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Wachsamkeit ist die Tugend des Lasters—Vigilance is the virtue of vice. C. J. Weber.
Waft yourselves, yearning souls, upon the stars; / Sow yourselves on the wandering winds of space; / Watch patient all your days, if your eyes take / Some dim, cold ray of knowledge. The dull world / Hath need of you—the purblind, slothful world! Lewis Morris.
Wage du zu irren und zu träumen: / Hoher 15 Sinn liegt oft im kind'schen Spiel—Dare to err and to dream; a deep meaning often lies in the play of a child. Schiller.
Wages are no index of well-being to the working man; without proper wages there can be no well-being; but with them also there may be none. Carlyle.
Wahres und Gutes wird sich versöhnen, / Wenn sich beide vermählen im Schönen—True and good will be reconciled when both are wedded in the beautiful. Rückert.
Wahrheit gegen Freund und Feind—Truth in spite of friend and foe alike. Schiller.
Wahrheit immer wird, nie ist—Truth always is a-being, never is. Schiller.
Wahrheit wird wohl gedrückt, aber nicht 20 erstickt—Truth may be smothered, but not extinguished. Ger. Pr.
Wait upon him whom thou art to speak to with thine eye; for there be many cunning men that have secret heads and transparent countenances. Burton.
Waiting answers sometimes as well as working. Mrs. Gatty.
Walk not with the world where it is walking wrong. Carlyle.
Walk this world with no friend in it but God and St. Edmund, and you will either fall into the ditch or learn a good many things. Carlyle.
Wann? wie? und wo? das ist die leidige 25 Frage—When? how? and where? That is the vexing question. Goethe.
Want is the mother of industry. Pr.
Want makes wit. Pr.
Want maketh even servitude honourable. Hitopadesa.
Want o' wit is waur than want o' siller. Sc. Pr.
Want of care does us more damage than want 30 of knowledge. Ben. Franklin.
Want of courage upon some occasions assumes the appearance of ignorance, and betrays us when we most want to excel. Goldsmith.
Want of humility or self-denial is simply the want of all religion, of all moral worth. Carlyle.
Want of prudence is too frequently the want of virtue; nor is there on earth a more powerful advocate for vice than poverty. Goldsmith.
Want of tenderness is want of parts, and is no less a proof of stupidity than depravity. Johnson.
Want supplieth itself of what is next. Bacon. 35
Wanton jests make fools laugh and wise men frown. Fuller.
War disorganises, but it is to re-organise. Emerson.
War has its sweets, Hymen its alarms. La Fontaine.
War has no pity. Schiller.
War is a game which, were their subjects 40 wise, kings should not play at. Cowper.
War is a terrible trade; but in the cause that is righteous, / Sweet is the smell of powder. Longfellow.
War its thousands slays, peace its ten thousands. Beilby Porteous.
War ought to be the only study of a prince. Machiavelli.
War suspends the rules of moral obligation, and what is long suspended is in danger of being totally abrogated. Burke.
War—the trade of barbarians, and the art of 45 bringing the greatest physical force to bear on a single point. Napoleon.
War, with all its evils, is better than a peace in which there is nothing to be seen but usurpation and injustice. Pitt.
Wäre der Geist nicht frei, dann wär' es ein grosser Gedanke, / Dass ein Gedankenmonarch über die Seele regiert—Only if the spirit of man were not free, would the thought be a great one that there is a monarch of thought who rules over our souls. Platen.
Warm fortunes are always sure of getting good husbands. Goldsmith.
Warm your body by healthful exercise, not by cowering over a stove. Thoreau.
Warm your spirit by performing independently noble deeds, not by ignobly seeking the sympathy of your fellows, who are no better than yourself. Thoreau.
Warn them that are unruly, support the weak, be patient toward all men. St. Paul.
Wars should be undertaken in order that we may live in peace without suffering wrong. Cic.
Was, and is, and will be, are but "is." Tennyson. 5
Was der Löwe nicht kann, das kann der Fuchs—What the lion cannot manage to do, the fox can. Ger. Pr.
Was der Socialismus will, ist nicht Eigenthum aufheben, sondern im Gegentheile individuelles Eigenthum, auf die Arbeit gegründetes Eigenthum erst einführen—What Socialism means is not to abolish property, but, on the contrary, to establish individual property, property founded on labour. Lassalle.
Was die Fürsten geigen, müssen die Unterthanen tanzen—Subjects must dance as princes fiddle to them. Ger. Pr.
Was die heulende Tiefe da unten verhehle, / Das erzählt keine lebende glückliche Seele—What the howling deep down there conceals, no blessed living soul can tell. Schiller.
Was die innere Stimme spricht / Das läuschet 10 die hoffende Seele nicht—By what the inner voice speaks the trusting soul is never deceived. Schiller.
Was die Natur versteckt, zieht Unsinn an das Licht—What Nature hides from our gaze, want of sense and feeling drags to the light. Lessing.
Was die Sage erzählt / Mit Geschichte vermählt, / Mit Phantasie im Verein, / Das lass dir willkommen sein—Let what legend relates, wedded to history and in union with fantasy, be welcome to thee. (?)
Was du besitzest, kann ein Raub des Schicksals sein; / Was du besassest, bleibt für alle Zeiten dein—What you possess is at the mercy of fortune; what you possessed remains your own for ever. Lorm.
Was du denkest, sei wahr; und wie du denkest, so rede! / Wolle das Gute, so folgt Segen und Freude der That—Be what thou thinkest true; and as thou thinkest, so speak. Will what is good; then will follow blessing and joy from the deed. C. L. Fernow.
Was du ererbt von deinen Vätern hast, / 15 Erwirb es, um es zu besitzen. / Was man nicht nützt, ist eine schwere Last; / Nur was der Augenblick erschafft, das kann er nützen—What thou hast inherited from thy sires, acquire so as to posses it as thy own. What we use not is a heavy burden; only what the moment produces can the moment profit by. Goethe.
Was einmal sein muss, wird nie zu früh gethan—What must be can never be too quickly done. Rückert.
Was ever woman in this humour woo'd? / Was ever woman in this humour won? Rich. III., i. 2.
Was geboren ist auf Erden / Muss zu Erd' und Asche werden—What is born on earth must to earth and ashes return. J. G. Jacobi.
Was gelten soll, muss wirken und muss dienen—To be of any worth a thing must be productive and serviceable. Goethe.
Was glänzt ist für den Augenblick geboren; / 20 Das Echte bleibt der Nachwelt unverloren—What dazzles is produced for the moment; what is genuine remains unlost to posterity. Goethe.
Was Gott thut, das ist wohlgethan—What God does is well done. S. Rodigast.
Was hab' ich mehr als meine Pflicht gethan? / Ein guter Mann wird stets das Bessre wählen—What have I done more than my duty? A good man will always select what is better. Schiller.
Was Hände bauten, können Hände stürzen—What hands have built, hands can pull down. Schiller.
Was Hänschen nicht lernt, lernt Hans nimmermehr—What little Jack does not learn, big John never will. Ger. Pr.
Was hilft es mir, dass ich geniesse? Wie 25 Träume fliehn die wärmsten Küsse, / Und alle Freude wie ein Kuss—What help is there for me in enjoyment? As dreams vanish the warmest kisses, and as such is all joy. Goethe.
Was hilft laufen, wenn man nicht auf dem rechten Weg ist?—What boots running if one is on the wrong road. Ger. Pr.
Was hilft's, wenn ihr ein Ganzes dargebracht? / Das Publikum wird es euch doch zerpflücken—What boots it to present a whole? The public will be sure to pull it to pieces for you. Goethe.
Was ich besitze, mag ich gern bewahren; der Wechsel unterhält, doch nützt er kaum—What I possess I would like to keep; change is entertaining, but is scarcely advantageous. Goethe.
Was ich besitze, seh' ich wie im weiten, / Und was verschwand, wird mir zu Wirklichkeiten—What I possess I see in the distance; and what has vanished becomes for me actuality. Goethe.
Was ich nicht loben kann, davon sprech' ich 30 nicht—I do not speak of what I cannot praise. Goethe.
Was im Leben uns verdriesst / Man im Bilde gern geniesst—What annoys us in life we enjoy in a picture. Goethe.
Was in dem Herzen Anderer von uns lebt, / Ist unser wahrestes und tiefstes Selbst—What of us lives in the heart of others is our truest and deepest self. Herder.
Was ist deine Pflicht? Die Forderung des Tages—What is thy duty? To accept the challenge of the passing day.
Was ist der Tod? Nach einem Fieber / Ein sanfter Schlaf, der uns erquickt! / Der Thor erschreckt darüber, / Der Weise ist entzückt—What is death? A gentle sleep, which refreshes us after a fever. The fool is frightened at it; the wise man overjoyed. Winter.
Was ist ein Held ohne Menschenliebe—What 35 is a hero without love for man? Lessing.
Was ist noch schlimmer als das Uebel? Wenn man es nicht zu ertragen weiss—"What is still worse than evil?" Inability to bear it. C. J. Weber.
Was ist unser höchstes Gesetz? Unser eigener Vortheil—What is our highest good? Our own advantage. Goethe.
Was lehr' ich dich vor allen Dingen? / Könntest mich lehren von meiner Schatte zu springen!—What before all shall I teach you? That you could teach me to jump off my shadow! Goethe.
Was man einmal ist, das muss man ganz sein—What we are at any moment we should be entirely. Bodenstedt.
Was man Gott opfern will, muss man nicht vom Teufel einsegnen lassen—We must not let the devil consecrate what we mean for God. Ger. Pr.
Was man in der Jugend wünscht, hat man im Alter die Fülle—What one wishes in youth one has to the full when old. Goethe, by way of motto to the second part of his "Wahrheit und Dichtung."
Was man nicht versteht, besitzt man nicht—What we don't understand we do not possess. Goethe.
Was man sein will, sei man ganz—What one 5 will be, let him entirely be. W. F. Flotow.
Was man zu heftig fühlt, fühlt man nicht allzulang—Very acute suffering does not last long. Goethe.
Was Menschen säen, werden die Götter eraten; / Gott spricht durch seine Welt, der Mensch durch seine That—What men sow the gods will reap. God speaks through his world, man through his deed. Tiedge.
Was mir ein Augenblick genommen, / Das bringt kein Frühling mir zurück—What a moment has taken from me no spring brings back to me. Hoffmann.
Was never evening yet / But seemed far beautifuller than its day. Browning.
Was nicht von innen keimt hervor, / Ist in 10 der Wurzel schwach—What does not germinate forth from within is weak at its root. Uhland.
Was nicht zusammen kann bestehen, thut am besten sich zu lösen—What cannot exist together had better separate. Schiller.
Was niemals unser war, entbehrt man leicht—We easily dispense with what we never had. Platen.
Was nützt, ist nur ein Theil des Bedeutenden—What is useful forms but a part of the important. Goethe.
Was soll der fürchten, der den Tod nicht fürchtet?—What shall he fear who does not fear death? Schiller.
Was there ever, since the beginning of the 15 world, a universal vote given in favour of the worthiest man or thing? Carlyle.
Was there, is there, or will there be a great intellect ever heard tell of without being first a true and great heart to begin with? Never.... Think it not, suspect it not. Worse blasphemy I could not readily utter. Carlyle to John Sterling.
Was thy life given to thee / For making pretty sentences, and play / Of dainty humour for the mirthful heart / To be more merry, or to serve thy kind, / Redressing wrong? Dr. W. Smith.
Was uns alle bändigt, das Gemeine—What enthrals us all is the common. Goethe.
Was vergangen, kehrt nicht wieder; Aber ging es leuchtend nieder, / Leuchtet's lange noch zurück!—What has gone by returns not again, but if it went down shining, it reflects its light for long. Karl Förster.
Was vernünftig ist, das ist wirklich; und 20 was wirklich ist, das ist vernünftig—What is rational is actual; and what is actual is rational. Hegel.
Was verschmerze nicht der Mensch?—What can man not put up with? Schiller.
Was wir als Schönheit hier empfunden, / Wird einst als Wahrheit uns entgegengehn—What we have felt here as beauty will one day confront us as truth. Schiller.
Waste not time by trampling upon thistles because they have yielded us no figs. Here are books, and we have brains to read them; here is a whole Earth and a whole Heaven, and we have eyes to look on them. Carlyle.
Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation. Bible.
Watch thy tongue; out of it are the issues of 25 life. Carlyle.
Watched pot never boils. Pr.
Watchman, what of the night? Bible.
Water, air, and cleanliness are the chief articles in my pharmacopœia. Napoleon.
Water cannot rise above the level from which it springs; no more can moral theories. J. C. Sharp.
Water, water everywhere, / And all the boards 30 did shrink, / Water, water everywhere, / Nor any drop to drink. Coleridge.
Waters that are deep do not babble as they flow. Pr.
We acquire the strength we have overcome. Without war, no soldier; without enemies, no hero. The sun were insipid if the universe were not opaque. Emerson.
We all bear the misfortunes of other people with a heroic constancy. La Roche.
We all complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do; we are always complaining our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them. Sen.
We all know a hundred whose coats are well 35 made, and a score who have excellent manners; but of gentlemen how many? Let us take a little scrap of paper and each make out his list. Thackeray.
We all know that the secret of breakdown and wreck is seldom so much an insufficient knowledge of the route, as imperfect discipline of the will. John Morley.
We all live upon the hope of pleasing somebody; and the pleasure of pleasing ought to be greatest, and at last always will be greatest, when our endeavours are exerted in consequence of our duty. Johnson.
We always believe that God is like ourselves: the indulgent affirm him indulgent; the stern, terrible. Joubert.
We always live prospectively, never retrospectively, and there is no abiding moment. Jacobi.
We always take credit for the good, and attribute 40 the bad to fortune. La Fontaine.
We are able easily to dispense with greater perfection. Vauvenargues.
We are all a kind of chameleons, taking our hue, the hue of our moral character, from those who are about us. Locke.
We are all, at times, unconscious prophets. Spurgeon.
We are all best affected to them who are of the same opinion as ourselves. Thomas à Kempis.
We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end. I. Disraeli.
We are all collective beings, let us place ourselves as we may; for how little have we, and are we, that we can strictly call our own property? Goethe.
We are all frail; but esteem none more frail than thyself. Thomas à Kempis.
We are all richer for the measurement of a 5 degree of latitude on the earth's surface. Emerson.
We are all visionaries, and what we see is our soul in things. Amiel.
We are always complaining our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them. Addison.
We are always looking into the future, but we see only the past. Mme. Swetchine.
We are ancients of the earth / And in the morning of the times. Tennyson.
We are apt to mistake our vocation by looking 10 out of the way for occasions to exercise great and rare virtues, and by stepping over the ordinary ones that lie directly in the road before us. Hannah More.
We are apt to pick quarrels with the world for every little foolery. L'Estrange.
We are as liable to be corrupted by books as by companions. Fielding.
We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates. Emerson.
We are as turkeys driven, with a stick and red clout, to market. Sterne.
We are awkward for want of thought. The 15 inspiration is scanty, and does not arrive at the extremities. Emerson.
We are born with faculties and powers capable almost of anything, such, at least, as might carry us further than can easily be imagined; but it is only the exercise of those powers that gives us ability and skill in anything, and leads us towards perfection. Locke.
We are bound to be honest, but not to be rich. Pr.
We are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow. Bible.
We are children for the second time at twenty-one, and again when we are grey and put all our burden on the Lord. J. M. Barrie.
We are come too late, by several thousand 20 years, to say anything new in morality. The finest and most beautiful thoughts concerning manners have been carried away before our times, and nothing is left for us but to glean after the ancients and the more ingenious of the moderns. La Bruyère.
We are content with personating happiness—to feel it is an art beyond us. Mackenzie.
We are contented because we are happy, and not happy because we are contented. Landor.
We are created to seek truth; to possess it is the prerogative of a higher power. Montaigne.
"We are creatures that look before and after," the more surprising that we do not look round a little, and see what is passing under our eyes. Carlyle.
We are great philosophers to each other, but 25 not to ourselves. Bulwer Lytton.
We are here for the express purpose of stamping on things perishable an imperishable worth. Goethe.
We are in a series of which we do not know the extremes, and believe that it has none. Emerson.
We are in great danger; / The greater therefore should our courage be. Hen. V., iv. 1.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know, because they have never deceived us. Johnson.
We are incompetent to solve the times.... 30 We can only obey our own polarity. Emerson.
We are instinctively more inclined to hope than to fear; just as our eyes turn of themselves towards light rather than darkness. Schopenhauer.
We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see. Herodotus.
We are members of one great body. Nature planted in us a mutual love, and fitted us for a social life. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole. Sen.
"We are men, my liege."—/ Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men. Macb., iii. 1.
We are near awakening when we dream that 35 we dream. Novalis.
We are ne'er like angels till our passion dies. Denham.
We are never farther from what we wish than when we fancy that we have what we wished for. Goethe.
We are never made so ridiculous by the qualities we have as by those we affect to have. La Roche.
We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves. Amiel.
We are never more like God than when we 40 are doing good. Calvin.
We are never present with, but always beyond ourselves. Fear, desire, and hope are still pushing us on towards the future. Montaigne.
We are never properly ourselves till another thinks entirely as we do. Goethe.
We are never so happy or so unhappy as we imagine. La Roche.
We are not called upon to judge ourselves. / With circumspection to pursue his path, / Is the immediate duty of a man. Goethe.
We are not ignorant of his devices. St. Paul 45 of the Evil One.
We are not indebted to the reason of man for any of the great achievements which are the landmarks of human action and human progress. Disraeli.
We are not, indeed, satisfied with our own opinions, whatever we may pretend, till they are ratified and confirmed by suffrage of the rest of mankind. We dispute and wrangle for ever; we endeavour to get men to come to us when we do not go to them. Sir Joshua Reynolds.
We are not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts. We have certain work to do for our bread, and that is to be done strenuously; other work to do for our delight, and that is to be done heartily; neither is to be done by halves or shifts, but with a will; and what is not worth this effort is not to be done at all. Ruskin.
We are not strong by our power to penetrate, but by our relatedness. Emerson.
We are not to be astonished that the wise walk more slowly in their road to virtue than fools in their passage to vice; since passion drags us along, while wisdom only points out the way. Confucius.
We are not to lead events, but to follow them. Epictetus.
We are not to quarrel with the water for 5 inundations and shipwrecks. L'Estrange.
We are not troubled by the evanescence of time, if the eternal is every moment present. Goethe.
We are often governed by people not only weaker than ourselves, but even by those whom we think so. Lord Greville.
We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians. Mme. Swetchine.
We are only so far worthy of esteem as we know how to appreciate. Goethe.
We are only vulnerable and ridiculous through 10 our pretensions. Mme. de Girardin.
We are ourselves / Our heaven and hell, the joy, the penalty, / The yearning, the fruition. Lewis Morris.
We are pent, / Who sing to-day, by all the garnered wealth / Of ages of past song. Lewis Morris.
We are reformers in spring and summer; in autumn and winter we stand by the old; reformers in the morning, conservers at night. Emerson.
We are rid of the Wicked One, but the wicked are still with us. Goethe.
We are ruined not by what we really want, 15 but by what we think we do. Colton.
We are seldom sure that we sincerely meant what we omitted to do. Johnson.
We are slaves, / The greatest as the meanest—nothing rests / Upon our will.... And when we think we lead, we are most led. Byron.
We are such stuff / As dreams are made on; and our little life / Is rounded with a sleep. Tempest, iii. 3.
We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is a civil war, and in all such contentions, triumphs are defeats. Colton.
We are sure to judge wrong if we do not feel 20 aright. Hazlitt.
We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the Commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing an abatement. Ben. Franklin.
We are the children of our own deeds. Victor Hugo.
We are the miracle of miracles—the great inscrutable mystery of God. We cannot understand it, we know not how to speak of it; but we may feel and know, if we like, that it is verily so. Carlyle.
We are the slaves of objects round us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to expand. Goethe.
We are to earn the joys of a higher existence, 25 not by scorning, but by using, all the gifts of God in this. W. R. Greg.
We are too good for pure instinct. Goethe.
We are very fond of some families because they can be traced beyond the Conquest, whereas indeed the farther back the worse, as being the nearer allied to a race of robbers and thieves. De Foe.
We are wiser than we know. Emerson.
We ask advice, but we mean approbation. Colton.
We barter life for pottage. Keble. 30
We boast our light; but if we look not wisely on the sun itself, it smites us into darkness. Milton.
We build statues of snow, and weep to see them melt. Scott.
We by Fancy may assuage / The festering sore by Fancy made. Keble.
We can conceive or desire nothing more exquisite or perfect than what is round us every hour. W. R. Greg.
We can do more good by being good than in 35 any other way. Rowland Hill.
We can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth. St. Paul.
We can finish nothing in this life, but we can make a beginning, and bequeath a noble example. Smiles.
We can hardly be confident of the state of our own minds, but as it stands attested by some external action. Johnson.
We can have no dependence upon morality without religion; so, on the other hand, there is nothing better to be expected from religion without morality. Sterne.
We can live without our friends, but not without 40 our neighbours. Pr.
We can more easily avenge an injury than requite a kindness; on this account, because there is less difficulty in getting the better of the wicked than in making one's self equal with the good. Cic.
We can never soon enough convince ourselves how easily we can be dispensed with in the world. Goethe.
We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to. Goethe.
We can only know a little, and the question is merely whether or not we know this well. Goethe.
We can only possess wealth according to our 45 capacity. Ruskin.
We can receive anything from love, for that is a way of receiving it from ourselves; but not from any one who assumes to bestow. Emerson.
We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love. Mrs. Jameson.
We can take up no scheme, however wild and impracticable, but it will strike off some flower or fruit from the tree of knowledge. Ward Beecher.
We cannot abolish fate, but we can in a measure utilise it. The projectile force of the bullet does not annul or suspend gravity; it uses it. John Burroughs.
We cannot all be masters, nor all masters / Cannot be truly follow'd. King Lear, v. 3.
We cannot all serve our country in the same way, but each may do his best, according as God has endowed him. Goethe.
We cannot approach beauty. Its nature is like opaline dove's-neck lustres, hovering and evanescent. Herein it resembles the most excellent things, which have all this rainbow character, defying all attempts at appropriation and use. Emerson.
We cannot be just if we are not humane. 5 Vauvenargues.
We cannot be kind to each other here for an hour; / We whisper, and hint, and chuckle, and grin at a brother's shame; / However we brave it out, we men are a little breed. Tennyson.
We cannot but speak the things we have seen and heard. St. Peter and St. John.
We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could. Landor.
We cannot fashion our children after our fancy. We must have them and love them as God has given them to us. Goethe.
We cannot fight for love, as men may do; / 10 We should be wooed, and were not made to woo. Mid. N.'s Dream, ii. 2.
We cannot make our exodus from Houndsditch (i.e., the now dead religion of the past) till we have got our own (i.e., out of it) along with us. Carlyle.
We cannot overstate our debt to the past, but the moment has the supreme claim. Emerson.
We cannot part with our friends. We cannot let our angels go. We do not see that they only go out that archangels may come in. We are idolaters of the old. We do not believe in the richness of the soul, in its proper eternity and omnipresence. Emerson.
We cannot pass our guardian angel's bound, / Resign'd or sullen, he will hear our sighs. Keble.
We cannot speak a loyal word and be meanly 15 silent; we cannot kill and not kill at the same moment; but a moment is room enough for the loyal and mean desire, for the outflash of a murderous thought, and the sharp backward stroke of repentance. George Eliot.
We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves. Colton.
We conceive, I think, more nobly of the weak presence of Paul than of the fair and ruddy countenance of David. Ruskin.
We consecrate a great deal of nonsense, because it was allowed by great men. Emerson.
We could not endure solitude, were it not for the powerful companionship of hope, or of some unseen one. Jean Paul.
We crave a world unreal as the shell-heard 20 sea. E. L. Hamilton.
We cultivate literature on a little oatmeal. Sydney Smith.
We darken the cages of birds when we would teach them to sing. Jean Paul.
We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artifices as we do ourselves. Schopenhauer.
We deem those happy who, from their experience of life, have learned to bear its ills without descanting on the burden. Juv.
We derive from nature no fault that may not 25 become a virtue, no virtue that may not degenerate into a fault. Faults of the latter kind are most difficult to cure. Goethe.
We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast of our Freethinking as we may, are oftenest simply such beliefs as we have never heard questioned. Carlyle.
We do not believe immortality because we have proved it, but we for ever try to prove it because we believe it. James Martineau.
We do not commonly find men of superior sense amongst those of the highest fortune. Juv.
We do not correct the man we hang; we correct others by him. Montaigne.
We do not count a man's years until he has 30 nothing else to count. Emerson.
We do not determine what we will think.... We have little control over our thoughts. Emerson.
We do not die wholly at our deaths; we have mouldered away gradually long before. Hazlitt.
We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us. Mme. Swetchine.
We do not know what is really good or bad fortune. Rousseau.
We do not teach one another the lessons of 35 honesty and sincerity that the brutes do, or of steadiness and solitude that the rocks do. The fault is commonly mutual, for we do not habitually demand any more of each other. Thoreau.
We don't always care most for those flat-pattern flowers that press best in the herbarium. Holmes.
We draw the foam from the great river of humanity with our quills, and imagine to ourselves that we have caught floating islands at least. Goethe.
We eagerly lay hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passion. Goethe.
