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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.