the things misnamed / Death and
Existence.= _Byron._
=Sleep is for the inhabitants of planets only; in= 40
=another time men will sleep and wake continually
at once. The great part of our body,
of our humanity, yet sleeps a deep sleep.= (?)
=Sleep is the best cure for waking troubles.=
_Cervantes._
=Sleep is the sole reviver= (_Labsal_) =of the afflicted.=
_Platen._
=Sleep is to a man what winding up is to a
clock.= _Schopenhauer._
=Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes,
as night hovers all day in the boughs of the
fir-tree.= _Emerson._
=Sleep no more, / Macbeth does murder sleep.= 45
_Macb._, ii. 2.
=Sleep seldom visits sorrow; when it doth, /
It is a comforter.= _Tempest_, i. 1.
=Sleep, that knits up the ravell'd sleave of
care, / The death of each day's life, sore
labour's bath, / Balm of hurt minds, great
nature's second course, / Chief nourisher in
life's feast.= _Macb._, ii. 2.
=Sleep, that sometimes shuts up sorrow's eye.=
_Mid. N.'s Dream_, iii. 2.
=Sleep, the antechamber of the grave.= _Jean
Paul._
=Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, /
Morn of toil, nor night of waking.= _Scott._
=Slight not the smallest loss, whether it be / In
love or honour; take account of all: / Shine
like the sun in every corner: see / Whether
thy stock of credit swell or fall.= _George
Herbert._
=Slippery is the flagstone at the great house
door.= _Gael. Pr._
=Sloth is the key to poverty.= _Pr._ 5
=Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labour
wears, while the used key is always bright.=
_Ben. Franklin._
=Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry
all things easy.= _Ben. Franklin._
=Sloth never arrived at the attainment of a
good wish.= _Cervantes._
=Sloth turneth the edge of wit, study sharpeneth
the mind; a thing, be it never so easy, is hard
to the idle; a thing, be it never so hard, is
easy to wit well employed.= _John Lily._
=Slovenly (a) and negligent manner of writing= 10
=is a disobliging mark of want of respect.=
_Blair._
=Slow and steady wins the race.= _Lloyd._
=Slow fire makes sweet malt.= _Pr._
=Slow-footed counsel is most sure to gain; /
Rashness still brings repentance in her train.=
_Lucian._
=Slow help is no help.= _Pr._
=Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd.= _Johnson._ 15
=Slow to resolve, but in performance quick.=
_Dryden._
=Slowly and sadly we laid him down, / From
the field of his fame fresh and gory: / We
carved not a line, and we raised not a
stone, / But we left him alone with his
glory.= _Wolfe._
=Sma' fish are better than nane.= _Sc. Pr._
=Small cheer and great welcome make a merry
feast.= _Com. of Errors_, iii. 1.
=Small curs are not regarded when they grin; /= 20
=But great men tremble when the lion roars.=
2 _Hen. VI._, iii. 1.
=Small curses upon great occasions are but so
much waste of our strength and soul's health
to no manner of purpose; they are like sparrow-shot
fired against a bastion.= _Sterne._
=Small debts are like small shot--they are
rattling on every side, and can scarcely
be escaped without a wound. Great debts
are like cannon of loud noise, but of little
danger.= _Johnson._
=Small draughts of philosophy lead to atheism,
but larger bring back to God.= _Bacon._
=Small faults indulged let in greater.= _Pr._
=Small have continued plodders ever won / Save= 25
=bare authority from others' books.= _Love's
L. Lost_, i. 1.
=Small herbs have grace, great weeds do grow
apace.= _Rich. III._, ii. 4.
=Small is it that thou canst trample the earth
with its injuries under thy foot, as old Greek
Zeno trained thee: thou canst love the earth
while it injures thee, and even because it
injures thee; for this a Greater than Zeno
was needed, and he too was sent.= _Carlyle._
=Small Latin and less Greek.= _Ben Jonson of
Shakespeare's knowledge._
=Small-pot-soon-hot style of eloquence is what
our county conventions often exhibit.= _Emerson._
=Small profits and quick returns.= _Pr._ 30
=Small rain lays great dust.= _Pr._
=Small service is true service while it lasts. /
Of humblest friends, bright creature! scorn
not one: / The daisy, by the shadow that it
casts, / Protects the lingering dewdrop from
the sun.= _Wordsworth, to a child._
=Small thanks to the man for keeping his hands
clean who would not touch the work but with
gloves on.= _Carlyle._
=Smallest of mortals, when mounted aloft by
circumstances, come to seem great, smallest
of phenomena connected with them are
treated as important, and must be sedulously
scanned, and commented on with loud
emphasis.= _Carlyle._
=Smelfungus in the grand portico of the Pantheon= 35
=says, "'Tis nothing but a huge cockpit."=
_Sterne._
=Smile (Fortune), and we smile, the lords of
many lands; / Frown, and we smile, the
lords of our own hands; / For man is man
and master of his fate.= _Tennyson._
=Smiles are the language of love.= _Hare._
=Smiles form the channel of a future tear.=
_Byron._
=Smiles from reason flow, / To brute denied, and
are of love the food.= _Milton._
=Smooth runs the water where the brook is= 40
=deep; / And in his simple show he harbours
treason. / The fox barks not when he would
steal the lamb.= 2 _Henry VI._, iii. 1.
=Smooth waters run deep.= _Pr._
=Smooth words make smooth ways.= _Pr._
=Smuler ere og Bröd=--Even crumbs are bread.
_Dan. Pr._
=Snarl if you please, but you shall snarl without.=
_Dryden._
=Snatch from the ashes of your sires / The= 45
=embers of their former fires; / And he who in
the strife expires / Will add to theirs a name
of fear / That tyranny shall quake to hear, /
And leave his sons a hope, a fame, / They
too would rather die than shame.= _Byron._
=So behave that the odour of your actions may
enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.=
_Thoreau._
=So careful of the type she seems, / So careless
of the single life.= _Tennyson._
=So comes a reckoning when the banquet's
o'er,--/ The dreadful reckoning, and men
smile no more.= _Gay._
=So dawning day has brought relief--/ Fareweel
our night o' sorrow.= _Burns._
=So dress and so conduct yourself that persons= 50
=who have been in your company will not
recollect what you had on.= _Rev. John
Newton._
=So far as a man thinks he is free.= _Emerson._
=So far is it from being true that men are naturally
equal, that no two people can be half
an hour together but one shall acquire an
evident superiority over the other.= _Johnson._
=So full of shapes is fancy, that it alone is high-fantastical.=
_Twelfth Night_, i. 1.
=So gieb mir auch die Zeiten wieder, / Da ich
noch selbst im Werden war=--Then give me
back the time when I myself was still a-growing.
_Goethe._
=So, here hath been dawning / Another blue
day; / Think wilt thou let it / Slip useless
away. / Out of Eternity / This new day is
born; / Into Eternity / At night doth return.
/ Behold it aforetime / No eye ever
did: / So soon it for ever / From all eyes is
hid. / Here hath been dawning, &c.= _Carlyle
on To-day._
=So I do my part to others, let them think of
me what they will or can.... If I should
regard such things, it were in another's
power to defeat my charity, and evil should
be stronger than good. But difficulties are
so far from cooling Christians that they
whet them.= _George Herbert._
=So lang man lebt, sei man lebendig=--So long 5
as you live, be living. _Goethe._
=So live with men, as if God saw you; so speak
to God, as if men heard you.= _Sen._
=So lonely 'twas, that God himself / Scarce
seeméd there to be.= _Coleridge._
=So long as a man is capable of self-renewal he
is a living being.= _Amiel._
=So long as any Ideal (any soul of truth) does,
in never so confused a manner, exist and
work within the Actual, it is a tolerable
business. Not so when the Ideal has wholly
departed, and the Actual owns to no soul of
truth any longer.= _Carlyle._
=So long as the "Holy Place" in their souls= 10
=is left in possession of powerless opinions,
men are practically without God in this
world.= _Froude._
=So long as you live and work, you will not
escape being misunderstood; to that you
must resign yourself once for all. Be silent.=
_Goethe._
=So magnificent a thing is Will incarnated in
a creature of like fashion with ourselves,
that we run to witness all manifestations
thereof.= _Carlyle._
=So many servants, so many enemies.= _Pr._
=So many slaves, so many enemies.= _Pr._
=So may he rest; his faults lie gently on him.= 15
_Hen. VIII._, iv. 2.
=So much in the world depends upon getting
what we want. Prosperity is to the human
heart like a sunny south wall to a peach.=
_Holme Lee._
=So much of our time is preparation, so much
is routine, and so much retrospect, that the
pith of each man's genius contracts itself to
a very few hours.= _Emerson._
=So much to do, / So little done, such things to
be.= _Tennyson._
=So nigh is grandeur to our dust, / So near is
God to man, / When Duty whispers low,
"Thou must," / The youth replies, "I can!"=
_Emerson._
=So schaff' ich am sausenden Webstuhl der= 20
=Zeit / Und wirke der Gottheit lebendiges
Kleid=--'Tis thus at the roaring loom of Time
I ply, / And weave for God the garment thou seest
him by (_lit._ the living garment of the Deity).
_Goethe._
=So soon as one's heart is tender it is weak.
When it is beating so warmly against the
breast, and the throat is, as it were, tied
tightly, and one strives to press the tears
from one's eyes and feels an incomprehensible
joy as they begin to flow, then we are
so weak that we are fettered by chains of
flowers, not because they have become strong
through any magic chain, but because we
tremble lest we should tear them asunder.=
_Goethe._
=So soon as people try honestly to see all they
can of anything, they come to a point where
a noble dimness begins. They see more
than others; but the consequence of their
seeing more is, that they feel they cannot
see at all; and the more intense their perception,
the more the crowd of things which
they partly see will multiply upon them.=
_Ruskin._
=So soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and
necessity to man, I see no limit to the horizon
which opens before him.= _Renan._
=So spiritual= (_geistig_) =is our whole daily life; all
that we do springs out of mystery, spirit,
invisible force; only like a little cloud-image,
or Armida's palace, air-built, does the actual
body itself forth from the great mystic deep.=
_Carlyle._
=So stirbt ein Held, anbetungsvoll=--So dies a 25
hero to be worshipped. _Schiller._
=So study evermore is overshot; / While it doth
study to have what it would, / It doth forget
to do the thing it should; / And when it hath
the thing it hunteth most, / 'Tis won as towns
with fire,--so won, so lost.= _Love's L. Lost_,
i. 1.