We easily dispense with what was never our own. Platen.
We enjoy ourselves only in our work, our 40 doing; and our best doing is our best enjoyment. Jacobi.
We estimate (lit. measure) great men by their virtue, not by their success. Corn. Nep.
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are. Balzac.
We expect a bright to-morrow; / All will be well. / Faith can sing through days of sorrow, / All, all is well. Peters.
We expect everything, and are prepared for nothing. Mme. Swetchine.
We expect in letters to discover somewhat 45 of a person's real character. It is childish indeed to expect that we are to find the whole heart of the author unveiled.... Still as letters from one friend to another make the nearest approaches to conversation, we may expect to see more of a character displayed in these than in other productions which are studied for public view. Blair.
We expect old men to be conservative, but when a nation's young men are so, its funeral-bell is already rung. Ward Beecher.
We fail? / But screw your courage to the sticking-place, / And we'll not fail. Macb., i. 7.
We fancy we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love. Landor.
(We) feel that life is large, and the world small, / So wait till life have passed from out the world. Browning.
We find God twice—once within, once without 5 us; within us as an eye, without us as a light. Jean Paul.
We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people. Schopenhauer.
We furnish our minds as we furnish our houses—with the fancies of others, and according to the mode and age of our country; we pick up our ideas and notions in common conversation as in schools. Bolingbroke.
We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself. Lamb.
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist. Emerson.
We gape, we grasp, we gripe, add store to 10 store; / Enough requires too much; too much craves more. Quarles.
We gild our medicines with sweets; why not clothe truth and morals in pleasant garments as well? Chamfort.
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it. La Roche.
We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain. W. R. Alger.
We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital. As Satan said, "Evil, be thou my good," so they say, "Darkness, be thou my light." Horace Mann.
We hang little thieves, and take off our hats 15 to great ones. Ger. Pr.
We happiness pursue; we fly from pain; / Yet the pursuit, and yet the flight is vain. Prior.
We hate delay, yet it makes us wise. Pr.
We hate some persons because we do not know them, and we will not know them because we hate them. Colton.
We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. Maugre all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether. Emerson.
We have all a cure of souls, and every man is 20 a priest. Amiel.
We have all a speck of the motley. Lamb.
We have all of us one human heart. Wordsworth.
We have all of us our ferries (to cross over) in this world, and must know the river and its ways, or get drowned some day. Carlyle.
We have all strength enough to endure the troubles of others. La Roche.
We have always considered taxes to be the 25 sinews of the state. Cic.
We have, and this is an interesting fact, a plant which may serve as a symbol of the most advanced age, since, having passed the period of flowers and fruit, it still thrives cheerfully without further foundation. Goethe.
We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back. Simms.
We have done deeds of charity, / Made peace of enmity, fair love of hate. Rich. III., ii. 1.
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love, one another. Swift.
We have less charity for those who believe the 30 half of our creed than for those who deny the whole of it. Colton.
We have little control over our thoughts. We are the prisoners of our ideas. Emerson.
We have met the enemy, and they are ours. Oliver H. Perry.
We have more indolence in the mind than in the body. La Roche.
We have more mathematics than ever, but less mathesis. Archimedes and Plato could not have read the "Méchanique Céleste;" but neither would the whole French Institute see aught in that saying, "God geometrises," but sentimental rhodomontade. Carlyle.
We have no more / The world to choose from, 35 who, where'er we turn, / Tread through old thoughts and fair. Yet must we sing—/ We have no choice. Lewis Morris.
We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal. Rush.
We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it. Carlyle.
We have not the innocence of Eden; but by God's help and Christ's example, we may have the victory of Gethsemane. Chapin.
We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness. Carlyle.
We have not wings, we cannot soar; / But 40 we have feet to scale and climb / By slow degrees, by more and more, / The cloudy summits of our time. Longfellow.
We have nothing to do with what is happening in space (or possibly may happen in time); we have only to attend to what is happening here—and now. Ruskin.
We have raised Pain and Sorrow into heaven, and in our temples, on our altars. Grief stands symbol of our faith, and it shall last as long as man is mortal and unhappy. Wm. Smith.
We have scotch'd the snake, but not killed it. Macb., iii. 2.
We have such exorbitant eyes, that, on seeing the smallest arc, we complete the curve, and when the curtain is lifted from the diagram which it served to veil, we are vexed to find that no more was drawn than just that fragment of an arc which we first beheld. Emerson.
We hear constantly of what Nature is doing, 45 but we rarely hear of what man is thinking. We want ideas, and we get more facts. Buckle.
We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent. Auerbach.
We, ignorant of ourselves, / Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers / Deny us for our good; so find we profit / By losing of our prayers. Ant. and Cleo., ii. 1.
We in turn / Shall one day be Time's ancients, and inspire / The wiser, higher race, which yet shall sing; / Because to sing is human, and high thought / Grows rhythmic ere its close. Lewis Morris.
We inherit, not life only, but all the garniture and form of life; and work, and speak, and even think and feel, as our fathers, and primeval grandfathers, from the beginning, have given it us. Carlyle.
We injure mysteries, which are matters of faith, by any attempt at explanation in order to make them matters of reason. Could they be explained, they would cease to be mysteries; and it has been well said that a thing is not necessarily against reason because it happens to be above it. Colton.
We keep but what we give, / And only daily 5 dying may we live. Lewis Morris.
We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases. Goethe.
We know better than we do. Emerson.
We know God easily, provided we do not constrain ourselves to define him. Joubert.
We know not oftentimes what we are able to do, but temptations shows us what we are. Thomas à Kempis.
We know truth when we see it, let sceptic 10 and scoffer say what they choose. Emerson.
We know what we are, but we know not what we may be. Ham., iv. 5.
We learn nothing from mere hearing, and he who does not take an active part in certain subjects knows them but half and superficially. Goethe.
We learn to know a thing best in the place where it is native. Goethe.
We learn to know nothing but what we love; and the deeper we mean to penetrate into any matter with insight, the stronger and more vital must our love and passion be. Goethe.
We learn wisdom from failure much more than 15 from success; we often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. Horne Tooke used to say of his studies in intellectual philosophy, that he had become all the better acquainted with the country through having had the good luck sometimes to lose his way. Smiles.
We lie down and rise up with the skeleton allotted to us for our mortal companion—the phantom of ourselves. Dickens.
We like only such actions as have long already had the praise of men, and do not perceive that anything man can do may be divinely done. Emerson.
We like slipping, but not falling; our real desire is to be tempted enough. Hare.
We like to see through others, but not that others should see through us. La Roche.
We live by admiration, hope, and love; / And 20 even as these are well and wisely fix'd, / In dignity of being we ascend. Wordsworth.
We live by our imaginations, by our admirations, by our sentiments. Emerson.
We live in a real, and a solid, and a truthful world. In such a world only truth, in the long run, can hope to prosper. Prof. Blackie.
We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it was before he entered it. To do this effectually, it is necessary to be fully possessed of only two beliefs: the first, that the order of nature is ascertainable by our faculties to an extent which is practically unlimited; the second, that our volition counts for something as a condition of the course of events. Huxley.
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; / In feelings, not in figures on a dial. Bailey. (?)
We live in the age of systems. Rückert. 25
We loathe what none are left to share; / Even bless 'twere woe alone to bear. Byron.
We long in vain to undo what has been done. Schopenhauer.
We long to use what lies beyond our scope, / Yet cannot use even what within it lies. Goethe.
We look before and after, / And pine for what is not; / E'en our sincerest laughter / With some pain is fraught; / Our sweetest songs are those which tell of saddest thought. Shelley.
We love a girl for very different things than 30 understanding. We love her for her beauty, her youth, her mirth, her confidingness, her character, with its faults, caprices, and God knows what other inexpressible charms; but we do not love her for her understanding. Her mind we esteem (if it is brilliant), and it may greatly elevate her in our opinion; nay, more, it may enchain us when we already love. But her understanding is not that which awakens and inflames our passions. Goethe.
We love in others what we lack ourselves, / And would be everything but what we are. R. H. Stoddart.
We love justice greatly, and just men but little. Joseph Roux.
We love peace, as we abhor pusillanimity; but not peace at any price. There is a peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body. Chains are worse than bayonets. Douglas Jerrold.
We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire. La Roche.
We love to see wisdom in unpretending forms, 35 to recognise her royal features under a week-day vesture. Carlyle.
We make trifles of terrors, ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge, when we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear. All's Well, ii. 3.
We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us. Bovee.
We manufacture everything there (in our manufacturing cities) except men; we blanch cotton, and strengthen steel, and refine sugar, and shape pottery; but to brighten, to strengthen, to refine, or to form a single living spirit, never enters into our estimate of advantages. Ruskin.
We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost. Rousseau.
We may all agree in lamenting that there are so many houses where you will not find a good atlas, a good dictionary, or a good cyclopædia of reference. What is still more lamentable, in a good many more houses where these books are, is that they are never referred to or opened. John Morley.
We may almost say that a new life begins when a man once sees with his own eyes all that before he has but partially read or heard of. Goethe.
We may be as good as we please, if we please to be good. Barrow.
We may be pretty certain that persons whom 5 all the world treats ill deserve entirely the treatment they get. Thackeray.
We may build more splendid habitations, / Fill our rooms with paintings and with sculptures,/ But we cannot / Buy with gold the old associations! Longfellow.
We may daily discover crowds acquire sufficient wealth to buy gentility, but very few that possess the virtues which ennoble human nature, and (in the best sense of the word) constitute a gentleman. Shenstone.
We may despise the world, but we cannot do without it. Baron Wessenberg.
We may fall in with a thousand learned men before we fall in with one wise. Klinger.
We may give more offence by our silence than 10 even by impertinence. Hazlitt.
We may grasp virtue so hard as to convert it into a vice. Montaigne.
We may have a law, or we may have no law, but we cannot have half a law. Johnson.
We may have once been slugs, and may one day be angels, but we are men now; and we must, as men, do our work honourably and thoroughly. Ruskin.
We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age. Colton.
We may, like the ships, by tempests be toss'd / 15 On perilous deeps, but cannot be lost. Newton.
We may not be able to parry evil thoughts, but we may surely guard against their taking root in us and bringing forth evil deeds. Luther.
We may outrun / By violent swiftness that which we run at, / And lose by overrunning. Hen. VIII., i. 1.
We may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, "Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did;" and so, if I might be judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling. Izaak Walton.
We may seek God by our intellect (Verstand), but we can find him only with the heart. Cötvös.
We may take Fancy for a companion, but must 20 follow Reason as our guide. Johnson.
We mount to heaven mostly on the ruins of our cherished schemes, finding our failures were successes. A. B. Alcott.
We move too much in platoons; we march by sections; we do not live in our vital individuality enough; we are slaves to fashion, in mind and in heart, if not to our passions and appetites. Chapin.
We must accept ourselves as we are. Scherer.
We must accept the post to which Heaven appoints us, and do the duty to which Heaven calls us, and think it no shame, but an honour, to hold any office, however lowly, under heaven's King. Ed.
We must all receive and learn both from those 25 who were before us and from those who are with us. Even the greatest genius would not go far if he tried to owe everything to his own internal self. Goethe.
We must all toil—or steal; no faithful workman finds his life a pastime. Carlyle.
We must avoid fastidiousness; neatness, when it is moderate, is a virtue; but when it is carried to an extreme, it narrows the mind. Fénelon.
We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light. Emerson.
We must be free or die who speak the tongue / That Shakespeare spake, the faith and morals hold / Which Milton held. Wordsworth.
We must be our own before we can be 30 another's. Emerson.
We must bear what Heaven sends us; no noble heart will bear injustice. Schiller.
We must carry the beautiful with us, or we find it not. Emerson.
We must first cross a valley before we regain a favourable and cheerful height; meanwhile, let us see how we can stroll through it with our friends pleasantly and profitably. Goethe.
We must first pray, and then labour; first implore the blessing of God, and use those means which he puts into our hands. Johnson.
We must have the real thing before we can 35 have a science of the thing. Froude.
We must hold by what is definite, and not split up our strength in many directions. Hegel.
We must, if we would husband life and not waste it, bravely resolve to dispense with the dispensable, to content ourselves with the minimum of want, to stake our reputation, if such be dear to us, upon intrinsic worth, and show once again, if we can, by our mere life and labour, what are the "roots of honour" and the "veins of wealth." Ed.
We must judge of a form of government by its general tendency, not by happy accidents. Macaulay.
We must labour unceasingly to render our piety reasonable, and our reason pious. Mme. Swetchine.
We must needs die, and are as water spilt on 40 the ground which cannot be gathered up again. Bible.
We must not arrogate to ourselves a spirit of forgiveness, until we have been touched to the quick where we are sensitive and borne it meekly. Ward Beecher.
We must not contradict, but instruct, him that contradicts us. Antisthenes.
We must not judge of despots by the temporary successes which the possession of power enabled them to achieve, but by the state in which they leave their country at their death or at their fall. Mme. de Staël.
We must not make a scarecrow of the law. Meas. for Meas., ii. 1.
We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, but strike it till it is made hot. Sharp.
We must not regard what the many say of us; but what he, the one man who has understanding of just and unjust, will say, and what the truth will say. Plato.
We must not stand upon trifles. Cervantes.
We must not stint / Our necessary actions, in 5 the fear / To cope malicious censurers; which ever, / As ravenous fishes, do a vessel follow / That is new trimmed, but benefit no further / Than vainly longing. Hen. VIII., i. 2.
We must not suppose ourselves always to have conquered a temptation when we have fled from it. Thomas à Kempis.
We must not take the faults of our youth with us into our old age, for old age brings with it its own defects. Goethe.
We must put up with our contemporaries, since we can neither live with our ancestors nor posterity. George Eliot.
We must sometimes cease to adhere to our own opinion for the sake of peace. Thomas à Kempis.
We must strive to make of humanity one 10 single family. Mazzini.
We must take the current when it serves, / Or lose our ventures. Jul. Cæs., iv. 3.
We must take the world as we find it. Pr.
We need change of objects. Emerson.
We (in England) need examples of people who, leaving Heaven to decide whether they are to rise in the world, decide for themselves that they will be happy in it, and have resolved to seek—not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity; making the first of possessions self-possession, and honouring themselves in the harmless pride and calm pursuits of peace. Ruskin.
We need greater virtues to sustain good than 15 evil fortune. La Roche.
We need not die while we are living. Ward Beecher.
We needs must love the highest when we see it, / Not Lancelot, nor another. Tennyson.
We never can know the truth of sin; for its nature is to deceive alike on the one side the sinner and on the other the judge. Ruskin.
We never can say why we love, but only that we love. The heart is ready enough at feigning excuses for all that it does or imagines of wrong; but ask it to give a reason for any of its beautiful and divine motions, and it can only look upward and be dumb. Lowell.
We never desire ardently what we desire 20 rationally. La Roche.
We never learn what people are by their coming to us; we must go to them if we wish to know what they are made of, and see how they conduct or misconduct their surroundings. Goethe.
We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging for being happy, it cannot be but that we never are so. Pascal.
We never love truly but once. It is the first time. Succeeding passions are less involuntary. Du Cœur.
We never reflect on the man we love without exulting in our choice; while he who has bound us to him by benefits alone rises to our idea as a person to whom we have, in some measure, forfeited our freedom. Goldsmith.
We never see anything isolated in Nature, 25 but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it, and over it. Goethe.
We never sufficiently consider that a language is properly only symbolical, only figurative, and expresses objects never immediately, but only in reflection; yet how difficult it is not to put the sign in place of the thing, always to keep the thing as it is (das Wesen) before one's mind, and not annihilated by the expression (das Wort). Goethe.
We often quarrel with the unfortunate to get rid of pitying them. Vauvenargues.
We ought certainly to despise malice if we cannot oppose it. Goldsmith.
We ought not, in general, to take the opinions of others upon trust, but to reason and judge for ourselves. Locke.
We ought not to isolate ourselves, for we 30 cannot remain in a state of isolation. Social intercourse makes us the more able to bear with ourselves and with others. Goethe.
We ought not to judge men by their absolute excellence, but by the distance which they have travelled from the point at which they started. Ward Beecher.
We ought not to quit our post without the permission of Him who commands; the post of man is life. Pythagoras.
We ought not to seek too high joys. We may be bright without transfiguration. Ward Beecher.
We ought not to teach children the sciences, but to give them a taste for them. Rousseau.
We ought to attempt no more than what is in 35 the compass of our genius and according to our vein. Dryden.
We ought to be ashamed of our pride, but never proud of our shame. (?)
We ought to obey God rather than man. St. Peter.
We ought to regard our servants as friends in a lower state. Plato.
We our betters see bearing our woes, / We scarcely think our miseries our foes. King Lear, iii. 6.
We owe it to our ancestors to preserve entire 40 those rights which they have delivered to our care; we owe it to our posterity not to suffer their dearest inheritance to be destroyed. Junius.
We owe to man higher succours than food and fire. We owe to man, man. Emerson.
We own whom we love. The universe is God's because He loves. Ward Beecher.
We pain ourselves to please nobody. Emerson.
We pardon as long as we love. La Roche.
We part with true joy almost more lightly 45 than with a beautiful dream. Fr. Grillparzer.
We pass our life in deliberation, and we die upon it. Pasquier Quesnel.
We pity in others only those evils which we have ourselves experienced. Rousseau.
We play the fools with the time, and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us. Hen. IV., ii. 2.
We poets in our youth begin in gladness, / But thereof come in the end despondency and madness. Wordsworth.
We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears. La Roche.
We properly learn from those books only which are above our criticism, which we cannot judge. Goethe.
We read far too many things, thus losing time 5 and gaining nothing. We should only read what we admire. Goethe.
We readily believe what we wish to be true. Pr.
We reap what we sow, but Nature has love over and above that justice, and gives us shadow and blossom and fruit that spring from no planting of ours. George Eliot.
We receive but little advantage from repeated protestations of gratitude, but they cost them very much from whom we exact them in return. Goldsmith.
We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly. Mme. Swetchine.
We retain from our studies only that which 10 we practically apply. Goethe.
We sacrifice to dress till household joys and comforts cease. Dress drains our cellar dry and keeps our larder lean. Cowper.
We see but the outside of the rich man's happiness; few consider him to be like the silkworm, that, when she seems to play, is at the very same time spinning her own bowels and consuming herself. Isaac Walton.
We see farthest into the future—and that is not far—when we most carefully consider the facts of the present. Dr. Jowett.
We see so darkly into futurity, we never know when we have real cause to rejoice or lament. The worst appearances have often happy consequences, as the best lead many times into the greatest misfortunes. Lady Montagu.
We see the blossoms wither and the leaves 15 fall, but we likewise see fruits ripen and new buds shoot forth. Goethe.
We seek but half the causes of our deeds, / Seeking them only in the outer life, / And heedless of the encircling spirit-world, / Which, though unseen, is felt, and sows in us / All germs of pure and world-wide purposes. Lowell.
We seldom give our love to what is worthiest in its object. J. M. Barrie.
We seldom speak of the virtue we have, but much more frequently of that which we have not. Lessing.
"We shall fight in the shade." Leonidas, to the threat of the Persians that their forest of arrows would darken the sun.
We shall find no fiend in hell can match the 20 fury of a disappointed woman,—scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang. Cibber.
We should always keep a corner of our heads open and free, that we may make room for the opinions of our friends. Joubert.
We should be slower to think that the man at his worst is the real man, and certain that the better we are ourselves the less likely is he to be at his worst in our company. J. M. Barrie.
We should be sparing in our intimacies; because it so very often happens that the more perfectly men are understood, the less they are esteemed. Thomas à Kempis.
We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character. Thoreau.
We should count time by heart-throbs. / He 25 most lives / Who thinks most, feels the noblest, / Acts the best. Bailey.
We should despise the wretch who has never once thought what it is he is doing (vollbringt). Goethe (?).
We should distinguish between laughter inspired by joy, and that which arises from mockery. Goldsmith.
We should eat to live, and not live to eat. Pr.
We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression. Confucius.
We should forgive freely, but forget rarely. 30 I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself. Colton.
We should guard against a talent which we cannot hope to practise in perfection. Improve it as we may, we shall always in the end, when the merit of the master has become apparent to us, painfully lament the loss of time and strength devoted to such botching. Goethe.
We should have all our communications with men as in the presence of God; and with God, as in the presence of men. Colton.
We should hold the immutable mean that lies between insensibility and anguish; our attempts should be, not to extinguish nature, but to repress it; not to stand unmoved at distress, but endeavour to turn every disaster to our own advantage. Confucius.
We should labour to treat with ease of things that are difficult; with familiarity, of things that are novel; and with perspicuity, of things that are profound. Colton.
We should live each day as if it were the full 35 term of our life. (?)
We should manage our fortune like our constitution; enjoy it when good, have patience when bad, and never apply violent remedies but in cases of necessity. La Roche.
We should never risk pleasantry except with well-bred people, and people with brains. La Bruyère.
We should never so entirely avoid danger as to appear irresolute and cowardly; but, at the same time, we should avoid unnecessarily exposing ourselves to danger, than which nothing can be more foolish. Cic.
We should not be too hasty in bestowing either our praise or censure on mankind, since we shall often find such a mixture of good and evil in the same character, that it may require a very accurate judgment and a very elaborate inquiry to determine on which side the balance turns. Fielding.
We should not spur a willing horse. Pr. 40
We should not trust the heart too much. The heart speaks to us very gladly, as our mouth expresses itself. If the mouth were as much inclined to speak the feelings of the heart, it would have been the fashion long ago to put a padlock on the mouth. Lessing.
We should often feel ashamed of our most brilliant actions were the world to see the motives from which they sprung. La Roche.
We should only utter higher maxims so far as they can benefit the world. The rest we should keep within ourselves, and they will diffuse over our actions a lustre like the mild radiance of a hidden sun. Goethe.
We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it. Bovee.
We should seem ignorant that we oblige, and leave the mind at full liberty to give or refuse its affections; for constraint may indeed leave the receiver still grateful but it will certainly produce disgust. Goldsmith.
We should take a prudent care for the future, 5 but so as to enjoy the present. It is no part of wisdom to be miserable to-day, because we may happen to be so to-morrow. (?)
We should, to the last moment of our lives, continue a settled intercourse with all the true examples of grandeur. Sir Joshua Reynolds.
We shut our eyes, and, like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it. Sen.
We sink to rise. Emerson.
We smile at the satire expended upon the follies of others, but we forget to weep at our own. Mme. Necker.
We sometimes meet an original gentleman, 10 who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them. Emerson.
We sometimes see a change of expression in our companion, and say, His father or his mother comes to the windows of his eyes, and sometimes a remote relative. In different hours, a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled up in each man's skin—seven or eight ancestors at least—and they constitute the variety of notes for that new piece of music which his life is. Emerson.
We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen. Jesus.
We still are fain, with wrath and strife, / To seek for gain, to shrink from loss, / Content to scratch our shallow cross / On the rough surface of old life. Dr. W. Smith.
We swallow at one gulp a lie which flatters us, but only drop by drop a truth which is bitter to us. Diderot.
We take a great deal for granted in this world, 15 and expect that everything, as a matter of course, ought to fit into our humours, wishes, and wants; it is often only when danger threatens that we awake to the discovery that the guiding reins are held by one whom we had well-nigh forgotten in our careless ease. Mrs. Gatty.
We take a pleasure in being severe upon others, but cannot endure to hear of our own faults. Thomas à Kempis.
We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavouring to think so ourselves. Confucius.
We take no note of time but from its loss. Young.
We talk little if we do not talk about ourselves. Hazlitt.
We talk on principle, but we act on interest. 20 Landor.
We tell our triumphs to the crowd, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows. Bulwer Lytton.
We tell the ladies that good wives make good husbands; I believe it is a more certain position that good brothers make good sisters. Johnson.
We that acquaint ourselves with every zone, / And pass the tropics, and behold each pole; / When we come home, are to ourselves unknown, / And unacquainted still with our own soul. Davies.
We think our civilisation near its meridian; but we are yet only at the cock-crowing and the morning star. Emerson.
We tolerate everybody, because we doubt 25 everything; or else we tolerate nobody, because we believe something. Mrs. E. B. Browning.
We trample grass, and prize the flowers of May; / Yet grass is green when flowers do fade away. R. Southwell.
We treat God with irreverence by banishing him from our thoughts, not by referring to his will on slight occasions. Ruskin.
We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger. Corn.
We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and insensibly approximate to the characters we most admire. In this way, a generous habit of thought and of action carries with it an incalculable influence. Bovee.
We underpin our houses with granite; what 30 of our habits and our lives? Thoreau.
We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness. Joubert.
We usually lose the to-day, because there has been a yesterday, and to-morrow is coming. Goethe.
We very often have to do things during our lives of which we do not understand the reasons, but the more clearly we understand the work we have to do, depend upon it, the better the work will be done. W. E. Forster.
We wander there, we wander here, / We eye the rose upon the brier, / Unmindful that the thorn is near, / Amang the leaves. Burns.
We want but two or three friends, but these 35 we cannot do without, and they serve us in every thought we think. Emerson.
We want downright facts at present more than anything else. Ruskin.
We want foolishly to think the creed a man professes a more significant fact than the man he is. Thoreau.
We want one man to be always thinking, and another to be always working, and we call the one a gentleman, and the other an operative; whereas the workman ought often to be thinking, and the thinker often to be working, and both should be gentlemen in the best sense. Ruskin.
