step in a man's salvation is knowledge of his
sin. _Sen._
=Injuria absque damno=--Injury without loss.
=Injuriæ spretæ exolescunt, si irascaris agnitæ
videntur=--Injuries that are slighted and unnoticed
are soon forgotten; if you are angry,
they are seen to be acknowledged. _Pr._
=Injuriam qui facturus est jam facit=--He who is 30
bent on doing an injury has already done it.
_Sen._
=Injuriarum remedium est oblivio=--Oblivion is
the best remedy for injuries. _Pr._
=Injuries come only from the heart.= _Sterne._
=Injusta ab justis impetrare non decet; / Justa
autem ab injustis petere, insipientia est=--To
ask what is unreasonable from the reasonable
is not right; to ask what is reasonable from the
unreasonable is folly. _Plaut._
=Inmost things are all melodious, naturally
utter themselves in song. The meaning of
song goes deep.= _Carlyle._
=Innocence has a friend in heaven.= _Schiller._ 35
=Innocence is a flower which withers when
touched, and blooms not again though
watered with tears.= _Hooper._
=Inopem me copia fecit=--Plenty has made me
poor; wealth makes wit waver. _Ovid._
=Inopi beneficium bis dat, qui dat celeriter=--He
confers a twofold benefit on a needy man who
does so quickly. _Pub. Syr._
=Inops, potentem dum vult imitari, perit=--An
incapable man who attempts to imitate a capable
is sure to come to grief. _Phædr._
=Inquinat egregios adjuncta superbia mores=--The 40
best manners are stained by the addition of
pride. _Claud._
=Inquisitiveness as seldom cures jealousy as
drinking in a fever quenches the thirst.=
_Wycherley._
=Ins Innre der Natur / Dringt kein erschaffner
Geist. / Glückselig, wem sie nur / Die äussre
Schale weist=--No created spirit penetrates into
the inner secret of Nature. Happy he to whom
she shows but the outer shell. _Haller._
=Insani sapiens nomen ferat, æquus iniqui, /
Ultra quod satis est virtutem si petat ipsam=--Let
the wise man bear the name of fool, and
the just of unjust, if he pursue Virtue herself
beyond the proper bounds. _Hor._
=Insanire parat certa ratione modoque=--He is
preparing to act the madman with a certain
degree of reason and method. _Hor._
=Insanity is often the logic of an accurate= 45
=mind overtasked.= _Holmes._
=Insanus omnis furere credit cæteros=--Every
madman believes that all others are mad. _Syr._
=Insculpsit=--He engraved it.
=Inservi Deo et lætare=--Serve God and rejoice.
_M._
=Insipientis est dicere, Non putarem=--It is the
part of a fool to say, "I should not have thought
so."
=Insita hominibus natura violentiæ resistere=--It 50
is natural to man to resist oppression. _Tac._
=Insita mortalibus natura, propere sequi quæ
piget inchoare=--People are naturally ready
enough to follow in matters in which they are
disinclined to take the lead. _Tac._
=Insolence is pride when her mask is pulled off.=
_Pr._
=Insouciance=--Indifference. _Fr._
=Insperata accidunt magis sæpe quam quæ
speres=--What you do not expect happens more
frequently than what you do. _Plaut._
=Inspicere, tanquam in speculum, in vitas
omnium / Jubeo, atque ex aliis sumere exemplum
sibi=--I would have you to look into
the lives of all, as into a mirror, and draw from
others an example for yourself. _Ter._
=Inspiration must find answering inspiration.=
_A. B. Alcott._
=Inspirations that we deem our own are our= 5
=divine foreshadowing and foreseeing of
things beyond our reason and control.=
_Longfellow._
=Inspiring bold John Barleycorn! / What
dangers thou canst make us scorn!= _Burns._
=Instar omnium=--Like all the others.
=Instead of the piteous and frightful figure
of Death, stepping whip to hand by the
peasant's side in the field, ... place there
a radiant angel, sowing with full hands the
blessed grain in the smoking furrow.= _George
Sand._
=Instead of watching the bird as it flies above
our heads, we chase his shadow along the
ground; and, finding we cannot grasp it,
we conclude it to be nothing.= _Hare._
=Instinct is a great matter; I was a coward on= 10
=instinct.= 1 _Hen. IV._, ii. 4.
=Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.=
_John Sterling._
=Instruction does much, but encouragement
everything.= _Goethe._
=Intaminatis fulget honoribus=--He shines with
unspotted honours. _M._
=Integer vitæ scelerisque purus / Non eget
Mauris jaculis neque arcu=--The man of upright
life and free from crime has no need of
Moorish javelin or bow. _Hor._
=Integrity gains strength by use.= _Tillotson._ 15
=Integrity is the shortest and nearest way to our
end, carrying us thither in a straight line, and
will hold out and last longest.= _Tillotson._
=Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless,
and knowledge without integrity is
dangerous and dreadful.= _Johnson._
=Intellect annuls fate; so far as a man thinks,
he is free.= _Emerson._
=Intellect is aristocratic; charity is democratic.=
_Amiel._
=Intellect is not speaking and logicising; it= 20
=is seeing and ascertaining.= _Carlyle._
=Intellect lies behind genius, which is intellect
constructive.= _Emerson._
=Intellectual fairness is often only another name
for indolence and inconclusiveness of mind,
just as love of truth is sometimes a fine
phrase for temper.= _J. Morley._
=Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede
muscular activity.= _Emerson._
=Intelligabilia, non intellectum, fero=--I provide
you with things intelligible, but not with intelligence.
=Intemperans adolescentia effetum corpus= 25
=tradet senectuti=--An incontinent youth will
transmit a worn-out bodily frame to old age.
_Cic._
=Intemperate wits will spare neither friend
nor foe, and make themselves the common
enemies of mankind.= _L'Estrange._
=Intense study of the Bible will keep any man
from being vulgar in point of style.= _Coleridge._
=Inter alia=--Among other matters.
=Inter amicos omnium rerum communitas=--Among
friends all things are common. _Cic._
=Inter arma leges silent=--In the midst of arms 30
the laws are silent. _Cic._
=Inter canem et lupum=--Between the dog and
the wolf; at the twilight.
=Inter cetera mala, hoc quoque habet stultitia
proprium, semper incipit vivere=--Among other
evils, folly has also this special characteristic, it
is always beginning to live. _Sen._
=Inter delicias semper aliquid sævi nos strangulat=--In
the midst of our enjoyments there is
always some wrong to torture us. _Pr._
=Inter Græcos græcissimus, inter Latinos
latinissimus=--In Greek he is the most accomplished
Grecian, and in Latin the most thorough
Latinist.
=Inter malleum et incudem=--Between the hammer 35
and the anvil.
=Inter nos=--Between ourselves.
=Inter nos sanctissima divitiarum / Majestas=--Among
us the most sacred majesty is that of
riches. _Juv._
=Inter pueros senex=--An old man among boys. _Pr._
=Inter spem curamque, timores inter et iras, /
Omnem crede diem tibi diluxisse supremum: /
Grata superveniet quæ non sperabitur hora=--In
the midst of hope and care, in the midst of
fears and passions, believe each day that dawns
on you is your last; welcome will steal upon you
the hour that is not hoped for. _Hor._
=Inter sylvas Academi quærere verum=--Amid 40
the woods of Academus to seek for truth. _Hor._
=Inter utrumque tene=--Keep a mid course between
the two extremes. _Ovid._
=Inter vivos=--Among the living.
=Interdum lacrymæ pondera vocis habent=--Sometimes
tears have the weight of words.
_Ovid._
=Interdum stultus bene loquitur=--Sometimes a
fool speaks reasonably.
=Interdum vulgus rectum videt, est ubi peccat=--Sometimes 45
the common people judge aright;
at other times they err. _Hor._
=Interea gustus elementa per omnia quærunt, /
Nunquam animo pretiis obstantibus; interius
si / Attendas, magis illa juvant, quæ pluris
emuntur=--Meantime they search for relishes
through all the elements, with minds regardless
of expense; look at it closely, those things please
more which cost the higher price. _Juv._
=Interest blinds some people and enlightens
others.= _La Roche._
=Interest is the spur of the people, but glory
that of great souls.= _Rousseau._
=Interest reipublicæ ut quisque re sua bene
utatur=--It is for the interest of the state that
every one make a good use of his property.
=Interest speaks all sorts of tongues, and plays= 50
=all sorts of parts, even the part of the disinterested.=
_La Roche._
=Interim fit aliquid=--- Something is going on meanwhile.
_Ter._
=Into a mouth shut flies fly not.= _Pr._
=Into contradicting / Be thou never led away; / When
with the ignorant they strive, / The
wise to folly fall away.= _Goethe._
=Into each life some rain must fall, / Some days
must be dark and dreary.= _Longfellow._
=Intolerabilius nihil est quam fœmina dives=--There
is nothing more insufferable than a rich
woman. _Juv._
=Intra muros=--Within the walls.
=Introite, nam et hic dii sunt=--Enter, for here too
are gods. _Heraclitus, from Arist._
=Intuition is the clear conception of the whole= 5
=at once. It seldom belongs to man to say
without presumption, "I came, I saw, I conquered."=
_Lavater._
=Intus et in cute novi hominem=--I know the man
inside and out. _Pers._
=Intus et in jecore ægro / Nascuntur domini=--Masters
spring up in our own breasts, and from
a morbid liver. _Pers._
=Intus si recte, ne labora=--If inwardly right, don't
worry.