=So sweetly she bade me adieu, / I thought that
she bade me return.= _Shenstone._
=So teach us to number our days, that we may
apply our hearts unto wisdom.= _Bible._
=So thou be above it, make the world serve thy
purpose, but do not thou serve it.= _Goethe._
=So thou be good, slander doth but approve /= 30
=Thy worth the greater.= _Shakespeare._
=So to living or dead let the solemn bell call; /
Sleeping or waking, time passes with all.=
_Dr. Walter Smith._
=So turns the faithful needle to the pole, /
Though mountains rise between and oceans
roll.= _Darwin._
=So we grew together, / Like to a double
cherry, seeming parted, / But yet a union in
partition; / Two lovely berries moulded on
one stem. / So with two seeming bodies, but
one heart.= _Mid. N.'s. Dream_, iii. 2.
=So wise, so young, they say, do ne'er live
long.= _Rich. III._, iii. 1.
=So wonderful is human nature, and its varied= 35
=ties / Are so involved and complicate, that
none / May hope to keep his inward spirit
pure, / And walk without perplexity through
life.= _Goethe._
=So work the honey bees; / Creatures that, by
a rule in Nature, teach / The art of order to
a peopled kingdom.= _Henry V._, i. 2.
=Soar not too high to fall, but stoop to rise.=
_Fuller._
=Sobald du dir vertraust, sobald weisst du zu
leben=--So soon as you feel confidence in yourself,
you know the art of life. _Goethe, Mephisto in
"Faust."_
=Sobriety, severity, and self-respect is the
foundation of all true sociality.= _Thoreau._
=Social intercourse makes us the more able to
bear with ourselves and others.= _Goethe._
=Social order without liberty makes of man
only a product; liberty makes him the citizen
of a better world.= _Schiller._
=Societatis vinculum est ratio et oratio=--Reason
and speech are the bond of society. _Cic._
=Society always consists, in greatest part, of= 5
=young and foolish persons.= _Emerson._
=Society cannot do without cultivated men. As
soon as the first wants are satisfied, the
higher wants become imperative.= _Emerson._
=Society develops wit, but contemplation alone
forms genius.= _Mme. de Staël._
=Society does not in any age prevent a man
from being what he can be.= _Carlyle._
=Society does not like to have any breath of
question blown on the existing order.= _Emerson._
=Society does not love its unmaskers.= _Emerson._ 10
=Society everywhere is in conspiracy against
the manhood of every one of its members.=
_Emerson._
=Society has always a destructive influence upon
an artist:--by its sympathy with his meanest
powers; secondly, by its chilling want of
understanding of his greatest; and, thirdly,
by its vain occupation of his time and
thoughts.= _Ruskin._
=Society has always under one or the other
figure two authentic revelations, of a God
and of a devil.= _Carlyle._
=Society has only one law, and that is custom.=
_Hamerton._
=Society is a long series of uprising ridges,= 15
=which from the first to the last offer no
valley of repose. Wherever you take your
stand, you are looked down upon by those
above you, and reviled and pelted by those
below you.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=Society is a masked ball, where every one
hides his real character, and reveals it by
hiding.= _Emerson._
=Society is a republic. When an individual
endeavours to lift himself above his fellows,
he is dragged down by the mass, either by
ridicule or calumny.= _Victor Hugo._
=Society is a troop of thinkers, and the best
heads among them take the best places.=
_Emerson._
=Society is a wave. The wave moves onward,
but the water of which it is composed does
not.... Its unity is only phenomenal.=
_Emerson._
=Society is, and must be, based upon appearances,= 20
=and not upon the deepest realities.=
_Hamerton._
=Society is barbarous, until every industrious
man can get his living without dishonest
customs.= _Emerson._
=Society is composed of two great classes:
those who have more dinners than appetite,
and those who have more appetite than
dinners.= _Chamfort._
=Society is divisible into two classes: shearers
and shorn.= _Talleyrand._
=Society is ever under the imperious necessity
of moving onward in legal forms, nor can
such forms be evaded without the most
serious disasters forthwith ensuing.= _Draper._
=Society is founded upon cloth.= _Carlyle._ 25
=Society is full of infirm people, who incessantly
summon others to serve them. They contrive
everywhere to exhaust for their single
comfort the entire means and appliances of
that luxury to which our invention has yet
attained.= _Emerson._
=Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless,
and frivolous persons, who prey upon the
rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated
into good manners, forms accepted by
the sense of all, can reach.= _Emerson._
=Society is like the echoing hills; it gives back
to the speaker his words, groan for groan,
song for song.= _Dr. David Thomas._
=Society is no comfort to one not sociable.=
_Cymbeline_, iv. 2.
=Society is servile from want of will, and therefore= 30
=the world wants saviours and religions.=
_Emerson._
=Society is the atmosphere of souls, and we
necessarily imbibe from it something which
is either infectious or hurtful.= _ Bp. Hall._
=Society is the grandmother of humanity through
her daughters the inventions.= _C. J. Weber._
=Society is the standing wonder of our existence;
a true region of the supernatural;
as it were, a second all-embracing life,
wherein our first individual life becomes
doubly and trebly alive, and whatever of
infinitude was in us bodes itself forth, and
becomes visible and active.= _Carlyle._
=Society is well governed when the people obey
the magistrates, and the magistrates the
laws.= _Solon._
=Society lives by faith, and develops by science.= 35
_Amiel._
=Society rests upon conscience, not upon
science.= _Amiel._
=Society will pardon much to genius and special
gifts; but, being in its nature conventional,
it loves what is conventional.= _Emerson._
=Society wishes to be amused. I do not wish
to be amused. I wish that life should not be
cheap, but sacred; the days to be as centuries,
loaded, fragrant.= _Emerson._
=Socius fidelis anchora tuta est=--A faithful companion
is a sure anchor. _M._
=Socrates quidem quum rogaretur cujatem se= 40
=esse diceret, Mundanum, inquit. Totius
enim mundi se incolam et civem arbitrabatur=--When
Socrates was asked of what country
he professed to be a citizen, he answered, "Of
the world;" for he considered himself an inhabitant
and citizen of the whole world. _Cic._
=Soft-heartedness, in times like these, / Shows
softness in the upper storey.= _Lowell._
=Soft is the music that would charm for ever; /
The flower of sweetest smell is shy and
lowly.= _Wordsworth._
=Soft=, or =fair=, =words butter no parsnips.= _Pr._
=Soft pity enters at an iron gate.= _Shakespeare._
=Soft words win hard hearts.= _Pr._ 45
="Softly! softly!" caught the monkey.= _Negro
Pr._
=Sogno d'infermi=--A sick man's dream. _Petrarch._
=Soi-disant=--Self-styled. _Fr._
=Sol crescentes decedens duplicat umbras=--The
setting sun doubles the increasing shadows.
_Virg._
=Sol occubuit; nox nulla secuta est=--The sun is
set; no night has followed.
=Sola Deo salus=--Safety is from God alone. _M._
=Sola juvat virtus=--Virtue alone assists. _M._
=Sola nobilitas virtus=--Virtue is the only nobility.
_M._
=Sola salus servire Deo=--The only safety is in 5
serving God.
=Sola virtus invicta=--Virtue alone is invincible.
_M._
=Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris=--It is
some comfort to the wretched to have others to
share in their woe.
=Soldats! si les cornettes vous manquent, vous
trouverez toujours mon panache blanc au
chemin de l'honneur et de la gloire=--Soldiers!
if you don't hear the bugle-call, you will always
see my white plume in the path of honour and
glory! _Henry IV. at Ivry._
=Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.=
_Lord Burleigh._
=Soldiers= (there are) =of the ploughshare as well= 10
=as of the sword.= _Ruskin._
=Soldiers! what I have to offer you is fatigue,
danger, struggle, and death; the chill of the
cold night in the free air, and heat under
the burning sun; no lodgings, no munitions,
no provisions, but forced marches, dangerous
watchposts, and the continual struggle with
the bayonet against batteries. Those who
love freedom and their country may follow
me!= _Garibaldi to his Roman soldiers._ (That
is the most glorious speech I ever heard in my
life. _Kossuth._)
="Solem præ jaculorum multitudine et sagittarum
non videbis." "In umbra igitur pugnabimus"=--"You
will not see the sun for
the clouds of javelins and arrows." "We shall
fight in the shade then." _Cic. The Persian
to Leonidas at Thermopylæ, and Leonidas'
answer._
=Solem quis dicere falsum audeat?=--Who dares
call the sun a liar? _Virg._
=Soli Deo gloria=--To God alone be glory. _M._
=Soli Deo honor et gloria=--To God alone be 15
honour and glory. _M._
=Solicitude about the future never profits; we
feel no evil till it comes; and when we feel
it, no counsel= (_Rath_) =helps us; wisdom is
always too early or too late.= _Rückert._
=Solid pudding against empty praise.= _Pope._
=Solitude can be well applied and sit right upon
but very few persons. They must have
knowledge of the world to see the follies
of it, and virtue enough to despise all the
vanity.= _Cowley._
=Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys
little ones.= _Sydney Smith._
=Solitude dulls the thought, too much company= 20
=dissipates it.= (?)
=Solitude is a good school, but the world is
the best theatre; the institution is best
there, but the practice here; the wilderness
hath the advantage of discipline, and
society opportunities of perfection.= _Jeremy
Taylor._
=Solitude is as needful to the imagination as
society is wholesome for the character.=
_Lowell._
=Solitude is impracticable, and society fatal.=
_Emerson._
=Solitude is not measured by the miles of space
that intervene between a man and his fellows.
The really diligent student in one of the
crowded hives of Cambridge College is as
solitary as a dervish in the desert.= _Thoreau._
=Solitude is often the best society.= _Pr._ 25
=Solitude is the despair of fools, the torment of
the wicked, and the joy of the good.= (?)