We waste our best years in distilling the sweetest flowers of life into potions which, after all, do not immortalise, but only intoxicate. Longfellow.
We wear a face of joy because / We have been 40 glad of yore. Wordsworth.
We, who name ourselves its (the world) sovereigns, we, / Half dust, half deity, alike unfit / To sink or soar. Byron.
We will have others severely corrected, and will not be corrected ourselves. Thomas à Kempis.
We will not estimate the sun by the quantity of gaslight it saves us. Carlyle.
We will not from the helm, to sit and weep; / But keep our course, though the rough wind say no. (?)
We will obey the voice of the Lord our God, that it may be well with us. Bible.
We wish to be happier than other people; and 5 this is almost always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. Montesquieu.
We would commend a faith that even seems audacious, like that of the sturdy Covenanter Robert Bruce, who requested, as he was dying, that his finger might be placed on one of God's strong promises, as though to challenge the Judge of all with it as he should enter his presence. Dr. Gordon.
We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings when of ourselves we publish them. All's Well, i. 3.
We wrap ourselves up in the cloak of our own better fortune, and turn away our eyes, lest the wants and woes of our brother-mortals should disturb the selfish apathy of our souls. Burns.
We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not possess. Emerson.
We'd jump the life to come. But, in these 10 cases, / We still have judgment here; that we but teach / Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return / To plague the inventor. This even-handed justice / Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice / To our own lips. Macb., i. 7.
We'll stand up for our properties, was the beggar's song, that lived upon the alms-basket. L'Estrange.
Weak eyes are precisely the fondest of glittering objects. Carlyle.
Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as under adversity; strong and deep ones have two highest tides—when the moon is at the full, and when there is no moon. Hare.
Weak persons cannot be sincere. La Roche.
Weak Virtue that amid the shade / Lamenting 15 lies, with future schemes amused, / While Wickedness and Folly, kindred powers, / Confound the world! Thomson.
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended. La Roche.
Weaknesses, so called, are neither more nor less than vice in disguise. Lavater.
Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, as frost and fire are both alien to the human flesh. Famine and gluttony alike drive nature away from the heart of man. Theodore Parker.
Wealth consists of the good, and therefore useful, things in the possession of the nation; money is only the written or coined sign of the relative quantities of wealth in each person's possession. Ruskin.
Wealth cannot purchase any great private 20 solace or convenience. Riches are only the means of sociality. Thoreau.
Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished; but he that gathereth by labour shall increase. Bible.
Wealth heaped on wealth, nor truth nor safety buys; / The dangers gather as the treasures rise. Johnson.
Wealth imparts a birdlime quality to the possessor, at which the man in his native poverty would have revolted. Burns.
Wealth implies the possession of what is of intrinsic value and of a capacity to use it. Ruskin.
Wealth is a shift. The wise man angles with 25 himself only, and with no meaner bait. Emerson.
Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it. Ben. Franklin.
Wealth is the application of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot. Emerson.
Wealth is the conjuror's devil; / Whom when he thinks he hath, the devil hath him. Herbert.
Wealth is the possession of useful articles which we can use, (so that) instead of depending merely on a "have," it is thus seen to depend on a "can." Ruskin.
Wealth leaves us at death; kinsmen at the 30 grave; but virtues of the mind unto the heavens with us we have. Lord Vaux.
Wealth makes wit waver. Sc. Pr.
Wealth maketh many friends, but the poor is separated from his neighbour. Bible.
Wealth of every species necessarily flows to the hands of him who exerteth himself. Hitopadesa.
Wealth only by its use we know. Anon.
Wealth, power, and even the advantages of 35 youth, have little to do with that which gives repose to the mind and firmness to the frame. Scott.
Wealth richer than both the Indies lies for every man, if he will endure. Not his oaks only and his fruit-trees, his very heart roots itself wherever he may abide—roots itself, draws nourishment from the deep fountains of universal being. Carlyle.
Wealth which breeds idleness, of which the English peerage is an example, and of which we are beginning to abound in specimens in this country (America), is only a sort of human oyster-bed, where heirs and heiresses are planted, to spend a contemptible life of slothfulness in growing plump and succulent for the grave-worm's banquet. Horace Mann.
Wealth without contentment climbs a hill, / To feel those tempests which fly over ditches. George Herbert.
Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one. If you are asked what o'clock it is, tell it, but do not proclaim it hourly and unasked, like the watchmen. Chesterfield.
Wearers of rings and chains! / Pray do not 40 take the pains / To set me right. / In vain my faults ye quote; / I write as others wrote / On Sunium's height. Landor.
Weariness / Can snore upon the flint, when resty sloth / Finds the down pillow hard. Cymbeline, iii. 6.
Weary the path that does not challenge reason. Doubt is an incentive to truth, and patient inquiry leadeth the way. H. Ballou.
Weave in faith and God will find thread. Pr.
Weder sicher noch gerathen ist, etwas wider Gewissen zu thun. Hier stehe ich, ich kann nicht anders. Gott helfe mir—It is neither safe nor prudent to do aught against conscience. Here stand I, I cannot do otherwise. God be helping me. Luther at the Diet of Worms.
Wedlock, indeed, hath oft compared been / To publick feasts, where meet a publick rout: / When they that are without would fain go in, / And they that are within would fain go out. Sir J. Davis.
Wedlock is like a besieged fortress: those who are outside wish to get in, and those who are inside wish to get out. Arab. Pr.
Wee modest crimson-tipped flower, / Thou's 5 met me in an evil hour; / For I maun crush amang the stour / Thy slender stem; / To spare thee now is past my power, / Thou bonny gem. Burns.
Wee Willie Winkie rins through the toun, / Upstairs and dounstairs, in his nicht-goun, / Tirlin' at the window, cryin' at the lock, / "Are the weans in their bed? for it's noo ten o'clock." William Miller.
Weed your better judgments / Of all opinion that grows rank in them. As You Like It, ii. 7.
Weeds make dunghills gracious. Tennyson.
Weel is that weel does. Sc. Pr.
Weep no more, lady, weep no more. / For 10 sorrow is in vain; / For violets pluck'd, the sweetest showers / Will ne'er revive again. Anon.
Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. Bible.
Weh dem Lande, wo man nicht mehr singt—Woe to the land where the voice of song has gone dumb. Seume.
Weigh not so much what men say, as what they prove: remembering that truth is simple and naked, and needs not invective to apparel her comeliness. Sir P. Sidney.
Weighty things are done in solitude, that is, without society. The means of improvement consist not in projects, or in any violent designs, for these cool, and cool very soon, but in patient practising for whole long days, by which I make the thing clear to my highest reason. Jean Paul.
Weighty work must be done with few words. 15 Dan. Pr.
Weise Hut, / Behält ihr Gut—Wise care keeps what it has gained. Ger. Pr.
Weise sein ist nicht allzeit gut—It is not always good to be wise. Ger. Pr.
Weiser Mann, starker Mann—A wise man is a strong man. Ger. Pr.
Weisheit, du wirst Unsinn / Im Mund des Schwärmers—Wisdom, thou changest into folly in the mouth of the fanatic. Otto Ludwig.
Welch Glück geliebt zu werden: / Und lieben, 20 Götter, welch ein Glück!—What a happiness to be loved! and to love, ye gods, what bliss! Goethe.
Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. Emerson.
Welcome is the best cheer. Pr.
Welcome, Misfortune, if thou comest alone. Pr.
Well at ease are the sleepers for whom existence is a shallow dream. Carlyle.
Well for the drones of the social hive that there 25 are bees of an industrious turn, willing, for an infinitesimal share of the honey, to undertake the labour of its fabrication. Hood.
Well has Ennius said, "Kindnesses misplaced are nothing but a curse and disservice." Cic.
Well-married, a man is winged; ill-matched, he is shackled. Ward Beecher.
Well roared, lion. Mid. N.'s Dream, v. 1.
Well thriveth that well suffereth. Pr.
Well to work and make a fire, / Doth both 30 care and skill require. Pr.
Well, well, is a word of malice. Cheshire Pr.
Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, / And say, there is no sin but to be rich; / And being rich, my virtue then shall be, / To say, there is no vice but beggary. King John, ii. 2.
Well, you may fear too far.—/ Safer than trust too far. King Lear, i. 4.
Wem nicht zu rathen ist, dem ist auch nicht zu helfen—Who will not be advised, cannot be helped. Ger. Pr.
Wen die Natur zum Dichter schuf, den lehrt 35 sie auch zu paaren / Das Schöne mit dem Kräftigen, das Neue mit dem Wahren—Him whom Nature hast created for a poet, she also teaches to combine the beautiful with the powerful, and the new with the true. Platen.
Wen Gott niederschlägt, der richtet sich selbst nicht auf—He raises not himself up again whom God smites down. Goethe.
Wen jemand lobt, dem stellt er sich gleich—Every one puts himself on a level with him whom he praises. Goethe.
Wenn alle untreu werden, / So bleib' ich dir doch treu—Though all deny thee, yet will not I ever. Novalis.
Wenn das Geld im Kasten klingt, / Die Seele aus dem Fegfeuer springt—As soon as the money jingles in the box, the soul leaps out of purgatory. Sallet after Tetzel.
Wenn das Glück anpocht, soll man ihm aufthun—When 40 fortune knocks, open the door. Ger. Pr.
Wenn das Leblose lebendig ist, so kann es auch wohl Lebendiges hervorbringen—When what is lifeless has life, it can also produce what has life. Goethe.
Wenn der Purpur fällt, muss auch der Herzog nach—If the purple goes, the duke must follow. Schiller.
Wenn du eine weise Antwort verlangst, / Musst du vernünftig fragen—If thou desirest a wise answer, thou must ask a reasonable question. Goethe.
Wenn du nicht irrst, kommst du nicht zu Verstand—If thou dost not err, thou doest not come to understand. Goethe.
Wenn ein Edler gegen dich fehlt, / So thu' als 45 hättest du's nicht gezählt; / Er wird es in sein Schuldbuch schreiben / Und dir nicht lange im Debet bleiben—If a noble man has done thee a wrong, act as though thou hadst taken no note of it; he will write it in his ledger, and not remain long in thy debt. Goethe.
Wenn Gott sagt: Heute, sagt der Teufel: Morgen—When God says "To-day," the devil says "To-morrow." Ger. Pr.
Wenn ihr's nicht fühlt, ihr werdet's nicht erjagen—If you do not feel it, you will not get it by hunting for it. Goethe.
Wenn man von den Leuten Pflichten fordert und ihnen keine Rechte zugestehen will, muss man sie gut bezahlen—When we exact duties from people and acknowledge no just claims they may have on us, we ought to pay them well. Goethe.
Wenn man was Böses thut, erschrickt man vor dem Bösen—When people do evil, they are afraid of the Evil One. Goethe.
Wenn mancher Mann wüsste, / Wer mancher Mann wär', / Thät' mancher Mann manchem Mann / Manchmal mehr Ehr'—If many a man knew who many a man was, many a man would do many a time more honour to many a man. Ger. Pr.
Wenn Moses nicht bei Aaron ist, so macht Aaron—Kälber—If Moses is not with Aaron, then Aaron makes him—calves. Frederick the Great.
Wenn sich der Verirrte findet / Freuen alle 5 Götter sich—When the wanderer finds his way again, all the gods rejoice. Goethe.
Wer allen alles traut, dem kann man wenig trauen—Him who trusts everything to every one, we can trust with little. Lessing.
Wer darf das Kind beim rechten Namen nennen?—Who dare name the child by his right name? Goethe.
Wer darf ihn nennen?—Who dare name Him? Goethe.
Wer den Tod fürchtet, hat das Leben verloren—He who fears death is forfeit of life. Seume.
Wer der Dichtkunst Stimme nicht vernimmt, / 10 Ist ein Barbar, er sei auch wer er sei—He who has no ear for the voice of poesy is a barbarian, be he who he may. Goethe.
Wer der Vorderste ist, führt die Herde—The foremost leads the herd. Schiller.
Wer die Leiter hinauf will, muss bei der untersten Sprosse schon beginnen—He who would mount a ladder must begin at the lowest step. Ger. Pr.
Wer die Wahrheit kennet und saget sie nicht, / Der bleibt fürwahr ein erbärmlicher Wicht—Verily, he is a wretched creature who knows the truth and speaks it not. Binzer.
Wer dir als Freund nichts nützen kann / Kann allemal als Feind dir schaden—He who can do you no service as a friend, can always work you harm as an enemy. Gellert.
Wer edel ist, den suchet die Gefahr / Und er 15 sucht sie, sie müssen sich treffen—Whoso is noble, danger courts him, and he courts danger; so the two are sure to meet. Goethe.
Wer erst klug wird nach der That, / Braucht seine Weisheit viel zu spat—He who is wise only after the deed, uses his wisdom much too late. Rollenhagen.
Wer fertig ist, dem ist nichts recht zu machen; / Ein Werdender wird immer dankbar sein—To him who is finished off, nothing you can do is right; a growing man (a learner) will be always thankful. Goethe.
Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eignen—He who knows not foreign languages knows nothing of his own. Goethe.
Wer fröhlich sein will sein Lebenlang / Lasse der Welt ihren tollen Gang—He who will be happy through life must leave the world alone in its own mad career. Rückert.
Wer ist der Weiseste? Der nichts anders 20 weiss und will, als das was begegnet—Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows nor wishes for anything else than what happens. Goethe.
Wer ist ein unbrauchbarer Man? Der nicht befehlen und auch nicht gehorchen kann—Who is a good-for-nothing? He who can neither command nor even obey. Goethe.
Wer ist grösser, Schiller, Goethe? / Wie man nur so mäkeln mag! / Himmlisch ist die Morgenröte, / Himmlisch ist der helle Tag—Which is greater, Schiller or Goethe? One is, or the other is, as you judge of them. Of heaven is the red dawn of morning; of heaven the clear light of day. Bauernfeld.
Wer ist mächtiger als der Tod? / Wer da kann lachen, wenn er droht—Who is mightier than death? He who can smile when death threatens. Rückert.
Wer kann was Dummes, wer was Kluges denken, / Das nicht die Vorwelt schon gedacht?—Who can think anything stupid or sensible that the world has not thought already? Goethe.
Wer lange bedenkt, der wählt nicht immer 25 das Beste—He who is long in making up his mind does not always choose the best. Goethe.
Wer lügt, der stiehlt—He who lies, steals. Ger. Pr.
Wer mit sich selber eins, ist eins mit Gott—He who is one with himself is one with God. Bodenstedt.
Wer nicht Bitteres gekostet hat, weiss nicht was süss ist—He who has not tasted bitter does not know what sweet is. Ger. Pr.
Wer nicht hören will, der muss fühlen—He that will not hear must be made to feel. Ger. Pr.
Wer nicht liebt Wein, Weib und Gesang / 30 Der bleibt ein Narr sein Lebenlang—Who loves not wine, woman, and song, remains a fool all his life long. Luther. (?)
Wer nichts für andre thut, thut nichts für sich—He who does nothing for others does nothing for himself. Goethe.
Wer nichts fürchtet, ist nicht weniger mächtiger, als der, den alles fürchtet—He who fears nothing is not less mighty than he whom everything fears. Schiller.
Wer nie sein Brod mit Thränen ass, / Wer nicht die kummervollen Nächte / Auf seinem Bette weinend sass / Der kennt euch nicht, ihr himmlischen Mächte—He who never ate his bread with tears, who sat not on his bed through sorrowful nights weeping, he knows you not, ye heavenly Powers. Goethe.
Wer oft schiesst, trifft endlich—He who shoots often, hits the mark at last. Ger. Pr.
Wer sein eigener Lehrmeister sein will, hat 35 einen Narren zum Schüler—He who undertakes to be his own teacher has a fool for a pupil. Ger. Pr.
Wer sich behaglich fühlt zu Haus, / Der rennt nicht in die Welt hinaus; / Weltunzufriedenheit beweisen / Die vielen Weltentdeckungsreisen—He who feels at ease at home, runs not out into the world beyond. The many voyages of discovery over the world argue a world-wide discontent. Rückert.
Wer will, der vermag—He is able who is willing. Ger. Pr.
Wer will was Lebendig's erkennen und beschreiben / Sucht erst den Geist herauszutreiben, / Dann hat er die Teile in seiner Hand, / Fehlt leider, nur das geistige Band—He who would know and describe anything living, sets himself to drive out the spirit first; he has then all the parts in his hand, only unhappily the living bond is wanting. Goethe, Mephisto in "Faust."
Wer wohl sitzt, der rücke nicht—Let him who is well seated not stir. Ger. Pr.
Were a man of pleasure to arrive at the full extent of his several wishes, he must immediately feel himself miserable. Shenstone.
Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated with songs of triumph. Carlyle.
Were I a steam-engine, wouldst thou take the trouble to tell lies of me? Carlyle.
Were I so tall to reach the pole / Or grasp 5 the ocean with my span, / I must be measured by my soul: / The mind's the standard of the man. Watts.
Were it no for hope the heart wad break. Sc. Pr.
Were it not miraculous, could I stretch forth my hand and clutch the sun? Dost thou not see that the true inexplicable God-revealing miracle lies in this, that I can stretch forth my hand at all, that I have free force to clutch aught therewith? Carlyle.
Were man / But constant, he were perfect. Two Gent. of Verona, v. 4.
Were man not a poor hungry dastard, and even much of a blockhead withal, he would cease criticising his victuals to such extent, and criticise himself rather, what he does with his victuals. Carlyle.
Were one to preach a sermon on Health, as 10 really were worth doing, Scott ought to be the text. Carlyle.
Were the eye not sun-related (sonnenhaft), it could never see the sun; were there not in us divine affinities, how could the divine so ravish us? Goethe.
"Were there as many devils in Worms as there are roof-tiles, I would on." Luther's answer to his friends who pled with him not to go.
Were there but one man in the world, he would be a terror to himself; and the highest man not less so than the lowest. Carlyle.
Were we as eloquent as angels, we would please some men, some women, and some children much more by listening than by talking. Colton.
Were we to take as much pains to be what we 15 ought to be as we do to disguise what we really are, we might appear like ourselves, without being at the trouble of any disguise at all. La Roche.
Were wisdom given me with this reservation, that I should keep it shut up within myself and not impart it, I would spurn it. Sen.
Were wisdom to be sold, she would give no price; every man is satisfied with the share he has from nature. Henry Home.
Westward the course of empire takes its way. Berkeley.
What a blessed thing it is that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left! Holmes.
What a delight to have a husband beside you, 20 were it only to salute you when you sneeze, and say "God bless you!" Molière.
What a dismal, debasing, and confusing element is that of a sick body on the human soul or thinking part! Carlyle.
What a fool is he who locks his door to keep out spirits, who has in his own bosom a spirit he dares not meet alone; whose voice, smothered far down, and piled over with mountains of earthliness, is yet like the forewarning trumpet of doom! Mrs. Stowe.
What a force of illusion begins life with us, and attends us to the end! Emerson.
What a heavy burden is a name that has become too soon famous! Voltaire.
What a hell of witchcraft lies in the small orb 25 of one particular tear! Shakespeare.
What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life by him who interests his heart in everything. Sterne.
What a man can do is his greatest ornament, and he always consults his dignity by doing it. Carlyle.
What a man does not believe can never at bottom be of any true interest to him. Carlyle.
What a man does, that he has. Emerson.
What a man does, that he is. Hegel. 30
What a man finds good of, and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health. Bacon.
What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how others regard him. Schopenhauer.
What a man is irresistibly urged to say, helps him and us. Emerson.
What a man wills, not what he knows, determines his worth or unworth, his power or impotence, his happiness or unhappiness. Lindner.
What a miserable world!—trouble if we love, 35 and trouble if we do not love. Count de Maistre.
What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an angel! In apprehension how like a God! Ham., ii. 2.
What a poor creature is the woman who, inspiring desire, does not also inspire love and reverence! Goethe.
What a road had human nature to traverse before it reached the point of being mild to the guilty, merciful to the injurious, and humane to the inhuman! Doubtless they were men of godlike souls who first taught this, who spent their lives in rendering the practice of this possible, and recommending it to others. Goethe.
What a sense of security is in an old book which Time has criticised for us! Lowell.
What a strange thing man is! and what a 40 stranger / Is woman! Byron.
What a thin film it is that divides the living from the dead! Carlyle.
What a vanity is painting, which attracts admiration by the resemblance of things that in the original we do not admire! Pascal.
What a view a man must have of this universe who thinks he can swallow it all, who is not doubly and trebly happy that he can keep it from swallowing him! Carlyle.
What a wretched thing is all fame! A renown of the highest sort endures, say for two thousand years. And then? Why then a fathomless eternity swallows it. Carlyle.
What actually constitutes the human element 45 in man is a kindly spirit. Schiller.
What an enormous camera obscura magnifier is Tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory, in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart is there to encourage it! Carlyle.
What an inaccessible stronghold that man possesses who is always in earnest with himself and the things around him! Goethe.
What are all our histories but God manifesting himself, that he hath shaken, and tumbled down, and trampled upon everything that he hath not planted! Oliver Cromwell.
What are all prayers beneath / But cries of babes, that cannot know / Half the deep thought they breathe? Keble.
What are men better than sheep or goats, / 5 That nourish a blind life within the brain, / If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer / Both for themselves and those who call them friend? Tennyson.
What are the outward details of a life, if the inner secret of it, the remorse, temptations, true, often-baffled, never-ended struggle of it, be forgotten? Details by themselves will never teach us what it is. Carlyle.
What are we great ones on the wave of humanity? We think we rule it when it rules us, and drives us up and down, hither and thither, as it listeth. Goethe.
What are words but empty sounds, that break and scatter in the air, and make no real impression? Thomas à Kempis.
What are your axioms, and categories, and systems, and aphorisms? Words, words. High air-castles are cunningly built of words, the words well bedded in good logic-mortar; wherein, however, no knowledge will come to lodge. Carlyle.
What Art had Homer? what Art had Shakespeare? 10 Patient, docile, valiant intelligence, conscious and unconscious, gathered from all winds, of these two things—their own faculty of utterance, and the audience they had to utter to; add only to which, as the soul of the whole, a blazing, radiant insight into the fact, blazing, burning interest about it, and we have the whole Art of Shakespeare and Homer. Carlyle.
What art was to the ancient world, science is to the modern. Disraeli.
What avail the largest gifts of Heaven, / When drooping health and spirits go amiss? / How tasteless then whatever can be given! / Health is the vital principle of bliss, / And exercise of health. Thomson.
What avails a superfluity of freedom which we cannot use? Goethe.
What avails the dram of brandy while it swims chemically united with its barrel of wort? Let the distiller pass it and repass it through his limbecs; for it is the drops of pure alcohol we want, not the gallons of water, which may be had in every ditch. Carlyle.
What belongs to everybody belongs to nobody. 15 Pr.
What better time for driving, riding, walking, moving through the air by any means, than a fresh, frosty morning, when hope runs cheerily through the veins with the brisk blood and tingles in the frame from head to foot? Dickens.
What bitter pills, / Compos'd of real ills, / Men swallow down to purchase one false good. Quarles.
What boots it at one gate to make defence, / And at another to let in the foe? Milton.
What boots the hero-arm without a hero-eye? Jean Paul.
What built St. Paul's Cathedral? Look at 20 the heart of the matter, it was that divine Hebrew Book, the word partly of the man Moses, an outlaw tending his Midianitish herds four thousand years ago in the wildernesses of Sinai! Carlyle.
What by straight path cannot be reached, / By crooked ways is never won. Goethe.
What can be done, you must do for yourself. Johnson.
What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? / Alas! not all the blood of all the Howards. Pope.
What can Fate devise to vanquish Love? Lewis Morris.
What can they see in the longest kingly line 25 in Europe, save that it runs back to a successful soldier? Scott.
What can we reason, but from what we know? Pope.
What cannot be abused is good for nothing. Niebuhr.
What cannot be avoided, / 'Twere childish weakness to lament or fear. 3 Hen. VI., v. 4.
What cannot be eschew'd must be embraced. Merry Wives, v. 4.
What can't be cured must be endured. Burton. 30
What care I for words? yet words do well / When he that speaks them pleases those that hear. As You Like It, iii. 5.
What cares any man for appearances except as signs of what otherwise he cannot see? Ed.
"What cheer? Brother, quickly tell." / "Above"—"Below." "Good-night"—"All's well." Dibdin.
What chiefly distinguishes great artists from feeble artists is first their sensibility and tenderness; secondly, their imagination; and thirdly, their industry. Ruskin.
What comes from God to us, returns from 35 us to God. (?)
What comes from the heart goes to the heart. Pr.
What constitutes a state?... Men who their duties know, / But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain. Sir William Jones.
What devilry soever kings do, the Greeks must pay the piper. Pr.
What dire offence from amorous causes springs! / What mighty contests rise from trivial things! Pope.
What distinguishes Christianity from all monotheistic religions lies in nothing else than in a making-dead to the law, the removal of the Kantian imperative; instead of which Christianity requires a free inclination. Schiller.
What divine, what truly great thing has ever been effected by force of public opinion? Carlyle.
What do I gain from a man into whose eyes I cannot look when he is speaking, and the mirror of whose soul is veiled to me by a pair of glasses which dazzle me? Goethe.
What do you mean by composing tragedies, when Tragedy in person stalks every street? (?)
