gentler sister woman; / Though they may
gang a kennin' wrang, / To step aside is
human.= _Burns._
=Then in the strife the youth puts forth his
powers, / Knows what he is, and feels himself
a man.= _Goethe._
=Then let us pray that come it may, / As come= 15
=it will for a' that, / That sense an' worth,
o'er a' the earth, / May bear the gree and a'
that.= _Burns._
=Then was I as a tree / Whose boughs did bend
with fruit; but, in one night, / A storm, or
robbery, call it what you will, / Shook down
my mellow hangings, nay, my leaves, / And
left me bare to weather.= _Cymbeline_, iii. 3.
=Theology is anthropology.= _Feuerbach._
=Theoretical principles must sometimes be suffered
to give way for the sake of practical
advantages.= _Pitt._
=Theories of genius are the peculiar constructions
of our philosophical times; ages of
genius have passed away, and they left no
other record than their works.= _I. Disraeli._
=Theories are very thin and unsubstantial; experience= 20
=only is tangible.= _H. Ballou._
=Theories which do not connect measures with
men are not theories for this world.= _Charles
Fox._
=Theory and practice always act upon one
another. It is possible to construe from
what we do what we think, and from what
we think what we will do.= _Goethe._
=Theory in and by itself is of no use except in
so far as it proves to us the connection=
(_Zusammenhang_) =that subsists among the
phenomena.= _Goethe._
[Greek: theos hê anaideia]--Impudence is a god.
=There are a thousand occasions for sorrow,= 25
=and a hundred for fear that day by day
assail the fool; not so the wise man.= _Hitopadesa._
=There are always more tricks in a town than
are talked of.= _Cervantes._
=There are at bottom but two possible religions--that
which rises in the moral nature of
man, and which takes shape in moral commandments,
and that which grows out of the
observance of the material energies which
operate in the external universe.= _Froude._
=There are attractions in modest diffidence
above the force of words. A silent address
is the genuine eloquence of sincerity.= _Goldsmith._
=There are but three classes of men--the retrograde,
the stationary, and the progressive.=
_Lavater._
=There are but two ways of paying debt--increase= 30
=of industry in raising income; increase
of thrift in laying it out.= _Carlyle._
=There are cases where little can be said and
much must be done.= _Johnson._
=There are certain things in which mediocrity
is not to be endured, such as poetry, music,
painting, public speaking.= _La Bruyère._
=There are certain times in our life when we find
ourselves in circumstances, that not only
press upon us, but seem to weigh us down
altogether. They give us, however, not
only the opportunity, but they impose on us
the duty of elevating ourselves, and thereby
fulfilling the purpose of the Divine Being in
our creation.= _Goethe._
=There are charms made only for distant admiration.
No spectacle is nobler than a blaze.=
_Johnson._
=There are cloudy days for the mind as well as= 35
=for the world, and the man who has the most
genius is twenty times a day in the clouds.=
_Beaumelle._
=There are depths in the soul which are deeper
than hell.= _Platen._
=There are enough unhappy on this earth.=
_Tennyson._
=There are faces so fluid with expression that
we can hardly find what the mere features
are.= _Emerson._
=There are falsehoods which are not lies ...
which is the case in parables, fables, &c....
In such instances no confidence is destroyed,
because none was reposed; no promise to
speak the truth is violated, because none
was given.= _Paley._
=There are few circumstances in which it is not= 40
=best either to hide all or to tell all.= _La
Bruyère._
=There are few faces that can afford to smile.
A smile is sometimes bewitching; in general
vapid; often a contortion.= _Disraeli._
=There are few men so obstinate in their
atheism whom a pressing danger will not
reduce to an acknowledgment of the Divine
power.= _Plato._
=There are few persons to whom truth is not a
sort of insult.= _Ségur._
=There are few things that are worthy of anger,
and still fewer that can justify malignity.=
_Johnson._
=There are few thoughts likely to come across
ordinary men which have not already been
expressed by greater men in the best possible
way; and it is a wiser, more generous,
more noble thing to remember and point out
the perfect words than to invent poorer ones,
wherewith to encumber temporarily the
world.= _Ruskin._
=There are few who, either by extraordinary
endowment or favour of fortune, have enjoyed
the opportunity of deciding what mode of
life in especial they would wish to embrace.=
_Cic._
=There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded
than a communicative man having nothing
to communicate.= _Bovee._
=There are fewer students of man than of
geometry.= _Pascal._
=There are forty men of wit for one of sense;= 5
=and he that will carry nothing about him but
gold, will be every day at a loss for want of
ready change.= (?)
=There are heads sometimes so little that
there is no room for wit, sometimes so
long that there is no wit for so much room.=
_Fuller._
=There are in man, in the beginning / And at
the end, two blank book-binder's leaves--childhood
and age.= _Jean Paul._
=There are in the history of a man only three
epochs, his birth, his life, and his death; he
is not conscious of being born; he submits to
die; and he forgets to live.= _La Bruyère._
=There are in this day, as in all days, around
and in every man, voices from the gods,
imperative to all, if obeyed by even none,
which say audibly: Arise, thou son of Adam,
son of Time, make this thing more divine,
and that thing, and thyself of all things, and
work, and sleep not; for the Night cometh
wherein no man can work.= _Carlyle._
=There are in this loud stunning tide / Of= 10
=human care and crime, / With whom the
melodies abide / Of th' everlasting chime; /
Who carry music in their heart, / Through
dusty lane and wrangling mart, / Plying
their daily task with busier feet, / Because
their secret souls a holy strain repeat.=
_Keble._
=There are interests by the sacrifice of which
peace is too dearly purchased. One should
never be at peace to the shame of his own
soul, to the violation of his integrity or of his
allegiance to God.= _Chapin._
=There are many men who do not believe in
evaporation. They get all they can, and
keep all they get, and so are not fertilisers,
but only stagnant, miasmatic pools.= _Ward
Beecher._
=There are many religions, but there is only
one morality.= _Ruskin._
=There are many troubles which you cannot
cure by the Bible and the hymn-book, but
which you can cure by a good perspiration
and a breath of fresh air.= _Ward Beecher._
=There are many truths of which the full= 15
=meaning cannot be realised until personal
experience has brought it home.= _J. S.
Mill._
=There are men who, by long consulting their
own inclination, have forgotten that others
have a claim to the same deference.= (?)