=Solitude is the home of the strong; silence,
their prayer.= _Ravignan._
=Solitude sometimes is best society, / And short
retirement urges sweet return.= _Milton._
=Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to
genius the stern friend, the cold, obscure
shelter where moult the wings that will
bear it farther than suns and stars. He
who would inspire and lead his race must
be defended from travelling with the souls
of other men, from living, breathing, reading,
and writing in the daily time-worn yoke
of their opinions.= _Emerson._
=Solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant=--They 30
make a solitude, and call it peace.
=Sollen dich die Dohlen nicht umschrein, /
Musst du nicht Knopf auf dem Kirchthurm
sein=--If jackdaws are not to scream around you,
you must not be a ball on the church spire.
_Goethe._
=Sollicitæ mentes speque metuque pavent=--Minds
that are ill at ease are agitated both with
hope and fear. _Ovid._
=Sollicitant alii remis freta cæca, ruuntque /
In ferrum: penetrant aulas, et limina regum=--Some
disturb unknown seas with oars, some
rush upon the sword; some push their way into
courts and the portals of kings. _Virg._
=Solo cedit, quicquid solo plantatur=--Whatever
is planted in the soil goes with it. _L._
=Solo Deo salus=--Salvation from God alone. 35
_M._
=Solo e pensoso=--Alone and pensive. _Petrarch._
=Solvit ad diem=--He paid to the day. _L._
=Solvitur ambulando=--The problem is solved by
walking, _i.e._, the theoretical puzzle by a practical
test.
=Solvuntur risu tabulæ=--The case is dismissed
amid laughter. _Hor._
[Greek: sômata polla trephein, kai dômata poll' 40
anegeirein / Atrapos eis peniên estin
etoimotatê]--To feed many mouths and build
many houses is the directest road to poverty.
_Gr._
=Some are atheists only in fair weather.= (?)
=Some are born great, some achieve greatness,
and some have greatness thrust upon them.=
_Twelfth Night_, ii. 5.
=Some are cursed with the fulness of satiety;
and how can they bear the ills of life when
its very pleasures fatigue them?= _Colton._
=Some are so intent upon acquiring the superfluities
of life that they sacrifice its necessaries
in this foolish pursuit.= _Goldsmith._
=Some books are drenched sands, on which a= 45
=great soul's wealth lies in heaps, like a
wrecked argosy.= _Alex. Smith._
=Some books are edifices to stand as they are
built; some are hewn stones ready to form a
part of future edifices; some are quarries
from which stones are to be split for shaping
and after use.= _Holmes._
=Some books are lees frae end to end, / And
some big lees were never penn'd; / E'en
ministers they hae been kenn'd, / In holy
rapture, / A rousing whid at times to vend, /
And nail't wi' Scripture.= _Burns._
=Some books are to be tasted, others to be
swallowed, and some few to be chewed and
digested.= _Bacon._
=Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with
traps.= _Much Ado About Nothing_, iv. 1.
=Some dire misfortune to portend, / No enemy
can match a friend.= _Swift._
=Some drink because they're wet, and some= 5
=because they're dry.= _Saying._
=Some evils are cured by contempt.= _Pr._
=Some falls are means the happier to rise.=
_Shakespeare._
=Some faults are so nearly allied to excellence
that we can scarce weed out the vice without
eradicating the virtue.= _Goldsmith._
=Some folk's tongues are like the clocks as run
on strikin', not to tell you the time o' the day,
but because there's summat wrong i' their
inside.= _George Eliot._
=Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, /= 10
=And think they grow immortal as they
quote.= _Young._
=Some friend is a companion at the table, and
will not continue in the day of thy affliction.=
_Ecclus._
=Some glances of real beauty may be seen in
the faces of those who dwell in true meekness.=
_Thoreau._
=Some grief shows much of love, / But much of
grief shows still more want of wit.= _Rom.
and Jul._, iii. 5.
=Some hae meat that canna eat, / And some
would eat that want it; / But we hae meat
and we can eat, / Sae let the Lord be
thankit.= _Burns._
=Some have been thought brave because they= 15
=were afraid to run away.= _Pr._
=Some men are born anvils, some are born
hammers.= (?)
=Some men are like nails, easily drawn; others
are like rivets, not drawable at all.= _John
Burroughs._
=Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.=
_Pr._
=Some men, at the approach of a dispute, neigh
like horses. Unless there be an argument
going on, they think nothing is doing.=
_Emerson._
=Some men demand rough treatment everywhere.= 20
_S. C. Hall._
=Some men go through a forest and see no
firewood.= _Pr._
=Some men have just imagination enough to
spoil their judgment.= (?)
=Some men, like spaniels, will only fawn the
more when repulsed, but will pay little heed
to a friendly caress.= _Abd-el-Kader._
=Some men weave their sophistry till their own
reason is entangled.= _Johnson._
=Some men will believe nothing but what they= 25
=can comprehend; and there are but few
things that such are able to comprehend.=
_St. Evermond._
=Some men's sins are open beforehand, going
before to judgement; and some men they
follow after.= _St Paul._
=Some modern zealots appear to have no better
knowledge of truth, nor better manner of
judging it, than by counting noses.= _Swift._
=Some must be great.= _Cowper._
=Some of our weaknesses are born in us, others
are the result of education; it is a question
which of the two gives us most trouble.=
_Goethe._
=Some of the most famous books are least= 30
=worth reading. Their fame was due to their
doing something that needed in their day to
be done. The work done, the virtue of the
book expires.= _John Morley._
=Some of your griefs you have cured, / And the
sharpest you still have survived; / But what
torments of pain you endured / From evils
that never arrived!= _Emerson, from the
French._
=Some old men, by continually praising the
time of their youth, would almost persuade
us that there were no fools in those days;
but unluckily they are left themselves for
examples.= _Pope._
=Some people are all quality; you would think
they were made up of nothing but title and
genealogy. The stamp of dignity defaces in
them the very character of humanity, and
transports them to such a degree of haughtiness
that they reckon it below themselves to
exercise either good-nature or good manners.=
_L'Estrange._
=Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they
run half way to meet it.= _D. Jerrold._
=Some people carry their hearts in their heads;= 35
=very many carry their heads in their hearts.
The difficulty is to keep them apart, yet
both actively working together.= _Hare._
=Some people obtain fame, and others deserve
it.= _Lessing._
=Some people pass through life soberly and
religiously enough, without knowing why,
or reasoning about it, but, from force of habit
merely, go to heaven like fools.= _Sterne._
=Some people will never learn anything, because
they understand everything too soon.= (?)
=Some persons are so devotional they have not
one bit of true religion in them.= _B. R.
Haydon._
=Some persons, instead of making a religion for= 40
=their God, are content to make a god of their
religion.= _Helps._
=Some persons take reproof good-humouredly
enough, unless you are so unlucky as to hit
a sore place. Then they wince and writhe,
and start up and knock you down for your
impertinence, or wish you good morning.=
_Hare._
=Some philosophers seek to exalt man by display
of his greatness, others to debase him
by pointing to his miseries.= _Pascal._
=Some prayers, indeed, have a longer voyage
than others, but then they return with richer
lading at last.= _Gurnall._
=Some read books only with a view to find fault,
while others read only to be taught; the
former are like venomous spiders, extracting
a poisonous quality, where the latter, like
the bees, sip out a sweet and profitable juice.=
_L'Estrange._
=Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall; /= 45
=Some run from brakes of vice and answer
none, / And some condemnéd for a fault
alone.= _Meas. for Measure._, ii. 1.
=Some slaves are scourged to their work by
whips, others by restlessness and ambition.=
_Ruskin._
=Some straw, a room, water, and in the fourth
place, gentle words. These things are never
to be refused in good men's houses.= _Hitopadesa._
=Some talkers excel in the precision with which
they formulate their thoughts, so that you
get from them somewhat to remember;
others lay criticism asleep by a charm.=
_Emerson._
=Some tears belong to us because we are unfortunate;
others, because we are humane;
many, because we are mortal. But most are
caused by our being unwise. It is these last
only that of necessity produce more.= _Leigh
Hunt._
=Some that speak no ill of any do no good to= 5
=any.= _Pr._
=Some there be that shadows kiss, / Such
have but a shadow's bliss.= _Mer. of Venice_,
ii. 9.
=Some to whom Heaven in wit has been profuse, /
Want as much more to turn it to its
use.= _Pope._
=Some treasures are heavy with human tears,
as an ill-stored harvest with untimely rain;
and some gold is brighter in sunshine than
in substance.= _Ruskin._
=Some troops pursue the bloody-minded queen /
That led calm Henry.= 3 _Hen. VI._, ii. 6.
=Some village Hampden, that with dauntless= 10
=breast / The little tyrant of his fields withstood, /
Some mute inglorious Milton here
may rest, / Some Cromwell guiltless of his
country's blood.= _Gray._
=Some virtues are only seen in affliction, and
some in prosperity.= _Addison._
=Some wee short hours ayont the twal.= _Burns._
=Some work in the morning may trimly be
done, / That all the day after may hardly be
won.= _Tusser._
=Some would be thought to do great things
who are but tools and instruments, like the
fool who fancied he played upon the organ
when he only blew the bellows.= (?)
=Something attempted, something done, / Has= 15
=earned a night's repose.= _Longfellow._
=Something between a hindrance and a help.=
_Wordsworth._
=Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.=
_Ham._, i. 4.
=Something is wanting to science until it has
been humanised.= _Emerson._
=Something of a person's character may be
discovered by observing when and how he
smiles. Some people never smile. They
only grin.= _Bovee._
=Sometimes from her eyes / I did receive fair= 20
=speechless messages.= _Mer. of Venice_, i. 1.
=Sometimes ideas are made flesh; they breathe
upon us with warm breath; they touch us
with soft responsive hands; they look upon
us with sad, sincere eyes, and speak to us in
appealing tones.= _George Eliot._
=Sometimes the half is better than the whole, /
And sometimes worse than none; the dubious
soul / Suspects the secret there in what is
hid, / And holds the rest but trash.= _Dr.
Walter Smith._
=Sometimes / 'Tis well to be bereft of promised
good, / That we may lift the soul, and contemplate /
With lively joy the joys we cannot
share.= _Coleridge._
=Somnus agrestium / Lenis virorum non humiles
domos / Fastidit, umbrosamque ripam=--The
gentle sleep of rustic men disdains not
humble dwellings and the shady bank. _Hor._
=Somnus est imago mortis=--Sleep is the image of 25
death. _Cic._
=Son genre n'est pas le plus grand, mais elle
est la plus grande dans son genre=--Its kind
is not the greatest, but it is the greatest of its
kind. (?).