=Intuta quæ indecora=--What is unbecoming is
unsafe. _Tac._
=Inveni portum, Spes et Fortuna valete, / Sat= 10
=me lusistis, ludite nunc alios=--I have reached
the port; hope and fortune, farewell; you have
made sport enough of me; make sport of others
now. _Lines at the end of Le Sage's "Gil Blas."_
=Invent first, and then embellish.= _Johnson._
=Invention breeds invention.= _Emerson._
=Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment
of age.= _Swift._
=Inventions have all been invented over and
over fifty times. Man is the arch-machine,
of which all these shifts drawn from himself
are toy models.= _Emerson._
=Invia virtuti nulla est via=--No way is impassable 15
to virtue. _Ovid._
=Invidia gloriæ comes=--Envy is the attendant on
glory. _Ovid._
="Invidia," jealousy of your neighbour's good,
has been, since dust was first made flesh,
the curse of man; and "charitas," the
desire to do your neighbour grace, the one
source of all human glory, power and material
blessing.= _Ruskin._
=Invidia Siculi non invenere tyranni / Tormentum
majus=--Sicilian tyrants invented nothing
that is a greater torment than envy. _Juv._
=Invidiam ferre aut fortis aut felix potest=--Only
the brave or the fortunate are able to endure
envy. _Pub. Syr._
=Invidiam placare paras, virtute relicta?=--Are 20
you trying to appease envy by the abandonment
of virtue?
=Invidus alterius macrescit rebus opimis=--The
envious man grows lean at the prosperity of
another. _Hor._
=Invidus, iracundus, iners, vinosus, amator, /
Nemo adeo ferus est, ut non mitescere possit, /
Si modo culturæ patientem commodet
aurem=--The envious, the passionate, the indolent,
the drunken, the lewd--none is so savage
that he cannot be tamed, if he only lend a patient
ear to culture. _Hor._
=Invisa nunquam imperia retinentur diu=--Hated
governments never hold out long. _Sen._
=Invisa potentia, atque miseranda vita eorum,
qui se metui quam amari malunt=--The power
is detested, and the life wretched, of those who
would rather be feared than loved. _Corn. Nep._
=Invita Minerva=--Without genius or the requisite 25
inspiration; against the will of Minerva.
=Invitat culpam qui peccatum præterit=--He who
overlooks one crime invites the commission of
another. _Pub. Syr._
=Invitum qui servat idem facit occidenti=--He
who saves a man against his will, does the same
as if he killed him. _Hor._
=Invitum sequitur honos=--Honour follows him
unsolicited. _M._
=Inward cheerfulness is an implicit praise and
thanksgiving to Providence under all its
dispensations.= _Addison._
=Ipsæ rursum concedite sylvæ=--Once again, ye 30
woods, adieu! _Virg._
=Ipse dixit=--He himself (viz. Pythagoras) said it.
Assertion without proof.
=Ipse docet quid agam: fas est et ab hoste
doceri=--He himself teaches me what to do; one
ought not to be above taking a lesson even from
an enemy. _Ovid._
=Ipse Jupiter, neque pluens omnibus placet,
neque abstinens=--Even Jupiter himself cannot
please all, whether he sends rain or fair weather.
_Pr._
=Ipse pavet; nec qua commissas flectat habenas, /
Nec scit qua sit iter; nec, si sciat, imperet
illis=--Scared himself, he knows neither
how to turn the reins intrusted to him, nor
which way to go; nor if he did, could he control
the horses. _Ovid, of Phaethon._
=Ipsissima verba=--The exact words. 35
=Ipso facto=--By the fact itself.
=Ipso jure=--By the law itself.
=Ir por lana, y volver trasquilado=--To go for
wool and come back shorn. _Sp. Pr._
=Ira furor brevis est; animum rege, qui, nisi
paret, / Imperat: hunc frenis, hunc tu compesce
catena=--Anger is a shortlived madness;
control thy temper, for unless it obeys, it commands
thee; restrain it with bit and chain. _Hor._
=Ira quæ tegitur nocet; / Professa perdunt= 40
=odia vindictæ locum=--Resentment which is
concealed is dangerous; hatred avowed loses
its opportunity of revenge. _Sen._
=Irarum tantos volvis sub pectore fluctus?=--Dost
thou roll such billows of wrath within your
breast? _Virg._
=Iratus cum ad se redit, sibi tum irascitur=--When
an angry man returns to himself, he is
angry with himself. _Pub. Syr._
=Ire tamen restat, Numa quo devenit et Ancus=--It
still remains for you to go where Numa has
gone, and Ancus before you. _Hor._
=Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth
the countenance of his friend.= _Bible._
=Iron with often handling is worn to nothing.= 45
_Lyly's Euphues._
=Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a
compliment.= _Whipple._
=Irony is jesting hidden behind gravity.= _John
Weiss._
=Irremeabilis unda=--The river there is no recrossing;
the styx. _Hor._
=Irresolution loosens all our joints; like an
ague, it shakes not this limb or that limb,
but all the body is at once in a fit. The
irresolute man hatches nothing, but addles
all his actions.= _Feltham._
=Irritabis crabrones=--You will irritate the hornets. 50
_Plaut._
=Irritation, like friction, is likely to generate
heat instead of progress.= _George Eliot._
=Irrthum verlässt uns nie; doch ziehet ein höher
Bedürfniss immer den strebenden Geist leise
zur Wahrheit hinan=--Error never leaves us,
yet a higher need always draws the striving
spirit gently on to truth. _Goethe._
=Is a man one whit the better because he is
grown great in other men's esteem?= _Thomas
à Kempis._
=Is any place so inaccessible that an ass laden
with gold cannot penetrate?= _Philip of Macedon
to a scout who pronounced a certain territory
impregnable._
=Is beauty vain because it will fade? Then
are earth's green robe and heavens light
vain.= _Pierpont._
=Is cadet ante senem, qui sapit ante diem=--He 5
will die before he is old who is prematurely wise.
_Pr._
=Is common opinion the standard of merit?=
_Thomas à Kempis._
=Is habitus animorum fuit, ut pessimum facinus
auderent pauci, plures vellent, omnes paterentur=--Such
was the public temper, that some
few dared to perpetrate the vilest crimes, more
were fain to do so, and all looked passively on.
_Tac._
=Is it in destroying and pulling down that skill
is displayed? The shallowest understanding,
the rudest hand, is more equal to that
task.= _Burke._
=Is it not astonishing that the love of repose
keeps us in continual agitation?= _Stanislaus._
=Is it not strange that men should be so ready= 10
=to fight for religion and so reluctant to observe
its precepts?= _Lichtenberg._
=Is it not the same to whoso wears a shoe
as if the earth were thatched all over with
leather?= _Hitopadesa._
=Is it right to despair, and shall truth make
us sad?= _Renan._
=Is maxime divitiis utitur, qui minime divitiis
indiget=--He employs riches to the best purpose
who least needs them. _Sen._
=Is mihi demum vivere et frui anima videtur,
qui aliquo negotio intentus, præclari facinoris
aut artis bonæ famam quærit=--He alone
appears to me to live and to enjoy life, who,
being engaged in some business, seeks reputation
by some illustrious action or some useful
art. _Sall._
=Is mihi videtur amplissimus qui sua virtute in= 15
=altiorem locum pervenit=--He is in my regard
the most illustrious man who has risen by his
own virtues. _Cic._
=Is not belief the true God-announcing miracle?=
_Novalis._
=Is not cant the= _prima materia_ =of the devil, from
which all falsehoods, imbecilities, abominations
body themselves, from which no true
thing can come?= _Carlyle._
=Is not light greater than fire? It is the same
element in a state of purity.= _Carlyle._
=Is not marriage an open question when it is
alleged, from the beginning of the world, that
such as are in the institution wish to get out,
and such as are out wish to get in?= _Emerson._
=Is not shame the soil of all virtue, of all good= 20
=manners and good morals?= _Carlyle._
=Is ordo vitio careto, cæteris specimen esto=--Let
this class (viz. the nobility of Rome) be free
from vice and a pattern to the rest. _The Twelve
Tables._
=Is sapiens qui se ad casus accommodet omnes; /
Stultus pugnat in adversis ire natator aquis=--He
is a wise man who adapts himself to all
contingencies; the fool struggles like a swimmer
against the stream.
=Is that a wonder which happens in two hours;
and does it cease to be wonderful if happening
in two millions?= _Carlyle._
=Is the God present, felt in my own heart, a
thing which Herr von Voltaire will dispute
out of me or dispute into me? To the "worship
of sorrow"= (Christianity) =ascribe what
origin and genesis thou pleasest, has not
that worship originated and been generated;
is it not here? Feel it in thy heart and then
say whether it is of God!= _Carlyle._
=Is the jay more precious than the lark because= 25
=his feathers are more beautiful?= _Tam. of
Shrew_, iv. 3.
=Is there anything of its own nature beautiful
or not beautiful? The beauty of a thing is
even that by which it shineth.= _Hitopadesa._
=Is there evil in a city, and the Lord hath not
done it?= _Bible._
=Is there for honest poverty / That hangs his
head, and a' that? / The coward slave we
pass him by, / We dare be poor for a' that.=
_Burns._
=Is there no God, then? but at best an absentee
God, sitting idle, ever since the first Sabbath,
at the outside of His universe, and seeing it
go?= _Carlyle._
=Is there no stoning save with flint and rock?= 30
_Tennyson._
=Is there no way to bring home a wandering
sheep but by worrying him to death?=
_Thomas Fuller._
=Is this a dagger which I see before me, / The
handle toward my hand? Come, let me
clutch thee.= _Macb._, ii. 1.
=Is thy complexion sour? / Then keep such
company.= _Herbert._
=Is your trumpeter dead, that you are obliged
to praise yourself?= _Pr._
=Isaac's fond blessing may not fall on scorn, /= 35
=Nor Balaam's curse on love which God hath
blest.= _Keble._
=Island ez hinn besta haud sun solinn shinnar
uppà=--Iceland is the best land on which the
sun shines. _Icelandic Pr._
=Isolation is the sum-total of wretchedness to a
man.= _Carlyle._
=Ist's Gottes Werk, so wird's besteh'n / Ist's
Menschenwerk, wird's untergeh'n=--If it be
God's work, it will stand; if man's, it will
perish.