=There are men who dwell on the defects of
their enemies. I always have regard to the
merits of mine, and derive profit therefrom.=
_Goethe._
=There are men whose tongues are more eloquent
than those of women, but no man
possesses the eloquence of a woman's eye.=
_C. Weber._
=There are moments in life when the heart is
so full of emotion, / That if by chance it be
shaken, or into its depths like a pebble /
Drops some careless word, it overflows;
and its secret, / Spilt on the ground like
water, can never be gathered together.=
_Longfellow._
=There are more fools than wise men, and even= 20
=in the wise men more folly than wisdom.=
_Chamfort._
=There are more men ennobled by study than
by nature.= _Cic._
=There are more offences at my beck than I
have thoughts to put them in, imagination
to give them shape, or time to act them in.=
_Ham._, iii. 1.
=There are more things in heaven and earth,
Horatio, / Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.=
_Ham._, i. 5.
=There are more ways to the wood than one.=
_Pr._
=There are nae fules like auld fules.= _Sc. Pr._ 25
=There are natures that are great by what they
attain, and others by what they disdain.=
_H. Grimm._
=There are no better masters than poverty and
want.= _Dut. Pr._
=There are no chagrins so venomous as the
chagrins of the idle; no pangs so sickening
as the satieties of pleasure.= _Ruskin._
=There are no English lives worth reading except
those of players, who by the nature of
the case have bidden Respectability good-day.=
_Carlyle._
=There are no fixtures in Nature. The universe= 30
=is fluid and volatile.= _Emerson._
=There are no grotesques in Nature.= _Sir
Thomas Browne._
=There are no laws by which we can write
Iliads.= _Ruskin._
=There are no obstructions more fatal to fortune
than pride and resentment.= _Goldsmith._
=There are no persons more solicitous about
the preservation of rank than those who
have no rank at all.= _Shenstone._
=There are no proverbial sayings which are not= 35
=true.= _Cervantes._
=There are no real pleasures without real needs.=
_Voltaire._
=There are no tricks in plain and simple faith.=
_Jul. Cæs._, iv. 2.
=There are no troubles which have such a
wasting and disastrous effect upon the mind
as those which must not be told, but which
cause the mind to be continually rolling and
turning over upon itself in ceaseless convolutions
and unrest.= _Ward Beecher._
=There are no twin souls in God's universe.= _J.
G. Holland._
=There are none but men of strong passions= 40
=capable of going to greatness; none but
such capable of meriting the public gratitude.=
_Mirabeau._
=There are none of the charges brought against
Socialism which might not have been brought
against Christianity itself.= _Cötvös._
=There are omens in the air, / And voices
whispering Beware!--/ But never victor in
the fight / Heeded the portents of fear and
care.= _Dr. Walter Smith._
=There are only three classes of people--those
who have found God and serve him; those
who have not found God and seek him; and
those who live without either seeking or
finding him--the first, rational and happy;
the second, unhappy and rational; the third,
foolish and unhappy.= _Pascal._
=There are only two ways of rising in the world,
either by one's own industry or by the weakness
of others.= _La Bruyère._
=There are people who will help you to get your= 5
=basket on your head, because they want to
see what's in it.= _Negro Pr._
=There are people who would never have been
in love if they had never heard love spoken
of.= _La Roche._
=There are proselytes from atheism, but none
from superstition.= _Junius._
=There are several who would, or at least pretend
they would, bear much in their own
business who will bear nothing at all.=
_Kettlewell._
=There are shades in all good pictures, but
there are lights too, if we choose to contemplate
them.= _Dickens._
=There are single thoughts that contain the= 10
=essence of a whole volume, single sentences
that have the beauties of a large work.=
_Joubert._
=There are soldiers of the ploughshare as well
as soldiers of the sword.= _Ruskin._
=There are some cases in which human nature
and its deep wrongs will be ever stronger
than the world and its philosophy.= _Bulwer
Lytton._
=There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence
that we can scarce weed out the
vice without eradicating the virtue.= _Goldsmith._
=There are some men who are witty when they
are in a bad humour, and others only when
they are sad.= _Joubert._
=There are some people who give with the air= 15
=of refusal.= _Queen Christiana._
=There are some sorrows cannot be subjected /
To man's construction, howsoe'er suspected.=
_Dr. Walter Smith._
=There are some trifles well habited, as there
are some fools well clothed.= _Chamfort._
=There are sorrows / Where of necessity the
soul must be / Its own support.= _Schiller._
=There are souls which fall from heaven like
flowers; but ere the pure and fresh buds
can open, they are trodden in the dust of
the earth, and lie soiled and crushed under
the foul tread of some brutal hoof.= _Jean
Paul._
=There are things in this world to be laughed= 20
=at, as well as things to be admired; and his
is no complete mind that cannot give to each
sort his due.= _Carlyle._
=There are things that should be done, not
spoken; that, till the doing of them is begun,
cannot be spoken.= _Carlyle._
=There are those who never reason on what they
should do, but what they have done; as if
Reason had her eyes behind, and could only
see backwards.= _Fielding._
=There are thousands hacking at the branches of
evil to one who is striking at the root.= _Thoreau._
=There are three classes of authors--those who
write without thinking, those who think
while writing, and those who think before
writing.= _Schopenhauer._
=There are three difficulties in authorship--to= 25
=write anything worth the publishing, to find
honest men to publish it, and to get sensible
men to read it.= _Colton._
=There are three material things, not only
useful, but essential, to life--pure air, water,
and earth; and three immaterial that are
equally essential--admiration, hope, and
love.= _Ruskin._
=There are three means of believing--by inspiration,
by reason, and by custom. Christianity,
which is the only rational institution,
does yet admit none for its sons who do not
believe by inspiration.= _Pascal._
=There are three religions--the religion which
depends on reverence for what is above us,
denominated the ethnic; the religion which
founds itself on reverence for what is around
us, denominated the philosophical; the religion
grounded on reverence for what is beneath
us, which we name the Christian.=
_Goethe._
=There are three things in this world which deserve
no quarter--hypocrisy, pharisaism,
and tyranny.= _F. Robertson._
=There are three things which cause perfection= 30
=in a man--nature, reason, use. Reason I
call discipline; use, exercise. If any one of
these branches want, certainly the tree of
virtue must needs wither.= _John Lily._
=There are times when silence, if the preacher
did but know, / Shall preach to better purpose
than a sermon stale and flat.= _Dr.
Walter Smith._
=There are times when we are diverted out of
errors, but could not be preached out of
them.= _Stephen Montague._
=There are truths that shield themselves behind
veils, and are best spoken by implication.
