Dictionary of Quotations

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Each animal out of its habitat would starve. Emerson.

Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, / Exhausted worlds, and then imagined new. Johnson.

Each creature is only a modification of the other; the likeness in them is more than the difference, and their radical law is one and the same. Emerson.

Each creature seeks its perfection in another. Luther.

Each day still better other's happiness, / Until 5 the heavens, envying earth's good hap, / Add an immortal title to your crown. Rich. II., i. 1.

Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world, and the old man lives among graves. Jean Paul.

Each good thought or action moves / The dark world nearer to the sun. Whittier.

Each heart is a world. You find all within yourself that you find without. The world that surrounds you is the magic glass of the world within you. Lavater.

Each human heart can properly exhibit but one love, if even one; the "first love, which is infinite," can be followed by no second like unto it. Carlyle.

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid,/ The rude 10 forefathers of the hamlet sleep. Gray.

Each man begins the world afresh, and the last man repeats the blunders of the first. Amiel.

Each man can learn something from his neighbour; at least he can learn to have patience with him—to live and let live. Kingsley.

Each man has his fortune in his own hands, as the artist has a piece of rude matter, which he is to fashion into a certain shape. Goethe.

Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him. Emerson.

Each man sees over his own experience a 15 certain stain of error, whilst that of other men looks fair and ideal. Emerson.

Each man's chimney is his golden milestone, is the central point from which he measures every distance through the gateways of the world around him. Longfellow.

Each mind has its own method. A true man never acquires after college rules. Emerson.

Each must stand on his glass tripod, if he would keep his electricity. Emerson.

Each one of us here, let the world go how it will, and be victorious or not victorious, has he not a life of his own to lead? Carlyle.

Each particle of matter is an immensity, each 20 leaf a world, each insect an inexplicable compendium. Lavater.

Each plant has its parasite, and each created thing its lover and poet. Emerson.

Each present joy or sorrow seems the chief. Sh.

Each sin at heart is Deicide. Aubrey de Vere (the younger).

Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows, / Which show like grief itself, but are not so; / For sorrow's eye, glazed with blinding tears, / Divides one thing entire to many objects. Rich. II., ii. 2.

Each thing is a half, and suggests another thing 25 to make it whole; as spirit, matter; man, woman; odd, even; subjective, objective; in, out; motion, rest; yea, nay. Emerson.

Each thing lives according to its kind; the heart by love, the intellect by truth, the higher nature of man by intimate communion with God. Chapin.

Each year one vicious habit rooted out, in time might make the worst man good. Ben. Franklin.

Ea fama vagatur—That report is in circulation.

Eagles fly alone; they are but sheep that always herd together. Sir P. Sidney.

Eamus quo ducit gula—Let us go where our 30 appetite prompts us. Virg.

Early and provident fear is the mother of safety. Burke.

Early birds catch the worms. Sc. Pr.

Early, bright, transient, chaste, as morning dew, / She sparkled, was exhaled, and went to heaven. Young.

Early master soon knave (servant). Sc. Pr.

Early start makes easy stages. Amer. Pr. 35

Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. Pr.

Earn well the thrifty months, nor wed / Raw Haste, half-sister to Delay. Tennyson.

Earnest and sport go well together. Dan. Pr.

Earnestness alone makes life eternity. Goethe.

Earnestness in life, even when carried to an 40 extreme, is something very noble and great. W. v. Humboldt.

Earnestness is a quality as old as the heart of man. G. Gilfillan.

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason. Pascal.

Earnestness is the cause of patience; it gives endurance, overcomes pain, strengthens weakness, braves dangers, sustains hope, makes light of difficulties, and lessens the sense of weariness in overcoming them. Bovee.

Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties. Bovee.

Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand 45 sure. Browning.

Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat, / Sighing through all her work, gave sign of woe / That all was lost. Milton.

Earth has scarcely an acre that does not remind us of actions that have long preceded our own, and its clustering tombstones loom up like reefs of the eternal shore, to show us where so many human barks have struck and gone down. Chapin.

Earth hath no sorrow that heaven cannot heal. Moore.

Earth hath nothing more tender than a woman's heart when it is the abode of piety. Luther.

Earth is here (in Australia) so kind, just tickle 50 her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest. Douglas Jerrold.

Earthly pride is like a passing flower, that springs to fall and blossoms but to die. Kirke White.

Earth, sea, man, are all in each. Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

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

Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection. Burial Service.

Earth, turning from the sun, brings night to man. Young.

Earth with her thousand voices praises God. 5 Coleridge.

Earth's crammed with heaven, / And every common bush afire with God. Leigh.

Earth's noblest thing, a woman perfected. Lowell.

Ease and honour are seldom bed-fellows. Sc. Pr.

Ea sola voluptas / Solamenque mali—That was his sole delight and solace in his woe. Virg.

East and west, home (hame) is best Eng. and 10 Sc. Pr.

Ea sub oculis posita negligimus; proximorum incuriosi, longinqua sectamur—We disregard the things which lie under our eyes; indifferent to what is close at hand, we inquire after things that are far away. Pliny.

Easy-crying widows take new husbands soonest; there's nothing like wet weather for transplanting. Holmes.

Easy writing's curst hard reading. Sheridan.

Eat at your own table as you would eat at the table of the king. Confucius.

Eat at your pleasure, drink in measure. Pr. 15

Eating little and speaking little can never do harm. Pr.

Eating the bitter bread of banishment. Rich. II., iii. 1.

Eat in measure and defy the doctor. Sc. Pr.

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others. Ben. Franklin.

Eat-weel's drink-weel's brither. Sc. Pr. 20

Eat what you like, but pocket nothing. Pr.

Eau bénite de cour—False promises (lit. holy water of the court). Fr.

Eau sucrée—Sugared water. Fr.

[Greek: Heauton timôroumenos]—The self-tormentor. Menander.

Ebbe il migliore / De' miei giorni la patria—The 25 best of my days I devoted to my country. It.

E bello predicare il digiuno a corpo pieno—It is easy to preach fasting with a full belly. It. Pr.

Eben die ausgezeichnetsten Menschen bedürfen der Religion am meisten, weil sie die engen Grenzen unseres menschlichen Verstandes am liebhaftesten empfinden—It is just the most eminent men that need religion most, because they feel most keenly the narrow limits of our human understanding. Cötvös.

Eben wo Begriffe fehlen, / Da stellt ein Wort zur rechten Zeit sich ein—It is just where ideas fail that a word comes most opportunely to the rescue. Goethe.

E buon comprare quando un altro vuol vendere—It is well to buy when another wishes to sell. It. Pr.

Ecce homo—Behold the man! Pontius Pilate. 30

Ecce iterum Crispinus!—Another Crispinus, by Jove! (a profligate at the court of Domitian). Juv.

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigour, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time. J. S. Mill.

Eccentricity is sometimes found connected with genius, but it does not coalesce with true wisdom. Jay.

Ecce signum—Here is the proof.

Eccovi l'uom ch' è stato all'Inferno—See, there's 35 the man that has been in hell. It. (Said of Dante by the people of Verona.)

Echoes we: listen! / We cannot stay, / As dewdrops glisten, / Then fade away. Shelley.

Echo is the voice of a reflection in a mirror. Hawthorne.

[Greek: Echthros gar moi keinos, homôs Aïdao pylêsin, / Hos ch' heteron men keuthei eni phresin, allo de bazei]—Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is he who conceals one thing in his mind and utters another. Hom.

[Greek: Echthrôn adôra dôra]—An enemy's gifts are no gifts. Soph.

Eclaircissement—The clearing up of a thing. Fr. 40

Eclat de rire—A burst of laughter. Fr.

E cœlo descendit [Greek: gnôthi seauton]—From heaven came down the precept, "Know thyself." Juv.

Economy does not consist in the reckless reduction of estimates; on the contrary, such a course almost necessarily tends to increased expenditure. There can be no economy where there is no efficiency. Disraeli.

Economy is an excellent lure to betray people into expense. Zimmermann.

Economy is half the battle of life; it is not so 45 hard to earn money as to spend it. Spurgeon.

Economy is the parent of integrity, of liberty, and of ease, and the beauteous sister of temperance, of cheerfulness, and health. Johnson.

Economy no more means saving money than it means spending money. It means the administration of a house, its stewardship; spending or saving, that is, whether money or time, or anything else, to the best possible advantage. Ruskin.

E contra—On the other hand.

E contrario—On the contrary.

Ecorcher l'anguille par la queue—To begin at 50 the wrong end (lit. to skin an eel from the tail). Fr.

Ecrasons l'infâme—Let us crush the abomination, i.e., superstition. Voltaire.

Edel ist, der edel thut—Noble is that noble does. Ger. Pr.

Edel macht das Gemüth, nicht das Geblüt—It is the mind, not the blood, that ennobles. Ger. Pr.

Edel sei der Mensch / Hülfreich und gut / Denn das allein / Unterscheidet ihn / Von allen Wesen / Die wir kennen—Be man noble, helpful, and good; for that alone distinguishes him from all the beings we know. Goethe.

Edition de luxe—A splendid and expensive edition 55 of a book. Fr.

Editiones expurgatæ—Editions with objectionable passages eliminated.

Editio princeps—The original edition.

Edo, ergo ego sum—I eat, therefore I am. Monkish Pr.

Educated persons should share their thoughts with the uneducated, and take also a certain part in their labours. Ruskin.

Educate men without religion, and you make them but clever devils. Wellington.

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment 5 which is at once best in quality and infinite in quantity. H. Mann.

Education begins its work with the first breath of the child. Jean Paul.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him. Locke.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearing of little children tends towards the formation of character. H. Ballou.

Education does not mean teaching people to know what they do not know; it means teaching them to behave as they do not behave. Ruskin.

Education gives fecundity of thought, copiousness 10 of illustration, quickness, vigour, fancy, words, images, and illustrations; it decorates every common thing, and gives the power of trifling without being undignified and absurd. Sydney Smith.

Education, however indispensable in a cultivated age, produces nothing on the side of genius. Where education ends, genius often begins. Isaac Disraeli.

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. E. Everett.

Education is generally the worse in proportion to the wealth and grandeur of the parents. D. Swift.

Education is only like good culture; it changes the size, but not the sort. Ward Beecher.

Education is only second to nature. H. Bushnell. 15

Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge. H. Mann.

Education is the apprenticeship of life. Willmott.

Education is the constraining and directing of youth towards that right reason which the law affirms, and which the experience of the best of our elders has sanctioned as truly great. Plato.

Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man. Wendell Phillips.

Education is the leading human souls to what 20 is best, and making what is best of them. The training which makes men happiest in themselves also makes them most serviceable to others. Ruskin.

Education may work wonders as well in warping the genius of individuals as in seconding it. A. B. Alcott.

Education of youth is not a bow for every man to shoot in that counts himself a teacher, but will require sinews almost equal to those which Homer gave Ulysses. Milton.

Education ought, as a first principle, to stimulate the will to activity. Zachariae.

Education should be as broad as man. Emerson.

[Greek: Ê hêkista ê hêdista]—Either the least or the 25 pleasantest.

Een diamant van eene dochter wordt een glas van eene vrouw—A diamond of a daughter becomes a glass of a wife. Dut. Pr.

Een dief maakt gelegenheid—A thief makes opportunity. Dut. Pr.

E'en from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, / E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. Gray.

Een hond aan een been kent geene vrienden—A dog with a bone knows no friends. Dut. Pr.

Een kleine pot wordt haast heet—A little pot 30 becomes soon hot. Dut. Pr.

Eenmaal is geen gewoonte—Once is no custom. Dut. Pr.

Een once geduld is meer dan een pond verstand—One ounce of patience is worth more than a pound of brains. Dut. Pr.

E'en though vanquished he could argue still. Goldsmith.

[Greek: hê eudaimonia tôn autarchôn esti]—Happiness is theirs who are sufficient for themselves. Arist.

Effloresco—I flourish. M. 35

Effodiuntur opes, irritamenta malorum—Riches, the incentives to evil, are dug out of the earth. Ovid.

Efforts, to be permanently useful, must be uniformly joyous,—a spirit all sunshine,—graceful from very gladness,—beautiful because bright. Carlyle.

Effugit mortem, quisquis contempserit: timidissimum quemque consequitur—Whoso despises death escapes it, while it overtakes him who is afraid of it. Curt.

E flamma cibum petere—To live by desperate means (lit. to seek food from the flames). Pr.

Efter en god Avler kommer en god Oder—After 40 an earner comes a waster. Dan. Pr.

Eftsoons they heard a most melodious sound. Spenser.

E fungis nati homines—Upstarts (lit. men born of mushrooms).

Egad! I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two. Sheridan.

[Greek: hê gar physis bebaion, ou ta chrêmata]—It is only the character of a man, not his wealth, that is stable. Arist.

Egen Arne er Guld værd—A hearth of one's own 45 is worth gold. Dan. Pr.

Eggs and oaths are easily broken. Dan. Pr.

Eggs of an hour, bread of a day, wine of a year, but a friend of thirty years is best. It. Pr.

[Greek: Engya; para d' atê]—Be security, and mischief is nigh. Thales.

Egli ha fatto il male, ed io mi porto la pena—He has done the mischief, and I pay the penalty. It. Pr.

Egli vende l'uccello in su la frasca—He sells the 50 bird on the branch. It. Pr.

Egli venderebbe sino alla sua parte del sole—He would sell even his share in the sun. It. Pr.

[Greek: Hê glôss' omômoch', hê de phrên anômotos]—My tongue has sworn, but my mind is unsworn. Eurip.

Ego apros occido, alter fruitur pulpamento—I kill the boars, another enjoys their flesh. Pr.

Ego de caseo loquor, tu de creta respondes—While I talk to you of cheese, you talk to me of chalk. Erasmus.

Ego ero post principia—I will get out of harm's way (lit. I will keep behind the first rank). Ter.

Ego et rex meus—I and my king. Cardinal Wolsey.

Ego hoc feci—That was my doing.

Egoism is the source and summary of all faults 5 and miseries whatsoever. Carlyle.

Ego meorum solus sum meus—I am myself the only friend I have. Ter.

