited by the prospect of distant good.= _Schiller._
=Great names stand not alone for great deeds; they stand also for great virtues, and, doing them worship, we elevate ourselves.= _H. Giles._
=Great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions.= _Lowell._
=Great passions are incurable diseases; the= 40 =very remedies make them worse.= _Goethe._
=Great patriots must be men of great excellence; this alone can secure to them lasting admiration.= _H. Giles._
=Great people and champions are special gifts of God, whom He gives and preserves; they do their work and achieve great actions, not with vain imaginations or cold and sleepy cogitations, but by motion of God.= _Luther._
=Great pleasures are much less frequent than great pains.= _Hume._
=Great poets are no sudden prodigies, but slow results.= _Lowell._
=Great poets try to describe what all men see= 45 =and to express what all men feel; if they cannot describe it, they let it alone.= _Ruskin._
=Great profits, great risks.= _Chinese Pr._
=Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.= _S. Smiles._
=Great revolutions, whatever may be their causes, are not lightly commenced, and are not concluded with precipitation.= _Disraeli._
=Great souls are always royally submissive, reverent to what is over them; only small, mean souls are otherwise.= _Carlyle._
=Great souls are not cast down by adversity.= _Pr._
=Great souls are not those which have less= 5 =passion and more virtue than common souls, but only those which have greater designs.= _La Roche._
=Great souls attract sorrows as mountains do storms. But the thunder-clouds break upon them, and they thus form a shelter for the plains around.= _Jean Paul._
=Great souls care only for what is great.= _Amiel._
=Great souls endure in silence.= _Schiller._
=Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.= _Dryden._
=Great spirits and great business do keep out= 10 =this weak passion= (love). _Bacon._
=Great talents are rare, and they rarely recognise themselves.= _Goethe._
=Great talents have some admirers, but few friends.= _Niebuhr._
=Great talkers are like leaky pitchers, everything runs out of them.= _Pr._
=Great talkers are little doers.= _Pr._
=Great thieves hang little ones.= _Ger._ 15
=Great things are done when men and mountains meet; / These are not done by jostling in the street.= _Wm. Blake._
=Great things through greatest hazards are achiev'd, / And then they shine.= _Beaumont._
=Great thoughts and a pure heart are the things we should beg for ourselves from God.= _Goethe._
=Great thoughts come from the heart.= _Vauvenargues._
=Great thoughts, great feelings come to them, /= 20 =Like instincts, unawares.= _M. Milnes._
=Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.= _Hazlitt._
=Great towns are but a large sort of prison to the soul, like cages to birds or pounds to beasts.= _Charron._
=Great warmth at first is the certain ruin of every great achievement. Doth not water, although ever so cool, moisten the earth?= _Hitopadesa._
=Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.= _Bovee._
=Great wealth, great care.= _Dut. Pr._ 25
=Great wits are sure to madness near allied, / And thin partitions do their bounds divide.= _Dryden._
=Great wits to madness nearly are allied; / Both serve to make our poverty our pride.= _Emerson._
=Great women belong to history and to self-sacrifice.= _Leigh Hunt._
=Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.= _Johnson._
=Great writers and orators are commonly economists= 30 =in the use of words.= _Whipple._
=Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.= _Jesus._
=Greater than man, less than woman.= _Essex, of Queen Elizabeth._
=Greatest scandal waits on greatest state.= _Shakespeare._
=Greatly to find quarrel in a straw, / When honour's at the stake.= _Ham._, iv. 4.
=Greatness and goodness are not means, but= 35 =ends.= _Coleridge._
=Greatness appeals to the future.= _Emerson._
=Greatness, as we daily see it, is unsociable.= _Landor._
=Greatness can only be rightly estimated when minuteness is justly reverenced. Greatness is the aggregation of minuteness; nor can its sublimity be felt truthfully by any mind unaccustomed to the affectionate watching of what is least.= _Ruskin._
=Greatness doth not approach him who is for ever looking down.= _Hitopadesa._
=Greatness envy not; for thou mak'st thereby /= 40 =Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.= _Herbert._
=Greatness, in any period and under any circumstances, has always been rare. It is of elemental birth, and is independent alike of its time and its circumstances.= _W. Winter._
=Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.= _Matthew Arnold._
=Greatness is its own torment.= _Theodore Parker._
=Greatness is like a laced coat from Monmouth Street, which fortune lends us for a day to wear, to-morrow puts it on another's back.= _Fielding._
=Greatness is not a teachable nor gainable= 45 =thing, but the expression of the mind of a God-made man: teach, or preach, or labour as you will, everlasting difference is set between one man's capacity and another's; and this God-given supremacy is the priceless thing, always just as rare in the world at one time as another.... And nearly the best thing that men can generally do is to set themselves, not to the attainment, but the discovery of this: learning to know gold, when we see it, from iron-glance, and diamond from flint-sand, being for most of us a more profitable employment than trying to make diamonds of our own charcoal.= _Ruskin._
=Greatness is nothing unless it be lasting.= _Napoleon._
=Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right using of strength. He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.= _Ward Beecher._
=Greatness may be present in lives whose range is very small.= _Phil. Brooks._
=Greatness of mind is not shown by admitting small things, but by making small things great under its influence. He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.= _Ruskin._
=Greatness, once and for ever, has done with opinion.= _Emerson._
=Greatness, once fallen out with fortune, / Must fall out with men too; what the declined is, / He shall as soon read in the eyes of others / As feel in his own fall.= _Troil. and Cress._, iii. 3.
=Greatness stands upon a precipice; and if prosperity carry a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.= _Colton._
=Greatness, thou gaudy torment of our souls, / The wise man's fetter and the rage of fools.= _Otway._
=Greatness, with private men / Esteem'd a= 5 =blessing, is to me a curse; / And we, whom from our high births they conclude / The only free men, are the only slaves: / Happy the golden mean.= _Massinger._
=Greediness bursts the bag.= _Pr._
=Greedy folk hae lang airms.= _Sc. Pr._
=Greedy misers rail at sordid misers.= _Helvetius._
=Greek architecture is the flowering of geometry.= _Emerson._
=Greek art, and all other art, is fine when it= 10 =makes a man's face as like a man's face as it can.= _Ruskin._
=Greif nicht leicht in ein Wespennest, Doch wenn du greifst, so stehe fest=--Attack not thoughtlessly a wasp's nest, but if you do, stand fast. _M. Claudius._
=Greife schnell zum Augenblicke, nur die Gegenwart ist dein=--Quickly seize the moment: only the present is thine. _Körner._
=Grex totus in agris / Unius scabie cadit=--The entire flock in the fields dies of the disease introduced by one. _Juv._
=Grex venalium=--A venal pack. _Sueton._
=Grey hairs are wisdom--if you hold your= 15 =tongue; / Speak--and they are but hairs, as in the young.= _Philo._
=Grief best is pleased with grief's society.= _Shakespeare._
=Grief boundeth where it falls, / Not with an empty hollowness, but weight.= _Rich. II._, i. 2.
=Grief divided is made lighter.= _Pr._
=Grief fills the room up of my absent child, / Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me; / Puts on his pretty look, repeats his words, / Remembers me of all his gracious parts, / Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form: / Then have I reason to be fond of grief.= _King John_, iii. 4.
=Grief finds some ease by him that like doth= 20 =bear.= _Spenser._
=Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads.= _Bailey._
=Grief has its time.= _Johnson._
=Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can, and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.= _Lamartine._
=Grief is a species of idleness, and the necessity of attention to the present, preserves us from being lacerated and devoured by sorrow for the past.= _Dr. Johnson._
=Grief is a stone that bears one down, but two= 25 =bear it lightly.= _W. Hauff._
=Grief is only the memory of widowed affection.= _James Martineau._
=Grief is proud and makes his owner stout.= _King John_, iii. 1.
=Grief is so far from retrieving a loss that it makes it greater; but the way to lessen it is by a comparison with others' losses.= _Wycherley._
=Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.= _Disraeli._
=Grief is the culture of the soul; it is the true= 30 =fertiliser.= _Mme. de Girardin._
=Grief, like a tree, has tears for its fruit.= _Philemon._
=Grief makes one hour ten.= _Rich. II._, i. 3.
=Grief or misfortune seems to be indispensable to the development of intelligence, energy, and virtue.= _Fearon._
=Grief sharpens the understanding and strengthens the soul, whereas joy seldom troubles itself about the former, and makes the latter either effeminate or frivolous.= _F. Schubert._
=Grief should be / Like joy, majestic, equable,= 35 =sedate, / Conforming, cleansing, raising, making free.= _Aubrey de Vere (the younger)._
=Grief should be the instructor of the wise; / Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most / Must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth, / The Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life.= _Byron._
=Grief still treads upon the heels of Pleasure.= _Congreve._
=Grief, which disposes gentle natures to retirement, to inaction, and to meditation, only makes restless spirits more restless.= _Macaulay._
=Griefs assured are felt before they come.= _Dryden._
=Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled= 40 =front.... He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber, / To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.= _Rich. III._, i. 1.
=Grind the faces of the poor.= _Bible._
=Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it is a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible.= _Colton._
=Gross Diligenz und klein Conscienz macht reich=--Great industry and little conscience make one rich. _Ger. Pr._
=Gross ist, wer Feinde tapfer überwand; / Doch grösser ist, wer sie gewonnen=--Great is he who has bravely vanquished his enemies, but greater is he who has gained them. _Seume._
=Gross kann man sich im Glück, erhaben nur= 45 =im Unglück zeigen=--One may show himself great in good fortune, but exalted only in bad. _Schiller._ (?)
=Gross und leer, wie das Heidelberger Fass=--Big and empty, like the Heidelberg tun. _Ger. Pr._
=Grosse Leidenschaften sind Krankheiten ohne Hoffnung; was sie heilen könnte, macht sie erst recht gefährlich=--Great passions are incurable diseases; what might heal them is precisely that which makes them so dangerous. _Goethe._
=Grosse Seelen dulden still=--Great souls endure in silence. _Schiller._
=Grosser Herren Leute lassen sich was bedünken=--Great people's servants think themselves of no small consequence. _Ger. Pr._
=Grudge not another what you canna get yoursel'.= _Sc. Pr._
=Grudge not one against another.= _St. James._
=Guardalo ben, guardalo tutto / L'uom senza danar quanto è brutto=--Watch him well, watch him closely; the man without money, how worthless he is! _It. Pr._
=Guardati da aceto di vin dolce=--Beware of the vinegar of sweet wine. _It. Pr._
=Guardati da chi non ha che perdere=--Beware of 5 him who has nothing to lose. _It. Pr._
=Guardati dall' occasione, e ti guarderà / Dio da peccati=--Keep yourself from opportunities, and God will keep you from sins. _It. Pr._
=Guards from outward harms are sent; / Ills from within thy reason must prevent.= _Dryden._
=Guard well thy thought; / Our thoughts are heard in heaven.= _Young._
=Gude advice is ne'er out o' season.= _Sc. Pr._
=Gude bairns are eith to lear=, _i.e._, easy to teach. 10 _Sc. Pr._
=Gude breeding and siller mak' our sons gentlemen.= _Sc. Pr._
=Gude claes= (clothes) =open a' doors.= _Sc. Pr._
=Gude folk are scarce, tak' care o' ane.= _Sc. Pr._
=Gude foresight furthers the wark.= _Sc. Pr._
=Gude wares mak' a quick market.= _Sc. Pr._ 15
=Guds Raadkammer har ingen Nögle=--To God's council-chamber we have no key. _Dan. Pr._
=Guenille, si l'on veut; ma guenille m'est chère=--Call it a rag, if you please; my rag is dear to me. _Molière._
=Guerra al cuchillo=--War to the knife. _Sp._
=Guerra cominciata, inferno scatenato=--War begun, hell let loose. _It. Pr._
=Guerre à mort=--War to the death. _Fr._ 20
=Guerre à outrance=--War of extermination; war to the uttermost. _Fr._
=Guerre aux châteaux, paix aux chaumières!=--War to the castles, peace to the cottages! _Fr._
=Guessing is missing= (the point). _Dut. Pr._
=Guilt is a spiritual Rubicon.= _Jane Porter._
=Guilt is ever at a loss, and confusion waits= 25 =upon it.= _Congreve._
=Guilt is the source of sorrow; 'tis the fiend, / Th' avenging fiend that follows us behind / With whips and stings.= _Rowe._
=Guilt, though it may attain temporal splendour, can never confer real happiness.= _Scott._
=Guiltiness will speak, though tongues were out of use.= _Othello_, v. 1.
=Guilty consciences make men cowards.= _Vanbrugh._
=Gunpowder is the emblem of politic revenge,= 30 =for it biteth first and barketh afterwards; the bullet being at the mark before the noise is heard, so that it maketh a noise not by way of warning, but of triumph.= _Fuller._
=Gunpowder makes all men alike tall.... Hereby at last is the Goliath powerless and the David resistless; savage animalism is nothing, inventive spiritualism is all.= _Carlyle._
=Gustatus est sensus ex omnibus maxime voluptarius=--The sense of taste is the most exquisite of all. _Cic._
=Gut Gewissen ist ein sanftes Ruhekissen=--A good conscience is a soft pillow. _Ger. Pr._
=Gut verloren, etwas verloren; / Ehre verloren, viel verloren; / Mut verloren, alles verloren=--Wealth lost, something lost; honour lost, much lost; courage lost, all lost. _Goethe._
=Güte bricht einem kein Bein=--Kindness breaks 35 no one's bones. _Ger. Pr._
=Guter Rath kommt über Nacht=--Good counsel comes over-night. _Ger. Pr._
=Guter Rath lässt sich geben, aber gute Sitte nicht=--Good advice may be given, but manners not. _Turkish Pr._
=Gutes aus Gutem, das kann jedweder Verständige bilden; / Aber der Genius ruft Gutes aus Schlechtem hervor=--Good out of good is what every man of intellect can fashion, but it takes genius to evoke good out of bad. _Schiller._
=Gutes und Böses kommt unerwartet dem Menschen; / Auch verkündet, glauben wir's nicht=--Good and evil come unexpected to man; even if foretold, we believe it not. _Goethe._
=Gutta cavat lapidem, consumitur annulus= 40 =usu, / Et teritur pressa vomer aduncus humo=--The drop hollows the stone, the ring is worn by use, and the crooked ploughshare is frayed away by the pressure of the earth. _Ovid._
=Gutta cavat lapidem non vi, sed sæpe cadendo=--The drop hollows the stone not by force, but by continually falling. _Pr._
=Gutta fortunæ præ dolio sapientiæ=--A drop of good fortune rather than a cask of wisdom. _Pr._
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=Ha! lass dich den Teufel bei einem Haar fassen, und du bist sein auf ewig=--Ha! let the devil seize thee by a hair, and thou art his for ever. _Lessing._
=Ha! welche Lust, Soldat zu sein=--Ah! what a pleasure it is to be a soldier. _Boieldieu._
=Hab' mich nie mit Kleinigkeiten abgegeben=--I 45 have never occupied myself with trifles. _Schiller._
="Habe gehabt," ist ein armer Mann=--"I have had," is a poor man. _Ger. Pr._
=Habeas corpus=--A writ to deliver one from prison, and show reason for his detention, with a view to judge of its justice, _lit._ you may have the body. _L._
=Habeas corpus ad prosequendum=--You may bring up the body for the purpose of prosecution. _L. Writ._
=Habeas corpus ad respondendum=--You may bring up the body to make answer. _L. Writ._
=Habeas corpus ad satisfaciendum=--You may 50 bring up the body to satisfy. _L. Writ._
=Habemus confitentem reum=--We have the confession of the accused. _L._
=Habemus luxuriam atque avaritiam, publice egestatem, privatim opulentiam=--We have luxury and avarice, but as a people poverty, and in private opulence. _Cato in Sall._
=Habent insidias hominis blanditiæ mali=--Under the fair words of a bad man there lurks some treachery. _Phaedr._
=Habent sua fata libelli=--Books have their destinies. _Hor._
=Habeo senectuti magnam gratiam, quæ mihi sermonis aviditatem auxit=--I owe it to old age, that my relish for conversation is so increased. _Cic._
=Habere derelictui rem suam=--To neglect one's affairs. _Aul. Gell._
=Habere et dispertire=--To have and to distribute.
=Habere facias possessionem=--You shall cause to take possession. _L. Writ._
=Habere, non haberi=--To hold, not to be held. 5
=Habet aliquid ex iniquo omne magnum exemplum, quod contra singulos, utilitate publica rependitur=--Every great example of punishment has in it some tincture of injustice, but the wrong to individuals is compensated by the promotion of the public good. _Tac._
=Habet iracundia hoc mali, non vult regi=--There is in anger this evil, that it will not be controlled. _Sen._
=Habet salem=--He has wit; he is a wag.
=Habit and imitation are the source of all working and all apprenticeship, of all practice and all learning, in this world.= _Carlyle._
=Habit gives endurance, and fatigue is the best= 10 =nightcap.= _Kincaid._
=Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.= _St. Augustine._
=Habit is a cable. We weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it.= _Horace Mann._
=Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first.= _Pascal._
=Habit is necessary to give power.= _Hazlitt._
=Habit is ten times nature.= _Wellington._ 15
=Habit is the deepest law of human nature.= _Carlyle._
=Habit is the purgatory in which we suffer for our past sins.= _George Eliot._
=Habit is too arbitrary a master for my liking.= _Lavater._
=Habit, with its iron sinews, clasps and leads us day by day.= _Lamartine._
=Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables.= 20 _Pr._
=Habits= (of virtue) =are formed by acts of reason in a persevering struggle through temptation.= _Bernard Gilpin._
=Habits leave their impress upon the mind, even after they are given up.= _Spurgeon._
=Habitual intoxication is the epitome of every crime.= _Douglas Jerrold._
=Hablar sin pensar es tirar sin encarar=--Speaking without thinking is shooting without taking aim. _Sp. Pr._
=Hac mercede placet=--I accept the terms. 25
=Hac sunt in fossa Bedæ venerabilis ossa=--In this grave lie the bones of the Venerable Bede. _Inscription on Bede's tomb._
=Hac urget lupus, hac canis=--On one side a wolf besets you, on the other a dog. _Hor._
=Hactenus=--Thus far.
=Had Cæsar or Cromwell changed countries, the one might have been a sergeant and the other an exciseman.= _Goldsmith._
=Had God meant me to be different, He would= 30 =have created me different.= _Goethe._
=Had I but serv'd my God with half the zeal / I serv'd my king, He would not in mine age / Have left me naked to mine enemies.= _Hen. VIII._, iii. 2.
=Had I succeeded well, I had been reckoned amongst the wise; so ready are we to judge from the event.= _Euripides._
=Had not God made this world, and death too, it were an insupportable place.= _Carlyle._
=Had religion been a mere chimæra, it would long ago have been extinct; were it susceptible of a definite formula, that formula would long ago have been discovered.= _Renan._
=Had sigh'd to many, though he loved but one.= 35 _Byron._
=Had we never loved sae kindly, / Had we never loved sae blindly, / Never met or never parted, / We had ne'er been broken-hearted!= _Burns._
=Hæ nugæ seria ducent / In mala=--These trifles will lead to serious mischief. _Hor._
=Hæ tibi erant artes, pacisque imponere morem, / Parcere subjectis et debellare superbos=--These shall be thy arts, to lay down the law of peace, to spare the conquered, and to subdue the proud. _Virg._
=Hae you gear= (goods), =or hae you nane, / Tine= (lose) =heart, and a's gane.= _Sc. Pr._
=Hæc a te non multum abludit imago=--This 40 picture bears no small resemblance to yourself. _Hor._
=Hæc amat obscurum; volet hæc sub luce videri, / Judicis argutum quæ non formidat acumen; / Hæc placuit semel; hæc decies repetita placebit=--One (poem) courts the shade; another, not afraid of the critic's keen eye, chooses to be seen in a strong light; the one pleases but once, the other will still please if ten times repeated. _Hor._
=Hæc brevis est nostrorum summa malorum=--Such is the short sum of our evils. _Ovid._
=Hæc ego mecum / Compressis agito labris; ubi quid datur oti, / Illudo chartis=--These things I revolve by myself with compressed lips, When I have any leisure, I amuse myself with my writings. _Hor._
=Hæc est condicio vivendi, aiebat, eoque / Responsura tuo nunquam est par fama labori=--"Such is the lot of life," he said, "and so your merits will never receive their due meed of praise." _Hor._
=Hæc generi incrementa fides=--This fidelity will 45 bring new glory to our race. _M._
=Hæc olim meminisse juvabit=--It will be a joy to us to recall this, some day. _Virg._
=Hæc omnia transeunt=--All these things pass away. _M._
=Hæc perinde sunt, ut illius animus, qui ea possidet. / Qui uti scit, ei bona, illi qui non utitur recte, mala=--These things are exactly according to the disposition of him who possesses them. To him who knows how to use them, they are blessings; to him who does not use them aright, they are evils. _Ter._
=Hæc prima lex in amicitia sanciatur, ut neque rogemus res turpes, nec faciamus rogati=--Be this the first law established in friendship, that we neither ask of others what is dishonourable, nor ourselves do it when asked. _Cic._
=Hæc scripsi non otii abundantia, sed amoris= 50 =erga te=--I have written this, not as having abundance of leisure, but out of love for you. _Cic._
=Hæc studia adolescentiam alunt, senectutem oblectant, secundas res ornant, adversis solatium ac perfugium præbent, delectant domi, non impediunt foris, pernoctant nobiscum, peregrinantur, rusticantur=--These studies are the food of youth and the consolation of old age; they adorn prosperity and are the comfort and refuge of adversity; they are pleasant at home and are no encumbrance abroad; they accompany us at night, in our travels, and in our rural retreats. _Cic._
=Hæc studia oblectant=--These studies are our delight. _M._
=Hæc sunt jucundi causa cibusque mali=--These things are at once the cause and food of this delicious malady. _Ovid._
=Hæc vivendi ratio mihi non convenit=--This mode of living does not suit me. _Cic._
=Hæredis fletus sub persona risus est=--The 5 weeping of an heir is laughter under a mask. _Pr._
=Hæreditas nunquam ascendit=--The right of inheritance never lineally ascends. _L._
=Hæres jure repræsentationis=--An heir by right of representation. _L._
=Hæres legitimus est quem nuptiæ demonstrant=--He is the lawful heir whom marriage points out as such. _L._
=Hæret lateri lethalis arundo=--The fatal shaft sticks deep in her side. _Virg._
=Halb sind sie kalt, Halb sind sie roh=--Half of 10 them are without heart, half without culture. _Goethe._
=Half a house is half a hell.= _Ger. Pr._
=Half a loaf is better than no bread.= _Pr._
=Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.= _Emerson._
=Half a word fixed upon, or near, the spot is worth a cartload of recollection.= _Gray to Palgrave._
=Half the ease of life oozes away through the= 15 =leaks of unpunctuality.= _Anon._
=Half the gossip of society would perish if the books that are truly worth reading were but read.= _George Dawson._
=Half the ills we hoard within our hearts are ills because we hoard them.= _Barry Cornwall._
=Half the logic of misgovernment lies in this one sophistical dilemma: if the people are turbulent, they are unfit for liberty; if they are quiet, they do not want liberty.= _Macaulay._
=Half-wits greet each other.= _Gael. Pr._
=Hältst du Natur getreu im Augenmerk, /= 20 =Frommt jeder tüchtige Meister dir: / Doch klammerst du dich blos an Menschenwerk, / Wird alles, was du schaffst, Manier=--If you keep Nature faithfully in view, the example of every thorough master will be of service to you; but if you merely cling to human work, all that you do will be but mannerism. _Geibel._
=Hanc personam induisti, agenda est=--You have assumed this part, and you must act it out. _Sen._
=Hanc veniam petimusque damusque vicissim=--We both expect this privilege, and give it in return. _Hor._
=Hands that the rod of empire might have sway'd. / Or waked to ecstacy the living lyre.= _Gray._
=Handsome is that handsome does.= _Pr._
=Handsomeness is the more animal excellence,= 25 =beauty the more imaginative.= _Hare._
=Häng' an die grosse Glocke nicht / Was jemand im Vertrauen spricht=--Blaze not abroad to others what any one confides to you in secret. _Claudius._
=Hang a thief when he's young, and he'll no steal when he's auld.= _Sc. Pr._
=Hang constancy! you know too much of the world to be constant, sure.= _Fielding._
=Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat, / And therefore let's be merry.= _G. Wither._
=Hänge nicht alles auf einen Nagel=--Hang not 30 all on one nail. _Ger. Pr._
=Hanging and wiving goes by destiny.= _Mer. of Ven._, ii. 9.