=Ista decens facies longis vitiabitur annis; /
Rugaque in antiqua fronte senilis erit=--That
comely face of thine will be marred by length of
years, and the wrinkle of age will one day scar
thine aged brow. _Ovid._
=Istæc in me cudetur faba=--I shall have to smart 40
for it (_lit._ that bean will hit me). _Ter._
=Istuc est sapere, non quod ante pedes modo
est / Videre, sed etiam illa quæ futura sunt /
Prospicere=--That is wisdom, not merely to see
what is immediately before one's eyes, but to
forecast what is going to happen. _Ter._
=Istuc est sapere, qui, ubicunque opus sit,
animum possis flectere=--You are a wise man if
you can easily direct your attention to whatever
may require it. _Ter._
=It= (love) =adds a precious seeing to the eye.=
_Love's L. Lost_, iv. 3.
=It belongs to great men to have great defects.=
_Fr. Pr._
=It can do us no harm to look at what is extraordinary
with our own eyes.= _Goethe._
=It chanceth in an hour that cometh not in
seven years.= _Pr._
=It costs more to revenge injuries than to bear= 5
=them.= _Pr._
=It dawns no sooner for one's early rising.=
_Port. Pr._
=It exalteth a man from earthly things to
love those that are heavenly.= _Thomas à
Kempis._
=It happens as with cages, the birds without
despair to get in, and those within despair of
getting out.= _Montaigne._
=It happens to men of learning as to ears of
corn; they shoot up and raise their heads
high while they are empty; but when full
and swelled with grain, they begin to flag
and droop.= (?)
=It has been well said that our anxiety does= 10
=not empty to-morrow of its sorrows, but
only empties to-day of its strength.= _Spurgeon._
=It is a bad trade that of censor; he is sure to
incur the hatred of those he censures, without
finding them improved by the correction.=
_Guy Patin._
=It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character,
that he thinks no evil of the object loved.=
_Longfellow._
=It is a beggarly conception to judge as if
poetry should always be capable of a prose
rendering.= _John Morley._
=It is a brave act of valour to contemn death;
but when life is more terrible than death, it
is then the truest valour to dare to live.= _Sir
T. Browne._
=It is a characteristic of true genius to disturb= 15
=all settled ideas.= _Goethe._
=It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order
to avoid pain.= _Schopenhauer._
=It is a common error to think that in politics
legislation is everything and administration
nothing.= _Macaulay._
=It is a common failing of old men to attribute
all wisdom to themselves.= _Fielding._
=It is a common law of Nature, which no time
will ever change, that superiors shall rule
their inferiors.= _Dionysius._
=It is a custom / More honoured in the breach= 20
=than the observance.= _Ham._, i. 4.
=It is a damnable audacity to bring forth that
torturing Cross, and the Holy One who
suffers on it, and to expose them to the light
of the sun, which hid its face when a reckless
world forced such a sight on it; to
take these mysterious secrets, in which
the divine depth of sorrow lies hid, and
play with them, fondle them, trick them
out, and rest not till the most reverend of
all solemnities appears vulgar and paltry.=
_Goethe._
=It is a delusion= (_Wahn_) =to suppose that adversity=
(_Unglück_) =makes man better. As well
believe that the rust makes the knife sharp,
dirt promotes purity, and mud clarifies the
stream.= _Bodenstedt._
="It is a devout imagination."= _The Regent
Murray's answer to John Knox's proposal to
conserve the property of the Church for the
spiritual benefit of the lieges._
=It is a fair and holy office to be a prophet of
Nature.= _Novalis._
=It is a fine thing to command, though it were= 25
=but a herd of cattle.= _Cervantes._
=It is a foul bird that dirties its own nest.= _Pr._
=It is a golden rule not to judge men according
to their opinions, but according to the effect
these opinions have on their character.=
_Lichtenberg._
=It is a good divine that follows his own instructions.=
_Mer. of Ven._, i. 2.
=It is a good horse that never stumbles, and a
good wife that never grumbles.= _Pr._
=It is a good thing to stay away till one's company= 30
=is desired, but not so good to stay after
it is desired.= _Johnson._
=It is a grave offence to bind a Roman citizen,
a crime to flog him, almost the act of a
parricide to put him to death; what shall I
call crucifying him? Language worthy of
such an enormity it is impossible to find.=
_Cic._
=It is a great ease to have one in our own
shape a species below us, and who, without
being enlisted in our service, is by nature of
our retinue.= _Steele._
=It is a great journey to life's end.= _Pr._
=It is a great misfortune not to possess talent
enough to speak well, or sense enough to
hold one's tongue.= _La Bruyère._
=It is a great mistake to think that because= 35
=you have read a masterpiece once or twice
or ten times, therefore you have done with
it.... You ought to live with it and make
it part of your daily life.= _John Morley._
=It is a great piece of folly to sacrifice the inner
for the outer man.= _Schopenhauer._
=It is a great pity when the man who should
be the head figure is a mere figure-head.=
_Spurgeon._
=It is a great point of wisdom to find out one's
own folly.= _Pr._
=It is a great shame to a man to have a poor
heart and a rich purse.= _Cato._
=It is a great sin to swear unto a sin, / But a= 40
=greater still to keep a sinful oath.= 2 _Hen.
VI._, v. 1.
=It is a great step in finesse to make people
under-estimate your acuteness.= _La Bruyère._
=It is a hard winter when one wolf eats another.=
_Pr._
=It is a kindly spirit which actually constitutes
the human element in man.= _Schiller._
=It is a long lane that has no turning.= _Pr._
=It is a long way from granite to the oyster;= 45
=farther yet to Plato, and the preaching of
the immortality of the soul.= _Emerson._
=It is a low benefit to give me something; it is
a high benefit to enable me to do somewhat
of myself.= _Emerson._
=It is a lucky eel that escapes skinning.= _George
Eliot._
=It is a main lesson of wisdom to know your
own from another's.= _Emerson._
=It is a man's sincerity and depth of vision that
makes him a poet.= _Carlyle._
=It is a mathematical fact that the casting of a
pebble from my hand alters the centre of
gravity of the universe.= _Carlyle._
=It is a maxim of those who are esteemed perfect,
that abundance is the perverter of
reason.= _Hitopadesa._
=It is a mere and miserable solitude to want
true friends, without which the world is but
a wilderness.= _Bacon._
=It is a moral impossibility that any son or
daughter of Adam can stand on any ground
that mortal treads, and gainsay the healthy
tenure on which we hold our existence.=
_Dickens._
=It is a poor art that the artisan can't live by.= 5
_It. Pr._
=It is a poor heart that never rejoices.= _Pr._
=It is a poor horse that is not worth its oats.=
_Dan. Pr._
=It is a poor mouse that has but one hole.=
_Pr._
=It is a poor sport that is not worth the candle.=
_George Herbert._
=It is a profound error to presume that everything= 10
=has been discovered; it is to take the
horizon which bounds the eye for the limit of
the world.= _Lemierre._
=It is a proof of mediocrity of intellect to be
addicted to relating stories.= _La Bruyère._
=It is a rare thing, except it be from a perfect
and entire friend, to have counsel given us,
but such as shall be bowed and crooked to
some ends which he hath that giveth it.=
_Bacon._
=It is a reproach to be the first gentleman
of one's race, but greater to be the last.=
_Pr._
=It is a sad house where the hen crows louder
than the cock.= _Pr._
=It is a shame for a man to desire honour because= 15
=of his ancestors, and not to deserve it
by his own virtue.= _St. Chrysostom._
=It is a sign that your reputation is small or
sinking if your own tongue must praise you.=
_Judge Hale._
=It is a sin against hospitality to open your
doors and shut up your countenance.= _Pr._
=It is a small virtue to keep silence on matters,
but a grave fault to speak of what should be
kept silent.= _Ovid._
=It is a sorry goose that will not baste itself.=
_Pr._
=It is a strange habit of wise humanity to speak= 20
=in enigmas only.= _Ruskin._
=It is a universal weakness of human nature to
have an inordinate faith in things unseen
and unknown, and to be affected unduly by
them.= _Cæsar._
=It is a very good world to live in, / To lend, or
to spend, or to give in; / But to beg, or to
borrow, or to get a man's own, / It is the
very worst world that ever was known.=
_Rochester._
=It is a very risky, nay, a fatal thing, to be
sociable.= _Schiller._
=It is a virtue in hermits to forgive their
enemies as well as their friends; but it is a
fault in princes to show clemency towards
those who are guilty.= _Hitopadesa._
=It is a wise father that knows his own child.= 25
_Mer. of Ven._, ii. 2.
=It is absurd to contend for any sense of words
in opposition to usage; for all senses are
founded upon usage, and upon nothing else.=
_Paley._
=It is advisable that a man should know at
least three things:--first, where he is;
secondly, where he is going; thirdly, what
he had best do under the circumstances.=
_Ruskin._
=It is all in my eye=, _i.e._, it is nowhere else. _Pr._
=It is allowed by the laws of war to deceive an
enemy by feints, false colours, spies, false
intelligence, or the like; but by no means in
treaties, truces, signals of capitulation or
surrender.= _Paley._
=It is always an ease, and sometimes a happiness,= 30
=to have nothing.= _Joseph Hall._
=It is always by adventurers that great deeds
are done, and not by the sovereigns of great
empires.=
=It is always good when a man has two irons
in the fire.= _F. Beaumont._
=It is always necessary to show some good
opinion of those whose good opinion we
solicit.= _Johnson._
=It is always term time in the court of conscience.=
_Pr._
=It is always the individual, not the age, that= 35
=stands up for the truth.= _Goethe._
=It is always vitally important to ourselves to
be scrupulously true.= _Spurgeon._
=It is an argument of great wisdom to do
nothing rashly, nor to be obstinate and
inflexible in our opinions.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=It is an assured sign of a worthy and generous
spirit whom honour amends; for honour is,
or should be, the place of virtue.= _Bacon._
=It is an egregious error to go by the exception
instead of the rule.= _Pascal._
=It is an equal failing to trust everybody and= 40
=to trust nobody.= _Pr._
=It is an honour for a man to cease from strife.=
_Bible._
=It is an ill sign to see a fox lick a lamb.= _Pr._
=It is an ill wind that blows nobody good.= _Pr._
=It is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of
others as to invent.= _Emerson._
=It is as easy to be a scholar as a gamester.= 45
_Haweis._
=It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving
it, as it is difficult to deceive others
without their finding it out.= _La Roche._
=It is as great a point of wisdom to hide ignorance,
as to discover knowledge.= (?)