Ego nec studium sine divite vena, / Nec rude quid prosit video ingenium—I see not what good can come from study without a rich vein of genius, or from genius untrained by art. Hor.

Ego primam tollo, nominor quoniam Leo—I carry off the first share because my name is Lion. Phædr. in the fable of the lion a-hunting with weaker companions.

Ego, si bonam famam mihi servasso, sat ero dives—If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough. Plaut.

Ego spem pretio non emo—I do not purchase 10 hope with money, i.e., I do not spend my resources upon vain hopes. Ter.

Ego sum, ergo omnia sunt—I am, and therefore all things are.

Ego sum rex Romanus et supra grammaticam—I am king of the Romans, and above grammar. The Emperor Sigismund at the Council of Constance.

Egotism erects its centre in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Schiller.

Egotism is the tongue of vanity. Chamfort.

Egotists are the pest of society. Emerson. 15

Egotists cannot converse; they talk to themselves only. A. B. Alcott.

Egregii mortalem, altique silenti—A being of extraordinary and profound silence. Hor.

Eher schätzet man das Gute / Nicht, als bis man es verlor—We do not learn to value our blessings till we have lost them. Herder.

Ehestand, Wehestand—State of wedlock, state of sorrow. Ger. Pr.

Eheu! fugaces, Posthume, Posthume, / Labuntur 20 anni, nec pietas moram / Rugis et instanti senectæ / Afferet, indomitæque morti—Alas! Posthumus, our years glide fleetly away, nor can piety stay wrinkles and advancing age and unvanquished death. Hor.

Eheu! quam brevibus pereunt ingentia causis!—Alas! what trifling causes often wreck the vastest enterprises. Claud.

Ehren und Leben / Kann Niemand zurück geben—No man can give back honour and life. Ger. Pr.

Ehret die Frauen! Sie flechten und weben / Himmlische Rosen ins irdische Leben—Honour to the women! they plait and weave roses of heaven for the life of earth. Schiller.

Ehret die Frauen! Sie stricken und weben / Wollene Strümpfe fürs frostige Leben—Honour to the women! they knit and weave worsted stockings for our frosty life. Volkswitz.

Ehrlich währt am längsten—Honesty lasts 25 longest. Ger. Pr.

[Greek: Ei de theon anêr tis elpetai lathemen / Erdôn, hamartanei]—If any man hopes that his deeds will pass unobserved by the Deity, he is mistaken. Pindar.

Eident (diligent) youth makes easy age. Sc. Pr.

Eifersucht ist eine Leidenschaft, die mit Eifer sucht was Leiden schafft—Jealousy is a passion which seeks with zeal what yields only misery. Schleiermacher.

Eigenliebe macht die Augen trübe—Self-love clouds the eyes. Ger. Pr.

"Ei ist Ei," sagte der Küster, aber er nahm 30 das Gans Ei—"An egg is an egg," said the sexton, but he took the goose-egg. Ger. Pr.

Eild and poortith are ill to thole, i.e., age and poverty are hard to bear. Sc. Pr.

Eild should hae honour, i.e., old people should. Sc. Pr.

Eile mit Weile—Haste with leisure. Ger. Pr.

Ein alter Fuchs läuft nicht zum zweiten Mal in's Garn—An old fox does not run into the snare a second time. Ger. Pr.

Ein Arzt darf auch dem Feind sich nicht 35 entziehen—A physician may not turn his back even on an enemy. Gutzkow.

Ein Augenblick, gelebt im Paradiese, / Wird nicht zu theuer mit dem Tod gebüsst—A moment lived in paradise is not purchased too dearly at the ransom of death. Schiller.

Einbildungskraft wird nur durch Kunst, besonders durch Poesie geregelt. Es ist nichts fürchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne Geschmack—Power of imagination is regulated only by art, especially by poetry. There is nothing more frightful than imaginative faculty without taste. Goethe.

Einbläsereien sind der Teufels Redekunst—Insinuations are the devil's rhetoric. Goethe.

Ein Diadem erkämpfen ist gross; es wegwerfen ist göttlich—To gain a crown by fighting for it is great; to reject it is divine. Schiller.

Ein Ding ist nicht bös, wenn man es gut 40 versteht—A thing is not bad if we understand it well. Ger. Pr.

Eine Bresche ist jeder Tag, / Die viele Menschen erstürmen; / Wer da auch fallen mag, / Die Todten sich niemals thürmen—Every day is a rampart breach which many men are storming; fall in it who may, no pile is forming of the slain. Goethe.

Ein edler Mann wird durch ein gutes Wort / Der Frauen weit geführt—A noble man is led a long way by a good word from women. Goethe.

Ein edler Mensch zieht edle Menschen an / Und weiss sie fest zu halten—A noble man attracts noble men, and knows how to hold them fast. Goethe.

Ein edles Beispiel macht die schweren Thaten leicht—A noble example makes difficult enterprises easy. Goethe.

Eine grosse Epoche hat das Jahrhundert 45 geboren; / Aber der grosse Moment findet ein kleines Geschlecht—The century has given birth to a great epoch, but it is a small race the great moment appeals to. Schiller.

Eine Hälfte der Welt verlacht die andere—One half of the world laughs at the other half. Ger. Pr.

Eine Handvoll Gewalt ist besser als Sackvoll Recht—A handful of might is better than a sackful of right. Ger. Pr.

Ein eigen Herd, ein braves Weib, sind Gold und Perlen werth—A hearth of one's own and a good wife are as good as gold and pearls. Ger. Pr.

Einen Wahn verlieren macht weiser als eine Wahrheit finden—Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth. Börne.

Einer kann reden und Sieben können singen—One can speak and seven can sing. Ger. Pr.

Einer neuen Wahrheit nichts ist schädlicher als ein alter Irrtum—Nothing is more harmful to a new truth than an old error. Goethe.

Eine Rose gebrochen, ehe der Sturm sie entblättert—A rose broken ere the storm stripped its petals. Lessing.

Eine schöne Menschenseele finden / Ist Gewinn—It 5 is a true gain to find a beautiful human soul. Herder.

Ein Esel schimpft den andern Langohr—One ass nicknames another Longears. Ger. Pr.

Eines schickt sich nicht für Alle! / Sehe jeder wie er's treibe, / Sehe jeder wo er bleibe, / Und wer steht, dass er nicht falle—One thing does not suit every one; let each man see how he gets on, where his limits are; and let him that standeth take heed lest he fall. Goethe.

Ein Feind ist zu viel, und hundert Freunde sind zu wenig—One foe is too many, a hundred friends are too few. Ger. Pr.

Ein fester Blick, ein hoher Mut, / Die sind zu allen Zeiten gut—A steady eye and a lofty mind are at all times good. Bechstein.

Ein geistreich aufgeschlossenes Wort / Wirkt 10 auf die Ewigkeit.—The influence of a spiritually elucidated (or embodied) word is eternal. Goethe.

Eingestandene Uebereilung ist oft lehrreicher, als kalte überdachte Unfehlbarkeit—A confessed precipitancy is often more instructive than a coldly considered certainty. Lessing.

Ein Gift, welches nicht gleich wirkt, ist darum kein minder gefährliches Gift—A poison which does not take immediate effect is therefore none the less a dangerous poison. Lessing.

Ein Gott ist, ein heiliger Wille lebt, / Wie auch der menschliche wanke; / Hoch über der Zeit und dem Raume webt / Lebendig der höchste Gedanke—A god is, a holy will lives, however man's will may waver; high over all time and space the highest thought weaves itself everywhere into life's web. Schiller.

Ein grosser Fehler; dass man sich mehr dünkt als man ist, und sich weniger schätzt, als man werth ist—It is a great mistake for people to think themselves more than they are, and to value themselves less than they are worth. Goethe.

Ein Herz das sich mit Sorgen quält / Hat 15 selten frohe Stunden—A heart which tortures itself with care has seldom hours of gladness. Old Ger. Song.

Ein jeder ist sich selbst der grösste Feind—Every one is his own greatest enemy. Schefer.

Ein jeder lebt's, nicht vielen ist's bekannt—Though every one lives it (life), it is not to many that it is known. Goethe.

Ein jeder lernet nur, was er lernen kann; / Doch der den Augenblick ergreift, / Das ist der rechte Mann—Each one learns only what he can; yet he who seizes the passing moment is the proper man. Goethe.

Ein jeder Wechsel schreckt den Glücklichen—Every change is a cause of uneasiness to the favoured of fortune. Schiller.

Ein Komödiant könnt' einen Pfarren lehren—A 20 playactor might instruct a parson. Goethe.

Ein Kranz ist gar viel leichter binden / Als ihm ein würdig Haupt zu finden—It is very much easier to bind a wreath than to find a head worthy to wear it. Goethe.

Ein langes Hoffen ist süsser, als ein kurzes Ueberraschen—A long hope is sweeter than a short surprise. Jean Paul.

Ein leerer Sack steht nicht aufrecht—An empty sack does not stand upright. Ger. Pr.

Ein mächtiger Vermittler ist der Tod—Death is a powerful reconciler. Schiller.

Einmal gerettet, ist's für tausend Male—To 25 be saved once is to be saved a thousand times. Goethe.

Ein Mann der recht zu wirken denkt / Muss auf das beste Werkzeug halten—A man who intends to work rightly must select the most effective instrument. Goethe.

Ein Mann, ein Wort; ein Wort, ein Mann—A man, a word; a word, a man. Ger. Pr.

Ein Mensch ohne Verstand ist auch ein Mensch ohne Wille—A man without understanding is also a man without will or purpose. Feuerbach.

Ein Mühlstein wird nicht moosig—A millstone does not become covered with moss. Ger. Pr.

Ein niedrer Sinn ist stolz im Glück, im Leid 30 bescheiden; / Bescheiden ist im Glück ein edler, stolz im Leiden—A vulgar mind is proud in prosperity and humble in adversity; a noble mind is humble in prosperity and proud in adversity. Rückert.

Ein "Nimm hin" ist besser als zehn "Helf Gott"—One "Take this" is better than ten of "God help you." Ger. Pr.

Ein offenes Herz zeigt eine offene Stirn—An open brow shows an open heart. Schiller.

Ein Pfennig mit Recht ist besser denn tausend mit Unrecht—A penny by right is better than a thousand by wrong. Ger. Pr.

Ein Schauspiel für Götter, / Zwei Liebende zu sehn!—To witness two lovers is a spectacle for gods. Goethe.

Ein Theil bin ich von jener Kraft, / Die stets 35 das Böse will und stets das Gute schafft—I am a part of that power which continually wills the evil and continually creates the good. Mephistopheles, in "Faust."

Ein Titel muss sie erst vertraulich machen—A degree is the first thing necessary to bespeak confidence in your profession. Goethe, in "Faust."

Ein Tropfen Hass, der in dem Freudenbecher / Zurückbleibt, macht den Segensdrank zum Gifte—A drop of hate that is left in the cup of joy converts the blissful draught into poison. Schiller.

Ein unterrichtetes Volk lässt sich leicht regieren—An educated people can be easily governed. Frederick the Great.

Ein üppig lastervolles Leben büsst sich / In Mangel und Erniedrigung allem—Only in want and degradation can a life of sensual profligacy be atoned for. Schiller.

Ein Vater ernährt eher zehn Kinder, denn zehn 40 Kinder einen Vater—One father supports ten children sooner than ten children one father. Ger. Pr.

Ein Vergnügen erwarten ist auch ein Vergnügen—To look forward to a pleasure is also a pleasure. Lessing.

Ein Volk ohne Gesetze gleicht einem Menschen ohne Grundsätze—A people without laws is like a man without principles. Zachariæ.

Ein vollkommener Widerspruch / Bleibt gleich geheimnissvoll für Kluge wie für Thoren—A flat contradiction is ever equally mysterious to wise folks as to fools. Goethe.

Ein Wahn der mich beglückt, / Ist eine Wahrheit wert die mich zu Boden drückt—An illusion which gladdens me is worth a truth which saddens me (lit. presses me to the ground). Wieland.

Ein wandernd Leben / Gefällt der freien Dichterbrust—A wandering life delights the free heart of the poet. Arion.

Ein wenig zu spät ist viel zu spät—A little too late is much too late. Ger. Pr.

Ein Wörtlein kann ihn fallen—A little word can 5 slay him. Luther, of the Pope.

Ein Wort nimmt sich, ein Leben nie zurück—A word may be recalled, a life never. Schiller.

[Greek: Eis anêr oudeis anêr]—One man is no man. Gr. Pr.

Either sex alone is half itself. Tennyson.

Eith (quickly) learned, soon forgotten. Sc. Pr.

[Greek: Ei ti agathon theleis, para seautou labe]—If 10 you would have anything good, seek for it from yourself. Arrian.

Ejusdem farinæ—Of the same kidney (lit. meal).

Ejusdem generis—Of the same kind.

El agujero llama al ladron—The hole tempts the thief. Sp. Pr.

El amor verdadero no sufre cosa encubierta—True love suffers no concealment. Sp. Pr.

Elati animi comprimendi sunt—Minds which are 15 too much elated ought to be kept in check.

El corazon manda las carnes—The heart bears up the body. Sp. Pr.

El corazon no es traidor—The heart is no traitor. Sp. Pr.

El dar es honor, y el pedir dolor—To give is honour; to lose, grief. Sp. Pr.

El diablo saba mucho, porque es viejo—The devil knows a great deal, for he is old. Sp. Pr.

El dia que te casas, ó te matas ó te sanas—The 20 day you marry, it is either kill or cure. Sp. Pr.

El Dorado—A region of unimagined wealth fabled at one time to exist in S. America; a dreamland of wealth. Sp.

Elegance is necessary to the fine gentleman, dignity is proper to noblemen, and majesty to kings. Hazlitt.

Elegit—He has chosen. A writ empowering a creditor to hold lands for payment of a debt. L.

Elephants endors'd with towers. Milton.

Elève le corbeau, il te crèvera les yeux—Bring 25 up a raven, he will pick out your eyes. Fr. Pr.

Elige eum cujus tibi placuit et vita et oratio—Make choice of him who recommends himself to you by his life as well as address. Sen.

