=Tabesne cadavera solvat, / An rogus, haud= 45
=refert=--It makes no difference whether corruption
dissolve the carcase or the funeral pile.
_Lucan._
=Tabula ex= _or_ =in naufragio=--A plank in a shipwreck;
a last shift.
=Table d'hôte=--A common table for guests. _Fr._
=Tableau vivant=--A group in which statues or
pictures are represented by living persons. _Fr._
=Tabula rasa=--A smooth or blank tablet; a blank
surface.
=Tacent, satis laudant=--Their silence is praise 50
enough. _Ter._
=Tâche sans tache=--A task, or work, without a
blemish. _M._
=Tacitæ magis et occultæ inimicitiæ sunt, quam
indictæ et opertæ=--Enmities unavowed and
concealed are more to be feared than when open
and declared. _Cic._
=Tacitum vivit sub pectore vulnus=--The secret
wound still lives in her heart. _Virg._
=Tact is one of the first of mental virtues, the
absence of which is often fatal to the best
talents. It supplies the place of many
talents.= _Simms._
=Tadeln kann ein jeder Bauer; besser machen
wird ihm sauer=--Every boor can find fault; it
would baffle him to do better. _Ger. Pr._
=Tadeln können zwar die Thoren, / Aber klüger
handeln nicht=--Fools can find fault indeed, but
they cannot act more wisely. _Langbein._
=Tædium vitæ=--Weariness of life; disgust with
existence. _Gell._
=Tages Arbeit, Abends Gäste, / Saure Wochen,= 5
=frohe Feste, / Sei dein künftig Zauberwort=--Be
work by day, guests at eve, weeks of toil,
festive days of joy, the magic spell for thy future.
_Goethe._
=Take a bird from a clean nest.= _Gael. Pr._
=Take a farthing from a thousand pounds, it
will be a thousand pounds no longer.= _Goldsmith._
=Take a hair of the same dog that bit you, and
it will heal the wound.= _Pr._
=Take a stick to a Highland laddie, and it's no
him you hurt, but his ancestors.= _J. M. Barrie._
=Take all that is given, whether wealth, / Or= 10
=love, or language; nothing comes amiss; /
A good digestion turneth all to health.=
_George Herbert._
=Take any subject of sorrowful regret, and see
with how much pleasure it is associated.=
_Dickens._
=Take away desire from the heart, and you
take away the air from the earth.= _Bulwer
Lytton._
=Take care of the pence; the pounds will take
care of themselves.= _Pr._
=Take care to be an economist in prosperity;
there is no fear of your not being one in
adversity.= _Zimmermann._
=Take each man's censure, but reserve thy= 15
=judgment.= _Ham._, i. 3.
=Take everything easy= (_leicht_); =leave off dreaming
and brooding= (_Grübeln_), =and you will be
ever well guarded from a thousand evils.=
_Uhland._
=Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go:
keep her, for she is thy life.= _Bible._
=Take from the philosopher the pleasure of
being heard, and his desire for knowledge
ceases.= _Rousseau._
=Take heed, and beware of covetousness; for a
man's life consisteth not in the abundance of
the things which he possesseth.= _Jesus._
=Take heed of the vinegar of sweet wine.= _Pr._ 20
=Take heed you find not that you do not seek.= _Pr._
=Take-it-easy and Live-long are brothers.=
_Ger. Pr._
=Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for
I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall
find rest unto your souls.= _Jesus._
=Take no thought for the morrow; for the
morrow shall take thought for the things
of itself.= _Jesus._
=Take no thought for your life, what ye shall= 25
=eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your
body, what ye shall put on.= _Jesus._
=Take not His name who made thy mouth in
vain: / It gets thee nothing, and has no
excuse.= _George Herbert._
=Take note, take note, O world, / To be direct
and honest is not safe.= _Othello_, iii. 3.
=Take physic, pomp; / Expose thyself to feel
what wretches feel; / That thou mayst
shake the superflux to them, / And show
the heavens more just.= _Lear_, iii. 4.
=Take the Muses' servants by the hand; / ...
And where ye justly can commend, commend
them; / And aiblins when they winna stand
the test, / Wink hard, and say the folks hae
done their best.= _Burns._
=Take the showers as they fall, / ... Enough= 30
=if at the end of all / A little garden blossom.=
_Tennyson._
=Take this rule, ... The best-bred child hath
the best portion.= _Pr. Herbert._
=Take thou the beam out of thine own eye;
then shalt thou see clearly to take the mote
out of thy brother's.= _Jesus._
=Take thought for thy body with steadfast
fidelity. The soul must see through these
eyes alone; and if they are dim, the whole
world is beclouded.= _Goethe._
=Take time by the forelock.= _Thales._
=Take time in time, ere time be tint= (lost). _Sc. Pr._ 35
=Take time in turning a corner.= _Pr._
=Take up the torch and wave it wide, / The
torch that lights Time's thickest gloom.=
_Bonar._
=Take your thirst to the stream, as the dog
does.= _Gael. Pr._
=Taking, therefore, my opinion of the English
from the virtues and vices practised among
the vulgar, they at once present to a stranger
all their faults, and keep their virtues up only
for the inquiring of a philosopher.= _Goldsmith._
=Tale tuum carmen nobis, divine poeta, / Quale= 40
=sopor fessis=--Thy song is to us, O heavenly
bard, as sleep to wearied men. _Virg._
=Talent alone cannot make a writer. There
must be a man behind the book.= _Emerson._
=Talent for literature, thou hast such a talent?
Believe it not, be slow to believe it! To
speak or to write, Nature did not peremptorily
order thee; but to work she did.= _Carlyle._
=Talent forms itself in secret; character, in the
great current of the world.= _Goethe._
=Talent has almost always this advantage=
(_Vorsprung_) =over genius--that the former
endures, the latter often explodes, or runs to
waste= (_verpufft_). _Gutzkow._
=Talent is a cistern; genius, a fountain.= _Whipple._ 45
=Talent is a gift which God has imparted in
secret, and which we reveal without knowing
it.= _Montesquieu._
=Talent is some one faculty unusually developed;
genius commands all the faculties.= _F. H.
Hedge._
=Talent is something, but tact is everything.
It is not a seventh sense, but is the life of
all the five. It is the open eye, the quick
ear, the judging taste, the keen smell, and
the lively touch; it is the interpreter of all
riddles, the surmounter of all difficulties, the
remover of all obstacles.= _W. P. Scargill._
=Talent is that which is in a man's power;
genius is that in whose power a man is.=
_Lowell._
=Talent ist Form, Genie Stoff=--Talent is form, 50
genius is substance. _Gutzkow._
=Talent, lying in the understanding, is often
inherited; genius, being the action of reason
and imagination, rarely or never.= _Coleridge._
=Talents angel-bright, if wanting worth, are
shining instruments in false ambition's hand,
to finish faults illustrious, and give infamy
renown.= _Young._
=Talents give a man a superiority far more
agreeable than that which proceeds from
riches, birth, or employments, which are
all external. Talents constitute our very
essence.= _Rollin._
=Taliter qualiter=--Such as it is.
=Talk, except as the preparation for work, is= 5
=worth almost nothing; sometimes it is worth
infinitely less than nothing; and becomes,
little conscious of playing such a fatal part,
the general summary of pretentious nothingnesses,
and the chief of all the curses the
posterity of Adam are liable to in this
sublunary world.= _Carlyle._
=Talk of the devil and he'll appear.= _Pr._
=Talk that does not end in action is better
suppressed altogether.= _Carlyle._
=Talk to him of Jacob's ladder, and he would
ask the number of the steps.= _Douglas Jerrold._
=Talkers are no good doers.= _Rich. III._, i. 3.
=Talking is one of the fine arts.= _Holmes._ 10
=Talking is the disease of age.= _Ben Jonson._
=Talking of love is making it.= _Pr._
=Talking with a host is next best to talking
with one's self.... He is wiser than to
contradict his guest in any case; he lets
him go on, he lets him travel.= _Thoreau._
=Tam deest avaro quod habet, quam quod non
habet=--The miser is as much in want of that
which he has as of that which he has not.
_Pub. Syr._
=Tam diu discendum est, quum diu nescias, et,= 15
=si proverbio credimus, quam diu vivas=--You
must continue learning as long as you do not
know, and, if the proverb is to be believed, as long
as you live. _Sen._
=Tam Marte quam Minerva=--As much by Mars
as by Minerva; as much by courage as by
wisdom. _Pr._
=Tam Marti quam Mercurio=--As much for Mars
as for Mercury; as well qualified for war as for
business.
=Tam felix utinam, quam pectore candidus,
essem=--Oh, that I were as happy as I am clear
in conscience. _Ovid._
=Tam lo'ed him like a vera brither; / They had
been fou for weeks thegither.= _Burns._
=Tamen me / Cum magnis vixisse invita fatebitur= 20
=usque / Invidia=--Nevertheless, even envy,
however unwilling, will have to admit that I have
lived among great men. _Hor._
=Tandem fit surculus arbor=--A twig in time
becomes a tree. _M._
=Tandem poculum mœroris exhausit=--He has
exhausted at last the cup of grief. _Cic._
[Greek: ta neura tou polemou]--The sinews of war. _Pr._
=Tangere ulcus=--To touch a sore; to renew one's
grief. _Ter._
=Tanquam in speculo=--As in a mirror. 25
=Tanquam nobilis=--Noble by courtesy.
=Tanquam ungues digitosque suos=--As well as
his nails and fingers; at his fingers' ends. _Pr._
=Tant de fiel entre-t-il dans l'âme des dévots?=--Can
so much gall find access in devout souls?
_Boileau._
=Tant mieux=--So much the better. _Fr._
=Tant pis=--So much the worse. _Fr._ 30
=Tant va la cruche à l'eau qu'à la fin elle se
brise=--The pitcher goes so often to the well that it
is broken at last. _Fr._
=Tantæ molis erat Romanam condere gentem=--Such
a task it was to found the Roman race.
_Virg._
=Tantæne animis cœlestibus iræ?=--Can heavenly
minds cherish such dire resentment? _Virg._
=Tanti eris aliis, quanti tibi fueris=--You will be
of as much value to others as you have been to
yourself. _Cic._
=Tanto brevius omne tempus, quanto felicius=--The 35
happier the moments the shorter. _Pliny._
=Tanto buon, che val niente=--So good as to be
good for nothing. _It. Pr._
=Tanto fortior, tanto felicior!=--The more pluck,
the better luck!
=Tanto più di pregio reca all' opera l'umiltà dell'
artista, quanto più aggiunge di valori al
numero la nullità del zero=--The modesty of
the artist adds as much to the merit of his work
as does a cipher (of no value in itself) to the
number to which it is joined. _Bernini._
=Tanto vale la Messa detta quanto la cantata=--A
mass is as good said as sung. _It. Pr._
=Tantum quantum=--Just as much as. 40
=Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum=--Could
such cruelties have been perpetrated in the name
of religion? _Lucret. in reference to the sacrifice
of Iphigenia._
=Tantum series juncturaque / Tantum de
medio sumptis accedit honoris=--Such is the
power of order and arrangement: so much grace
may be imparted to subjects from common life.
_Hor._
=Tantum vertice in auras / Aetherias quantum
radice in Tartara tendit=--Its summit stretches
as far into the upper ether as its root into the
nether deep.
=Tantus amor laudum, tantæ est victoria curæ=--Such
is the love of praise, so great the anxiety
for victory. _Virg._
=Tapfer ist der Löwesieger, / Tapfer ist der= 45
=Weltbezwinger, / Tapfer wer sich selbst
bezwang=--Brave is the lion-vanquisher, brave
is the world-subduer, but braver he who has
subdued himself. _J. G. Herder._
=Tarda sit illa dies, et nostro serior ævo=--Slow
may that day approach, and long after our time.
_Ovid._
=Tarda solet magnis rebus inesse fides=--Men
are slow to repose confidence in undertakings of
magnitude. _Ovid._
=Tarde, quæ credita lædunt, credimus=--We are
slow to believe that which, if believed, would
work us harm. _Ovid._
=Tarde sed tute=--Slow but sure. _M._
=Tarde venientibus ossa=--To those who come late 50
the bones. _Pr._
=Tardiora sunt remedia quam mala=--Remedies
are slower in their operation than diseases. _Tac._
=Tasks in hours of insight willed, / In hours of
gloom must be fulfilled.= _Matthew Arnold._
=Taste can only be educated by contemplation,
not of the tolerably good, but of the truly
excellent.= _Goethe._
=Taste depends upon those finer emotions which
make the organisation of the soul.= _Sir J.