=It is as little the part of a wise man to reflect
much on the nature of beings above him as
of beings beneath him.= _Ruskin._
=It is as much a part of true temperance to be
pleased with the little that we know and
the little that we can do as with the little
that we have.= _Ruskin._
=It is as much intemperance to weep too much= 50
=as to laugh too much.= _Pr._
=It is as natural for the old to be prejudiced as
for the young to be presumptuous; and in
the change of centuries each generation
has something to judge for itself.= _Ruskin._
=It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet an old
man whose opinions are not ossified.= _J. F.
Boyes._
=It is as sport to a fool to do mischief.= _Bible._
=It is at least fatal to the philosophic pretension
of a line or stanza if, when it is fairly
reduced to prose, the prose discloses that
it is nonsense.= _John Morley._
=It is bad, having once known the right, / And
the impulse of nobleness prized, / To accept
the less worthy, and order the fight / For a
cause that is meaner, and walk by a light /
That you once had despised.= _Dr. Walter
Smith._
=It is beneath the dignity of a soul that has but
a grain of sense to make chance, and winds,
and waves the arbitrary disposers of happiness.=
_Lucas._
=It is best not to be angry; and best, in the next= 5
=place, to be quickly reconciled.= _Johnson._
=It is best to rise from life as from a banquet,
neither thirsty nor drunken.= _Arist._
=It is best to take half in hand and the rest by
and by.= _Pr._
=It is best to take with thankfulness and admiration
from each man what he has to give.=
_John Morley._
=It is better and kinder to flog a man to his
work than to leave him idle till he robs and
flog him afterwards.= _Ruskin._
=It is better for a young man to blush than to= 10
=turn pale.= _Cato._
=It is better for the man whom God helps than
for him who rises early.= _Cervantes._
=It is better living on a little than outliving a
great deal.= (?)
=It is better not to live at all than to live dishonoured.=
_Sophocles._
=It Is better to be a self-made man, filled up
according to God's original pattern, than to
be half a man, made after some other man's
pattern.= _J. G. Holland._
=It is better to be affected with a true penitent= 15
=sorrow for sin than to be able to resolve
the most difficult cases about it.= _Thomas à
Kempis._
=It is better to be lost than to be saved all
alone.= _Amiel._
=It is better to be nothing than a knave.= _M.
Antoninus._
=It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.=
_Fr. Pr._
=It is better to be the head o' the commonalty
than the tail o' the gentry.= _Sc. Pr._
=It is better to be wrong by rule than to be= 20
=wrong with nothing but the fitful caprice
of our disposition to impel us.= _Natalia in
"Wilhelm Meister."_
=It is better to cleanse ourselves of our sins
now, than to reserve them to be cleansed
at some future time.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=It is better to create than to be learned.
Creating is the essence of life.= _Niebuhr._
=It is better to die once than live always in fear
of death.= _Cæsar._
=It is better to do well than to say well.= _Pr._
=It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop= 25
=than with a brawling woman in a wide
house.= _Bible._
=It is better to fight for the good than to rail at
the ill.= _Tennyson._
=It is better to go to the house of mourning,
than to go to the house of feasting.= _Bible._
=It is better to have a lion at the head of an
army of sheep than a sheep at the head of
an army of lions.= _Defoe._
=It is better to have friends in our passage
through life than grateful dependants; and
as love is a more willing, so it is a more
lasting tribute than extorted obligation.=
_Goldsmith._
=It is better to have loved and lost than never= 30
=to have loved at all.= _Tennyson._
=It is better to have one's evil days when one is
young than when one is old.= _Carlyle._
=It is better to have to do with God than with
His saints.= _Fr. Pr._
=It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise
than for a man to hear the song of fools.=
_Bible._
=It is better to live by begging one's bread
than to gratify the mouth at the expense of
others.= _Hitopadesa._
=It is better to live in a haunted forest ... than= 35
=to live amongst relations after the loss
of wealth.= _Hitopadesa._
=It is better to live on the crust of your own
industry than on the fruits of other people's.=
_Cervantes._
=It is better to make friends than adversaries
of a conquered race.= _B. R. Haydon._
=It is better to trust the eye than the ear.=
_Ger. Pr._
=It is bitter fare eating one's own words.= _Dan.
Pr._
=It is but the outer hem of God's great mantle= 40
=our poor stars do gem.= _Ruskin._
=It is but vain to waste honey on those that
will be caught with gall.= _Quarles._
=It is by attempting to reach the top by a
single leap that so much misery is produced
in the world.= _Cobbett._
=It is by being conversant with the inventions
of others that we learn to invent, as by
reading the thoughts of others we learn to
think.= _Joshua Reynolds._
=It is by faith that poetry as well as devotion
soars above this dull earth.= _Henry Giles._
=It is by his personal conduct that any man of= 45
=ordinary power will do the greatest amount
of good that is in him to do.= _Ruskin._
=It is by imitation, more than by precept, that
we learn anything.= _Burke._
=It is by presence of mind in untried circumstances
that the native metal of a man is
tested.= _Lowell._
=It is by study that we become contemporaries
of every age and citizens of the world.= (?)
=It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely
the moment I can convince another mind
thereof.= _Novalis._
=It is certain that either wise bearing or= 50
=ignorant carriage is caught as men take
diseases, one of another.= 2 _Hen. IV._, v. 1.
=It is character which builds an existence out
of circumstance. Our strength is measured
by our plastic power.= _Carlyle._
=It is cheap enough to say, "God help you."= _Pr._
=It is common to esteem most what is unknown.=
_Tac._
=It is commonly the imagination which is
wounded first, rather than the heart; it is
so much more sensitive.= _Thoreau._
=It is courage that conquers in war, and not
good weapons.= _Sp. Pr._
=It is cowardly to quit the post the gods elect
for us before they permit us.= _Pythagoras._
=It is delightful, after wandering in the thick
darkness of metaphysics, to behold again
the fair face of Truth.= _Carlyle._
=It is delightful to transport one's self into the
spirit of the past, to see how a wise man has
thought before us, and to what a glorious
height we have at last reached.= _Goethe._
=It is difficult to act a part long, for where= 5
=truth is not at the bottom, nature will peep
out and betray itself one time or other.=
_South._
=It is difficult to descend with grace without
seeming to fall.= _Blair._
=It is difficult to do good without multiplying
the sources of evil.= _Ruskin._
=It is difficult to feel deep veneration and great
affection for one and the same person.= _La
Roche._
=It is difficult to know at what moment love
begins; it is less difficult to know that it
has begun.= _Longfellow._
=It is difficult to say whether irresolution renders= 10
=a man the more unhappy or the more despicable;
also whether it is productive of worse
consequences to make a bad resolution, or
none at all.= _La Bruyère._
=It is difficulties that give birth to miracles.=
_Dr. Sharpe._
=It is dreary= (_öde_) =to be able to respect nothing
but one's self.= _Fr. Hebbel._
=It is doubt= (_Zweifel_) =which turns good into bad.=
_Goethe._
=It is downright madness to contend where we
are sure to be worsted.= _L'Estrange._
=It is easier for a wit to keep fire in his mouth,= 15
=than to hold in a witty saying that he is
burning to tell.= _Cic._
=It is easier not to begin to go wrong than it is
to turn back and do better after beginning.=
_President Garfield._
=It is easier to carry the world in one's thoughts
than on one's shoulders.= _A. B. Alcott._
=It is easier to know man in general than men
in particular.= _La Roche._
=It is easier to suppress the first desire than to
satisfy all that follow it.= _Ben. Franklin._
=It is easier to worship than to obey.= _Jean_ 20
_Paul._
=It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to
understand a good one.= _Montaigne._
=It is easy for a man who sits idle at home, and
has nobody to please but himself, to ridicule
or censure the common ways of mankind.=
_Johnson._
=It is easy for men to write and talk like philosophers;
but to act with wisdom, there's the
rub.= _Rivarole._
=It is easy in the world to live after the world's
opinion; easy in solitude to live after our
own; but the great man is he who in the
midst of the crowd keeps with perfect
sweetness the independence of solitude.=
_Emerson._
=It is easy to be a spendthrift with other people's= 25
=property.= _Platen._
=It is easy to condemn; it is better to pity.=
_Abbott._
=It is easy to criticise an author, but it is difficult
to appreciate him.= _Vauvenargues._
=It is easy to give offence, though it is hard to
appease.= _Grillparzer._
=It is easy to open a shop, but hard to keep it
open.= _Chinese Pr._
=It is easy to screw one's self up into high and= 30
=ever higher altitudes of Transcendentalism,
and see nothing under one but the everlasting
snows of Himalaya, the earth shrinking into
a planet, and the indigo firmament sowing
itself with daylight stars; but whither does
it lead? One dreads always to inanity and
mere injuring of the lungs.= _Carlyle to Emerson._
=It is enough for thee to know what each day
wills; and what each day wills the day itself
will tell.= _Goethe._
=It is exactly in the treatment of trifles that a
man shows what he is.= _Schopenhauer._
=It is exceedingly difficult for a man to be as
narrow as he could have been had he lived a
century ago.= _Whipple._
=It is excellent / To have a giant's strength, but
tyrannous / To use it like a giant.= _Meas. for
Meas._, ii. 2.