What does competency in the long-run mean? It means, to all reasonable beings, cleanliness of person, decency of dress, courtesy of manners, opportunities for education, the delights of leisure, and the bliss of giving. Whipple.
Wha' does the utmost that he can, / Will whyles (sometimes) do mair. Burns.
What doth cherish weeds, but gentle air? / And what makes robbers bold, but too much lenity? 3 Hen. VI., ii. 6.
What doth the Lord require of thee, but to do 5 justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Bible.
What exile from himself can flee? Byron.
What fates impose, that men must needs abide; / It boots not to resist both wind and tide. 3 Hen. VI., iv. 3.
What! fly from love? vain hope: there's no retreat, / When he has wings and I have only feet. Archias.
What glitters is for the moment; the genuine is for all time. Goethe.
What God does all day is not to sit waiting 10 in churches for people to come and worship him. Prof. Drummond.
What God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. Jesus.
What God makes he never mars. Pr.
What good I see humbly I seek to do, / And live obedient to the law, in trust / That what will come, and must come, shall come well. Sir Edwin Arnold.
What governs men is the fear of truth, except such as is useful to them. Amiel.
What great thing ever happened in this 15 world, a world understood always to be made and governed by wisdom, without meaning somewhat? Carlyle.
What gunpowder did for war, the printing-press has done for the mind; and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel of special education, but every reading man is his judge. Wendell Phillips.
What hands build, hands can pull down. Schiller.
What has been, may be; and what may be, may be supposed to be. Swift.
What has been written, as well as what has been actually done, shrivels up and ceases to be worth anything, until it has again been taken up into life, been again felt, thought, and acted upon. Goethe.
What has never anywhere come to pass, that 20 alone never grows old. Schiller.
What has posterity done for us / That we, lest they their rights should lose, / Should trust our necks to gripe of noose? John Trumbull.
What hath he to do with a soul who doth not keep his passions in subjection? Hitopadesa.
What have I to do,... either with your amusements or your pleasures, unless it was in my power to increase their measure? Sterne.
What have kings that privates have not too, / Save ceremony, save general ceremony? Hen. V., iv. 1.
What have not you men to answer for who 25 talk of love to a woman when her face is all you know of her, and her passions, her aspirations, are for kissing to sleep, her very soul a plaything? J. M. Barrie.
What he greatly thought, he nobly dared. Pope.
What house more stately hath there been, / Or can be, than is Man? George Herbert.
What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud. Hare.
What I cannot praise I speak not of. Goethe.
What I for many a day wished, life has not 30 granted me, but it has instead taught me this, that my wish was a foolish one. Geibel.
What I gave, that I have; / What I spent, that I had; / What I left, that I lost. Epitaph inscribed on the tomb of Robert of Doncaster.
What I have written, I have written. Pilate of the legend he wrote over the Cross.
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. Emerson.
What I object to is, not the poetry of sadness, but the sadness of poetry. Many of the poets make out the fountain of poetry to be only a fountain of tears. Bovee.
What, indeed, is man's life generally but a 35 kind of beast-godhood; the god in us triumphing more and more over the beast; striving more and more to subdue it under his feet? Carlyle.
What is a foreign country to those who have science? Hitopadesa.
What is a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands? George Eliot.
What is a man, / If his chief good and market of his time, / Be but to sleep, and feed? A beast, no more. Ham., iv. 4.
What is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul? Jesus.
What is against Nature is against God. 40 Hebbel.
What is all working, what is all knowing, but a faint interpreting, and a faint showing forth of the mystery, which ever remains infinite? Carlyle.
What, is any one, simply by birth, to be punished or applauded? Hitopadesa.
What is aught but as 'tis valued? Troil. and Cress., ii. 2.
What is barely necessary cannot be dispensed with. Goldsmith.
What is becoming is honourable, and what is 45 honourable is becoming. Cic.
What is beneath me floors me; what is on a level with me bores me; only what is above me supports and lifts me above myself. Anon.
What is bought is cheaper than a gift. Pr.
What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh. Pr.
What is called the spirit of the times is at bottom but the spirit of the gentlemen in which the times are mirrored. Goethe.
What is cheapest to you now is likely to be 50 dearest in the end. Ruskin.
What is chiefly needed in the England of the present day is to show the quantity of pleasure that may be obtained by a consistent, well-administered competence, modest, confessed, and laborious. Ruskin.
What is difficulty? Only a word indicating the degree of strength requisite for accomplishing particular objects; a mere notice of the necessity for exertion; a bugbear to children and fools; only a mere stimulus to men. Samuel Warren.
What is distance to the indefatigable? Hitopadesa.
What is done by night appears by day. Pr.
What is done for those who have not their 5 passions in subjection, is like washing the elephant (i.e., washing the blackamoor white). Hitopadesa.
What is done in a hurry is never done well. Pr.
What is done is done; has already blended itself with the boundless, ever-living, ever-working universe, and will also work there, for good or evil, openly or secretly, through all time. Carlyle.
What is everybody's business is nobody's business. Izaak Walton.
What is excellent should never be carped at nor discussed, but enjoyed and reverentially thought over in silence. Goethe.
What is extraordinary try to look at with your 10 own eyes. Old maxim.
What is false taste but want of perception to discern propriety and distinguish beauty? Goldsmith.
What is generally accepted as virtue in women is very different from what is thought so in men: a very good woman would make but a paltry man. Pope.
What is generally considered true amounts to much the same as if it were actually true. Cötvös.
What is genius or courage without a heart? Goldsmith.
What is genuine but that which is truly excellent, 15 which stands in harmony with the purest nature or reason, and which even now ministers to our highest development! What is spurious but the absurd and the hollow, which brings no fruit—at least, no good fruit. Goethe.
What is gray with age becomes religion. Schiller.
What is happiness? To animals in this world, health. Hitopadesa.
What is important is to have a soul which loves truth, and receives it wherever it finds it. Goethe.
What is in will out. Emerson.
What is it (thy protest against the devil) properly 20 but an altercation with him before you begin honestly fighting with him? Carlyle.
What is it that keeps men in continual discontent and agitation? It is that they cannot make realities correspond with their conceptions, that enjoyment steals away from among their hands, that the wished-for comes too late, and nothing reached and acquired produces on the heart the effect which their longing for it at a distance led them to anticipate. Goethe.
What is justice but another form of the reality we love—a truth acted out? Carlyle.
What is kindness? A principle in the good. Hitopadesa.
What is known to three is known to everybody. Pr.
What is learned in the cradle is carried to the 25 tomb. Pr.
What is life but the choice of that good which contains the least of evil! B. R. Haydon.
What is life except the knitting up of incoherences into coherence? Carlyle.
What is man but a symbol of God, and all that he does, if not symbolical, a revelation to sense of the mystic God-given force that is in him? Carlyle.
What is man, / If his chief good, and market of his time, / Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no man. Ham., iv. 4.
What is mine, even to my life, is hers I love; 30 but the secret of my friend is not mine! Sir P. Sidney.
What is modesty, if it deserts from truth? Johnson.
What is more at ease, more abstracted from the world, than a true single-hearted honesty? Thomas à Kempis.
What is much desired is not believed when it comes. Sp. Pr.
What is my life if I am no longer to be of use to others? Goethe.
What is nearest is often unattainably far off. 35 Goethe.
What is nearest us touches us most. Johnson.
What is new finds better acceptance than what is good or great. Denham.
What is noble?—That which places / Truth in its enfranchised will, / Leaving steps, like angel-traces, / That mankind may follow still! C. Swain.
What is not allotted the hand cannot reach, and what is allotted will find you wherever you may be. Saadi.
What is not sung is properly no poem, but a 40 piece of prose cramped into jingling lines,—to the great injury of the grammar, to the great grief of the reader, for the most part! Carlyle.
What is not to be, that is not to be; if it be to come to pass, it cannot be otherwise. This reasoning is an antidote. Why doth not the afflicted one drink of it? Hitopadesa.
What is not true has this advantage that it can be eternally talked about; whereas about truth there is an urgency that cries out for its application, for otherwise it has no right to be there. Goethe.
What is not worth reading more than once is not worth reading at all. C. J. Weber.
What is now called the nature of women is an eminently artificial thing—the result of forced repression in some directions, unnatural stimulation in others. J. S. Mill.
What is obvious is not always known, and what 45 is known is not always present. Johnson.
What is of the earth has no permanence; our hearts yearn after a better land. H. A. Hoffmann.
What is often termed shyness is nothing more than refined sense, and an indifference to common observations. (?)
What is our life but an endless flight of winged facts or events? Emerson.
What is past is past. There is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone. Bulwer Lytton.
What is philosophy? An entire separation from the world. Hitopadesa.
What is reason now was passion formerly. Ovid.
What is religion? Compassion for all things 5 that have life. Hitopadesa.
What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. Pr.
What is specially true of love is, that it is a state of extreme impressionability; the lover has more senses and finer senses than others; his eye and ear are telegraphs; he reads omens in the flower and cloud and face and form and gesture, and reads them aright. Emerson.
What is strength without a double share / Of wisdom? vast, unwieldy, burdensome, / Proudly secure, yet liable to fall / By weakest subtleties; not made to rule, / But to subserve where wisdom bears command. Milton.
What is the adored Supreme Perfection, say?—/ What, but eternal never-resting soul, / Almighty power, and all-directing day; / By whom each atom stirs, the planets roll; / Who fills, surrounds, informs, and agitates the whole. Thomson.
What is the best government? That which 10 teaches us to govern ourselves. Goethe.
What is the best in the world? Healthy blood, sinews of steel, and strong nerves. Auerbach.
What is the body when the head is off? 3 Hen. VI., v. 1.
What is the city but the people? True, the people are the city. Coriolanus, iii. 1.
What is the elevation of the soul? A prompt, delicate, certain feeling for all that is beautiful, all that is grand; a quick resolution to do the greatest good by the smallest means; a great benevolence joined to a great strength and great humility. Lavater.
What is the good of fear? The whole solar 15 system were it to fall together about our ears could kill us only once. Carlyle.
What is the highest secret of victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny. W. R. Alger.
What is the majority? Majority is nonsense (Unsinn). Understanding has always been only with the minority. Schiller.
What is the true test of character, unless it be its progressive development in the bustle and turmoil, in the action and reaction, of daily life? Goethe.
What is the use of a lamp to a blind man, although it be burning in his hand? Hitopadesa.
What is the use of health or of life, if not to 20 do some work therewith? Carlyle.
What is the voice of song, when the world lacks the ear of taste? Hawthorne.
What is there good in us if it is not the power and inclination to appropriate to ourselves the resources of the outward world, and to make them subservient to our higher ends? Goethe.
What! is there no bribing death? Last words of Cardinal Beaufort.
What is this day's strong suggestion? / "The passing moment's all we rest on!" Burns.
What is this life of ours? Gone in a moment, 25 burnt up like a scroll, into the blank eternity. Carlyle interpreting young Luther's reflexion on the sudden death by his side of his friend Alexis.
What is too great a load for those who have strength? Hitopadesa.
What is truth? Pilate scoffingly to Jesus.
What is twice read is commonly better remembered than what is transcribed. Johnson.
What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable. D. Webster.
"What is wanting," said Napoleon one day to 30 Madame Campan, "in order that the youth of France be well educated?" "Good mothers," was the reply. The Emperor was most forcibly struck with this answer. "Here," said he, "is a system in one word." Abbott.
What is writ is writ. Byron.
What joy a self-sufficing fortune yields, / Such modest livelihood is dear to me. The wise old maxim, "Not too much," / Too much has power my heart to touch. Alpheus of Mitylene.
What life only half imparts to man, posterity shall give entirely. Goethe.
What love can do, that dares love attempt. Rom. and Jul., ii. 2.
What love hides is raised as from the dead / 35 Some day, and kills the love which covered it, / And frankest truth is more than subtle wit. Dr. Walter Smith.
What makes all doctrines plain and clear? / About two hundred pounds a year. / And that which was prov'd true before / Prove false again, two hundred more. Butler.
What makes life dreary is the want of motive. George Eliot.
What makes lovers never tire of each others' society is that they talk always about themselves. La Roche.
What makes many so discontented with their own condition is the absurd estimate they form of the happiness of others. Fr. (?)
What makes old age so sad is, not that our 40 joys, but that our hopes then cease. Jean Paul.
What makes people discontented with their condition is the chimerical idea they conceive of the happiness of others. Thomson.
What makes vanity so insufferable to us is that it wounds our own. La Roche.
What man dare do, in circumstances of danger, an Englishman will. His virtues seem to sleep in the calm, and are called out only to combat the kindred storm. Goldsmith.
What man dare, I dare. Macb., iii. 4.
What man didst thou ever know unthrift, that 45 was beloved after his means? Timon of Athens, iv. 3.
What man has done, man can do. Emerson.
What man wants is always that the highest in his nature be set at the top and actively reign there. Carlyle.
What matter though I doubt at every pore... / If finally I have a life to show, / The thing I did, brought out in evidence / Against the thing done to me underground / By hell and all its brood, for aught I know? Browning.
What matters it though the Gospels contradict each other if the Gospel does not contradict itself? Goethe.
What matters it whether the alphabet (by which you are to spell out the meaning of life) be in large gilt letters or in small ungilt ones, so you have an eye to read it? Carlyle.
What may be dune at ony time will be dune at 5 nae time. Sc. Pr.
What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral. (?)
What men usually say of misfortunes, that they never come alone, may with equal truth be said of good fortune; nay, of other circumstances which gather round us in a harmonious way, whether it arise from a kind of fatality, or that man has the power of attracting to himself things that are mutually related. Goethe.
What men want is not talent; it is purpose. Bulwer Lytton.
What millions died that Cæsar might be great! Campbell.
What must be, shall be. Rom. and Jul., iv. 1. 10
What Nature does not reveal to thy spirit, thou wilt not wrench from her with levers and screws. Goethe.
What need the bridge much broader than the flood? The fairest grant is the necessity; look, what will serve is fit. Much Ado, i. 1.
What need we have any friends, if we should never have need of them? Timon of Athens, i. 2.
What needs my Shakespeare for his honour'd bones? Milton.
What of books? Hast thou not already a Bible 15 to write and publish in print that is eternal, namely, a Life to lead? Carlyle.
What once were vices are now the manners of the day. Sen.
What people call her (England's) history is not hers at all; but that of her kings (though the history of them is worth reading), or the tax-gatherers employed by them, which is as if people were to call Mr. Gladstone's history or Mr. Lowe's, yours or mine. Ruskin.
What perils on a woman's life may throng, / Sitting lonely with her thoughts, that chafe and murmur like the surf! Dr. Walter Smith.
What persons are by starts, they are by nature. You see them at such times off their guard. Habit may restrain vice, and virtue may be obscured by passion, but intervals best discover the man. Sterne.
What profit is it for men now to live in heaviness, 20 and after death to look for punishment? Apocrypha.
What proves the hero truly great, / Is never, never to despair. Thomson.
What quite infinite worth lies in Truth! how all-pervading, omnipotent, in man's mind is the thing we name Belief! Carlyle.
What rage for fame attends both great and small! / Better be damned than mentioned not at all. John Wolcot.
What rein can hold licentious wickedness / When down the hill he holds his fierce career? Hen. V., iii. 3.
What religion do I profess! None of all you 25 name to me. Why none? Out of respect to religion. Schiller.
What right have you, O passer-by-the-way, to call any flower a weed? Do you know its merits, its virtues, its healing qualities? Because a thing is common, shall you despise it? If so, you might despise the sunshine for the same reason. Anon.
What rights are his that dare not strike for them? Tennyson.
"What says Lord Warwick? Shall we after them?" "After them! Nay, before them if we can." 2 Hen. VI., v. 3.
What shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue! Burke.
What shall be, shall be—that is all; / To one 30 great Will we stand and fall, / "The Scheme hath need"—we ask not why, / And in this faith we live or die. Lewis Morris.
What shapest thou here at the world; 'Tis shapen long ago; / The Maker shaped it, He thought it best even so. / Thy lot is appointed, go follow its hest; / Thy journey's begun, thou must move and not rest; / For sorrow and care cannot alter thy case, / And running, not raging, will win thee the race. Goethe.
What signifies the life o' man / An' twerna for the lasses, O? Burns.
What signifies the loss of a Hercules even to the loss of an idea? Ed.
What signifies your gear? / A mind that's scrimpit never wants some care. Allan Ramsay.
What should a wise man do if he is given a 35 blow? What Cato did when some one struck him on the mouth;—not fire up or revenge the insult, or even return the blow, but simply ignore it. Sen.
What skills it if a bag of stones or gold / About thy neck do drown thee? Raise thy head; / Take stars for money; stars not to be told / By any art, yet to be purchased. George Herbert.
What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted! 2 Hen. VI., iii. 2.
What the eye does not admire, / The heart does not desire. Pr.
What the eye don't see, the heart don't grieve. Pr.
What the fool does in the end, the wise man 40 does at the beginning. It. Pr.
What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose. Ward Beecher.
What the heart or the imagination dictates always flows readily; but where there is no subject to warm or interest these, constraint appears. Blair.
What the light of your mind pronounces incredible, that, in God's name, leave uncredited. Carlyle.
What the Maker sends us remains mysteriously with us after the bearer of it is dead and gone; and we, as we "mourn over, long for, and love distant and departed" goodness, are more embraced and possessed by it than we were when it was present with us only in the flesh, and we could look upon it and handle it. Ed.
What the poet has to cultivate above all things is love and truth;—what he has to avoid, like poison, is the fleeting and the false. Leigh Hunt.
What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action. Wendell Phillips.
What the universe was thought to be in Judea and other places, this may be very interesting to know; what it is in England here where we live and have our work to do, that is the interesting point. Carlyle.
What thou seest is not there on its own 5 account, strictly taken, is not there at all. Carlyle.
What though care killed a cat: thou hast mettle enough in thee to kill care. Much Ado, v. 1.
What though on hamely fare we dine, / Wear hodden gray, and a' that? / Gie fools their silk, and knaves their wine, / A man's a man for a' that. Burns.
What though our songs to wit have no pretence, / The fiddlestick shall scrape them into sense. (?)
What though success will not attend on all! / Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall. Smollett.
What though the field be lost? / All is not 10 lost; th' unconquerable will, / And study of revenge, immortal hate, / And courage never to submit or yield. Milton.
What though the foot be shackled; the heart is free. Goethe.
What, though thou wert rich and of high esteem, dost thou yield to sorrow because of thy loss of fortune? Hitopadesa.
What tragic wastes of gloom / Curtain the soul that strives and sins below! R. Garnet.
What trifling silliness is the childish fondness of the every-day children of the world! 'Tis the unmeaning toying of the younglings of the fields and forests. Burns.
What 'twas weak to do, / 'Tis weaker to 15 lament, once being done. Shelley.
What unknown seas of feeling lie in man, and will from time to time break through! Carlyle.
What was my morning's thought, at night's the same; / The poor and rich but differ in the name. / Content's the greatest bliss we can procure / Frae 'boon the lift; without it kings are poor. Allan Ramsay.
What was once to me / Mere matter of the fancy, now has grown / The vast necessity of heart and life. Tennyson.
What we are going to, is abundantly obscure; but what all men are going from, is very plain. John Sterling.
What we are, that only can we see. Emerson. 20
What we call conscience, in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the constable. Bovee.
What we call our root-and-branch reforms of slavery, war, gambling, intemperance, is only medicating the symptoms. We must begin higher up, namely, in education. Emerson.
What we do determine oft we break, / Purpose is but the slave to memory. Ham., iii. 2.
What we do not understand we have no business to judge. Amiel.
What we do not use is a heavy burden. 25 Goethe.
What we don't know is just what we need to know; and what we do know we can make no use of. Goethe.
What we foolishly call vastness is not more wonderful or not more impressive than what we insolently call littleness. Ruskin.
What we have been makes us what we are. George Eliot.
What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice. Demosthenes.
What we have we prize not to the worth, / 30 Whiles we enjoy it; but being lack'd and lost, / Why then we rack the value. Much Ado, iv. 1.
What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence. Johnson.
What we like determines what we are, and is the sign of what we are. Ruskin.
What we need most is not so much to realise the ideal as to idealise the real. F. H. Hedge.
What we poor mortals have to do is to endure and keep ourselves upright as well and as long as we can. God disposes as he thinks best. Goethe.
What we pray to ourselves for is always 35 granted. Emerson.
What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realises itself. Mrs. Jameson.
What we want to be pleased with flattery, is to believe that the man is sincere who gives it us. Steele.
What we want to believe, what it suits our convenience, or pleasure, or prejudice to believe, one need not go to sea to learn what slender logic will incline us to believe. Burroughs.
What? wearied out with half a life? / Scared with this smooth unbloody strife? / Think where thy coward hopes had flown / Had Heaven held out the martyr's crown. Keble.
What were mighty Nature's self? / Her 40 features could they win us, / Unhelp'd by the poetic voice / That hourly speaks within us? Wordsworth.
What will not woman, gentle woman, dare, / When strong affection stirs her spirit up? Southey.
What will you have? quoth God; pay for it and take it. Pr.
What you can't get is just what suits you. Fr. Pr.
What you do not risk all to part with (dahingeben), thou hast not loved and possessed entirely. J. G. Fisher.
What you enjoy is yours; what for your heirs / 45 You hoard, already is not yours, but theirs. From the Greek. Anon.
What you see is but the smallest part / And least proportion of humanity; /... Were the whole frame here, / It is of such a spacious lofty pitch, / Your roof were not sufficient to contain it. 1 Hen. VI., ii. 3.
What your heart thinks great is great. The soul's emphasis is always right. Emerson.
What's aught but as 'tis valued? Troil. and Cress., ii. 2.
What's come to perfection perishes. / Things learned on earth we shall practise in heaven; / Works done least rapidly art most cherishes. Browning.
What's done cannot be undone. Macb., v. 1.
What's done we partly may compute, / But 5 know not what's resisted. Burns.
What's fitting, that is right. Goethe.
What's gone and what's past help / Should be past grief. Winter's Tale, iii. 2.
What's good for the bee is good for the hive. Pr.
What's Hecuba to him or he to Hecuba, / That he should weep for her? Ham., ii. 2.
What's impossible cannot be, / And never, 10 never comes to pass. George Colman the younger.
What's in a name? That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet. Rom. and Jul., ii. 2.
What's more miserable than discontent? 2 Hen. VI., iii. 1.
What's nane o' my profit will be nane o' my peril. Sc. Pr.
What's not set about to-day is never finished on the morrow. Goethe.
What's the good of a sun-dial in the shade? Pr. 15
What's the good of the pipe if it's not played on? Gael. Pr.
What's yours is mine, and what's mine's my ain. Sc. Pr.
Whate'er disturbs his onward course, / Whate'er brings gloom or strife, / It must away, for e'er he sings / The poet must have life. Goethe.
Whate'er he did was done with so much ease, / In him alone 'twas natural to please. Dryden.
Whate'er my future years may be: / Let joy 20 or grief my fate betide; / Be still an Eden bright to me / My own, my own fireside! A. A. Watts.
Whate'er's begun in anger ends in shame. Ben. Franklin.
Whatever a man has to effect must emanate from him as a second self; and how would this be possible were not his first self entirely pervaded by it? Goethe.
Whatever be the cause of happiness, may be made likewise the cause of misery. The medicine which, rightly applied, has power to cure, has, when rashness or ignorance prescribes it, the same power to destroy. Johnson.
Whatever be the motive of insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly scarcely can deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect. Johnson.
Whatever beauty may be, it has for its basis 25 order and for its essence unity. Father André.
Whatever befalls us, though it is wise to be serious, it is useless and foolish, and perhaps sinful, to be gloomy. Johnson.
Whatever bit of a wise man's work is honestly and benevolently done, that bit is his book or his piece of art. Ruskin.
Whatever comes from the brain carries the hue of the place it came from; and whatever comes from the heart carries the heat and colour of its birthplace. Holmes.
Whatever comes out of despair cannot bear the title of valour, which should be lifted up to such a height that, holding all things under itself, it should be able to maintain its greatness even in the midst of miseries. Sir P. Sidney.
Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, 30 by whatever name it may be called. J. S. Mill.
Whatever disunites man from God disunites man from man. Burke.
Whatever does not concern us is concealed from us. Emerson.
Whatever does not possess a true intrinsic vitality cannot live long, and can neither be nor ever become great. Goethe.
Whatever expands the affections or enlarges the sphere of our sympathies, whatever makes us feel our relation to the universe, and all that it inherits, in time and in eternity, to the great and beneficent Cause of all, must unquestionably refine our nature and elevate us in the scale of being. Channing.
Whatever foolish people read, does them 35 harm; and whatever they write, does other people harm. Ruskin.
Whatever government is not a government of law is a despotism, let it be called what it may. D. Webster.
Whatever has exceeded its due bounds is ever in a state of instability. Sen.
Whatever hath been well consulted and well resolved, whether it be to fight well or to run away well, should be carried into execution in due season, without any further examination. Hitopadesa.
Whatever honour we can pay to their memory, is all that is owing to the dead. Tears and sorrow are no duties to them, and make us incapable of those we owe to the living. Lady Montagu.
Whatever in literature, art, or religion is done 40 for money is poisonous itself, and doubly deadly in preventing the hearing or seeing of the noble literature and art which have been done for love and truth. Ruskin.
Whatever is beautiful is also profitable. Willmott.