Reynolds._
=Taste, if it mean anything but a paltry connoisseurship,
must mean a general susceptibility
to truth and nobleness; a sense to
discern and a heart to love and reverence
all beauty, order, goodness, wheresoever
found and in whatsoever form and accompaniment.=
_Carlyle._
=Taste is the very maker of judgment.= _Leigh
Hunt._
=Taste may change, but inclination never.= _La
Roche._
[Greek: ta syka syka, tên skaphên de skaphên onomazôn]--Calling 5
a fig a fig, and a spade a spade.
_Plut._
=Taurum tollet qui vitulum sustulerit=--He who
has carried the calf will be able by and by to
carry the ox. _Pr._
=Te Deum laudamus=--We praise Thee, O God.
=Te digna sequere=--Follow what is worthy of
thee. _M._
=Te, Fortuna, sequor: procul hinc jam fœdera
sunto: / Credidimus fatis, utendum est judice
bello=--Thee, Fortune, I follow; hence far all
treaties past; to fate I commit myself, and the
arbitrament of war. _Lucan on the crossing of
the Rubicon by Cæsar._
=Te hominem esse memento=--Remember thou 10
art a man.
=Te sine nil altum mens inchoat=--Without thee
my mind originates nothing lofty. _Virg. to
Mæcenas._
=Teach me to feel another's woe, / To hide the
fault I see; / That mercy I to others show, /
That mercy show to me.= _Pope._
=Teach self-denial, and make its practice pleasurable,
and you create for the world a
destiny more sublime than ever issued from
the brain of the wildest dreamer.= _Scott._
=Teach your children poetry; it opens the
mind, lends grace to wisdom, and makes
the heroic virtues hereditary.= _Mahomet._
=Teaching has not a tithe of the efficacy of= 15
=training.= _Horace Mann._
=Teaching is of more importance than exhortation.=
_Luther._
=Teaching others teacheth yourself.= _Pr._
=Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.= _Bovee._
=Tears are due to human misery.= _Virg._
=Tears are often to be found where there is= 20
=little sorrow, and the deepest sorrow without
tears.= _Johnson._
=Tears are the deluge of sin and the world's
sacrifice.= _Gregory Nazianzen._
=Tears are the symbol of the inability of the
soul to restrain its emotion and retain its
self-command.= _Amiel._
=Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, /
Tears from the depth of some divine despair /
Rise in the heart and gather in the eyes, /
In looking on the happy autumn fields, /
And thinking of the days that are no more.=
_Tennyson._
=Tears of joy are the dew in which the sun of
righteousness is mirrored.= _Jean Paul._
=Tears of joy, like summer rain-drops, are= 25
=pierced by sunbeams.= _H. Ballou._
=Tears such as angels weep.= _Milton._
=Tecum habita=--Live with yourself; keep within
your means.
=Teeth, hair, nails, and the human species,
prosper not when separated from their place.
A wise man, being informed of this, should
not totally forsake his native home.= _Hitopadesa._
=Tel brille au second rang, qui s'éclipse au
premier=--Some who are eclipsed in the first
rank may shine in the second. _Voltaire._
=Tel coup de langue est pire qu'un coup de= 30
=lance=--Such a stroke with the tongue is worse
than one with a lance. _Fr. Pr._
=Tel, en vous lisant, admire chaque trait, / Qui
dans le fond de l'âme vous craint et vous
hait=--Such a one, in reading your work, admires
every line, but, at the bottom of his soul, he fears
and hates you. _Boileau._
=Tel excelle à rimer qui juge sottement=--Some
excel in rhyme who reason foolishly. _Boileau._
=Tel maître, tel valet=--Like master, like man.
_Fr. Pr._
=Tel père, tel fils=--Like father, like son. _Fr. Pr._
=Tel vous semble applaudir, qui vous raille et= 35
=vous joue; / Aimez qu'on vous conseille, et
non pas qu'on vous loue=--Such a one seems to
applaud, while he is really ridiculing you; attach
yourself to those who advise you rather than
to those who praise. _Boileau._
=Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets
of Askelon.= _Bible._
="Tell me how you bear so blandly the assuming
ways of wild young people?" Truly
they would be unbearable if I had not also
been unbearable myself as well.= _Goethe._
=Tell me not, in mournful numbers, / "Life is
but an empty dream," / For the soul is dead
that slumbers, / And things are not what
they seem.= _Longfellow._
=Tell me what you like, and I will tell you what
you are.= _Ruskin._
=Tell me where is fancy bred, / Or in the heart,= 40
=or in the head? / How begot, how nourishéd? /
It is engender'd in the eyes, / With gazing
fed.= _Mer. of Venice_, iii. 2.
=Tell me with whom you associate, and I will
tell you who you are; if I know what it is
with which you occupy yourself, I know
what you may become.= _Goethe._
=Tell the truth and shame the devil.= 1 _Henry
IV._, iii. 1.
=Telum imbelle sine ictu=--A feeble dart thrown
without effect. _Virg._
=Temeritas est florentis ætatis, prudentia senescentis=--Rashness
belongs to youth, prudence
to old age. _Cic._
=Temper--a weapon that we hold by the blade.= 45
_J. M. Barrie._
=Temper is so good a thing that we should
never lose it.= (?)
=Temperament lies behind mood; back of the
caprice of will lies the fate of character;
back of both is the bias of family; back of
that, the tyranny of race; still deeper, the
power of climate, of soil, of geology, the
whole physical and moral environment. Still
we are free men only so far as we rise above
these.= _John Burroughs._
=Temperance and labour are the two best
physicians of man.= _Rousseau._
=Temperance is a bridle of gold.= _Burton._
=Temperance is a tree which has for its root
very little contentment, and for its fruit calm
and peace.= _Buddha._
=Temperance is the nurse of chastity.= _Wycherley._
=Tempi passati!=--Bygone times! _Joseph II. at
sight of a picture representing a predecessor
doing penance to the Pope._
=Templa quam dilecta!=--How lovely are thy
temples! _M. of the Duke of Buckingham,
whose family name is Temple._
=Tempora labuntur, tacitisque senescimus annis;= 5
=/ Et fugiunt fræno non remorante dies=--Time
glides away, and we grow older through
the noiseless years; the days flee away, and are
restrained by no rein. _Ovid._
=Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis=--Times
change, and we change with them.
_Kaiser Lothar I._
=Tempore ducetur longo fortasse cicatrix; /
Horrent admotas vulnera cruda manus=--A
wound may, perhaps, through time be closed, but,
when fresh, it shrinks from the touch. _Ovid._
=Tempted Fate will leave the loftiest star.=
_Byron._
=Tempus anima rei=--Time is the soul of business.
=Tempus edax rerum=--Time, the devourer of all 10
things. _Ovid._
=Tempus erit quo vos speculum vidisse pigebit=--The
time will come when it will disgust you to
look in a mirror. _Ovid._
=Tempus est quædam pars æternitatis=--Time
is a certain fraction of eternity. _Cic._
=Tempus ferax, tempus edax rerum=--Time the
producer, time the devourer of things.
=Tempus fugit=--Time flies.
=Tempus in agrorum cultu consumere dulce= 15
=est=--It is delightful to spend one's time in the
tillage of the fields. _Ovid._
=Tempus omnia revelat=--Time reveals all things.
=Tempus rerum imperator=--Time is sovereign
over all things. _M._
=Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss.=
_Pope._
[Greek: tên de malista gamein, hêtis sethen engythi
naiei]--Be sure you take for wife a woman of
your own neighbourhood. _Hesiod._
=Tenax et fidelis=--Steadfast and faithful. _M._ 20
=Tenax propositi=--Tenacious of his purpose. _M._
=Tendency to sentimental whining or fierce intolerance
may be ranked among the surest
symptoms of little souls and inferior intellects.=
_Jeffrey._
=Tenderness is a virtue.= _Goldsmith._
=Tenderness is the repose of passion.= _Joubert._
=Tenebo=--I will hold. _M._ 25
=Teneros animos aliena opprobria sæpe / Absterrent
vitiis=--The disgrace of others often
deters tender minds from vice. _Hor._
=Tenet insanabile multos / Scribendi cacoëthes=--An
incurable itch for writing possesses many. _Juv._
=Tenez la bride haute à votre fils=--Keep a tight
hand over your son (_lit._ hold the bridle high).
_Fr. Pr._
=Tenir le haut du pavé=--To keep the best place
(_lit._ the highest side of the pavement). _Fr. Pr._
=Tentanda via est qua me quoque possim /= 30
=Tollere humo, victorque virûm volitare per
ora=--I too must attempt a way by which I may
raise myself above the ground, and soar triumphant
through the lips of men. _Virg._
=Tenterden steeple was the cause of Goodwin
Sands.= _Pr._
=Ter conatus ibi collo dare brachia circum, /
Ter frustra comprensa manus effugit imago=--Thrice
I attempted to throw my arms round
her neck there, and her ghost, thrice clutched in
vain, eluded my grasp. _Virg._
=Teres atque rotundum=--Smooth-polished and
rounded. _Hor._
=Terminus a quo=--The point from which anything
starts.
=Terminus ad quem=--The point of destination. 35
=Terra antiqua, potens armis atque ubere glebæ=--An
ancient land, powerful in arms and in the
fertility of its soil. _Virg., of Italy._
=Terra firma=--Dry land, in contradistinction to sea.
=Terra incognita=--An unknown land or domain
of things.
=Terra innanzi, e terra poi=--Earth originally,
and earth finally. _It. Pr._
=Terra malos homines nunc educat, atque= 40
=pusillos=--The earth now supports many bad
and weak men. _Juv._
=Terræ filius=--A son of the earth; a man of
obscure or low origin. _Pers._
=Terram cœlo miscent=--They mingle heaven and
earth.
=Terrible penalty, with the ass-ears or without
them, inevitable as death, written for ever
in heaven, against all who, like Midas, misjudge
the inner and the upper melodies, and
prefer gold to goodness, desire to duty,
falsehood to fact, wild nature to God, and
a sensual piping Pan to a high-souled, wise-hearted,
and spirit-breathing Apollo.= _Ed.,
apropos to the fable of Midas._
=Tertium quid=--A third something, produced by
the union or interaction of two opposites.
=Tertium sal=--A third salt; a neutral salt; the 45
union of an acid and an alkali.
=Tertius e cœlo cecidit Cato=--A third Cato has
come down from heaven. _Juv., in mockery._
[Greek: tês aretês hidrôta theoi proparoithen ethêkan]--The
gods have placed sweat in front of virtue.
_Hesiod._
=Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long
bow; the force of it depends upon the strength
of the hand that draws it. Argument is like
an arrow from a cross-bow, which has equal
force though shot by a child.= _Johnson._
=Tête-à-tête=--Face to face; a private conversation.
_Fr._
=Tête d'armée!=--Head of the army! _Last words_ 50
_of Napoleon._
=Tête de fou ne blanchit jamais=--A fool's head
never grows grey. _Pr._
=Teuer ist mir der Freund, doch auch den Feind
kann ich nützen; / Zeigt mir der Freund,
was ich kann, lehrt mich der Feind, was ich
soll=--Dear is to me the friend, yet can I make
even my very foe do me a friend's part. My
friend shows me what I can do; my foe teaches
me what I should do. _Schiller._
=That action is not warrantable which either
blushes to beg a blessing, or, having succeeded,
dares not present a thanksgiving.=
_Quarles._
=That but this blow / Might be the be-all and
the end-all here, / But here, upon this bank
and shoal of time, / We'd jump the life to
come.= _Macb._, i. 7.
=That carries anger as the flint bears fire; /
Who, much enforcèd, shows a hasty spark, /
And straight is cold again.= _Jul. Cæs._, iv. 3.
=That cause is strong which has not a multitude,
but one strong man behind it.= _Lowell._
=That circle of beings, which dependence gathers
round us, is almost ever unfriendly.= _Arliss._
=That civility is best which excludes all superfluous
formality.= (?)
=That cutting up, and parcelling, and labelling,= 5
=of the indivisible human soul into what
are called "faculties," I have from of old
eschewed, and even hated.= _Carlyle._
=That death's unnatural that kills for loving.=
_Othello_, v. 2.