Even the sun veils himself in his own
rays to blind the gaze of the too curious
starer.= _A. B. Alcott._
=There are two, and only two, forms of possible
gospel or "good message"--one, that men
are saved by themselves doing what is
right; and the other, that they are saved
by believing that somebody also did right
instead of them. The first of these gospels
is eternally true and holy; the other eternally
false, damnable, and damning.= _Ruskin._
=There are two kinds of genius. The first and= 35
=highest may be said to speak out of the
eternal into the present, and must compel its
age to understand it; the second understands
its age, and tells it what it wishes to
be told.= _Lowell._
=There are two levers for moving men--interest
and fear.= _Napoleon._
=There are two modes of establishing our reputation--to
be praised by honest men, and to
be abused by rogues. It is best, however,
to secure the former, because it will be invariably
accompanied by the latter.= _Colton._
=There are two sides to every question.= _Pr._
=There are two things that can reach the top
of a pyramid, the eagle and the reptile.=
_D'Alembert._
=There are two ways of attaining an important
end--force and perseverance; the silent
power of the latter grows irresistible with
time.= _Mme. Swetchine._
=There are unhappy times in the world's history,
when he that is the least educated
will chiefly have to say that he is the least
perverted; and with the multitude of false
eye-glasses, convex, concave, green, even
yellow, has not lost the natural use of his
eyes.= _Carlyle._
=There are very few moments in a man's existence= 5
=when he experiences so much ludicrous
distress, or meets with so little charitable
commiseration, as when he is in pursuit of
his own hat.= _Dickens._
=There are very few people in this world who get
any good by either writing or reading.= _Ruskin._
=There are, whom heaven has blessed with
store of wit, / Yet want as much again to
manage it; / For wit and judgment ever are
at strife, / Tho' meant each other's aid, like
man and wife.= _Pope._
=There are words which are worth as much as
the best actions, for they contain the germ
of them all.= _Mme. Swetchine._
=There be some that think their wits have been
asleep, except they dart out somewhat that
is piquant, and to the quick; that is a vein
which would be bridled.= _Bacon._
=There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge,= 10
=none to beauty, when these attributes
are considered in the purest sense.= _Emerson._
=There can be no kernel in this light nut; the soul
of this man is in his clothes.= _All's Well_, ii. 5.
=There can be no profanity where there is no
fane behind.= _Thoreau._
=There can be no shame in accepting orders
from those who have themselves learned to
obey.= _W. E. Forster._
=There can be no true aristocracy but must
possess the land.= _Carlyle._
=There can come no harm of supposing every= 15
=other man better than yourself; but the
supposing any man worse than yourself
may be attended with very ill consequences.=
_Thomas à Kempis._
=There coils a fear beneath the loveliest dream.=
_T. Watts._
=There hath no temptation taken you but such
as is common to man.= _St. Paul._
=There have been in all ages children of God
and of man; the one born of the Spirit, and
obeying it; the other born of the flesh, and
obeying it.= _Ruskin._
=There in others' looks discover / What thy
own life's course has been, / And thy deeds
of years past over, / In thy fellow-men be
seen.= _Goethe._
=There is a better thing than the great man= 20
=who is always speaking, and that is the great
man who only speaks when he has a great
word to say.= _W. Winter._
=There is a black speck, say the Arabs, were it
no bigger than a bean's eye, in every soul;
which, once set a-working, will overcloud the
whole man into darkness and quasi-madness,
and hurry him balefully into night.= _Carlyle._
=There is a book, who runs may read, / Which
heavenly truth imparts, / And all the love its
scholars need, / Pure eyes and Christian
hearts. / The works of God above, below, /
Within us, and around, / Are pages in that
book, to show / How God Himself is found.=
_Keble._
=There is a budding morrow in midnight.= _Keats._
=There is a care for trifles which proceeds from
love and conscience, and is most holy; and
a care for trifles which comes of idleness and
frivolity, and is most base. And so, also,
there is a gravity proceeding from thought,
which is most noble; and a gravity proceeding
from dulness and mere incapability of
enjoyment, which is most base.= _Ruskin._
=There is a Cato in every man; a severe censor= 25
=of his manners. And he that reverences this
judge will seldom do anything he need repent
of.= _Burton._
=There is a certain artificial polish, a commonplace
vivacity, acquired by perpetually mingling
in the beau monde, which, in the commerce
of the world, supplies the place of
natural suavity and good-humour; but it is
purchased at the expense of all original
and sterling traits of character.= _Washington
Irving._
=There is a certain mien and motion of the
body and all its parts, both in acting and
speaking, which argues a man well within.=
_Sterne._
=There is a certain noble pride through which
merits shine brighter than through modesty.=
_Jean Paul._
=There is a country accent, not in speech only,
but in thought, conduct, character, and
manner of existing, which never forsakes a
man.= _La Roche._
=There is a crack in everything God has made.= 30
_Emerson._
=There is a devil dwells in man as well as a
divinity.= _Carlyle._
=There is a different kind of knowledge good for
every different creature, and the glory of the
higher creatures is in ignorance of what is
known to the lower.= _Ruskin._
=There is a flush of the body which is full of
warmth and life, and another which will
pass into putrefaction.= _Ruskin._
=There is a foolish corner even in the brain of
the sage.= _Arist._
=There is a frightful interval between the seed= 35
=and the timber.= _Johnson._
=There is a glare about worldly success, which
is very apt to dazzle men's eyes.= _Hare._
=There is a God within us who breathes that
divine fire by which we are animated.= _Ovid._
=There is a great deal of folly in talking unnecessarily
of one's private affairs.= _Burns._
=There is a great difference between bearing
malice, which is always ungenerous, and a
resolute self-defence, which is always prudent
and justifiable.= _Chesterfield._
=There is a great discovery still to be made in= 40
=literature, that of paying literary men by
the quantity they do not write.= _Carlyle._
=There is a heroic innocence, as well as a
heroic courage.= _St. Evremond._
=There is a higher law than the constitution.=
_W. H. Seward._
=There is a history in all men's lives, / Figuring
the nature of the times deceased; / The
which observed, a man may prophesy, / With
a near aim of the main chance of things / As
yet not come to life: which, in their seeds /
And weak beginnings, lie intreasurèd.= 2
_Hen. IV._, iii. 1.
=There is a kind of pride in which are included
all the commandments of God, and a kind
of vanity which contains the seven mortal
sins.= _Chamfort._
=There is a life which taketh not its hues /
From earth or earthly things; and so grows
pure / And higher than the petty cares of
men, / And is a blessed life and glorified.=
_Lewis Morris._
=There is a living, literal communion of saints,
wide as the world itself, and as the history
of the world.= _Carlyle._
=There is a long and wearisome step between= 5
=admiration and imitation.= _Jean Paul._
=There is a lust in man no charm can tame, /
Of loudly publishing his neighbour's shame; /
On eagle's wings immortal scandals fly, /
While virtuous actions are but born and die.=
_Harvey._
=There is a magic in a great name.= _S. Lover._
=There is a magic in the memory of schoolboy
friendships; it softens the heart, and even
affects the nervous system of those who
have no hearts.= _Disraeli._
=There is a mean in all things. Even virtue
itself hath its stated limits; which not being
strictly observed, it ceases to be virtue.= (?)
