Dictionary of Quotations

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Tabesne cadavera solvat, / An rogus, haud 45 refert—It makes no difference whether corruption dissolve the carcase or the funeral pile. Lucan.

Tabula ex or in naufragio—A plank in a shipwreck; a last shift.

Table d'hôte—A common table for guests. Fr.

Tableau vivant—A group in which statues or pictures are represented by living persons. Fr.

Tabula rasa—A smooth or blank tablet; a blank surface.

Tacent, satis laudant—Their silence is praise 50 enough. Ter.

Tâche sans tache—A task, or work, without a blemish. M.

Tacitæ magis et occultæ inimicitiæ sunt, quam indictæ et opertæ—Enmities unavowed and concealed are more to be feared than when open and declared. Cic.

Tacitum vivit sub pectore vulnus—The secret wound still lives in her heart. Virg.

Tact is one of the first of mental virtues, the absence of which is often fatal to the best talents. It supplies the place of many talents. Simms.

Tadeln kann ein jeder Bauer; besser machen wird ihm sauer—Every boor can find fault; it would baffle him to do better. Ger. Pr.

Tadeln können zwar die Thoren, / Aber klüger handeln nicht—Fools can find fault indeed, but they cannot act more wisely. Langbein.

Tædium vitæ—Weariness of life; disgust with existence. Gell.

Tages Arbeit, Abends Gäste, / Saure Wochen, 5 frohe Feste, / Sei dein künftig Zauberwort—Be work by day, guests at eve, weeks of toil, festive days of joy, the magic spell for thy future. Goethe.

Take a bird from a clean nest. Gael. Pr.

Take a farthing from a thousand pounds, it will be a thousand pounds no longer. Goldsmith.

Take a hair of the same dog that bit you, and it will heal the wound. Pr.

Take a stick to a Highland laddie, and it's no him you hurt, but his ancestors. J. M. Barrie.

Take all that is given, whether wealth, / Or 10 love, or language; nothing comes amiss; / A good digestion turneth all to health. George Herbert.

Take any subject of sorrowful regret, and see with how much pleasure it is associated. Dickens.

Take away desire from the heart, and you take away the air from the earth. Bulwer Lytton.

Take care of the pence; the pounds will take care of themselves. Pr.

Take care to be an economist in prosperity; there is no fear of your not being one in adversity. Zimmermann.

Take each man's censure, but reserve thy 15 judgment. Ham., i. 3.

Take everything easy (leicht); leave off dreaming and brooding (Grübeln), and you will be ever well guarded from a thousand evils. Uhland.

Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her, for she is thy life. Bible.

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard, and his desire for knowledge ceases. Rousseau.

Take heed, and beware of covetousness; for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth. Jesus.

Take heed of the vinegar of sweet wine. Pr. 20

Take heed you find not that you do not seek. Pr.

Take-it-easy and Live-long are brothers. Ger. Pr.

Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest unto your souls. Jesus.

Take no thought for the morrow; for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Jesus.

Take no thought for your life, what ye shall 25 eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Jesus.

Take not His name who made thy mouth in vain: / It gets thee nothing, and has no excuse. George Herbert.

Take note, take note, O world, / To be direct and honest is not safe. Othello, iii. 3.

Take physic, pomp; / Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel; / That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, / And show the heavens more just. Lear, iii. 4.

Take the Muses' servants by the hand; /... And where ye justly can commend, commend them; / And aiblins when they winna stand the test, / Wink hard, and say the folks hae done their best. Burns.

Take the showers as they fall, /... Enough 30 if at the end of all / A little garden blossom. Tennyson.

Take this rule,... The best-bred child hath the best portion. Pr. Herbert.

Take thou the beam out of thine own eye; then shalt thou see clearly to take the mote out of thy brother's. Jesus.

Take thought for thy body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone; and if they are dim, the whole world is beclouded. Goethe.

Take time by the forelock. Thales.

Take time in time, ere time be tint (lost). Sc. Pr. 35

Take time in turning a corner. Pr.

Take up the torch and wave it wide, / The torch that lights Time's thickest gloom. Bonar.

Take your thirst to the stream, as the dog does. Gael. Pr.

Taking, therefore, my opinion of the English from the virtues and vices practised among the vulgar, they at once present to a stranger all their faults, and keep their virtues up only for the inquiring of a philosopher. Goldsmith.

Tale tuum carmen nobis, divine poeta, / Quale 40 sopor fessis—Thy song is to us, O heavenly bard, as sleep to wearied men. Virg.

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book. Emerson.

Talent for literature, thou hast such a talent? Believe it not, be slow to believe it! To speak or to write, Nature did not peremptorily order thee; but to work she did. Carlyle.

Talent forms itself in secret; character, in the great current of the world. Goethe.

Talent has almost always this advantage (Vorsprung) over genius—that the former endures, the latter often explodes, or runs to waste (verpufft). Gutzkow.

Talent is a cistern; genius, a fountain. Whipple. 45

Talent is a gift which God has imparted in secret, and which we reveal without knowing it. Montesquieu.

Talent is some one faculty unusually developed; genius commands all the faculties. F. H. Hedge.

Talent is something, but tact is everything. It is not a seventh sense, but is the life of all the five. It is the open eye, the quick ear, the judging taste, the keen smell, and the lively touch; it is the interpreter of all riddles, the surmounter of all difficulties, the remover of all obstacles. W. P. Scargill.

Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is. Lowell.

Talent ist Form, Genie Stoff—Talent is form, 50 genius is substance. Gutzkow.

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason and imagination, rarely or never. Coleridge.

Talents angel-bright, if wanting worth, are shining instruments in false ambition's hand, to finish faults illustrious, and give infamy renown. Young.

Talents give a man a superiority far more agreeable than that which proceeds from riches, birth, or employments, which are all external. Talents constitute our very essence. Rollin.

Taliter qualiter—Such as it is.

Talk, except as the preparation for work, is 5 worth almost nothing; sometimes it is worth infinitely less than nothing; and becomes, little conscious of playing such a fatal part, the general summary of pretentious nothingnesses, and the chief of all the curses the posterity of Adam are liable to in this sublunary world. Carlyle.

Talk of the devil and he'll appear. Pr.

Talk that does not end in action is better suppressed altogether. Carlyle.

Talk to him of Jacob's ladder, and he would ask the number of the steps. Douglas Jerrold.

Talkers are no good doers. Rich. III., i. 3.

Talking is one of the fine arts. Holmes. 10

Talking is the disease of age. Ben Jonson.

Talking of love is making it. Pr.

Talking with a host is next best to talking with one's self.... He is wiser than to contradict his guest in any case; he lets him go on, he lets him travel. Thoreau.

Tam deest avaro quod habet, quam quod non habet—The miser is as much in want of that which he has as of that which he has not. Pub. Syr.

Tam diu discendum est, quum diu nescias, et, 15 si proverbio credimus, quam diu vivas—You must continue learning as long as you do not know, and, if the proverb is to be believed, as long as you live. Sen.

Tam Marte quam Minerva—As much by Mars as by Minerva; as much by courage as by wisdom. Pr.

Tam Marti quam Mercurio—As much for Mars as for Mercury; as well qualified for war as for business.

Tam felix utinam, quam pectore candidus, essem—Oh, that I were as happy as I am clear in conscience. Ovid.

Tam lo'ed him like a vera brither; / They had been fou for weeks thegither. Burns.

Tamen me / Cum magnis vixisse invita fatebitur 20 usque / Invidia—Nevertheless, even envy, however unwilling, will have to admit that I have lived among great men. Hor.

Tandem fit surculus arbor—A twig in time becomes a tree. M.

Tandem poculum mœroris exhausit—He has exhausted at last the cup of grief. Cic.

[Greek: ta neura tou polemou]—The sinews of war. Pr.

Tangere ulcus—To touch a sore; to renew one's grief. Ter.

Tanquam in speculo—As in a mirror. 25

Tanquam nobilis—Noble by courtesy.

Tanquam ungues digitosque suos—As well as his nails and fingers; at his fingers' ends. Pr.

Tant de fiel entre-t-il dans l'âme des dévots?—Can so much gall find access in devout souls? Boileau.

Tant mieux—So much the better. Fr.

Tant pis—So much the worse. Fr. 30

Tant va la cruche à l'eau qu'à la fin elle se brise—The pitcher goes so often to the well that it is broken at last. Fr.

Tantæ molis erat Romanam condere gentem—Such a task it was to found the Roman race. Virg.

Tantæne animis cœlestibus iræ?—Can heavenly minds cherish such dire resentment? Virg.

Tanti eris aliis, quanti tibi fueris—You will be of as much value to others as you have been to yourself. Cic.

Tanto brevius omne tempus, quanto felicius—The 35 happier the moments the shorter. Pliny.

Tanto buon, che val niente—So good as to be good for nothing. It. Pr.

Tanto fortior, tanto felicior!—The more pluck, the better luck!

Tanto più di pregio reca all' opera l'umiltà dell' artista, quanto più aggiunge di valori al numero la nullità del zero—The modesty of the artist adds as much to the merit of his work as does a cipher (of no value in itself) to the number to which it is joined. Bernini.

Tanto vale la Messa detta quanto la cantata—A mass is as good said as sung. It. Pr.

Tantum quantum—Just as much as. 40

Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum—Could such cruelties have been perpetrated in the name of religion? Lucret. in reference to the sacrifice of Iphigenia.

Tantum series juncturaque / Tantum de medio sumptis accedit honoris—Such is the power of order and arrangement: so much grace may be imparted to subjects from common life. Hor.

Tantum vertice in auras / Aetherias quantum radice in Tartara tendit—Its summit stretches as far into the upper ether as its root into the nether deep.

Tantus amor laudum, tantæ est victoria curæ—Such is the love of praise, so great the anxiety for victory. Virg.

Tapfer ist der Löwesieger, / Tapfer ist der 45 Weltbezwinger, / Tapfer wer sich selbst bezwang—Brave is the lion-vanquisher, brave is the world-subduer, but braver he who has subdued himself. J. G. Herder.

Tarda sit illa dies, et nostro serior ævo—Slow may that day approach, and long after our time. Ovid.

Tarda solet magnis rebus inesse fides—Men are slow to repose confidence in undertakings of magnitude. Ovid.

Tarde, quæ credita lædunt, credimus—We are slow to believe that which, if believed, would work us harm. Ovid.

Tarde sed tute—Slow but sure. M.

Tarde venientibus ossa—To those who come late 50 the bones. Pr.

Tardiora sunt remedia quam mala—Remedies are slower in their operation than diseases. Tac.

Tasks in hours of insight willed, / In hours of gloom must be fulfilled. Matthew Arnold.

Taste can only be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good, but of the truly excellent. Goethe.

Taste depends upon those finer emotions which make the organisation of the soul. Sir J. Reynolds.

Taste, if it mean anything but a paltry connoisseurship, must mean a general susceptibility to truth and nobleness; a sense to discern and a heart to love and reverence all beauty, order, goodness, wheresoever found and in whatsoever form and accompaniment. Carlyle.

Taste is the very maker of judgment. Leigh Hunt.

Taste may change, but inclination never. La Roche.

[Greek: ta syka syka, tên skaphên de skaphên onomazôn]—Calling 5 a fig a fig, and a spade a spade. Plut.

Taurum tollet qui vitulum sustulerit—He who has carried the calf will be able by and by to carry the ox. Pr.

Te Deum laudamus—We praise Thee, O God.

Te digna sequere—Follow what is worthy of thee. M.

Te, Fortuna, sequor: procul hinc jam fœdera sunto: / Credidimus fatis, utendum est judice bello—Thee, Fortune, I follow; hence far all treaties past; to fate I commit myself, and the arbitrament of war. Lucan on the crossing of the Rubicon by Cæsar.

Te hominem esse memento—Remember thou 10 art a man.

Te sine nil altum mens inchoat—Without thee my mind originates nothing lofty. Virg. to Mæcenas.

Teach me to feel another's woe, / To hide the fault I see; / That mercy I to others show, / That mercy show to me. Pope.

Teach self-denial, and make its practice pleasurable, and you create for the world a destiny more sublime than ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer. Scott.

Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom, and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. Mahomet.

Teaching has not a tithe of the efficacy of 15 training. Horace Mann.

Teaching is of more importance than exhortation. Luther.

Teaching others teacheth yourself. Pr.

Tearless grief bleeds inwardly. Bovee.

Tears are due to human misery. Virg.

Tears are often to be found where there is 20 little sorrow, and the deepest sorrow without tears. Johnson.

Tears are the deluge of sin and the world's sacrifice. Gregory Nazianzen.

Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self-command. Amiel.

Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, / Tears from the depth of some divine despair / Rise in the heart and gather in the eyes, / In looking on the happy autumn fields, / And thinking of the days that are no more. Tennyson.

Tears of joy are the dew in which the sun of righteousness is mirrored. Jean Paul.

Tears of joy, like summer rain-drops, are 25 pierced by sunbeams. H. Ballou.

Tears such as angels weep. Milton.

Tecum habita—Live with yourself; keep within your means.

Teeth, hair, nails, and the human species, prosper not when separated from their place. A wise man, being informed of this, should not totally forsake his native home. Hitopadesa.

Tel brille au second rang, qui s'éclipse au premier—Some who are eclipsed in the first rank may shine in the second. Voltaire.

Tel coup de langue est pire qu'un coup de 30 lance—Such a stroke with the tongue is worse than one with a lance. Fr. Pr.

Tel, en vous lisant, admire chaque trait, / Qui dans le fond de l'âme vous craint et vous hait—Such a one, in reading your work, admires every line, but, at the bottom of his soul, he fears and hates you. Boileau.

Tel excelle à rimer qui juge sottement—Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly. Boileau.

Tel maître, tel valet—Like master, like man. Fr. Pr.

Tel père, tel fils—Like father, like son. Fr. Pr.

Tel vous semble applaudir, qui vous raille et 35 vous joue; / Aimez qu'on vous conseille, et non pas qu'on vous loue—Such a one seems to applaud, while he is really ridiculing you; attach yourself to those who advise you rather than to those who praise. Boileau.

Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon. Bible.

"Tell me how you bear so blandly the assuming ways of wild young people?" Truly they would be unbearable if I had not also been unbearable myself as well. Goethe.

Tell me not, in mournful numbers, / "Life is but an empty dream," / For the soul is dead that slumbers, / And things are not what they seem. Longfellow.

Tell me what you like, and I will tell you what you are. Ruskin.

Tell me where is fancy bred, / Or in the heart, 40 or in the head? / How begot, how nourishéd? / It is engender'd in the eyes, / With gazing fed. Mer. of Venice, iii. 2.

Tell me with whom you associate, and I will tell you who you are; if I know what it is with which you occupy yourself, I know what you may become. Goethe.

Tell the truth and shame the devil. 1 Henry IV., iii. 1.

Telum imbelle sine ictu—A feeble dart thrown without effect. Virg.

Temeritas est florentis ætatis, prudentia senescentis—Rashness belongs to youth, prudence to old age. Cic.

Temper—a weapon that we hold by the blade. 45 J. M. Barrie.

Temper is so good a thing that we should never lose it. (?)

Temperament lies behind mood; back of the caprice of will lies the fate of character; back of both is the bias of family; back of that, the tyranny of race; still deeper, the power of climate, of soil, of geology, the whole physical and moral environment. Still we are free men only so far as we rise above these. John Burroughs.

Temperance and labour are the two best physicians of man. Rousseau.

Temperance is a bridle of gold. Burton.

Temperance is a tree which has for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace. Buddha.

Temperance is the nurse of chastity. Wycherley.

Tempi passati!—Bygone times! Joseph II. at sight of a picture representing a predecessor doing penance to the Pope.

Templa quam dilecta!—How lovely are thy temples! M. of the Duke of Buckingham, whose family name is Temple.

Tempora labuntur, tacitisque senescimus annis; 5 / Et fugiunt fræno non remorante dies—Time glides away, and we grow older through the noiseless years; the days flee away, and are restrained by no rein. Ovid.

Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis—Times change, and we change with them. Kaiser Lothar I.

Tempore ducetur longo fortasse cicatrix; / Horrent admotas vulnera cruda manus—A wound may, perhaps, through time be closed, but, when fresh, it shrinks from the touch. Ovid.

Tempted Fate will leave the loftiest star. Byron.

Tempus anima rei—Time is the soul of business.

Tempus edax rerum—Time, the devourer of all 10 things. Ovid.

Tempus erit quo vos speculum vidisse pigebit—The time will come when it will disgust you to look in a mirror. Ovid.

Tempus est quædam pars æternitatis—Time is a certain fraction of eternity. Cic.

Tempus ferax, tempus edax rerum—Time the producer, time the devourer of things.

Tempus fugit—Time flies.

Tempus in agrorum cultu consumere dulce 15 est—It is delightful to spend one's time in the tillage of the fields. Ovid.

Tempus omnia revelat—Time reveals all things.

Tempus rerum imperator—Time is sovereign over all things. M.

Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss. Pope.

[Greek: tên de malista gamein, hêtis sethen engythi naiei]—Be sure you take for wife a woman of your own neighbourhood. Hesiod.

Tenax et fidelis—Steadfast and faithful. M. 20

Tenax propositi—Tenacious of his purpose. M.

Tendency to sentimental whining or fierce intolerance may be ranked among the surest symptoms of little souls and inferior intellects. Jeffrey.

Tenderness is a virtue. Goldsmith.

Tenderness is the repose of passion. Joubert.

Tenebo—I will hold. M. 25

Teneros animos aliena opprobria sæpe / Absterrent vitiis—The disgrace of others often deters tender minds from vice. Hor.

Tenet insanabile multos / Scribendi cacoëthes—An incurable itch for writing possesses many. Juv.

Tenez la bride haute à votre fils—Keep a tight hand over your son (lit. hold the bridle high). Fr. Pr.

Tenir le haut du pavé—To keep the best place (lit. the highest side of the pavement). Fr. Pr.

Tentanda via est qua me quoque possim / 30 Tollere humo, victorque virûm volitare per ora—I too must attempt a way by which I may raise myself above the ground, and soar triumphant through the lips of men. Virg.

Tenterden steeple was the cause of Goodwin Sands. Pr.

Ter conatus ibi collo dare brachia circum, / Ter frustra comprensa manus effugit imago—Thrice I attempted to throw my arms round her neck there, and her ghost, thrice clutched in vain, eluded my grasp. Virg.

Teres atque rotundum—Smooth-polished and rounded. Hor.

Terminus a quo—The point from which anything starts.

Terminus ad quem—The point of destination. 35

Terra antiqua, potens armis atque ubere glebæ—An ancient land, powerful in arms and in the fertility of its soil. Virg., of Italy.

Terra firma—Dry land, in contradistinction to sea.

Terra incognita—An unknown land or domain of things.

Terra innanzi, e terra poi—Earth originally, and earth finally. It. Pr.

Terra malos homines nunc educat, atque 40 pusillos—The earth now supports many bad and weak men. Juv.

Terræ filius—A son of the earth; a man of obscure or low origin. Pers.

Terram cœlo miscent—They mingle heaven and earth.

Terrible penalty, with the ass-ears or without them, inevitable as death, written for ever in heaven, against all who, like Midas, misjudge the inner and the upper melodies, and prefer gold to goodness, desire to duty, falsehood to fact, wild nature to God, and a sensual piping Pan to a high-souled, wise-hearted, and spirit-breathing Apollo. Ed., apropos to the fable of Midas.

Tertium quid—A third something, produced by the union or interaction of two opposites.

Tertium sal—A third salt; a neutral salt; the 45 union of an acid and an alkali.

Tertius e cœlo cecidit Cato—A third Cato has come down from heaven. Juv., in mockery.

[Greek: tês aretês hidrôta theoi proparoithen ethêkan]—The gods have placed sweat in front of virtue. Hesiod.

Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow; the force of it depends upon the strength of the hand that draws it. Argument is like an arrow from a cross-bow, which has equal force though shot by a child. Johnson.

Tête-à-tête—Face to face; a private conversation. Fr.

Tête d'armée!—Head of the army! Last words 50 of Napoleon.

Tête de fou ne blanchit jamais—A fool's head never grows grey. Pr.

Teuer ist mir der Freund, doch auch den Feind kann ich nützen; / Zeigt mir der Freund, was ich kann, lehrt mich der Feind, was ich soll—Dear is to me the friend, yet can I make even my very foe do me a friend's part. My friend shows me what I can do; my foe teaches me what I should do. Schiller.

That action is not warrantable which either blushes to beg a blessing, or, having succeeded, dares not present a thanksgiving. Quarles.

That but this blow / Might be the be-all and the end-all here, / But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, / We'd jump the life to come. Macb., i. 7.

That carries anger as the flint bears fire; / Who, much enforcèd, shows a hasty spark, / And straight is cold again. Jul. Cæs., iv. 3.

That cause is strong which has not a multitude, but one strong man behind it. Lowell.

That circle of beings, which dependence gathers round us, is almost ever unfriendly. Arliss.

That civility is best which excludes all superfluous formality. (?)

That cutting up, and parcelling, and labelling, 5 of the indivisible human soul into what are called "faculties," I have from of old eschewed, and even hated. Carlyle.

That death's unnatural that kills for loving. Othello, v. 2.

That elevation of mind which we see in moments of peril, if it is uncontrolled by justice, and strives only for its own advantage, becomes a crime. Cic.

That friendship only is, indeed, genuine when two friends, without speaking a word to each other, can, nevertheless, find happiness in being together. Georg Ebers.

That friendship, which is exerted in too wide a sphere, becomes totally useless. Goldsmith.

That gentleman who sells an acre of land, 10 sells an ounce of credit. Lord Burleigh.

That golden key that opes the palace of eternity. Milton.

That government is the best which makes government unnecessary. W. von Humboldt.

That great mystery of time, were there no other; the illimitable, silent never-resting thing called "time," rolling, rushing on, swift, silent like an all-embracing oceantide, on which we and all the universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are and then are not—this is for ever very literally a miracle, a thing to strike us dumb; for we have no word to speak about it. Carlyle.

That grief is light which is capable of counsel. Pr.

That he is mad 'tis true; 'tis true, 'tis pity; / 15 And pity 'tis 'tis true. Ham., ii. 2.

That in the captain's but a choleric word, / Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy. Meas. for Meas., ii. 2.

That intention which fixes upon God as its only end will keep men steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the jest and scorn of fortune. Thomas à Kempis.

That is a most wretched fortune which is without an enemy. Pub. Syr.

That is a treacherous friend against whom you must always be on your guard. Such a friend is wine. Bovee.

That is always best which gives me to myself. 20 Emerson.

That is but an empty purse that is full of other men's money. Pr.

That is friendship which is not feigned. Hitopadesa.

That is gold that is worth gold. Pr.

That is indeed a twofold knowledge which profits alike by the folly of the foolish and the wisdom of the wise. It is both a shield and a sword; it borrows its security from the darkness, and its confidence from the light. Colton.

That is not a council wherein there are no 25 sages. Hitopadesa.

That is not a duty in which there is not virtue. Hitopadesa.

That is not possible which is impossible. Hitopadesa.

That is not virtue from which fear approacheth us. Hitopadesa.

That is the best part of beauty which a picture cannot express. Bacon.

That is the best part of each writer which has 30 nothing private in it. Emerson.

That is the briefest and sagest of maxims which bids us "meddle not." Colton.

That is the true light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. St. John.

That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way after us. Goethe.

That is true love which is always the same, whether you give everything or deny everything to it. Goethe.

That is well spoken that is well taken. Pr. 35

That last infirmity of noble minds. Milton.

That learning which thou gettest by thy own observation and experience is far beyond that which thou gettest by precept; as the knowledge of a traveller exceeds that which is got by reading. Thomas à Kempis.

That life is long which answers life's great end. Young.

That low vice curiosity. Byron.

That man has advanced far in the study of 40 morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity. Chamfort.

That man is always happy who is in the presence of something which he cannot know to the full, which he is always going on to know. Ruskin.

That man is an ill husband of his honour that entereth into any action, the failing wherein may disgrace him more than the carrying of it through can honour him. Bacon.

That man is learned who reduceth his learning to practice. Hitopadesa.

That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Iona. Johnson.

That man lives twice that lives the first life 45 well. Herrick.

That man may last, but never lives, / Who much receives but nothing gives; / Whom none can love, whom none can thank—/ Creation's blot, creation's blank. T. Gibbons.

That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man, / If with his tongue he cannot win a woman. Two Gent. of Verona, ii. 1.

That man will never be a perfect gentleman who lives only with gentlemen. To be a man of the world we must view that world in every grade and in every perspective. Bulwer Lytton.

That Mirabeau understood how to act with others, and by others—this was his genius, this was his originality, this was his greatness. Goethe.

That must be true which all men say. Pr. 50

That nation is in the enjoyment of liberty which stands by its own strength, and does not depend on the will of another. Livy.

That net that holds no great, takes little fish. R. Southwell.

That one man should die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call tragedy. Carlyle.

That one will not, another will. Pr.

That philanthropy has surely a flaw in it which 5 cannot sympathise with the oppressor equally as with the oppressed. Lowell.

That rich man is great who thinketh not himself great because he is rich; the proud man (who is the poor man) braggeth outwardly but beggeth inwardly; he is blown up, but not full. S. Hieron.

That single effort by which we stop short in the down-hill path to perdition is of itself a greater exertion of virtue than a hundred acts of justice. Goldsmith.

That souls which are created for one another so seldom find each other and are generally divided, that in the moments of happiest union least recognise each other—that is a sad riddle! Goethe.

That State must sooner or later perish where the majority triumphs and unintelligence (Unverstand) decides. Schiller.

That state of life is alone suitable to a man in 10 which and for which he was born, and he who is not led abroad by great objects is far happier at home. Goethe.

That strain again! It had a dying fall: / Oh, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound / That breathes upon a bank of violets, / Giving and stealing odour! Twelfth Night, i. 1.

That suit is best that best fits me. Pr.

That that comes of a hen will scrape. Pr.

That that is, is. As You Like It, iv. 2.

That the voice of the common people is the voice 15 of God, is as full of falsehood as commonness. For who sees not that those black-mouthed hounds, upon the mere scent of opinion, as freely spend their mouths in hunting counter, or, like Actæon's dogs, in chasing an innocent man to death, as if they followed the chase of truth itself, in a fresh scent? A. Warwick.

That thee is sent receive in buxomness: / The wrestling of this world asketh a fall. / Here is no home, here is but wilderness. / Forth, pilgrim, forth—on, best out of thy stall. / Look up on high, and thank the God of all. Chaucer.

That thought I regard as true which is fruitful to myself, which is connected with the rest of my thoughts, and at the same time helps me on. Now it is not only possible, but natural, that such a thought should not connect itself with the mind of another, nor help him on... consequently he will regard it as false. Once we are thoroughly convinced of this, we shall never enter upon controversies. Goethe.

That ugly treason of mistrust. Mer. of Ven., iii. 2.

That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny. Pascal.

That very law which moulds a tear, / And bids 20 it trickle from its source; / That law preserves the earth a sphere, / And guides the planets in their course. Rogers.

That vice has often proved an emancipator of the mind is one of the most humiliating, but also one of the most unquestionable, facts in history. Lecky.

That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarcely worth the sentinel. Goldsmith.

That voluntary debility, which modern language is content to term indolence, will, if it is not counteracted by resolution, render in time the strongest faculties lifeless, and turn the flame to the smoke of virtue. Johnson.

That warrior on his strong war-horse, fire flashes through his eyes; force dwells in his arm and heart; but warrior and war-horse are a vision; a revealed force, nothing more. Stately they tread the earth, as if it were firm substance. Fool! the earth is but a film; it cracks in twain, and warrior and war-horse sink beyond plummet's sounding. Carlyle.

That we devote ourselves to God is seen / In 25 living just as though no God there were. Browning.

That we shall die, we know; 'tis but the time / And drawing days out, that men stand upon. Julius Cæsar, iii. 1.

That we should find our national existence depend on selling manufactured cotton at a farthing an ell cheaper than any other people, is a most narrow stand for a great nation to base itself on. Carlyle.

That we would do, / We should do when we would; for this "would" changes, / And hath abatements and delays as many / As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents; / And then this "should" is like a spendthrift's sigh, / That hurts by easing. Ham., iv. 7.

That were but a sorry art which could be comprehended all at once; the last point of which could be seen by one just entering its precincts. Goethe.

That which builds is better than that which is 30 built. Emerson.

That which can be done with perfect convenience and without loss, is not always the thing that most needs to be done, or which we are most imperatively required to do. Ruskin.

That which each man can do best, not but his Maker can teach him. Emerson.

That which God writes on thy forehead thou wilt come to. The Koran.

That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been. Bible.

That which I crave may everywhere be had, / 35 With me I bring the one thing needful—love. Goethe.

That which in mean men we entitle patience, / Is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts. Rich. II., i. 2.

That which, intellectually considered, we call Reason, considered in relation to nature we call Spirit. Emerson.

That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered. Bible.

That which is good to take is good to keep. Pr.

That which is in the midst of fools is made 40 known. Bible.

That which is not allotted the hand cannot reach, and what is allotted will find you wherever you may be. Saadi.

That which is past is gone and irrevocable, and wise men have enough to do with things present and to come; therefore they do but trifle with themselves that labour in past matters. Bacon.

That which is possible is ever possible. Hitopadesa.

That which is truly and indeed characteristic of the man is known only to God. Ruskin.

That which makes men happy is activity (die Thätigkeit), which, first producing what is good, soon changes evil itself into good by power working in a god-like manner. Goethe.

That which one least anticipates soonest 5 comes to pass. Pr.

That which produces and maintains cheerfulness is nothing but activity. Jean Paul.

That which proves too much proves nothing. Pr.

That which seems to be wealth may in verity be only the gilded index of far-reaching ruin; a wrecker's handful of coin gleaned from the beach to which he has beguiled an argosy. Ruskin.

That which the droning world, chained to appearances, will not allow the realist to say in his own words, it will suffer him to say in proverbs without contradiction. Emerson.

That which the sun doth not now see will be 10 visible when the sun is out, and the stars are fallen from heaven. Sir Thomas Browne.

That which two will takes effect. Pr.

That which upholdeth him, that thee upholds—His honour. King John, iii. 1.

That which was bitter to endure may be sweet to remember. Pr.

That which we do not believe we cannot adequately say, though we may repeat the words never so often. Emerson.

That which we have we prize not to the 15 worth; / But being lacked and lost, why then we rake its value. Much Ado, iv. 1.

That which we may live without we need not much covet. Pr.

That which will not be butter must be made into cheese. Pr.

That which will not be spun, let it not come between the spindle and the distaff. Pr.

That woman is despicable who, having children, ever feels ennui. Jean Paul.

That wretchedness which fate has rendered 20 voiceless and tuneless is not the least wretched, but the most. Carlyle.

That's a lee wi' a lid on, / And a brass handle to tak ho'd on. Pr.

That's my good that does me good. Pr.

That's the best gown that goes up and down the house. Pr.

That's the humour of it. Henry V., ii. 1.

That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly: 25 he wants to make sure o' one fool as'll tell him he's wise. But there's some men can do wi'out that—they think so much o' themselves a'ready—an' that's how it is there's old bachelors. George Eliot.

The abandoning of some lower end in obedience to a higher aim is often made the very condition of securing the lower one. J. C. Sharp.

The abiding city and post at which we can live and die is still ahead of us, it would appear. Carlyle.

The absent one is an ideal person; those who are present seem to one another to be quite commonplace. It is a silly thing that the ideal is, as it were, ousted by the real; that may be the reason why to the moderns their ideal only manifests itself in longing. Goethe.

The absent party is still faulty. Pr.

The accepted and betrothed lover has lost the 30 wildest charms of his maiden in her acceptance of him. She was heaven whilst he pursued her as a star—she cannot be heaven if she stoops to such a one as he. Emerson.

The accusing spirit, which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in; and the recording angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out for ever. Sterne.

The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step towards repairing our loss. Thomas à Kempis.

The actual well seen is the ideal. Carlyle.

The advice that is wanted is commonly unwelcome; that which is not wanted is evidently impertinent. Johnson.

The affection of young ladies is of as rapid 35 growth as Jack's beanstalk, and reaches up to the sky in a night. Thackeray.

The afflictions of earth exalt the spirit and lift the soul to God. Tiedge.

The age made no sign when Shakespeare, its noblest son, passed away. Willmott.

The age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever. Burke.

The age of curiosity, like that of chivalry, is ended, properly speaking, gone. Yet perhaps only gone to sleep. Carlyle.

The age of great men is going; the epoch of 40 the anthill, of life in multiplicity, is beginning. Amiel.

The age of miracles past! The age of miracles is for ever here. Carlyle.

The ages of greatest public spirit are not always eminent for private virtue. Hume.

The agnosticism of doubt is as far from the agnosticism of devotion as blindness for want of vision from blindness through excess of light. James Martineau.

The aim of all morality, truly conceived, is to furnish men with a standard of action and a motive to work by, which shall not intensify each man's selfishness, but raise him ever more and more above it. J. C. Sharpe.

The aim of education should be to teach us 45 rather how to think than what to think. Beattie.

The aim of life is work, or there is no aim at all. Auerbach.

The aim of the legislator should be, not truth, but expediency. Buckle.

The air seems nimble with the glad, / Quaint fancies of our childhood dear. Dr. Walter Smith.

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered other things of greater value. Schopenhauer.

The all in all of faith is that we believe; of 50 knowledge, what we know, as well as how much and how well. Goethe.

The almighty dollar. Washington Irving.

The alpha and omega of Socialism is the transmutation of private competing capital into united collective capital. Schæffle.

The amateur, however weak may be his efforts at imitation, need not be discouraged,... for one advances to an idea the more surely and steadily the more accurately and precisely he considers individual objects. Only it will not do to measure one's self with artists; every one must go on in his own style. Goethe.

The ambitious are ever followed by adulation, for such alone receive most pleasure from flattery. Goldsmith.

The amount of intellect necessary to please us 5 is a most accurate measure of the amount of intellect we have ourselves. Helvetius.

The ancient Spartan custom of killing weak-bodied children is not much crueller than that of propagating weak-minded ones. Jean Paul.

The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest. Ben. Franklin.

The anger of a strong man can always bide its time. Ruskin.

The animal is capable of enjoyment, only man is capable of serenity of mind and gladness of heart. Jean Paul.

The animals look for man's intentions right 10 into his eyes. Even a rat, when you hunt him and bring him to bay, looks you in the eye. H. Powers.

The apparel oft proclaims the man. Ham., i. 3.

The apprehension and representation of what is individual is the very life of art. Goethe.

The apprehension of the good / Gives but the greater feeling to the worse. Rich. II., i. 3.

The arch-enemy is the arch-stupid. Carlyle.

The archer who overshoots the mark misses, 15 as well as he that falls short of it. Pr.

The argument all bare is of more worth / Than when it hath my added praise beside. Shakespeare.

The army is a good book to open to study human life. Alfred de Vigny.

The army is a school in which the niggardly become generous and the generous prodigal. Cervantes.

The arrows of sarcasm are barbed with contempt.... It is the sneer in the satire or the ridicule that galls or wounds. W. Gladden.

The art of exalting lowliness and giving greatness 20 to little things is one of the noblest functions of genius. Palgrave.

The art of living is like every other art; only the capacity is born with us; it must be learned and practised with incessant care. Goethe.

The art of pleasing is the art of deceiving. Vauvenargues.

The art was his to break vexations with a ready jest. Dr. W. Smith.

The art which is produced hastily will also perish hastily. Ruskin.

The artist belongs to his work, not the work 25 to the artist. Novalis.

The artist is the son of his age; but pity for him if he is its pupil, or even its favourite. Schiller.

The artist must conceive with warmth (mit Feuer) and execute with coolness. Winkelmann.

The artist stands higher than the art, higher than the object: he uses art for his own purposes, and deals with the object after his own fashion. Goethe.

The artist's vocation is to send light into the depths of the human heart. Schumann.

The arts of deceit and cunning do continually 30 grow weaker, and less effectual and serviceable to them that use them. Tillotson.

The astonishing intellect that occupies itself in splitting hairs, and not in twisting some kind of cordage and effectual draught tackle to take the road with, is not to me the most astonishing of intellects. I want twisted cordage, steady pulling, and a peaceable bass tone of voice; not split hairs, hysterical spasmodics, and treble. Carlyle.

The Atlantic Ocean beat Mrs. Partington. She was excellent at a slop or a puddle, but she should not have meddled with a tempest. Sydney Smith.

The atmosphere of moral sentiment is a region of grandeur which reduces all material magnificence to toys, yet opens to every wretch that has reason the doors of the universe. Emerson.

The attainment of a truer and truer aristocracy, or government again by the Best,—all that democracy ever meant lies there. Carlyle.

The attempt, and not the deed, / Confounds us. 35 Macb., ii. 2.

The attraction of love is in an inverse proportion to the attraction of the Newtonian philosophy. Burns.

The author is often obscure to readers because, as has been said, he proceeds from the thought to the expression, whereas they proceed from the expression to the thought. Chamfort.

The awful shadow of some unseen Power / Floats, though unseen, among us. Shelley.

The axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs and left him a withered trunk. Swift.

The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through 40 the centre of each and every town or city. Holmes.

The back of one door is the face of another. Pr.

The back-door robs the house. Pr.

The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways. Bible.

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; and the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth. Saadi.

The bad (böse) man has not only the good, but 45 also the bad against him. Bischer.

The barrenest of mortals is the sentimentalist. Carlyle.

The basest thought about man is that he has no spiritual nature; and the foolishest, that he has, or should have, no animal nature. Ruskin.

The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Emerson.

The battle of belief against unbelief is the never-ending battle. Carlyle.

The beams of joy are made hotter by reflection. Fuller.

The bearers of the thyrsus (the symbol of the Bacchus inspiration) are many, but the Bacchants (the truly inspired) are few. Gr. Pr.

The bearing and the training of a child is 5 woman's wisdom. Tennyson.

The beaten road is the safest. Pr.

The beautiful is a manifestation of secret laws of nature, which, but for its appearance, had been for ever concealed from us. Goethe.

The beautiful is higher than the good; the beautiful includes in it the good. Goethe.

The beautiful is like sunshine to the world; the beautiful lives for ever. Hans Andersen.

The beautiful rests on the foundation of the 10 necessary. Emerson.

The beggar is never out of the fashion, or limpeth awkwardly behind it. Lamb.

The beggar is not expected to become bail or surety for any one. Lamb.

The beggar is not required to put on court mourning. Lamb.

The beggar is the only free man in the universe. Lamb.

The beggar is the only man in the universe 15 who is not obliged to study appearances. Lamb.

The beggar weareth all colours, fearing none. Lamb.

The beggar's costume hath undergone less change than the Quaker's. Lamb.

The beginning, and very nearly the end, of bodily education for a girl, is to make sure that she can stand and sit upright; the ankle vertical, and firm as a marble shaft; the waist elastic as a reed, and as unfatiguable. Ruskin.

The beginning of all good law, and nearly the end of it, is that every man shall do good work for his bread, and that every man shall have good bread for his work. Ruskin.

The beginning of all temptations and wickedness 20 is the fickleness of our own minds and want of trust in God. Thomas à Kempis.

The beginning of creation (in man's soul as in Nature) is light. Till the eye have vision, the whole members are in bonds. Carlyle.

The beginning of inquiry is disease. Carlyle.

The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention before it be meddled with. Bible.

The beginning of wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes (i.e. symbols), till they become transparent. Carlyle.

The being whose strength exceeds its necessities 25 is strong; the being whose necessities exceed its strength is feeble. Rousseau.

The bell strikes one. We take no note of time / But for its loss. Young.

The belly is chains to the hands and fetters to the feet. He who is a slave to his belly seldom worships God. Saadi.

The beloved of the Almighty are the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnanimity of the rich. Saadi.

The benefactors of mankind are those who grumble to the best purpose. Grumbling has raised man from the condition of the gorilla to that of the judge on the bench of justice. John Wagstaffe.

The benevolent heart will not solicit, but command 30 our reverence and applause. Arliss.

The benevolent person is always by preference busy on the essentially bad. Carlyle.

The best advice is, Follow good advice and hold old age in highest honour. Goethe.

The best architecture is the expression of the mind of manhood by the hands of childhood. Ruskin.

The best courages are but beams of the Almighty. Mrs. Hutchinson.

The best effect of any book is that it excites 35 the reader to self-activity. Carlyle.

The best fish swim near the bottom. Pr.

The best friends in the world may differ sometimes. Sterne.

The best gifts find the fewest admirers, and most men mistake the bad for the good. Gellert.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves. Goethe.

The best independence is to have something to 40 do, and something that can be done, and done most perfectly in solitude. P. G. Hamerton.

The best is best cheap. Pr.

The best is but in season best. Allan Ramsay.

The best is not to be explained by words. Goethe.

The best laid schemes o' mice an' men / Gang aft a-gley, / And lea'e us naught but grief and pain / For promised joy. Burns.

The best loneliness is when no human eye has 45 rested on our face for a whole day. Auerbach.

The best may slip, and the most cautious fall;/ He's more than mortal that ne'er err'd at all. Pomfret.

The best mirror is an old friend. Pr.

The best of angels do not live in community, but by themselves. Swedenborg.

The best of lessons, for a good many people, would be to listen at a keyhole. It is a pity for such that the practice is dishonourable. Mme. Swetchine.

The best of men/ That e'er wore earth about 50 him was a sufferer; / A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit; / The first true gentleman that ever breathed. Decker.

The best of the sport is to do the deed and say nothing. Pr.

The best part of our knowledge is that which teaches us where knowledge leaves off and ignorance begins. Holmes.

The best path through life is the highway. Amiel.

The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature. Macaulay.

The best preservative to keep the mind in 55 health is the faithful admonition of a friend. Bacon.

The best remedy against an ill man is much ground between both. Pr.

The best rules to form a young man are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others' that deserve it. Sir W. Temple.

The best self-forgetfulness is to look at the things of the world with attention and love. Auerbach.

The best son is not enough a son. Emerson.

The best, the only correct actions are those which demand no explanation and no apology. Auerbach.

The best thing I know between France and England is the sea. Douglas Jerrold.

The best thing which we derive from history 5 is the enthusiasm which it raises in us. Goethe.

The best things are worst to come by. Walker.

The best use of money is to pay debts. Pr.

The best way to come to truth is to examine things as they really are, and not to conclude they are, as we have been taught by others to imagine. Locke.

The best way to make the audience laugh is by first laughing yourself. Goldsmith.

The best way to please one half of the world is 10 not to mind what the other half says. Goldsmith.

The best work in the world is done on the quiet. Pr.

The best work never was, nor ever will be, done for money at all. Ruskin.

The best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from unmarried or childless men, which, both in affection and means, have married and endowed the public. Bacon.

The betrayer is the murderer. Gael. Pr.

The better a man is morally, the less conscious 15 he is of his virtues. The greater the artist, the more aware he must be of his shortcomings. Froude.

The better day the better deed. Walker.

The better I know men the more I admire dogs. (?)

The better part of valour is discretion. 1 Hen. IV., v. 4.

The better you understand yourself, the less cause you will find to love yourself. Thomas à Kempis.

The Bible contains many truths as yet undiscovered. 20 Butler.

The Bible contains more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure morality, more important history, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence than can be collected from all other books, in whatever age or language they have been written. Sir William Jones.

(The Bible) contains plain teaching for men of every rank of soul and state of life, which so far as they honestly and implicitly obey, they will be happy and innocent to the utmost powers of their nature, and capable of victory over all adversities, whether of temptation or pain. Ruskin.

The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews. Heine.

The Bible of a nation, the practically credited God's message to a nation, is, beyond all else, the authentic biography of its heroic souls. This is the real record of the appearances of God in the history of a nation; this, which all men to the marrow of their bones can believe, and which teaches all men what the nature of this universe, when you go to work in it, really is. Carlyle.

The Bible tells us what Christian graces are; 25 but it is in the struggle of life that we are to find them. Beecher.

The biography of a nation embraces all its works. No trifle is to be neglected. A mouldering medal is a letter of twenty centuries. Willmott.

The bird of wisdom flies low, and seeks her food under hedges; the eagle himself would be starved if he always soared aloft and against the sun. Landor.

The birds without barn or storehouse are fed: / From them let us learn to trust for our bread. Newton.

The birth of a child is the imprisonment of a soul. Simons.

The birth of a golden deer is impossible. Hitopadesa. 30

The bishop has set his foot in it, i.e., the broth is singed. Pr. (The explanation of which, according to Grose, is: Whenever a bishop passed through a town or a village, all the inhabitants ran out to receive his blessing; this frequently caused the milk on the fire to be left till burnt.)

The biter is often bit. Pr.

The blanks as well as the prizes must be drawn in the cheating lottery of life. Le Sage.

The blast that blows loudest is soon overblown. Smollett.

The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, 35 but it often dies in the socket. Johnson.

The blessed work of helping the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men. George Eliot.

The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it. Bible.

The blind man bears the lame, and onward hies, / Made right by lending feet and borrowing eyes. Plato the Younger.

The block of granite, which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. Carlyle.

The blood more stirs / To rouse a lion than to 40 start a hare. Hen. IV., i. 3.

The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity, the rest is crime. Burke.

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church. Tertullian.

The blue-bird carries the sky on his back. Thoreau.

The blue of heaven is larger than the cloud. Mrs. Browning.

The blush is Nature's alarm at the approach of 45 sin, and her testimony to the dignity of virtue. Fuller.

The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul. Bovee.

The body of Christ is wherever human bodies are, and he who has any bitterness against his brother is always committing sacrilege. Ward Beecher.

The book of Nature is the book of Fate. Emerson.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, / With loads of learned lumber in his head. Pope.

The books which help you most are those which make you think the most. Theodore Parker.

The borrower runs in his own debt. Emerson.

The bough that is dead shall be cut away for the sake of the tree itself. Let the Conservatism that would preserve the tree, cut it away. Carlyle.

The bounds of a man's knowledge are easily concealed if he has but prudence. Goldsmith.

The boy stands astonished; his impressions 5 guide him; he learns sportfully; seriousness steals on him by surprise. Goethe.

The boy's story is the best that is ever told. Dickens.

The boy's will is the wind's will, / And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts. Lapland Pr.

The brain may devise laws for the blood; but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree. Mer. of Ven., i. 2.

The brain-women never interest us like the heart-women; white roses please less than red. Holmes.

The brave man thinks of himself last of all. 10 Schiller.

The bravest are the tenderest, / The loving are the daring. Bayard Taylor.

The breach of custom / Is breach of all. Cymbeline, iv. 2.

The breeding of a man makes him courageous by instinct, true by instinct, loving by instinct, as a dog is; and therefore, felicitously above, or below (whichever you like to call it), all questions of philosophy and divinity. Ruskin.

The British nation—and I include in it the Scottish nation—has produced a finer set of men than you will find it possible to get anywhere else in this world. Carlyle.

The bud may have a bitter taste, / But sweet 15 will be the flower. Cowper.

The buke o' May-bees is very braid. Sc. Pr.

The burden one likes is cheerfully borne. Pr.

The burning of a little straw may hide the stars of the sky; but the stars are there, and will reappear. Carlyle.

The burst of new light, by its suddenness, always appears inimical to the unprepared heart. Jean Paul.

The busiest of living agents are certain dead 20 men's thoughts. Bovee.

The calling of a man's self to a strict account is a medicine sometimes too piercing and corrosive; reading good books of morality is a little flat and dead... but the best receipt (best to work, and best to take) is the admonition of a friend. Bacon.

The camomile, the more it is trodden on, the faster it grows; yet youth, the more it is wasted, the sooner it wears. 1 Hen. IV., ii. 4.

The canary-bird sings the sweeter the longer it has been trained in a darkened cage. Jean Paul.

The cancer of jealousy on the breast can never wholly be cut out, if I am to believe great masters of the healing art. Jean Paul.

The canker galls the infants of the spring / 25 Too oft before their buttons are disclosed, / And in the morn and liquid dew of youth / Contagious blastments are most imminent. Ham., i. 3.

The capacity of apprehending what is high is very rare; and therefore, in common life a man does well to keep such things for himself, and only to give out so much as is needful to have some advantage against others. Goethe.

The captive bands may chain the hands, / But love enslaves the man. Burns.

The Carlyles were men who lavished their heart and conscience upon their work; they builded themselves, their days, their thoughts and sorrows, into their houses; they leavened the soil with the sweat of their rugged brows. John Burroughs.

The casting away things profitable for the maintenance of man's life is an unthankful abuse of the fruits of God's good providence towards mankind. Hooker.

The castle which Conservatism is set to defend 30 is the actual state of things, good and bad. Emerson.

The cat shuts its eyes when stealing the cream. Pr.

The cause which pleased the gods has in the end to please Cato also. (?)

The centuries are all lineal children of one another; and often, in the portrait of early grandfathers, this and the other enigmatic feature of the newest grandson will disclose itself, to mutual elucidation. Carlyle.

The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul. Emerson.

The certain way to be cheated is to fancy one's 35 self more cunning than others. Charron.

The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt till they are too strong to be broken. Johnson.

The champion true / Loves victory more when, dim in view, / He sees her glories gild afar / The dusky edge of stubborn war, / Than if th' untrodden bloodless field / The harvest of her laurels yield. Keble.

The change of a man's self is a very laborious undertaking. Thomas à Kempis.

The character of a nation is not to be learned from its fine folks. Scott.

The character of the person that commends 40 you is to be considered before you set a value on his esteem. The wise man applauds him whom he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world, him who is most wealthy. (?)

The character of the true philosopher is to hope all things not unreasonable. Sir John Herschel.

The characteristic mark of minds (Geister) of the first order is the directness (Unmittelbarkeit) of all their judgments. All that they bring forth (vorbringen) is the result of their own thinking. Schopenhauer.

The characteristic of a philosopher is that he looks to himself for all help or harm. Epictetus.

The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity; of Spencer, remoteness; of Milton, elevation: of Shakespeare, everything. Hazlitt.

The chariest maid is prodigal enough / If she 45 unmask her beauty to the moon. Ham., i. 1.

The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in at the window. Pr.

The charity that thinketh no evil trusts in God and trusts in man. J. G. Holland.

The chaste mind, like a polished plane, may admit foul thoughts, without receiving their tincture. Sterne.

The cheap swearer through his open sluice / Lets his soul run for nought. George Herbert.

The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy. Emerson.

The chief glory of every people arises from its 5 authors. Johnson.

The chief of all the curses of this unhappy age is the universal gabble of its fools, and of the flocks that follow them, rendering the quiet voices of the wise of all past time inaudible. Ruskin.

The chief requisites for a courtier are a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness. Lady Blessington.

The chief value and virtue of money consists in its having power over human beings; a power which is attainable by other means than by money. Ruskin.

The child is father of the man. Wordsworth.

The child is not to be educated for the present, 10 but for the remote future, and often in opposition to the immediate future. Jean Paul.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it, only disgraced. Ruskin.