=Hannibal ad portas=--Hannibal is at the gates. _Cic._
=Hap and mishap govern the world.= _Pr._
=Happiest they of human race, / To whom God has granted grace / To read, to fear, to hope, to pray, / To lift the latch and force the way; / And better had they ne'er been born, / Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.= _Scott._
=Happily to steer / From grave to gay, from= 35 =lively to severe.= _Pope._
=Happiness consists in activity; it is a running stream, and not a stagnant pool.= _J. M. Good._
=Happiness depends not on the things, but on the taste.= _La Roche._
=Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked up in strangers' galleries.= _Douglas Jerrold._
=Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.= _Goethe._
=Happiness is a chimæra and suffering a reality.= 40 _Schopenhauer._
=Happiness is "a tranquil acquiescence under an agreeable delusion."= _Quoted by Sterne._
=Happiness is but a dream, and sorrow a reality.= _Voltaire._
=Happiness is deceitful as the calm that precedes the hurricane, smooth as the water on the verge of the cataract, and beautiful as the rainbow, that smiling daughter of the storm.= _Arliss' Lit. Col._
=Happiness is like the mirage in the desert; she tantalises us with a delusion that distance creates and that contiguity destroys.= _Arliss' Lit. Col._
=Happiness is like the statue of Isis, whose= 45 =veil no mortal ever raised.= _Landor._
=Happiness is matter of opinion, of fancy, in fact, but it must amount to conviction, else it is nothing.= _Chamfort._
=Happiness is neither within us nor without us; it is the union of ourselves with God.= _Pascal._
=Happiness is nothing but the conquest of God through love.= _Amiel._
=Happiness is only evident to us by deliverance from evil.= _Nicole._
=Happiness is the fine and gentle rain which= 50 =penetrates the soul, but which afterwards gushes forth in springs of tears.= _M. de Guérin._
=Happiness is unrepented pleasure.= _Socrates._
=Happiness lies first of all in health.= _G. W. Curtis._
=Happiness, like Juno, is a goddess in pursuit, but a cloud in possession, deified by those who cannot enjoy her, and despised by those who can.= _Arliss' Lit. Col._
=Happiness never lays its fingers on its pulse.= _A. Smith._
=Happiness springs not from a large fortune, but temperate habits and simple wishes. Riches increase not by increase of the supply of want, but by decrease of the sense of it,--the minimum of it being the maximum of them.= _Ed._
=Happiness, that grand mistress of ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.= _Arliss' Lit. Col._
=Happiness travels incognita to keep a private= 5 =assignation with contentment, and to partake of a tête-à-tête and a dinner of herbs in a cottage.= _Arliss' Lit. Col._
=Happiness, when unsought, is often found, and when unexpected, often obtained; while those who seek her the most diligently fail the most, because they seek her where she is not.= _Arliss' Lit. Col._
=Happy are they that hear their detractions, and can put them to mending.= _Much Ado_, ii. 3.
=Happy child! the cradle is still to thee an infinite space; once grown into a man, and the boundless world will be too small to thee.= _Schiller._
=Happy contractedness of youth, nay, of mankind in general, that they think neither of the high nor the deep, of the true nor the false, but only of what is suited to their own conceptions.= _Goethe._
=Happy he for whom a kind heavenly sun= 10 =brightens the ring of necessity into a ring of duty.= _Carlyle._
=Happy he that can abandon everything by which his conscience is defiled or burdened.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Happy in that we are not over-happy; / On Fortune's cap we are not the very button.= _Ham._, ii. 2.
=Happy is he who soon discovers the chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.= _Goethe._
=Happy is that house and blessed is that congregation where Martha still complains of Mary.= _S. Bern._
=Happy he whose last hour strikes in the midst= 15 =of his children.= _Grillparzer._
=Happy is he that is happy in his children.= _Pr._
=Happy is he to whom his business itself becomes a puppet, who at length can play with it, and amuse himself with what his situation makes his duty.= _Goethe._
=Happy is the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.= _Hare._
=Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.= _Emerson._
=Happy is the man who can endure the highest= 20 =and the lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.= _Sen._
=Happy is the man whose father went to the devil.= _Pr._
=Happy lowly clown! / Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown!= 2 _Hen. IV._, iii. 1.
=Happy men are full of the present, for its bounty suffices them; and wise men also, for its duties engage them. Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.= _Carlyle._
=Happy season of virtuous youth, when shame is still an impassable celestial barrier, and the sacred air-castles of hope have not shrunk into the mean clay hamlets of reality, and man by his nature is yet infinite and free.= _Carlyle._
=Happy that I can / Be crossed and thwarted= 25 =as a man, / Not left in God's contempt apart, / With ghastly smooth life, dead at heart, / Tame in earth's paddock, as her prize.= _Browning._
=Happy the man, and happy he alone, / He who can call to-day his own; / He who, secure within, can say, / To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived to-day.= _Dryden, after Horace._
=Happy the man to whom Heaven has given a morsel of bread without his being obliged to thank any other for it than Heaven itself.= _Cervantes._
=Happy the people whose annals are blank in History's book.= _Montesquieu._
=Happy thou art not; / For what thou hast not still thou striv'st to get, / And what thou hast, forgett'st.= _Meas. for Meas._ iii. 1.
=Happy who in his verse can gently steer, /= 30 =From grave to light, from pleasant to severe.= _Dryden._
=Hard is the factor's rule; no better is the minister's.= _Gael. Pr._
=Hard pounding, gentlemen; but we shall see who can pound the longest.= _Wellington at Waterloo._
=Hard with hard builds no houses; soft binds hard.= _Pr._
=Hard work is still the road to prosperity, and there is no other.= _Ben. Franklin._
=Hardness ever of hardiness is mother.= _Cymbeline_, 35 iii. 6.
=Hardship is the native soil of manhood and self-reliance.= _John Neal._
=Harm watch, harm catch.= _Pr._
=Hart kann die Tugend sein, doch grausam nie, / unmenschlich nie=--Virtue may be stern, though never cruel, never inhuman. _Schiller._
=Harvests are Nature's bank dividends.= _Haliburton._
=Has any man, or any society of men, a truth= 40 =to speak, a piece of spiritual work to do; they can nowise proceed at once and with the mere natural organs, but must first call a public meeting, appoint committees, issue prospectuses, eat a public dinner; in a word, construct or borrow machinery, wherewith to speak it and do it. Without machinery they were hopeless, helpless; a colony of Hindoo weavers squatting in the heart of Lancashire.= _Carlyle._
=Has patitur pœnas peccandi sola voluntas. / Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogitat ullum, / Facti crimen habet=--Such penalties does the mere intention to sin suffer; for he who meditates any secret wickedness within himself incurs the guilt of the deed. _Juv._
=Has pœnas garrula lingua dedit=--This punishment a prating tongue brought on him. _Ovid._
=Has vaticinationes eventus comprobavit=--The event has verified these predictions. _Cic._
=Hassen und Neiden / Muss der Biedre leiden. / Es erhöht des Mannes Wert, / Wenn der Hass sich auf ihn kehrt=--The upright must suffer hatred and envy. It enhances the worth of a man if hatred pursues him. _Gottfried von Strassburg._
=Hast du im Thal ein sichres Haus, / Dann wolle nie zu hoch hinaus=--Hast thou a secure house in the valley? Then set not thy heart on a higher beyond. _Förster._
=Haste and rashness are storms and tempests,= 5 =breaking and wrecking business; but nimbleness is a full, fair wind, blowing it with speed to the haven.= _Fuller._
=Haste is of the devil.= _Koran._
=Haste makes waste, and waste makes want, and want makes strife between the gudeman and the gudewife.= _Sc. Pr._
=Haste trips up its own heels, fetters and stops itself.= _Sen._
=Haste turns usually on a matter of ten minutes too late.= _Bovee._
=Hasty resolutions seldom speed well.= _Pr._ 10
=Hat man die Liebe durchgeliebt / Fängt man die Freundschaft an=--After love friendship (_lit._ when we have lived through love we begin friendship). _Heine._
=Hate injures no one; it is contempt that casts men down.= _Goethe._
=Hate makes us vehement partisans, but love still more so.= _Goethe._
=Hâtez-vous lentement, et sans perdre courage=--Leisurely, and don't lose heart. _Fr._
=Hath fortune dealt thee ill cards? Let wisdom= 15 =make thee a good gamester.= _Quarles._
=Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall not we revenge?= _Mer. of Venice_, iii. 1.
=Hatred does not cease by hatred at any time; hatred ceases by love.= _Buddha._
=Hatred is a heavy burden. It sinks the heart deep in the breast, and lies like a tombstone on all joys.= _Goethe._
=Hatred is active, and envy passive, disgust; there is but one step from envy to hate.= _Goethe._
=Hatred is but an inverse love.= _Carlyle._ 20
=Hatred is keener than friendship, less keen than love.= _Vauvenargues._
=Hatred is like fire; it makes even light rubbish deadly.= _George Eliot._
="Hätte ich gewusst," ist ein armer Mann=--"If I had known," is a poor man. _Ger. Pr._
=Haud æquum facit, / Qui quod didicit, id dediscit=--He does not do right who unlearns what he has learnt. _Plaut._
=Haud facile emergunt quorum virtutibus obstat= 25 =/ Res angusta domi=--Not easily do those attain to distinction whose abilities are cramped by domestic poverty. _Juv._
=Haud ignara ac non incauta futuri=--Neither ignorant nor inconsiderate of the future. _Hor._
=Haud ignara mali miseris succurrere disco=--Not unfamiliar with misfortune myself, I have learned to succour the wretched. _Virg._
=Haud passibus æquis=--With unequal steps. _Virg._
=Haut et bon=--Great and good. _M._
=Haut goût=--High flavour. _Fr._ 30
=Have a care o' the main chance.= _Butler._
=Have a spécialité, a work in which you are at home.= _Spurgeon._
=Have any deepest scientific individuals yet dived down to the foundations of the universe and gauged everything there? Did the Maker take them into His counsel, that they read His ground-plan of the incomprehensible All, and can say, This stands marked therein, and no more than this? Alas! not in any wise.= _Carlyle._
=Have I a religion, have I a country, have I a love, that I am ready to die for? are the first trial questions to itself of a true soul.= _Ruskin._
=Have I in conquest stretched mine arm so far /= 35 =To be afeard to tell gray-beards the truth?= _Jul. Cæs._, ii. 2.
=Have I not earn'd my cake in baking of it?= _Tennyson._
=Have more than thou showest; / Speak less than thou knowest; / Lend less than thou owest; / Learn more than thou trowest; / Set less than thou throwest.= _King Lear_, i. 4.
=Have not all nations conceived their God as omnipresent and eternal, as existing in a universal Here, an everlasting Now?= _Carlyle._
=Have not thy cloak to make when it begins to rain.= _Pr._
=Have the French for friends, but not for neighbours.= 40 _Pr._
=Have you found your life distasteful? / My life did, and does, smack sweet. / Was your youth of pleasure wasteful? / Mine I saved and hold complete. / Do your joys with age diminish? / When mine fail me, I'll complain. / Must in death your daylight finish? / My sun sets to rise again.= _Browning._
=Have you known how to compose your manners, you have achieved a great deal more than he who has composed books. Have you known how to attain repose, you have achieved more than he who has taken cities and subdued empires.= _Montaigne._
=Have you not heard it said full oft, / A woman's nay doth stand for nought?= _Shakespeare._
=Have you prayed to-night, Desdemona?= _Othello_, v. 2.
=Having food and raiment, let us be therewith= 45 =content.= _St. Paul._
=Having is having, come whence it may.= _Ger. Pr._
=Having is in no case the fruit of lusting, but of living.= _Ed._
=Having sown the seed of secrecy, it should be properly guarded and not in the least broken; for being broken, it will not prosper.= _Hitopadesa._
=Having waste ground enough, / Shall we desire to raze the sanctuary / And pitch our evils there?= _Meas. for Meas._, ii. 2.
=Hay buena cuenta, y no paresca blanca=--The account is all right, but the money-bags are empty. _Sp. Pr._
=He alone has energy that cannot be deprived of it.= _Lavater._
=He alone is happy, and he is truly so, who can say, "Welcome life, whatever it brings! welcome death, whatever it is!"= _Bolingbroke._
=He alone is worthy of respect who knows what is of use to himself and others, and who labours to control his self-will.= _Goethe._
=He also that is slothful in his work is brother= 5 =to him that is a great waster.= _Bible._
=He always wins who sides with God.= _Faber._
=He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand; but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.= _Bible._
=He behoves to have meat enou' that sal stop ilka man's mou'.= _Sc. Pr._
=He best restrains anger who remembers God's eye is upon him.= _Plato._
=He buys very dear who begs.= _Port. Pr._ 10
=He by whom the geese were formed white, parrots stained green, and peacocks painted of various hues--even He will provide for their support.= _Hitopadesa._
=He can ill run that canna gang= (walk). _Sc. Pr._
=He cannot lay eggs, but he can cackle.= _Dut. Pr._
=He cannot see the wood for the trees.= _Ger. Pr._
=He cast off his friends, as a huntsman his= 15 =pack, / For he knew, when he pleased, he could whistle them back.= _Goldsmith._
=He cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney-corner.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=He conquers grief who can take a firm resolution.= _Goethe._
=He could distinguish and divide / A hair 'twixt south and south-west side.= _Butler._
=He cries out before he is hurt.= _It. Pr._
=He dances well to whom fortune pipes.= _Pr._ 20
=He doesna aye flee when he claps his wings.= _Sc. Pr._
=He does not deserve wine who drinks it as water.= _Bodenstedt._
=He does nothing who endeavours to do more than is allowed to humanity.= _Johnson._
=He doeth much that doeth a thing well.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=He doeth well that serveth the common= 25 =good rather than his own will.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=He doth bestride the narrow world / Like a Colossus; and we petty men / Walk under his huge legs, and peep about / To find ourselves dishonourable graves.= _Jul. Cæs._, i. 2.
=He doubts nothing who knows nothing.= _Port. Pr._
=He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.= _Love's L. Lost_, v. 1.
=He draws nothing well who thirsts not to draw everything.= _Ruskin._
=He either fears his fate too much, / Or his= 30 =deserts are small, / Who dares not put it to the touch / To win or lose it all.= _Marquis of Montrose._
=He frieth in his own grease.= _Pr._
=He gave his honours to the world again, / His blessed part to heaven, and slept in peace.= _Hen. VIII._, iv. 2.
=He giveth His beloved sleep.= _Bible._
=He goeth back that continueth not.= _St. Augustine._
=He goeth better that creepeth in his way= 35 =than he that runneth out of his way.= _St. Augustine._
=He had a face like a benediction.= _Cervantes._
=He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement seasons.= _Swift._
=He had never kindly heart / Nor ever cared to better his own kind, / Who first wrote satire with no pity in it.= _Tennyson._
=He has a bee in his bonnet=, _i.e._, is hare-brained. _Sc. Pr._
=He has a head, and so has a pin.= _Port._ 40 _Pr._
=He has a killing tongue and a quiet sword, by the means whereof 'a breaks words and keeps whole weapons.= _Hen. V._, iii. 2.
=He has faut= (need) =o' a wife wha marries mam's pet.= _Sc. Pr._
=He has hard work who has nothing to do.= _Pr._
=He has no religion who has no humanity.= _Arab. Pr._
=He has not learned the lesson of life who= 45 =does not every day surmount a fear.= _Emerson._
=He has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle.= _Ben. Franklin._
=He has seen a wolf.= _Pr. of one who suddenly curbs his tongue._
=He has verily touched our hearts as with a live coal from the altar who in any way brings home to our heart the noble doings, feelings, darings, and endurances of a brother man.= _Carlyle._
=He has wit at will that, when angry, can sit him still.= _Sc. Pr._
=He hath a heart as sound as a bell, and his= 50 =tongue is the clapper; for what his heart thinks his tongue speaks.= _Much Ado_, iii. 2.
=He hath a tear for pity, and a hand / Open as day for melting charity.= 2 _Hen. IV._, iv. 4.
=He hath ill repented whose sins are repeated.= _St. Augustine._
=He hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book.= _Love's L. Lost_, iv. 2.
=He honours God that imitates Him.= _Sir T. Browne._
=He in whom there is much to be developed will= 55 =be later than others in acquiring true perceptions of himself and the world.= _Goethe._
=He is a fool who empties his purse, or store, to fill another's.= _Sp. Pr._
=He is a fool who thinks by force or skill / To turn the current of a woman's will.= _S. Tuke._
=He is a great and a good man from whom the needy, or those who come for protection, go not away with disappointed hopes and discontented countenances.= _Hitopadesa._
=He is a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought, into which other men rise with labour and difficulty: he has but to open his eyes to see things in a true light and in large relations, while they must make painful corrections, and keep a vigilant eye on many sources of error.= _Emerson._
=He is a happy man that hath a true friend at his need, but he is more truly happy that hath no need of his friend.= _Arthur Warwick._
=He is a hard man who is only just, and he a sad man who is only wise.= _Voltaire._
=He is a little chimney, and heated hot in a moment!= _Longfellow._
=He is a little man; let him go and work with= 5 =the women!= _Longfellow._
=He is a madman= (_Rasender_) =who does not embrace and hold fast the good fortune which a god= (_ein Gott_) =has given into his hand.= _Schiller._
=He is a man who doth not suffer his members and faculties to cause him uneasiness.= _Hitopadesa._
=He is a minister who doth not behave with insolence and pride.= _Hitopadesa._
=He is a poor smith who cannot bear smoke.= _Pr._
=He is a strong man who can hold down his= 10 =opinion.= _Emerson._
=He is a true sage who learns from all the world.= _Eastern Pr._
=He is a very valiant trencherman; he hath an excellent stomach.= _Much Ado_, i. 1.
=He is a wise child that knows his own father.= _Pr._
=He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.= _Epictetus._
=He is a wise man who knoweth that his words= 15 =should be suited to the occasion, his love to the worthiness of the object, and his anger according to his strength.= _Hitopadesa._
=He is a wise man who knows what is wise.= _Xenophon._
=He is a worthy person who is much respected by good men.= _Hitopadesa._
=He is all there when the bell rings.= _Pr._
=He is an eloquent man who can speak of low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.= _Cic._
=He is an unfortunate and on the way to ruin= 20 =who will not do what he can, but is ambitious to do what he cannot.= _Goethe._
=He is below himself who is not above an injury.= _Quarles._
=He is best served who has no need to put the hands of others at the end of his arms.= _Rousseau._
=He is but a bastard to the time / That doth not smack of observation.= _King John_, i. 1.
=He is but the counterfeit of a man who hath not the life of a man.= _Shakespeare._
=He is gentil that doth gentil dedes.= _Chaucer._ 25
=He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.= _Emerson._
=He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his own home.= _Goethe._
=He is happy who is forsaken by his passions.= _Hitopadesa._
=He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances.= _Hare._
=He is just as truly running counter to God's= 30 =will by being intentionally wretched as by intentionally doing wrong.= _W. R. Greg._
=He is kind who guardeth another from misfortune.= _Hitopadesa._
=He is lifeless that is faultless.= _Pr._
=He is my friend that grinds at my mill.= _Pr._
=He is my friend that helps me, and not he that pities me.= _Pr._
=He is nearest to God who has the fewest wants.= 35 _Dan. Pr._
=He is neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring.= _Pr._
=He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.= _Johnson._
=He is noble who feels and acts nobly.= _Heine._
=He is not a bad driver who knows how to turn.= _Dan. Pr._
=He is not a true man of science who does not= 40 =bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something by behaviour as well as application.= _Thoreau._
=He is not only idle who does nothing, but he is idle who might be better employed.= _Socrates._
=He is not the best carpenter who makes the most chips.= _Pr._
=He is not yet born who can please everybody.= _Dan. Pr._
=He is oft the wisest man / Who is not wise at all.= _Wordsworth._
=He is richest that has fewest wants.= _Pr._ 45
=He is the best dressed gentleman whose dress no one observes.= _Trollope._
=He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.= _Victor Hugo._
=He is the free man whom the truth makes free, / And all are slaves besides.= _Cowper._
=He is the greatest artist who has embodied in the sum of his works the greatest number of the greatest ideas.= _Ruskin._
=He is the greatest conqueror who has conquered= 50 =himself.= _Pr._
=He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.= _Ward Beecher._
=He is the half part of a blessèd man, / Left to be finishèd by such as she; / And she a fair divided excellence, / Whose fulness of perfection lies in him.= _King John_, ii. 2.
=He is the rich man in whom the people are rich, and he is the poor man in whom the people are poor; and how to give access to the masterpieces of art and nature is the problem of civilisation.= _Emerson._
=He is the rich man who can avail himself of all men's faculties.= _Emerson._
=He is the world's master who despises it, its= 55 =slave who prizes it.= _It. Pr._
=He is truly great who is great in charity.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=He is ungrateful who denies a benefit; he is ungrateful who hides it; he is ungrateful who does not return it; he, most of all, who has forgotten it.= _Sen._
=He is well paid that is well satisfied.= _Mer. of Ven._, iv. 1.
=He is wise that is wise to himself.= _Euripides._
=He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of daily virtuous living; he who trains us to see old truth under academic formularies may be wise or not, as it chances, but we love to see wisdom in unpretending forms, to recognise her royal features under a week-day vesture.= _Carlyle._
=He is wit's pedlar, and retails his wares / At wakes and wassails, meetings, markets, fairs; / And we that sell by gross, the Lord doth know, / Have not the grace to grace it with such show.= _Love's L. Lost_, v. 2.
=He is wrong who thinks that authority based= 5 =on force is more weighty and more lasting than that which rests on kindness.= _Ter._
=He jests at scars that never felt a wound.= _Rom. and Jul._, ii. 2.
