=O banish the tears of children! Continual rains
upon the blossoms are hurtful.= _Jean Paul._
=O bitte um Leben noch! du fühlst, mit deinen= 5
=Mängeln, / Dass du noch wandeln kannst
nicht unter Gottes Engeln=--O still pray for
life; thou feelest that with those faults of thine
thou canst not walk among the angels of God.
_Rückert._
[Greek: ho bios brachys, hê de technê makrê]--Life is short,
art is long. _Gr._
=O blicke nicht nach dem was jedem fehlt; /
Betrachte, was noch einem jeden bleibt=--O
look not at what each comes short in; consider
what each still retains. _Goethe._
[Greek: ho bouletai, touth' hekastos kai oietai]--What
each one wishes that he also thinks. _Demosthenes._
=O cæca nocentum / Consilia, O semper timidum
scelus!=--Oh, how infatuated are the counsels
of the guilty! Oh, how cowardly wickedness
ever is! _Statius._
=O cives, cives, quærenda pecunia primum est; /= 10
=Virtus post nummos=--O citizens, citizens, you
must seek for money first, for virtue after cash.
_Hor._
=O Corydon, Corydon, secretum divitis ullum /
Esse putas? Servi ut taceant, jumenta
loquentur, / Et canis, et postes, et marmora=--O
Corydon, Corydon, do you think anything a
rich man does can be kept secret? Even if his
servants say nothing, his beasts of burden, and
dogs, and door-posts, and marble slabs will speak.
_Juv._
=O cunning enemy, that, to catch a saint, /
With saints dost bait thy hook.= _Meas. for
Meas._, ii. 2.
=O curvæ in terris animæ et cœlestium inanes!=--Oh
ye souls bent down to earth and void of
everything heavenly. _Pers._
=O das Leben hat Reize, die wir nie gekannt=--Oh,
life has charms which we have never
known. _Schiller._
=O das Leben ist ein langer, langer Seufzer= 15
=vor dem Ausgehen des Athmens=--Oh, life is a
long, long sigh before emitting the breath. _Jean
Paul._
=O dass die Weisheit halb so eifrig wäre / Nach
Schülern und Bekehrten, als der Spott=--Oh,
that Wisdom were half as zealous for disciples
and converts as Ridicule is. _Grillparzer._
=O dass es ewig bliebe, / Das Doppelglück der
Töne wie der Liebe=--Oh, that it would stay for
ever, the double bliss of the tones as well as of
the love. _Goethe._
=O dass sie ewig' grünen bliebe / Die schöne
Zeit der jungen Liebe=--Oh, that it remained for
ever green, the fair season of early love. _Schiller._
=O dearest, dearest boy, my heart / For better
love would seldom yearn, / Could I but teach
the hundredth part / Of what from thee I
learn.= _Wordsworth._
=O der Magnet des Wahns zieht mächtig=--Oh, 20
how powerfully the magnet of illusion attracts.
_Gutzkow._
=O ein Fürst hat keinen Freund, kann keinen
Freund haben=--Oh, a ruler has no friend, and
can have none. _Lessing._
=O faciles dare summa Deos, eademque tueri /
Difficiles=--How gracious the gods are in bestowing
honours, how averse to ensure our tenure of
them. _Lucan._
=O fallacem hominum spem=--How deceitful is
the hope of men. _Cic._
=O flesh, flesh, how thou art fishified.= _Rom.
and Jul._, ii. 4.
=O formose puer, nimium ne crede colori=--Oh, 25
beauteous boy, trust not too much to the bloom
on thy cheeks. _Virg._
=O fortunate adolescens, qui tuæ virtutis Homerum
præconem inveneris=--Oh, happy youth,
to have a Homer as the publisher of thy valour.
_Alexander the Great at the tomb of Achilles._
=O fortunatos nimium, sua si bona norint, /
Agricolas, quibus ipsa, procul discordibus
armis, / Fundit humo facilem victum justissima
tellus=--Oh, how happy the tillers of the
ground are, if they but knew their blessings; for
whom, far from the clash of arms, the all-righteous
earth pours forth from her soil an easy sustenance.
_Virg._
=O foulest Circæan draught! thou poison of
popular applause; madness is in thee, and
death; thy end is bedlam and the grave.=
_Carlyle._
=O glücklich! wer noch hoffen kann, / Aus
diesem Meer des Irrtums aufzutauchen. /
Was man nicht weiss, das eben brauchte
man, / Und was man weiss, kann man nicht
brauchen=--Oh, happy he who can still hope to
emerge from this sea of error! What one does
not know is exactly what one should want to
know, and what one knows is what one has no
use for. _Faust, in Goethe._
=O God, that bread should be so dear, / And= 30
=flesh and blood so cheap!= _T. Hood._
=O Gott! das Leben ist doch schön=--O God!
life is nevertheless beautiful. _Schiller._
=O Gott, wie schränkt sich Welt und Himmel
ein, / Wenn unser Herz in seinen Schranken
banget=--O God, how contracted the world and
heaven becomes when our heart becomes uneasy
within its barriers. _Goethe._
=O guard thy roving thoughts with jealous
care, for speech is but the dial-plate of
thought; and every fool reads plainly in
thy words what is the hour of thy thought.=
_Tennyson._
=O' guid advisement comes nae ill.= _Burns._
=O Heaven! were man / But constant, he were= 35
=perfect; that one error / Fills him with
faults; makes him run through all sins.= _Two
Gent. of Ver._, v. 4.
=O Herz, versuch' es nur! so leicht ist's gut
zu sein: / Und es zu scheinen ist so eine
schwere Pein=--O heart, only try! To be good
is so easy, and to appear so is such a heavy
burden. _Rückert._
=O homines ad servitutem paratos!=--Oh, men,
how ye prepare yourselves for slavery! _Tac._
=O how full of briars is this working-day world.=
_As You Like It_, i. 3.
=O how wretched / Is that poor man that hangs
on princes' favours! / There is betwixt that
smile he would aspire to, / That sweet aspect
of princes, and their ruin, / More pangs and
fears than wars or women have; / And when
he falls, he falls like Lucifer, / Never to hope
again.= _Henry VIII._, iii. 2.
=O hush the noise, ye men of strife, / And hear
the angels sing!= _Sears._
=O, if this were seen, / The happiest youth--viewing
his progress through / What perils past,
what crosses to ensue--/ Would shut the
book and sit him down and die.= 2 _Hen. IV._,
iii. 1.
=O ja, dem Herrn ist alles Kinderspiel=--Oh, yes, 5
everything is but child's play to the gentleman.
_Mephisto, in Goethe._
=O judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts, /
And men have lost their reason!= _Jul. Cæs._,
iii. 2.
=O kaum bezwingen wir das eigne Herz; /
Wie soll die rasche Jugend sich bezähmen!=--Oh,
we can hardly subdue our own heart; how
shall impetuous youth restrain itself! _Schiller._
=O l'amour d'une mère! amour que nul n'oublie! /
Pain merveilleux, que Dieu partage et multiplie! /
Table toujours servie au paternel
foyer! / Chacun en a sa part, et tous l'ont
tout entier=--Oh, the love of a mother, love no
one forgets; miraculous bread which God distributes
and multiplies; board always spread by
the paternal hearth, whereat each has his portion,
and all have it entire! _Victor Hugo._
=O Leben, wie bist du so bitter und hart=--Oh,
Life, how bitter and harsh thou art! _Scheffel._
=O let my books be then the eloquence / And= 10
=dumb presagers of my speaking breast.=
_Browning._
=O let thy vow, / First made to heaven, first be
to heaven perform'd.... It is religion that
doth make vows kept.= _King John_, iii. 1.
="O Liberty, what crimes have been committed
in thy name!"= _Madame Roland, as she bowed
to the statue of Liberty at the place of execution._
=O Life, an age to the miserable, a moment to
the happy.= _Bacon._
=O life! how pleasant is thy morning, / Young
Fancy's rays the hills adorning! / Cold-pausing
Caution's lessons scorning, / We frisk
away, / Like schoolboys at th' expected
warning, / To joy and play.= _Burns._
=O life! thou art a galling load / Along a rough,= 15
=a weary road, / To wretches such as I!=
_Burns_ (_Despondency_).
[Greek: ho logos enênthrôpêsen, hina hêmeis theopoiêthômen]--The
Word became man, that we might become
gods. _Athanasius._
=O Lord, that lend'st me life, / Lend me a heart
replete with thankfulness!= 2 _Hen. VI._, i. 1.
=O love, be moderate, allay thy ecstasy; / In
measure rain thy joy; scant this excess; /
I feel too much thy blessing! Make it less, /
For fear I surfeit.= _Mer. of Venice_, iii. 2.
=O magna vis veritatis, quæ ... facile se per
se ipsa defendit=--Oh, mighty force of truth that
by itself so easily defends itself! _Cic._
=O major tandem, parcas, insane, minori=--Oh, 20
thou who art a greater madman; spare me, I
pray, who am not so far gone. _Hor._
[Greek: ho mê dareis anthrôpos ou paideuetai]--The man
who has not been scourged is not educated.
_Menander._
=O mighty Cæsar! dost thou lie so low? / Are
all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils, /
Shrunk to this little measure?= _Jul. Cæs._, iii. 1.
=O mihi præteritos referat si Jupiter annos!=--Oh,
that Jove would but give me back the years
that are past! _Virg._
=O miseras hominum mentes! O pectora cæca!=--Oh,
how wretched are the minds of men! oh,
how blind their hearts! _Lucret._
=O miseri quorum gaudia crimen habent!=--O 25
wretched ye whose joys are tainted with guilt!
_Pseudo-Gallus._
=O most lame and impotent conclusion!= _Othello_,
ii. 1.
=O munera nondum / Intellecta Deum=--Oh, that
the gifts of the gods should not yet be understood.
_Lucan._
=O my prophetic soul! mine uncle.= _Ham._, i. 5.
=O Nature! Ha! why do I not name thee
God? Art thou not the "living garment of
God?" O Heavens! is it, in very deed, He
then that ever speaks through thee; that
lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in
me?= _Carlyle._
=O never / Shall sun that morrow see.= _Macb._, i. 5. 30
=O nimium nimiumque oblite tuorum=--Too, too
forgetful of thy kin. _Ovid._
=O nimm der Stunde wahr, eh' sie entschlüpft. /
So selten kommt der Augenblick im Leben /
Der wahrhaft wichtig ist und gross=--Take
note of the hour ere it slips past; so seldom does
the moment come which is truly fateful and
great. _Schiller._
=O noctes cœnæque deum!=--Oh, nights and suppers
of the gods! _Hor._
=O passi graviora!=--Oh, ye who have suffered
greater misfortunes than these! _Virg._
[Greek: hô philoi oudeis philos]--He who has many friends 35
has no friends. _Diogenes Laertius._
[Greek: ho phronimos to alypon diôkei ou to hêdy]--The
aim of the wise man is not to secure pleasure,
but to avoid pain. _Arist._
=O place and greatness, millions of false eyes /
Are stuck upon thee! Volumes of report /
Run with these false and most contrarious
quests / Upon thy doings! thousand scapes
of wit / Make thee the father of their idle
dreams, / And rack thee in their fancies.=
_Meas. for Meas._, iv. 1.
=O pudor! O pietas!=--O modesty! O piety! _Mart._
=O purblind race of miserable men! / How many
among us at this very hour / Do forge a lifelong
trouble for ourselves, / By taking true
for false, or false for true; / Here, thro' the
feeble twilight of this world / Groping, how
many, until we pass and reach / That other,
where we see as we are seen!= _Tennyson._
=O qualis facies et quali digna tabella!=--Oh, 40
what a face and what a picture it would have
been a subject for! _Juv._
=O quanta species cerebrum non habet!=--Oh,
that such beauty should be devoid of brains!
_Phædr._
=O quantum in rebus inane!=--Oh, what a void
there is in things! _Persius._
=O ruin'd piece of nature! This great world /
Shall so wear out to nought.= _King Lear_,
iv. 6.
=O rus quando te aspiciam? quandoque licebit /
Nunc veterum libris, nunc somno et inertibus
horis / Ducere sollicitæ jucunda oblivia vitæ?=--Oh,
country, when shall I see thee, and when
shall I be permitted to quaff a sweet oblivion of
anxious life, now from the books of the ancients,
now from sleep and idle hours? _Hor._
=O sancta damnatio!=--Oh, holy condemnation!
=O sancta simplicitas!=--Oh, holy simplicity! _John
Huss at the stake, on seeing an old woman hurrying
up with a faggot to throw on the pile._
=O si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses=--If you
had only held your peace, you would have remained
a philosopher. _Boëthius._
=O sleep, / It is a gentle thing, / Beloved from= 5
=pole to pole!= _Coleridge._
=O sleep, O gentle sleep, / Nature's soft nurse!
how have I frighted thee, / That thou no more
wilt weigh my eyelids down, / And steep my
senses in forgetfulness!= 2 _Hen. IV._, iii. 1.
=O sons of earth, attempt ye still to rise, / By
mountains piled on mountains, to the skies? /
Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys,
/ And buries madmen in the heaps they
raise.= _Pope._
=O sprich mir nicht von jener bunten Menge /
Bei deren Anblick uns der Geist entflieht=--Oh,
speak not to me of the motley mob, at the
very sight of which our spirit takes flight!
_Goethe._
=O süsse Stimme! Willkommener Ton / Der
Muttersprach in einem fremden Lande!=--Oh,
sweet voice, much-welcome sound of our
mother-tongue in a foreign land! _Goethe._
=O tempora, O mores!=--Oh, the times! oh, the 10
manners! _Cic._
=O that estates, degrees, and offices / Were
not derived corruptly, and that clear honour /
Were purchased by the merit of the wearer! /
How many then would cover that stand bare; /
How many be commanded that command; /
How much low peasantry would then be
glean'd / From the true seed of honour; and
how much honour, / Pick'd from the chaff
and ruin of the times, / To be new-varnish'd.=
_Mer. of Ven._, ii. 9.
=O that men's ears should be / To counsel deaf,
but not to flattery!= _Timon of Athens_, i. 2.
=O that way madness lies.= _Lear_, iii. 4.
=O that you could turn your eyes toward the
napes of your necks, and make but an interior
survey of your good selves!= _Coriolanus_,
ii. 1.