The child's murmuring is more and is less than words; there are no notes, and yet it is a song; there are no syllables, and yet it is language.... This poor stammering is a compound of what the child said when it was an angel, and of what it will say when it becomes a man. Victor Hugo.

The childhood shows the man / As morning shows the day. Milton.

The children of others we never love so much as our own; error, our own child, is so near our heart. Goethe.

The choicest thing this world has for a man is 15 affection. J. G. Holland.

The Christian doctrine, that doctrine of Humility, in all senses godlike, and the parent of all godlike virtue, is not superior, or inferior, or equal to any doctrine of Socrates or Thales, being of a totally different nature; differing from these as a perfect ideal poem does from a correct computation in arithmetic. Carlyle.

The Christian religion having once appeared, cannot again vanish; having once assumed its divine shape, can be subject to no dissolution. Goethe.

The Christian religion is an inspiration and life—God's life breathed into a man and breathed through a man. J. G. Holland.

The Christian religion is especially remarkable, as it so decidedly lays claim to mere goodwill in man, to his essential temper, and values this independently of all culture and manifestation. It stands in opposition to science and art, and properly to enjoyment. Novalis.

The Christian religion, often enough dismembered 20 and scattered abroad, will ever in the end again gather itself together at the foot of the cross. Goethe.

The Christian religion, once here, cannot again pass away; in one or the other form, it will endure through all time. As in Scripture, so also in the heart of man, it is written, "The gates of hell shall not prevail against it." Carlyle.

The Christianity that cannot get on without a minimum of four thousand five hundred, will give place to something better that can. Carlyle.

The Church is a mere organisation to help a man to fulfil his duties; it is not the source from whence those duties sprung. Ward Beecher.

The Church is the working recognised union of those who by wise teaching guide the souls of men. Carlyle.

The Church! Touching the earth with one 25 small point (the event, viz., at Bethlehem of the year one); springing out of one small seed-grain, rising out therefrom, ever higher, ever broader, high as the heaven itself, broad till it overshadow the whole visible heaven and earth, and no star can be seen but through it. From such a seed-grain so has it grown; planted in the reverences and sacred opulences of the soul of mankind; fed continually by all the noblenesses of forty generations of man. The world-tree of the nations for so long! Carlyle.

The Churchmen fain would kill their Church, / As the Churches have killed their Christ. Tennyson.

The circle of noble-minded people is the most precious of all that I have won. Goethe.

The city does not take away, neither does the country give, solitude: solitude is within us. Joseph Roux.

The city is recruited from the country. Emerson.

The civil guest / Will no more talk all, than 30 eat all the feast. George Herbert.

The civilised man lives not in wheeled houses. He builds stone castles, plants lands, makes life-long marriage contracts; has long-dated, hundred-fold possessions, not to be valued in the money-market; has pedigrees, libraries, law-codes; has memories and hopes, even for this earth, that reach over thousands of years. Carlyle.

The civilised nation consists broadly of mob, money-collecting machine, and capitalist; and when the mob wishes to spend money for any purpose, it sets its money-collecting machine to borrow the money it needs from the capitalist, who lends it on condition of taxing the mob generation after generation. Ruskin.

The civilised savage (Wilde) is the worst of all savages. C. J. Weber.

The Classical is healthy, the Romantic sickly. Goethe.

The clergy are at present divided into three 35 sections: an immense body who are ignorant; a small proportion who know and are silent; and a minute minority who know and speak according to their knowledge. Huxley.

The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, / The solemn temples, the great globe itself, / Yea, all that it inherit, shall dissolve; / And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, / Leave not a rack behind. Tempest, iv. 1.

The cloud incense of the altar hides / The true form of the God who there abides. Dr. W. Smith.

The clouds never pass against the wind. Hitopadesa.

The clouds that gather round the setting sun / Do take a sober colouring from an eye / That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality. Wordsworth.

The clouds that wrap the setting sun /... Why, as we watch their floating wreath, / Seem they the breath of life to breathe? / To Fancy's eye their motions prove / They mantle round the sun for love. Keble.

The clouds treat the sea as if it were a mill-pond 5 or a spring-run, too insignificant to make any exceptions to. John Burroughs.

The cock, that is the trumpet of the morn, / Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat / Awake the god of day. Ham., i. 1.

The coin that is most current among mankind is flattery; the only benefit of which is that by hearing what we are not we may be instructed what we ought to be. (?)

The combined arts appear to me like a family of sisters, of whom the greater part were inclined to good company, but one was light-headed, and desirous to appropriate and squander the whole goods and chattels of the household—the theatre is this wasteful sister. Goethe.

The comic and the tragic lie close together, inseparable, like light and shadow. Socrates.

The command "thou shalt" is in all circumstances 10 a hard one, unless it is softened down by the adjunct "for that which 'thou shalt' is just the same as that which rationally thou also willest." Lindner.

The commencement of atonement is / The sense of its necessity. Byron.

The common crowd but see the gloom / Of wayward deeds and fitting doom; / The close observer can espy / A noble soul and lineage high. Byron.

The common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words. Swift.

The common "keeping up appearances" of society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain. Ruskin.

The company of fools may at first make us 15 smile, but at last never fails of rendering us melancholy. Goldsmith.

The complete poet must have a heart in his brain or a brain in his heart. George Darley.

The complete spiritualisation of the animal element in nature is the task of our species. Amiel.

The conceived is never food save to the mind that conceives. Schiller.

The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear. Burke.

The condition of the great body of the people in 20 a country is the condition of the country itself. Carlyle.

The condition of the most fascinated (bezaubertsten) enthusiast is to be preferred to him who, from sheer fear of error, dares in the end no longer to affirm or deny. Wieland.

The conditions necessary for the arts of men are the best for their souls and bodies. Ruskin.

The confidant of my vices is my master, though he were my valet. Goethe.

The conflict of the old, the existent, and the persistent, with development, improvement, and transfigurment is always the same. Out of every arrangement arises at last pedantry; to get rid of this latter the former is destroyed, and some time must elapse before we become aware that order must be re-established. Goethe.

The conscience is the inviolable asylum of the 25 liberty of man. Napoleon.

The conscience is the most elastic material in the world. To-day you cannot stretch it over a mole-hill, to-morrow it hides a mountain. Bulwer Lytton.

The conscience of the man who is given over to his passions is like the voice of the shipwrecked mariner overwhelmed by the tempest. Joseph Roux.

The conscious utterance of thought by speech or action, to any end, is art. Emerson.

The conscious water saw its god and blushed. Dryden, on the water into wine at Cana.

The consolation which is derived from truth, 30 if any there be, is solid and durable; that which may be derived from error must be, like its original, fallacious and fugitive. Johnson.

The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Napoleon.

The contingent facts of history can never become the proof of the truths of reason. Lessing.

The conversation of a friend is a powerful alleviator of the fatigue of walking. Dr. Andrew Combe.

The core will come to the surface. Emerson.

The cormorant Oblivion swallows up / The 35 carcases that Time has made his prey. Crowe.

The corpse is not the whole animal; there is still something that appertains to it, still a corner-stone, and in this case, as in every other, a very chief corner-stone—life, the spirit that makes everything beautiful. Goethe.

The counsel thou wouldst have another keep, first keep thyself. Pr.

The country where the entire people is, or even once has been, laid hold of, filled to the heart with an infinite religious idea, has "made a step from which it cannot retrograde." Carlyle.

The courage (Muth) of truth is the first condition of philosophic study. Hegel.

The courage that dares only die is on the 40 whole no sublime affair.... The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully. Carlyle.

The course of nature is the art of God. Young.

The course of Nature's phases, on this our little fraction of a planet, is partially known to us; but who knows what deeper courses these depend on; what infinitely larger cycle (of causes) our little epicycle revolves on? Carlyle.

The course of prayer who knows? Keble.

The course of scoundrelism, any more than that of true love, never did run smooth. Carlyle.

The course of true love never did run smooth. Mid. N.'s Dream, i. 1.

The court does not render a man contented, but it prevents his being so elsewhere. La Bruyère.

The court is like a palace of marble; it is composed of people very hard and very polished. La Bruyère.

The court, nor cart, I like, nor loathe; / Extremes are counted worst of all: / The golden mean betwixt them both / Doth surest sit, and fears no fall. Old ballad.

The court of the past differs from all living 5 aristocracy in this; it is open to labour and to merit, but to nothing else. Ruskin.

The covetous man heaps up riches, not to enjoy them, but to have them. Tillotson.

The covetous man never has money, and the prodigal will have none shortly. Johnson.

The coxcomb is a fool of parts, a flatterer, a knave of parts. Steele.

The craftiest wiles are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart. Lavater.

The crafty man is always in danger; and 10 when he thinks he walks in the dark, all his pretences are so transparent, that he that runs may read them. Tillotson.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn; and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man. Emerson.

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals, never to the age. Goethe.

The creed of the true saint is to make the best of life, and make the most of it. Chapin.

The crickets sing, and man's o'er-laboured sense / Repairs itself by rest. Cymbeline, ii. 2.

The cross is the invincible sanctuary of the 15 humble. Cass.

The cross of Christ is the key of Paradise; the weak man's staff; the convert's convoy; the upright man's perfection; the soul and body's health; the prevention of all evil, and the procurer of all good. Damascen.

The cross was the fitting close of a life of rejection, scorn, and defeat. W. H. Thomson.

The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark / When neither is attended, and I think / The nightingale, if she should sing by day, / when every goose is cackling, would be thought / No better a musician than the wren. Mer. of Venice, v. 1.

The crowd... if they find / Some stain or blemish in a name of note, / Not grieving that their greatest are so small, / Inflate themselves with some insane delight, / And judge all Nature from her feet of clay, / Without the will to lift their eyes, and see / Her godlike head crown'd with spiritual fire / And touching other worlds. Tennyson.

The cruelty of the affectionate is more dreadful 20 than that of the hardy. Lavater.

The cry of the God-forsaken is from the heart of God himself. Ed.

The cuffs and thumps with which fate, our lady-loves, our friends and foes, put us to the proof, in the mind of a good and resolute man, vanish into air. Goethe.

The cunning workman never doth refuse / The meanest tool that he may chance to use. George Herbert.

The cup of life which God offers to our lips is not always sweet;... but, sweet or bitter, it is ours to drink it without murmur or demur. W. R. Greg.

The cups that cheer, but not inebriate. Cowper. 25

The cure for false theology is mother wit. Emerson.

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, / The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, / The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, / And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Gray.

The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge. Apocrypha.

The curious unthrift makes his clothes too wide, / And spares himself, but would his tailor chide. George Herbert.

The current that with gentle murmur glides, / 30 Thou know'st, being stopp'd, impatiently doth rage. Two Gent. of Ver., ii. 7.

The curtains of yesterday drop down, the curtains of to-morrow roll up; but yesterday and to-morrow both are. Pierce into the Time-element, glance into the Eternal. Carlyle.

The cut (of the vesture) betokens intellect and talent, so does the colour betoken temper and heart. Carlyle.

The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. Ward Beecher.

The danger of dangers is illusion. Emerson.

The danger past and God forgotten. Pr. 35

The dark in soul see in the universe their own shadow; the shattered spirit can only reflect external beauty, in form as untrue and broken as itself. Binney.

The darkest day, live till to-morrow, will have passed away. Cowper.

The darkest hour is nearest the dawn. Pr.

The day is longer than the brae; we'll be at the top yet. Gael. Pr.

The day of days... is the day on which the 40 inward eye opens to the unity of things, to the omnipresence of law—sees that what is must be, and ought to be, or is the best. Emerson.

The day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self. Dickens.

The days are too short even for love, how can there ever be time for quarrelling? Mrs. Gatty.

The dead do not need us; but for ever and for evermore we need them. Garfield.

The dead letter of religion must own itself dead, and drop piecemeal into dust, if the living spirit of religion, freed from its charnel-house, is to arise on us, new born of Heaven, and with new healing under its wings. Carlyle.

The decline of literature indicates the decline 45 of the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency. Goethe.

The deeper the sorrow, the less tongue hath it. Talmud.

The deity works in the living, not in the dead; in the becoming and the changing, not in the become and the fixed. Goethe.

The delight of the destroyer and denier is no pure delight, and must soon pass away. Carlyle.

The democrat is a young conservative; the conservative is an old democrat. Emerson.

The demonic in music stands so high that no understanding can reach it, and an influence flows from it which masters all, and for which none can account. Goethe.

The demonic is that which cannot be explained by reason or understanding, which is not in one's nature, yet to which it is subject. Goethe.

The dependant is timid. Gael. Pr. 5

The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope. Carlyle.

The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul. Bible.

The desire of a man is his kindness: and a poor man is better than a liar. Bible.

The desire of perfection is the worst disease that ever afflicted the human mind. Fontanes.

The desire of power in excess caused the 10 angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall; but in charity there is no excess, neither can man or angel come in danger by it. Bacon.

The desire of the moth for the star, / Of the night for the morrow, / The devotion to something afar / From the sphere of our sorrow. Shelley.

The desire of the slothful killeth him; for his hands refuse to labour. Bible.

The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinions of its young men under five-and-twenty. Goethe.

The destruction of the poor is their poverty. Bible.

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose! / 15 An evil soul producing holy witness / Is like a villain with a smiling cheek, / A goodly apple rotten at the heart. Mer. of Ven., i. 3.

The devil has a great advantage against us, inasmuch as he has a strong bastion and bulwark against us in our own flesh and blood. Luther.

The devil has his elect. Carlyle.

The devil hath power / To assume a pleasing shape. Ham., ii. 2.

The devil helps his servants for a season; but when they come once to a pinch, he leaves 'em in the lurch. L'Estrange.

The devil is a busy bishop in his own diocese. 20 Bishop Latimer.

The devil is an ass. Pr.

The devil is an unfortunate who knows not what it is to love. St. Theresa.

The devil is God's ape. Luther.

The devil knew not what he did when he made man politic; he crossed himself by it. Tim. of Athens, iii. 3.

The devil lurks behind the cross. Pr. 25

The devil may get in by the keyhole, but the door won't let him out. Pr.

The devil taketh not lightly unto his working such as he findeth occupied in good works. St. Jerome.

The devil tempts all other men, but idle men tempt the devil. Arab. Pr.

The devil tempts us not—'tis we tempt him, / Beckoning his skill with opportunity. George Eliot.

The devil was sick, the devil a monk would 30 be; / The devil was well, the devil a monk was he. Rabelais.

The dewdrop and the star shine sisterly, / Globing together in the common work. Sir Edwin Arnold.

The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods... which all experience refutes. History teems with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not suppressed for ever, it may be thrown back for centuries. J. S. Mill.

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great Conscious; the immeasurably great Unconscious. Carlyle.

The difference between the great celebrities and the unknown nobodies is this, the former failed and went at it again, the latter gave up in despair. Anon.

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend as 35 to find a friend worth dying for. Henry Home.

The difficulty is to teach the multitude that something can be both true and untrue at the same time. Schopenhauer.

The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting. Ben Jonson.

The dilettante takes the obscure for the profound, violence for vigour, the indefinite for the infinite, and the senseless for the supersensuous. Schiller.

The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord. Jesus.

The discovery of what is true, and the practice 40 of that which is good, are the two most important objects of philosophy. Voltaire.

The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. Bible.

The disease of the mind leading to fatalist ruin is the concentration of man upon himself, whether his heavenly interests or his worldly interests, matters not; it is their being his own interests which makes the regard of them mortal. Ruskin.

The disease which afflicts bureaucratic governments, and which they usually die of, is routine. J. S. Mill.

The disease with which the human mind now labours is want of faith. Emerson.

The dispute about religion and the practice of 45 it seldom go together. Young.

The disputes of two of equal strength and fortune are worthy of attention; but not of two, the one great, the other humble. Hitopadesa.

The dissection of a sentence is as bad a way to the understanding of it, as the dissection of a beast to the biography of it. Ruskin.

The distances of nations are measured, not by seas, but by ignorances; and their divisions determined, not by dialects, but by enmities. Ruskin.

The distant landscape draws not nigh / For all our gazing. Keble.

The distant sounds of music, that catch new 50 sweetness as they vibrate through the long-drawn valley, are not more pleasing to the ear than the tidings of a far-distant friend. Goldsmith.

The distinction between man and nature is, that man is a being becoming, and nature a being become. Rückert.

The distinctive character of a child is to live always in the tangible present. Ruskin.

The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price and be bought for it. Ruskin.

The distinguishing trait of people accustomed to good society is a calm, imperturbable quiet, which pervades all their actions and habits. Bulwer Lytton.

The Divine mind is as visible in its full energy 5 of operation on every lowly bank and mouldering stone, as in the lifting of the pillars of heaven, and setting the foundations of the earth. Ruskin.

The divine power of the love, of which we cease not to sing and speak, is this, that it reproduces every moment the grand qualities of the beloved object, perfect in the smallest parts, embraced in the whole; it rests not either by day or by night, is ravished with its own work, wonders at its own stirring activity, finds the well-known always new, because it is every moment begotten anew in the sweetest of all occupations. In fact the image of the beloved one cannot become old, for every moment is the hour of its birth. Goethe.

The divine state, "par excellence," is silence and repose. Amiel.

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind, the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity. Schopenhauer.

The dog that fetches will carry. Pr.

The dog that starts the hare is as good as the 10 one that catches it. Ger. Pr.

The dog, to gain his private ends, / Went mad, and bit the man. Goldsmith.

The dome of St. Peter's is great, yet is it but a foolish chip of an egg-shell compared with that star-fretted dome where Arcturus and Orion glance for ever, which latter, notwithstanding, no one looks at—because the architect was not a man. Carlyle.

The dome of thought, the palace of the soul. Byron.

The donkey means one thing and the driver another. Pr.

The doom of the old has long been pronounced 15 and irrevocable; the old has passed away; but, alas! the new appears not in its stead; the time is still in pangs of travail with the new. Man has walked by the light of conflagrations, and amid the sound of falling cities; and now there is darkness, and long watching till it be morning. Carlyle in 1831.

The door must either be shut or it must be open. I must either be natural or unnatural. Goldsmith.

The dove found no rest for the sole of her foot. Bible.

The dread of censure is the death of genius. Simms.

The dread of something after death, / The undiscover'd country, from whose bourn / No traveller returns, puzzles the will; / And makes us rather bear those ills we have / Than fly to others that we know not of. Ham., iii. 1.

The dreamer is a madman quiescent, the 20 madman is a dreamer in action. F. H. Hedge.

The dregs may stir themselves as they please; they fall back to the bottom by their own coarseness. Joubert.

The dress of words, / Like to the Roman girl's enticing garb, / Should let the play of limb be seen through it, / And the round rising form. Bailey.

The drunkard forfeits man, and doth divest / All worldly right, save what he hath by beast. George Herbert.

The dry light is ever the best. Heraclitus.

The drying up a single tear has more / Of 25 honest fame than shedding seas of gore. Byron.

The dullest John Bull cannot with perfect complacency adore himself, except under the figure of Britannia or the British Lion. Byron.

The dust of controversy is but the falsehood flying off. Carlyle.

The dwarf behind his steam-engine may remove mountains, but no dwarf will hew them down with the pickaxe; and he must be a Titan that hurls them abroad with his arms. Carlyle.

The eagle suffers little birds to sing. Tit. Andron., iv. 4.

The earth hath bubbles, as the water has, / 30 And these are of them. Macb., i. 3.

The earth is our workshop. We may not curse it; we are bound to sanctify it. Mazzini.

The earth is sown with pleasures, as the heavens are studded with stars, wherever the conditions of existence are unsophisticated. W. R. Greg.

The earth must supply man with the necessaries of life before he has leisure or inclination to pursue more refined enjoyments. Goldsmith.

The earth, that's Nature's mother, is her tomb. Rom. and Jul., ii. 3.

The earthen pot must keep clear of the brass 35 kettle. Pr.

The ebb'd man, ne'er loved till ne'er worth love, / Comes dear'd by being lack'd. Ant. and Cleop., i. 4.

The echo of the nest-life, the voice of our modest, fairer, holier soul, is audible only in a sorrow-darkened bosom, as the nightingales warble when one veils their cage. Jean Paul.

The effect of good music is not caused by its novelty; on the contrary, it strikes us more the more familiar we are with it. Goethe.

The effect of righteousness (shall be) quietness and assurance for ever. Bible.

The effect of violent animosities between 40 parties has always been an indifference to the general welfare and honour of the state. Macaulay.

The efforts of him who contendeth with one stronger than himself are as feeble as the exertions of an insect's wings. Hitopadesa.

The elect are whosoever will, and the non-elect whosoever won't. Ward Beecher.

The electric telegraph will never be a substitute for the face of a man, with his soul in it, encouraging another man to be brave and true. Dickens.

The element of water moistens the earth, but blood flies upwards and bedews the heavens. John Webster.

The elements of poetry lie in natural objects, in the vicissitudes of human life, in the emotions of the human heart, and the relations of man to man. Bryant.

The emphasis of facts and persons has nothing to do with time. Emerson.

The empire of woman is an empire of softness, 5 of address, of complacency. Her commands are caresses, her menaces are tears. Rousseau.

The empty vessel makes the greatest sound. Hen. V., iv. 4.

The end crowns all, / And that old common arbitrator, Time, / Will one day end it. Troil. and Cress., iv. 5.

The end of all opposition is negation, and negation is nothing. Goethe.

The end of all right education of a woman is to make her love her home better than any other place; that she should as seldom leave it as a queen her queendom; nor ever feel entirely at rest but within its threshold. Ruskin.

The end of doubt is the beginning of repose. 10 Petrarch.

The end of labour is to gain leisure. Arist.

The end of man is an action, not a thought, though it were the noblest. Carlyle.

The end of man is at no moment a pleasure, but a performance; and life always and only the continual fulfilment of a worthy purpose with a will. Ed.

The end we aim at must be known before the way. Jean Paul.

The enemy is more easily repulsed if we never 15 suffer him to get within us, but, upon the very first approach, draw up our forces and fight him without the gate. Thomas à Kempis.

"The English," says Bishop Sprat, "have too much bravery to be derided, and too much virtue and honour to mock others." Goldsmith.

The ennobling difference between one man and another—between one animal and another—is precisely this, that one feels more than another. Ruskin.

The entire grace, happiness, and virtue of (a young man's) life depend on his contentment in doing what he can dutifully, and in staying where he is peaceably. Ruskin.

The entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy the right things. Ruskin.

The entire system of things gets represented 20 in every particle. Emerson.

The entire vitality of art depends upon its having for object either to state a true thing or adorn a serviceable one. Ruskin.

The envied have a brilliant fate; / Pity is given where griefs are great. Palladas.

The envious man waxeth lean with the fatness of his neighbours. Socrates.

The envious will die, but envy never. Molière.

The errors of a great mind are more edifying 25 than the truths of a little. Börne.

The errors of a wise man are literally more instructive than the truths of a fool. For the wise man travels in lofty, far-seeing regions; the fool in low-lying, high-fenced lanes; retracing the footsteps of the former, to discover where he deviated, whole provinces of the universe are laid open to us; in the path of the latter, granting even that he have not deviated at all, little is laid open to us but two wheel-ruts and two hedges. Carlyle.

The errors of a wise man make your rule / Rather than the perfections of a fool. Wm. Blake.

The errors of woman spring almost always from her faith in the good or her confidence in the true. Balzac.

The errors of young men are the ruin of business; but the errors of aged men amount to but this, that more might have been done, or sooner. Bacon.

The essence of a lie is in deception, not in 30 words. Ruskin.

The essence of affectation is that it be assumed; the character is, as it were, forcibly crushed into some foreign mould, in the hope of being thereby re-shaped and beautified; and the unhappy man persuades himself he has become a new creature of wonderful symmetry, though every movement betrays not symmetry, but dislocation. Carlyle.

The essence of all government among good men is this, that it is mainly occupied in the production and recognition of human worth, and in the detection and extinction of human unworthiness. Ruskin.

The essence of all immorality, of sin, is the making self the centre to which we subordinate all other beings and interests. J. C. Sharp.

The essence of all religion that was, and that will be, is to make men free. Carlyle.

The essence of all vulgarity lies in want of 35 sensation. Ruskin.

The essence of an aristocracy is to transfer the source of honour from the living to the dead, to make the merits of living men depend not so much upon their own character and actions as upon the actions and position of their ancestors. H. Lecky.

The essence of aphorism is the compression of a mass of thought and observation into a single saying. John Morley.

The essence of faith lies in this, a deep sense and conviction that in what we do, though it were single-handed, with all men standing aloof, and even saying nay to it, we have God and all his universe at our back. Ed.

The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust. Emerson.

The essence of greatness is the perception 40 that virtue is enough. Poverty is its ornament. It does not need plenty, and can very well abide its loss. Emerson.

The essence of humour is sensibility, warm, tender, fellow-feeling with all forms of existence; and unless seasoned and purified by humour, sensibility is apt to run wild, will readily corrupt into disease, falsehood, or, in one word, sentimentality. Carlyle.

The essence of justice is mercy. (?)

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance. Confucius.

The essence of poetry is will and passion. Hazlitt.

The essence of true nobility is neglect of self. Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of a great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower. Froude.

The essence of wealth consists in its authority over men; if (therefore) the apparent or nominal wealth fail in this power, it fails in essence; in fact, ceases to be wealth at all. And since the essence of wealth consists in power over men, will it not follow that the nobler and the more in number the persons are over whom it has power, the greater the wealth. Ruskin.

The essence or peculiarity of man is to comprehend a whole. Emerson.

The essential thing for all creatures is to be 5 made to do right. Ruskin.

The Eternal is no simulacrum; God is not only there, but here or nowhere,—in that life-breath of thine, in that act and thought of thine,—and thou wert wise to look to it. Carlyle.

The eternal stars shine out again, as soon as it is dark enough. Carlyle.

The eternity, before the world and after, is without our reach; but that little spot of ground which lies betwixt those two great oceans, this we are to cultivate. Burnet.

The even and cheerful temper makes us pleasing to ourselves, to those with whom we converse, and to Him whom we were made to please. Addison.

The even-flow of constant cheerfulness 10 strengthens; while great excitements, driving us with fierce speed, both wreck the ship and end often in explosions. Ward Beecher.

The evening brings a' hame. Sc. Pr.

The evil that goeth out of thy mouth flieth into thy bosom. Pr.

The evil that men do lives after them; / The good is oft interréd with their bones. Jul. Cæs., viii. 2.

The evil wound is cured, but not the evil name. Pr.

The ewe that will not hear her lamb when it 15 baes, will never answer a calf when it bleats. Much Ado, iii. 3.

The exacting a grateful acknowledgment is demanding a debt by which the creditor is not advantaged and the debtor pays with reluctance. Goldsmith.

The example of good men is visible philosophy. Pr.

The excellent is rarely found, more rarely valued. Goethe.

The exception proves the rule. Pr.

The excesses of our youth are draughts upon 20 our age, payable with interest about thirty years after date. Colton.

The expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever. Bible.

The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet. Emerson.

The experience of suffering has been declared on the highest authority to be necessary to every poet who would touch the hearts of his fellow-creatures. C. Fitzhugh.

The express schoolmaster is not equal to much at present, while the unexpress, for good or for evil, is so busy with a poor little fellow. Carlyle.

The eye by which I see God is the same eye 25 by which he sees me. Scheffler.

The eye is easily daunted. Emerson.

The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. Bible.

The eye is the best of artists. Emerson.

The eye is the mirror of the soul. Pr.

The eye is the only note-book of the true poet. 30 Lowell.

The eye is the window of the soul; even an animal looks for a man's intentions right into his eyes. H. Powers.

The eye—it cannot choose but see; / We cannot bid the ear be still; / Our bodies feel, where'er they be, / Against or with our will. Wordsworth.

The eye of a critic is often like a microscope, made so very fine and nice, that it discovers the atoms, grains, and minutest particles, without ever comprehending the whole, comparing the parts, or seeing all at once the harmony. (?)

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands. Ben. Franklin.

The eye repeats every day the first eulogy on 35 things: "He saw that they were very good." Emerson.

The eye sees in all things what it brings with it the faculty of seeing. Goethe.

The eye sees not itself, / But by reflection, by some other things. Jul. Cæs., i. 2.

The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it. Bible.

The eye that sees all things else sees not itself. Pr.

The eyes being in the highest part, hold the 40 post of sentinels. Cic.

The eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I would want neither fine clothes, fine houses, nor fine furniture. Ben. Franklin.

The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good. Bible.

The face is the index of the mind. Pr.

The face of man gives us fuller and more interesting information than his tongue; for his face is the compendium of all he will ever say, as it is the one record of all he has thought and endeavoured. Schopenhauer.

The faculty for remembering is not diminished 45 in proportion to what one has learnt, just as little as the number of moulds in which you cast sand lessens its capacity for being cast in new moulds. Schopenhauer.

The faculty of art is to change events; the faculty of science is to foresee them. The phenomena with which we deal are controlled by art; they are predicted by science. Buckle.

The faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated. Luther.

The failings of good men are commonly more published in the world than their good deeds; and one fault of a deserving man shall meet with more reproaches than all his virtues praise; such is the force of ill-will and ill-nature. (?)

The faint, exquisite music of a dream. Moore.

The fair maid who, the first of May, / Goes to the fields at break of day, / And washes in dew from the hawthorn tree, / Will ever after handsome be. Pr.

The fair point of the line of beauty is the line of love. Strength and weakness stand on either side of it. Love is the point in which they unite. Goethe.

The fairest action of our human life is scorning to avenge an injury. Lady E. Carew.

The fairest tulip's not the sweetest flower. 5 Quarles.

The faith in an Invisible, Unnameable, Godlike, present everywhere in all we see and work and suffer, is the essence of all faith whatsoever; and that once denied, or, still worse, asserted with lips only, and out of bound prayer-books only, what other thing remains credible? Carlyle.

The faith of a hearer must be extremely perplexed who considers the speaker, or believes that the speaker considers himself as under no obligation to adhere to truth, but according to the particular importance of what he relates. Paley.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith. Emerson.

The faithful servant is a humble friend. Pr.

The fall from the (Christian) faith, and all the 10 corruptions of its abortive practice, may be summed up briefly as the habitual contemplation of Christ's death instead of his life, and the substitution of his past suffering for our present duty. Ruskin.

The falling out of faithful friends is the renewing of love. Pr.

The family is the proper province for private women to shine in. Addison.

The family virtues are indispensable to the proper continuance of a society. Renan.

The fashion doth wear out more apparel than the man. Much Ado, iii. 3.

The fashion of this world passeth away. St. 15 Paul.

The fatal man, is he not always the unthinking, the man who cannot think and see? Carlyle.

The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful, is the cause of half their errors. A contemporary author has well spoken of "the deep slumber of a decided opinion." J. S. Mill.

The fatal trait (of the times) is the divorce between religion and morality. Emerson.

The fate of a man of feeling is, like that of a tuft of flowers, twofold; he may either mount upon the head of all, or go to decay in the wilderness. Hitopadesa.

The fate of empires depends upon the education 20 of youth. Arist.

The fated will happen. Gael. Pr.

The fates but only spin the coarser clue; / The finest of the wool is left for you. Dryden.

The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge. Bible Pr.

The faults of the superior man are like the eclipses of the sun and moon. He has his faults, and all men see them; he changes, and all men look up to him. Confucius.

The fear o' hell's the hangman's whip, / To 25 haud the wretch in order; / But when ye feel yer honour grip, / Let that be aye yer border. Burns.

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding. Bible.

The fear of the Lord is the fountain of life. Bible.

The fear of the Lord is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate. Bible.

The fear of the Lord tendeth to life: and he that hath it shall abide satisfied. Bible.

The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself. 30 Carlyle.

The feast of reason and the flow of soul. Pope.

The feelings, like flowers and butterflies, last longer the later they are delayed. Jean Paul.

The female heart is just like a new india-rubber shoe; you may pull and pull at it till it stretches out a yard long; and then let go, and it will fly right back to its old shape. Judge Haliburton.

The fetters of the slave bind the hands only. Grillparzer.

The fewer our wants, the nearer we resemble 35 the gods. Socrates.

The fibres of all things have their tension, and are strained like the strings of a lyre. Thoreau.

The field cannot be well seen from within the field. The astronomer must have his diameter of the earth's orbit as a base to fix the parallax of any other star. Emerson.

The finding of your able man, and getting him invested with the symbols of ability, is the business, well or ill accomplished, of all social procedure whatsoever in the world. Carlyle.

The finer the nature, the more flaws it will show through the clearness of it; and it is a law of this universe that the best things shall be seldomest seen in their best form. Ruskin.

The finest composition of human nature, as 40 well as the finest china, may have a flaw in it, and this in either case is equally incurable. Fielding.

The finest language is chiefly made up of unimposing words. George Eliot.

The finest lives, in my opinion, are those who rank in the common model and with the human race, but without miracle, without extravagance. Montaigne.

The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest. Pope.

The finest nations in the world—the English and the American—are going all away into wind and tongue. Carlyle.

The finest qualities of our nature, like the 45 bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling; yet we do not treat ourselves or one another thus tenderly. Thoreau.

The fire in the flint shows not till it's struck. Pr.

The fire that all things else consumeth clean / May hurt and heal. Sir Thomas Wyatt.

The fire that does not warm me shall never scorch me. Pr.

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes. Amiel.

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that. Bailey.

The first approach to riches is security from poverty. Johnson.

The first article that a young trader offers for 5 sale is his honesty. Pr.

The first, as indeed the last, nobility of education is in the rule over our thoughts. Ruskin.

The first breath / Is the beginning of death. Pr.

The first business of the philosopher is to part with self-conceit. Epictetus.

The first condition of education is being put to wholesome and useful work. Ruskin.

The first condition of goodness is something to 10 love; the second, something to reverence. George Eliot.

The first creation of God in the works of the days was the light of the sense; the last was the light of the reason; and his Sabbath-work ever since is the illumination of the spirit. Bacon.

The first day a man is a guest, the second a burden, the third a pest. Laboulaye.

The first days of spring have less grace than the growing virtue of a young man. Vauvenargues.

The first duty of a man is that of subduing fear; he must get rid of fear; he cannot act at all till then; his acts are slavish, not true. Carlyle.

The first duty of every man in the world is to 15 find his true master, and, for his own good, submit to him; and to find his true inferior, and, for that inferior's good, conquer him. Ruskin.

The first evil those suffer who are fain to talk is that they hear nothing. Plutarch.

The first faults are theirs that commit them, / The second are theirs that permit them. Pr.

The first forty years of life furnish the text, the remaining thirty the commentary. Schopenhauer. (?)

The first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good-humour, and the fourth for mine enemies. Sir W. Temple.

The first glass of a wine is the one which gives 20 us its true taste. Schopenhauer.

The first great work / Is that yourself may to yourself be true. Roscommon.

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day. Ward Beecher.

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humour, and the fourth wit. Sir W. Temple.

The first lesson of life is one of vicarious suffering. Ward Beecher.

The first lesson of literature, no less than of 25 life, is the learning how to burn one's own smoke. Lowell.

"The first love, which is infinite," can be followed by no second like it. Carlyle.

The first of the nine orders of knaves is he that tells his errand before he goes it. Pr.

The first period of a nation, as of an individual, is the period of unconscious strength. Emerson.

The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true. Lactantius.

The first power of a nation consists in knowing 30 how to guide the plough; its second power consists in knowing how to wear the fetter. Ruskin.

The first principle of all human economy—individual or political—is to live with as few wants as possible, and to waste nothing of what is given us to supply them. Ruskin.

The first problem (in life) is to unite yourself with some one and with somewhat. Carlyle.

The first proof of a man's incapacity for anything is his endeavouring to fix the stigma of failure upon others. B. R. Haydon.

The first requisite, both in conversation and correspondence, is to attend to all the proper decorums which our own character and that of others demand. Blair.

The first sigh of love is the last of wisdom. 35 Antoine Bret.

The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's, that of self-conceit. Carlyle.

The first spiritual want of a barbarous man is decoration, as indeed we still see among the barbarous classes in civilised countries. Carlyle.

The first step towards greatness is to be honest. Pr.

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. I do not mean by humility, doubt of his power or hesitation in speaking his opinions; but a right understanding of the relation between what he can say and do, and the rest of the world's sayings and doings. Ruskin.

The first thing for acceptance of truth is to 40 unlearn human doctrines and become as a little child. General Gordon.

The first thing in oratory, Demosthenes used to say, was action; the second, action; and the third, action.

The first use of education is to enable us to consult with the wisest and the greatest men on all points of earnest difficulty. Ruskin.

The first wealth is health. Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve any one; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fulness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighbourhoods and creeks of other men's necessities. Emerson.

The first year let your house to your enemy; the second to your friend; the third, live in it yourself. Pr.

The fittest place where man can die / Is where 45 he dies for man. M. J. Barry.

The flesh-bound volume is the only revelation (of God) that is, that was, or that can be. In that is the image of God painted; in that is the law of God written; in that is the promise of God revealed. Ruskin.

The flighty purpose never is o'ertook, / Unless the deed go with it. Macb., iv. 1.

The floating vapour is just as true an illustration of the law of gravity as the falling avalanche. John Burroughs.

The flower is the proper object of the seed, not the seed of the flower. Ruskin.

The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly. Wordsworth.

The flower of youth never appears more beautiful than when it bends towards the Sun of Righteousness. Matthew Henry.

The flute is sweet / To gods and men, but sweeter the lyre / And voice of a true singer. Lewis Morris.

The follies of modern Liberalism are practically summed up in the denial or neglect of the quality and intrinsic value of things. Ruskin.

The folly of all follies / Is to be love-sick for 5 a shadow. Tennyson.

The folly of others is ever most ridiculous to those who are themselves most foolish. Goldsmith.

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. As You Like It, v. 1.

The fool is always discovered if he stayeth too long; like the ass dressed in a tiger's skin, from his voice. Hitopadesa.

The fool is in himself the object of pity till he is flattered. Steele.

The fool needs company, the wise man solitude. 10 Rückert.

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion. Lowell.

The foot of the owner is the best manure for his land. Pr.

The force of the guinea in your pocket depends on the default of a guinea in your neighbour's. Ruskin.

The form of government can never be a matter of choice; it is almost always a matter of necessity. Joubert.

The formation of his character ought to be 15 the chief aim of every man. Goethe.

The fortitude of a Christian consists in patience. Dryden.

The fortune which nobody sees makes a man happy and unenvied. Bacon.

The foul slime stands for the sloth and vice of man, the decay of humanity; the fragrant flower that springs from it, for the purity and courage which are immortal. Thoreau.

The foundations of man are not in matter, but in spirit. Emerson.

The fountain which from Helicon proceeds, / 20 That sacred stream, should never water weeds. Wall.

The fox puts off all with a jest. L'Estrange.

The fox thrives best when he is most curst. Pr.

The fraction of life can be increased in value not so much by increasing your numerator as by lessening your denominator. Nay, unless my algebra deceives me, unity itself divided by zero will give infinity. Carlyle.

The free man is he who is loyal to the laws of this universe; who in his heart sees and knows that injustice cannot befall him here; that, except by sloth and cowardly falsity, evil is not possible here. Carlyle.

The (French) Revolution was a revolt against lies, and against a betrayal of love. Ruskin. 25

The fresh air of the open country is the proper place to which we belong. It is as if the breath of God were there wafted immediately to men, and a divine power exerted its influence. Goethe.

The fresh gaze of a child is richer in significance than the forecasting of the most indubitable seer. Novalis.

The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, / Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel. Ham., i. 3.

The frost is God's plough, which he drives through every inch of ground, opening each clod and pulverising the whole. Fuller.

The fruit of friendship, in opening the understanding, 30 is not restrained only to such friends as are able to give counsel (they indeed are best), but even without that a man learneth of himself, and bringeth his own thoughts to light, and whetteth his wits as against a stone, which itself cuts not. Bacon.

The fruit of life is experience, not happiness, and its fruition to accustom ourselves, and to be content, to exchange hope for insight. Schopenhauer.

The fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace. St. James.

The fruit that's yellow / Is found not always mellow. Quarles.

The full moon brings fair weather. Pr.

The full soul loatheth a honeycomb; but to 35 the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet. Bible.

The furiously wicked have but a short career. Bad for them, but good for the universe. Spurgeon.

The future comes on slowly, the present flies like an arrow, the past stands for ever still. Schiller.

The future destiny of the child is always the work of the mother. Napoleon.

The future epic of the world rests not with those near dead, but with those that are alive, and those that are coming into life. Carlyle.

The future hides in it / Gladness and sorrow; / 40 We press still thoro'; / Nought that abides in it / Daunting us—onward; / But solemn before us, / Veiled the dark portal, / Goal of all mortal. / Stars silent rest o'er us—/ Graves under us, silent. Goethe.

The gain of lying is nothing else but not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we say the truth. Sir Walter Raleigh.

The game is not worth the candle. Corn.

The gardener's business is to tend the flowers and root out the weeds. Bodenstedt.

The general and perpetual voice of men is as the sentence of God himself. Hooker.

The general tendency of things throughout 45 the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind. J. S. Mill.

The generality never suspect the devil even when he has them by the throat. Goethe.

The generous, who is always just, and the just who is always generous, may, unannounced, approach the throne of Heaven. Lavater.

The genius of light is friendly to the noble, and, in the dark, brings them friends from afar. Emerson.

The genius, wit, and spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs. Bacon.

The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known. 50 Spenser.

The genuine use of gunpowder I hold to be that it makes all men alike tall. Carlyle.

The germs of all things are in every heart. Amiel.

The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death. Bible.

The gift blindeth the wise and perverteth the words of the righteous. Bible.

The gift of prayer is not always in our power, 5 but in the eye of Heaven the very wish to pray is prayer. Lessing.

The gift which is to be given should be given gratuitously. Hitopadesa.

The gifted man is he who sees the essential point and leaves aside all the rest as surplusage. Carlyle.

The glass of fashion and the mould of form, / The observed of all observers. Ham., iii. 1.

The glory dies not, and the grief is past. Sir Egerton Brydges.

The glory is not in never falling, but in rising 10 every time you fall. Bovee.

The glory of a people and of an age is always the work of a small number of great men, and disappears with them. Baron de Grimm.

The glory of children are their fathers. Bible.

The glory of philosophy lies not in solving the problem, but in putting it. Renan.

The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the grey head. Bible.

The God of merely traditional believers is 15 the great Absentee of the universe. W. R. Alger.

The god of this world is riches, pleasure, and pride. Luther.

The God who dwells in my bosom can stir my heart to its depths. Goethe.

The goddess Athene is armed with the Gorgon's head. Ed.

The gods approve the depth, and not the tumult, of the soul. Wordsworth.

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices / 20 Make instruments to scourge us. King Lear, v. 3.

The gods are long-suffering; but the law from the beginning was, He that will not work shall perish from the earth; and the patience of the gods has limits. Carlyle.

The gods are on the side of the strongest. Emerson.

The gods are wont to save by human means. Goethe.

The gods do not avenge on the son the misdeeds of the father. Each or good or bad reaps the due reward of his own actions. Parents' blessing, not their curse, is inherited. Goethe.

The gods hearken to him who hearkens to 25 them. Homer.

The gods in charity oft lend their strength to man. Schiller.

The gods invariably make us pay dear for the great benefits they confer on us. Corn.

The gods of fable are the shining moments of great men. Emerson.

The gods sell all things at a fair price. Ancient Pr.

The gods sell to us all the goods which they 30 give us. Epicharmus.

The gods, when they appear to man, are commonly unrecognised by them. Goethe.

The golden age hath passed away, / Only the good have power to bring it back. Goethe.

The golden age, that lovely prime, / Existed in the past no more than now. / And did it e'er exist, believe me, / As then it was, it now may be restored. Still meet congenial spirits, and enhance / Each other's pleasures in this beauteous world. Goethe.

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. George Eliot.

The good are always ready to be the upholders 35 of the good in their misfortunes. Elephants even are wont to bear the burthens of elephants who have sunk in the mire. Hitopadesa.

The good are better made by ill, / As odours crushed are sweeter still. Rogers.

The good die first, / And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust / Burn to the socket. Wordsworth.

The good-for-nothing is he who cannot command and cannot even obey. Goethe.

The good is always beautiful, the beautiful is good. Whittier.

The good mother saith not, "Will you?" but 40 gives. Pr.

The good nature of the dog is not discouraged, although it often brings upon him only rebuffs; the abusive treatment of man never offends him, because he loves man. Renan.

The good need little water, but the base / Free from their guilt not ocean's self can lave. Pythian oracle.

The good of other times let others state; / I think it lucky I was born so late. Sydney Smith.

The good old rule / Sufficeth them, the simple plan, / That they should take who have the power, / And they should keep who can. Wordsworth.

The good that passes by without returning, 45 leaves behind it an impression that may be compared to a void, and is felt like a want. Goethe.

The good, the new, comes exactly from that quarter whence it is not looked for, and is always something different from what is expected. Feuerbach.

The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired. Bacon, from Seneca.

The good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing. (?)

The goods of this world cannot be divided without being lessened; but why be a niggard of that which bestows bliss on a fellow-creature, yet takes nothing from our own means of enjoyment? Burns.

The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to 50 lay where there are eggs already. Spurgeon.

The gospel is at once the assigner of our tasks and the magazine of our strength. Decay of Piety.

The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man. Emerson.

The governing class, who should be working at an ark of deliverance for themselves and us while the hours still are, do nothing but complain, "We cannot get our hands kept rightly warm," and sit obstinately burning the planks. Carlyle.

The government must always be a step in advance of the popular movement. Count Arnim-Boytzenburg.

The government of England is a government of law. Junius.

The gown is hers that wears it, and the world is his who enjoys it. Pr.

The graceful minuet-dance of fancy must give 5 place to the toilsome, thorny pilgrimage of understanding. Carlyle on the transition from the age of romance to that of science.

The grand encourager of Delphic and other noises is the echo. Carlyle.

"The grapes are sour," said the fox when he could not reach them. Pr.

The gravest events dawn with no more noise than the morning star makes in rising. All great developments complete themselves in the world, and modestly wait in silence, praising themselves never, and announcing themselves not at all. We must be sensitive and sensible if we would see the beginnings and endings of great things. That is our part. Ward Beecher.

The great agent of the march of the world is pain, the unsatisfied being that craves for development and is ill at ease in the process. Renan.

The great and rich depend on those whom 10 their power or their wealth attaches to them. Rogers.

The great art of ruling consists for most part in persuading the people to believe that whatever happens happens through us. Cötvös.

The great artist is the slave of his ideal. Bovee.

The great cause of revolutions is this: that, while nations move onward, constitutions stand still. Macaulay.

The great distinction between mediæval art and modern is, that the former was brought into the service of religion and the latter is not. Ruskin.

The great doers in history have always been 15 men of faith. Chapin.

The great duty of life is not to give pain; and the most acute reasoner cannot find an excuse for one who voluntarily wounds the heart of a fellow-creature. Fredrika Bremer.

The great error of our nature is, not to know where to stop, not to be satisfied with any reasonable acquirement, not to compound with our condition; but to lose all we have gained by an insatiable pursuit after more. Burke.

The great event for the world is, now as always, the arrival in it of a new wise man. Carlyle.

The great facts are the near ones. Emerson.

The great felicity of life is to be without perturbation. 20 Sen.

The great hope of society is individual character. Channing.

The great make us feel, first of all, the indifference of circumstances. Emerson.

The great man does, in good truth, belong to his own age; nay, more so than any other man; being properly the synopsis and epitome of such age with its interests and influences; but belongs likewise to all ages, otherwise he is not great. Carlyle.

The great man goes ahead of his time, the prudent (kluge) man goes with it, the crafty man makes his own out of it, and the blockhead sets himself against it. Bauernfeld.

The great man has more of human nature than 25 other men organised in him. Theodore Parker.

The great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. Emerson.

The great mass of people have eyes and ears, but not much more, especially little power of judgment, and even memory. Schopenhauer.

The great modern recipe is to work, still to work, and always to work. Gambetta.

The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes, a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lips, though they cannot speak. Thackeray.

The great point is not to pull down, but to 30 build up, and in this humanity finds pure joy. Goethe.

The great portion of labour is not skilled; the millions are and must be skilless, where strength alone is wanted. Carlyle.

The great principle of all effort is to endeavour to do, not what is absolutely best, but what is easily within our power, and adapted to our temper and condition. Ruskin.

The great river-courses which have shaped the lives of men have hardly changed. George Eliot.

The great role of moral conduct is, next to God, to respect time. Lavater.

The great school for learning is the brain itself 35 of the learner. Carlyle.

The great soul of the world is just. There is justice here below; at bottom there is nothing else but justice. Carlyle.

The great soul that sits on the throne of the universe is not, never was, and never will be, in a hurry. J. G. Holland.

The great source of calamity lies in regret or anticipation; he therefore is most wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or the future. Goldsmith.

The great spirits that have gone before us can survive only as disembodied voices. Carlyle.

The great successes of the world have been 40 affairs of a second, a third, nay, a fiftieth trial. John Morley.

The great thieves punish the little ones. Pr.

The great thing, after all, is only Forwards. Goethe.

The great world-revolutions send in their disturbing billows to the remotest creek, and the overthrow of thrones more slowly overturns also the households of the lowly. Carlyle.

The greater and more various any one's knowledge, the longer he takes to find out anything that may suddenly be asked him; because he is like a shopkeeper who has to get the article wanted from a large and multifarious store. Schopenhauer.

The greater height sends down the deeper fall: / And good declin'd turns bad, turns worst of all. Quarles.

The greater man the greater courtesy. Tennyson.

The greater proportion of mankind are more sensitive to contemptuous language than unjust acts; for they can less easily bear insult than wrong. Plutarch.

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received at first with distrust. Schopenhauer.

The greatest benefit which one friend can 5 confer upon another, is to guard, and excite, and elevate his virtues. Johnson.

The greatest braggards are generally the greatest cowards. Rousseau.

The greatest clerkes (scholars) ben not the wisest men. Chaucer.

The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them. Goethe.

The greatest events of an age are its best thoughts. It is the nature of thought to find its way into action. Bovee.

The greatest expense we can be at is that of 10 our time. Pr.

The greatest felicity that felicity hath is to spread. Hooker.

The greatest flood hath the soonest ebb; the sorest tempest the most sudden calm; the hottest love the coldest end; and from the deepest desire oftentimes ensues the deadliest hate. Socrates.

The greatest genius is the most indebted man. Emerson.

The greatest happiness of the greatest number. Priestley.

The greatest hatred, like the greatest virtue 15 and the worst dogs, is quiet. Jean Paul.

The greatest man in history was the poorest. Emerson.

The greatest man is ever a son of man (Menschenkind). Goethe.

The greatest man living may stand in need of the meanest as much as the meanest does of him. Fuller.