Whatever is best is safest, lies most out of the reach of human power, can neither be given nor taken away. Bolingbroke.
Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful. Cic.
Whatever is great in human art is the expression of man's delight in God's work. Ruskin.
Whatever is great promotes cultivation as 45 soon as we are aware of it. Goethe.
Whatever is highest and holiest is tinged with melancholy. The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos. A prophet is sadder than other men; and He who was greater than all prophets was "a man of sorrow and acquainted with grief." Mrs. Child.
Whatever is, is right. Pope.
Whatever is known to thyself alone has always very great value. Emerson.
Whatever is natural admits of variety. Mme. de Stäel.
Whatever is new is unlooked for, and ever it mends some and impairs others; and he that is holpen takes it for a fortune, and he that is hurt for a wrong. Bacon.
Whatever is not made of asbestos will have to be burnt in this world. Carlyle.
Whatever is pure is also simple. It does not keep the eye on itself. The observer forgets the window in the landscape it displays. A fine style gives the view of fancy—its figures, its trees, or its palaces—without a spot. Willmott.
Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing 5 well. Lord Chesterfield.
Whatever lifts a man out of the common herd always redounds to his advantage, even if it sink him into a new crowd, in the midst of which his powers of swimming and wading must be put to the test again. Goethe.
Whatever makes religion its second object, makes it no object. Ruskin.
Whatever may be the natural propensity of any one, it is very hard to overcome. If a dog were made king, would he not gnaw his shoe-straps? Hitopadesa.
Whatever may happen, every kind of fortune is to be overcome by bearing it. Virg.
Whatever may happen to thee, it was prepared 10 for thee from all eternity; and the complication of causes was from eternity spinning the thread not only of thy being, but of that which is incident to it. Marcus Aurelius.
Whatever mitigates the woes or increases the happiness of others, this is my criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, this is my measure of iniquity. Burns.
Whatever of goodness emanates from the soul, gathers its soft halo from the eyes; and if the heart be the lurking-place of crime, the eyes are sure to betray the secret. F. Saunders.
Whatever our wanderings, our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and amidst the objects more immediately within our reach. Bulwer Lytton.
Whatever outward thing offers itself to the eye, is merely the garment or body of a thing which already existed invisibly within. Carlyle.
Whatever purifies the heart, fortifies it. 15 Blair.
Whatever sceptic could inquire for, / For every why he had a wherefore. Buller.
Whatever that be which thinks, which understands, which wills, which acts, it is something celestial and divine; and upon that account must necessarily be eternal. Cic.
Whatever the benefits of fortune are, they yet require a palate fit to relish and taste them; it is fruition, and not possession, that renders us happy. Montaigne.
Whatever the place allotted to us by Providence, that for us is the post of honour and duty. T. Edwards.
Whatever the skill of any country may be in 20 the sciences, it is from its excellence in polite learning alone that it must expect a character from posterity. Goldsmith.
Whatever theologians may choose to assert, it is certain that mankind at large has far more virtue than vice. Buckle.
Whatever these two men (the Carlyles, father and son) touched with their hands in honest toil became sacred to them, a page out of their own lives. A silent, inarticulate kind of religion they put into their work. John Burroughs.
Whatever we think out, whatever we take in hand to do, should be perfectly and finally finished, that a word, if it must alter, will only tend to spoil it; we have then nothing to do but to unite the severed, to recollect and restore the dismembered. Goethe.
Whatever you are, be a man. Pr.
Whatever you may think now, they (the deeds 25 of each day) are only biding their time; and when you are weak and at their mercy, when the world you fancied you were beyond, has leisure to hear their story and scoff at you, they will come forward and tell all the bitter tale. Disraeli to young men.
Whatso we have done is done, and for us annihilated, and ever must we go and do anew. Carlyle.
Whatsoever a man ought to obey, he cannot but obey. Carlyle.
Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. St. Paul.
Whatsoever God doeth, nothing can be put to it, nor anything taken from it. Ecclus.
Whatsoever sensibly exists, whatsoever represents 30 spirit to spirit, is properly a suit of raiment put on for a season and to be laid off. Carlyle.
Whatsoever thine ill, / It must be borne, and these wild starts are useless. Byron.
Whatsoever thou takest in hand, remember the end, and thou shalt never do amiss. Ecclus.
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might. Bible.
When a base man means to be your enemy, he always begins with being your friend. Wm. Blake.
When a bold man is out of countenance, he 35 makes a very wooden figure on it. Collier.
When a child can be brought to tears, not from fear of punishment, but from repentance for his offence, he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from grief at one's own conduct, be sure there is an angel nestling in the bosom. Horace Mann.
When a gentleman is cudgelling his brain to find any rhyme for sorrow besides "borrow" or "to-morrow," his woes are nearer at an end than he thinks. Thackeray.
When a good man has talent, he always works morally for the salvation of the world. Goethe.
When a great man strikes out into a sudden irregularity, he needs not question the respect of a retinue. Collier.
When a head and a book come into collision, 40 and one sounds empty, is it always the book? Lichtenberg.
When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it. Hitopadesa.
When a man becomes dear to me, I have touched the goal of fortune. Emerson.
When a man dies, they who survive him ask what property he has left behind. The angel who bends over the dying man asks what good deeds he has sent before him. Koran.
When a man gives himself up to the government of a ruling passion—or, in other words, when his hobby-horse grows headstrong—farewell cool reason and fair discretion! Sterne.
When a man gives proof that his heart is sound and that his life is sound, there is no divergence of opinion that should keep us from fellowship with him. Ward Beecher.
When a man has no occasion to borrow, he finds numbers willing to lend him. Goldsmith.
When a man has not a good reason for doing 5 a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone. Scott.
When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is set fast; and nothing will then serve his turn, neither truth nor falsehood. Tillotson.
When a man is base at the heart, he blights his virtues into weaknesses; but when he is true at the heart, he sanctifies his weaknesses into virtues. Ruskin.
When a man is conscious that he does no good himself, the next thing is to cause others to do some. Pope.
When a man is going downhill, everybody gives him a kick. Pr.
When a man is in indigence, picking herbs is 10 his philosophy; the enjoyment of his wife his only commerce, and vassalage his food. Hitopadesa.
When a man is in love with one woman in a family, it is astonishing how fond he becomes of every person connected with it. Thackeray.
When a man is treated with solemnity, he looks upon himself as a higher being, and goes through his solemn feasts devoutly. Jean Paul.
When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry. Haliburton.
When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook and the rustle of the corn. Emerson.
When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons 15 and things, this is madness. Coleridge.
When a man smiles, and much more when he laughs, it adds something to his fragment of life. Sterne.
When a man versed in his subject treats any topic lovingly and thoroughly, he gives us a share in his interest, and forces us to enter into the topic. Goethe.
When a man's dog deserts him on account of his poverty, he can't get any lower down in this world. Amer. Pr.
When a man's pride is subdued, it is like the sides of Mount Ætna. It was terrible during the eruption, but when that is over and the lava is turned into soil, there are vineyards and olive-trees which grow up to the top. Beecher.
When a man's ways please the Lord, he 20 maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him. Bible.
When a mean wretch cannot vie with another in virtue, out of his wretchedness he begins to slander. Saadi.
When a misfortune is impending, I cry, "God forbid!" but when it falls upon me, I say, "God be praised!" Sterne.
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not the decline that it recalls, but the first days of immortality. Mme. de Staël.
When a nobleman writes a book he ought to be encouraged. Johnson.
When a pepin is planted on a pepin-stock, the 25 fruit growing thence is called a renate, a most delicious apple, as both by sire and dame well descended. Thus his blood must needs be well purified who is gentilely born on both sides. Fuller.
When a poor creature (outwardly and visibly such) comes before thee, do not stay to inquire whether the "seven small children," in whose name he implores thy assistance, have a veritable existence. Lamb.
When a Sark-foot wife gets on her broomstick, the dames of Allonby are ready to mount. Pr.
When a secret is revealed, it is the fault of the man who has intrusted it. La Bruyère.
When a thought is too weak to be simply expressed, it is a clear proof that it should be rejected. Vauvenargues.
When a thought of Plato becomes a thought 30 to me,—when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine, time is no more. Emerson.
When a tree is dead it will lie any way; alive, it will have its own growth. Ward Beecher.
When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. Swift.
When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face. Goethe.
When a wise man findeth an occasion, he may bear away his enemy upon his shoulder, as it were. Hitopadesa.
When a woman wears the breeches, she has a 35 good right to them. Amer. Pr.
When a work has a unity, it is as much so in a part as in the whole. Wm. Blake.
When a writer sets to work again after a long pause, his faculties have, as it were, to be caught in the field and brought in and harnessed. Froude.
When a youth is fully in love with a girl, and feels that he is wise in loving her, he should at once tell her so plainly, and take his chance bravely with other suitors. Ruskin.
When Adam dolve and Eve span, / Who was then the gentleman? Pr.
When affliction thunders over our roofs, to 40 hide our heads and run into our graves shows us no men, but makes us fortune's slaves. Ben Jonson.
When all else is lost, the future still remains. Bovee.
When all is done, the help of good counsel is that which setteth business straight. Bacon.
When all is said, the greatest art is to limit and isolate one's self. Goethe.
When all the blandishments of life are gone, / The coward sneaks to death, the brave live on. George Sewell.
When ambitious men find an open passage, they are rather busy than dangerous; and if well watched in their proceedings, they will catch themselves in their own snare, and prepare a way for their own destruction. Quarles.
When an author is too fastidious about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his matter flimsy. Sen.
When any fit of anxiety, or gloominess or perversion of the mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints, but exert your whole care to hide it; by endeavouring to hide it you will drive it away. Johnson.
When any man finds himself disposed to complain with how little care he is regarded, let him reflect how little he contributes to the happiness of others. Johnson.
When any one ceases to care for his home, it 5 is one of the worst possible signs of moral sickness. Spurgeon.
When any one has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offence cannot reach it. Descartes.
When at one with ourselves, we are so with others. Goethe.
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. Burke.
When bairns are young they gar their parents' heads ache; when they are auld they make their hearts break. Sc. Pr.
When baseness is exalted, do not bate / The 10 place its honour for the person's sake. George Herbert.
When beggars die, there are no comets seen: / The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes. Jul. Cæs., ii. 2.
When brothers part for manhood's race, / What gift may most endearing prove / To keep fond memory in her place, / And certify a brother's love? /... No fading frail memorial give / To sooth his soul when thou art gone, / But wreathes of hope for aye to live, / And thoughts of good together done. Keble.
When caught by a tempest, wherever it be, / If it lightens and thunders, beware of a tree. Pr.
When children stand quiet, they have done some harm. Pr.
When children, we are sensualists; when in 15 love, idealists. Goethe.
When clouds appear like rocks and towers, / The earth's refreshed with frequent showers. Pr.
When clouds appear, wise men put on their cloaks; / When great leaves fall, the winter is at hand. Rich. III., ii. 3.
When death comes, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. George Eliot.
When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, distrust is cowardice and prudence folly. Johnson.
When did friendship take / A breed for barren 20 metal of his friend? Mer. of Ven., i. 2.
When difficulties are overcome they become blessings. Saying.
When each comes forth from his mother's womb, the gate of gifts closes behind him. Emerson.
When every one minds his own business the work is done. Dan. Pr.
When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary. Napoleon.
When fools fall out for every flaw, / They run 25 horn mad to go to law; / A hedge awry, a wrong plac'd gate, / Will serve to spend a whole estate. Saying.
When Fortune means to men most good, / She looks upon them with a threatening eye. King John, iii. 1.
When found, make a note of. Dickens.
When fresh sorrows have caused us to take some steps in the right way, we may not complain. We have invested in a life annuity, but the income remains. Mme. Swetchine.
When friends meet hearts warm. Sc. Pr.
When friendships are real, they are not glass 30 threads or frost-work, but the solidest things we know. Emerson.
When God gives light he gives it for all. Sp. Pr.
When God will, no wind but brings rain. Pr.
When God would punish a land, he deprives its rulers of wisdom. Ger. and It. Pr.
When Goethe says that in every human condition foes lie in wait for us, "invincible save by cheerfulness and equanimity," he does not mean that we can at all times be really cheerful, or at a moment's notice; but that the endeavour to look at the better side of things will produce the habit, and that this habit is the surest safeguard against the danger of sudden evils. Leigh Hunt.
When Greeks joined Greeks, then was the 35 tug of war. Lee.
When griping grief the heart doth wound, / And doleful dumps the mind oppress, / Then music, with her silver sound, / With speedy help doth lend redress. Rom. and Jul., iv. 5.
When half-gods go, / The gods arrive. Emerson.
When he speaks, / The air, a charter'd libertine, is still. Hen. V., i. 1.
When holy and devout religious men / Are at their beads, 'tis hard to draw them thence. Rich. III., iii. 7.
When I am angry, I can pray well and preach 40 well. Luther.
When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat. / Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit; / Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay. / To-morrow's falser than the former day; / Lies worse, and while it says we shall be blest / With some new joys, cuts off what we possest. Dryden.
When I have told the truth, my part with it is done; and if the world will not listen, the world will just do the other way. Carlyle.
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times and to the latest. H. D. Thoreau.
When I strove after wisdom I appeared foolish to fools, and wise when I lived like them. The fool only esteems himself wise. Bodenstedt.
When I want any good head-work done, I always choose a man, if suitable otherwise, with a long nose. Napoleon.
When I was happy I thought I knew men, but it was fated that I should know them in misfortune only. Napoleon.
When I wish to ascertain the real felicity of any rational man, I always inquire whom he has to love. If I find he has nobody, or does not love those he has, I pronounce him a being deep in adversity. Mrs. Inchbald.
When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thank'd enough; / I've done my duty, and I've done no more. Henry Fielding.
When ilka ane gets his ain, the thief will get 5 the widdie (gallows). Sc. Pr.
When in company, people will rather be entertained than instructed. Knegge.
When, in your last hour (think of this), all faculty in the broken spirit shall fade away and sink into inanity—imagination, thought, effort, enjoyment—then will the flower of belief, which blossoms even in the night, remain to refresh you with its fragrance in the last darkness. Jean Paul.
When industry builds upon nature, we may expect pyramids. Sir T. Browne.
When it goeth well with the righteous, the city rejoiceth: and when the wicked perish, there is shouting. Bible.
When it rains porridge, the beggar has no 10 spoon. Dan. Pr.
When it's dark at Dover, / It is dark all the world over. Pr.
When labour is employed, labour can consume; when it is not employed, it cannot consume. Daniel Webster.
When love begins to sicken and decay / It useth an enforced ceremony. Jul. Cæs., iv. 2.
When love cools our fauts are seen. Sc. Pr.
When love speaks, the voice of all the gods / 15 Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony. Love's L. Lost, iv. 3.
When lovely woman stoops to folly / And finds, too late, that men betray, / What charm can soothe her melancholy? / What art can wash her guilt away? Goldsmith.
When loving hearts are separated, not the one which is exhaled to heaven, but the survivor it is which tastes the sting of death. Duchesse de Praslin.
When maidens sue, / Men give like gods. Meas. for Meas., i. 1.
When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will (as at the creation) be again dumb. Hawthorne.
When man seized the loadstone of science, 20 the loadstar of superstition vanished in the clouds. W. R. Alger.
When matters are desperate, we must put on a desperate face. Burns.
When men add a new wing to their house they do not call the action virtue, but if they give to a fellow-creature for their own gratification, they demand of God a good mark for it. J. M. Barrie.
When men are lonely they stoop to any companionship. Lew Wallace.
When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken. Disraeli.
When men grow virtuous in their old age, 25 they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings. Pope.
When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes. Dryden.
When money's taken, / Freedom's forsaken. Pr.
When musing on companions gone, / We doubly feel ourselves alone. Scott.
When nations are to perish in their sins, / 'Tis in the Church the leprosy begins; / The priest, whose office is, with zeal sincere, / To watch the fountain and preserve it clear, / Carelessly nods and sleeps upon the brink, / While others poison what the flock must drink. Cowper.
When Nature fills the sails, the vessel goes 30 smoothly on; and when judgment is the pilot, the insurance need not be high. Sir T. Browne.
When Nature is sovereign there is no need of austerity or self-denial. Froude.
When Nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. Emerson.
When need is highest, help is nighest. Ger. Pr.
When neither he to whom we speak nor he who speaks to us understands, that is metaphysics. Voltaire.
When nothing is enjoyed, can there be greater 35 waste? Thomson.
When on life we're tempest driven, / A conscience but a canker, / A correspondence fixed wi' heaven / Is sure a noble anchor. Burns.
When once a man is determined to believe, the very absurdity of the doctrine confirms him in his faith. Junius.
When once infidelity can persuade men that they shall die like beasts, they will soon be brought to live like beasts also. South.
When once our grace we have forgot, / Nothing goes right; we would, and we would not. Meas. for Meas., iv. 4.
When once the young heart of a maiden is 40 stolen, / The maiden herself will steal after it soon. Moore.
When once you profess yourself a friend, endeavour to be always such. He can never have any true friends that will be often changing them. (?)
When one does nothing else but while time away, it must of necessity often be a burden. Goethe.
When one encourages the beautiful alone, and another encourages the useful alone, it takes them both to form a man. Goethe.
When one is in love, one wishes to be in fetters. Goethe.
When one is not received as one comes, this 45 is a nether-fire pain. Goethe.
When one is truly in love, one not only says it, but shows it. Longfellow.
When one is young, one is nothing completely. Goethe.
When one thinks of the real agony one has gone through in consequence of false teaching, it makes human nature angry with the teachers who have added to the bitterness of life. General Gordon.
When our actions do not, / Our fears do make us traitors. Macb., iv. 1.
When our hatred is too keen, it places us beneath those we hate. La Roche.
When our names are blotted out, and our place knows us no more, the energy of each social service will remain. J. Morley.
When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things from it. Renan.
When people laugh at their own jokes, their 5 wit is very small beer, and is lost in its own froth. Spurgeon.
When people once are in the wrong, / Each line they add is much too long. Prior.
When Peter's cock begins to crow, 'tis day. Quarles.
When pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Johnson.
When pleasure is arrived, it is worthy of attention; when trouble presenteth itself, the same. Pain and pleasures have their revolutions like a wheel. Hitopadesa.
When poverty comes in at the door, love flies 10 out at the window. Pr.
When pride cometh, then cometh shame; but with the lowly is wisdom. Bible.
When remedies are past, the griefs are ended / By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended. Othello, i. 3.
When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will. Much Ado, iii. 3.
When rogues fall out, honest men get their own. Pr.
When shall we three meet again, in thunder, 15 lightning, or in rain? Macb., i. 1.
When soldiers have been baptised in the fire of a battlefield, they have all one rank in my eyes. Napoleon.
When soon or late they reach that coast, / O'er life's rough ocean driven, / May they rejoice, no wanderer lost, / A family in heaven. Burns.
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, / But in battalions. Ham., iv. 5.
When speech is given to a soul holy and true, time and its dome of ages becomes as a mighty whispering-gallery, round which the imprisoned utterance runs, and reverberates forever. James Martineau.
When sun is set the little stars will shine. R. 20 Southwell.
When that the poor have cried, Cæsar hath wept; / Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. Jul. Cæs., iii. 2.
When the affections are moved there is no place for the imagination. Hume.
When the artist forgets himself in admiration of his work, there is a fatal inversion and subversion of all art whatsoever; and for Love to worship Venus, his own creation, except as an index and light to himself, is in reality Love's apostasy, not his apotheosis. Ed.
When the ass is given thee, run and take him by the halter; and when good luck knocks at the door, let him in, and keep him there. Sp. Pr.
When the belly is empty, the body becomes 25 spirit; when it is full, the spirit becomes body. Saadi.
When the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch; wherefore, in such circumstances, may it not sometimes be safer if both leader and led simply sit still? Carlyle.
When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul / Lends the tongue vows. Ham., i. 3.
When the cat's away, / The mice will play. Pr.
When the devil dies, he never lacks a chief mourner. Pr.
When the fight begins within himself, / A 30 man's worth something. Browning.
When the fox preaches, take care of your geese. Pr.
When the glede's in the blue cloud, / The laverock lies still; / When the hound's in the green wood, / The hind keeps the hill. Old ballad.
When the gods come among men, they are not known. Emerson.
When the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet, then all things are at risk. There is not a piece of science, but its flank may be turned to-morrow; there is not any literary reputation, nor the so-called eternal names of fame, that may not be revised and condemned. Emerson.
When the heart is afire, some sparks will fly 35 out at the mouth. Pr.
When the heart is heavy and low, / The beauty that on earth we find, / Or strain of music on the wind, / Shall touch it like an utter woe! Dr. W. Smith.
When the heart is still agitated by the remains of a passion, we are more ready to receive a new one than when we are entirely cured. La Roche.
When the heart of a man is sincere and tranquil, he is fain to enjoy nothing but himself; every movement, even corporeal movement, shakes the brimming nectar cup too rudely. Jean Paul.
When the hungry curate licks the knife, there is not much for the clerk. Pr.
When the man's fire and the wife's tow, in comes 40 the dell and blaws it in a lowe (flame). Sc. Pr.
When the master passeth over all alike without distinction, then the endeavours of those who are capable of exertion are entirely lost. Hitopadesa.
When the million applaud you, seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; when they censure you, what good. Colton.
When the mind's free, the body's delicate. Lear, iii. 4.
When the new light which we beg for shines in upon us, there be who envy and oppose, if it come not in first at their casements. Milton.
When the oak-tree is felled, the whole forest 45 echoes with it; but a hundred acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze. Carlyle.
When the Phœnix is fanning her funeral pyre, will there not be sparks flying? Carlyle.
When the power of imparting joy / Is equal to the will, the human soul / Requires no other heaven. Shelley.
When the quality of bravery is near, a great man's terrors are at a distance. In the hour of misfortune such a great man overcometh bravery. Hitopadesa.
When the reason of old establishments is gone, it is absurd to keep nothing but the burden of them. This is superstitiously to embalm a carcase not worth an ounce of the gums that are used to embalm it. Burke.
When the sheep is too meek, all the lambs suck it. Spurgeon.
When the shore is won at last, / Who will count the billows past? Keble.
When the soul breathes through a man's intellect, it is genius; when it breaks through his will, it is virtue; when it flows through his affection, it is love. Emerson.
When the strong box contains no more,... / 5 Both friends and flatterers shun the door. Plutarch.
When the sun is highest, he casts the least shadow. Pr.
When the tale of bricks is doubled, then comes Moses. Heb. Pr.
When the weather been maist fair, the dust flies highest in the air. Sir David Lindsay.
When the will's ready the feet's licht. Sc. Pr.
When the wind (civic tumult) arises, worship 10 the echo (retire into the country). Pythagoras.
When the world has once got hold of a lie, it is astonishing how hard it is to get it out of the world. You beat it about the head, till it seems to have given up the ghost, and lo! the next day it is as healthy as ever. Bulwer Lytton.
When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian. Tempest, ii. 2.
When things are at their worst, they will mend. Pr.
When things are once come to the execution, there is no secrecy comparable to celerity, like the motion of a bullet in the air, which flieth so swift as it outruns the eye. Bacon.
When thou dost purpose ought within thy 15 power, / Be sure to do it, though it be but small. George Herbert.
When thou hast thanked thy God for every blessing sent, / What time will then remain for murmurs or lament? French.
When thou makest presents, let them be of such things as will last long; to the end they may be in some sort immortal, and may frequently refresh the memory of the receiver. Fuller.
When thou wishest to give thyself delight, think of the excellencies of those who live with thee; the energy of one, the modesty of another, the liberal kindness of a third. Marcus Aurelius.
When three know it, all know it. Pr.
When thy judgments are in the earth the inhabitants 20 of the world will learn righteousness. Bible.
When Time, who steals our years away, / Shall steal our pleasures too, / The mem'ry of the past will stay, / And half our joys renew. T. Moore.
When timorous knowledge stands considering, / Audacious ignorance hath done the deed. Daniel.
When, to gratify a private appetite, it is once resolved upon that an innocent and a helpless creature shall be sacrificed, 'tis an easy matter to pick up sticks enough from any thicket where it has strayed to make a fire to offer it up with. Sterne.
When two brethren strings are set alike, / To move them both but one of them we strike. Cowley.
When two friends have a common purse, one 25 sings and the other weeps. Pr.
When two friends part, they should lock up one another's secrets and exchange their keys. Owen Feltham.
When two loving hearts are torn asunder, it is a shade better to be the one that is driven away into action, than the bereaved twin that petrifies at home. Charles Reade.
When unadorn'd, adorn'd the most. Thomson.
When was a god found agreeable to everybody? Carlyle.
When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe 30 this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor. Emerson.
When we build (public edifices), let us think that we build for ever. Ruskin.
When we cannot get at the very thing we wish, never to take up with the next best in degree to it, that's pitiful beyond description. Sterne.
When we can't do as we would, we must do as we can. Pr.
When we destroy an old prejudice, we have need of a new virtue. Mme. de Staël.
When we discern justice, when we discern 35 truth, we do nothing of ourselves; we allow a passage to its beams. Emerson.
When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with his presence. Emerson.
When we have not what we love, we must love what we have. Bussy-Rabutin.
When we meet with a natural style, we are surprised and delighted, for we expected to find an author, and we have found a man. Pascal.
When we our betters see bearing our woes, / We scarcely think our miseries our foes. King Lear, iii. 6.