=O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom= 15
=and knowledge of God! How unsearchable
are His judgments, and His ways past finding
out!= _St. Paul._
=O the wound of conscience is no scar, and Time
cools it not with his wing, but merely keeps
it open with his scythe.= _Jean Paul._
=O these deliberate fools, when they do choose /
They have the wisdom by their wit to lose.=
_Mer. of Ven._, ii. 9.
=O these naughty times / Put bars between
the owners and their rights.= _Mer. of Ven._,
iii. 2.
=O Thor, wer nicht im Augenblick den wahren
Augenblick ergreift, / Wer, was er liebt, im
Auge, und dennoch nach der Seite schweift=--Oh,
fool, he seizes not the true moment in the
moment who has what he loves before his eye,
and still swerves from it. _Platen._
=O Thou, / Passionless bride, divine Tranquillity,= 20
=/ ... Thou carest not / How roughly men
may woo thee, so they win!= _Tennyson._ (?)
=O thou who hast still a father and a mother,
thank God for it in the day when thy soul
is full of joyful tears, and needs a bosom
wherein to shed them.= _Jean Paul._
=O thoughts of men accurst! / Past and to
come seem best; things present, worst.=
2 _Hen. IV._, i. 3.
=O Tugend, Tugend, wie schön bist du! / Welch'
göttlich Meisterstück sind Seelen, / Die sich
hinauf bis zu dir erheben=--O virtue, virtue,
how fair art thou! what a divine masterpiece
are the souls that raise themselves up to thee!
_Klopstock._
=O wad some pow'r the giftie gie us / To see
oursels as others see us! / It wad frae mony
a blunder free us, / And foolish notion; / What
airs in dress and gait wad lea'e us, / And
e'en devotion!= _Burns._
=O Wahrheit, deinen edeln Wein / Musst du= 25
=mit Wasser mischen; / Denn willst du ihn
rein auftischen, / So nimmt er den Kopf den
Gästen ein=--O Truth, thy noble wine thou must
mix with water, for wert thou to serve it out
pure, it would get into the heads of the guests
and turn them. _Rückert._
=O was im Traum die innre Stimme spricht /
Das wird uns Wahrheit, wenn die Sonne
leuchtet=--Oh, how that which the inner voice
speaks in our dreaming becomes truth to us
when the sun shines! _Schillerbuch._
=O was müssen wir der Kirche Gottes halber
leiden, rief der Abt, als ihm das gebratene
Huhn die Finger versengte=--"What must we
suffer for the Church of God's sake!" exclaimed
the Abbot when the roast fowl burnt his fingers.
_Ger. Pr._
=O was sind wir Grossen auf der Woge der
Menschheit? Wir glauben sie zu beherrschen,
und sie treibt uns auf und nieder, hin
und her=--Ah! what are we great ones on the
wave of humanity? We fancy we rule over it,
and it sways us up and down, hither and thither.
_Goethe._
=O well for him whose will is strong! / He
suffers, but he will not suffer long; / He
suffers, but he cannot suffer wrong.= _Tennyson._
=O wer weiss, / Was in der Zeiten Hintergrunde= 30
=schlummert?=--Oh, who knows what
slumbers in the background of the times?
_Schiller._
=O what a goodly outside falsehood hath!=
_Mer. of Ven._, i. 3.
=O what a noble mind is here o'erthrown! / The
courtier's, soldier's, scholar's eye, tongue,
sword; / The expectancy and rose of the
fair state, / The glass of fashion, and the
mould of form, / The observed of all observers,
quite, quite down!= _Ham._, iii. 1.
=O what a tangled web we weave / When first
we practise to deceive.= _Scott._
=O what a world is this, when what is comely /
Envenoms him that bears it!= _As You Like
It_, ii. 3.
=O what a world of vile ill-favoured faults /= 35
=Looks handsome in three hundred pounds
a-year!= _Merry Wives_, iii. 4.
=O what men dare do! what men may do! /
What men daily do, not knowing what they
do!= _Much Ado_, iv. 1.
=O woman! in our hours of ease / Uncertain,
coy, and hard to please, / And variable as
the shade / By the light of quivering aspen
made; / When pain and anguish wring the
brow, / A ministering angel thou.= _Scott._
=O ye loved ones, that already sleep in the
noiseless Bed of Rest, whom in life I could
only weep for and never help; and ye who,
wide-scattered, still toil lonely in the monster-bearing
desert, dyeing the flinty ground
with your blood,--yet a little while, and we
shall all meet There, and our Mother's
bosom will screen us all; and Oppression's
harness, and Sorrow's fire-whip, and all
the Gehenna bailiffs that patrol and inhabit
ever-vexed Time, cannot thenceforth harm
us any more.= _Carlyle._
=O yet we trust that somehow good / Will be
the final goal of ill.= _Tennyson._
=Oaks fall when reeds stand.= _Pr._
=Oars alone can ne'er prevail / To reach the= 5
=distant coast; / The breath of heav'n must
swell the sail, / Or all the toil is lost.= _Cowper._
=Oaths are straws, ... and holdfast is the
only dog.= _Hen. V._, ii. 3.
=Ob es vom Herzen kommt, das magst du
leicht verstehen: / Denn was vom Herzen
kommt, muss dir zum Herzen gehen=--Easily
may'st thou know whether it comes from the
heart; for what comes from the heart goes
straight to thine. _Körner._
=Obedience alone gives the right to command.=
_Emerson._
=Obedience is better than sacrifice.= _Pr. from
Bible._
=Obedience is our universal duty and destiny;= 10
=wherein whoso will not bend must break.=
_Carlyle._
=Obedience is the bond of rule.= _Tennyson._
=Obedience is woman's duty on earth; hard endurance
is her heavy lot; by severe service
she must be purified; but she who has served
here is great up yonder.= _Schiller._
=Obey something, and you will have a chance
of finding out what is best to obey. But if
you begin by obeying nothing, you will end
by obeying Beelzebub and all his seven invited
friends.= _Ruskin._
=Obey thy parents; keep thy word justly; swear
not; set not thy sweet heart on proud array.=
_King Lear_, iii. 4.
=Obiter cantare=--To sing as one goes along; to 15
sing by the way.
=Obiter dicta=--Remarks by the way; passing remarks.
=Obiter dictum=--A thing said in passing.
=Objects close to the eye shut out much larger
objects on the horizon; and splendours born
only of the earth eclipse the stars. So a man
sometimes covers up the entire disc of eternity
with a dollar, and quenches transcendent
glories with a little shining dust.= _Chapin._
=Objects imperfectly discerned take forms from
the hope or fear of the beholder.= _Johnson._
=Objects in pictures should be so arranged as= 20
=by their very position to tell their own story.=
_Goethe._
=Oblatam occasionem tene=--Seize the opportunity
that is offered.
=Obligation is thraldom, and thraldom is hateful.=
_Hobbes._
=Oblivion is the dark page whereon memory
writes her light-beam characters and makes
them legible; were it all light, nothing could
be read there, any more than if it were all
darkness.= _Carlyle._
=Oblivion is the rule, and fame the exception,
of humanity.= _Rivarol._
=Oblivion is the second death, which great= 25
=minds dread more than the first.= _De Boufflers._
=Obreros a no ver dineros a perder=--Not to
watch your workmen is to lose your money. _Sp.
Pr._
=Obruat illud male partum, male retentum, male
gestum imperium=--Let that power fall which
has been wrongfully acquired, wrongfully retained,
and wrongfully administered. _Cic._
=Obscuris vera involvens=--Shrouding, or concealing,
truth in obscurity or darkness. _Virg._
=Obscurity and affectation are the two great
faults of style.= _Macaulay._
=Obscurity and Innocence, twin-sisters, escape= 30
=temptations which would pierce their gossamer
armour in contact with the world.=
_Chamfort._
=Obscurum per obscurius=--Explaining something
obscure by what is more obscure.
=Obsequium amicos, veritas odium parit=--Obsequiousness
procures us friends; speaking the
truth, enemies. _Ter._
=Observe this short but certain aphorism, "Forsake
all, and thou shalt find all."= _Thomas à
Kempis._
=Observe thyself as thy greatest enemy would
do; so shalt thou be thy greatest friend.=
_Jeremy Taylor._
=Observation is an old man's memory.= _Swift._ 35
=Observation may trip now and then without
throwing you, for her gait is a walk; but
inference always gallops, and if she stumbles,
you are gone.= _Holmes._
=Observation more than books, experience
rather than persons, are the prime educators.=
_A. B. Alcott._
=Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest
proofs of folly.= _Montaigne._
=Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most
in the wrong.= _Mme. Necker._
=Obstinacy is the result of the will's forcing= 40
=itself into the place of the intellect.= _Schopenhauer._
=Obstinacy is the strength of the weak.= _Lavater._
=Obstupui, steteruntque comæ, et vox faucibus
hæsit=--I was astounded; my hair stood on end,
and my voice stuck fast in my throat. _Virg._
=Obtuseness is sometimes a virtue.= _Rivarol._
=Occasio facit furem=--Opportunity makes the
thief. _Pr._
=Occasion reins the motions of the stirring= 45
=mind.= _Owen Feltham._
=Occasionem cognosce=--Know your opportunity.
=Occasions do not make a man frail, but they
show what he is.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Occidit miseros crambe repetita magistros=--Cabbage
repeated is the death of the wretched
masters. _Juv._
=Occupation is the scythe of Time.= _Napoleon._
=Occupet extremum scabies!=--Murrain take the 50
hindmost! _Hor._
=Ocean is a mighty harmonist.= _Wordsworth._
=Oculi tanquam speculatores altissimum locum
obtinent=--The eyes, like sentinels, occupy the
highest place in the body. _Cic._
=Oculis magis habenda fides quam auribus=--It
is better to trust to our eyes than our ears.
=Oculus domini saginat equum=--The master's
eye makes the horse fat. _Pr._
=Oderint dum metuant=--Let them show hate, provided
they fear. _Cic._
=Oderunt hilarem tristes, tristemque jocosi, /= 5
=Sedatum celeres, agilem gnavumque remissi=--Sad
men dislike a gay spirit, and the
jocular a sad; the quick-witted dislike the sedate,
and the careless the busy and industrious. _Hor._
=Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore=--Good
men shrink from wrong out of love for virtue.
_Hor._
=Odi profanum vulgus et arceo=--I hate the
profane rabble, and keep them far from me.
_Hor._
=Odi puerulos præcoci ingenio=--I hate boys of
precocious talent. _Cic._
=Odi, vedi, e taci, se vuoi viver in pace=--Listen,
see, and say nothing, if you wish to live in peace.
_It. Pr._
=Odia qui nimium timet, regnare nescit=--He who 10
dreads hostility too much is unfit to bear rule.
_Sen._
=Odimus accipitrem quia semper vivit in armis=--I
hate the hawk because he always lives in
arms. _Ovid._
=Odium theologicum=--Theological hatred; the
animosity engendered by differences of theological
opinion.
=Odora canum vis=--The sharp scent of the hounds.
_Virg._
=O'ercome thyself, and thou may'st share /
With Christ His Father's throne, and wear /
The world's imperial wreath.= _Keble._
=Of a life of luxury the fruit is luxury.= _Thoreau._ 15
=Of a thoroughly crazy and defective artist we
may indeed say he has everything from himself;
but of an excellent one, never.= _Goethe._
=Of all actions of a man's life, his marriage does
least concern other people; yet of all actions
of our life, 'tis most meddled with by other
people.= _John Selden._
=Of all attainable liberties, be sure first to strive
for leave to be useful.= _Ruskin._ (?)
=Of all blinds that shut up men's vision the
worst is self.= (?)
=Of all days, the one that is most wasted is that= 20
=on which one has not laughed.= _Chamfort._
=Of all earthly music, that which reaches the
farthest into heaven is the beating of a
loving heart.= _Ward Beecher._
=Of all evils in story-telling, the humour of
telling tales one after another in great numbers
is the least supportable.= _Steele._
=Of all God's gifts to the sight of man, colour is
the holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.=
_Ruskin._
=Of all great poems Love is the absolute and
the essential foundation.= _C. Fitzhugh._
=Of all man's work of art, a cathedral is greatest.= 25
=A vast and majestic tree is greater
than that.= _Ward Beecher._
=Of all men, a philosopher should be no swearer;
for an oath, which is the end of controversies
in law, cannot determine any here, where
reason only must induce.= _Sir Thomas Browne._
=Of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can
send, / Save, save, O save me from the candid
friend!= _Canning._
=Of all pleasures, the fruit of labour is the
sweetest.= _Vauvenargues._
=Of all points of faith the being of a God is
encompassed with most difficulty, and yet
borne in upon our minds with most power.=
_John Newman._
=Of all rights of man, the right of the ignorant= 30
=man to be guided by the wiser, to be gently
or forcibly held in the true course by him, is
the indisputablest.= _Carlyle._
=Of all studies, study your present condition.= _Pr._
=Of all the cants which are canted in this canting
world,--though the cant of hypocrites
may be the worst,--the cant of criticism is
the most tormenting!= _Sterne._
=Of all the characters of cruelty, I consider that
as the most odious which assumes the garb
of mercy.= _Fox._
=Of all the great masters, there is not one who
did not paint his own present world, plainly
and truly.= _Ruskin._
=Of all the marvellous works of the Deity, perhaps= 35
=there is nothing that angels behold
with such supreme astonishment as a proud
man.= _Colton._
=Of all the passions that possess mankind, /
The love of novelty rules most the mind; /
In search of this, from realm to realm we
roam, / Our fleets come fraught with every
folly home.= _Foote._
=Of all the possessions of a man, next to the
gods, his soul is the mightiest, being the
most his own.= _Plato._
=Of all the pulpits from which human voice is
ever sent forth, there is none from which
it reaches so far as from the grave.= _Ruskin._
=Of all the superstitions which infest the brains
of weak mortals, the belief in prophecies,
presentiments, and dreams, seems to me
amongst the most pitiful and pernicious.=
_Goethe._
=Of all the tyrants that the world affords, / Our= 40
=own affections are the fiercest lords.= _E.