The greatest men even want much more of the sympathy which every honest fellow can give than that which the great only can impart. Thoreau.

The greatest men of a nation are those whom 20 it puts to death. Renan.

The greatest men of any age, those who become its leaders when there is a great march to be begun, are separated from the average intellects of their day by a distance which is immeasurable in ordinary terms of wonder. Ruskin.

The greatest men, whether poets or historians, live entirely in their own age, and the greatest faults of their works are gathered out of their own age. Ruskin.

The greatest men will be necessarily those who possess the best capacities, cultivated with the best habits. James Harris.

The greatest miracle of love is to eradicate flirtation. La Roche.

The greatest misfortune of all is not to be able 25 to bear misfortune. Bias.

The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is a still greater, which is the good man that comes to relieve it. Goldsmith.

The greatest of all economists are the fortifying virtues, which the wisest men of all time have arranged under the general heads of Prudence, or Discretion, the spirit which discerns and adopts rightly; Justice, the spirit which rules and divides rightly; Fortitude, the spirit which persists and endures rightly; and Temperance, the spirit which stops and refuses rightly. Ruskin.

The greatest of all injustice is that which goes under the name of law. L'Estrange.

The greatest of all perversities is to deny one's own nature and act contrary to its innate moral principle. Sophocles.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be 30 conscious of none. Carlyle.

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other advantage. Schopenhauer.

The greatest of heroic deeds are those which are performed within four walls and in domestic privacy. Jean Paul.

The greatest ornament of an illustrious life is modesty and humility, which go a great way in the character even of the most exalted princes. Napoleon.

The greatest part of mankind labour under one delirium or another. Fielding.

The greatest prayer is patience. Buddha. 35

The greatest skill is shown in disguising our skill. La Roche.

The greatest scholars are not always the wisest men. Pr.

The greatest star is that at the little end of the telescope,—the star that is looking, not looked after, nor looked at. Theo. Parker.

The greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between sincere people. Emerson.

The greatest truths are commonly the simplest. 40 Malesherbes.

The greatest truths are the simplest; and so are the greatest men. Hare.

The greatest vessel hath but its measure. Pr.

The greatest virtues of men are only splendid sins. Augustine. (?)

The Greeks and Romans are the only ancients who never become old. Weber.

The Greeks cared for man only, and for the 45 rest of the universe little or not at all; the moderns for the universe only, and man not at all. Ruskin.

The Greeks were the first to exalt spirit to lordship over nature; it was Christ who first taught us what that spirit is in itself. Ed.

The grey mare is the better horse. Pr.

The grief that does not speak / Whispers the o'er-fraught heart, and bids it break. Macb., iv. 3.

The grief which all hearts share grows less for one. Sir Edwin Arnold.

The groundsel speaks not save what it heard 50 at the hinges. Pr.

The guilty mind debases the great image that it wears, and levels us with brutes. (?)

The habit and power of reading with reflection, comprehension, and memory all alert and awake, does not come at once to the natural man any more than many other sovereign virtues. John Morley.

The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand a year. Johnson.

The habit of lying, when once formed, is easily extended to serve the designs of malice or interest; like all habits, it spreads indeed of itself. Paley.

The habit of party in England is not to ask the alliance of a man of genius, but to follow the guidance of a man of character. Lord John Russell.

The hand of little employment hath the daintier 5 sense. Ham., v. 1.

The hand that gives, gathers. Pr.

The Hand that hath made you fair hath made you good; the goodness that is cheap in beauty makes beauty brief in goodness; but grace, being the soul of your complexion, should keep the body of it ever fair. Meas. for Meas., iii. 1.

The happiest of men were he who, understanding his craft and working intelligently with his hands, and earning competence and freedom by the exercise of his wits, found time to live by the heart and by the brain, to understand his own work, and to love the work of God. Mme. George Sand.

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions,—the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasant thought and feeling. Coleridge.

The happiness of man depends on no creed 10 and no book; it depends on the dominion of truth, which is the redeemer and saviour, the Messiah and the King of glory. Rabbi Wise.

The happiness of the human race is one of the designs of God, but our own individual happiness must not be made our first or our direct aim. W. R. Greg.

The happiness we owe to ourselves is greater than that which we owe to our surroundings. Metrodorus.

The happy day will come when mind, heart and hands shall be alive together, and shall work in concert; when there shall be a harmony between God's munificence and man's delight in it. Mme. George Sand.

The happy have whole days, and those they choose; / The unhappy have but hours, and those they lose. Colley Cibber.

The happy man is he who distinguishes the 15 boundary between desires and delight, and stands firmly on the higher ground. Landor.

The happy think a lifetime a short stage: / One night to the unhappy seems an age. Lucian.

The hardest step is over the threshold. Pr.

The hardships or misfortunes we lie under are more easy to us than those of any other person would be, should we change conditions with him. Hor.

The hare leaps out of the bush where we least look for her. Sp. Pr.

The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers 20 are few. Jesus.

The hatred which is grafted on extinguished friendship must bring forth the most deadly fruits. Lessing.

The head cannot understand any work of art unless it be in company with the heart. Goethe.

The head is a half, a fraction, until it is enlarged and inspired by the moral sentiments. Emerson.

The head learns new things, but the heart for evermore practises old experiences. Ward Beecher.

The head only reproduces what the heart 25 creates; and so we give the mocking-bird credit when he imitates the loving murmurs of the dove. G. J. W. Melville.

The health of a state consists simply in this, that in it those who are wisest shall also be strongest. Ruskin.

The healthy know not of their health, but only the sick. Carlyle.

The healthy man is the compliment of the seasons, and in winter summer is in his heart. There is the south! Thoreau.

The healthy understanding is not the logical argumentative, but the intuitive; for the end of understanding is not to prove and find reasons, but to know and believe. Carlyle.

The heart always sees before the head can 30 see. Carlyle.

The heart aye's the part aye / That mak's us right or wrang. Burns.

The heart benevolent and kind / The most resembles God. Burns.

The heart can ne'er a transport know / That never feels a pain. Lyttelton.

The heart has eyes that the brain knows nothing of. C. H. Parkhurst.

The heart has its arguments with which the 35 understanding is not acquainted. (?)

The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it. Hugo de Anima.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it? Bible.

The heart is like a millstone, which gives meat if you supply it with corn, but frets itself if you don't. C. J. Weber.

The heart is like a musical instrument of many strings, all the chords of which require putting in harmony. Saadi.

The heart is like the sea, is subject to storms, 40 ebb-tide and flood, and in its depths is many a precious pearl. Heine.

The heart is the best logician. Wendell Phillips.

The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy. Bible.

The heart must be beaten or bruised, and then the sweet scent will come out. Bunyan.

The heart must be divorced from its idols. (?)

The heart must glow before the tongue can 45 gild. W. R. Alger.

The heart needs not for its heaven much space, nor many stars therein, if only the star of love has arisen. Jean Paul.

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart. Pr.

The heart of a wise man should resemble a mirror, which reflects every object without being sullied by any. Confucius.

The heart of childhood is all mirth. Keble.

The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of reproof if the archer can but take a proper aim. Goldsmith.

The heart of man is the place the devils dwell 5 in. Sir Thomas Browne.

The heart of the righteous studieth to answer; but the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things. Bible.

The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth. Bible.

The heart sees farther than the head. Pr.

The heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touched by the thorns. Moore.

The heart that once truly loves never forgets. 10 Pr.

The heart, unlike the fancy and the imagination, is not complex, and may be reached by the same weapons of thought in the most luxurious court of Christendom as in the tent of the Arab or the wigwam of the Cherokee. C. Fitzhugh.

The heart which truly loves puts not its love aside... but grows stronger for that which seeks to thwart it. Lewis Morris.

The heart will break, yet brokenly live on. Byron.

The hearts of men are their books, events are their tutors, great actions are their eloquence. Macaulay.

The heavenly powers never go out of their 15 road. Emerson.

The heavens and the earth, and all that is between them, think ye we have created them in jest? Koran.

The heavens and the earth are but the time-vesture of the Eternal. Carlyle.

The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth his handiwork. Bible.

The heavenward path which a great man opens up for us and traverses generally, like the track of a ship through the water, closes behind him on his decease. Goethe.

The heaviest head of corn hangs its head 20 lowest. Gael. Pr.

The heavy and the weary weight / Of all this unintelligible world. Wordsworth.

The Hebrew Bible, is it not, before all things, true, as no other book ever was or will be? Carlyle.

The height charms us, the steps to it do not; with the summit in our eye, we love to walk along the plain. Goethe.

The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age we live in. La Roche.

The heights by great men reached and kept / 25 Were not attained by sudden flight, / But they, while their companions slept, / Were toiling upward in the night. Longfellow.

The hell of these days is the infinite terror of Not getting on, especially of Not making money. Carlyle.

The hen of our neighbour appears to us as a goose. Eastern Pr.

The herd of people dread sound understanding more than anything; they ought to dread stupidity, if they knew what was really dreadful. Understanding is unpleasant, they must have it pushed aside; stupidity is but pernicious, they can let it stay. Goethe.

The heroes of literary history have been no less remarkable for what they have suffered than for what they have achieved. Johnson.

The heroic heart, the seeing eye, of the first 30 times, still feels and sees in us of the latest. Carlyle.

The higher character a person supports, the more he should regard his minutest actions. Not traceable.

The higher enthusiasm of man's nature is for the while without exponent; yet does it continue indestructible, unweariedly active, and work blindly in the great chaotic deep. Thus sect after sect, and church after church, bodies itself forth, and melts again into new metamorphosis. Carlyle.

The higher the culture, the more honourable the work. Roscher

The higher the wisdom, the closer its neighbourhood and kinship with mere insanity. Carlyle.

The higher we rise, the more isolated we 35 become, and all elevations are cold. De Boufflers.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout man. Prof. Blackie.

The highest elevation attainable by man is a heroic life. Schopenhauer.

The highest exercise of invention has nothing to do with fiction; but is an invention of new truth, what we can call a revelation. Carlyle.

The highest genius never flowers in satire, but culminates in sympathy with that which is best in human nature, and appeals to it. Chapin.

The highest gift which we receive from God 40 and Nature is Life, the revolving movement, which knows neither pause nor rest, of the self-conscious being round itself. The instinct to protect and cherish life is indestructibly innate in every one, but the peculiarity of it ever remains a mystery to us and others. Goethe.

The highest happiness of us mortals is to execute what we consider right and good; to be really masters of the means conducive to our aims. Goethe.

The highest heaven of wisdom is alike near from every point, and thou must find it, if at all, by methods native to thyself alone. Emerson.

The highest in God's esteem are meanest in their own. Thomas à Kempis.

The highest joys spring from those possessions which are common to all, which we can neither alienate ourselves nor be deprived of by others, to which kind Nature has given all an equal right—a right which she herself guards with silent omnipotence. Goethe.

The highest liberty is in harmony with the eternal laws. H. Giles.

The highest man of us is born brother to his contemporaries; struggle as he may, there is no escaping the family likeness. Carlyle.

The highest melody dwells only in silence—the sphere melody, the melody of health. Carlyle.

The Highest not merely has, but is, reason and understanding. Goethe.

The highest political watchword is not Liberty, 5 Equality, Fraternity, nor yet Solidarity, but Service. A. H. Clough.

The highest price a man can pay for a thing is to ask for it. Pr.

The highest problem of every art is, by means of appearances, to produce the illusion of a loftier reality. Goethe.

The highest problem of literature is the writing of a Bible. Novalis.

The highest reach of a news-writer is an empty reasoning on policy, and vain conjectures on the public management. La Bruyère.

The highest thing that art can do is to set 10 before you the true image of the presence of a noble human being. It has never done more than this, and it might not do less. Ruskin.

The highest virtue of the tropics is chastity; of colder regions, temperance. Bovee.

The highest wisdom is not to be always wise. M. Opiz.

The highway of the upright is to depart from evil. Bible.

The hind that would be mated by the lion / Must die for love. All's Well, i. 1.

The historian is a prophet with his face directed 15 to the past. Fr. v. Schlegel.

The history of a man is his character. Goethe.

The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it. We lose the right of complaining sometimes by forbearing it, but we often treble the force. Sterne.

The history of every man should be a Bible. Novalis.

The history of persecution is a history of endeavours to cheat Nature, to make water run uphill, to twist a rope of sand. It makes no difference whether the actors be many or one, a tyrant or a mob. Emerson.

The history of reforms is always identical; it 20 is the comparison of the idea with the fact. Emerson.

The history of the Church is a history of the invisible as well as of the visible Church; which latter, if disjoined from the former, is but a vacant edifice; gilded, it may be, and overhung with old votive gifts, yet useless, nay, pestilentially unclean; to write whose history is less important than to forward its downfall. Carlyle.

The history of the world is nothing but the history of successful or unsuccessful grumbling; operating in great things as in small,... inculcating through all of them the great moral, that it is not good for a man to be contented with evils that he can remove. John Wagstaffe.

The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness. Bible.

The hollow sea-shell which for years hath stood / On dusty shelves, when held against the ear / Proclaims its stormy parent. Eugene Lee-Hamilton.

The Holy Supper is kept indeed / In whatso 25 we share with another's need; / Not what we give, but what we share, / For the gift without the giver is bare. Lowell.

The honest heart that's free frae a' / Intended fraud or guile, / However Fortune kick the ba', / Has aye some cause to smile. Burns.

The honest man does that from duty which the man of honour does for the sake of character. (?)

The honest man, though e'er so poor, / Is king o' men for a' that. Burns.

The honourablest part of talk is to give the occasion; and again to moderate and pass to somewhat else, for then a man leads the dance. Bacon.

The horse is prepared against the day of battle: 30 but safety is of the Lord. Bible.

The horse thinks one thing, and he that rides him another. Pr.

The host should be indeed a host, and a lord of the land, a self-appointed brother of his race; called to this place, besides, by all the winds of heaven and his good genius, as truly as the preacher is called to preach. Thoreau.

The hottest love has the coldest end. Socrates.

The hour of all windbags does arrive; every windbag is at length ripped and collapses. Carlyle.

The hours should be instructed by the ages, 35 and the ages explained by the hours. Emerson.

The hours that we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with fruition. Goldsmith.

The house of the childless is empty; and so is the heart of him that hath no wife. Hitopadesa.

The house that is a-building looks not as the house that is built. Pr.

The household is the home of the man as well as of the child. Emerson.

The human creature needs first of all to be 40 educated, not that he may speak, but that he may have something weighty and valuable to say. Carlyle.

The human face is my landscape. Sir Joshua Reynolds.

The human heart has a sigh lonelier than the cry of the bittern. W. R. Alger.

The human heart is like a millstone in a mill; when you put wheat under it, it turns, and grinds, and bruises the wheat into flour; if you put no wheat in, it still grinds on; but then it is itself it grinds and slowly wears away. Luther.

The human heart is like heaven; the more angels the more room. Fredrika Bremer.

The human mind cannot go beyond the gift 45 of God. Wm. Blake.

The human mind, in proportion as it is deprived of external resources, sedulously labours to find within itself the means of happiness, learns to rely with confidence on its own exertions, and gains with greater certainty the power of being happy. Zimmermann.

The human mind is to be treated like a skein of ravelled silk, where you must cautiously secure one free end before you can make any progress in disentangling it. Scott.

The human mind will not be confined to any limits. Goethe.

The human race is in the best condition when it has the greatest degree of liberty. Dante.

The human soul is like a bird that is born in a cage. Nothing can deprive it of its natural longings, or obliterate the mysterious remembrance of its heritage. Epes Sargent.

The human voice has an authority and an 5 insinuating property which writing lacks. Joubert.

The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits. St. Paul.

The hypocrite shows well and says well, and himself is the worst thing he hath. Bishop Hall.

The idea you have once spoken, if even it were an idea, is no longer yours; it is gone from you, so much life and virtue is gone, and the vital circulations of yourself and your destiny and activity are henceforth deprived of it. Carlyle.

The Ideal always has to grow in the Real, and to seek out its bed and board there in a very sorry way. Carlyle.

The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never 10 located. Mme. de Sévigné.

The ideal of beauty is simplicity and repose; from which it follows that no youth can be a master. Goethe.

The ideal of friendship is to feel as one while remaining two. Mme. Swetchine.

The idle always have a mind to do something. Vauvenargues.

The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes. Ward Beecher.

The ignorant peasant without fault is greater 15 than the philosopher with many. Goldsmith.

The Iliad and the Shakespeare are tame to him who hears the rude but homely incidents of the road from every traveller. Thoreau.

The "Iliad" of Homer is no fiction, but a ballad history, the heart of it burning with enthusiastic, ill-informed belief. Carlyle.

The ill that's wisely feared is half withstood, / And fear of bad is the best foil to good. Quarles.

The image of God cut in ebony, i.e., the negro. Fuller.

The imagination, give it the least license, dives 20 deeper and soars higher than Nature does. Thoreau.

The imagination is a fine faculty; yet I like not when she works on what has actually happened; the airy forms she creates are welcome as things of their own kind; but uniting with reality she produces often nothing but monsters, and seems to me, in such cases, to fly into direct variance with reason and common-sense. Goethe.

The imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth. Bible.

The imaginative power always purifies, the want of it therefore essentially defiles. Ruskin.

The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power. Emerson.

The importunities and perplexities of business 25 are softness and luxury, compared with the incessant cravings of vacancy, and the unsatisfactory expedients of idleness. Johnson.

The impressions of our childhood abide with us, even in their minutest traces. Goethe.

The indignation which makes verses is, properly speaking, an inverted love; the love of some right, some worth, some goodness, belonging to ourselves or others, which has been injured, and which this tempestuous feeling issues forth to defend and revenge. Carlyle.

The individual and the race are always moving, and as we drift into new latitudes new lights open in the heaven more immediately over us. Chapin.

The individual loves and hatreds, which sum up existence and life, are the brood of Eros; for hatred is only love in some form, crossed and thwarted, and always in nature so much hostility, so much affection of some kind is there. Ed.

The individual soul should seek for an intimate 30 union with the soul of the universe. Novalis.

The infant / Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms. / And then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel, / And shining morning face, creeping like snail / Unwillingly to school. As You Like It, ii. 7.

The infinite is more sure than any other fact. The infinite of terror, of hope, of pity; did it not at any moment disclose itself to thee, indubitable, unnameable? Came it never, like the gleam of preternatural eternal oceans, like the voice of old eternities, far-sounding through thy heart of hearts? Carlyle.

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great. Voltaire.

The influence which we exercise over other objects depends on the influence we have over ourselves. Cötvös.

The injuries of life, if rightly improved, will be 35 to us as the strokes of the statuary on his marble, forming us to a more beautiful shape, and making us fitter to adorn the heavenly temple. Mather.

The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public. Junius.

The ingratitude of the world can never deprive us of the conscious happiness of having acted with humanity ourselves. Goldsmith.

The initial virtue of the race consists in the acknowledgment of their own lowly nature, and submission to the laws of higher being. Ruskin.

The ink of the scholar and the blood of the martyr are of equal value in the eye of heaven. The Koran.

The innocent seldom find an uneasy pillow. 40 Cowper.

The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it; the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it; and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature. Bacon.

The insolence of condescension. Burns.

The insolence of office. Ham., iii. 1.

The inspiration of the Almighty giveth man understanding. Bible.

The instinctive feeling of a great people is often wiser than the wisest men. Kossuth.

The instruction merely clever men can give us is like baked bread, savoury and satisfying for a single day; but flour cannot be sown, and seed-corn ought not to be ground. Goethe.

The integrity of the upright shall guide them. Bible.

The intellect has only one failing: it has no conscience. Lowell.

The intellect of the wise is like glass; it 5 admits the light of heaven and reflects it. Hare.

The intellectual power, through words and things / Went sounding on a dim and perilous way. Wordsworth.

The intelligent have a right over the ignorant; namely, the right of instructing them. Emerson.

The intolerant man is the real pedant. Jean Paul.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. Emerson.

The inventor of a spinning-jenny is pretty sure 10 of his reward in his own day; but the writer of a true poem, like the apostle of a true religion, is nearly as sure of the contrary. Carlyle.

The invisible world is near us; or rather it is here, in us and about us; were the fleshly coil removed from our soul, the glories of the unseen were even now around us; as the ancients fabled of the spheral music. Carlyle.

The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve. Mid. N. Dream, v. 1.

The irreligious poet is a monster. Burns.

The is of this moment is not the explanation of the is of the next. Except in the idea of God there is no nexus between the two. Ed.

The Israelitish people never was good for 15 much, as its own leaders, judges, rulers, prophets have a thousand times reproachfully declared; it possesses few virtues, and most of the faults of other nations; but in cohesion, steadfastness, valour, and when all this would not serve, in obstinate toughness, it has no match. Goethe.

The jealous is possessed by a "fine mad devil" and a dull spirit at once. Lavater.

The jealous man's disease is of so malignant a nature, that it converts all it takes into its own nourishment. Addison.

The jest which is expected is already destroyed. Johnson.

The joy of a peaceful conscience is sown in tears. Thomas à Kempis.

The joys of parents are secret, and so are 20 their griefs and fears. Bacon.

The judgment is like a pair of scales, and evidences like the weights; but the will holds the balance in its hand; and even a slight jerk will be sufficient, in many cases, to make the lighter scale appear the heavier. Whately.

The judgment of the world stands upon matter of fortune. Sir P. Sidney.

The judgments of the understanding are properly of force but once, and that in the strictest cases, and become inaccurate in some degree when applied to any other. Goethe.

The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him. Bible.

The justice, / In fair round belly with good 25 capon lined, / With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, / Full of wise saws and modern instances; / And so he plays his part. As You Like It, ii. 7.

The keeping of bees is like the directing of sunbeams. Thoreau.

The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys. Emerson.

The kind fool, of all kinds of fools, is worst. Sir Richard Baker.

The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him. Carlyle.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as 30 he would. Sp. Pr.

The king, like other people, has now and then shabby errands, and must have shabby fellows to do them. Scott.

The king may gang the cadger's gate, i.e., may one day need his help. Sc. Pr.

The king protecteth the people, and they support the greatness of their sovereign. But protection is better than greatness; for the one cannot exist without the other. Hitopadesa.

The king's errand may come in at the cadger's gate. Pr.

The king's favour is toward a wise servant. 35 Bible.

The king's honour is that of his people. Their real honour and real interest are the same. Junius.

The kings of modern thought are dumb. Matthew Arnold.

The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass. Bible.

The kingdom of God does not lie in elegance of speech or fineness of parts, but in innocence of life and good works. Thomas à Kempis.

The knowledge of man is an evening knowledge, 40 "vespertina cognitio," but that of God is a morning knowledge, "matutina cognitio." Emerson, from the Schoolmen.

The knowledge of thyself will preserve thee from vanity. Cervantes.

The labour we delight in physics pain. Macb., ii. 3.

The labourer is worthy of his hire. Jesus.

The lake's silver dulls with driving clouds. Sir Edwin Arnold.

The lamp of genius burns quicker than the 45 lamp of life. Schiller.

The lamp of the wicked shall be put out. Bible.

The land is mother of us all; nourishes, shelters, gladdens, lovingly enriches us all; in how many ways, from our first wakening to our last sleep on her blessed mother-bosom, does she, as with blessed mother's arms, enfold us all! Carlyle.

The land, properly speaking, belongs to these two: to the Almighty God; and to all his children of men that have ever worked well on it, or that shall ever work well on it. Carlyle.

The language of truth is simple. Euripides.

The largest soul of any country is altogether its own. Ruskin.

The last act crowns the play. Quarles.

The last, best fruit which comes to late perfection, even in the kindliest soul, is tenderness toward the hard, forbearance toward the unforbearing, warmth of heart toward the cold, philanthropy toward the misanthropic. Jean Paul.

The last drop makes the cup run over. Pr.

The last ounce breaks the camel's back. Pr. 5

The last pale rim or sickle of the moon, which had once been full, now sinking in the dark seas. Carlyle by the bedside of his dying mother.

The last perfection of our faculties is that their activity, without ceasing to be sure and earnest, become sport. Schiller.

The last stage of human perversion is when sympathy corrupts itself into envy; and the indestructible interest we take in men's doings has become a joy over their faults and misfortunes. Carlyle.

The last thing that we discover in writing a book is to know what to put at the beginning. Pascal.

The Latin word for a flatterer (assentator) implies 10 no more than a person that barely consents; and indeed such a one, if a man were able to purchase or maintain him, cannot be bought too dear. Steele.

The latter part of a wise man's life is taken up in curing the follies, prejudices, and false opinions he had contracted in the former. Swift.

The law always limits every power which it bestows. Hume.

The law cannot equalise men in spite of nature. Vauvenargues.

The law has no eyes, the law has no hands, the law is nothing—nothing but a piece of paper, till public opinion breathes the breath of life into the dead letter. Macaulay.

The law is good if a man use it lawfully. St. 15 Paul.

The law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life. Bible.

The law is past depth to those that, without heed, do plunge into it. Timon of Athens, iii. 5.

The law is the friend of the weak. Schiller.

The law is what we must do; the gospel what God will give. Luther.

The law of nature is the strictest expression 20 of necessity. Moleschott.

The law of perseverance is among the deepest in man; by nature he hates change; seldom will he quit his old house till it has actually fallen about his ears. Carlyle.

The law of the wise is a fountain of life. Bible.

The law often permits what honour prohibits. Saurin.

The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free. Thoreau.

The law's made to take care o' raskils. George 25 Eliot.

The laws of morality are also those of art. Schumann.

The laws of nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Longfellow.

The laws of nature never vary; in their application they never hesitate, nor are wanting. Draper.

The laws undertake to punish only overt acts. Montesquieu.

The lawyer is a gentleman who rescues your 30 estate from your enemies, and keeps it to himself. Brougham.

The leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable. Carlyle.

The lean and slippered pantaloon, / With spectacles on nose and pouch on side; / His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide / For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice / Turning again towards childish treble, pipes / And whistles in his sound. As You Like It, ii. 7.

The learned understand the reason of the art, the unlearned feel the pleasure. Quinct.

The legacy of heroes—the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example. Disraeli.

The legal and proper mercy of a king of 35 England may remit the punishment, but ought not to stop the trial. Junius.

The lenient hand of time is daily and hourly either lightening the burden or making us insensible to the weight. Burns.

The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues the better we like him. Emerson.

The less men think the more they talk. Montesquieu.

The less routine the more of life. A. B. Alcott.

The less the wise man pleases himself, the 40 more the world esteems him. Gellert.

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it. Molière.

The less we have to do with our sins the better. Emerson.

The lessons of adversity are not always salutary; sometimes they soften and amend, but as often they indurate and pervert. Bulwer Lytton.

The letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. St. Paul.

The liberal deviseth liberal things; and by 45 liberal things shall he stand. Bible.

The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself. Bible.

The liberty of writing letters with too careless a hand is apt to betray persons into imprudence in what they write. Blair.

The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment. Jesus.

The life of a fool is worse than death. Apocrypha.

The life of a man is tormented not by things, 50 but by opinions of things. Immermann.

The life of a nation is usually, like the flow of a lava stream, first bright and fierce, then languid and covered, at last advancing by the tumbling over and over of its frozen blocks. Ruskin.

The life of all gods figures itself to us as a sublime sadness,—earnestness of infinite battle against infinite labour. Carlyle.

The life of an animal, until the hour of his death, passeth away in disciplines, in elevations and depressions, in unions and separations. Hitopadesa.

The life of an egoist is a tissue of inconsistencies, of actions that, from his own point of view, are absurd and foolish. Renan.

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another. J. M. Barrie.

The life of every man is as the well-spring of a stream, whose small beginnings are indeed plain to all, but whose ulterior course and destination, as it winds through the expanses of infinite years, only the omniscient can discern. Carlyle.

The life of man is a journey; a journey that 5 must be travelled, however bad the roads or the accommodation. Goldsmith.

The life of the Divine Man stands in no connection with the general history of the world in his time. It was a private life; his teaching was a teaching for individuals. Goethe.

The life of the lowest mortal, if faithfully recorded, would be interesting to the highest. Quoted by Carlyle.

The life which renews a man springs ever from within. Goethe.

The light by which we see in this world comes out from the soul of the observer. Emerson.

The light can be a curtain as well as the darkness. 10 George Eliot.

The light of friendship is like the light of phosphorus—seen plainest when all around is dark. Crowell.

The light of the body is the eye; if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. Jesus.

The light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. St. John.

The light that a man receiveth by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which cometh from his own understanding and judgment, which is ever infused and drenched in his affections and customs. Bacon.

The light (which you refuse to take in) returns 15 on you, condensed into lightning, which there is not any skin whatever too thick for taking in. Carlyle.

The lightning is the shorthand of the storm, / That tells of chaos. Eric Mackay.

The limbs of my buried ones touched cold on my soul and drove away its blots, as dead hands heal eruptions of the skin. Jean Paul.

The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire. W. R. Alger.

The lion is not so fierce as painted. Fuller.

The lips of the righteous feed many; but fools 20 die for want of wisdom. Bible.

The litigant, unlike the goose, never gets trust (trussed), although he may be roasted and dished. John Willock.

The little done vanishes from the sight of man who looks forward to what is still to do. Goethe.

The little foolery that wise men have makes a great show. As You Like It, i. 2.

The little man is still a man. Goethe.

The little mind will not by daily intercourse 25 with great minds become one inch greater; but the noble man... will, by a knowledge of, and familiar intercourse with, elevated natures, everyday make a visible approximation to similar greatness. Goethe.

The little that a just man hath is better than the riches of many wicked. Bible.

The lives of the best of us are spent in choosing between evils. Junius.

The loftier the building the deeper must the foundation be laid. Thomas à Kempis.

The loftiest mortal loves and seeks the same sort of things with the meanest, only from higher grounds and by higher paths. Jean Paul.

The loftiest of our race are those who have 30 had the profoundest grief, because they have had the profoundest sympathies. Henry Giles.

The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the later it will be in coming. Schopenhauer.

The longer life the more offence, / The more offence the greater pain, / The greater pain the less defence, / The less defence the lesser gain. Sir T. Wyatt.

The longer we live and the more we think, the higher value we learn to put on the friendship and tenderness of parents and of friends. Johnson.

The longer you read the Bible the more you will like it. Romaine.

The longest day soon comes to an end. Pr. 35

The longest life is scarcely longer than the shortest, if we think of the eternity that encircles both. Carlyle.

The longest wave is quickly lost in the sea. Emerson.

The look of a king is itself a deed. Jean Paul.

The loom of Fortune weaves the fine and coarsest web. R. Southwell.

The loom of life never stops; and the pattern 40 which was weaving when the sun went down in the evening is weaving when it comes up to-morrow. Ward Beecher.

The Lord bestoweth his blessings where he findeth the vessels empty. Thomas à Kempis.

The Lord gave, and the Lord taketh away: blessed be the name of the Lord. Bible.

The Lord is a buckler to all that trust in him. Bible.

The Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed. Bible.

The Lord will not suffer the soul of the 45 righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked. Bible.

The loss of territory, or of a wise and virtuous servant, is a great loss,... for servants are not easily to be found. Hitopadesa.

The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord. Bible.

The love of country produces good manners, and good manners also love of country. The less we satisfy our particular passions, the more we leave to our general. Montesquieu.

The love of gain never made a painter; but it has marred many. Washington Allston.

The love of God is broader than the measure 50 of man's mind. F. W. Faber.

The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. Hazlitt.

The love of money is the root of all evil. St. Paul.

The love season is the carnival of egoism, and it brings the touchstone to our natures. George Meredith.

The lover has more senses and finer senses than others. Emerson.

The lover, / Sighing like a furnace, with a 5 woeful ballad / Made to his mistress' eyebrow. As You Like It, ii. 7.

The lower a man descends in his love, the higher he lifts his life. W. R. Alger.

The lower has oftentimes to be with sorrow sacrificed to the higher duties of the soul. Ed.

The lower nature must always be denied when you are trying to rise to a higher sphere. Ward Beecher.

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, / Are of imagination all compact. Mid. N.'s Dream, v. 1.

The lust of fame is the last that a wise man 10 shakes off. Tac.

The lyric poet may drink wine and live generously, but the epic poet, who shall sing of the gods and their descent unto men, must drink water out of a wooden bowl. Emerson.

The magic of the pen lies in the concentration of your thoughts upon one object. G. H. Lewes.

The magic power of love consists in its ennobling whatever its breath touches, like the sun whose golden ray transmutes even thunderclouds into gold. Grillparzer.

The main enterprise of the world for splendour, for extent, is the upbuilding of a man. Emerson.

The majority have no other reason for their 15 opinions than that they are the fashion. Johnson.

The make-weight! The make-weight! which fate throws into the balance for us at every happiness! It requires much courage not to be down-hearted in this world. Goethe.

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter. Goldsmith.

The man at the head of the house can mar the pleasure of the household; but he cannot make it. That must rest with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege. Helps.

The man comes before the citizen, and our future is greater than both. Jean Paul.

The man is only half himself, the other half 20 is his expression. Emerson.

The man makes the circumstances, and is spiritually as well as economically the artificer of his own fortune, but the man's circumstances are the element he is appointed to live and work in; so that in a no less genuine sense it can be said circumstances make the man. Carlyle.

The man of consequence and fashion shall richly repay a deed of kindness with a nod and a smile, or a hearty shake of the hand; while a poor fellow labours under a sense of gratitude, which, like copper coin, though it loads the bearer, is yet of small account in the currency and commerce of the world. Burns.

The man of genius can be more easily misinstructed (verbildet) and driven far more violently into false courses than a man of ordinary capability. Goethe.

The man of genius, like a dog with a bone, sits afar and retired off the road, hangs out no sign of refreshment for man and beast, but says, by all possible hints and signs, "I wish to be alone—good-bye—farewell!" Thoreau.

The man of good common-sense may, if he 25 pleases, in his particular station of life, most certainly be rich. Eustace Budgell.

The man of intellect at the top of affairs; this is the aim of all institutions and revolutions, if they have any. Carlyle.

The man of intellect is lost unless he unites energy of character to intellect. When we have the lantern of Diogenes we must have his staff. Chamfort.

The man of wisdom is the man of years. Young.

The man should make the hour, not this the man. Tennyson.

The man that blushes is not quite a brute. 30 Young.

The man that hath no music in himself, / Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, / Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; / The motions of his spirit are dull as night, / And his affections dark as Erebus: / Let no such man be trusted. Mer. of Ven., v. 1.

The man that makes a character makes foes. Young.

The man that stands by himself, the universe stands also. Emerson.

The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead. Bible.

The man to whom the universe does not reveal 35 directly what relation it has to him, whose heart does not tell him what he owes to himself and others—that man will scarcely learn it out of books; which generally do little more than give our errors names. Goethe.

The man truly proud thinks honours below his merit, and scorns to boast. Swift.

The man (Napoleon) was a divine missionary, though unconscious of it; and preached, through the cannon's throat, that great doctrine, "La carrière ouverte aux talens," "The tools to him that can handle them," which is our ultimate political evangel, wherein alone can liberty lie. Carlyle.

The man who can be nothing but serious or nothing but merry is but half a man. Leigh Hunt.

The man who can thank himself alone for the happiness he enjoys is truly blest. Goldsmith.

The man who cannot be a Christian in the 40 place where he is, cannot be a Christian anywhere. Ward Beecher.

The man who cannot blush, and who has no feelings of fear, has reached the acme of impudence. Menander.

The man who cannot enjoy his natural gifts in silence, and find his reward in the exercise of them, but must wait and hope for their recognition by others, must expect to reap only disappointment and vexation. Goethe.

The man who cannot laugh is not only fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; but his own whole life is already a treason and a stratagem. Carlyle.

The man who cannot sometimes endure his own company must have a bad heart or a deficient intellect. (?)

The man who cannot wonder, who does not habitually wonder (and worship), were he president of innumerable royal societies, and carried the whole "Méchanique Céleste" and Hegel's Philosophy, and the epitome of all laboratories and observatories with their results, in his single head, is but a pair of spectacles behind which there is no eye. Carlyle.

The man who does not know when to die, does not know how to live. Ruskin.

The man who does not learn to live while he is 5 getting a living is a poorer man after his wealth is won than he was before. J. G. Holland.

The man who fears not death will start at no shadows. Gr. Pr.

The man who has imagination without learning has wings without feet. Pr.

The man who has no enemies has no following. Donn Piatt.

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like a potato,—the only good belonging to him is underground. Sir Thomas Overbury.

The man who in this world can keep the whiteness 10 of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other. Alex. Smith.

The man who in wavering times is inclined to be wavering only increases the evil, and spreads it wider and wider; but the man of firm decision fashions the universe. Goethe.

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Amiel.

The man who invented "Ifs" and "Buts" must have first made gold out of straw choppings. G. A. Bürger.

The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue. Cic.

The man who is born with a talent which he 15 is meant to use, finds his greatest happiness in using it. Goethe.

The man who is in a hurry to see the full effects of his own tillage must cultivate annuals, and not forest trees. Whately.

The man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is only a vagabond. Goldsmith.

The man who lives by hope will die by despair. It. Pr.

The man who pauses in his honesty wants little of a villain. H. Martyn.

The man who small things scorns will next, / 20 By things still smaller be perplexed. Goethe.

The man who will live above his present circumstances is in great danger of living in a little time much beneath them, or, as the Italian proverb says, "The man who lives by hope will die by despair." Addison.

The man who works at home helps society at large with somewhat more of certainty than he who devotes himself to charities. Emerson.

The man who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience. Schopenhauer.

The man whom grown-up people love, children love still more. Jean Paul.

The manifestation of one's own superiority 25 may render the purchase too dear, by being bought at the terrible price of our neighbour's dislike. Lover.

The manners of the ill-mannered are never so odious, unbearable, exasperating, as they are to their own nearest kindred. P. G. Hamerton.

The many still must labour for the one! It is Nature's doom. Byron.

The march of intellect is proceeding at quick time; and if its progress be not accompanied by a corresponding improvement in morals and religion, the faster it proceeds, with the more violence will you be hurried down the road to ruin. Southey.

The march of intellect, which licks all the world into shape, has reached even the devil. Goethe.

The march of the human mind is slow. Burke. 30

The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does not make a speech; he takes a low business-tone, avoids all brag, is nobody, dresses plainly, promises not at all, performs much, speaks in monosyllables, hugs his fact. He calls his employment by its lowest name, and so takes from evil tongues their sharpest weapon. Emerson.

The marks of attachment, even to a fault, are an accumulation of virtues. Hitopadesa.

The mass of men consulted at hustings, upon any high matter whatsoever, is as ugly an exhibition of human study as the world sees. Carlyle.

The master of slaves has seldom the soul of a man. Henry Mackenzie.

The master-spirit who can rule the storm is 35 great; but he is much greater who can both raise and rule it. E. L. Magoon.

The mastiff is quiet while curs are yelping. Pr.

The material wealth of a country is the portion of its possessions which feeds and educates good men and women in it. Ruskin.

The May of our life blooms once, and not again. Schiller.

The mean of true valour lies between the extremes of cowardice and rashness. Cervantes.

The means that Heaven yields must be embraced, 40 / And not neglected. Rich. II., iii. 2.

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to his opinion twenty years later. Emerson.

The mechanical occupations of man, the watching any object, as it were, coming into existence by manual labour, is a very pleasant way of passing one's time, but our own activity is at the moment nil. It is almost the same as with smoking tobacco. Goethe.

The meditative heart / Attends the warning of each day and hour, / And practises in secret every virtue. Goethe.

The meek shall inherit the earth. Jesus.

The memory of absent friends becomes dimmed, although not effaced by time. The distractions of our life, acquaintance with fresh objects, in short, every change in our condition, works upon our hearts as dust and smoke upon a painting, making the finely drawn lines quite imperceptible, whilst one does not know how it happens. Goethe.

The memory of the just is blessed. Bible.

The men I am afraid of are the men who believe everything, subscribe to everything, and vote for everything. Bp. Shipley.

The merchant who was at first busy in acquiring money ceases to grow richer from the time when he makes it his business only to count it. Johnson.

The merciful shall obtain mercy. Jesus. 5

The mere existence and necessity of a philosophy is an evil. Carlyle.

The mere reality of life would be inconceivably poor without the charm of fancy, which brings in its bosom, no doubt, as many vain fears as idle hopes, but lends much oftener to the illusions it calls up a gay flattering hue than one which inspires terror. W. v. Humboldt.

The merit of originality is not novelty, it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another. Carlyle.

The meteor flag of England, / Shall yet terrific burn, / Till danger's troubled night depart, / And the star of peace return. Campbell.

The milder virtues subsist only in co-existence 10 with the severer, and the heart which pronounces a blessing on the poor and the merciful utters with the same breath sentence of excommunication against all who are proud-spirited and cruel-hearted. Ed.

The mill will never grind with the water that is past. Pr.

The mind becomes bankrupt under too large obligations. All additional benefits lessen every hope of future returns, and bar up every avenue that leads to tenderness. Goldsmith.

The mind can make / Substance, and people planets of its own / With beings brighter than have been, and give / A breath to forms that can outlive all flesh. Byron.

The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight. Joubert.

The mind content both crown and kingdom is. 15 Robert Greene.

The mind goes antagonising on, and never prospers but by fits. Emerson.

The mind is enlarged and elevated by mere purposes, though they end as they begin by airy contemplation. Johnson.

The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress. Goldsmith.

The mind is its own place, and in itself / Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. Milton.

The mind must not yield to the body. Goethe. 20

The mind of a fool is empty; and everything is empty where there is poverty. Hitopadesa.

The mind of a good man doth not alter, even when he is in distress; the waters of the ocean are not to be heated by a torch of straw. Hitopadesa.

The mind of man is no inert receptacle of knowledge, but absorbs and incorporates into its own constitution the ideas which it receives. H. Lecky.

The mind of the greatest man on earth is not so independent of circumstances as not to feel inconvenienced by the merest buzzing noise about him; it does not need the report of a cannon to disturb his thoughts. The creaking of a vane or a pulley is quite enough. Do not wonder that he reasons ill just now; a fly is buzzing by his ear; it is quite enough to unfit him for giving good counsel. Pascal.

The mind profits by the wrecks of every 25 passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone. Bulwer Lytton.

The mind that made the world is not one mind, but the mind. Emerson.

The minds of some of our statesmen, like the pupil of the human eye, contract themselves the more the stronger light there is shed upon them. Moore.

The mind's the standard of the man. Watts.

The miracles which Christ and His disciples wrought were the scaffolding, not the building. The scaffolding is removed as soon as the building is finished. Lessing.

The miser is as much in want of that which he 30 has as of that which he has not. Pub. Syr.

The miser is niggardly in death; two glances he casts on his coffin and a thousand with dismay on his anxiously-guarded treasures. Gellert.

The miserable have no other medicine, / But only hope. Meas. for Meas., iii. 1.

The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated. Johnson.

The misfortune in the state is that nobody can enjoy life in peace, but that everybody must govern; and in art, that nobody will enjoy what has been produced, but that every one wants to reproduce on his own account. Goethe.

The mixtures of spiritual chemistry refuse to 35 be analysed. Emerson.

The mob has many heads, but no brains. Pr.

The mob is a monster, with the hands of Briareus but the head of Polyphemus,—strong to execute, but blind to perceive. Colton.

The mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is through its nose, it will even dance under your cudgel; but should the ring slip and you lose your hold, the brute will turn and rend you. Jane Porter.

(The mob is) the scum that rises uppermost when the nation boils. Dryden.

The modest virgin, the prudent wife, or the 40 careful matron, are much more serviceable in life than petticoated philosophers, blustering heroines, or virago queens. Goldsmith.

The moment an ill can be patiently borne, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain. Ward Beecher.

The moment must be pregnant and sufficient to itself if it is to become a worthy segment of time and eternity. Goethe.

The moment there is a bargain over the pottage the family relation is dissolved. Ruskin.

The moment which is the cradle of the future is also the grave of the past. Grillparzer.

The moon doth not withhold the light even from the cottage of a Chandala (outcast). Hitopadesa.

The moon that shone in Paradise. Hans Andersen.

The moral difference between a man and a beast is, that the one acts primarily for use, and the other for pleasure. Ruskin.

The morality of a king is not to be measured 5 by vulgar rules. There are faults which do him honour, and virtues that disgrace him. Junius.

The morality of girls is custom, not principle. Jean Paul.

The morality of some people is in remnants—never enough to make a coat. Joubert.

The more a man has in himself the less he will want from other people—the less, indeed, other people can be to him. Schopenhauer.

The more a man lives, the more he suffers. Amiel.

The more angels the more room. Swedenborg. 10

The more business a man has to do, the more he is able to accomplish; for he learns to economise his time. Judge Hale.

The more bustling the streets become, the more quietly one moves. Goethe.

The more fair and crystal is the sky, / The uglier seem the clouds that in it fly. Rich. II., i. 1.

The more generally persons are pleasing, the less profoundly do they please. H. Beyle.

The more haste, the worse speed. Pr. 15

The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint. Lavater.

The more laws you accept, the fewer penalties you will have to endure, and the fewer punishments to enforce. Ruskin.

The more men refine upon pleasure, the less will they indulge in excesses of any kind. Hume.

The more of the solid there is in a man, the less does he act the balloon. Spurgeon.

The more powerful the obstacle, the more 20 glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honour which set off virtue. Molière.

The more profound the thought, the more burdensome. Emerson.

The more riches a fool has, the greater fool he is. Anon.

The more sand has escaped from the hour-glass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. Jean Paul.

The more sinful a man feels himself, the more Christian he is. Novalis.

The more the soul admires, the more it is 25 exalted. Mme. de Krudener.

The more thou feelest thyself to be a man, so much the more dost thou resemble the gods. Goethe.

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have. Hazlitt.

The more we have read, the more we have learned, the more we have meditated, the better conditioned we are to affirm that we know nothing. Voltaire.

The more we know, the greater our thirst for knowledge. The water-lily, in the midst of waters, opens its leaves and expands its petals at the first pattering of showers, and rejoices in the raindrops with a quicker sympathy than the parched shrub in a sandy desert. Coleridge.

The more we work, the more we shall be 30 trodden down. Fr. Peasant Pr.

The more weakness, the more falsehood; strength goes straight; every cannon-ball that has in it hollows and holes goes crooked. Weaklings must lie. Jean Paul.

The more you are talked about, the less powerful you are. Disraeli.

The morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy. Bible.

The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most. Emerson.

The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a 35 clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament. Bovee.

The most certain sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness. Montaigne.

The most civilised are as near to barbarism as the most polished steel to rust. Nations, like metals, have only a superficial brilliancy. Rivarol.

The most cursory observation shows that a degree of reserve adds vastly to the latent force of character. Tuckerman.

The most delightful letter does not possess a hundredth part of the charm of a conversation. Goethe.

The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself. 40 Thales.

The most elevated sensation of music arises from a confused perception of ideal or visionary beauty and rapture, which is sufficiently perceivable to fire the imagination, but not clear enough to become an object of knowledge. James Usher.

The most enthusiastic Evangelicals do not preach a gospel, but keep describing how it should and might be preached; to awaken the sacred fire of faith, as by a sacred contagion, is not their endeavour, but, at most, to describe how faith shows and acts, and scientifically distinguish true faith from false. Carlyle in 1831.

The most enthusiastic mystics were women. Jean Paul.

The most essential fact about a man is the constitution of his consciousness. Schopenhauer.

The most finished man of the world is he who 45 is never irresolute and never in a hurry. Schopenhauer.

The most gladsome thing in the world is that few of us fall very low; the saddest that, with such capabilities, we seldom rise high. J. M. Barrie.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and the beginning of his life. Goethe.

The most learned are often the most narrow-minded men. Hazlitt.

The most important moment in man's life is certainly not the last. Jean Paul.

The most important part of education is right 50 training in the nursery. Plato.

The most important period in the life of an individual is that of his development. Later on, commences his conflict with the world, and this is of interest only so far as anything grows out of it. Goethe.

The most important thing is to learn to rule one's self. Goethe.

The most original modern authors are not so because they advance what is new, but simply because they know how to put what they have to say as if it had never been said before. Goethe.

The most objectionable people are the quibbling investigators and the crotchety theorists; their endeavours are petty and complicated, their hypotheses abstruse and strange. Goethe.

The most part of all the misery and mischief, 5 of all that is denominated evil, in the world, arises from the face that men are too remiss to get a proper knowledge of their aims, and when they do know them, to work intensely in attaining them. Goethe.

The most significant feature in the history of an epoch is the manner it has of welcoming a great man. Carlyle.

The most sorrowful occurrence often, through the hand of Providence, takes the most favourable turn for our happiness; the succession of fortune and misfortune in life is intertwined like sleep and waking, neither without the other, and one for the sake of the other. Goethe.

The most unhappy and frail of all creatures is man, and yet he is the proudest. Montaigne.

The most universal quality is diversity. Montaigne.

The most virtuous of all men is he that contents 10 himself with being virtuous without seeking to appear so. Plato.

The mother-grace of all the graces is Christian good-will. Ward Beecher.

The mother of the useful arts is necessity; that of the fine arts is luxury. For father, the former has intellect; the latter, genius, which itself is a kind of luxury. Schopenhauer.

The mother's heart is always with her children. Pr.

The mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man. George Eliot.

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of 15 wisdom; to serve all and love but one. Balzac.

The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked. Bible.

The movement of sound, such as will reach the soul for the education of it in virtue, we call Music. Plato.

The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great, that everything must soon be reduced to extracts. Voltaire.

The multiplying villanies of natures / Do swarm upon him. Macb., i. 2.

The multitude have no habit of self-reliance 20 or original action. Emerson.

The multitude is always in the wrong. Earl of Roscommon.

The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise. Cicero.

The multitude unawed is insolent; once seized with fear, contemptible and vain. Mallet.

The multitude which does not reduce itself to unity is confusion; the unity which does not depend upon the multitude is tyranny. Pascal.

The Muses (daughters of Memory) refresh us 25 in our toilsome course with sweet remembrances. Novalis.

The music in my heart I bore / Long after it was heard no more. Wordsworth.

The mustard-seed of thought is a pregnant treasury of vast results. Like the germ in the Egyptian tombs, its vitality never perishes; and its fruit will spring up after it has been buried for long ages. Chapin.

The mystery of a person is ever divine to him that has a sense for the godlike. Carlyle.

The nation is governed by all that has tongue in the nation: democracy is virtually there. Carlyle.

The nation is worth nothing which does not 30 joyfully stake its all on its honour. Schiller.

The native land of the poet's poetic powers and poetic action is the good, noble, and beautiful, which is confined to no particular province or country, and which he seizes upon and forms wherever he finds it. Therein is he like the eagle. Goethe.

The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind. Washington Irving.

The natural qualities pass over all others and mount upon the head. Hitopadesa.

The near explains the far. Emerson.

The nearer the church the farther from God. Pr. 35

The nearer we approach the goal of life, the better we begin to understand the true value of our existence, and the real weight of our opinions. Burke.