When we rise in knowledge, as the prospect 40 widens, the objects of our regard become more obscure, and the unlettered peasant, whose views are only directed to the narrow sphere around him, beholds nature with a finer relish, and tastes her blessings with a keener appetite, than the philosopher whose mind attempts to grasp a universal system. Goldsmith.
When we take people merely as they are, we make them worse; when we treat them as if they were what they should be, we improve them as far as they can be improved. Goethe.
When whins are out of bloom, kissing is out of fashion. Pr.
When wine is in, nature comes out. George Meredith.
When words are scarce they're seldom spent in vain, / For they breathe truth that breathe their words in pain. Rich. II., ii. 1.
When words end, music begins; when they 45 suggest, it realises. Haweis.
When worthy men fall out, only one of them may be faulty at the first; but if strife continue long, commonly both become guilty. Fuller.
When you are all agreed upon the time, quoth the vicar, I'll make it rain. Pr.
When you are compelled to choose between two hated evils, look both full in the face, and choose that which least hampers the spirit and fetters pious deeds. Goethe.
When you are down, poverty, like snowshoes, keeps your feet fast and prevents your rising. Amer. Pr.
When you are in doubt abstain. Zoroaster.
When you are predetermined to take one 5 soul's advice, act without consulting further with any soul living. Sterne.
When you are stung by slanderous tongues (die Lästerzunge), comfort yourself with this thought: it is not the worst fruits that are gnawed by wasps. G. A. Bürger.
When you cannot get dinner ready, put the clock back. Swift.
When you do not know what to do, it is a clear indication that you are to do nothing. Spurgeon.
When you find yourselves tempted, be sure to ask advice; and when you see another so, deal with him gently. Thomas à Kempis.
When you go to Rome, do as Rome does. St. 10 Ambrose of Milan.
When you grind your corn, give not the flour to the devil, and the bran to God. It. Pr.
When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more to be all of a piece. Ben. Franklin.
When you have got so much true knowledge as is worth fighting for, you are bound to fight or to die for it, but not to debate about it any more. Ruskin.
When you have nothing to say, say nothing. Colton.
When you hear that your neighbour has 15 picked up a purse of gold in the street, never run out into the same street, looking about you, in order to pick up such another. Goldsmith.
When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief. Hor.
When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it: this is knowledge. Confucius.
When you leave the unimpaired hereditary freehold to your children, you do but half your duty. Both liberty and property are precarious, unless the possessors have sense and spirit enough to defend them. Junius.
When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your faithful Creator; and when you have done, trust Him with yourself as you must do when you are dying. Jeremy Taylor.
When you organise a strike, it is war you 20 organise; / But to organise our labour were the labour of the wise. Dr. Walter Smith.
When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop-window, you may depend upon it he keeps a very small stock of it within. Spurgeon.
When you see a snake, never mind where he came from. Pr.
When you see a woman paint, your heart needna faint. Sc. Pr.
When your broth's ready-made for you, you mun swallow the thickenin', or else let the broth alone. George Eliot.
When your head did but ache, / I knit my 25 handkerchief about your brows, / The best I had; a princess wrought it me; / And I did never ask it you again. King John, iv. 1.
Whence? O Heavens, whither? Sense knows not; faith knows not; only that it is through mystery to mystery, from God to God. Carlyle on the drama of life.
Whene'er a noble deed is wrought, / Whene'er is spoken a noble thought, / Our hearts, in glad surprise, / To higher levels rise. Longfellow.
Whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but his passions, which have got the better of his creed. A bad life and a good belief are disagreeable and troublesome neighbours; and when they separate, depend upon it, 'tis for no other cause but quietness' sake. Sterne.
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is, in my opinion, safe. Burke.
Whenever I see a new-married couple more 30 than ordinarily fond before faces, I consider them as attempting to impose upon the company or themselves; either hating each other heartily, or consuming that stock of love in the beginning of their course which should serve them throughout their whole journey. Goldsmith.
Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common feelings of mankind. Gibbon.
Whenever the people flock to see a miracle, it is a hundred to one but that they see a miracle. Goldsmith.
Whenever you find humour, you find pathos close by its side. Whipple.
Whensoever a man desireth anything inordinately, he is presently disquieted in himself. Thomas à Kempis.
Where content is there is a feast. Pr. 35
Where do we find ourselves? In a series of which we do not know the extremes, and believe that it has none. Emerson.
Where drink goes in, wit goes out. Pr.
Where else is the God's presence manifested, not to our eyes only, but to our hearts, as in our fellow-men? Carlyle.
Where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. St. James.
Where friends are in earnest, each day brings 40 its own gain, so that at last the year, when summed up, is of incalculable advantage. Details in reality constitute the life; results may be valuable, but they are more surprising than useful. Goethe.
Where God gives, envy harms not; and where he gives not, no labour avails. L. Pr.
Where God has built a church, there the devil would also build a chapel. Luther.
Where God helps, nought harms. Pr.
Where have they who are running here and there in search of riches such happiness as those placid spirits enjoy who are gratified at the immortal fountain of happiness? Hitopadesa.
Where I am, there every one is. Rabbi Hillel.
Where idolatry ends, Christianity begins; and where idolatry begins, Christianity ends. Jacobi.
Where ignorance is bliss, / 'Tis folly to be wise. Gray.
Where is any author in the world / Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye? Love's L. Lost, iv. 3.
Where is the good of having a right to make 5 both yourself and your neighbours miserable?... Mutual accommodation is the law of the world, or its inhabitants would all be wretched together. Mrs. Gatty.
Where is the man who has the power and skill / To stem the torrent of a woman's will? / For if she will she will, you may depend on't; / And if she won't, she won't, and there's an end on't. Dane John Monument at Canterbury.
Where it is weakest, the thread breaketh. Pr.
Where law ends, tyranny begins. Fielding.
Where lies are easily admitted, the father of lies will not easily be excluded. Quarles.
Where love reigns, disturbing jealousy doth 10 call himself affection's sentinel. Shakespeare.
Where man is, are the tropics; where he is not, the ice-world. Ruskin.
Where Nature's end of language is declined, / And men talk only to conceal the mind. (?)
Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellers there is safety. Bible.
Where no fault is, there needs no pardon. Pr.
Where no hope is left, is left no fear. Milton. 15
Where no oxen are, the crib is clean. Pr.
Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no tale-bearer, the strife ceaseth. Bible.
Where none thou canst discern, make for thyself a path. Goethe.
Where once Truth's flame has burnt, I doubt / If ever it go fairly out. Hannah More.
Where one is wise, two are happy. Pr. 20
Where one man shapes his life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have it shaped for them by impulse and by circumstances. Lowell.
Where one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. St. Paul.
Where peace / And rest can never dwell, hope never comes, / That comes to all. Milton.
Where people are tied for life, 'tis their mutual interest not to grow weary of one another. Lady Montagu.
Where power is absent we may find the robe 25 of genius, but we miss the throne. Landor.
Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off. Johnson.
Where shame is, there is fear. Milton.
Where the carcase is, the ravens will gather. Pr.
Where the devil cannot come, he will send. Ger. Pr.
Where the devil has smoothed your road, / 30 Keep to the right like an honest man. Dr. W. Smith.
Where the greater malady is fix'd, / The lesser is scarce felt. King Lear, iii. 4.
Where the heart goes before, like a lamp, and illumines the pathway, many things are made clear that else lie hidden in darkness. Longfellow.
Where the heart is, there the Muses, there the gods sojourn. Emerson.
Where the meekness of self-knowledge veileth the front of self-respect, there look thou for the man whose name none can know but they will honour. Tupper.
Where there is a mother in the home, matters 35 speed well. A. B. Alcott.
Where there is a splashing of dirt, it is good not to meddle and to keep far away. Hitopadesa.
Where there is much light there is a darker shadow. Goethe.
Where there is music, nothing really bad can be. Cervantes.
Where there is mystery, it is generally supposed that there must also be evil. Byron.
Where there is no envy in the case, our propensity 40 to sympathise with joy is much stronger than our propensity to sympathise with sorrow. Adam Smith.
Where there is no hook, to be sure there will hang no bacon. Sp. Pr.
Where there is no hope, there can be no endeavour. Johnson.
Where there is no law, there is no transgression. St. Paul.
Where there is no love, all are faults. Pr.
Where there is no shame, there is no honour. 45 Pr.
Where there is no sympathy with the spirit of man, there can be no sympathy with any higher spirit. Ruskin.
Where there is smoke there is fire. Pr.
Where there is too much light, our senses don't perceive; they are only stunned or dazzled or blinded. Pascal.
Where there's a will there's a way. Pr.
Where there's muckle courtesy there's little 50 kindness. Sc. Pr.
Where truth is not at the bottom, Nature will always be endeavouring to return, and will peep out and betray herself one time or other. Tillotson.
Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them. Jesus.
Where vice is, vengeance follows. Sc. Pr.
Where virtue dwells, the gods have placed before / The dropping sweat that springs from every pore, / And ere the feet can reach her bright abode, / Long, rugged, steep the ascent, and rough the road. Hesiod.
Where we find echoes, we generally find 55 emptiness and hollowness; it is the contrary with the echoes of the heart. J. F. Boyes.
Where wealth and freedom reign, contentment fails, / And honour sinks where commerce long prevails. Goldsmith.
Where wilt thou go that thou wilt not have to plough? Sp. Pr.
Where Wisdom steers, wind cannot make you sink. Delaune.
Where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain. Rich. II., ii. 2.
Where would be what silly people call Progress if not for the grumblers? John Wagstaffe.
Where you see your friend, trust to yourself. Sp. Pr.
Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. Jesus.
Where your will is ready, your feet are light. 5 Pr.
Where's the use of a woman's having brains of her own if she's tackled to a geck as everybody's a-laughing at? George Eliot.
Whereas Johnson only bowed to every clergyman, I would bow to every man, were it not there is a devil dwells in man as well as a divinity, and too often the bow is but pocketed by the former. Carlyle.
Where'er I wander, boast of this I can, / Though banished, yet a true-born Englishman. Rich. II., i. 3.
Where'er we tread, 'tis haunted, holy ground. Byron.
Wherever a man dwells he will be sure to 10 have a thorn-bush near his door. Pr.
Wherever a true woman comes, home is always around her. The stars may be over her head, the glow-worms in the night-cold grass may be the fire at her feet; but home is where she is; and for a noble woman it stretches far around her, better than houses ceiled with cedar or painted with vermilion, shedding its quiet light far for those who else are homeless. Ruskin.
Wherever in the world I am, / In whatsoe'er estate, / I have a fellowship with hearts / To keep and cultivate. A. L. Waring.
Wherever nature does least, man does most. Amer. Pr.
Wherever snow falls, there is usually civil freedom. Emerson.
Wherever the devil makes a purchase, he 15 never fails to set his mark. Goldsmith.
Wherever the health of the citizens is concerned, much more where their souls' health, and as it were their salvation, is concerned, all governments that are not chimerical make haste to interfere. Carlyle.
Wherever the speech is corrupted the mind is also. Sen.
Wherever the tree of beneficence takes root, it sends forth branches beyond the sky. Saadi.
Wherever there is a parliament, there must of necessity be an opposition. John Wagstaffe.
Wherever there is a sky above him and a 20 world around him, the poet is in his place; for here too is man's existence, with its infinite longings and small acquirings; its ever-thwarted, ever-renewed endeavours; its unspeakable aspirations, its fears and hopes that wander through eternity; and all the mystery of brightness and of gloom that it was ever made of, in any age or climate, since man first began to live. Carlyle.
Wherever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience. Judge Haliburton.
Wherever there is cupidity, there the blessing of the Gospel cannot rest. The actual poor, therefore, may altogether fail to be objects of that blessing, the actual rich may be the objects of it in the highest degree. Matthew Arnold.
Wherever there is power there is age. Emerson.
Wherever there is war, there must be injustice on one side or the other, or on both. Ruskin.
Wherever women are honoured, the gods are 25 satisfied. Manu.
Wherever work is done, victory is obtained. Emerson.
Wherever you see a gaming-table, be very sure Fortune is not there.... She is ever seen accompanying industry, and as often trundling a wheelbarrow as lolling in a coach and six. Goldsmith.
Wherever your lot is cast, duty to yourself and others suggests the propriety of adapting your conduct to the circumstances in which you are placed. Samuel Lover.
Wherefore ever ramble on? / For the good is lying near. / Fortune learn to seize alone, / For that Fortune's ever here. Goethe.
Wherefore waste I time to counsel thee / That 30 art a votary to fond desire? Two Gent. of Verona, i. 1.
Wherein does barbarism consist, unless in not appreciating what is excellent? Goethe.
Wheresoever a man seeketh his own, there he falleth from love. Thomas à Kempis.
Wheresoever the carcass is, there will the eagles be gathered together. Jesus.
Wheresoever the search after truth begins, there life begins; wheresoever the search ceases, there life ceases. Ruskin.
Wheresoever two or three living men are 35 gathered together, there is society; or there it will be, with its mechanisms and structures, over-spreading this little globe, and reaching upwards to Heaven and downwards to Gehenna. Carlyle.
Whereto serves mercy, / But to confront the visage of offence? / And what's in prayer, but this twofold force,—to be forestalled ere we come to fall, / Or pardon'd, being down? Then I'll look up. Ham., iii. 3.
Whether a child, or an old man, or a youth, be come to thy house, he is to be treated with respect; for of all men, thy guest is the superior. Hitopadesa.
Whether a revolution succeeds or fails, men of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it. Heine.
Whether he be rich or whether he be poor, if he (a man), have a good heart, he shall at all times rejoice in a cheerful countenance; his mind shall tell him more than seven watchmen that sit above upon a tower on high. Ecclus.
Whether it be for life or death, do your own 40 work well. Ruskin.
Whether one show one's self a man of genius in science or compose a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, the deed, is living and can live on. Goethe.
Whether religion be true or false, it must be necessarily granted to be the only wise principle and safe hypothesis for a man to live and die by. Tillotson.
Whether the pitcher strike the stone or the stone the pitcher, it is bad for the pitcher. Pr.
Whether you boil snow or pound it, you can have but water of it. Pr.
Which death is preferable to every other? "The unexpected." Cæsar.
Which highest mortal, in this inane existence, had I not found a shadow-hunter or shadow-hunted; and, when I looked through his brave garnitures, miserable enough? Carlyle.
Which is the great secret? The open secret 5 (open, that is, to all, seen by almost none). Goethe.
Which is the lightest in the scale of Fate? / That where fond Cupid still is adding weight. Quarles.
Which of all the philosophies think you will stand? / I know not, but philosophy itself, I hope will continue with us for ever. Schiller.
Which of your philosophical systems is other than a dream-theorem; a net quotient, confidently given out, where divisor and dividend are both unknown? Carlyle.
Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell; / And in the lowest deep a lower deep, / Still threat'ning to devour me, opens wide, / To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven. Milton.
Whichever you do, you will regret it. Socrates, 10 to one who asked him whether he should marry or not.
While a man gets he never can lose. Sp. Pr.
While conscience is our friend, all is peace; but if once offended, farewell the tranquil mind. Mary Wortley Montagu.
While craving justice for ourselves, it is never wise to be unjust to others. Lew Wallace.
While digestion lasts, life cannot, in philosophical language, be said to be extinct. Carlyle.
While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert 15 only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it. Johnson.
While manufacture is the work of hands only, art is the work of the whole spirit of man; and as that spirit is, so is the deed of it. Ruskin.
While men sleep, / Sad-hearted mothers heave, that wakeful lie, / To muse upon some darling child / Roaming in youth's uncertain wild. Keble.
While mistakes are increasing, like population, at the rate of twelve hundred a-day, the benefit of seizing one and throttling it would be perfectly inconsiderable. Carlyle.
While others tippled, Sam from drinking shrunk, / Which made the rest think Sam alone was drunk. Lucian.
While the serpent sheds its old skin, the new 20 is already formed beneath. Carlyle.
While there is hope left, let not the weakness of sorrow make the strength of resolution languish. Sir P. Sidney.
While thy shoe is on thy foot, tread upon the thorns. Pr.
While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look upon them as virtues. Heine.
While we are reasoning concerning life, life is gone. Hume.
While we think to revenge an injury, we many 25 times begin one, and after that repent our misconceptions. Feltham.
While you live, tell truth and shame the devil. 1 Hen. IV., iii. 1.
Whilst a man confideth in Providence, he should not slacken his own exertions; for without labour he is unworthy to obtain the oil from the seed. Hitopadesa.
Whilst lions war and battle for their dens, / Poor harmless lambs abide their enmity. 3 Hen. VI., ii. 5.
Whilst we converse with what is above us, we do not grow old, but grow young. Emerson.
Whining lover may as well request / A scornful 30 breast / To melt in gentle tears, as woo the world for rest. Quarles.
Whistle, and I'll come to ye, my lad. Burns.
Whistling aloud to bear his courage up. Blair.
White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion. Paley.
Who are wise in love, love most, say least. Tennyson.
Who ascends to mountain-tops, shall find / 35 The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow. Byron.
Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, / And to party gave up what was meant for mankind; / Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat / To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him a vote. Goldsmith.
Who bravely dares most sometimes risk a fall. Smollett.
Who breaks his own bond, forfeiteth himself. George Herbert.
Who breathes must suffer, and who thinks must mourn; / And he alone is bless'd who ne'er was born. Prior.
Who builds a church to God and not to fame, / 40 Will never mark the marble with his name. Pope.
Who but the poet was it that first formed gods for us; that exalted us to them, and brought them down to us? Goethe.
Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? / Or sells eternity to get a toy? Shakespeare.
Who by repentance is not satisfied / Is not of heaven, nor earth. Two Gent. of Verona, v. 4.
Who can be patient in extremes? 3 Hen. VI., i. 1.
Who can compute what the world loses in the 45 multitude of promising intellects combined with timid characters, who dare not follow out any bold, vigorous, independent train of thought, lest it should land them in something which would admit of being considered irreligious or immoral? J. S. Mill.
Who can direct when all pretend to know? Goldsmith.
Who can do nothing of sovran worth / Which men shall praise, a higher task may find, / Plodding his dull round on the common earth, / But conquering envies rising in the mind. Dr. W. Smith.
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. She will do him good and not evil, all the days of her life. She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. Her children arise up, and call her blessed. Bible.
Who can heal the woes of him to whom balm has become poison, who has imbibed hatred of mankind from the fulness of love? Goethe.
Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin? Bible.
Who cannot rest till he good fellows find, / He breaks up house, turns out of doors his mind. George Herbert.
Who chatters to you, will chatter of you. 5 Pr.
Who coldly lives to himself and his own will may gratify many a wish; but he who strives to guide others well must be able to dispense with much. Goethe.
Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, / He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave; / Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,—/ His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies. Pope.
Who could pin down a shadow to the ground, / And take its measure? Dr. W. Smith.
Who digs a pit for others falls into it himself. Ger. Pr.
Who does not act is dead; absorpt entire / In 10 miry sloth, no pride, no joy he hath: / O leaden-hearted men, to be in love with death! Thomson.
Who does not help us at the needful moment never helps; who does not counsel at the needful moment never counsels. Goethe.
Who does not in his friends behold the world, / Deserves not that the world should hear of him. Goethe.
Who does the best his circumstance allows, / Does well, does nobly; angels could no more. Young.
Who doth not work shall not eat. Pr.
Who ever loved that loved not at first sight? 15 Marlowe.
Who fastest walks, but walks astray, / Is only farthest from his way. Prior.
Who fears death forfeits life. Seume.
Who fears to do ill sets himself a task; / Who fears to do well sure should wear a mask. Herbert.
Who feels injustice, who shrinks before a slight, who has a sense of wrong so acute, and so glowing a gratitude for kindness, as a generous boy? Thackeray.
Who firmly can resolve, he conquers grief. 20 Goethe.
Who follows all things forfeiteth his will. George Herbert.
Who forces himself on others is to himself a load. Impetuous curiosity is empty and inconstant. Prying intrusion may be suspected of whatever is little. Lavater.
Who gets by play proves loser in the end. Heath.
Who gives a trifle meanly is meaner than the trifle. Lavater.
Who gives the lilies clothing, / Will clothe his 25 people too. Cowper.
Who goes a-borrowing, goes a-sorrowing. Pr.
Who had hoped for triumph, but who was prepared for sacrifice. I. Disraeli.
Who has a daring eye tells downright truths and downright lies. Lavater.
Who has a head will not want a hat. It. Pr.
Who has not felt how sadly sweet / The dream 30 of home, the dream of home, / Steals o'er the heart, too soon to fleet, / When far o'er sea or land we roam? / Sunlight more soft may o'er us fall, / To greener shores our bark may come; / But far more bright, more dear than all, / That dream of home, that dream of home. Moore.
Who hath a greater combat than he that laboureth to overcome himself? Thomas à Kempis.
Who hath not known ill fortune never knew himself or his own virtue. Mallet.
Who here with life would sport, / In life shall prosper never; / And he who ne'er will rule himself, / A slave shall be for ever. Goethe.
Who, in the midst of just provocation to anger, instantly finds the fit word which settles all around him in silence, is more than wise or just; he is, were he a beggar, of more than royal blood—he is of celestial descent. Lavater.
Who in want a hollow friend doth try, / 35 Directly seasons him his enemy. Ham., iii. 2.
Who is a stranger to those who have the habit of speaking kindly. Hitopadesa.
Who is sure he hath a soul, unless / It see and judge, and follow worthiness, / And by deeds praise it? He who doth not this / May lodge an inmate soul, but 'tis not his. Donne.
Who is sure of his own motives can with confidence advance or retreat. Goethe.
Who is the best captain of a ship? The grumbler and the man of discipline, who will have things as they ought to be, even though he lose every sailor serving under him by his severity. John Wagstaffe.
Who is the best general? The grumbler who 40 insists upon having everything in mathematical order, and who has not the smallest drop of the milk of human kindness about him, whenever it is a question of duty or efficiency. John Wagstaffe.
Who is the happiest man? He who is alive to the merit of others, and can rejoice in their enjoyment as if it were his own. Goethe.
Who is the most sensible man? He who finds what is to his own advantage in all that happens to him. Goethe.
Who is there almost, whose mind at some time or other, love or anger, fear or grief, has not so fastened to some clog that it could not turn itself to any other object? Locke.
Who is there that can clutch into the wheel-spokes of destiny, and say to the spirit of the time: Turn back, I command thee? Wiser were it that we yielded to the inevitable and inexorable, and accounted even this the best. Carlyle.
Who is't can say, I'm at the worst? / I'm worse than ere I was, / And worse I may be yet; the worst is not, / So long as we can say, / This is the worst. Lear, iv. 1.
Who judgeth well, well God them send; / Who judgeth evil, God them amend. Sir Thomas Wyatt.
Who keeps no guard upon himself is slack, / And rots to nothing at the next great thaw. George Herbert.
Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, but he who kills a good book kills reason itself. Milton.
Who knows art half, speaks much and is always 5 wrong; who knows it wholly, inclines to act, and speaks seldom or late. Goethe.
Who knows not that truth is strong, next to the Almighty? She needs no politics, nor stratagems, nor licensings to make her victorious; those are the shifts and the defences that error uses against her power; give her but room and do not bind her when she sleeps. Milton.
Who knows the mind has the key to all things else. A. B. Alcott.
Who knows what Love is, may not sup / On that which is not still divine. Dr. W. Smith.
Who leaves all receives more. Emerson.
Who looks not before finds himself behind. 10 Pr.
Who loves his own sweet shadow in the streets / Better than e'er the fairest she he meets. Burns.
Who loves me, loves my dog. L. Pr.
Who loves, raves. Byron.
Who made the heart, 'tis He alone / Decidedly can try us; / He knows each chord, its various tone, / Each spring, its various bias. / Then at the balance let's be mute, / We never can adjust it; / What's done we partly may compute, / But know not what's resisted. Burns.
Who make poor "will do" wait upon "I 15 should;" / We own they're prudent, but who owns they're good? Burns.
Who marks in church-time others' symmetry, / Makes all their beauty his deformity. George Herbert.
Who never climbs will never fa'. Sc. Pr.
Who never doubted never half believed. Bailey.
Who overcomes / By force, hath overcome But half his foe. Milton.
Who pants for glory finds but short repose; / 20 A breath revives him or a breath o'erthrows. Pope.
Who plays for more / Than he can lose with pleasure, stakes his heart. George Herbert.
Who questioneth much, shall learn much, and content much. Bacon.
Who riseth from a feast / With that keen appetite that he sits down? / Where is the horse that doth untread again / His tedious measures with the unabated fire / That he did pace them first? All things that are / Are with more spirit chaséd than enjoy'd. Mer. of Venice, ii. 6.
Who say, I care not, those I give for lost; / And to instruct them, 'twill not quit the cost. George Herbert.
Who seeks Him in the dark and cold, / With 25 heart that elsewhere finds no rest, / Some fringe of the skirts of God shall hold, / Though round his spirit the mists may fold, / With eerie shadows and fears untold. Dr. W. Smith.
Who shall be true to us, / When we are so unsecret to ourselves? Troil. and Cress., iii. 2.
Who shall decide when doctors disagree, / And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me. Pope.
Who shall place / A limit to the giant's unchained strength, / Or curb his swiftness in the forward race? W. C. Bryant.
Who shall say that Fortune grieves him, / While the star of hope she leaves him? Burns.