=That elevation of mind which we see in moments
of peril, if it is uncontrolled by justice,
and strives only for its own advantage, becomes
a crime.= _Cic._
=That friendship only is, indeed, genuine when
two friends, without speaking a word to each
other, can, nevertheless, find happiness in
being together.= _Georg Ebers._
=That friendship, which is exerted in too wide
a sphere, becomes totally useless.= _Goldsmith._
=That gentleman who sells an acre of land,= 10
=sells an ounce of credit.= _Lord Burleigh._
=That golden key that opes the palace of eternity.=
_Milton._
=That government is the best which makes
government unnecessary.= _W. von Humboldt._
=That great mystery of time, were there no
other; the illimitable, silent never-resting
thing called "time," rolling, rushing on,
swift, silent like an all-embracing oceantide,
on which we and all the universe swim
like exhalations, like apparitions which are
and then are not--this is for ever very literally
a miracle, a thing to strike us dumb;
for we have no word to speak about it.=
_Carlyle._
=That grief is light which is capable of counsel.=
_Pr._
=That he is mad 'tis true; 'tis true, 'tis pity; /= 15
=And pity 'tis 'tis true.= _Ham._, ii. 2.
=That in the captain's but a choleric word, /
Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.=
_Meas. for Meas._, ii. 2.
=That intention which fixes upon God as its
only end will keep men steady in their purposes,
and deliver them from being the jest
and scorn of fortune.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=That is a most wretched fortune which is
without an enemy.= _Pub. Syr._
=That is a treacherous friend against whom
you must always be on your guard. Such a
friend is wine.= _Bovee._
=That is always best which gives me to myself.= 20
_Emerson._
=That is but an empty purse that is full of other
men's money.= _Pr._
=That is friendship which is not feigned.= _Hitopadesa._
=That is gold that is worth gold.= _Pr._
=That is indeed a twofold knowledge which
profits alike by the folly of the foolish and
the wisdom of the wise. It is both a shield
and a sword; it borrows its security from
the darkness, and its confidence from the
light.= _Colton._
=That is not a council wherein there are no= 25
=sages.= _Hitopadesa._
=That is not a duty in which there is not virtue.=
_Hitopadesa._
=That is not possible which is impossible.= _Hitopadesa._
=That is not virtue from which fear approacheth
us.= _Hitopadesa._
=That is the best part of beauty which a picture
cannot express.= _Bacon._
=That is the best part of each writer which has= 30
=nothing private in it.= _Emerson._
=That is the briefest and sagest of maxims
which bids us "meddle not."= _Colton._
=That is the true light which lighteth every
man that cometh into the world.= _St. John._
=That is the true season of love, when we believe
that we alone can love, that no one
could ever have loved so before us, and that
no one will love in the same way after us.=
_Goethe._
=That is true love which is always the same,
whether you give everything or deny everything
to it.= _Goethe._
=That is well spoken that is well taken.= _Pr._ 35
=That last infirmity of noble minds.= _Milton._
=That learning which thou gettest by thy own
observation and experience is far beyond
that which thou gettest by precept; as the
knowledge of a traveller exceeds that which
is got by reading.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=That life is long which answers life's great
end.= _Young._
=That low vice curiosity.= _Byron._
=That man has advanced far in the study of= 40
=morals who has mastered the difference
between pride and vanity.= _Chamfort._
=That man is always happy who is in the presence
of something which he cannot know to
the full, which he is always going on to know.=
_Ruskin._
=That man is an ill husband of his honour that
entereth into any action, the failing wherein
may disgrace him more than the carrying of
it through can honour him.= _Bacon._
=That man is learned who reduceth his learning
to practice.= _Hitopadesa._
=That man is little to be envied whose patriotism
would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon,
or whose piety would not grow warmer
among the ruins of Iona.= _Johnson._
=That man lives twice that lives the first life= 45
=well.= _Herrick._
=That man may last, but never lives, / Who
much receives but nothing gives; / Whom
none can love, whom none can thank--/
Creation's blot, creation's blank.= _T. Gibbons._
=That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man, /
If with his tongue he cannot win a woman.=
_Two Gent. of Verona_, ii. 1.
=That man will never be a perfect gentleman
who lives only with gentlemen. To be a
man of the world we must view that world
in every grade and in every perspective.=
_Bulwer Lytton._
=That Mirabeau understood how to act with
others, and by others--this was his genius,
this was his originality, this was his greatness.=
_Goethe._
=That must be true which all men say.= _Pr._ 50
=That nation is in the enjoyment of liberty
which stands by its own strength, and does
not depend on the will of another.= _Livy._
=That net that holds no great, takes little fish.=
_R. Southwell._
=That one man should die ignorant who had
capacity for knowledge, this I call tragedy.=
_Carlyle._
=That one will not, another will.= _Pr._
=That philanthropy has surely a flaw in it which= 5
=cannot sympathise with the oppressor equally
as with the oppressed.= _Lowell._
=That rich man is great who thinketh not himself
great because he is rich; the proud man
(who is the poor man) braggeth outwardly
but beggeth inwardly; he is blown up, but
not full.= _S. Hieron._
=That single effort by which we stop short in
the down-hill path to perdition is of itself a
greater exertion of virtue than a hundred
acts of justice.= _Goldsmith._
=That souls which are created for one another
so seldom find each other and are generally
divided, that in the moments of happiest
union least recognise each other--that is a
sad riddle!= _Goethe._
=That State must sooner or later perish where
the majority triumphs and unintelligence=
(_Unverstand_) =decides.= _Schiller._
=That state of life is alone suitable to a man in= 10
=which and for which he was born, and he
who is not led abroad by great objects is far
happier at home.= _Goethe._
=That strain again! It had a dying fall: / Oh,
it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound /
That breathes upon a bank of violets, /
Giving and stealing odour!= _Twelfth Night_,
i. 1.
=That suit is best that best fits me.= _Pr._
=That that comes of a hen will scrape.= _Pr._
=That that is, is.= _As You Like It_, iv. 2.
=That the voice of the common people is the voice= 15
=of God, is as full of falsehood as commonness.
For who sees not that those black-mouthed
hounds, upon the mere scent of opinion, as
freely spend their mouths in hunting counter,
or, like Actæon's dogs, in chasing an innocent
man to death, as if they followed the chase
of truth itself, in a fresh scent?= _A. Warwick._
=That thee is sent receive in buxomness: / The
wrestling of this world asketh a fall. / Here
is no home, here is but wilderness. / Forth,
pilgrim, forth--on, best out of thy stall. /
Look up on high, and thank the God of all.=
_Chaucer._
=That thought I regard as true which is fruitful
to myself, which is connected with the rest
of my thoughts, and at the same time helps
me on. Now it is not only possible, but
natural, that such a thought should not connect
itself with the mind of another, nor
help him on ... consequently he will regard
it as false. Once we are thoroughly convinced
of this, we shall never enter upon
controversies.= _Goethe._
=That ugly treason of mistrust.= _Mer. of Ven._, iii. 2.
=That unity which has not its origin in the
multitude is tyranny.= _Pascal._
=That very law which moulds a tear, / And bids= 20
=it trickle from its source; / That law preserves
the earth a sphere, / And guides the
planets in their course.= _Rogers._
=That vice has often proved an emancipator of
the mind is one of the most humiliating, but
also one of the most unquestionable, facts in
history.= _Lecky._
=That virtue which requires to be ever guarded
is scarcely worth the sentinel.= _Goldsmith._
=That voluntary debility, which modern language
is content to term indolence, will, if it
is not counteracted by resolution, render in
time the strongest faculties lifeless, and turn
the flame to the smoke of virtue.= _Johnson._
=That warrior on his strong war-horse, fire
flashes through his eyes; force dwells in his
arm and heart; but warrior and war-horse
are a vision; a revealed force, nothing more.
Stately they tread the earth, as if it were
firm substance. Fool! the earth is but a
film; it cracks in twain, and warrior and
war-horse sink beyond plummet's sounding.=
_Carlyle._
=That we devote ourselves to God is seen / In= 25
=living just as though no God there were.=
_Browning._
=That we shall die, we know; 'tis but the time /
And drawing days out, that men stand upon.=
_Julius Cæsar_, iii. 1.
=That we should find our national existence
depend on selling manufactured cotton at a
farthing an ell cheaper than any other people,
is a most narrow stand for a great nation to
base itself on.= _Carlyle._
=That we would do, / We should do when we
would; for this "would" changes, / And hath
abatements and delays as many / As there
are tongues, are hands, are accidents; / And
then this "should" is like a spendthrift's
sigh, / That hurts by easing.= _Ham._, iv. 7.
=That were but a sorry art which could be
comprehended all at once; the last point of
which could be seen by one just entering its
precincts.= _Goethe._
=That which builds is better than that which is= 30
=built.= _Emerson._
=That which can be done with perfect convenience
and without loss, is not always the
thing that most needs to be done, or which
we are most imperatively required to do.=
_Ruskin._
=That which each man can do best, not but his
Maker can teach him.= _Emerson._
=That which God writes on thy forehead thou
wilt come to.= _The Koran._
=That which hath been is now; and that which
is to be hath already been.= _Bible._
=That which I crave may everywhere be had, /= 35
=With me I bring the one thing needful--love.=
_Goethe._
=That which in mean men we entitle patience, /
Is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.=
_Rich. II._, i. 2.
=That which, intellectually considered, we call
Reason, considered in relation to nature we
call Spirit.= _Emerson._
=That which is crooked cannot be made
straight: and that which is wanting cannot
be numbered.= _Bible._
=That which is good to take is good to keep.= _Pr._
=That which is in the midst of fools is made= 40
=known.= _Bible._
=That which is not allotted the hand cannot
reach, and what is allotted will find you
wherever you may be.= _Saadi._
=That which is past is gone and irrevocable,
and wise men have enough to do with things
present and to come; therefore they do but
trifle with themselves that labour in past
matters.= _Bacon._
=That which is possible is ever possible.= _Hitopadesa._
=That which is truly and indeed characteristic
of the man is known only to God.= _Ruskin._
=That which makes men happy is activity= (_die
Thätigkeit_), =which, first producing what is
good, soon changes evil itself into good by
power working in a god-like manner.= _Goethe._
=That which one least anticipates soonest= 5
=comes to pass.= _Pr._
=That which produces and maintains cheerfulness
is nothing but activity.= _Jean Paul._
=That which proves too much proves nothing.=
_Pr._
=That which seems to be wealth may in verity
be only the gilded index of far-reaching ruin;
a wrecker's handful of coin gleaned from the
beach to which he has beguiled an argosy.=
_Ruskin._
=That which the droning world, chained to
appearances, will not allow the realist to
say in his own words, it will suffer him to say
in proverbs without contradiction.= _Emerson._
=That which the sun doth not now see will be= 10
=visible when the sun is out, and the stars are
fallen from heaven.= _Sir Thomas Browne._
=That which two will takes effect.= _Pr._
=That which upholdeth him, that thee upholds--His
honour.= _King John_, iii. 1.
=That which was bitter to endure may be sweet
to remember.= _Pr._
=That which we do not believe we cannot
adequately say, though we may repeat the
words never so often.= _Emerson._
=That which we have we prize not to the= 15
=worth; / But being lacked and lost, why
then we rake its value.= _Much Ado_, iv. 1.
=That which we may live without we need not
much covet.= _Pr._
=That which will not be butter must be made
into cheese.= _Pr._
=That which will not be spun, let it not come
between the spindle and the distaff.= _Pr._
=That woman is despicable who, having children,
ever feels ennui.= _Jean Paul._
=That wretchedness which fate has rendered= 20
=voiceless and tuneless is not the least
wretched, but the most.= _Carlyle._
=That's a lee wi' a lid on, / And a brass handle
to tak ho'd on.= _Pr._
=That's my good that does me good.= _Pr._
=That's the best gown that goes up and down
the house.= _Pr._
=That's the humour of it.= _Henry V._, ii. 1.