The necessities of my heart always give the cold philosophisings the lie. Burns.

The necessities of things are sterner stuff than the hopes of men. Disraeli.

The neck on which diamonds might have worthily sparkled will look less tempting when the biting winter has hung icicles there for gems. S. Lover.

The negation of will and desire is the only 40 road to deliverance. Schopenhauer.

The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blenches, the thought that never wanders—these are the masters of victory. Burke.

The nerves, they are the man. Cabanis.

The never-absent mop in one hand, and yet no effects of it visible anywhere. Thoreau.

The new man is always in a new time, under new conditions; his course is the fac-simile of no prior one, but is by its nature original. Carlyle.

The next dreadful thing to a battle lost is a 45 battle won. Wellington.

The night cometh, when no man can work. Jesus.

The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. St. Paul.

The night is for the day, but the day is not for the night. Emerson.

The night is long that never finds the day. Macb., iv. 2.

The night shows stars and women in a better light. Byron.

The nobility of life is work. We live in a working world. The lazy and idle man does not count in the plan of campaign. "My Father worketh hitherto, and I work." Let that text be enough. Prof. Blackie, to young men.

The noble character at certain moments may resign himself to his emotions; the well-bred, never. Goethe.

The noble ones who have lived among us have not left us; they only truly came to us when they departed, and they were then first kissed by us into immortality. Ed.

The nobler and more perfect a thing is, the 5 slower it is in attaining maturity. Schopenhauer.

The nobler the virtue is, the more eager and generous resolution do thou express of attaining to it. Thomas à Kempis.

The noblest charms of music, though real and affecting, seem too confused and fluid to be collected into a distinct idea. Harmony is always understood by the crowd, and almost always mistaken by musicians. James Usher.

The noblest mind the best contentment hath. Spenser.

The noblest vengeance is to forgive. Pr.

The noblest works and foundations have proceeded 10 from childless men, which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed. Bacon.

The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue. Bible.

The Now is an atom of sand, / And the Near is a perishing clod; / But Afar is as Fairy Land, / And beyond is the bosom of God. Lord Lytton.

The nurse's bread is sweeter than the mother's cake. Fris. Pr.

The oak first announces itself when, with far-sounding crash, it falls. Carlyle.

The object of all true policy and true economy 15 is, the utmost multitude of good men on every given space of ground. Ruskin.

The object of art is to crystallise emotion into thought and then to fix it in form. Delsarte.

The object of preaching is constantly to remind mankind of what mankind are constantly forgetting; not to supply the defects of human intelligence, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions. Sydney Smith.

The object of reading is not to dip into everything that even wise men have ever written. John Morley.

The object of the poet is, and must be, to "instruct by pleasing," yet not by pleasing this man and that man; only by pleasing man, by speaking to the pure nature of man, can any real "instruction," in this sense, be conveyed. Carlyle.

The object of the politician is expediency, 20 and his duty is to adapt his measures to the often crude, undeveloped, and vacillating conception of the nation. The object, on the other hand, of the philosopher is truth, and his duty is to push every principle which he believes to be true to its legitimate consequences, regardless of the results that may follow. H. Lecky.

The object of true religion should be to impress the principles of morality deeply in the soul. Leibnitz.

The obligation of veracity may be made out from the direct ill consequences of lying to social happiness. Paley.

The obscure is what transcends us, and what imposes itself upon us by transcending us. Renan.

The ocean beats against the stern dumb shore, / The stormy passion of its mighty heart. L. C. Moulton.

The ocean may have bounds. Hitopadesa. 25

The offender never pardons. George Herbert.

The old fox is caught at last. Pr.

The old gloomy cathedrals were good, but the great blue dome that hangs over all is better than any Cologne one. Carlyle.

The old never dies till this happen, till all the soul of good that was in it get itself transfused into the practical new. Carlyle.

The old order changeth, yielding place to 30 new, / And God fulfils himself in many ways, / Lest one good custom should corrupt the world. Tennyson.

The old prose writers wrote as if they were speaking to an audience; while among us prose is invariably written for the eye alone. Niebuhr.

The older we get the more we must limit ourselves, if we wish to be active. Goethe.

The oldest, and indeed only true, order of nobility known under the stars, is that of just men and sons of God, in opposition to unjust men and sons of Belial, which latter indeed are second oldest, and yet a very unvenerable order. Carlyle.

The oldest in years is not always the most experienced, and he who has suffered most has not always the best manners. Bodenstedt.

The one enemy we have in this universe is 35 stupidity, darkness of mind; of which darkness there are many sources, every sin a source, and probably self-conceit the chief source. Carlyle.

The one essential point (in regard to a wrong) is to know that it is wrong; how to get out of it you can decide afterwards at your leisure. Ruskin.

The one exclusive sign of a thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. Arist.

The one intolerable sort of slavery, over which the very gods weep, is the slavery of the strong to the weak; of the great and noble-minded to the small and mean; the slavery of wisdom to folly. Carlyle.

The one prudence in life is concentration. Emerson.

The one thing of value in the world is the 40 active soul. Emerson.

The one unhappiness of a man is that he cannot work, that he cannot get his destiny as a man fulfilled. Carlyle.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself. Mrs. Jamieson.

The only disadvantage of an honest heart is its credulity. Sir P. Sidney.

The only evolution of any really human interest, and worthy of any human regard, is the evolution that springs from resolution and the birth of freedom in the self-conscious soul. Ed.

The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. George Eliot.

The only faith that wears well, and holds its colour in all weathers, is that which is woven of conviction, and set with the sharp mordant of experience. Lowell.

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. Locke.

The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of this, or impede their efforts to obtain it. J. S. Mill.

The only genuine Romance for grown persons 5 is Reality. Carlyle.

The only gift is a portion of thyself. Emerson.

The only happiness a brave man ever troubled himself with asking much about was, happiness enough to get his work done. Carlyle.

The only liberty that is valuable is a liberty connected with order. Burke.

The only means of overcoming adversities is a fresh activity. Goethe.

The only medicine which does women more 10 good than harm is dress. Jean Paul.

The only ornament of old age is virtue. Amyot.

The only poetry is history, could we tell it aright. Carlyle.

The only point now is what a man weighs in the scale of humanity; all the rest is nought. A coat with a star, and a chariot with six horses, at all events, imposes on the rudest multitude only, and scarcely that. Goethe.

The only progress which is really effective depends, not upon the bounty of Nature, but upon the energy of man. Buckle.

The only satisfaction of the will is that it 15 encounters with no resistance. Schopenhauer.

The only school of genuine moral sentiment is society between equals. J. S. Mill.

The only serious and formidable thing in Nature is will. Emerson.

The only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion. Emerson.

The only solid instruction is that which the pupil brings from his own depths; the true instruction is not that which transmits notions wholly formed, but that which renders him capable of forming for himself good opinions. Degerando.

The only substance properly so called is the 20 soul. Amiel.

The only teller of news is the poet. Emerson.

The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is. Emerson.

The only true principle for humanity is justice. Amiel.

The only true source of politeness is consideration. Simms.

The only victory over love is flight. Napoleon. 25

The only way to have a friend is to be one. Emerson.

The only way to understand the difficult parts of the Bible is first to read and obey the easy ones. Ruskin.

The opinions of men are as many and as different as their persons; the greatest diligence and most prudent conduct can never please them all. Thomas à Kempis.

The opportunity to do mischief is found a hundred times a day, and that of doing good once a year. Voltaire.

The ordinary man places life's happiness in 30 things external to him; his centre of gravity is not in himself. Schopenhauer.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. Emerson.

The outer passes away; the inmost is the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever. Carlyle.

The over-curious are not over-wise. Massinger.

The owl of ignorance lays the egg of pride. Pr.

The owl sees the sunshine and winks in its 35 nest. Dr. Walter Smith.

The ox lies still while the geese are hissing. Pr.

The pain of an unfilled wish is small in comparison with that of repentance; for the one stands in presence of the vast open future, whilst the other has the irrevocable past closed behind it. Schopenhauer.

The pain that any one actually feels is still of all others the worst. Locke.

The pain which conscience gives the man who has already done wrong is soon got over. Conscience is a coward; and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent, it seldom has justice enough to accuse. Goldsmith.

The pains of power are real, its pleasures are 40 imaginary. Colton.

The painful warrior famousèd for fight, / After a thousand victories, once foil'd, / Is from the books of honour razèd quite, / And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd. Shakespeare.

The painter should grind his own colours; the architect work in the mason's yard with his men; the master-manufacturer be himself a more skilful operator than any man in his mills; and the distinction between one man and another be only in experience and skill, and the authority and wealth which these must naturally and justly obtain. Ruskin.

The parasite courtier in the palace is the legitimate father of the tyrant. Brougham.

The parcel of books, if they are well chosen,... awakens within us the diviner mind, and rouses us to a consciousness of what is best in others and ourselves. John Morley.

The pardon of an offence must, as a benefit 45 conferred, put the offender under an obligation; and thus direct advantage at once accrues by heaping coals of fire on the head. Goethe.

The particular is the universal seen under special limitations. Goethe.

The passions are only exaggerated vices or virtues. Goethe.

The passions are the only orators who never fail to persuade. La Roche.

The passions, by grace of the supernal and also of the infernal powers (for both have a hand in it), can never fail us. Carlyle.

The passions may be likened to blood horses, 50 that need training and the curb only to enable them when they carry to achieve most glorious triumphs. Simms.

The passions of mankind are partly protective, partly beneficent, like the chaff and grain of the corn; but none without their use, none without nobleness when seen in balanced unity with the rest of the spirit which they are charged to defend. Ruskin.

The passions rise higher at domestic than at imperial tragedies. Johnson.

The past alone is eternal and unchangeable like death, and yet at the same time warm and joy-giving like life. W. von Humboldt.

The past and future are veiled; but the past wears the widow's veil, the future the virgin's. Jean Paul.

The past at least is secure. Daniel Webster.

The past is all holy to us; the dead are all 5 holy; even they that were base and wicked when alive. Carlyle.

The past is an unfathomable depth, / Beyond the span of thought; 'tis an elapse / Which hath no mensuration, but hath been / For ever and for ever. H. Kirke White.

The past is to us a book sealed with seven seals, i.e., which no one need hope fully to open. Goethe.

The path of falsehood is a perplexing maze. Blair.

The path of nature is indeed a narrow one, and it is only the immortals that seek it, and, when they find it, they do not find themselves cramped therein. Lowell.

The path of sorrow, and that path alone, / 10 Leads to the land where sorrow is unknown. Cowper.

The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day. Bible.

The path of things is silent. Emerson.

The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Gray.

The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little circumstances. Gibbon.

The peace of heaven is theirs who lift their 15 swords / In such a just and charitable war. King John, ii. 1.

The peacemakers shall be called the children of God. Jesus.

The peevish, the niggard, the dissatisfied, the passionate, the suspicious, and those who live upon others' means, are for ever unhappy. Hitopadesa.

The pen is mightier than the sword. Bulwer Lytton.

The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Bacon.

The people have the right to murmur, but they 20 have also the right to be violent, and their silence is the lesson of kings. Jean de Beauvais.

The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world. Disraeli.

The people of this world having been once deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself. Hitopadesa.

The people once belonged to the kings; now the kings belong to the people. Heine.

The perfect flower of religion opens in the soul only when all self-seeking is abandoned. John Burroughs.

The perfection of art is to conceal art. Quinct. 25

The perfection of conversation is not to play a regular sonata, but, like the Æolian harp, to await the inspiration of the passing breeze. Burke.

The perfection of spiritual virtue lies in being always all there, a whole man present in every movement and moment. Ed.

The period of faith must alternate with the period of denial; the vernal growth, the summer luxuriance of all opinions, spiritual representations and creations must be followed by, and again follow, the autumnal decay, the winter dissolution. Carlyle.

The persistent aspirations of the human race are to society what the compass is to the ship. It sees not the shore, but it guides to it. Lamartine.

The person who in company should pretend 30 to be wiser than others, I am apt to regard as illiterate and ill-bred. Goldsmith.

The person who is contented to be often obliged ought not to be obliged at all. Goldsmith.

The person whose clothes are extremely fine I am too apt to consider as not being possessed of any superiority of fortune, but resembling those Indians who were found to wear all the gold they have in the world in a bob at the nose. Goldsmith.

The pest of society is egotists. There are dull and bright, sacred and profane, coarse and fine egotists. It is a disease that, like influenza, falls on all constitutions. Emerson.

The philosopher is he to whom the highest has descended, and the lowest has mounted up; who is the equal and kindly brother of all. Carlyle.

The philosopher must station himself in the 35 middle. Goethe.

The philosophy of grumbling is great, but not intricate... the proof that there is something wrong, and that a sentient human being is aware of it. John Wagstaffe.

The philosophy of one century is the common-sense of the next. Ward Beecher.

The philosophy of six thousand years has not searched the chambers and magazines of the soul. Emerson.

The phœnix, Hope, can wing her flight / Through the vast deserts of the skies, / And still defying fortune's spite, / Revive and from her ashes rise. Cervantes.

The pillow is a dumb sibyl. Gracian. 40

The pilot of the Galilean lake; / Two massy keys he bore, of metals twain, / The golden opes, the iron shuts amain. Milton.

The pious and just honouring of ourselves may be thought the radical moisture and fountain-head from whence every laudable and worthy enterprise issues forth. Milton.

The pious have always a more intimate connection with each other than the wicked, though externally the relationship may not always prosper as well. Goethe.

The pious-hearted are cared for by the gods; and by men honoured and worshipped as divinities, when once they have by death stripped off for ever their week-day garments. Ed. after Ovid.

The pitcher goes so often to the water that it 45 comes home broken at last. Pr.

The place once trodden by a good man is hallowed. After a hundred years his word and actions ring in the ears of his descendants. Goethe.

The plainer the dress, with greater lustre does beauty appear. Lord Halifax.

The plainest man that can convince a woman that he is really in love with her, has done more to make her in love with him than the handsomest man, if he can produce no such conviction. For the love of woman is a shoot, not a seed, and flourishes most vigorously only when ingrafted on that love which is rooted in the breast of another. Colton.

The plea of ignorance will never take away our responsibilities. Ruskin.

The pleasure of despising, at all times and in itself a dangerous luxury, is much safer after the toil of examining than before it. Carlyle.

The pleasure of talking is the inextinguishable passion of woman, coeval with the act of breathing. Le Sage.

The pleasure-seeker is not the pleasure-finder; 5 those are the happiest men who think least about happiness. J. C. Sharp.

The pleasure we feel in criticising robs us of that of being deeply moved by very beautiful things. La Bruyère.

The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it, and it is full only as the obedience is entire. Theodore T. Murger.

The pleasure which strikes the soul must be derived from the beauty and congruity it sees or conceives in those things which the sight or imagination lay before it. Cervantes.

The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them, and they make us despair in losing them. Mme. de Lambert.

The plenty of the poorest place is too great; 10 the harvest cannot be gathered. Emerson.

The poet bestrides the clouds, the wise man looks up at them. Arliss.

The poet can never have far to seek for a subject; for him the ideal world is not remote from the actual, but under it and within it; and he is a poet precisely because he can discern it there. Carlyle.

The poet must believe in his poetry. The fault of our popular poetry is that it is not sincere. Emerson.

The poet must find all within himself while he is left in the lurch by all without. Goethe.

The poet must live wholly for himself, wholly 15 in the objects that delight him. Goethe.

The poet should seize the particular, and he should, if there is anything sound in it, thus represent the universal. Goethe.

The poet's delicate ear hears the far-off whispers of eternity, which coarser souls must travel towards for scores of years before their dull sense is touched by them. Holmes.

The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, / Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven, / And, as imagination bodies forth / The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen / Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing / A local habitation and a name. Mid. N.'s Dream, v. 1.

The poet's heart is an unlighted torch, which gives no help to his footsteps till love has touched it with flame. Lowell.

The poetry of the ancients was that of possession, 20 ours is that of aspiration; the former stands fast on the soil of the present, the latter hovers between memory and anticipation. Schlegel.

The point is not that men should have a great many books, but that they should have the right ones, and that they should use those that they have. John Morley.

The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself. Nathaniel Lee.

The poor are only they who feel poor. Emerson.

The poor is hated even of his own neighbour. Bible.

The poor man's budget is full of schemes. 25 Pr.

The poor wren, / The most diminutive of birds, will fight, / Her young ones in her nest, against the owl. Macb., iv. 2.

The poor ye have always with you, but me ye have not always. Jesus.

The poorer life or the rich one are but the larger or smaller (very little smaller) letters in which we write the apophthegms and golden sayings of life. Carlyle.

The poorest day that passes over us is the conflux of two eternities; it is made-up of currents that issue from the remotest part, and flow onwards into the remotest future. Carlyle.

The poorest human soul is infinite in wishes, 30 and the infinite universe was not made for one, but for all. Carlyle.

The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the crown. It may be frail, the wind may blow through it, the storm may enter, the rain may enter, but the king of England cannot enter! all his force dares not cross the threshold of that ruined tenement. Chatham.

The popular ear weighs what you are, not what you were. Quarles.

The popular man stands on our own level, or a hairsbreadth higher; and shows us a truth we can see without shifting our present intellectual position. The original man stands above us, and wishes to wrench us from our old fixtures, and elevate us to a higher and clearer level. Carlyle.

The population of the world is a conditional population; not the best, but the best that could live now. Emerson.

The post of honour is the post of difficulty, 35 the post of danger,—of death, if difficulty be not overcome. Carlyle.

The power of every great people, as of every living tree, depends on its not effacing, but confirming and concluding the labours of its ancestors. Ruskin.

The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak. Hare.

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence and merit. (?)

The power of observing life is rare, that of drawing lessons from it rarer, and that of condensing the lesson in a pointed sentence is rarest of all. John Morley.

The power, whether of painter or poet, to describe 40 rightly what he calls an ideal thing depends upon its being to him not an ideal but a real thing. No man ever did or ever will work well, but either from actual sight or sight of faith. Ruskin.

The practice of faith and obedience to some of our fellow-creatures is the alphabet by which we learn the higher obedience to heaven; and it is not only needful to the prosperity of all noble united action, but essential to the happiness of all noble living spirits. Ruskin.

The practice of submission to the authority of one whom one recognises as greater than one's self outweighs the chance of occasional mistake. Froude.

The praise that comes of love does not make us vain, but humble rather. J. M. Barrie.

The praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer. Gurnall.

The precepts of philosophy effect not the least 5 benefit to one confirmed in fear. Hitopadesa.

The preparations of the heart in man and the answer of the tongue is from the Lord. Bible.

The presence of the Eternal is a presence that articulates and imparts itself in time. Ed.

The presence of the wretched is a burden to the happy; and alas! the happy still more so to the wretched. Goethe.

The present holds in it both the whole past and the whole future. Carlyle.

The present is the only reality and the only 10 certainty. Schopenhauer.

The present moment is a potent divinity. Goethe.

The present moment is our ain, / The neist we never saw. Burns.

The present time is not priest-ridden, but press-ridden. Longfellow.

The present time, youngest born of eternity, child and heir of all the past times with their good and evil, and parent of all the future, is ever a new era to the thinking man. Carlyle.

The press beginneth to be an oppression of the 15 land. Fuller.

The press is a mill which grinds all that is put into its hopper. Bryant.

The press is the foe of rhetoric, but the friend of reason. Colton.

The price of wisdom is above rubies. Bible.

The priest loves his flock, but the lambs more than the wethers. Ger. Pr.

The primal condition of virtue is that it shall 20 not know of, or believe in, any blessed islands till it find them, it may be, in due time. Ruskin.

The primal duties shine aloft, like stars; / The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, / Are scattered at the feet of man, like flowers. Wordsworth.

The primary vocation of man is a life of activity. Goethe.

The prince as actual ruler is always limited (beschränkt) by public opinion; but what is there to limit public opinion if it holds sovereign sway? Stahl.

The principal part of faith is patience. George Macdonald.

The principal point of greatness in any state 25 is to have a race of military men. Bacon.

The prisoner is troubled that he cannot go whither he would, and he that is at large is troubled that he does not know whither to go. L'Estrange.

The prisoner's allowance is bread and water, but I had only the latter. Jean Paul, in his days of poverty.

The privilege of the country is to be alone, when we like. Marmontel.

The problem of life is to make the ideal real, and convert the divine at the summit of the mountain into the human at its base. C. H. Parkhurst.

The problem of philosophy is, for all that exists 30 conditionally, to find a ground unconditioned and absolute. Plato.

The prodigal robs his heir, the miser robs himself. La Bruyère.

The production of something, where nothing was before, is an act of greater energy than the expansion or decoration of the thing produced. Johnson.

The profession of riches without their possession leads to the worst form of poverty. Spurgeon.

The promise given was a necessity of the past; the word broken is a necessity of the present. Macchiavelli.

The Promised Land is the land where one is 35 not. Amiel.

The promises of God are yea and amen. Hammond.

The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value, is the best and safest course. Michael Angelo.

The promissory lies of great men are known by shouldering, hugging, squeezing, smiling, and bowing. Arbuthnott.

The proper confidant of a girl is her father. What she is not inclined to tell her father should be told to no one, and, in nine cases out of ten, not thought of by herself. Ruskin.

The proper Epic of this world is no longer 40 "Arms and the man," much less "Shirt frills and the man;" no, it is now "Tools and the man;" that, henceforth to all time is now our Epic. Carlyle.

The proper power of faith is to trust without evidence, not with evidence. Ruskin.

The proper reward of the good workman is to be "chosen." Ruskin.

The proper study of mankind is man. Pope.

The proper task of literature lies in the domain of belief. Carlyle.

The property of a man consists in (a) good 45 things, (b) goods which he has honestly got, and (c) goods he can skilfully use. Ruskin.

The prophet is the revealer of what we are to do; the poet, of what we are to love. The former too has an eye on what we are to love; how else shall he know what we are to do? Carlyle.

The prosperity of our neighbours in the end is our own, and the poverty of our neighbours becomes also in the end our own. Ruskin.

The protection of God cannot without sacrilege be invoked but in behalf of justice and right. Kossuth.

The proud man often is the mean. Tennyson.

The proudest boast of the most aspiring philosopher 50 is no more than that he provides his little playfellows the greatest pastime with the greatest innocence. Goldsmith.

The proverb says of the Genoese, that they have a sea without fish, lands without trees, and men without faith. Addison.

The proverbs of a nation furnish the index to its spirit and the results of its civilisation. J. G. Holland.

The providence of God has established such an order in the world, that of all which belongs to us, the least valuable parts can alone fall under the will of others. Bolingbroke.

The prudence of the best of hearts is often defeated by the tenderness of the best of hearts. Fielding.

The prudent man may direct a state, but it 5 is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it. Bulwer Lytton.

The prudent part is to propose remedies for the present evils, and provisions against future events. (?)

The public have neither shame nor gratitude. Hazlitt.

The public highways ought not to be occupied by people demonstrating that motion is impossible. Carlyle.

The public is a personality that knows everything and can do nothing. (?)

The public is the majority of a society. Johnson. 10

The public sense is in advance of private practice. Chapin.

The public? The public is just a great baby. Dr. Chalmers.

The pulpit only "teaches" to be honest; the market-place "trains" to over-reaching and fraud; and teaching has not a tithe of the efficiency of training. Horace Mann.

The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing. Voltaire.

The punishment which the wise suffer, who 15 refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men. Emerson.

The pure in heart shall see God. Jesus.

The purer the golden vessel the more readily is it bent; the higher worth of women is sooner lost than that of men. Jean Paul.

The purest treasure mortal times afford / Is spotless reputation; that away, / Men are but gilded loam or painted clay. Rich. II., i. 1.

The purse is the master-organ, soul's seat, and true pineal gland of the body social. Carlyle.

The pyramids, doting with age, have forgotten 20 the names of their founders. Fuller.

The quality of mercy is not strain'd; / It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven / Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest; / It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. / 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes / The throned monarch better than his crown. Mer. of Venice, iv. 1.

The quantity of books in a library is often a cloud of witnesses of the ignorance of the owner. Oxenstiern.

The quantity of sorrow a man has, does it not mean withal the quantity of sympathy he has, the quantity of faculty and victory he shall have? Our sorrow is the inverted image of our nobleness. Carlyle.

The quarrel toucheth none but us alone, / Betwixt ourselves let us decide it then. 1 Hen. VI., iv. 1.

The question is not at what door of fortune's 25 palace shall we enter in, but what doors does she open to us? Burns.

The question is not who is the most learned, but who is the best. Montaigne.

The question is this: is man an ape or angel? I, my lord, I am on the side of the angels. Disraeli at a Church Conference in Oxford, Bp. Wilberforce in the chair.

The question of education is for the modern world a question of life or death, a question on which depends the future. Renan.

The question of questions (for men and nations) is—not how far they are from heaven, but whether they are going to it. (So in art) it is not the wisdom or the barbarism that you have to estimate, not the skill or the rudeness, but the tendency. Ruskin.

The question of the purpose of things is completely 30 unscientific. Goethe.

The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong. Bible.

The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. Scott.

The rainbow in the morning / Is the shepherd's warning; / The rainbow at night / Is the shepherd's delight. Pr.

The rank is but the guinea's stamp, / The man's the gowd for a' that. Burns.

The ransom of a man's life are his riches. 35 Bible.

The ray of light passes invisible through space, and only when it falls on an object is it seen. Emerson.

The readiness is all. Ham., v. 2.

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself. Ward Beecher.

The real men of genius were resolute workers, not idle dreamers. G. H. Lewes.

The real Nimrod of this era, who alone does 40 any good to the era, is the rat-catcher. Carlyle.

The real object of education is to give children resources that will endure as long as life endures; habits that time will ameliorate, not destroy; occupation that will render sickness tolerable, solitude pleasant, age venerable, life more dignified and useful, and death less terrible. Sydney Smith.

The real object of the drama is the exhibition of human character. Macaulay.

The real science of political economy is that which teaches nations to desire and labour for the things that lead to life; and which teaches them to scorn and destroy the things that lead to destruction. Ruskin.

The really strong may bend, and be as strong as ever; it is the unsound that has only the seeming of strength, which breaks at last when it resists too long. Lever.

The reason that there is such a general outcry 45 against flatterers is, that there are so very few good ones. Steele.

The reason why borrowed books are so seldom returned to their owners is, that it is much easier to retain the books than what is in them. Montaigne.

The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages. Swift.

The reason why the character of woman is so often misunderstood, is that it is the beautiful nature of woman to veil her soul as her charms. F. Schlegel.

The reason why we sometimes see that men of the greatest capacities are not rich, is either because they despise wealth in comparison of something else, or, at least, are not content to be getting an estate, unless they may do it in their own way, and at the same time enjoy all the pleasures and gratifications of life. Eustace Budgell.

The recording angel, consider it well, is no fable, but the truest of truths; the paper tablets thou canst burn; of the "iron leaf" there is no burning. Carlyle.

The regeneration of society is the regeneration 5 of the individual by education. Laboulaye.

The regions of eternal happiness are provided for those women who love their husbands the same in a wilderness as in a city; be he a saint, or be he sinner. Hitopadesa.

The relation of the taught to their teacher, of the loyal subject to his guiding king, is, under one shape or another, the vital element in human society. Carlyle.

The religion of Christ is peace and goodwill, that of Christendom war and ill-will. Landor.

The religion of Jesus, with all its self-denials, virtues, and devotions, is very practicable. Watts.

The religion of one age is the literary entertainment 10 of the next. Emerson.

The religions of the world are the ejaculations of a few imaginative men. Emerson.

The religions we call false were once true. They also were affirmations of the conscience correcting the evil customs of their times. Emerson.

The religious passion is nearly always vividest where the art is weakest; and the technical skill only reaches its deliberate splendour when the ecstasy which gave it birth has passed away for ever. Ruskin.

The reputation of a man is like his shadow—gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows. Talleyrand.

The reputation of a woman is as a crystal 15 mirror, shining and bright, but liable to be sullied by every breath that comes near it. Cervantes.

The reputation of virtuous actions past, if not kept up with an access and fresh supply of new ones, is lost and soon forgotten. Denham.

The resentment of a poor man is like the efforts of a harmless insect to sting; it may get him crushed, but cannot defend him. Goldsmith.

The rest is silence. Ham., v. 2.

The result (of things) is obvious, but the intention is never clear. Rückert.

The revelation of thought takes man out of 20 servitude into freedom. Emerson.

The reverence of a man's self is, next religion, the chiefest bridle of all vices. Bacon.

The revolutionary outbreaks of the lower classes are the consequence of the injustice of the higher classes. Goethe.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfil another. George Eliot.

The rich and poor meet together: the Lord is the maker of them all. Bible.

The rich are always advising the poor; but 25 the poor seldom venture to return the compliment. Helps.

The rich are invited to marry by that fortune which they do not want, and the poor have no inducement but that beauty which they do not feel. Goldsmith.

The rich becoming richer and the poor poorer, is the cry throughout the whole civilised world. Sillar.

The rich devour the poor, the devil the rich, and so both are devoured. Dutch Pr.

The rich man does not feel his wealth with any vividness. Goethe.

The rich man is seldom in his own halls, because 30 it bores him to be there, and still he returns thither, because he is no better off outside. Schopenhauer.

The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as an high wall in his own conceit. Bible.

The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender. Bible.

The richest minds need not large libraries. A. B. Alcott.

The riddle of the age has for each a private solution. Emerson.

The ridge once gained, the path so hard of 35 late / Runs easy on, and level with the gate (to virtue). Hesiod.

The right divine of kings to govern wrong. Quoted by Pope.

The right ear, that is fill'd with dust, / Hears little of the false or just. Tennyson.

The right honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts. Sheridan.

The right law of education is that you take the most pains with the best material. Never waste pains on bad ground, but spare no labour on the good, or on what has in it the capacity of good. Ruskin.

The right man in the right place. A. H. 40 Layard in the House of Commons.

The righteous hath hope in his death. Bible.

The righteous man falls oft, / Yet falls but soft; / There may be dirt to mire him, but no stones / To crush his bones. Quarles.

The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them. Bible.

The "rights" of men in any form are not worth discussing; the grand point is the "mights" of men—what portion of their "rights" they have a chance of getting sorted out and realised in this confused world. Carlyle.

The riotous tumult of a laugh is the mob-law 45 of the features, and propriety the magistrate who reads the Riot Act. Holmes.

The risings and sinkings of human affairs are like those of a ball which is thrown by the hand. Hitopadesa.

The river has its cataract, / And yet the waters down below / Soon gather from the foam, compact, / And, just like those above it, flow. Dr. W. Smith.

The river remains troubled that has not gone through a lake; the heart is impure that has not gone through a sorrow. Rückert.

The road's afore you, the sky's aboon you. Pr.

The road to resolution lies by doubt. Quarles.

The road to ruin is always kept in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it. Pr.

The road which runs without a bend / Is that 5 which hath a proper end. Goethe.

The robb'd that smiles, steals something from the thief. Othello, i. 3.

The romantic is the instinctive delight in, and admiration for, sublimity, beauty, and virtue, unusually manifested. Ruskin.

The root of almost every schism and heresy from which the Christian Church has suffered has been the effort of men to earn, rather than to receive, their salvation; and the reason that preaching is so commonly ineffectual is, that it calls on men oftener to work for God than to behold God working for them. Ruskin.

The root of sanctity is sanity. A man must be healthy before he can be holy. We bathe first, and then perfume. Mme. Swetchine.

The rough material of fine writing is certainly 10 the gift of genius; but I as firmly believe that the workmanship is the united effort of pains, attention, and repeated trial. Burns.

The rough seas that spare not any man. Pericles, ii. 1.

The rude man requires only to see something going on. The man of more refinement must be made to feel. The man of complete refinement must be made to reflect. Goethe.

The rule of the footway is clear as the light, / And none can its reason withstand; / On each side of the way you must keep to the right, / And leave those you meet the left hand. Saying.

The ruling passion, be it what it will, / The ruling passion, conquers reason still. Pope.

The running waves of eager life end on the 15 motionless fixed strand of death. Alfred Austin.

The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath. Jesus.

The sacred wrestler, till a blessing given, / Quits not his hold, but, halting, conquers heaven. Waller.

The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination. Bible.

The saddest external condition of affairs among men, is but evidence of a still sadder internal one. Carlyle.

The safest and purest joys of human life rebuke 20 the violence of its passions; they are obtainable without anxiety and memorable without regret. Ruskin.

The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts. C. H. Parkhurst.

The safety-valves of the heart when too much pressure is laid on. Albert Smith, on tears.

The salve of reformation they mightily call for, but where and what the sores are which need it, as they wot full little, so they think not greatly material to search. Hooker.

The same motions and muscles of the face are employed both in laughing and crying. Charron.

The Satanic school. Southey. 25

"The savans and the asses in the middle." Order of Napoleon on the eve of a cavalry charge in Egypt.

The scholar without good-breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic; the soldier, a brute; and every man disagreeable. Chesterfield.

The schoolboy counts the time till the return of the holidays; the minor longs to be of age; the lover is impatient till he is married. Addison.

The schoolmaster is abroad. Brougham.

The sea belongs to eternity, and not time, 30 and of that it sings its monotonous song for ever and ever. Holmes.

The sea complains upon a thousand shores. Alex. Smith.

The sea does not contain all the pearls, the earth does not enclose all the treasures, and the flint-stone does not enclose all the diamonds, since the head of man encloses wisdom. Saadi.

The sea moans over dead men's bones. T. B. Aldrich.

The sea that bares her bosom to the moon. Wordsworth.

The sea tosses and foams to find its way up to 35 the cloud and wind. Emerson.

The seal of truth is simplicity. Boerhaave.

The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong if we do not feel aright. Hazlitt.

The seat of law is the bosom of God; her voice, the harmony of the world. Hooker.

The second fruit of friendship is healthful and sovereign for the understanding, as the first is for the affections; for friendship maketh indeed a fair day in the affections from storm and tempests, but it maketh daylight in the understanding out of darkness and confusion of thoughts. Bacon.

The secret of education lies in respecting the 40 pupil. Emerson.

The secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate. Adam Clarke.

The secret of language is the secret of sympathy, and its full charm is possible only to the gentle. Ruskin.

The secret of making one's self tiresome is not to know when to stop. Voltaire.

The secret of man's being is still like the Sphinx's secret; a riddle that he cannot rede; and for ignorance of which he suffers death, the worst death—a spiritual. Carlyle.

The secret of man's nature lies in his religion, 45 in what he really believes about the world and his own place in it. Froude.

The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the moods of men, and his tact in dealing with them. J. G. Holland.

The secret of our existence is the connection between our sins and our sufferings. (?)

The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy. Emerson.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose. Disraeli.

The secret of tiring is to say everything that can be said on the subject. Voltaire.

The secret things belong unto the Lord. Bible.

The secrets of great folk are just like the wild beasts that are shut up in cages. Keep them hard and fast snecked up, and it's a' very weel or better—but ance let them out, they will turn and rend you. Scott.

The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness. Emerson.

The seed of knowledge ripens but slowly in the 5 mind, but the flowers grow quickly. Bodenstedt.

The seeds of things are very small. George Eliot.

The seers are wholly a greater race than the thinkers; (yet) a true thinker, who has a practical purpose in his thinking, and is sincere, as Plato, or Carlyle, or Helps, becomes in some sort a seer, and must be always of infinite use in his generation. Ruskin.

The self-same sun that shines upon his court / Hides not his visage from our cottage, but / Looks on alike. Winter's Tale, iv. 3.

The sense of beauty never furthered the performance of a single duty. Ruskin.

The sense of death is most in apprehension, / 10 And the poor beetle that we tread upon / In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great / As when a giant dies. Meas. for Meas., iii. 1.

The sense of human dignity was the chief moral agent of antiquity, and the sense of sin of mediævalism. H. Lecky.

The sense of the infinite nature of Duty is the central part of all with us; a ray as of Eternity and Immortality, immured in dusky many-coloured Time, and its births and deaths. Carlyle.

The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does. Goethe.

The sentimental by and by will have to give place to the practical. Carlyle.

The serenity that is not felt, it can be no 15 virtue to feign. Johnson.

The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame each of them by a single sentence consisting of two or three words. South.

The "seventeenth" century is worthless to us except precisely in so far as it can be made the "nineteenth." Carlyle.

The severe and restrictive virtues are almost too costly for humanity. Burke.

The severity of laws impedes their execution. Montesquieu.

The shadowed livery of the burnished sun. 20 Mer. of Venice, ii. 1.

The sheep slips and is up again; the sow lies down and wallows. Saying.

The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. Johnson.

The ship that carries most sail is most buffeted by the winds and storms. John Burroughs.

The short and simple annals of the poor. Gray.

The shorter life, less count I find, / The less 25 account the sooner made, / The account soon made, the merrier mind, / The merrier mind doth thought evade. Sir T. Wyatt.

The shortest and the surest way to prove a work possible is strenuously to set about it; and no wonder if that proves it possible that for the most part makes it so. South.

The shortest answer is doing. Pr.

The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once. Samuel Smiles.

The showy lives its little hour; the true / To after times bears rapture ever new. Goethe.

The shrine is that which thou dost venerate, / 30 And not the beast that bears it on his back. George Herbert.

The sight of you is good for sore eyes. Swift.

The sign of health is unconsciousness. Carlyle.

The sign of the poet is that he announces what no man foretold. Emerson.

The significance of life is doing something. Carlyle.

The signs of the times. Jesus. 35

The silence often of pure innocence / Persuades when speaking fails. Winter's Tale, ii. 2.

The silence that is in the starry sky. Wordsworth.

The silent heavens have goings-on; / The stars have tasks. Wordsworth.

The simple believeth every word. Bible.

The sin that practice burns into the blood, / 40 And not the one dark hour which brings remorse, / Will brand us, after, of whose fold we be. Tennyson.

The single snowflake—who cares for it? But a whole day of snowflakes... who does not care for that? Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent. (?)

The slack sail shifts from side to side, / The boat, untrimm'd, admits the tide, / Borne down, adrift, at random tost, / The oar breaks short, the rudder's lost. Gay.

The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep. Bible.

The sleeping and the dead / Are but as pictures. Macb., ii. 2.

The slender vine twists around the sturdy 45 oak, for no other reason in the world but because it has not strength sufficient to support itself. Goldsmith.

The slight that can be conveyed in a glance, in a gracious smile, in a wave of the hand, is often the "ne plus ultra" of art. What insult is so keen, or so keenly felt, as the polite insult which it is impossible to resent? Julia Kavanagh.

The slow wheel turns, / The cycles round themselves and grow complete, / The world's year whitens to the harvest-tide, / And one word only am I (Psyche) sent to say... / To all things living, and the word is "Love." Lewis Morris.

The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason. Bible.

The sly shadow steals away upon the dial, and the quickest eye can discover no more but that it is gone. Glanville.

The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater 50 ennoble it. Bovee.

The smallest annoyances disturb us most. Montaigne.

The smallest bird cannot light upon the greatest tree without sending a shock to its most distant fibre. Lew Wallace.

The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on; / And doves will peck, in safeguard of their brood. 3 Henry VI., ii. 2.

The smoke of a man's own house is better than the fire of another's. Pr.

The snail sees nothing but his own shell, and thinks it the grandest place in the world. Pr.

The social, friendly, honest man, / Whate'er he be, / 'Tis he fulfils great Nature's plan, / And none but he. Burns.

The society of women is the element of good 5 manners. Goethe.

The soldier's trade, verily and essentially, is not slaying, but being slain... and the reason the world honours the soldier is because he holds his life at the service of the state. Ruskin.

The soldier's ultimate and perennial office is to punish knaves and make idle persons work; the defence of his country against other countries, which is his office at present, will soon now be extinct. Ruskin.

The sole terms on which the past can become ours are its subordination to the present. Emerson.

The Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many. Jesus.

The song that we hear with our ears is only 10 the song that is sung with our hearts. Ouida.

The sorest tempest has the most sudden calm. Socrates.

The sorrow of Yesterday is as nothing; that of To-day is bearable; but that of To-morrow is gigantic, because indistinct. Euripides.

The sorrowfulest of fates is to have liberty without deserving it. Ruskin.

The soul is like the sun, which, to our eyes, seems to set in night; but it has in reality only gone to diffuse its light elsewhere. Goethe.

The soul is not where it lives, but where it 15 loves. Pr.

The soul knows no persons. Emerson.

The soul may be trusted to the end. Emerson.

The soul moralises the past in order not to be demoralised by it, and finds in the crucible of experience only the gold that she herself has poured into it. Amiel.

The soul of a man can by no agency, of men or of devils, be lost and ruined but by his own only. Carlyle.

The soul of man is a mirror of the mind of God. 20 Ruskin.

The soul reveals itself in the voice only.... It is audible, not visible. Longfellow.

The soul shut up in her dark room, / Viewing so clear abroad, at home sees nothing; / But, like a mole in earth, busy and blind, / Works all her folly up, and casts it outward / To the world's open view. Dryden.

The soul, / The particle of God sent down to man, / Which doth in turn reveal the world and God. Lewis Morris.

The soul, / Though made in time, survives for aye; / And, though it hath beginning, sees no end. Sir J. Davies.

The soul's armour is never well set to the 25 heart unless a woman's hand has braced it. Ruskin.

The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, / Lets in new light through chinks that time has made. Waller.

The soul's emphasis is always right. Emerson.

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a deal longer. Holmes.

The sphere-harmony of a Shakespeare, of a Goethe, the cathedral music of a Milton, the humble, genuine lark-notes of a Burns. Carlyle.

The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is 30 in kings' palaces. Bible.

The spirit breatheth where it willeth, and thou hearest the voice thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is it with every one that is born of the spirit. Jesus.

The spirit in which we act is the highest matter. Goethe.

The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. Jesus of his disciples.

The spirit is higher than nature. Hegel.

The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; 35 but a wounded spirit who can bear? Bible.

The spirit of moderation should be the spirit of a lawgiver. Montesquieu.

The spirit of poesy is the morning light, which makes the statue of Memnon sound. Novalis.

The spirit only can teach. Emerson.

The spirit was long ago liberated from the blind law of nature, and the task it is called to now is to unfold itself with freedom and clearness in the sunlight, i.e., in its own light now at length conscious of itself. Ed.

The spiritual artist too is born blind, and does 40 not, like certain other creatures, receive sight in nine days, but far later—perhaps never. Carlyle.

The spiritual is ever the inner in a man becoming outer, the invisible becoming visible, the supernatural becoming natural, the infinite becoming finite, and the eternal veiling itself in the guise of time; never an emancipation from the flesh, but ever an incarnation in flesh. Ed.

The spiritual is higher than the external; the spiritual cannot be externally authenticated. Hegel.

The spiritual is the parent and first cause of the practical. Carlyle.

The spiritual man is free to rule his world, not his world to rule him. Ed.

The spiritual problem which Christ resolved 45 was pretty much this—the derivation of that from within man which was conceived to be above man, by the reperception of the forgotten truth that it was in His own image God made man. He first opened up the well within. Ed.

The spiritual universe is no more to be made out of a man's own head than the material universe or the moral universe.... No belief of ours will change the facts or reverse the laws of the spiritual universe. R. W. Dale.

The spiritual will always body itself forth in the temporal history of men; the spiritual is the beginning of the temporal, always determines the material. Carlyle.

The spiritual world is not closed; it is thy sense that is: thy heart is dead. Goethe.

The spring can be apprehended only while it is flowing. Goethe.

The springing of a serpent is from the sun; the wisdom of the serpent, whence is that? Ruskin.

The stars do not come to tell us it is night, 5 but to lay beams of light through it, and give the eye a path to walk in. Ward Beecher.

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself / Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years; / But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, / Unhurt amidst the war of elements, / The wrecks of matter and the crash of worlds. Addison.

The stars themselves are only bright by distance; go close, and all is earthy; but vapours illuminate there; from the breath and from the countenance of God comes light on worlds higher than they. Landor.

The "State in danger" is a condition of things which we have witnessed a hundred times; and as for the Church, it has seldom been out of "danger" since we can remember it. Carlyle.

The State must follow, and not lead, the character and progress of the citizen. Emerson.

The statesman wishes to steer, while the politician 10 is satisfied to drift. James Freeman Clarke.

The steps of faith fall on the seeming void, and find the rock beneath. Whittier.

The still, sad music of humanity. Wordsworth.

The Stoic thought by slandering Happiness to woo her; by shunning to win her; and proudly presumed that, by fleeing her, she would turn and follow him. Arliss.

The Stoic was a proud man, and not a humble, and he was content if he could only have his own soul for a prey. He did not see that the salvation of one man is impossible except in the salvation of other men, and that no man can save another unless he descend into that other's case, and be, as it were, in that other's stead. Ed.

The stoical exemption which philosophy affects 15 to give us over the pains and vexations of human life is as imaginary as the state of mystical quietism and perfection aimed at by some crazy enthusiast. Scott.

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes. Swift.

The stomach has no ears. Pr.

The stone that lieth not in your way need not offend you. Pr.

The stone which the builders refused has become the head of the corner. Bible.

The storm of sad mischance will turn into 20 something that is good, if we list to make it so. Taylor.

The stranger who turneth away from a house with disappointed hopes leaveth there his own offences, and departeth, taking with him all the good actions of the owner. Hitopadesa.

The stranger's greeting thou shouldst aye return! Goethe.

The strawberry grows under the nettle, / And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best / Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality. Hen. V., i. 1.

The stream can never rise above the spring-head. Pr.

The street is full of humiliations to the proud. 25 Emerson.

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it. Ruskin.

The strength of aquatic animals is the waters; of those who dwell in towns, a castle; of footsoldiers, their own ground; of princes, an obedient army. Hitopadesa.

The string o'erstretched breaks, and the music flies; / The string o'erslack is dumb, and music dies; / Tune us the sitar neither low nor high. Sir Edwin Arnold.

The string that jars / When rudely touch'd, ungrateful to the sense, / With pleasure feels the master's flying fingers, / Swells into harmony and charms the hearers. Rowe.

The stroke that comes transmitted through 30 a whole galaxy of elastic balls, is it less a stroke than if the last ball only had been struck and sent flying? Carlyle.

The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as those of the sword need swiftness. Julia W. Howe.

The strong man is the wise man; the man with the gift of method, of faithfulness, of valour; who has insight into what is what, into what will follow out of what, the eye to see and the hand to do. Carlyle.

The strong mind is nowise the mind acquainted with its strength. Carlyle.

The strong must build stout cabins for the weak; / Must plan and stint; must sow and reap and store; / For grain takes root though all seems bare and bleak. Eugene Lee-Hamilton.

The strong thing is the just thing: this thou 35 wilt find throughout in our world;—as indeed was God and Truth the maker of it, or was Satan and Falsehood? Carlyle.

The strong torrents, which in their own gladness fill the hills with hollow thunder and the vales with winding light, have yet their bounden charge of field to feed and barge to bear. Ruskin.

The strongest arm is impotent to impart momentum to a feather. Schopenhauer.

The strongest castle, tower, and town, / The golden bullet beats it down. Shakespeare.

The strongest oaths are straw / To the fire i' the blood. Tempest, iv. 1.

The student is to read history actively and 40 not passively; to esteem his own life the text, and books the commentary. Thus compelled, the muse of history will utter oracles as never to those who do not respect themselves. Emerson.

The study of books is a languishing and feeble motion that hearts not, whereas conversation teaches and exercises at once. Montaigne.

The stumbler stumbles least in rugged way. George Herbert.

The style of an author is a faithful copy of his mind. If you would write a lucid style, let there first be light in your own mind; and if you would write a grand style, you ought to have a grand character. Goethe.

The style of letters should not be too highly polished. It ought to be neat and correct, but no more. Blair.

The style of writing required in the great world is distinguished by a free and daring grace, a careless security, a fine and sharp polish, a delicate and perfect taste; while that fitted for the people is characterised by a vigorous natural fulness, a profound depth of feeling, and an engaging naïveté. Goethe.

The sublime is in a grain of dust. Landor.

The sublime is the temple-step of religion, as 5 the stars are of immeasurable space. When what is mighty appears in nature—a storm, thunder, the starry firmament, death—then utter the word "God" before the child. A great misfortune, a great blessing, a great crime, a noble action, are building-sites for a child's church. Jean Paul.

The sublime produces a beautiful calmness in the soul which, entirely possessed by it, feels as great as it ever can feel. When we compare such a feeling with that we are sensible of when we laboriously harass ourselves with some trifle, and strain every nerve to gain as much as possible for it, as it were, to patch it out, striving to furnish joy and aliment to the mind from its own creation, we then feel sensibly what a poor expedient, after all, the latter is. Goethe.

The sublime, when it is introduced at a seasonable moment, has often carried all before it with the rapidity of lightning, and shown at a glance the mighty power of genius. Longinus.

The sublimest canticle to be heard on earth is the stammering of the human soul on the lips of infancy. Victor Hugo.

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living which are to be desired when dying. Jeremy Taylor.

The substance of a diligent man is precious. 10 Bible.

The substance of a man is full good when sin is not in a man's conscience. Chaucer.

The substantial wealth of a man consists in the earth he cultivates with its plants and animals, and in the rightly produced works of his own hands. Ruskin.

The success of many works is found in the relation between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and that of the ideas of the public. Chamfort.

The suffering man ought really "to consume his own smoke;" there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire. Carlyle.

The sufficiency of my merit is to know that my 15 merit is not sufficient. St. Augustine.

The sun can be seen by nothing but its own light. Pr.

The sun flings out impurities, gets balefully incrusted with spots; but it does not quench itself, and become no sun at all, but a mass of darkness. Carlyle.

The sun! God's crest upon his azure shield, the heavens. Bailey.

The sun is God. Turner on his deathbed.

The sun may do its duty, though your grapes 20 are not ripe. Pr.

The sun passeth through pollutions, and itself remains as pure as before. Bacon.

The sun-steeds of time, as if goaded by invisible spirits, bear onward the light car of our destiny, and nothing remains for us but, with calm self-possession, to grasp the reins, and now right, now left, to steer the wheels, here from the precipice, and there from the rock. Whither he is hasting, who knows? Does any one consider whence he came? Goethe.

The sun's power cannot draw a wandering star from its path. How then could a human being fall out of God's love! Rückert.

The sunshine of life is made up of very little beams, that are bright all the time. Aikin.

The superstition in which we have grown up 25 does not lose its hold over us even when we recognise it for such. Those who scoff at their fetters are not all free men. Lessing.

The sure way to miss success is to miss the opportunity. Philarète Chasles.

The surest sign of age is loneliness. A. B. Alcott.

The surest test of a man's critical power is his judgment of contemporaries. La Bruyère.

The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed. Sheridan.

The surest way to have redress is to be earnest 30 in pursuit of it. Goldsmith.

The surgeon practises on the orphan's head. Arab. Pr.

The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of tenderness, truth, or courage. Emerson.

The sweetest wine makes the sharpest vinegar. Pr.