=It is falling in with their own mistaken ideas= 35
=that makes fools and beggars of the half of
mankind.= _Young._
=It is fancy, not the reason of things, that makes
us so uneasy.= _L'Estrange._
=It is far better to give work which is above the
men than to educate the men to be above
their work.= _Ruskin._
=It is far easier to make a great rush than to
plod steadily on through a long life.= _Spurgeon._
=It is far from universally true that to get a
thing you must aim at it. There are some
things which can only be gained by renouncing
them.= _Renan._
=It is far more difficult to be simple than to be= 40
=complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice
skill and ease exertion in the proper place,
than to expend both indiscriminately.= _Ruskin._
=It is folly to lay out money in the purchase
of repentance.= _Ben. Franklin._
=It is folly to live in Rome and strive with the
Pope.= _Pr._
=It is folly to pretend that one ever wholly recovers
from a disappointed passion. Such
wounds always leave a scar.= _Longfellow._
=It is for the sake of him= (the virtuous man) =and
of those like him that the earth exists and
maintains itself in being.= _Renan._
=It is for truth that God created genius.= _Lamartine._ 45
=It is for want of application, rather than of
means, that men fail of success.= _La Roche._
=It is force and right that determine everything
in the world; force till right is ready.= _Joubert_ (?).
=It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's
life.= _Cic._
=It is from books that wise men derive consolation
in the troubles of life.= _Victor Hugo._
=It is from the difference we feel between the= 50
=finitude of fact and the infinitude of fantasy
that all the evils spring which torment humanity.=
_Rousseau._
=It is fruition, and not possession, that renders
us happy.= _Montaigne._
=It is generally a sign of a small mind to think
differently from great minds.= _Goethe._
=It is given us to live only once in the world.=
_Goethe._
=It is good for a man to be driven, were it by
never such harsh methods, into looking at
this great universe with his own eyes, for
himself and not for another, and trying to
adjust himself truly there.= _Carlyle._
=It is good that we sometimes be contradicted,= 5
=and that we always bear it well; for perfect
peace cannot be had in this world.= _Jeremy
Taylor._
=It is good to do nothing bad, but better to wish
nothing bad.= _M. Claudius._
=It is good to fear the worst; the best can save
itself.= _Pr._
=It is good to lend to God and the soil; they
pay good interest.= _Dan. Pr._
=It is good to rub and polish our brains against
that of others.= _Montaigne._
=It is great, it is manly, to disdain disguise.= 10
_Young._
=It is great prudence to gain as many friends
as we honestly can, especially when it may
be done at so easy a rate as a good word.=
_Judge Hale._
=It is hard even to the most miserable to die.=
_Pr._
=It is hard for an empty sack to stand upright.=
_Pr._
=It is hard to be poor and honest.= _Pr._
=It is hard to carry a full cup.= _Pr._ 15
=It is hard to kick against the pricks.= _Pr._
=It is hard to maintain the truth, but much
harder to be maintained by it.= _South._
=It is hard to put old heads on young shoulders.=
_Pr._
=It is hard to suffer wrong and pay for it too.=
_Pr._
=It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause;= 20
=for this may be done by one great or
wise action in an age; but to escape censure,
a man must pass his whole life without saying
or doing one ill or foolish thing.= (?)
=It is harder to marry a daughter well than to
bring her up well.= _Pr._
=It is harder to weave than to gather wool.=
_Spurgeon._
=It is harder work to resist vices and passions,
than to toil in bodily labours.= _Thomas à
Kempis._
=It is his excess of sensibility that distinguishes
man from other animals.= _Schopenhauer._
=It is his moral sentences on mankind or the= 25
=state that rank the prose writer among the
sages.= _John Morley._
=It is his restraint which is honourable to a
man, not his liberty.= _Ruskin._
=It is human nature to hate him whom you
have injured.= _Tac._
=It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and
where men care not to do a thing, they
shelter themselves under a persuasion that
it cannot be done.= _South._
=It is ill standing in dead men's shoes.= _Pr._
=It is ill to take out of the flesh what is bred in= 30
=the bone.= _Pr._
=It is impossible completely to understand what
we do not love.= _Mrs. Jameson._
=It is impossible for any man to form a right
judgment of his neighbour's sufferings.= _Addison._
=It is impossible that an ill-natured man can
have a public spirit; for how should he love
ten thousand men who never loved one?=
_Pope._
=It is impossible that anything so natural, so
necessary, and so universal as death should
ever have been designed by Providence as
an evil to mankind.= _Swift._
=It is impossible to be a hero in anything unless= 35
=one is first a hero in faith.= _Jacobi._
=It is impossible to be just, if one is not generous.=
_Pascal._
=It is in great perils we see great acts of daring.=
_Regnard._
=It is in human nature soon to relax when not
impelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.=
_Goethe._
=It is in the politic as in the human constitution;
if the limbs grow too large for the body,
their size, instead of improving, will diminish,
the vigour of the whole.= _Goldsmith._
=It is in the soul of man, when reverence, love,= 40
=intelligence, magnanimity have been developed
there, that the Highest can disclose
itself face to face in sun-splendour,
independent of all cavils and jargonings;--there,
of a surety, and nowhere else.= _Carlyle._
=It is in the world that a man, devout or other,
has his life to lead, his work waiting to be
done.= _Carlyle._
=It is in trifles that the mind betrays itself.=
_Bulwer._
=It is in vain for a man to be born fortunate,
if he be unfortunate in his marriage.=
_Dacier._
=It is incalculable what by arranging, commanding,
and regimenting you can make
of men.= _Carlyle._
=It is inconceivable how much wit it requires= 45
=to avoid being ridiculous.= _Chamfort._
=It is incredible how much the mind can do to
sustain the body.= _Goethe._
=It is indeed all twilight in this world, a trifle
more or less.= _Goethe._
=It is indeed only in old age that intellectual
men attain their sublime expression.= _Schopenhauer._
=It is infamy to die and not be missed.= _C.
Wilcox._
=It is invariably found that the contented man= 50
=is a weak man.= _John Wagstaffe._
=It is joy to think the best we can of human
kind.= _Wordsworth._
=It is just those who grope with the mole and
cling with the bat who are vainest of their
sight and of their wings.= _Ruskin._
=It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to
remain uncorrupted by pleasure.= _Tac._
=It is madness to make fortune the mistress of
events, because in herself she is nothing,
but is ruled by prudence.= _Dryden._
=It is matter of the commonest remark how a= 55
=timid man who is in love will show courage,
or an indolent man will show diligence.=
_Matthew Arnold._
=It is meet / That noble minds keep ever with
their likes; / For who so firm that cannot be
seduced?= _Jul. Cæs._, i. 2.
=It is mere cowardice to take safety in negations.=
_George Eliot._
=It is mere Philistinism on the part of private
individuals to bestow too much interest on
matters that do not concern them.= _Goethe._
=It is more blessed to give than to receive.=
_Jesus._
=It is more difficult, and calls for higher energies= 5
=of the soul, to live a martyr than to die
one.= _H. Mann._
=It is more honourable to be raised to a throne
than be born to one; fortune bestows the
one, merit obtains the other.= _Petrarch._
=It is more important to discover a new source
of happiness on earth than a new planet in
the sky.= (?)
=It is more kindly to laugh at human life than
to grin at it.= _Wieland._
=It is more painful to do nothing than something.=
_Pr._
=It is more pleasing to see smoke brightening= 10
=into flame than flame sinking into smoke.=
_Johnson._
=It is much easier to be critical than to be
correct.= _Disraeli._
=It is much easier to bind on a wreath than to
find a head worthy to wear it.= _Goethe._
=It is much easier to recognise error than to
find truth; the former lies on the surface,
the latter rests in the depths.= _Goethe._
=It is much more easy to inspire a passion than
a faith.= _Simms._
=It is much safer to obey than to govern.= 15
_Thomas à Kempis._
=It is natural to a man to believe what he
wishes to be true, and to believe it because
be wishes it.= _Schopenhauer._
=It is natural to man to regard himself as the
final cause of creation.= _Goethe._
=It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer;
but when he is gone his way, then he
boasteth.= _Bible._
=It is never permitted to any one in heaven to
stand behind another and look at the back
of his head: for then the influx which is from
the Lord is disturbed.= _Swedenborg._
=It is never too late to mend.= _Pr._ 20
=It is never wise to slip the bonds of discipline.=
_Lew. Wallace._
=It is no man's business whether he has genius
or not: work he must, whatever he is, but
quietly and steadily; and the natural and
unforced results of such work will always be
the things that God meant him to do, and
will be his best.= _Ruskin._
=It is no mean happiness to be seated in the
mean.= _Mer. of Ven._, i. 2.
=It is no more in our power to love always than
it was not to love.= _La Bruyère._
=It is no more possible to prevent thought from= 25
=reverting to an ideal than the sea from returning
to the shore.= _Joseph Cook._
=It is no small commendation to manage a little
well. He is a good waggoner that can turn
in a little room.= _Bp. Hall._
=It is no such heinous matter to fall afflicted,
as, being down, to lie dejected.= _S. Chrysostom._
=It is no wonder man's religion has much suffering
in it; no wonder he needs a suffering
God.= _George Eliot._
=It is nobler to become great than to be born
great.= _Pr._
=It is nobler to convert souls than to conquer= 30
=kingdoms.= _Louis le Debonnaire._
=It is not a question how much a man knows,
but what use he can make of what he knows.=
_J. G. Holland._
=It is not advisable to reward where men have
the tenderness not to punish.= _L'Estrange._
=It is not always necessary that the true should
embody= (_verkörpere_) =itself; enough if it hovers
around spiritually and produce accordance=
(_Uebereinstimmung_) =in us; if it hover= (_wogt_)
=through the atmosphere in earnest friendly
tones like the sound of bells.= _Goethe._
=It is not an unhealthy= (_kränkelnde_) =moral
philosophy, but a sturdy morality that is
of any profit to us.= _Feuchtersleben._
=It is not because of his toils that I lament for= 35
=the poor; we must all toil, or steal, which
is worse; no faithful workman finds his task
a pastime.... But what I do mourn over is
that the lamp of his soul should go out; that
no ray of heavenly, or even earthly, knowledge
should visit him; but only in the haggard
darkness, like two spectres, Fear and
Indignation bear him company.= _Carlyle._
=It is not by shirking difficulties that we can
remove them or escape them.= _M. R. Greg._
=It is not enough that a poet possess inspiration;
his inspiration must be that of a cultured
spirit.= _Schiller._
=It is not enough to aim; you must hit.= _It.