=Sonder Falsch wie die Tauben! und ihr beleidiget
keinen; / Aber klug wie die Schlangen
und euch beleidiget keiner=--Innocent as doves,
you will harm no one; but wise as serpents, no
one will harm you. _Haug._
=Song is the heroic of speech.= _Carlyle_,
=Song is the tone of feeling.= _Hare._
=Songs may exist unsung, but voices exist= 30
=only when they sound.= _Landor._
=Soon enough, if well enough.= _Pr._
=Soon hot, soon cold.= _Pr._
=Soon or late the strong need the help of the
weak.= _Fr. Pr._
=Soon ripe, soon rotten.= _Pr._
=Sooner earth / Might go round heaven, and= 35
=the strait girth of Time / Inswathe the fulness
of Eternity, / Than language grasp the
infinite of Love.= _Tennyson._
=Sooner or later the truth comes to light.= _Dut.
Pr._
=Soothed with the sound, the king grew vain, /
Fought all his battles o'er again; / And
thrice he routed all his foes, / And thrice he
slew the slain.= _Dryden._
[Greek: sophên de misô; mê gar en g' emois domois / Eiê
phronousa pleion ê gynaika chrên]--I hate a
learned woman. Let no woman in my house
know more than a woman should. _Eurip._
=Sordid and infamous sensuality, the most
dreadful of the evils that issued from the
box of Pandora, corrupts every heart and
eradicates every virtue.= _Fénelon._
=Sorex suo perit indicio=--The mouse perishes by 40
betraying himself. _Pr._
=Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours, /
Makes the night morning and the noontide
night.= _Rich. III._
=Sorrow concealed, like an oven stopped, / Doth
burn the heart to cinders where it is.= _Titus
Andron._, ii. 5.
=Sorrow has ever produced more melody than
mirth.= _C. Fitzhugh._
=Sorrow has not been given us for sorrow's
sake, but always as a lesson from which we
are to learn somewhat, which once learned,
it ceases to be sorrow.= _Carlyle._
=Sorrow is always toward ourselves, not= 45
=heaven; / Showing, we would not spare
heaven, as we love it, / But as we stand in
fear.= _Meas. for Meas._, ii. 3.
=Sorrow is an enemy, but it carries a friend's
message within it too. All life is as death;
and the tree Igdrasil, which reaches up to
heaven, goes down to the kingdom of
hell; and God, the Everlasting Good and
Just, is in it all.= _Carlyle._
=Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the
sadness of the countenance the heart is made
better.= _Bible._
=Sorrow is good for nothing but sin.= _Pr._
=Sorrow is knowledge; they who know the
most must mourn the deepest over the fatal
truth, the tree of knowledge is not that of
life.= _Byron._
=Sorrow is shadow to life, moving where life
doth move.= _Sir Edwin Arnold._
=Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity= 5
=will cleanse and brighten it.= _Johnson._
=Sorrow, like a heavy-hanging bell, once set
on ringing, with his own strength goes; then
little strength rings out the doleful knell.=
_Shakespeare._
=Sorrow like this / Draws parted lives in one,
and knits anew / The rents which time has
made.= _Lewis Morris._
=Sorrow of spirit (like Night among the Greeks)
is the mother of gods.= _Jean Paul._
=Sorrow seems sent for our instruction, as we
darken the cages of birds when we would
teach them to sing.= _Jean Paul._
=Sorrow that is couched in seeming gladness /= 10
=Is like that mirth fate turns to sudden sadness.=
_Troil. and Cress._, i. 1.
=Sorrow will pay no debt.= _Pr._
=Sorrows are like thunder-clouds--in the distance
they look black, over our heads hardly
gray.= _Jean Paul._
=Sorrows are often evolved from good fortune.=
_Goethe._
=Sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering
happier things.= _Tennyson._
=Sorrows remembered sweeten present joy.= 15
_R. Pollok._
=Sors tua mortalis; non est mortale quod optas=--Thy
lot is mortal, and thou wishest what no
mortal may. _Ovid._
=Sort thy heart to patience; / These few days'
wonder will be quickly worn.= 2 _Henry VI._,
ii. 4.
=Sotto voce=--In an undertone. _It._
=Souffrir est la première chose qu'il doit apprendre,
et celle qu'il aura le plus grand besoin
de savoir=--To be able to endure is the first lesson
which a child ought to learn, and the one which
it will have the most need to know. _Rousseau._
=Souls made of fire, and children of the sun,= 20
=with whom revenge is virtue.= _Young._
=Souls must become expanded by the contemplation
of Nature's grandeur before they
can first comprehend the greatness of man.=
_Heine._
=Sound and sufficient reason falls, after all, to
the share of but few men, and those few men
exert their influence in silence.= _Goethe._
=Sound maxims are the germs of good; strongly
imprinted on the memory, they nourish the
will.= _Joubert._
=Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! / To all
the sensual world proclaim, / One crowded
hour of glorious life / Is worth an age without
a name.= _Scott._
=Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea! /= 25
=Jehovah has triumph'd, His people are free.=
_Moore._
=Sound trumpets!--let our bloody colours
wave; / And either victory or else a grave.=
3 _Hen. VI._, ii. 2.
=Soupçon est d'amitié poison=--Suspicion is the
poison of friendship. _Fr. Pr._
=Sour woe delights in fellowship, / And needly
will be rank'd with other griefs.= _Rom. and
Jul._, iii. 2.
=Souvent la perfidie retourne sur son auteur=--Treachery
often recoils on the head of its author.
_Fr._
=Sow good works and you will reap gladness.= _Pr._ 30
=Soyez comme l'oiseau, posé pour un instant /
Sur des rameaux trop frêles, / Qui sent ployer
la branche et qui chante pourtant, / Sachant
qu'il a des ailes=--Be as the bird perched for an
instant on the too frail branch which she feels
bending beneath, but sings away all the same,
knowing she has wings. _Victor Hugo._
=Soyez ferme=--Be firm. _M._
=Soyons doux, si nous voulons être regrettés.
La hauteur du génie et les qualités supérieures
ne sont pleurées que des anges=--Let
us be gentle if we would be regretted. The
pride of genius and high talents are lamented
only by angels. _Chateaubriand._
=Space is the statue of God.= _Joubert._
=Spare but to spend, and only spend to spare.= _Pr._ 35
=Spare the rod and spoil the child.= _Pr._
=Sparen ist grössere Kunst als erwerben=--Saving
is a greater art than gaining. _Ger. Pr._
=Sparing or spending, be thy wisdom seen / In
keeping ever to the golden mean.= _Lucian._
=Speak every man truth with his neighbour.=
_St. Paul._
=Speak gently!--'tis a little thing, / Dropped= 40
=in the heart's deep well.= _Anon._
=Speak in such a manner between two enemies,
that, should they afterwards become friends,
you may not be put to the blush.= _Saadi._
=Speak little and to the purpose.= _Pr._
=Speak little, but speak the truth.= _Pr._
=Speak no evil of a man if you know it not of
him for certain, and if you do know it, then
ask yourself, "Why do I tell it?"= _Lavater._
=Speak not at all till you have somewhat to= 45
=speak; and care simply and with undivided
mind for the truth of your speaking.= _Carlyle._
=Speak not peace to thyself when beset on
every side with numerous and restless
enemies.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Speak o' the deil and he'll appear.= _Sc. Pr._
=Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, / Nor
set down aught in malice. Then must you
speak / Of one who loved not wisely but too
well.= _Othello_, v. 2.
=Speak that I may see thee.= _Addison._
=Speak the truth, and all nature and all spirits= 50
=help you with unexpected furtherance; all
things alive or brute are vouchers, and the
very roots of the grass underground there
do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.=
_Emerson._
=Speak the truth and shame the devil.= _Pr._
=Speak unto the children of Israel, that they
go forward.= _Bible._
=Speak well of the absent whenever you have
a suitable opportunity.= _Judge Hale._
=Speak well of your friend; of your enemy say
nothing.= _Pr._
=Speak when you are spoken to, and come= 55
=when you are called for.= _Pr._
=Speak your sincerest, think your wisest; there
is still a great gulf between you and the fact.=
_Carlyle._
=Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding.=
_Ger. Pr._
=Speaking much is a sign of vanity; for he that
is lavish in words is a niggard in deed.= _Sir
W. Raleigh._
=Speaking without thinking is shooting without
aim.= _Pr._
=Spectatum veniunt, veniunt spectentur ut ipsæ=--The 5
ladies come to see, they come also to be
seen. _Ovid._
=Spectemur agendo=--Let us be tried by our
actions. _M._
=Spectres exist for those only who wish to see
them.= _Holtei._
=Speculation should have free course and look
fearlessly towards all the thirty-two points
of the compass, whithersoever and howsoever
it listeth.= _Carlyle._
=Speech, even the commonest, has something
of song in it.= _Carlyle._
=Speech has been given to man to disguise his= 10
=thought.= _Talleyrand._
=Speech is a laggard and a sloth, but the eyes
shoot forth an electric fluid that condenses
all the elements of sentiment and passion in
one single emanation.= _Horace Smith._
=Speech is external thought, and thought internal
speech.= _Rivarol._
=Speech is like tapestry unfolded, where the
imagery appears distinct; but thoughts, like
tapestry in the bale, where the figures are
rolled up together.= _Themistocles, quoted by
Bacon._
=Speech is morning to the mind; it spreads the
beauteous images abroad, which else lie
furled or clouded in the soul.= _Nathaniel Lee._
=Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to= 15
=convert, to compel. It is to bring another
out of his bad sense into your good sense.=
_Emerson._
=Speech is the gift of all, but thought of few.=
_Cato._
=Speech is too often, not the art of concealing
thought, but of quite stifling or suspending
thought, so that there is none to conceal.=
_Carlyle._
=Speech of a man's self ought to be seldom and
well chosen.= _Bacon._
=Speech that leads not to action, still more
that hinders it, is a nuisance on the earth.=
_Carlyle._
=Speedy execution is the mother of good fortune.= 20
_Pr._
=Spem gregis=--The hope of the flock. _Virg._
=Spem pretio non emo=--I do not give money for
mere hopes. _Ter._
=Spend not on hopes.= _George Herbert._
=Sperat infestis, metuit secundis / Alteram
sortem bene præparatum / Pectus=--A heart
well prepared in adversity hopes for, and in prosperity
fears, a change of fortune. _Hor._
=Sperate, et vosmet rebus servate secundis=--Hope 25
on, and reserve yourselves for prosperous
times. _Virg._
=Speravi=--I have hoped. _M._
=Speravimus ista / Dum fortuna fuit=--I hoped
that once, while fortune was favourable. _Virg._
=Spero meliora=--I hope for better things. _M._
=Spes bona dat vires, animum quoque spes bona
firmat; / Vivere spe vidi qui moriturus erat=--Good
hope gives strength, good hope also confirms
resolution; him who was on the point of
death, I have seen revive by hope.
