=Bachelor, a peacock; betrothed, a lion;
wedded, an ass.= _Sp. Pr._
="Bad company," muttered the thief, as he= 40
=stepped to the gallows between the hangman
and a monk.= _Dut. Pr._
=Bad is by its very nature negative, and can
do nothing; whatsoever enables us to do
anything, is by its very nature good.= _Carlyle._
=Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.=
_Burke._
=Bad men excuse their faults; good men will
leave them.= _Ben Jonson._
=Bal abonné=--A subscription ball. _Fr._
=Bal champêtre=--A country ball. _Fr._ 45
=Ballon d'essai=--A balloon sent up to ascertain the
direction of the wind; any test of public feeling.
_Fr._
=Banish the canker of ambitious thoughts.= 2
_Hen. VI._, i. 2.
=Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease.= _Dryden._
=Barba bagnata è mezza rasa=--A beard well
lathered is half shaved. _It. Pr._
=Barbæ tenus sapientes=--Wise as far as the beard 50
goes. _Pr._
=Barbarism is no longer at our frontiers; it lives
side by side with us.= _Amiel._
=Barbarism is the non-appreciation of what is
excellent.= _Goethe._
=Barbarus hic ego sum, quia non intelligor ulli=--I
am a barbarian here, for no one understands
what I say. _Ovid._
=Barbouillage=--Scribbling. _Fr._
=Barking dogs seldom bite.= _Pr._ 55
=Bas bleu=--A blue-stocking. _Fr._
=Base envy withers at another's joy, / And hates
that excellence it cannot reach.= _Thomson._
=Base in kind, and born to be a slave.= _Cowper._
=Base men, being in love, have then a nobility
in their natures more than is native to them.=
_Othello_, ii. 1.
=Base souls have no faith in great men.= _Rousseau._ 60
=Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a
reproach to old age.= _Arist._
=Bashfulness is but the passage from one
season of life to another.= _Bp. Hurd._
=Basis virtutum constantia=--Constancy is the
basis of all the virtues. _M._
=Battering the gates of heaven with storms of
prayer.= _Tennyson._
=Battle's magnificently stern array.= _Byron._
=Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy,
be still a man.= _Hume._
=Beard was never the true standard of brains.=
_Fuller._
=Bear one another's burdens.= _St. Paul._
=Bear wealth, poverty will bear itself.= _Pr._ 5
=Be a sinner and sin manfully (fortiter), but
believe and rejoice in Christ more manfully
still.= _Luther to Melanchthon._
=Be as you would seem to be.= _Pr._
=Beatæ memoriæ=--Of blessed memory.
=Beati monoculi in regione cæcorum=--Blessed
are the one-eyed among those who are blind.
_Pr._
=Beatus ille qui procul negotiis, / Ut prisca= 10
=gens mortalium, / Paterna rura bobus exercet
suis, / Solutus omni fœnore=--Happy the
man who, remote from busy life, is content, like
the primitive race of mortals, to plough his
paternal lands with his own oxen, freed from
all borrowing and lending. _Hor._
=Beaucoup de mémoire et peu de jugement=--A
retentive memory and little judgment. _Fr. Pr._
=Beau idéal=--Ideal excellence, or one's conception
of perfection in anything. _Fr._
=Beau monde=--The fashionable world. _Fr._
=Beauté et folie sont souvent en compagnie=--Beauty
and folly go often together. _Fr. Pr._
=Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; /= 15
=Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the
soul.= _Pope._
=Beautiful it is to understand and know that
a thought did never yet die; that as thou,
the originator thereof, hast gathered it and
created it from the whole past, so thou wilt
transmit to the whole future.= _Carlyle._
=Beauty blemished once, for ever's lost.= _Shakespeare._
=Beauty can afford to laugh at distinctions; it
is itself the greatest distinction.= _Bovee._
=Beauty carries its dower in its face.= _Dan. Pr._
=Beauty depends more on the movement of the= 20
=face than the form of the features.= _Mrs.
Hall._
=Beauty doth varnish age, as if new-born, /
And gives the crutch the cradle's infancy. /
O, 'tis the sun that maketh all things shine.=
_Love's L's. Lost_, iv. 3.
=Beauty draws us with a single hair.= _Pope._
=Beauty is a good letter of introduction.= _Ger. Pr._
=Beauty is a hovering, shining, shadowy form,
the outline of which no definition holds.=
_Goethe._
=Beauty is an all-pervading presence.= _Channing._ 25
=Beauty is a patent of nobility.= _G. Schwab._
=Beauty is as summer fruits, which are easy to
corrupt and cannot last.= _Bacon._
=Beauty is a witch, / Against whose charms
faith melteth into blood.= _Much Ado_, ii. 1.
=Beauty is bought by judgment of the eye, / Not
utter'd by base sale of chapmen's tongues.=
_Love's L's. Lost_, ii. 1.
=Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good.= 30
_Shakespeare._
=Beauty is everywhere a right welcome guest.=
_Goethe._
=Beauty is never a delusion.= _Hawthorne._
=Beauty is the flowering of virtue.= _Gr. Pr._
=Beauty is the highest principle and the highest
aim of art.= _Goethe._
=Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.= _Emerson._ 35
=Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.=
_Michael Angelo._
=Beauty is truth, truth beauty--that is all / Ye
know on earth, and all ye need to know.=
_Keats._
=Beauty is worse than wine; it intoxicates both
holder and the beholder.= _Zimmermann._
=Beauty, like wit, to judges should be shown; /
Both most are valued where they best are
known.= _Lyttelton._
=Beauty lives with kindness.= _Two Gen. of_ 40
_Ver._, iv. 2.
=Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.=
_As You Like It_, i. 3.
=Beauty should be the dowry of every man and
woman.= _Emerson._
=Beauty stands / In the admiration only of
weak minds, / Led captive.= _Milton._
=Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile.=
_Campbell._
=Beauty too rich for use; for earth too dear.= 45
_Rom. and Jul._, i. 5.
=Beauty, when unadorned, adorned the most.=
_Thomson._
=Beauty without expression tires.= _Emerson._
=Beauty without grace is a violet without
smell.= _Pr._
=Beaux esprits=--Men of wit. _Fr._
=Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.= 50
_Spenser._
=Be checked for silence, / But never tax'd for
speech.= _All's Well_, i. 1.