=There is a measure of self-regard which is= 10
=right, wherein the individual self is identified
with the universal self.= _J. C. Sharp._
=There is a mercy that is weakness, and even
treason against the common good.= _George
Eliot._
=There is a method in man's wickedness, / It
grows by degrees.= _Beaumont and Fletcher._
=There is a nobler ambition than the getting of
all California, or the getting of all the suffrages
that are on the planet just now.=
_Carlyle._
=There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness,
in work. Were he ever so benighted,
forgetful of his high calling, there is always
hope in a man that actually and earnestly
works.= _Carlyle._
=There is a period of life when our backward= 15
=movements are steps in advance.= _Rousseau._
=There is a pleasure in poetic pains which only
poets know.= _Cowper._
=There is a pleasure in the pathless woods; /
There is a rapture on the lonely shore; / There
is society, where none intrudes, / By the deep
sea, and music in its roar; / I love not the
man the less, / But Nature more.= _Byron._
=There is a pleasure, sure, in being mad, which
none but mad men know.= _Dryden._
=There is a power over and behind us, and we
are the channels of its communication.=
_Emerson._
=There is a probity of manners as well as of= 20
=conscience, and a true Christian will regard
in a degree the conventionalities of society.=
_De Boufflers._
=There is a property in the horizon which no
man has but he whose eye can integrate
all the parts--that is, the poet.= _Emerson._
=There is a rabble amongst the gentry as well
as the commonalty; a sort of plebeian heads,
whose fancy moves in the same wheel with
the others,--men in the same level with mechanics,
though their fortunes do somewhat
gild their infirmities, and their purses compound
for their follies.= _Sir Thomas Browne._
=There is a remedy for everything but death.=
_Cervantes._
=There is a remedy for every wrong, and a
satisfaction for every soul.= _Emerson._
=There is a sacredness in tears. They are not= 25
=the mark of weakness, but of power. They
speak more eloquently than ten thousand
tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming
grief, of deep contrition, and of
unspeakable love.= _Washington Irving._
=There is a skeleton in every house.= _Pr._
=Then is a snake in the grass.= _Pr._
=There is a Spanish proverb that a lapidary
who would grow rich must buy of those who
go to be executed, as not caring how cheap
they sell; and sell to those who go to be
married, as not caring how dear they buy.=
_Fuller._
=There is a special providence in the fall of a
sparrow.= _Ham._, v. 1.
=There is a spirit of resistance implanted by= 30
=the Deity in the breast of man, proportioned
to the size of the wrongs he is destined
to endure.= _C. J. Fox._
=There is a Sunday conscience as well as a
Sunday coat; and those who make religion
a secondary concern put the coat and conscience
carefully by to put on only once a
week.= _Dickens._
=There is a sweet little cherub that sits up
aloft, to keep watch for the life of poor Jack.=
_Dibdin._
=There is a tendency in things to right themselves.=
_Emerson._
=There is a third silent party to all our bargains.
The nature and soul of things takes
on itself the guarantee of the fulfilment of
every contract, so that honest service cannot
come to loss.= _Emerson._
=There is a tide in the affairs of men, / Which,= 35
=taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; /
Omitted, all the voyage of their life / Is
bound in shallows and in miseries; / On such
a full sea are we now afloat; / And we must
take the current when it serves, / Or lose
our ventures.= _Jul. Cæs._, iv. 3.
=There is a time for all things.= _Pr._
=There is a time in every man's education when
he arrives at the conviction that envy is
ignorance.= _Emerson._
=There is a time of life beyond which we cannot
form a tie worth the name of friendship.=
_Burns._
=There is a time there for every purpose and
for every work.= _Bible._
=There is a time wherein one man ruleth over= 40
=another to his own hurt.= _Bible._
=There is a true Church whenever one meets
another helpfully, and that is the only holy
or Mother Church which ever was or ever
shall be.= _Ruskin._
=There is a way which seemeth right unto a
man, but the end thereof are the ways of
death.= _Bible._
=There is a worth in honest ignorance; 'twere
almost a pity to exchange for knowledge.=
_Sterne._
=There is always life for a living one.= _Pr._
=There is always room for a man of force, and
he makes room for many.= _Emerson._
=There is always some levity in excellent minds;
they have wings to rise and also to stray.=
_Joubert._
=There is always the possibility of beauty= 5
=where there is an unsealed human eye; of
music where there is an unstopped human
ear; and of inspiration where there is a
receptive human spirit, a spirit standing before.=
_C. H. Parkhurst._
=There is an abasement because of glory, and
there is that lifteth up his head from a low
estate.= _Ecclus._, xx. 11.
=There is an anger that is majestic as the
frown of Jehovah's brow; it is the anger of
truth and love.= _Ward Beecher._
=There is an emanation from the heart in
genuine hospitality which cannot be described
but is immediately felt, and puts the
stranger at once at his ease.= _Washington
Irving._
=There is a heroic innocence, as well a heroic
courage.= (?)
=There is an insolence which none but those= 10
=who deserve some contempt themselves can
bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt
can bear.= _Fielding._
=There is as much difference between the
counsel that a friend giveth and that a man
giveth himself, as there is between the
counsel of a friend and of a flatterer.= _Bacon._
=There is as much ingenuity in making an
felicitous application of an passage as in
being the author of it.= _St. Evremond._
=There is, at any given moment, a best path
for every man; the thing which, here and
now, it were wisest for him to do; whatsoever
forwards him in that, were it even in
the shape of blows and spurnings, is liberty;
whatsoever hinders him, were it tremendous
cheers and rivers of heavy wet, is slavery.=
_Carlyle._
=There is but one case wherein a man may
commend himself with good grace, and that
is in commending virtue in another, especially
if it be such a virtue whereunto himself pretendeth.=
_Bacon._
=There is but one class of men to be trembled= 15
=at, and that is the stupid class, the class
that cannot see; who, alas! are mainly they
that will not see.= _Carlyle._
=There is but one misfortune for a man, when
some idea lays hold of him which exerts no
influence upon his active life, or still more,
which withdraws him from it.= _Goethe._
=There is but one philosophy, and its name is
Fortitude; to bear is to conquer our fate.=
_Bulwer._
=There is but one solid basis of happiness, and
that is the reasonable hope of a happy
futurity. This may be had everywhere.=
_Johnson._
=There is but one temple in the world, and that
is the body of man. Nothing is holier than
this high form. Bending before men is a
reverence done to this revelation in the
flesh. We touch heaven when we lay our
hand on a human body.= _Novalis._
=There is but one thing without honour, smitten= 20
=with eternal barrenness, inability to do or to
be--insincerity, unbelief. He who believes
nothing, who believes only the shows of
things, is not in relation with nature and
fact at all.= _Carlyle._
=There is certainly something of exquisite kindness
and thoughtful benevolence in that
rarest of gifts--fine breeding.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=There is differency between a grub and a
butterfly; yet your butterfly was a grub.=
_Coriolanus_, v. 4.