Elk het zijne is niet te veel—Every one his own is not too much. Dut. Pr.

Ell and tell is gude merchandise, i.e., ready money is. Sc. Pr.

Elle a trop de vertus pour n'être pas chrétienne—She has too many virtues not to be a Christian. Corn.

Elle n'en fit point la petite bouche—She did not 30 mince matters (lit. make a small mouth about it). Fr. Pr.

Elle riait du bout des dents—She gave a forced laugh (lit. laughed with the end of her teeth). Fr. Pr.

El malo siempre piensa engaño—The bad man always suspects some knavish intention. Sp. Pr.

El mal que de tu boca sale, en tu seno se cae—The evil which issues from thy mouth falls into thy bosom. Sp. Pr.

El mal que no tiene cura es locura—Folly is the one evil for which there is no remedy. Sp. Pr.

Elocution is the adjustment of apt words and 35 sentiments to the subject in debate. Cic.

Eloignement—Estrangement. Fr.

Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the fancy or the affections, captivates the willing hearers, and subdues their understanding. Hume.

Eloquence is a pictorial representation of thought. Pascal.

Eloquence is in the assembly, not in the speaker. Wm. Pitt.

Eloquence is like flame: it requires matter to 40 feed on, motion to excite it, and it brightens as it burns. Tac.

Eloquence is the appropriate organ of the highest personal energy. Emerson.

Eloquence is the child of knowledge. When the mind is full, like a wholesome river, it is also clear. Disraeli.

Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools. Colton.

Eloquence is the painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, still add to it, make a picture instead of a portrait. Pascal.

Eloquence is the poetry of prose. Bryant. 45

Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak. Emerson.

Eloquence is to the sublime as a whole to its part. La Bruyère.

Eloquence must be grounded on the plainest narrative. Emerson.

Eloquence shows the power and possibility of man. Emerson.

Eloquence the soul, song charms the sense. 50 Milton.

Eloquence, to produce her full effect, should start from the head of the orator, as Pallas from the brain of Jove, completely armed and equipped. Colton.

El pan comido, la compañia deshecha—The bread eaten, the company dispersed. Sp. Pr.

El pie del dueño estierco para la heredad—The foot of the owner is manure for the farm. Sp. Pr.

El que trabaja, y madra, hila oro—He that labours and perseveres spins gold. Sp. Pr.

El rey va hasta do poede, y no hasta do quiere—The 55 king goes as far as he may, not as far as he would. Sp. Pr.

El rey y la patria—For king and country. Sp.

El rio pasado, el santo olvidádo—The river (danger) past, the saint (delivery) forgotten. Sp. Pr.

El sabio muda consejo, el necio no—The wise man changes his mind, the fool never. Sp. Pr.

El secreto á voces—An open secret. Calderon.

El tiempo cura el enfermo, que ne el unguento—It is time and not medicine that cures the disease. Sp. Pr.

Elucet maxime animi excellentia magnitudoque in despiciendis opibus—Excellence and greatness of soul are most conspicuously displayed in contempt of riches.

El villano en su tierra, y el hidalgo donde quiera—The clown in his own country, the gentleman where he pleases. Sp. Pr.

Elysian beauty, melancholy grace, / Brought from a pensive through a happy place. Wordsworth.

E mala cosa esser cattivo, ma è peggiore esser 5 conosciuto—It is a bad thing to be a knave, but worse to be found out. It. Pr.

Emas non quod opus est, sed quod necesse est: / Quod non opus est, asse carum est—Buy not what you want, but what you need; what you don't want is dear at a cent. Cato.

Embarras de richesses—An encumbrance of wealth. D'Allainval.

Embonpoint—Plumpness or fulness of body. Fr.

E meglio aver oggi un uovo, che dimani una gallina—Better an egg to-day than a hen to-morrow. It. Pr.

E meglio cader dalla finestra che dal tetto—It 10 is better to fall from the window than the roof. It. Pr.

E meglio dare che non aver a dare—Better give than not have to give. It. Pr.

E meglio domandar che errare—Better ask than lose your way. It. Pr.

E meglio esse fortunato che savio—'Tis better to be born fortunate than wise. It. Pr.

E meglio esse uccel di bosco che di gabbia—Better to be a bird in the wood than one in the cage. It. Pr.

E meglio il cuor felice che la borsa—Better the 15 heart happy than the purse (full). It. Pr.

E meglio lasciare che mancare—Better leave than lack. It. Pr.

E meglio perder la sella che il cavallo—Better lose the saddle than the horse. It. Pr.

E meglio sdrucciolare col piè che con la lingua—Better slip with the foot than the tongue. It. Pr.

E meglio senza cibo restar che senz' onore—Better be without food than without honour. It. Pr.

E meglio una volta che mai—Better once than 20 never. It. Pr.

E meglio un buon amico che cento parente—One true friend is better than a hundred relations. It. Pr.

[Greek: hê men gar sophia ouden theôrei ex hôn estai eudaimôn anthrôpos]—Wisdom never contemplates what will make a happy man. Arist.

Emere malo quam rogare—I had rather buy than beg.

Emerge from unnatural solitude, look abroad for wholesome sympathy, bestow and receive. Dickens.

Emeritus—One retired from active official duties. 25

Emerson tells us to hitch our waggon to a star; and the star is without doubt a good steed, when once fairly caught and harnessed, but it takes an astronomer to catch it. J. Borroughs.

Emerson wants Emersonian epigrams from Carlyle, and Carlyle wants Carlylean thunder from Emerson. The thing which a man's nature calls him to do, what else is so well worth his doing? John Borroughs.

Eminent positions are like the summits of rocks; only eagles and reptiles can get there. Mme. Necker.

Eminent stations make great men greater and little men less. La Bruyère.

Emori nolo, sed me esse mortuum nihil curo—I 30 would not die, but care not to be dead. Cæs.

Emotion is always new. Victor Hugo.

Emotion is the atmosphere in which thought is steeped, that which lends to thought its tone or temperature, that to which thought is often indebted for half its power. H. R. Haweis.

Emotion, not thought, is the sphere of music; and emotion quite as often precedes as follows thought. H. R. Haweis.

Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness. John Sterling.

[Greek: Emou thanontos gaia michthêtô pyri]—When I 35 am dead the earth will be mingled with fire. Anon.

Empfindliche Ohren sind, bei Mädchen so gut als bei Pferden, gute Gesundheitszeichen—In maidens as well as in horses, sensitive ears are signs of good health. Jean Paul.

Empires and nations flourish and decay, / By turns command, and in their turns obey. Ovid.

Empires are only sandhills in the hour-glass of Time; they crumble spontaneously by the process of their own growth. Draper.

Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are scattered abroad to the four winds. Wm. Blake.

Empirical sciences prosecuted simply for their 40 own sake, and without a philosophic tendency, resemble a face without eyes. Schopenhauer.

Employment and hardships prevent melancholy. Johnson.

Employment gives health, sobriety, and morals. D. Webster.

Employment is enjoyment. Pr.

Employment is Nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness. Galen.

Employ thy time well if thou meanest to gain 45 leisure, and, since you are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour. Ben. Franklin.

[Greek: Empodizei ton logon ho phobos]—Fear hampers speech. Demades.

Empressement—Ardour; warmth. Fr.

Empta dolore docet experientia—Experience bought with pain teaches effectually. Pr.

Empty vessels make the most noise. Pr.

Emulation admires and strives to imitate great 50 actions; envy is only moved to malice. Balzac.

Emulation, even in the brutes, is sensitively nervous; see the tremor of the thorough-bred racer before he starts. Bulwer Lytton.

E multis paleis paulum fructus collegi—Out of much chaff I have gathered little grain. Pr.

Emunctæ naris—Of nice discernment (lit. scent). Hor.

[Greek: Hena... alla leonta]—One, but a lion. Æsop.

En ami—As a friend. Fr.

En amour comme en amitié, un tiers souvent nous embarrasse—A third person is often an annoyance to us in love as in friendship. Fr.

En arrière—In the rear. Fr. 5

En attendant—In the meantime. Fr.

En avant—Forward; on. Fr.

En badinant—In jest. Fr.

En beau—In a favourable light. Fr.

En bloc—In a lump. Fr. 10

En boca cerrada no entra mosca—Flies don't enter a shut mouth. Sp. Pr.

En bon train—In a fair way. Fr.

En buste—Half-length. Fr.

En cada tierra su uso—Every country has its own custom. Sp. Pr.

Encouragement after censure is as the sun 15 after a shower. Goethe.

En cuéros—Naked. Sp.

Endeavouring, by logical argument, to prove the existence of God, were like taking out a candle to look for the sun. Carlyle, after Kant.

Endeavour not to settle too many habits at once, lest by variety you confound them, and so perfect none. Locke.

En dernier ressort—As a last resource. Fr.

En déshabille—In an undress. Fr. 20

En Dieu est ma fiance—In God is my trust. M.

En Dieu est tout—All depends on God. M.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty. Ruskin.

Endurance is the crowning quality, and patience all the passion, of great hearts. Lowell.

En échelon—Like steps. Fr. 25

En effet—In fact; substantially. Fr.

Ene i Raad, ene i Sorg—Alone in counsel, alone in sorrow. Dan. Pr.

En el rio do no hay pezes por demas es echar redes—It is in vain to cast nets in a river where there are no fish. Sp. Pr.

En émoi—In a flutter or ferment. Fr.

Energy may be turned to bad uses; but more 30 good may always be made of an energetic nature than of an indolent and impassive one. J. S. Mill.

Energy will do anything that can be done in this world; no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged animal a man without it. Goethe.

[Greek: En ergmasi de nika tychê, ou sthenos]—In great acts it is not our strength but our good fortune that has triumphed. Pindar.

En famille—In a domestic state. Fr.

Enfant gâté du monde qu'il gâtait—A child spoiled by the world which he spoiled. Said of Voltaire.

Enfants de famille—Children of the family. Fr. 35

Enfants perdus—The forlorn hope (lit. lost children). Fr.

Enfants terribles—Dreadful children; precocious youths who say and do rash things to the annoyance of their more conservative seniors. Fr.

Enfant trouvé—A foundling. Fr.

Enfermer le loup dans la bergerie—To shut up the wolf in the sheepfold; to patch up a wound or a disease. Fr. Pr.

En fin les renards se trouvent chez le pelletier—Foxes 40 come to the furrier's in the end. Fr. Pr.

Enflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages. Milton.

En foule—In a crowd. Fr.

England expects this day that every man shall do his duty. Nelson, his signal at Trafalgar.

England is a domestic country: here home is revered and the hearth sacred. Disraeli.

England is a paradise for women and a hell 45 for horses; Italy a paradise for horses and a hell for women. Burton.

England is safe if true within itself. 3 Hen. VI., iv. 1.

English speech, the sea that receives tributaries from every region under heaven. Emerson.

En grace affié—On grace depend. Fr.

En grande tenue—In full dress. Fr.

En habiles gens—Like able men. Fr. 50

Enjoying things which are pleasant, that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is. Carlyle.

Enjoyment soon wearies both itself and us; effort, never. Jean Paul.

Enjoyment stops when indolence begins. Pollock.

Enjoy the blessings of this day, if God sends them, and the evils bear patiently and sweetly. For this day only is ours; we are dead to yesterday and we are not born to to-morrow. Jeremy Taylor.

Enjoy what God has given thee, and willingly 55 dispense with what thou hast not. Every condition has its own joys and sorrows. Gellert.

Enjoy what thou hast inherited from thy sires if thou wouldst possess it; what we employ not is an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by. Goethe.

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must. Goethe.

Enjoy your little while the fool is seeking for more. Sp. Pr.

Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another. Condorcet.

En la cour du roi chacun y est pour soi—In the 60 court of the king it is every one for himself. Fr. Pr.

Enlarge not thy destiny; endeavour not to do more than is given thee in charge. Gr. Oracle.

En la rose je fleuris—In the rose I flourish. M.

En mariage, comme ailleurs, contentement passe richesse—In marriage, as in other states, contentment is better than riches. Molière.

En masse—In a body. Fr.

En mauvaise odeur—In bad repute. Fr. 65

Ennemi ne s'endort—An enemy does not go to sleep. Fr. Pr.

Ennui has perhaps made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair. Colton.

Ennui is a growth of English root, though nameless in our language. Byron.

Ennui is a word which the French invented, though of all nations in Europe they know the least of it. Bancroft.

Ennui is our greatest enemy. Justus Möser.

Ennui is the desire of activity without the fit means of gratifying the desire. Bancroft.

Ennui shortens life and bereaves the day of its 5 light. Emerson.

Ennui, the parent of expensive and ruinous vices. Ninon de l'Enclos.

Enough is as good as a feast. Pr.

Enough is better than too much. Pr.

Enough is great riches. Dan. Pr.

Enough is the wild-goose-chase of most men's 10 lives. Brothers Mayhew.

Enough—no foreign foe could quell / Thy soul, till from itself it fell; / Yes, self-abasement paved the way / To villain bonds and despot sway. Byron.

Enough requires too much; too much craves more. Quarles.

En papillote.—In curl-papers. Fr.

En parole je vis—I live by the word. Fr.

En passant—By the way. Fr. 15

En pension—Board at a pension. Fr.

En petit champ croît bien bon blé—Very good corn grows in a little field. Fr. Pr.

En peu d'heure Dieu labeure—God works in moments, i.e., His work is soon done. Fr.

En plein jour—In open day. Fr.

En potence—In the form of a gallows. Fr. 20

En présence—In sight of each other. Fr.

En queue—Behind.

Enquire not what is in another man's pot. Pr.

En rapport—In relation; in connection. Fr.

En règle—According to rules. Fr. 25

En resumé—Upon the whole. Fr.

En revanche—In revenge; to return; to make amends. Fr.

En route—On the way. Fr.

En salvo está el que repica—He is in safe quarters who sounds the alarm. Sp. Pr.

Ense et aratro—With sword and plough. M. 30

En suite—In company. Fr.

En suivant la vérité—In following the truth. Fr.

Entente cordiale—A good or cordial understanding. Fr.

Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm. Longfellow.