=Be commonplace and cringing, and everything
is within your reach.= _Beaumarchais._
=Bedenkt, der Teufel der ist alt, / So werdet alt
ihn zu verstehen=--Consider, the devil is old;
therefore grow old to understand him. _Goethe._
=Be discreet in all things, and so render it
unnecessary to be mysterious about any.=
_Wellington._
=Be England what she will, / With all her faults= 55
=she is my country still.= _Churchill._
=Bees will not work except in darkness; thought
will not work except in silence; neither will
virtue work except in secrecy.= _Carlyle._
=Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts;
in the full-blown flower there is no more; in
the leafless root there is no less.= _Emerson._
=Before every one stands an image (Bild) of
what he ought to be; so long as he is not
that, his peace is not complete.= _Rückert._
=Before honour is humility.= _Bible._
=Before man made us citizens, great Nature= 60
=made us men.= _Lowell._
=Before the curing of a strong disease, / Even in
the instant of repair and health, / The fit is
strongest; evils that take leave, / On their departure
most of all show evil.= _King John_, iii. 4.
=Before the immense possibilities of man, all
mere experience, all past biography, however
spotless and sainted, shrinks away.=
_Emerson._
=Before the revelations of the soul, Time, Space,
and Nature shrink away.= _Emerson._
=Before you trust a man, eat a peck of salt with
him.= _Pr._
=Beggars, mounted, run their horse to death.=
3 _Hen. VI._, i. 4.
=Beggars must not be choosers.= _Pr._
=Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks.=
_Ham._, ii. 2.
=Begnügt euch doch ein Mensch zu sein=--Let
it content thee that thou art a man. _Lessing._
=Begun is half done.= _Pr._ 5
=Behaupten ist nicht beweisen=--Assertion is no
proof. _Ger. Pr._
=Behaviour is a mirror in which each one shows
his image.= _Goethe._
=Behind a frowning providence / God hides a
shining face.= _Cowper._
=Behind us, as we go, all things assume pleasing
forms, as clouds do afar off.= _Emerson._
=Behind every individual closes organisation;= 10
=before him opens liberty.= _Emerson._
=Behind every mountain lies a vale.= _Dut. Pr._
=Behold how great a matter a little fire kindleth.=
_St. James._
=Beholding heaven and feeling hell.= _Moore._
=Behold now is the accepted time.= _St. Paul._
=Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, /= 15
=Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.=
_Pope._
=Bei den meisten Menschen gründet sich der
Unglaube in einer Sache auf blinden Glauben
in einer andern=--With most men unbelief in
one thing is founded on blind belief in another.
_Lichtenberg._
=Bei Geldsachen hört die Gemütlichkeit auf=--When
money is in question, good day to friendly
feeling. _D. Hansemann._
=Beinahe bringt keine Mücke um=--Almost never
killed a fly. _Ger. Pr._
=Being alone when one's belief is firm, is not
to be alone.= _Auerbach._
=Being done, / There is no pause.= _Othello_, 20
v. 2.
=Being without well-being is a curse; and the
greater being, the greater curse.= _Bacon._
=Be in possession, and thou hast the right,
and sacred will the many guard it for thee.=
_Schiller._
=Be it never so humble, there's no place like
home.= _J. H. Payne._
=Bei wahrer Liebe ist Vertrauen=--With true
love there is trust. _Ph. Reger._
=Be just and fear not; / Let all the ends thou= 25
=aim'st at be thy country's, / Thy God's, and
truth's.= _Henry VIII._, iii. 2.
=Be just before you be generous.= _Pr._
=Beleidigst du einen Mönch, so knappen alle
Kuttenzipfel bis nach Rom=--Offend but one
monk, and the lappets of all cowls will flutter as
far as Rome. _Ger. Pr._
=Bel esprit=--A person of genius; a brilliant mind.
_Fr._
=Belief and love,--a believing love, will relieve
us of a vast load of care.= _Emerson._
=Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of= 30
=the soul; unbelief, in denying them.= _Emerson._
=Believe not each accusing tongue, / As most
weak persons do; / But still believe that
story wrong / Which ought not to be true.=
_Sheridan._
=Believe not every spirit.= _St. John._
=Bella! horrida bella!=--War! horrid war! _Virg._
=Bella femmina che ride, vuol dire borsa che
piange=--The smiles of a pretty woman are the
tears of the purse. _It. Pr._
=Bella matronis detestata=--Wars detested by 35
mothers. _Hor._
=Belle, bonne, riche, et sage, est une femme
en quatre étages=--A woman who is beautiful,
good, rich, and wise, is four stories high. _Fr. Pr._
=Belle chose est tôt ravie=--A fine thing is soon
snapt up. _Fr. Pr._
=Bellet ein alter Hund, so soll man aufschauen=--When
an old dog barks, one must look out.
_Ger. Pr._
=Bellicæ virtutis præmium=--The reward of valour
in war. _M._
=Bellua multorum capitum=--The many-headed 40
monster, _i.e._, the mob.
=Bellum internecinum=--A war of extermination.
=Bellum ita suscipiatur, ut nihil aliud nisi pax
quæsita videatur=--War should be so undertaken
that nothing but peace may seem to be
aimed at. _Cic._
=Bellum nec timendum nec provocandum=--War
ought neither to be dreaded nor provoked. _Plin.
the Younger._
=Bellum omnium in omnes=--A war of all against all.
=Bellum, pax rursus=--A war, and again a peace. 45
_Ter._
[Greek: beltion thanein hapax ê dia bion tremein]--Better
die outright than be all one's life long in
terror. _Æsop._
=Bemerke, höre, schweige. Urteile wenig,
frage viel=--Take note of what you see, give
heed to what you hear, and be silent. Judge
little, inquire much. _Platen._
=Be modest without diffidence, proud without
presumption.= _Goethe._
=Benchè la bugia sia veloce, la verità l'arriva=--Though
a lie may be swift, truth overtakes it.
_It. Pr._
=Beneath the loveliest dream there coils a fear.= 50
_T. Watts._
=Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the
pen is mightier than the sword.= _Bulwer
Lytton._
=Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's
shade, / Where heaves the turf in many a
mouldering heap, / Each in his narrow cell
for ever laid, / The rude forefathers of the
hamlet sleep.= _Gray._
=Ben è cieco chi non vede il sole=--He is very
blind who does not see the sun. _It. Pr._
=Benedetto è quel male che vien solo=--Blessed
is the misfortune that comes alone. _It. Pr._
=Bene est cui Deus obtulit / Parca quod satis= 55
=est manu=--Well for him to whom God has given
enough with a sparing hand. _Hor._
=Benefacta male locata, malefacta arbitror=--Favours
injudiciously conferred I reckon evils.