=That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly:= 25
=he wants to make sure o' one fool as'll tell
him he's wise. But there's some men can do
wi'out that--they think so much o' themselves
a'ready--an' that's how it is there's
old bachelors.= _George Eliot._
=The abandoning of some lower end in obedience
to a higher aim is often made the very condition
of securing the lower one.= _J. C. Sharp._
=The abiding city and post at which we can
live and die is still ahead of us, it would
appear.= _Carlyle._
=The absent one is an ideal person; those who
are present seem to one another to be quite
commonplace. It is a silly thing that the
ideal is, as it were, ousted by the real; that
may be the reason why to the moderns their
ideal only manifests itself in longing.= _Goethe._
=The absent party is still faulty.= _Pr._
=The accepted and betrothed lover has lost the= 30
=wildest charms of his maiden in her acceptance
of him. She was heaven whilst he
pursued her as a star--she cannot be heaven
if she stoops to such a one as he.= _Emerson._
=The accusing spirit, which flew up to heaven's
chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave
it in; and the recording angel, as he wrote
it down, dropped a tear upon the word and
blotted it out for ever.= _Sterne._
=The acknowledgment of our weakness is the
first step towards repairing our loss.= _Thomas
à Kempis._
=The actual well seen is the ideal.= _Carlyle._
=The advice that is wanted is commonly unwelcome;
that which is not wanted is evidently
impertinent.= _Johnson._
=The affection of young ladies is of as rapid= 35
=growth as Jack's beanstalk, and reaches up
to the sky in a night.= _Thackeray._
=The afflictions of earth exalt the spirit and lift
the soul to God.= _Tiedge._
=The age made no sign when Shakespeare, its
noblest son, passed away.= _Willmott._
=The age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters,
economists, and calculators has succeeded;
and the glory of Europe is extinguished for
ever.= _Burke._
=The age of curiosity, like that of chivalry, is
ended, properly speaking, gone. Yet perhaps
only gone to sleep.= _Carlyle._
=The age of great men is going; the epoch of= 40
=the anthill, of life in multiplicity, is beginning.=
_Amiel._
=The age of miracles past! The age of miracles
is for ever here.= _Carlyle._
=The ages of greatest public spirit are not
always eminent for private virtue.= _Hume._
=The agnosticism of doubt is as far from the
agnosticism of devotion as blindness for
want of vision from blindness through excess
of light.= _James Martineau._
=The aim of all morality, truly conceived, is to
furnish men with a standard of action and
a motive to work by, which shall not intensify
each man's selfishness, but raise
him ever more and more above it.= _J. C.
Sharpe._
=The aim of education should be to teach us= 45
=rather how to think than what to think.=
_Beattie._
=The aim of life is work, or there is no aim at
all.= _Auerbach._
=The aim of the legislator should be, not truth,
but expediency.= _Buckle._
=The air seems nimble with the glad, / Quaint
fancies of our childhood dear.= _Dr. Walter
Smith._
=The alchemists in their search for gold discovered
other things of greater value.= _Schopenhauer._
=The all in all of faith is= _that_ =we believe; of= 50
=knowledge=, _what_ =we know, as well as how
much and how well.= _Goethe._
=The almighty dollar.= _Washington Irving._
=The alpha and omega of Socialism is the
transmutation of private competing capital
into united collective capital.= _Schæffle._
=The amateur, however weak may be his efforts
at imitation, need not be discouraged, ...
for one advances to an idea the more surely
and steadily the more accurately and precisely
he considers individual objects. Only
it will not do to measure one's self with
artists; every one must go on in his own
style.= _Goethe._
=The ambitious are ever followed by adulation,
for such alone receive most pleasure from
flattery.= _Goldsmith._
=The amount of intellect necessary to please us= 5
=is a most accurate measure of the amount of
intellect we have ourselves.= _Helvetius._
=The ancient Spartan custom of killing weak-bodied
children is not much crueller than
that of propagating weak-minded ones.=
_Jean Paul._
=The ancients tell us what is best; but we must
learn of the moderns what is fittest.= _Ben.
Franklin._
=The anger of a strong man can always bide
its time.= _Ruskin._
=The animal is capable of enjoyment, only man
is capable of serenity of mind and gladness
of heart.= _Jean Paul._
=The animals look for man's intentions right= 10
=into his eyes. Even a rat, when you hunt
him and bring him to bay, looks you in the
eye.= _H. Powers._
=The apparel oft proclaims the man.= _Ham._,
i. 3.
=The apprehension and representation of what
is individual is the very life of art.= _Goethe._
=The apprehension of the good / Gives but the
greater feeling to the worse.= _Rich. II._,
i. 3.
=The arch-enemy is the arch-stupid.= _Carlyle._
=The archer who overshoots the mark misses,= 15
=as well as he that falls short of it.= _Pr._
=The argument all bare is of more worth / Than
when it hath my added praise beside.= _Shakespeare._
=The army is a good book to open to study
human life.= _Alfred de Vigny._
=The army is a school in which the niggardly
become generous and the generous prodigal.=
_Cervantes._
=The arrows of sarcasm are barbed with contempt....
It is the sneer in the satire or
the ridicule that galls or wounds.= _W.
Gladden._
=The art of exalting lowliness and giving greatness= 20
=to little things is one of the noblest
functions of genius.= _Palgrave._
=The art of living is like every other art; only
the capacity is born with us; it must be
learned and practised with incessant care.=
_Goethe._
=The art of pleasing is the art of deceiving.=
_Vauvenargues._
=The art was his to break vexations with a
ready jest.= _Dr. W. Smith._
=The art which is produced hastily will also
perish hastily.= _Ruskin._
=The artist belongs to his work, not the work= 25
=to the artist.= _Novalis._
=The artist is the son of his age; but pity for
him if he is its pupil, or even its favourite.=
_Schiller._
=The artist must conceive with warmth= (_mit
Feuer_) =and execute with coolness.= _Winkelmann._
=The artist stands higher than the art, higher
than the object: he uses art for his own
purposes, and deals with the object after his
own fashion.= _Goethe._
=The artist's vocation is to send light into the
depths of the human heart.= _Schumann._
=The arts of deceit and cunning do continually= 30
=grow weaker, and less effectual and serviceable
to them that use them.= _Tillotson._
=The astonishing intellect that occupies itself
in splitting hairs, and not in twisting some
kind of cordage and effectual draught tackle
to take the road with, is not to me the most
astonishing of intellects. I want twisted
cordage, steady pulling, and a peaceable bass
tone of voice; not split hairs, hysterical
spasmodics, and treble.= _Carlyle._
=The Atlantic Ocean beat Mrs. Partington.
She was excellent at a slop or a puddle, but
she should not have meddled with a tempest.=
_Sydney Smith._
=The atmosphere of moral sentiment is a region
of grandeur which reduces all material magnificence
to toys, yet opens to every wretch
that has reason the doors of the universe.=
_Emerson._
=The attainment of a truer and truer aristocracy,
or government again by the Best,--all
that democracy ever meant lies there.=
_Carlyle._
=The attempt, and not the deed, / Confounds us.= 35
_Macb._, ii. 2.
=The attraction of love is in an inverse proportion
to the attraction of the Newtonian
philosophy.= _Burns._
=The author is often obscure to readers because,
as has been said, he proceeds from
the thought to the expression, whereas they
proceed from the expression to the thought.=
_Chamfort._
=The awful shadow of some unseen Power /
Floats, though unseen, among us.= _Shelley._
=The axe of intemperance has lopped off his
green boughs and left him a withered trunk.=
_Swift._
=The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through= 40
=the centre of each and every town or city.=
_Holmes._
=The back of one door is the face of another.=
_Pr._
=The back-door robs the house.= _Pr._
=The backslider in heart shall be filled with his
own ways.= _Bible._
=The bad fortune of the good turns their faces
up to heaven; and the good fortune of the
bad bows their heads down to the earth.=
_Saadi._
=The bad= (_böse_) =man has not only the good, but= 45
=also the bad against him.= _Bischer._
=The barrenest of mortals is the sentimentalist.=
_Carlyle._
=The basest thought about man is that he has
no spiritual nature; and the foolishest, that
he has, or should have, no animal nature.=
_Ruskin._
=The basis of good manners is self-reliance.=
_Emerson._
=The battle of belief against unbelief is the
never-ending battle.= _Carlyle._
=The beams of joy are made hotter by reflection.=
_Fuller._
=The bearers of the thyrsus= (the symbol of the
Bacchus inspiration) =are many, but the Bacchants=
(the truly inspired) =are few.= _Gr. Pr._
=The bearing and the training of a child is= 5
=woman's wisdom.= _Tennyson._
=The beaten road is the safest.= _Pr._
=The beautiful is a manifestation of secret laws
of nature, which, but for its appearance,
had been for ever concealed from us.= _Goethe._
=The beautiful is higher than the good; the
beautiful includes in it the good.= _Goethe._
=The beautiful is like sunshine to the world;
the beautiful lives for ever.= _Hans Andersen._
=The beautiful rests on the foundation of the= 10
=necessary.= _Emerson._
=The beggar is never out of the fashion, or
limpeth awkwardly behind it.= _Lamb._
=The beggar is not expected to become bail or
surety for any one.= _Lamb._
=The beggar is not required to put on court
mourning.= _Lamb._
=The beggar is the only free man in the universe.=
_Lamb._
=The beggar is the only man in the universe= 15
=who is not obliged to study appearances.=
_Lamb._
=The beggar weareth all colours, fearing none.=
_Lamb._
=The beggar's costume hath undergone less
change than the Quaker's.= _Lamb._
=The beginning, and very nearly the end, of
bodily education for a girl, is to make sure
that she can stand and sit upright; the
ankle vertical, and firm as a marble shaft;
the waist elastic as a reed, and as unfatiguable.=
_Ruskin._
=The beginning of all good law, and nearly the
end of it, is that every man shall do good
work for his bread, and that every man shall
have good bread for his work.= _Ruskin._
=The beginning of all temptations and wickedness= 20
=is the fickleness of our own minds and
want of trust in God.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=The beginning of creation= (in man's soul as in
Nature) =is light. Till the eye have vision,
the whole members are in bonds.= _Carlyle._
=The beginning of inquiry is disease.= _Carlyle._
=The beginning of strife is as when one letteth
out water: therefore leave off contention
before it be meddled with.= _Bible._
=The beginning of wisdom is to look fixedly on
clothes= (_i.e._ symbols), =till they become transparent.=
_Carlyle._
=The being whose strength exceeds its necessities= 25
=is strong; the being whose necessities
exceed its strength is feeble.= _Rousseau._
=The bell strikes one. We take no note of
time / But for its loss.= _Young._
=The belly is chains to the hands and fetters to
the feet. He who is a slave to his belly
seldom worships God.= _Saadi._
=The beloved of the Almighty are the rich who
have the humility of the poor, and the poor
who have the magnanimity of the rich.=
_Saadi._
=The benefactors of mankind are those who
grumble to the best purpose. Grumbling
has raised man from the condition of the
gorilla to that of the judge on the bench of
justice.= _John Wagstaffe._
=The benevolent heart will not solicit, but command= 30
=our reverence and applause.= _Arliss._
=The benevolent person is always by preference
busy on the essentially bad.= _Carlyle._
=The best advice is, Follow good advice and
hold old age in highest honour.= _Goethe._
=The best architecture is the expression of the
mind of manhood by the hands of childhood.=
_Ruskin._
=The best courages are but beams of the
Almighty.= _Mrs. Hutchinson._
=The best effect of any book is that it excites= 35
=the reader to self-activity.= _Carlyle._
=The best fish swim near the bottom.= _Pr._
=The best friends in the world may differ sometimes.=
_Sterne._
=The best gifts find the fewest admirers, and
most men mistake the bad for the good.=
_Gellert._
=The best government is that which teaches us
to govern ourselves.= _Goethe._
=The best independence is to have something to= 40
=do, and something that can be done, and done
most perfectly in solitude.= _P. G. Hamerton._
=The best is best cheap.= _Pr._
=The best is but in season best.= _Allan Ramsay._
=The best is not to be explained by words.= _Goethe._
=The best laid schemes o' mice an' men / Gang
aft a-gley, / And lea'e us naught but grief
and pain / For promised joy.= _Burns._
=The best loneliness is when no human eye has= 45
=rested on our face for a whole day.= _Auerbach._
=The best may slip, and the most cautious fall;/
He's more than mortal that ne'er err'd at all.=
_Pomfret._
=The best mirror is an old friend.= _Pr._
=The best of angels do not live in community,
but by themselves.= _Swedenborg._
=The best of lessons, for a good many people,
would be to listen at a keyhole. It is a pity
for such that the practice is dishonourable.=
_Mme. Swetchine._
=The best of men/ That e'er wore earth about= 50
=him was a sufferer; / A soft, meek, patient,
humble, tranquil spirit; / The first true
gentleman that ever breathed.= _Decker._
=The best of the sport is to do the deed and say
nothing.= _Pr._
=The best part of our knowledge is that which
teaches us where knowledge leaves off and
ignorance begins.= _Holmes._
=The best path through life is the highway.=
_Amiel._
=The best portraits are those in which there is
a slight mixture of caricature.= _Macaulay._
=The best preservative to keep the mind in= 55
=health is the faithful admonition of a friend.=
_Bacon._
=The best remedy against an ill man is much
ground between both.= _Pr._
=The best rules to form a young man are, to
talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone
upon what has passed in company, to distrust
one's own opinions, and value others'
that deserve it.= _Sir W. Temple._
=The best self-forgetfulness is to look at the
things of the world with attention and love.=
_Auerbach._
=The best son is not enough a son.= _Emerson._
=The best, the only correct actions are those
which demand no explanation and no
apology.= _Auerbach._
=The best thing I know between France and
England is the sea.= _Douglas Jerrold._
=The best thing which we derive from history= 5
=is the enthusiasm which it raises in us.=
_Goethe._
=The best things are worst to come by.= _Walker._
=The best use of money is to pay debts.= _Pr._
=The best way to come to truth is to examine
things as they really are, and not to conclude
they are, as we have been taught by
others to imagine.= _Locke._
=The best way to make the audience laugh is
by first laughing yourself.= _Goldsmith._
=The best way to please one half of the world is= 10
=not to mind what the other half says.= _Goldsmith._
=The best work in the world is done on the
quiet.= _Pr._
=The best work never was, nor ever will be,
done for money at all.= _Ruskin._
=The best works, and of greatest merit for the
public, have proceeded from unmarried or
childless men, which, both in affection and
means, have married and endowed the
public.= _Bacon._
=The betrayer is the murderer.= _Gael. Pr._
=The better a man is morally, the less conscious= 15
=he is of his virtues. The greater the artist,
the more aware he must be of his shortcomings.=
_Froude._
=The better day the better deed.= _Walker._
=The better I know men the more I admire
dogs.= (?)