The sweetness of the lips increaseth learning. Bible.

The sweets of love are washed with tears. 35 George Herbert.

The sword is but a hideous flash in the darkness; right is an eternal ray. Victor Hugo.

The sympathy of sorrow is stronger than the sympathy of prosperity. I. Disraeli.

The system of the world is entirely one; small things and great are alike part of one mighty whole. Ruskin.

The tabernacle of the upright shall flourish. Bible.

The tallest trees are most in the power of the 40 winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune. Wm. Penn.

The tanager flies through the green foliage as if he would ignite the leaves. Thoreau.

The teaching of art is the teaching of all things. Ruskin.

The teachings of Heaven are given—by sad law—in so obscure, nay, often in so ironical a manner, that a blockhead necessarily reads them wrong. Ruskin.

The tear of joy is a pearl of the first water; the mourning tear, only of the second. Jean Paul.

The tears of penitents are the wine of angels. 45 St. Bernard.

The tell-tale out of school is of all wits the greatest fool. Swift.

The temper of the pedagogue suits not with the age; and the world, however it may be taught, will not be tutored. Shaftesbury.

The temperate man's pleasures are durable, because they are regular; and all his life is calm and serene, because it is innocent. (?)

The tempest never rooteth up the grass, which is feeble, humble, and shooteth not up on high; but exerteth its power even to distress the lofty trees; for the great use not their might but upon the great. Hitopadesa.

The temple of our purest thoughts is—silence! 5 Mrs. Hale.

The tendency of laws should be rather to diminish the amount of evil than to produce an amount of happiness. Goethe.

The tendency of party-spirit has ever been to disguise and propagate and support error. Whately.

The tender flower that lifts its head, elate, / Helpless must fall before the blasts of fate, / Sunk on the earth, defaced its lovely form, / Unless your shelter ward th' impending storm. Burns.

The tender heart o' leesome luve / The gowd and siller canna buy. Burns.

The tender mercies of the wicked are cruel. 10 Bible.

The term of man's life is half wasted before he has done with his mistakes and begins to profit by his lessons. Jane Taylor.

The test of civilisation is the estimate of woman. G. W. Curtis.

The test or measure of poetic genius is to read the poetry of affairs, to fuse the circumstance of to-day. Emerson.

The theatre has often been at variance with the pulpit; they ought not to quarrel. How much is it to be wished that in both the celebration of nature and of God were intrusted to none but men of noble minds! Goethe.

The There is never Here. Schiller. 15

The thin edge of the wedge is to be feared. Pr.

The thing a lie wants, and solicits from all men, is not a correct natural history of it, but the swiftest possible extinction of it, followed by entire silence about it. Carlyle.

The thing done avails, and not what is said about it. Emerson.

The thing men get to believe is the thing they will infallibly do. Carlyle.

The thing that hath been, it is that which 20 shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done. Bible.

The thing that is, what can be so wonderful? what, especially to us that are, can have such significance? Carlyle.

The thing that matters most, both for happiness and for duty, is that we should strive habitually to live with wise thoughts and right feelings. J. Morley.

The thing to be anxious about is not to be right with man, but with mankind. Prof. Drummond.

The thing visible, nay, the thing imagined, the thing in any way conceived of as visible, what is it but a garment, a clothing of the higher, celestial invisible, "unimaginable, formless, dark with excess of bright"? Carlyle.

The thing which is deepest rooted in Nature, 25 what we call truest, that, and not the other, will be found growing at last. Carlyle.

The things that destroy us are injustice, insolence, and foolish thoughts; and the things which save us are justice, self-command, and true thought, which things dwell in the loving powers of the gods. Plato.

The things that threatened me, / Ne'er look'd but on my back; when they shall see / The face of Cæsar, they are vanished. Jul. Cæsar, ii. 2.

The thinker requires exactly the same light as the painter, clear, without direct sunshine, or blinding reflection, and, where possible, from above. Schlegel.

The thinking minds of all nations call for change. There is a deep-lying struggle in the whole fabric of society; a boundless, grinding collision of the new with the old. Carlyle.

The third pays for all. Twelfth Night, v. 1. 30

The thirst for truth still remains with us, even when we have wilfully left the fountains of it. Ruskin.

The thorny point / Of bare distress hath ta'en from me the show / Of smooth civility. As You Like It, ii. 7.

The thought is always prior to the fact; all the facts of history pre-exist in the mind as laws. Emerson.

The thought is parent of the deed. Carlyle.

The thought of foolishness is sin. Bible. 35

The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want. Bible.

The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord. Bible.

The thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts. Lapland Pr.

The thoughts we have had, the pictures we have seen, can be again called back before the mind's eye and before the imagination; but the heart is not so obliging; it does not reproduce its pleasing emotions. Goethe.

The thrall in person may be free in soul. 40 Tennyson.

The throne is established by righteousness. Bible.

The time for words has passed, and deeds alone suffice. Whittier.

The time has been / That when the brains were out the man should die, / And there an end. Macb., iii. 4.

The time is out of joint; O cursèd spite, / That ever I was born to set it right. Ham., i. 5.

The time of breeding is the time of doing 45 children good; and not as many who think they have done fairly if they leave them a good portion after their decease. George Herbert.

The time that bears no fruit deserves no name. Young.

The Times are the masquerade of the Eternities; trivial to the dull, tokens of noble and majestic agents to the wise. Emerson.

The timid are in fear before danger, the cowardly in danger, and the courageous after danger. Jean Paul.

The timing of things is a main point in the dispatch of all affairs. L'Estrange.

The tired ocean crawls along the beach sobbing a wordless sorrow to the moon. William Falconer.

The toil of life alone teaches us to value the blessings of life. Goethe.

The tomb is the pedestal of greatness. Landor.

The tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly 5 evil, full of deadly poison. St. James.

The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth. Pr.

The tongue is not of steel, but it cuts. Pr.

The tongue is the worst part of a bad servant. Juv.

The tongue of the just is as choice silver. Bible.

The tongue tells the thought of one man only, 10 whereas the face expresses a thought of nature itself; so that every one is worth attentive observation, even though every one may not be worth talking to. Schopenhauer.

The tongue's aye quick at saying "Na," / Though a' the while the heart be dumb. Gilfillan.

The tongues of dying men / Enforce attention like deep harmony. Rich. II., ii. 1.

The too good opinion man has of himself is the nursing-mother of all false opinions, both public and private. Montaigne.

The torments of martyrdoms are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders. Emerson.

The total loss of reason is less deplorable than 15 the total depravation of it. Cowley.

The training (Bildung) of the thinking, of the dispositions and the morals, is the only education that deserves the name. Herder.

The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth. Johnson.

The traveller who goes round the world prepares himself to pass through all latitudes and to meet all changes. Ward Beecher.

The traveller without observation is a bird without wings. Saadi.

The treasures of heaven are not negations of 20 passion but realities of intellect, from which all passions emanate, uncurbed in their eternal glory. Wm. Blake.

The tree doth not withdraw its shade, even from the woodcutter. Hitopadesa.

The tree Igdrasil, which reaches up to heaven, goes down to the kingdom of hell; and God, the Everlasting Good and Just, is in it all. Carlyle.

The tree is no sooner down than every one runs for his hatchet. Pr.

The tree of knowledge is grafted upon the tree of life; and that fruit which brought the fear of death into the world, budding on an immortal stock, becomes the fruit of the promise of immortality. Sir H. Davy.

The tree of knowledge is not that of life. 25 Byron.

The tree of liberty only grows when watered by the blood of tyrants. Bertrand Barère.

The tree of silence bears the fruit of peace. Arab. Pr.

The tree which yieldeth both fruit and shade is highly to be esteemed: but if Providence, perchance, may have denied it fruit, by whom is its shade refused? Hitopadesa.

The trenchant blade, Toledo trusty, / For want of fighting was grown rusty, / And ate into itself, for lack / Of somebody to hew and hack. Butler.

The trident of Neptune is the sceptre of the 30 planet. Lemierre.

The triumphs of delusion are but for a day. Macaulay.

The trivial round, the common task, / Will furnish all we ought to ask. / Room to deny ourselves, a road / To bring us daily nearer God. Keble.

The true and the good will be reconciled when the two are wedded to each other in the beautiful. Rückert.

The true art of being agreeable is to appear well pleased with all the company, and rather to seem well entertained with them than to bring entertainment to them. Addison.

The true beginning is oftenest unnoticed and 35 unnoticeable. Carlyle.

The true "compulsory education" now needed is not catechism, but drill. Ruskin.

The true cross of the Redeemer is the sin and sorrow of the world. George Eliot.

The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions. Arist.

The true epic of our times is, not arms and the man, but tools and the man—an infinitely wider kind of epic. Carlyle.

The true eye for talent presupposes the true 40 reverence for it. Carlyle.

The true fire of heaven always comes from heaven direct. Ed.

The true function of intellect is not that of talking, but of understanding and discerning with a view to performing. Carlyle.

The true God's voice, voice of the Eternal, is in the heart of every man. Carlyle.

The true good (all of it) and glory even of this world, not to speak of any that is to come, must be bought still, as it always has been, with our toil and with our tears. That is the final doctrine, the inevitable one, not of Christianity only, but of all heroic faith and heroic being. Ruskin.

The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat 45 as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little stardust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched. Thoreau.

The true historical genius, to our thinking, is that which can see the nobler meaning of the events that are near him. Lowell.

The true labourer is worthy of his hire, but, in the beginning and first choice of industry, his heart must not be the heart of an hireling. Ruskin.

The true ladder of heaven has no steps. Jean Paul.

The true liberty of a man consists in his finding out, or being forced to find out, the right path, and to walk therein. Carlyle.

The true life of man is in society. Simms. 50

The true life of man, like God's, lies in the ungrudging imparting of himself to alike the worthy and unworthy without fear of forfeiture or claim of reward. Ed.

The true literary man is the light of the world; the world's priest guiding it, like a sacred pillar of fire, in its dark pilgrimage through the waste of time. Carlyle.

The true mind of a nation, at any period, is always best ascertainable by examining that of its greatest men. Ruskin.

The true original ground of all disquiet is within. Thomas à Kempis.

The true philosophical act is annihilation of self; this is the real beginning of all philosophy; all requisites for being a disciple of philosophy point hither. Novalis.

The true poet is even more than a finder or troubadour; he is a seer, a prophet, and an interpreter between the divine and the human. C. Fitzhugh.

The true poet, who is but the inspired thinker, 5 is still an Orpheus whose lyre tames the savage beasts, and evokes the dead rocks to fashion themselves into palaces and stately inhabited cities. Carlyle.

The true poetic soul needs but to be struck, and the sounds it yields will be music. Carlyle.

The true preacher can be known by this, that he deals out to the people his life—life passed through the fire of thought. Emerson.

The true scholar learns from the known to unfold the unknown, and approaches more and more to being a master. Goethe.

The true Shekinah is man. St. Chrysostom.

The true strength of every human soul is to 10 be dependent on as many nobler as it can discern, and to be depended upon by as many inferior as it can reach. Ruskin.

The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small. Johnson.

The True that is identical with the Divine can never be directly known by us; we behold it only in reflexion (Abglanz), in example, in symbol, in individual and related phenomena; we perceive it as incomprehensible life, which yet we cannot renounce the wish to comprehend. This is true of all the phenomena of the conceivable world. Goethe.

The true university of these days is a collection of books. Carlyle.

The true value of a man's book is determined by what he does not write. Carlyle.

The true veins of wealth are purple—not in 15 rock, but in flesh—(and) the final outcome and consummation of all wealth is in producing as many as possible full-breathed, bright-eyed, and happy-hearted human creatures. Ruskin.

The true way of softening one's troubles is to solace those of others. Mme. de Maintenon.

The truly strong mind, view it as intellect or morality, or under any other aspect, is nowise the mind acquainted with its strength. Carlyle.

The truly sublime is always easy, and always natural. Burke.

The truly wise man should have no keeper of his secrets but himself. Guizot.

The truth shall make you free. Jesus. 20

The truth we need is only lightly veiled, not deeply buried by the wise hand which has designed it for us. Gellert.

The truth works sometimes from without as from within. Dr. W. Smith.

The truths of Nature are one eternal change, one infinite variety. Ruskin.

The two best rules for a system of rhetoric are: first, have something to say; and next, say it. George Emmons.

The two foes of human happiness are pain and 25 ennui. Schopenhauer.

The two great movers of the human mind are the desire of good and the fear of evil. Johnson.

The two most beautiful things in the universe are the starry heavens above us and the feeling of duty within us. An Indian sage.

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new. Thackeray.

The two sources of all quack-talent are cunning and impudence. Carlyle.

The ultimate rule (in writing) is: Learn so far 30 as possible to be intelligible and transparent—no notice taken of your style, but solely of what you express by it. Carlyle.

The ultimate tendency of civilisation is towards barbarism. Hare.

The unconscious is the alone complete. Goethe.

The Understanding is indeed thy window, too clear thou canst not make it; but Fantasy is thy eye, with its colour-giving retina, healthy or diseased. Carlyle.

The undiscovered country, from whose bourn / No traveller returns. Ham., iii. 1.

The unfortunate are loud and loquacious 35 in their complaints, but real happiness is content with its own silent enjoyment. Gibbon.

The unhappy (malheureux) are always wrong: wrong in being so, wrong in saying so, wrong in needing help of others, wrong in not being able to help them. Mirabeau.

The unimaginative person can neither be reverent nor kind. Ruskin.

The universe has three children, born at one time... called cause, operation, and effect, or, theologically, the Father, the Spirit, and the Son. These three are equal... and each has the power of the others latent in him. Emerson.

The universe is a thought of God. Schiller.

The universe is an infinite sphere, the centre 40 of which is everywhere, and the circumference nowhere. Pascal after St. Augustus.

The universe is but one vast symbol of God; nay, if thou wilt have it, what is man himself but a symbol of God; is not all that he does symbolical; a revelation to sense of the mystic god-given force that is in him; a "gospel of freedom," which he, the "Messias of Nature," preaches, as he can, by act and word? Carlyle.

The universe is full of love, but also of inexorable sternness and severity. Carlyle.

The universe is not dead and demoniacal, a charnel-house with spectres, but godlike, and my Father's. Carlyle.

The universe is one great city, full of beloved ones, human and divine, by nature endeared to each other. Epictetus.

The universe is that great egoist that decoys 45 us by the grossest bird-calls. Renan.

The universe is the realised thought of God. Carlyle.

The universe stands by him who stands by himself. Emerson.

The universe would not be rich enough to buy the vote of an honest man. St. Gregory.

The unlearned man knoweth not what it is to descend into himself and call himself to account; nor the pleasure of that most pleasant life which consists in our daily feeling ourselves become better. Sir Walter Raleigh.

The unlettered peasant, whose views are only directed to the narrow sphere around him, beholds Nature with a finer relish, and tastes her blessings with a keener appetite, than the philosopher whose mind attempts to grasp a universal system. Goldsmith.

The unpastured sea hungering for calm. 5 Shelley.

The unworn spirit is strong; life is so healthful that it even finds nourishment in death. Carlyle.

The upper classes and people of wealth suffer most from ennui. Schopenhauer.

The Upper Crust, i.e., the Upper Ten. Amer.

The Upper Ten, i.e., the aristocracy; the upper circles (contracted from Upper Ten Thousand). Amer.

The upper current of society presents no certain 10 criterion by which we can judge of the direction in which the under-current flows. Macaulay.

The upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it. Bible.

The ups and downs of the world concern the beggar no longer. Lamb.

The use of knowledge in our sex, besides the amusement of solitude, is to moderate the passions, and learn to be contented with a small expense, which are the certain effects of a studious life; and it may be preferable to that fame which men have engrossed to themselves, and will not suffer us to share. Lady Montagu.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. Johnson.

The useful encourages itself, for the multitude 15 produce it, and no one can dispense with it; but the beautiful must be encouraged, for few can set it forth, and many need it. Goethe.

The useless men are those who never change with the years. J. M. Barrie.

The usurer is the greatest Sabbath-breaker, because his plough goeth every Sunday. Bacon.

The utmost point and acme of honour is not merely in doing no evil, but in thinking none. Ruskin.

The uttered part of a man's life bears to the unuttered, unconscious part of it a small unknown proportion; he himself never knows it, much less do others. Carlyle.

The valiant in himself, what can he suffer? / 20 Or what need he regard his single woes? Thomson.

The valour of a just man is to conquer the flesh, to contradict his own will,... to contemn the flatteries of prosperity, and inwardly to overcome the fears of adversity. S. Greg.

The valour that struggles is better than the weakness that endures. Hegel.

The value of a man, as of a horse, consists in your being able to bridle him, or, what is better, in his being able to bridle himself. Ruskin.

The value of a thing is its life-giving power. Ruskin.

The vanity of loving fine clothes and new 25 fashions, and valuing ourselves by them, is one of the most childish pieces of folly that can be. Sir Matthew Hale.

The veneration we have for many things entirely proceeds from their being carefully concealed. Goldsmith.

The very head and front of my offending / Hath this extent, no more. Othello, i. 3.

The very joy of a true man's heart is to admire, when he can; nothing so lifts him from all his mean imprisonments, were it but for moments, as true admiration. Carlyle.

The very meanest things are made supreme / With innate ecstasy. Blanchard.

The very nature of the dilettanti is that they 30 have no idea of the difficulties which lie in a subject, and always wish to undertake something for which they have no capacity. Goethe.

The very pain of loving is all other joys before. Dr. Walter Smith.

The very society of joy redoubles it, so that, whilst it lights upon my friend, it rebounds upon myself, and the brighter his candle burns the more easily will it light mine. South.

The vessel that will not obey her helm will have to obey the rocks. Breton and Cornish Pr.

The vice of our housekeeping is that it does not hold man sacred. Emerson.

The vices we scoff at in others laugh at us 35 within ourselves. Sir Thomas Browne.

The victories of character are instant, and victories for all. Emerson.

"The victory of Miltiades does not suffer me to sleep." Themistocles, in reference to the battle of Marathon.

The violets and the mayflowers are as the inscriptions or vignettes of spring. It always makes a pleasant impression on us when we open again at these pages of the book of life, its most charming chapter. Goethe.

The virtue of great souls is justice (Gerechtigkeit). Platen.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, 40 as regulated by wisdom. Arist.

The virtue of man is, in a word, the great proof of God. Renan.

The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude; which in morals is the more heroical virtue. Bacon.

The virtue of sex is the occasion of mutual teaching; the woman preaching love in the ears of justice, and the man justice in the ears of love. Amiel.

The virtue of the man who lives according to the precepts of reason shows itself equally great in avoiding as in overcoming dangers. Spinoza.

The virtuous delight in the virtuous; but he who is destitute of the practice of virtue delighteth not in the virtuous. The bee retireth from the forest to the lotus, whilst the frog is destitute of shelter. Hitopadesa.

The virtuous man, from his justice and the affection he hath for mankind, is the dispeller of sorrow and pain. Hitopadesa.

The virtuous soul is pure and unmixed light, springing from the body as a flash of lightning darts from the cloud; the soul that is carnal and immersed in sense, like a heavy and dank vapour, can with difficulty be kindled, and caused to raise its eyes heavenward. Heraclitus.

The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world. Emerson.

The vitality of man is great. Carlyle. 5

The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it. Mme. de Staël.

The voice of prophecies is like that of whispering-places; they who are near hear nothing, those at the first extremity will know all. Sir Thomas Browne.

The voice of the majority is no proof of justice. Schiller.

The voice of the people ought always to meet with attention, though it does not always claim obedience. Fox.

The vulgar estimate themselves by what they 10 do; the noble by what they are. Schiller.

The vulgar great are comprehended and adored, because they are in reality on the same moral plane with those who admire; but he who deserves the higher reverence must himself convert the worshipper. Lord Houghton.

The vulgar keep no account of your hits, but of your misses. Pr.

The wail of grief is more sympathetic than the shout of triumph. C. Fitzhugh.

The walking of man and all animals is a falling forward. Emerson.

The want of belief is a defect which ought to 15 be concealed when it cannot be overcome. Swift.

The want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of solitude. Rousseau.

The want of perception is a defect which all the virtues of the heart cannot supply. Thoreau.

The warl'ly race may riches chase, / And riches still may flee them; / And though at last they catch them fast, / Their hearts can ne'er enjoy them. Burns.

The watchful mother tarries nigh, / Though sleep has clos'd her infant's eye. Keble.

The way in which we form our ideas gives 20 character to our minds. Rousseau.

The way of the superior man is threefold—virtuous, he is free from anxieties; wise, he is free from perplexities; bold, he is free from fear. Confucius.

The way of the wicked is an abomination unto the Lord. Bible.

The way of the world is to make laws, but follow customs. Montaigne.

The way of this world is to praise dead saints and persecute living ones. Rev. N. Howe.

The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our 25 passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigour to our moral nature. Ward Beecher.

The way to avoid the imputation of impudence is not to be ashamed of what we do, but never to do what we ought to be ashamed of. Cic.

The way to be original is to be healthy. Lowell.

The way to get rid of wretchedness is to despise it; to conquer the devil is to defy him; to gain heaven is to turn your back upon it, and be as unflinching as the gods themselves. Satan may be roasted in his own flames; Tophet may be exploded with its own sulphur. John Burroughs upon Carlyle's teaching.

The way to heaven is set with briars and thorns; and they who arrive at the kingdom travel over craggy rocks and comfortless deserts. Thomas à Kempis.

The way to make thy son rich is to fill / His 30 mind with rest, before his trunk with riches. George Herbert.

The way to mend the bad world is to create the right world. Emerson.

The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market; it depends chiefly on two words—industry and frugality. Franklin.

The way to write quickly is to write well. Quinct.

The way, truth, and life have been found in Christianity, and will not now be found outside of it. Matthew Arnold.

The way's not easy where the prize is great. 35 Quarles.

The ways in which most men get their living, that is, live, are mere makeshifts, and a shirking of the real business of life; chiefly because they do not know, but partly because they do not mean better. Thoreau.

The weakest goes to the wall. Rom. and Jul., i. 1.

The weakest spot in every man is where he thinks himself to be the wisest. G. Emmons.

The wealth of a country is in its good men and women, and in nothing else. Ruskin.

The wealth of a man is the number of things 40 which he loves and blesses, which he is loved and blessed by. Carlyle.

The wealth of both Indies seems in great part but an accessory to the command of the seas. Bacon.

The wealth of both the Indies cannot redeem one single opportunity which you have once let slip. Thomas à Kempis.

The wealth of the land / Comes from the forge and the smithy and mine, / From hammer and chisel, and wheel and band, / And the thinking brain and the skilful hand. Dr. Walter Smith.

The wealth we cannot wisely administer is an encumbrance. Goethe.

The weariest and most loathéd worldly life, / 45 That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment / Can lay on nature, is a paradise / To what we fear of death. Meas. for Meas., iii. 1.

The wearisome is in permanence here. Carlyle at Linlathen, in Forfarshire.

The weary night o' care and grief / May hae a joyful morrow. Burns.

The web of this world is woven of necessity and contingency; the reason of man places itself between them, and knows how to rule them both. It treats the necessary as the ground of its existence; the contingent it knows how to direct, lead, and utilise; and it is only while reason stands firm and steadfast that man deserves to be called the god of the earth. Woe to him who has accustomed himself from his youth to incline to find something arbitrary in what is necessary, who would fain ascribe a kind of reason to the contingent, which it were even a religion to follow; what is that but to disown one's own understanding, and to give loose reins to one's inclinations? We imagine it piety to saunter along (hinschlendern) without consideration, and to allow ourselves to be determined by agreeable accidents, and finally give to the results of such a vacillating life the name of Divine guidance. Goethe.

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together; our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not, and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues. All's Well, iv. 3.

The wedge will rend rocks; but its edge must be sharp and single; if it is double, the wedge is bruised in pieces, and will rend nothing. Carlyle.

The wheel is always in motion, and the spoke which is uppermost will soon be under; therefore mix trembling with all your joy. Philip Henry.

The whole art of war consists in getting at 5 what is on the other side of the hill, or, in other words, in learning what we do not know from what we do. Duke of Wellington.

The whole course of things goes to teach us faith. Emerson.

The whole difference between a man of genius and other men... is that the former remains in great part a child, seeing with the large eyes of children, in perpetual wonder, not conscious of much knowledge—conscious rather of infinite ignorance, and yet infinite power. Ruskin.

The whole economy of nature is bent on expression. Emerson.

The whole interest of history lies in the fortunes of the poor. Emerson.

The whole function of the artist in the world is 10 to be a seeing and a feeling creature; to be an instrument of such tenderness and sensitiveness that no shadow, no hue, no line, no instantaneous and evanescent expression of the visible things around him, nor any of the emotions which they are capable of conveying to the spirit which has been given him, shall either be left unrecorded, or fade from the book of record. Ruskin.

The whole man to one thing at a time. Pr.

The whole of chivalry and of heraldry is in courtesy. Emerson.

The whole past is the possession of the present. Carlyle.

The whole spiritual universe exists only in process—what Hegel calls "Der Process des Geistes"—the process of the spirit, that is to say, not as become, but as becoming; and if it once ceases to become, it ceases as such to be. Ed.

The whole universe is at all moments saying 15 "Nay" to the Spirit of God, and God's Spirit is at all moments saying "Yea" to the stolid "Nay" of the universe, which would fain be let alone; but stubborn as the material looks and is, it has to obey, and does obey, the voice of God. Ed.

The whole world is, properly speaking, a tragic embarras. Rahel.

The whole world of truth and conscience is nothing without I. Jean Paul.

The wide pasture is but separate spears of grass; the sheeted bloom of the prairies but isolated flowers. Ward Beecher.

The wife can carry more out of the house in her apron than the man can bring in on a harvest-waggon. Rückert.

The wife is the key of the house. Pr. 20

The wife that expects to have a good name / Is always at home as if she were lame; / And the mind that is honest, her chiefest delight, / Is still to be doing from morning till night. Sp. Pr.

The will appears without its mask only in the affections and the passions. Schopenhauer.

The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it. Scott.

The wind that has its nest in trees. J. M. Barrie.

The winds and the waves are always on the 25 side of the ablest navigators. Gibbon.

The winter of our discontent. Rich. III., i. 1.

The wisdom of life is in preventing all the evil we can, and using what is inevitable to the best purpose. Ruskin.

The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. Collect and learn them; they are notable measures and directions for human life; you have much in little; they save time in speaking; and upon occasion may be the fullest and safest answers. William Penn.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of ages may be preserved by quotation. Isaac Disraeli.

The wise are instructed by reason, ordinary 30 minds by experience, the stupid by necessity, and brutes by instinct. Cic.

The wise are polite all the world over, but fools are only polite at home. Goldsmith.

The wise are those who travel through error to truth; the foolish are those who persist in their error. Rückert.

The wise grumbler... is a public benefactor. John Wagstaffe.

The wise have all ever said the same thing, and the fools, who are always in the majority, have always done just the opposite. Schopenhauer.

The wise in heart shall be called the prudent. 35 Bible.

The wise man always looks to the degree of his indulgences. John Wagstaffe.

The wise man can dispense with the favour of the mighty, but the mighty cannot dispense with the teaching of the wise. Bodenstedt.

The wise man does not grasp at what is far off in order to find what is near, and his hand does not grasp at the stars in order to kindle light. Bodenstedt.

The wise man, even destitute of riches, enjoyeth elevated and very honourable stations; whilst the wretch, endowed with wealth, acquireth the post of disgrace. Hitopadesa.

The wise man expects everything from himself; the fool looks to others. Jean Paul.

The wise man had rather be envied for providence than pitied for prodigality. Socrates.

The wise man has long ears and a short tongue. Ger. Pr.

The wise man knows his master; always some 5 creature larger than himself, some law holier than himself. Ruskin.

The wise man knows that he does not know; the ignoramus thinks he knows. Sp. Pr.

The wise man may strive to conquer, but he should never fight; because victory, it is observed, cannot be constant to both combatants. Hitopadesa.

The wise man moveth with one foot, and standeth fast with the other. A man should not quit one place until he hath fixed upon another. Hitopadesa.

The wise man must go to the foolish, else would his wisdom go for nought, since the foolish never come to the wise. Bodenstedt.

The wise man often shuns society for fear of 10 being bored. La Bruyère.

The wise man ought to despise glory, but not honour. Honour is but seldom where glory is, and glory almost more rarely still where honour is. Seume.

The wise man should study the acquisition of science and riches as if he were not subject to sickness and death; but to the duties of religion he should attend as if death had seized him by the hair. Hitopadesa.

The wise man will commit no business of importance to a proxy when he may do it himself. L'Estrange.

The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm or epigram. Whipple.

The wise through excess of wisdom is made a 15 fool. Emerson.

The wise weigh their words in a balance for gold. Ecclus.

The wise will determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high-minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands. Burke.

The wiser mind / Mourns less for what age takes away / Than what it leaves behind. Wordsworth.

The wisest at most observe only how fate leads them, and are content. Foster.

The wisest doctor is gravelled by the inquisitiveness 20 of a child. Emerson.

The wisest, happiest of our kind are they / That ever walk content with Nature's way. Wordsworth.

The wisest is omnipresent, and reveals His secrets universally to the seeing eye and the hearing ear. The revelation in all its fullness is nowhere wanting, only the sense to discern it, and the courage to be true to it. Ed.

The wisest man the warl' e'er saw, / He dearly lo'ed the lasses O. Burns.

The wisest men are wise to the full in death. Ruskin.

The wisest, most melodious voice cannot in 25 these days pass for a divine one; the word "inspiration" still lingers, but only in the shape of a poetic figure, from which the once earnest, awful, and soul-subduing sense has vanished without return. Carlyle.

The wisest of us must, for by far the most part, judge like the simplest; estimate importance by mere magnitude, and expect that which strongly affects our own generation, will strongly affect those that are to follow. Carlyle.

The wisest truly is, in these times, the greatest. Carlyle.

The wisest woman you talk with is ignorant of something that you know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance. Holmes.

The wish was father to the thought. 2 Hen. IV., iv. 4.

The wished-for comes too late. Pr. 30

The wishing-gate opens into nothing. Spurgeon.

The wit of language is so miserably inferior to the wit of ideas that it is deservedly driven out of good company. Sydney Smith.

The wit of one man, and the wisdom of many. Lord John Russell's definition of a proverb.

The wit one wants spoils what one has. Fr. Pr.

The woman and the soldier who do not defend 35 the first pass will never defend the last. Fielding.

The woman that deliberates is lost. Addison.

The woman's cause is man's: they rise or sink / Together. Tennyson.

The womankind will not drill. Carlyle, Father Andreas in "Sartor."

The women are quick enough—they're quick enough. They know the rights of a story before they hear it, and can tell a man what his thoughts are before he knows 'em himself. George Eliot.

The word is always bolder than the deed. 40 Schiller.

The Word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it. Bible.

The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond—sometimes better. Dickens.

The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters, and the well-spring of wisdom as a flowing brook. Bible.

The words of a tale-bearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly. Bible.

The words of men are like the leaves of trees; 45 when they are too many they hinder the growth of the fruit. Steiger.

The words of the wise are as goads. Pr.

The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering-galleries, they are clearly heard at the end and by posterity. Jean Paul.

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden under ground, secretly making the ground green; it flows and flows, it joins itself with other veins and veinlets; one day it will start forth as a visible perennial well. Carlyle.

The work of righteousness shall be peace. Bible.

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions. Ruskin.

The works of the great poets have only been read for most part as the multitude read the stars, at most, astrologically, not astronomically. Thoreau.

The world can never give / The bliss for which we sigh; / 'Tis not the whole of life to live, / Nor all of death to die. Montgomery.

The world cannot be governed without juggling. 5 Selden.

The world cannot do without great men, but great men are very troublesome to the world. Goethe.

The world considers eccentricity in great things genius: in small things, folly. Bulwer Lytton.

The world does not progress so quickly as a man grows old. J. M. Barrie.

The world exists by change, and but for that / All matter would to chaos back / To form a pillar for a sleeping god. Anon.

The world exists for the education of each 10 man. Emerson.

The world exists only by the strength of its silent virtue. Ruskin.

The world goes up, and the world goes down, / And the sunshine follows the rain; / And yesterday's sneer, and yesterday's frown, / Can never come over again. C. Kingsley.

The world grows more majestic, but man grows less. Amiel.

The world has no business with my life; the world will never know my life, if it should write and read a hundred biographies of me. Carlyle.

The world has to obey him who thinks and 15 sees in the world. Carlyle.

The world is a carcase, and they who gather round it are dogs. Eastern Pr.

The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel. Horace Walpole.

The world is a grand book from which to become wiser. Goethe.

The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion. Thackeray.

The world is a prison. Goethe. 20

The world is a thing that man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it. Carlyle.

The world is a wheel, and it will all come round right. Disraeli.

The world is all barren to him who will not cultivate the fruit it offers. Sterne.

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius. Talent is a docile creature. It bows its head meekly while the world slips the collar over it. It backs into the shafts like a lamb. Holmes.

The world is an excellent judge in general, 25 but a very bad one in particular. Lord Greville.

The world is an old woman, that mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin; whereby, being often cheated, she will henceforth trust nothing but the common copper. Carlyle.

The world is as you take it. Pr.

The world is but an allegory; the idea is more real than the fact. Amiel.

The world is content with words; few think of searching into the nature of things. Pascal.

The world is everywhere perfect except where 30 man comes with his pain. Schiller.

The world is fain to sully what is resplendent, and to drag down to the dust what is exalted. Schiller.

The world is for him who has patience. It. Pr.

The world is glorious to look at, but dreadful in reality; it is one thing as a drama to a spectator, quite another thing to the actors in the plot, for in it the will is thwarted at every turn. Schopenhauer.

The world is governed much more by opinion than by laws. Channing.

The world is governed too much. (?) 35

The world is not our peers, so we challenge the jury. Burns.

The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law. Rom. and Jul., v. 1.

The world is not to be despised but as it is compared with something better. Company is in itself better than solitude, and pleasure better than indolence. Johnson.

The world is nothing but a wheel; in its whole periphery it is everywhere similar, but, nevertheless, it appears to us so strange, because we ourselves are carried round with it. Goethe.

The world is nothing; the man is all. Emerson. 40

The world is only governed by self-interest. Schiller.

The world is so busied with selfish pursuits, ambition, vanity, interest, or pleasure, that very few think it worth their while to make any observation on what passes around them, except where that observation is a sucker, or branch of the darling plant they are rearing in their fancy. Burns.

The world is still deceived with ornament. / In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, / But, being seasoned with a gracious voice, / Obscures the show of evil? In religion, / What damnéd error but some sober brow / Will bless it and approve it with a text, / Hiding the grossness with fair ornament? Mer. of Ven., iii. 2.

The world is too much with us; late and soon, / Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers; / Little we see in Nature that is ours. Wordsworth.

The world is undone by looking at things at a 45 distance. Sir Thomas More.

The world is upheld by the veracity of good men; they make the earth wholesome. Emerson.

The world is wide enough for all to live and let live, and every one has an enemy in his own talent, who gives him quite enough to do. But no! one gifted man and one talented persecutes another... and each seeks to make the other hateful. Goethe.

The world is wider than any of us think. Carlyle.

The world knows nothing of its greatest men. Sir Henry Taylor.

The world looks at ministers out of the pulpit to know what they mean when in it. Cecil.

The world... may overlook most of us; but "reverence thyself." Burns.

The world never let a man bless it but it first 5 fought him. Ward Beecher.

The world of Nature for every man is the fantasy of himself; this world is the multiplex "image of his own dream." Carlyle.

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless. Not being able to enlarge the one, let us contract the other; for it is from their difference alone that all the evils arise which render us really unhappy. Rousseau.

The world of thought must remain apart from the world of action, for if they once coincided the problem of life would be solved, and the hope which we call heaven would be realised on earth. And therefore men "Are cradled into poetry by wrong; / They learn in suffering what they teach in song." Lord Houghton.

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. Hawthorne.

The world owes infinitely more to those who 10 have no history than to those who have; and the silent noble ones, who have enriched and exalted it by their mere presence, form a much grander and greater host than those do whose names stand emblazoned in written story, and are the loud boast of all. Ed.

The world remains ever the same. Goethe.

The world seldom offers us any choice between solitude on the one hand and vulgarity on the other. Schopenhauer.

The world-spirit is a good swimmer, and storms and waves cannot drown him. Emerson.

The world still wants its poet-priest, who shall not trifle with Shakespeare, the player, nor shall grope in graves with Swedenborg, the mourner; but who shall see, speak, and act with equal inspiration. Emerson.

The world that surrounds you is the magic 15 glass of the world within you. To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you. Lavater.

The world throws its life into a hero or a shepherd, and puts him where he is wanted. Dante and Columbus were Italians in their time; they would be Russians or Americans to-day. Emerson.

The world truly exists only in the presence of man, acts only in the passion of man. The essence of light is in his eyes—the centre of force in his soul—the pertinence of action in his deeds. Ruskin.

The world, which took but six days to make, is like to take six thousand to make out. Sir Thomas Browne.

The world's a bubble, and the life of man less than a span. Bacon.

The world's a room of sickness, where each 20 heart / Knows its own anguish and unrest! / The truest wisdom there, and noblest art, / Is his who skills of comfort best. Keble.

The world's a sea. Quarles.

The world's a wood, in which all lose their way, / Though by a different path each goes astray. Buckingham.

The world's battle-fields have been in the heart chiefly. More heroism has there been displayed in the household and in the closet, I think, than on the most memorable military battle-fields of history. Ward Beecher.

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men. Holmes.

The world's wealth is its original men; by 25 these and their works it is a world and not a waste; the memory and record of what Men it loves—this is the sum of its strength, its sacred "property for ever," whereby it upholds itself and steers forward, better or worse, through the yet undiscovered deep of Time. Carlyle.

The worse the man, the better the soldier; if soldiers be not corrupt, they ought to be made so. Napoleon.

The worse things are, the better they are. Pr.

The worship of beauty apart from the soul becomes an idolatry enkindling desire instead of a reverence awakening devotion. Ed.

The worst deluded are the self-deluded. Bovee.

The worst education which teaches self-denial 30 is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that. John Sterling.

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad. Pope.

The worst of many is that their goodness is distributed rather than concentrated. They are like a sheet of water instead of being like a running stream, which can be used to turn a wheel. Spurgeon.

The worst superstition is to consider our own the most tolerable. Lessing.

The worst wheel in the waggon creaks the loudest. Ger. Pr.

The worst wild beast is called "Tyrant," and 35 the "Flatterer" the worst tame one. Lessing.

The worth of a state, in the long-run, is the worth of the individuals composing it. J. S. Mill.

The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish. Pr.

The wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. St. James.

The wretched have no friends. Dryden.

The wretchedness which fate has rendered 40 voiceless and tuneless is not the least wretched, but the most. Carlyle.

The wrinkles of the heart are more indelible than those of the brow. Mme. Deluzy.

The writer of a book, is not he a preacher preaching not to this parish or that, on this day or that, but to all men in all times and places? Carlyle.

The wronged side is always the safest. Sibbes.

The young disease, that must subdue at length, / Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength. Pope.

The young mind is naturally pliable and imitative, 45 but in a more advanced state it grows rigid, and must be warmed and softened before it will receive a deep impression. Joshua Reynolds.

The young talk generously of relieving the old of their burdens, but the anxious heart is to the old when they see a load on the back of the young. J. M. Barrie.

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or perchance a palace on the earth; at length middle-aged, he concludes to build a woodshed with them. Thoreau.

The youth of the soul is everlasting, and eternity is youth. Jean Paul.

Their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven. Jesus of children.

Their chief pleasure is being displeased. 5 Whipple.

Their only labour was to kill the time, / And labour dire it is, and weary woe. Thomson.

Their own will to all men, all their will to women. Gael. Pr.

Their strength is to sit still. Bible.

Theirs not to make reply, / Theirs not to reason why, / Theirs but to do or die. Tennyson.

Them as ha' never had a cushion don't miss it. 10 George Eliot.

Then draw we nearer day by day, / Each to his brethren, all to God; / Let the world take us as she may, / We must not change our road. Keble.

Then fare-ye-weel, auld Nickle Ben, / Oh wad ye tak' a thought and men', / Ye aiblins (perhaps) might—I dinna ken, / Still hae a stake;/ I'm wae to think upon yon den / E'en for your sake. Burns.

Then gently scan your brother man, / Still gentler sister woman; / Though they may gang a kennin' wrang, / To step aside is human. Burns.

Then in the strife the youth puts forth his powers, / Knows what he is, and feels himself a man. Goethe.

Then let us pray that come it may, / As come 15 it will for a' that, / That sense an' worth, o'er a' the earth, / May bear the gree and a' that. Burns.

Then was I as a tree / Whose boughs did bend with fruit; but, in one night, / A storm, or robbery, call it what you will, / Shook down my mellow hangings, nay, my leaves, / And left me bare to weather. Cymbeline, iii. 3.

Theology is anthropology. Feuerbach.

Theoretical principles must sometimes be suffered to give way for the sake of practical advantages. Pitt.

Theories of genius are the peculiar constructions of our philosophical times; ages of genius have passed away, and they left no other record than their works. I. Disraeli.

Theories are very thin and unsubstantial; experience 20 only is tangible. H. Ballou.

Theories which do not connect measures with men are not theories for this world. Charles Fox.

Theory and practice always act upon one another. It is possible to construe from what we do what we think, and from what we think what we will do. Goethe.

Theory in and by itself is of no use except in so far as it proves to us the connection (Zusammenhang) that subsists among the phenomena. Goethe.

[Greek: theos hê anaideia]—Impudence is a god.

There are a thousand occasions for sorrow, 25 and a hundred for fear that day by day assail the fool; not so the wise man. Hitopadesa.

There are always more tricks in a town than are talked of. Cervantes.

There are at bottom but two possible religions—that which rises in the moral nature of man, and which takes shape in moral commandments, and that which grows out of the observance of the material energies which operate in the external universe. Froude.

There are attractions in modest diffidence above the force of words. A silent address is the genuine eloquence of sincerity. Goldsmith.

There are but three classes of men—the retrograde, the stationary, and the progressive. Lavater.

There are but two ways of paying debt—increase 30 of industry in raising income; increase of thrift in laying it out. Carlyle.

There are cases where little can be said and much must be done. Johnson.

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking. La Bruyère.

There are certain times in our life when we find ourselves in circumstances, that not only press upon us, but seem to weigh us down altogether. They give us, however, not only the opportunity, but they impose on us the duty of elevating ourselves, and thereby fulfilling the purpose of the Divine Being in our creation. Goethe.

There are charms made only for distant admiration. No spectacle is nobler than a blaze. Johnson.

There are cloudy days for the mind as well as 35 for the world, and the man who has the most genius is twenty times a day in the clouds. Beaumelle.

There are depths in the soul which are deeper than hell. Platen.

There are enough unhappy on this earth. Tennyson.

There are faces so fluid with expression that we can hardly find what the mere features are. Emerson.

There are falsehoods which are not lies... which is the case in parables, fables, &c.... In such instances no confidence is destroyed, because none was reposed; no promise to speak the truth is violated, because none was given. Paley.

There are few circumstances in which it is not 40 best either to hide all or to tell all. La Bruyère.

There are few faces that can afford to smile. A smile is sometimes bewitching; in general vapid; often a contortion. Disraeli.

There are few men so obstinate in their atheism whom a pressing danger will not reduce to an acknowledgment of the Divine power. Plato.

There are few persons to whom truth is not a sort of insult. Ségur.

There are few things that are worthy of anger, and still fewer that can justify malignity. Johnson.

There are few thoughts likely to come across ordinary men which have not already been expressed by greater men in the best possible way; and it is a wiser, more generous, more noble thing to remember and point out the perfect words than to invent poorer ones, wherewith to encumber temporarily the world. Ruskin.

There are few who, either by extraordinary endowment or favour of fortune, have enjoyed the opportunity of deciding what mode of life in especial they would wish to embrace. Cic.

There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate. Bovee.

There are fewer students of man than of geometry. Pascal.

There are forty men of wit for one of sense; 5 and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of ready change. (?)

There are heads sometimes so little that there is no room for wit, sometimes so long that there is no wit for so much room. Fuller.

There are in man, in the beginning / And at the end, two blank book-binder's leaves—childhood and age. Jean Paul.

There are in the history of a man only three epochs, his birth, his life, and his death; he is not conscious of being born; he submits to die; and he forgets to live. La Bruyère.

There are in this day, as in all days, around and in every man, voices from the gods, imperative to all, if obeyed by even none, which say audibly: Arise, thou son of Adam, son of Time, make this thing more divine, and that thing, and thyself of all things, and work, and sleep not; for the Night cometh wherein no man can work. Carlyle.

There are in this loud stunning tide / Of 10 human care and crime, / With whom the melodies abide / Of th' everlasting chime; / Who carry music in their heart, / Through dusty lane and wrangling mart, / Plying their daily task with busier feet, / Because their secret souls a holy strain repeat. Keble.

There are interests by the sacrifice of which peace is too dearly purchased. One should never be at peace to the shame of his own soul, to the violation of his integrity or of his allegiance to God. Chapin.

There are many men who do not believe in evaporation. They get all they can, and keep all they get, and so are not fertilisers, but only stagnant, miasmatic pools. Ward Beecher.

There are many religions, but there is only one morality. Ruskin.

There are many troubles which you cannot cure by the Bible and the hymn-book, but which you can cure by a good perspiration and a breath of fresh air. Ward Beecher.

There are many truths of which the full 15 meaning cannot be realised until personal experience has brought it home. J. S. Mill.

There are men who, by long consulting their own inclination, have forgotten that others have a claim to the same deference. (?)

There are men who dwell on the defects of their enemies. I always have regard to the merits of mine, and derive profit therefrom. Goethe.

There are men whose tongues are more eloquent than those of women, but no man possesses the eloquence of a woman's eye. C. Weber.

There are moments in life when the heart is so full of emotion, / That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble / Drops some careless word, it overflows; and its secret, / Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together. Longfellow.

There are more fools than wise men, and even 20 in the wise men more folly than wisdom. Chamfort.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature. Cic.

There are more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in. Ham., iii. 1.

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, / Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. Ham., i. 5.

There are more ways to the wood than one. Pr.

There are nae fules like auld fules. Sc. Pr. 25

There are natures that are great by what they attain, and others by what they disdain. H. Grimm.

There are no better masters than poverty and want. Dut. Pr.

There are no chagrins so venomous as the chagrins of the idle; no pangs so sickening as the satieties of pleasure. Ruskin.

There are no English lives worth reading except those of players, who by the nature of the case have bidden Respectability good-day. Carlyle.

There are no fixtures in Nature. The universe 30 is fluid and volatile. Emerson.

There are no grotesques in Nature. Sir Thomas Browne.

There are no laws by which we can write Iliads. Ruskin.

There are no obstructions more fatal to fortune than pride and resentment. Goldsmith.

There are no persons more solicitous about the preservation of rank than those who have no rank at all. Shenstone.

There are no proverbial sayings which are not 35 true. Cervantes.

There are no real pleasures without real needs. Voltaire.

There are no tricks in plain and simple faith. Jul. Cæs., iv. 2.

There are no troubles which have such a wasting and disastrous effect upon the mind as those which must not be told, but which cause the mind to be continually rolling and turning over upon itself in ceaseless convolutions and unrest. Ward Beecher.

There are no twin souls in God's universe. J. G. Holland.

There are none but men of strong passions 40 capable of going to greatness; none but such capable of meriting the public gratitude. Mirabeau.

There are none of the charges brought against Socialism which might not have been brought against Christianity itself. Cötvös.

There are omens in the air, / And voices whispering Beware!—/ But never victor in the fight / Heeded the portents of fear and care. Dr. Walter Smith.

There are only three classes of people—those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him; and those who live without either seeking or finding him—the first, rational and happy; the second, unhappy and rational; the third, foolish and unhappy. Pascal.

There are only two ways of rising in the world, either by one's own industry or by the weakness of others. La Bruyère.

There are people who will help you to get your 5 basket on your head, because they want to see what's in it. Negro Pr.

There are people who would never have been in love if they had never heard love spoken of. La Roche.

There are proselytes from atheism, but none from superstition. Junius.

There are several who would, or at least pretend they would, bear much in their own business who will bear nothing at all. Kettlewell.

There are shades in all good pictures, but there are lights too, if we choose to contemplate them. Dickens.

There are single thoughts that contain the 10 essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work. Joubert.

There are soldiers of the ploughshare as well as soldiers of the sword. Ruskin.

There are some cases in which human nature and its deep wrongs will be ever stronger than the world and its philosophy. Bulwer Lytton.

There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue. Goldsmith.

There are some men who are witty when they are in a bad humour, and others only when they are sad. Joubert.

There are some people who give with the air 15 of refusal. Queen Christiana.

There are some sorrows cannot be subjected / To man's construction, howsoe'er suspected. Dr. Walter Smith.

There are some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed. Chamfort.

There are sorrows / Where of necessity the soul must be / Its own support. Schiller.

There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers; but ere the pure and fresh buds can open, they are trodden in the dust of the earth, and lie soiled and crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof. Jean Paul.

There are things in this world to be laughed 20 at, as well as things to be admired; and his is no complete mind that cannot give to each sort his due. Carlyle.

There are things that should be done, not spoken; that, till the doing of them is begun, cannot be spoken. Carlyle.

There are those who never reason on what they should do, but what they have done; as if Reason had her eyes behind, and could only see backwards. Fielding.

There are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. Thoreau.

There are three classes of authors—those who write without thinking, those who think while writing, and those who think before writing. Schopenhauer.

There are three difficulties in authorship—to 25 write anything worth the publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to get sensible men to read it. Colton.

There are three material things, not only useful, but essential, to life—pure air, water, and earth; and three immaterial that are equally essential—admiration, hope, and love. Ruskin.

There are three means of believing—by inspiration, by reason, and by custom. Christianity, which is the only rational institution, does yet admit none for its sons who do not believe by inspiration. Pascal.

There are three religions—the religion which depends on reverence for what is above us, denominated the ethnic; the religion which founds itself on reverence for what is around us, denominated the philosophical; the religion grounded on reverence for what is beneath us, which we name the Christian. Goethe.

There are three things in this world which deserve no quarter—hypocrisy, pharisaism, and tyranny. F. Robertson.

There are three things which cause perfection 30 in a man—nature, reason, use. Reason I call discipline; use, exercise. If any one of these branches want, certainly the tree of virtue must needs wither. John Lily.

There are times when silence, if the preacher did but know, / Shall preach to better purpose than a sermon stale and flat. Dr. Walter Smith.

There are times when we are diverted out of errors, but could not be preached out of them. Stephen Montague.

There are truths that shield themselves behind veils, and are best spoken by implication. Even the sun veils himself in his own rays to blind the gaze of the too curious starer. A. B. Alcott.