_Cic._
=Benefacta sua verbis adornant=--They enhance
their favours by their words. _Plin._
=Beneficia dare qui nescit injuste petit=--He who
knows not how to bestow a benefit is unreasonable
if he expects one. _Pub. Syr._
=Beneficia plura recipit qui scit reddere=--He
receives most favours who knows how to return
them. _Pub. Syr._
=Beneficium accipere libertatem vendere est=--To 60
accept a favour is to forfeit liberty. _Laber._
=Beneficium dignis ubi des, omnes obliges=--Where
you confer a benefit on those worthy of it,
you confer a favour on all. _Pub. Syr._
=Beneficium invito non datur=--There is no conferring
a favour (involving obligation) on a man
against his will. _L. Max._
=Beneficus est qui non sua, sed alterius causa
benigne facit=--He is beneficent who acts
kindly, not for his own benefit, but for another's.
_Cic._
=Bene merenti bene profuerit, male merenti
par erit=--To a well-deserving man God will
show favour, to an ill-deserving He will be
simply just. _Plaut._
=Bene merentibus=--To the well-deserving. _M._ 5
=Bene nummatum decorat Suedela Venusque=--The
goddesses of persuasion and of love adorn
the train of the well-moneyed man. _Hor._
=Bene orasse est bene studuisse=--To have prayed
well is to have striven well.
=Bene qui latuit, bene vixit=--Well has he lived
who has lived well in obscurity. _Ovid._
=Benevolence is the distinguishing characteristic
of man.= _Mencues._
=Benigno numine=--By the favour of Providence. 10
_M._
=Benignus etiam dandi causam cogitat=--The
benevolent man even weighs the grounds of his
liberality. _Pr._
=Be no one like another, yet every one like the
Highest; to this end let each one be perfect
in himself.= _Goethe._
=Be not angry that you cannot make others
what you wish them to be, since you cannot
make yourself what you wish to be.= _Thomas
à Kempis._
=Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil
with good.= _St. Paul._
=Be not righteous overmuch.= _Bible._ 15
=Be not the first by whom the new is tried, /
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.= _Pope._
=Ben trovato=--Well invented. _It._
=Be our joy three-parts pain! Strive, and
hold cheap the strain; / Learn, nor account
the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!=
_Browning._
=Berretta in mano non fece mai danno=--Cap in
hand never harmed any one. _It. Pr._
=Bescheiden freue dich des Ruhms, / So bist du= 20
=wert des Heiligthums=--If thou modestly enjoy
thy fame, thou art not unworthy to rank with the
holy. _Goethe._
=Bescheidenheit ist eine Zier, / Doch weiter
kommt man ohne ihr=--Modesty is an ornament,
yet people get on better without it. _Ger.
Pr._
=Beseht die Gönner in der Nähe! Halb sind
sie kalt, halb sind sie roh=--Look closely at
those who patronise you. Half are unfeeling,
half untaught. _Goethe._
=Besiegt von einem, ist besiegt von allen=--Overpowered
by one is overpowered by all.
_Schiller._
=Be silent, or say something better than silence.=
_Sp. Pr._
=Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in= 25
=changing him.= _Sc. Pr._
=Be sober, be vigilant.= _St. Peter._
=Besser ein Flick als ein Loch=--Better a patch
than a hole. _Ger. Pr._
=Besser ein magrer Vergleich als ein fetter
Prozess=--Better is a lean agreement than a fat
lawsuit. _Ger. Pr._
=Besser frei in der Fremde als Knecht daheim=--Better
free in a strange land than a slave at
home. _Ger. Pr._
=Besser freundlich versagen als unwillig gewähren=--Better 30
a friendly refusal than an unwilling
consent (_lit._ pledge). _Ger. Pr._
=Besser Rat kommt über Nacht=--Better counsel
comes over-night. _Lessing._
=Besser was als gar nichts=--Better something
than nothing at all. _Ger. Pr._
=Besser zweimal fragen dann einmal irre gehn=--Better
ask twice than go wrong once. _Ger.
Pr._
=Be still and have thy will.= _Tyndal._
=Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire; /= 35
=Threaten the threatner, and outface the
brow / Of bragging horror; so shall inferior
eyes, / That borrow their behaviours from
the great, / Grow great by your example,
and put on / The dauntless spirit of resolution.=
_King John_, v. 1.
=Best men are moulded out of faults.= _Meas. for
Meas._, v. 1.
=Be strong, and quit yourselves like men.=
_Bible._
=Best time is present time.= _Pr._
=Be substantially great in thyself, and more
than thou appearest unto others.= _Sir Thomas
Browne._
=Be sure you can obey good laws before you= 40
=seek to alter bad ones.= _Ruskin._
=Be sure your sin will find you out.= _Bible._
=Be swift to hear, slow to speak.= _Pr._
=Bête noir=--An eyesore; a bugbear (_lit._ a black
beast). _Fr._
=Beter eens in den hemel dan tienmaal aan de
deur=--Better once in heaven than ten times at
the door. _Dut. Pr._
=Be thankful for your ennui; it is your last= 45
=mark of manhood.= _Carlyle._
=Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow,
thou shalt not escape calumny.= _Ham._,
iii. 1.
=Be thou assured, if words be made of breath, /
And breath of life, I have no life to breathe /
What thou hast said to me.= _Ham._, iii. 4.
=Be thou faithful unto death.= _St. John._
=Bêtise=--Folly; piece of folly. _Fr._
=Be to her virtues very kind; / Be to her faults= 50
=a little blind.= _Prior._
=Betrogene Betrüger=--The deceiver deceived.
_Lessing._
=Betrügen und betrogen werden, / Nichts ist
gewöhnlicher auf Erden=--Nothing is more
common on earth than to deceive and be deceived.