=He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith the Lord.= _Bible._
=He kens muckle wha kens when to speak, but far mair wha kens when to haud= (hold) =his tongue.= _Sc. Pr._
=He knew what's what, and that's as high / As metaphysic wit can fly.= _Butler._
=He knocks boldly at the door who brings good= 10 =news.= _Pr._
=He knows best what good is that has endured evil.= _Pr._
=He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.= _Fuller._
=He knows much who knows how to hold his tongue.= _Pr._
=He knows not how to speak who cannot be silent, still less how to act with vigour and decision.= _Lavater._
=He knows not what love is that has no children.= 15 _Pr._
=He knows the water the best who has waded through it.= _Pr._
=He knows very little of mankind who expects, by facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party-man.= _Lavater._
=He left a name at which the world grew pale, / To point a moral or adorn a tale.= _Johnson._
=He lies there who never feared the face of man.= _The Earl of Morton at John Knox's grave._
=He life's war knows / Whom all his passions= 20 =follow as he goes.= _George Herbert._
=He little merits bliss who others can annoy.= _Thomson._
=He lives twice who can at once employ / The present well and e'en the past enjoy.= _Pope._
=He lives who lives to God alone, / And all are dead beside; / For other source than God is none / Whence life can be supplied.= _Cowper._
=He looks the whole world in the face, / For he owes not any man.= _Longfellow._
=He loses his thanks who promises and delays.= 25 _Pr._
=He loves but lightly who his love can tell.= _Petrarch._
=He makes no friend who never made a foe.= _Tennyson._
=He= (your Father) =maketh His sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.= _Jesus._
=He maun lout= (stoop) =that has a laigh= (low) =door.= _Sc. Pr._
=He may rate himself a happy man who lives= 30 =remote from the gods of this world.= _Goethe._
=Hé, mon ami, tire-moi du danger; tu feras après ta harangue=--Hey! my friend, help me out of my danger first; you can make your speech afterwards. _La Fontaine._
=He most lives / Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.= _P. J. Bailey._
=He must be a good shot who always hits the mark.= _Dut. Pr._
=He must be a thorough fool who can learn nothing from his own folly.= _Hare._
=He must cry loud who would frighten the devil.= 35 _Dan. Pr._
=He must needs go that the devil drives.= _Pr._
=He must stand high who would see his destiny to the end.= _Dan. Pr._
=He must mingle with the world that desires to be useful.= _Johnson._
=He needs a long spoon who eats out of the same dish with the devil.= _Pr._
=He needs no foil, but shines by his own proper= 40 =light.= _Dryden._
=He ne'er made a gude darg= (day's work) =wha gaed= (went) =grumbling about it.= _Sc. Pr._
=He never is crowned / With immortality, who fears to follow / Where airy voices lead.= _Keats._
=He never knew pain who never felt the pangs of love.= _Platen._
=He never lees= (lies) =but when the holland's= (holly's) =green=, _i.e._, always. _Sc. Pr._
=He never yet stood sure that stands secure.= 45 _Quarles._
=He on whom Heaven bestows a sceptre knows not the weight of it till he bears it.= _Corneille._
=He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.= _Cic._
=He only is advancing in life whose heart is getting softer, whose blood warmer, whose brain quicker, and whose spirit is entering into living peace.= _Ruskin._
=He only is an acute observer who can observe minutely without being observed.= _Lavater._
=He only is exempt from failures who makes= 50 =no efforts.= _Whately._
=He only is great of heart who floods the world with a great affection. He only is great of mind who stirs the world with great thoughts. He only is great of will who does something to shape the world to a great career; and he is greatest who does the most of all these things, and does them best.= _R. D. Hitchcock._
=He only is rich who owns the day.= _Emerson._
=He only who forgets to hoard has learned to live.= _Keble._
=He ought to remember benefits on whom they are conferred; he who confers them ought not to mention them.= _Cic._
=He paidles a guid deal in the water, but he= 55 =tak's care no to wet his feet.= _Sc. Pr._
=He prayeth best who loveth best / All things, both great and small; / For the dear Lord who loveth us, / He made and loveth all.= _Coleridge._
=He preaches well who lives well.= _Sp. Pr._
=He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown.= _Bovee._
=He rais'd a mortal to the skies, / She drew an angel down.= _Dryden._
=He raises not himself up whom God casts down.= _Goethe._
=He reads much: / He is a great observer, and he looks / Quite through the deeds of men: he loves no plays, / As thou dost, Anthony; he hears no music: / Seldom he smiles; and smiles in such a sort / As if he mock'd himself, and scorn'd his spirit / That could be moved to smile at anything. / Such men as he be never at heart's ease / Whiles they behold a greater than themselves; / And therefore are they very dangerous.= _Jul. Cæs._, i. 2.
=He rideth easily enough whom the grace of= 5 =God carrieth.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=He runs far who never turns.= _It. Pr._
=He scarce is knight, yea, but half-man, nor meet / To fight for gentle damsel, he who lets / His heart be stirr'd with any foolish heat / At any gentle damsel's waywardness.= _Tennyson._
=He serves his party best who serves his country best.= _R. B. Hayes._
=He shall be a god to me who can rightly divide and define.= _Quoted by Emerson._
=He shone with the greater splendour because= 10 =he was not seen.= _Tac._
=He sins as much who holds the sack as he who puts into it.= _Fr. Pr._
=He sleeps as dogs do when wives bake=, _i.e._, is wide awake, though pretending not to see. _Sc. Pr._
=He spends best that spares to spend again.= _Pr._
=He submits himself to be seen through a microscope who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.= _Lavater._
=He swallows the egg and gives away the shell= 15 =in alms.= _Ger. Pr._
=He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him.= _Bible._
=He that aspires to be the head of a party will find it more difficult to please his friends than to perplex his foes. He must often act from false reasons, which are weak, because he dares not avow the true reasons, which are strong.= _Colton._
=He that at twenty is not, at thirty knows not, and at forty has not, will never either be, or know, or have.= _It. Pr._
=He that believeth shall not make haste.= _Bible._
=He that blows the coals in quarrels he has= 20 =nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.= _Ben. Franklin._
=He that boasts of his ancestors confesses that he has no virtue of his own.= _Charron._
=He that builds by the wayside has many masters.= _Pr._
=He that buyeth magistracy must sell justice.= _Pr._
=He that buys what he does not want, must often sell what he does want.= _Pr._
=He that, by often arguing against his own= 25 =sense, imposes falsehoods on others, is not far from believing them himself.= _Locke._
=He that by the plough would thrive, / Himself must either hold or drive.= _Pr._
=He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.= _Bible._
=He that can be patient has his foe at his feet.= _Dut. Pr._
=He that can be won with a feather will be lost with a straw.= _Pr._
=He that can conceal his joys is greater than he= 30 =who can hide his griefs.= _Lavater._
=He that can define, he that can answer a question so as to admit of no further answer, is the best man.= _Emerson._
=He that can discriminate is the father of his father.= _The Vedas._
=He that can endure / To follow with allegiance a fall'n lord, / Does conquer him that did his master conquer, / And earns a place i' the story.= _Ant. and Cleop._, iii. 11.
=He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported by the latter.= _Fielding._
=He that can write a true book to persuade= 35 =England, is not he the bishop and archbishop, the primate of England and of all England?= _Carlyle._
=He that cannot be the servant of many will never be master, true guide, and deliverer of many.= _Carlyle._
=He that cannot keep his mind to himself cannot practise any considerable thing whatever.= _Carlyle._
=He that cannot pay in purse must pay in person.= _Pr._
=He that ceases to be a friend never was a good one.= _Pr._
=He that claims, either in himself or for another,= 40 =the honours of perfection will surely injure the reputation which he designs to assist.= _Johnson._
=He that climbs the tall tree has won a right to the fruit: / He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.= _Scott._
=He that comes unca'd= (uninvited) =sits unsair'd= (unserved). _Sc. Pr._
=He that cometh to seek after knowledge with a mind to scorn and censure, shall be sure to find matter for his humour, but none for his instruction.= _Bacon._
=He that complies against his will, / is of the same opinion still.= _Butler._
=He that conquers himself conquers an enemy.= 45 _Gael. Pr._
=He that cuts himself wilfully deserves no salve.= _Pr._
=He that defers his charity until he is dead is, if a man weighs it rightly, rather liberal of another man's goods than his own.= _Bacon._
=He that descends not to word it with a shrew does worse than beat her.= _L'Estrange._
=He that deserves nothing should be content with anything.= _Pr._
=He that dies, pays all debts.= _Tempest_, iii. 2. 50
=He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together.= _Jeremy Taylor._
=He that does not knot his thread will lose his first stitch.= _Gael._
=He that does not know those things which are of use and necessity for him to know, is but an ignorant man, whatever he may know besides.= _Tillotson._
=He that does what he can, does what he ought.= _Pr._
=He that does you a very ill turn will never forgive you.= _Pr._
=He that doeth evil hateth the light.= _Jesus._ 5
=He that doeth truth cometh to the light.= _St. John._
=He that doth not plough at home won't plough abroad.= _Gael. Pr._
=He that doth the ravens feed, / Yea, providently caters for the sparrow, / Be comfort to my age.= _As You Like It_, ii. 3.
=He that eats longest lives longest.= _Pr._
=He that endureth is not overcome.= _Pr._ 10
=He that, ever following her (Duty's) commands, / On with toil of heart and knees and hands, / Thro' the long gorge to the far light has won / His path upward, and prevail'd, / Shall find the toppling crags of Duty scaled, / Are close upon the shining tablelands / To which our God Himself is moon and sun.= _Tennyson._
=He that falls into sin, is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil; yet some glory in that shame, counting the stains of sin the best complexion of their souls.= _Fuller._
=He that feareth is not made perfect in love.= _St. John._
=He that fights and runs away / May live to fight another day.= _Goldsmith._
=He that filches from me my good name / Robs= 15 =me of that which not enriches him, / And makes me poor indeed.= _Othello_, iii. 3.
=He that finds something before it is lost will die before he falls ill.= _Dut. Pr._
=He that flees not will be fled from.= _Gael. Pr._
=He that gallops his horse on Blackstone edge / May chance to catch a fall.= _Old song._
=He that gets gear= (wealth) =before he gets wit, is but a short time master o' it.= _Sc. Pr._
=He that gets patience, and the blessing which /= 20 =Preachers conclude with, hath not lost his pains.= _George Herbert._
=He that gives to the poor lends to the Lord.= _Pr._
=He that goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing.= _Pr._
=He that goes softly goes safely.= _Pr._
=He that grasps at too much holds nothing fast.= _Pr._
=He that has a head of wax should not walk in= 25 =the sun.= _Pr._
=He that has a head will not want a hat.= _It. Pr._
=He that has a wife has a master.= _Sc. Pr._
=He that has ae sheep in a flock will like a' the lave= (rest) =better for 't.= _Sc. Pr._
=He that has an ill wife likes to eat butter= (but her, _i.e._ without her). _Sc. Pr._
=He that has been taught only by himself has= 30 =had a fool for a master.= _Ben Jonson._
=He that has just enough can soundly sleep; / The o'ercome only fashes fowk to keep.= _Allan Ramsay._
=He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the centre and enjoy bright day.= _Milton._
=He that has lost his faith, what staff has he left?= _Bacon._
=He that has muckle would aye hae mair.= _Sc. Pr._
=He that has no head needs no hat.= _Sp. Pr._ 35
=He that has no sense at thirty will never have any.= _Pr._
=He that has no shame has no conscience.= _Pr._
=He that has siller in his purse canna want= (do without) =a head on his shoulders.= _Sc. Pr._
=He that has to choose has trouble.= _Dut. Pr._
=He that hateth gifts shall live.= _Bible._ 40
=He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man.= _Much Ado_, ii. 1.
=He that hath a satirical vein, as he maketh others afraid of his wit, so he hath need to be afraid of others' memory.= _Bacon._
=He that hath a trade hath an estate, and he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honour.= _Ben. Franklin._
=He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.= _Bacon._
=He that hath but gained the title of a jester,= 45 =let him assure himself the fool is not far off.= _Quarles._
=He that hath care of keeping days of payment is lord of another man's purse.= _Lord Burleigh._
=He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.= _Jesus._
=He that hath gained an entire conquest over himself will find no mighty difficulties to subdue all other opposition.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=He that hath knowledge spareth his words.= _Bible._
=He that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he.= 50 _Bible._
=He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down and without walls.= _Bible._
=He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth to the Lord.= _Bible._
=He that hath sense hath strength.= _Hitopadesa._
=He that hears much and speaks not at all, / Shall be welcome both in bower and hall.= _Pr._
=He that high growth on cedars did bestow, /= 55 =Gave also lowly mushrooms leave to grow.= _R. Southwell._
=He that hinders not a mischief is guilty of it.= _Pr._
=He that humbles himself shall be exalted.= _Pr._
=He that imposes an oath makes it, / Not he that for convenience takes it.= _Butler._
=He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.= _Bible._
=He that invented the Maiden, first hanselled it=, 60 _i.e._, first put it to the proof. (_The Maiden was a kind of guillotine._) _Sc. Pr._
=He that is a friend to himself is a friend to all men.= _Sen._
=He that is born of a hen must scrape for a living.= _Pr._
=He that is courteous at all, will be courteous to all.= _Gael. Pr._
=He that is discontented and troubled is tossed with divers suspicions; he is neither quiet himself, nor suffereth others to be quiet.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=He that is doing nothing is seldom without helpers.= _Pr._
=He that is down needs fear no fall; / He that= 5 =is low no pride.= _Bunyan._
=He that is down, the world cries "Down with him!"= _Pr._
=He that is embarked with the devil must sail with him.= _Dut. Pr._
=He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much; and he that is unjust in the least, is unjust also in the much.= _Jesus._
=He that is full of himself is very empty.= _Pr._
=He that is ill to himself will be good to nobody.= 10 _Pr._
=He that is not against us is on our part.= _Jesus._
=He that is not handsome at twenty, strong at thirty, rich at forty, nor wise at fifty, will never be handsome, strong, wise, or rich.= _Pr._
=He that is not open to conviction is not qualified for discussion.= _Whately._
=He that is not with me is against me.= _Jesus._
=He that is of a merry heart hath a continual= 15 =feast.= _Bible._
=He that is proud eats up himself; pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle; and whatever praises itself but in the deed devours the deed in the praise.= _Troil. and Cress._, ii. 3.
=He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, / Let him not know 't, and he's not robb'd at all.= _Othello_, iii. 3.
=He that is ready to slip is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.= _Bible._
=He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit, than he that taketh a city.= _Bible._
=He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding.= 20 _Bible._
=He that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.= _St. Paul._
=He that is surety for another, is never sure himself.= _Pr._
=He that is the inferior of nothing can be the superior of nothing, the equal of nothing.= _Carlyle._
=He that is tied with one slender string, such as one resolute struggle would break, is prisoner only to his own sloth; and who would pity his thraldom?= _Decay of Piety._
=He that is to-day a king, to-morrow shall die.= 25 _Ecclus._
=He that is violent in the pursuit of pleasure won't mind to turn villain for the purchase.= _M. Aurelius._
=He that is well-ordered and disposed within himself careth not for the strange and perverse behaviour of men.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=He that keeks= (pries) =through a keyhole may see what will vex him.= _Sc. Pr._
=He that keepeth his way preserveth his soul.= _Bible._
=He that kills a man when he is drunk must be= 30 =hanged for it when he is sober.= _Pr._
=He that knoweth not that which he ought to know, is a brute beast among men; he that knoweth no more than he hath need of, is a man among brute beasts; and he that knoweth all that may be known, is a god amongst men.= _Pythagoras._
=He that knows a little of the world will admire it enough to fall down and worship it; he that knows it most will most despise it.= _Colton._
=He that knows, and knows not that he knows, is asleep. Arouse him.= _Arabian Pr._
=He that knows, and knows that he knows, is wise. Follow him.= _Arabian Pr._
=He that knows is strong.= _Gael. Pr._ 35
=He that knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is stupid. Shun him.= _Arabian Pr._
=He that knows not, and knows that he knows not, is good. Teach him.= _Arabian Pr._
=He that lacks time to mourn lacks time to mend.= _Sir H. Taylor._
=He that lies down with dogs will rise up with fleas.= _Pr._
=He that lives in perpetual suspicion lives the= 40 =life of a sentinel, of a sentinel never relieved.= _Young._
=He that lives longest sees most.= _Gael. Pr._
=He that lives must grow old; and he that would rather grow old than die, has God to thank for the infirmities of old age.= _Johnson._
=He that lives upon hopes will die fasting.= _Ben. Franklin._
=He that lives with cripples learns to limp.= _Pr._
=He that lives with wolves will learn to howl.= 45 _Pr._
=He that loses his conscience has nothing left that is worth keeping.= _Izaak Walton._
=He that loves Christianity better than truth will soon love his own sect or party better than Christianity.= _Coleridge._
=He that loves God aright must not desire that God should love him in return=, _i.e._, love to God, as to man, should be entirely unselfish. _Spinoza._
=He that loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter.= _Isaac Barrow._
=He that loveth danger shall perish therein.= 50 _Ecclus._
=He that loveth father and mother more than me is not worthy of me.= _Jesus._
=He that loveth not his brother, whom he hath seen, how can he love God, whom he hath not seen?= _St. John._
=He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man.= _Bible._
=He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase.= _Bible._
=He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be= 55 =innocent.= _Bible._
=He that marries before he is wise will die before he thrive.= _Sc. Pr._
=He that marries for money sells his liberty.= _Pr._
=He that meddleth with strife belonging not to him is like one that taketh a dog by the ears.= _Bible._
=He that needs five thousand pound to live, / Is full as poor as he that needs but five.= _George Herbert._
=He that never thinks can never be wise.= _Johnson._
=He that observeth the wind shall not sow;= 5 =and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.= _Bible._
=He that on pilgrimages goeth ever, / Becometh holy late or never.= _Pr._
=He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.= _Bible._
=He that pities another minds himsel'.= _Sc. Pr._
=He that prieth in at her windows shall also hearken at her doors.= _Ecclus._
=He that promises too much means nothing.= _Pr._ 10
=He that purposes to be happy by the affection or acquaintance of the best, the greatest man alive, will always find his mind unsettled and perplexed.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=He that questioneth much will learn much.= _Bacon._
=He that revels in a well-chosen library has innumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavour.= _W. Godwin._
=He that ruleth among men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.= _Bible._
=He that runs in the dark may well stumble.= 15 _Pr._
=He that runs may read.= _Pr._
=He that seeks others to beguile, / Is oft o'ertaken in his own wile.= _Pr._
=He that seeks to have many friends never has any.= _It. Pr._
=He that serves the altar should live by the altar.= _Pr._
=He that shuts his eyes against a small light= 20 =would not be brought to see that which he had no mind to see, let it be placed in never so clear a light and never so near him.= _Atterbury._
=He that sows in the highway loses his corn.= _Pr._
=He that sows iniquity shall reap sorrow.= _Pr._
=He that spares the bad injures the good.= _Pr._
=He that spares the rod spoils the child.= _Pr._
=He that speaks the thing he should not / Must= 25 =often hear the thing he would not.= _Pr._
=He that speaks the truth will find himself in sufficiently dramatic situations.= _Prof. Wilson._
=He that spends his gear= (property) =before he gets it will hae little gude o't.= _Sc. Pr._
=He that stands upon a slippery place / Makes nice of no vain hold to stay him up.= _King John_, iii. 4.
=He that steals a preen= (pin) =will steal a better thing.= _Sc. Pr._
=He that steals for others will be hanged for= 30 =himself.= _Pr._
=He that strikes with the sword shall perish by the sword.= _Pr._
=He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green.= _Bacon._
=He that takes away reason to make way for revelation puts out the light of both.= _Locke._
=He that talks deceitfully for truth must hurt it more by his example than he promotes it by his arguments.= _Atterbury._
=He that talks much errs much.= _Pr._ 35
=He that talks much lies much.= _Pr._
=He that tholes= (bears up) =o'ercomes.= _Sc. Pr._
=He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread.= _Bible._
=He that turns not from every sin, turns not aright from any one sin.= _Brooks._
=He that undervalues himself will undervalue= 40 =others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.= _Johnson._
=He that voluntarily continues ignorant is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces.= _Johnson._
=He that waits long at the ferry will get over some time.= _Gael. Pr._
=He that walketh uprightly walks surely.= _Bible._
=He that walketh with wise men shall be wise; but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.= _Bible._
=He that wants good sense is unhappy in having= 45 =learning, for he has thereby only more ways of exposing himself; and he that has sense knows that learning is not knowledge, but rather the art of using it.= _Steele._
=He that wants money, means, and content is without three good friends.= _As You Like It_, iii. 2.
=He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.= _Sallust._
=He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a very long head or a very short creed.= _Colton._
=He that will carry nothing about him but gold will be every day at a loss for readier change.= _Pope._
=He that will have his son have a respect for= 50 =him must have a great reverence for his son.= _Locke._
=He that will lose his friend for a jest, deserves to die a beggar by the bargain.= _Fuller._
=He that will love life and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile.= _St. Peter._
=He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot, is a fool; and he that dare not, is a slave.= _Sir W. Drummond._
=He that will not when he may, / When he will he shall have nay.= _Pr._
=He that will not work shall not eat.= _Pr._ 55
=He that will to Cupar, maun to Cupar=, _i.e._, he that will to jail, must to jail. _Sc. Pr._
=He that will watch Providence will never want a Providence to watch.= _Flavel._
=He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow.= _Bible._
=He that winna be counselled canna be helped.= _Sc. Pr._
=He that winna save a penny will ne'er hae= 60 =ony.= _Sc. Pr._
=He that won't plough at home won't plough abroad.= _Gael. Pr._
=He that would be rich in a year will be hanged in half a year.= _Pr._
=He that would be singular in his apparel had need of something superlative to balance that affectation.= _Feltham._
=He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of the hens.= _Pr._
=He that would have his virtue published is not the servant of virtue, but of glory.= _Johnson._
=He that would live in peace and rest / Must hear, and see, and say the best.= _Pr._
=He that would reap well must sow well.= 5 _Pr._
=He that would reckon up all the accidents preferments depend upon, may as well undertake to count the sands or sun up infinity.= _South._
=He that would relish success to purpose should keep his passion cool and his expectation low.= _Collier._
=He that would reproach an author for obscurity should look into his own mind to see whether it is quite clear there. In the dusk the plainest writing is illegible.= _Goethe._
=He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill.= _Burke._
=He that wrongs his friend / Wrongs himself= 10 =more, and ever bears about / A silent court of justice in his breast, / Himself the judge and jury, and himself / The prisoner at the bar, ever condemned.= _Tennyson._
=He the cross who longest bears / Finds his sorrow's bounds are set.= _Winkworth._
=He thinks no evil who means no evil.= _Gael. Pr._
=He thinks too much; such men are dangerous.= _Jul. Cæs._, i. 2.
=He thought as a sage though he felt as a man.= _J. Beattie._
=He thought he thought, and yet he did not= 15 =think, / But only echoed still the common talk, / As might an empty room.= _Walter C. Smith._
=He thought the World to him was known, / Whereas he only knew the Town; / In men this blunder still you find, / All think their little set--Mankind.= _Hannah More._
=He travels safe and not unpleasantly who is guarded by poverty and guided by love.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=He trudged along, unknowing what he sought, / And whistled as he went, for want of thought.= _Dryden._
=He wants wit that wants resolved will.= _Two Gent. of Ver._, ii. 6.
=He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.= 20 _Swift._
=He was a man, take him for all in all, / I shall not look upon his like again.= _Ham._, i. 2.