There are two, and only two, forms of possible gospel or "good message"—one, that men are saved by themselves doing what is right; and the other, that they are saved by believing that somebody also did right instead of them. The first of these gospels is eternally true and holy; the other eternally false, damnable, and damning. Ruskin.

There are two kinds of genius. The first and 35 highest may be said to speak out of the eternal into the present, and must compel its age to understand it; the second understands its age, and tells it what it wishes to be told. Lowell.

There are two levers for moving men—interest and fear. Napoleon.

There are two modes of establishing our reputation—to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will be invariably accompanied by the latter. Colton.

There are two sides to every question. Pr.

There are two things that can reach the top of a pyramid, the eagle and the reptile. D'Alembert.

There are two ways of attaining an important end—force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time. Mme. Swetchine.

There are unhappy times in the world's history, when he that is the least educated will chiefly have to say that he is the least perverted; and with the multitude of false eye-glasses, convex, concave, green, even yellow, has not lost the natural use of his eyes. Carlyle.

There are very few moments in a man's existence 5 when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or meets with so little charitable commiseration, as when he is in pursuit of his own hat. Dickens.

There are very few people in this world who get any good by either writing or reading. Ruskin.

There are, whom heaven has blessed with store of wit, / Yet want as much again to manage it; / For wit and judgment ever are at strife, / Tho' meant each other's aid, like man and wife. Pope.

There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all. Mme. Swetchine.

There be some that think their wits have been asleep, except they dart out somewhat that is piquant, and to the quick; that is a vein which would be bridled. Bacon.

There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, 10 none to beauty, when these attributes are considered in the purest sense. Emerson.

There can be no kernel in this light nut; the soul of this man is in his clothes. All's Well, ii. 5.

There can be no profanity where there is no fane behind. Thoreau.

There can be no shame in accepting orders from those who have themselves learned to obey. W. E. Forster.

There can be no true aristocracy but must possess the land. Carlyle.

There can come no harm of supposing every 15 other man better than yourself; but the supposing any man worse than yourself may be attended with very ill consequences. Thomas à Kempis.

There coils a fear beneath the loveliest dream. T. Watts.

There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man. St. Paul.

There have been in all ages children of God and of man; the one born of the Spirit, and obeying it; the other born of the flesh, and obeying it. Ruskin.

There in others' looks discover / What thy own life's course has been, / And thy deeds of years past over, / In thy fellow-men be seen. Goethe.

There is a better thing than the great man 20 who is always speaking, and that is the great man who only speaks when he has a great word to say. W. Winter.

There is a black speck, say the Arabs, were it no bigger than a bean's eye, in every soul; which, once set a-working, will overcloud the whole man into darkness and quasi-madness, and hurry him balefully into night. Carlyle.

There is a book, who runs may read, / Which heavenly truth imparts, / And all the love its scholars need, / Pure eyes and Christian hearts. / The works of God above, below, / Within us, and around, / Are pages in that book, to show / How God Himself is found. Keble.

There is a budding morrow in midnight. Keats.

There is a care for trifles which proceeds from love and conscience, and is most holy; and a care for trifles which comes of idleness and frivolity, and is most base. And so, also, there is a gravity proceeding from thought, which is most noble; and a gravity proceeding from dulness and mere incapability of enjoyment, which is most base. Ruskin.

There is a Cato in every man; a severe censor 25 of his manners. And he that reverences this judge will seldom do anything he need repent of. Burton.

There is a certain artificial polish, a commonplace vivacity, acquired by perpetually mingling in the beau monde, which, in the commerce of the world, supplies the place of natural suavity and good-humour; but it is purchased at the expense of all original and sterling traits of character. Washington Irving.

There is a certain mien and motion of the body and all its parts, both in acting and speaking, which argues a man well within. Sterne.

There is a certain noble pride through which merits shine brighter than through modesty. Jean Paul.

There is a country accent, not in speech only, but in thought, conduct, character, and manner of existing, which never forsakes a man. La Roche.

There is a crack in everything God has made. 30 Emerson.

There is a devil dwells in man as well as a divinity. Carlyle.

There is a different kind of knowledge good for every different creature, and the glory of the higher creatures is in ignorance of what is known to the lower. Ruskin.

There is a flush of the body which is full of warmth and life, and another which will pass into putrefaction. Ruskin.

There is a foolish corner even in the brain of the sage. Arist.

There is a frightful interval between the seed 35 and the timber. Johnson.

There is a glare about worldly success, which is very apt to dazzle men's eyes. Hare.

There is a God within us who breathes that divine fire by which we are animated. Ovid.

There is a great deal of folly in talking unnecessarily of one's private affairs. Burns.

There is a great difference between bearing malice, which is always ungenerous, and a resolute self-defence, which is always prudent and justifiable. Chesterfield.

There is a great discovery still to be made in 40 literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write. Carlyle.

There is a heroic innocence, as well as a heroic courage. St. Evremond.

There is a higher law than the constitution. W. H. Seward.

There is a history in all men's lives, / Figuring the nature of the times deceased; / The which observed, a man may prophesy, / With a near aim of the main chance of things / As yet not come to life: which, in their seeds / And weak beginnings, lie intreasurèd. 2 Hen. IV., iii. 1.

There is a kind of pride in which are included all the commandments of God, and a kind of vanity which contains the seven mortal sins. Chamfort.

There is a life which taketh not its hues / From earth or earthly things; and so grows pure / And higher than the petty cares of men, / And is a blessed life and glorified. Lewis Morris.

There is a living, literal communion of saints, wide as the world itself, and as the history of the world. Carlyle.

There is a long and wearisome step between 5 admiration and imitation. Jean Paul.

There is a lust in man no charm can tame, / Of loudly publishing his neighbour's shame; / On eagle's wings immortal scandals fly, / While virtuous actions are but born and die. Harvey.

There is a magic in a great name. S. Lover.

There is a magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no hearts. Disraeli.

There is a mean in all things. Even virtue itself hath its stated limits; which not being strictly observed, it ceases to be virtue. (?)

There is a measure of self-regard which is 10 right, wherein the individual self is identified with the universal self. J. C. Sharp.

There is a mercy that is weakness, and even treason against the common good. George Eliot.

There is a method in man's wickedness, / It grows by degrees. Beaumont and Fletcher.

There is a nobler ambition than the getting of all California, or the getting of all the suffrages that are on the planet just now. Carlyle.

There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he ever so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works. Carlyle.

There is a period of life when our backward 15 movements are steps in advance. Rousseau.

There is a pleasure in poetic pains which only poets know. Cowper.

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods; / There is a rapture on the lonely shore; / There is society, where none intrudes, / By the deep sea, and music in its roar; / I love not the man the less, / But Nature more. Byron.

There is a pleasure, sure, in being mad, which none but mad men know. Dryden.

There is a power over and behind us, and we are the channels of its communication. Emerson.

There is a probity of manners as well as of 20 conscience, and a true Christian will regard in a degree the conventionalities of society. De Boufflers.

There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts—that is, the poet. Emerson.

There is a rabble amongst the gentry as well as the commonalty; a sort of plebeian heads, whose fancy moves in the same wheel with the others,—men in the same level with mechanics, though their fortunes do somewhat gild their infirmities, and their purses compound for their follies. Sir Thomas Browne.

There is a remedy for everything but death. Cervantes.

There is a remedy for every wrong, and a satisfaction for every soul. Emerson.

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not 25 the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love. Washington Irving.

There is a skeleton in every house. Pr.

Then is a snake in the grass. Pr.

There is a Spanish proverb that a lapidary who would grow rich must buy of those who go to be executed, as not caring how cheap they sell; and sell to those who go to be married, as not caring how dear they buy. Fuller.

There is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. Ham., v. 1.

There is a spirit of resistance implanted by 30 the Deity in the breast of man, proportioned to the size of the wrongs he is destined to endure. C. J. Fox.

There is a Sunday conscience as well as a Sunday coat; and those who make religion a secondary concern put the coat and conscience carefully by to put on only once a week. Dickens.

There is a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, to keep watch for the life of poor Jack. Dibdin.

There is a tendency in things to right themselves. Emerson.

There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the guarantee of the fulfilment of every contract, so that honest service cannot come to loss. Emerson.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, / Which, 35 taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; / Omitted, all the voyage of their life / Is bound in shallows and in miseries; / On such a full sea are we now afloat; / And we must take the current when it serves, / Or lose our ventures. Jul. Cæs., iv. 3.

There is a time for all things. Pr.

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance. Emerson.

There is a time of life beyond which we cannot form a tie worth the name of friendship. Burns.

There is a time there for every purpose and for every work. Bible.

There is a time wherein one man ruleth over 40 another to his own hurt. Bible.

There is a true Church whenever one meets another helpfully, and that is the only holy or Mother Church which ever was or ever shall be. Ruskin.

There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. Bible.

There is a worth in honest ignorance; 'twere almost a pity to exchange for knowledge. Sterne.

There is always life for a living one. Pr.

There is always room for a man of force, and he makes room for many. Emerson.

There is always some levity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise and also to stray. Joubert.

There is always the possibility of beauty 5 where there is an unsealed human eye; of music where there is an unstopped human ear; and of inspiration where there is a receptive human spirit, a spirit standing before. C. H. Parkhurst.

There is an abasement because of glory, and there is that lifteth up his head from a low estate. Ecclus., xx. 11.

There is an anger that is majestic as the frown of Jehovah's brow; it is the anger of truth and love. Ward Beecher.

There is an emanation from the heart in genuine hospitality which cannot be described but is immediately felt, and puts the stranger at once at his ease. Washington Irving.

There is a heroic innocence, as well a heroic courage. (?)

There is an insolence which none but those 10 who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear. Fielding.

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. Bacon.

There is as much ingenuity in making an felicitous application of an passage as in being the author of it. St. Evremond.

There is, at any given moment, a best path for every man; the thing which, here and now, it were wisest for him to do; whatsoever forwards him in that, were it even in the shape of blows and spurnings, is liberty; whatsoever hinders him, were it tremendous cheers and rivers of heavy wet, is slavery. Carlyle.

There is but one case wherein a man may commend himself with good grace, and that is in commending virtue in another, especially if it be such a virtue whereunto himself pretendeth. Bacon.

There is but one class of men to be trembled 15 at, and that is the stupid class, the class that cannot see; who, alas! are mainly they that will not see. Carlyle.

There is but one misfortune for a man, when some idea lays hold of him which exerts no influence upon his active life, or still more, which withdraws him from it. Goethe.

There is but one philosophy, and its name is Fortitude; to bear is to conquer our fate. Bulwer.

There is but one solid basis of happiness, and that is the reasonable hope of a happy futurity. This may be had everywhere. Johnson.

There is but one temple in the world, and that is the body of man. Nothing is holier than this high form. Bending before men is a reverence done to this revelation in the flesh. We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body. Novalis.

There is but one thing without honour, smitten 20 with eternal barrenness, inability to do or to be—insincerity, unbelief. He who believes nothing, who believes only the shows of things, is not in relation with nature and fact at all. Carlyle.

There is certainly something of exquisite kindness and thoughtful benevolence in that rarest of gifts—fine breeding. Bulwer Lytton.

There is differency between a grub and a butterfly; yet your butterfly was a grub. Coriolanus, v. 4.

There is enjoyment even in sadness, and the same souvenirs which have produced long regrets may also soften them. De Boufflers.

There is ever a certain languor attending the fulness of prosperity. When the heart has no more to wish, it yawns over its possessions, and the energy of the soul goes out, like a flame that has no more to devour. Young.

There is evil in every human heart, which may 25 remain latent, perhaps through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity. Hawthorne.

There is far less pleasure in doing a thing beautifully than in seeing it beautifully done. Ruskin.

There is for the soul a spontaneous culture, on which depends all its real progress in perfection. Degerando.

There is forgiveness with God and Christ for the passing sin of the hot heart, but none for the eternal and inherent sin of the cold. Ruskin.

There is genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the citizen, but which characterises the society. Emerson.

There is great force hidden in a sweet command. 30 George Herbert.

There is in human nature an essential, though somewhat mysterious, connection of love with fear. Henry Taylor.

There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise, and therefore those faculties by which the foolish part of men's minds is taken are most potent. Bacon.

There is in man a Higher than love of happiness; he can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness! Carlyle.

There is in nature an accessible and an inaccessible. Be careful to discriminate between the two. Be circumspect, and proceed with reverence.... It is always difficult to see where the one begins and the other leaves off. He who knows it, and is wise, will confine himself to the accessible. Goethe.

There is in the heart of woman such a deep 35 well of love that no age can freeze it. Bulwer Lytton.

There is in this world infinitely more joy than pain to be shared, if you will only take your share when it is set before you. Ruskin.

There is little hope of equity where rebellion reigns. Sir P. Sidney.

There is little wisdom in knowing that every man must be up and doing, and that all mankind are made dependent on one another. Dickens.

There is more concern nowadays to interpret interpretations than to interpret things, and more books about books than about any other subject. We do nothing but expound one another. (?)

There is more danger in a reserved and silent friend than in a noisy babbling enemy. L'Estrange.

There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved. Pr.

There is more serfdom in England now than at any time since the Conquest. Disraeli.

There is music in all things, if men had ears. 5 Byron.

There is need, bitter need, to bring back, if we may, into men's minds, that to live is nothing unless to live be to know Him by whom we live, and that He is not to be known amidst the hurry of crowds and crash of innovation, but in solitary places, and out of the glowing intelligence which He gave to men of old. Ruskin.

There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of the web of God, but always circular power returning into itself. Emerson.

There is never but one opportunity of a kind. Thoreau.

There is no better counsellor than time. Pr.

There is no better sign of a brave mind than a 10 hard hand. 2 Hen. VI., iv. 2.

There is no better type of a perfectly free creature than the common house-fly. Ruskin.

There is no bridge from one being to another, each is a self, each rests on itself, and wills only itself, knows only itself, understands only itself. Hamerling.

There is no brotherhood possible, at any rate stable, between man and man but a brotherhood of labour. Ed.

There is no cause why one man's nose is longer than another's, but because that God pleases to have it so. Sterne.

There is no class of men so difficult to be 15 managed in a state, as those whose intentions are honest, but whose consciences are bewitched. Napoleon.

There is no communion possible among men who believe only in hearsays. Carlyle.

There is no contingency, and what to us seems only blind chance is an efflux from the depths of being. Schiller.

There is no courage but in innocence; no constancy but in an honest cause. Southern.

There is no creature so lonely as the dweller in the intellect. W. Winter.

There is no darkness but ignorance. Twelfth 20 Night, iv. 2.

There is no darkness unto the conscience, which can see without light. Sir T. Browne.

There is no dearth of charity in the world in giving, but there is comparatively little exercised in thinking and speaking. Sir P. Sidney.

There is no defence against reproach but obscurity. Addison.

There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. Emerson.

There is no despair so absolute as that which 25 comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope. George Eliot.

There is no detraction worse than to overpraise a man. Owen Feltham.

There is no direr disaster in love than the death of imagination. George Meredith.

There is no dispute managed without passion, and yet there is scarce a dispute worth a passion. Sherlock.

There is no disputing against hobby-horses. Sterne.

There is no education like adversity. Disraeli. 30

There is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning. Emerson.

There is no end of settlements; there will never be an end; the best settlement is but a temporary partial one. Carlyle.

There is no event but sprung somewhere from the soul of man. (?)

There is no evil but is mingled with good. Guicciardini.

There is no extremity of distress which of 35 itself ought to reduce a great nation to despair. It is not the disorder, but the physician... which alone can make a whole people desperate. Junius.

There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from want of work. Spurgeon.

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear. St. John.

There is no fiercer hell than failure in a great object. Keats.

There is no flock, however watched and tended, / But one dead lamb is there; / There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, / But has one vacant chair. Longfellow.

There is no foolishest man but knows one and 40 the other thing more clearly than any the wisest man does. Carlyle.

There is no gambling like politics.... Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident. Disraeli.

There is no genuine love for art without an ardent love for humanity. Fr. Horn.

There is no Gethsemane without its angel. Rev. T. Binney.

There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury. Alexander Smith.

There is no God but God, the living, the self-subsisting. 45 Koran.

There is no going to heaven in a sedan. Pr.

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. Lowell.

There is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire, which all smoke is capable of becoming. Carlyle.

There is no great and no small / To the soul that maketh all; / And where it cometh, all things are; / And it cometh everywhere. Emerson.

There is no great genius free from some tincture 50 of madness. Sen.

There is no greater evil among men than a testament framed with injustice; where caprice hath guided the boon, or dishonesty refused what was due. Tupper.

There is no greater fraud than a promise unfulfilled. Gael. Pr.

There is no greater proof of human weakness than that which betrays itself in the boast of fortune and ancestry; these cannot ennoble us, but our conduct in life may ennoble or degrade them. Arliss.

There is no greater punishment than that of being abandoned to one's self. Pasquier Quesnel.

There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onset of things. Bacon.

There is no grief like hate! no pains like passions! 5 no deceit like sense! Enter the path! far hath he gone whose foot treads down one fond offence. Sir Edwin Arnold.

There is no grief that time will not soften. Pr.

There is no harm in anybody thinking that Christ is in bread. The harm is in the expectation of His presence in gunpowder. Ruskin.

There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man; and there is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed. Carlyle.

There is no jesting with edge tools. Pr.

There is no joy without alloy. Pr. 10

There is no hiding of evil but not to do it. Gael. Pr.

There is no index of character so sure as the voice. Disraeli.

There is no legislation for liars and traitors; they cannot be prevented from the pit; the earth finally swallows them.... There is no law for these but gravitation. Ruskin.

There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book than in being the first author of the thought. Bayle.

There is no lie that many men will not believe; 15 there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies. J. Sterling.

There is no loss / In being small; great bulks but swell with dross. / Man is heaven's masterpiece; if it appear / More great, the value's less; if less, more dear. Quarles.

There is no lustre (Glanz) without light; that is the first rule to which every author should pay regard. Cötvös.

There is no man alone, because every man is a microcosm, and carries the whole world about him. Sir Thomas Browne.

There is no man on the streets whose biography I would not like to be acquainted with. (?)

There is no man so friendless but that he can 20 find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths. Bulwer Lytton.

There is no man so rudely punished as he that is subject to the whip of his own remorse. Sen.

There is no man that has not his hour, nor is there anything that has not its place. Rabbi Ben Azai.

There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war. Bible.

There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friend, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his griefs to his friend, but he grieveth the less. Bacon.

There is no man whom fortune does not visit 25 once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window. Quoted by Montesquieu.

There is no merit where there is no trial; and, till experience stamps the mark of strength, cowards may pass for heroes, faith for falsehood. Aaron Hill.

There is no mistake; there has been no mistake; and there shall be no mistake. Wellington.

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. Thoreau.

There is no more potent antidote to low sensuality than the adoration of beauty. Schlegel.

There is no more welcome gift to men than a 30 new symbol. Emerson.

There is no mortal extant, out of the depths of Bedlam, but lives all skinned, thatched, covered over with formulas; and is, as it were, held in from delirium and the inane by his formulas. These are the most beneficent and indispensable of human equipments; blessed he who has a skin and tissues, so it be a living one, and the heart-pulse everywhere discernible through it. Carlyle.

There is no mortal truly wise and restless at once; wisdom is the repose of minds. Lavater.

There is no new thing under the sun. Bible.

There is no object of desire the supreme vanity of which we do not recognise and confess when once we have embraced it. Renan.

There is no object so foul that intense light 35 will not make beautiful. And the stimulus it affords to the sense, and a sort of infinitude which it hath like space and time, make all matter gay. Emerson.

There is no one the friend of another: there is no one the enemy of another: friends, as well as enemies, are created through our transactions. Hitopadesa.

There is no one who does not exaggerate. Emerson.

There is no ordinance obliging us to fight those who are stronger than ourselves. Such fighting, as it were, with an elephant, is the same as men's fighting against rocks. Hitopadesa.

There is no other ghost save the ghost of our own childhood, the ghost of our own innocence, the ghost of our own airy belief. Dickens.

There is no other revelation than the thoughts 40 of the wise. Schopenhauer.

There is no outward sign of courtesy that does not rest on a deep moral foundation. Goethe.

There is no part of the furniture of a man's mind which he has a greater right to exult in than that which he has hewn and fashioned for himself. Ruskin.

There is no part of the world from whence we may not admire these planets, which roll, like ours, in different orbits round the same central sun;... and whilst my soul is thus raised up to heaven, it imports me little what ground I tread upon. Bolingbroke.

There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science. Goethe.

There is no peace in ambition; it is always gloomy, and often unreasonably so. The kindness of the king, the regards of the courtiers, the attachment of my domestics, and the fidelity of a large number of friends, make me happy no longer. Mme. de Pompadour.

There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds, and in this alone can man find thorough satisfaction. Goethe.

There is no permanent love but that which has duty for its eldest brother; so that if one sleeps the other watches, and honour is safe. Stahl.

There is no place like home. J. H. Payne.

There is no place where earth's sorrows / Are 5 more felt than up in heaven; / There is no place where earth's failings / Have such kindly judgment given. F. W. Faber.

There is no policy like politeness; and a good manner is the best thing in the world, either to get a good name or to supply the want of it. Bulwer Lytton.

There is no pure malignity in nature. Emerson.

There is no qualification for government but virtue and wisdom. Burke.

There is no real life but cheerful life. Addison.

There is no repose for the mind except in the 10 absolute. Amiel.

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self. Amiel.

There is no respect of persons with God. St. Paul.

There is no returning from a dégout given by satiety. Lady Montagu.

There is no riches above a sound body, and no joy above the joy of the heart. Ecclus.

There is no right faith in believing what is 15 true, unless we believe it because it is true. Whately.

There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honours too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience. La Bruyère.

There is no royal road to geometry. Euclid.

There is no sanctuary of virtue like home. E. Everett.

There is no solemnity so deep, to a right thinking creature, as that of dawn. Ruskin.

There is no solitude in nature. Schiller. 20

There is no solitude more dreadful for a stranger, an isolated man, than a great city. So many thousands, and not one friend. Boiste.

There is no spirit without a body unless it be a ghost, and no body without a spirit unless it be a corpse. German lore.

There is no sporting with a fellow-creature's happiness or misery. Burns.

There is no sterner moralist than pleasure. Byron.

There is no stronger test of a man's real 25 character than power and authority, exciting, as they do, every passion, and discovering every latent vice. Plutarch.

There is no such flatterer as is a man's self, and there is no such remedy against flattery of a man's self as the liberty of a friend. Lord Bacon.

There is no such thing as a dumb poet or a handless painter. The essence of an artist is that he should be articulate. Stedman.

There is no such thing as being agreeable without a thorough good-humour, a natural sweetness of temper, enlivened by cheerfulness. Lady Montagu.

There is no such thing as chance; and what seems to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny. Schiller.

There is no such thing as Liberty in the universe: 30 there can never be. The stars have it not; the earth has it not; the sea has it not; and we men have the mockery and semblance of it only for our heaviest punishment. Ruskin.

There is no sure foundation set on blood; / No certain life achieved by others' death. King John, iv. 2.

There is no surer argument of a weak mind than irresolution. Tillotson.

There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats; / For I am armed so strong in honesty / That they pass by me as the idle wind / Which I respect not. Jul. Cæs., iv. 3.

There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power, and organises a huge instrumentality of means. Emerson.

There is no time so miserable, but a man may 35 be true. Timon of Athens, iv. 3.

There is no traitor like him whose domestic treason plants the poniard within the breast which trusted to his truth. Byron.

There is no true action without will. Rousseau.

There is no true love without jealousy. Pr.

There is no vague general capability in men. Goethe.

There is no vice or folly that requires so much 40 nicety and skill to manage as vanity. Swift.

There is no vice or crime that does not originate in self-love; and there is no virtue that does not grow from the love of others out of and beyond self. Anon.

There is no vice so simple but assumes / Some mark of virtue in his outward parts. Mer. of Ven., iii. 2.

There is no venom like that of the tongue. Pr.

There is no wealth but life—life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. Ruskin.

There is no well-doing, no godlike doing, that 45 is not patient doing. J. G. Holland.

There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the Lord. Bible.

There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not, sooner or later, responded. Lowell.

There is no worse fruit than that which never ripens. It. Pr.

There is no worse joke than a true one. It. and Sp. Pr.

There is none so blind as they that won't see. 50 Swift.

There is none so poor that he need sit on a pumpkin. That is shiftlessness. Thoreau.

There is not a Red Indian hunting by Lake Winnipeg can quarrel with his squaw but the whole world must smart for it; will not the price of beaver rise? Carlyle.

There is not any benefit so glorious in itself but it may be exceedingly sweetened and improved by the manner of conferring it. The virtue, I know, rests in the intent, but the beauty and ornament of an obligation lies in the manner of it. Sen.

There is not in earth a spectacle more worthy than a great man superior to his sufferings. Addison.

There is not in national life any real epoch, because there is nothing in reality abrupt. Events, however great or sudden, are consequences of preparations long ago made. Draper.

There is not one grain in the universe, either too much or too little, nothing to be added, nothing to be spared; nor so much as any one particle of it, that mankind may not be either the better or the worse for, according as it is applied. L'Estrange.

There is not so agonizing a feeling in the whole 5 catalogue of human suffering as the first conviction that the heart of the being whom we most tenderly love is estranged from us. Bulwer Lytton.

There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them. Pr.

There is not the thickness of a sixpence between good and evil. Pr.

There is not yet any inventory of man's faculties. Emerson.

There is nothing beyond the pleasure which the study of Nature produces. Her secrets are of unfathomable depth, but it is granted to us men to look into them more and more. Goethe.

There is nothing born but has to die. Carlyle. 10

There is nothing by which I have, through life, more profited than by the just observations, the good opinion, and the sincere and gentle encouragement of amiable and sensible women. Romilly.

There is nothing capricious in nature. Emerson.

There is nothing covered that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known. Jesus.

There is nothing divine but what is rational. Kant.

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking 15 makes it so. Ham., ii. 2.

There is nothing evil but what is within us; the rest is either natural or accidental. Sir P. Sidney.

There is nothing exasperates people more than the display of superior ability or brilliancy in conversation. They seem pleased at the time, but their envy makes them curse him at their hearts. Johnson.

There is nothing from without a man that entering into him can defile him; but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man. Jesus.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will. Epictetus.

There is nothing good or godlike in this world 20 but has in it something of "infinite sadness." Carlyle.

There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings. Longfellow.

There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables. Goethe.

There is nothing in this world that will keep the devil out of one but hard labour. Carlyle.

There is nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident than in politics. Disraeli.

There is nothing innocent or good that dies 25 and is forgotten. Dickens.

There is nothing insignificant, nothing! Coleridge.

There is nothing lighter than vain praise. William Drummond.

There is nothing like leather. Pr. A cobbler's advice in an emergency.

There is nothing like the cold dead hand of the past to take down our tumid egotism, and lead us into the solemn flow of the life of our race. Holmes.

There is nothing little to the truly great in 30 spirit. Dickens.

There is nothing more allied to the barbarous and savage character than sullenness, concealment, and reserve. Parke Godwin.

There is nothing more characteristic than the shakes of the hand. Sydney Smith.

There is nothing more charming than to see a mother with a child in her arms, and nothing more venerable than a mother among a number of her children. Goethe.

There is nothing more frightful than for a teacher to know only what his scholars are intended to know. Goethe.

There is nothing more frightful than imagination 35 without taste. Goethe.

There is nothing more perennial in us than habit and imitation. They are the source of all working and all apprenticeship, of all practice and all learning. Carlyle.

There is nothing more pitiable in the world than an irresolute man, oscillating between two feelings, who would willingly unite the two, and who does not perceive that nothing can unite them. Goethe.

There is nothing more precious to a man than his will; there is nothing which he relinquishes with so much reluctance. J. G. Holland.

There is nothing more terrible to a guilty heart than the eye of a respected friend. Sir P. Sidney.

There is nothing new under the sun. Bible. 40

There is nothing of which men are so fond and so careless as life. La Bruyère.

There is nothing on earth divine beside humanity. Melanchthon.

There is nothing on earth which is not in the heavens in a heavenly form, and nothing in the heavens which is not on the earth in an earthly form. Quoted by Emerson.

There is nothing on earth without difficulty. Only the inner impulse, the pleasure it gives us, and love we feel, help us to overcome obstruction, to pave our way, and to raise ourselves out of the narrow circle in which others sorrowfully torture themselves. Goethe.

There is nothing really more monstrous in any 45 recorded savagery or absurdity of mankind than that governments should be able to get money for any folly they choose to commit, by selling to capitalists the right of taxing future generations to the end of time. Ruskin.

There is nothing so agonising to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth. Bulwer Lytton.

There is nothing so great or so goodly in creation, but it is a mean symbol of the gospel of Christ, and of the things that he has prepared for them that love him. Ruskin.

There is nothing so powerful as truth, and nothing so strange. Dan. Webster.

There is nothing so small but that we may honour God by asking his guidance of it, or insult him by taking it into our own hands. Ruskin.

There is nothing so secret but it comes to 5 light. Pr.

There is nothing so sure of succeeding as not to be over brilliant, as to be entirely wrapped up in one's self, and endowed with a perseverance which, in spite of all the rebuffs it may meet with, never relaxes in the pursuit of its object. Baron de Grimm.

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight. Goethe.

There is nothing to be found only once in the world. Goethe.

There is nothing to which man is not related. Emerson.

There is nothing which vanity does not desecrate. 10 Ward Beecher.

There is nothing without us that is not also within us. Goethe.

There is often a complaint of want of parts, when the fault lies in a want of a due improvement of them. Locke.

There is often more true spiritual force in a proverb than in a philosophical system. Carlyle.

There is / One great society alone on earth; / The noble living and the noble dead. (?)

There is one preacher who does preach with 15 effect, and gradually persuade all persons; his name is Destiny, Divine Providence, and his sermon the inflexible course of things. Carlyle.

There is only one cure for public distress, and that is public education, directed to make men thoughtful, merciful, and just. Ruskin.

There is only one mendacious being in the world, and that is man. Schopenhauer.

There is only one thing better than tradition, and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise. Lowell.

There is only one true religion, but there may be many forms of belief. Kant.

There is poetry and beauty in the common 20 lives about us, if we look at them with imaginative and sympathetic eye. J. Morley.

There is power over and behind us, and we are the channels of its communication. Emerson.

There is precious instruction to be got by finding that we are wrong. Carlyle.

There is properly but one slavery in the world—the slavery of wisdom to folly. Carlyle.

There is properly no history, only biography. Emerson.

There is, properly speaking, no misfortune in 25 the world. Happiness and misfortune stand in continual balance. Every misfortune is, as it were, the obstruction of a stream, which, after overcoming this obstruction, but bursts forth with the greater force. Novalis.

There is really something absurd about the Present; all that people think of is the sight, the touch of each other, and there they rest; but it never occurs to them to reflect upon what is to be gained from such moments. Goethe.

There is safety in solitude. Saadi.

There is scarce truth enough alive to make societies secure, but security enough to make fellowships accursed. Meas. for Meas., iii. 2.

There is scarcely a good critic of books born in our age, and yet every fool thinks himself justified in criticising persons. Bulwer Lytton.

There is sentiment in all women, and sentiment 30 gives delicacy to thought, and tact to manner. But sentiment with men is generally acquired, an offspring of the intellectual quality, not, as with the other sex, of the moral. Bulwer Lytton.

There is so much of good among the worst, so much of evil in the best, such seeming partialities in providence, so many things to lessen and expand, yea, and with all man's boast, so little real freedom of his will, that to look a little lower than the surface, garb, or dialect, or fashion, thou shalt feebly pronounce for a saint, and faintly condemn for a sinner. Tupper.

There is so much trouble in coming into the world, and so much more, as well as meanness, in going out of it, that 'tis hardly worth while to be here at all. Lord Bolingbroke.

There is some soul of goodness in things evil, / Would men observingly distil it out. Henry V., iv. 1.

There is some use in having two attorneys in one firm. Their movements resemble those of the man and woman in a Dutch babyhouse. When it is fair weather with the client, out comes the gentleman partner to fawn like a spaniel; when it is foul, forth bolts the operative brother to pin like a bull-dog. Scott.

There is something behind the throne greater 35 than the king himself. Chatham.

There is something in sorrow more akin to the course of human affairs than joy. C. Fitzhugh.

There is something irresistibly pleasing in the conversation of a fine woman; even though her tongue be silent, the eloquence of her eyes teach wisdom. Goldsmith.

There is something more awful in happiness than in sorrow. Hawthorne.

There is something not solid in the good that is done for us. Emerson.

There is something of all men in every man. 40 Lichtenberg.

There is something so moving in the very image of weeping beauty. Steele.

There is something too dear in the hope of seeing again.... "Dear heart, be quiet;" we say; "you will not be long separated from those people that you love; be quiet, dear heart!" And then we give it in the meanwhile a shadow, so that it has something, and then it is good and quiet, like a little child whose mother gives it a doll instead of the apple which it ought not to eat. Goethe.

There is still a real magic in the action and reaction of minds on one another. The casual deliration of a few becomes, by this mysterious reverberation, the frenzy of many; men lose the use, not only of their understandings, but of their bodily senses; while the most obdurate unbelieving hearts melt like the rest in the furnace where all are cast as victims and as fuel. Carlyle.

There is still enough to satisfy one in spite of all misfortunes. Goethe.

There is such a choice of difficulties that I am myself at a loss how to determine. J. Wolfe to Pitt.

There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches. Bible.

There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth: 5 and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty. Bible.

There is very great necessity indeed of getting a little more silent than we are. Carlyle.

There is work on God's wide earth for all men that he has made with hands and hearts. Carlyle.

There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds. Tennyson.

There may come a day when there shall be no more curse; in the meantime you must be humble and honest enough to take your share of it. Ruskin.

There may often be less vanity in following the 10 new modes than in adhering to the old ones. It is true that the foolish invent them, but the wise may conform to, instead of contradicting, them. Joubert.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good. Plato.

There must be a man behind a book. Emerson.

There must be hearts which know the depths of our being, and swear by us, even when the whole world forsakes us. Gutzkow.

There must be work done by the arms, or none of us would live; and work done by the brains, or the life would not be worth having. And the same men cannot do both. Ruskin.

There must first be seducing men before 15 seduced women. Jean Paul.

There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the grave / To tell us this. Ham., i. 5.

There needs not a great soul to make a hero; there needs a god-created soul which will be true to its origin; that will be a great soul. Carlyle.

There never did and never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in a character which was a stranger to the exercise of resolute self-denial. Scott.

There never was a bad man but had ability for good service. Burke.

There never was a great man unless through 20 Divine inspiration. Cicero.

There never was a literary age whose dominant taste was not sickly. Joubert.

There never was a talent, even for real literature, but was primarily a talent for something infinitely better of the silent kind. Carlyle.

There never was any heart truly great and generous that was not also tender and compassionate. South.

There never was any party, faction, or sect in which the most ignorant was not the most violent. Pope.

There never was so great a thought labouring 25 in the breasts of men as now. Emerson.

There occur cases in human life when it is wisdom not to be too wise. Schiller.

There remaineth a rest to the people of God. Bible.

There seems to be no part of knowledge in fewer hands than that of discerning when to have done. Swift.

There shall no evil happen to the just. Bible.

There the wicked cease from troubling, and 30 there the weary be at rest. Bible.

There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built bulwarks against it. Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city, yet no man remembered that same poor man. Bible.

There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, / The earth and every common sight, / To me did seem / Apparelled in celestial light, / The glory and the freshness of a dream. / It is not now as it has been of yore; / Turn wheresoe'er I may, / By night or day, / The things which I have seen, I now can see no more. Wordsworth.

There was a time when the world acted upon books. Now books act upon the world. Joubert.

There was but one Moses to the thousands of Israel that entered Jordan. Ward Beecher.

There was never a nation great until it came 35 to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help. C. D. Warner.

There was never good or ill but women had to do with it. Gaelic Pr.

There was never yet philosopher / Who could endure the toothache patiently. Much Ado, v. 1.

There was sense in the sentences, but the sum-total was nonsense. Criticism of a young preacher's discourse.

There was speech in their dumbness, language in their very gesture. Winter's Tale, v. 2.

There were no ill language if it were not ill 40 taken. Pr.

There where thou art, there where thou remainest, accomplish what thou canst. Goethe.

There will always be a government of force where men are selfish. Emerson.

There's a brave fellow! There's a man of pluck! / A man who is not afraid to say his say, / Though a whole town's against him. Longfellow.

There's a courage which grows out of fear. Byron.

There's a divinity that shapes our ends, / 45 Rough-hew them as we will. Ham., v. 2.

There's a medium in thoughtfulness and gaiety: find it out and keep to it. Spurgeon.

There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. Ham., v. 2.

There's a sweeter flower than e'er / Blush'd on the rosy spray, / A brighter star, a richer bloom, / Than e'er did western heaven illume / At close of summer day—/ 'Tis Love, the last best gift of Heaven. Keble.

There's always life for the living. Pr.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckoned. Ant. and Cleop., i. 1.

There's folks as make bad butter, and trusten to the salt t' hide it. George Eliot.

There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was in their boots. George Eliot.

There's husbandry in heaven; / Their candles are all out. Macb., i. 7.

There's language in her eye, her cheeks, her 5 lip, / Nay, her foot speaks. Troil. and Cress., iv. 5.

There's many a good bit o' work done with a sad heart. George Eliot.

There's many a slip / 'Twixt the cup and the lip. Pr.

There's mercy in every place, / And mercy, encouraging thought, / Gives even affliction a grace, / And reconciles man to his lot. Cowper.

There's music in the sighing of a reed; / There's music in the gushing of a rill; / There's music in all things, if men had ears. Byron.

There's nae sorrow there, John, / There's 10 neither cauld nor care, John, / The day is aye fair, / In the land o' the leal. Lady Nairne.

There's no armour against fate. Shirley.

There's no art / To find the mind's construction in the face. Macb., i. 4.

There's no folk sic idiots as them that looks like geniuses. J. M. Barrie.

There's no glory like his who saves his country. Tennyson.

There's no grace in a benefit that sticks to the 15 fingers. Sen.

There's no great banquet but some fares ill. George Herbert.

There's no pleasure i' living, if you're to be corked up for ever, and only dribble your mind out by the sly, like a leaky barrel. George Eliot.

There's no seeing one's way through tears. Pr.

There's no slipping up-hill again, and no standing still when once you've begun to slip down. George Eliot.

There's no work so tirin' as danglin' about an' 20 starin', an' not rightly knowin' what you're goin' to do next; an' keepin' your face i' smilin' order, like a grocer o' market-day. George Eliot.

There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away. Byron.

There's not a place where Rest can say, / I'll not have Labour here; / For Rest itself would pine away / If Labour were not near. Hall.

There's not a string attuned to mirth / But has its chord in melancholy. Hood.

There's not one wise man among twenty that will praise himself. Much Ado, v. 2.

There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st, / 25 But in his motion like an angel sings, / Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubims. Mer. of Ven., v. 1.

There's nothing but what's bearable as long as a man can work. George Eliot.

There's nothing certain but uncertainty. Pr.

There's nothing half so sweet in life / As love's young dream. Moore.

There's nothing situate under heaven's eye, / But hath its bound in earth, in sea, in sky. Comedy of Errors, ii. 1.

There's none that can / Read God aright, unless 30 he first spell man. Quarles.

There's small choice in rotten apples. Tam. of Shrew, i. 1.

There's something good in all weathers. If it don't happen to be good for my work to-day, it's good for some other man's to-day, and will come round to me to-morrow. Dickens.

There's such divinity doth hedge a king, / That treason can but peep to what it would. Ham., iv. 5.

There's things it's best to put off kenning as long as we can. J. M. Barrie.

Thereby hangs a tale. As You Like It, ii. 7. 35

These / Are but the varied God. The rolling year / Is full of thee. Thomson.

"These are my jewels." Cornelia, the mother of the Gracchi, when she presented her five sons to a lady who had paraded her ornaments before her.

These cases, wherein happiness would be sinful, are just as much, but no more, the ordainments of Providence as those more common ones wherein happiness is natural and right. W. R. Greg.

These fair tales, which we know so beautiful, / Show only finer than our lives to-day / Because their voice was clearer, and they found / A sacred bard to sing them. Lewis Morris.

These limbs, whence had we them; this 40 stormy force; this life-blood with its burning passion? They are dust and shadow: a shadow-system gathered round our Me; wherein through some moments or years, the divine essence is to be revealed in flesh. Carlyle.

These little things are great to little men. Goldsmith.

These moving things, ca'ed wife and weans, / Wad move the very heart o' stanes. Burns.

These violent delights have violent ends. Rom. and Jul., ii. 6.

They are as sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing. Mer. of Venice, i. 2.

They are but beggars that can count their 45 worth. Rom. and Jul., ii. 6.

They are dead even for this life who hope for no better. Lorenzo de Medici.

They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts. Sir P. Sidney.

They are not a pipe for fortune's finger, / To sound what stop she please. Ham., iii. 2.

They are not all free who scorn their chains. Lessing.

They are not kings who sit on thrones, but 50 they who know how to govern. Emerson.

They are not sages who do not declare men's duty. Hitopadesa.

They are slaves who dare not be / In the right with two or three. Lowell.

They asked Lucman the fabulist, "From whom did you learn manners?" He answered, "From the unmannerly." Saadi.

They can conquer who believe they can. Virgil.

They do most by books who could do much without them; and he that chiefly owes himself unto himself is the substantial man. Sir T. Browne.

They ever do pretend / To have received a wrong who wrong intend. Daniel.

They fool me to the top of my bent. Ham., iii. 2.

They found no end, in wandering mazes lost. Milton.

They grew in beauty side by side, / They fill'd 5 one home with glee; / Their graves are sever'd far and wide, / By mount, and stream, and sea. Mrs. Hemans.

They govern the world, these sweet-lipped women, because beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom. Holmes.

They had the divine right of kings to settle, these unfortunate ancestors of ours;... and they did, on hest of necessity, manage to settle it. Carlyle of the Puritans.

They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps. Love's L. Lost, v. 1.

They have destroyed the beaten track to heaven; we are now compelled to make for ourselves ladders. Joubert.

They laugh that win. Othello, iv. 2. 10

They lose it (the world) that do buy it with much care. Mer. of Ven., i. 1.

They love least that let men know their love. Two Gent. of Verona, i. 2.

They love most who are least valued. Pr.

They love not poison that do poison need. Rich. II., v. 6.

They love us truly who correct us freely. Pr. 15

They most assume who know the least. Gay.

They must hunger in winter that will not work in summer. Pr.

They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. Confucius.

They never taste who always drink; / They always talk who never think. Prior.

They only are wise who know that they know 20 nothing. Carlyle.

They only babble that practise not reflection. Sheridan.

They only should own who can administer. Emerson.

They only who build on ideas build for eternity. Emerson.

They pass best over the world who trip over it quickly; for it is but bog—if we stop, we sink. Queen Elizabeth.

They said that Love would die when Hope was 25 gone, / And Love mourn'd long, and sorrow'd after Hope; / At last she sought out Memory, and they trod / The same old paths where Love had walk'd with Hope, / And Memory fed the soul of Love with tears. Tennyson.

They say best men are moulded out of faults, / And, for the most, become much more the better / For being a little bad. Meas. for Meas., v. 1.

They say Doubt is weak, but yet, if life be in the doubt, / The living doubt is more than Faith that life did never know. Dr. W. Smith.

"They say so" is half a lie. Pr.

They, sweet soul, that most impute a crime / Are pronest to it, and impute themselves, / Wanting the mental range; or low desire / Not to feel lowest makes them level all; / Yea, they would pare the mountain to the plain, / To leave an equal baseness. Tennyson.

They that are above have ends in everything. 30 Beaumont and Fletcher.

They that are against superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I wear all colours but black, then I am superstitious in not wearing black. Selden.

They that are booted are not always ready. Pr.

They that be whole need not a physician; but they that are sick. Jesus.

They that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness, as the stars for ever and ever. Bible.

They that bear a noble mind, / Where they 35 want of riches find. Wither.

They that by pleading clothes / Do fortunes seek, when worth and service fail, / Would have their tale believed for their oaths, / And are like empty vessels under sail. George Herbert.

They that deny a God destroy man's nobility. For, certainly, man is of kin to the beasts, by his body; and if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature. Bacon.

They that do change old love for new, / Pray gods, they change for worse. George Peele.

They that do nothing are in the readiest way to do that which is worse than nothing. Zimmermann.

They that drive away time spur a free horse. 40 Robert Mason.

They that govern the most make the least noise. Selden.

They that hold by the Divine / Clasp too the Human in their faith. Dr. W. Smith.

They that know one another salute afar off. Pr.

They that marry ancient people merely in expectation to bury them, hang themselves in hope that one will come and cut the halter. Fuller.

They that mean to make no use of friends will 45 be at little trouble to gain them: and to be without friendship is to be without one of the first comforts of our present state. Johnson.

They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy. Bible.

They that plough iniquity and sow wickedness reap the same. Bible.

They that stand high have many blasts to shake them; and if they fall, they dash themselves to pieces. Richard III., i. 3.

They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. Bible.

They that sow the wind shall reap the whirlwind. 50 Bible.

They that will crowd about bonfires may, sometimes very fairly, get their beards singed; it is the price they pay for such illumination; natural twilight is safe and free to all. Carlyle.

They told me I was everything; 'tis a lie: I am not ague-proof. King Lear, iv. 6.

They well deserve to have / That know the strong'st and surest way to get. Richard II., iii. 3.

They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us. St. John.

They who accuse and blacken thee wrongfully are much the greatest sufferers by their own malice and injustice. Thomas à Kempis.

They who but slowly pacèd are / By plodding on may travel far. Wither.

They who contract absurd habits are such as have no fear. Johnson.

They who crouch to those who are above them, always trample on those who are below them. Buckle.

They who do not feel the darkness will never 5 look for the light. Buckle.

They who embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing but their narrow selves. Herder.

They who gratefully the gods adore, / Still find their joys increasing more and more. Theocritus.

They who have lost an infant are never, as it were, without an infant child. Leigh Hunt.

They who have no other trade but seeking their fortune, need never hope to find her; coquette-like, she flies from her close pursuers, and at last fixes on the plodding mechanic who stays at home and minds his business. Goldsmith.

They who lie soft and warm in a rich estate 10 seldom come to heat themselves at the altar. South.

They who oppose a Ministry have always a better field for ridicule and reproof than they who defend it. Goldsmith.

They who place their affections on trifles at first for amusement, will find those trifles at last become their serious concern. Goldsmith.

They who play with the devil's rattles will be brought by degrees to wield his sword. Fuller.

They who pretend most to universal benevolence are either deceivers or dupes—men who desire to cover their private ill-nature by a pretended regard for all. Goldsmith.

They who resign life rather than part with 15 liberty do only a prudent action; but those who lay it down for friends and country do a heroic one. Steele.

They who resist indiscriminately all improvement as innovation, may find themselves compelled at last to submit to innovations although they are not improvements. Canning.

They who seek only for faults see nothing else. Pr.

They who sustain their cross shall likewise be sustained by it in return. Thomas à Kempis.

They who travel in pursuit of wisdom walk only in a circle, and, after all their labour, at last return to their pristine ignorance. Goldsmith.

They who want a farthing, and have no friend 20 that will lend them it, think farthings very good things. Goldsmith.

They who want money when they come to borrow, will always want money when they should come to pay. Goldsmith.

They who will watch Providence will never want a Providence to watch. (?)

They whom truth and wisdom lead / Can gather honey from a weed. Cowper.

Thick as autumnal leaves that strew the brooks / In Vallombrosa. Milton.

Thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, 25 saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left. Bible.

Thine is the right, for thine the might. Tennyson.

Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off. Bible.

Thine own worm be not: yet such jealousy, As hurts not others, but may make thee better, / Is a good spur. George Herbert.

Things all are big with jest; nothing that's plain / But may be witty, if thou hast the vein... / Many affecting wit beyond their power, / Have got to be a dear fool for an hour. George Herbert.

Things are graceful in a friend's mouth which 30 are blushing in a man's own. Bacon.

Things are his property alone who knows how to use them. Xenophon.

Things are long-lived, and God above appoints their term; yet when the brains of a thing have been out for three centuries and odd, one does wish it would be kind enough and die. Carlyle.

Things are not so false always as they seem. Carlyle.

Things are sullen, and will be as they are, whatever we think them or wish them to be. Cudworth.

Things are what they are by nature, not by 35 will. Cudworth.

Things at the worst will cease, or else climb upward / To what they were before. Macb., iv. 2.

Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill. Macb., iii. 2.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, / Love can transpose to form and dignity. Mid. N.'s Dream, i. 1.

Things fasten upon thee only according as the degree of thy own love and inclination for them gives opportunity and advantage. Thomas à Kempis.

Things good, great Jove, asked or unasked, 40 supply: / Things evil, though we ask for them, deny. Anon.

Things have their laws as well as men; and things refuse to be trifled with. Emerson.

Things ill got had ever bad success.... I'll leave my son my virtuous deeds behind. 3 Hen. VI., ii. 2.

Things may serve long, but not serve ever. All's Well, ii. 2.

Things more excellent than every image are expressed through images. Jamblichus.

Things must turn when they can go no farther. 45 Spurgeon.

Things refuse to be mismanaged long. Carlyle.

Things seen are mightier than things heard. Tennyson.

Things will always right themselves in time, if only those who know what they want to do, and can do, persevere unremittingly in work and action. Goethe.

Things will never be bettered by an excess of haste. Pr.

Things without remedy should be without regard; what is done, is done. Macb., iii. 2.

Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing. Troil. and Cress., i. 2.

Think all you speak, but speak not all you think. Delaune.

Think and thank God. Pr. 5

Think naught a trifle, though it small appear; / Small sands the mountain, moments make the year, / And trifles life. Young.

Think not, dream not that thou livest, / If thy hand doth idly lie, / If thy soul for ever longing, / Yearn but for the by and bye. M. W. Wood.

Think not I came to send peace on the earth; I came not to send peace but a sword. Jesus.

Think not thy fame at every twitch will break; / By great deeds show that thou canst little do; / And do them not; that shall thy wisdom be; / And change thy temperance into bravery. George Herbert.

Think not thy own shadow longer than that of 10 others. Sir Thomas Browne.

Think not your estate your own, while any man can call upon you for money which you cannot pay. Johnson.

Think of ease, but work on. George Herbert.

Think of "living!" Thy life, wert thou the "pitifullest of all the sons of earth," is no idle dream, but a solemn reality. It is thy own; it is all thou hast to front eternity with. Carlyle.

Think of the hosts of worlds, and of the plagues in this world-mote—death puts an end to the whole. Carlyle.

Think with awe on the slow, the quiet power 15 of time. Schiller.

Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself. Lessing.

Think ye that God made the universe, and then let it run round his finger? (am Finger laufen liesse). Goethe.