=The better part of valour is discretion.= 1 _Hen.
IV._, v. 4.
=The better you understand yourself, the less
cause you will find to love yourself.= _Thomas
à Kempis._
=The Bible contains many truths as yet undiscovered.= 20
_Butler._
=The Bible contains more true sublimity, more
exquisite beauty, more pure morality, more
important history, and finer strains of poetry
and eloquence than can be collected from all
other books, in whatever age or language
they have been written.= _Sir William Jones._
=(The Bible) contains plain teaching for men of
every rank of soul and state of life, which so
far as they honestly and implicitly obey, they
will be happy and innocent to the utmost
powers of their nature, and capable of victory
over all adversities, whether of temptation
or pain.= _Ruskin._
=The Bible is the great family chronicle of the
Jews.= _Heine._
=The Bible of a nation, the practically credited
God's message to a nation, is, beyond all
else, the authentic biography of its heroic
souls. This is the real record of the appearances
of God in the history of a nation;
this, which all men to the marrow of their
bones can believe, and which teaches all men
what the nature of this universe, when you
go to work in it, really is.= _Carlyle._
=The Bible tells us what Christian graces are;= 25
=but it is in the struggle of life that we are to
find them.= _Beecher._
=The biography of a nation embraces all its
works. No trifle is to be neglected. A
mouldering medal is a letter of twenty centuries.=
_Willmott._
=The bird of wisdom flies low, and seeks her
food under hedges; the eagle himself would
be starved if he always soared aloft and
against the sun.= _Landor._
=The birds without barn or storehouse are fed: /
From them let us learn to trust for our
bread.= _Newton._
=The birth of a child is the imprisonment of a
soul.= _Simons._
=The birth of a golden deer is impossible.= _Hitopadesa._ 30
=The bishop has set his foot in it=, _i.e._, the broth is
singed. _Pr._ (The explanation of which, according
to Grose, is: Whenever a bishop passed through a
town or a village, all the inhabitants ran out to
receive his blessing; this frequently caused the
milk on the fire to be left till burnt.)
=The biter is often bit.= _Pr._
=The blanks as well as the prizes must be
drawn in the cheating lottery of life.= _Le
Sage._
=The blast that blows loudest is soon overblown.=
_Smollett._
=The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out,= 35
=but it often dies in the socket.= _Johnson._
=The blessed work of helping the world forward
does not wait to be done by perfect men.=
_George Eliot._
=The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, and
he addeth no sorrow with it.= _Bible._
=The blind man bears the lame, and onward
hies, / Made right by lending feet and borrowing
eyes.= _Plato the Younger._
=The block of granite, which was an obstacle
in the pathway of the weak, becomes a
stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.=
_Carlyle._
=The blood more stirs / To rouse a lion than to= 40
=start a hare.= _Hen. IV._, i. 3.
=The blood of man should never be shed but to
redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for
our family, for our friends, for our God, for
our country, for our kind. The rest is
vanity, the rest is crime.= _Burke._
=The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the
Church.= _Tertullian._
=The blue-bird carries the sky on his back.=
_Thoreau._
=The blue of heaven is larger than the cloud.=
_Mrs. Browning._
=The blush is Nature's alarm at the approach of= 45
=sin, and her testimony to the dignity of
virtue.= _Fuller._
=The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead
soul.= _Bovee._
=The body of Christ is wherever human bodies
are, and he who has any bitterness against
his brother is always committing sacrilege.=
_Ward Beecher._
=The book of Nature is the book of Fate.=
_Emerson._
=The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, /
With loads of learned lumber in his head.=
_Pope._
=The books which help you most are those which
make you think the most.= _Theodore Parker._
=The borrower runs in his own debt.= _Emerson._
=The bough that is dead shall be cut away for
the sake of the tree itself. Let the Conservatism
that would preserve the tree, cut
it away.= _Carlyle._
=The bounds of a man's knowledge are easily
concealed if he has but prudence.= _Goldsmith._
=The boy stands astonished; his impressions= 5
=guide him; he learns sportfully; seriousness
steals on him by surprise.= _Goethe._
=The boy's story is the best that is ever told.=
_Dickens._
=The boy's will is the wind's will, / And the
thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.=
_Lapland Pr._
=The brain may devise laws for the blood; but
a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree.= _Mer.
of Ven._, i. 2.
=The brain-women never interest us like the
heart-women; white roses please less than
red.= _Holmes._
=The brave man thinks of himself last of all.= 10
_Schiller._
=The bravest are the tenderest, / The loving
are the daring.= _Bayard Taylor._
=The breach of custom / Is breach of all.= _Cymbeline_,
iv. 2.
=The breeding of a man makes him courageous
by instinct, true by instinct, loving by instinct,
as a dog is; and therefore, felicitously
above, or below (whichever you like to call
it), all questions of philosophy and divinity.=
_Ruskin._
=The British nation--and I include in it the
Scottish nation--has produced a finer set of
men than you will find it possible to get
anywhere else in this world.= _Carlyle._
=The bud may have a bitter taste, / But sweet= 15
=will be the flower.= _Cowper._
=The buke o' May-bees is very braid.= _Sc. Pr._
=The burden one likes is cheerfully borne.= _Pr._
=The burning of a little straw may hide the
stars of the sky; but the stars are there,
and will reappear.= _Carlyle._
=The burst of new light, by its suddenness,
always appears inimical to the unprepared
heart.= _Jean Paul._
=The busiest of living agents are certain dead= 20
=men's thoughts.= _Bovee._
=The calling of a man's self to a strict account
is a medicine sometimes too piercing and
corrosive; reading good books of morality is
a little flat and dead ... but the best receipt
(best to work, and best to take) is the admonition
of a friend.= _Bacon._
=The camomile, the more it is trodden on, the
faster it grows; yet youth, the more it is
wasted, the sooner it wears.= 1 _Hen. IV._, ii. 4.
=The canary-bird sings the sweeter the longer
it has been trained in a darkened cage.=
_Jean Paul._
=The cancer of jealousy on the breast can never
wholly be cut out, if I am to believe great
masters of the healing art.= _Jean Paul._
=The canker galls the infants of the spring /= 25
=Too oft before their buttons are disclosed, /
And in the morn and liquid dew of youth /
Contagious blastments are most imminent.=
_Ham._, i. 3.
=The capacity of apprehending what is high is
very rare; and therefore, in common life a
man does well to keep such things for himself,
and only to give out so much as is needful
to have some advantage against others.=
_Goethe._
=The captive bands may chain the hands, /
But love enslaves the man.= _Burns._
=The Carlyles were men who lavished their
heart and conscience upon their work; they
builded themselves, their days, their thoughts
and sorrows, into their houses; they leavened
the soil with the sweat of their rugged brows.=
_John Burroughs._
=The casting away things profitable for the
maintenance of man's life is an unthankful
abuse of the fruits of God's good providence
towards mankind.= _Hooker._
=The castle which Conservatism is set to defend= 30
=is the actual state of things, good and bad.=
_Emerson._
=The cat shuts its eyes when stealing the
cream.= _Pr._
=The cause which pleased the gods has in the
end to please Cato also.= (?)
=The centuries are all lineal children of one
another; and often, in the portrait of early
grandfathers, this and the other enigmatic
feature of the newest grandson will disclose
itself, to mutual elucidation.= _Carlyle._
=The centuries are conspirators against the
sanity and authority of the soul.= _Emerson._
=The certain way to be cheated is to fancy one's= 35
=self more cunning than others.= _Charron._
=The chains of habit are generally too small to
be felt till they are too strong to be broken.=
_Johnson._
=The champion true / Loves victory more when,
dim in view, / He sees her glories gild afar /
The dusky edge of stubborn war, / Than if
th' untrodden bloodless field / The harvest
of her laurels yield.= _Keble._
=The change of a man's self is a very laborious
undertaking.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=The character of a nation is not to be learned
from its fine folks.= _Scott._
=The character of the person that commends= 40
=you is to be considered before you set a
value on his esteem. The wise man applauds
him whom he thinks most virtuous; the rest
of the world, him who is most wealthy.= (?)
=The character of the true philosopher is to
hope all things not unreasonable.= _Sir John
Herschel._
=The characteristic mark of minds= (_Geister_) =of
the first order is the directness= (_Unmittelbarkeit_)
=of all their judgments. All that they
bring forth= (_vorbringen_) =is the result of their
own thinking.= _Schopenhauer._
=The characteristic of a philosopher is that he
looks to himself for all help or harm.= _Epictetus._
=The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity; of
Spencer, remoteness; of Milton, elevation:
of Shakespeare, everything.= _Hazlitt._
=The chariest maid is prodigal enough / If she= 45
=unmask her beauty to the moon.= _Ham._,
i. 1.
=The charitable give out at the door, and God
puts in at the window.= _Pr._
=The charity that thinketh no evil trusts in God
and trusts in man.= _J. G. Holland._
=The chaste mind, like a polished plane, may
admit foul thoughts, without receiving their
tincture.= _Sterne._
=The cheap swearer through his open sluice /
Lets his soul run for nought.= _George Herbert._
=The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy.=
_Emerson._
=The chief glory of every people arises from its= 5
=authors.= _Johnson._
=The chief of all the curses of this unhappy age
is the universal gabble of its fools, and of the
flocks that follow them, rendering the quiet
voices of the wise of all past time inaudible.=
_Ruskin._
=The chief requisites for a courtier are a flexible
conscience and an inflexible politeness.= _Lady
Blessington._
=The chief value and virtue of money consists
in its having power over human beings; a
power which is attainable by other means
than by money.= _Ruskin._
=The child is father of the man.= _Wordsworth._
=The child is not to be educated for the present,= 10
=but for the remote future, and often
in opposition to the immediate future.= _Jean
Paul._
=The child who desires education will be
bettered by it; the child who dislikes it,
only disgraced.= _Ruskin._
=The child's murmuring is more and is less than
words; there are no notes, and yet it is a
song; there are no syllables, and yet it is
language.... This poor stammering is a
compound of what the child said when it
was an angel, and of what it will say when
it becomes a man.= _Victor Hugo._
=The childhood shows the man / As morning
shows the day.= _Milton._
=The children of others we never love so much
as our own; error, our own child, is so near
our heart.= _Goethe._
=The choicest thing this world has for a man is= 15
=affection.= _J. G. Holland._
=The Christian doctrine, that doctrine of Humility,
in all senses godlike, and the parent
of all godlike virtue, is not superior, or inferior,
or equal to any doctrine of Socrates
or Thales, being of a totally different nature;
differing from these as a perfect ideal poem
does from a correct computation in arithmetic.=
_Carlyle._
=The Christian religion having once appeared,
cannot again vanish; having once assumed
its divine shape, can be subject to no dissolution.=
_Goethe._
=The Christian religion is an inspiration and
life--God's life breathed into a man and
breathed through a man.= _J. G. Holland._
=The Christian religion is especially remarkable,
as it so decidedly lays claim to mere
goodwill in man, to his essential temper,
and values this independently of all culture
and manifestation. It stands in opposition
to science and art, and properly to enjoyment.=
_Novalis._
=The Christian religion, often enough dismembered= 20
=and scattered abroad, will ever in the
end again gather itself together at the foot
of the cross.= _Goethe._
=The Christian religion, once here, cannot again
pass away; in one or the other form, it will
endure through all time. As in Scripture, so
also in the heart of man, it is written, "The
gates of hell shall not prevail against it."=
_Carlyle._
=The Christianity that cannot get on without a
minimum of four thousand five hundred, will
give place to something better that can.=
_Carlyle._
=The Church is a mere organisation to help a
man to fulfil his duties; it is not the source
from whence those duties sprung.= _Ward
Beecher._
=The Church is the working recognised union
of those who by wise teaching guide the
souls of men.= _Carlyle._
=The Church! Touching the earth with one= 25
=small point (the event, viz., at Bethlehem of
the year one); springing out of one small
seed-grain, rising out therefrom, ever higher,
ever broader, high as the heaven itself, broad
till it overshadow the whole visible heaven
and earth, and no star can be seen but
through it. From such a seed-grain so has
it grown; planted in the reverences and
sacred opulences of the soul of mankind; fed
continually by all the noblenesses of forty
generations of man. The world-tree of the
nations for so long!= _Carlyle._
=The Churchmen fain would kill their Church, /
As the Churches have killed their Christ.=
_Tennyson._
=The circle of noble-minded people is the most
precious of all that I have won.= _Goethe._
=The city does not take away, neither does the
country give, solitude: solitude is within us.=
_Joseph Roux._
=The city is recruited from the country.= _Emerson._
=The civil guest / Will no more talk all, than= 30
=eat all the feast.= _George Herbert._
=The civilised man lives not in wheeled houses.