=He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one; / Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading; / Lofty and sour to them that loved him not; / But to those men that sought him, sweet as summer.= _Hen. VIII._, iv. 2.
=He was exhaled; his great Creator drew / His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.= _Dryden._
=He was my friend, faithful and just to me.= _Jul. Cæs._, iii. 2.
=He was not of an age, but for all Time, / Sweet= 25 =Swan of Avon.= _Ben Jonson._
=He was perfumed like a milliner, / And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held / A pouncet-box, which ever and anon / He gave his nose, and took 't away again.= 1 _Hen. IV._, i. 3.
=He was scant o' news that told that his father was hanged.= _Sc. Pr._
=He was the Word that spake it; / He took the bread and brake it; / And what that Word did make it, / I do believe and take it.= _Dr. Donne._
=He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.= _Much Ado_, i. 1.
=He wha eats but= (only) =ae dish seldom needs= 30 =the doctor.= _Sc. Pr._
=He who asks a favour for another has the confidence which a sense of justice inspires; while he who solicits for himself experiences all the embarrassment and shame of one appealing for mercy.= _La Bruyère._
=He who avoids the temptation avoids the sin.= _Pr._
=He who begins with trusting every one will end with estimating every one a knave.= _Hebbel._
=He who breaks confidence has for ever forfeited it.= _Schopenhauer._
=He who can at all times sacrifice pleasure to= 35 =duty approaches sublimity.= _Lavater._
=He who can conceal his joys is greater than he who can conceal his griefs.= _Lavater._
=He who can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity or disgrace them by servility, proves that he is as perfect a gentleman by nature as his companions are by rank.= _Colton._
=He who cannot bear foes deserves no friend.= _Schafer._
=He who cannot profit you as a friend may at any time injure you as an enemy.= _Gellert._
=He who carries his heart on his tongue runs= 40 =the risk of expectorating it.= _Saar._
=He who ceases to grow greater grows smaller.= _Amiel._
=He who ceases to pray ceases to prosper.= _Pr._
=He who coldly lives to himself and his own will may gratify many a wish, but he who strives to guide others well must be able to dispense with much.= _Goethe._
=He who combines every defect will be more likely to find favour in the world than the man who is possessed of every virtue.= _Fr. Pr._
=He who comes up to his own ideal of greatness= 45 =must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind.= _Hazlitt._
=He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.= _Plato._
=He who conforms to the rule which the genius of the human understanding whispers secretly in the ear of every new-born being, viz., to test action by thought and thought by action, cannot err; and if he errs, he will soon find himself again in the right way.= _Goethe._
=He who considers too much will accomplish little.= _Schiller._
=He who deals with honey will sometimes be licking his fingers.= _Pr._
=He who despises mankind will never get the= 50 =best out of either others or himself.= _Tocqueville._
=He who did well in war just earns the right / To begin doing well in peace.= _Browning._
=He who does a good deed is instantly ennobled; he who does a mean deed, is by the action itself contracted.= _Emerson._
=He who does evil that good may come, pays a toll to the devil to let him into heaven.= _Hare._
=He who does me good teaches me to be good.= _Pr._
=He who does not advance falls backward.= 5 _Amiel._
=He who does not expect a million of readers should not write a line.= _Goethe._
=He who does not help us at the needful moment never helps; he who does not counsel at the needful moment never counsels.= _Goethe._
=He who does not imagine in stronger and better lineaments, and in stronger and better light than his perishing mortal eye can see, does not imagine at all.= _Wm. Blake._
=He who does not know foreign languages knows nothing of his own.= _Goethe._
=He who does not lose his wits over certain= 10 =matters has none to lose.= _Lessing._
=He who does not think too highly of himself is more than he thinks.= _Goethe._
=He who does nothing for others does nothing for himself.= _Goethe._
=He who doth not speak an unkind word to his fellow-creatures is master of the whole world to the extremities of the ocean.= _Hitopadesa._
=He who dwells in temporary semblances and does not penetrate into the eternal substance, will not answer the sphinx-riddle of to-day or of any day.= _Carlyle._
=He who enquires into a matter has often= 15 =found more at a glance than he wished to find.= _Lessing._
=He who entereth uncalled for, unquestioned speaketh much, and regardeth himself with satisfaction, to his prince appeareth one of a weak judgment.= _Hitopadesa._
=He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions he draws from them or the advantage to which they can be put, is a philosopher.= _Bulwer._
=He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.= _Epictetus._
=He who fears not death fears not threats.= _Corneille._
=He who fears nothing is not less powerful than= 20 =he whom all fear.= _Schiller._
=He who feeds the ravens / Will give His children bread.= _Cowper._
=He who feels he is right is stronger than king's hosts; he who doubts he is not right has no strength whatever.= _Carlyle._
=He who finds a God in the physical world will also find one in the moral, which is History.= _Jean Paul._
=He who formeth a connection with an honest man from his love of truth, will not suffer thereby.= _Hitopadesa._
=He who gives up the smallest part of a secret= 25 =has the rest no longer in his power.= _Jean Paul._
=He who goes alone may start to-day; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.= _Thoreau._
=He who has a bonnie wife needs mair than twa een.= _Sc. Pr._
=He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, / And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.= _Ali Ben Abu Saleb_
="He who has been born has been a first man," has had lying before his young eyes, and as yet unhardened into scientific shapes, a world as plastic, infinite, divine, as lay before the eyes of Adam himself.= _Carlyle._
=He who has been once very foolish will never= 30 =be very wise.= _Montaigne._
=He who has done enough for the welfare= (_den Besten_) =of his own time has lived for all times.= _Schiller._
=He who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.= _Joubert._
=He who has less than he desires should know that he has more than he deserves.= _Lichtenberg._
=He who has lost confidence can lose nothing more.= _Boiste._
=He who has love in his heart has spurs in his= 35 =heels.= _Pr._
=He who has made no mistakes in war has never made war.= _Turenne._
=He who has most of heart knows most of sorrow.= _P. J. Bailey._
=He who has no ear for poetry is a barbarian, be he who he may.= _Goethe._
=He who has no opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.= _Klopstock._
=He who has no passions has no principle, nor= 40 =motive to act.= _Helvetius._
=He who has no vision of Eternity will never get a true hold of Time.= _Carlyle._
=He who has no wish to be happier is the happiest of men.= _W. R. Alger._
=He who has not been a servant cannot become a praiseworthy master; it is meet that we should plume ourselves rather on acting the part of a servant properly than that of the master, first towards the laws, and next towards our elders.= _Plato._
=He who has not known poverty, sorrow, contradiction, and the rest, and learned from them the priceless lessons they have to teach, has missed a good opportunity of schooling.= _Carlyle._
=He who has not the weakness of friendship= 45 =has not the strength.= _Joubert._
=He who has nothing to boast of but his ancestry is like a potato; the only good belonging to him is underground.= _Sir T. Overbury._
=He who has published an injurious book sins in his very grave, corrupts others while he is rotting himself.= _South._
=He who has reason and good sense at his command needs few of the arts of the orator.= _Goethe._
=He who imitates what is evil always exceeds; he who imitates what is good always falls short.= _Guicciardini._
=He who in any way shows us better than we= 50 =knew before that a lily of the fields is beautiful, does he not show it us as an effluence of the fountain of all beauty--as the handwriting, made visible there, of the great Maker of the universe?= _Carlyle._
=He who indulges his senses in any excesses renders himself obnoxious to his own reason; and, to gratify the brute in him, displeases the man, and sets his two natures at variance.= _Scott._
=He who, in opposition to his own happiness, delighteth in the accumulation of riches, carrieth burdens for others and is the vehicle of trouble.= _Hitopadesa._
=He who intends to be a great man ought to love neither himself nor his own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by himself or by another.= _Plato._
=He who is a fool and knows it is not very far from being a wise man.= _J. B. (Selkirk)._
=He who is conscious of guilt cannot bear the= 5 =innocence of others: he tries to reduce other characters to his own level.= _C. Fox._
=He who is deficient in the art of selection may, by showing nothing but the truth, produce all the effect of the grossest falsehood. It perpetually happens that one writer tells less truth than another, merely because he tells more truth.= _Macaulay._
=He who is destitute of principles is governed, theoretically and practically, by whims.= _Jacobi._
=He who is firm in his will moulds the world to himself.= _Goethe._
=He who is good has no kind of envy.= _Plato._
=He who is in disgrace with the sovereign is= 10 =disrespected by all.= _Hitopadesa._
=He who is lord of himself, and exists upon his own resources, is a noble but a rare being.= _Sir E. Brydges._
=He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in the performance of it.= _Rousseau._
=He who is moved to tears by every word of a priest is generally a weakling and a rascal when the feeling evaporates.= _Fr. v. Sallet._
=He who is not possessed of such a book as will dispel many doubts, point out hidden treasures, and is, as it were, a mirror of all things, is even an ignorant man.= _Hitopadesa._
=He who is of no use to himself is of no use to= 15 =any one.= _Dan. Pr._
=He who is one with himself is everything.= _Auerbach._
=He who is only half instructed speaks much, and is always wrong; he who knows it wholly, is content with acting, and speaks seldom or late.= _Goethe._
=He who is only just is stern; he who is only wise lives in gloom.= _Voltaire._
=He who is servant to= (_dient_) =the public is a poor animal= (_Thier_); =he torments himself, and nobody thanks him for it.= _Goethe._
=He who is suave with all= (_lieblich thun mit_ 20 _allen will_) =gets on with none: he pleases no one who tries to please thousands.= _Bodenstedt._
=He who is the master of all opinions never can be the bigot of any.= _W. R. Alger._
=He who is too much afraid of being duped has lost the power of being magnanimous.= _Amiel._
=He who is weighty is willing to be weighed.= _Pr._
=He who is willing to work finds it hard to wait.= _Pr._
=He who knows himself well will very soon= 25 =learn to know all other men: it is all reflection= (_Zurückstrahlung_). _Lichtenberg._
=He who knows how to sunder jest and earnest is a wise man, and who by cheerful playfulness reinvigorates himself for strenuous diligence.= _Rückert._
=He who knows not the world, knows not his own place in it.= _Marcus Aurelius._
=He who knows right principles is not equal to him who loves them.= _Confucius._
=He who laughs at crooked men should need walk very straight.= _Pr._
=He who laughs can commit no deadly sin.= 30 _Goethe's Mother._
=He who lays out for God lays up for himself.= _Pr._
=He who learns and makes no use of his learning is a beast of burden with a load of books.= _Saadi._
=He who learns the rules of wisdom without conforming to them in his life, is like a man who labours in his fields but does not sow.= _Saadi._
=He who likes borrowing dislikes paying.= _Pr._
=He who lives, and strives, and suffers for others= 35 =dear to him, is to be envied; he who lives only for himself is poor.= _H. Lingg._
=He who lives to no purpose lives to a bad purpose.= _Nevius._
=He who lives wisely to himself and his own heart looks at the busy world through the loopholes of retreat, and does not want to mingle in the fray.= _Hazlitt._
=He who loses wealth loses much, who loses a friend loses more, who loses his spirits loses all.= _Sp. Pr._
=He who loves goodness harbours angels, reveres reverence, and lives with God.= _Emerson._
=He who loves not books before he comes to= 40 =thirty years of age will hardly love them enough afterwards to understand them.= _Clarendon._
=He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=He who makes claims= (_Ansprüche_), =shows by doing so that he has none to make.= _Seume._
=He who makes constant complaint gets little compassion.= _Pr._
=He who makes religion his first object makes it his whole object.= _Ruskin._
=He who means to teach others may indeed= 45 =often suppress the best of what he knows, but he must not himself be half-instructed.= _Goethe._
=He who mistrusts humanity is quite as often deceived as he who trusts men.= _Jean Paul._
=He who mocks the infant's faith / Shall be mock'd in age and death.= _Wm. Blake._
=He who never in his life was foolish was never a wise man.= _Heine._
=He who obeys is almost always better than he who commands.= _Renan._
=He who offers God a second place offers Him= 50 =no place.= _Ruskin._
=He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor.= _Holmes._
=He who overcomes his egoism rids himself of the most stubborn obstacle that blocks the way to all true greatness and all true happiness.= _Cötvös._
=He who partakes in another's joys is more humane than he who partakes in his griefs.= _Lavater._
=He who parts with his property before his death may prepare himself for bitter experiences.= _Fr. Pr._
=He who pleased everybody died before he was born.= _Pr._
=He who praises everybody praises nobody.= 5 _Johnson._
=He who promises runs in debt.= _Talmud._
=He who reaches the goal receives the crown, and often he who deserves it goes without it.= _Goethe._
=He who receives a sacrament does not perform a good work; he receives a benefit.= _Luther._
=He who reforms himself has done more towards reforming the public than a crowd of noisy impotent patriots.= _Lavater._
=He who says, "I sought, yet I found not,"= 10 =be sure he lies; he who says, "I sought not and found," be sure he deceives; he who says, "I sought and found," him believe--he speaks true.= _Rückert._
=He who says what he likes must hear what he does not like.= _Dan. Pr._
=He who scrubs every pig he sees will not long be clean himself.= _Pr._
=He who seeks only for applause from without has all his happiness in another's keeping.= _Goldsmith._
=He who seeks the truth should be of no country.= _Voltaire._
=He who seeth not the filthiness of evil wanteth= 15 =a great foil to perceive the beauty of virtue.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=He who sends mouths will send meat.= _Pr._
=He who serves God serves a good Master.= _Pr._
=He who serves the public serves a fickle master.= _Dut. Pr._
=He who serves under reason anticipates necessity.= _Herder._
=He who speaks sows; he who keeps silence= 20 =reaps.= _It. Pr._
=He who spends himself for all that is noble, and gains by nothing but what is just, will hardly be notably wealthy or distressfully poor.= _Plato._
=He who stays in the valley will never cross the mountain.= _Pr._
=He who steals an egg would steal an ox.= _Pr._
=He who strikes terror into others is himself in continual fear.= _Claudian._
=He who tastes every man's broth often burns= 25 =his mouth.= _Dan. Pr._
=He who tells a lie is not sensible how great a task he undertakes, for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.= _Pope._
=He who tells the failings of others to you will be ready to tell your failings to others.= _Turk. Pr._
=He who the sword of Heaven will bear / Should be as holy as severe.= _Meas. for Meas._, iii. 2.
=He who thinks for himself, and imitates rarely, is a free man.= _Klopstock._
=He who thinks his place below him will certainly= 30 =be below his place.= _Saville._
=He who thinks to save anything by his religion besides his soul will be a loser in the end.= _Bp. Barlow._
=He who thinks too much will accomplish little.= _Schiller._
=He who traces nothing of God in his own soul will never find God in the world of matter--mere circlings of force there of iron regulation, of universal death and merciless indifferency.= _Carlyle._
=He who travels to be amused, or to get somewhat which he does not carry, travels away from himself, and grows old even in youth among old things.= _Emerson._
=He who trusts a secret to his servant makes= 35 =his own man his master.= _Dryden._
=He who waits for dead men's shoes may go barefoot.= _Pr._
=He who wants any help or prop, in addition to the internal evidences of its truth for his belief, never was and never will be a Christian.= _B. R. Haydon._
=He who wants everything must know many things, do many things to procure even a few; different from him whose indispensable knowledge is this only, that a finger will pull the bell!= _Carlyle._
=He who will be great must collect himself; only in restriction does the master show himself.= _Goethe._
=He who will deaden one half of his nature to= 40 =invigorate the other half will become at best a distorted prodigy.= _Sir J. Stephen._
=He who will do faithfully needs to believe firmly.= _Carlyle._
=He who will eat the nut must crack it.= _Frisian Pr._
=He who will not be ruled by the rudder must be ruled by the rock.= _Cornish Pr._
=He who will sell his fame will also sell the public interest.= _Solon._
=He who will work aright must not trouble= 45 =himself about what is ill done, but only do well himself.= _Goethe._
=He who wills all, wills in effect nothing, and brings it to nothing.= _Hegel._
=He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.= _Confucius._
=He who works with symbols merely is a pedant, a hypocrite, and a bungler.= _Goethe._
=He who would be everywhere will be nowhere.= _Dan. Pr._
=He who would bring home the wealth of the= 50 =Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.= _Sp. Pr._
=He who would climb the ladder must begin at the bottom.= _Ger. Pr._
=He who would gather honey must brave the sting of the bees.= _Dut. Pr._
=He who would gather roses must not fear thorns.= _Dut. Pr._
=He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.= _Milton._
=He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees= 55 =a counterfeit.= _Dryden._
=He who would rule must hear and be deaf, must see and be blind.= _Ger. Pr._
=He who would write heroic poems must make his whole life a heroic poem.= _Milton, quoted by Carlyle._
=He whom God has gifted with a love of retirement possesses, as it were, an extra sense.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=He whom God steers sails safely.= _Pr._
=He whom the inevitable cannot overcome is= 5 =unconquerable.= _Epictetus._
=He whom toil has braced or manly play, / As light as air each limb, each thought as clear as day.= _Thomson._
=He whose actions sink him even beneath the vulgar has no right to those distinctions which should be the reward only of merit.= _Goldsmith._
=He whose days are passed away without giving or enjoying, puffing like the bellows of a blacksmith, liveth but by breathing.= _Hitopadesa._
=He whose goodness is part of himself is what is called a real man.= _Mencius._
=He whose sympathy goes lowest is the man= 10 =from whom kings have the most to fear.= _Emerson._
=He whose understanding can discern what is, and judge what should or should not be applied to prevent misfortune, never sinketh under difficulties.= _Hitopadesa._
=He whose word and deed you cannot predict, who answers you without any supplication in his eye, who draws his determination from within, and draws it instantly,--that man rules.= _Emerson._
=He whose work is on the highway will have many advisers.= _Sp. Pr._
=He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.= _Hazlitt._
=He will never set the Thames on fire.= _Pr._ 15
=He would fain fly, but wants wings.= _Pr._
=He works hard who has nothing to do.= _Pr._
=He wrought all kind of service with a noble ease / That graced the lowliest act in doing it.= _Tennyson._
=He's a blockhead who wants a proof of what he can't perceive, / And he's a fool who tries to make such a blockhead believe.= _Wm. Blake._
=He's a man who dares to be / Firm for truth= 20 =when others flee.= _Pr._
=He's a silly body that's never missed.= _Sc. Pr._
=He's a wise man wha can take care o' himsel'.= _Sc. Pr._
=He's armed without that's innocent within.= _Pope._
=He's idle that may be better employed.= _Sc. Pr._
=He's looking for the blade o' corn in the stack= 25 =o' chaff.= _J. M. Barrie._
=He's most truly valiant / That can wisely suffer the worst that man / Can breathe; and make his wrongs his outsides: / To wear them like his raiment, carelessly, / And ne'er prefer his injuries to his heart, / To bring it into danger.= _Timon of Athens_, iii. 5.
=He's only great who can himself command.= _Lansdowne._
=He's well worth= (deserving of) =sorrow that buys it with his ain siller.= _Sc. Pr._
=He's wise that's wise in time.= _Sc. Pr._
=Headstrong liberty is lashed with woe.= _Com._ 30 _of Errors_, ii. 1.
=Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other.= _Spectator._
=Health consists with temperance alone.= _Pope._
=Health is better than wealth.= _Pr._
=Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness--an open and noble temper.= _Emerson._
=Health is the first of all liberties, and happiness= 35 =gives us the energy which is the basis of health.= _Amiel._
=Health lies in labour, and there is no royal road to it but through toil.= _Wendell Phillips._
=Health, longevity, beauty are other names for personal purity, and temperance is the regimen for all.= _A. B. Alcott._
=Healthy action is always a balance of forces; and all extremes are dangerous; the excess of a good thing being often more dangerous in its social consequences than the excess of what is radically bad.= _Prof. Blackie, to Young Men._
=Hear God, and God will hear you.= _Pr._
=Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knell / That= 40 =summons thee to heaven or to hell.= _Macb._, ii. 1.
=Hear much and speak little; for the tongue is the instrument of the greatest good and the greatest evil that is done in this world.= _Raleigh._
=Hear one side, and you will be in the dark; hear both, and all will be clear.= _Haliburton._
=Hear ye not the hum / Of mighty workings?= _Keats._
=Hearsay is half lies.= _Pr._
=Hearts are flowers; they remain open to the= 45 =softly falling dew, but shut up in the violent downpour of rain.= _Jean Paul._
=Hearts are stronger than swords.= _Wendell Phillips._
=Hearts grow warmer the farther you go / Up to the North with its hills and snow.= _Walter C. Smith._
=Hearts may agree though heads differ.= _Sc. Pr._
=Hearts philanthropic at times have the trick / Of the old hearts of stone.= _Walter C. Smith._
=Heart's-ease is a flower which blooms from= 50 =the grave of desire.= _W. R. Alger._
=Heat and darkness, and what these two may breed.= _Carlyle._
=Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from the eternal.= _Dante._
=Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot / That it doth singe yourself.= _Hen. VIII._, i. 1.
=Heaven and God are best discerned through tears; scarcely, perhaps, are discerned at all without them.= _James Martineau._
=Heaven and yourself / Had part in this fair= 55 =maid= (Juliet); =now heaven hath all.= _Rom. and Jul._, iv. 5.
=Heaven bestows / At home all riches that wise Nature needs.= _Cowley._
=Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, / Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues / Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike / As if we had them not.= _Meas. for Meas._, i. 1.
=Heaven finds means to kill your joys with love.= _Rom. and Jul._, v. 3.
=Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate, / All but the page prescribed--their present state.= _Pope._
=Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, / Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.= _Congreve._
=Heaven hath many tongues to talk of it, more eyes to behold it, but few hearts that rightly affect it.= _Bp. Hall._
=Heaven is above all yet; there sits a Judge /= 5 =That no king can corrupt.= _Hen. VIII._, iii. 1.
=Heaven is as near by sea as by land.= _Pr._
=Heaven is in thy faith; happiness in thy heart.= _Arndt._
=Heaven is never deaf but when man's heart is dumb.= _Quarles._
=Heaven is not always angry when He strikes, / But most chastises those whom most He likes.= _Pomfret._
=Heaven lies about us in our infancy.= _Wordsworth._ 10
=Heaven never helps the man that will not act.= _Sophocles._
=Heaven often regulates effects by their causes, and pays the wicked what they have deserved.= _Corneille._
=Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.= _A. B. Alcott._
=Heaven, which really in one sense is merciful to sinners, is in no sense merciful to fools, but even lays pitfalls for them and inevitable snares.= _Ruskin._
=Heaven's above all; and there be souls that= 15 =must be saved, and there be souls that must not be saved.= _Othello_, ii. 3.