Stirling._
=Of all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob
you of time and temper.= _Goethe._
=Of all things, knowledge is esteemed the most
precious treasure; because of its incapacity
to be stolen, to be given away, or even to be
consumed.= _Hitopadesa._
=Of all those arts in which the wise excel, /
Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.=
_Duke of Buckingham._
=Of all wild beasts, preserve me from a tyrant;
and of all tame, a flatterer.= _Ben Jonson._
=Of big words and feathers many go to the= 45
=pound.= _Ger. Pr._
=Of error we can talk for ever, but truth demands
that we should lay it to heart and
apply it.= _Goethe._
=Of four things every man has more than he
knows--of sins, and debts, and years, and
foes.= _Persian Pr._
=Of God's light I was not utterly bereft, if my
as yet sealed eyes, with their unspeakable
longing, could nowhere see Him; nevertheless
in my heart He was present and His
heaven-written law still stood legible and
sacred there.= _Carlyle._
=Of great men no one should speak but one
who is as great as they, so as to be able
to see all round them.= _Goethe._
=Of great riches there is no real use, except it
be in the distribution; the rest is but conceit.=
_Bacon._
=Of hasty counsel take good heed, for very
rarely haste is speed.= _Dut. Pr._
=Of how few lives does not stated duty claim
the greater part?= _Johnson._
=Of illustrious men all the earth is the sepulchre,= 5
=and it is not the inscribed column in their own
land which is the record of their virtues, but
the unwritten memory of them in the hearts
and minds of all mankind.= _Thucydides._
=Of its own unity, the soul gives unity to whatso
it looks on with love.= _Carlyle._
=Of making many books there is no end; and
much study is a weariness of the flesh.= _Bible._
=Of more than earth can earth make none possesst;
/ And he that least / Regards this
restless world, shall in this world find rest.=
_Quarles._
=Of other tyrants short the strife, / But Indolence
is king for life: / The despot twists,
with soft control, / Eternal fetters round the
soul.= _Hannah More._
=Of pleasures, those which occur most rarely= 10
=give the greatest delight.= _Epictetus._
=Of real evils the number is great; of possible
evils there is no end.= _Johnson._
=Of the Beautiful we are seldom capable,
oftener of the Good; and how highly should
we value those who endeavour, with great
sacrifices, to forward that good among their
fellows!= _Goethe._
=Of the eyes that men do glare withal, so few
can see.= _Carlyle._
=Of the soul, the body form doth take, /
For soul is form, and doth the body make.=
_Spenser._
=Of the three requisitions of genius, the first= 15
=is soul; the second, soul; and the third,
soul.= _Whipple._
=Of the wealth of the world each has as much
as he takes.= _It. Pr._
=Of the Wrong we are always conscious, of
the Right never.= _Goethe._
=Of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a
bramble bush gather they grapes.= _Jesus._
=Of thy word unspoken thou art master; thy
spoken word is master of thee.= _Eastern Pr._
=Of two evils choose the least.= _Pr._ 20
=Of unwise admiration much may be hoped,
for much good is really in it; but unwise
contempt is itself a negation; nothing comes
of it, for it is nothing.= _Carlyle._
=Of what does not concern you say nothing,
good or bad.= _It. Pr._
=Of what significance are the things you can
forget?= _Thoreau._
=Of wild creatures, a tyrant; and of tame
ones, a flatterer.= _Bias._
=Off with his head! so much for Buckingham.= 25
_Rich. III._, iv. 3.
=Offenders never pardon.= _Pr._
=Offerir molto è spezie di negare=--Offering extravagantly
is a kind of denial. _It. Pr._
=Oft have I heard, and now believe it true, /
Whom man delights in, God delights in too.=
_An old Minnesinger._
=Oft kommt ein nützlich Wort aus schlechtem
Munde=--A serviceable word often issues from
worthless lips. _Schiller._
=Oft leiden kranke Seelen durch selbstgeschaffnen= 30
=Wahn=--Sick souls often suffer through conceits
of their own creation. _G. Rossini._
=Oft schiessen trifft das Ziel=--Shooting often
hits the mark. _Ger. Pr._
=Oft sogar es ist weise, zu entdecken, / Was
nicht verschwiegen bleiben kann=--It is often
wise to disclose what cannot be concealed.
_Schiller._
=Oft when blind mortals think themselves secure,
in height of bliss, they touch the brink of
ruin.= _Thomson._
=Oft zum Dichter macht die Liebe; / Selbst
ein Wunder, zeugt sie Wunder=--Love often
makes a poet; herself a wonder, she works
wonders. _Bodenstedt._
=Ofte er Skarlagens Hierte under reven Kaabe=--There 35
is often a royal heart under a tattered
coat. _Dan. Pr._
=Often a man's own angry pride / Is cap-and-bells
for a fool.= _Tennyson._
=Often the cock-loft is empty in those whom
Nature hath built many storeys high.= _Fuller._
=Oftentimes the gods send strong delusions to
ensnare too credulous hearts.= _Lewis Morris._
=Oftentimes, to win us to our harm, / The instruments
of darkness tell us truths; / Win
us with honest trifles, to betray us / In
deepest consequence.= _Macb._, i. 3.
=Ofttimes nothing profits more / Than self-esteem,= 40
=grounded on just and right.= _Milton._
=Ofttimes the pupil goes beyond his master.=
_Lucillius._
=Ogni cosa è d'ogni anno=--Everything is of every
year. _It. Pr._
=Ogni debole ha sempre il suo tiranno=--Every
weak man has always his tyrant. _It. Pr._
=Ogni medaglio ha il suo riverso=--Every medal
has its reverse. _It. Pr._
=Ogni monte ha la sua valle=--Every mountain 45
has its valley. _It. Pr._
=Ogni vero non è buono a dire=--Every truth is
not good to be told. _It. Pr._
=Ognuno vede quel che tu pari, pochi sentono
quel che tu sei=--Every one sees what you seem,
few know what you are. _Machiavelli._
=Oh, be he king or peasant, he is happiest /
Who in his home finds peace.= _Goethe._
=Oh, call my brother back to me! / I cannot play
alone; / The summer comes with flower and
bee,--/ Where is my brother gone?= _Mrs.
Hemans._
=Oh, Death! the poor man's dearest friend--/= 50
=The kindest and the best! / Welcome the
hour my aged limbs / Are laid with thee at
rest! / The great, the wealthy fear thy blow, /
From pomp and pleasure torn! But oh! a
bless'd relief to those / That weary-laden
mourn!= _Burns._
=Oh, for a lodge in some vast wilderness, / Some
boundless contiguity of shade, / Where
rumour of oppression and deceit, / Of unsuccessful
or successful war, / May never
reach me more.= _Cowper._
=Oh, ... for a man with heart, head, hand. /
... Whatever they call him, what care I, /
Aristocrat, democrat, autocrat--one / Who
can rule and dare not lie!= _Tennyson._
=Oh, how sweet it is to hear our own conviction
from another's lips!= _Goethe._
=Oh, it is excellent / To have a giant's strength,
but it is tyrannous / To use it like a giant.=
_Meas. for Meas._, ii. 2.
=Oh! Kritisieren, lieber Herr, ist federleicht, /
Doch Bessermachen schwierig=--Oh, criticising,
good sir, is as easy as a feather is light; 'tis
making better that's the difficulty. _Platen._
=Oh, love for ever lost, / And with it faith gone
out! what is't remains / But duty, though
the path be rough and trod / By bruised and
bleeding feet?= _Lewis Morris._
=Oh, Love, how perfect is thy mystic art, /= 5
=Strengthening the weak, and trampling on
the strong!= _Byron._
=Oh, Love! no habitant of earth thou art--/
An unseen seraph, we believe in thee.= _Byron._
=Oh, no! we never mention her; / Her name is
never heard; / My lips are now forbid to
speak / That once familiar word.= _T. H.
Bayly._
=Oh, nostra folle / Mente, ch'ogn aura di fortuna
estolle=--How our heart swells if only a
breath of happiness breathe through it! _Tasso._
=Oh, that mine adversary had written a book.=
_Job._
=Oh, that my lot might lead me in the path of= 10
=holy purity of thought and deed, the path
which august laws ordain--laws which in
the highest heaven had their birth; ... The
power of God is mighty in them, and doth not
wax old.= _Sophocles._
=Oh, that this too too solid flesh would melt, /
Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! / Or
that the Everlasting had not fix'd / His
canon 'gainst self-slaughter.= _Ham._, i. 2.
=Oh! the dulness and the hardness of the heart
of man, which contemplates only the present,
and does not rather provide for the future.=
_Thomas à Kempis._
=Oh, the heart is a free and a fetterless thing--
/ A wave of the ocean, a bird on the
wing.= _J. Pardoe._
=Oh, there is something in marriage like the
veil of the temple of old, / That screened the
Holy of Holies with blue and purple and
gold; / Something that makes a chamber
where none but the one may come, / A
sacredness too, and a silence, where joy
that is deepest is dumb.= _Dr. Walter Smith._
=Oh, were I seated high as my ambition, / I'd= 15
=place this naked foot on necks of monarchs.=
_Walpole._
=Oh, what a fall was there, my countrymen! /
Then I, and you, and all of us fell down, /
Whilst bloody treason flourish'd over us.=
_Jul. Cæs._, iii. 2.
=Oh, what damned minutes tells he o'er, / Who
dotes, yet doubts; suspects, yet soundly
loves.= _Othello_, iii. 3.
=Oh, what is death but parting breath? / On
mony a bloody plain / I've dared his face,
and in this place / I scorn him yet again.=
_Burns, "Macpherson's Lament."_
=Oh, whistle and I'll come to ye, my lad.= _Burns._
=Oh, woman, lovely woman! Heaven designed= 20
=you / To temper man! We had been brutes
without you.= _Burns._
=Oh, worse than all! Oh, pang all pangs above, /
Is kindness counterfeiting absent love!= _Coleridge._
=Oh, would they stay aback frae courts, / And
please themsels wi' country sports, / It wad
for every ane be better, / The laird, the
tenant, and the cottar.= _Burns._
=Ohe! jam satis est=--Stay! that is enough. _Hor._
=Ohne Begeisterung schlafen die besten Kräfte
des Gemüths. Es ist ein Zunder in uns, der
Funken will=--Without inspiration the best
powers of the mind are dormant. There is a
tinder in us which needs to be quickened with
sparks. _Herder._
=Ohne die Freiheit, was wärest du, Hellas? /= 25
=Ohne dich, Hellas, was wäre die Welt?=--Without
freedom, what wert thou, Greece?
Without thee, Greece, what were the world?
_W. Müller._
=Ohne eine Gottheit gibt's für den Menschen
weder Zweck, noch Ziel, noch Hoffnung,
nur eine zitternde Zukunft, ein ewiges Bangen
vor jeder Dunkelheit=--Without a deity
there is for man neither aim, nor goal, nor hope;
only an ever-wavering future, and eternal anxiety
in every moment of darkness. _Jean Paul._
=Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast=--Unhasting, yet
unresting. _Goethe's motto. Said originally of
the sun._
=Ohne Haut=--Without a skin.
=Ohne Mehl und Wasser ist übel backen=--It is
ill baking without meal and water. _Ger. Pr._
=Ohne Wahl verteilt die Gaben, / Ohne Billigkeit= 30
=das Glück; / Denn Patroklus liegt begraben,
/ Und Thersites kommt zurück=--Gifts
are dispensed without election, fortune without
fairness; Patroclus lies buried, and Thersites
comes back. _Schiller._
=Ohne Wissen, ohne Sünde=--Where there's no
knowledge there's no sin. _Ger. Pr._
[Greek: hoi arourês karpon edousin]--They who eat the
fruit of the field. _Hom._
[Greek: hoi dystychountes ex heterôn cheirona paschontôn
paramythountai]--The unhappy derive comfort
from the worse misfortunes of others. _Æsop._
[Greek: hoi kyboi Dios aei eupiptousi]--The dice of Zeus
always fall luckily. _Sophocles._
[Greek: hoi pleiones kakoi]--The majority of mankind are 35
bad. _Bias, one of the seven sages._
[Greek: hoi polloi]--The multitude; the masses.
[Greek: hoiê per phyllôn geneê, toiêde kai andrôn]--As
is the generation of leaves, such is that of
men. _Hom._
=Oil, wine, and friends improve by age.= _It.
Pr._
[Greek: oimoi; ti d' oimoi? thnêta gar peponthamen]--Alas!
but why alas? We only suffer what other
mortals do.
[Greek: oinou de mêket' ontos, ouk estin Kypris]--Where 40
there is no longer any wine there is no
love. _Euripides._
[Greek: hokosa pharmaka ouk iêtai sidêros iêtai, hosa
sidêros ouk iêtai pyr iêtai]--What medicines
do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does
not heal, fire will. _Hippocrates._
=Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually,
as is thought.= _Rahel._
=Old age, especially an honoured old age, has
so great authority, that it is of more value
than all the pleasures of youth.= _Cic._
=Old age is a heavy burden.= _Pr._
=Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of
death, the pleasures of youth.= _La Roche._
=Old age is honourable.= _Pr._
=Old age is not in itself matter for sorrow. It
is matter for thanks if we have left our work
done behind us.= _Carlyle to his mother._
=Old age is sad= (_trübe_), =not because our joys, but
because our hopes are cut short.= _Jean Paul._
=Old age is the repose of life, the rest which precedes= 5
=the rest that remains.= _R. Collyer._
=Old age is wise for itself, but not wise for the
community.= _Bryant._
=Old age--the words are comparative, not positive.=
_Anon._
=Old age, though despised, is coveted by all.= _Pr._
=Old age was naturally more honoured in times
when people could not know much more than
they had seen.= _Joubert._
=Old birds are hard to pluck.= _Pr._ 10
=Old birds are not caught with chaff.= _Pr._
=Old books, as you well know, are books of the
world's youth, and new books are fruits of its
age.= _Holmes._
=Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good.= _Izaak
Walton._
=Old friends are best.= _King James I., as he slipt
on his old shoes._
=Old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome= 15
=air; / Love them for what they are; nor love
them less; / Because to thee they are not
what they were.= _Coleridge._
=Old head and young hand.= _Pr._
=Old head upon young shoulders.= _Pr._
=Old heads will not suit young shoulders.= _Pr._
=Old houses mended / Cost little less than new
before they're ended.= _C. Cibber._
=Old long-vexed questions, not yet solved in= 20
=logical words or parliamentary laws, are
fast solving themselves in facts, somewhat
unblessed to behold.= _Carlyle._
=Old men are twice children.= _Pr._
=Old men lose one of the most precious rights
of man, that of being judged by their peers.=
_Goethe._
=Old men should have more care to end life
well than to live long.= _Capt. John Brown._
=Old men's lives are lengthened shadows;
their evening sun falls coldly on the earth,
but the shadows all point to the morning.=
_Jean Paul._
=Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise= 25
=them if you wish to keep them in working
order.= _John Adams._
=Old ovens are soon heated.= _Pr._
=Old oxen have stiff horns.= _Pr._
=Old shoes are easiest.= _Pr._
=Old signs do not deceive.= _Dan. Pr._
=Old wood to burn, old books to read, old wine= 30
=to drink, and old friends to converse with.=
_Alphonso of Castile._
=Old wounds soon bleed.= _Pr._
=Olet lucernam=--It smells of the lamp, or midnight
study.