He builds stone castles, plants lands, makes
life-long marriage contracts; has long-dated,
hundred-fold possessions, not to be valued in
the money-market; has pedigrees, libraries,
law-codes; has memories and hopes, even
for this earth, that reach over thousands of
years.= _Carlyle._
=The civilised nation consists broadly of mob,
money-collecting machine, and capitalist;
and when the mob wishes to spend money
for any purpose, it sets its money-collecting
machine to borrow the money it needs from
the capitalist, who lends it on condition of
taxing the mob generation after generation.=
_Ruskin._
=The civilised savage= (_Wilde_) =is the worst of all
savages.= _C. J. Weber._
=The Classical is healthy, the Romantic sickly.=
_Goethe._
=The clergy are at present divided into three= 35
=sections: an immense body who are ignorant;
a small proportion who know and are silent;
and a minute minority who know and speak
according to their knowledge.= _Huxley._
=The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, /
The solemn temples, the great globe
itself, / Yea, all that it inherit, shall dissolve; /
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, /
Leave not a rack behind.= _Tempest_, iv. 1.
=The cloud incense of the altar hides / The
true form of the God who there abides.= _Dr.
W. Smith._
=The clouds never pass against the wind.=
_Hitopadesa._
=The clouds that gather round the setting sun /
Do take a sober colouring from an eye /
That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality.=
_Wordsworth._
=The clouds that wrap the setting sun / ...
Why, as we watch their floating wreath, /
Seem they the breath of life to breathe? /
To Fancy's eye their motions prove / They
mantle round the sun for love.= _Keble._
=The clouds treat the sea as if it were a mill-pond= 5
=or a spring-run, too insignificant to
make any exceptions to.= _John Burroughs._
=The cock, that is the trumpet of the morn, /
Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding
throat / Awake the god of day.= _Ham._, i. 1.
=The coin that is most current among mankind
is flattery; the only benefit of which is that
by hearing what we are not we may be
instructed what we ought to be.= (?)
=The combined arts appear to me like a family
of sisters, of whom the greater part were
inclined to good company, but one was light-headed,
and desirous to appropriate and
squander the whole goods and chattels of the
household--the theatre is this wasteful sister.=
_Goethe._
=The comic and the tragic lie close together,
inseparable, like light and shadow.= _Socrates._
=The command "thou shalt" is in all circumstances= 10
=a hard one, unless it is softened
down by the adjunct "for that which 'thou
shalt' is just the same as that which rationally
thou also willest."= _Lindner._
=The commencement of atonement is / The
sense of its necessity.= _Byron._
=The common crowd but see the gloom / Of
wayward deeds and fitting doom; / The close
observer can espy / A noble soul and lineage
high.= _Byron._
=The common fluency of speech in many men
and most women is owing to a scarcity of
matter and a scarcity of words.= _Swift._
=The common "keeping up appearances" of
society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain
with the vain.= _Ruskin._
=The company of fools may at first make us= 15
=smile, but at last never fails of rendering
us melancholy.= _Goldsmith._
=The complete poet must have a heart in his
brain or a brain in his heart.= _George Darley._
=The complete spiritualisation of the animal
element in nature is the task of our species.=
_Amiel._
=The conceived is never food save to the mind
that conceives.= _Schiller._
=The concessions of the weak are the concessions
of fear.= _Burke._
=The condition of the great body of the people in= 20
=a country is the condition of the country
itself.= _Carlyle._
=The condition of the most fascinated= (_bezaubertsten_)
=enthusiast is to be preferred to him
who, from sheer fear of error, dares in the
end no longer to affirm or deny.= _Wieland._
=The conditions necessary for the arts of men
are the best for their souls and bodies.= _Ruskin._
=The confidant of my vices is my master, though
he were my valet.= _Goethe._
=The conflict of the old, the existent, and the
persistent, with development, improvement,
and transfigurment is always the same. Out
of every arrangement arises at last pedantry;
to get rid of this latter the former is
destroyed, and some time must elapse before
we become aware that order must be re-established.=
_Goethe._
=The conscience is the inviolable asylum of the= 25
=liberty of man.= _Napoleon._
=The conscience is the most elastic material in
the world. To-day you cannot stretch it
over a mole-hill, to-morrow it hides a mountain.=
_Bulwer Lytton._
=The conscience of the man who is given over
to his passions is like the voice of the shipwrecked
mariner overwhelmed by the tempest.=
_Joseph Roux._
=The conscious utterance of thought by speech
or action, to any end, is art.= _Emerson._
=The conscious water saw its god and blushed.=
_Dryden, on the water into wine at Cana._
=The consolation which is derived from truth,= 30
=if any there be, is solid and durable; that
which may be derived from error must be,
like its original, fallacious and fugitive.=
_Johnson._
=The contagion of crime is like that of the
plague.= _Napoleon._
=The contingent facts of history can never become
the proof of the truths of reason.=
_Lessing._
=The conversation of a friend is a powerful
alleviator of the fatigue of walking.= _Dr.
Andrew Combe._
=The core will come to the surface.= _Emerson._
=The cormorant Oblivion swallows up / The= 35
=carcases that Time has made his prey.=
_Crowe._
=The corpse is not the whole animal; there is
still something that appertains to it, still
a corner-stone, and in this case, as in
every other, a very chief corner-stone--life,
the spirit that makes everything beautiful.=
_Goethe._
=The counsel thou wouldst have another keep,
first keep thyself.= _Pr._
=The country where the entire people is, or
even once has been, laid hold of, filled to the
heart with an infinite religious idea, has
"made a step from which it cannot retrograde."=
_Carlyle._
=The courage= (_Muth_) =of truth is the first condition
of philosophic study.= _Hegel._
=The courage that dares only die is on the= 40
=whole no sublime affair.... The courage
we desire and prize is not the courage to
die decently, but to live manfully.= _Carlyle._
=The course of nature is the art of God.= _Young._
=The course of Nature's phases, on this our
little fraction of a planet, is partially known
to us; but who knows what deeper courses
these depend on; what infinitely larger cycle=
(of causes) =our little epicycle revolves on?=
_Carlyle._
=The course of prayer who knows?= _Keble._
=The course of scoundrelism, any more than
that of true love, never did run smooth.=
_Carlyle._
=The course of true love never did run smooth.=
_Mid. N.'s Dream_, i. 1.
=The court does not render a man contented,
but it prevents his being so elsewhere.= _La
Bruyère._
=The court is like a palace of marble; it is composed
of people very hard and very polished.=
_La Bruyère._
=The court, nor cart, I like, nor loathe; / Extremes
are counted worst of all: / The golden
mean betwixt them both / Doth surest sit,
and fears no fall.= _Old ballad._
=The court of the past differs from all living= 5
=aristocracy in this; it is open to labour and
to merit, but to nothing else.= _Ruskin._
=The covetous man heaps up riches, not to
enjoy them, but to have them.= _Tillotson._
=The covetous man never has money, and the
prodigal will have none shortly.= _Johnson._
=The coxcomb is a fool of parts, a flatterer, a
knave of parts.= _Steele._
=The craftiest wiles are too short and ragged a
cloak to cover a bad heart.= _Lavater._
=The crafty man is always in danger; and= 10
=when he thinks he walks in the dark, all
his pretences are so transparent, that he
that runs may read them.= _Tillotson._
=The creation of a thousand forests is in one
acorn; and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul,
Britain, America, lie folded already in the
first man.= _Emerson._
=The credit of advancing science has always
been due to individuals, never to the age.=
_Goethe._
=The creed of the true saint is to make the best
of life, and make the most of it.= _Chapin._
=The crickets sing, and man's o'er-laboured
sense / Repairs itself by rest.= _Cymbeline_,
ii. 2.
=The cross is the invincible sanctuary of the= 15
=humble.= _Cass._
=The cross of Christ is the key of Paradise;
the weak man's staff; the convert's convoy;
the upright man's perfection; the soul and
body's health; the prevention of all evil,
and the procurer of all good.= _Damascen._
=The cross was the fitting close of a life of
rejection, scorn, and defeat.= _W. H. Thomson._
=The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark /
When neither is attended, and I think / The
nightingale, if she should sing by day, /
when every goose is cackling, would be
thought / No better a musician than the
wren.= _Mer. of Venice_, v. 1.
=The crowd ... if they find / Some stain or
blemish in a name of note, / Not grieving
that their greatest are so small, / Inflate
themselves with some insane delight, / And
judge all Nature from her feet of clay, /
Without the will to lift their eyes, and see /
Her godlike head crown'd with spiritual
fire / And touching other worlds.= _Tennyson._
=The cruelty of the affectionate is more dreadful= 20
=than that of the hardy.= _Lavater._
=The cry of the God-forsaken is from the heart
of God himself.= _Ed._
=The cuffs and thumps with which fate, our
lady-loves, our friends and foes, put us to the
proof, in the mind of a good and resolute
man, vanish into air.= _Goethe._
=The cunning workman never doth refuse / The
meanest tool that he may chance to use.=
_George Herbert._
=The cup of life which God offers to our lips is
not always sweet; ... but, sweet or bitter,
it is ours to drink it without murmur or
demur.= _W. R. Greg._
=The cups that cheer, but not inebriate.= _Cowper._ 25
=The cure for false theology is mother wit.=
_Emerson._
=The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, / The
lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, / The
ploughman homeward plods his weary way, /
And leaves the world to darkness and to me.=
_Gray._
=The curiosity of knowing things has been
given to man for a scourge.= _Apocrypha._
=The curious unthrift makes his clothes too
wide, / And spares himself, but would his
tailor chide.= _George Herbert._
=The current that with gentle murmur glides, /= 30
=Thou know'st, being stopp'd, impatiently
doth rage.= _Two Gent. of Ver._, ii. 7.
=The curtains of yesterday drop down, the
curtains of to-morrow roll up; but yesterday
and to-morrow both are. Pierce into
the Time-element, glance into the Eternal.=
_Carlyle._
=The cut= (of the vesture) =betokens intellect and
talent, so does the colour betoken temper
and heart.= _Carlyle._
=The cynic is one who never sees a good
quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad
one.= _Ward Beecher._
=The danger of dangers is illusion.= _Emerson._
=The danger past and God forgotten.= _Pr._ 35
=The dark in soul see in the universe their own
shadow; the shattered spirit can only reflect
external beauty, in form as untrue and broken
as itself.= _Binney._
=The darkest day, live till to-morrow, will have
passed away.= _Cowper._
=The darkest hour is nearest the dawn.= _Pr._
=The day is longer than the brae; we'll be at
the top yet.= _Gael. Pr._
=The day of days ... is the day on which the= 40
=inward eye opens to the unity of things, to
the omnipresence of law--sees that what is
must be, and ought to be, or is the best.=
_Emerson._
=The day wasted on others is not wasted on
one's self.= _Dickens._
=The days are too short even for love, how can
there ever be time for quarrelling?= _Mrs.