=Heavens! can you then thus waste, in shameful wise, / Your few important days of trial here? / Heirs of eternity! yborn to rise / Through endless states of being, still more near / To bliss approaching, and perfection clear.= _Thomson._
=Heaven's eternal wisdom hath decreed that man of man should ever stand in need.= _Theocritus._
=Heaven's fire confounds when fann'd with folly's breath.= _Quarles._
=Heaven's gates are not so highly arched as princes' palaces; they that enter there must go upon their knees.= _Daniel Webster._
=Heavens! if privileged from trial, / How cheap= 20 =a thing were virtue!= _Thomson._
=Heaven's Sovereign saves all beings but Himself that hideous sight--a naked human heart.= _Young._
=Heav'n finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.= _Quarles._
=Heav'n is for thee too high; be lowly wise.= _Milton._
=Heav'n is not always got by running.= _Quarles._
=Heav'n is not day'd. Repentance is not dated.= 25 _Quarles._
=Hebt mich das Glück, so bin ich froh, / Und sing in dulci jubilo; / Senkt sich das Rad und quetscht mich nieder, / So denk' ich: nun, es hebt sich wieder=--When Fortune lifts me up, then am I glad and sing in sweet exultation; when she sinks down and lays me prostrate, then I begin to think, Now it will rise again. _Goethe._
=Hectora quis nosset, si felix Troja fuisset? / Publica virtuti per mala facta via est=--Who would have known of Hector if Troy had been fortunate? A highway is open to virtue through the midst of misfortunes. _Ovid._
=Hectors Liebe stirbt im Lethe nicht=--Hector's love does not perish in the floods of Lethe. _Schiller._
=Hedges between keep friendship green.= _Pr._
=Hedgerows and Hercules-pillars, however perfect,= 30 =are to be reprobated as soon as they diminish the free world of a future man.= _Jean Paul._
=Heilig sei dir der Tag; doch schätze das Leben nicht höher / Als ein anderes Gut, und alle Güter sind trüglich=--Sacred be this day to thee, yet rate not life higher than another good, for all our good things are illusory. _Goethe._
=Hei mihi! difficile est imitari gaudia falsa! / Difficile est tristi fingere mente jocum=--Ah me! it is hard to feign the joys one does not feel, hard to feign mirth when one's heart is sad. _Tib._
=Hei mihi! qualis erat! quantum mutatus ab illo / Hectore, qui redit, exuvias indutus Achilli=--Ah me, how sad he looked! how changed from that Hector who returned in triumph arrayed in the spoils of Achilles. _Virg._
=Heitern Sinn und reine Zwecke / Nun, man kommt wohl eine Strecke=--Serene sense and pure aims, that means a long stride, I should say. _Goethe._
="Hélas! que j'en ai vu mourir de jeunes filles"=--"Alas, 35 how many young girls have I seen die of that!" _Victor Hugo._
=Hell and destruction are never full, so the eyes of men are never satisfied.= _Bible._
=Hell is on both sides of the tomb, and a devil may be respectable and wear good clothes.= _C. H. Parkhurst._
=Hell is paved with good intentions.= _Johnson._
=Hell is paved with the skulls of priests.= _Modified from St. Chrysostom._
=Hell lies near, / Around us, as does heaven,= 40 =and in the world, / Which is our Hades, still the chequered souls, / Compact of good and ill--not all accurst, / Nor altogether blest--a few brief years / Travel the little journey of their lives, / They know not to what end.= _Lewis Morris._
=Helluo librorum=--A devourer of books.
=Help others and seek to avenge no injury.= _Fors._
=Help which is long on the road is no help.= _Pr._
=Help yourself and your friends will help you.= _Pr._
=Helpless mortal! Thine arm can destroy= 45 =thousands at once, but cannot enclose even two of thy fellow-creatures at once in the embrace of love and sympathy.= _Jean Paul._
=Hence, babbling dreams; you threaten here in vain; / Conscience, avaunt, Richard's himself again.= _Colley Cibber._
=Her angel's face, / As the great eye of heaven, shined bright, / And made a sunshine in the shady place.= _Spenser._
=Her eyes are homes of silent prayer.= _Tennyson._
=Her feet, beneath her petticoat, / Like little mice stole in and out, / As if they fear'd the light; / But oh! she dances such a way, / No sun upon an Easter-day / Is half so fine a sight.= _Sir J. Suckling._
=Her own person, / It beggar'd all description.= _Ant. and Cleop._, ii. 2.
=Her sun is gone down while it was yet day.= _Bible._
=Her voice was ever soft, / Gentle, and low--an excellent thing in woman.= _King Lear_, v. 3.
=Hercules himself must yield to odds; / And= 5 =many strokes, though with a little axe, / Hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.= 3 _Hen. VI._, ii. 1.
=Here eyes do regard you / In Eternity's stillness; / Here is all fulness, / Ye brave, to reward you. / Work and despair not.= _Goethe._
=Here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.= _St. Paul._
=Here have we war for war, and blood for blood, / Controlment for controlment.= _King John_, i. 1.
=Here I and sorrows sit; / Here is my throne; bid kings come bow to it.= _King John_, iii. 1.
=Here I lay, and thus I bore my point.= 1 _Hen._ 10 _IV._, ii. 4-.
=Here in the body pent, / Absent from Him I roam, / Yet nightly pitch my moving tent / A day's march nearer home.= _J. Montgomery._
=Here lies Johnny Pigeon! / What was his religion, / Wha e'er desires to ken / To some ither warl' / Maun follow the carl, / For here Johnny Pigeon had nane.= _Burns._
=Here lies one whose name was writ in water.= _Keat's epitaph._
=Here lies our sovereign lord the king, / Whose word no man relies on; / He never says a foolish thing, / Nor ever does a wise one.= _Rochester on Charles II.'s chamber-door._
=Here lieth one, believe it if you can, / Who,= 15 =though an attorney, was an honest man!= _Epitaph._
=Here, on earth we are as soldiers fighting in a foreign land, that understand not the plan of the campaign, and have no need to understand it, seeing well what is at our hand to be done.= _Carlyle._
=Here or nowhere is America.= _Goethe._
=Here our souls / Though amply blest, / Can never find, although they seek, / A perfect rest.= _Procter._
=Here was a Caesar! when comes such another?= _Jul. Cæs._, iii. 2.
=Here's a sigh for those who love me, / And a= 20 =smile for those who hate, / And whatever sky's above me, / Here's a heart for every fate.= _Byron._
=Hereditary bondsmen! know ye not, / Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow?= _Byron._
=Hereditary honours are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.= _Plato._
=Heroes are much the same, the point's agreed, / From Macedonia's madman to the Swede.= _Pope._
=Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an individual's character.= _Emerson._
=Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul= 25 =over fear; fear of poverty, of suffering, of calumny, of sickness, of isolation and death.... It is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage.= _Amiel._
=Heroism is the self-devotion of genius manifesting itself in action.= _Hare._
=Heroism, the Divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.= _Carlyle._
=Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will for ever exist, universally among mankind.= _Carlyle._
=Herradura que chacotea clavo le falta=--A clattering hoof means a nail gone. _Sp. Pr._
=Herrenlos ist auch der Freiste nicht=--Even 30 the most emancipated is not without a master. _Schiller._
=Herrschaft gewinn ich, Eigentum; / Die That ist alles, nichts der Ruhm=--Lordship, aye ownership, is my conquest; the deed is everything, the fame of it nothing. _Goethe._
=Heu melior quanto sors tua sorte meâ!=--Alas! how much better is your fate than mine! _Ovid._
=Heu nihil invitis fas quenquam fidere divis=--Alas! it is not permitted to any one to feel confident when the gods are adverse. _Virg._
=Heu pietas! Heu prisca fides=--Alas! for piety! Alas! for ancient faith! _Virg._
=Heu! quam difficile est crimen non prodere= 35 =vultu!=--Alas! how difficult it is not to betray guilt by our looks! _Ovid._
=Heu! quam difficilis gloriæ custodia est!=--Alas! how difficult is the custody of glory. _Pub. Syr._
=Heu! quam miserum est ab eo lædi, de quo non ausis queri=--Alas! how galling is it to be injured by one against whom you dare make no complaint. _Pub. Syr._
=Heu quantum fati parva tabella vehit!=--Ah! with what a weight of destiny is this one slight plank freighted! _Ovid._
=Heu! totum triduum!=--What! three whole days of waiting! _Ter._
=Heureka=--I have found it out. _Gr._ 40
=Heureux commencement est la moitié de l'œuvre=--A work well begun is half done. _Fr. Pr._
=Heute muss dem Morgen nichts borgen=--To-day must borrow nothing of to-morrow. _Ger. Pr._
=Heute roth, Morgen todt=--- To-day red, to-morrow dead. _Ger. Pr._
=Hi motus animorum atque hæc certamina tanta / Pulveris exigui jactu compressa quiescent=--These passions of soul, these conflicts so fierce, will cease, and be repressed by the casting of a little dust. _Virg._
=Hiatus maxime deflendus=--A deficiency or blank 45 very much to be deplored.
=Hibernicis ipsis hibernior=--More Irish than the Irish themselves.
=Hic dies, vere mihi festus, atras / Eximet curas=--This day, for me a true holiday, shall banish gloomy cares. _Hor._
=Hic est aut nusquam quod quærimus=--Here or else nowhere is what we are aiming at. _Hor._
=Hic est mucro defensionis tuæ=--This is the point of your defence. _Cic._
=Hic et nunc=--Here and now. 50
=Hic et ubique=--Here and everywhere.
=Hic finis fandi=--Here let the conversation end.
=Hic funis nihil attraxit=--This bait has taken no fish; this scheme has not answered. _Pr._
=Hic gelidi fontes, hic mollia prata, Lycori, / Hic nemus, hic toto tecum consumerer ævo=--Here are cool springs, Lycoris, here velvet meads, here a grove; here with thee could I pass my whole life. _Virg._
=Hic hæret aqua!=--This is the difficulty (_lit._ here 5 the water (in the water-clock) stops).
=Hic jacet=--Here lies.
=Hic locus est partes ubi se via findit in ambas=--This is the spot where the way divides in two branches. _Virg._
=Hic murus aheneus esto, / Nil conscire sibi, nulla pallescere culpa=--Be this our wall of brass, to be conscious of no guilt, to turn pale at no charge brought against us. _Hor._
=Hic niger est; hunc tu, Romane, caveto=--This fellow is black; have a care of him, Roman. _Hor._
=Hic nigræ succus loliginis, hæc est / Ærugo= 10 =mera=--This is the very venom of dark detraction; this is pure malignity. _Hor._
=Hic patet ingeniis campus, certusque merenti / Stat favor: ornatur propriis industria donis=--Here is a field open for talent, and here merit will have certain favour, and industry be graced with its due reward. _Claud._
=Hic Rhodos, hic salta=--Here is Rhodes; here leap.
=Hic rogo, non furor est ne moriare mori?=--I ask, is it not madness to die that you may not die? _Mart._
=Hic situs est Phaëton currus auriga paterni; / Quem si non tenuit, magnis tamen excidit ausis=--Here lies buried Phaëton, the driver of his father's car, which if he did not manage, still he perished in a great attempt. _Ovid._
=Hic transitus efficit magnum vitæ compendium=--This 15 change effects a great saving of time (_lit._ life).
=Hic ubi nunc urbs est, tum locus urbis erat=--Here, where the city now stands, was at that time nothing but its site. _Ovid._
=Hic ver assiduum, atque alienis mensibus æstas=--Here (in Italy) is ceaseless spring, and summer in months in which summer is alien. _Virg._
=Hic victor cæstus artemque repono=--Here victorious I lay aside my cestus and my net. _Virg._
=Hic vigilans somniat=--He sleeps awake. _Plaut._
=Hic vivimus ambitiosa / Paupertate omnes=--We 20 all live here in a state of ostentatious poverty. _Juv._
=Hid jewels are but lost.= _Quarles._
=Hier bin ich Mensch, hier darf ich's sein=--Here am I a man, here may I be one. _Goethe._
=Hier ist die Zeit durch Thaten zu beweisen, / Dass Manneswürde nicht der Götterhöhe weicht=--Now is the time to show by deeds that the dignity of a man does not yield to the sublimity of the gods. _Goethe._
=Hier ist keine Heimat--Jeder treibt / Sich an dem andern rasch und fremd vorüber, / Und fragt nicht nach seinem Schmerz=--Here is no home for a man: every one drives past another hastily and unneighbourly, and inquires not after his pain. _Schiller._
=Hier sitz' ich auf Rasen mit Veilchen bekränzt=--Here 25 sit I upon the sward wreathed with violets. _K. Schmidt._
=Hier stehe ich! Ich kann nicht anders. Gott helfe mir! Amen=--Here stand I. I cannot act otherwise. So help me God! _Luther at the Diet of Worms._
=Hier steht einer, der wird mich rächen=--Here stands one who will avenge me. _Frederick William of Prussia, pointing to his son._
=High air-castles are cunningly built of words, the words well-bedded in good logic mortar; wherein, however, no knowledge will come to lodge.= _Carlyle._
=High birth is an accident, not a virtue.= _Metastasio._
=High erected thoughts seated in the heart of= 30 =courtesy.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=High houses are usually empty in the upper storey.= _Ger. Pr._
=High is the head of the stag on the mountain crag.= _Gael. Pr._
=High station has to be resigned in order to be appreciated.= _Pascal._
=Hilarisque tamen cum pondere virtus=--Virtue may be gay, yet with dignity. _Statius._
=Hilft Gott uns nicht, kein Kaiser kann uns= 35 =helfen=--God helps us not; no emperor can. _Schiller._
=Hills peep o'er hills; and alps on alps arise.= _Pope._
=Hilo y aguja, media vestidura=--Needle and thread are half clothing. _Sp. Pr._
=Him only pleasure leads and peace attends, / Him, only him, the shield of Jove defends, / Whose means are fair and spotless as his ends.= _Wordsworth._
=Him who makes chaff of himself the cows will eat.= _Arab. Pr._
=Hin ist die Zeit, da Bertha spann=--Gone is the 40 time when Queen Bertha span. _Ger. Pr._
=Hin ist hin! Verloren ist verloren=--Gone is gone! Lost is lost. _G. A. Bürger._
=Hinc illæ lachrymæ=--Hence these tears. _Virg._
=Hinc lucem et pocula sacra=--Hence light to us and sacred draughts. _M. of Cambridge University._
=Hinc omne principium, huc refer exitum=--To them (the gods) ascribe every undertaking, to them the issue. _Hor._
=Hinc subitæ mortes atque intestata senectus=--Hence 45 (from sensual indulgence) sudden deaths and intestate old age. _Juv._
=Hinc totam infelix vulgatur fama per urbem=--Hence the unhappy news is spread abroad through the whole city. _Virg._
=Hinc usura vorax, avidumque in tempore fænus, / Et concussa fides, et multis utile bellum=--Hence (from the ambition of Cæsar) arise devouring usury, grasping interest, shaken credit, and war of advantage to many. _Lucan._
=Hinc venti dociles resono se carcere solvunt, / Et cantum accepta pro libertate rependunt=--Hence the obedient winds are loosed from their sounding prison, and repay the liberty they have received with a tune. _Of an organ._
=His bark is waur nor= (worse than) =his bite.= _Sc. Pr._
=His Christianity was muscular.= _Disraeli._ 50
=His failings lean'd to virtue's side.= _Goldsmith._
=His kissing is as full of sanctity as the touch of holy bread.= _As You Like It_, iii. 4.
=His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run, though not to soar.= _Macaulay._
=His lachrymis vitam damus, et miserescimus ultro=--To these tears we grant him life, and pity him besides. _Virg._
=His legibus solutis respublica stare non potest=--With these laws repealed, the republic cannot last. _Cic._
=His life was gentle, and the elements / So= 5 =mix'd in him, that Nature might stand up, / And say to all the world: This was a man!= _Jul. Cæs._, v. 5.
=His nature is too noble for the world; / He would not flatter Neptune for his trident, / or Jove for his power to thunder.= _Coriolanus_, iii. 2.
=His nunc præmium est, qui recta prava faciunt=--Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong. _Ter._
=His opinion who does not see spiritual agency in history is not worth any man's reading.= _Wm. Blake._
=His own character is the arbiter of every one's fortune.= _Pub. Syr._
=His rash, fierce blaze of riot cannot last, / For= 10 =violent fires soon outburn themselves.= _Rich. II._, ii. 1.
=His saltem accumulem donis, et fungar inani munere=--These offerings at least I would bestow upon him, and discharge a duty though it no longer avails. _Virg._
=His speech was like a tangled chain; / Nothing impaired, but all disordered.= _Mid. Night's Dream_, v. 1.
=His thoughts look through his words.= _Ben Jonson._
=His time is for ever, everywhere his place.= _Cowley._
=His tongue could make the worse appear the= 15 =better reason.= _Milton._
=His tongue / Dropp'd manna, and could make the worse appear / The better reason, to perplex and dash / Maturest counsels.= _Milton._
=His very foot has music in 't, / As he comes up the stair.= _W. J. Mickle._
=His wit invites you by his looks to come, / But when you knock, it never is at home.= _Cowper._
=His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles.= _Two Gent. of Verona_, ii. 7.
=Historia quo quomodo scripta delectat=--History, 20 however written, is always a pleasure to us. _Pliny._
=Histories are as perfect as the historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul.= _Carlyle._
=Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.= _Bacon._
=History and experience prove that the most passionate characters are the most fanatically rigid in their feelings of duty, when their passion has been trained to act in that direction.= _J. S. Mill._
=History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature, his earliest expression of what may be called thought.= _Carlyle._
=History ensures for youth the understanding= 25 =of the ancients.= _Diodorus._
=History has only to do with what is true, and what is only probable should be relegated to the imaginary domain of romance and poetical fiction.= (?)
=History is a cyclic poem written by Time upon the memories of man.= _Shelley._
=History is always written= _ex post facto_.
=History is an impertinence and an injury, if it be anything more than a cheerful apologue or parable of my being and becoming.= _Emerson._
=History is an imprisoned epic, nay, an imprisoned= 30 =psalm and prophecy.= _Carlyle._
=History is but a fable agreed on.= _Napoleon._
=History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy.= _Garfield._
=History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.= _Gibbon._
=History is like sacred writing, for truth is essential to it.= _Cervantes._
=History is made up of the bad actions of= 35 =extraordinary men. All the most noted destroyers and deceivers of our species, all the founders of arbitrary governments and false religions, have been extraordinary men, and nine-tenths of the calamities which have befallen the human race had no other origin than the union of high intelligence with low desires.= _Macaulay._
=History is only a confused heap of facts.= _Chesterfield._
=History is philosophy teaching by examples.= _Quoted by Bolingbroke._
=History is properly nothing but a satire on mankind.= _C. J. Weber._
=History is the true poetry.= _Carlyle._
=History shows that the majority of the men= 40 =who have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.= _Heine._
=History teems with instances of truth put down by persecution; if not suppressed for ever, it may be thrown back for centuries.= _J. S. Mill._
=Hitch your waggon to a star.= _Emerson._
=Hitherto all miracles have been wrought by thought, and henceforth innumerable will be wrought; whereof we, even in these days, witness some.= _Carlyle._
=Hitherto doth love on fortune tend; / For who not needs, shall never lack a friend; / And who in want a hollow friend doth try, / Directly seasons him his enemy.= _Ham._, iii. 2.
=Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further; and= 45 =here shall thy proud waves be stayed.= _Bible._
=Hizonos Dios, y maravillámonos nos=--God made us, and we admire ourselves. _Sp. Pr._
=Hobbes clearly proves that every creature / Lives in a state of war by nature.= _Swift._
="Hoc age" is the great rule, whether you are serious or merry; whether ... learning science or duty from a folio, or floating on the Thames. Intentions must be gathered from acts.= _Johnson._
=Hoc age=--Mind what you are about (_lit._ do this).
=Hoc erat in more majorum=--This was the custom 50 of our forefathers.
=Hoc erat in votis; modus agri non ita magnus; / Hortus ubi, et tecto vicinus juris aquæ fons, / Et paulum silvæ super his foret=--This was ever my chief prayer: a piece of ground not too large, with a garden, and a spring of never-failing water near my house, and a little woodland besides. _Hor._
=Hoc est quod palles? cur quis non prandeat, hoc est?=--Is it for this you look so pale? is this a reason why one should not dine? _Pers._
=Hoc est / Vivere bis, vita posse priore frui=--To be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice. _Martial._
=Hoc fonte derivata clades, / In patriam, populumque fluxit=--From this source the disaster flowed that has overwhelmed the nation and the people. _Hor._
=Hoc genus omne=--All persons of that kind. 5
=Hoc Herculi Iovis satu edito' potuit fortasse contingere, nobis non item=--This might perchance happen to Hercules, of the seed royal of Jove, but not to us. _Cic._
=Hoc loco=--In this place.
=Hoc maxime officii est, ut quisquis maxime opus indigeat, ita ei potissimum opitulari=--It is our prime duty to aid him first who most stands in need of our assistance. _Cic._
=Hoc opus, hic labor est=--This is a work, this is a toil. _Virg._
=Hoc patrium est, potius consuefacere filium /= 10 =Sua sponte recte facere, quam alieno metu=--It is a father's duty to accustom his son to act rightly of his own free-will rather than from fear of the consequences. _Ter._
=Hoc pretium ob stultitiam fero=--This reward I gain for my folly. _Ter._
=Hoc scito, nimio celerius / Venire quod molestum est, quam id quod cupide petas=--Be sure of this, that that which is disagreeable comes more speedily than that which you eagerly desire. _Plaut._
=Hoc signo vinces=--By this sign (the cross) you will conquer. _M._
=Hoc virtutis opus=--This is virtue's work. _M._
=Hoc volo, hoc jubeo; sit pro ratione voluntas=--This 15 I wish, this I require: be my will instead of reason. _Juv._
=Hodie mihi, cras tibi=--My turn to-day, yours to-morrow.
=Hodie nihil, cras credo=--To-morrow I will trust, not to-day. _Varro._
=Hodie vivendum amissa præteritorum cura=--Let us live to-day, forgetting the cares that are past. _An Epicurean maxim._
=Hoi polloi=--The multitude. _Gr._
=Hoist up the sail while gale doth last--/ Tide= 20 =and wind wait no man's pleasure! / Seek not time when time is past--/ Sober speed is wisdom's leisure!= _Southwell._
=Hold all the skirts of thy mantle extended when heaven is raining gold.= _Eastern Pr._
=Hold the living dear and honour the dead.= _Goethe._
=Hold their farthing candle to the sun.= _Young, of critics._
=Hold thou the good; define it well.= _Tennyson._
=Hold up thy head; the taper lifted high /= 25 =Will brook the wind when lower tapers die.= _Quarles._
=Holy fields, / Over whose acres walked those blessed feet / Which fourteen hundred years ago were nail'd, / For our advantage, on the bitter cross.= 1 _Hen. IV._, i. 1.
=Holy men at their death have good inspirations.= _Mer. of Ven._, i. 2.
=Hombre de barba=--A man of intelligence. _Sp._
=Hombre pobre todo es trazas=--A poor man is all schemes. _Sp. Pr._
=Home, in one form or another, is the great= 30 =object of life.= _J. G. Holland._
=Home is heaven for beginners.= _C. H. Parkhurst._
=Home is home, be it never so homely.= _Pr._
=Home is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from all injury, but from all terror, doubt, and division.= _Ruskin._
=Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.= _Ward Beecher._
=Home, the nursery of the infinite.= _Channing._ 35
=Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.= _Two Gent. of Ver._, i. 1.