=Oleum adde camino=--Add fuel to the fire. _Hor._
=Oleum et operam perdidi=--I have lost both the
oil and my pains. _Plaut._
=Olla male fervet=--It does not look hopeful; the 35
pot boils poorly. _Pr._
=Olim meminisse juvabit=--It will delight us to
recall these things some day hereafter. _Virg._
=Oliver Cromwell, dead two hundred years ago,
does yet speak; nay, perhaps, now first
begins to speak.= _Carlyle._
=Omina sunt aliquid=--There is something in omens.
_Ovid._
[Greek: omma gar domôn nomizô despotou parousian]--The
presence of the master is, meseems, the eye
of a house. _Æschylus._
=Omne actum ab agentis intentione judicandum=--Every 40
act is to be judged of by the intention
of the agent. _L._
=Omne ævum curæ: cunctis sua displicet ætas=--Every
age has its own care: each one thinks
his own time of life disagreeable. _Auson._
=Omne animal seipsum diligit=--Every animal
loves itself. _Cic._
=Omne animi vitium tanto conspectius in se /
Crimen habet, quanto major qui peccat habetur=--Every
vice of the mind involves a condemnation
the more glaring, the higher the
rank of the person who is guilty. _Juv._
=Omne capax movet urna nomen=--In the capacious
urn of death every name is shaken. _Hor._
=Omne corpus mutabile est; ita efficitur ut= 45
=omne corpus mortale sit=--Every body is subject
to change; hence it comes to pass that
every body is subject to death. _Cic._
=Omne epigramma sit instar apis, aculeus illi, /
Sint sua mella, sit et corporis exigui=--Every
epigram should be like a bee: have a sting like it,
honey, and a small body. _Mart._
=Omne in præcipiti vitium stetit=--Every vice
ever stands on the brink of a precipice. _Juv._
=Omne malum nascens facile opprimitur: inveteratum
fit plerumque robustius=--Every
evil is easily crushed at its birth; when grown
old, it generally becomes more obstinate. _Cic._
=Omne nimium vertitur in vitium=--Every excess
develops into a vice. _Pr._
=Omne scibile=--Everything knowable. 50
=Omne solum forti patria est=--To the brave man
every land is his native land. _Ovid._
=Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit utile dulci /
Lectorem delectando, pariterque monendo=--He
gains universal applause who mingles the
useful with the agreeable, at once delighting
and instructing the reader. _Hor._
=Omnem crede diem tibi diluxisse supremum=--Believe
that each day which shines on you is your
last. _Hor._
=Omnem movere lapidem=--To leave no stone unturned.
_Pr._
=Omnes amicos habere operosum est; satis est= 55
=inimicos non habere=--It is an arduous task to
make all men your friends; it is enough to have
no enemies. _Sen._
=Omnes composui=--I have laid them all at rest
(in the grave). _Hor._
=Omnes eodem cogimur; omnium / Versatur
urna serius, ocius, / Sors exitura, et nos in
æternum / exsilium impositura cymbæ=--We
are all driven to the same ferry; the lot of each
is shaken in the urn, destined sooner or later to
come forth, and place us in Charon's wherry for
eternal exile. _Hor._
=Omnes homines, qui de rebus dubiis consultant,
ab odio, amicitia, ira, atque misericordia
vacuos esse decet=--All men, who consult on
doubtful matters, should be void of hatred,
friendship, anger, and pity. _Sall._
=Omnes omnium caritates patria una complectitur=--Our
country alone comprehends all our
affections for all. _Cic._
=Omnes, quibus res sunt minus secundæ, magis
sunt, nescio quomodo / Suspiciosi: ad contumeliam
omnia accipiunt magis; / Propter
suam impotentiam se credunt negligi=--All
those whose affairs are unprosperous are, somehow
or other, extremely suspicious; they take
every hint as an affront, and think the neglect
with which they are treated is due to their
humble position. _Ter._
=Omnes sapientes decet conferre et fabulari=--All
wise people ought to confer and hold converse
with each other. _Plaut._
=Omnes una manet nox, / Et calcanda semel
via lethi=--One night awaits us all, and the path
of death must once be trodden by us. _Hor._
=Omni ætati mors est communis=--Death is common 5
to every age. _Cic._
=Omnia bonos viros decent=--All things are becoming
in good men. _Pr._
=Omnia conando docilis solertia vincit=--By application
a docile shrewdness surmounts every difficulty.
_Manilius._
=Omnia cum amico delibera, sed de te ipso
prius=--Consult your friend on everything, but
particularly on what affects yourself. _Sen._
=Omnia desuper=--All things come from above. _M._
=Omnia ejusdem farinæ=--All things are of the 10
same stuff, _lit._ grain. _Pr._
=Omnia fert ætas, animum quoque=--Age carries
all away, and the powers of the mind too.
_Virg._
=Omnia Græce! / Cum sit turpe magis nostris
nescire Latine=--All things must be in Greek!
when it is more shameful for our Romans to be
ignorant of Latin. _Juv._
=Omnia inconsulti impetus cœpta, initiis valida,
spatio languescunt=--All enterprises which are
entered on with indiscreet zeal may be pursued
with great vigour at first, but are sure to collapse
in the end. _Tac._
=Omnia jam fient, fieri quæ posse negabam: /
Et nihil est de quo non sit habenda fides=--All
things will now come to pass which I used to
think impossible; and there is nothing which we
may not hope to see take place. _Ovid._
=Omnia mala exempla bonis principiis orta sunt=--All 15
bad precedents have had their rise in good
beginnings.
=Omnia mea mecum porto=--All that belongs to
me I carry with me. _Bias._
=Omnia mutantur, nihil interit=--All things but
change, nothing perishes. _Ovid._
=Omnia mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis=--All
things change, and we ourselves change along
with them. _Borbonius._
=Omnia non pariter rerum sunt omnibus apta=--All
things are not alike fit for all men. _Propert._
=Omnia orta occident=--All things that rise also 20
set. _Sall._
=Omnia perdidimus, tantummodo vita relicta
est=--We have lost everything, only life is left.
_Ovid._
=Omnia perversas possunt corrumpere mentes=--All
things tend to corrupt perverted minds.
_Ovid._
=Omnia præclara rara=--All excellent things are
rare. _Cic._
=Omnia præsumuntur rite et solenniter esse
acta=--All things are presumed to have been
done duly and in the usual manner. _L._
=Omnia prius experiri, quam armis, sapientem= 25
=decet=--It becomes a wise man to try all methods
before having recourse to arms. _Ter._
=Omnia profecto, cum se a cœlestibus rebus
referet ad humanas, excelsius magnificentiusque
et dicet et sentiet=--When a man descends
from heavenly things to human, he will
certainly both speak and feel more loftily and
nobly on every theme. _Cic._
=Omnia quæ nunc vetustissima creduntur, nova
fuere ... et quod hodie exemplis tuemur,
inter exempla erit=--Everything which is now
regarded as very ancient was once new, and
what we are defending to-day by precedent, will
by and by be a precedent itself. _Tac._
=Omnia rerum principia parva sunt=--All beginnings
are small. _Cic._
=Omnia Romæ / Cum pretio=--All things may be
bought at Rome with money. _Juv._
=Omnia serviliter pro dominatione=--Servile in 30
all his actions for the sake of power. _Tac., of
Otho._
=Omnia subjecisti sub pedibus, oves et boves=--Thou
hast placed all things beneath our feet,
both sheep and oxen. _Motto of the Butchers'
Company._
=Omnia sunt hominum tenui pendentia filo; / Et
subito casu, quæ valuere, ruunt=--All things
human hang by a slender thread; and that which
seemed to stand strong of a sudden falls and sinks
in ruins. _Ovid._
=Omnia tuta timens=--Distrusting everything that
is perfectly safe. _Virg._
=Omnia venalia Romæ=--All things can be bought
at Rome. _Pr._
=Omnia vincit amor, nos et cedamus amori=--Love 35
conquers all the world, let us too yield to
love. _Virg._
=Omnibus bonis expedit rempublicam esse salvam=--It
is for the interest of every good man
that the commonwealth shall be safe. _Cic._
=Omnibus hoc vitium est cantoribus, inter
amicos / Ut nunquam inducant animum cantare
rogati, / Injussi nunquam desistant=--This
is a general fault of all singers, that among
their friends they never make up their minds to
sing, however pressed; but when no one asks
them, they will never leave off. _Hor._
=Omnibus hostes / Reddite nos populis, civile
avertite bellum=--Commit us to hostility with
every other nation, but avert from us civil war.
_Lucan._
=Omnibus in terris, quæ sunt a Gadibus usque /
Auroram et Gangem, pauci dignoscere possunt /
Vera bona, atque illis multum diversa,
remota / Erroris nebula=--In all the lands
which stretch from Gades even to the region of
the dawn and the Ganges, there are few who are
able by removing the mist of error to distinguish
between what is really good and what is widely
diverse. _Juv._
=Omnibus modis, qui pauperes sunt homines,= 40
=miseri vivunt; / Præsertim quibus nec
quæstus est, nec didicere artem ullam=--The
poor live wretchedly in every way; especially
those who have no means of livelihood and have
learned no craft. _Plaut._
=Omnis ars imitatio est naturæ=--All art is an
imitation of nature. _Sen._
=Omnis commoditas sua fert incommoda secum=--Every
convenience brings its own inconveniences
along with it. _Pr._
=Omnis dolor aut est vehemens, aut levis; si
levis, facile fertur, si vehemens, certe brevis
futurus est=--All pain is either severe or slight;
if slight, it is easily borne; if severe, it will without
doubt be brief. _Cic._
=Omnis enim res / Virtus, fama, decus, divina
humanaque pulchris / Divitiis parent; quas
qui construxerit, ille / Clarus erit, fortis,
justus=--All things divine and human, as virtue,
fame, and honour, defer to fair wealth, and he
who has amassed it will be illustrious, brave,
and just. _Hor._
=Omnis pœna corporalis, quamvis minima, major
est omni pœna pecuniaria, quamvis maxima=--The
slightest corporal punishment falls more
heavily than the largest pecuniary penalty. _L._
=Omnis stultitia laborat fastidio sui=--All folly is 5
afflicted with a disdain of itself. _Sen._
=Omnium consensu capax imperii, nisi imperasset=--He
would have been universally deemed
fit for empire, if he had never reigned. _Said of
Galba by Tacitus._
=Omnium horarum homo=--A man ready for whatever
may chance. _Quinct._
=Omnium rerum, ex quibus aliquid acquiritur,
nihil est agricultura melius, nihil uberius,
nihil dulcius, nihil homine libero dignius=--Of
all pursuits from which profit accrues,
nothing is superior to agriculture, nothing more
productive, nothing more enjoyable, nothing
more worthy of a free man. _Cic._
=Omnium rerum, heus, vicissitudo est=--There
are changes, mark ye, in all things. _Ter._
=On a beau prêcher à qui n'a cure de bien faire=--It 10
is no use preaching to him who has no wish
to do well. _Fr. Pr._
=On a long journey even a straw is heavy.= _Pr._
=On a souvent besoin d'un plus petit que soi=--One
has often need of one inferior to one's self.
_La Fontaine._
=On a winged word hath hung the destiny of
nations.= _Landor._
=On affaiblit toujours tout ce qu'on exagère=--We
always weaken everything which we exaggerate.
_La Harpe._
=On aime bien à deviner les autres, mais l'on= 15
=aime pas à être deviné=--We like well to see
through other people, but we do not like to be seen
through ourselves. _La Roche._
=On aime sans raison, et sans raison l'on hait=--We
love without reason, and without reason we
hate. _Regnard._
=On apprend en faillant=--One learns by failing.
_Fr. Pr._
=On attrape plus de mouches avec du miel qu'avec
du vinaigre=--More flies are caught with honey
than vinegar. _Fr. Pr._
=On avale à pleine gorgée le mensonge qui nous
flatte, et l'on boit goute à goute une vérité
qui nous est amère=--We swallow at one draught
the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the
truth which is bitter to us. _Diderot._
=On commence par être dupe, / On finit par être= 20
=fripon=--People begin by being dupes, and end
by being knaves. _Mme. Deshoulières, on gambling._
=On connaît les amis au besoin=--Friends are
known in time of need. _Fr. Pr._
=On devient innocent quand on est malheureux=--We
become innocent when we are unfortunate.
_La Fontaine._
=On dit=--They say; a flying rumour or current report.
_Fr._
=On dit de gueux qu'ils ne sont jamais dans leur
chemins, parce qu'ils n'ont point de demeure
fixe. Il en est de même de cause qui disputent,
sans avoir des notions déterminées=--It
is said of beggars that they are never on their
way, for they have no fixed dwelling-place; it is
the same with people who dispute without having
definite ideas. _Fr._
=On dit, est souvent un grand menteur=--"They 25
say" is often a great liar. _Fr. Pr._
=On dit, et sans horreur je ne puis le redire=--It
has been said, and I cannot without horror repeat
it. _Racine._
=On dit que Dieu est toujours pour les gros
bataillons=--They say God is always with the
heaviest battalions. _Voltaire._
=On doit être heureux sans trop penser à l'être=--One
ought to be happy without thinking too
much of being so. _Fr. Pr._
=On doit des égards aux vivants; on ne doit aux
morts que la vérité=--Respect is due to the living;
to the dead nothing but truth. _Motte._
=On donne des conseils, mais on ne donne point= 30
=la sagesse d'en profiter=--We may give advice,
but not the sense to profit by it. _La Roche._
=On eagles' wings immortal scandals fly, /
While virtuous actions are but born to die.=
_Pope._
=On entre et on crie, / Et voilà la vie! / On crie
et on sort, / Et voilà la mort!=--We come and
cry, and that is life; we cry and go, and that is
death. _Fr._
=On est aisément dupé par ce qu'on aime=--We
are easily duped by those we love. _Molière._
=On est, quand on le veut, le maître de son sort=--A
man, when he wishes, is the master of his
fate. _Ferrier._
=On every stage the foes of peace attend /= 35
=Hate dogs their flight, and insult mocks
their end.= _Johnson._
=On every thorn delightful wisdom grows; /
In every rill a sweet instruction flows.=
_Young._
=On fait souvent tort à la vérité par la manière
dont on se sert pour la défendre=--We often
injure the truth by our manner of defending
it. _Fr._
=On fait toujours le loup plus gros qu'il n'est=--People
always make the wolf more formidable
than he is. _Fr. Pr._
=On gagne peu de choses par habileté=--It is
little that one gains by cleverness. (?)