Who should be trusted when one's right 30 hand / Is perjured to the bosom? Two Gent. of Verona, v. 4.
Who shuts love out shall be shut out from love. Tennyson.
Who so firm that cannot be seduced? Jul. Cæs., i. 2.
Who so unworthy but may proudly deck him / With his fair-weather virtue, that exults / Glad o'er the summer main? The tempest comes, / The rough winds rage aloud; when from the helm / This virtue shrinks, and in a corner lies / Lamenting. Thomson.
Who soars too near the sun with golden wings melts them. Shakespeare.
Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the 35 deepest in man, and finds the readiest response. A. B. Alcott.
Who spouts his message to the wilderness, / Lightens his soul and feels one burden less; / But to the people preach, and you will find / They'll pay you back with thanks ill to your mind. Goethe, Prof. Blackie's translation.
Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; / 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands; / But he that filches from me my good name, / Robs me of that which not enriches him, / And makes me poor indeed. Othello, iii. 3.
Who surpasses or subdues mankind / Must look down on the hate of those below. Byron.
Who the race of men doth love, / Loves also him above. Lewis Morris.
Who to dumb forgetfulness a prey, / This 40 pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd; / Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, / Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind? Gray.
Who track the steps of glory to the grave. Byron.
Who trusts in God fears not his rod. Goethe.
Who values a good night's rest will not lie down with enmity in his heart if he can help it. Sterne.
Who values that anger which is consumed only in empty menaces? Goldsmith.
Who walks through fire will hardly heed the 45 smoke. Tennyson.
Who watches not catches not. Dut. Pr.
"Who will guard the guards?" says a Latin verse,—"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" I answer, "The enemy." It is the enemy who keeps the sentinel watchful. Mme. Swetchine.
Who will not mercy unto others show, / How can he mercy ever hope to have? Spenser.
Who would bear the whips and scorns of time, / The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, / The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, / The insolence of office and the spurns / That patient merit of the unworthy takes, / When he himself might his quietus make / With a bare bodkin? Ham., iii. 1.
Who would check the happy feeling / That inspires the linnet's song? / Who would stop the swallow wheeling / On her pinions swift and strong? Wordsworth.
Who would fardels bear, / To grunt and sweat under a weary life, / But that the dread of something after death, / The undiscover'd country from whose bourn / No traveller returns, puzzles the will, / And makes us rather bear those ills we have / Than fly to others that we know not of? Ham., iii. 1.
Whoever acquires knowledge but does not 5 practise it, is as one who ploughs but does not sow. Saadi.
Whoever aims at doing or enjoying all and everything with his entire nature, whoever tries to link together all that is without him by such a species of enjoyment will only lose his time in efforts that can never be successful. Goethe.
Whoever can administer what he possesses, has enough, and to be wealthy is a burdensome affair, unless you understand it. Goethe.
Whoever can discern truth has received his commission from a higher source than the chiefest judge in the world, who can discern only law. Thoreau.
Whoever can make two ears of corn or two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, deserves better of mankind, and does more service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together. Swift.
Whoever can turn his weeping eyes to heaven 10 has lost nothing, for there above is everything he can wish for here below. He only is a loser who persists in looking down on the narrow plains of the present time. Jean Paul.
Whoever converses much among old books will be hard to please among new. Temple.
Whoever despises mankind will never get the best out of others or himself. Tocqueville.
Whoever does not respect confidence will never find happiness in his path. Saying.
Whoever fights, whoever falls, / Justice conquers evermore. Emerson.
Whoever gives himself to this (evil-speaking and 15 evil-wishing), soon comes to be indifferent towards God, contemptuous towards the world, spiteful towards his equals; and the true, genuine indispensable sentiment of self-estimation corrupts into self-conceit and presumption. Goethe.
Whoever has lived twenty years ought to know how to order himself without physic. Tiberius, quoted by Montaigne.
Whoever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings. Joubert.
Whoever has seen the masked at a ball dance amicably together, and take hold of hands without knowing each other, leaving the next moment to meet no more, can form an idea of the world. Vauvenargues.
Whoever has sixpence is sovereign over all men—to the extent of the sixpence; commands cooks to feed him, philosophers to teach him, kings to mount guard over him—to the extent of sixpence. Carlyle.
Whoever has so far formed his taste as to be 20 able to relish and feel the beauties of the great masters, has gone a great way in his study. Joshua Reynolds.
Whoever is a genuine follower of truth, keeps his eye steady upon his guide, indifferent whither he is lead, provided that she is the leader. Burke.
Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him. Haste and hurry are very different things. Chesterfield.
Whoever is king, is also the father of his country. Congreve.
Whoever is out of patience is out of possession of his soul. Bacon.
Whoever may / Discern true ends will grow 25 pure enough / To love them, brave enough to strive for them, / And strong enough to reach them, though the road be rough. E. B. Browning.
Whoever perseveres will be crowned. Herder.
Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors. Voltaire.
Whoever sinks his vessel by overloading it, though it be with gold, and silver, and precious stones, will give his owner but an ill account of his voyage. Locke.
Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, / Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be. Pope.
Whoever will thrust Magdalen into the pit 30 will find that he has dropped with her into the flames the key that should have opened heaven for him, and assuredly shall he remain outside until she, her purification completed, shall take pity on him and bring it thence. Celia Burleigh.
Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. Johnson.
Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide from us that he possesses one. Goethe.
Whoever would persuade men to religion both with art and efficacy, must found the persuasion of it upon this, that it interferes not with any rational pleasure, that it bids nobody quit the enjoyment of any one thing that his reason can prove to him ought to be enjoyed. South.
Whole, half, and quarter mistakes are very difficult and troublesome to correct and sift, and it is hard to set what is true in them in its proper place. Goethe.
Wholesome berries thrive and ripen best, / 35 Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality. Hen. V., i. 1.
Wholly a man of action, with speech subservient thereto. Carlyle of his father.
Whom God teaches not, man cannot. Gael.
Whom Heaven has made a slave, no parliament of men, nor power that exists on earth, can render free. Carlyle.
"Whom the gods love die young," was said of yore. Byron.
Whom the grandeur of his office elevates over other men will soon find that the first hour of his new dignity is the last of his independence. Chancellor D'Aguesseau.
Whom the heart of man shuts out, straightway the heart of God takes in. Lowell.
Whom well inspir'd the oracle pronounced / Wisest of men. Milton, of Socrates.
Whose faith has centre everywhere, / Nor cares to fix itself to form. Tennyson.
Whoso believes, let him begin to fulfil. Carlyle. 5
Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain. Bible.
Whoso can look on death will start at no shadows. Greek saying.
Whoso can speak well is a man. Luther.
Whoso cannot obey cannot be free, still less bear rule; he that is the inferior of nothing, can be the superior of nothing, the equal of nothing. Carlyle.
Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his 10 lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness. Bible.
Whoso devours the substance of the poor will at length find in it a bone to choke him. Fr. Pr.
Whoso does not good, does evil enough. Pr.
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord. Bible.
Whoso hath love in his heart hath spurs in his sides. It. Pr.
Whoso findeth me (Wisdom) findeth life, and 15 shall obtain favour of the Lord. Bible.
Whoso hath skill in this art (music) is of a good temperament, fitted for all things. Martin Luther.
Whoso is not a misanthropist at forty can never have loved his kind. Chamfort.
Whoso keepeth the fig-tree shall eat the fruit thereof; so he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured. Bible.
Whoso lives for humanity must be content to lose himself. O. B. Frothingham.
Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his 20 Maker; and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished. Bible.
Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house. Bible.
Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression, the same is the companion of a destroyer. Bible.
Whoso serves the public is a poor creature (ein armes Thier); he worries himself, and no one is grateful to him for his services. Goethe.
Whoso should combine the intrepid candour and decisive scientific clearness of Hume with the reverence, the love, and devout humility of Johnson, were the whole man of a new time. Carlyle.
Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the 25 poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard. Bible.
Whoso trusteth in the Lord, happy is he. Bible.
Whoso, without poetic frenzy, knocks at the doors of the Muses, presuming that his art alone will suffice to make him a poet, both he and his poetry are hopelessly thrown away. Plato.
Whoso would find God must bring him with him; thou seest him in things outside of thee, only when he is within thee. Rückert.
Whoso would work aright must not concern himself about what is ill done, but only do well himself. Goethe.
Whoso would write clearly must think clearly, 30 and if he would write in a noble style, he must first possess a noble soul. Goethe.
Whosoever and whatsoever introduces itself and appears, in the firm earth of human business, or, as we well say, comes into existence, must proceed from the world of the supernatural; whatsoever of a material sort deceases and disappears might be expected to go thither. Carlyle.
Whosoever forsaketh not all that he hath, cannot be my disciple. Jesus.
Whosoever has not seized the whole cannot yet speak truly (much less musically, concordantly) of any part. Carlyle.
Whosoever hath not patience, neither doth be possess philosophy. Saadi.
Whosoever hath his mind fraught with many 35 thoughts, his wits and understanding do clarify and break up, in the communicating and discoursing with another. He tosseth his thoughts more easily, he marshalleth them more orderly, he seeth how they look when they are turned into words; finally, he waxeth wiser than himself. Bacon.
Whosoever, in the frame of his nature and affections, is unfit for friendship, he taketh it of the beast, and not from humanity. Bacon.
"Whosoever quarrels with his fate, does not understand it," says Bettine; and among all her inspired sayings, she spoke none wiser. Mrs. Child.
Whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother. Jesus.
Whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted. Jesus.
Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of 40 God as a little child, he shall not enter therein. Jesus.
Whosoever will be great among you, let him be your servant. Jesus to his disciples.
Whosoever will save his life shall lose it; and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it. Jesus.
Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; / And He that might the vantage best have took / Found out the remedy. How would you be / If He, which is the top of judgment, should / But judge you as you are? Meas. for Meas., ii. 2.
Why am I loth to leave this earthly scene? / Have I so found it full of pleasing charms? / Some drops of joy with draughts of ill between; / Some gleams of sunshine 'mid renewing storms. Burns.
Why are taste (Geschmack) and genius so 45 seldom willing to unite? The former is shy of power, the latter scorns restraint. Schiller.
Why complain of wanting light? It is courage, energy, perseverance that I want. Carlyle.
Why do we discover faults so much more readily than perfections? Mme. de Sévigné.
Why do we pray to Heaven without setting our own shoulder to the wheel? Carlyle.
Why does it signify to us what they think of us after death, when our being has become only an empty sound? Auerbach.
Why does that hyssop grow there in the chink of the wall? Because the whole universe, sufficiently occupied otherwise, could not hitherto prevent its growing. It has the might and the right. Carlyle.
Why don't the men propose, mamma? / Why 5 don't the men propose? T. H. Bayly.
Why dost thou try to find / Where charity doth flow? / Upon the waters cast thy bread, / Who eats it, who may know? Goethe.
Why has not man a microscopic eye? / For this plain reason—man is not a fly. Pope.
Why insist, ye heroes, against the will of Jupiter, in pressing a Hercules into your enterprise? Know ye not that for him there is quite other work appointed, which he must do all alone, and not another with him? Ed.
Why is it that Love must so often sigh in vain for an object, and Hate never? Jean Paul.
Why is it that we can better bear to part in 10 spirit than in body, and, while we have the fortitude to act farewell, have not the nerve to say it? Dickens.
Why is there no man who confesses his vices? It is because he has not yet laid them aside. It is a waking man only who can tell his dreams. Sen.
Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world / Like a Colossus, and we petty men / Walk under his huge legs and peep about / To find ourselves dishonourable graves. Jul. Cæs., i. 2.
Why, nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal. Tam. the Shrew, i. 2.
Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, / Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, / And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, / Than in the perfumed chambers of the great, / Under the canopies of costly state, / And lull'd with sounds of sweetest melody? 2 Hen. IV., iii. 1.
Why seek at once to dive into / The depth of 15 all that meets your view? / Wait for the melting of the snow, / And then you'll see what lies below. Prof. Blackie from Goethe.
Why should a man, whose blood is warm within, / Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster? Mer. of Venice, i. 1.
"Why should calamity be full of words?" / "Let them have scope; though what they do impart / Help not at all, yet do they ease the heart." Rich. III., iv. 4.
Why should honour outlive honesty? Othello, v. 2.
Why should I make a shadow where God makes all so bright? Dr. Walter Smith.
Why should not conscience have vacation / 20 As well as other courts o' th' nation? Butler.
Why should the Garment of Praise destroy the Spirit of Heaviness? Because an old woman cannot sing and cry at the same moment... one emotion destroys another. Prof. Drummond.
Why should the poor be flatter'd? / No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, / And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee, / Where thrift may follow fawning. Ham., iii. 2.
Why should thy satisfaction be placed upon a thing which makes thee not one whit the better or the worse? Thomas à Kempis.
Why should we crave a hallow'd spot? / An altar is in each man's cot, / A church in every grove that spreads / Its living roof above our heads. Wordsworth.
Why should we faint and fear to live alone, / 25 Since all alone, so Heaven has willed, we die, / Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own, / Knows half the reasons why we smile or sigh? Keble.
Why should we go a-jaunting when the heart wants to repose. Dr. Walter Smith.
Why should we have any serious disgust at kitchens? Perhaps they are the holiest recesses of the house. There is the hearth, after all,—and the settle, and the fagots, and the kettle, and the crickets. They are the heart, the left ventricle, the very vital part of the house. Thoreau.
Why so large cost, having so short a lease, / Dost thou upon thy fading mansion spend? Shakespeare.
Why such heat (crushing superstition)? Other nonsense, quite equal to it, will be almost sure to follow. Frederick the Great to Voltaire.
Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker if it 30 is not the truth that he is speaking? If an eloquent speaker is not speaking the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation? Carlyle.
Why, then, the world's mine oyster, / Which I with sword will open. Merry Wives, ii. 2.
Why, universal plodding prisons up / The nimble spirits in the arteries, / As motion and long-during action tires / The sinewy vigour of the traveller. Love's L. Lost, iv. 3.
Why, what should be the fear? / I do not set my life at a pin's fee; / And for my soul, what can it do to that, / Being a thing immortal as itself? Ham., i. 4.
Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark upon the face, especially the eyes. Schopenhauer.
Wickedness is its own punishment. Quarles. 35
Wickedness is voluntary frenzy, and every sinner does more extravagant things than any man that is crazed and out of his wits, only that he knows better what he does. Tillotson.
Wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction. Jesus.
Wide our world displays its worth, man's strife and strife's success, / All the good and beauty, wonder crowning wonder, / Till my heart and soul applaud perfection, nothing less. Browning.
Wide will wear, but tight will tear. Pr.
Wie alles sich zum Ganzen webt / Eins in 40 dem andern wirkt und lebt!—How everything weaves itself into the whole; one works and lives in the other. Goethe.
Wie bitter sind der Trennung Leiden!—How bitter are the pangs of parting! Mozart.
Wie das Auge, hat das Herz / Seine Sprache ohne Worte—The heart, like the eye, has its speech without words. Bodenstedt.
Wie das Gestirn, / Ohne Hast, / Aber ohne Rast, / Drehe sich jeder / Um die eigne Last—Like a star, without haste, yet without rest, let each one revolve round his own task. Goethe.
Wie der alte verbrennt, steigt der neue sogleich wieder aus der Asche hervor—(Our passions are true phœnixes;) when the old one is burnt out, the new one rises straightway out of its ashes. Goethe.
Wie der Sternenhimmel still und bewegt—Like the starry heavens, still and in motion. J. C. F. Hölderlin.
Wie die Alten sungen, so zwitschern auch die 5 Jungen—As the old birds sing, so will the young ones twitter.
Wie die Blumen die Erd', und die Sterne den Himmel / Zieren, so zieret Athen Hellas und Hellas die Welt—As the flowers adorn the earth and the stars the sky, so Athens adorns Greece, and Greece the world. Herder.
Wie ein Pfeil nach seinem Ziele fliegt des braven Mannes Wort—Like an arrow to its aim flies the good man's word. Platen.
Wie eng-gebunden des Weibes Glück!—How straitened is the lot of woman! Goethe.
Wie fruchtbar ist der kleinste Kreis, / Wenn man ihn wohl zu pflegen weiss!—How fruitful the smallest space if we but knew how to cultivate it! Goethe.
Wie gewonnen, so zerronnen—Easily gained, 10 easily spent.
Wie ist das Menschenherz so klein! / Und doch auch da zieht Gott herein—How small is the human heart, and yet even there God enters in. W. Hey.
Wie schränkt sich Welt und Himmel ein, / Wenn unser Herz in seinen Schranken banget!—How earth and heaven contract when our heart frets within its barriers! Goethe.
Wie? Wann? und Wo? Die Götter bleiben stumm. / Du halte dich ans Weil, und frage nicht Warum?—How? when? and where? the gods keep silence. Keep you to the "Because," and ask not "Why?" Goethe.
Wild ambition loves to slide, not stand; / And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land. Dryden.
Wilful waste makes woeful want. Pr. 15
Will a courser of the sun work softly in the harness of a dray-horse? His hoofs are of fire, and his path is through the heavens, bringing light to all lands; will he lumber on mud highways, dragging ale for earthly appetites from door to door? Carlyle on the career and sorrowful fate of Burns.
Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood / Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather / The multitudinous seas incarnadine, / Making the green one red. Macb., ii. 2.
Will is deaf, and hears no heedful friends. Shakespeare.
Will it, and set to work briskly. Schiller.
Will localises us; thought universalises us. 20 Amiel.
Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity. Schopenhauer.
"Will-to-do," which is the spirit of the true God, is eternally incompatible with "wish-to-have," which is the proper spirit of the false. Ed.
Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, / Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike. Pope.
Willows are weak, yet they bind other wood. Pr.
Willst du den Dichter verstehen, so lerne wie 25 Dichter empfinden—Wilt thou understand a poet, then learn to feel as a poet. G. Keil.
Willst du dich am Ganzen erquicken, / So musst du das Ganze im Kleinsten erblicken—Wilt thou strengthen thyself in the whole, then must thou see the whole in the least object. Goethe.
Willst du immer weiter schweifen? / Sieh, das Gute liegt so nah! / Lerne nur das Glück ergreifen, / Denn das Glück ist immer da—Wilt thou for ever roam? See, what is good lies so near thee! Only learn to seize the good fortune that offers, for it is ever there. Goethe.
Willst du in's Unendliche schreiten, / Geh' nur im Endliche nach allen Seiten—Wouldst thou step forward into the infinite, keep strictly within the limits of the finite. Goethe.
Willst du leben, musst du dienen; willst du frei sein, musst du sterben—Wouldst thou love, thou must serve; would thou be free, thou must die. Hegel.
Willst du mit Kinderhänden / In des Schicksals 30 Speichen greifen? / Seines Donnerwagens Lauf / Hält kein sterblich Wesen auf—Wilt thou clutch the spokes of destiny with thy child's hands? The course of its car of thunder no mortal hand can stay. Grillparzer.
Willst lustig leben, geh' mit zwei Säcken, / Einen zu geben, einen um einzustecken—Would you live a merry life, go with two wallets, one for giving out and one for putting in. Goethe.
Wilt thou draw near the nature of the gods? Draw near them, then, in being merciful. Sh.
Wilt thou know a man, above all a mankind, by stringing together beadrolls of what thou namest facts? The man is the spirit he worked in; not what he did, but what he became. Carlyle.
Wilt thou know thyself, see how others do; wilt thou understand others, look into thine own heart. Schiller.
"Win hearts," said Burleigh to Queen Elizabeth, 35 "and you have all men's hearts and purses." Smiles.
Wine and youth are fire upon fire. Fielding.
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. Bible.
Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy. Fielding.
Wine neither keeps secrets nor fulfils promises. Pr.
Wine washes off the daub. Pr. 40
Wings have we—and as far as we can go, / We may find pleasure: wilderness and wood, / Blank ocean and mere sky, support that mood / Which with the lofty, sanctifies the low. Wordsworth.
Wink at small faults. Pr.
Wir Menschen sind ja alle Brüder—We men are for certain all brothers. Zschokke.
Wisdom alone is a science of other sciences and of itself. Plato.
Wisdom and Fortune combating together, / If that the former dare but what he can, / No chance may shake it. Ant. and Cleo., iii. 11.
Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times. Bible.
Wisdom becomes nonsense (Unsinn) in the mouth of a fanatic (Schwärmer). Otto Ludwig.
Wisdom begins at the end. Webster.
Wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth 5 darkness. Bible.
Wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it. Bible.
Wisdom is a pearl; with most success / Sought in still water and beneath clear skies. Cowper.
Wisdom is intrinsically of a silent nature; it cannot at once, or completely at all, be read off in words, and is only legible in whole when its work is done. Carlyle.
Wisdom is justified of her children. Jesus.
Wisdom is not found with those who dwell at 10 their ease; rather Nature, when she adds brain, adds difficulty. Emerson.
Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. Wordsworth.
Wisdom is only in truth. Goethe.
Wisdom is that attribute through which every action of a man receives its ideal value or import (Gehalt). Schleiermacher.
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding. Bible.
Wisdom is too high for a fool. Bible. 15
Wisdom makes a slow defence against trouble, though at last a sure one. Goldsmith.
Wisdom may be the ultimate arbiter, but is seldom the immediate agent in human affairs. Sir J. Stephen.
Wisdom may sometimes wear a look austere, / But smiles and jests are oft her helpmates here. De Bosch.
Wisdom not only gets, but, got, retains. Quarles.
Wisdom picks friends; civility plays the rest. / 20 A toy shunn'd cleanly passeth with the best. George Herbert.
Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath understanding. Bible.
Wisdom sends us to childhood; "unless ye become as little children." Pascal.
Wisdom sits with children round her knees. Wordsworth.
Wisdom sometimes walks in clouted shoes. Pr.
Wisdom that is hid, and treasure that is 25 hoarded up, what profit is in them both? Ecclus.
Wisdom, which represents the marriage of truth and virtue, is by no means synonymous with gravity. She is L'Allegro as well as Il Penseroso, and jests as well as preaches. Whipple.
Wisdom will out; it is the one thing in this world that cannot be suppressed or annulled. John Burroughs.
Wisdom's a trimmer thing than shop e'er gave. George Herbert.
Wisdom's path is steep; but, gained the height, / The Muse's gifts will fill you with delight. Onestes.
Wise above that which is written. St. Paul. 30
Wise, cultivated, genial conversation is the best flower of civilisation, and the best result which life has to offer us—a cup for gods, which has no repentance. Conversation is our account of ourselves. All we have, all we can, all we know is brought into play, and as the reproduction, in finer form, of all our havings. Emerson.
Wise is the man prepared for either end, / Who in due measure can both spare and spend. Lucian.
Wise kings have generally wise councillors, as he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one. Diogenes.
Wise men are instructed by reason; men of less understanding, by experience; the most ignorant, by necessity; and beasts, by nature. Cic.
Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will 35 speak five times from their taste or their humour to one from their reason. Emerson.
Wise men are wise but not prudent, in that they know nothing of what is for their own advantage, but know surpassing things, marvellous things, difficult things, and divine things. Ruskin.
Wise men argue causes, and fools decide them. Anacharsis.
Wise men, for the most part, are silent at present, and good men powerless; the senseless vociferate, and the heartless govern; while all social law and providence are dissolved by the enraged agitation of a multitude, among whom every villain has a chance of power, every simpleton of praise, and every scoundrel of fortune. Ruskin.
Wise men mingle mirth with their cares, as a help either to forget or overcome them; but to resort to intoxication for the ease of one's mind is to cure melancholy by madness. Charron.
Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, / But 40 cheerly seek how to redress their harms. 3 Hen. VI., v. 4.
Wise men say nothing in dangerous times. Selden.
Wise sayings are as saltpits; you may extract salt out of them, and sprinkle it where you will. Cic.
Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are pierced and discovered. Bacon.
Wise sayings are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart. John Morley.
Wise to resolve, and patient to perform. Pope. 45
Wise, well-calculated breeding of a young soul lies fatally over the horizon in these epochs. Carlyle.
Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast. Rom. and Jul., ii. 3.
Wishing, of all employments, is the worst. Young.
Wissen ist leichter als thun—To know is easier than to do. Ger. Pr.
Wit and judgment often are at strife, / Though 50 meant each other's aid, like man and wife. Pope.
Wit and understanding are trifles without integrity. Goldsmith.
Wit and wisdom are born with a man. Selden.
Wit, bright, rapid, and blasting as the lightning, flashes, strikes, and vanishes in an instant; humour, warm and all-embracing as the sunshine, bathes its object in a genial and abiding light. Whipple.
Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly. Montaigne.
Wit is a pernicious thing when it is not tempered 5 with virtue and humanity. Addison.
Wit is brushwood, judgment timber; the one gives the greatest flame, the other yields the durablest heat; and both meeting make the best fire. Sir Thomas Overbury.
Wit is of the true Pierian spring, that can make anything of anything. Chapman.
Wit marries ideas lying wide apart, by a sudden jerk of the understanding. Whipple.
Wit once bought is worth twice taught. Pr.
Wit strews a single ray (of the prism) separated 10 from the rest upon an object; never white light, that is the province of wisdom. Holmes.
Wit, when neglected by the great, is generally despised by the vulgar. Goldsmith.
Wit without employment is a disease. Burton.
Wit without wisdom is salt without meat. Horne.
Wit-work is always play, when it is good. Ruskin.
Wit's an unruly engine, wildly striking / Sometimes 15 a friend, sometimes the engineer: / Hast thou the knack? pamper it not with liking; / But if thou want it, buy it not too dear. George Herbert.