Gatty._
=The dead do not need us; but for ever and
for evermore we need them.= _Garfield._
=The dead letter of religion must own itself
dead, and drop piecemeal into dust, if the
living spirit of religion, freed from its charnel-house,
is to arise on us, new born of
Heaven, and with new healing under its
wings.= _Carlyle._
=The decline of literature indicates the decline= 45
=of the nation. The two keep pace in their
downward tendency.= _Goethe._
=The deeper the sorrow, the less tongue hath
it.= _Talmud._
=The deity works in the living, not in the dead;
in the becoming and the changing, not in the
become and the fixed.= _Goethe._
=The delight of the destroyer and denier is
no pure delight, and must soon pass away.=
_Carlyle._
=The democrat is a young conservative; the
conservative is an old democrat.= _Emerson._
=The demonic in music stands so high that no
understanding can reach it, and an influence
flows from it which masters all, and for which
none can account.= _Goethe._
=The demonic is that which cannot be explained
by reason or understanding, which is not
in one's nature, yet to which it is subject.=
_Goethe._
=The dependant is timid.= _Gael. Pr._ 5
=The depth of our despair measures what
capability and height of claim we have to
hope.= _Carlyle._
=The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul.=
_Bible._
=The desire of a man is his kindness: and a poor
man is better than a liar.= _Bible._
=The desire of perfection is the worst disease
that ever afflicted the human mind.= _Fontanes._
=The desire of power in excess caused the= 10
=angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in
excess caused man to fall; but in charity
there is no excess, neither can man or angel
come in danger by it.= _Bacon._
=The desire of the moth for the star, / Of the
night for the morrow, / The devotion to
something afar / From the sphere of our
sorrow.= _Shelley._
=The desire of the slothful killeth him; for his
hands refuse to labour.= _Bible._
=The destiny of any nation at any given time
depends on the opinions of its young men
under five-and-twenty.= _Goethe._
=The destruction of the poor is their poverty.=
_Bible._
=The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose! /= 15
=An evil soul producing holy witness / Is like
a villain with a smiling cheek, / A goodly
apple rotten at the heart.= _Mer. of Ven._, i. 3.
=The devil has a great advantage against us,
inasmuch as he has a strong bastion and
bulwark against us in our own flesh and
blood.= _Luther._
=The devil has his elect.= _Carlyle._
=The devil hath power / To assume a pleasing
shape.= _Ham._, ii. 2.
=The devil helps his servants for a season; but
when they come once to a pinch, he leaves
'em in the lurch.= _L'Estrange._
=The devil is a busy bishop in his own diocese.= 20
_Bishop Latimer._
=The devil is an ass.= _Pr._
=The devil is an unfortunate who knows not
what it is to love.= _St. Theresa._
=The devil is God's ape.= _Luther._
=The devil knew not what he did when he made
man politic; he crossed himself by it.= _Tim.
of Athens_, iii. 3.
=The devil lurks behind the cross.= _Pr._ 25
=The devil may get in by the keyhole, but the
door won't let him out.= _Pr._
=The devil taketh not lightly unto his working
such as he findeth occupied in good works.=
_St. Jerome._
=The devil tempts all other men, but idle men
tempt the devil.= _Arab. Pr._
=The devil tempts us not--'tis we tempt him, /
Beckoning his skill with opportunity.= _George
Eliot._
=The devil was sick, the devil a monk would= 30
=be; / The devil was well, the devil a monk
was he.= _Rabelais._
=The dewdrop and the star shine sisterly, /
Globing together in the common work.= _Sir
Edwin Arnold._
=The dictum that truth always triumphs over
persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods
... which all experience refutes. History
teems with instances of truth put down
by persecution. If not suppressed for ever, it
may be thrown back for centuries.= _J. S. Mill._
=The difference between Socrates and Jesus?
The great Conscious; the immeasurably
great Unconscious.= _Carlyle._
=The difference between the great celebrities
and the unknown nobodies is this, the former
failed and went at it again, the latter gave
up in despair.= _Anon._
=The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend as= 35
=to find a friend worth dying for.= _Henry Home._
=The difficulty is to teach the multitude that
something can be both true and untrue at
the same time.= _Schopenhauer._
=The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.=
_Ben Jonson._
=The dilettante takes the obscure for the profound,
violence for vigour, the indefinite for
the infinite, and the senseless for the supersensuous.=
_Schiller._
=The disciple is not above his master, nor the
servant above his lord.= _Jesus._
=The discovery of what is true, and the practice= 40
=of that which is good, are the two most
important objects of philosophy.= _Voltaire._
=The discretion of a man deferreth his anger;
and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.=
_Bible._
=The disease of the mind leading to fatalist
ruin is the concentration of man upon himself,
whether his heavenly interests or his
worldly interests, matters not; it is their
being his own interests which makes the regard
of them mortal.= _Ruskin._
=The disease which afflicts bureaucratic governments,
and which they usually die of, is
routine.= _J. S. Mill._
=The disease with which the human mind now
labours is want of faith.= _Emerson._
=The dispute about religion and the practice of= 45
=it seldom go together.= _Young._
=The disputes of two of equal strength and
fortune are worthy of attention; but not of
two, the one great, the other humble.= _Hitopadesa._
=The dissection of a sentence is as bad a way
to the understanding of it, as the dissection
of a beast to the biography of it.= _Ruskin._
=The distances of nations are measured, not by
seas, but by ignorances; and their divisions
determined, not by dialects, but by enmities.=
_Ruskin._
=The distant landscape draws not nigh / For all
our gazing.= _Keble._
=The distant sounds of music, that catch new= 50
=sweetness as they vibrate through the long-drawn
valley, are not more pleasing to the
ear than the tidings of a far-distant friend.=
_Goldsmith._
=The distinction between man and nature is,
that man is a being becoming, and nature a
being become.= _Rückert._
=The distinctive character of a child is to live
always in the tangible present.= _Ruskin._
=The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a
price and be bought for it.= _Ruskin._
=The distinguishing trait of people accustomed
to good society is a calm, imperturbable
quiet, which pervades all their actions and
habits.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=The Divine mind is as visible in its full energy= 5
=of operation on every lowly bank and mouldering
stone, as in the lifting of the pillars of
heaven, and setting the foundations of the
earth.= _Ruskin._
=The divine power of the love, of which we
cease not to sing and speak, is this, that it
reproduces every moment the grand qualities
of the beloved object, perfect in the smallest
parts, embraced in the whole; it rests not
either by day or by night, is ravished with
its own work, wonders at its own stirring
activity, finds the well-known always new,
because it is every moment begotten anew
in the sweetest of all occupations. In fact
the image of the beloved one cannot become
old, for every moment is the hour of its birth.=
_Goethe._
=The divine state, "par excellence," is silence
and repose.= _Amiel._
=The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind,
the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian
all the stupidity.= _Schopenhauer._
=The dog that fetches will carry.= _Pr._
=The dog that starts the hare is as good as the= 10
=one that catches it.= _Ger. Pr._
=The dog, to gain his private ends, / Went
mad, and bit the man.= _Goldsmith._
=The dome of St. Peter's is great, yet is it but
a foolish chip of an egg-shell compared with
that star-fretted dome where Arcturus and
Orion glance for ever, which latter, notwithstanding,
no one looks at--because the
architect was not a man.= _Carlyle._
=The dome of thought, the palace of the soul.=
_Byron._
=The donkey means one thing and the driver
another.= _Pr._
=The doom of the old has long been pronounced= 15
=and irrevocable; the old has passed away;
but, alas! the new appears not in its stead;
the time is still in pangs of travail with the
new. Man has walked by the light of conflagrations,
and amid the sound of falling
cities; and now there is darkness, and long
watching till it be morning.= _Carlyle in_
1831.
=The door must either be shut or it must be
open. I must either be natural or unnatural.=
_Goldsmith._
=The dove found no rest for the sole of her foot.=
_Bible._
=The dread of censure is the death of genius.=
_Simms._
=The dread of something after death, / The undiscover'd
country, from whose bourn / No
traveller returns, puzzles the will; / And
makes us rather bear those ills we have /
Than fly to others that we know not of.=
_Ham._, iii. 1.
=The dreamer is a madman quiescent, the= 20
=madman is a dreamer in action.= _F. H.
Hedge._
=The dregs may stir themselves as they please;
they fall back to the bottom by their own
coarseness.= _Joubert._
=The dress of words, / Like to the Roman girl's
enticing garb, / Should let the play of limb
be seen through it, / And the round rising
form.= _Bailey._
=The drunkard forfeits man, and doth divest /
All worldly right, save what he hath by beast.=
_George Herbert._
=The dry light is ever the best.= _Heraclitus._
=The drying up a single tear has more / Of= 25
=honest fame than shedding seas of gore.=
_Byron._
=The dullest John Bull cannot with perfect
complacency adore himself, except under
the figure of Britannia or the British Lion.=
_Byron._
=The dust of controversy is but the falsehood
flying off.= _Carlyle._
=The dwarf behind his steam-engine may remove
mountains, but no dwarf will hew them
down with the pickaxe; and he must be a
Titan that hurls them abroad with his arms.=
_Carlyle._
=The eagle suffers little birds to sing.= _Tit.
Andron._, iv. 4.
=The earth hath bubbles, as the water has, /= 30
=And these are of them.= _Macb._, i. 3.
=The earth is our workshop. We may not
curse it; we are bound to sanctify it.=
_Mazzini._
=The earth is sown with pleasures, as the
heavens are studded with stars, wherever
the conditions of existence are unsophisticated.=
_W. R. Greg._
=The earth must supply man with the necessaries
of life before he has leisure or inclination
to pursue more refined enjoyments.=
_Goldsmith._
=The earth, that's Nature's mother, is her
tomb.= _Rom. and Jul._, ii. 3.
=The earthen pot must keep clear of the brass= 35
=kettle.= _Pr._
=The ebb'd man, ne'er loved till ne'er worth love, /
Comes dear'd by being lack'd.= _Ant. and
Cleop._, i. 4.
=The echo of the nest-life, the voice of our
modest, fairer, holier soul, is audible only in
a sorrow-darkened bosom, as the nightingales
warble when one veils their cage.=
_Jean Paul._
=The effect of good music is not caused by
its novelty; on the contrary, it strikes us
more the more familiar we are with it.=
_Goethe._
=The effect of righteousness= (shall be) =quietness
and assurance for ever.= _Bible._
=The effect of violent animosities between= 40
=parties has always been an indifference to
the general welfare and honour of the state.=
_Macaulay._
=The efforts of him who contendeth with one
stronger than himself are as feeble as the
exertions of an insect's wings.= _Hitopadesa._
=The elect are whosoever will, and the non-elect
whosoever won't.= _Ward Beecher._
=The electric telegraph will never be a substitute
for the face of a man, with his soul
in it, encouraging another man to be brave
and true.= _Dickens._
=The element of water moistens the earth, but
blood flies upwards and bedews the heavens.=
_John Webster._
=The elements of poetry lie in natural objects,
in the vicissitudes of human life, in the emotions
of the human heart, and the relations
of man to man.= _Bryant._
=The emphasis of facts and persons has nothing
to do with time.= _Emerson._
=The empire of woman is an empire of softness,= 5
=of address, of complacency. Her commands
are caresses, her menaces are tears.=
_Rousseau._
=The empty vessel makes the greatest sound.=
_Hen. V._, iv. 4.
=The end crowns all, / And that old common
arbitrator, Time, / Will one day end it.=
=Troil. and Cress.=, iv. 5.
=The end of all opposition is negation, and negation
is nothing.= _Goethe._
=The end of all right education of a woman is to
make her love her home better than any
other place; that she should as seldom leave
it as a queen her queendom; nor ever feel
entirely at rest but within its threshold.=
_Ruskin._
=The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.= 10
_Petrarch._
=The end of labour is to gain leisure.= _Arist._
=The end of man is an action, not a thought,
though it were the noblest.= _Carlyle._
=The end of man is at no moment a pleasure,
but a performance; and life always and only
the continual fulfilment of a worthy purpose
with a will.= _Ed._
=The end we aim at must be known before the
way.= _Jean Paul._
=The enemy is more easily repulsed if we never= 15
=suffer him to get within us, but, upon the
very first approach, draw up our forces and
fight him without the gate.= _Thomas à Kempis._
="The English," says Bishop Sprat, "have too
much bravery to be derided, and too much
virtue and honour to mock others."= _Goldsmith._
=The ennobling difference between one man and
another--between one animal and another--is
precisely this, that one feels more than
another.= _Ruskin._
=The entire grace, happiness, and virtue of= (a
young man's) =life depend on his contentment
in doing what he can dutifully, and in staying
where he is peaceably.= _Ruskin._
=The entire object of true education is to make
people not merely do the right things, but
enjoy the right things.= _Ruskin._
=The entire system of things gets represented= 20
=in every particle.= _Emerson._
=The entire vitality of art depends upon its
having for object either to state a true thing
or adorn a serviceable one.= _Ruskin._
=The envied have a brilliant fate; / Pity is
given where griefs are great.= _Palladas._
=The envious man waxeth lean with the fatness
of his neighbours.= _Socrates._
=The envious will die, but envy never.= _Molière._
=The errors of a great mind are more edifying= 25
=than the truths of a little.= _Börne._
=The errors of a wise man are literally more
instructive than the truths of a fool. For
the wise man travels in lofty, far-seeing
regions; the fool in low-lying, high-fenced
lanes; retracing the footsteps of the former, to
discover where he deviated, whole provinces
of the universe are laid open to us; in the
path of the latter, granting even that he have
not deviated at all, little is laid open to us but
two wheel-ruts and two hedges.= _Carlyle._
=The errors of a wise man make your rule /
Rather than the perfections of a fool.= _Wm.