=On God and godlike men we build our trust.= 40
_Tennyson._
=On his own saddle one rides safest.= _Pr._
=On jette enfin de la terre sur la tête, et en
voilà pour jamais=--Little earth is cast in the
end upon the head, and there is no more of it
for ever. _Pascal._
=On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, / Reason
the card, but passion is the gale.= _Pope._
=On Monday morning don't be looking for Saturday
night.= _Pr._
=On n'a jamais bon marché de mauvaise marchandise=--Bad 45
ware is never cheap. _Fr. Pr._
=On n'a rien pour rien=--Nothing can be had for
nothing. _Fr. Pr._
=On n'aime plus comme on aimait jadis=--People
no longer love as they used to do long ago. _Fr._
=On n'auroit guère de plaisir, si l'on ne se flattoit
point=--A man should have little pleasure if
he did not sometimes flatter himself. _Fr._
=On n'est jamais si bien servi que par soi-même=--A
man is never so well served as by himself.
_Etienne._
=On n'est jamais si heureux, ni si malheureux= 5
=qu'on se l'imagine=--People are never either so
happy or so miserable as they imagine. _La
Roche._
=On n'est jamais si riche que quand on déménage=--People
are never so rich as when they are
moving their stuff. _Fr. Pr._
=On n'est jamais si ridicule par les qualités que
l'on a que par celles que l'on affecte d'avoir=--We
are never so ridiculous by the qualities we
have as by those we affect to have. _La Roche._
=On n'est jamais trahi que par ses siens=--A man
is never betrayed except by his friends. _Fr._
=On n'est souvent mécontent des autres que
parce qu'on l'est de soi-même=--We are often
dissatisfied with others because we are so with
ourselves. _Fr. Pr._
=On ne considère pas assez les paroles comme= 10
=des faits=--We don't sufficiently consider that
words are deeds. _Fr._
=On ne cherche point à prouver la lumière=--There
is no need to prove the existence of light.
_Fr. Pr._
=On ne doit pas juger du mérite d'un homme
par ses grandes qualités, mais par l'usage
qu'il en sait faire=--We should not judge of the
merit of a man by his great gifts, but by the use
he makes of them. _La Roche._
=On ne donne rien si libéralement que ses conseils=--People
are not so liberal with anything
as with advice. _La Roche._
=On ne gouverne les hommes que en les servant;
la règle est sans exception=--Men are governed
only by serving them; the rule is without
exception. _V. Cousin._
=On ne jette des pierres qu'à l'arbre chargé de= 15
=fruits=--People throw stones only at the tree
which is loaded with fruit. _Fr. Pr._
=On ne loue d'ordinaire que pour être loué=--Praise
is generally given only that it may be
returned. _La Roche._
=On ne lui fait pas prendre des vessies pour des
lanternes=--You won't get him to take bladders
for lanterns. _Fr. Pr._
=On ne méprise pas tous ceux qui ont des vices,
mais on méprise tous ceux qui n'ont aucune
vertu=--We do not despise all those who have
vices, but we despise all those who have no
virtue. _La Roche._
=On ne perd les états que par timidité=--It is only
through timidity that states are lost. _Voltaire._
=On ne peut contenter tout le monde et son= 20
=père=--There is no pleasing everybody and one's
father. _La Fontaine._
=On ne peut faire qu'en faisant=--One can do only
by doing. _Fr. Pr._
=On ne peut sonner les cloches et aller à la
procession=--One cannot ring the bells and join
the procession. _Fr. Pr._
=On ne prête qu'aux riches=--People lend only to
the rich. _Fr. Pr._
=On ne ramène guère un traître par l'impunité,
au lieu que par la punition l'on en rend mille
autres sages=--No one ever reclaimed a traitor
by letting him off, whereas punishment may keep
thousands in the right way. (?)
=On ne réussit dans ce monde qu'à la pointe de= 25
=l'épée, et on meurt les armes à la main=--Success
in life is won at the point of the sword, and
we die with the weapon in our hands. (?)
=On ne sait pour qui on amasse=--We know not
for whom we gather. _Fr. Pr._
=On ne se blame que pour être loué=--Persons
only blame themselves in order to obtain praise.
_La Roche._
=On ne sent bien que ses propres maux=--We
feel only the evils that affect ourselves. _Fr. Pr._
=On ne trouve jamais l'expression d'un sentiment
que l'on n'a pas; l'esprit grimace et
le style aussi=--It is ever impossible to express
a sentiment which we do not feel; the mind
grimaces, and the style too. _Lamennais._
=On ne va jamais si loin que lorsqu'on ne sait= 30
=pas où l'on va=--One never goes so far as when
he does not know where he is going. _Fr. Pr._
=On ne vaut dans ce monde que ce qu'on veut
valoir=--A man's worth in this world is estimated
according to the value he puts upon himself. _La
Bruyère._
=On ne vit dans la mémoire du monde que par
des travaux pour le monde=--One lives in the
world's memory only by what he has done in
the world's behalf. _Fr._
[Greek: hon hoi theoi philousin apothnêskei neos]--He whom
the gods love dies young. _Menander._
=On pardonne aisément un tort que l'on partage=--We
easily pardon an offence which we had part
in. _Jouy._
=On parle peu quand la vanité ne fait pas parler=--People 35
speak little when vanity does not prompt
them. _La Roche._
=On perd tout le temps qu'on peut mieux employer=--All
the time is lost which might be
better employed. (?)
=On peut attirer les cœurs par les qualités qu'on
montre, mais on ne les fixe que par celles
qu'on a=--People's affections may be attracted
by the qualities which we affect, but they can
only be won by those which we really possess. _Fr._
=On peut dire que son esprit brille aux dépens
de sa mémoire=--We may say his wit shines at
the expense of his memory. _Le Sage._
=On peut dominer par la force, mais jamais par
la seule adresse=--We may lord it by force, but
never by adroitness alone. _Vauvenargues._
=On peut être plus fin qu'un autre, mais non= 40
=pas plus fin que tous les autres=--A man may
be sharper than another, but not than all others.
_La Roche._
=On peut mépriser le monde, mais on ne peut
pas s'en passer=--We may despise the world,
but we cannot do without it. _Fr. Pr._
=On prend le peuple par les oreilles, comme on
fait un pot par les anses=--The public are to
be caught by the ears, as one takes a pot by the
handles. _Pr._
=On prend son bien où on le trouve=--One takes
what is his own wherever he finds it. _Fr. Pr._
=On prend souvent l'indolence pour la patience=--Indolence
is often taken for patience. _Fr. Pr._
=On Reason build Resolve! / That column of= 45
=true majesty in man.= _Young._
=On respecte un moulin, on vole une province!=--They
(obliged by law) spare a mill, but steal a
province!
=On revient toujours à ses premiers amours=--We
always come back to our first loves. _Etienne._
=On se heurte toujours où l'on a mal=--One always
knocks himself on the spot where the sore
is. _Fr. Pr._
=On se persuade mieux pour l'ordinaire par les
raisons qu'on a trouvées soi-même, que par
celles qui sont venues dans l'esprit des
autres=--We are ordinarily more easily satisfied
with reasons that we have discovered ourselves,
than by those which have occurred to others.
_Pascal._
=On some men's bread butter will not stick.= _Pr._ 5
=On spécule sur tout, même sur la famine=--People
speculate on everything, even on famine.
_Armand Charlemagne._
=On termine de longs procès / Par un peu de
guerre civile=--We end protracted law-suits by
a little civil war.
=On the beaten road there is tolerable travelling;
but it is sore work, and many have to
perish, fashioning a way through the impassable.=
_Carlyle._
=On the brink of the waters of life and truth we
are miserably dying.= _Emerson._
=On the day of the resurrection, those who= 10
=have indulged in ridicule will be called to
the door of Paradise, and have it shut in
their faces when they reach it.= _Mahomet._
=On the field of foughten battle still, / Woe
knows no limits save the victor's will.= _The
Gaulliad._
=On the neck of the young man sparkles no
gem so gracious as enterprise.= _Hafiz._
=On the pinnacle of fortune man does not stand
long firm.= _Goethe._
=On the sea sail, on the land settle.= _Pr._
=On the soft bed of luxury most kingdoms have= 15
=expired.= Young.
=On the stage man should stand a step higher
than in life.= _Börne._
=On this account is the Bible a book of eternally
effective power, because, as long as the
world lasts, no one will step forward and
say: I comprehend it in the whole and
understand it in the particular; but we
modestly say: In the whole it is venerable,
and in the particular practicable= (_anwendbar_).
_Goethe._
=On veut avoir ce qu'on n'a pas, / Et ce qu'on a
cesse de de plaire=--We wish to have what we
have not, and what we have ceases to please.
_Monvel._
=On voit mourir et renaître les roses; il n'en est
pas ainsi de nos beaux jours=--We see roses die
and revive again; it is not so with our fine days.
_Charleval._
=On wrong / Swift vengeance waits; and art= 20
=subdues the strong.= _Pope._
=Once a knave, always a knave.= _Pr._
=Once a man and twice a child.= _Pr._
=Once for all, beauty remains undemonstrable;
it appears to us as in a dream, when we
behold the works of the great poets and
painters, and, in short, of all feeling artists.=
_Goethe._
=Once is no custom.= _Pr._
=Once is no rule.= _Pr._ 25
=Once resolved, the trouble is over.= _It. Pr._
=Once sufficiently enforce the eighth commandment,
the whole "rights of man" are well
cared for; I know no better definition of the
rights of man: "Thou shalt not steal; thou
shalt not be stolen from." What a society
were that! Plato's Republic, More's Utopia
mere emblems of it.= _Carlyle._
=Once thoroughly our own, knowledge ceases
to give us pleasure.= _Ruskin._
=Once to every man and nation comes the
moment to decide, / In the strife of truth
with falsehood, for the good or evil side.=
_Lowell._
=Once true, still more twice true, in the life of= 30
=the spirit is always true.= _Ed._
=Ond Gierning har Vidne i Barmen=--There is
a witness of the evil deed in one's own bosom.
_Dan. Pr._
=Ondt bliver aldrig godt för halv værre kommer=--Bad
is never good till worse befall. _Dan.
Pr._
=One abides not long on the summit of fortune.=
_Pr._
=One, although not possessed of a mine of gold,
may find the offspring of his own nature, that
noble ardour, which hath for its object the
accomplishment of the whole assemblage of
virtues.= _Hitopadesa._
=One always has time enough if one will apply= 35
=it well.= _Goethe._
=One and God make a majority.= _Fred. Douglas._
=One anecdote is worth a volume of biography.=
_Channing._
=One barking dog sets all the street a-barking.=
_Pr._
=One beats the bush, and another catches the
bird.= _Pr._
=One Bible I know, of whose plenary inspiration= 40
=doubt is not so much as possible; nay, with
my own eyes I saw the God's hand writing
it; whereof all other Bibles are but leaves,
say, in picture-writing, to assist the weaker
faculty.= _Carlyle._
=One born on the glebe comes by habit to belong
to it; the two grow together, and the fairest
ties are spun from the union.= _Goethe._
=One can be very happy without demanding
that others should agree with one.= _Goethe._
=One can bear to be rebuked, but not to be
laughed at.= _Molière._
=One can live in true freedom, and yet not be
unbound.= _Goethe._
=One can live on little, but not on nothing.= 45
_Pr._
=One can never know at the first moment what
may, at a future time, separate itself from
the rough experience as true substance.=
_Goethe._
=One cannot help doing a good office when it
comes in one's way.= _Le Sage._
=One cannot say that the rational is always
beautiful; but the beautiful is always rational,
or at least ought to be so.= _Goethe._
=One cannot speak the truth with false words.=
_Goethe._
=One can't shoe a runaway horse.= _Dutch Pr._ 50
=One chick keeps a hen busy.= _Pr._
=One cloud is enough to eclipse all the sun.=
_Pr._
=One could not commit a greater crime against
public interests than to show indulgence to
those who violate them.= _Richelieu._
=One could not wish any man to fall into a fault;
yet it is often precisely after a fault, or a
crime even, that the morality which is in a
man first unfolds itself, and what of strength
he as a man possesses, now when all else is
gone from him.= _Goethe._
=One could take down a book from a shelf ten
times more wise and witty than almost any
man's conversation.= _Campbell._
=One crime is everything; two, nothing.= _Mme.
Deluzy._
=One crow never pulls out another's eyes.= 5
_Pr._
=One crowded hour of glorious life / Is worth an
age without a name.= _Scott._
=One does not love the heaven's lightning= (seen
in a great man) =in the way of caresses altogether.=
_Carlyle._
=One dog can drive a flock of sheep.= _Pr._
=One doth not know / How much an ill word
may empoison liking.= _Much Ado_, iii. 1.
=One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy= 10
=turns the most blissful draught into poison.=
_Schiller._
=One enemy is too many, and a hundred friends
too few.= Pr.
=One enemy may do us more harm than a hundred
friends can do us good.= _Pr._
=One eye of the master does more than both
his hands.= _Pr._
=One eye-witness is better than ten hearsays.=
_Pr._
=One false move may lose the game.= _Pr._ 15
=One feels clearly that it is a kindly spirit which
actually constitutes the human element in
man.= _Schiller._
=One finds human nature everywhere great and
little, beautiful and ugly.... Go on bravely
working.= _Goethe._
=One fire burns out another's burning; / One
pain is lessen'd by another's anguish.= _Rom.
and Jul._, i. 1.