=Spes mea Christus=--Christ is my hope. _M._ 30
=Spes mea in Deo=--My hope is in God. _M._
=Spes sibi quisque=--Each man must hope in himself
alone. _Virg._
=Spes tutissima cœlis=--The safest hope is in
heaven. _M._
=Spesso chi troppo fa, poco fa=--Often he who
does too much does little. _It. Pr._
=Spesso d'un gran male nasce un gran bene=--Out 35
of a great evil there springs a great good.
_It. Pr._
=Spesso i doni sono danni=--Gifts are oftentimes
losses. _It. Pr._
=Spesso la tardità ti toglie l'occasione et la
celerità le forze=--Tardiness often robs us of
opportunity, and too great despatch of our force.
_Machiavelli._
=Spill not the morning (the quintessence of the
day) in recreation, for sleep itself is a recreation.
Add not, therefore, sauce to sauce.=
_Fuller._
=Spinner, spin softly, you disturb me. I am
praying.= _Port. Prov._
=Spinoza was a God-intoxicated man= (_Gott-getrunkener_ 40
_Mensch_). _Novalis._
=Spirit is the creator. Spirit hath life in itself.
And man in all ages and countries embodies
it in his language as the Father.= _Emerson._
=Spirit of Nature! / The pure diffusion of thy
essence throbs / Alike in every human
heart. / Thou aye erectest there / Thy
throne of power unappealable; / Thou art
the judge beneath whose nod / Man's brief
and frail authority / Is powerless as the
wind / That passeth idly by. / Thine the
tribunal which surpasseth / The show of
human justice, / As God surpasseth man.=
_Schelling._
=Spirit-power begins in directing animal power
to other than egoistic ends.= _Ruskin._
=Spirits are not finely touch'd / But to fine
issues, nor Nature never lends / The smallest
scruple of her excellence / But, like a thrifty
goddess, she determines / Herself the glory
of a creditor, / Both thanks and use.= _Meas.
for Meas._, i. 1.
=Spirits, when they please, / Can either sex= 45
=assume, or both.= _Milton._
=Spiritual music can only spring from discords
set in unison; but for evil there were no
good, as victory is only possible by battle.=
_Carlyle._
=Spite of all the criticising elves, / Those who
would make us feel must feel themselves.=
_Burke._
=Spite of cormorant devouring Time, / The
endeavour of this present breath may buy /
That honour which will bate his scythe's
keen edge, / And make us heirs of all eternity.=
_Love's L.'s Lost_, i. 1.
=Splendida vitia=--Splendid vices. _Tertullian, of
Pagan virtues._
=Splendide mendax=--Nobly false or disloyal. 50
_Hor._
=Spolia opima=--The richest of the spoil.
=Sport is the bloom and glow of perfect health.=
_Emerson._
=Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden=--Speech
is silvern, silence golden. _Swiss M._
=Sprich nicht von Zeit, sprich nicht von Raum, /
Denn Raum und Zeit sind nur ein Traum, /
Ein schwerer Traum, den nur vergisst, /
Wer durch die Liebe glücklich ist=--Speak not
of time, speak not of space, for space and time
are but a dream, a heavy dream, which he who
is happy in love only forgets. _Bodenstedt._
=Sprich vom Geheimniss nicht geheimnissvoll=--Speak
not mysteriously of what is a mystery.
_Goethe._
=St. Theresa right well defines the devil as an= 5
=unfortunate who knows not what it is to
love.= _C. J. Weber._
=Stab at thee who will, / No stab the soul can
kill.= _Raleigh._
=Stabat mater dolorosa / Juxta crucem lacrymosa /
Qua pendebat Filius=--She stood a
sorrow-stricken mother, weeping by the Cross
where her son hung dying.
=Stabit quocunque jeceris=--It will stand, whichever
way you throw it. _Legend on the three-legged
crest of the Isle of Man._
=Stagnation is something more than death, it
is corruption also.= _Simms._
=Stain= (blemish) =not thy innocence by too deep= 10
=resentment, nor take off from the brightness
of thy crown by anger and impatience and
eagerness to right thyself.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Stand fast! to stand or fall, / Free in thine
own arbitrament it stands.= _Milton._
=Stand not upon the order of your going, / But
go at once.= _Macb._, iii. 4.
="Stand out of the sun."= _Diogenes to Alexander
the Great, and which made Alexander remark,
"If I were not Alexander I would be Diogenes."_
=Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord.=
_Bible._
=Stand up bravely to afflictions, and quit thyself= 15
=like a man.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the
old paths, where is the good way, and walk
therein.= _Bible._
=Standing on what too long we bore / With
shoulders bent and downcast eyes, / We
may discern--unseen before--/ A path to
higher destinies.= _Longfellow._
=Stant cætera tigno=--The rest stand on a beam. _M._
=Stare super vias antiquas=--To stand upon the
old ways.
=Stark est des Menschen Arm, wenn ihn Götter= 20
=stützen=--Strong is the arm of man if the gods
uphold it. _Schiller._
=Stars look down upon me with pity from their
serene and silent places, like eyes glistening
with tears over the little lot of man. Arcturus
and Orion, Sirius and Pleiades, are still
shining in their courses, clear and young,
as when the shepherd first noted them in the
plain of Shinar!= _Carlyle._
=Stat sua cuique dies; breve et irreparabile
tempus / Omnibus est vitæ; sed famam
extendere factis, / Hoc virtutis opus=--Each
man has his appointed day; short and irreparable
is the brief life of all; but to extend our fame by
our deeds, this is manhood's work. _Virg._
=States are to be called happy and noble in so
far as they settle rightly who is slave and
who free.= _Carlyle._
=Statesmen that are wise / Shape a necessity,
as sculptor clay, / To their own model.=
_Tennyson._
=Statio bene fida carinis=--A safe harbourage for 25
ships. _M._
=Status quo ante bellum=--The state in which the
belligerents stood before war began.
=Status quo=, or =Statu quo=, or =In statu quo=--The
state in which a matter was.
=Stay awhile to make an end the sooner.= _Sir
Amyas Paulet._
=Steady, durable good cannot be derived from
an external cause, by reason all derived from
externals must fluctuate as they fluctuate.
What then remains but the cause internal;
in rectitude of conduct?= _James Harris._
=Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred= 30
=years ago, but it is put to better use.=
_Emerson._
=Steckenpferde sind theurer als arabische
Hengste=--Hobby-horses are more expensive
than Arab ones. _Ger. Pr._
=Steep and craggy is the path of the gods.=
_Porphyry._
=Steep regions cannot be surmounted except
by winding paths.= _Goethe._
=Stemmata quid faciunt? Quid prodest, Pontice,
longo / Sanguine censeri?=--What do
pedigrees avail? Of what advantage, Ponticus,
is it to be rated by the antiquity of your race? _Juv._
=Step by step one goes far.= _Pr._ 35
=Steps vary as much as the human face.= _J. M.
Barrie._
=Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination
in expounding and filling up, these are the
two pinions on which history soars--or
flutters and wabbles.= _Carlyle._
=Stern daughter of the voice of God.= _Wordsworth,
of Duty._
=Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives elate / Full
on thy bloom.= _Burns._
=Stet=--Let it stand. 40
=Stet fortuna domus=--May the fortune of the
house stand. _M._
=Stets ist die Sprache kecker als die That=--Speech
is always bolder than action. _Schiller._
=Stets liegt, wo das Banner der Wahrheit
wallt, / Der Aberglaube im Hinterhalt=--Where
the banner of truth waves unfurled, there
you will always find superstition lying in ambush.
_Platen._
=Stets zu spät kommt gute Kunde, / Schlechte
Kunde zu frühe=--Good news comes always too
late; bad, always too soon. _Bodenstedt._
=Steward or deputy may do well: but the lord= 45
=himself is obliged to stir in the administration
of justice.= _Cervantes._
=Stiff (a) and laboured manner is as bad in a
letter as it is in conversation.... Sprightliness
and wit are graceful in letters, just as
they are in conversation.= _Blair._
=Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, / Was
everything by starts, and nothing long; /
But in the course of one revolving moon /
Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon.=
_Dryden._
=Still humanity grows dearer; / Being learned
the more.= _Jean Ingelow._
=Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, / To
silence envious tongues.= _Henry VIII._, iii. 2.
=Still people are dangerous.= _La Fontaine._
=Still raise for good the supplicating voice, /
But leave to Heaven the measure and the
choice.= _Johnson._
=Still seems it strange that thou shouldst
live for ever? Is it less strange that thou
shouldst live at all? This is a miracle; and
that no more.= _Young._
=Still swine eat all the draff.= _Pr._
=Still the sight of too great beauty blinds us,= 5
=and we lose / The sense of earthly splendours,
gaining heaven.= _Lewis Morris._
=Still the skies are opened as of old / To the
entrancèd gaze, ay, nearer far / And brighter
than of yore.= _Lewis Morris._
=Still they gazed, and still the wonder grew /
That one small head could carry all he
knew.= _Goldsmith._
=Still to the lowly soul / He doth Himself impart,
/ And for His cradle and His throne /
Chooseth the pure in heart.= _Keble._
=Still und bewegt=--Still and yet moved. _M. of
Rahel._
=Still waters run deep.= _Pr._ 10
=Stillest streams oft water finest meadows, / And
the bird that flutters least is longest on the
wing.= _Cowper._
=Stillness of person and steadiness of features
are signal marks of good breeding. Vulgar
persons can't sit still, or at least they must
work their limbs or features.= _Holmes._
=Stirb, Götz, du hast dich selbst überlebt=--Die,
Gotz; thou hast outlived thyself. _Goethe._
=Stirb und werde! / Denn so lang du das nicht
hast, / Bist du nur ein trüber Gast / Auf der
dunkeln Erde=--Die and learn to live, for so
far as thou hast not accomplished this, thou
art but a darkened guest in a darkened world.