Enthusiasm flourishes in adversity, kindles in 35 the hour of danger, and awakens to deeds of renown. Dr. Chalmers.

Enthusiasm gives life to what is invisible, and interest to what has no immediate action on our comfort in this world. Mme. de Staël.

Enthusiasm imparts itself magnetically, and fuses all into one happy and harmonious unity of feeling and sentiment. A. B. Alcott.

Enthusiasm is grave, inward, self-controlled; mere excitement, outward, fantastical, hysterical, and passing in a moment from tears to laughter. John Sterling.

Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it. Bulwer Lytton.

Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the 40 passing from the human to the divine. Emerson.

Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding. Emerson.

Entienda primero, y habla postrero—Hear first and speak afterwards. Sp. Pr.

Entire affection hateth nicer hands. Spenser.

Entire love is a worship and cannot be angry. Leigh Hunt.

[Greek: En tô phronein gar mêden hêdistos bios]—The 45 happiest life consists in knowing nothing. Soph.

Entourage—Surroundings. Fr.

En toute chose il faut considérer la fin—In everything we must consider the end. Fr.

Entre chien et loup—In the dusk (lit. between dog and wolf). Fr.

Entre deux vins—To be half-seas over; to be mellow. Fr.

Entre esprit et talent il y a la proportion du 50 tout à sa partie—Wit is to talent as a whole to a part. La Bruyère.

Entre le bon sens et le bon goût il y a la différence de la cause à son effet—Between good sense and good taste, there is the same difference as that between cause and effect. La Bruyère.

Entre nos ennemis les plus à craindre sont souvent les plus petits—Of our enemies, the smallest are often the most to be dreaded. La Fontaine.

Entre nous—Between ourselves. Fr.

Entzwei und gebiete—Divide and rule. Ger. Pr.

Entzwei und gebiete! Tüchtig Wort: Verein' 55 und leite, Bessrer Hort—Divide and rule, an excellent motto: unite and lead, a better.

En vérité—In truth.

En vérité l'amour ne saurait être profond, s'il n'est pas pur—Love, in fact, can never be deep unless it is pure.

En vieillissant on devient plus fou et plus sage—As men grow old they become both foolisher and wiser. Fr. Pr.

En villig Hielper töver ei til man beder—One who is willing to help does not wait till he is asked. Dan. Pr.

Envy, among other ingredients, has a mixture 60 of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good fortune. Hazlitt.

Envy does not enter an empty house. Dan. Pr.

Envy feels not its own happiness but by comparison with the misery of others. Johnson.

Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another's prosperity, like the scorpion confined with a circle of fire, will sting itself to death. Colton.

Envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame, that nobody ever had the confidence to own it. Rochester.

Envy is ignorance. Emerson. 65

Envy is littleness of soul. Hazlitt.

Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred. La Roche.

Envy is the antagonist of the fortunate. Epictetus.

Envy is the deformed and distorted offspring of egotism. Hazlitt.

Envy is the most acid fruit that grows on the stock of sin, a fluid so subtle that nothing but the fire of divine love can purge it from the soul. H. Ballou.

Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock. J. Beaumont.

Envy ne'er does a gude turn but when it means an ill ane. Sc. Pr.

Envy will merit as its shade pursue, / But, like a shadow, proves the substance true. Pope.

Eodem collyrio mederi omnibus—To cure all 5 by the same ointment.

Eo instanti—At that instant.

Eo magis præfulgebat quod non videbatur—He shone the brighter that he was not seen. Tac.

[Greek: Epea pteroenta]—Winged words. Hom.

Epicuri de grege porcus—A pig of the flock of Epicurus.

[Greek: Epi to poly adikousin hoi anthrôpoi, hotan 10 dynôntai]—In general men do wrong whenever circumstances enable them. Arist.

E pluribus unum—One of many.

"Eppur si muove"—Yet it moves. Galileo, after he had been forced to swear that the earth stood still.

Equality (Gleichheit) is always the firmest bond of love. Lessing.

Equality (i.e., in essential nature) is the sacred law of humanity. Schiller.

Eques ipso melior Bellerophonte—A better 15 horseman than Bellerophon himself. Hor.

Equi et poetæ alendi, non saginandi—Horses and poets should be fed, not pampered. Charles IX. of France.

Equity is a roguish thing; for law we have a measure... (but) equity is according to the conscience of him who is chancellor, and, as that is larger or narrower, so is equity. Selden.

Equity judges with lenity, laws with severity. Scott.

Equivocation is half way to lying, and lying is the whole way to hell. W. Penn.

Equo frænato est auris in ore—The ear of the 20 bridled horse is in the mouth. Hor.

Equo ne credite, Teucri—Trust not the horse, Trojans. Virg.

Erant in officio, sed tamen qui mallent imperantium mandata interpretari, quam exsequi—They attended to their regulations, but still as if they would rather debate about the commands of their superiors than obey them. Tacit.

Erase que se era—What has been has been. Sp. Pr.

Erasmus laid the egg (i.e., of the Reformation), and Luther hatched it.

Er, der einzige Gerechte / Will für Jedermann 25 das Rechte / Sei, von seinen hundert Namen, / Dieser hochgelobet!—Amen!—He, the only Just, wills for each one what is right. Be of His hundred names this one the most exalted. Amen. Goethe.

Ere sin could blight or sorrow fade, / Death came with friendly care, / The opening bud to heaven conveyed, / And bade it blossom there. Coleridge.

Ere we censure a man for seeming what he is not, we should be sure that we know what he is. Carlyle.

Er geht herum, wie die Katze um den heissen Brei—He goes round it like a cat round hot broth. Ger. Pr.

[Greek: Ergon d' ouden oneidos]—Labour is no disgrace. Hesiod.

Erfahrung bleibt des Lebens Meisterin—Experience 30 is ever life's mistress. Goethe.

Erfüllte Pflicht empfindet sich immer noch als Schuld, weil man sich nie ganz genug gethan—Duty fulfilled ever entails a sense of further obligation, because one feels he has never done enough to satisfy himself. Goethe.

Er hat noch nie die Stimme der Natur gehört—He has not yet heard the voice of Nature. Schiller.

Eripe te moræ—Tear thyself from all that detains thee. Hor.

Eripe turpi / Colla jugo. Liber, liber sum, dic age—Tear away thy neck from the base yoke. Come, say, I am free; I am free. Hor.

Eripit interdum, modo dat medicina salutem—Medicine 35 sometimes destroys health, sometimes restores it. Ovid.

"Eripuit cœlo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis"—He snatched the lightning from heaven and the sceptre from tyrants. (On the bust of Franklin.)

Eris mihi magnus Apollo—You shall be my great Apollo. Virg.

Erlaubt ist was gefällt; erlaubt ist was sich ziemt—What pleases us is permitted us; what is seemly is permitted us. Goethe.

Ernste Thätigkeit söhnt suletzt immer mit dem Leben aus—Earnest activity always reconciles us with life in the end. Jean Paul.

Ernst ist der Anblick der Nothwendigkeit. / 40 Nicht ohne Schauder greift des Menschen Hand / In des Geschicks geheimnissvolle Urne—Earnest is the aspect of necessity. Not without a shudder is the hand of man thrust into the mysterious urn of fate. Schiller.

Ernst ist das Leben; heiter ist die Kunst—Life is earnest; art is serene. Schiller.

Erquickung hast du nicht gewonnen, / Wenn sie dir nicht aus eigner Seele quillt—Thou hast gained no fresh life unless it flows to thee direct out of thine own soul. Goethe.

Errantem in viam reducito—Lead back the wanderer into the right way.

Errare humanum est—It is human to err.

Errare malo cum Platone, quam cum istis vera 45 sentire—I had rather be wrong with Plato than think right with those men. Cic.

Errata—Errors in print.

Erringen will der Mensch, er will nicht sicher sein—Man will ever wrestle; he will never trust. Goethe.

Erring is not cheating. Ger. Pr.

Error cannot be defended but by error. Bp. Jewel.

Error is always more busy than ignorance. 50 Ignorance is a blank sheet on which we may write, but error is a scribbled one from which we must first erase. Colton.

Error is always talkative. Goldsmith.

Error is but opinion in the making. Milton.

Error is but the shadow of truth. Stillingfleet.

Error is created; truth is eternal. Wm. Blake.

Error is on the surface; truth is hid in great depths. Goethe.

Error is sometimes so nearly allied to truth that it blends with it as imperceptibly as the colours of the rainbow fade into each other. W. B. Clulow.

Error is worse than ignorance. Bailey.

Error never leaves us, yet a higher need 5 always draws the striving spirit gently on to truth. Goethe.

Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. Jefferson.

Errors like straws upon the surface flow; / He who would search for pearls must dive below. Dryden.

Error, sterile in itself, produces only by means of the portion of truth which it contains. Mme. Swetchine.

Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them;... from pure extravagance, and genuine, unmingled falsehood, the world never has sustained, and never can sustain, any mischief. Sydney Smith.

Error, when she retraces her steps, has farther 10 to go before she can arrive at truth than ignorance. Colton.

Erröten macht die Hässlichen so schön: / Und sollte Schöne nicht noch schöner machen?—Blushing makes even the ugly beautiful, and should it not make beauty still more beautiful? Lessing.

Ersparte Wahl ist auch ersparte Mühe—Selection saved is trouble saved. Platin.

Er steckt seine Nase in Alles—He thrusts his nose into everything. Ger. Pr.

Erst seit ich liebe ist das Leben schön, / Erst seit ich liebe, weiss ich, dass ich lebe—Only since I loved is life lovely; only since I loved knew I that I lived. Körner.

Erst wägen, dann wagen—First weigh, then 15 venture. M. von Moltke.

Ertragen muss man was der Himmel sendet. / Unbilliges erträgt kein edles Herz—We must bear what Heaven sends. No noble heart will bear injustice. Schiller.

Erudition is not like a lark, which flies high and delights in nothing but singing; 'tis rather like a hawk, which soars aloft indeed, but can stoop when she finds it convenient, and seize her prey. Bacon.

Er wünscht sich einen grossen Kreis / Um ihn gewisser zu erschüttern—He desires a large circle in order with greater certainty to move it deeply. Goethe.

Es bedarf nur einer Kleinigkeit, um zwei Liebende zu unterhalten—Any trifle is enough to entertain two lovers. Goethe.

Es bildet ein Talent sich in der Stille, / Sich ein 20 Character in dem Strom der Welt—A talent is formed in retirement, a character in the current of the world. Goethe.

Es bildet / Nur das Leben den Mann, und wenig bedeuten die Worte—Only life forms the man, and words signify little. Goethe.

Eschew fine words as you would rouge; love simple ones as you would native roses on your cheek. Hare.

Escuchas al agujero; oirás de tû mal y del ageno—Listen at the keyhole; you will hear evil of yourself as well as your neighbour. Sp. Pr.

E se finxit velut araneus—He spun from himself like a spider.

Esel singen schlecht, weil sie zu hoch anstimmen—Asses 25 sing abominably, because they pitch their notes at too high a key. Ger. Pr.

Es erben sich Gesetz' und Rechte / Wie eine ewige Krankheit fort—Laws and rights descend like an inveterate inherited disease. Goethe.

Es findet jeder seinen Meister—Every one finds his master. Ger. Pr.

Es geht an—It is a beginning. Ger.

Es giebt eine Höflichkeit des Herzens; sie ist der Liebe verwandt.—There is a courtesy of the heart which is allied to love; out of it there springs the most obliging courtesy of external behaviour. Goethe.

Es giebt eine Schwelgerei des Geistes wie 30 es eine Schwelgerei der Sinne giebt—There is a debauchery of spirit, as there is of senses. Börne.

Es giebt gewisse Dinge, wo ein Frauenzimmer immer schärfer sieht, als hundert Augen der Mannspersonen—There are certain things in which a woman's vision is sharper than a hundred eyes of the male. Lessing.

Es giebt keine andre Offenbarung, als die Gedanken der Weisen—There is no other revelation than the thoughts of the wise among men. Schopenhauer.

Es giebt kein Gesetz was hat nicht ein Loch, wer's finden kann—There is no law but has in it a hole for him who can find it. Ger. Pr.

Es giebt Männer welche die Beredsamkeit weiblicher Zungen übertreffen, aber kein Mann besitzt die Beredsamkeit weiblicher Augen—There are men the eloquence of whose tongues surpasses that of women, but no man possesses the eloquence of women's eyes. Weber.

Es giebt mehr Diebe als Galgen—There are 35 more thieves than gallows. Ger. Pr.

Es giebt Menschen, die auf die Mängel ihrer Freunde sinnen; dabei kommt nichts heraus. Ich habe immer auf die Verdienste meiner Widersacher Acht gehabt und davon Vortheil gezogen—There are men who brood on the failings of their friends, but nothing comes of it. I have always had respect to the merits of my adversaries, and derived profit from doing so. Goethe.

Es giebt Naturen, die gut sind durch das was sie erreichen, andere durch das was sie verschmähen—There are natures which are good by what they attain, and others that are so by what they disdain. H. Grimm.

Es giebt nur eine Religion, aber es kann vielerlei Arten der Glaubens geben—There is only one religion, but there may be divers forms of belief. Kant.

Es hört doch Jeder nur was er versteht—Every one hears only what he understands. Goethe.

Es irrt der Mensch, so lang er strebt—Man is 40 liable to err as long as he strives. Goethe.

Es ist besser, das geringste Ding von der Welt zu thun, als eine halbe Stunde für gering halten—It is better to do the smallest thing in the world than to regard half an hour as a small thing. Goethe.

Es ist bestimmt in Gottes Rath / Dass man vom Liebsten, was man hat, / Muss scheiden—It is ordained in the counsel of God that we must all part from the dearest we possess. Feuchtersleben.

Es ist das Wohl des Ganzen, wovon jedes patriotische, wovon selbst jedes eigennützige Gemüth das seinige hofft—It is the welfare of the whole from which every patriotic, and even every selfish, soul expects its own. Gentz.

Es ist der Geist, der sich den Körper baut—It is the spirit which builds for itself the body. Schiller.

Es ist freundlicher das menschliche Leben anzulachen, als es anzugrinzen—It is more kindly to laugh at human life than to grin at it. Wieland.