=One fool makes many.= _Pr._
=One futile person, that maketh it his glory to= 20
=tell, will do more hurt than many that know
it their duty to conceal.= _Bacon._
=One gets easier accustomed to a silken bed
than to a sack of leaves.= _Auerbach._
=One God, one law, one element, / And one far-off
divine event, / To which the whole creation
moves.= _Tennyson._
=One good deed dying tongueless / Slaughters
a thousand, waiting upon that.= _Winter's
Tale_, i. 2.
=One good head is better than a hundred strong
hands.= _Pr._
=One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters.= 25
_Pr._
=One good turn deserves another.= _Pr._
=One good way I know of to find happiness is
not by boring a hole to fit the plug.= _Billings._
=One grain fills not a sack, but helps his
fellows.= _Pr._
=One hair of a woman draws more than a team
of horses.=
=One half of the world knows not how the= 30
=other half lives.= _Rabelais._
=One half of the world must sweat and groan
that the other half may dream.= _Longfellow._
=One half the world laughs at the other.= _Fr.
and Ger. Pr._
=One hand full of money is more persuasive
than two full of truth.= _Dan. Pr._
=One hand washes another.= _Pr._
=One hard word brings on another.= _Pr._ 35
=One head cannot hold all wisdom.= _Pr._
=One hour in the execution of justice is worth
seventy years of prayer.= _Mahometan Pr._
=One hour's sleep before midnight is worth two
after.= _Pr._
=One impulse from a vernal wood / May teach
you more of man, / Of moral evil and of
good, / Than all the sages can.= _Wordsworth._
=One is always making good use of one's time= 40
=when engaged with a subject that daily
forces one to make advances in self-culture.=
_Goethe._
=One is not a whit the happier when he attains
what he has wished for.= _Goethe._
=One is scarcely sensible of fatigue whilst he
marches to music.= _Carlyle._
=One jeer seldom goeth forth but it bringeth
back its equal.= _Pr._
=One keep-clean is better than ten make-cleans.=
_Pr._
=One learns taciturnity best among those people= 45
=who have none, and loquacity among the
taciturn.= _Jean Paul._
=One lie makes many.= _Pr._
=One lie needs seven lies to wait upon it.= _Pr._
=One life--a little gleam of time between two
eternities.= _Carlyle._
=One link broken, the whole chain is broken.=
_Pr._
=One loss brings another.= _Pr._ 50
=One man is born to money, and another to the
purse.= _Dan. Pr._
=One man makes a chair, and another man sits
in it.= _Pr._
=One man may lead a horse to the water, but
twenty cannot make him drink.= _Pr._
=One man may steal a horse more safely than
another may look at him over a hedge.=
_Pr._
=One man receives crucifixion as the reward of= 55
=his villainy; another a regal crown.= _Juv._
=One man that has a higher wisdom in him is
not stronger than ten men, or than ten
thousand, but than all men that have it not.=
_Carlyle._
=One man's eyes are spectacles to another to
read his heart with.= _Johnson._
=One man's justice is another man's injustice;
one man's beauty, another's ugliness; one
man's wisdom, another's folly; as one beholds
the same objects from a higher point.=
_Emerson._
=One man's meat is another man's poison.= _Pr._
=One man's opinion is no man's opinion.= _Pr._ 60
=One may forsake a person to save a family;
one may desert a whole family for the sake
of a village; and sacrifice a village for the
safety of the community; but for one's self
one may abandon the whole world.= _Hitopadesa._
=One may give him a hundred instances from
Holy Writ that he should not dispute; still,
it is the character of a fool to make a disturbance
without a cause.= _Hitopadesa._
=One may make the house a palace of sham,
or he can make it a home--a refuge.= _Mark
Twain._
=One may often find as much thought on the
reverse of a medal as in a canto of Spenser.=
_Addison._
=One may see that with half an eye.= _Pr._
=One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.= 5
_Ham._, i. 5.
=One may summon his philosophy when he is
beaten in battle, not till then.= _John Burroughs._
=One misfortune is the vigil of another.= _It. Pr._
=One monster there is in this world: the idle
man.= _Carlyle._
=One mother is more venerable than a thousand
fathers.= _Manu._
=One murder made a villain; / Millions, a hero.= 10
_Bp. Porteous._
=One must be careful in announcing great
happiness.= _Schopenhauer._
=One must be somebody in order to have an
enemy. One must be a force before he can
be resisted by another force.= _Mme. Swetchine._
=One must be something in order to do something.=
_Goethe._
=One must believe in simplicity, in what is
simple, in what is originally productive, if
one wants to go the right way. This, however,
is not granted to every one; we are
born in an artificial state, and it is far easier
to make it more artificial still than to return
to what is simple.= _Goethe._
=One must have lived greatly whose record= 15
=would bear the full light of day from its beginning
to its close.= _A. B. Alcott._
=One must not look a gift horse in the mouth.= _Pr._
=One must not swerve in one's self, not even
a hair's breadth from the highest maxims of
art and life; but in empiricism, in the movement
of the day, I would rather allow what
is mediocre to pass than mistake the good,
or even find fault with it.= _Goethe._
=One must take a pleasure in the shell till one
has the happiness to arrive at the kernel.=
_Goethe._
=One must weigh men by avoirdupois weight,
and not by the jeweller's scales.= _Goethe._
=One need only take a thing properly in hand= 20
=for it to be done.= _Goethe._
=One need only utter something that flatters
indolence and conceit to be sure of plenty
of adherents among commonplace people.=
_Goethe._
=One never goes farther than when he does not
know whither he is going.= _Goethe._
=One never needs his wit so much as when he
argues with a fool.= _Chinese Pr._
=One of the best rules in conversation is, never
say a thing which any of the company can
reasonably wish we had left unsaid.= _Swift._
=One of the chief misfortunes of honest people= 25
=is that they are cowardly.= _Voltaire._
=One of the most fatal sources of the prevailing
misery and crime lies in the generally accepted
quiet assumption that because things
have long been wrong, it is impossible they
should ever be right.= _Ruskin._
=One of the most singular gifts, or, if abused,
most singular weaknesses, of the human
mind, is its power of persuading itself to see
whatever it chooses; a great gift if directed
to the discernment of the things needful and
pertinent to its own work and being; a great
weakness if directed to the discovery of
things profitless or discouraging.= _Ruskin._
=One of the noblest qualities in our nature is
that we are able so easily to dispense with
greater perfection.= _Vauvenargues._
=One of the old man's miseries is that he cannot
easily find a companion able to partake with
him of the past.= _Johnson._
=One of the sublimest things in the world is= 30
=plain truth.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=One of the worst diseases to which the human
creature is liable is its disease of thinking.
If it would only just look at a thing instead
of thinking what it must be like, or do a thing
instead of thinking it cannot be done, we
should all get on far better.= _Ruskin._
=One of these days is none of these days.=
_Pr._
=One on God's side is a majority.= _Wendell
Phillips._
=One ought not to praise a great man unless he
is as great as he.= _Goethe._
=One pair of heels is often worth two pair of= 35
=hands.= (?)
=One pirate gets nothing of another but his
cask.= _Pr._
=One ploughs, another sows; / Who will reap,
no one knows.= _Pr._
=One power rules another, but no power can
cultivate another; in each endowment, and
not elsewhere, lies the force that must complete
it.= _Goethe._
=One precedent creates another. They soon
accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday
was fact to-day is doctrine. Examples
are supposed to justify the most dangerous
measures; and where they do not suit exactly,
the defect is supplied by analogy.=
_Junius._
=One rarely sees how deeply one is in debt till= 40
=one comes to settle one's accounts.= _Goethe._
=One really gains nothing from such interests=
(as occupy the newspapers). _Goethe._
=One religion after another fades away; but
the religious sense, which created them all,
can never become dead to humanity.= _Jean
Paul._
=One says more, and with more heart, in an
hour than is written in years.= _Goethe._
=One science only can one genius fit, / So vast
is art, so narrow human wit.= _Pope._
=One scream of fear from a mother may resound= 45
=through the whole life of her daughter.= _Jean
Paul._
=One sheep follows another.= _Pr._
=One should abandon that country wherein
there is neither respect, nor employment,
nor connections, nor the advancement of
science.= _Hitopadesa._
=One should never ask anybody if one means to
write anything.= _Goethe._
=One should never risk a joke, even of the
mildest and most unexceptionable character,
except among people of culture and wit.=
_La Bruyère._
=One should never think of death. One should
think of life: that is real piety.= _Disraeli._
=One should not lift the rod against our enemies
upon the private information of another.=
_Hitopadesa._
=One should not neglect from time to time to
renew friendly relations by personal intercourse.=
_Goethe._
=One shriek of hate would jar all the hymns of
heaven: / True Devils with no ear, they
howl in tune / With nothing but the Devil!=
_Tennyson._
=One sickly sheep infects the flock.= _Pr._ 5
=One sin opens the door to another.= _Pr._
=One single moment is decisive both of man's
life and his whole future. However he may
reflect, each resolution he forms is but the
work of a moment; the prudent alone seize
the right one.= _Goethe._
=One sinner destroyeth much good.= _Bible._
=One solitary philosopher may be great, virtuous,
and happy in the depth of poverty, but
not a whole people.= _L. Iselin._
=One soul may have a decided influence upon= 10
=another merely by means of its silent presence.=
_Goethe._
=One soweth and another reapeth.= _Heb. Pr._
=One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous,
and one step above the ridiculous
makes the sublime again.= _Paine._
=One stumble is enough to deface the character
of an honourable life.= _L'Estrange._
=One sun by day, by night ten thousand shine.=
_Young._
=One swallow does not make a summer.= _Pr._ 15
=One sword keeps another in the scabbard.= _Pr._
=One "Take this" is better than two "I will
give you."= _Sp. Pr._
="One thing above all others," says Goethe,
"I have never thought about thinking."
What a thrift of thinking faculty there;
thrift almost of itself equal to a fortune in
these days.= _Carlyle._
=One thing at a time, all things in succession.
That which grows fast withers as rapidly;
that which grows slowly endures.= _J. G.
Holland._
=One thing is needful.= _Jesus._ 20
=One thing there is which no child brings into
the world with him; and yet it is on this one
thing that all depends for making man in
every point a man;--and that is Reverence=
(_Ehrfurcht_). _Goethe._
=One thorn of experience is worth a whole
wilderness of warning.= _Lowell._
=One thought includes all thought, in the sense
that a grain of sand includes the universe.=
_Coleridge._
=One tires of a page of which every sentence
sparkles with points, of a sentimentalist who
is always pumping the tears from his eyes
or your own.= _Thackeray._
=One to another cannot be a perfect physician.= 25
_George Herbert._
=One to-day is worth two to-morrows.= _Ben.
Franklin._
=One tongue is sufficient for a woman.= _Milton,
in reference to foreign languages._
=One touch of Nature makes the whole world
kin.= _Troil. and Cress._, iii. 3.
=One 'ud think, an' hear some folk talk, as the
men war cute enough to count the corns in
a bag o' wheat wi' only smelling at it.= _George
Eliot._
=One who, either in conversation or in letters,= 30
=affects to shine and to sparkle always, will
not please long.= _Blair._
=One who has nothing to admire, nothing to
love, except his own poor self, may be
reckoned a completed character; (but) he
is in the minimum state of moral perfection--no
more can be made of him.= _Carlyle._
=One who is master of ever so little art may be
able, on a great occasion, to root up trees
with as much ease as the current of a river
the reeds and grass.= _Hitopadesa._
=One who is out of his own country is defeated
by a very trifling enemy.= _Hitopadesa._
=One woe doth tread upon another's heel, / So
fast they follow.= _Ham._, iv. 7.
=One word with two meanings is the traitor's= 35
=shield and shaft.= _Caucasian Pr._
=One wrong step may give you a great fall.= _Pr._
=One's morning indolence is soon gone when
one has once persuaded one's self to put
a foot out of bed.= _Goethe._
=One's piety is best displayed in his pursuits.=
_A. B. Alcott._
=One's too few, three's too many.= _Pr._
=Oneness and otherness. It is impossible to= 40
=speak or think without embracing both.=
_Emerson._
=Only a Christ could have conceived a Christ.=
_Joseph Parker._
=Only a great pride, that is, a great and reverential
repose in one's own being, renders possible
a noble humility.= _D. A. Wasson._
=Only a sweet and virtuous soul, / Like seasoned
timber, never gives: / But when the
whole world turns to coal, / Then chiefly
lives.= _George Herbert._
=Only action gives life strength; only moderation
gives it a charm.= _Jean Paul._
=Only an artist can interpret the meaning of= 45
=life.= _Novalis._
=Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and
every man is, or should be, an inventor.=
_Emerson._
=Only by joy and sorrow does a man know anything
about himself and his destiny, learn
what he ought to seek and what to shun.=
_Goethe._
=Only by pride cometh contention; but with the
well-advised is wisdom.= _Bible._
=Only great men have any business with great
defects.= _La Roche._
=Only great souls know the grandeur there is= 50
=in charity.= _Bossuet._
=Only he can be trusted with gifts who can
present a face of bronze to expectations.=
_Thoreau._
=Only he deserves freedom who has day by day
to fight for it.= _Goethe._
=Only he helps who unites with many at the
proper hour; a single individual helps not.=
_Goethe._
=Only I discern / Infinite passion, and the pain /
Of finite hearts that yearn.= _Browning._
=Only in complicated critical cases do men find= 55
=out what is within them.= _Goethe._
=Only in looking heavenward, take it in what
sense you may, not in looking earthward,
does what we call union, mutual love, society,
begin to be possible.= _Carlyle._
=Only in the world I fill up a place, which may
be better supplied when I have made it
empty.= _As You Like It_, i. 2.