=There is enjoyment even in sadness, and the
same souvenirs which have produced long
regrets may also soften them.= _De Boufflers._
=There is ever a certain languor attending the
fulness of prosperity. When the heart has
no more to wish, it yawns over its possessions,
and the energy of the soul goes out,
like a flame that has no more to devour.=
_Young._
=There is evil in every human heart, which may= 25
=remain latent, perhaps through the whole of
life; but circumstances may rouse it to
activity.= _Hawthorne._
=There is far less pleasure in doing a thing
beautifully than in seeing it beautifully done.=
_Ruskin._
=There is for the soul a spontaneous culture,
on which depends all its real progress in
perfection.= _Degerando._
=There is forgiveness with God and Christ for
the passing sin of the hot heart, but none
for the eternal and inherent sin of the cold.=
_Ruskin._
=There is genius of a nation, which is not to be
found in the citizen, but which characterises
the society.= _Emerson._
=There is great force hidden in a sweet command.= 30
_George Herbert._
=There is in human nature an essential, though
somewhat mysterious, connection of love
with fear.= _Henry Taylor._
=There is in human nature generally more of
the fool than of the wise, and therefore
those faculties by which the foolish part
of men's minds is taken are most potent.=
_Bacon._
=There is in man a Higher than love of happiness;
he can do without happiness,
and instead thereof find blessedness!= _Carlyle._
=There is in nature an accessible and an inaccessible.
Be careful to discriminate between
the two. Be circumspect, and proceed with
reverence.... It is always difficult to see
where the one begins and the other leaves
off. He who knows it, and is wise, will confine
himself to the accessible.= _Goethe._
=There is in the heart of woman such a deep= 35
=well of love that no age can freeze it.= _Bulwer
Lytton._
=There is in this world infinitely more joy
than pain to be shared, if you will only
take your share when it is set before you.=
_Ruskin._
=There is little hope of equity where rebellion
reigns.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=There is little wisdom in knowing that every
man must be up and doing, and that all
mankind are made dependent on one another.=
_Dickens._
=There is more concern nowadays to interpret
interpretations than to interpret things, and
more books about books than about any
other subject. We do nothing but expound
one another.= (?)
=There is more danger in a reserved and silent
friend than in a noisy babbling enemy.=
_L'Estrange._
=There is more pleasure in loving than in being
beloved.= _Pr._
=There is more serfdom in England now
than at any time since the Conquest.= _Disraeli._
=There is music in all things, if men had ears.= 5
_Byron._
=There is need, bitter need, to bring back, if we
may, into men's minds, that to live is nothing
unless to live be to know Him by whom we
live, and that He is not to be known amidst
the hurry of crowds and crash of innovation,
but in solitary places, and out of the glowing
intelligence which He gave to men of old.=
_Ruskin._
=There is never a beginning, there is never an
end, to the inexplicable continuity of the
web of God, but always circular power returning
into itself.= _Emerson._
=There is never but one opportunity of a kind.=
_Thoreau._
=There is no better counsellor than time.=
_Pr._
=There is no better sign of a brave mind than a= 10
=hard hand.= 2 _Hen. VI._, iv. 2.
=There is no better type of a perfectly free
creature than the common house-fly.= _Ruskin._
=There is no bridge from one being to another,
each is a self, each rests on itself, and wills
only itself, knows only itself, understands
only itself.= _Hamerling._
=There is no brotherhood possible, at any rate
stable, between man and man but a brotherhood
of labour.= _Ed._
=There is no cause why one man's nose is longer
than another's, but because that God pleases
to have it so.= _Sterne._
=There is no class of men so difficult to be= 15
=managed in a state, as those whose intentions
are honest, but whose consciences are
bewitched.= _Napoleon._
=There is no communion possible among men
who believe only in hearsays.= _Carlyle._
=There is no contingency, and what to us seems
only blind chance is an efflux from the depths
of being.= _Schiller._
=There is no courage but in innocence; no constancy
but in an honest cause.= _Southern._
=There is no creature so lonely as the dweller
in the intellect.= _W. Winter._
=There is no darkness but ignorance.= _Twelfth_ 20
_Night_, iv. 2.
=There is no darkness unto the conscience,
which can see without light.= _Sir T. Browne._
=There is no dearth of charity in the world in
giving, but there is comparatively little exercised
in thinking and speaking.= _Sir P.
Sidney._
=There is no defence against reproach but
obscurity.= _Addison._
=There is no den in the wide world to hide a
rogue. Commit a crime, and the earth is
made of glass.= _Emerson._
=There is no despair so absolute as that which= 25
=comes with the first moments of our first
great sorrow, when we have not yet known
what it is to have suffered and be healed,
to have despaired and have recovered hope.=
_George Eliot._
=There is no detraction worse than to overpraise
a man.= _Owen Feltham._
=There is no direr disaster in love than the
death of imagination.= _George Meredith._
=There is no dispute managed without passion,
and yet there is scarce a dispute worth a
passion.= _Sherlock._
=There is no disputing against hobby-horses.=
_Sterne._
=There is no education like adversity.= _Disraeli._ 30
=There is no end in nature, but every end is
a beginning.= _Emerson._
=There is no end of settlements; there will never
be an end; the best settlement is but a temporary
partial one.= _Carlyle._
=There is no event but sprung somewhere from
the soul of man.= (?)
=There is no evil but is mingled with good.=
_Guicciardini._
=There is no extremity of distress which of= 35
=itself ought to reduce a great nation to despair.