Pr._
=It is not enough to know how to steal; one
must know also how to conceal.= _It. Pr._
=It is not enough to know, one must also apply;= 40
=it is not enough to will to do, one must also
do.= _Goethe._
=It is not enough to speak, but to speak true.=
_Mid. Night's Dream_, v. 1.
=It is not enough to take steps which may some
day lead to a goal; each step must be itself
a goal and a step likewise.= _Goethe._
=It is not every man that can afford to wear
a shabby coat.= _Colton._
=It is not everybody one would set to choose a
horse or a pig; how much less a member of
Parliament?= _Ruskin._
=It is not everybody who can bend the bow of= 45
=Ulysses, and most men only do themselves
a mischief by trying to bend it.= _John Morley._
=It is not fit to tell others anything but what
they can take up. A man understands
nothing but what is commensurate with
him.= _Goethe._
=It is not from masters, but from their equals,
that youths learn a knowledge of the world.=
_Goldsmith._
=It is not from nature, but from education and
habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.=
_Fielding._
=It is not given to the world to be contented.=
_Goethe._
=It is not good for man to be, especially to work,= 50
=alone.= _Goethe._
=It is not good to have an oar in every one's
boat.= _Camden._
=It is not good to meddle with divine mysteries.=
_Goethe._
=It is not good to pass by that we dislike, even
to gain that which we like; for the water
of life becometh mortal when mixed with a
poison.= _Hitopadesa._
=It is not he who gives abuse or blows who
affronts, but the view we take of these
things as insulting.= _Epictetus._
=It is not his own individual sins that the hero
atones for, but original sin=, _i.e._, the crime of
existence. _Schopenhauer._
=It is not history which educates the conscience;= 5
=it is conscience which educates
history.= _Amiel._
=It is not in man that walketh to direct his
steps.= _Bible._
=It is not juggling that is to be blamed, but
much juggling; for the world cannot be
governed without it.= _Selden._
=It is not lost that comes at last.= _Pr._
=It is not merely by virtue of the sunlight that
falls now, and the rain and dew which it
brings, that we continue here, but by virtue
of the sunlight of æons of past ages.= _John
Burroughs._
=It is not metre, but metre-making agreement= 10
=that makes a poem, a thought so passionate
and alive, that, like the spirit of a plant or
an animal, it has an architect of its own,
and adorns nature with a new thing.= _Emerson._
=It is not poetry, but prose run mad.= _Pope._
=It is not possible to buy obedience with money.=
_Carlyle._
=It is not proper to place confidence in one who
cometh without any apparent cause.= _Hitopadesa._
=It is not propositions, not new dogmas and a
logical exposition of the world, that are our
first need; but to watch and tenderly cherish
the intellectual and moral sensibilities, those
fountains of right thought, and woo them to
stay and make their home with us.= _Emerson._
=It is not quite so easy to do good as those may= 15
=imagine who never try.= _Rd. Sharp._
=It is not so much our neighbour's interest as
our own that we love him.= _Bp. Wilson._
=It is not so much the being exempt from faults,
as the having overcome them, that is an
advantage to us.= _Swift._
=It is not strength, but art obtains the prize.=
_Pope._
=It is not the beard that makes the philosopher.=
_Pr._
=It is not the custom when a prince doth sneeze= 20
=to say, as to other persons, "God help you,"
but only to make a low reverence.= _Gerbier._
=It is not the face which deceives; it is we who
deceive ourselves in reading in it what is not
there.= _Schopenhauer._
=It is not the fact that a man has riches which
keeps him from the kingdom of heaven, but
the fact that riches have him.= _Dr. Caird._
=It is not the fraud, but the cold-heartedness
which is chiefly dreadful in treachery.= _Ruskin._
=It is not the greatness of a man's means that
makes him independent, so much as the
smallness of his wants.= _Cobbett._
=It is not the insurrections of ignorance that= 25
=are dangerous, but the revolts of intelligence.=
_Lowell._
=It is not the knowledge, but the use which is
made of it that is productive of real benefit.=
_Scott._
=It is not the loss of heritage / That makes life
poor; It is that, stage by stage, / Some
leave us with a lessening faith in man, /
And less of love than when our life began.=
_Dr. Walter Smith._
=It is not the manner of noble minds to leave
anything half done.= _Wieland._
=It is not the number of facts he knows, but
how much of a fact he is himself, that proves
the man.= _Bovee._
=It is not the punishment, but the crime that is= 30
=the disgrace.= _Alfieri._
=It is not the quantity, but the quality of knowledge
which determines the mind's dignity.=
_W. E. Channing._
=It is not the reading of many books that is
necessary to make a man wise and good,
but the well-reading of a few.= _R. Baxter._
=It is not the stamp on the coin that gives it
its value, though on the bank-note it is.=
_J. Burroughs._
=It is not the victory that constitutes the joy of
noble souls, but the combat.= _Montalembert._
=It is not thy works, which are all mortal,= 35
=infinitely little, ... but only the spirit thou
workest in, that can have worth or continuance.=
_Carlyle._
=It is not titles that reflect honour on men, but
men on their titles.= _Machiavelli._
=It is not to taste sweet things, but to do
noble and true things, and vindicate himself
under God's heaven as a God-made man,
that the poorest son of Adam dimly longs.=
_Carlyle._
=It is not, truly speaking, the labour that is
divided, but the men; divided into mere
segments of men, broken into small fragments
and crumbs of life; so that all the
little piece of intelligence that is left in a
man is not enough to make a pin or a nail,
but exhausts itself in making the point of a
pin or the head of a nail.= _Ruskin._
=It is not want, but rather abundance that
creates avarice.= _Montaigne._
=It is not want of good fortune, want of happiness,= 40
=but want of wisdom that man has to
dread.= _Carlyle._
=It is not well to make great changes in old
age.= _Spurgeon._
=It is not what he has, nor even what he does,
which directly expresses the worth of a
man, but what he is.= _Amiel._
=It is not wisdom, but ignorance which teaches
men presumption.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=It is not with saying, "Honey, honey," that
sweetness comes into the mouth.= _Turk.
Pr._
=It is not work that kills men, it is worry.= 45
=It is not the revolution that destroys the
machinery, but the friction.= _Ward Beecher._
=It is of more importance to teach manners and
customs than to establish laws and tribunals.=
_Mirabeau._
=It is of no use running; to set out betimes is
the main point.= _La Fontaine._
=It is of some consequence for a man to forego
his own inclinations, even in matters of no
great importance.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=It is often because an author proceeds from
the thought to the expression, and the
reader from the expression to the thought,
that a clear writer is obscure.= _Speroni._
=It is often easier, as well as more advantageous,
to conform to the opinions of others
than to persuade them into ours.= _La
Bruyère._
=It is often even wise to reveal what cannot
long remain concealed.= _Schiller._
=It is one of the wretchednesses of the great= 5
=that they have no approved friends.= _Channing._
=It is one soul which animates all men.= _Emerson._
=It is one thing to be tempted, another thing to
fall.= _Shakespeare._
=It is one thing to see that a line is crooked,
and another thing to be able to draw a
straight one.= _Rd. Sharp._
=It is one thing to speak much, and another
to speak pertinently.= _Pr._
=It is only a part of art that can be taught; the= 10
=artist needs the whole.= _Goethe._
=It is only at the first encounter that a face
makes its full impression upon us.= _Schopenhauer._
=It is only because they are not used to taste
of what is excellent that the generality of
people take delight in silly and insipid things,
provided they be new.= _Goethe._
=It is only by labour that thought can be made
healthy, and only by thought that labour
can be made happy.= _Ruskin._
=It is only by universals, and never by singulars,
that we can think.= _Dr. Hutchison Stirling._
=It is only God's business to make laws, and= 15
=the lawyer's to read and enforce them.=
_Ruskin._
=It is only in society that a man's powers can
have full play.= _Schopenhauer._
=It is only in their misery that we recognise
the hand and finger of God leading good
men to good.= _Goethe._
=It is only kindred griefs that draw forth our
tears, and each weeps really for himself.=
_Heine._
=It is only men collectively that live the life of
man.= _Goethe._
=It is only necessary to grow old to become= 20
=indulgent. I see no fault committed that I
have not committed myself.= _Goethe._
=It is only on reality that any power of action
can be based.= _Emerson._
=It is only people who possess firmness that
can possess true gentleness.= _La Roche._
=It is only reason that teaches silence. The
heart teaches us to speak.= _Jean Paul._
=It is only rogues who feel the restraints of
law.= _J. S. Holland._
=It is only strict precision of thought that confers= 25
=facility of expression.= _Schiller._
=It is only the finite that has wrought and suffered;
the infinite lies stretched in smiling
repose.= _Emerson._
=It is only time that possesses full reality, and
our existence lies in it exclusively.= _Schopenhauer._
=It is only when a man is alone that he is really
free.= _Schopenhauer._
=It is only when it is bent that the bow shows
its strength.= _Grillparzer._
=It is only with renunciation that life, strictly= 30
=speaking, can be said to begin.= _Goethe._
=It is our relation to circumstances that determines
their influence over us. The same
wind that carries one vessel into port may
blow another off shore.= _Bovee._
=It is petty expenses that empty the purse.=
_It. Pr._
=It is pleasant to die if there be gods, and sad
to live if there be none.= _Marcus Antoninus._
=It is possible to sin against charity, when we
do not sin against truth.= _Pr._
=It is precisely in accepting death as the end= 35
=of all and in laying down, on that sorrowful
condition, his life for his friends, that the
hero and patriot of all time has become the
glory and safety of his country.= _Ruskin._
=It is profound ignorance that inspires a degenerate
tone.= _La Bruyère._
=It is proof of a high culture to say the greatest
matters in the simplest way.= _Emerson._
=It is proper and beneficial sometimes to be left
to thyself.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=It is prudent to be on the reserve even with
your best friend, when he betrays a too
eager curiosity to worm out your secret.=
_La Bruyère._
=It is rare indeed that there is not ample= 40
=occasion for grumbling.= _John Wagstaffe._
=It is religion that has formed the Bible, not the
Bible that has formed religion.= _R. D. C.