=Only learn to catch happiness, for happiness is
ever by you.= _Goethe._
=Only lofty character is worth describing at all.=
_Ruskin._
=Only people who possess firmness can possess= 5
=true gentleness.= _La Roche._
=Only regard for law can give us freedom.=
_Goethe._
=Only so far as a man is happily married to
himself is he fit for married life and family
life generally.= _Novalis._
=Only such persons interest us, Spartans, Romans,
Saracens, English, Americans, who
have stood in the jaws of need, and have
by their own wit and might extricated themselves,
and made man victorious.= _Emerson._
=Only suffering draws / The inner heart of song,
and can elicit / The perfumes of the soul.=
_Lewis Morris._
=Only that good profits which we can taste with= 10
=all doors open, and which serves all men.=
_Emerson._
=Only that is poetry which purifies and mans
me.= _Emerson._
=Only the actions of the just / Smell sweet and
blossom in the dust.= _Shirley._
=Only the idle among the poor revolt against
their state; the brave workers die passively,
and give no sign.= _Ruskin._
=Only the man of worth can recognise worth in
men.= _Carlyle._
=Only the person should give advice in a= 15
=matter where he himself will co-operate.=
_Goethe._
=Only the word of God and the heart of man
can govern.= _Ruskin._
=Only they who have hope live.= _Halm._
=Only those books come down which deserve to
last.= _Emerson._
=Only those live who do good.= _Tolstoi._
=Only those who love with the heart can animate= 20
=the love of others.= _Abel Stephens._
=Only to the apt, the pure, and the true does
Nature resign herself and reveal her secrets.=
_Goethe._
=Only truth can be polished.= _Ruskin._
=Only what of the past was true will come back
to us; that is the one asbestos that survives
all fire.= _Carlyle._
=Only when man weeps he should be alone, not
because tears are weak, but they should be
secret.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=Onus probandi=--The burden of proving. 25
=Onus segni impone asello=--Lay the burden on
the lazy ass. _Pr._
=Open not your door when the devil knocks.=
_Pr._
=Open rebuke is better than secret love.= _Pr._
=Opera illius mea sunt=--His works are mine. _M._
=Operæ pretium est=--'Tis worth while; worth 30
attending to.
=Opere in longo fas est obrepere somnum=--In a
long work sleep must steal upon us. _Hor._
=Operosa parvus carmina fingo=--I, a little one,
compose laborious songs. _Hor._
=Operose nihil agunt=--They toil at doing nothing.
_Sen._
=Opes regum, corda subditorum=--The wealth of
kings is in the affections of their subjects. _M._
[Greek: opse theôn aleousi myloi, aleousi de lepta]--The 35
mills of the gods grind slow, but they grind
small.
=Opiferque per orbem dicor=--I am known over
the world as the helper. _M._
=Opinion is a medium between knowledge and
ignorance.= _Plato._
=Opinion is, as it were, the queen of the world,
but force is its tyrant.= _Pascal._
=Opinion is the main thing which does good or
harm in the world. It is our false opinions
that ruin us.= _Marcus Antoninus._
=Opinion is the mistress of fools.= _Pr._ 40
=Opinion rules the world.= _Carlyle._
=Opinions concerning acts are not history; acts
themselves alone are history.= _Wm. Blake._
=Opinions, like showers, are generated in high
places, but they invariably descend into
lower ones.= _Colton._
=Opinionum enim commenta delet dies, naturæ
judicia confirmat=--Time effaces the fabrications
of opinion, but confirms the judgments of Nature.
_Cic._
=Opportunities, like eggs, come one at a time.= 45
_Amer. Pr._
=Opportunities neglected are irrecoverable.= _Pr._
=Opportunity has hair in front, but is bald behind;
if you meet her, seize her by the forelock,
for Jove himself cannot catch her again
if once let slip.= _Rabelais._
=Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors
and prophets.= _Disraeli._
=Opportunity makes desire.= _Dut. Pr._
=Opportunity makes us known to others, but= 50
=more to ourselves.= _La Roche._
=Oppose not rage while rage is in its force, but
give it way awhile and let it waste.= _Shakespeare._
=Opposition always enflames the enthusiast,
never converts him.= _Schiller._
=Oppress'd with grief, oppress'd with care, / A
burden more than I can bear, / I sit me down
and sigh; / O Life, thou art a galling load, /
Along a rough and weary road, / To wretches
such as I.= _Burns._
=Oppression is more easily borne than insult.=
_Junius._
=Opprobrium medicorum=--The disgrace of physicians. 55
_Said of diseases that defy their skill,
especially cancer._
=Optat ephippia bos piger; optat arare caballus=--The
lazy ox covets the horse's trappings; the
horse would fain plough. _Hor._
=Optics sharp it needs, I ween, / To see what
is not to be seen.= _J. Trumbull._
=Optima quæque dies miseris mortalibus ævi /
Prima fugit; subeunt morbi tristisque senectus,
/ Et labor; et duræ rapit inclementia
mortis=--For wretched mortals each best day of
life flies first; diseases soon steal on, and sad old
age, and decay; and the cruelty of inexorable
death snatches us away. _Virg._
=Optimi consiliarii mortui=--The best counsellors
are the dead. _Pr._
=Optimum obsonium labor=--Labour is the best
sauce. _Pr._
=Opum furiata cupido=--The frantic passion for
wealth. _Ovid._
=Ora et labora=--Pray and work. _M._
=Oracles speak.= _Emerson._
=Oral delivery aims at persuasion, at making= 5
=the listener believe he is convinced. Few
persons are capable of being convinced; the
majority allow themselves to be persuaded.=
_Goethe._
=Orando laborando=--By prayer and labour. _M._
=Orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano=--We
should pray for a sound mind in a sound
body. _Juv._
=Orate pro anima=--Pray for the soul of.
=Orationis summa virtus est perspicuitas=--The
greatest virtue of speech is perspicuity. _Quinct._
=Orator improbus leges subvertit=--An evil-disposed 10
orator subverts the laws.
=Oratory is a warrior's eye flashing from under
a philosopher's brow.= _Hare._
=Oratory, like a drama, abhors lengthiness;
like the drama, it must be kept doing.=
_Bulwer Lytton._
=Order all thy actions, so as readily and meekly
to comply with the commands of thy superiors,
the desires of thy equals, the requests
of thy inferiors; so to do for all what thou
lawfully mayest.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Order and quiet are good things when they
can be had without the sacrifice of things
that are better.= _Ward Beecher._
=Order is a great man's need, and his true well-being.= 15
_Amiel._
=Order is heaven's first law.= _Pope._
=Order is power.= _Amiel._
=Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of
the body, the peace of the city, the security
of the state. As the beams to a house, as
the bones to the microcosm of man, so is
order to all things.= _Southey._
=Order is truth, each thing standing on the basis
that belongs to it.= _Carlyle._
=Order, thou eye of action.= _Aaron Hill._ 20
=Ordinary people think merely of spending
time; a man with any brains, of using it.=
_Schopenhauer._
=Ore e sempre=--Now and always. _It._
=Ore tenus=--Merely from the mouth; oral.
=Organic laws can only be serviceable to, and,
in general, will only be written by, a public
of honourable citizens, loyal to their state
and faithful to each other.= _Ruskin._
[Greek: orgê philountôn oligon ischyei chronon]--The 25
anger of lovers does not last long. _Menander._
=Originality is a thing we constantly clamour
for and constantly quarrel with, as if any,
observes Jean Paul, but our own could be
expected to content us.= _Carlyle._
=Originality is simply a fresh pair of eyes.= _T.
W. Higginson._
=Originality is the one thing which unoriginal
minds cannot feel the use of.= _J. S. Mill._
=Originality provokes originality.= _Goethe._
=Ornament is but the guilèd shore / To a most= 30
=dangerous sea; the beauteous scarf / Veiling
an Indian beauty; in a word, / The
seeming truth which cunning times put on /
To entrap the wisest.= _Mer. of Ven._, iii. 2.
=Ornaments were invented by modesty.= _Joubert._
=Oro è che oro vale=--What is worth gold is gold.
_It. Pr._
=Orthodoxy is my doxy; heterodoxy another
man's doxy.= _Warburton._
=Orthodoxy is the Bourbon of the world of
thought; it learns not, neither can it forget.=
_Huxley._
=Os, orare, vale, communio, mensa negatur=--Speech, 35
prayer, greeting, intercourse, and food
are forbidden. _The sentence of excommunication._
=Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.=
_Chapin._
=Otez un vilain du gibet, il vous y mettra=--Save
a thief from the gallows, and he will cut your
throat. _Fr. Pr._
=Othello's occupation's gone!= _Othello_, iii. 3.
=Other exercises develop single powers and
muscles, but dancing, like a corporeal poesy,
embellishes, exercises, and equalises all the
muscles at once.= _Jean Paul._
=Other heights in other lives, God willing.= 40
_Browning._
=Other men are lenses through which we read
our own minds.= _Emerson._
=Other men laboured, and ye are entered into
their labours.= _Jesus._
=Others apart sat on a hill retired, / In thoughts
more elevate, and reason'd high / Of Providence,
fore-knowledge, will, and fate, / Fix'd
fate, free-will, fore-knowledge absolute; /
And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost.=
_Milton._
=Others, more aspiring than achieving, / Achieve
all in suggestion, ... / More helpful by their
infinite reaching forth / Than all completed
thinking.= _Dr. Walter Smith._
=Otia si tollas, periere Cupidinis arcus=--Remove 45
the temptations of idleness, and Cupid's bow is
useless. _Ovid._
=Otiosis nullus adsistit Deus=--No deity assists
the idle. _Pr._
=Otium cum dignitate=--Leisure with dignity.
=Otium sine literis mors est, et hominis vivi
sepultura=--Leisure without literature is death
and burial alive. _Sen._
[Greek: ou chrê pannychion heudein boulêphoron andra]--It
will not do for a counsellor to sleep all night.
_Hom._
[Greek: Ou legein deinos, alla sigan adynatos]--Not 50
formidable as a speaker, but unable to hold his
tongue. _Gr._ (?)
=Où peut-on être mieux qu'au sein de sa famille?=--Where
can a man be better than in the bosom
of his family? _Marmontel Grétry._
=Où sont les neiges d'antan?=--Where is the snow
of last year? _F. Villons._
[Greek: ou toi synechthein alla symphilein ephyn]--I am
here not for mutual hatred, but for mutual affection.
_Soph._
=Oublier d'éclairer sa lanterne=--To express one's
self obscurely (_lit._ to forget to light one's lantern).
_Fr._
=Oublier ne puis=--I can never forget. _M._ 55
[Greek: ouden ginetai ek tou mê ontos]--Nothing comes
to be out of what is not. _Epicurus._
[Greek: ouden rhêma syn kerdei kakon]--No word that is
profitable is bad. _Soph._
=Oui et Non sont bien courts à dire, mais avant
que de les dire, il y faut penser long-temps=--"Yes"
and "no" are very short words to say,
but we should think for some length of time
before saying them.
[Greek: ouk agathon polykoiraniê; heis koiranos estô, /
Heis basileus]--That there should be a multitude
of rulers is not good; let one be lord, one be
king. _Hom._
[Greek: ouk aischron ouden tôn anankaiôn brotois]--What
is natural is never shameful. _Eurip._
[Greek: ouk estin meizôn basanos chronou oudenos
ergou, / hos kai hypo sternois andros edeixe
noon]--There is no better test of a man's work
than time, which also reveals the thought which
lay hidden in his breast. _Simonides._
=Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, / Our= 5
=fatal shadows that walk by us still.= _Fletcher._
=Our admiration of the antique is not admiration
of the old, but of the natural.= _Emerson._
=Our affections are but tents of a night.= _Emerson._
=Our affections, as well as our bodies, are in
perpetual flux.= _Rousseau._
=Our age is really up to nothing better than
sweeping out the gutters--a scavenger age.
Might it but do that well! It is the indispensable
beginning of all.= _Carlyle._
=Our age knows nothing but reactions, and= 10
=leaps from one extreme to another.= _Niebuhr._
=Our ambiguous dissipating education awakens
wishes when it should be animating tendencies;
instead of forwarding our real capacities,
it turns our efforts towards objects which
are frequently discordant with the mind that
aims at them.= _Goethe._
=Our ancestors are very good kind o' folks; but
they are the last people I should choose to
have a visiting acquaintance with.= _Sheridan._
=Our attachment to every object around us increases,
in general, from the length of our
acquaintance with it.= _Goldsmith._
=Our best history is still poetry.= _Emerson._
=Our best resolutions are frail when opposed= 15
=to our predominant inclinations.= _Scott._
=Our best thoughts come from others.= _Emerson._
=Our better mind / Is as a Sunday's garment,
then put on / When we have nought to do;
but at our work / We wear a worse for
thrift.= _Crowe._
=Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting.=
_Wordsworth._
=Our books are false by being fragmentary;
the sentences are "bon mots," and not parts
of natural discourse; childish expressions of
surprise or pleasure in nature--or worse.=
_Emerson._
=Our bounty, like a drop of water, disappears= 20
=when diffused too widely.= _Goldsmith._
=Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The
angel of life winds them up once for all,
then closes the case, and gives the key into
the hands of the angel of the resurrection.=
_Holmes._
=Our charity indeed should be universal, and
extend to all mankind; but it is by no means
convenient that our friendships and familiarities
should do so too.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Our chief comforts often produce our greatest
anxieties, and an increase of our possessions
is but an inlet to new disquietudes.= _Goldsmith._
=Our chief experiences have been casual.=
_Emerson._
=Our chief want in life is somebody who shall= 25
=make us do what we can.= _Emerson._
=Our clock strikes when there is a change from
hour to hour; but no hammer in the Horologe
of Time peals through the universe
when there is a change from era to era.=
_Carlyle._
=Our compell'd sins / Stand more for number
than accompt.= _Meas. for Meas._, ii. 4.
=Our complaint is the largest tribute heaven
receives, and the sincerest part of our devotion.=
_Swift._
=Our content / Is our best having.= _Hen. VIII._,
ii. 3.
=Our corn's to reap, for yet our tilth's to sow.= 30
_Meas. for Meas._, iv. 1.
=Our country is wherever we are well off.=
_Milton._
=Our dead are never dead to us until we have
forgotten them.= _George Eliot._
=Our decrees / Dead to infliction, to themselves
are dead; / And liberty plucks justice by the
nose, / The baby beats the nurse, and quite
athwart / Goes all decorum.= _Meas. for Meas._,
i. 4.
=Our deeds are fetters that we forge ourselves.=
_George Eliot._
=Our deeds are like children born to us; they= 35
=live and act apart from our own will. Children
may be strangled, but deeds never.=
_George Eliot._
=Our deeds determine us as much as we determine
our deeds.= _George Eliot._
=Our delight in reason degenerates into idolatry
of the herald.= _Emerson._
=Our dissatisfaction with any other solution is
the blazing evidence of immortality.= _Emerson._
=Our domestic service is usually a foolish fracas
of unreasonable demand on the one side and
striking on the other.= _Emerson._
=Our doubts are traitors, / And make us lose the= 40
=good we oft might win / By fearing to attempt.=
_Meas. for Meas._, i. 5.