It is not the disorder, but the physician
... which alone can make a whole
people desperate.= _Junius._
=There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which
comes from want of work.= _Spurgeon._
=There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth
out fear.= _St. John._
=There is no fiercer hell than failure in a great
object.= _Keats._
=There is no flock, however watched and
tended, / But one dead lamb is there; /
There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, /
But has one vacant chair.= _Longfellow._
=There is no foolishest man but knows one and= 40
=the other thing more clearly than any the
wisest man does.= _Carlyle._
=There is no gambling like politics.... Nothing
in which the power of circumstance is more
evident.= _Disraeli._
=There is no genuine love for art without an
ardent love for humanity.= _Fr. Horn._
=There is no Gethsemane without its angel.=
_Rev. T. Binney._
=There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost
of an injury.= _Alexander Smith._
=There is no God but God, the living, the self-subsisting.= 45
_Koran._
=There is no going to heaven in a sedan.= _Pr._
=There is no good in arguing with the inevitable.=
_Lowell._
=There is no good in emitting smoke till you
have made it into fire, which all smoke is
capable of becoming.= _Carlyle._
=There is no great and no small / To the soul
that maketh all; / And where it cometh, all
things are; / And it cometh everywhere.=
_Emerson._
=There is no great genius free from some tincture= 50
=of madness.= _Sen._
=There is no greater evil among men than
a testament framed with injustice; where
caprice hath guided the boon, or dishonesty
refused what was due.= _Tupper._
=There is no greater fraud than a promise unfulfilled.=
_Gael. Pr._
=There is no greater proof of human weakness
than that which betrays itself in the boast
of fortune and ancestry; these cannot ennoble
us, but our conduct in life may ennoble
or degrade them.= _Arliss._
=There is no greater punishment than that of
being abandoned to one's self.= _Pasquier
Quesnel._
=There is no greater wisdom than well to time
the beginnings and onset of things.= _Bacon._
=There is no grief like hate! no pains like passions!= 5
=no deceit like sense! Enter the path!
far hath he gone whose foot treads down one
fond offence.= _Sir Edwin Arnold._
=There is no grief that time will not soften.= _Pr._
=There is no harm in anybody thinking that
Christ is in bread. The harm is in the expectation
of His presence in gunpowder.=
_Ruskin._
=There is no heroic poem in the world but is at
bottom a biography, the life of a man; and
there is no life of a man, faithfully recorded,
but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or
unrhymed.= _Carlyle._
=There is no jesting with edge tools.= _Pr._
=There is no joy without alloy.= _Pr._ 10
=There is no hiding of evil but not to do it.=
_Gael. Pr._
=There is no index of character so sure as the
voice.= _Disraeli._
=There is no legislation for liars and traitors;
they cannot be prevented from the pit; the
earth finally swallows them.... There is
no law for these but gravitation.= _Ruskin._
=There is no less invention in aptly applying a
thought found in a book than in being the
first author of the thought.= _Bayle._
=There is no lie that many men will not believe;= 15
=there is no man who does not believe many
lies; and there is no man who believes only
lies.= _J. Sterling._
=There is no loss / In being small; great bulks
but swell with dross. / Man is heaven's
masterpiece; if it appear / More great, the
value's less; if less, more dear.= _Quarles._
=There is no lustre= (_Glanz_) =without light; that
is the first rule to which every author should
pay regard.= _Cötvös._
=There is no man alone, because every man is
a microcosm, and carries the whole world
about him.= _Sir Thomas Browne._
=There is no man on the streets whose biography
I would not like to be acquainted with.= (?)
=There is no man so friendless but that he can= 20
=find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable
truths.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=There is no man so rudely punished as he that
is subject to the whip of his own remorse.= _Sen._
=There is no man that has not his hour, nor is
there anything that has not its place.= _Rabbi
Ben Azai._
=There is no man that hath power over the
spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he
power in the day of death: and there is no
discharge in that war.= _Bible._
=There is no man that imparteth his joys to his
friend, but he joyeth the more; and no man
that imparteth his griefs to his friend, but he
grieveth the less.= _Bacon._
=There is no man whom fortune does not visit= 25
=once in his life; but when she does not find
him ready to receive her, she walks in at the
door, and flies out at the window.= _Quoted by
Montesquieu._
=There is no merit where there is no trial; and,
till experience stamps the mark of strength,
cowards may pass for heroes, faith for falsehood.=
_Aaron Hill._
=There is no mistake; there has been no mistake;
and there shall be no mistake.= _Wellington._
=There is no more fatal blunderer than he who
consumes the greater part of his life getting
his living.= _Thoreau._
=There is no more potent antidote to low sensuality
than the adoration of beauty.= _Schlegel._
=There is no more welcome gift to men than a= 30
=new symbol.= _Emerson._
=There is no mortal extant, out of the depths of
Bedlam, but lives all skinned, thatched,
covered over with formulas; and is, as it
were, held in from delirium and the inane by
his formulas. These are the most beneficent
and indispensable of human equipments;
blessed he who has a skin and tissues, so
it be a living one, and the heart-pulse everywhere
discernible through it.= _Carlyle._
=There is no mortal truly wise and restless
at once; wisdom is the repose of minds.=
_Lavater._
=There is no new thing under the sun.= _Bible._
=There is no object of desire the supreme vanity
of which we do not recognise and confess
when once we have embraced it.= _Renan._
=There is no object so foul that intense light= 35
=will not make beautiful. And the stimulus
it affords to the sense, and a sort of infinitude
which it hath like space and time, make
all matter gay.= _Emerson._
=There is no one the friend of another: there is
no one the enemy of another: friends, as
well as enemies, are created through our
transactions.= _Hitopadesa._
=There is no one who does not exaggerate.=
_Emerson._
=There is no ordinance obliging us to fight
those who are stronger than ourselves.
Such fighting, as it were, with an elephant,
is the same as men's fighting against rocks.=
_Hitopadesa._
=There is no other ghost save the ghost of our
own childhood, the ghost of our own innocence,
the ghost of our own airy belief.=
_Dickens._
=There is no other revelation than the thoughts= 40
=of the wise.= _Schopenhauer._
=There is no outward sign of courtesy that
does not rest on a deep moral foundation.=
_Goethe._
=There is no part of the furniture of a man's
mind which he has a greater right to exult in
than that which he has hewn and fashioned
for himself.= _Ruskin._
=There is no part of the world from whence we
may not admire these planets, which roll,
like ours, in different orbits round the same
central sun; ... and whilst my soul is thus
raised up to heaven, it imports me little
what ground I tread upon.= _Bolingbroke._
=There is no patriotic art and no patriotic
science.= _Goethe._
=There is no peace in ambition; it is always
gloomy, and often unreasonably so. The
kindness of the king, the regards of the courtiers,
the attachment of my domestics, and
the fidelity of a large number of friends, make
me happy no longer.= _Mme. de Pompadour._
=There is no permanence in doubt; it incites
the mind to closer inquiry and experiment,
from which, if rightly managed, certainty
proceeds, and in this alone can man find
thorough satisfaction.= _Goethe._
=There is no permanent love but that which
has duty for its eldest brother; so that if
one sleeps the other watches, and honour is
safe.= _Stahl._
=There is no place like home.= _J. H. Payne._
=There is no place where earth's sorrows / Are= 5
=more felt than up in heaven; / There is no
place where earth's failings / Have such
kindly judgment given.= _F. W. Faber._
=There is no policy like politeness; and a good
manner is the best thing in the world, either
to get a good name or to supply the want of
it.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=There is no pure malignity in nature.= _Emerson._
=There is no qualification for government but
virtue and wisdom.= _Burke._
=There is no real life but cheerful life.= _Addison._
=There is no repose for the mind except in the= 10
=absolute.= _Amiel._
=There is no respect for others without humility
in one's self.= _Amiel._
=There is no respect of persons with God.= _St.