Levin._
=It is sad to have to live in a place where all
our activity must simmer within ourselves.=
_Goethe._
=It is sad to see how an extraordinary man
so often strangles himself, struggling in
vain with himself, his circumstances, and
his time, without once coming upon a green
branch.= _Goethe._
=It is said no man is a hero to his valet. The
reason is that it requires a hero to recognise
a hero. The valet, however, will probably
know well enough how to estimate his
equals.= _Goethe._
=It is so much easier to do what one has done= 45
=before than to do a new thing, that there is
a perpetual tendency to a set mode.= _Emerson._
=It is St. Christopher that carries Christ, not
Christ St. Christopher=, _i.e._, in this myth, it is
not Christ that bears the Church, but the Church
that bears Christ. _Ed._
=It is sure to be dark if you shut your eyes.=
_Pr._
=It is the ambiguous distracted training which
they are subject to that makes men uncertain;
it awakens wishes when it should
quicken tendencies.= _Goethe._
=It is the best sign of a great nature, that
it opens a foreground, and, like the breath
of morning landscapes, invites us onward.=
_Emerson._
=It is the best use of fate to teach a fatal courage.= 50
_Emerson._
=It is the bright day that brings forth the adder, /
And that craves wary walking.= _Jul. Cæs._, ii. 1.
=It is the cause, not the death, that makes the
martyr.= _Napoleon._
=It is the common error of builders and parents
to follow some plan they think beautiful (and
perhaps is so) without considering that nothing
is beautiful which is displaced.= _Lady
Montagu._
=It is the common wonder of all men how, among
so many millions of faces, there should be
none alike.= _Sir Thomas Browne._
=It is the company, and not the charge that
makes the feast.= _Pr._
=It is the condition of humanity to design what= 5
=never will be done, and to hope what never
will be attained.= _Johnson._
=It is the curse of kings to be attended / By
slaves, that take their humours for a warrant.=
_King John._
=It is the curse of talent, that, though it works
more surely and persistently than genius, it
reaches no goal; while genius, hovering for
long on the summit= (_Spitze_) =of the ideal, looks
round, smiling, far above.= _Schumann._
=It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment
to pursuit.= _Rivarole._
=It is the fate of a woman / Long to be patient
and silent, to wait like a ghost that is
speechless, / Till some questioning voice
dissolves the spell of its silence.= _Longfellow._
=It is the fate of the great ones of the earth to= 10
=begin to be appreciated by us only after they
are gone.= _Old Ger. saying._
=It is the first of all problems for a man to find
out what kind of work he is to do in this
universe.= _Carlyle._
=It is the first principle of economy to make
use of available vital power first, then the
inexpensive natural forces, and only at
last to have recourse to artificial power.=
_Ruskin._
=It is the flash that murders; the poor thunder
never harm'd head.= _Tennyson._
=It is the frog's own croak that betrays him.=
_Pr._
=It is the glistening and softly-spoken lie, ...= 15
=the patriotic lie of the historian, the provident
lie of the politician, the zealous lie of
the partisan, the merciful lie of the friend,
and the careless lie of each man to himself,
that cast the black mystery over humanity,
through which we thank any man
who pierces, as we would thank one who
had dug a well in the desert.= _Ruskin._
=It is the glorious doom of literature that the
evil perishes and the good remains.= _Bulwer
Lytton._
=It is the great error of reformers and philanthropists
in our time to nibble at the consequences
of unjust power, instead of redressing
the injustice itself.= _J. S. Mill._
=It is the greatest invention man has ever made,
this of marking down the unseen thought that
is in him by written characters.= _Carlyle._
=It is the heart that makes the critic, not the
nose.= _Max Muller._
=It is the height of folly to throw up attempting= 20
=because you have failed. Failures are wonderful
elements in developing the character.=
_Anon._
=It is the inspiration of the Almighty that giveth
man understanding.= _Job._
=It is the law of fate that we shall live in part
by our own efforts, but in the greater part
by the help of others; and that we shall also
die in part for our own faults, but in the
greater part for the faults of others.= _Ruskin._
=It is the life in literature that acts upon life.=
_J. G. Holland._
=It is the little rift within the lute / That by
and by will make the music mute, / And,
ever widening, slowly silence all.= _Tennyson._
=It is the lot of man to suffer.= _Disraeli._ 25
=It is the mark of a great man to treat trifles as
trifles, and important matters as important.=
_Lessing._
=It is the master-wheel which makes the mill
go round.= _Pr._
=It is the monotony of his own nature that
makes solitude intolerable to a man.= _Schiller._
=It is the music in the ear that finds and interprets
the music of the orchestra.= _C. H. Parkhurst._
=It is the nature of despair to blind us to all= 30
=means of safety.= _Fielding._
=It is the nature of extreme self-lovers, as they
will set an house on fire, an it were but to
roast their eggs.= _Bacon._
=It is the nature of parties to retain their
original enmities far more firmly than their
original principles.= _Macaulay._
=It is the office of the Church to teach, not to
train.= _Ward Beecher._
=It is the ordinary way of the world to keep
folly at the helm, and wisdom under the
hatches.= _Pr._
=It is the part of a good man to do great and= 35
=noble deeds, though he risks everything.=
_Plutarch._
=It is the part of a wise man to resist pleasures,
but of a foolish one to be a slave to them.=
_Epictetus._
=It is the poet's function to keep before the
minds of the people not only the underlying
truths and beauties of all Nature, but the
high and pure ideal of humanity which all
should strive to attain.= _C. Fitzhugh._
=It is the possession of a great heart or a great
head, and not the mere fame of it, which
is of worth and conducive to happiness.=
_Schopenhauer._
=It is the power of thought which gives man
the mastery over Nature, the thoughts go
forth into the world.= _Hans Andersen._
=It is the privilege of every human work which= 40
=is well done, to invest the doer with a certain
haughtiness.= _Emerson._
=It is the privilege of genius that to it life
never grows common-place, as to the rest of
us.= _Lowell._
=It is the property of every hero to come back
to reality; to stand upon things, not shows
of things.= _Carlyle._
=It is the secret of the world that all things subsist,
and do not die, but only retire a little
from sight, and afterwards return again.=
_Emerson._
=It is the setting up of a claim to happiness
that ruins everything in the world.= _Merck
to Goethe._
=It is the strange fate of man that even in the= 45
=greatest evils the fear of worse continues to
haunt him.= _Goethe._
=It is the temper of the highest hearts, like the
palm-tree, to strive most upwards when it
is most burdened.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=It is the thought writ down we want, / Not its
effect, not likenesses of likenesses; / And
such descriptions are not, more than gloves /
Instead of hands to shake, enough for us.=
_J. Bailey._
=It is the treating of the common-place with the
feeling of the sublime that gives to art its
true power.= _J. F. Millet._
=It is the unseen and spiritual in man that
determines the outward and actual.= _Carlyle._
=It is the vain endeavour to make ourselves= 5
=what we are not that has strewn history
with so many broken purposes and lives left
in the rough.= _Lowell._
=It is the wise alone who are capable of discerning
that impartial justice is the truest
mercy.= _Goldsmith._
=It is the witness still of excellency / To put a
strange face on his own perfection.= _Much
Ado_, ii. 3.
=It is the work of a philosopher to be every
day subduing his passions and laying aside
his prejudices.= _Addison._
=It is through the feeling of wonder that men
philosophise.= _Arist._
=It is time enough to answer questions when= 10
=they are asked.= _Emerson._
=It is time enough to doff your hat when you
see the man.= _Dan. Pr._
=It is time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.=
_Pericles_, i. 2.
=It is to be doubted whether he will ever find
the way to heaven who desires to go thither
alone.= _Feltham._
=It is too late to husband when all is spent.=
_Pr._
=It is too late to spare when the bottom is bare.= 15
_Pr._
=It is true greatness to have in one the
frailty of a man and the security of a god.=
_Sen._
=It is truth that makes a man angry.= _Pr._
=It is useless to attempt to reason a man
out of a thing he was never reasoned into.=
_Swift._
=It is useless to deny with the tongue that
which man gives credence to with the heart.=
_Johnson._
=It is very easy to obey a noble ruler who convinces= 20
(_überzeugt_) =while he commands us.=
_Goethe._
=It is very good to be left alone with the truth
sometimes, to hear with all its sternness
what it will say to one.= _Carlyle._
=It is very little that we can ever know of the
ways of Providence or the laws of existence;
but that little is enough, and exactly enough.=
_Ruskin._
=It is war's prize to take all advantages, / And
ten to one is no impeach of valour.= 3 _Hen.
VI._, i. 4.
=It is we that are blind, not Fortune.= _Sir T.
Browne._
=It is well that there is no one without a fault,= 25
=for he would not have a friend in the world.
He would seem to belong to a different
species.= _Hazlitt._
=It is well to go for a light to another
man's fire, but by no means to tarry by it.=
_Plutarch._
=It is when the hour of conflict is over, that
history comes to a right understanding of
the strife, and is ready to exclaim: "Lo!
God is here, and we knew it not."= _Bancroft._
=It is wholesomer for the moral nature to be
restrained, even by arbitrary power, than to
be allowed to exercise arbitrary power.= _J.