_Seume._
=Betrug war Alles, Lug, und Schein=--All was
deception, a lie, and illusion. _Goethe._
=Bettelsack ist bodenlos=--The beggar's bag has
no bottom. _Ger. Pr._
=Better a blush in the face than a blot in the= 55
=heart.= _Cervantes._
=Better a child should be ignorant of a thousand
truths than have consecrated in its heart
a single lie.= _Ruskin._
=Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble
without one.= _Chinese Pr._
=Better a fortune in a wife than with a wife.=
_Pr._
=Better a fremit freend than a freend fremit=,
_i.e._, a stranger for a friend than a friend turned
stranger. _Sc. Pr._
=Better a living dog than a dead lion.= _Pr._
=Better an egg to-day than a hen to-morrow.=
_Pr._
=Better an end with terror than a terror without= 5
=end.= _Schill._
=Better a toom (empty) house than an ill tenant.=
_Sc. Pr._
=Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.= _Twelfth
Night_, i. 5.
=Better bairns greet (weep) than bearded men.=
_Sc. Pr._
=Better be at the end o' a feast than the beginning
o' a fray.= _Sc. Pr._
=Better be a nettle in the side of your friend= 10
=than his echo.= _Emerson._
=Better be a poor fisherman than have to do
with the governing of men.= _Danton._
=Better be disagreeable in a sort than altogether
insipid.= _Goethe._
=Better be idle than ill employed.= _Sc. Pr._
=Better bend than break.= _Pr._
=Better be persecuted than shunned.= _Ebers._ 15
=Better be poor than wicked.= _Pr._
=Better be unborn than untaught.= _Gael. Pr._
=Better buy than borrow.= _Pr._
=Better deny at once than promise long.= _Pr._
=Better far off, than--near, be ne'er the near'.= 20
_Rich. II._, v. 1.
=Better far to die in the old harness than to try
to put on another.= _J. G. Holland._
=Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of
Cathay.= _Tennyson._
=Better go back than go wrong.= _Pr._
=Better go to bed supperless than rise in debt.=
_Sc. Pr._
=Better haud (hold on) wi' the hound than rin= 25
=wi' the hare.= _Sc. Pr._
=Better is an ass that carries us than a horse
that throws us.= _J. G. Holland._
=Better it is to be envied than pitied.= _Pr._
=Better keep the deil oot than hae to turn him
oot.= _Sc. Pr._
=Better keep weel than mak' weel.= _Sc. Pr._
=Better knot straws than do nothing.= _Gael. Pr._ 30
=Better lose a jest than a friend.= _Pr._
=Better mad with all the world than wise all
alone.= _Fr. Pr._
=Better my freen's think me fremit as fasheous=,
_i.e._, strange rather than troublesome. _Sc. Pr._
=Better never begin than never make an end.=
_Pr._
=Better not be at all / Than not be noble.= 35
_Tennyson._
=Better not read books in which you make the
acquaintance of the devil.= _Niebuhr._
=Better one-eyed than stone-blind.= _Pr._
=Better one living word than a hundred dead
ones.= _Ger. Pr._
=Better rue sit than rue flit=, _i.e._, regret remaining
than regret removing. _Sc. Pr._
=Better say nothing than nothing to the purpose.= 40
_Pr._
=Better sit still than rise and fa'.= _Sc. Pr._
=Better sma' fish than nane.= _Sc. Pr._
=Better suffer for truth than prosper by falsehood.=
_Dan. Pr._
=Better ten guilty escape than one innocent
man suffer.= _Pr._
=Better that people should laugh at one while= 45
=they instruct, than that they should praise
without benefiting.= _Goethe._
=Better the ill ken'd than the ill unken'd=, _i.e._,
the ill we know than the ill we don't know.
_Sc. Pr._
=Better the world know you as a sinner than
God as a hypocrite.= _Dan. Pr._
=Better to ask than go astray.= _Pr._
=Better to get wisdom than gold.= _Bible._
=Better to hunt in fields for health unbought, /= 50
=Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. /
The wise for cure on exercise depend; /
God never made his work for man to mend.=
_Dryden._
=Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.=
_Milton._
=Better to say "Here it is" than "Here it was."=
_Pr._
=Better understand the world than condemn it.=
_Gael. Pr._
=Better untaught than ill taught.= _Pr._
=Better wear out than rust out.= _Bishop Cumberland._ 55
=Better wear shoon (shoes) than sheets.= _Sc. Pr._
=Better wrong with the many than right with
the few.= _Port. Pr._
=Between a woman's "Yes" and "No" you
may insert the point of a needle.= _Ger. Pr._
=Between saying and doing there's a long road.=
_Pr._
=Between the acting of a dreadful thing / And= 60
=the first motion, all the interim is / Like a
phantasma or a hideous dream.= _Jul. Cæs._,
ii. 1.
=Between the deil and the deep sea.= _Sc. Pr._
=Between us and hell or heaven there is nothing
but life, which of all things is the frailest.=
_Pascal._
=Beware, my lord, of jealousy; / It is the green-eyed
monster that doth mock / The meat it
feeds on.= _Othello_, iii. 3.
=Beware of a silent dog and still water.= _Pr._
=Beware of a silent man and a dog that does= 65
=not bark.= _Pr._
=Beware of a talent which you cannot hope to
cultivate to perfection.= _Goethe._
=Beware / Of entrance to a quarrel; but, being
in, / Bear 't that the opposed may beware
of thee.= _Ham._, i. 3.
=Beware of false prophets.= _Jesus._
=Beware of "Had I wist."= _Pr._
=Beware of one who has nothing to lose.= _It._ 70
_Pr._
=Beware of too much good staying in your
hand.= _Emerson._
=Beware the fury of a patient man.= _Dryden._
=Beware when the great God lets loose a
thinker on this planet.= _Emerson._
=Be warned by thy good angel and not ensnared
by thy bad one.= _Bürger._
=Be wisely worldly; be not worldly wise.= 75
_Quarles._
=Be wise to-day; 'tis madness to defer.= _Young._
=Be wise with speed; / A fool at forty is a fool
indeed.= _Young._
=Bewunderung verdient ein Wunder wohl, /
Doch scheint ein Weib kein echtes Weib
zu sein, / So bald es nur Bewunderung verdient=--What
is admirable justly calls forth our
admiration, yet a woman seems to be no true
woman who calls forth nothing else. _Platen._
=Be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless
as doves.= _Jesus._
=Bezwingt des Herzens Bitterkeit. Es bringt /= 5
=Nicht gute Frucht, wenn Hass dem Hass
begegnet=--Control the heart's bitterness. Nothing
good comes of returning hatred for hatred.