=Our dreams drench us in sense, and sense
steeps us again in dreams.= _A. B. Alcott._
=Our echoes roll from soul to soul, / And grow
for ever and for ever.= _Tennyson._
=Our energies are actually cramped by over-anxiety
for success, and by straining our
mental faculties beyond due bounds.= _Montaigne._
=Our esteem of great powers, or amiable qualities
newly discovered, may embroider a day
or a week, but a friendship of twenty years
is interwoven with the texture of life.= _Johnson._
=Our expense is almost all for conformity.= _Emerson._ 45
=Our experiences of life sway and bow us either
with joy or sorrow. They plant everything
about us with heart-seeds. Thus a house
becomes sacred. Every room has a thousand
memories.= _Ward Beecher._
=Our eyes see all around in gloom or glow--/
Hues of their own, fresh borrowed from the
heart.= _Keble._
=Our fear commonly meets us at the door by
which we think to run from it.= _Pr._
=Our feelings are always purest and most glowing
in the hour of meeting and of farewell;
like the glaciers, which are transparent and
rosy-hued only at sunrise and sunset.= _Jean
Paul._
=Our first ideas of life are generally taken from
fiction rather than fact.= _Schopenhauer._
=Our flatterers are our worst enemies.= _Pr._
=Our friends see not our faults, or conceal them,
or soften them.= _Addison._
=Our God is a household God, as well as a= 5
=heavenly one. He has an altar in every
man's dwelling; let men look to it when
they rend it lightly, and pour out its ashes.=
_Ruskin._
=Our grand business is not to see what lies
dimly at a distance, but to do what lies
clearly at hand.= _Carlyle._
=Our greatest, being also by nature our quietest,
are perhaps those that remain unknown.=
_Carlyle._
=Our greatest glory consists not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.= _Goldsmith._
=Our greatest misfortunes come to us from ourselves.=
_Rousseau._
=Our hand we open of our own free will, and the= 10
=good flies which we can never recall.= _Goethe._
=Our hap is lost, our hope but sad despair.=
3 _Hen._, ii. 3.
=Our happiness in this world depends on the
affections we are able to inspire.= _Duchess
de Praslin._
=Our happiness should not be laid on a too broad
foundation.= _Schopenhauer._
=Our hearts, frequently warmed by the contact
of those whom we wish to resemble, will undoubtedly
catch something of their way of
thinking; and we shall receive in our own
bosoms some radiation at least of their fire
and splendour.= _Joshua Reynolds._
=Our heavenward progress is something like= 15
=that of the Jerusalem pilgrims of old, who
for three steps forward took one backward.=
_Jean Paul._
=Our high respect for a well-read man is praise
enough of literature.= _Emerson._
=Our hoard is little, but our hearts are great.=
_Tennyson._
=Our hopes are but our memories reversed.= (?)
=Our human laws are but the copies, more or
less imperfect, of the eternal laws so far as
we can read them.= _Froude._
=Our humanity were a poor thing but for the= 20
=divinity that stirs within us.= _Bacon._
=Our ideals are our better selves.= _A. B. Alcott._
=Our ideas, like pictures, are made out of lights
and shadows.= _Joubert._
=Our life contains a thousand springs, / And dies
if one be gone; / Strange that a harp of
thousand strings / Should keep in tune so
long.= _Watts._
=Our life is compassed round with necessity;
yet is the meaning of life itself no other than
freedom, than voluntary force.= _Carlyle._
=Our life is no dream, but it may and will perhaps= 25
=become one.= _Novalis._
=Our life is not a mutual helpfulness; but rather,
cloaked under due laws of war, named "fair
competition," and so forth, it is a mutual hostility.=
_Carlyle._
=Our life might be much easier and simpler than
we make it.= _Emerson._
=Our life should feed the springs of fame / With
a perennial wave, / As ocean feeds the bubbling
founts / Which find in it their grave.=
_Thoreau._
=Our Lord God commonly gives riches to foolish
people, to whom He gives nothing else.=
_Luther._
=Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection,= 30
=not in books alone, but in every leaf
in spring-time.= _Luther._
=Our love is inwrought in our enthusiasm, as
electricity is inwrought in the air, exalting
its power by a subtle presence.= _George Eliot._
=Our love of truth is evinced by our ability to
discover and appropriate what is good wherever
we come upon it.= _Goethe._
=Our memories are independent of our wills.=
_Sheridan._
=Our minds cannot be empty; and evil will
break in upon them if they are not pre-occupied
by good.= _Johnson._
=Our minds should be habituated to the contemplation= 35
=of excellence.= _Joshua Reynolds._
=Our moral impressions invariably prove strongest
in those moments when we are most
driven back upon ourselves.= _Goethe._
=Our most exalted feelings are not meant to be
the common food of daily life. Contentment
is more satisfying than exhilaration; and
contentment means simply the sum of small
and quiet pleasures.= _Ward Beecher._
=Our narrow ken / Reaches too far, when all
that we behold / Is but the havoc of wide-wasting
Time, / Or what he soon shall spoil.=
_Crowe._
=Our nature is inseparable from desires, and
the very word "desire" (the craving for
something not possessed) implies that our
present felicity is not complete.= _Hobbes._
=Our natures are like oil; compound us with= 40
=anything, yet still we strive to swim upon
the top.= _Beaumont and Fletcher._
=Our notion of the perfect society embraces the
family as its centre and ornament. Nor is
there a paradise planted till the children
appear in the foreground to animate and
complete the picture.= _A. B. Alcott._
=Our own heart, and not other men's opinions,
forms our true honour.= _Coleridge._
=Our passions and principles are steady in
frenzy; but begin to shift and waver, as we
return to reason.= _Sterne._
=Our passions are like convulsion fits, which,
though they make us stronger for the time,
leave us weaker ever after.= _Pope._
=Our passions are true phœnixes; when the= 45
=old one is burnt out, the new one rises
straightway from its ashes.= _Goethe._
=Our path of glory / By many a cloud is darken'd
and unblest.= _Keble._
=Our patience will achieve more than our force.=
_Burke._
=Our peasant= (Burns) =showed himself among
us, "a soul like an Æolian harp, in whose
strings the vulgar wind, as it passed through
them, changed itself into articulate melody."=
_Carlyle._
=Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at
intervals; love is a method of protracting
our greatest pleasure.= _Goldsmith._
=Our pleasures travel by express; our pains by
parliamentary.= _F. G. Trafford._
=Our poetry of the eighteenth century was
prose; our prose of the seventeenth, poetry.=
_Hare._
=Our poets are men of talents who sing, and
not the children of music.= _Emerson._
=Our present time is indeed a criticising and
a critical time, hovering between the wish
and the inability to believe.= _Jean Paul._
=Our purity of taste is best tested by its universality,= 5
=for if we can only admire this thing
or that, we may be sure that our cause for
liking is of a finite and false nature.= _Ruskin._
=Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor.=
_Tam. of the Shrew_, iv. 3.
=Our ravings and complaints are but like arrows
shot up into the air at no mark, and so to no
purpose, but only to fall back upon our own
heads and destroy ourselves.= _Sir William
Temple._
=Our relation to things outside of ourselves
forms, and at the same time robs us of, our
existence, and yet we have to do our best
to adapt ourselves to circumstances; for
to isolate one's self is also not advisable.=
_Goethe._
=Our relations are far too artificial and complicated,
our nutriment and mode of life are
without their proper nature, and our social
intercourse is without proper love and goodwill.
Every one is polished and courteous,
but no one has the courage to be hearty and
true.= _Goethe._
=Our relations are ours by lot, our friends by= 10
=election.= _Delille._
=Our religion assumes the negative form of rejection.
Out of love of the true, we repudiate
the false; and the religion is an abolishing
criticism.= _Emerson._
=Our religion is meant to root out our vices,
but it covers, nourishes, and excites them.=
_Montaigne._
=Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, / Which
we ascribe to heaven.= _All's Well_, i. 1.
=Our sacrifices are rarely of an active kind; we,
as it were, abandon what we give away. It
is not from resolution, but despair, that we
renounce our property.= _Goethe._
=Our self-made men are the glory of our institutions.= 15
_Wendell Phillips._
=Our senses will not admit of anything extreme:
too much noise confuses us, too much light
dazzles us.= _Pascal._
=Our social forms are very far from truth and
equity.= _Emerson._
=Our sorrows are like thunder-clouds, which
seem black in the distance, but grow lighter
as they approach.= _Jean Paul._
=Our souls much farther than our eyes can see.=
_Drayton._
=Our souls must become expanded by the contemplation= 20
=of Nature's grandeur before we
can fully comprehend the greatness of man.=
_Heine._
=Our spiritual maladies are but of opinion; we
are but fettered by chains of our own forging,
and which ourselves also can rend
asunder.= _Carlyle._
=Our spontaneous action is always the best.=
_Emerson._
=Our stomach for good fortune is bottomless, but
the entrance to it is narrow.= _Schopenhauer._
=Our strength lies in our weakness= (_i.e._, limitedness).
_Hazlitt._
=Our temperaments differ in capacity of heat,= 25
=or we boil at different degrees.= _Emerson._
=Our thinking is a pious reception.= _Emerson._
=Our thoughts are often worse than we are,
just as they are often better.= _George Eliot._
=Our thoughts take wildest flight / Even at the
moment when they should array themselves
in pensive order.= _Byron._
=Our time is fixed, and all our days are numbered;
/ How long, how short, we know
not: this we know, / Duty requires we
calmly wait the summons, / Nor dare to stir
till Heaven shall give permission.= _Blair._
=Our torment is unbelief, the uncertainty as to= 30
=what we ought to do, the distrust of the
value of what we do, and the distrust that
the necessity which we all at last believe in
is fair and beneficial.= _Emerson._
=Our valours are our best gods.= _Fletcher._
=Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.=
_Mme. Swetchine._
=Our very hopes belied our fears, / Our fears
our hopes belied; / We thought her dying
when she slept, / And sleeping when she
died.= _T. Hood._
=Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have
had to suffer for them. It is the same with
our children. All profound affection admits
a sacrifice.= _Vauvenargues._
=Our virtues depend on our failings as their= 35
=root, and the latter send forth as strong
and manifold branches underground as the
former do in the open light.= _Goethe._
=Our / Virtues lie in the interpretation of the
time.= _Coriolanus_, iv. 7.
=Our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped
them not; and our crimes would despair if
they were not cherished by our virtues.= _All's
Well_, iv. 3.
=Our whole existence is passed into words, and
words, by means of tongue and ears, pass so
easily into the soul.= _Jean Paul._
=Our whole life is but a chamber which we are
frescoing with colours, that do not appear
while being laid on wet, but which will shine
forth afterwards when finished and dry.=
_Ward Beecher._
=Our whole terrestrial being is based on Time= 40
=and built of Time; it is wholly a movement,
a Time-impulse; Time is the author of it,
the material of it.= _Carlyle._
=Our wills and fates do so contrary run, /
That our devices still are overthrown; / Our
thoughts are ours, their ends none of our
own.= _Ham._, iii. 2.
=Our work must be done honourably and thoroughly,
because we are now men; whether
we ever expect to be angels, or ever were
slugs, being practically no matter. We are
now human creatures, and must, at our peril,
do human, that is to say, affectionate, honest,
and earnest work.= _Ruskin._
=Our works are presentiments of our capabilities.=
_Goethe._
=Our works decay and disappear, / God's frailest
works abide, and look / Down on the ruins we
toil to rear.= _Dr. Walter Smith._
=Our worst misfortunes never happen, and
most miseries lie in anticipation.= _Balzac._
=Our yesterday's to-morrow now is gone, / And
still a new to-morrow does come on. / We
by to-morrow draw out all our store, / Till
the exhausted well can yield no more.=
_Cowley._
=Our young men are terribly alike.= _Alexander
Smith._
=Ourselves are easily provided for; it is nothing
but the circumstantials of human life that
cost so much.= _Pope._
=Out at sea, the universe has dwindled to a= 5
=little circle of crumpled water, that journeys
with you day after day, and to which you
seem bound by some enchantment.= _Burroughs._
=Out of debt, out of danger.= _Pr._
=Out of difficulties grow miracles.= _La Bruyère._
=Out of Evil comes Good; and no Good that is
possible but shall one day be real.= _Carlyle._
=Out of my stony griefs / Bethel I'll raise.=
_Adams._
=Out of Plato come all things that are still= 10
=written and debated about among men of
thought.= _Emerson._
=Out of sight out of mind.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth
speaketh.= _Jesus._
=Out of the eater cometh forth meat; out of
the strong cometh forth sweetness.= _Samson's
riddle._
=Out of the frying-pan into the fire.= _Pr._
=Out of the suffering comes the serious mind;= 15
=out of the salvation, the grateful heart; out
of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance,
faith.= _Ruskin._
=Out of this nettle danger we pluck this flower
safety.= 1 _Hen. IV._, ii. 3.
=Out upon the tempest of anger, the acrimonious
gall of fretful impatience, the sullen
frost of lowring resentment, or the corroding
poison of withered envy! They eat up the
immortal part of a man!... like traitor
Iscariot, betray their lord and master.=
_Burns._
[Greek: oute ti tôn anthrôpinôn axion on megalês
spoudês]--Nothing in the affairs of mankind is
worth serious anxiety. _Plato._
=Outward judgment often fails, inward justice
never.= _Theo. Parker._
=Outward religion originates by society; society= 20
=becomes possible by religion.= _Carlyle._
=Ouvrage de longue haleine=--A long-winded or
tedious business. _Fr._
=Over the events of life we may have a control,
but none whatever over the law of its progress.=
_Draper._
=Over the Time thou hast no power; solely over
one man therein hast thou a quite absolute,
uncontrollable power; him redeem, him make
honest.= _Carlyle._
=Over there it will not be otherwise than it is
here.= _Goethe._
=Overcome evil with good.= _St. Paul._ 25
=Overdone is worse than underdone.= _Pr._
=Ovid finely compares a man of broken fortune
to a falling column; the lower it sinks, the
greater weight it is obliged to sustain.=
_Goldsmith._
=Owe no man anything, but to love one another;
for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the
law.= _St. Paul._
=Oysters are not good in a month that hath not
an R in it.= _Pr._