=Homer's Epos has not ceased to be true; yet is no longer our Epos, but shines in the distance, if clearer and clearer, yet also smaller and smaller, like a receding star. It needs a scientific telescope, it needs to be reinterpreted and artificially brought near us, before we can so much as know that 'twas a sun.... For all things, even celestial luminaries, much more atmospheric meteors, have their rise, their culmination, their decline.= _Carlyle._
=Homine imperito nunquam quidquam injustius / Qui, nisi quod ipse fecit, nihil rectum putat=--Nothing so unjust as your ignorant man, who thinks nothing right but what he himself has done. _Ter._
=Hominem non odi sed ejus vitia=--I do not hate the man, but his vices. _Mart._
=Hominem pagina nostra sapit=--My pages concern 40 man. _Mart._
=Hominem quæro=--I am in quest of a man. _Phædr. after Diogenes._
=Homines ad deos nulla re propius accedunt quam salutem hominibus dando=--In nothing do men so nearly approach the gods as in giving health to men. _Cic._
=Homines amplius oculis quam auribus credunt: longum iter est per præcepta, breve et efficax per exempla=--Men trust their eyes rather than their ears: the road by precept is long and tedious, by example short and effectual. _Sen._
=Homines nihil agendo discunt male agere=--By doing nothing men learn to do ill. _Cato._
=Homines plus in alieno negotio videre, quam= 45 =in suo=--Men see better into other people's business than their own. _Sen._
=Homines proniores sunt ad voluptatem, quam ad virtutem=--Men are more prone to pleasure than to virtue. _Cic._
=Homines, quo plura habent, eo cupiunt ampliora=--The more men have, the more they want. _Justin._
=Homini necesse est mori=--Man must die. _Cic._
=Homini ne fidas nisi cum quo modium satis absumpseres=--Trust no man till you have eaten a peck of salt with him, _i.e._, known him so long as you might have done so. _Pr._
=Hominibus plenum, amicis vacuum=--Full of men, vacant of friends. _Sen._
=Hominis est errare, insipientis perseverare=--It is the nature of man to err, of a fool to persevere in error.
=Hominum sententia fallax=--The opinions of men are fallible. _Ovid._
=Homme assailli à demi vaincu=--A man assailed is half overpowered. _Fr._
=Homme chiche jamais riche=--A niggardly man 5 is always poor. _Fr. Pr._
=Homme d'affaires=--A business man. _Fr._
=Homme d'esprit=--A witty man. _Fr._
=Homme d'état=--A statesman. _Fr._
=Homme d'honneur=--A man of honour. _Fr._
=Homme instruit=--A learned or literary man. 10 _Fr._
=Homo ad res perspicacior Lynceo vel Argo, et oculeus totus=--A man more clear-sighted for business than Lynceus or Argus, and eyes all over. _Apul._
=Homo antiqua virtute ac fide=--A man of the old-fashioned virtue and loyalty. _Ter._
=Homo constat ex duabus partibus, corpore et anima, quorum una est corporea, altera ab omni materiæ concretione sejuncta=--Man is composed of two parts, body and soul, of which the one is corporeal, the other separated from all combination with matter. _Cic._
=Homo doctus in se semper divitias habet=--A learned man has always riches in himself. _Phædr._
=Homo extra est corpus suum cum irascitur=--A 15 man when angry is beside himself. _Pub. Syr._
=Homo fervidus et diligens ad omnia paratur=--The man who is earnest and diligent is prepared for all things. _Thomas à Kempis._
=Homo homini aut deus aut lupus=--Man is to man either a god or a wolf. _Erasmus._
=Homo is a common name to all men.= 1 _Hen. IV._, ii. 1.
=Homo multarum literarum=--A man of many letters, _i.e._, of extensive learning.
=Homo multi consilii et optimi=--A man always 20 ready to give his advice, and that the most judicious.
=Homo nullius coloris=--A man of no party.
=Homo qui erranti comiter monstrat viam, / Quasi lumen de suo lumine accendit, facit; / Nihilominus ipsi luceat, cum illi accenderit=--He who kindly shows the way to one who has gone astray, acts as though he had lighted another's lamp from his own, which both gives light to the other and continues to shine for himself. _Cic._
=Homo solus aut deus aut demon=--Man alone is either a god or a devil.
=Homo sum, et nihil humani a me alienum puto=--I am a man, and I reckon nothing human alien to me. _Ter._
=Homo toties moritur, quoties amittit suos=--A 25 man dies as often as he loses his relatives. _Pub. Syr._
=Homo trium literarum=--A man of three letters, _i.e._, FUR, "a thief." _Plaut._
=Homo unius libri=--A man of one book. _Thomas Aquinas' definition of a learned man._
=Homunculi quanti sunt, cum recogito=--What poor creatures we men are, when I think of it. _Plaut._
=Honest labour bears a lovely face.= _T. Dekker._
=Honest men marry soon, wise men never.= _Sc._ 30 _Pr._
=Honesta mors turpi vita potior=--An honourable death is better than an ignominious life. _Tac._
=Honesta paupertas prior quam opes malæ=--Poverty with honour is better than ill-gotten wealth. _Pr._
=Honesta quædam scelera successus facit=--Success makes some species of crimes honourable. _Sen._
=Honesta quam splendida=--Honourable rather than showy. _M._
=Honestum non est semper quod licet=--What is 35 lawful is not always honourable. _L._
=Honestum quod vere dicimus, etiamsi a nullo laudatur, laudabile est sua natura=--That which we truly call honourable is praiseworthy in its own nature, even though it should be praised by no one. _Cic._
=Honesty is like an icicle; if it once melts, that is the last of it.= _Amer. Pr._
=Honesty is the best policy.= _Pr._
=Honesty is the poor man's pork and the rich man's pudding.= _Pr._
=Honesty may be dear bought, but can ne'er be= 40 =an ill pennyworth.= _Sc. Pr._
=Honi soit qui mal y pense=--Evil be to him that evil thinks. _Royal M. Fr._
=Honnêtes gens=--Upright people. _Fr._
=Honneur et patrie=--Honour and country. _M._
=Honor Deo=--Honour be to God. _M._
=Honor est præmium virtutis=--Honour is the 45 reward of virtue. _Cic._
=Honor fidelitatis præmium=--Honour is the reward of fidelity. _M._
=Honor sequitur fugientem=--Honour follows him who flies from her. _M._
=Honores mutant mores=--Honours change manners.
=Honos alit artes, omnesque incenduntur ad studia gloria=--Honours encourage the arts, for all are incited towards studies by fame. _Cic._
=Honour a physician with the honour due unto= 50 =him for the uses which ye may have of him, for the Lord hath created him.= _Ecclus._
=Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.= _St. Peter._
=Honour and ease are seldom bedfellows.= _Pr._
=Honour hath no skill in surgery.... Honour is a mere scutcheon.= 1 _Hen. IV._, v. 1.
=Honour is nobler than gold.= _Gael. Pr._
=Honour is not a virtue in itself; it is the mail= 55 =behind which the virtues fight more securely.= _G. H. Calvert._
=Honour is unstable, and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.= _Colton._
=Honour is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris.= _Emerson._
=Honour to whom honour is due.= _St. Paul._
=Honour travels in a strait so narrow, / Where one but goes abreast.= _Troil. and Cress._, iii. 3.
=Honour won't patch.= _Gael. Pr._ 60
=Honourable= (_Ehrlich_) =is a word of high rank, and implies much more than most people attach to it.= _Arndt._
=Honours, like impressions upon coin, may give an ideal and local value to a bit of base metal; but gold and silver will pass all the world over, without any other recommendation than their own weight.= _Sterne._
=Honours to one in my situation are something like ruffles to a man that wants a shirt.= _Goldsmith, of himself._
=Honour's the moral conscience of the great.= _D'Avenant._
=Honteux comme un renard qu'une poule aurait pris=--Sheepish as a fox that has been taken in by a fowl. _La Font._
=Hope deferred maketh the heart sick.= _Bible._ 5
=Hope is a curtail dog in some affairs.= _Merry Wives_, ii. 1.
=Hope is a good anchor, but it needs something to grip.= _Pr._
=Hope is a lover's staff; walk hence with that, / And manage it against despairing thoughts.= _Two Gent. of Ver._, iii. 1.
=Hope is a pleasant acquaintance but an unsafe friend. He'll do on a pinch for your travelling companion, but he's not the man for your banker.= _Amer. Pr._
=Hope is a waking man's dream.= _Pr._ 10
=Hope is itself a species of happiness, and perhaps the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures, its excesses must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment.= _Johnson._
=Hope is not the man for your banker, though he may do for your travelling companion.= _Haliburton._
=Hope is the best part of our riches.= _Bovee._
=Hope is the only good which is common to all men.= _Thales._
=Hope is the ruddy morning ray of joy, recollection= 15 =is its golden tinge; but the latter is wont to sink amid the dews and dusky shades of twilight, and the bright blue day which the former promises breaks indeed, but in another world and with another sun.= _Jean Paul._
=Hope never comes that comes to all.= _Milton._
=Hope never spread her golden wings but in unfathomable seas.= _Emerson._
=Hope not wholly to reason away your troubles; but do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away.= _Johnson._
=Hope, of all ills that men endure, / The only cheap and universal cure.= _Cowley._
=Hope springs eternal in the human breast; /= 20 =Man never is, but always to be, blest.= _Pope._
=Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.= _Burns._
=Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all.= _Quoted by Swinburne._
=Hope to joy is little less in joy / Than hope enjoyed.= _Rich. II._, ii. 3.
=Hoping and waiting is not my way of doing things.= _Goethe._
=Hora e sempre=--Now and always. _M._ 25
=Horæ cedunt, et dies, et menses, et anni, nec præteritum tempus unquam revertitur=--Hours and days, months and years, pass away, and time once past never returns. _Cic._
=Horæ / Momento cita mors venit, aut victoria læta=--In a moment of time comes sudden death or joyful victory. _Hor._
=Horas non numero nisi serenas=--I mark no hours but the shining ones. _Of a dial._
=Horrea formicæ tendunt ad inania nunquam; / Nullus ad amissas ibit amicus opes=--As ants never bend their way to empty barns, so no friend will visit departed wealth. _Ovid._
=Horresco referens=--I shudder as I relate. _Virg._ 30
=Horribile dictu=--Horrible to relate.
=Horror ubique animos, simul ipsa silentia terrent=--Everywhere horror seizes the soul, and the very silence is dreadful. _Virg._
=Horror vacui=--Abhorrence of a vacuum.
=Hors de combat=--Out of condition to fight. _Fr._
=Hors de propos=--Not to the purpose. _Fr._ 35
=Hortus siccus=--A dry garden; a collection of dried plants.
=Hos successus alit; possunt quia posse videntur=--These are encouraged by success; they prevail because they think they can. _Virg._
=Hospice d'accouchement=--A maternity hospital. _Fr._
=Hospice d'allaitement=--A foundling hospital. _Fr._
=Hospitality must be for service, not for show,= 40 =or it pulls down the host.= _Emerson._
=Hostis est uxor invita quæ ad virum nuptum datur=--The wife who is given in marriage to a man against her will becomes his enemy. _Plaut._
=Hostis honori invidia=--Envy is honour's foe. _M._
=Hôtel de ville=--A town-hall. _Fr._
=Hôtel Dieu=--The house of God; the name of an hospital. _Fr._
=Household words.= _Hen. V._, iv. 3. 45
=Housekeeping without a wife is a lantern without a light.= _Pr._
=Houses are built to live in, and not to look on.= _Bacon._
=How are riches the means of happiness? In acquiring they create trouble, in their loss they occasion sorrow, and they are the cause of endless divisions amongst kindred!= _Hitopadesa._
=How beautiful is death, seeing that we die in a world of life and of creation without end!= _Jean Paul._
=How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams, /= 50 =With its allusions, aspirations, dreams! / Book of beginnings, story without end, / Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend.= _Longfellow._
=How beautiful to die of a broken heart on paper! Quite another thing in practice! Every window of your feeling, even of your intellect, as it were begrimed, so that no pure ray can enter; a whole drug-shop in your inwards; the foredone soul drowning slowly in a quagmire of disgust.= _Carlyle._
=How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes!= _As You Like It_, v. 2.
=How blessed might poor mortals be in the straitest circumstances, if only their wisdom and fidelity to Heaven and one another were adequately great.= _Carlyle, apropos to his life at Craigenputtock._
=How blessings brighten as they take their flight!= _Young._
=How blest the humble cotter's fate! / He woos his simple dearie; / The silly bogles, wealth, and state, / Can never make them eerie.= _Burns._
=How can a man be concealed? How can a man be concealed?= _Confucius._
=How can he be godly who is not cleanly?= _Pr._
=How can man love but what he yearns to help?= _Browning._
=How can we expect a harvest of thought= 5 =who have not had a seed-time of character?= _Thoreau._
=How can we learn to know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Essay to do thy duty, and thou knowest at once what is in thee.= _Goethe._
=How charming is divine philosophy!= _Milton._
=How creatures of the human kind shut their eyes to the plainest facts, and by the mere inertia of oblivion and stupidity live at ease in the midst of wonders and terrors.= _Carlyle._
=How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness.= _B. R. Haydon._
=How dire is love when one is so tortured; and= 10 =yet lovers cannot exist without torturing themselves.= _Goethe._
=How doth the little busy bee / Improve each shining hour, / And gather honey all the day / From every opening flower.= _Watts._
=How dull it is to pause, to make an end, / To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use, / As though to breathe were life.= _Tennyson._
=How enormous appear the crimes we have not committed!= _Mme. Necker._
=How far that little candle throws his beams! / So shines a good deed in a naughty world.= _Mer. of Ven._, v. 1.
=How fast has brother followed / From sunshine= 15 =to the sunless land.= _Wordsworth._
=How few think justly of the thinking few; / How many never think, who think they do!= _Jane Taylor._
=How foolish and absurd, nay, how hurtful and destructive a vice is ambition, which, by undue pursuit of honour, robs us of true honour!= _Thomas à Kempis._
=How forcible are right words!= _Bible._
=How fortunate beyond all others is the man who, in order to adjust himself to fate, is not required to cast away his whole preceding life!= _Goethe._
=How full of briers is this working-day world!= 20 _As You Like It_, i. 3.
=How glorious a character appears when it is penetrated with mind and soul.= _Goethe._
=How good is man's life, the mere living! how fit to employ / All the heart, and the soul, and the senses for ever in joy!= _Browning._
=How happy could I be with either, / Were t'other dear charmer away!= _Gay._
=How happy is he born or taught / That serveth not another's will; / Whose armour is his honest thought, / And simple truth his utmost skill.= _Sir Henry Wotton._
=How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! /= 25 =The world forgetting, by the world forgot.= _Pope._
=How happy is the prince who has counsellors near him who can guard him against the effects of his own angry passions; their names shall be read in golden letters when the history of his reign is perused.= _Scott._
=How happy should we be ... / If we from self could rest, / And feel at heart that One above, / In perfect wisdom, perfect love, / Is working for the best!= _Anstice._
=How hard it is= (for the Byron, for the Burns), =whose ear is quick for celestial messages, to "take no counsel with flesh and blood," and instead of living and writing for the day that passes over them, live and write for the eternity that rests and abides over them!= _Carlyle._
=How hardly man the lesson learns, / To smile, and bless the hand that spurns: / To see the blow, to feel the pain, / And render only love again!= _Anon._
=How hardly shall they who have riches enter= 30 =into the kingdom of God!= _Jesus._
=How ill white hairs become a fool and a jester.= 2 _Hen. IV._, v. 5.
=How indestructibly the good grows, and propagates itself, even among the weedy entanglements of evil!= _Carlyle._
=How is each of us so lonely in the wide bosom of the All?= _Jean Paul._
=How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice, when they will not so much as take warning.= _Swift._
=How little do the wantonly or idly officious= 35 =think what mischief they do by their malicious insinuations, indirect impertinence, or thoughtless babblings!= _Burns._
=How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.= _Ovid._
=How long halt ye between two opinions?= _Bible._
=How long I have lived, how much lived in vain! / How little of life's scanty span may remain! / What aspects old Time in his progress has worn! / What ties cruel fate in my bosom has torn! / How foolish, or worse, till our summit is gain'd! / And downward, how weaken'd, how darken'd, how pain'd!= _Burns._
=How many ages hence / Shall this our lofty scene be acted over / In states unborn and accents yet unknown!= _Jul. Cæs._, iii. 1.
=How many causes that can plead for themselves= 40 =in the courts of Westminster, and yet in the general court of the universe and free soul of man, have no word to utter!= _Carlyle._
=How many cowards, whose hearts are all as false / As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins / The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars! / Who, inward searched, have livers white as milk.= _Mer. of Venice_, iii. 2.
=How many honest words have suffered corruption since Chaucer's days!= _Middleton._
=How many illustrious and noble heroes have lived too long by a day!= _Rousseau._
=How many men live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made!= _Holmes._
=How many people make themselves abstract= 45 =to appear profound! The greatest part of abstract terms are shadows that hide a vacuum.= _Joubert._
=How many things by season season'd are / To their right praise and true perfection!= _Mer. of Venice_, v. 1.
=How many things, just and unjust, have no higher sanction than custom!= _Ter._
=How much a dunce that has been sent to roam / Excels a dunce that has been kept at home!= _Cowper._
=How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!= _Bible._
=How much better it is to weep at joy than to= 5 =joy at weeping!= _Much Ado_, i. 4.
=How much easier it is to be generous than just!= _Junius._
=How much lies in laughter, the cipher-key wherewith we decipher the whole man.= _Carlyle._
=How much the wife is dearer than the bride!= _Lyttelton._
=How narrow our souls become when absorbed in any present good or ill! It is only the thought of the future that makes them great.= _Jean Paul._
=How noble is heroic insight without words in= 10 =comparison to the adroitest flow of words without heroic insight!= _Carlyle._
=How noiseless is thought! No rolling of drums, no tramp of squadrons, or immeasurable tumult of baggage-waggons, attends its movements; in what obscure and sequestered places may the head be meditating which is one day to be crowned with more than imperial authority; for kings and emperors will be among its ministering servants; it will rule not over, but in all heads, and bend the world to its will.= _Carlyle._
=How oft do they their silver bowers leave / To come to succour us that succour want!= _Spenser._
=How one is vexed with little things in this life! The great evils one triumphs over bravely, but the little eat away one's heart.= _Mrs. Carlyle._
=How paint to the sensual eye what passes in the holy-of-holies of man's soul; in what words, known to these profane times, speak even afar-off of the unspeakable?= _Carlyle._
=How poor are they that have not patience! /= 15 =What wound did ever heal but by degrees?= _Othello_, ii. 3.
=How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, / How complicate, how wonderful is man!= _Young._
=How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!= _Pope, after Homer._
=How quick to know, but how slow to put in practice, is the human creature!= _Goethe._
=How quickly Nature falls into revolt / When gold becomes her object!= 2 _Hen. IV._, iv. 4.
=How rarely reason guides the stubborn= 20 =choice, / Rules the bold hand or prompts the suppliant voice.= _Johnson._
=How ready some people are to admire in a great man the exception rather than the rule of his conduct! Such perverse worship is like the idolatry of barbarous nations, who can see the noonday splendour of the sun without emotion, but who, when he is in eclipse, come forward with hymns and cymbals to adore him.= _Canning._
=How rich a man is, all desire to know, / But none enquire if good he be or no.= _Herrick._
=How sad a path it is to climb and descend another's stairs!= _Dante._
=How science dwindles, and how volumes swell, / How commentators each dark passage shun, / And hold their farthing candle to the sun!= _Young._
=How shall a man escape from his ancestors, or= 25 =draw off from his veins the black drop which he drew from his father's or his mother's life?= _Emerson._
=How shall he give kindling in whose inward man there is no live coal, but all is burnt out to a dead grammatical cinder?= _Carlyle._
=How shall we know whether you are in earnest, if the deed does not accompany the word?= _Schiller._
=How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is / To have a thankless child!= _King Lear_, i. 4.
=How small a part of time they share / That are so wondrous sweet and fair!= _E. Waller._
=How small, of all that human hearts endure, /= 30 =That part which laws or kings can cause or cure! / Still to ourselves, in every place consigned, / Our own felicity we make or find.= _Johnson._
=How should he be easy who makes other men's cares his own?= _Thomas à Kempis._
=How should thy virtue be above the shocks and shakings of temptation, when even the angels kept not their first estate, and man in Paradise so soon fell from innocence?= _Thomas à Kempis._
=How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night, / Like softest music to attending ears!= _Rom. and Jul._, ii. 2.
=How soon "not now" becomes "never!"= _Luther._
=How sour sweet music is, when time is broke= 35 =and no proportion kept! So is it in the music of men's lives.= _Rich. II._, v. 5.
=How still the evening is, / As hushed on purpose to grace harmony!= _Much Ado_, ii. 3.
=How sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from a stranger's mouth!= _Goethe._
=How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! / Here will we sit and let the sounds of music / Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night / Become the touches of sweet harmony.= _Mer. of Ven._, v. 1.
=How the sight of means to do ill deeds / Make deeds ill done!= _King John_, iv. 2.
=How the world wags!= _As You Like It_, ii. 7. 40
=How they gleam like spirits through the shadows of innumerable eyes from their thrones in the boundless depths of heaven!= _Carlyle, on the stars._
=How use doth breed habit in a man!= _Two Gent. of Ver._, v. 4.
=How vainly seek / The selfish for that happiness denied / To aught but virtue!= _Shelley._
=How we clutch at shadows= (in this dream-world) =as if they were substances, and sleep deepest while fancying ourselves most awake!= _Carlyle._
=How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable /= 45 =Seem to me all the uses of this world.= _Ham._, i. 2.
=How well he's read, to reason against reading!= _Love's L. Lost_, i. 1.