Es ist klug und kühn den unvermeidlichen. Uebel entgegenzugehen—It shows sense and courage to be able to confront unavoidable evil. Goethe.

Es ist nicht gut, wenn derjenige der die 5 Fackel trägt, zugleich auch den Weg sucht—It is not good when he who carries the torch has at the same time also the way to seek. Cölvös.

Es ist nicht nötig, dass ich lebe, wohl aber, dass ich meine Pflicht thue und für mein Vaterland kämpfe—It is not a necessity that I should live, but it is that I should do my duty and fight for my fatherland. Frederick the Great. (?)

Es ist öde, nichts ehren können, als sich selbst—It is dreary for a man to be able to worship nothing but himself. Hebbel.

Es ist schwer gegen den Augenblick gerecht sein; der gleichgültige macht uns Langeweile, am Guten hat man zu tragen und am Bösen zu schleppen—It is difficult to be square with the moment; the indifferent one is a bore to us (lit. causes us ennui); with the good we have to bear and with the bad to drag. Goethe.

Es ist so schwer, den falschen Weg zu meiden—It is so difficult to avoid the wrong way. Goethe.

Es ist unköniglich zu weinen—ach, / Und 10 hier nicht weinen ist unväterlich—To weep is unworthy of a king—alas! and not to weep now is unworthy of a father. Schiller.

Es kämpft der Held am liebsten mit dem Held—Hero likes best to fight with hero. Körner.

Es kann der beste Herz in dunkeln Stunden fehlen—The best heart may go wrong in dark hours. Goethe.

Es kann ja nicht immer so bleiben / Hier unter dem wechselnden Mond—Sure it cannot always be so here under the changing moon. Kotzebue.

Es kann nichts helfen ein grosses Schicksal zu haben, wenn man nicht weiss, dass man eines hat—It is of no avail for a man to have a great destiny if he does not know that he has one. Rahel.

Es kommen Fälle vor im Menschenleben, / 15 Wo's Weisheit ist, nicht allzu weise sein—There are situations in life when it is wisdom not to be too wise. Schiller.

Es leben Götter, die den Hochmut rächen—There live gods who take vengeance on pride. Schiller.

Es liebt die Welt das Strahlende zu schwärtzen, / Und das Erhabne in den Staub zu ziehn—The world is fain to obscure what is brilliant, and to drag down to the dust what is exalted. Schiller.

Es liesse sich Alles trefflich schlichten, Könnte man die Sachen zweimal verrichten—Everything could be beautifully adjusted if matters could be a second time arranged. Goethe.

Es muss auch solche Käuze geben—There must needs be such fellows in the world too. Goethe.

[Greek: hê sophias pêgê dia bibliôn rheei]—The fountain 20 of wisdom flows through books. Gr. Pr.

Espérance en Dieu—Hope in God. M.

Espionage—The spy system. Fr.

Esprit borné—Narrow mind. Fr.

Esprit de corps—Spirit of brotherhood in a corporate body. Fr.

Esprit de parti—Party spirit. Fr. 25

Esprit fort—A free-thinker. Fr.

Esprit juste—Sound mind. Fr.

Esprit vif—Ready wit. Fr.

Es reift keine Seligkeit unter dem Monde—No happiness ever comes to maturity under the moon. Schiller.

Essayez—Try. M. 30

Esse bonum facile est, ubi quod vetet esse remotum est—It is easy to be good, when all that prevents it is far removed. Ovid.

Esse quam videri—To be rather than to seem.

[Greek: Essetai êmar hot' an pot' olôlê Ilios hirê]—A day will come when the sacred Ilium shall be no more. Hom.

Es schwinden jedes Kummers Falten / So lang des Liebes Zauber walten—The wrinkles of every sorrow disappear as long as the spell of love is unbroken. Schiller.

Es sind nicht alle frei, die ihrer Ketten spotten—All 35 are not free who mock their chains. Ger. Pr.

Es sind so gute Katzen die Mäuse verjagen, als die sie fangen—They are as good cats that chase away the mice as those that catch them. Ger. Pr.

Es steckt nicht in Spiegel was man im Spiegel sieht—That is not in the mirror which you see in the mirror. Ger. Pr.

Es steht ihm an der Stirn' geschrieben, / Das er nicht mag eine Seele lieben—It stands written on his forehead that he cannot love a single soul. Goethe, of Mephistopheles.

Establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it. Bible.

Est aliquid fatale malum per verba levare—It 40 is some alleviation of an incurable disease to speak of it to others. Ovid.

Est animus tibi / Rerumque prudens, et secundis / Temporibus dubiisque rectus—You possess a mind both sagacious in the management of affairs, and steady at once in prosperous and perilous times. Hor.

Est animus tibi, sunt mores et lingua, fidesque—Thou hast a man's soul, cultured manners and power of expression, and fidelity. Hor., of a gentleman.

Est assez riche qui ne doit rien—He is rich enough who owes nothing. Fr. Pr.

Est aviditas dives, et pauper pudor—Covetousness is rich, while modesty is poor. Phædr.

Est bonus, ut melior vir / Non alius quisquam—He 45 is so good that no man can be better. Hor.

Est brevitate opus, ut currat sententia—There is need of conciseness that the thought may run on. Hor.

Est demum vera felicitas, felicitate dignum videri—True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it. Pliny.

Est deus in nobis, agitante calescimus illo—There is a god in us, who, when he stirs, sets us all aglow. Ovid.

Est deus in nobis, et sunt commercia cœli—There is a god within us, and we hold commerce with the sky. Ovid.

Esteem a man of many words and many lies 5 much alike. Fuller.

Esteem is the harvest of a whole life spent in usefulness; but reputation is often bestowed upon a chance action, and depends most on success. G. A. Sala.

Est enim lex nihil aliud nisi recta et a numine deorum tracta ratio, imperans honesta, prohibens contraria—For law is nothing else but right reason supported by the authority of the gods, commanding what is honourable and prohibiting the contrary. Cic.

Est egentissimus in sua re—He is in very straitened circumstances.

Est etiam miseris pietas, et in hoste probatur—Regard for the wretched is a duty, and deserving of praise even in an enemy. Ovid.

Est etiam, ubi profecto damnnum præstet facere, 10 quam lucrum—There are occasions when it is certainly better to lose than to gain. Plaut.

Est genus hominum qui esse primos se omnium rerum volunt, / Nec sunt—There is a class of men who wish to be first in everything, and are not. Ter.

Est hic, / Est ubivis, animus si te non deficit æquus—It (happiness) is here, it is everywhere, if only a well-regulated mind does not fail you. Hor.

Est miserorum, ut malevolentes sint atque invideant bonis—'Tis the tendency of the wretched to be ill-disposed towards and to envy the fortunate. Plaut.

Est modus in rebus; sunt certi denique fines, / Quos ultra citraque nequit consistere rectum—There is a mean in all things; there are, in fine, certain fixed limits, on either side of which what is right and true cannot exist. Hor.

Est multi fabula plena joci—It is a story full of 15 fun. Ovid.

Est natura hominum novitatis avida—It is the nature of man to hunt after novelty. Pliny.

Estne Dei sedes nisi terra, et pontus, et aër, / Et cœlum, et virtus? Superos quid quærimus ultra? / Jupiter est, quodcunque vides, quodcunque moveris—Has God a dwelling other than earth and sea and air and heaven and virtue? Why seek we the gods beyond? Whatsoever you see, wheresoever you go, there is Jupiter. Luc.

Est nobis voluisse satis—To have willed suffices us. Tibull.

Esto perpetua—Let it be perpetual.

Esto quod es; quod sunt alii, sine quemlibet 20 esse: / Quod non es, nolis; quod potes esse, velis—Be what you are; let whoso will be what others are. Don't be what you are not, but resolutely be what you can.

Esto quod esse videris—Be what you seem to be.

Esto, ut nunc multi, dives tibi, pauper amicis—Be, as many now are, rich to yourself, poor to your friends. Juv.

Est pater ille quem nuptiæ demonstrant—He is the father whom the marriage-rites point to as such. L.

Est profecto Deus, qui quæ nos gerimus auditque et videt—There is certainly a God who both hears and sees the things which we do. Plaut.

Est proprium stultitiæ aliorum cernere vitia, 25 oblivisci suorum—It is characteristic of folly to discern the faults of others and forget its own. Cic.

Est quadam prodire tenus, si non datur ultra—You may advance to a certain point, if it is not permitted you to go farther. Hor.

Est quædam flere voluptas, / Expletur lachrymis egeriturque dolor—There is a certain pleasure in weeping; grief is soothed and alleviated by tears. Ovid.

Est quoque cunctarum novitas carissima rerum—Novelty is the dearest to us of all things. Ovid.

Es trägt Verstand und rechter Sinn / Mit wenig Kunst sich selber vor; und wenn's euch Ernst ist was zu sagen / Ist's nötig Worten nachzujagen?—Understanding and good sense find utterance with little art; and when you have seriously anything to say, is it necessary to hunt for words? Goethe.

Es trinken tausend sich den Tod, ehe einer 30 stirbt vor Durstes Noth—A thousand will drink themselves to death ere one die under stress of thirst. Ger. Pr.

Est tempus quando nihil, est tempus quando aliquid, nullum tamen est tempus in quo dicenda sunt omnia—There is a time when nothing may be said, a time when something may, but no time when all things may. A Monkish Adage.

Esurienti ne occurras—Don't throw yourself in the way of a hungry man.

Es will einer was er soll, aber er kann's nicht machen; es kann einer was er soll, aber er will's nicht; es will und kann einer, aber er weiss nicht, was er soll—One would what he should, but he can't; one could what he should, but he won't; one would and could, but he knows not what he should. Goethe.

Es wird wohl auch drüben nicht anders seyn als hier—Even over there it will not be otherwise than it is here, I ween. Goethe.

[Greek: Ê tan ê epi tan]—Either this or upon this. (The 35 Spartan mother to her son on handing him his shield.)

E tardegradis asinis equus non prodiit—The horse is not the progeny of the slow-paced ass.

Et cætera—And the rest.

Et c'est être innocent que d'être malheureux—And misfortune is the badge of innocence. La Font.

Et credis cineres curare sepultos?—And do you think that the ashes of the dead concern themselves with our affairs? Virg.

Et daligt hufoud hade han, men hjertat det 40 var godt—He had a stupid head, but his heart was good. Swed. Pr.

Et decus et pretium recti—Both the ornament and the reward of virtue. M.

E tenui casa sæpe vir magnus exit—A great man often steps forth from a humble cottage. Pr.

Eternal love made me. Dante.

Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, / As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Pope.

Eternity, depending on an hour. Young.

Eternity looks grander and kinder if Time grow meaner and more hostile. Carlyle.

Eternity of being and well-being simply for 5 being and well-being's sake, is an ideal belonging to appetite alone, and which only the struggle of mere animalism (Thierheit), longing to be infinite gives rise to. Schiller.

Et facere et pati fortiter Romanum est—Bravery and endurance make a man a Roman. Liv.

Et genus et formam regina pecunia donat—Money, like a queen, confers both rank and beauty. Hor.

Et genus et proavos, et quæ non fecimus ipsi, / Vix ea nostra voco—We can scarcely call birth and ancestry and what we have not ourselves done, our own. Ovid.

Et genus et virtus, nisi cum re, vilior alga est—Without money both birth and virtue are as worthless as seaweed. Hor.

Ethics makes man's soul mannerly and wise, 10 but logic is the armoury of reason, furnished with all offensive and defensive weapons. Fuller.

Et hoc genus omne—And everything of this kind.

Etiam celeritas in desiderio, mora est—When we long for a thing, even despatch is delay. Pub. Syr.

Etiam fera animalia, si clausa teneas, virtutis obliviscuntur—Even savage animals, if you keep them in confinement, forget their fierceness.

Etiam fortes viros subitis terreri—Even brave men may be alarmed by a sudden event. Tac.

Etiam innocentes cogit mentiri dolor—Pain 15 makes even the innocent forswear themselves. Pub. Syr.

Etiam oblivisci quod scis, interdum expedit—It is sometimes expedient to forget what you know. Pub. Syr.

Etiam sanato vulnere cicatrix manet—Though the wound is healed, a scar remains.

Etiam sapientibus cupido gloriæ novissima exuitur—Even by the wise the desire of glory is the last of all passions to be laid aside. Tac.

Et jam summa procul villarum culmina fumant, / Majoresque cadunt altis de montibus umbræ—And now the cottage roofs yonder smoke, and the shadows fall longer from the mountain-tops. Virg.

Et je sais, sur ce fait, / Bon nombre d'hommes 20 qui sont femmes—And I know a great many men who in this particular are women. La Font.

Et l'avare Achéron ne lâche pas sa proie—And greedy Acheron lets not go his prey. Racine.

Et le combat cessa faute de combattants—And the battle ceased for want of combatants. Corneille.

Et l'on revient toujours / A ses premiers amours—One returns always to his first love. Fr. Pr.

Et mala sunt vicina bonis—There are bad qualities near akin to good. Ovid.

Et male tornatos incudi reddere versus—And 25 take back ill-polished stanzas to the anvil. Hor.

Et mea cymba semel vasta percussa procella, / Illum, quo læsa est, horret adire locum—My bark, once shaken by the overpowering storm, shrinks from approaching the spot where it has been shattered. Ovid.

Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor—My aim ever is to subject circumstances to myself, not myself to them. Hor.

Et minimæ vires frangere quassa valent—A very small degree of force will suffice to break a vessel that is already cracked. Ovid.

Et monere, et moneri, proprium est veræ amicitiæ—To give counsel as well as take it, is a feature of true friendship. Cic.

Et nati natorum, et qui nascentur ab illis—The 30 children of our children, and those who shall be born of them, i.e., our latest posterity.

Et nova fictaque nuper habebunt verba fidem, si / Græco fonte cadunt parce detorta—And new and lately invented terms will be well received, if they descend, with slight deviation, from a Grecian source. Hor.

Et pudet, et metuo, semperque eademque precari, / Ne subeant animo tædia justa tuo—I am ashamed to be always begging and begging the same things, and fear lest you should conceive for me the disgust I merit. Ovid.