Think you, 'mid all this mighty sum / Of things for ever speaking, / That nothing of itself will come, / But we must still be seeking. Wordsworth.

Thinkers are scarce as gold; but he whose thoughts embrace all his subject, pursues it uninterruptedly and fearless of consequences, is a diamond of enormous size. Lavater.

Think'st thou existence doth depend on time? / 20 It doth; but actions are our epochs. Byron.

Thinking about sin, beyond what is indispensable for the firm effort to get rid of it, is waste of energy and waste of time. Matthew Arnold.

Thinking is but an idle waste of thought; / For nought is everything, and everything is nought. Smith, "Rejected Addresses."

Thinking is the function; living is the functionary. Emerson.

Thinking leads man to knowledge. He may see and hear, and read and learn, whatever he pleases, and as much as he pleases; he will never know anything of it, except that which he has thought over, that which by thinking he has made the property of his mind. Pestalozzi.

Thinking nurseth thinking. Sir P. Sidney. 25

This above all; to thine own self be true, / And it must follow as the night the day, / Thou canst not then be false to any man. Ham., i. 3.

This bodes some strange eruption to our state. Ham., i. 1.

This century is not ripe for my ideal; I live a citizen of those that are to come. Schiller.

"This comes of walking on the earth." The Spanish swell, as he picked himself up from the ground. Sp. Pr.

This communicating of a man's self to his 30 friend works two contrary effects, for it redoubleth joys and cutteth griefs in halves. Bacon.

This day / Shall change all griefs and quarrels into love. Henry V., v. 2.

This day's propitious to be wise in. Burns.

This even-handed justice / Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice / To our own lips. Macb., i. 7.

This ever-renewing generation of appearances rests on a reality, and a reality that is alive. Emerson.

This fell sergeant, death, / Is strict in his 35 arrest. Ham., v. 2.

This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe, / For freedom only deals the deadly blow: / Then sheathes in calm repose the vengeful blade / For gentle peace in freedom's hallowed shade. John Quincy Adams.

This I think charity—to love God for himself, and our neighbour for God. Sir Thomas Browne.

This is a great—properly the greatest—moment in a man's life, when, reconciling himself to necessity, he is able with clearness of purpose to say, "Let the will of the gods be done." Ed.

"This is a sharp medicine, but it cures all disorders." Raleigh of the axe of his executioner.

This is faith; it is nothing more than obedience. 40 Voltaire.

This is how I define talent; it is a gift God has given us in secret, which we reveal without knowing it. Montesquieu.

This is not a time for purism of style; and style has little to do with the worth or unworth of a book. Carlyle.

This is not the liberty which we can hope, that no grievance should arise in the commonwealth, but when complaints are freely heard, deeply considered, and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for. Milton.

This is the first condition of a living morality as well as of vital religion, that the soul shall find a true centre out from and above itself, round which it shall revolve. J. C. Sharp.

This is the humour of it. Henry V., ii. 1. 45

This is the monstrosity in love—that the will is infinite, and the execution confined; that the desire is boundless, and the act a slave to limit. Troil. and Cress., iii. 2.

This is the state of man: to-day he puts forth / The tender leaves of hopes; to-morrow blossoms, / And bears his blushing honours thick upon him; / The third day comes a frost, a killing frost; / And when he thinks, good easy man, full surely / His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root, / And then he falls, as I do. Hen. VIII., iii. 2.

This is the very coinage of your brain; / This bodiless creation ecstasy / Is very cunning in. Ham., iii. 4.

This is the very curse of an evil deed, that it engenders and must bring forth more evil. Schiller.

This is true philanthropy, that buries not its gold in ostentatious charity, but builds its hospital in the human heart. Harley.

This low man seeks a little thing to do, / Sees it and does it; / This high man, with a great thing to pursue, / Dies ere he knows it. Browning.

This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with 5 them. Said of Jesus by the Jews in way of reproach.

This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas, / The past, the future—two eternities. Moore.

This nothing's more than matter. Ham., iv. 5.

This of old is sure, / That change of toil is toil's sufficient cure. Lewis Morris.

This one fact the world hates—that the soul becomes. Emerson.

This present is a ruinous and ruining world. 10 Carlyle.

This she knows in joys and woes, / That saints will aid if men will call; / For the blue sky bends over all. Coleridge.

This so solid-seeming world is, after all, but an air-image, our Me the only reality; and Nature, with its thousand-fold production and destruction, but the reflex of our own inward force, the "Phantasy of our Dream," or, what the earth-spirit in "Faust" names it, "the living visible garment of God." Carlyle.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but knew what to do with it. Emerson.

This was a man. Jul. Cæs., v. 5.

This was the most unkindest cut of all. Jul. 15 Cæs., iii. 2.

This will prove a brave kingdom to me, where I shall have my music for nothing. Tempest, iii. 2.

This world belongs to the energetic. Emerson.

This world is a busy scene, and man a creature destined for a progressive struggle. Burns.

This world is all a fleeting show, / For man's illusion given: / The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, / Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, / There's nothing true but heaven. Moore.

This world is full of fools, and he who would 20 not wish to see one must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass. Boileau.

This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me! (uncle Toby to the fly). Sterne.

This world, where much is to be done and little to be known. Johnson.

Thistles and thorns prick sore, but evil tongues prick more. Dut. Pr.

Tho' men may bicker with the things they love, / They would not make them laughable in all eyes, / Not while they loved them. Tennyson.

Tho' world on world in myriad myriads roll / 25 Round us, each with different powers, / And other form of life than ours, / What know we greater than the soul? Tennyson.

Those are not empty-hearted whose low sound / Reverbs no hollowness. Lear, i. 1.

Those are often raised into the greatest transports of mirth who are subject to the greatest depressions of melancholy. Addison.

Those deserve to be doubly laughed at that are peevish and angry for nothing to no purpose. L'Estrange.

Those faces which have charmed us the most escape us the soonest. Scott.

Those faults conscience has not strength to 30 prevent, it seldom has justice enough to accuse. Goldsmith.

Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, / Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel. Ham., i. 3.

Those holy fields / Over whose acres walked those blessèd feet / Which, fourteen hundred years ago were nailed, / For our advantage, on the bitter cross. 1 Hen. IV., i. 1.

Those of us who are worth anything spend our manhood in unlearning the follies or expiating the mistakes of our youth. Shelley.

Those only are beautiful which, like the planets, have a steady, lambent light—are luminous, not sparkling. Longfellow.

Those only are despicable who fear to be 35 despised. La Roche.

Those only deserve a monument who do not need one. Hazlitt.

Those only obtain love, for the most part, who seek it not. Goethe.

Those only who know little can be said to know anything. The greater the knowledge the greater the doubt. Goethe.

Those people who are always improving never become great. Greatness is an eminence, the ascent to which is steep and lofty, and which a man must seize on at once by natural boldness and vigour, and not by patient, wary steps. Hazlitt.

Those persons who do most good are least 40 conscious of it. Ward Beecher.

Those tender tears that humanise the soul. Thomson.

Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. Colton.

Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable, and should be secured, because they seldom return. Bacon.

Those that dare lose a day are dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, desperate. Bishop Hall.

Those that fly may fight again, / Which he can 45 never do that's slain. Butler.

Those that have loved longest love best. Johnson.

Those that think must govern those that toil. Goldsmith.

Those that with haste will make a mighty fire, / Begin with weak straws. Jul. Cæs., i. 3.

Those who are bent to do wickedly will never want tempters to urge them on. Tillotson.

Those who are elevated enough in life to reason 50 and to reflect, yet low enough to keep clear of the venal contagion of a court—these are a nation's strength! Burns.

Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world. Landor.

Those who attempt to level never equalise; they load the edifice of society by setting up in the air what the solidity of the structure requires to be on the ground. Burke.

Those who attempt to reason us out of our follies, begin at the wrong end, since the attempt naturally presupposes us capable of reason. Goldsmith.

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. J. M. Barrie.

Those who can sit at home and gloat over their thousands in silent satisfaction are generally found to do it in plain clothes. Goldsmith.

Those who carry much upon their clothes 5 are remarked for having but little in their pockets. Goldsmith.

Those who do nothing generally take to shouting. Pr.

Those who dwell in fear dwell next door to hate; and I think it is the cowardice of women that makes them such intense haters. Mrs. Jameson.

Those who educate children well are more to be honoured than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well. Arist.

Those who first study fate, and say, Fate is the only cause of fortune and misfortune, terrify themselves. Hitopadesa.

Those who give the first shock to a state are 10 naturally the first to be overwhelmed in its ruin. The fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by the man who was the first to set it a-going; he only troubles the waters for another's net. Montaigne.

Those who have even studied good books may still be fools. Hitopadesa.

Those who injure one party to benefit another are quite as unjust as if they converted the property of others to their own benefit. Cic.

Those who make the best use of their time have none to spare. Pr.

Those who make the worst use of their time most complain of its shortness. La Bruyère.

Those who only run after little things will not 15 go far. J. M. Barrie.

Those who profess most are ever the least sincere. Sheridan.

Those who regularly undertake to cultivate friendship find ingratitude generally repays their endeavours. Arliss.

Those who seek for something more than happiness in this world must not complain if happiness be not their portion. Froude.

Those who seem to doubt or deny us what is justly ours, let us either pity their prejudice or despise their judgment. Burns.

Those who set their minds to deny things, and 20 are fond of pulling things to pieces, must be treated like deniers-of-motion; one need only keep incessantly walking up and down before them in as composed a manner as possible. Goethe.

Those who trust us educate us. George Eliot.

Those who will not be ruled by the rudder must be ruled by the rock. Cornish Pr.

Those who would make us feel must feel themselves. Churchill.

Thou art Heaven's tasker; and thy God requires / The purest of thy flour, as well as of thy fires. Quarles.

Thou art ignorant of what thou art, and much 25 more ignorant of what is fit for thee. Thomas à Kempis.

Thou art in the end what thou art. Goethe.

Thou art not alone if thou have faith. There is a communion of saints, unseen, yet not unreal, accompanying and brotherlike embracing thee, so thou be worthy. Carlyle.

Thou art the ruin of the noblest man / That ever lived in the tide of times. Jul. Cæs., iii. 1.

Thou art thyself to all eternity. D. G. Rossetti.

Thou awakest us to delight in thy praise; for 30 thou madest us for thyself, and our heart is restless until it repose in thee. St. Augustine.

Thou bear'st thy heavy riches but a journey, / And death unloads thee. Meas. for Meas., iii. 1.

Thou canst not be entirely free till thou hast attained to such a mastery as entirely to subdue and deny thyself. Thomas à Kempis.

Thou dost not strive, O Sun, but, meek and still, / Thou dost the type of Jesus best fulfil, / A noiseless revelation in the sky. F. W. Faber.

Thou hast given me / A world of earthly blessings to my soul, / If sympathy of love unite our thoughts. 2 Hen. VI., i. 1.

Thou hast not what others have, and others 35 have not the gift thou hast. From this imperfection springs sociability. Gellert.

Thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the world. John Selden.

Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating, as wiser by always reading. Fuller.

Thou mayest be more prodigal of praise when thou writest a letter than when thou speakest in presence. Fuller.

Thou must learn to break thine own will in many things if thou wilt have peace and concord with others. Thomas à Kempis.

Thou must live unto another if thou wilt live 40 unto thyself. Sen.

Thou must renounce; thou must abstain! is the eternal song which sounds in the ears of every one, which every hour is singing to us all our life long. Goethe.

Thou, Nature, art my goddess; to thy law / My services are bound. King Lear, i. 2.

Thou of an independent mind, / With soul resolved, with soul resigned; / Prepared Power's proudest frown to brave, / Who wilt not be, nor have a slave; / Virtue alone who dost revere, / Thy own reproach alone dost fear, / Approach this shrine (Independence), and worship here. Burns.

Thou shall hear no more complaints from me; thou shalt hear only what happens to the wanderer. Goethe.

"Thou shalt" is written upon life in characters 45 as legible as "Thou shalt not." Carlyle.

Thou shalt look outward, not inward. Carlyle.

Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. Bible.

Thou, too curious ear, that fain / Wouldst thread the maze of Harmony, / Content thee with one simple strain, /... Till thou art duly trained, and taught / The concord sweet of Love divine. Keble.

Thou who didst the stars and sunbeams know, / Self-schooled, self-scanned, self-honoured, self-secure, / Didst walk on earth unguessed at. M. Arnold on Shakespeare.

Thou! why, thou wilt quarrel with a man that hath a hair more or a hair less in his beard than thou hast. Thou wilt quarrel with a man for cracking nuts, having no other reason but because thou hast hazel eyes.... Thy head is full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat. Rom. and Jul., iii. 1.

Thou wilt never sell thy life, or any part of thy life, in a satisfactory manner. Give it like a royal heart; let the price of it be nothing; then hast thou in a certain sense got all for it. Carlyle.

Thou would'st as soon go kindle fire with snow, / As seek to quench the fire of love with words. Two Gent. of Verona, ii. 7.

Thou wouldst do little for God if the devil 5 were dead. Sc. Pr.

Though a man may become learned by another's learning, he never can be wise but by his own wisdom. (?)

Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him. Bible.

Though all his works abroad, / The heart benevolent and kind / The most resembles God. Burns.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues. Quinct.

Though an honourable title may be conveyed 10 to posterity, yet the ennobling qualities which are the soul of greatness are a sort of incommunicable perfections, and cannot be transferred. (?)

Though gentle, yet not dull, / Strong without rage, without o'erflowing, full. Denham.

Though great the force of little words, / Sped in an evil hour, / As great the might, and great the good, / Of one in Wisdom's power. M. W. Wood.

Though He comes in many shapes, / His love is throbbing in them all, / And from His love no soul escapes, / And from His mercy none can fall. Dr. W. Smith.

Though he says nothing, he pays it with thinking, like the Welshman's jackdaw. Pr.

Though He slay me, I shall yet trust in Him. 15 Bible.

Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry. John Wesley.

Though justice be thy plea, consider this—/ That in the course of justice none of us / Should see salvation. Mer. of Venice, iv. 1.

Though last, not least. Jul. Cæs., iii. 1.

Though little fire grows great with little wind, / Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire and all. Tam. of Shrew, ii. 1.

Though losses and crosses / Be lessons right 20 severe, / There's wit there ye'll get there, / Ye'll find nae ither where. Burns.

Though lost to sight, to memory dear. Anon.

Though love cannot plant morals in the human breast, it cultivates them when there. Goldsmith.

Though much is taken, much abides. Tennyson.

Though old the thought and oft repress'd, / 'Tis his at last who says it best. Lowell.

Though peace be in every man's wishes, yet 25 the qualifications and predispositions necessary for procuring and preserving it are the care of very few. Thomas à Kempis.

Though scorn's malignant glances / Prove him poorest of his clan, / He's the noble—who advances / Freedom, and the cause of Man! C. Swain.

Though stars in skies may disappear, / And angry tempests gather, / The happy hour may soon be near / That brings us pleasant weather. Burns.

Though the cat winks a while, yet sure she is not blind. Pr.

Though the heavens fall, the orbs of truth and justice fall not. J. Burroughs.

Though the world exists for thought, thought 30 is daunted in presence of the world. Emerson.

Though this be madness, yet there is method in't. Ham., ii. 2.

Though thousands hate physic, because of the cost, / Yet thousands it helpeth, that else should be lost. Thomas Tusser.

Though we lose our fortune, yet we should not lose our patience. Pr.

Though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps / At wisdom's gate; and to simplicity / Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill where no ill seems. Milton.

Though you can fret me, you cannot play upon 35 me. Ham., iii. 2.

Though you had the wisdom of Newton or the wit of Swift, garrulousness would lower you in the eyes of your fellow-creatures. Burns.

Though you stroke the nettle ever so kindly, yet it will sting you. Pr.

Thought and science follow their own law of development; they are slowly elaborated in the growth and forward pressure of humanity, in what Shakespeare calls... The prophetic soul / Of the wide world dreaming on things to come. Matthew Arnold.

Thought discovered is the more possessed. Young.

Thought disturbs the world, and thought of 40 God / Unsettles most of all; for it is life, / And only life can comprehend its force, / Or guide it. Dr. W. Smith.

Thought expands, but lames; action animates, but narrows. Goethe.

Thought is deeper than all speech; / Feeling deeper than all thought; / Souls to souls can never teach / What unto themselves was taught. C. P. Cranch.

Thought is free. As You Like It, i. 3.

Thought is like opium: it can intoxicate us while it leaves us broad awake. Amiel.

Thought is silence. Sheridan. 45

Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it. Emerson.

Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first. It rises in thought, to the end that it may be uttered and acted. The more profound the thought, the more burdensome. Always in proportion to the depth of its sense does it knock importunately at the gates of the soul, to be spoken, to be done. Emerson.

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel. Hare.

Thought means life, since those who do not think do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man. A. B. Alcott.

Thought once awakened does not again slumber. Carlyle.

Thought takes man out of servitude into freedom. Emerson.

Thought, true labour of any kind, highest 5 virtue itself, is it not the daughter of pain? Born as out of the black whirlwind; true effort in fact, as of a captive struggling to free itself—that is thought. Carlyle.

Thought without reverence is barren, perhaps poisonous; at best dies, like cookery, with the day that called it forth. Carlyle.

Thought works in silence, so does virtue. Carlyle.

Thoughtlessness is precisely the chief public calamity of our day. Ruskin.

Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried. Shakespeare.

Thoughts are not always at our beck; we 10 must wait till they come. Schopenhauer.

Thoughts (are) the slaves of life, and life time's fool; / And time, that takes survey of all the world, / Must have a stop. 1 Hen. IV., v. 4.

Thoughts are your own; your words are so no more. Delaune.

Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntary opened. Emerson.

Thoughts shut up want air, and spoil, like bales unopened to the sun. Young.

Thoughts take up no room. Jeremy Collier. 15

Thoughts that breathe and words that burn. Gray.

Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. Wordsworth.

Thoughts that voluntary move / Harmonious numbers. Milton.

Thoughts we have had and pictures we have seen can be recalled by the mind; but the heart is not so obliging; it does not reproduce our pleasing emotions. Goethe.

Threaten the threatener, and outface the 20 brow / Of bragging horror; so shall inferior eyes, / That borrow their behaviours from the great, / Grow great by your example, and put on / The dauntless spirit of resolution. King John, v. 1.

Threatened folks live long. Pr.

Three may keep a secret—if two of them are dead. Ben. Franklin.

Three poets in three distant ages born, / Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. / The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd; / The next, in majesty; in both, the last. / The force of Nature could no further go; / To make a third, she join'd the former two. Dryden.

Three removes are as bad as a fire. Ben. Franklin.

Three things drive a man out of doors—smoke, 25 a leaking roof, and a scolding wife. Pr.

Three things that enrich genius are contentment of mind, the cherishing of good thoughts, and the exercise of memory. Southey.

Three thousand miles of ocean space are less impressive than three miles bounded by rugged mountain walls. John Burroughs.

Three women and a goose make a market. It., Dut., and Dan. Pr.

Thrice happy he who without rigour saves. Thomson.

Thrice happy life that's from ambition free. 30 Allan Ramsay.

Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just; / And he but naked, though locked up in steel, / Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted. 2 Hen. VI., iii. 2.

Thrift must begin with little savings. Pr.

Thrifty be, but not covetous. George Herbert.

Through certain humours or passions, and from temper merely, a man may be completely miserable, let his outward circumstances be ever so fortunate. Lord Shaftesbury.

Through every star, through every grass 35 blade, and most through every living soul, the glory of a present God still beams. Carlyle.

Through steep ascents, through strait and rugged ways, / Ourselves to glory's lofty seats we raise: / In vain he hopes to reach the bless'd abode / Who leaves the narrow path for the more easy road. Boscan.

Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear; / Robes and furr'd gowns hide all. King Lear, iv. 6.

Through "the ruins of a falling era," not once missing his footing. Carlyle of his father.

Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling, and spending their lives like serfs. Thoreau.

Through wisdom is an house builded; and by 40 understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches. Bible.

Throw no gift again at the giver's head; / Better is half a loaf than no bread. Pr.

Throw physic to the dogs; I'll none of it. Macb., v. 3.

Thu' nur das Rechte in deinen Sachen, / Das Andre wird sich von selber machen—In thy affairs do thou only what is right, the rest will follow of itself. Goethe.

Thursday come, and the week's gone. Pr.

Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure; 45 / Married in haste, we may repent at leisure. Congreve.

Thus the native hue of resolution / Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought. Ham., iii. 1.

Thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges. Twelfth Night, iv. 2.

Thus we play the fools with the time; and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds, and mock us. 2 Hen. IV., ii. 2.

Thus when I shun Scylla, your father, I fall into Charybdis, your mother. Mer. of Venice, iii. 5.

Thus with the year / Seasons return; but not 50 to me returns / Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, / Or sight of vernal bloom or summer's rose, / Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; / But cloud instead, and ever-during dark / Surrounds me. Milton.

Thy actions, and thy actions alone, determine thy worth. Fichte.

Thy friend put in thy bosom; wear his eyes / Still in thy heart, that he may see what's there. / If cause require, thou art his sacrifice.... / But love is lost; the way of friendship's gone. George Herbert.

Thy hand is never the worse for doing thy own work. Pr.

Thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women. Bible.

Thy nature / It is too full of the milk of human 5 kindness / To catch the nearest way. Macb., i. 5.

Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power. Bible.

Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike, / One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike. Ben. Jonson.

Thy secret is thy prisoner. Pr.

Thy soul was like a star and dwelt apart. Wordsworth.

Thy spirit, Independence, let me share; / Lord 10 of the lion-heart and eagle-eye! / Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, / Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky! Smollett.

Thy sum of duty let two words contain; / Be humble and be just. Prior.

Thy true beginning and Father is in heaven, whom with the bodily eye thou shalt never behold, but only with the spiritual. Carlyle.

Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought. 2 Hen. IV., iv. 4.

Tibi nullum periculum esse perspicio, quod quidem sejunctum sit ab omnium interitu—I can see no danger to which you are exposed, other than that which threatens the destruction of us all. Cic.

Tickle me, Bobby, and I'll tickle you. Pr. 15

Tie up thy fears. / He that forbears / To suit and serve his need, / Deserves his load. George Herbert.

Tie your camel up as best you can, and then trust it to Providence. Mahomet.

Tief und ernstlich denkende Menschen haben gegen das Publikum einen bösen Stand—Deeply and earnestly thoughtful men stand on an unfavourable footing with the public. Goethe.

Tief zu denken und schön zu empfinden ist Vielen gegeben; Dichter ist nur, wer schön sagt was er dacht' und empfand—To think deeply and to feel beautifully is given to many; only he who expresses beautifully what he has thought and felt is a poet. Geibel.

Tiens à la vérité—Stick to the truth. M. 20

Tiens à ta foy—Hold to thy faith. M.

Tiers état—The third estate; the commons. Fr.

Till the hand... from reed or string / Draws out faint echoes of the voice Divine / That bring God nearer to a faithless world. Lewis Morris.

Time and chance can do nothing for those who will do nothing for themselves. Providence itself can scarcely save a people who are not prepared to make a struggle for their safety. Canning.

Time and I against any two. Philip II. 25

Time and space are not God, but creations of God; with God, as it is a universal Here, so is it an everlasting Now. Carlyle.

Time and thinking tame the strongest grief. Pr.

Time antiquates antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all things. Sir Thomas Browne.

Time, as it is, cannot stay; / Nor again, as it was, can it be; / Disappearing and passing away / Are the world, and the ages, and we. Lord Lytton.

Time brings roses. Pr. 30

Time conquers all, and we must time obey. Pope.

Time consecrates; and what is grey with age becomes religion. Schiller.

Time destroys the speculations of man, but it confirms the judgment of nature. Cic.

Time devours all things. Pr.

Time dissipates to shining ether the solid 35 angularity of facts. Emerson.

Time drinketh up the essence of every great and noble action which ought to be performed, and is delayed in the execution. Hitopadesa.

Time elaborately thrown away. Young.

Time gives prudence; the lord of time, inspiration; the one is a reward, the other a gift. Börne.

Time has a strange contracting influence on many a wide-spread fame. Carlyle.

Time has only a relative existence. Carlyle. 40

Time incessantly hasteneth on; he seeks for perfection; if thou art true, thou canst cast fetters eternal on him. Schiller.

Time is a continual over-dropping of moments, which fall down one upon the other and evaporate. Jean Paul.

Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does. Goethe.

Time is a wonder-working god. In one hour many thousand grains of sand run out, so quickly do thoughts stir in the minds of men. Schiller.

Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I 45 drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom, and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper, fish in the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars. Thoreau.

Time is but the measure of the difficulty of a conception. Pure thought has scarcely any need of time, since it perceives the two ends of an idea almost the same moment. Amiel.

Time is eternity, / Pregnant with all eternity can give. Young.

Time is generally the best doctor. Ovid.

Time is incalculably long, and every day is a vessel into which very much may be poured, if one will really fill it up. Goethe.

Time is like a fashionable host, / That slightly 50 shakes his parting guest by the hand; / And with his arms outstretched, as he would fly, / Grasps in the comer. Troil. and Cress., iii. 3.

Time is like a river, in which metals and solid substances are sunk, while chaff and straws swim upon the surface. Bacon.

Time is money. Pr.

Time is never more misspent than while we declaim against the want of it. Zimmermann.

Time is of more value than type, and the wear and tear of temper than an extra page of index. R. H. Busk.

Time is the chrysalis of eternity. Jean Paul.

Time is the life of the soul. If not this, then tell me what is time? Longfellow.

Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it, and, like the flash of the lightning, at once exists and expires. Colton.

Time is the nurse and breeder of all good. Two 5 Gent. of Ver., iii. 1.

Time is the old Justice that examines all offenders. As You Like It, iv. 1.

Time is the stuff life is made of. Ben. Franklin.

Time is the wheel-track in which we roll on towards eternity. W. v. Humboldt.

Time is trouble and the author of destruction; he seizeth even from afar. Hitopadesa.

Time reposes on eternity; the truly great and 10 transcendental has its basis and substance in eternity; stands revealed to us as eternity in a vesture of time. Carlyle.

Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides: / Who cover faults, at last shame them derides. King Lear, i. 1.

Time, that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities. Colton.

Time the shuttle drives, but you / Give to every thread its hue, / And elect your destiny. W. H. Burleigh.

Time trieth truth. Pr.

Time was when a Christian used to apologise 15 for being happy. But the day has always been when he ought to apologise for being miserable. Prof. Drummond.

Time wasted is existence; used, is life. Young.

Time, when well husbanded, is like a cultivated field, of which a few acres produce more of what is useful to life, than extensive provinces, even of the richest soil, when overrun with weeds and brambles. Hume.

Time, which deadens hatred, secretly strengthens love; and in the hour of threatened separation its growth is manifested at once in radiant brightness. Jean Paul.

Time will discover everything to posterity; it is a babbler, and speaks even when no question is put. Euripides.

Time works great changes. Pr. 20

Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow; / Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. Byron.

Time's best gift to us is serenity. Bovee.

Time's noblest offspring is the last. Berkeley.

Time's the king of men; / He's both their parent and he is their grave, / And gives them what he will, not what they crave. Pericles, ii. 3.

Time's waters will not ebb nor stay; / Power 25 cannot change them, but Love may; / What cannot be, Love counts it done. Keble.

Timely advised, the coming evil shun; / Better not do the deed, than weep it done. Prior.

Timeo Danaos, et dona ferentes—I distrust the Greeks, even when they bring gifts. Virg.

Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. Colton.

Timet pudorem—He fears shame. M.

Timidi mater non flet—The mother of the coward 30 has no occasion to weep. Pr.

Timidus se vocat cautum, parcum sordidus—The coward calls himself cautious, the miser thrifty. Pub. Syr.

Timor Domini fons vitæ—The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life. M.

Tinsel reflects the sun, but warms nothing. Prof. Drummond.

Tired Nature's sweet restorer, balmy Sleep! / He, like the world, his ready visit pays / Where Fortune smiles; the wretched he forsakes: / Swift on his downy pinions flies from woe, / And lights on lids unsullied with a tear. Young.

Tirer le diable par la queue—To be in great 35 straits (lit. to pull the devil by the tail).

Tirer les marrons du feu avec la patte du chat—To make a cat's paw of any one (lit. to take the chestnuts from the fire with a cat's paw). La Fontaine.

Tirez le rideau; la farce est jouée—Draw the curtain; the farce is played out. Last words of Rabelais.

'Tis a consummation / Devoutly to be wished. Ham., iii. 1.

'Tis a cruelty / To load a falling man. Henry VIII., v. 2.

'Tis a folly to fret; grief's no comfort. Pr. 40

'Tis a good ill that comes alone. Pr.

'Tis a kind of good deed to say well: / And yet words are no deeds. Henry VIII., iii. 2.

'Tis a lucky day, boy, and we'll do good deeds on't. Winter's Tale, iii. 3.

'Tis a physic that's bitter to sweet end. Meas. for Meas., iv. 6.

'Tis a question whether adversity or prosperity 45 makes the most poets. Farquhar.

'Tis a vile thing to die... / When men are unprepar'd and look not for it. Rich. III., iii. 2.

'Tis all one to be a witch as to be counted one. The Witch of Edmonton.

'Tis always a delightful thing to see the human understanding following its imprescriptible rights in spite of all hindrances, and hurrying eagerly towards the utmost possible agreement between ideas and objects. Goethe.

'Tis an economy of time to read old and famed books. Emerson.

'Tis an old maxim in the schools / That flattery's 50 the food of fools; / Yet now and then your men of wit / Will condescend to take a bit. Swift.

'Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud; / 'Tis virtue that doth make them most admired; / 'Tis government that makes them seem divine. 3 Hen. VI., i. 4.

'Tis better to be lowly born, / And range with humble livers in content, / Than to be perked up in a glistering grief, / And wear a golden sorrow. Hen. VIII., ii. 2.

'Tis better to cry over your goods than after them. Pr.

'Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all. Tennyson.

'Tis but a base, ignoble mind / That mounts no higher than a bird can soar. 2 Hen. VI., ii. 1.

'Tis but lame kindness that does its work by halves. Blair.

'Tis, by comparison, an easy task / Earth to despise; but to converse with heaven—/ This is not easy. Wordsworth.

'Tis certainly much easier for a man to restrain himself from talking at all, than to enter into discourse without saying more than becomes him. Thomas à Kempis.

'Tis day still while the sun shines. Pr. 5

'Tis death to me to be at enmity; / I hate it, and desire all good men's love. Rich. III., ii. 1.

'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, / And robes the mountain in its azure hue. Campbell.

'Tis education forms the common mind, / Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined. Pope.

'Tis ever common that men are merriest when they are from home. Hen. V., i. 2.

'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear; / 10 Heaven were not heaven if we knew what it were. Suckling.

'Tis God / Diffused through all that doth make all one whole. Coleridge.

'Tis heaven alone that is given away; / 'Tis only God may be had for the asking. Lowell.

'Tis impossible you should take true root, but by the fair weather that you make yourself; it is needful that you frame the season for your own harvest. Much Ado, i. 3.

'Tis, in fact, utter folly to ask whether a person has anything from himself, or whether he has it from others, whether he operates by himself, or operates by means of others. The main point is to have a great will, and skill and perseverance to carry it out. All else is indifferent. Goethe.

'Tis life itself to love. Goethe. 15

'Tis life reveals to each his genuine worth. Goethe.

'Tis little we can do for each other. Emerson.

'Tis long since death had the majority. Blair.

'Tis mad idolatry / To make the service greater than the god. Troil. and Cress., ii. 2.

'Tis my opinion 'tis necessary to be happy, 20 that we think no place more agreeable than that where we are. Lady Montagu.

'Tis my vocation, Hal; 'tis no sin for a man to labour in his vocation. 1 Hen. IV., i. 2.

'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, / But the joint force and full result of all. Pope.

'Tis not always necessary that truth should be embodied; it is sufficient if it hovers about in the spirit, producing harmony; if, like the chime of bells, it vibrates through the air solemnly and kindly. Goethe.

'Tis not enough to keep the feeble up, / But to support them after. Tim. of Athens, i. 1.

'Tis not enough when swarming faults are 25 writ, / That here and there are scatter'd sparks of wit. Dryden.

'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; / Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do. Pope.

'Tis not in mortals to command success, / But we'll do more, Sempronius—we'll deserve it. Addison.

'Tis not prudent, 'tis not well, to meet / With purposed misconception any man, / Let him be who he may. Goethe.

'Tis not so above: / There is no shuffling; there the action lies / In its true nature. Ham., iii. 3.

'Tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but 30 the excess. Selden.

'Tis not the whole of life to live, / Nor all of death to die. J. Montgomery.

'Tis not want, but rather abundance, that creates avarice. Montaigne.

'Tis not what man does which exalts him, but what man would do. Browning.

'Tis not worth while quarrelling with the world, simply to afford it some amusement. Goethe.

'Tis now the very witching time of night, / 35 When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out / Contagion to this world. Ham., iii. 2.

'Tis only humanity as a whole that perceives Nature, only men collectively that live the life of man. Goethe.

'Tis only in Rome one can duly prepare one's self for Rome. Goethe.

'Tis only in the forehead Nature plants the watchful eye; the back, without defence, must find its shield in man's fidelity. Schiller.

'Tis only noble to be good; / Kind hearts are more than coronets, / And simple faith than Norman blood. Tennyson.

'Tis only strict precision of thought that confers 40 facility of expression. Schiller.

'Tis only woman's womanly beauty that makes a true queen; wherever she appears, and by her mere presence, she asserts her sovereignty. Schiller.

'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print; / A book's a book, although there's nothing in't. Byron.

'Tis rashness to conclude affairs in a lost condition because some crosses have baulked your expectations. Thomas à Kempis.

'Tis said fantastic ocean doth unfold the likeness of whate'er on land is seen. Wordsworth.

'Tis said that virtue dwells sublime / On 45 rugged cliffs, full hard to climb; /... But mortal ne'er her form may see, / Unless his restless energy / Breaks forth in sweat that gains the goal, / The perfect manhood of the soul. Simonides.

'Tis strange; / And oftentimes to win us to our harm, / The instruments of darkness tell us truths; / Win us with honest trifles, to betray 's, / In deepest consequence. Macb., i. 3.

'Tis sweet to hear of heroes dead, / To know them still alive, / But sweeter if we earn their bread, / And in us they survive. Thomson.

'Tis the curse of service; preferment goes by letter and affection, not by the old gradation where each second stood heir to the first. Othello, i. 1.

'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; / 'Tis heaven itself that points out an hereafter, / And intimates eternity to man. Addison.

'Tis the fate of the noblest soul to sigh vainly 50 for a reflection of itself. Goethe.

'Tis the fine souls who serve us, and not what is called fine society. Emerson.

'Tis the fulness of man that runs over into objects, and makes his Bibles and Shakespeares and Homers so great. Emerson.

'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences, or asides, hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear. Emerson.

'Tis the mind that makes the body rich; / And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, / So honour peereth in the meanest habit. Tam. of Shrew, iv. 3.

'Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises. 'Tis the vulgar great who come dizened with gold and jewels. Emerson.

'Tis the part of a poor spirit to undervalue 5 himself and blush. George Herbert.

'Tis the same to him who wears a shoe as if the whole earth were thatched with leather. Persian Pr.

'Tis the sublime of man, / Our noontide majesty, to know ourselves / Parts and proportions of one wondrous whole! / This fraternises man, this constitutes / Our charities and bearings. Coleridge.

'Tis this (religion), my friend, that streaks our morning bright. Thomson. (?)

'Tis too much proved that, with devotion's visage / And pious action, we do sugar o'er / The devil himself. Ham., iii. 1.

'Tis well for once to do everything one can do, 10 in order to have the merit of knowing one's self more intimately. Goethe.

'Tis well to be merry and wise, / 'Tis well to be honest and true; / 'Tis well to be off with the old love / Before you are on with the new. (?)

'Tis when sovereigns build, carters are kept employed. Schiller.

'Tis with our judgments as our watches; none / Go just alike, yet each believes his own. Pope.

Tit for tat is fair play. Pr.

Titles and mottoes to books are like escutcheons 15 and dignities in the hands of a king. The wise sometimes condescend to accept of them; but none but a fool would imagine them of any real importance. We ought to depend upon intrinsic merit, and not the slender helps of the title. Goldsmith.

Titles of honour add not to his worth who is himself an honour to his title. John Ford.

Titles of honour conferred upon such as have no personal merit are at best but the royal stamp set upon base metal. (?)

Titus, amor et deliciæ humani generis—Titus, the delight and darling of the human race. Suetonius.

To a child in confinement its mother's knee is a binding-post. Hitopadesa.

To a dog the choicest thing in the world is a 20 dog: to an ox, an ox; to an ass, an ass; and to a sow, a sow. Schopenhauer.

To a father waxing old nothing is dearer than a daughter. Euripides.

To a father, when his child dies, the future dies; to a child when his parents die, the past dies. Auerbach.

To a new truth nothing is more mischievous than an old error. Goethe.

To a poet nothing can be useless. Johnson.

To accuse a man of lying is as much as to say 25 he is brave towards God and a coward towards man. Montaigne.

To achieve great things a man must so live as if he had never to die. Vauvenargues.

To acquire certainty in the appreciation of things exactly as they are, and to know them in their due subordination, and in their proper relation to one another—this is really the highest enjoyment to which we ought to aspire, whether in the sphere of art, of nature, or of life. Goethe.

To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome. Goethe.

To act with a purpose is what raises man above the brutes; to invent with a purpose, to imitate with a purpose, is that which distinguishes genius from the petty artists who only invent to invent, and imitate to imitate. Lessing.

To adhere to what is set down in them, and 30 appropriate to one's self what one can for moral strengthening and culture, is the only edifying purpose to which we can turn the Gospels. Goethe.

To affect a quality is just to confess that you have not got it. Schopenhauer.

To aim at excellence, our reputation, our friends, and our all must be ventured; by aiming only at mediocrity, we run no risk and we do little service. Goldsmith.

To an ill-conditioned being all pleasure is like delicate wine in a mouth embittered with gall. Schopenhauer.

To answer a question so as to admit of no reply, is the test of a man. Emerson.

To appear well-bred, a man must actually be 35 so. Goethe.

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us. Goethe.

To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct, either by the censures of the one or the admonitions of the other. Diogenes.

To attack vices in the abstract without touching persons, may be safe fighting indeed, but it is fighting with shadows. Junius.

To banish care, scare away sorrow, and soothe pain is the business of the poet, or singer (Sänger). Bodenstedt.

To be a good poet and painter genius is required, 40 and this cannot be communicated. Goethe.

To be a man's own fool is bad enough; but the vain man is everybody's. William Penn.

To be a philosopher is but a retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's. Cowley.

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live, according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically. Thoreau.

To be a poet is to have a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge. George Eliot.

To be able simply to say of a man he has character, is not only saying much of him, but extolling him; for this is a rarity which excites respect and wonder. Goethe.

To be able to be silent shows power; to be willing to be silent shows forbearance (Nachsicht); to be compelled to be silent shows the spirit of the time. Weber.

To be acquainted with the merit of a Ministry, we need only observe the condition of the people. Junius.

To be always lamenting and always complaining without raising and nerving one's self to resignation, is to lose at once both earth and heaven, and have nothing over but a watery sentimentalism. Schopenhauer.

To be always thinking about your manners is 5 not the way to make them good; because the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself. Whately.

To be an enthusiast is to be the worthiest of affection, the noblest and the best that a mortal can be. Wieland.

To be angry is to avenge the faults of others upon ourselves. Pope.

To be as good as our fathers, we must be better. Imitation is not discipleship. When some one sent a cracked plate to China to have a set made, every piece in the new set had a crack in it. Wendell Phillips.

To be bodily tranquil, to speak little, and to digest without effort are absolutely necessary to grandeur of mind or of presence, or to proper development of genius. Balzac.

To be born in a duck's nest in a farmyard is of 10 no consequence to a bird if it is hatched from a swan's egg. Hans Andersen.

To be born with a silver spoon in the mouth. Pr.

To be borne seems to many ever more kingly than to bear; and a ship carried with the breeze is, in their eyes, a lordlier spectacle than when it stands against it, victoriously braving it. Ed.

To be disobedient through temptation is human sin; but to be disobedient for the sake of disobedience, fiendish sin. To be obedient for the sake of success in conduct is human virtue; to be obedient for the sake of obedience, angelic virtue. Ruskin.

To be ever beloved, one must be ever agreeable. Lady Montagu.

To be free is not to do nothing, but to be the 15 sole arbiter of what we do and what we leave undone. La Bruyère.

To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue. Hannah More.

To be great is to be misunderstood. Emerson.

To be great one must be positive, and gain strength through foes. Donn Piatt.

To be guided in the right path by those who know better than they is the first "right of man," compared with which all other rights are as nothing. Carlyle.

To be happy is not the purpose of our being, 20 but to deserve happiness. Fichte.

To be happy means to be sufficient for one's self. Arist.

To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand. Ham., ii. 2.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches; and therefore every man endeavours with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself. Johnson.

To be ill thought of is sometimes for thy good,... if thou seek not thy own glory, but His that sent thee, the affliction will not be very grievous to be borne. Thomas à Kempis.

To be in too great a hurry to discharge an 25 obligation is itself a kind of ingratitude. La Roche.

To be introduced into a decent company, there is need of a dress cut according to the taste of the public to which one wishes to present one's self. Goethe.

To be magnanimous—mighty of heart, mighty of mind—is to be great in life; to become this increasingly is to "advance in life." Ruskin.

To be mindful of an absent friend in the hours of mirth and feasting, when his company is least wanted, shows no slight degree of sincerity. Goldsmith.

To be misunderstood is the cross and bitterness of life. Amiel.

To be obliged to wear black, and buy it into 30 the bargain, is more than my tranquillity of temper can bear. Goldsmith.

To be once in doubt is once to be resolved. Othello, iii. 3.

To be, or not to be, that is the question; / Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer / The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, / Or to take up arms against a sea of troubles, / And, by opposing, end them. Ham., iii. 1.

To be perfectly just, is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities is the glory of man. (?)

To be poor, and to seem poor, is a certain method never to rise. Goldsmith.

To be prepared for war is one of the most 35 effectual means of preserving peace. Washington.

To be provoked with every slanderous word argues a littleness of soul, a want of due regard to God. Thomas à Kempis.

To be rich is to have a ticket of admission to the master-works and chief men of each race. Emerson.

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. Holmes.

To be spiritually minded is life and peace. Paul.

To be thus is nothing; / But to be safely thus. 40 Macb., iii. 1.

To be true in heart and just in act are the first qualities necessary for the elevation of humanity. Froude.

To be vain is rather a mark of humility than pride. Swift.

To be vain of one's rank or place is to disclose that one is below it. Stanislaus.

To be weak is miserable, / Doing or suffering. Milton.

To be wholly loved with the whole heart, one 45 must be suffering. Heine.

To be wise and love exceeds man's might. Troil. and Cress., iii. 2.

To be without a servant in this world is not good; but to be without a master, it appears, is a still fataller predicament for some. Carlyle.

To be without passion is worse than a beast; to be without reason is to be less than a man. A. Warwick.

To be wroth with one we love, / Doth work like madness in the brain. Coleridge.

To be young is to be as one of the immortals. Hazlitt.

To bear is to conquer our fate. Campbell. 5

To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it and disputed against it. Novalis.

To beguile the time, / Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye, / Your hand, your tongue; look like the innocent flower, / But be the serpent under 't. Macb., i. 5.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men—that is genius. Emerson.

To blow is not to play the flute; you must move the fingers as well. Goethe.

To breed a fresh soul, is it not like brooding a 10 fresh (celestial) egg, wherein as yet all is formless, powerless? Yet by degrees organic elements and fibres shoot through the watery albumen; out of vague sensation grows thought, grows fantasy and force, and we have philosophies, dynasties, nay, poetries and religions. Carlyle.

To bring nations to surrender themselves to new ideas is not the affair of a day. Draper.

To bring the generality of admirers on our side, it is sufficient to attempt pleasing a very few. Goldsmith.

To business that we love we rise betime, / And go to 't with delight. Ant. and Cleop., iv. 4.

To call a man ungrateful is to sum up all the evil he can be guilty of. Swift.

To carry on the feelings of childhood into the 15 powers of manhood, to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances which every day, for perhaps forty years, has rendered familiar; this is the character and privilege of genius, and one of the marks which distinguish genius from talent. Coleridge.

To cast away a virtuous friend is as bad as to cast away one's own life, which one loves best. Sophocles.

To catch dame Fortune's golden smile, / Assiduous wait upon her; / And gather gear by ev'ry wile / That's justified by honour; / Not for to hide it in a hedge, / Nor for a train attendant, / But for the glorious privilege / Of being independent. Burns.

To circumstances and custom the law must yield. Dan. Pr.

To climb a tree to catch a fish is talking much and doing nothing. Chinese Pr.

To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first. 20 Hen. VIII., i. 1.

To confess Christ is, first, to believe righteously, truthfully, and continently; and, then, to separate ourselves from those who are manifestly or by profession rogues, liars, and fornicators. Ruskin.

To conquer inclination is difficult, but if habit, taking root, gradually associates itself with it, then it is unconquerable. Goethe.

To conquer without danger would be to conquer without glory. Corneille.

To consume your own choler, as some chimneys consume their own smoke; to keep a whole Satanic school spouting, if it must spout, inaudibly, is a negative yet no slight virtue, nor one of the commonest in these times. Carlyle.

To corporeal beings unthought-of troubles 25 arise; so, in like manner, do blessings make their appearance. In this, I think Providence hath extended them farther than usual. Hitopadesa.

To dance attendance on their lordships' pleasures. Hen. VIII., v. 2.

To-day comes only once, and never again returns. Schopenhauer.

To-day is a king in disguise. Emerson.

To-day is ours, we have it here,... / To the gods belong to-morrow. Cowley.

To-day must not borrow of to-morrow. Ger. Pr. 30

To deny is easy; nothing is sooner learned or more generally practised. As matters go, we need no man of polish to teach it; but rather, if possible, a hundred men of wisdom to show us its limits and teach us its reverse. Carlyle.

To depersonalise man is the dominant drift of our epoch. Amiel.

To despise our own species is the price we must too often pay for a knowledge of it. Colton.

To die for truth is not to die for one's country but to die for the world. Jean Paul.

To die is landing on some silent shore, / Where 35 billows never break nor tempests roar. S. Garth.

To die, to sleep; / No more; and by a sleep to say we end / The heartache and the thousand natural shocks / That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation / Devoutly to be wished. Ham., iii. 1.

To die, to sleep; / No more! perchance to dream; ay, there's the rub; / For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, / When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, / Must give us pause. Ham., iii. 1.

To do as much good and as little evil as we can is the brief and intelligible principle that comprehends all subordinate maxims. R. Sharp.

To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. Amiel.

To do good to the ungrateful is to throw rosewater 40 into the sea. Pr.

To do him any wrong was to beget / A kindness from him, for his heart was rich, / Of such fine mould, that if you sow'd therein / The seed of Hate, it blossom'd Charity. Tennyson.

To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice. Bible.

To do no evil is good; to intend none is better. Claudius.

To do nothing by halves is the way of noble minds. Wieland.

To do, one must be doing. Fr. Pr. 45

To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius. Amiel.

To doubt is to dip love in the mire. J. M. Barrie.

To draw a long bow, i.e., exaggerate. Pr.

To dread no eye, and to suspect no tongue, is the greatest prerogative of innocence; an exemption granted only to invariable virtue. Johnson.

To dwell alone is the fate of all great souls. Schopenhauer.

To each nation its believed history is its Bible. Carlyle.

To eat or drink too much, to play too much, 5 to work too much, or to grumble too much—all these are equally pernicious. John Wagstaffe.

To educate the intelligence is to enlarge the horizon of its desires and wants. Lowell.

To educate the wise man, the State exists; and with the appearance of the wise man, the State expires. The wise man is the State. Emerson.

To elevate above the spirit of the age must be regarded as the end of education. Jean Paul.

To endeavour all one's days to fortify our minds with learning and philosophy is to spend so much in armour that one has nothing left to defend. (?)

To endeavour to work upon the vulgar with 10 fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor. Pope.

To endure is the first and most necessary lesson a child has to learn. Rousseau.

To equal a predecessor, one must have twice his worth. Gracian.

To err is human, to forgive divine. Pope.

To escape from arrangements that tortured me, my heart sought refuge in the world of ideas, when as yet I was unacquainted with the world of realities, from which iron bars excluded me. Schiller at his training-school.

To every deep there is a deeper still. Pr. 15

To everything there is a season. Bible.

To excite a fierce dog to capture a lame rabbit is to attack a contemptible enemy. Chinese Pr.

To expect an author to talk as he writes is ridiculous: or even if he did, you would find fault with him as a pedant. Hazlitt.

To express the most difficult matters clearly, and everything intelligibly, is to strike coins out of pure gold. Geibel.

To fail at all is to fail utterly. Lowell. 20

To fear is easy, but grievous; to reverence is difficult, but satisfactory. Goethe.

To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength, / Gives, in your weakness, strength unto your foe. Rich. II., iii. 2.

To feel and respect a great personality, one must be something one's self. Goethe.

To fight and die is death destroying death; / Where fearing dying, pays death servile breath. Rich. II., iii. 2.

To fight with its neighbours never was, and is 25 now less than ever, the real trade of England. Carlyle.

To fill the hour, that is happiness. Emerson.

To find out your real opinion of any one, observe the impression made upon you by the first sight of a letter from him. Schopenhauer.

To find recreation in amusement is not happiness. Pascal.

To fix a child's attention on what is present, to give him a description of a name, is the best thing we can do for him. Goethe.

To forget a wrong is the best revenge. It. Pr. 30

To forgive and forget is to throw away dearly-bought experience. Schopenhauer.

To form a poet, the heart must be full to overflowing of noble feeling. Goethe.

To free a man from error is to give, and not to take away. Schopenhauer.

To gain what is fit ye're able, / If ye in faith can but excel; / Such are the myths of fable, / If ye have observed them well. Goethe.

To gather riches do not hazard health; / For, 35 truth to say, health is the wealth of wealth. Sir Richard Baker.

To genius irregularity is incident, and the greatest genius is often marked by eccentricity, as if it disdained to move in the vulgar orbit. Brougham.

To genius life never grows commonplace. Lowell.

To get general ideas first and make particular observations last is to invert the process of education. Schopenhauer.

To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, / To throw a perfume on the violet, / To smooth the ice, or add another hue / Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light / To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, / Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. King John, iii. 1.

To give alms is nothing unless you give 40 thought also, and therefore it is written, not "Blessed is he that feedeth the poor," but "Blessed is he that considereth the poor." Ruskin.

To give should be our pleasure, but to receive our shame. Goldsmith.

To give the world more than it gives us, to love it more than it loves us, and never to make suit for its applause, ensures a peaceful life and a happy departure. Bodenstedt.