_Goethe._
=Stirring spirits live alone: / Write on the= 15
=others, "Here lies such a one."= _George
Herbert._
=Sto pro veritate=--I stand in the defence of truth.
_M._
=Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in
secret is pleasant.= _Bible._
=Stone masons collected the dome of St. Paul's,
but Wren hung it in the air.= _Willmott._
=Stony limits cannot hold love out; / And what
love can do, that dares love attempt.= _Rom.
and Jul._, ii. 2.
=Store of grain, O king! is the best of stores.= 20
=A gem cast into the mouth will not support
life.= _Hitopadesa._
=Store Ord giöre sielden from Gierning=--Big
words seldom accompany good deeds. _Dan.
Pr._
=Storms make oaks take deeper root.= _Pr._
=Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, that
leadeth unto life; and few there be that find
it.= _Jesus._
=Strange cozenage! none would live past years
again; / Yet all hope pleasure in what yet
remain; / And from the dregs of life think
to receive / What the first sprightly running
could not give.= _Dryden._
=Strange is the life of man, and fatal or fated= 25
=are moments, / Whereupon turn, as on
hinges, the gates of the wall adamantine!=
_Longfellow._
=Strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect,
your highest heavenly gift, hung up
in the shop window like a loaded pistol for
sale; will either blow out a pestilent scoundrel's
brains, or the scoundrel's salutary
sheriff's officer's (in a sense), as you please
to choose, for your guinea.= _Carlyle._
=Stranger or countryman to me / Welcome
alike shall ever be. / To ask of any guest
his name, / Or whose he is, or whence he
came, / I hold can never be his part / Who
owns a hospitable heart.= _Macedonius._
=Straws show which way the wind blows.= _Pr._
=Strength alone knows conflict; weakness is
below even defeat, and is born vanquished.=
_Mme. Swetchine._
=Strength, instead of being the lusty child of= 30
=passions, grows by grappling with and
throwing them.= _J. M. Barrie._
=Strength needs support far more than weakness.
A feather sustains itself long in the
air.= _Mme. Swetchine._
=Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.= _Pope._
=Strength of mind rests in sobriety, for this
keeps the reason unclouded by passion.=
_Pythagoras._
=Strength was the virtue of Paganism; obedience
is the virtue of Christianity.= _Hare._
=Strenua nos exercet inertia; navibus atque /= 35
=Quadrigis petimus bene vivere; quod petis
hic est=--Strenuous idleness gives us plenty to
do; we seek to live aright by yachting and
chariot-driving. What you are seeking for is
here. _Hor._
=Strict laws are like steel bodices, good for
growing limbs; but when the joints are
knit, they are not helps, but burdens.= _Sir
Francis Fane._
=Strict punctuality is perhaps the cheapest
virtue which can give force to an otherwise
utterly insignificant character.= _J. F. Boyes._
=Strictly speaking, the imagination is never
governed; it is always the ruling and divine
power, and the rest of the man is to it
only as an instrument which it sounds,
or a tablet on which it writes; clearly and
sublimely if the wax be smooth and the
strings true, grotesquely and wildly if they
are stained and broken.= _Ruskin._
=Strike, but hear me.= _Themistocles to Eurybiades
before battle of Salamis._
=Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world! /= 40
=Crack Nature's moulds, all germens spill at
once, / That make ungrateful man!= _Lear_,
iii. 2.
=Strike those that hurt, and hurt not those that
help.= 1 _Hen. VI._, iii. 3.
=Strike while the iron is hot.= _Pr._
=Striking manners are bad manners.= _Robert
Hall._
=Strip the bishop of his apron, the counsellor of
his gown, and the beadle of his cocked hat,
what are they? Men, mere men. Dignity,
and even holiness too sometimes, are more
questions of coat and waistcoat than some
people imagine.= _Dickens._
=Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.= 45
_Tam. of the Shrew_, i. 2.
=Strive not against the stream.= _Ecclus._
=Strive to do thy duty; then shalt thou know
what is in thee.= _Goethe._
=Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.= _Pr._
=Strong character curdles itself out of the scum
into its own place and power or impotence.=
_Ruskin._
=Strong characters are brought out by change
of situation, gentle ones by permanence.=
_Jean Paul._
=Strong conceit, like a new principle, carries
all easily with it, when yet above commonsense.=
_Locke._
=Strong feeling must create poetry.= _Moses_ 5
_Harvey._
=Strong folks have strong maladies.= _Ger. Pr._
=Strong passions are the life of manly virtues.
But they need not necessarily be evil because
they are passions and because they are
strong. The passions may be likened to
blood horses, that need training and the
curb only to enable them whom they carry to
achieve the most glorious triumphs.= _Simms._
=Strong reasons make strong actions.= _King
John_, iii. 4.
=Strong Son of God, immortal Love, / Whom
we that have not seen Thy face, / By faith,
and faith alone, embrace, / Believing where
we cannot prove.= _Tennyson._
=Stronger than steel / Is the sword of the= 10
=spirit; / Swifter than arrows / The life of the
truth is; / Greater than anger / Is love, and
subdueth.= _Longfellow._
=Strongest minds / Are often those of whom
the noisy world / Hears least.= _Wordsworth._
=Studies perfect nature, and are perfected by
experience.= _Bacon._
=Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and
for ability.= _Bacon._
=Studiis et rebus honestis=--By honourable studies
and occupations. _M._
=Studiis florentem ignobilis oti=--Indulging in the 15
studies of inglorious leisure. _Virg._
=Studio minuente laborem=--The enthusiasm
lessening the fatigue. _Ovid._
=Study gives strength to the mind; conversation,
grace.= _Temple._
=Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, / That
will not be deep-searched with saucy looks.=
_Love's L. Lost_, i. 1.
=Study is the bane of boyhood, the element of
youth, the indulgence of manhood, and the
restorative of age.= _Landor._
=Study of the Bible will keep any man from= 20
=being vulgar in style.= _Coleridge._
=Study the best and highest things that are, /
But of thyself an humble thought retain.=
_Sir J. Davis._
=Study the past if you would divine the future.=
_Confucius._
=Study thyself; what rank or what degree /
The wise Creator hath ordained for thee.=
_Dryden._
=Study to be quiet; contain yourself within
your own business, and let the prying, censorious,
the vain and the intriguing world follow
their own devices.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Study to be what you wish to seem.= _John Bate._ 25
=Stulta maritali jam porrigit ora capistro=--He
is now stretching out his foolish head to the
matrimonial halter. _Juv._
=Stultus nisi quod ipse facit, nil rectum putat=--The
fool thinks nothing well done except what
he does himself.
=Stulti sunt inumerabiles=--Fools are without
number. _Erasmus._
=Stultitiam dissimulare non potes nisi taciturnitate=--No
concealing folly save by silence.
=Stultitiam patiuntur opes=--Riches allow one to 30
be foolish. _Hor._
=Stultitiam simulare loco, sapientia summa est=--To
affect folly on an occasion is consummate
wisdom.
=Stultorum incurata malus pudor ulcera celat=--It
is the false shame of fools to try to conceal
uncured wounds. _Hor._
=Stultum est timere quod vitari non potest=--It
is foolish to distress ourselves about what cannot
be avoided. _Syr._
=Stultus es, rem actam agis=--You are a fool;
you do what has been done already. _Plaut._
=Stultus labor est ineptiarum=--The labour is 35
foolish that is bestowed on trifles. _Mart._
=Stultus, qui, patre occiso, liberos relinquat=--He
who kills the father and leaves the children is a
fool. _Pr._
=Stultus semper incipit vivere=--The fool is always
beginning to live. _Pr._
=Stunden der Noth vergiss, doch was sie dich
lehrten, vergiss nie=--Forget the times of your
distress, but never forget what they taught you.
_Gesser._
=Stung by straitness of our life, made strait /
On purpose to make sweet the life at large.=
_Browning._
=Stupid people and uneducated people do not= 40
=care for nice discriminations. They always
have decided opinions.= _William Black._
=Stupid people move like lay-figures, while
every joint of an intelligent man is eloquent.=
_Schopenhauer._
=Stupidity has its sublime as well as genius.=
_Wieland._
=Stupidity is without anxiety.= _Goethe._
=Sturm-und Drang-Periode=--The storm-and-stress
period. A literary period in Germany, the
productions of which were inspired by a love
of strong passion and violent action.
=Style is the dress of thoughts.= _Chesterfield._ 45
=Style is the physiognomy of the mind.= _Schopenhauer._
=Style is what gives value and currency to
thought.= _Amiel._
=Style may be defined, proper words in proper
places.= _Swift._
=Stylo inverso=--With the back of the pen.
=Stylum vertere=--To change or correct the style. 50
=Sua cuique Deus fit dira cupido=--Each man
makes his own dire passion a god. _Virg._
=Sua cuique quum sit animi cogitatio, / Colorque
proprius=--Since each man has a way of his own
of thinking, and a peculiar temper. _Phæd._
=Sua cuique vita obscura est=--Every man's life
is dark to himself.
=Sua cuique voluptas=--Every man has his own
liking.
=Sua quisque exempla debet æquo animo pati=--Every 55
one ought to bear patiently with what is
after his own example. _Phæd._
=Suave, mari magno turbantibus aequora ventis /
E terra magnum alterius spectare laborem!=--How
fascinating it is when on the great sea
the winds have raised its waters into billows, to
witness the perils of another from the land! _Lucretius._
=Suavis est laborum præteritorum memoria=--Sweet
is the memory of past trouble. _Cic._
=Suaviter et fortiter=--Mildly and firmly. _M._
=Suaviter in modo, fortiter in re=--Gentle in
manner, resolute in deed. _M._
="Suaviter in modo, fortiter in re,"--I do not
know any one rule so unexceptionably useful
and necessary in every part of life.= _Chesterfield._
=Sub cruce candida=--Under the pure white 5
cross. _M._
=Sub cruce salus=--Salvation under the cross.