Paul._
=There is no returning from a= _dégout_ =given by
satiety.= _Lady Montagu._
=There is no riches above a sound body, and no
joy above the joy of the heart.= _Ecclus._
=There is no right faith in believing what is= 15
=true, unless we believe it because it is true.=
_Whately._
=There is no road too long to the man who
advances deliberately and without undue
haste; there are no honours too distant to
the man who prepares himself for them with
patience.= _La Bruyère._
=There is no royal road to geometry.= _Euclid._
=There is no sanctuary of virtue like home.=
_E. Everett._
=There is no solemnity so deep, to a right
thinking creature, as that of dawn.= _Ruskin._
=There is no solitude in nature.= _Schiller._ 20
=There is no solitude more dreadful for a
stranger, an isolated man, than a great city.
So many thousands, and not one friend.=
_Boiste._
=There is no spirit without a body unless it be
a ghost, and no body without a spirit unless
it be a corpse.= _German lore._
=There is no sporting with a fellow-creature's
happiness or misery.= _Burns._
=There is no sterner moralist than pleasure.=
_Byron._
=There is no stronger test of a man's real= 25
=character than power and authority, exciting,
as they do, every passion, and discovering
every latent vice.= _Plutarch._
=There is no such flatterer as is a man's self,
and there is no such remedy against flattery
of a man's self as the liberty of a friend.=
_Lord Bacon._
=There is no such thing as a dumb poet or a
handless painter. The essence of an artist
is that he should be articulate.= _Stedman._
=There is no such thing as being agreeable
without a thorough good-humour, a natural
sweetness of temper, enlivened by cheerfulness.=
_Lady Montagu._
=There is no such thing as chance; and what
seems to us merest accident springs from
the deepest source of destiny.= _Schiller._
=There is no such thing as Liberty in the universe:= 30
=there can never be. The stars have
it not; the earth has it not; the sea has it
not; and we men have the mockery and
semblance of it only for our heaviest punishment.=
_Ruskin._
=There is no sure foundation set on blood; / No
certain life achieved by others' death.= _King
John_, iv. 2.
=There is no surer argument of a weak mind
than irresolution.= _Tillotson._
=There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats; /
For I am armed so strong in honesty / That
they pass by me as the idle wind / Which I
respect not.= _Jul. Cæs._, iv. 3.
=There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly
tends to convert itself into a power, and
organises a huge instrumentality of means.=
_Emerson._
=There is no time so miserable, but a man may= 35
=be true.= _Timon of Athens_, iv. 3.
=There is no traitor like him whose domestic
treason plants the poniard within the breast
which trusted to his truth.= _Byron._
=There is no true action without will.= _Rousseau._
=There is no true love without jealousy.= _Pr._
=There is no vague general capability in men.=
_Goethe._
=There is no vice or folly that requires so much= 40
=nicety and skill to manage as vanity.= _Swift._
=There is no vice or crime that does not originate
in self-love; and there is no virtue that does
not grow from the love of others out of and
beyond self.= _Anon._
=There is no vice so simple but assumes / Some
mark of virtue in his outward parts.= _Mer. of
Ven._, iii. 2.
=There is no venom like that of the tongue.= _Pr._
=There is no wealth but life--life, including all
its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration.=
_Ruskin._
=There is no well-doing, no godlike doing, that= 45
=is not patient doing.= _J. G. Holland._
=There is no wisdom nor understanding nor
counsel against the Lord.= _Bible._
=There is no work of genius which has not
been the delight of mankind, no word of
genius to which the human heart and soul
have not, sooner or later, responded.= _Lowell._
=There is no worse fruit than that which never
ripens.= _It. Pr._
=There is no worse joke than a true one.= _It.
and Sp. Pr._
=There is none so blind as they that won't see.= 50
_Swift._
=There is none so poor that he need sit on a
pumpkin. That is shiftlessness.= _Thoreau._
=There is not a Red Indian hunting by Lake
Winnipeg can quarrel with his squaw but
the whole world must smart for it; will not
the price of beaver rise?= _Carlyle._
=There is not any benefit so glorious in itself
but it may be exceedingly sweetened and
improved by the manner of conferring it.
The virtue, I know, rests in the intent, but
the beauty and ornament of an obligation
lies in the manner of it.= _Sen._
=There is not in earth a spectacle more worthy
than a great man superior to his sufferings.=
_Addison._
=There is not in national life any real epoch,
because there is nothing in reality abrupt.
Events, however great or sudden, are consequences
of preparations long ago made.=
_Draper._
=There is not one grain in the universe, either
too much or too little, nothing to be added,
nothing to be spared; nor so much as any
one particle of it, that mankind may not be
either the better or the worse for, according
as it is applied.= _L'Estrange._
=There is not so agonizing a feeling in the whole= 5
=catalogue of human suffering as the first
conviction that the heart of the being whom
we most tenderly love is estranged from us.=
_Bulwer Lytton._
=There is not so much comfort in having children
as there is sorrow in parting with them.= _Pr._
=There is not the thickness of a sixpence between
good and evil.= _Pr._
=There is not yet any inventory of man's faculties.=
_Emerson._
=There is nothing beyond the pleasure which the
study of Nature produces. Her secrets are of
unfathomable depth, but it is granted to us
men to look into them more and more.= _Goethe._
=There is nothing born but has to die.= _Carlyle._ 10
=There is nothing by which I have, through
life, more profited than by the just observations,
the good opinion, and the sincere and
gentle encouragement of amiable and sensible
women.= _Romilly._
=There is nothing capricious in nature.= _Emerson._
=There is nothing covered that shall not be
revealed; and hid, that shall not be known.=
_Jesus._
=There is nothing divine but what is rational.=
_Kant._
=There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking= 15
=makes it so.= _Ham._, ii. 2.