_Schiller._
=Bibula charta=--Blotting-paper.
=Bien dire fait rire; bien faire fait taire=--Saying
well makes us laugh; doing well makes us silent.
_Fr. Pr._
=Bien est larron qui larron dérobe=--He is a thief
with a witness who robs another. _Fr. Pr._
=Bien nourri et mal appris=--Well fed but ill
taught. _Fr. Pr._
=Bien perdu bien connu=--We know the worth of 10
a thing when we have lost it. _Fr._
=Bien predica quien bien vive=--He preaches well
who lives well. _Sp. Pr._
=Bien sabe el asno en cuya cara rabozna=--The
ass knows well in whose face he brays. _Sp.
Pr._
=Bien sabe el sabio que no sabe, el nescio piensa
que sabe=--The wise man knows well that he
does not know; the ignorant man thinks he
knows. _Sp. Pr._
=Bien sabe la vulpeja con quien trebeja=--The
fox knows well with whom he plays tricks.
_Sp. Pr._
=Bien vengas, mal, si vienes solo=--Welcome, misfortune, 15
if thou comest alone. _Sp. Pr._
=Bien vient à mieux, et mieux à mal=--Good comes
to better and better to bad. _Fr. Pr._
=Big destinies of nations or of persons are not
founded= _gratis_ =in this world.= _Carlyle._
=Bigotry murders religion, to frighten fools with
her ghost.= _Colton._
=Big words seldom accompany good deeds.=
_Dan. Pr._
=Billet-doux=--A love-letter. _Fr._ 20
=Biography is the most universally pleasant,
the most universally profitable, of all reading.=
_Carlyle._
=Biography is the only true history.= _Carlyle._
=Birds of a feather flock together.= _Pr._
=Birds of prey do not flock together.= _Port. Pr._
=Birth is much, but breeding is more.= _Pr._ 25
=Bis dat qui cito dat=--He gives twice who gives
quickly. _L. Pr._
=Bis est gratum quod opus est, si ultro offeras=--That
help is doubly acceptable which you offer
spontaneously when we stand in need. _Pub.
Syr._
=Bis interimitur qui suis armis perit=--He dies
twice who perishes by his own weapons or devices.
_Pub. Syr._
=Bisogna amar l'amico con i suoi difetti=--We
must love our friend with all his defects. _It. Pr._
=Bis peccare in bello non licet=--It is not permitted 30
to blunder in war a second time. _Pr._
=Bist du Amboss, sei geduldig; bist du Hammer,
schlage hart=--Art thou anvil, be patient; art
thou hammer, strike hard. _Ger. Pr._
=Bist du ein Mensch? so fühle meine Noth=--Art
thou a man? then feel for my wretchedness.
_Margaret in "Faust."_
=Bist du mit dem Teufel du und du, / Und willst
dich vor der Flamme scheuen?=--Art thou on
familiar terms with the devil, and wilt thou shy
at the flame? _Goethe's "Faust."_
=Bis vincit qui se vincit in victoria=--He conquers
twice who, at the moment of victory, conquers
(_i.e._, restrains) himself. _Pub. Syr._
=Bitin' and scartin' 's Scotch folk's wooing.= _Sc._ 35
_Pr._
=Black detraction will find faults where they are
not.= _Massinger._
=Blame is the lazy man's wages.= _Dan. Pr._
=Blame where you must, be candid where you
can, / And be each critic the good-natured
man.= _Goldsmith._
=Blanc-bec=--A greenhorn. _Fr._
=Blasen ist nicht flöten; ihr musst die Finger= 40
=bewegen=--To blow on the flute is not to play on
it; you must move the fingers as well. _Goethe._
=Blasphemy is wishing ill to anything, and its
outcome wishing ill to God; while Euphemy
is wishing well to everything, and its outcome
wishing well to--"Ah, wad ye tak' a
thocht, and men'."= _Ruskin._
=Blasted with excess of light.= _Gray._
=Bleib nicht allein, denn in der Wüste trat / Der
Satansengel selbst dem Herrn des Himmels=--Remain
not alone, for it was in the desert that
Satan came to the Lord of Heaven himself.
_Schiller._
=Bless, and curse not.= _St. Paul._
=Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet= 45
=have believed.= _Jesus._
=Blessed are they that hear the Word of God,
and keep it.= _Bible._
=Blessed be he who first invented sleep; it
covers a man all over like a cloak.= _Cervantes._
=Blessed be nothing.= _Pr._
=Blessed is he that considereth the poor.= _Bible._
=Blessed is he that continueth where he is; here= 50
=let us rest and lay out seed-fields; here let
us learn to dwell.= _Carlyle._
=Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall
never be disappointed.= _Swift._
=Blessed is he who is made happy by the sound
of a rat-tat.= _Thackeray._
=Blessed is the man that endureth temptation.=
_St. James._
=Blessed is the voice that, amid dispiritment,
stupidity, and contradiction, proclaims to us,
Euge!= (_i.e._, Excellent! Bravo!). _Carlyle._
=Blessedness is a whole eternity older than= 55
=damnation.= _Jean Paul._
=Blessings are upon the head of the just.= _Bible._
=Blinder Eifer schadet nur=--Blind zeal only does
harm. _M. G. Lichtwer._
=Blinder Gaul geht geradezu=--A blind horse goes
right on. _Ger. Pr._
=Blindfold zeal can do nothing but harm--harm
everywhere, and harm always.= _Lichtner._
=Bloemen zijn geen vruchten=--Blossoms are not 60
fruits. _Dut. Pr._
=Blood is thicker than water.= _Pr._
=Blosse Intelligenz ohne correspondirende
Energie des Wollens ist ein blankes Schwert
in der Scheide, verächtlich, wenn es nie
und nimmer gezückt wird=--Mere intelligence
without corresponding energy of the will is a
polished sword in its scabbard, contemptible, if
it is never drawn forth. _Lindner._
=Blow, blow, thou winter wind, / Thou art not
so unkind / As man's ingratitude.= _As You
Like It_, ii. 7.
=Blow, wind! come, wrack! / At least we'll die
with harness on our back.= _Macb._, v. 5.
=Blue are the hills that are far from us.= _Gael.
Pr._
=Blunt edges rive hard knots.= _Troil. and Cress._, 5
i. 3.