_M._
=Sub fine=--At the end.
=Sub hoc signo vinces=--Under this sign (the cross)
thou shalt conquer. _M._
=Sub initio=--At the beginning.
=Sub Jove=--In the open air. 10
=Sub judice lis est=--The question is undecided.
=Sub pœna=--Under a penalty. _L._
=Sub reservatione Jacobæo=--With St. James's
reservation; viz., if the Lord will.
=Sub rosa=--Under the rose; confidentially.
=Sub silentio=--In silence, _i.e._, without notice being 15
taken.
=Sub specie æternitatis=--In the form of eternity,
_i.e._, as a particular manifestation of a universal
law.
=Subdue fate, and exert human strength to the
utmost of your power; and if, when pains
have been taken, success attend not, in
whom is the blame?= _Hitopadesa._
=Sublata causa tollitur effectus=--The cause removed,
the effect is also. _L._
=Sublimer in this world know I nothing than a
peasant saint, one that must toil outwardly
for the lowest of man's wants, also toiling
inwardly for the highest. Such a one will
carry thee back to Nazareth itself.= _Carlyle._
=Sublimi feriam sidera vertice=--I shall strike the 20
stars with my uplifted head. _Hor._
=Sublimity is Hebrew by birth.= _Coleridge._
=Submitting to one wrong often brings on
another.= _Pr._
=Subtilis veterum judex et callidus audis=--You
are known as a nice and experienced judge of
things old. _Hor._
=Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never
will.= _Oliver Cromwell._
=Subverting worldly strong and worldly wise, /= 25
=By simply meek.= _Milton._
=Succedaneum=--A substitute.
=Success (by laws of competition) signifies always
so much victory over your neighbour
as to obtain the direction of his work and
take the profits of it. This is the real source
of all great riches.= _Ruskin._
=Success consecrates the foulest crimes.= _Sen._
=Success? If the thing is unjust, thou hast not
succeeded.= _Carlyle._
=Success in the majority of circumstances depends= 30
=on knowing how long it takes to succeed.=
_Montesquieu._
=Success in war, like charity in religion, covers
a multitude of sins.= _Sir C. Napier._
=Success is full of promise till men get it, and
then it seems like a nest from which the
bird has flown.= _Ward Beecher._
=Success is sweet; the sweeter if long delayed,
and attained through manifold struggles and
defeats.= _A. B. Alcott._
=Success is the child of audacity.= _Disraeli._
=Success makes men look larger, if reflection= 35
=does not measure them.= _Joubert._
=Success makes success, as money makes
money.= _Chamfort._
=Success often costs more than it is worth.=
_E. Wigglesworth._
=Success tempts many to their ruin.= _Phædr._
=Success throws a veil over the evil deeds of
men.= _Demosthenes._
=Success! to thee, as to a god, men bend the= 40
=knee.= _Æschylus._
=Successful love takes a load off our hearts and
puts it on our shoulders.= _Bovee._
=Such a friend as speaketh kindly to a man's
face, and behind his back defeateth his designs,
is like a pot of poison with a surface of
milk.= _Hitopadesa._
=Such a genius as philosophers must of necessity
have is wont but seldom, in all its parts, to
meet in one man; but its different parts
generally spring up in different persons.=
_Plato._
=Such a plot must have a woman in it.= _Richardson._
=Such as are careless of themselves can hardly= 45
=be mindful of others.= _Thales._ (?)
=Such as are in the married state wish to get
out, and such as are out wish to get in.=
_Quoted by Emerson._
=Such as every one is inwardly, so he judgeth
outwardly.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Such as we are made of, such we be.= _Twelfth
Night_, ii. 2.
=Such hath been--shall be--beneath the sun, /
That many still must labour for the one.=
_Byron._
=Such is hope, Heaven's own gift to struggling= 50
=mortals; pervading, like some subtle essence
from the skies, all things both good and bad.=
_Dickens._
=Such is the aspect of this shore; / 'Tis Greece,
but living Greece no more! / So coldly
sweet, so deadly fair, / We start, for soul is
wanting there.= _Byron._
=Such only enjoy the country as are capable
of thinking when they are there; then they
are prepared for solitude, and in that case
solitude is prepared for them.= _Dryden._
=Such tricks hath strong imagination, / That,
if it would but apprehend some joy, / It comprehends
some bringer of that joy; / Or in
the night, imagining some fear, / How easy
is a bush supposed a bear.= _Mid. N.'s Dream_,
v. 1.
=Such war of white and red within her cheeks.=
_Tam. of the Shrew_, iv. 5.
=Suche die Wissenschaft als würdest ewig du= 55
=hier sein, / Tugend, als hielte der Tod dich
schon am sträubenden Haar=--Seek knowledge,
as if thou wert to be here for ever; virtue, as if
death already held thee by the bristling hair.
_Herder._
=Sucht nur die Menschen zu verwirren, / Sie
zu befriedigen ist schwer=--Seek only to
mystify men; to satisfy them is difficult. _Goethe,
the theatre-manager in "Faust."_
=Sudden blaze of kindness may, by a single
blast of coldness, be extinguished; but that
fondness which length of time has connected
with many circumstances and occasions,
though it may for a while be suppressed by
disgust or resentment, with or without cause,
is hourly revived by accidental recollection.=
_Johnson._
=Sudden love is the latest cured.= _La Bruyère._
=Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of the
mercury in the barometer, indicate little else
than the changeableness of the weather.=
_Hare._
=Sudden tumultuous popularity comes more
from partial delirium on both sides than from
clear insight, and is of evil omen to all concerned
with it.= _Carlyle._
=Suer sang et eau=--To toil and moil (_lit._ sweat 5
blood and water). _Fr. Phr._
=Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid
them not, for of such is the kingdom of
heaven.= _Jesus._
=Suffer no hour to slide by without its due improvement.=
_Thomas à Kempis._
=Suffer thyself to be led in everything but feeling
and thinking.= _Sallet._
=Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.= _Mer.
of Ven._, i. 3.
=Suffering in human life is very widely vicarious.= 10
_Ward Beecher._
=Suffering is part of the divine idea.= _Ward
Beecher._
=Suffering is the mother of fools, reason of wise
men.= (?)
=Suffering which falls to our lot in the course of
nature, or by chance or fate, does not, "ceteris
paribus," seem so painful as suffering
which is inflicted on us by the arbitrary will
of another.= _Schopenhauer._
=Suffice unto thy good, though it be small, / For
hoard hath hate, and climbing tickleness;=
(uncertainty) / =Praise hath envie, and weal
is blent o'er all.= _Chaucer._
=Sufficiency is a compound of vanity and ignorance.= 15
_Temple._
=Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof.=
_Jesus._
=Sufficiently provided from within, he has need
of little from without.= _Goethe of the poet._
=Sufficit huic tumulus, cui non suffecerit orbis=--A
tomb now suffices for him for whom the world
did not suffice. _Apropos of Alexander the
Great._
=Suffundere malis hominis sanguinem, quam
offundere=--Seek rather to make a man blush
for his guilt than to shed his blood. _Ter._
=Suggestio falsi=--Suggestion of what is false. 20
=Sui cuique mores fingunt fortunam=--Every
man's fortune is shaped for him by his own
manners. _Corn. Nep._
=Sui generis=--Of its own kind; of a kind of its
own.
=Sui juris=--Of his own right. _L._
=Suis stat viribus=--He stands by his own strength.
_M._
=Suit the action to the word, the word to the= 25
=action; with this special observance, that
you o'erstep not the modesty of nature.=
_Ham._, iii. 2.
=Suivez raison=--Follow reason. _M._
=Sum quod eris, fui quod es=--I am what you will
be, I was what you are.
=Sum up at night what thou hast done by day; /
And in the morning what thou hast to do.=
_George Herbert._
=Sume superbiam quæsitam meritis=--Assume
the proud place your merits have won. _Hor._
=Sumite materiam vestris, qui scribitis, æquam /= 30
=Viribus, et versate diu, quid ferre recusent, /
Quid valeant humeri=--Ye who write, choose a
subject suited to your abilities, and long ponder
what your powers are equal to, and what they
are unable to perform. _Hor._
=Summa bona putas, aliena vivere quadra=--You
think it the chief good to live on another's
crumbs. _Juv._
=Summa petit livor=--Envy aims very high. _Ovid._
=Summa sequor fastigia rerum=--I will trace the
principal heads of events. _Virg._
=Summa summarum=--All in all. _Plautus._
=Summæ opes inopia cupiditatum=--He is richest 35
who is poorest in his desires. _Sen._
=Summam nec metuas diem, nec optes=--Neither
fear nor wish for your last day. _Mart._
=Summum bonum=--The chief good.
=Summum crede nefas animam præferre pudori, /
Et propter vitam vivendi perdere causas=--Consider
it to be the height of impiety to prefer
life to honour, and, for the sake of merely living,
to sacrifice the objects of living. _Juv._
=Summum jus sæpe summa injuria est=--The
strictest justice is often grossest injustice. _Cic._
[Greek: syn d' ananka pan kalon]--Whatever is beautiful 40
is beautiful by an inner necessity. _Pindar._
=Sunbeams pour alike their glorious tide / To
light up worlds or wake an insect's mirth.=
_Keble._
=Sunday is the core of our civilisation, dedicated
to thought and reverence.= _Emerson._
=Sundays observe; think when the bells do
chime, / 'Tis angels' music, therefore come
not late.= _George Herbert._
=Sunlight is painting.= _Hawthorne._
=Sunrise is often lovelier than noon.= _Carlyle._ 45
=Sunt bona mixta malis, sunt mala mixta bonis=--Good
is mixed with evil, and evil with good.
=Sunt bona, sunt quædam mediocria, sunt mala
plura / Quæ legis=--Of those which you read,
some are good, some middling, and more are bad.
_Mart., of books._
=Sunt delicta tamen, quibus ignovisse velimus=--There
are some faults, however, which we are
willing to pardon. _Hor._
=Sunt Jovis omnia plena=--All things are full of
the Deity. _Virg._
=Sunt lacrymæ rerum, et mentem mortalia tangunt=--Tears 50
are due to misfortune, and mortal
woes touch the heart. _Virg._
=Sunt pueri pueri, pueri puerilia tractant=--Boys
are boys, and boys occupy themselves with boyish
things.