Et quæ sibi quisque timebat, / Unius in miseri exitium conversa tulere—And what each man dreaded for himself, they bore lightly when diverted to the destruction of one poor wretch. Virg.

Et quiescenti agendum est, et agenti quiescendum est—He who is indolent should work, and he who works should take repose. Sen.

Et qui nolunt occidere quenquam / Posse 35 volunt—Even those who have no wish to kill another would like to have the power. Juv.

Et quorum pars magna fui—And in which I played a prominent part. Virg.

Etre capable de se laisser servir n'est pas une des moindres qualités que puisse avoir un grand roi—The ability to enlist the services of others in the conduct of affairs is one of the most distinguishing qualities of a great monarch. Richelieu.

Etre pauvre sans être libre, c'est le pire état où l'homme puisse tomber—To be poor without being free is the worst condition into which man can sink. Rousseau.

Etre sur le qui vive—To be on the alert. Fr.

Etre sur un grand pied dans le monde—To be in 40 high standing (lit. on a great foot) in the world. Fr.

Et rose elle a vécu ce que vivent les roses / L'espace d'un matin—As rose she lived the life of a rose for but the space of a morning. Malherbe.

Et sanguis et spiritus pecunia mortalibus—Money is both blood and life to men. Pr.

Et semel emissum volat irrevocabile verbum—And a word once uttered flies abroad never to be recalled. Hor.

Et sequentia, Et seq.—And what follows.

Et sic de ceteris—And so of the rest. 45

Et sic de similibus—And so of the like.

"Et tu, Brute fili"—And thou, son Brutus. Cæsar, at sight of Brutus among the conspirators.

Et vaincre sans péril serait vaincre sans gloire—To conquer without peril would be to conquer without glory. Corneille.

Et vitam impendere vero—Stake even life for truth. M.

Et voilà justement comme on écrit l'histoire—And that is exactly how history is written. Voltaire.

Etwas ist besser als gar nichts—Something is better than nothing at all. Ger. Pr.

Euch zu gefallen war mein höchster Wunsch; / Euch zu ergötzen war mein letzter Zweck—To please you was my highest wish; to delight you was my last aim. Goethe.

[Greek: Heudonti kyrtos hairei]—While the fisher sleeps the 5 net takes. Gr. Pr.

Euge, poeta!—Well done, poet! Pers.

Eum ausculta, cui quatuor sunt aures—Listen to him who has four ears, i.e., who is readier to hear than to speak. Pr.

[Greek: Eurêka]—I have found it. Archimedes when he found out the way to test the purity of Hiero's golden crown.

Europe's eye is fixed on mighty things, / The fall of empires and the fate of kings. Burns.

[Greek: Eutychia polyphilos]—Success is befriended by 10 many people. Gr. Pr.

[Greek: Eutychôn mê isthi hyperêphanos, aporêsas mê tapeinou]—Be not uplifted in prosperity nor downcast in adversity. Cleobulus.

E' va più d'un asino al mercato—There is more than one ass goes to the market. It. Pr.

Evasion is unworthy of us, and is always the intimate of equivocation. Balzac.

Evasions are the common subterfuge of the hard-hearted, the false, and impotent, when called upon to assist. Lavater.

Even a fly has its spleen. It. Pr. 15

Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise. Bible.

Even a frog would bite if it had teeth. It. Pr.

Even a haggis could charge down-hill. Scott.

Even a hair casts a shadow. Pr.

Even a horse, though he has four feet, will 20 stumble. Pr.

Even among the apostles there was a Judas. It. Pr.

Even beauty cannot palliate eccentricity. Balzac.

Even by means of our sorrows we belong to the eternal plan. W. v. Humboldt.

Even foxes are outwitted and caught. It. Pr.

Even in a righteous cause force is a fearful 25 thing; God only helps when men can help no more. Schiller.

Evening is the delight of virtuous age; it seems an emblem of the tranquil close of busy life. Bulwer Lytton.

Even in social life, it is persistency which attracts confidence, more than talents and accomplishments. Whipple.

Even perfect examples lead astray by tempting us to overleap the necessary steps in their development, whereby we are for the most part led past the goal into boundless error. Goethe.

Even so my sun one early morn did shine, / With all triumphant splendour on my brow; / But out, alack! it was but one hour mine. Sh.

Even success needs its consolations. George 30 Eliot.

Even that fish may be caught which resists most stoutly against it. Dan. Pr.

Even the just man has need of help. It. Pr.

Even the lowest book of chronicles partakes of the spirit of the age in which it was written. Goethe.

Even then a wish (I mind its power), / A wish that to my latest hour / Shall strongly heave my breast, / That I, for puir auld Scotland's sake, / Some usefu' plan or beuk could make, / Or sing a sang at least. Burns at the plough.

Even though the cloud veils it, the sun is ever 35 in the canopy of heaven (Himmelszelt). A holy will rules there; the world does not serve blind chance. F. K. Weber.

Even though vanquished, he could argue still. Goldsmith.

Even thou who mourn'st the daisy's fate, / That fate is thine—no distant date; / Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives elate / Full on thy bloom, / Till crush'd beneath the farrow's weight / Shall be thy doom. Burns.

Events are only the shells of ideas; and often it is the fluent thought of ages that is crystallised in a moment by the stroke of a pen or the point of a bayonet. Chapin.

Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases. Cowper.

Eventus stultorum magister est—Only the event 40 teaches fools. Liv.

Even weak men when united are powerful. Schiller.

Evêque d'or, crosse de bois; crosse d'or, évêque de bois—Bishop of gold, staff of wood; bishop of wood, staff of gold. Fr. Pr.

Ever, as of old, the thing a man will do is the thing he feels commanded to do. Carlyle.

Ever charming, ever new, / When will the landscape tire the view? John Dyer.

Ever learning, and never able to come to the 45 knowledge of the truth. St. Paul.

Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor. Rich. II., ii. 3.

Ever must pain urge us to labour, and only in free effort can any blessedness be imagined for us. Carlyle.

Ever must the sovereign of mankind be fitly entitled king, i.e., the man who kens and can. Carlyle.

Ever since Adam's time fools have been in the majority. Casimir Delavigne.

Ever take it for granted that man collectively 50 wishes that which is right; but take care never to think so of one! Schiller.

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it; for error is talkative. Goldsmith.

Every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds. Emerson.

Every advantage has its tax, but there is none on the good of virtue; that is the incoming of God himself, or absolute existence. Emerson.

Every age regards the dawning of new light as the destroying fire of morality; while that very age itself, with heart uninjured, finds itself raised one degree of light above the preceding. Jean Paul.

Every attempt to crush an insurrection with means inadequate to the end foments instead of suppressing it. C. Fox.

Every author, in some degree, portrays himself in his works, be it even against his will. Goethe.

Every base occupation makes one sharp in its practice and dull in every other. Sir P. Sidney.

Every bean has its black. Pr.

Every beginning is cheerful; the threshold is 5 the place of expectation. Goethe.

Every beloved object is the centre of a paradise. Novalis.

Every being is a moving temple of the Infinite. Jean Paul.

Everybody is wise after the event. Pr.

Everybody knows that fanaticism is religion caricatured; yet with many, contempt of fanaticism is received as a sure sign of hostility to religion. Whipple.

Everybody knows that government never began 10 anything. It is the whole world that thinks and governs. W. Phillips.

Everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is a great deal better to be made in that way than not to be made at all. Holmes.

Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true. J. F. Cooper.

Everybody's business in the social system is to be agreeable. Dickens.

Everybody's business is nobody's. Pr.

Everybody's friend is nobody's. Pr. 15

Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood. Emerson.

Every book is written with a constant secret reference to the few intelligent persons whom the writer believes to exist in the million. Emerson.

Every brave life out of the past does not appear to us so brave as it really was, for the forms of terror with which it wrestled are now overthrown. Jean Paul.

Every brave man is a man of his word. Corneille.

Every brave youth is in training to ride and 20 rule his dragon. Emerson.

Every bullet has its billet. Pr.

Every Calvary has its Olivet. H. Giles.

Every capability, however slight, is born with us; there is no vague general capability in man. Goethe.

Every child is to a certain extent a genius, and every genius is to a certain extent a child. Schopenhauer.

Every cloud engenders not a storm. 3 Hen. 25 VI., v. 3.

Every cloud that spreads above / And veileth love, itself is love. Tennyson.

Every cock is proud on his own dunghill. Pr.

Every conceivable society may well be figured as properly and wholly a Church, in one or other of these three predicaments: an audibly preaching and prophesying Church, which is the best; a Church that struggles to preach and prophesy, but cannot as yet till its Pentecost come; a Church gone dumb with old age, or which only mumbles delirium prior to dissolution. Carlyle.

Every cottage should have its porch, its oven, and its tank. Disraeli.

Every couple is not a pair. Pr. 30

Every craw thinks her ain bird whitest. Sc. Pr.

Every creature can bear well-being except man. Gael. Pr.

Every crime has in the moment of its perpetration its own avenging angel. Schiller.

Every day hath its night, every weal its woe. Pr.

Every day in thy life is a leaf in thy history. 35 Arab. Pr.

Every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly until he knows that every day is Doomsday. Emerson.

Every day should be spent by us as if it were to be our last. Pub. Syr.

Every department of knowledge passes successively through three stages: the theological, or fictitious; the metaphysical, or abstract; and the scientific, or positive. Comte.

Every desire bears its death in its very gratification. W. Irving.

Every desire is a viper in the bosom, who, 40 when he was chill, was harmless, but when warmth gave him strength, exerted it in poison. Johnson.

Every dog must have his day. Swift.

Every door may be shut but death's door. Pr.

Every established religion was once a heresy. Buckle.

Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him. Holmes.

Every evil to which we do not succumb is a 45 benefactor; we gain the strength of the temptation we resist. Emerson.

Every excess causes a defect; every deficit, an excess. Every sweet has its sour; every evil, its good. Every faculty which is a receiver of pleasure has an equal penalty put on its abuse. Emerson.

Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail. Emerson.

Every faculty is conserved and increased by its appropriate exercise. Epictetus.

Every fancy that we would substitute for a reality is, if we saw it aright and saw the whole, not only false, but every way less beautiful and excellent than that which we sacrifice to it. J. Sterling.

Every flood has its ebb. Dut. Pr. 50

Every fool thinks himself clever enough. Dan. Pr.

Every fool will be meddling. Bible.

Every foot will tread on him who is in the mud. Gael. Pr.

Every form of freedom is hurtful, except that which delivers us over to perfect command of ourselves. Goethe.

Every form of human life is romantic. T. W. 55 Higginson.

Every fresh acquirement is another remedy against affliction and time. Willmott.

Every friend is to the other a sun and a sunflower also: he attracts and follows. Jean Paul.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the herd. Thoreau.

Every generous action loves the public view, yet no theatre for virtue is equal to a consciousness of it. Cic.

Every genius has most power in his own language, and every heart in its own religion. Jean Paul.

Every genius is defended from approach by quantities of unavailableness. Emerson.

Every genuine work of art has as much reason 5 for being as the earth and the sun. Emerson.

Every gift which is given, even though it be small, is in reality great if it be given with affection. Pindar.

Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows. Mahomet.

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above. St. James.

Every good gift comes from God. Pr.

Every good picture is the best of sermons 10 and lectures: the sense informs the soul. Sydney Smith.

Every good writer has much idiom; it is the life and spirit of language. Landor.

Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is the triumph of enthusiasm. Emerson.

Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great or original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished. Wordsworth.

Every great book is an action, and every great action is a book. Luther.

Every great genius has a special vocation, 15 and when he has fulfilled it, he is no longer needed. Goethe.

Every great man is unique. Emerson.

Every great mind seeks to labour for eternity. All men are captivated by immediate advantages; great minds alone are excited by the prospect of distant good. Schiller.

Every great poem is in itself limited by necessity, but in its suggestions unlimited and infinite. Longfellow.

Every great reform which has been effected has consisted, not in doing something new, but in undoing something old. Buckle.

Every great writer is a writer of history, let 20 him treat on almost what subject he may. He carries with him for thousands of years a portion of his times; and, indeed, if only his own effigy were there, it would be greatly more than a fragment of his century. Landor.

Every healthy effort is directed from the inward to the outward world. Goethe.

Every heart knows its own bitterness. Pr.

Every hero becomes a bore at last. Emerson.

Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good; but it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol. Emerson.

Every honest miller has a golden thumb. 25 Pr.

Every hour has its end. Scott.

Every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God. St. Paul.

Every human being is intended to have a character of his own, to be what no other is, to do what no other can. Channing.

Every human feeling is greater and larger than the exciting cause—a proof, I think, that man is designed for a higher state of existence. Coleridge.

Every idea must have a visible unfolding. 30 Victor Hugo.

Every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. Jesus.

Every inch a king. Lear, iv. 6.

Every inch of joy has an ell of annoy. Sc. Pr.

Every individual colour makes on men an impression of its own, and thereby reveals its nature to the eye as well as the mind. Goethe.

Every individual nature has its own beauty. 35 Emerson.

Every inordinate cup is unbless'd, and the ingredient is a devil. Othello, ii. 3.

Every joy that comes to us is only to strengthen us for some greater labour that is to succeed. Fichte.

Every knave is a thorough knave, and a thorough knave is a knave throughout. Bp. Berkeley.

Every light has its shadow. Pr.

Every little fish expects to become a whale. 40 Dan. Pr.

Every little helps. Pr.

Every little helps, as the sow said when she snapt at a gnat. Dan. Pr.

Every loving woman is a priestess of the past. Amiel.

Every man alone is sincere; at the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. Emerson.

Every man as an individual is secondary to 45 what he is as a worker for the progress of his kind and the glory of the gift allotted to him. Stedman.

Every man can build a chapel in his breast, himself the priest, his heart the sacrifice, and the earth he treads on the altar. Jeremy Taylor.

Every man can guide an ill wife but him that has her. Sc. Pr.

Every man carries an enemy in his own bosom. Dan. Pr.

Every man carries within him a potential madman. Carlyle.