Blake._
=The errors of woman spring almost always
from her faith in the good or her confidence
in the true.= _Balzac._
=The errors of young men are the ruin of business;
but the errors of aged men amount
to but this, that more might have been done,
or sooner.= _Bacon._
=The essence of a lie is in deception, not in= 30
=words.= _Ruskin._
=The essence of affectation is that it be assumed;
the character is, as it were, forcibly crushed
into some foreign mould, in the hope of being
thereby re-shaped and beautified; and the
unhappy man persuades himself he has become
a new creature of wonderful symmetry,
though every movement betrays not symmetry,
but dislocation.= _Carlyle._
=The essence of all government among good
men is this, that it is mainly occupied in the
production and recognition of human worth,
and in the detection and extinction of human
unworthiness.= _Ruskin._
=The essence of all immorality, of sin, is the making
self the centre to which we subordinate
all other beings and interests.= _J. C. Sharp._
=The essence of all religion that was, and that
will be, is to make men free.= _Carlyle._
=The essence of all vulgarity lies in want of= 35
=sensation.= _Ruskin._
=The essence of an aristocracy is to transfer
the source of honour from the living to the
dead, to make the merits of living men depend
not so much upon their own character
and actions as upon the actions and position
of their ancestors.= _H. Lecky._
=The essence of aphorism is the compression
of a mass of thought and observation into a
single saying.= _John Morley._
=The essence of faith lies in this, a deep sense
and conviction that in what we do, though it
were single-handed, with all men standing
aloof, and even saying nay to it, we have
God and all his universe at our back.= _Ed._
=The essence of friendship is entireness, a total
magnanimity and trust.= _Emerson._
=The essence of greatness is the perception= 40
=that virtue is enough. Poverty is its ornament.
It does not need plenty, and can very
well abide its loss.= _Emerson._
=The essence of humour is sensibility, warm,
tender, fellow-feeling with all forms of existence;
and unless seasoned and purified
by humour, sensibility is apt to run wild,
will readily corrupt into disease, falsehood,
or, in one word, sentimentality.= _Carlyle._
=The essence of justice is mercy.= (?)
=The essence of knowledge is, having it, to
apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.=
_Confucius._
=The essence of poetry is will and passion.=
_Hazlitt._
=The essence of true nobility is neglect of self.
Let the thought of self pass in, and the
beauty of a great action is gone, like the
bloom from a soiled flower.= _Froude._
=The essence of wealth consists in its authority
over men; if= (therefore) =the apparent or
nominal wealth fail in this power, it fails in
essence; in fact, ceases to be wealth at all.
And since the essence of wealth consists in
power over men, will it not follow that the
nobler and the more in number the persons
are over whom it has power, the greater the
wealth.= _Ruskin._
=The essence or peculiarity of man is to comprehend
a whole.= _Emerson._
=The essential thing for all creatures is to be= 5
=made to do right.= _Ruskin._
=The Eternal is no simulacrum; God is not only
there, but here or nowhere,--in that life-breath
of thine, in that act and thought of
thine,--and thou wert wise to look to it.=
_Carlyle._
=The eternal stars shine out again, as soon as
it is dark enough.= _Carlyle._
=The eternity, before the world and after, is
without our reach; but that little spot of
ground which lies betwixt those two great
oceans, this we are to cultivate.= _Burnet._
=The even and cheerful temper makes us
pleasing to ourselves, to those with whom
we converse, and to Him whom we were
made to please.= _Addison._
=The even-flow of constant cheerfulness= 10
=strengthens; while great excitements, driving
us with fierce speed, both wreck the
ship and end often in explosions.= _Ward
Beecher._
=The evening brings a' hame.= _Sc. Pr._
=The evil that goeth out of thy mouth flieth
into thy bosom.= _Pr._
=The evil that men do lives after them; / The
good is oft interréd with their bones.= _Jul.
Cæs._, viii. 2.
=The evil wound is cured, but not the evil name.=
_Pr._
=The ewe that will not hear her lamb when it= 15
=baes, will never answer a calf when it bleats.=
_Much Ado_, iii. 3.
=The exacting a grateful acknowledgment is
demanding a debt by which the creditor is
not advantaged and the debtor pays with
reluctance.= _Goldsmith._
=The example of good men is visible philosophy.=
_Pr._
=The excellent is rarely found, more rarely
valued.= _Goethe._
=The exception proves the rule.= _Pr._
=The excesses of our youth are draughts upon= 20
=our age, payable with interest about thirty
years after date.= _Colton._
=The expectation of the poor shall not perish
for ever.= _Bible._
=The experience of each new age requires a
new confession, and the world seems always
waiting for its poet.= _Emerson._
=The experience of suffering has been declared
on the highest authority to be necessary to
every poet who would touch the hearts of
his fellow-creatures.= _C. Fitzhugh._
=The express schoolmaster is not equal to much
at present, while the unexpress, for good or
for evil, is so busy with a poor little fellow.=
_Carlyle._
=The eye by which I see God is the same eye= 25
=by which he sees me.= _Scheffler._
=The eye is easily daunted.= _Emerson._
=The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the
ear filled with hearing.= _Bible._
=The eye is the best of artists.= _Emerson._
=The eye is the mirror of the soul.= _Pr._
=The eye is the only note-book of the true poet.= 30
_Lowell._
=The eye is the window of the soul; even an
animal looks for a man's intentions right
into his eyes.= _H. Powers._
=The eye--it cannot choose but see; / We cannot
bid the ear be still; / Our bodies feel,
where'er they be, / Against or with our
will.= _Wordsworth._
=The eye of a critic is often like a microscope,
made so very fine and nice, that it discovers
the atoms, grains, and minutest particles,
without ever comprehending the whole, comparing
the parts, or seeing all at once the
harmony.= (?)
=The eye of the master will do more work than
both his hands.= _Ben. Franklin._
=The eye repeats every day the first eulogy on= 35
=things: "He saw that they were very good."=
_Emerson._
=The eye sees in all things what it brings with
it the faculty of seeing.= _Goethe._
=The eye sees not itself, / But by reflection, by
some other things.= _Jul. Cæs._, i. 2.
=The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth
to obey his mother, the ravens of
the valley shall pick it out, and the young
eagles shall eat it.= _Bible._
=The eye that sees all things else sees not
itself.= _Pr._
=The eyes being in the highest part, hold the= 40
=post of sentinels.= _Cic._
=The eyes of other people are the eyes that
ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I
would want neither fine clothes, fine houses,
nor fine furniture.= _Ben. Franklin._
=The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding
the evil and the good.= _Bible._
=The face is the index of the mind.= _Pr._
=The face of man gives us fuller and more
interesting information than his tongue; for
his face is the compendium of all he will ever
say, as it is the one record of all he has thought
and endeavoured.= _Schopenhauer._
=The faculty for remembering is not diminished= 45
=in proportion to what one has learnt, just as
little as the number of moulds in which you
cast sand lessens its capacity for being cast
in new moulds.= _Schopenhauer._
=The faculty of art is to change events; the
faculty of science is to foresee them. The
phenomena with which we deal are controlled
by art; they are predicted by science.= _Buckle._
=The faculty of listening is a tender thing, and
soon becomes weary and satiated.= _Luther._
=The failings of good men are commonly more
published in the world than their good deeds;
and one fault of a deserving man shall meet
with more reproaches than all his virtues
praise; such is the force of ill-will and ill-nature.=
(?)
=The faint, exquisite music of a dream.= _Moore._
=The fair maid who, the first of May, / Goes to
the fields at break of day, / And washes in
dew from the hawthorn tree, / Will ever
after handsome be.= _Pr._
=The fair point of the line of beauty is the line
of love. Strength and weakness stand on
either side of it. Love is the point in which
they unite.= _Goethe._
=The fairest action of our human life is scorning
to avenge an injury.= _Lady E. Carew._
=The fairest tulip's not the sweetest flower.= 5
_Quarles._
=The faith in an Invisible, Unnameable, Godlike,
present everywhere in all we see and
work and suffer, is the essence of all faith
whatsoever; and that once denied, or, still
worse, asserted with lips only, and out of
bound prayer-books only, what other thing
remains credible?= _Carlyle._
=The faith of a hearer must be extremely perplexed
who considers the speaker, or believes
that the speaker considers himself as under
no obligation to adhere to truth, but according
to the particular importance of what he
relates.= _Paley._
=The faith that stands on authority is not faith.=
_Emerson._
=The faithful servant is a humble friend.= _Pr._
=The fall from the (Christian) faith, and all the= 10
=corruptions of its abortive practice, may be
summed up briefly as the habitual contemplation
of Christ's death instead of his life, and
the substitution of his past suffering for our
present duty.= _Ruskin._
=The falling out of faithful friends is the renewing
of love.= _Pr._
=The family is the proper province for private
women to shine in.= _Addison._
=The family virtues are indispensable to the
proper continuance of a society.= _Renan._
=The fashion doth wear out more apparel than
the man.= _Much Ado_, iii. 3.
=The fashion of this world passeth away.= _St._ 15
_Paul._
=The fatal man, is he not always the unthinking,
the man who cannot think and see?=
_Carlyle._
=The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off
thinking about a thing when it is no longer
doubtful, is the cause of half their errors.
A contemporary author has well spoken of
"the deep slumber of a decided opinion."=
_J. S. Mill._
=The fatal trait= (of the times) =is the divorce between
religion and morality.= _Emerson._
=The fate of a man of feeling is, like that of a
tuft of flowers, twofold; he may either mount
upon the head of all, or go to decay in the
wilderness.= _Hitopadesa._
=The fate of empires depends upon the education= 20
=of youth.= _Arist._
=The fated will happen.= _Gael. Pr._
=The fates but only spin the coarser clue; / The
finest of the wool is left for you.= _Dryden._
=The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the
children's teeth are set on edge.= _Bible Pr._
=The faults of the superior man are like the
eclipses of the sun and moon. He has his
faults, and all men see them; he changes,
and all men look up to him.= _Confucius._
=The fear o' hell's the hangman's whip, / To= 25
=haud the wretch in order; / But when ye
feel yer honour grip, / Let that be aye yer
border.= _Burns._
=The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom:
and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.=
_Bible._
=The fear of the Lord is the fountain of life.=
_Bible._
=The fear of the Lord is to hate evil: pride,
and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the
froward mouth, do I hate.= _Bible._
=The fear of the Lord tendeth to life: and he
that hath it shall abide satisfied.= _Bible._
=The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.= 30
_Carlyle._
=The feast of reason and the flow of soul.=
_Pope._
=The feelings, like flowers and butterflies, last
longer the later they are delayed.= _Jean
Paul._
=The female heart is just like a new india-rubber
shoe; you may pull and pull at it
till it stretches out a yard long; and then
let go, and it will fly right back to its old
shape.= _Judge Haliburton._
=The fetters of the slave bind the hands only.=
_Grillparzer._
=The fewer our wants, the nearer we resemble= 35
=the gods.= _Socrates._
=The fibres of all things have their tension, and
are strained like the strings of a lyre.=
_Thoreau._
=The field cannot be well seen from within the
field. The astronomer must have his diameter
of the earth's orbit as a base to fix
the parallax of any other star.= _Emerson._
=The finding of your able man, and getting him
invested with the symbols of ability, is the
business, well or ill accomplished, of all
social procedure whatsoever in the world.=
_Carlyle._
=The finer the nature, the more flaws it will
show through the clearness of it; and it is
a law of this universe that the best things
shall be seldomest seen in their best form.=
_Ruskin._
=The finest composition of human nature, as= 40
=well as the finest china, may have a flaw
in it, and this in either case is equally incurable.=
_Fielding._
=The finest language is chiefly made up of unimposing
words.= _George Eliot._
=The finest lives, in my opinion, are those who
rank in the common model and with the
human race, but without miracle, without
extravagance.= _Montaigne._
=The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve
the easiest.= _Pope._