=Blushes are badges of imperfection.= _Wycherley._
=Blut ist ein ganz besondrer Saft=--Blood is a
quite peculiar fluid. _Mephisto, in Faust._
=Boca de mel, coraçaõ de fel=--A tongue of honey,
a heart of gall. _Port. Pr._
=Boca que diz sim, diz naõ=--The mouth that can
say "Yea," can say "Nay." _Port. Pr._
=Bodily exercise profiteth little.= _St. Paul._ 10
=Bœotum in crasso jurares aëre natum=--You
would swear he was born in the foggy atmosphere
of the Bœotians. _Hor._
=Bois ont oreilles et champs œillets=--Woods have
ears and fields eyes. _Fr. Pr._
=Bole com o rabo o caõ, naõ por ti, senaõ pelo
paõ=--The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for
your bread. _Port. Pr._
=Bon accord=--Good harmony. _M._
=Bonæ leges malis ex moribus procreantur=--Good 15
laws grow out of evil acts. _Macrob._
=Bona fide=--In good faith; in reality.
=Bona malis paria non sunt, etiam pari numero;
nec lætitia ulla minimo mœrore pensanda=--The
blessings of life do not equal its ills, even
when of equal number; nor can any pleasure,
however incense, compensate for even the slightest
pain. _Pliny._
=Bona nemini hora est, ut non alicui sit mala=--There
is no hour good for one man that is not
bad for another. _Pub. Syr._
=Bonarum rerum consuetudo est pessima=--Nothing
can be worse than being accustomed to
good things. _Pub. Syr._
=Bona vacantia=--Goods that have no owner. _L._ 20
=Bon avocat, mauvais voisin=--A good lawyer is a
bad neighbour. _Fr. Pr._
=Bon bourgeois=--A substantial citizen. _Fr._
=Bon chien chasse de race=--A good dog hunts
from pure instinct. _Fr. Pr._
=Bon diable=--A good-natured fellow. _Fr._
=Bon droit a besoin d'aide=--A good cause needs 25
help. _Fr. Pr._
=Bon gré, mal gré=--Whether willing or not. _Fr._
=Bon guet chasse maladventure=--A good lookout
drives ill-luck away. _Fr. Pr._
=Bonne épée point querelleur=--A good swordsman
is not given to quarrel. _Fr. Pr._
=Bonne est la maille que sauve le denier=--Good
is the farthing that saves the penny. _Fr. Pr._
=Bonhomie=--Good nature. _Fr._ 30
=Boni pastoris est tondere pecus, non deglubere=--It
is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his
sheep, not to flay them. _Tiberius Cæsar, in
reference to taxation._
=Bonis avibus=--Under favourable auspices.
=Bonis nocet quisquis pepercerit malis=--He does
injury to the good who spares the bad. _Pub. Syr._
=Bonis omnia bona=--All things are good to the
good. _M._
=Bonis quod benefit haud perit=--A kindness done 35
to good men is never thrown away. _Plaut._
=Bonis vel malis avibus=--Under good, or evil,
omens.
=Bon jour=--Good day. _Fr._
=Bon jour, bonne œuvre=--The better the day, the
better the deed. _Fr. Pr._
=Bon marché tire l'argent hors de la bourse=--A
good bargain is a pick-purse. _Fr. Pr._
=Bon mot=--A witticism or jest. _Fr._ 40
=Bon naturel=--Good nature or disposition. _Fr._
=Bonne=--A nurse. _Fr._
=Bonne bouche=--A delicate morsel. _Fr._
=Bonne et belle assez=--Good and handsome
enough. _Fr. M._
=Bonne journée fait qui de fol se délivre=--He 45
who rids himself of a fool does a good day's
work. _Fr. Pr._
=Bonne renommée vaut mieux que ceinture
dorée=--A good name is worth more than a girdle
of gold. _Fr. Pr._
=Bonnet rouge=--The cap of liberty. _Fr._
=Bonnie feathers mak' bonnie fowls.= _Sc. Pr._
=Bon poète, mauvais homme=--Good as a poet,
bad as a man. _Fr._
=Bon sang ne peut mentir=--Good blood disdains 50
to lie. _Fr. Pr._
=Bons et máos mantem cidade=--Good men and
bad make a city. _Port. Pr._
=Bons mots n'épargnent nuls=--Witticisms spare
nobody. _Fr. Pr._
=Bon soir=--Good evening. _Fr._
=Bon ton=--The height of fashion. _Fr._
=Bonum ego quam beatum me esse nimio dici= 55
=mavolo=--I would much rather be called good
than well off. _Plaut._
=Bonum est fugienda aspicere in alieno malo=--Well
if we see in the misfortune of another what
we should shun ourselves. _Pub. Syr._
=Bonum est, pauxillum amare sane, insane non
bonum est=--It is good to be moderately sane in
love; to be madly in love is not good. _Plaut._
=Bonum summum quo tendimus omnes=--That
supreme good at which we all aim. _Lucret._
=Bonus animus in mala re dimidium est mali=--Good
courage in a bad affair is half of the evil
overcome. _Plaut._
=Bonus atque fidus / Judex honestum prætulit= 60
=utili=--A good and faithful judge ever prefers the
honourable to the expedient. _Hor._
=Bonus dux bonum reddit militem=--The good
general makes good soldiers. _L. Pr._
=Bonus vir semper tiro=--A good man is always a
learner.
=Bon vivant=--A good liver. _Fr._
=Bon voyage=--A pleasant journey or voyage. _Fr._
=Books are divisible into two classes, the books= 65
=of the hour and the books of all time.= _Ruskin._
=Books are embalmed minds.= _Bovee._
=Books are made from books.= _Voltaire._
=Books cannot always please, however good; /
Minds are not ever craving for their food.=
_Crabbe._
=Books generally do little else than give our
errors names.= _Goethe._
=Books, like friends, should be few and well
chosen.= _Joineriana._
=Books still accomplish miracles; they persuade
men.= _Carlyle._
=Books, we know, / Are a substantial world,
pure and good.= _Wordsworth._
=Boomen die men veel verplant gedijen zelden=--Trees 5
you transplant often, seldom thrive.