To give to the human mind a direction which it shall retain for ages is the rare prerogative of a few imperial spirits. Macaulay.

To go back is easy, if we have missed our way on the road uphill; it is impossible only when the road is downhill. Froude.

To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to 45 outrage humanity. Pascal.

To God belongeth the east and the west; therefore, whithersoever ye turn yourselves to pray, there is the word of God, for God is omnipresent and omniscient. Koran.

To govern men, you must either excel them in their accomplishments or despise them. Disraeli.

To grasp, to seize, is the essence of all mastery. Goethe.

To great evils one must oppose great virtues; and also to small, which is the harder task of the two. Carlyle.

To guard from error is not the instructor's 50 business; but to lead the erring pupil. Goethe.

To guide scoundrels by love is a method that will not hold together; hardly for the flower of men will love do; and for the sediment and scoundrelism of them it has not even a chance to do. Carlyle.

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; and to have a deference for others governs our manners. Sterne.

To have all one's wants satisfied is something intolerable. Schopenhauer.

To have any chance of lasting, a book must satisfy, not merely some fleeting fancy of the day, but a constant longing and hunger of human nature. Lowell.

To have ascertained what is ascertainable, and calmly to reverence what is not, is the fairest portion that can fall to a thinking man. Goethe.

To have done anything by which you earned 5 money merely is to have been truly idle, or worse. Thoreau.

To have done, is to hang / Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail, / In monumental mockery. Troil. and Cres., iii. 3.

To have gold is to be in fear, and to want it to be in sorrow. Johnson.

To have heard the voice / Of Godhead in the winds and in the seas, / To have known him in the circling of the suns, / And in the changeful fates and lives of men. Lewis Morris.

To have ideas is to gather flowers; to think is to weave them into garlands. Mme. Swetchine.

To have neither superior, nor inferior, nor 10 equal, united manlike to you; without father, without child, without brother,—man knows no sadder destiny. Carlyle.

To have no assistance from other minds in resolving doubts, in appeasing scruples, in balancing deliberations, is a very wretched destitution. Johnson.

To have no pain, and not be bored, is the utmost happiness possible to man on earth. Schopenhauer.

To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter or musician, is a possession added to the best things of life. Swinburne.

To have religion upon authority, and not upon conviction, is like a finger-watch, to be set forwards or backwards, as he pleases that has it in keeping. William Penn.

To have the fear of God before our eyes, and, 15 in our mutual dealings with each other, to govern our actions by the eternal measures of right and wrong; the first of these will comprehend the duties of religion; the second, those of morality. Sterne.

To have the gift of life and bread to sustain it with can never suffice as a substitute for the ministry and service which the life itself is given us that we may fulfil. To find and work out this is man's only satisfaction and true reward. Ed.

To hear complaints is wearisome alike to the wretched and the happy. Johnson.

To Him no high, no low, no great, no small; / He fills, He bounds, connects and equals all. Pope.

To him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin. St. James.

To his (the host's) imagination all things travel 20 save his sign-post and himself. Thoreau.

To hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature. Ham., iii. 2.

To holy tears, / In lonely hours, Christ risen appears; / In social hours, who Christ would see / Must turn all tasks to charity. Keble.

To imitate the style of another is said to be wearing a mask. However beautiful it may be, it is through its lifelessness insipid and intolerable, so that even the most ugly living face is more engaging. Schopenhauer.

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life. Johnson.

To judge by the event is an error all abuse 25 and all commit; for in every instance, courage, if crowned with success, is heroism; if clouded by defeat, temerity. Colton.

To judge is to see clearly, to care for what is just. Amiel.

To keep the wolf from the door. Pr.

To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us,—when we succeed, it betrays us. Colton.

To know by rote is no knowledge; it is only to retain in the memory what is entrusted to it. Montaigne.

To know evil of others and not speak it, is 30 sometimes discretion; to speak evil of others and not know it, is always dishonesty. He may be evil himself who speaks good of others upon knowledge, but he can never be good himself who speaks evil of others upon suspicion. Arthur Warwick.

To know how to dissemble is the knowledge of kings. Richelieu.

To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. Amiel.

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. Amiel.

To know how to wait is the great secret of success. De Maistre.

To know life we must detach ourselves from 35 life. Feuerbach.

To know my deed, 'twere best not know myself. Macb., ii. 2.

To know of some one here and there with whom we accord, who is living on with us even in silence, this makes our earthly ball a peopled garden. Goethe.

To know one profession only, is enough for one man to know. Goldsmith.

To know / That which before us lies in daily life, / Is the prime wisdom. Milton.

To know the divine laws and inner harmonies 40 of this universe must always be the highest glory for a man; and not to know them always the highest disgrace for a man, however common it be. Carlyle.

To know the true opinions of men, one ought to pay more respect to their actions than their words. Descartes.

To know the world, a modern phrase! a modern phrase / For visits, ombre, balls, and plays. Swift.

To know, to esteem, to love, and then to part, / Makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart. Coleridge.

To know; to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic act, of which the best logics can only babble on the surface. Carlyle.

To know what is useful and what useless, and to be skilful to provide the one and wise to scorn the other, is the first need for all industrious men. Ruskin.

To lament the past is vain; what remains is to look for hope in futurity. Johnson.

To lapse in fulness / Is sorer than to lie for need; and falsehood / Is worse in kings than beggars. Cymbeline, iii. 6.

To learn obeying is the fundamental art of governing. Carlyle.

To live by one man's will became the cause of 5 all men's misery. Hooker.

To live happily only means to live tolerably. Schopenhauer.

To live in hearts we leave behind / Is not to die. Campbell.

To live is not to breathe; it is to act. Rousseau.

To live is to achieve a perpetual triumph. Amiel.

To live long is to outlive much. Goethe. 10

To look at things as well as we can, to inscribe them in our memory, to be observant, and let no day pass without gathering something; then to apply one's self to those branches of knowledge which give the mind a sure direction, to apportion everything its place, to assign to everything its value (in my opinion a genuine philosophy and a fundamental mathesis), this is what we have now to do. Goethe.

To lose one's self in revery, one must be either very happy or very unhappy. Revery is the child of extreme. Rivarol.

To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. Sydney Smith.

To love all mankind, from the greatest to the lowest, a cheerful state of being is required; but in order to see into mankind, into life, and still more into ourselves, suffering is requisite. Jean Paul.

To love early and marry late is to hear a lark 15 singing at dawn, and at night to eat it roasted for supper. Jean Paul.

To love is to be useful to yourself; to cause love is to be useful to others. Béranger.

To maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship, but a pastime, if we would live simply and wisely. Thoreau.

To mak' a happy fireside clime / To weans and wife, / That's the true pathos and sublime / O' human life. Burns.

To make a boy despise his mother's care is the straightest way to make him also despise his Redeemer's voice; and to make him scorn his father and his father's house, the straightest way to make him deny his God and his God's heaven. Ruskin.

To make elaborate preparations for life is one 20 of the greatest and commonest of human follies. Schopenhauer.

To make proselytes is the natural ambition of every one. Goethe.

To make some nook of God's creation a little fruitfuller, better, more worthy of God; to make some human hearts a little wiser, manfuller, happier, more blessed, less accursed! It is work for a God. Carlyle.

To make the common marvellous, as if it were a revelation, is the test of genius. Lowell.

To man, in this his trial state, / The privilege is given, / When tost by tides of human fate, / To anchor fast in heaven. Watts.

To me more dear, congenial to my heart, / One 25 native charm, than all the gloss of art. Goldsmith.

To me the eternal existence of my soul is proved from my idea of activity. If I work incessantly until my death, nature will give me another form of existence when the present can no longer sustain my spirit. Goethe.

To me the meanest flower that blows can give / Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. Wordsworth.

To men we can give no help, and they hinder us from helping ourselves. Jarno, in Goethe's "Wilhelm Meister."

To misconstrue a good thing is a treble wrong—to myself, the action, and the author. Bp. Hall.

To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, / 30 Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, / To the last syllable of recorded time; / And all our yesterdays have lighted fools / To dusty death. Macb., v. 5.

To-morrow is a satire on to-day, and shows its weakness. Young.

"To-morrow, to-morrow, only not to-day," lazy people always say. C. F. Weisse.

To-morrow will I live, the fool does say: / To-day itself's too late; the wise lived yesterday. Cowley.

To-morrow you will live, you always cry; / In what far country does this morrow lie? Cowley.

To most men experience is like the stern 35 lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed. Coleridge.

To mourn a mischief that is past and gone, / Is the next way to draw new mischief on. Othello, i. 3.

To no man does Fortune throw open all the kingdoms of this world, and say: It is thine; choose where thou wilt dwell! To the most she opens hardly the smallest cranny or dog-hutch, and says, not without asperity: There, that is thine while thou canst keep it; nestle thyself there, and bless Heaven! Carlyle.

To no man, whatever his station in life, or his power to serve me, have I ever paid a compliment at the expense of truth. Burns.

To nurse the flowers, to root up the weeds, is the business of the gardener. Bodenstedt.

To obey is the best grace of woman. Lewis 40 Morris.

To one thing at one time. Chancellor Thurlow.

To open your windows be ever your care. Pr.

To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence. Schopenhauer.

To overcome evil with good is good, to resist evil by evil is evil. Mahomet.

To pass through a bustling crowd with its restless 45 excitement is strange but salutary. All go crossing and recrossing one another, and yet each finds his way and his object. In so great a crowd and bustle one feels himself perfectly calm and solitary. Goethe.

To persevere / In obstinate condolement, is a course / Of impious stubbornness; 'tis unmanly grief: / It shows a will most incorrect to heaven. Ham., i. 2.

To persevere in one's duty and to be silent is the best answer to calumny. Washington.

To place wit before good sense is to place the superfluous before the necessary. M. de Montlosier.

To plough and sow, to reap and mow, my father bred me early, / For one, he said, to labour bred, was a match for fortune fairly. Burns.

To popular religion, the real kingdom of God is the New Jerusalem with its jaspers and emeralds; righteousness and peace and joy are only the kingdom of God figuratively. Matthew Arnold.

To pour oil on the fire is not the way to quench 5 it. Pr.

To prefer one future mode of life to another, upon just reasons, requires faculties which it has not pleased our Creator to give us. Johnson.

To promise is already to give, to hope already to enjoy. Delille.

To prove, as to doubt, the existence of God, is to prove or doubt the existence of existence. Jean Paul.

To put the cart before the horse. Pr.

To raise the weaker sex in self-respect, as 10 well as in the esteem of the stronger, is the first step from barbarism to civilisation. Canning.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. Burke.

To receive a simple primitive phenomenon, to recognise it in its high significance, and to go to work with it, requires a productive spirit, which is able to take a wide survey, and is a rare gift, only to be found in very superior natures. Goethe.

To receive gifts is to lose liberty. Saadi.

To reconcile despotism with freedom is to make your despotism just. Carlyle.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise 15 man will undertake; and all but foolish men know that the only solid, though a far slower, reformation, is what each man begins and perfects on himself. Carlyle.

To reign is worth ambition, though in hell; / Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n. Milton.

To rejoice in the prosperity of another is to partake of it. William Austin.

To remember one worthy thing, how many thousand unworthy must a man be able to forget! Carlyle.

To repel one's cross is to make it heavier. Amiel.

To require two things is the way to have them 20 both undone. Johnson.

To rescue, to avenge, to instruct, or protect a woman is all the same as to love her. Jean Paul.

To revenge is no valour, but to bear. Timon of Athens, iii. 5.

To run away / Is but a coward's trick; to run away / From this world's ills, that at the very worst / Will soon blow o'er. Blair.

To say of a man "He means well," is worth nothing except he does well. Plaut.

To say that we have a clear conscience is to 25 utter a solecism; had we never sinned, we would have had no conscience. Carlyle.

To scorn delights and live laborious days. Milton.

To secure and promote the feeling of cheerfulness should be the supreme aim of all our endeavours after happiness. Schopenhauer.

To see a world in a grain of sand / And a heaven in a wild flower, / Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, / And eternity in an hour. Wm. Blake.

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness. Confucius.

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion—all 30 in one. Ruskin.

To see her is to love her, / And love but her for ever. Burns.

To see some small soul pirouetting throughout life on a single text, and judging all the world because it cannot find a partner, is not a Christian sight. Prof. Drummond.

To see the best is to see most clearly, and it is the lover's privilege. J. M. Barrie.

To seek to change opinions by laws is worse than futile. Buckle.

To seem and not to be, is throwing the shuttle 35 without weaving. Pr.

To seize a character, even that of one man, in its life and secret mechanism, requires a philosopher; to delineate it with truth and impressiveness, is work for a poet. Carlyle.

To serve from the lowest station upwards (von unten hinauf) is in all things necessary. Goethe.

To serve God and love him is higher and better than happiness, though it be with wounded feet, and bleeding brow, and a heart loaded with sorrow. W. R. Greg.

To shape the whole future is not our problem; but only to shape faithfully a small part of it, according to rules laid down. Carlyle.

To shoot wide of the mark, i.e., guess foolishly 40 when you don't know. Pr.

To show mercy is nothing—thy soul must be full of mercy; to be pure in act is nothing—thou shalt be pure in heart also. Ruskin.

To sigh, yet feel no pain; / To weep, yet scarce know why; / To sport an hour with beauty's charm, / Then throw it idly by. Moore.

To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent. Crabbe.

To simplify complications is, in all branches of knowledge, the first essential of success. Buckle.

To sow is not so difficult as to reap. Goethe. 45

To spend much and gain little is the sure road to ruin. Ger. Pr.

To spend too much time in studies is sloth. Bacon.

To spur a free horse soon makes a jade of him. Sterne.

To step aside is human. Burns.

To strain at a gnat and swallow a camel. Pr. 50

To strive to get rid of an evil is to aim at something definite, but to desire a better fortune than we have is blind folly. Goethe.

To study nature or man, we ought to know things that are in the ordinary course, not the unaccountable things that happen out of it. Fisher Ames.

To succeed in the world it is much more necessary to be able to diagnose a fool than a clever man. Cato.

To talk without effort is, after all, the great charm of talking. Hare.

To taste of human flesh is less criminal in the eyes of God than to stifle human thought. Draper.

To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection; it is plunder, and I disclaim it. Disraeli.

To tell our own secrets is generally folly, but that folly is without guilt; to communicate those with which we are intrusted is always treachery, and treachery for the most part combined with folly. Johnson.

To the capable man this world is not dumb. 5 Goethe.

To the exiled wanderer how godlike / The friendly countenance of man appears. Goethe.

To the Hindu the world is the dream of Brahma. Amiel.

To the innocent, deliverance and reparation; to the misled, compassion; and to the guilty, avenging justice. Goethe.

To the man of firm purpose all men and things are servile. Goethe.

To the minnow every cranny and pebble, and 10 quality and accident, of its little native creek may have become familiar; but does the minnow understand the ocean tides and periodic currents, the trade-winds, and monsoons, and moon's eclipses; by all of which the condition of its little creek is regulated, and may (from time to time, unmiraculously enough) be quite overset and reversed? Such a minnow is man; his creek, this planet earth; his ocean, the immeasurable All; his monsoons and periodic currents, the mysterious course of Providence through æons of æons. Carlyle.

To the noble mind / Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. Ham., iii. 1.

To the persevering mortal the blessed immortals are swift. Zoroaster.

To the strictly just and virtuous person everything is annexed. Hitopadesa.

To the understanding of anything, two conditions are equally required—intelligibility in the thing itself being no whit more indispensable than intelligence in the examiner of it. Carlyle.

To the unregenerate Prometheus Vinctus of 15 a man, it is ever the bitterest aggravation of his wretchedness that he is conscious of virtue, that he feels himself the victim not of suffering only, but of injustice. Carlyle.

To the vulgar eye few things are wonderful that are not distant. It is difficult for men to believe that the man, the mere man whom they see, may perhaps painfully feel, toiling at their side through the poor jostlings of existence, can be made of finer clay than themselves. Carlyle.

To the wisest man, wide as is his vision, Nature remains of quite infinite depth, of quite infinite expansion; and all experience thereof limits itself to some few computed centuries and measured square miles. Carlyle.

To the "Worship of sorrow" (Goethe's definition of Christianity) ascribe what origin and genesis thou pleasest, has not that worship originated and been generated? Is it not here? Feel it in thy heart, and then say whether it is of God! Carlyle.

To think and to feel constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius—the men of reasoning and the men of imagination. I. Disraeli.

To think aright is the sum of human duty. 20 Pascal.

To think is to act. Emerson.

To this burden women are born; they must obey their husbands, be they never such blockheads. Cervantes.

To those by whom liberality is practised, the whole world is but as one family. Hitopadesa.

To those that have lived long together, everything heard and everything seen recalls some pleasure communicated or some benefit conferred, some petty quarrel or some slight endearment. Johnson.

To those to whom we owe affection, let us be 25 dumb until we are strong, though we should never be strong. Emerson.

To those who are fallen into misfortunes, what was a blessing becometh an evil. Hitopadesa.

To those whose god is honour, disgrace alone is sin. Hare.

To threats the stubborn sinner oft is hard, / Wrapp'd in his crimes, against the storm prepared; / But, when the milder beams of mercy play, / He melts, and throws his cumbrous cloak away. Dryden.

To toy with human hearts is more than human hearts will brook. Dr. W. Smith.

To tread upon the brink is safe, but to come a 30 step further is destruction. Johnson.

To try things oft, and never to give over, doth wonders. Bacon.

To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves. Goethe.

To understand that the sky is blue everywhere, we need not go round the world. Goethe.

To understand the serious side of things requires a matured faculty; the ridiculous is caught more easily. Froude.

To understand things we must once have been 35 in them, and then have come out of them. Amiel.

To unpractised eyes, a Peak of Teneriffe, nay, a Strasburg Minster, when we stand on it, may seem higher than a Chimborazo; because the former rise abruptly, without abutement or environment; the latter rises gradually, carrying half a world along with it; and only the deeper azure of the heavens, the widened horizon, the "eternal sunshine," disclose to the geographer that the "region of change" lies far below. Carlyle.

To use books rightly is to go to them for help. Ruskin.

To use studies too much for ornament is affectation. Bacon.

To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery. Ouida.

To wail friends lost / Is not by much so wholesome, 40 profitable, / As to rejoice at friends but newly found. Love's L. Lost, v. 2.

To wed unequally is to suffer equally. Anon.

To what base uses we may return, Horatio! Ham., v. 1.

To what excesses men go for a religion of whose truth they are so little persuaded, and to whose precepts they pay so little regard. La Bruyère.

To what they know best entice all neatly; / For so thou dost thyself and him a pleasure. George Herbert.

To whom is the mere glare of the fire a virtue? Hitopadesa.

To wilful men / The injuries that they themselves procure / Must be their schoolmasters. King Lear, ii. 4.

To work without money, and be poor; to work without pleasure, and be chaste; to work according to orders, and be obedient. Rules of the Order of St. Francis.

To write a good love-letter, you ought to begin 5 without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written. Rousseau.

To write down to children's understandings is a mistake; set them on the scent and let them puzzle it out. Scott.

To write prose, one must have something to say, but he who has nothing to say can still make verses. Goethe.

To write well is to think well, to feel well, and to render well; it is to possess at once intellect, soul, and taste. Buffon.

To write what is worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and get sensible men to read it, are the three great difficulties in authorship. Colton.

To yield my breath, / Life's purpose unfulfilled! 10 this is thy sting, O Death. Sir Noel Paton.

To yourself be critic most severe. Dryden.

Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do. Emerson.

Tocher's nae word in a true lover's parle. Burns.

Todte Hunde beissen nicht—Dead dogs don't bite. Ger. Pr.

[Greek: to êthos ethos esti polychronion]—Character is 15 simply prolonged habit. Plutarch.

Toga virilis—The manly robe.

[Greek: to gar trephon me, tout' egô krinô theon]—What maintains me in life, that I regard as God. (?)

[Greek: to gar perissa prassein ouk echei noun oudena]—Doing more than one is able for argues a want of intelligence. (?)

Toil is polish'd man's vocation; / Praises are the meed of skill; / Kings may vaunt their crown and station, / We will vaunt our labour still. Mangan

Toil on, faint not, keep watch, and pray. Bonar. 20

Toils of empires pleasures are. Waller.

[Greek: to kalon]—The beautiful.

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none. Burke.

Tolle jocos; non est jocus esse malignum—Away with such jokes; there is no joking where there is malignity.

Tolle periclum, / Jam vaga prosiliet frænis 25 natura remotis—Take away the danger, remove restraint, and vagrant nature bounds forth free. Hor.

Tombs are the clothes of the dead—a grave but a plain suit, and a rich monument one embroidered. Fuller.

[Greek: ton gar ouk onta hapas eiôthen epainein]—All are wont to praise him who is no more. Thucydides.

[Greek: ton tethnêkota mê kakologein]—Speak not evil of the dead. Chilon.

[Greek: to holon]—The whole.

Too austere a philosophy makes few wise men; 30 too rigorous politics, few good subjects; and too hard a religion, few religious persons whose devotion is of long continuance. St. Evremond.

Too early and too thoroughly we cannot be trained to know that Would, in this world of ours, is as mere zero to Should, and, for most part, the smallest of fractions to Shall. Carlyle.

Too elevated qualities often unfit a man for society. Chamfort.

Too fair to worship, too divine to love. Milman.

Too low they build who build beneath the stars. Young.

Too many cooks spoil the broth. Pr. 35

Too many instances there are of daring men, who by presuming to sound the deep things of religion, have cavilled and argued themselves out of all religion. Thomas à Kempis.

Too much gravity argues a shallow mind. Lavater.

Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man's time much more completely, and leaves him less his own master, than any sort of employment whatsoever. Burke.

Too much is always bad; old proverbs call / Even too much honey nothing else than gall. Anon.

Too much mercy is want of mercy. Tennyson. 40

Too much of a good thing. As You Like It, iv. 1.

Too much of one thing is good for nothing. Thales and Solon.

Too much painstaking speaks disease in one's mind, as much as too little. Carlyle.

Too much rest is rust. Scott.

Too much rest itself becomes a pain. Homer. 45

Too much sensibility creates unhappiness; too much insensibility creates crime. Talleyrand.

Too much wit / Makes the world rotten. Tennyson.

Too surely, every setting day, / Some lost delight we mourn. Keble.

Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. Rom. and Jul., ii. 6.

Tooth of time. Meas. for Meas., v. 1. 50

Top and bottom teeth sometimes come into awkward collision. Ch. Pr.

[Greek: to prepon]—That which is becoming or decorous.

Torrens dicendi copia multis / Et sua mortifera est facundia—To many a torrent flow of speech and their own eloquence is fatal. Juv.

Toss'd on a sea of troubles, soul, my soul, / Thyself do thou control; / And to the weapons of advancing foes / A stubborn breast oppose. Archilochus.

Tot capita, tot sensus—So many heads, so many 55 opinions. Ter.

Tot homines, quot sententiæ—So many men, so many minds.

Tot rami quot arbores—So many branches, so many trees. M.

Tota in minimis existit natura—The whole of nature exists in the very smallest things. Quoted by Emerson.

Totidem verbis—In so many words.

Toties quoties—As often, so often.

Toto cœlo—By the whole heavens; as wide as the poles asunder.

Totus in toto, et totus in qualibet parte—Whole 5 in the whole, and whole in every part. Said of the human mind.

Totus mundus exercet histrioniam—All the world acts the player.

[Greek: tou aristeuein heneka]—In order to excel. M.

Touched by a loving heart, wakened by kindness, / Chords that were broken will vibrate once more. Mrs. van Alstyne.

Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out. Bible.

Toujours—Always. M. 10

Toujours en vedette—Always on the lookout. M. of Frederick the Great.

Toujours perdrix—Always partridges. Fr.

"Toujours perdrix" is sickening. John Wagstaffe.

Toujours prêt—Always ready.

Toujours propice—Always propitious. M. 15

Toujours tout droit, Dieu t'aidera!—Always straightforward, and God will help you! M.

Tour d'adresse—A trick of sleight of hand. Fr.

Tour de force—A feat of strength or skill. Fr.

Tourner autour du pot—To beat about the bush. Fr.

Tourner casaque—To change sides; become a 20 turncoat. Pr.

Tous frais faits—All charges paid. Fr.

Tous les genres sont bons hors le genre ennuyeux—All kinds are good except the kind that bores you. Voltaire.

Tous les hommes sont foux, et malgré tous leurs soins, / Ne diffèrent entr'eux, que du plus ou du moins—All men are fools, and notwithstanding all their care, they differ but in degree. Boileau.

Tous les méchants sont buveurs d'eau; / C'est bien prouvé par le déluge—All the wicked are water-drinkers; this the deluge proves.

Tout-à-fait—Quite. Fr. 25

Tout bien ou rien—All or nothing. M.

Tout chemin mène à Rome—Every road leads to Rome.

Tout d'en haut—All from above. M.

Tout doit tendre au bon sens: mais pour y parvenir / Le chemin est glissant et pénible a tenir—Everything ought to lead to good sense; but in order to attain to it, the road is slippery and difficult to walk in. Boileau.

Tout éloge imposteur blesse une âme sincère—Praise 30 undeservedly bestowed wounds an honest heart. Boileau.

Tout est contradiction chez nous: la France, à parler sérieusement, est le royaume de l'esprit et de la sottise, de l'industrie et de la paresse, de la philosophie et du fanatisme, de la gaieté et du pédantisme, des loix et des abus, de bon goût et de l'impertinence—With us all is inconsistency. France, seriously speaking, is the country of wit and folly, of industry and idleness, of philosophy and fanaticism, of gaiety and pedantry, laws and their abuses, good taste and impertinence. Voltaire.

Tout est perdu fors l'honneur—All is lost save our honour. Francis I., after his defeat at Pavia.

Tout est pour le mieux dans le meilleur des mondes possibles—All is for the best in the best possible of worlds. Voltaire, in mockery of Leibnitz's optimism.

Tout faiseur de journaux doit tribut au malin—Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one. La Fontaine.

Tout finit par des chansons—Everything in the 35 end passes into song. Beaumarchais.

Tout flatteur vît au dépens de celui qui l'écoute—Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him. La Fontaine.

Tout notre mal vient de ne pouvoir être seul—All our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone. La Bruyère.

Tout par raison—Everything agreeable to reason. Richelieu.

Tout soldat français porte dans sa giberne le bâton de maréchal de France—Every private in the French army carries a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack. Napoleon.

Tout va à qui n'a pas besoin—Everything goes 40 to him who does not need it. Fr. Pr.

Tout vient à point à qui sait attendre—Everything comes in time to the man who knows how to wait. Fr. Pr.

Tout vient de Dieu—Everything comes from God. M.

Toute révélation d'un secret est la faute de celui qui l'a confié—The disclosure of a secret is always the fault of him who confided it. Fr.

Toutes les fois que je donne une place vacante, je fais cent mécontents, et un ingrat—Every time I appoint to a vacant post, I make a hundred discontented and one ungrateful. Louis XIV.

Towards great persons use respective boldness: / 45 That temper gives them theirs, and yet doth take / Nothing from thine. George Herbert.

Towers are measured by their shadows. Chinese Pr.

Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay. Johnson.

Traditions make up the reasonings of the simple, and serve to silence every inquiry. Goldsmith.

Traduttori, traditori—Translators, traitors. It. Pr.

Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving 50 too much importance to life and death. Chamfort.

Tragedy warms the soul, elevates the heart, can and ought to create heroes. In this sense, perhaps, France owes a part of her great actions to Corneille. Napoleon.

Trahit ipse furoris / Impetus, et visum est lenti quæsisse nocentem—The very violence of their rage drags them on, and to inquire who is guilty were a waste of time. Lucan.

Trahit sua quemque voluptas—Each man is led by his own liking. Virg.

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old he will not depart from it. Bible.

Tranquil pleasures last the longest. We are 55 not fitted to bear long the burden of great joys. Bovee.

Tranquillity is better than jollity, and to appease pain than to invent pleasure. Sir T. Browne.

Transeat in exemplum—Let it stand as a precedent, or an example.

Transitory is all human work, small in itself, contemptible; only the worker thereof and the spirit that dwelt in him is significant. Carlyle.

Trau keinem Freunde sonder Mängel, / Und lieb' ein Mädchen, keinen Engel—Trust no friend without faults, and love a maiden, but no angel. Lessing.

Travel gives a character of experience to our 5 knowledge, and brings the figures upon the tablet of memory into strong relief. Tuckerman.

Travel in the younger sort is a part of education; in the older, a part of experience. Bacon.

Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones. Mme. Swetchine.

Travel teaches toleration. Disraeli.

Travelling is a fool's paradise. Emerson.

Travelling is like gambling; it is ever connected 10 with winning and losing, and generally where least expected we receive more or less than we hoped for. Goethe.

Tre lo sanno, tutti lo sanno—If three know it, all know it. It. Pr.

Tre taceranno, se due vi non sono—Three may keep counsel if two be away. It. Pr.

Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth: but trust and pity, love and constancy, they do. Dickens.

Treason doth never prosper; what's the reason? / Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason. Sir J. Harrington.

Treason has done his worst; nor steel, nor 15 poison, / Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing / Can touch him further. Macb., iii. 2.

Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but justice delivers from death. Bible.

Trees and fields tell me nothing; men are my teachers. Plato.

Tremblez, tyrans; vous êtes immortels—Tremble, ye tyrants; ye cannot die. Delille.

Tria juncta in uno—Three joined in one. M.

Tribulation will not hurt you unless it does—what, 20 alas! it too often does—unless it hardens you, and makes you sour and narrow and sceptical. Chapin.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that have not wit enough to be honest. Ben. Franklin.

Trifles light as air / Are to the jealous confirmations strong / As proofs of holy writ. Othello, iii. 3.

Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle. Michael Angelo.

Trifles make up the happiness or misery of mortal life. Alex. Smith.

Trifles themselves are elegant in him. Pope. 25

Trifles unconsciously bias us for or against a person from the very beginning. Schopenhauer.

Trifling precautions will often prevent great mischiefs; as a slight turn of the wrist parries a mortal thrust. R. Sharp.

Trinitas in Trinitate—Trinity in Trinity. M.

Tristis eris, si solus eris—You will be sad if you are alone. Ovid.

Triumphs for nothing and lamenting toys, / 30 Is jollity for apes and grief for boys. Cymbeline, iv. 2.

Troops of furies march in the drunkard's triumph. Zimmermann.

Trop de zèle gâte tout—Too much zeal spoils all. Fr. Pr.

Tros Tyriusve mihi nullo discrimine agetur—Trojan or Tyrian, it shall make no difference to me. Virg.

Trotz alledem und alledem—For 'a that and 'a that. F. Freiligrath.

Trouble is a thing that will come without our 35 call; but true joy will not spring up without ourselves. Bp. Patrick.

Trouble teaches men how much there is in manhood. Ward Beecher.

Truditur dies die, / Novæque pergunt interire lunæ—Day presses on the heels of day, and new moons hasten to their wane. Hor.

True art is like good company; it constrains us in the most charming way to recognise the standard after which and up to which our innermost being is shaped by culture. Goethe.

True art, which requires free and healthy faculties, is opposed to pedantry, which crushes the soul under a burden. Hamerton.

True bravery proposes a just end, measures 40 the dangers, and, if necessary, the affront, with coldness. Francis la None.

True blue will never stain. Pr.

True comeliness, which nothing can impair, / Dwells in the mind; all else is vanity and glare. Thomson.

True coral needs no painter's brush. Pr.

True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honours are withdrawn. Massinger.

True ease in writing comes from art, not 45 chance, / As those move easiest who have learned to dance. Pope.

True eloquence consists in saying all that is proper, and nothing more. La Roche.

True eloquence scorns eloquence. Pascal.

True fame is ever likened to our shade, / He sooneth misseth her, that most (haste) hath made / To overtake her; whoso takes his wing, / Regardless of her, she'll be following; / Her true proprietie she thus discovers, / Loves her contemners, and contemns her lovers. Sir T. Browne.

True fortitude I take to be the quiet possession of a man's self, and an undisturbed doing his duty, whatever evil besets him or danger lies in his way. Locke.

True fortitude of understanding consists in not 50 letting what we know be embarrassed by what we do not know. Emerson.

True friends are the whole world to one another; and he that is a friend to himself is also a friend to mankind. Even in my studies the greatest delight I take is of imparting it to others; for there is no relish to me in the possession of anything without a partner. Sen.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. Thoreau.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. Washington.

True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. Colton.

True friendship often shows itself in refusing at the right time, and love often grants a hurtful good. Goethe.

True greatness is, first of all, a thing of the heart. R. D. Hitchcock.

True heroism consists in being superior to the 5 ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge him to combat. Napoleon.

True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings; / Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings. Richard III., v. 2.

True humility is contentment. Amiel.

True humour is as closely allied to pity as it is abhorrent to derision. Henry Giles.

True humour is sensibility in the most catholic and deepest sense; but it is the sport of sensibility; wholesome and perfect therefore; as it were, the playful teasing fondness of a mother to her child. Carlyle.

True humour springs not more from the head 10 than from the heart; it is not contempt, its essence is love; it issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper. It is a sort of inverse sublimity, exalting, as it were, into our affections what is below us, while sublimity draws down into our affections what is above us. Carlyle.

True influence is latent influence. Renan.

True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out, that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind that has fortune under its feet. Sen.

True joy is only hope put out of fear. Lord Brooke.

True knowledge is of virtues only. Ruskin.

True knowledge of any thing or any creature 15 is only of the good of it. Ruskin.

True liberty is a positive force, regulated by law; false liberty is a negative force, a release from restraint. Philip Schaff.

True love is still the same; the torrid zones, / And those more rigid ones, / It must not know; / For love grown cold or hot / Is lust or friendship, not / The thing we show. Suckling.

True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence. Amiel.

True love is the parent of a noble humility. Channing.

True love will creep, not having strength to 20 go. Quarles.

True love works never for the loved one so, / Nor spares skin-surface, smoothing truth away. Browning.

True love's the gift which God has given / To man alone beneath the heaven. Scott.

True mercy is ashamed of itself; hides itself, and does not complain. You may know it by that. Varnhagen von Ense.

True modesty avoids everything that is criminal; false modesty everything that is unfashionable. Addison.

True morality scorns morality; that is, the 25 morality of the judgment scorns the morality of the mind, which is without rules. Pascal.

True music is intended for the ear alone; whoever sings it to me must be invisible. Goethe.

True nobility is derived from virtue, not birth. Burton.

True obedience is true liberty. Ward Beecher.

True poetry is truer than science, because it is synthetic, and seizes at once what the combination of all the sciences is able, at most, to attain as a final result. Amiel.

True quietness of heart is gotten by resisting 30 our passions, not by obeying them. Thomas à Kempis.

True religion is always mild, propitious, and humble; plays not the tyrant, plants no faith in blood, nor bears destruction on her chariot-wheels; but stoops to polish, succour, and redress, and builds her grandeur on the public good. James Miller.

True religion is the poetry of the heart; it has enchantments useful to our manners; it gives us both happiness and virtue. Joubert.

True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognise humility and poverty, mockery and despite, wretchedness and disgrace, suffering and death, as things divine. Goethe, of the Christian religion.

True repentance consists in the heart being broken for sin, and broken from sin. Thornton.

True repentance is to cease from sin. St. 35 Ambrose.

True sense and reason reach their aim / With little help from art or rule. / Be earnest! Then what need to seek / The words that best your meaning speak? Goethe.

True, sharp, precise thought is preferable to a cloudy fancy; and a hundred acres of solid earth are far more valuable than a million acres of cloud and vapour. C. Fitzhugh.

True singing is of the nature of worship; as indeed all true working may be said to be; whereof such singing is but the record, and fit melodious representation, to us. Carlyle.

True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be. W. R. Alger.

True taste is for ever growing, learning, reading, 40 worshipping, laying its hand upon its mouth because it is astonished, casting its shoes from off its feet because it finds all ground holy. Ruskin.

True valour lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness. Cervantes.

True virtue, being united to heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection. Milton.

True virtue's soul's always in all deeds all. Donne.

True wit never made us laugh. Emerson.

Truly great men are always simple-hearted. 45 Klinger.

Truly great men are ever most heroic to those most intimate with them. Ruskin.

Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting for ever in one direction. Lowell.

Truly unhappy is the man who leaves undone what he can do, and undertakes what he does not understand; no wonder he comes to grief. Goethe.

Trusse up thy packe, and trudge from me, to every little boy, / And tell them thus from me, their time most happy is, / If to theyr time they reason had, to know the truth of this. Chaucer.

Trust as little as you can to report, and examine all you can by your own senses. Johnson.

Trust begets truth. Pr.

Trust, but not too much. Pr. 5

Trust dies because bad pay poisons him. Pr.

Trust him little who praises all, him less who censures all, and him least who is indifferent about all. Lavater.

Trust in that man's promise who dares to refuse that which he fears he cannot perform. Spurgeon.

Trust in the Lord, and do good, so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed. Bible.

Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and 10 lean not onto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. Bible.

Trust instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. Emerson.

Trust me not at all or all in all. Tennyson.

Trust me, that for the instructed, time will come / When they shall meet no object but may teach / Some acceptable lesson to their minds / Of human suffering or human joy. / For them shall all things speak of man. Wordsworth.

Trust men, and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great. Emerson.

Trust no future, howe'er pleasant; / Let the 15 dead past bury its dead. / Act, act in the living present; / Heart within, and God o'erhead! Longfellow.

Trust no man who pledges you with his hand on his heart. Lichtenberg.

Trust not him that hath once broken faith. 3 Hen. VI., iv. 4.

Trust not in him that seems a saint. Fuller.

Trust not the heart of that man for whom old clothes are not venerable. Carlyle.

Trust not this hollow world; she's empty; 20 hark, she sounds. Quarles.

Trust not those cunning waters of his eyes, for villany is not without such rheum. King John, iv. 3.

Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything. Sterne.

Trust thyself; every heart vibrates to that iron string. Emerson.

Truth alone wounds. Napoleon.

Truth and fidelity are the pillars of the temple 25 of the world; when these are broken, the fabric falls, and crushes all to pieces. Feltham.

Truth and oil are ever above. Pr.

Truth being weighed against a thousand Aswamedha sacrifices, was found to be of more consequence than the whole thousand offerings. Hitopadesa.

Truth contradicts our nature, error does not, and for a very simple reason: truth requires us to regard ourselves as limited, error flatters us to think of ourselves as in one or other way unlimited. Goethe.

Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again, / The eternal years of God are hers; / But error, wounded, writhes with pain, / And dies among his worshippers. W. C. Bryant.

Truth does not conform itself to us, but we 30 most conform ourselves to it. M. Claudius.

Truth does not consist in minute accuracy of detail, but in conveying a right impression; and there are vague ways of speaking that are truer than strict facts would be. When the Psalmist said, "Rivers of water run down mine eyes, because men keep not thy law," he did not state the fact but he stated a truth deeper than fact and truer. Dean Alford.

Truth does not do as much good in the world as the shows of it do of evil. La Roche.

Truth dwells not in the clouds; the bow that's there / Doth often aim at, never hit the sphere. George Herbert.

Truth for ever on the scaffold, wrong for ever on the throne. Lowell.

Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, / 35 And fools who came to scoff remain'd to pray. Goldsmith.

Truth has a quiet breast. Rich. II., i. 3.

Truth has no gradations; nothing which admits of increase can be so much what it is as truth is truth. There may be a strange thing, and a thing more strange; but if a proposition be true, there can be none more true. Johnson.

Truth hath always a fast bottom. Pr.

Truth hath better deeds than words to grace it. Two Gent. of Verona, ii. 2.

"Truth," I cried, "though the heavens crush 40 me for following her; no falsehood, though a whole celestial Lubberland were the price of apostasy!" Carlyle.

Truth in its own essence cannot be / But good. Byron.

Truth, in the great practical concerns of life, is so much a question of the reconciling and combining of opposites, that very few have minds sufficiently capacious and impartial to make the adjustment with an approach to correctness. J. S. Mill.

Truth irritates only those whom it enlightens, but does not convert. Pasquier Quesnel.

Truth is a good dog; but beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out. Coleridge.

Truth is a queen who has her eternal throne 45 in heaven, and her seat of empire in the heart of God. Bossuet.

Truth is a stronghold, and diligence is laying siege to it; so that it must observe all the avenues and passes to it. South.

Truth is always consistent with itself and needs nothing to help it out; it is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware. Tillotson.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction. Byron.

Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam. Milton.

Truth is born with us; and we must do violence to nature, to shake off our veracity. St. Evremond.

Truth is God's daughter. Pr.

Truth is never learned, in any department of industry, by arguing, but by working and observing. Ruskin.

Truth is one, for ever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the dispositions of the spectator. Wendell Phillips.

Truth is quite beyond the reach of satire. 5 Lowell.

Truth is simple and gives little trouble, but falsehood gives occasion for the frittering away of time and strength. Goethe.

Truth is simple indeed, but we have generally no small trouble in learning to apply it to any practical purpose. Goethe.

Truth is the body of God, and light his shadow. Plato.

Truth is the daughter of Time. Pr.

Truth is the easiest part of all to play (das 10 leichteste Spiel von allen). Present thyself as thou art (stelle dich selber dar), and thou runnest no risk of falling out of thy rôle. Rückert.

Truth is the highest thing that man may keep. Chaucer.

Truth is the root, but human sympathy is the flower of practical life. Chapin.

Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line. Tillotson.

Truth is to be costly to you—of labour and patience; and you are never to sell it, but to guard and to give. Ruskin.

Truth is to be loved purely and solely because 15 it is true. Carlyle.

Truth is too simple for us; we do not like those who unmask our illusions. Emerson.

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. Does not Mr. Bryant say that Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while Error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger? Holmes.

Truth is truth to the end of reckoning. Meas. for Meas., v. 1.

Truth itself shall lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none. South.

Truth lies at the bottom of a well, the depth 20 of which, alas! gives but little hope of release. Democritus.

Truth, like gold, is not the less so for being newly brought out of the mine. Locke.

Truth, like roses, often blossoms upon a thorny stem. Hafiz.

Truth, like the juice of a poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in its excess. Landor.

Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time. Bovee.

Truth, like the Venus de Medici, will pass 25 down in thirty fragments to posterity; but posterity will collect and recompose them into a goddess. Richter.

Truth loves open dealing. Henry VIII., iii. 1.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water. Cervantes.

Truth may languish, but can never perish. Pr.

Truth may lie in laughter, and wisdom in a jest. Dr. W. Smith.

Truth may perhaps come to the price of a 30 pearl, that showeth best by day, but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. Bacon.

Truth, or clothed or naked let it be. Tennyson.

Truth provokes those whom it does not convert. Bp. Wilson.

Truth reaches her full action by degrees, and not at once. Draper.

Truth, says Horne Tooke, means simply the thing trowed, the thing believed; and now, from this to the thing itself, what a new fatal deduction have we to suffer. Carlyle.

Truth scarce ever yet carried it by vote anywhere 35 at its first appearance. Locke.

Truth seeks no corners. Pr.

Truth shines with its own light; it is not by the flames of funeral piles that the minds of men are illuminated. Belisarius.

Truth should be strenuous and bold; but the strongest things are not always the noisiest, as any one may see who compares scolding with logic. Chapin.

Truth will be uppermost one time or another like cork, though kept down in the water. Sir W. Temple.

Truth will bear / Neither rude handling, nor 40 unfair / Evasion of its wards, and mocks / Whoever would falsely enter there. Dr. Walter Smith.

Truth's a dog that must to kennel. He must be whipped out, when the lady brach may stand by the fire and stink. Lear, i. 4.

Truths are first clouds, then rain, then harvests and food. Ward Beecher.

Truths that wake, / To perish never. Wordsworth.

Try and Trust will move mountains. Pr.

Try for yourselves what you can read in half-an-hour,... 45 and consider what treasures you might have laid by at the end of the year; and what happiness, fortitude and wisdom they would have given you during all the days of your life. John Morley.

Try it, ye who think there is nothing in it; try what it is to speak with God behind you. Ward Beecher.

Try to do your duty, and you at once know what is in you. Goethe.

Try to forget our cares and our maladies, and contribute, as we can, to the cheerfulness of each other. Johnson.

Try what repentance can; what can it not? Yet what can it, when one cannot repent? Ham., iii. 2.

Tu, Domine, gloria mea—Thou, O Lord, art my 50 glory. M.

Tu dors, Brutus, et Rome est dans les fers!—Sleepest thou, Brutus, and Rome in bonds! Voltaire.

Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito / Quam tua te fortuna sinet—Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune shall permit you. Virg.

Tu ne quæsieris, scire nefas, quem mihi quem tibi / Finem di dederint, Leuconoë—Forbear to inquire, thou mayst not know, Leuconoë, for you may not know what the gods have appointed either for you or for me. Hor.

Tu nihil invita dices faciesve Minerva—You must say and do nothing against the bent of your genius, i.e., in default of the necessary inspiration. Hor.

Tu pol si sapis, quod scis nescis—You, if you are wise, will not know what you do know. Ter.

Tu quamcunque Deus tibi fortunaverit horam, / Grata sume manu; nec dulcia differ in annum, / Ut quocunque loco fueris, vixisse libenter / Te dicas—Receive with a thankful hand every hour that God may have granted you, and defer not the comforts of life to another year; that in whatever place you are, you may say you have lived agreeably. Hor.

Tu quoque—You too; you're another. 5

Tu quoque, Brute!—You too, Brutus!

Tu recte vivis, si curas esse quod audis—You live a true life if you make it your care to be what you seem. Hor.

Tu si animum vicisti, potius quam animus te, est quod gaudeas—If you have conquered your inclination, rather than your inclination you, you have something to rejoice at. Plaut.

Tu si hic sis, aliter sentias—If you were in my place, you would think differently. Terence.

Tu vincula frange—Break thy chains. M. 10

Tua camicia non sappia il secreto—Let not your shirt know your secret. It. Pr.

Tua res agitur—It is a matter that concerns you.

Tuebor—I will protect. M.

Tui me miseret, mei piget—I pity you and vex myself. Ennius.

Tunica propior pallio est—My tunic is nearer 15 than my cloak. Plaut.

Turba Remi sequitur fortunam, ut semper, et odit / Damnatos—The Roman mob follows the lead of fortune, as it always does, and hates those that are condemned. Juv.

Turn, Fortune, turn thy wheel with smile or frown; / With that wild wheel we go not up or down; / Our hoard is little, but our hearts are great. Tennyson.

Turn him to any cause of policy, / The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, / Familiar as his garter. Henry V., i. 1.

Turpe est aliud loqui, aliud sentire; quanto turpius aliud scribere, aliud sentire!—It is base to say one thing and to think another; how much more base to write one thing and think another! Sen.

Turpe est in patria peregrinari, et in eis rebus 20 quæ ad patriam pertinent hospitem esse—It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in those matters which affect our welfare. Manutius.

Turpius ejicitur quam non admittitur hospes—It is more disgraceful to turn a guest out than not to admit him. Ovid.

Turris fortissima est nomen Jehovah—A most strong tower is the name of Jehovah. M.

Tuta petant alii. Fortuna miserrima tuta est; / Nam timor eventus deterioris abest—Let others seek security. My most wretched fortune is secure; for there is no fear of worse to follow. Ovid.

Tuta scelera esse possunt, non secura—Wickedness may be safe, but not secure. Sen.

Tuta timens—Fearing even safety. Virg. 25

Tutte quanti—Et cetera. It.

Tuum est—It is thine. M.

'Twas doing nothing was his curse—/ Is there a vice can plague us worse? Hannah More.

'Twas strange, 'twas passing strange, / 'Twas pitiful; 'twas wondrous pitiful. Othello, i. 3.

Twenty people can gain money for one who 30 can use it; and the vital question for individuals and for nations, is never "how much do they make," but "to what purpose do they spend." Ruskin.

'Twere all as good to ease one beast of grief, / As sit and watch the sorrows of the world / In yonder caverns with the priests who pray. Sir Edwin Arnold.

Twist ye, twine ye! even so, / Mingle shades of joy and woe, / Hope, and fear, and peace, and strife, / In the thread of human life. Scott.

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labour. Bible.

Two dogs over one bone seldom agree. Pr.

Two dogs strive for a bone, and a third runs 35 away with it. Pr.

Two gifts are indispensable to the dramatic poet; one is the power of forgetting himself, the other is the power of remembering his characters. Stoddart.

Two grand tasks have been assigned to the English people—the grand Industrial task of conquering some half, or more, of the terraqueous planet for the use of man; then, secondly, the grand Constitutional task of sharing, in some pacific endurable manner, the fruit of said conquest, and showing all people how it might be done. Carlyle.

Two heads are better than one, or why do folks marry? Pr.

Two in distress make sorrow less. Pr.

Two is company, but three is none. Pr. 40

Two kitchen fires burn not on one hearth. Pr.

Two may keep counsel, putting one away. Pr.

Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort. Emerson.

Two meanings have our lightest fantasies, / One of the flesh, and of the spirit one. Lowell.

Two men I honour, and no third. First, the 45 toilworn craftsman that with earth-made implement laboriously conquers the earth, and makes her man's.... A second man I honour, and still more highly—him who is seen toiling for the spiritually indispensable; not daily bread, but the bread of life.... These two in all their degrees I honour; all else is chaff and dust, which let the wind blow whither it listeth. Carlyle.

Two misfortunes are twice as many at least as are needful to be talked over at one time. Sterne.

Two of a trade seldom agree. Pr.

Two orders of poets I admit, but no third; the creative (Shakespeare, Homer, Dante), and reflective or perceptive (Wordsworth, Keats, Tennyson); and both these must be first-rate in their range. Ruskin.

Two pots stood by a river, one of brass, the other of clay; the water carried them away; the earthen vessel kept aloof from the other. L'Estrange.

Two principles in human nature reign—/ Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain. Pope.

Two qualities are demanded of a statesman who would direct any great movement of opinion in which he himself takes a part; he must have a complete understanding of the movement itself, and he must be animated by the same motives as those which inspire the movement. Lamartine.

Two removals are as bad as a fire. Pr.

Two sorts of writers possess genius; those 5 who think, and those who cause others to think. J. Roux.

Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere. Hen. IV., v. 4.

Two things a man should never be angry at; what he can help, and what he cannot. Pr.

Two things I abhor: the learned in his infidelities, and the fool in his devotions. Mahomet.

Two things strike me dumb: the infinite starry heavens, and the sense of right and wrong in man. Kant.

Two things, well considered, would prevent 10 many quarrels: first, to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms rather than things; and, secondly, to examine whether that on which we differ is worth contending about. Colton.

Type of the wise who soar, but never roam, / True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home. Wordsworth.

Tyran, descends du trône, et fais place à ton maître—Tyrant, come down from the throne, and give place to your master! Corn.

Tyranny and anarchy are never far asunder. Bentham.

Tyranny is irresponsible power... whether the power be lodged in one or many. Canning.