Every man deems that he has precisely the 50 trials and temptations which are the hardest to bear; but they are so because they are the very ones he needs. Jean Paul.

Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old. Swift.

Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. Lowell.

Every man has a bag hanging before him in which he puts his neighbour's faults, and another behind him in which he stows his own. Coriolanus, ii. 1.

Every man has a goose that lays golden eggs, if he only knew it. Amer. Pr.

Every man has at times in his mind the ideal 55 of what he should be, but is not. In all men that really seek to improve, it is better than the actual character. Theo. Parker.

Every man hath business and desire, / Such as it is. Ham., i. 5.

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his. Timon of Athens, iii. 1.

Every man has his lot, and the wide world before him. Dan. Pr.

Every man has his own style, just as he has his own nose. Lessing.

Every man has his weak side. Pr. 5

Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts the Columbus to his own soul. Sir J. Stephens.

Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding. Pope.

Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long. Burton.

Every man, however good he may be, has a still better man dwelling in him which is properly himself, but to whom nevertheless he is often unfaithful. It is to this interior and less unstable being that we should attach ourselves, not to the changeable every-day man. W. v. Humboldt.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his 10 faults. Emerson.

Every man is an impossibility until he is born; everything impossible till we see it a success. Emerson.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. Emerson.

Every man is a rascal as soon as he is sick. Johnson.

Every man is exceptional. Emerson.

Every man is his own greatest dupe. A. B. 15 Alcott.

Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men walk as prophecies of the next age. Emerson.

Every man is the architect of his own fortune. Sallust.

Every man must carry his own sack to the mill. Dan. Pr.

Every man must in a measure be alone in the world. No heart was ever cast in the same mould as that which we bear within us. Berne.

Every man of sound brain whom you meet 20 knows something worth knowing better than yourself. Bulwer Lytton.

Every man ought to have his opportunity to conquer the world for himself. Emerson.

Every man rejoices twice when he has a partner of his joy. Jeremy Taylor.

Every man seeks the truth, but God only knows who has found it. Chesterfield.

Every man shall bear his own burden. St. Paul.

Every man shall kiss his lips that giveth a 25 right answer. Bible.

Every man should study conciseness in speaking; it is a sign of ignorance not to know that long speeches, though they may please the speaker, are the torture of the hearer. Feltham.

Every man stamps his value on himself. The price we challenge for ourselves is given us. Schiller.

Every man takes care that his neighbour shall not cheat him. Emerson.

Every man acts truly so long as he acts his nature, or some way makes good the faculties in himself. Sir T. Browne.

Every man turns his dreams into realities as 30 far as he can. Man is cold as ice to the truth, but as fire to falsehood. La Fontaine.

Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into a genius. Bulwer Lytton.

Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an anvil as he is a hammer. J. G. Holland.

Every man who would do anything well must come to us from a higher ground. Emerson.

Every man willingly gives value to the praise which he receives, and considers the sentence passed in his favour as the sentence of discernment. Johnson.

Every man, within that inconsiderable figure 35 of his, contains a whole spirit-kingdom and reflex of the All; and, though to the eye but some six standard feet in size, reaches downwards and upwards, unsurveyable, fading into the regions of immensity and eternity. Carlyle.

Every man without passions has within him no principle of action nor motive to act. Helvetius.

Every man's blind in his ain cause. Sc. Pr.

Every man's destiny is in his own hands. Sydney Smith.

Every man's follies are the caricature resemblances of his wisdom. J. Sterling.

Every man's life lies within the present. Marcus 40 Antoninus.

Every man's man has a man, and that gar'd the Tarve (a Douglas Castle) fa'. Sc. Pr.

Every man's own reason is his best Œdipus. Sir Thomas Browne.

Every man's powers have relation to some kind of work, and wherever he finds that kind of work which he can do best, he finds that by which he can best build up or make his manhood. J. G. Holland.

Every man's reason is every man's oracle. Bolingbroke.

Every moment, as it passes, is of infinite 45 value, for it is the representative of a whole eternity. Goethe.

Every moment instructs, and every object, for wisdom is infused into every form. It has been poured into us as blood; it convulsed us as pain; it slid into us as pleasure. Emerson.

Every morsel to a satisfied hunger is only a new labour to a tired digestion. South.

Every mortal longs for his parade-place; would still wish, at banquets, to be master of some seat or other wherein to overtop this or that plucked goose of the neighbourhood. Carlyle.

Every movement in the skies or upon the earth proclaims to us that the universe is under government. Draper.

Every natural action is graceful. Emerson. 50

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Emerson.

Every newly discovered truth judges the world, separates the good from the evil, and calls on faithful souls to make sure their election. Julia W. Howe.

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one. Carlyle.

Every noble crown is, and on earth will ever be, a crown of thorns. Carlyle.

Every noble life leaves the fibre of it interwoven for ever in the work of the world. Ruskin.

Every noble work is at first impossible. Carlyle.

Every novel is a debtor to Homer. Emerson. 5

Every offence is not a hate at first. Mer. of Ven., iv. 1.

Every one believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake. Goethe.

Every one bows to the bush that bields (protects) him, i.e., pays court to him that does so. Sc. Pr.

Every one can master a grief but he that has it. Much Ado, iii. 2.

Every one complains of his memory, no one of 10 his judgment. La Roche.

Every one draws the water to his own mill. Pr.

Every one excels in something in which another fails. Pub. Syr.

Every one fault seeming monstrous till his fellow-fault came to match it. As You Like It, iii. 2.

Every one finds sin sweet and repentance bitter. Dan. Pr.

Every one for himself and God for us all. Pr. 15

Every one has a trial of his own: my wife is mine. Happy is he who has no other. Saying of Pittacus.

Every one is a preacher under the gallows. Dut. Pr.

Every one is as God made him, and often a great deal worse. Cervantes.

Every one is his own worst enemy. Schefer.

Every one is judge of what a man seems, no 20 one of what a man is. Schiller.

Every one is poorer in proportion as he has more wants, and counts not what he has, but wishes only what he has not. Manlius.

Every one is well or ill at ease according as he finds himself. Montaigne.

Every one knows best where his shoe pinches him. Pr.

Every one knows better than he practises, and recognises a better law than he obeys. Froude.

Every one knows good counsel except him who 25 needs it. Ger. Pr.

Every one of us believes in his heart, or would like to have others believe, that he is something which he is not. Thackeray.

Every one of us shall give account of himself to God. Bible.

Every one rakes the fire under his own pot. Dan. Pr.

Every one regards his duty as a troublesome master from whom he would like to be free. La Roche.

Every one should sweep before his own door. 30 Pr.

Every one sings as he has the gift, and marries as he has the luck. Port. Pr.

Every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. Jesus.

Every one that doeth evil hateth the light. St. John.

Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice. Jesus.

Every one thinks his own burden the heaviest. 35 Pr.

Every one who is able to administer what he has, has enough. Goethe.

Every one would be wise; no one will become so. Feuchtersleben.

Every one would rather believe than exercise his own judgment. Sen.

Every opinion reacts on him who utters it. Emerson.

Every other master is known by what he 40 utters; the master of style commends himself to me by what he wisely passes over in silence. Schiller.

Every painter ought to paint what he himself loves. Ruskin.

Every passion gives a particular cast to the countenance, and is apt to discover itself in some feature or other. Addison.

Every people has its prophet. Arab. Pr.

Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices. Whoever saw old age that did not applaud the past and condemn the present? Montaigne.

Every period of life has its peculiar temptations 45 and dangers. J. Hawes.

Every period of life is obliged to borrow its happiness from the time to come. Johnson.

Every person who manages another is a hypocrite. Thackeray.

Every petition to God is a precept to man. Jeremy Taylor.

Every place is safe to him who lives with justice. Epictetus.

Every pleasure pre-supposes some sort of 50 activity. Schopenhauer.

Every poet, be his outward lot what it may, finds himself born in the midst of prose; he has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into the freedom and infinitude of an ideal. Carlyle.

Every power of both heaven and earth is friendly to a noble and courageous activity. J. Burroughs.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm. Disraeli.

Every race has its own habitat. Knox.

Every reader reads himself out of the book 55 that he reads. Goethe.

Every real master of speaking or writing uses his personality as he would any other serviceable material. Holmes.

Every real need is appeased and every vice stimulated by satisfaction. Amiel.

Every rightly constituted mind ought to rejoice, not so much in knowing anything clearly, as in feeling that there is infinitely more which it cannot know. Ruskin.

Every rose has its thorn. Pr.

Every scripture is to be interpreted by the 60 same spirit which gave it forth. Quoted by Emerson.

Every sect, as far as reason will help it, gladly uses it; when it fails them, they cry out it is matter of faith, and above reason. Locke.

Every shadow points to the sun. Emerson.

Every ship is a romantic object except that we sail in. Emerson.

Every shoe fits not every foot. Pr.

Every shot does not bring down a bird. Dut. Pr.

Every soo (sow) to its ain trough. Sc. Pr.

Every species of activity is met by a negation. 5 Goethe.

Every spirit builds itself a house, and beyond its house a world, and beyond its world a heaven. Emerson.

Every spirit makes its house, but afterwards the house confines the spirit. Emerson.

Every step of life shows how much caution is required. Goethe.

Every step of progress which the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold and from stake to stake. Wendell Phillips.

Every Stoic was a Stoic, but in Christendom 10 where is the Christian? Emerson.

Every style formed elaborately on any model must be affected and strait-laced. Whipple.

Every subject's duty is the king's, but every subject's soul is his own. Hen. V., iv. 1.

Every tear of sorrow sown by the righteous springs up a pearl. Matthew Henry.

Everything a man parts with is the cost of something. Everything he receives is the compensation of something. J. G. Holland.

Everything calls for interest, only it must be 15 an interest divested of self-interest and sincere. Desjardins.

Everything comes if a man will only wait. Disraeli.

Everything, even piety, is dangerous in a man without judgment. Stanislaus.

Everything good in a man thrives best when properly recognised. J. G. Holland.

Everything good in man leans on what is higher. Emerson.

Everything good is on the highway. Emerson. 20

Everything great is not always good, but all good things are great. Demosthenes.

Everything holy is before what is unholy; guilt presupposes innocence, not the reverse; angels, but not fallen ones, were created. Jean Paul.

Everything in life, to be of value, must have a sequence. Goethe.

Everything in nature contains all the powers of nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff. Emerson.

Everything in nature goes by law, and not by 25 luck. Emerson.

Everything in nature has a positive and a negative pole. Emerson.

Everything in nature is a puzzle until it finds its solution in man, who solves it in some way with God, and so completes the circle of creation. T. T. Munger.

Everything in the world can be borne except a long succession of beautiful days. Goethe.

Everything in this world depends upon will. Disraeli.

Everything in this world is a tangled yarn; 30 we taste nothing in its purity; we do not remain two moments in the same state. Rousseau.

Everything is as you take it. Pr.

Everything is beautiful, seen from the point of the intellect; but all is sour if seen as experience. Emerson.

Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Creator; everything degenerates in the hands of man. Rousseau.

Everything is mere opinion. M. Aurelius.

Everything is sold to skill and labour. Hume. 35

Everything is sweetened by risk. A. Smith.

Everything is what it is, and not another thing. Bishop Butler.

Everything is worth the money that can be got for it. Pub. Syr.

Everything looks easy that is practised to perfection. Goethe.

Everything rises but to fall, and increases but 40 to decay. Sall.

Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed; and to carry the danger to the edge of ruin, Nature causes each man's peculiarity to superabound. Emerson.

Everything springs into being and passes away according to law, yet how fluctuating is the lot that presides over the life which is to us so priceless. Goethe.

Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation. Sen.

Everything that happens, happens of necessity. Schopenhauer.

Everything that happens in this world is part 45 of a great plan of God running through all time. Ward Beecher.

Everything that happens to us leaves some trace behind it, and everything insensibly contributes to make us what we are. Goethe.

Everything that is exquisite hides itself. J. Roux.

Everything that is popular deserves the attention of the philosopher; although it may not be of any worth in itself, yet it characterises the people. Emerson.

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for never is life so low as when occupied with the present. Landor.

Everything that tends to emancipate us from 50 external restraint without adding to our own power of self-government is mischievous. Goethe.

Everything unnatural is imperfect. Napoleon.

Everything useful to the life of man arises from the ground, but few things arise in that condition which is requisite to render them useful. Hume.

Every thought that arises in the mind, in its rising aims to pass out of the mind into act; just as every plant, in the moment of generation, struggles up to the light. Emerson.

Every thought was once a poem. Emerson. (?)

Every thought which genius and piety throw 55 into the world alters the world. Emerson.

Every time a man smiles, much more when he laughs, it adds something to his fragment of life. Sterne.

Every time you forgive a man you weaken him and strengthen yourself. Amer. Pr.

Every transition is a crisis, and a crisis presupposes sickness. Goethe.

Every traveller has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering. Dickens.

Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire. Jesus.

Every true man's apparel fits your thief. Meas. for Meas., iv. 2.

Every tub must stand on its own bottom. Pr.

Every unpleasant feeling is a sign that I have 5 become untrue to my resolutions. Jean Paul.

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life. Dan. Webster.

Every vicious habit and chronic disease communicates itself by descent, and by purity of birth the entire system of the human body and soul may be gradually elevated, or by recklessness of birth degraded, until there shall be as much difference between the well-bred and ill-bred human creature (whatever pains be taken with their education) as between a wolf-hound and the vilest mongrel cur. Ruskin.

Every violation of truth is a stab at the health of society. Emerson.

Every wanton and causeless restraint of the will of the subject, whether practised by a monarch, a nobility, or a popular assembly, is a degree of tyranny. Blackstone.

Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in 10 my brother, because he has shut his own temple doors, and recites fables merely of his brother's or his brother's brother's God. Emerson.

Everywhere in life the true question is, not what we gain, but what we do; so also in intellectual matters it is not what we receive, but what we are made to give, that chiefly contents and profits us. Carlyle.

Everywhere the formed world is the only habitable one. Carlyle.

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of two everlasting, hostile empires, Necessity and Free Will. Carlyle.

Everywhere the individual seeks to show himself off to advantage, and nowhere honestly endeavours to make himself subservient to the whole. Goethe.