=How were friendship possible? In mutual devotedness to the good and true, otherwise impossible; except as armed neutrality or hollow commercial league.= _Carlyle._
=How wonderful is Death, / Death and his brother Sleep! / One, pale as yonder waning moon, / With lips of lurid blue; / The other, rosy as the morn, / When, throned on ocean's wave, / It blushes o'er the world: / Yet both so passing wonderful.= _Shelley._
=How wounding a spectacle is it to see those who were by Christ designed for fishers of men, picking up shells on the shore, and unmanly wrangling about them too!= _Decay of Piety._
=How wretched is the man that hangs on by the favours of the great!= _Burns._
=Howe'er it be, it seems to me / 'Tis only noble= 5 =to be good. / Kind hearts are more than coronets, / And simple faith than Norman blood.= _Tennyson._
=However, an old song, though to a proverb an instance of insignificance, is generally the only coin a poet has to pay with.= _Burns._
=However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.= _La Roche._
=However far a man goes, he must start from his own door.= _Pr._
=However varied the forms of destiny, the same element are always present.= _Schopenhauer._
=Howsoever thou actest, let heaven be moved= 10 =with thy purpose; let the aim of thy deeds traverse the axis of the earth.= _Schiller._
=Huc propius me, / Dum doceo insanire omnes, vos ordine adite=--Come near me all in order, and I will convince you that you are mad, every one. _Hor._
=Huic maxime putamus malo fuisse nimiam opinionem ingenii atque virtutis=--This I think to have been the chief cause of his misfortune, an overweening estimate of his own genius and valour. _Nep., of Themistocles._
=Huic versatile ingenium sic pariter ad omnia fuit, ut natum ad id unum diceres, quodcunque ageret=--This man's genius was so versatile, so equal to every pursuit, that you would pronounce him to have been born for whatever thing he was engaged on. _Livy, on the elder Cato._
=Human action is a seed of circumstances= (_Verhängnissen_) =scattered in the dark land of the future and hopefully left to the powers that rule human destiny.= _Schiller._
=Human beliefs, like all other natural growths,= 15 =elude the barriers of system.= _George Eliot._
=Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provisions of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.= _Swift._
=Human courage should rise to the height of human calamity.= _Gen. Lee._
=Human creatures will not go quite accurately together, any more than clocks will.= _Carlyle._
=Human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.= _Sen._
=Human intellect, if you consider it well, is the= 20 =exact summary of human worth.= _Carlyle._
=Human judgment is finite, and it ought always to be charitable.= _W. Winter._
=Human knowledge is the parent of doubt.= _Greville._
=Human life is a constant want, and ought to be a constant prayer.= _S. Osgood._
=Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured and little to be enjoyed.= _Johnson._
=Human life is more governed by fortune than= 25 =by reason.= _Hume._
=Human nature in its fulness is necessarily human; without love, it is inhuman; without sense= (_nous_), =inhuman; without discipline, inhuman.= _Ruskin._
=Human nature ... / Is not a punctual presence, but a spirit / Diffused through time and space.= _Wordsworth._
=Human nature= (_Menschheit_) =we owe to father and mother, but our humanity= (_Menschlichkeit_) =we owe to education.= _Weber._
=Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other.= _Luther._
=Human society is made up of partialities.= 30 _Emerson._
=Humani nihil alienum=--Nothing that concerns man is indifferent to me. _M._
=Humanität sei unser ewig Ziel=--Be humanity evermore our goal. _Goethe._
=Humanitati qui se non accommodat, / Plerumque pœnas oppetit superbiæ=--He who does not conform to courtesy generally pays the penalty of his haughtiness. _Phædr._
=Humanity is about the same all the world over.= _Donn Piatt._
=Humanity is better than gold.= _Goldsmith._ 35
=Humanity is constitutionally lazy.= _J. G. Holland._
=Humanity is great but men are small.= _Börne._
=Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.= _Jean Paul._
=Humanity is one, and not till Lazarus is cured of his sores will Dives be safe.= _Celia Burleigh._
=Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity= 40 =of a man.= _Adam Smith._
=Humanum amare est, humanum autem ignoscere est=--It is natural to love, and it is natural also to forgive. _Plaut._
=Humanum est errare=--To err is human.
=Humble wedlock is far better than proud virginity.= _St. Augustine._
=Humbleness is always grace, always dignity.= _Lowell._
=Humiles laborant ubi potentes dissident=--The 45 humble are in danger when those in power disagree. _Phædr._
=Humility disarms envy and strikes it dead.= _Collier._
=Humility is a virtue all preach, none practise, and yet everybody is content to hear. The master thinks it good doctrine for his servant, the laity for the clergy, and the clergy for the laity.= _Selden._
=Humility is a virtue of so general, so exceeding good influence, that we can scarce purchase it too dear.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Humility is often a feigned submission which we employ to supplant others.= _La Roche._
=Humility is the altar upon which God wishes that we should offer Him His sacrifices.= _La Roche._
=Humility is the hall-mark of wisdom.= _Jeremy Collier._
=Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible vicissitudes of life.= _Arliss' Lit. Col._
=Humility is the solid foundation of all the virtues.= _Confucius._
=Humility, that low, sweet root / From which= 5 =all heavenly virtues shoot.= _Moore._
=Humour has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius. He who wants it, be his other gifts what they may, has only half a mind; an eye for what is above him, not for what is about him or below him.= _Carlyle._
=Humour is a sort of inverse sublimity, exalting, as it were, into our affections what is below us, while sublimity draws down into our affections what is above us.= _Carlyle._
=Humour is consistent with pathos, while wit is not.= _Coleridge._
=Humour is of a genial quality and is closely allied to pity.= _Henry Giles._
=Humour is properly the exponent of low= 10 =things; that which first renders them poetical to the mind.= _Carlyle._
=Humour is the mistress of tears.= _Thackeray._
=Humour, warm and all-embracing as the sunshine, bathes its objects in a genial and abiding light.= _Whipple._
=Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion all in one.= _Ruskin._
=Hunger and cold betray a man to his enemy.= _Pr._
=Hunger is a good cook.= _Gael. Pr._ 15
=Hunger is the best sauce.= _Pr._
=Hunger will break through stone walls.= _Pr._
=Hungry bellies have no ears.= _Pr._
=Hunt half a day for a forgotten dream.= _Wordsworth._
=Hunters generally know the most vulnerable= 20 =part of the beast they pursue by the care which every animal takes to defend the side which is weakest.= _Goldsmith._
=Hunting was the labour of savages in North America, but the amusement of the gentlemen of England.= _Johnson._
=Hurtar el puerco, y dar los pies por Dios=--To steal the pig, and give away the feet for God's sake. _Sp. Pr._
=Husbands can earn money, but only wives can save it.= _Pr._
=Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother, / That he might not beteem the winds of heaven / Visit her face too roughly.= _Ham._, i. 2.
=Hypotheses non fingo=--I frame no hypotheses. 25 _Sir Isaac Newton._
[Greek: Haploun to dikaion, rhadion to alêthes]--Justice is simple, truth easy. _Lycurgus._
=Hypothesen sind Wiegenlieder, womit der Lehrer seine Schüler einlullt=--Hypotheses are the lullabies with which the teacher lulls his scholars to sleep. _Goethe._
=Hysteron proteron=--The last first, or the cart before the horse. _Gr._
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=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._
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=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._
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[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._
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=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.
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=O banish the tears of children! Continual rains upon the blossoms are hurtful.= _Jean Paul._
=O bitte um Leben noch! du fühlst, mit deinen= 5 =Mängeln, / Dass du noch wandeln kannst nicht unter Gottes Engeln=--O still pray for life; thou feelest that with those faults of thine thou canst not walk among the angels of God. _Rückert._
[Greek: ho bios brachys, hê de technê makrê]--Life is short, art is long. _Gr._
=O blicke nicht nach dem was jedem fehlt; / Betrachte, was noch einem jeden bleibt=--O look not at what each comes short in; consider what each still retains. _Goethe._
[Greek: ho bouletai, touth' hekastos kai oietai]--What each one wishes that he also thinks. _Demosthenes._
=O cæca nocentum / Consilia, O semper timidum scelus!=--Oh, how infatuated are the counsels of the guilty! Oh, how cowardly wickedness ever is! _Statius._
=O cives, cives, quærenda pecunia primum est; /= 10 =Virtus post nummos=--O citizens, citizens, you must seek for money first, for virtue after cash. _Hor._
=O Corydon, Corydon, secretum divitis ullum / Esse putas? Servi ut taceant, jumenta loquentur, / Et canis, et postes, et marmora=--O Corydon, Corydon, do you think anything a rich man does can be kept secret? Even if his servants say nothing, his beasts of burden, and dogs, and door-posts, and marble slabs will speak. _Juv._
=O cunning enemy, that, to catch a saint, / With saints dost bait thy hook.= _Meas. for Meas._, ii. 2.
=O curvæ in terris animæ et cœlestium inanes!=--Oh ye souls bent down to earth and void of everything heavenly. _Pers._
=O das Leben hat Reize, die wir nie gekannt=--Oh, life has charms which we have never known. _Schiller._
=O das Leben ist ein langer, langer Seufzer= 15 =vor dem Ausgehen des Athmens=--Oh, life is a long, long sigh before emitting the breath. _Jean Paul._
=O dass die Weisheit halb so eifrig wäre / Nach Schülern und Bekehrten, als der Spott=--Oh, that Wisdom were half as zealous for disciples and converts as Ridicule is. _Grillparzer._
=O dass es ewig bliebe, / Das Doppelglück der Töne wie der Liebe=--Oh, that it would stay for ever, the double bliss of the tones as well as of the love. _Goethe._
=O dass sie ewig' grünen bliebe / Die schöne Zeit der jungen Liebe=--Oh, that it remained for ever green, the fair season of early love. _Schiller._
=O dearest, dearest boy, my heart / For better love would seldom yearn, / Could I but teach the hundredth part / Of what from thee I learn.= _Wordsworth._
=O der Magnet des Wahns zieht mächtig=--Oh, 20 how powerfully the magnet of illusion attracts. _Gutzkow._
=O ein Fürst hat keinen Freund, kann keinen Freund haben=--Oh, a ruler has no friend, and can have none. _Lessing._
=O faciles dare summa Deos, eademque tueri / Difficiles=--How gracious the gods are in bestowing honours, how averse to ensure our tenure of them. _Lucan._
=O fallacem hominum spem=--How deceitful is the hope of men. _Cic._
=O flesh, flesh, how thou art fishified.= _Rom. and Jul._, ii. 4.
=O formose puer, nimium ne crede colori=--Oh, 25 beauteous boy, trust not too much to the bloom on thy cheeks. _Virg._
=O fortunate adolescens, qui tuæ virtutis Homerum præconem inveneris=--Oh, happy youth, to have a Homer as the publisher of thy valour. _Alexander the Great at the tomb of Achilles._
=O fortunatos nimium, sua si bona norint, / Agricolas, quibus ipsa, procul discordibus armis, / Fundit humo facilem victum justissima tellus=--Oh, how happy the tillers of the ground are, if they but knew their blessings; for whom, far from the clash of arms, the all-righteous earth pours forth from her soil an easy sustenance. _Virg._
=O foulest Circæan draught! thou poison of popular applause; madness is in thee, and death; thy end is bedlam and the grave.= _Carlyle._
=O glücklich! wer noch hoffen kann, / Aus diesem Meer des Irrtums aufzutauchen. / Was man nicht weiss, das eben brauchte man, / Und was man weiss, kann man nicht brauchen=--Oh, happy he who can still hope to emerge from this sea of error! What one does not know is exactly what one should want to know, and what one knows is what one has no use for. _Faust, in Goethe._
=O God, that bread should be so dear, / And= 30 =flesh and blood so cheap!= _T. Hood._
=O Gott! das Leben ist doch schön=--O God! life is nevertheless beautiful. _Schiller._
=O Gott, wie schränkt sich Welt und Himmel ein, / Wenn unser Herz in seinen Schranken banget=--O God, how contracted the world and heaven becomes when our heart becomes uneasy within its barriers. _Goethe._
=O guard thy roving thoughts with jealous care, for speech is but the dial-plate of thought; and every fool reads plainly in thy words what is the hour of thy thought.= _Tennyson._
=O' guid advisement comes nae ill.= _Burns._
=O Heaven! were man / But constant, he were= 35 =perfect; that one error / Fills him with faults; makes him run through all sins.= _Two Gent. of Ver._, v. 4.
=O Herz, versuch' es nur! so leicht ist's gut zu sein: / Und es zu scheinen ist so eine schwere Pein=--O heart, only try! To be good is so easy, and to appear so is such a heavy burden. _Rückert._
=O homines ad servitutem paratos!=--Oh, men, how ye prepare yourselves for slavery! _Tac._
=O how full of briars is this working-day world.= _As You Like It_, i. 3.
=O how wretched / Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favours! / There is betwixt that smile he would aspire to, / That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, / More pangs and fears than wars or women have; / And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, / Never to hope again.= _Henry VIII._, iii. 2.
=O hush the noise, ye men of strife, / And hear the angels sing!= _Sears._
=O, if this were seen, / The happiest youth--viewing his progress through / What perils past, what crosses to ensue--/ Would shut the book and sit him down and die.= 2 _Hen. IV._, iii. 1.
=O ja, dem Herrn ist alles Kinderspiel=--Oh, yes, 5 everything is but child's play to the gentleman. _Mephisto, in Goethe._
=O judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts, / And men have lost their reason!= _Jul. Cæs._, iii. 2.
=O kaum bezwingen wir das eigne Herz; / Wie soll die rasche Jugend sich bezähmen!=--Oh, we can hardly subdue our own heart; how shall impetuous youth restrain itself! _Schiller._
=O l'amour d'une mère! amour que nul n'oublie! / Pain merveilleux, que Dieu partage et multiplie! / Table toujours servie au paternel foyer! / Chacun en a sa part, et tous l'ont tout entier=--Oh, the love of a mother, love no one forgets; miraculous bread which God distributes and multiplies; board always spread by the paternal hearth, whereat each has his portion, and all have it entire! _Victor Hugo._
=O Leben, wie bist du so bitter und hart=--Oh, Life, how bitter and harsh thou art! _Scheffel._
=O let my books be then the eloquence / And= 10 =dumb presagers of my speaking breast.= _Browning._
=O let thy vow, / First made to heaven, first be to heaven perform'd.... It is religion that doth make vows kept.= _King John_, iii. 1.
="O Liberty, what crimes have been committed in thy name!"= _Madame Roland, as she bowed to the statue of Liberty at the place of execution._
=O Life, an age to the miserable, a moment to the happy.= _Bacon._
=O life! how pleasant is thy morning, / Young Fancy's rays the hills adorning! / Cold-pausing Caution's lessons scorning, / We frisk away, / Like schoolboys at th' expected warning, / To joy and play.= _Burns._
=O life! thou art a galling load / Along a rough,= 15 =a weary road, / To wretches such as I!= _Burns_ (_Despondency_).
[Greek: ho logos enênthrôpêsen, hina hêmeis theopoiêthômen]--The Word became man, that we might become gods. _Athanasius._
=O Lord, that lend'st me life, / Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!= 2 _Hen. VI._, i. 1.
=O love, be moderate, allay thy ecstasy; / In measure rain thy joy; scant this excess; / I feel too much thy blessing! Make it less, / For fear I surfeit.= _Mer. of Venice_, iii. 2.
=O magna vis veritatis, quæ ... facile se per se ipsa defendit=--Oh, mighty force of truth that by itself so easily defends itself! _Cic._
=O major tandem, parcas, insane, minori=--Oh, 20 thou who art a greater madman; spare me, I pray, who am not so far gone. _Hor._
[Greek: ho mê dareis anthrôpos ou paideuetai]--The man who has not been scourged is not educated. _Menander._
=O mighty Cæsar! dost thou lie so low? / Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils, / Shrunk to this little measure?= _Jul. Cæs._, iii. 1.
=O mihi præteritos referat si Jupiter annos!=--Oh, that Jove would but give me back the years that are past! _Virg._
=O miseras hominum mentes! O pectora cæca!=--Oh, how wretched are the minds of men! oh, how blind their hearts! _Lucret._
=O miseri quorum gaudia crimen habent!=--O 25 wretched ye whose joys are tainted with guilt! _Pseudo-Gallus._
=O most lame and impotent conclusion!= _Othello_, ii. 1.
=O munera nondum / Intellecta Deum=--Oh, that the gifts of the gods should not yet be understood. _Lucan._
=O my prophetic soul! mine uncle.= _Ham._, i. 5.
=O Nature! Ha! why do I not name thee God? Art thou not the "living garment of God?" O Heavens! is it, in very deed, He then that ever speaks through thee; that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me?= _Carlyle._
=O never / Shall sun that morrow see.= _Macb._, i. 5. 30
=O nimium nimiumque oblite tuorum=--Too, too forgetful of thy kin. _Ovid._
=O nimm der Stunde wahr, eh' sie entschlüpft. / So selten kommt der Augenblick im Leben / Der wahrhaft wichtig ist und gross=--Take note of the hour ere it slips past; so seldom does the moment come which is truly fateful and great. _Schiller._
=O noctes cœnæque deum!=--Oh, nights and suppers of the gods! _Hor._
=O passi graviora!=--Oh, ye who have suffered greater misfortunes than these! _Virg._
[Greek: hô philoi oudeis philos]--He who has many friends 35 has no friends. _Diogenes Laertius._
[Greek: ho phronimos to alypon diôkei ou to hêdy]--The aim of the wise man is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. _Arist._
=O place and greatness, millions of false eyes / Are stuck upon thee! Volumes of report / Run with these false and most contrarious quests / Upon thy doings! thousand scapes of wit / Make thee the father of their idle dreams, / And rack thee in their fancies.= _Meas. for Meas._, iv. 1.
=O pudor! O pietas!=--O modesty! O piety! _Mart._
=O purblind race of miserable men! / How many among us at this very hour / Do forge a lifelong trouble for ourselves, / By taking true for false, or false for true; / Here, thro' the feeble twilight of this world / Groping, how many, until we pass and reach / That other, where we see as we are seen!= _Tennyson._
=O qualis facies et quali digna tabella!=--Oh, 40 what a face and what a picture it would have been a subject for! _Juv._
=O quanta species cerebrum non habet!=--Oh, that such beauty should be devoid of brains! _Phædr._
=O quantum in rebus inane!=--Oh, what a void there is in things! _Persius._
=O ruin'd piece of nature! This great world / Shall so wear out to nought.= _King Lear_, iv. 6.
=O rus quando te aspiciam? quandoque licebit / Nunc veterum libris, nunc somno et inertibus horis / Ducere sollicitæ jucunda oblivia vitæ?=--Oh, country, when shall I see thee, and when shall I be permitted to quaff a sweet oblivion of anxious life, now from the books of the ancients, now from sleep and idle hours? _Hor._
=O sancta damnatio!=--Oh, holy condemnation!
=O sancta simplicitas!=--Oh, holy simplicity! _John Huss at the stake, on seeing an old woman hurrying up with a faggot to throw on the pile._
=O si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses=--If you had only held your peace, you would have remained a philosopher. _Boëthius._
=O sleep, / It is a gentle thing, / Beloved from= 5 =pole to pole!= _Coleridge._
=O sleep, O gentle sleep, / Nature's soft nurse! how have I frighted thee, / That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, / And steep my senses in forgetfulness!= 2 _Hen. IV._, iii. 1.
=O sons of earth, attempt ye still to rise, / By mountains piled on mountains, to the skies? / Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, / And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.= _Pope._
=O sprich mir nicht von jener bunten Menge / Bei deren Anblick uns der Geist entflieht=--Oh, speak not to me of the motley mob, at the very sight of which our spirit takes flight! _Goethe._
=O süsse Stimme! Willkommener Ton / Der Muttersprach in einem fremden Lande!=--Oh, sweet voice, much-welcome sound of our mother-tongue in a foreign land! _Goethe._
=O tempora, O mores!=--Oh, the times! oh, the 10 manners! _Cic._
=O that estates, degrees, and offices / Were not derived corruptly, and that clear honour / Were purchased by the merit of the wearer! / How many then would cover that stand bare; / How many be commanded that command; / How much low peasantry would then be glean'd / From the true seed of honour; and how much honour, / Pick'd from the chaff and ruin of the times, / To be new-varnish'd.= _Mer. of Ven._, ii. 9.
=O that men's ears should be / To counsel deaf, but not to flattery!= _Timon of Athens_, i. 2.
=O that way madness lies.= _Lear_, iii. 4.
=O that you could turn your eyes toward the napes of your necks, and make but an interior survey of your good selves!= _Coriolanus_, ii. 1.
=O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom= 15 =and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and His ways past finding out!= _St. Paul._
=O the wound of conscience is no scar, and Time cools it not with his wing, but merely keeps it open with his scythe.= _Jean Paul._
=O these deliberate fools, when they do choose / They have the wisdom by their wit to lose.= _Mer. of Ven._, ii. 9.
=O these naughty times / Put bars between the owners and their rights.= _Mer. of Ven._, iii. 2.
=O Thor, wer nicht im Augenblick den wahren Augenblick ergreift, / Wer, was er liebt, im Auge, und dennoch nach der Seite schweift=--Oh, fool, he seizes not the true moment in the moment who has what he loves before his eye, and still swerves from it. _Platen._
=O Thou, / Passionless bride, divine Tranquillity,= 20 =/ ... Thou carest not / How roughly men may woo thee, so they win!= _Tennyson._ (?)
=O thou who hast still a father and a mother, thank God for it in the day when thy soul is full of joyful tears, and needs a bosom wherein to shed them.= _Jean Paul._
=O thoughts of men accurst! / Past and to come seem best; things present, worst.= 2 _Hen. IV._, i. 3.
=O Tugend, Tugend, wie schön bist du! / Welch' göttlich Meisterstück sind Seelen, / Die sich hinauf bis zu dir erheben=--O virtue, virtue, how fair art thou! what a divine masterpiece are the souls that raise themselves up to thee! _Klopstock._
=O wad some pow'r the giftie gie us / To see oursels as others see us! / It wad frae mony a blunder free us, / And foolish notion; / What airs in dress and gait wad lea'e us, / And e'en devotion!= _Burns._
=O Wahrheit, deinen edeln Wein / Musst du= 25 =mit Wasser mischen; / Denn willst du ihn rein auftischen, / So nimmt er den Kopf den Gästen ein=--O Truth, thy noble wine thou must mix with water, for wert thou to serve it out pure, it would get into the heads of the guests and turn them. _Rückert._
=O was im Traum die innre Stimme spricht / Das wird uns Wahrheit, wenn die Sonne leuchtet=--Oh, how that which the inner voice speaks in our dreaming becomes truth to us when the sun shines! _Schillerbuch._
=O was müssen wir der Kirche Gottes halber leiden, rief der Abt, als ihm das gebratene Huhn die Finger versengte=--"What must we suffer for the Church of God's sake!" exclaimed the Abbot when the roast fowl burnt his fingers. _Ger. Pr._
=O was sind wir Grossen auf der Woge der Menschheit? Wir glauben sie zu beherrschen, und sie treibt uns auf und nieder, hin und her=--Ah! what are we great ones on the wave of humanity? We fancy we rule over it, and it sways us up and down, hither and thither. _Goethe._
=O well for him whose will is strong! / He suffers, but he will not suffer long; / He suffers, but he cannot suffer wrong.= _Tennyson._
=O wer weiss, / Was in der Zeiten Hintergrunde= 30 =schlummert?=--Oh, who knows what slumbers in the background of the times? _Schiller._
=O what a goodly outside falsehood hath!= _Mer. of Ven._, i. 3.
=O what a noble mind is here o'erthrown! / The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's eye, tongue, sword; / The expectancy and rose of the fair state, / The glass of fashion, and the mould of form, / The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!= _Ham._, iii. 1.
=O what a tangled web we weave / When first we practise to deceive.= _Scott._
=O what a world is this, when what is comely / Envenoms him that bears it!= _As You Like It_, ii. 3.
=O what a world of vile ill-favoured faults /= 35 =Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a-year!= _Merry Wives_, iii. 4.
=O what men dare do! what men may do! / What men daily do, not knowing what they do!= _Much Ado_, iv. 1.
=O woman! in our hours of ease / Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, / And variable as the shade / By the light of quivering aspen made; / When pain and anguish wring the brow, / A ministering angel thou.= _Scott._
=O ye loved ones, that already sleep in the noiseless Bed of Rest, whom in life I could only weep for and never help; and ye who, wide-scattered, still toil lonely in the monster-bearing desert, dyeing the flinty ground with your blood,--yet a little while, and we shall all meet There, and our Mother's bosom will screen us all; and Oppression's harness, and Sorrow's fire-whip, and all the Gehenna bailiffs that patrol and inhabit ever-vexed Time, cannot thenceforth harm us any more.= _Carlyle._
=O yet we trust that somehow good / Will be the final goal of ill.= _Tennyson._
=Oaks fall when reeds stand.= _Pr._
=Oars alone can ne'er prevail / To reach the= 5 =distant coast; / The breath of heav'n must swell the sail, / Or all the toil is lost.= _Cowper._
=Oaths are straws, ... and holdfast is the only dog.= _Hen. V._, ii. 3.