_Dut. Pr._
=Borgen thut nur einmal wohl=--Borrowing does
well only once. _Ger. Pr._
=Born to excel and to command!= _Congreve._
=Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul.= _Cic._
=Borrowing is not much better than begging;
just as lending on interest is not much better
than stealing.= _Lessing._
=Bos alienus subinde prospectat foras=--A strange 10
ox every now and then turns its eyes wistfully to
the door. _Pr._
=Böser Brunnen, da man Wasser muss eintragen=--It
is a bad well into which you must
pour water. _Ger. Pr._
=Böser Pfennig kommt immer wieder=--A bad
penny always comes back again. _Ger. Pr._
=Bos in lingua=--He has an ox on his tongue, _i.e._,
a bribe to keep silent, certain coins in Athens
being stamped with an ox. _Pr._
=Bos lassus fortius figit pedem=--The tired ox
plants his foot more firmly. _Pr._
=Botschaft hör' ich wohl, allein mir fehlt der= 15
=Glaube=--I hear the message indeed, but I want
the faith. _Goethe's "Faust."_
[Greek: bouleuou pro ergôn, hopôs mê môra pelêtai]--Before
the act consider, so that nothing foolish
may arise out of it. _Gr. Pr._
=Bought wit is best=, _i.e._, bought by experience.
_Pr._
=Boutez en avant=--Push forward. _Fr._
=Bowels of compassion.= _St. John._
=Brag is a good dog, but Holdfast is better.= 20
_Pr._
=Brain is always to be bought, but passion
never comes to market.= _Lowell._
=Brave men are brave from the very first.= _Corneille._
=Bread at pleasure, / Drink by measure.=
_Pr._
=Bread is the staff of life.= _Swift._
=Breathes there the man with soul so dead, /= 25
=Who never to himself hath said, / "This is
my own, my native land?"= _Scott._
=Breathe his faults so quaintly, / That they may
seem the taints of liberty; / The flash and
outbreak of a fiery mind.= _Ham._, ii. 1.
=Breed is stronger than pasture.= _George Eliot._
=Brevet d'invention=--A patent. _Fr._
=Breveté=--Patented. _Fr._
=Breve tempus ætatis satis est longum ad bene= 30
=honesteque vivendum=--A short term on earth
is long enough for a good and honourable life.
_Cic._
=Brevi manu=--Offhand; summarily (_lit._ with a
short hand).
=Brevis a natura nobis vita data est: at memoria
bene redditæ vitæ est sempiterna=--A short
life has been given us by Nature, but the memory
of a well-spent one is eternal. _Cic._
=Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio=--When labouring
to be concise, I become obscure. _Hor._
=Brevis ipsa vita est, sed longior malis=--Life
itself is short, but lasts longer than misfortunes.
_Pub. Syr._
=Brevis voluptas mox doloris est parens=--Short-lived 35
pleasure is the parent of pain. _Pr._
=Brevity is the body and soul of wit.= _Jean
Paul._
=Brevity is the soul of wit.= _Ham._, iii. 2.
=Bric-à-brac=--Articles of vertu or curiosity. _Fr._
=Bricht ein Ring, so bricht die ganze Katte=--A
link broken, the whole chain broken. _Ger.
Pr._
=Brief as the lightning in the collied night, /= 40
=That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and
earth, / And ere a man hath power to say,
"Behold!" / The jaws of darkness do devour
it up.= _Mid. N.'s Dream_, i. 1.
=Briefe gehören unter die wichtigsten Denkmäler
die der einzelne Mensch hinterlassen
kann=--Letters are among the most significant
memorials a man can leave behind him.
_Goethe._
=Briller par son absence=--To be conspicuous by
its absence. _Fr._
=Bring down my grey hairs with sorrow to the
grave.= _Bible._
=Bring forth men-children only! / For thy undaunted
mettle should compose / Nothing
but males.= _Macb._, i. 7.
=Broad thongs may be cut from other people's= 45
=leather.= _It. Pr._
=Broken friendships may be sowthered (soldered),
but never sound.= _Sc. Pr._
=Brouille sera à la maison si la quenouille est
maîtresse=--There will be disagreement in the
house if the distaff holds the reins. _Fr. Pr._
=Brûler la chandelle par les deux bouts=--To burn
the candle at both ends. _Fr._
=Brute force holds communities together as an
iron nail, if a little rusted with age, binds
pieces of wood; but intelligence binds like
a screw, which must be gently turned, not
driven.= _Draper._
=Brutum fulmen=--A harmless thunderbolt. _L._ 50
=Brutus, thou sleep'st; awake, and see thyself.=
_Jul. Cæs._, ii. 1.
=Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Cæsar.=
_Jul. Cæs._, i. 2.
=Bûche tortue fait bon feu=--A crooked log makes
a good fire. _Fr. Pr._
=Buen siglo haya quien dijó bolta=--Blessings on
him that said, Right about face! _Sp. Pr._
=Buey viejo sulco derecho=--An old ox makes a 55
straight furrow. _Sp. Pr._
=Buffoonery is often want of wit.= _Bruyère._
=Bullies are generally cowards.= _Pr._
=Buon cavallo non ha bisogno di sproni=--Don't
spur a willing horse. _It. Pr._
=Burlaos con el loco en casa, burlará con vos
en la plaza=--Play with the fool in the house
and he will play with you in the street. _Sp.
Pr._
=Burnt bairns dread the fire.= _Sc. Pr._ 60
=Business dispatched is business well done, but
business hurried is business ill done.= _Bulwer
Lytton._
=Busy readers are seldom good readers.= _Wieland._
=But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, /
When once destroyed, can never be supplied.=
_Goldsmith._
=But all was false and hollow; though his
tongue / Dropp'd manna, and could make
the worse appear / The better reason, to
perplex and dash / Maturest counsels.=
_Milton._
=But by bad courses may be understood, / That
their events can never fall out good.= _Rich.
II._, ii. 1.
=But Cristes lore, and his apostles twelve, /
He taught, but first he folwed it himselve.=
_Chaucer._
=But earthlier happy is the rose distilled, / Than= 5
=that which, withering on the virgin thorn, /
Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.=
_Mid. N's. Dream_, i. 1.