=Sunt superis sua jura=--Even the gods above are
subject to law. _Ovid._
=Suo Marte=--By his own prowess. _Cic._
=Super subjectam materiam=--Upon the matter
submitted. _L._
=Superbo è quel cavallo che non si vuol portar= 55
=la biada=--Proud is the horse that won't carry
its own oats. _It. Pr._
=Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but
competency lives longer.= _Mer. of Venice_, i. 2.
=Superior powers of mind and profound study
are of no use if they do not sometimes lead
a person to different conclusions from those
which are formed by ordinary powers of
mind without study.= _J. S. Mill._
=Superior strength is found in the long-run to
lie with those who had the right on their
side.= _Froude._
=Supersedeas=--You may supersede. _L._
=Superstition changes a man to a beast,= 5
=fanaticism makes him a wild beast, and
despotism a beast of burden.= _La Harpe._
=Superstition is a misdirection of religious
feeling.= _Whately._
=Superstition is an unreasoning fear of God;
religion consists in the pious worship of the
gods.= _Cic._
=Superstition is but the fear of belief; religion
is the confidence.= _Lady Blessington._
=Superstition is certainly not the characteristic
of this age. Yet some men are bigoted in
politics who are infidels in religion.= _Junius._
=Superstition is in its death-lair; the last= 10
=agonies may endure for decades or for centuries;
but it carries the iron in its heart,
and will not vex the earth any more.= _Carlyle._
=Superstition is inherent in man's nature; and
when we think it is wholly eradicated, it
takes refuge in the strangest holes and
corners, whence it peeps out all at once, as
soon as it can do so with safety.= _Goethe._
=Superstition is passing away without return.
Religion cannot pass away. The burning of
a little straw may hide the stars in the sky;
but the stars are there, and will re-appear.=
_Carlyle._
=Superstition is related to this life, religion to
the next; superstition allies itself to fatality,
religion to virtue; it is by the vitality of
earthly desires we become superstitious, and
by the sacrifice of these desires that we
become religious.= _Mme. de Staël._
=Superstition is the fear of a spirit whose
passions and acts are those of a man, who
is present in some places, and not in others;
who makes some places holy, and not others;
who is kind to one person, and unkind to
another; who is pleased or angry according
to the degree of attention you pay him, or
praise you refuse him; who is hostile generally
to human pleasure, but may be bribed
by sacrificing a part of that pleasure into
permitting the rest.= _Ruskin._
=Superstition is the only religion of which base= 15
=souls are capable.= _Joubert._
=Superstition is the poesy of life, so that it
does not injure the poet to be superstitious.=
_Goethe._
=Superstition! that horrid incubus which dwelt
in darkness, shunning the light, with all its
racks, and poison chalices, and foul sleeping
draughts, is passing away without return.=
_Carlyle._
=Superstition without a veil is a deformed
thing.= _Bacon._
=Superstitions would soon die out if so many
old women would not act as nurses to keep
them alive.= _Punch._
=Supple knees feed arrogance.= _Pr._ 20
=Suppose a neighbour should desire / To light
a candle at your fire, / Would it deprive
your flame of light / Because another profits
by't.= _Lloyd._
=Suppressing love is but opposing the natural
dictates of the heart.= _Goldsmith._
=Suppressio veri=--Suppression of what is true.
=Supra vires=--Beyond one's powers. _Hor._
=Supremum vale=--A last farewell. _Ovid._ 25
=Sur esperance=--In hope. _M._
=Surdo fabulam narras=--You tell your story to a
deaf man.
=Sure as night follows day, / Death treads in
pleasure's footsteps round the world, / When
pleasure treads the path which reason shuns.=
_Young._
=Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, /
Looking before and after, gave us
not / That capability and godlike reason / To
fust in us unused.= _Ham._, iv. 4.
=Sure, of qualities demanding praise, / More go= 30
=to ruin fortunes, than to raise.= _Pope._
=Sure those who have neither strength nor
weapons to fight at least should be civil.=
_Goldsmith._
=Surely half the world must be blind; they can
see nothing unless it glitters.= _Hare._
=Surely it is better to enclose the gulf and
hinder all access, than by encouraging us to
advance a little, to entice us afterwards a
little further, and let us perceive our folly
only by our destruction.= _Johnson._
=Surely life, if it be not long, is tedious, since
we are forced to call in the assistance of so
many trifles to rid us of our time, of that
time which can never return.= _Johnson._
=Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men= 35
=of high degree are a lie; to be laid in the
balance they are altogether lighter than
vanity.= _Bible._
=Surely nobody would be a charlatan who could
afford to be sincere.= _Emerson._
=Surely the best way is to meet the enemy in
the field, and not wait till he plunders us in
our very bed-chamber.= _Goldsmith._
=Surely use alone / Makes money not a contemptible
stone.= _George Herbert._
=Surement va qui n'a rien=--He who has nothing
goes securely. _Fr. Pr._
=Surfeit has killed more than hunger.= _Pr._ 40
=Surfeit of the sweetest things / The deepest
loathing to the stomach brings.= _Mid. N.'s
Dream_, ii. 3.
=Surfeits destroy more than the sword.= _J.
Fletcher._
=Surgit post nubila Phœbus=--The sun rises after
the clouds. _M._
=Sursum corda=--Lift up your hearts. _L._
=Surtout, messieurs, pas de zèle=--Above all, 45
gentlemen, no zeal. _Talleyrand._
=Sus Minervam=--A pig teaching Minerva.
=Susceptibility to one class of influences, the
selection of what is fit for him, the rejection
of what is unfit, determines for a man the
character of the universe.= _Emerson._
=Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus,
qui proximus destinaretur=--Those in supreme
power always suspect and hate their next heir.
_Tac._
=Suspendens omnia naso=--Sneering at everything.
_Hor._
=Suspense is worse than disappointment.= _Burns._
=Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; / The
thief doth fear each bush an officer.= 3 _Hen.
VI._, v. 6.
=Suspicion is a heavy armour, and with its own
weight impedes more than protects.= _Byron._
=Suspicion is no less an enemy to virtue than to= 5
=happiness.= _Johnson._
=Suspicion is the bane of friendship.= _Petrarch._
=Suspicion is very often a useless pain.= _Dr.
Johnson._
=Suspicion shall be all stuck full of eyes.= 1 _Hen.
IV._, v. 1.
=Suspicions amongst thoughts are like bats
amongst birds; they ever fly by twilight;
they are to be repressed, or at the least
well guarded, for they cloud the mind.=
_Bacon._
=Suspicions are nothing when a man is really= 10
=true, and every one should persevere in
acting honestly, for all will be made right
in time.= _Hans Andersen._
=Süsser Wein giebt sauern Essig=--Sweet wine
yields sour vinegar. _Ger. Pr._
=Sustine et abstine=--Bear and forbear. _M._
=Suum cuique=--To every man his due. _M._
=Suum cuique decus posteritas rependit=--Posterity
will pay every one his due. _Tac._
=Suus cuique est mos=--Every one has his own 15
way of it. _Hor._
=Suus cuique mos=--Every man has his way. _Ter._
=Suum cuique tribuere, ea demum summa justitia
est=--To give to every man his due, that is
supreme justice. _Cic._
=Swearing is invoking the witness of a spirit to
an assertion you wish to make, but cursing
is invoking the assistance of a spirit in a
mischief you wish to inflict.= _Ruskin._
=Sweep before your own door.= _Pr._
=Sweet are the uses of adversity, / Which like= 20
=the toad, ugly and venomous, / Wears yet a
precious jewel in his head; / And this our
life, exempt from public haunt, / Finds
tongues in trees, books in the running
brooks, / Sermons in stones, and good in
everything.= _As You Like It._
=Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, /
Most musical, most melancholy.= _Milton._
=Sweet flowers are slow, and weeds make haste.=
_Rich. III._, ii. 4.
=Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, /
With charm of earliest birds.= _Milton._
=Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; / Our
meddling intellect / Misshapes the beauteous
form of things: / We murder to dissect.=
_Wordsworth._
=Sweet is true love though given in vain, / And= 25
=sweet is death that puts an end to pain.=
_Tennyson._
=Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.= _Tit.
Andron._, i. 2.
=Sweet pliability of man's spirit, that can at
once surrender itself to illusions which cheat
expectation and sorrow of their weary moments!=
_Sterne._
=Sweet reader, do you know what a toady is?
That agreeable animal which you meet every
day in civilised society.= _Disraeli._
=Sweet Swan of Avon.= _Ben Jonson of Shakespeare._
=Sweetest melodies are those that are by distance= 30
=made more sweet.= _Wordsworth._
=Swift kindnesses are best: a long delay / In
kindness takes the kindness all away.=
_Anon._
=Swift to its close ebbs out life's little day.=
_Lyte._
=Sworn to no master, of no sect am I; / As
drives the storm, at any door I knock, / And
house with Montaigne now, and now with
Locke.= _Pope._
=Syllables govern the world.= _Coke._
=Sympathetic people are often uncommunicative= 35
=about themselves; they give back reflected
images which hide their own depths.= _George
Eliot._
=Sympathising and selfish people are alike
given to tears.= _Leigh Hunt._
=Sympathy can create the boldness which no
other means can evoke.= _Dr. Parker._
=Sympathy is the first condition of criticism;
reason and justice presuppose, at their origin,
emotion.= _Amiel._
=Sympathy is the first great lesson which man
should learn.... Unless he learns to feel
for things in which he has no personal interest,
he can achieve nothing generous or
noble.= _Talfourd._
=Sympathy is the solace of the poor, but for the= 40
=rich there is consolation.= _Disraeli._
=Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.=
_C. H. Parkhurst._
=Sympathy wanting, all is wanting; its personal
magnetism is the conductor of the sacred
spark that lights our atoms, puts us in
human communion, and gives us to company,
conversation, and ourselves.= _A. B. Alcott._
=Sympathy with Nature is a part of the good
man's religion.= _F. H. Hedge._
=Syne as ye brew, ... / Keep mind that ye
maun drink the yill.= _Burns._