=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._