=Ob es vom Herzen kommt, das magst du leicht verstehen: / Denn was vom Herzen kommt, muss dir zum Herzen gehen=--Easily may'st thou know whether it comes from the heart; for what comes from the heart goes straight to thine. _Körner._
=Obedience alone gives the right to command.= _Emerson._
=Obedience is better than sacrifice.= _Pr. from Bible._
=Obedience is our universal duty and destiny;= 10 =wherein whoso will not bend must break.= _Carlyle._
=Obedience is the bond of rule.= _Tennyson._
=Obedience is woman's duty on earth; hard endurance is her heavy lot; by severe service she must be purified; but she who has served here is great up yonder.= _Schiller._
=Obey something, and you will have a chance of finding out what is best to obey. But if you begin by obeying nothing, you will end by obeying Beelzebub and all his seven invited friends.= _Ruskin._
=Obey thy parents; keep thy word justly; swear not; set not thy sweet heart on proud array.= _King Lear_, iii. 4.
=Obiter cantare=--To sing as one goes along; to 15 sing by the way.
=Obiter dicta=--Remarks by the way; passing remarks.
=Obiter dictum=--A thing said in passing.
=Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendours born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So a man sometimes covers up the entire disc of eternity with a dollar, and quenches transcendent glories with a little shining dust.= _Chapin._
=Objects imperfectly discerned take forms from the hope or fear of the beholder.= _Johnson._
=Objects in pictures should be so arranged as= 20 =by their very position to tell their own story.= _Goethe._
=Oblatam occasionem tene=--Seize the opportunity that is offered.
=Obligation is thraldom, and thraldom is hateful.= _Hobbes._
=Oblivion is the dark page whereon memory writes her light-beam characters and makes them legible; were it all light, nothing could be read there, any more than if it were all darkness.= _Carlyle._
=Oblivion is the rule, and fame the exception, of humanity.= _Rivarol._
=Oblivion is the second death, which great= 25 =minds dread more than the first.= _De Boufflers._
=Obreros a no ver dineros a perder=--Not to watch your workmen is to lose your money. _Sp. Pr._
=Obruat illud male partum, male retentum, male gestum imperium=--Let that power fall which has been wrongfully acquired, wrongfully retained, and wrongfully administered. _Cic._
=Obscuris vera involvens=--Shrouding, or concealing, truth in obscurity or darkness. _Virg._
=Obscurity and affectation are the two great faults of style.= _Macaulay._
=Obscurity and Innocence, twin-sisters, escape= 30 =temptations which would pierce their gossamer armour in contact with the world.= _Chamfort._
=Obscurum per obscurius=--Explaining something obscure by what is more obscure.
=Obsequium amicos, veritas odium parit=--Obsequiousness procures us friends; speaking the truth, enemies. _Ter._
=Observe this short but certain aphorism, "Forsake all, and thou shalt find all."= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Observe thyself as thy greatest enemy would do; so shalt thou be thy greatest friend.= _Jeremy Taylor._
=Observation is an old man's memory.= _Swift._ 35
=Observation may trip now and then without throwing you, for her gait is a walk; but inference always gallops, and if she stumbles, you are gone.= _Holmes._
=Observation more than books, experience rather than persons, are the prime educators.= _A. B. Alcott._
=Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly.= _Montaigne._
=Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.= _Mme. Necker._
=Obstinacy is the result of the will's forcing= 40 =itself into the place of the intellect.= _Schopenhauer._
=Obstinacy is the strength of the weak.= _Lavater._
=Obstupui, steteruntque comæ, et vox faucibus hæsit=--I was astounded; my hair stood on end, and my voice stuck fast in my throat. _Virg._
=Obtuseness is sometimes a virtue.= _Rivarol._
=Occasio facit furem=--Opportunity makes the thief. _Pr._
=Occasion reins the motions of the stirring= 45 =mind.= _Owen Feltham._
=Occasionem cognosce=--Know your opportunity.
=Occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what he is.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Occidit miseros crambe repetita magistros=--Cabbage repeated is the death of the wretched masters. _Juv._
=Occupation is the scythe of Time.= _Napoleon._
=Occupet extremum scabies!=--Murrain take the 50 hindmost! _Hor._
=Ocean is a mighty harmonist.= _Wordsworth._
=Oculi tanquam speculatores altissimum locum obtinent=--The eyes, like sentinels, occupy the highest place in the body. _Cic._
=Oculis magis habenda fides quam auribus=--It is better to trust to our eyes than our ears.
=Oculus domini saginat equum=--The master's eye makes the horse fat. _Pr._
=Oderint dum metuant=--Let them show hate, provided they fear. _Cic._
=Oderunt hilarem tristes, tristemque jocosi, /= 5 =Sedatum celeres, agilem gnavumque remissi=--Sad men dislike a gay spirit, and the jocular a sad; the quick-witted dislike the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious. _Hor._
=Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore=--Good men shrink from wrong out of love for virtue. _Hor._
=Odi profanum vulgus et arceo=--I hate the profane rabble, and keep them far from me. _Hor._
=Odi puerulos præcoci ingenio=--I hate boys of precocious talent. _Cic._
=Odi, vedi, e taci, se vuoi viver in pace=--Listen, see, and say nothing, if you wish to live in peace. _It. Pr._
=Odia qui nimium timet, regnare nescit=--He who 10 dreads hostility too much is unfit to bear rule. _Sen._
=Odimus accipitrem quia semper vivit in armis=--I hate the hawk because he always lives in arms. _Ovid._
=Odium theologicum=--Theological hatred; the animosity engendered by differences of theological opinion.
=Odora canum vis=--The sharp scent of the hounds. _Virg._
=O'ercome thyself, and thou may'st share / With Christ His Father's throne, and wear / The world's imperial wreath.= _Keble._
=Of a life of luxury the fruit is luxury.= _Thoreau._ 15
=Of a thoroughly crazy and defective artist we may indeed say he has everything from himself; but of an excellent one, never.= _Goethe._
=Of all actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people; yet of all actions of our life, 'tis most meddled with by other people.= _John Selden._
=Of all attainable liberties, be sure first to strive for leave to be useful.= _Ruskin._ (?)
=Of all blinds that shut up men's vision the worst is self.= (?)
=Of all days, the one that is most wasted is that= 20 =on which one has not laughed.= _Chamfort._
=Of all earthly music, that which reaches the farthest into heaven is the beating of a loving heart.= _Ward Beecher._
=Of all evils in story-telling, the humour of telling tales one after another in great numbers is the least supportable.= _Steele._
=Of all God's gifts to the sight of man, colour is the holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.= _Ruskin._
=Of all great poems Love is the absolute and the essential foundation.= _C. Fitzhugh._
=Of all man's work of art, a cathedral is greatest.= 25 =A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.= _Ward Beecher._
=Of all men, a philosopher should be no swearer; for an oath, which is the end of controversies in law, cannot determine any here, where reason only must induce.= _Sir Thomas Browne._
=Of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, / Save, save, O save me from the candid friend!= _Canning._
=Of all pleasures, the fruit of labour is the sweetest.= _Vauvenargues._
=Of all points of faith the being of a God is encompassed with most difficulty, and yet borne in upon our minds with most power.= _John Newman._
=Of all rights of man, the right of the ignorant= 30 =man to be guided by the wiser, to be gently or forcibly held in the true course by him, is the indisputablest.= _Carlyle._
=Of all studies, study your present condition.= _Pr._
=Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world,--though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst,--the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!= _Sterne._
=Of all the characters of cruelty, I consider that as the most odious which assumes the garb of mercy.= _Fox._
=Of all the great masters, there is not one who did not paint his own present world, plainly and truly.= _Ruskin._
=Of all the marvellous works of the Deity, perhaps= 35 =there is nothing that angels behold with such supreme astonishment as a proud man.= _Colton._
=Of all the passions that possess mankind, / The love of novelty rules most the mind; / In search of this, from realm to realm we roam, / Our fleets come fraught with every folly home.= _Foote._
=Of all the possessions of a man, next to the gods, his soul is the mightiest, being the most his own.= _Plato._
=Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.= _Ruskin._
=Of all the superstitions which infest the brains of weak mortals, the belief in prophecies, presentiments, and dreams, seems to me amongst the most pitiful and pernicious.= _Goethe._
=Of all the tyrants that the world affords, / Our= 40 =own affections are the fiercest lords.= _E. Stirling._
=Of all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper.= _Goethe._
=Of all things, knowledge is esteemed the most precious treasure; because of its incapacity to be stolen, to be given away, or even to be consumed.= _Hitopadesa._
=Of all those arts in which the wise excel, / Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.= _Duke of Buckingham._
=Of all wild beasts, preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame, a flatterer.= _Ben Jonson._
=Of big words and feathers many go to the= 45 =pound.= _Ger. Pr._
=Of error we can talk for ever, but truth demands that we should lay it to heart and apply it.= _Goethe._
=Of four things every man has more than he knows--of sins, and debts, and years, and foes.= _Persian Pr._
=Of God's light I was not utterly bereft, if my as yet sealed eyes, with their unspeakable longing, could nowhere see Him; nevertheless in my heart He was present and His heaven-written law still stood legible and sacred there.= _Carlyle._
=Of great men no one should speak but one who is as great as they, so as to be able to see all round them.= _Goethe._
=Of great riches there is no real use, except it be in the distribution; the rest is but conceit.= _Bacon._
=Of hasty counsel take good heed, for very rarely haste is speed.= _Dut. Pr._
=Of how few lives does not stated duty claim the greater part?= _Johnson._
=Of illustrious men all the earth is the sepulchre,= 5 =and it is not the inscribed column in their own land which is the record of their virtues, but the unwritten memory of them in the hearts and minds of all mankind.= _Thucydides._
=Of its own unity, the soul gives unity to whatso it looks on with love.= _Carlyle._
=Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.= _Bible._
=Of more than earth can earth make none possesst; / And he that least / Regards this restless world, shall in this world find rest.= _Quarles._
=Of other tyrants short the strife, / But Indolence is king for life: / The despot twists, with soft control, / Eternal fetters round the soul.= _Hannah More._
=Of pleasures, those which occur most rarely= 10 =give the greatest delight.= _Epictetus._
=Of real evils the number is great; of possible evils there is no end.= _Johnson._
=Of the Beautiful we are seldom capable, oftener of the Good; and how highly should we value those who endeavour, with great sacrifices, to forward that good among their fellows!= _Goethe._
=Of the eyes that men do glare withal, so few can see.= _Carlyle._
=Of the soul, the body form doth take, / For soul is form, and doth the body make.= _Spenser._
=Of the three requisitions of genius, the first= 15 =is soul; the second, soul; and the third, soul.= _Whipple._
=Of the wealth of the world each has as much as he takes.= _It. Pr._
=Of the Wrong we are always conscious, of the Right never.= _Goethe._
=Of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes.= _Jesus._
=Of thy word unspoken thou art master; thy spoken word is master of thee.= _Eastern Pr._
=Of two evils choose the least.= _Pr._ 20
=Of unwise admiration much may be hoped, for much good is really in it; but unwise contempt is itself a negation; nothing comes of it, for it is nothing.= _Carlyle._
=Of what does not concern you say nothing, good or bad.= _It. Pr._
=Of what significance are the things you can forget?= _Thoreau._
=Of wild creatures, a tyrant; and of tame ones, a flatterer.= _Bias._
=Off with his head! so much for Buckingham.= 25 _Rich. III._, iv. 3.
=Offenders never pardon.= _Pr._
=Offerir molto è spezie di negare=--Offering extravagantly is a kind of denial. _It. Pr._
=Oft have I heard, and now believe it true, / Whom man delights in, God delights in too.= _An old Minnesinger._
=Oft kommt ein nützlich Wort aus schlechtem Munde=--A serviceable word often issues from worthless lips. _Schiller._
=Oft leiden kranke Seelen durch selbstgeschaffnen= 30 =Wahn=--Sick souls often suffer through conceits of their own creation. _G. Rossini._
=Oft schiessen trifft das Ziel=--Shooting often hits the mark. _Ger. Pr._
=Oft sogar es ist weise, zu entdecken, / Was nicht verschwiegen bleiben kann=--It is often wise to disclose what cannot be concealed. _Schiller._
=Oft when blind mortals think themselves secure, in height of bliss, they touch the brink of ruin.= _Thomson._
=Oft zum Dichter macht die Liebe; / Selbst ein Wunder, zeugt sie Wunder=--Love often makes a poet; herself a wonder, she works wonders. _Bodenstedt._
=Ofte er Skarlagens Hierte under reven Kaabe=--There 35 is often a royal heart under a tattered coat. _Dan. Pr._
=Often a man's own angry pride / Is cap-and-bells for a fool.= _Tennyson._
=Often the cock-loft is empty in those whom Nature hath built many storeys high.= _Fuller._
=Oftentimes the gods send strong delusions to ensnare too credulous hearts.= _Lewis Morris._
=Oftentimes, to win us to our harm, / The instruments of darkness tell us truths; / Win us with honest trifles, to betray us / In deepest consequence.= _Macb._, i. 3.
=Ofttimes nothing profits more / Than self-esteem,= 40 =grounded on just and right.= _Milton._
=Ofttimes the pupil goes beyond his master.= _Lucillius._
=Ogni cosa è d'ogni anno=--Everything is of every year. _It. Pr._
=Ogni debole ha sempre il suo tiranno=--Every weak man has always his tyrant. _It. Pr._
=Ogni medaglio ha il suo riverso=--Every medal has its reverse. _It. Pr._
=Ogni monte ha la sua valle=--Every mountain 45 has its valley. _It. Pr._
=Ogni vero non è buono a dire=--Every truth is not good to be told. _It. Pr._
=Ognuno vede quel che tu pari, pochi sentono quel che tu sei=--Every one sees what you seem, few know what you are. _Machiavelli._
=Oh, be he king or peasant, he is happiest / Who in his home finds peace.= _Goethe._
=Oh, call my brother back to me! / I cannot play alone; / The summer comes with flower and bee,--/ Where is my brother gone?= _Mrs. Hemans._
=Oh, Death! the poor man's dearest friend--/= 50 =The kindest and the best! / Welcome the hour my aged limbs / Are laid with thee at rest! / The great, the wealthy fear thy blow, / From pomp and pleasure torn! But oh! a bless'd relief to those / That weary-laden mourn!= _Burns._
=Oh, for a lodge in some vast wilderness, / Some boundless contiguity of shade, / Where rumour of oppression and deceit, / Of unsuccessful or successful war, / May never reach me more.= _Cowper._
=Oh, ... for a man with heart, head, hand. / ... Whatever they call him, what care I, / Aristocrat, democrat, autocrat--one / Who can rule and dare not lie!= _Tennyson._
=Oh, how sweet it is to hear our own conviction from another's lips!= _Goethe._
=Oh, it is excellent / To have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous / To use it like a giant.= _Meas. for Meas._, ii. 2.
=Oh! Kritisieren, lieber Herr, ist federleicht, / Doch Bessermachen schwierig=--Oh, criticising, good sir, is as easy as a feather is light; 'tis making better that's the difficulty. _Platen._
=Oh, love for ever lost, / And with it faith gone out! what is't remains / But duty, though the path be rough and trod / By bruised and bleeding feet?= _Lewis Morris._
=Oh, Love, how perfect is thy mystic art, /= 5 =Strengthening the weak, and trampling on the strong!= _Byron._
=Oh, Love! no habitant of earth thou art--/ An unseen seraph, we believe in thee.= _Byron._
=Oh, no! we never mention her; / Her name is never heard; / My lips are now forbid to speak / That once familiar word.= _T. H. Bayly._
=Oh, nostra folle / Mente, ch'ogn aura di fortuna estolle=--How our heart swells if only a breath of happiness breathe through it! _Tasso._
=Oh, that mine adversary had written a book.= _Job._
=Oh, that my lot might lead me in the path of= 10 =holy purity of thought and deed, the path which august laws ordain--laws which in the highest heaven had their birth; ... The power of God is mighty in them, and doth not wax old.= _Sophocles._
=Oh, that this too too solid flesh would melt, / Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! / Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd / His canon 'gainst self-slaughter.= _Ham._, i. 2.
=Oh! the dulness and the hardness of the heart of man, which contemplates only the present, and does not rather provide for the future.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Oh, the heart is a free and a fetterless thing-- / A wave of the ocean, a bird on the wing.= _J. Pardoe._
=Oh, there is something in marriage like the veil of the temple of old, / That screened the Holy of Holies with blue and purple and gold; / Something that makes a chamber where none but the one may come, / A sacredness too, and a silence, where joy that is deepest is dumb.= _Dr. Walter Smith._
=Oh, were I seated high as my ambition, / I'd= 15 =place this naked foot on necks of monarchs.= _Walpole._
=Oh, what a fall was there, my countrymen! / Then I, and you, and all of us fell down, / Whilst bloody treason flourish'd over us.= _Jul. Cæs._, iii. 2.
=Oh, what damned minutes tells he o'er, / Who dotes, yet doubts; suspects, yet soundly loves.= _Othello_, iii. 3.
=Oh, what is death but parting breath? / On mony a bloody plain / I've dared his face, and in this place / I scorn him yet again.= _Burns, "Macpherson's Lament."_
=Oh, whistle and I'll come to ye, my lad.= _Burns._
=Oh, woman, lovely woman! Heaven designed= 20 =you / To temper man! We had been brutes without you.= _Burns._
=Oh, worse than all! Oh, pang all pangs above, / Is kindness counterfeiting absent love!= _Coleridge._
=Oh, would they stay aback frae courts, / And please themsels wi' country sports, / It wad for every ane be better, / The laird, the tenant, and the cottar.= _Burns._
=Ohe! jam satis est=--Stay! that is enough. _Hor._
=Ohne Begeisterung schlafen die besten Kräfte des Gemüths. Es ist ein Zunder in uns, der Funken will=--Without inspiration the best powers of the mind are dormant. There is a tinder in us which needs to be quickened with sparks. _Herder._
=Ohne die Freiheit, was wärest du, Hellas? /= 25 =Ohne dich, Hellas, was wäre die Welt?=--Without freedom, what wert thou, Greece? Without thee, Greece, what were the world? _W. Müller._
=Ohne eine Gottheit gibt's für den Menschen weder Zweck, noch Ziel, noch Hoffnung, nur eine zitternde Zukunft, ein ewiges Bangen vor jeder Dunkelheit=--Without a deity there is for man neither aim, nor goal, nor hope; only an ever-wavering future, and eternal anxiety in every moment of darkness. _Jean Paul._
=Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast=--Unhasting, yet unresting. _Goethe's motto. Said originally of the sun._
=Ohne Haut=--Without a skin.
=Ohne Mehl und Wasser ist übel backen=--It is ill baking without meal and water. _Ger. Pr._
=Ohne Wahl verteilt die Gaben, / Ohne Billigkeit= 30 =das Glück; / Denn Patroklus liegt begraben, / Und Thersites kommt zurück=--Gifts are dispensed without election, fortune without fairness; Patroclus lies buried, and Thersites comes back. _Schiller._
=Ohne Wissen, ohne Sünde=--Where there's no knowledge there's no sin. _Ger. Pr._
[Greek: hoi arourês karpon edousin]--They who eat the fruit of the field. _Hom._
[Greek: hoi dystychountes ex heterôn cheirona paschontôn paramythountai]--The unhappy derive comfort from the worse misfortunes of others. _Æsop._
[Greek: hoi kyboi Dios aei eupiptousi]--The dice of Zeus always fall luckily. _Sophocles._
[Greek: hoi pleiones kakoi]--The majority of mankind are 35 bad. _Bias, one of the seven sages._
[Greek: hoi polloi]--The multitude; the masses.
[Greek: hoiê per phyllôn geneê, toiêde kai andrôn]--As is the generation of leaves, such is that of men. _Hom._
=Oil, wine, and friends improve by age.= _It. Pr._
[Greek: oimoi; ti d' oimoi? thnêta gar peponthamen]--Alas! but why alas? We only suffer what other mortals do.
[Greek: oinou de mêket' ontos, ouk estin Kypris]--Where 40 there is no longer any wine there is no love. _Euripides._
[Greek: hokosa pharmaka ouk iêtai sidêros iêtai, hosa sidêros ouk iêtai pyr iêtai]--What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will. _Hippocrates._
=Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually, as is thought.= _Rahel._
=Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that it is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.= _Cic._
=Old age is a heavy burden.= _Pr._
=Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.= _La Roche._
=Old age is honourable.= _Pr._
=Old age is not in itself matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.= _Carlyle to his mother._
=Old age is sad= (_trübe_), =not because our joys, but because our hopes are cut short.= _Jean Paul._
=Old age is the repose of life, the rest which precedes= 5 =the rest that remains.= _R. Collyer._
=Old age is wise for itself, but not wise for the community.= _Bryant._
=Old age--the words are comparative, not positive.= _Anon._
=Old age, though despised, is coveted by all.= _Pr._
=Old age was naturally more honoured in times when people could not know much more than they had seen.= _Joubert._
=Old birds are hard to pluck.= _Pr._ 10
=Old birds are not caught with chaff.= _Pr._
=Old books, as you well know, are books of the world's youth, and new books are fruits of its age.= _Holmes._
=Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good.= _Izaak Walton._
=Old friends are best.= _King James I., as he slipt on his old shoes._
=Old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome= 15 =air; / Love them for what they are; nor love them less; / Because to thee they are not what they were.= _Coleridge._
=Old head and young hand.= _Pr._
=Old head upon young shoulders.= _Pr._
=Old heads will not suit young shoulders.= _Pr._
=Old houses mended / Cost little less than new before they're ended.= _C. Cibber._
=Old long-vexed questions, not yet solved in= 20 =logical words or parliamentary laws, are fast solving themselves in facts, somewhat unblessed to behold.= _Carlyle._
=Old men are twice children.= _Pr._
=Old men lose one of the most precious rights of man, that of being judged by their peers.= _Goethe._
=Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.= _Capt. John Brown._
=Old men's lives are lengthened shadows; their evening sun falls coldly on the earth, but the shadows all point to the morning.= _Jean Paul._
=Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise= 25 =them if you wish to keep them in working order.= _John Adams._
=Old ovens are soon heated.= _Pr._
=Old oxen have stiff horns.= _Pr._
=Old shoes are easiest.= _Pr._
=Old signs do not deceive.= _Dan. Pr._
=Old wood to burn, old books to read, old wine= 30 =to drink, and old friends to converse with.= _Alphonso of Castile._
=Old wounds soon bleed.= _Pr._
=Olet lucernam=--It smells of the lamp, or midnight study.
=Oleum adde camino=--Add fuel to the fire. _Hor._
=Oleum et operam perdidi=--I have lost both the oil and my pains. _Plaut._
=Olla male fervet=--It does not look hopeful; the 35 pot boils poorly. _Pr._
=Olim meminisse juvabit=--It will delight us to recall these things some day hereafter. _Virg._
=Oliver Cromwell, dead two hundred years ago, does yet speak; nay, perhaps, now first begins to speak.= _Carlyle._
=Omina sunt aliquid=--There is something in omens. _Ovid._
[Greek: omma gar domôn nomizô despotou parousian]--The presence of the master is, meseems, the eye of a house. _Æschylus._
=Omne actum ab agentis intentione judicandum=--Every 40 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._
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=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