=But evil is wrought by want of thought / As
well as want of heart.= _Hood._
=But facts are chiels that winna ding, / An'
douna be disputed.= _Burns._
=But far more numerous was the herd of such /
Who think too little and who talk too much.=
_Dryden._
=But for women, our life would be without help
at the outset, without pleasure in its course,
and without consolation at the end.= _Jouy._
=But from the heart of Nature rolled / The burdens= 10
=of the Bible old.= _Emerson._
=But human bodies are sic fools, / For a' their
colleges and schools, / That, when nae real
ills perplex them, / They make enow themsels
to vex them.= _Burns._
=But hushed be every thought that springs /
From out the bitterness of things.= _Wordsworth._
=But I am constant as the northern star, / Of
whose true-fixed and resting quality, / There
is no fellow in the firmament.= _Jul. Cæs._, iii. 1.
=But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve / For
daws to peck at.= _Othello_, i. 1.
=But man, proud man, / Drest in a little brief= 15
=authority, / Most ignorant of what he's
most assured, / His glassy essence,--like
an angry ape, / Plays such fantastic tricks
before high Heaven / As make the angels
weep.= _Meas. for Meas._, ii. 2.
=But men may construe things after their
fashion, clean from the purpose of the things
themselves.= _Jul. Cæs._, i. 3.
=But men must work, and women must weep, /
Though storms be sudden and waters deep, /
And the harbour bar be moaning.= _C. Kingsley._
=But mercy is above this sceptred sway; / It is
enthroned in the hearts of kings, / It is an
attribute to God Himself, / And earthly power
doth then show likest God's / When mercy
seasons justice.= _Mer. of Ven._, iv. 1.
=But now our fates from unmomentous things /
May rise like rivers out of little springs.=
_Campbell._
=But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand, / And= 20
=the sound of a voice that is still.= _Tennyson._
=But O what damned minutes tells he o'er, /
Who dotes, yet doubts; suspects, yet
strongly loves?= _Othello_, iii. 3.
=But pleasures are like poppies spread, / You
seize the flower, its bloom is shed; / Or, like
the snowfall on the river, / A moment white--then
melts for ever.= _Burns._
=But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be; /
Within that circle none durst walk but he.=
_Dryden._
=But shapes that come not at an earthly call, /
Will not depart when mortal voices bid.=
_Wordsworth._
=But souls that of His own good life partake, /= 25
=He loves as His own self; dear as His eye /
They are to Him; He'll never them forsake; /
When they shall die, then God Himself shall
die: / They live, they live in blest eternity.=
_H. More._
=But spite of all the criticising elves, / Those
that would make us feel, must feel themselves.=
_Churchill._
=But there are wanderers o'er eternity, / Whose
bark drives on and on, and anchor'd ne'er
shall be.= _Byron._
=But there's nothing half so sweet in life / As
love's young dream.= _Moore._
=But thought's the slave of life, and life time's
fool; / And time, that takes survey of all
the world, / Must have a stop.= 1 _Henry IV._,
v. 4.
=But to see her was to love her--love but her,= 30
=and love for ever.= _Burns._
=But truths on which depend our main concern, /
That 'tis our shame and misery not
to learn, / Shine by the side of every path
we tread, / With such a lustre, he that runs
may read.= _Cowper._
=But war's a game which, were their subjects
wise, / Kings would not play at.= _Cowper._
=But were I Brutus, / And Brutus Antony,
there were an Antony / Would ruffle up your
spirits, and put a tongue / In every wound
of Cæsar, that should move / The stones of
Rome to rise and mutiny.= _Jul. Cæs._, iii. 2.
=But what fate does, let fate answer for.=
_Sheridan._
=But whether on the scaffold high, / Or in the= 35
=battle's van, / The fittest place where man
can die / Is where he dies for man.= _M. J.
Barry._
=But who would force the soul, tilts with a
straw / Against a champion cased in adamant.=
_Wordsworth._
=But winter lingering chills the lap of May.=
_Goldsmith._
=But words are things, and a small drop of ink, /
Falling, like dew, upon a thought, produces /
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions,
think.= _Byron._
=But wouldst thou know what's heaven? I'll
tell thee what: / Think what thou canst not
think, and heaven is that.= _Quarles._
=But yesterday the word of Cæsar might /= 40
=Have stood against the world; now lies he
there, / And none so poor to do him reverence.=
_Jul. Cæs._, iii. 2.
=Buying is cheaper than asking.= _Ger. Pr._
=Buy the truth, and sell it not.= _Bible._
=Buy what ye dinna want, an' ye'll sell what ye
canna spare.= _Sc. Pr._
=By-and-by is easily said.= _Ham._, iii. 2.
=By any ballot-box, Jesus Christ goes just as= 45
=far as Judas Iscariot.= _Carlyle._
=By blood a king, in heart a clown.= _Tennyson._
=By bravely enduring it, an evil which cannot
be avoided is overcome.= _Pr._
=By desiring little, a poor man makes himself
rich.= _Democritus._
=By dint of dining out, I run the risk of dying
by starvation at home.= _Rousseau._
=By doing nothing we learn to do ill.= _Pr._
=By education most have been misled.= _Dryden._
=By experience we find out a short way by a= 5
=long wandering.= _Roger Ascham._
=By nature man hates change; seldom will he
quit his old home till it has actually fallen
about his ears.= _Carlyle._
=By night an atheist half believes a God.=
_Young._
=By nothing do men more show what they are
than by their appreciation of what is and
what is not ridiculous.= _Goethe._
=By others' faults wise men correct their own.=
_Pr._
=By persisting in your path, though you forfeit= 10
=the little, you gain the great.= _Emerson._
=By pious heroic climbing of our own, not by
arguing with our poor neighbours, wandering
to right and left, do we at length reach
the sanctuary--the victorious summit, and
see with our own eyes.= _Carlyle._
=By pride cometh contention.= _Bible._
=By robbing Peter he paid Paul ... and hoped
to catch larks if ever the heavens should fall.=
_Rabelais._
=By seeking and blundering we learn.= _Goethe._
=By shallow rivers to whose falls / Melodious= 15
=birds sing madrigals.= _Marlowe._
=By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd,
/ The sports of children satisfy the
child.= _Goldsmith._
=By strength of heart the sailor fights with
roaring seas.= _Wordsworth._
=By the long practice of caricature I have lost
the enjoyment of beauty: I never see a face
but distorted.= _Hogarth to a lady who wished
to learn caricature._
=By three methods we may learn wisdom: first,
by reflection, which is the noblest; second,
by imitation, which is the easiest; and third,
by experience, which is the bitterest.= _Confucius._
=By time and counsel do the best we can: /= 20
=Th' event is never in the power of man.=
_Herrick._