Witchcraft has been put a stop to by Act of Parliament, but the mysterious relations which it emblemed still continue. Carlyle.
With all appliances and means to boot. 2 Hen. IV., iii. 1.
With bag and baggage. As You Like It, iii. 2.
With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, / Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb. Milton.
With consistency a great soul has simply 20 nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Emerson.
With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, / Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought. Churchill.
With devotion's visage / And pious action we do sugar over / The devil himself. Ham., iii. 1.
With disadvantages enough to call him down to humility, a Scotchman is one of the proudest things alive. Goldsmith.
With every anguish of our earthly part the spirit's sight grows clearer; this was meant when Jesus touched the blind man's lids with clay. Lowell.
With every breath we draw, an ethereal 25 stream of Lethe runs through our whole being, so that we have but a partial recollection of our joys, and scarcely any of our sorrows. Goethe.
With faith, martyrs, otherwise weak, can cheerfully endure the shame and the cross: and without it worldlings puke up their sick existence, by suicide, in the midst of luxury. Carlyle.
With fingers weary and worn, / With eyelids heavy and red, / A woman sat in unwomanly rags, / Plying her needle and thread—/ Stitch! stitch! stitch! Hood.
"With it, or upon it, my son." A Spartan mother, when she handed her son his shield as he set out to fight for his country.
With just enough of learning to misquote. Byron.
With love come life and hope. John Sterling. 30
With malice towards none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right. John Quincy Adams.
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. Mer. of Ven., i. 1.
With moral, political, religious considerations, high and dear as they may otherwise be, the philosopher, as such, has no concern. Carlyle.
With much we surfeit; plenty makes us poor. Drayton.
With narrow-minded persons, and those in a 35 state of mental darkness, we find conceit: while with mental clearness and high endowments we never find it. In such cases there is generally a joyful feeling of strength, but since this strength is actual, the feeling is anything else you please, only not conceit. Goethe.
With none who bless us, none whom we can bless—/ This is to be alone; this, this is solitude! Byron.
With necessity, the tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds. Milton.
With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable. Sir T. F. Buxton.
With parsimony a little is sufficient, and without it nothing is sufficient, whereas frugality makes a poor man rich. Sen.
With patient mind thy path of duty run; / 40 God nothing does, nor suffers to be done, / But thou thyself wouldst do, if thou couldst see / The end of all events as well as he. (?)
With poetry, as with going to sea, we should push from the shore and reach a certain elevation before we unfurl all our sails. Goethe.
With poetry second-rate in quality, no one ought to be allowed to trouble mankind. Ruskin.
With remembrance of the greater grief to banish the less. Howard, Earl of Surrey.
With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have ever lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor. Thoreau.
With some life is exactly like a sleigh-drive, 45 showy and tinkling, but affording just as little for the heart as it offers much to eyes and ears. Goethe.
With stupidity and sound digestion man may front much; but what in these dull, unimaginative days are the terrors of conscience to the diseases of the liver! Carlyle.
With temperance, health, cheerfulness, friends, a chosen task, one pays the cheapest fees for living, and may well dispense with other physicians. A. B. Alcott.
With the dead there is no rivalry. In the dead there is no change. Plato is never sullen. Cervantes is never petulant. Demosthenes never comes unseasonably. Dante never stays too long. Macaulay.
With the Gospels one becomes a heretic. It. Pr.
With the majority of men unbelief in one thing is founded on blind belief in another thing. Lichtenberg.
With the possession or certain expectation of 5 good things our demand rises, and increases our capacity for further possession and larger expectations. Schopenhauer.
With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy. Round it all the Muses sing. Emerson.
With too much quickness ever to be taught; / With too much thinking to have common thought. Pope.
With virtue, capacity, and good conduct, one still can be insupportable. The manners, which are neglected as small things, are often those which decide men for or against you. A slight attention to them would have prevented their ill judgments. La Bruyère.
With well-doing ye may put to silence foolish men. St. Peter.
With what a heavy and retarding weight does 10 expectation load the wing of time. William Mason.
With what is debateable I am unconcerned; and when I have only opinions about things... I do not talk about them. I attack only what cannot on any possible ground be defended; and state only what I know to be incontrovertibly true. Ruskin.
With women worth the being won, / The softest lover ever best succeeds. Aaron Hill.
Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour's house; lest he be weary of thee, and so hate thee. Bible.
Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it. Bible.
Within man is the soul of the whole; the 15 wise silence, the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related—the Eternal One. Emerson.
Within that awful volume lies / The mystery of mysteries. Scott.
Within the hollow crown / That rounds the mortal temples of a king, / Keeps Death his court. Rich. II., iii. 2.
Within the most starched cravat there passes a windpipe and weasand, and under the thickliest embroidered waistcoat beats a heart. Carlyle.
Within us all a universe doth dwell. Goethe.
Within yourselves deliverance must be 20 sought; / Each man his prison makes. Sir Edwin Arnold.
Without a belief in personal immortality religion surely is like an arch resting on one pillar, like a bridge ending in an abyss. Max Müller.
Without a God there is for man neither purpose, nor goal, nor hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness. Jean Paul.
Without a rich heart wealth is an ugly beggar. Emerson.
Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, / And asks no omen but his country's cause. Pope.
Without adversity a man hardly knows 25 whether he is honest or not. Fielding.
Without affecting stoicism, it may be said that it is our business to exempt ourselves as much as we can from the power of external things. Johnson.
Without cheerfulness no man can be a poet. Emerson.
Without discretion learning is pedantry and wit impertinence; virtue itself looks like weakness. The best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice. Addison.
Without earnestness there is nothing to be done in life; yet among the people we name cultivated, little earnestness is to be found. Goethe.
Without economy none can be rich, and with 30 it few can be poor. Johnson.
Without enjoyment, the wealth of the miser is the same to him as if it were another's. But when it is said of a man "he hath so much," it is with difficulty he can be induced to part with it. Hitopadesa.
Without eyes thou shalt want light: profess not the knowledge therefore that thou hast not. Ecclus.
Without friends no one would choose to live, even if he had all other good things. Arist.
Without God in the world. St. Paul.
Without great men, great crowds of people in 35 a nation are disgusting; like moving cheese, like hills of ants or of fleas—the more, the worse. Emerson.
Without great men nothing can be done. Renan.
Without justice society is sick, and will continue sick till it dies. Froude.
Without me ye can do nothing. Jesus to his disciples.
Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility. Amiel.
Without passion there is no geniality. Mommsen. 40
Without philosophy we should be little above the lower animals. Voltaire.
Without poetry our science will appear incomplete, and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry. Matthew Arnold.
Without real masters you cannot have servants. Carlyle.
Without some strong motive to the contrary, men united by the pursuit of a clearly defined common aim of irresistible attractiveness naturally coalesce; and since they coalesce naturally, they are clearly right in coalescing and find their advantage in it. Matthew Arnold.
Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact 45 teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always inquiring never learn anything. I. Disraeli.
Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma. Joubert.
Without the way there is no going; without the truth, no knowing; without the life, no living. Thomas à Kempis.
Without were fightings, within were fears. St. Paul.
Without wonder there is no faith. Jean Paul.
Witticisms please as long as we keep them 5 within bounds, but pushed to excess they cause offence. Phædr.
Witty, above all, O be not witty; none of us is bound to be witty, under penalties; to be wise and true we all are, under the terriblest penalties. Carlyle.
Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. Bacon.
Wo der Teufel nicht hin mag; da send er seinen Boten hin—Where the devil cannot come, he will send his messenger. Ger. Pr.
Wo fasse ich dich, unendliche Natur?—Where can I grasp thee, infinite Nature? Goethe.
Wo grosse Höh', ist grosse Tiefe—Where there 10 is great height there is great depth. Schiller.
Wo innen Sklaverei ist, wird sie von aussen bald kommen—Where there is slavery in the heart, it will soon show itself in the outward conduct. Seume.
Wo man singet, lass dich ruhig nieder, / Ohne Furcht, was man am Lande glaubt; / Wo man singet wird kein Mensch beraubt; / Bösewichter haben keine Lieder—Where people sing, there quietly settle, never fearing what may be the belief of the people of the land. Where people sing, nobody will be robbed. Bad people have no songs. Seume.
Wo viel Freiheit, ist viel Irrthum—Where there is much freedom there is much error. Schiller.
Wo viel Licht ist, ist starker Schatten—The shadow is deeper where the light is strong. Goethe.
Wo viel zu wagen ist, ist viel zu wägen—Where 15 there is much to risk, there is much to consider. Platen.
Woe does the heavier sit / Where it perceives it is but faintly borne. Rich. II., i. 3.
Woe, that too late repents. King Lear, i. 4.
Woe to every sort of culture which destroys the most effectual means of all true culture, and directs us to the end, instead of rendering us happy on the way. Goethe.
Woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up. Bible.
Woe to that land that's govern'd by a child. 20 Rich. III., ii. 3.
Woe unto him that is never alone, and cannot bear to be alone. Hamerton.
Woe unto you when all men speak well of you. Jesus.
Woe, woe to youth, to life, which idly boasts, / I am the End, and mine the appointed Way. Lewis Morris.
Wohl unglückselig ist der Mann, / Der unterlässt das, was er kann, / Und unterfängt sich, was er nicht versteht; / Kein Wunder, dass er zu Grunde geht—Unhappy indeed is the man who leaves off doing what he can do, and undertakes to do what he does not understand; no wonder he comes to no good. Goethe.
Wohlgethan überlebt den Tod—Well-done outlives 25 death. Ger. Pr.
Wohlthätigheit kennt keinen Unterschied der Nation—Charity knows no distinction of nation. Count Moltke.
Wollt ihr auf Menschen wirken, / Müsst ihr erst Menschen werden—Would you have an influence over men, you must first become men. Sallet.
Wollt ihr immer leben?—Would you live for ever? Frederick the Great to his guards, on their complaining of what they thought exposure to unnecessary danger.
Wolves in sheep's clothing. Jesus, of false prophets.
Woman alone knows true loyalty of affection. 30 Schiller.
Woman, divorced from home, wanders unfriended like a waif upon the wave. Goethe.
Woman endeavours to breed her daughter a fine lady, qualifying her for a station in which she will never appear, and at the same time incapacitating her for that retirement to which she is destined. Lady Montagu.
Woman, in accordance with her unbroken, clear-seeing nature, loses herself, and what she has of heart and happiness, in the object she loves. Jean Paul.
Woman is at once the delight and the terror of man. Amiel.
Woman is like the reed which bends to every 35 breeze, but breaks not in the tempest. Whately.
Woman is mistress of the art of completely embittering the life of the person on whom she depends. Goethe.
Woman is not undevelopt man, / But diverse; could we make her as the man, / Sweet love were slain: his dearest bond is this / Not like to like, but like in difference. Tennyson.
Woman is seldom merciful to the man who is timid. Bulwer Lytton.
Woman is the blood-royal of life; let there be slight degrees of precedency among them, but let them be all sacred. Burns.
Woman is the lesser man. Tennyson. 40
Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. Amiel.
Woman is too soft to hate permanently; even if a hundred men have been a grief to her, she will still love the hundred and first. G. Kinkel.
Woman, last at the cross and earliest at the grave. E. S. Barret.
Woman, once made equal to man, becometh his superior. Soc.
Woman sees deep; man sees far. To the man 45 the world is his heart; to the woman the heart is her world. Grabbe.
Woman's at best a contradiction still. Pope.
Woman's cause is man's; they rise or sink / Together, dwarfed or godlike, bond or free. Tennyson.
Woman's counsel is not worth much, yet he that despises it is no wiser than he should be. Cervantes.
Woman's dignity lies in her being unknown; her glory, in the esteem of her husband; and her pleasure, in the welfare of her family. Rousseau.
Woman's fear and love hold quantity; / In neither aught, or in extremity. Ham., iii. 2.
Woman's function is a guiding, not a determining one. Ruskin.
Woman's grief is like a summer storm, short as it is violent. Joanna Baillie.
Woman's heart is just like a lithographer's stone—what is once written upon it cannot be rubbed out. Thackeray.
Woman's love, like lichens upon a rock, will 5 still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself. Bovee.
Woman's power is for rule, not for battle; and her intellect is not for invention or creation, but for sweet ordering, arrangement, and decision. Ruskin.
Woman's power is over the affections. A beautiful dominion is hers, but she risks its forfeiture when she seeks to extend it. Bovee.
Woman's tongue is her sword, which she never lets rust. Mme. Necker.
Woman's virtue is the music of stringed instruments, which sound best in a room; but man's that of wind instruments, which sound best in the open air. Jean Paul.
Woman's work, grave sirs, is never done. 10 Eusden.
Women always show more taste in adorning others than themselves; and the reason is, that their persons are like their hearts—they read another's better than they can their own. Jean Paul.
Women and clergymen have so long been in the habit of using pretty words without troubling themselves to understand them, that they now revolt from the effort, as if it were impiety. Ruskin.
Women and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are endangered. Jean Paul.
Women are as roses, whose fair flower / Being once display'd, doth fall that very hour. Twelfth Night, ii. 4.
Women are born worshippers. Carlyle. 15
Women are confined within the narrow limits of domestic assiduity, and when they stray beyond them they move beyond their sphere, and consequently without grace. Goldsmith.
Women are ever in extremes; they are either better or worse than men. La Bruyère.
Women are like limpets, they need something to hold on by. Sigma.
Women are the poetry of the world, in the same sense as the stars are the poetry of heaven. Clear, light-giving, harmonious, they are the terrestrial planets that rule the destinies of mankind. Hargrave.
Women bestow on friendship only what they 20 borrow from love. Chamfort.
Women cannot see so far as men can, but what they do see they see quicker. Buckle.
Women exceed the generality of men in love. La Bruyère.
Women famed for their valour, their skill in politics or their learning, leave the duties of their own sex in order to invade the privileges of men's. Goldsmith.
Women forgive injuries, but never forget slights. T. C. Haliburton.
Women have a kind of sturdy sufferance 25 which qualifies them to endure beyond, much beyond, the common run of men, but... they are by no means famous for seeing remote consequences in all their real importance. Burns.
Women, it has been observed, are not naturally formed for great cares themselves, but to soften ours. Goldsmith.
Women judge women hardly;... they have no shading, / No softening tints, no generous allowance / For circumstance to make the picture human, / And true because so human. Dr. Walter Smith.
Women know by nature how to disguise their emotions far better than the most consummate male courtiers can do. Thackeray.
Women, like princes, find few real friends. Lord Lyttleton.
Women, like the plants in woods, derive their 30 softness and tenderness from the shade. Landor.
Women may fall when there's no strength in men. Rom. and Jul., ii. 3.
Women, priests, and poultry have never enough. Pr.
Women should learn betimes to serve according to station, for by serving alone she at last attains to the mastery, to the due influence which she ought to possess in the household. Goethe.
Women that are the least bashful are not unfrequently the most modest; and we are never more deceived than when we would infer any laxity of principle from that freedom of demeanour which often arises from a total ignorance of vice. Colton.
Women, though they have the warmest hearts, 35 are no citizens of the world, scarcely citizens of a town or a village, but only of their own home. Jean Paul.
Women who have lost their faith / Are angels who have lost their wings. Dr. Walter Smith.
Women wish to be loved, not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves. Amiel.
Women's hearts are made of stout leather; there's a plaguy sight of wear in them. Judge Haliburton.
Women's jars breed men's wars. Pr.
Women's rage, like shallow water, / Does 40 but show their hurtless nature; / When the stream seems rough and frowning, / There is still least fear of drowning. Durfey.
Women's sins are not alone the ills they do, / But those that they provoke you to. Dr. Walter Smith.
Wonder is from surprise, and surprise ceases upon experience. South.
Wonder on till truth make all things plain. Mid. N.'s Dream.
"Wonder," says Aristotle, "is the first cause of philosophy." This is quite as true in the progress of the individual as in that of the concrete mind; and the constant aim of philosophy is to destroy its parent. Bulwer Lytton.
Wondrous indeed is the virtue of a true book. Not like a dead city of stones, yearly crumbling, yearly needing repair; more like a tilled field, but then a spiritual field; like a spiritual tree, let me rather say, it stands from year to year, and from age to age (we have books that already number some one hundred and fifty human ages); and yearly comes its new produce of leaves (commentaries, deductions, philosophical, political systems, or were it only sermons, pamphlets, journalistic essays), every one of which is talismanic and thaumaturgic, for it can persuade men. Carlyle.
Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance. Carlyle.
Woodman, spare that tree! / Touch not a single bough! / In youth it sheltered me, / And I'll protect it now. G. P. Morris.
Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words. Emerson.
Words are but poor interpreters in the realms 5 of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realises; and hence the secret of its strange, ineffable power. H. R. Haweis.
Words are but wind, but seein's believin'. Sc. Pr.
Words are fools' pence. Pr.
Words are good, but they are not the best. The best is not to be explained by words. Goethe.
Words are like leaves, and when they most abound / Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. Pope.
Words are like sea-shells on the shore; they 10 show / Where the mind ends, and not how far it has been. Bailey.
Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things. Izaak Walton.
Words are rather the drowsy part of poetry; imagination the life of it. Owen Feltham.
Words are the motes of thought, and nothing more. Bailey.
Words are things, and a small drop of ink, / Falling like dew upon a thought, produces / That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. Byron.
Words are wise men's counters, but they are 15 the money of fools. Hobbes.
Words are women, deeds are men. George Herbert.
Words become luminous when the finger of the poet touches them with his phosphorus. Joubert.
Words do sometimes fly from the tongue that the heart did neither hatch nor harbour. Feltham.
Words, like Nature, half reveal / And half conceal the soul within. Tennyson.
Words may be counterfeit, false coined, and 20 current only from the tongue, without the mind; but passion is in the soul, and always speaks the heart. Southern.
Words of love are works of love. W. R. Alger.
Words pay no debts. Troil. and Cress., iii. 2.
Words that are now dead were once alive. A. Coles.
Words, "those fickle daughters of the earth," are the creation of a being that is finite, and when applied to explain that which is infinite, they fail; for that which is made surpasses not the maker; nor can that which is immeasurable by our thoughts be measured by our tongues. Colton.
Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath 25 give. Macb., ii. 1.
Words which flow fresh and warm from a full heart, and which are instinct with the life and breath of human feeling, pass into household memories, and partake of the immortality of the affections from which they spring. Whipple.
Words without thoughts never to heaven go. Ham., iii. 3.
Work, according to my feeling, is as much of a necessity to man as eating and sleeping. Even those who do nothing which to a sensible man can be called work, still imagine that they are doing something. The world possesses not a man who is an idler in his own eyes. W. v. Humboldt.
Work alone is noble. Carlyle.
"Work and wait," "Work and wait," is what 30 God says to us in creation and in providence. J. G. Holland.
Work earnestly at anything, you will by degrees learn to work at almost all things. Carlyle.
Work first, you are God's servants; fee first, you are the fiend's. Ruskin.
Work for eternity: not the meagre rhetorical eternity of the periodical critics, but for the real eternity, wherein dwelleth the Divine. Carlyle.
Work for immortality if you will: then wait for it. J. G. Holland.
Work for some good, be it ever so slowly; / 35 Cherish some flower, be it ever so lowly; / Labour! all labour is noble and holy: / Let thy great deeds be thy prayer to thy God. Francis S. Osgood.
Work, go, fall, rise, speak, be silent! In this manner do the rich sport with those needy men, who are held by the grip of dependence. Hitopadesa.
Work is for the living. Carlyle.
Work is not man's punishment; it is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure. George Sand.
Work is of a religious nature,—work is of a brave nature, which it is the aim of all religion to be. "All work of man is as the swimmer's." A waste ocean threatens to devour him; if he front it not bravely, it will keep its word. By incessant wise defiance of it, lusty rebuke and buffet of it, behold how it loyally supports him,—bears him as its conqueror along! "It is so," says Goethe, "with all things that man undertakes in this world." Carlyle.
Work is only done well when it is done with 40 a will. Ruskin.
Work is our business; its success is God's. Ger. Pr.
Work is the cure for all the maladies and miseries of man—honest work, which you intend getting done. Carlyle.
Work is the inevitable condition of human life, the true source of human welfare. Tolstoi.
Work is the mission of man on this planet. Carlyle.
Work is the only universal currency which God accepts. A nation's welfare will depend on its ability to master the world; that, on power of work; that, on its power of thought. Theodore Parker.
Work, properly so called, is an appeal from the Seen to the Unseen—a devout calling upon Higher Powers; and unless they stand by us, it will not be a work, but a quackery. Carlyle.
Work till the last beam fadeth, / Fadeth to shine no more; / Work while the night is darkening, / When man's work is o'er. Walker.
Work touches the keys of endless activity, 5 opens the infinite, and stands awe-struck before the immensity of what there is to do. Phillips Brooks.
Work was made for man, and not man for work. J. G. Holland.
Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, / And hope without an object cannot live. Coleridge.
Work, work, work, / Till the brain begins to swim; / Work, work, work, / Till the eyes are heavy and dim; / Seam, and gusset, and band, / Band, and gusset, and seam, / Till over the buttons I fall asleep, / And sew them on in a dream. Hood.
Works of true merit are seldom very popular in their own day; for knowledge is on the march, and men of genius are the "præstolatores" or "videttes," that are far in advance of their comrades. They are not with them, but before them; not in the camp, but beyond it. Colton.
Worldly affairs, which my friends thought so 10 heavy upon me, they are most of them of our own making, and fall away as soon as we know ourselves. Law.
Worldly riches are like nuts; many clothes are torn in getting them, many a tooth broke in cracking them, but never a belly filled with eating them. R. Venning.
Worse than being fool'd / Of others, is to fool one's self. Tennyson.
Worse than despair, / Worse than the bitterness of death, is hope; / It is the only ill which can find place / Upon the giddy, sharp, and narrow hour / Tottering beneath us. Shelley.
Worship is transcendent wonder; wonder for which there is no limit or measure. Carlyle.
Worship that is false will kill the soul as 15 quickly as no worship. Saying.
Worship your heroes from afar; contact withers them. Mme. Necker.
Worte sind der Seele Bild—Words are the soul's magic. Goethe.
Worte sind gut, wenn Werke folgen—Words are good if works follow. Ger. Pr.
Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; / The rest is all but leather or prunello. Pope.
Worth many thousand is the first salute; / 20 Him that salutes thee, therefore, friendly greet. Goethe.
Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live. Socrates.
Would they could sell us experience, though at diamond prices, but then no one would use the article second-hand! Balzac.
Would we but pledge ourselves to truth as heartily as we do to a real or imaginary mistress, and think life too short only because it abridges our time of service, what a new world we should have! Lowell.
Would we but quit ourselves like men, and resolutely stand our ground, we should not fail of succours from above. Thomas à Kempis.
Would Wisdom for herself be wooed, / And 25 wake the foolish from his dream, / She must be glad as well as good, / And must not only be, but seem. Coventry Patmore.
Would you have men think well of you, then do not speak well of yourself. Pascal.
Wouldst thou a maiden make thy prize, / Thyself alone the bribe must be. Goethe.
Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it? George Herbert.
Wouldst thou know thyself, then see how others act; wouldst thou understand others, look thou into thine own heart. Schiller.
Wouldst thou plant for eternity? then plant 30 into the deep infinite faculties of man, his fantasy and heart. Wouldst thou plant for year and day? then plant into his shallow superficial faculties, his self-love and arithmetical understanding, what will grow there. Carlyle.
"Wouldst thou," so the helmsman answered, / "Learn the secret of the sea? / Only those who brave its dangers / Comprehend its mystery!" Longfellow.
Wouldst thou subject all things to thyself? Subject thyself to reason. Seneca.
Wouldst thou the life of souls discern? / Nor human wisdom nor divine / Helps thee by aught beside to learn; / Love is life's only sign. Keble.
Wouldst thou travel the path of truth and goodness? Never deceive either thyself or others. Goethe.
Wounds and hardships provoke our courage, 35 and when our fortunes are at the lowest, our wits and minds are commonly at the best. Charron.
Wounds cannot be cured without searching. Bacon.
Wrap thyself up like a woodlouse, and dream revenge. Congreve.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. Pr.
Write how you will, the critic shall show the world you could have written better. Goldsmith.
Write, so much given to God; thou shalt be 40 heard. George Herbert.
Write thy wrongs in ashes. Sir T. Browne.
Writers of novels and romances in general bring a double loss on their readers—they rob them both of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, nor are likely to be; either confounding or perverting history and truth, inflating the mind, or committing violence upon the understanding. Mary Wortley Montagu.
Writing is not literature unless it gives to the reader a pleasure which arises not only from the things said, but from the way in which they are said; and that pleasure is only given when the words are carefully or curiously or beautifully put together into sentences. Stopford Brooke.
Written all of it (Christianity) in us already in sympathetic ink. Bible awakens it, and you can read. Dr. Chalmers to Carlyle in conversation.
Wrong is not only different from right, but it is in strict scientific terms infinitely different. Carlyle.
Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it for ever. It implies a discovery of weaknesses, which we are much more careful to conceal than crimes. Many a man will confess his crimes to a common friend, but I never knew a man who would tell his silly weaknesses to his most intimate one. Chesterfield.
Würf er einen Groschen auf's Dach, fiel ihm 5 ein Thaler herunter—If he threw a penny up, a dollar came down. Ger. Pr.