S. Mill._
=It is wisdom alone that can recognise wisdom.=
_Carlyle._
=It is wise not to know a secret, and honest= 30
=not to reveal it.= _Pr._
=It is with a fine genius as with a fine fashion;
all those are displeased at it who are not
able to follow it.= _Warton._
=It is with diseases of the mind as with those of
the body; we are half dead before we understand
our disorders, and half cured when we
do.= _Colton._
=It is with history as it is with nature, as it is
with everything profound, past, present, or
future; the deeper we earnestly search into
them, the more difficult are the problems
that arise. He who does not fear these,
but boldly confronts them, will, with every
step or advance, feel himself both more
at his ease and more highly educated.=
_Goethe._
=It is with ideas as with pieces of money; those
of least value generally circulate the best.=
_Punch._
=It is with narrow-soul'd people as with narrow-neck'd= 35
=bottles; the less they have in them
the more noise they make in pouring it out.=
_Swift._
=It is with our thoughts as with flowers. Those
whose expression is simple carry their seed
with them; those that are double, by their
richness and pomp charm the mind, but
produce nothing.= _Joubert._
=It is with words as with sunbeams; the more
they are condensed, the deeper they burn.=
_Southey._
=It makes a great difference to the force of
any sentence whether there be a man behind
it or no. In the learned journal, in
the influential newspaper, I discern no form;
only some irresponsible shadow; oftener
some moneyed corporation, or some dangler,
who hopes, in the mask and robes of his
paragraph, to pass for somebody.= _Emerson._
=It matters less to a man where he is born than
where he can live.= _Turk. Pr._
=It matters little whether a man be mathematically,= 40
=or philologically, or artistically cultivated,
so he be cultivated.= _Goethe._
=It matters not how a man dies, but how he
lives.= _Johnson._
=It matters not that a woman is well dressed
if her manners be bad; ill-breeding mars a
fine dress more than dirt.= _Plaut._
=It matters not whether our good-humour be
construed by others into insensibility, or
even idiotism; it is happiness to ourselves.=
_Goldsmith._
=It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, /
And see the great Achilles whom we knew.=
_Tennyson._
=It may indeed be that man is frightfully
threshed at times by public and domestic
ill-fortune, but the ruthless destiny, if it
smites the rich sheaves, only crumples the
straw; the grains feel nothing of it, and
bound merrily hither and thither on the
threshing-floor, unconcerned whether they
wander into the mill or the cornfield.= _Goethe._
=It must be bad indeed if a book has a more
demoralising effect than life itself.= _Goethe._
=It needs a man to perceive a man.= _A. B. Alcott._
=It ne'er was wealth, it ne'er was wealth, /
That coft contentment, peace, or pleasure; /
The bands and bliss o' mutual love, / O that's
the chiefest warld's treasure!= _Burns._
=It never occurs to fools that merit and good= 5
=fortune are closely united.= _Goethe._
=It never rains but it pours.= _Pr._
=It never smokes but there's fire.= _Pr._
=It offends me to the soul to hear a robustious
periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters,
to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings,
who for the most part are capable
of nothing but inexplicable dumb show and
noise.= _Ham._, ii. 2.
=It oft falls out to have what we would have;
we speak not what we mean.= _Meas. for
Meas._, ii. 4.
=It requires a great deal of boldness and a= 10
=great deal of caution to make a great fortune,
and when you have got it, it requires
ten times as much wit to keep it.= _Emerson._
=It requires a great deal of poetry to gild the
pill of poverty.= _Mme. Deluzy._
=It requires a long time to know any one.=
_Cervantes._
=It requires more than mere genius to be an
author.= _La Bruyère._
=It requires much courage not to be down-hearted
in the world.= _Goethe._
=It requires no preterhuman force of will in any= 15
=young man or woman ... to get at least
half an hour out of a solid busy day for good
and disinterested reading.= _John Morley._
=It seems a law of society to despise a man
who looks discontented because its requirements
have compelled him to part with all
he values in his life.= _Goethe._
=It seems as if them as aren't wanted here are
th' only ones as aren't wanted i' the other
world.= _George Eliot._
=It should not be suspected of a man, whose
life hath been spent in noble deeds, that his
reason is lost, when he is only involved in
trouble. A fire may be overturned, but its
flames will never descend.= _Hitopadesa._
=It so falls out, / That what we have we prize
not to the worth / Whiles we enjoy it; but
being lack'd and lost, / Why then we rack
the value.= _Much Ado_, iv. 1.
=It takes a good many spadefuls of earth to= 20
=bury the truth.= _Ger. Pr._
=It takes a great deal of living to get a little
deal of learning.= _Ruskin._
=It takes a great man to make a good listener.=
_Helps._
=It takes much more penetration to discover a
fool than a clever man.= _Cato._
=It takes ten pounds of common-sense to carry
one pound of learning.= _Persian Pr._
=It was a stroke / Brought the stream from the= 25
=flinty rock.= _Dr. W. Smith._
=It was alway yet the trick of our English
nation, if they have a good thing, to make it
too common.= 2 _Hen. IV._, i. 2.
=It was always the aim of the artists as well
as the wise men of antiquity, to mean
much though they might say little.= _Winkelmann._
=It was for beauty that the world was made.=
_Quoted by Emerson._
=It was the nightingale, and not the lark /
That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear.=
_Rom. and Jul._, iii. 5.
=It was the wisdom of the ancients to regard= 30
=the most useful as the most illustrious.=
_Sen._
=It were better to be of no church than bitter
for any.= _W. Penn._
=It were easier to stop Euphrates at its source
than one tear of a true and tender heart.=
_Byron._
=It were good for a man to have some anchorage
deeper than the quicksands of this
world; for these drift to and fro so as to
baffle all conjecture.= _Carlyle._
=It were no virtue to bear calamities if we did
not feel them.= _Mme. Necker._
=It will be all the same a hundred years hence.= 35
_Pr._
=It will be an ill web to bleach.= _Pr._
=It will have blood; they say, blood will have
blood; / Stones have been known to move,
and trees to speak.= _Macb._, iii. 4.
=It will never out of the flesh that's bred in the
bone.= _Ben Jonson._
=It would be better that we should not exist,
than that we should guiltily disappoint the
purposes of existence.= _Ruskin._
=It would be some advantage to live a primitive= 40
=and frontier life, though in the midst of an
outward civilisation, if only to learn what
are the gross necessaries of life, and what
methods have been taken to obtain them.=
_Thoreau._
=It's a gude heart that says nae ill, but a better
that thinks nane.= _Sc. Pr._
=It's a poor man that always counts his sheep.=
_Pr._
=It's a poor sport that's not worth the candle.=
_George Herbert._
=It's a sair field where a's slain.= _Sc. Pr._
=It's a small joke sets men laughing when they= 45
=sit a-staring at one another wi' a pipe i' their
mouths.= _George Eliot._
=It's a weary warld, and naebody bides in't.=
_J. M. Barrie._
=It's all very well having a ready-made rich
man, but it may happen he'll be a ready-made
fool.= _George Eliot._
=It's an ill wind that blaws naebody gude.=
_Sc. Pr._
=It's aye the cheapest lawyer's fee / To taste
the barrel.= _Burns._
=It's bad flesh that won't take salt; worse is= 50
=the body that won't take warning.= _Gael.
Pr._
=It's difficult to give sense to a fool.= _Gael.
Pr._
=It's dogged as does it.= _Pr._
=It's good sheltering under an old hedge.=
_Pr._
=It's hard sailing when there is no wind.=
_Pr._
=It's hard to take the twist out of an oak that
grew in the sapling.= _Gael._
=It's hard to tell which is Old Harry when
everybody's got boots on.= _George Eliot._
=It's harder work getting to hell than to heaven.= 5
_Ger. Pr._
=It's hardly in a body's power / To keep, at
times, frae being sour, / To see how things
are shared.= _Burns._
=It's height makes Grantham steeple stand
awry.= _Pr._
=It's ill livin' in a hen-roost for them as doesn't
like fleas.= _George Eliot._
=It's ill living where everybody knows everybody.=
_Pr._
=It's ill talking between a full man and a fasting.= 10
_Sc. Pr._
=It's ill wool that will take no dye.= _Pr._
=It's lang ere the devil dee by the dyke-side.=
_Sc. Pr._
=It's never too late to learn.= _Pr._
=It's no in titles nor in rank; / It's no in wealth
like London bank, / To purchase peace and
rest: / It's no in makin' muckle mair, / It's
no in books, it's no in lear, / To mak' us
truly blest.= _Burns._
=It's no tint= (lost) =that a friend gets.= _Sc._ 15
_Pr._
=It's no use filling your pocket full of money
if you have got a hole in the corner.= _George
Eliot._
=It's no use killing nettles to grow docks.=
_Pr._
=It's no use pumping a dry well.= _Pr._
=It's not "What has she?" but "What is
she?"= _Pr._
=It's poor eating where the flavour of the meat= 20
=lies in the cruets.= _George Eliot._
=It's poor friendship that needs to be constantly
bought.= _Gael. Pr._
=It's pride that puts this country down; /
Man, take thine old cloak about thee.= _Old
ballad._
=It's sin, and no poverty, that maks a man
miserable.= _Sc. Pr._
=It's them as take advantage that get advantage
i' this world, I think; folks have to
wait long enough before it's brought to 'em.=
_George Eliot._
=It's too late to cast anchor when the ship is= 25
=on the rocks.= _Pr._
=It's wiser being good than bad; / It's safer
being meek than fierce; / It's fitter being
sane than mad. / My own hope is, a sun
will pierce / The thickest cloud earth ever
stretch'd; / That after last returns the first, /
Though a wide compass round be fetch'd; /
That what began best can't end worst, /
Nor what God blessèd once prove accurst.=
_Browning._
=It's your dead chicks take the longest hatchin'.=
_George Eliot._
=Ita lex scripta=--Thus the law is written.
=Ivory does not come from a rat's mouth.=
_Chinese Pr._