Every white will have its black, / And every 15 sweet its sour. T. Percy.

Every why hath a wherefore. Com. of Errors, ii. 2.

Every wise woman buildeth her house, but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands. Bible.

Every word was once a poem. Emerson.

Every worm beneath the moon / Draws different threads, and late and soon / Spins, toiling out his own cocoon. Tennyson.

Every youth, from the king's son downwards, 20 should learn to do something finely and thoroughly with his hand. Ruskin.

E vestigio—Instantly.

Evil and good are everywhere, like shadow and substance; (for men) inseparable, yet not hostile, only opposed. Carlyle.

Evil, be thou my good. Milton.

Evil comes to us by ells and goes away by inches. Pr.

Evil communications corrupt good manners. 25 Pr.

Evil events from evil causes spring. Aristophanes.

Evil is a far more cunning and persevering propagandist than good, for it has no inward strength, and is driven to seek countenance and sympathy. Lowell.

Evil is generally committed under the hope of some advantage the pursuit of virtue seldom obtains. B. R. Haydon.

Evil is merely privative, not absolute; it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Emerson.

Evil is wrought by want of thought / As well 30 as want of heart. T. Hood.

Evil, like a rolling stone upon a mountain-top, / A child may first impel, a giant cannot stop. Trench.

Evil men understand not judgment, but they that seek the Lord understand all things. Bible.

Evil news rides post, while good news bates. Milton.

Evil often triumphs, but never conquers. J. Roux.

Evil, what we call evil, must ever exist while 35 man exists; evil, in the widest sense we can give it, is precisely the dark, disordered material out of which man's freewill has to create an edifice of order and good. Ever must pain urge us to labour; and only in free effort can any blessedness be imagined for us. Carlyle.

Evils can never pass away; for there must always remain something which is antagonistic to good. Plato.

Evils that take leave, / On their departure most of all show evil. King John, iii. 4.

Evolare rus ex urbe tanquam ex vinculis—To fly from the town into the country, as though from bonds. Cic.

Ewig jung zu bleiben / Ist, wie Dichter schreiben / Hochstes Lebensgut; / Willst du es erwerben / Musst du frühe sterben—To continue eternally young is, as poets write, the highest bliss of life; wouldst thou attain to it, thou must die young. Rückert.

Ewig zu sein in jedem Momente—To be eternal 40 at every moment. Schleiermacher.

Ex abrupto—Without preparation.

Ex abundante cautela—From excessive precaution. L.

Ex abusu non arguitur ad usum—There is no arguing from the abuse of a thing against the use of it. L.

Ex abusu non argumentum ad desuetudinem—The abuse of a thing is no argument for its discontinuance. L.

Exact justice is commonly more merciful in 45 the long run than pity, for it tends to foster in men those stronger qualities which make them good citizens. Lowell.

Ex æquo—By right.

Ex æquo et bono—In justice and equity.

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood. H. Ballou.

Exaggeration is to paint a snake and add legs. Chinese Pr.

Examine the religious principles which have, in fact, prevailed in the world. You will scarcely be persuaded that they are anything but sick men's dreams. Hume.

Examine your soul and its emotions, and thoughts will be to you so many glorious revelations of the Godhead. Nourisson.

Example acquires tenfold authority when it speaks from the grave. W. Phillips.

Example has more followers than reason. Bovee.

Example is a hazardous lure: where the wasp 5 gets through, the gnat sticks. La Fontaine.

Example is more efficacious than precept. Johnson.

Example is more forcible than precept. People look at me six days in the week, to see what I mean on the seventh. Cecil.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. Burke.

Examples of rare intelligence, yet more rarely cultivated, are not lights kindled for a moment; they live on here in their good deeds, and in their venerated memories. Gladstone.

Examples would indeed be excellent things, 10 were not people so modest that none will set them, and so vain that none will follow them. Hare.

Ex animo—From the soul; heartily.

Ex aperto—Openly.

Ex auribus cognoscitur asinus—An ass is known by his ears. Pr.

Ex cathedra—From the chair; with authority.

Excellence is never granted to man but as the 15 reward of labour. Sir Jos. Reynolds.

Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul, / But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, / Chaos is come again. Othello, iii. 3.

Excelsior—Still higher.

Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone; but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. Jesus.

Except by mastership and servantship, there is no conceivable deliverance from tyranny and slavery. Carlyle.

Except I be by Silvia in the night, / There is 20 no music in the nightingale. Two Gent. of Ver., iii. 1.

Except in knowing what it has to do and how to do it, the soul cannot resolve the riddle of its destiny. Ed.

Except in obedience to the heaven-chosen is freedom not so much as conceivable. Carlyle.

Except pain of body and remorse of conscience, all our evils are imaginary. Rousseau.

Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it; except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh in vain. Bible.

Except ye be converted and become as little 25 children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Jesus.

Exceptio probat regulam—The exception proves the rule.

Exceptis excipiendis—The requisite exceptions being made.

Excepto quod non simul esses, cætera lætus—Except that you were not with me, in other respects I was happy.

Excerpta—Extracts. L.

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces 30 a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments. Plato.

Excess in apparel is costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones. Wm. Penn.

Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness. Marlowe.

Excessit ex ephebis—He has come to the age of manhood. Ter.

Excessive distrust is not less hurtful than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived. Vauvenargues.

Excitari, non hebescere—To be spirited, not 35 sluggish. M.

Exclusa opes omnes—All hope is gone. Plaut.

Ex commodo—Leisurely.

Ex concesso—Admittedly.

Ex confesso—Confessedly.

Ex curia—Out of court. 40

Excusing of a fault / Doth make the fault worse by the excuse. King John, iv. 2.

Ex debito justitiæ—From what is due to justice; from a regard to justice.

Ex delicto—From the crime.

Ex desuetudine amittuntur privilegia—Rights are forfeited by disuse. L.

Ex diuturnitate temporis omnia præsumuntur 45 esse solemniter acta—Everything established for a length of time is presumed to have been done in due form. L.

Exeat—Let him depart.

Exegi monumentum ære perennius—I have reared a memorial of myself more durable than brass. Hor.

Exempli gratia—By way of example.

Exemplo plus quam ratione vivimus—We live more by example than reason.

Exemplumque Dei quisque est in imagine 50 parva—Each man is the copy of his God in small. Manil.

Exercise is labour without weariness. Johnson.

Exercise the muscles well, but spare the nerves always. Schopenhauer.

Exercitatio optimus est magister—Practice is the best master. Pr.

Exercitatio potest omnia—Perseverance conquers all difficulties.

Exeunt omnes—All retire. 55

Ex facie—Evidently.

Ex factis non ex dictis amici pensandi—Friends are to be estimated from deeds, not words. Liv.

Ex facto jus oritur—The law arisen out of the fact, i.e., it cannot till then be put in force. L.

Ex fide fortis—Strong from faith. M.

Ex fumo dare lucem—To give light from smoke. 60 M.

Ex humili magna ad fastigia rerum / Extollit, quoties voluit fortuna jocari—As oft as Fortune is in a freakish mood, she raises men from a humble station to the imposing summit of things. Juv.

Ex hypothesi—Hypothetically.

Exigite ut mores teneros ceu pollice ducat, / Ut si quis cera vultum facit—Require him as with his thumb to mould their youthful morals, just as one fashions a face with plastic wax. Juv.

Exigui numero, sed bello vivida virtus—Few in number, yet their valour ardent for war. Virg.

Exiguum est ad legem bonum esse—It is but a small matter to be good in the eye of the law only. Sen.

Exile is terrible to those who have, as it were, a circumscribed habitation; but not to those who look upon the whole globe as one city. Cic.

Exilioque domos et dulcia limina mutant / 5 Atque alio patriam quærunt sub sole jacentem—They exchange their home and sweet thresholds for exile, and seek under another sun another home. Virg.

Ex improviso—Unexpectedly.

Ex industria—Purposely.

Ex inimico cogita posse fieri amicum—Think that you may make a friend of an enemy. Sen.

Ex integro—Anew; afresh.

Ex intervallo—At some distance. 10

Existence is not to be measured by mere duration. Caird.

Exitio est avidium mare nautis—The greedy sea is destruction to the sailors. Hor.

Ex malis eligere minima—Of evils to choose the least. Cic.

Ex malis moribus bonæ leges natæ sunt—From bad manners good laws have sprung. Coke.

Ex mero motu—Of one's own free will. 15

Ex nihilo nihil fit—Nothing produces nothing.

Ex officio—By virtue of his office.

Ex opere operato—By the external act.

Exoriare aliquis nostris ex ossibus ultor—An avenger shall arise out of my bones. Virg.

Ex otio plus negotii quam ex negotio habemus—Our 20 leisure gives us more to do than our business.

Ex parte—One-sided.

Ex pede Herculem—We judge of the size of the statue of Hercules by the foot.

Expect injuries; for men are weak, and thou thyself doest such too often. Jean Paul.

Expediency is the science of exigencies. Kossuth.

Expense of time is the most costly of all expenses. 25 Theophrastus.

Experience, a jewel that I have purchased at an infinite rate. Merry Wives, ii. 2.

Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us. A. B. Alcott.

Experience is a text to which reflection and knowledge supply the commentary. Schopenhauer.

Experience is by industry achieved, / And perfected by swift course of time. Two Gent. of Ver., i. 3.

"Experience is the best teacher," only the 30 school-fees are heavy. Hegel. (?)

Experience is the grand spiritual doctor. Carlyle.

Experience is the mistress of fools. Pr.

Experience is the only genuine knowledge. Goethe.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct. Ben. Franklin.

Experience makes even fools wise. Pr. 35

Experience makes us see a wonderful difference between devotion and goodness. Pascal.

Experience takes dreadfully high school-wages, but teaches as no other. Carlyle.

Experience teaches us again and again that there is nothing men have less command over than their tongues. Spinoza.

Experience teacheth that resolution is a sole help in need. (?)

Experience that is bought is good, if not too 40 dear. Pr.

Experience to most men is like the stern-lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed. Coleridge.

Experientia docet—Experience teaches. Pr.

Experimentum crucis—A decisive experiment.

Expert men can execute, but learned men are more fit to judge and censure. Bacon.

Experto credite—Believe one who has had experience. 45 Virg.

Expertus metuit—He who has had experience is afraid. Hor.

Expetuntur divitiæ ad perficiendas voluptates—Riches are coveted to minister to our pleasures.

Explorant adversa viros; perque aspera duro / Nititur ad laudem virtus interrita clivo—Adversity tries men, and virtue struggles after fame, regardless of the adverse heights. Sil. Ital.

Ex post facto—After the event. L.

Expression alone can invest beauty with 50 supreme and lasting command over the eye. Fuseli.

Expressio unius est exclusio alterius—The naming of one man is the exclusion of another. L.

Ex professo—As one who knows; professedly.

Ex quovis ligno non fit Mercurius—A Mercury is not to be made out of any log. Pr.

Ex scintilla incendium—From a spark a conflagration. Pr.

Ex tempore—Off-hand; unpremeditated. 55

Extended empire, like expanded gold, exchanges solid strength for feeble splendour. Johnson.

External manners of lament / Are merely shadows to the unseen grief / That swells with silence in the tortured soul. Rich. II., iv. 1.

Extinctus amabilis idem—He will be beloved when he is dead (who was envied when he was living). Hor.

Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science, as the strangled snakes beside that of Hercules. Huxley.

Extra ecclesiam nulla salus—Outside the Church 60 there is no safety.

Extra lutum pedes habes—You have got your feet out of the mud. Pr.

Extra muros—Beyond the walls.

Extra telorum jactum—Beyond bow-shot.

Extrema gaudii luctus occupat—Grief treads on the confines of gladness. Pr.

Extrema manus nondum operibus ejus imposita est—The finishing hand has not yet been put to his works.

Extreme justice is often extreme injustice.

Extremes beget extremes. Pr.

Extreme in all things! hadst thou been betwixt, 5 / Thy throne had still been thine, or never been. Byron.

Extremes in nature equal ends produce; / In man they join to some mysterious use. Pope.

Extremes meet. Pr.

Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects; extreme heat mortifies, like extreme cold; extreme love breeds satiety as well as extreme hatred; and too violent rigour tempts chastity as much as too much license. Chapman.

Extremis malis extrema remedia—Extreme remedies for extreme evils. Pr.

Extremity is the trier of spirits. Coriol. iv. 1. 10

Exuerint sylvestrem animum, cultuque frequenti, / In quascunque voces artes, haud tarda sequentur—They lay aside their rustic ideas, and by repeated instruction will advance apace into whatever arts you may initiate them. Virg.

Ex umbra in solem—Out of the shade into the sunshine. Pr.

Ex ungue leonem—The lion may be known by his claw.

Ex uno disce omnes—From one judge of all.

Ex vita discedo, tanquam ex hospitio, non 15 tanquam ex domo—I depart from life as from an inn, not as from a home. Cic.

Ex vitio alterius sapiens emendat suum—From the faults of another a wise man will correct his own. Laber.

Ex vitulo bos fit—From a calf an ox grows up.

Ex vultibus hominum mores colligere—To construe men's characters by their looks.

Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. St. Paul.

Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, / 20 And catch the manners living as they rise. Pope.

Eyes are better, on the whole, than telescopes or microscopes. Emerson.

Eyes bright, with many tears behind them. Carlyle, on his Wife.

Eyes not down-dropp'd nor over-bright, but fed with the clear-pointed flame of chastity. Tennyson.

Eyes / Of microscopic power, that could discern / The population of a dewdrop. J. Montgomery.

Eyes raised towards heaven are always beautiful, 25 whatever they be. Joubert.

Eyes speak all languages; wait for no letter of introduction; they ask no leave of age or rank; they respect neither poverty nor riches, neither learning, nor power, nor virtue, nor sex, but intrude and come again, and go through and through you in a moment of time. Emerson.

Eyes will not see when the heart wishes them to be blind; desire conceals truth as darkness does the earth. Sen.

Ez for war, I call it murder; / There you hev it plain and flat; / I don't want to go no furder / Than my Testyment for that. Lowell.