=There is nothing evil but what is within us;
the rest is either natural or accidental.= _Sir
P. Sidney._
=There is nothing exasperates people more than
the display of superior ability or brilliancy in
conversation. They seem pleased at the
time, but their envy makes them curse him
at their hearts.= _Johnson._
=There is nothing from without a man that
entering into him can defile him; but the
things which come out of him, those are
they that defile the man.= _Jesus._
=There is nothing good or evil save in the will.=
_Epictetus._
=There is nothing good or godlike in this world= 20
=but has in it something of "infinite sadness."=
_Carlyle._
=There is nothing holier in this life of ours than
the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering
of its silken wings.= _Longfellow._
=There is nothing in the world more shameful
than establishing one's self on lies and fables.=
_Goethe._
=There is nothing in this world that will keep
the devil out of one but hard labour.= _Carlyle._
=There is nothing in which the power of circumstance
is more evident than in politics.=
_Disraeli._
=There is nothing innocent or good that dies= 25
=and is forgotten.= _Dickens._
=There is nothing insignificant, nothing!= _Coleridge._
=There is nothing lighter than vain praise.=
_William Drummond._
=There is nothing like leather.= _Pr. A cobbler's
advice in an emergency._
=There is nothing like the cold dead hand of the
past to take down our tumid egotism, and
lead us into the solemn flow of the life of our
race.= _Holmes._
=There is nothing little to the truly great in= 30
=spirit.= _Dickens._
=There is nothing more allied to the barbarous
and savage character than sullenness, concealment,
and reserve.= _Parke Godwin._
=There is nothing more characteristic than the
shakes of the hand.= _Sydney Smith._
=There is nothing more charming than to see a
mother with a child in her arms, and nothing
more venerable than a mother among a
number of her children.= _Goethe._
=There is nothing more frightful than for a
teacher to know only what his scholars are
intended to know.= _Goethe._
=There is nothing more frightful than imagination= 35
=without taste.= _Goethe._
=There is nothing more perennial in us than
habit and imitation. They are the source of
all working and all apprenticeship, of all
practice and all learning.= _Carlyle._
=There is nothing more pitiable in the world
than an irresolute man, oscillating between
two feelings, who would willingly unite the
two, and who does not perceive that nothing
can unite them.= _Goethe._
=There is nothing more precious to a man than
his will; there is nothing which he relinquishes
with so much reluctance.= _J. G.
Holland._
=There is nothing more terrible to a guilty
heart than the eye of a respected friend.=
_Sir P. Sidney._
=There is nothing new under the sun.= _Bible._ 40
=There is nothing of which men are so fond and
so careless as life.= _La Bruyère._
=There is nothing on earth divine beside humanity.=
_Melanchthon._
=There is nothing on earth which is not in the
heavens in a heavenly form, and nothing in
the heavens which is not on the earth in an
earthly form.= _Quoted by Emerson._
=There is nothing on earth without difficulty.
Only the inner impulse, the pleasure it gives
us, and love we feel, help us to overcome
obstruction, to pave our way, and to raise
ourselves out of the narrow circle in which
others sorrowfully torture themselves.= _Goethe._
=There is nothing really more monstrous in any= 45
=recorded savagery or absurdity of mankind
than that governments should be able to get
money for any folly they choose to commit,
by selling to capitalists the right of taxing
future generations to the end of time.= _Ruskin._
=There is nothing so agonising to the fine skin
of vanity as the application of a rough truth.=
_Bulwer Lytton._
=There is nothing so great or so goodly in
creation, but it is a mean symbol of the gospel
of Christ, and of the things that he has
prepared for them that love him.= _Ruskin._
=There is nothing so powerful as truth, and
nothing so strange.= _Dan. Webster._
=There is nothing so small but that we may
honour God by asking his guidance of it, or
insult him by taking it into our own hands.=
_Ruskin._
=There is nothing so secret but it comes to= 5
=light.= _Pr._
=There is nothing so sure of succeeding as not
to be over brilliant, as to be entirely wrapped
up in one's self, and endowed with a perseverance
which, in spite of all the rebuffs it
may meet with, never relaxes in the pursuit
of its object.= _Baron de Grimm._
=There is nothing so terrible as activity without
insight.= _Goethe._
=There is nothing to be found only once in the
world.= _Goethe._
=There is nothing to which man is not related.=
_Emerson._
=There is nothing which vanity does not desecrate.= 10
_Ward Beecher._
=There is nothing without us that is not also
within us.= _Goethe._
=There is often a complaint of want of parts,
when the fault lies in a want of a due improvement
of them.= _Locke._
=There is often more true spiritual force in a
proverb than in a philosophical system.=
_Carlyle._
=There is / One great society alone on earth; /
The noble living and the noble dead.= (?)
=There is one preacher who does preach with= 15
=effect, and gradually persuade all persons;
his name is Destiny, Divine Providence, and
his sermon the inflexible course of things.=
_Carlyle._
=There is only one cure for public distress, and
that is public education, directed to make
men thoughtful, merciful, and just.= _Ruskin._
=There is only one mendacious being in the
world, and that is man.= _Schopenhauer._
=There is only one thing better than tradition,
and that is the original and eternal life out
of which all tradition takes its rise.= _Lowell._
=There is only one true religion, but there may
be many forms of belief.= _Kant._
=There is poetry and beauty in the common= 20
=lives about us, if we look at them with imaginative
and sympathetic eye.= _J. Morley._
=There is power over and behind us, and we are
the channels of its communication.= _Emerson._
=There is precious instruction to be got by finding
that we are wrong.= _Carlyle._
=There is properly but one slavery in the world--the
slavery of wisdom to folly.= _Carlyle._
=There is properly no history, only biography.=
_Emerson._
=There is, properly speaking, no misfortune in= 25
=the world. Happiness and misfortune stand
in continual balance. Every misfortune is,
as it were, the obstruction of a stream, which,
after overcoming this obstruction, but bursts
forth with the greater force.= _Novalis._
=There is really something absurd about the
Present; all that people think of is the
sight, the touch of each other, and there
they rest; but it never occurs to them to
reflect upon what is to be gained from such
moments.= _Goethe._
=There is safety in solitude.= _Saadi._
=There is scarce truth enough alive to make
societies secure, but security enough to
make fellowships accursed.= _Meas. for Meas._,
iii. 2.
=There is scarcely a good critic of books born
in our age, and yet every fool thinks himself
justified in criticising persons.= _Bulwer
Lytton._
=There is sentiment in all women, and sentiment= 30
=gives delicacy to thought, and tact to
manner. But sentiment with men is generally
acquired, an offspring of the intellectual
quality, not, as with the other sex, of the
moral.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=There is so much of good among the worst, so
much of evil in the best, such seeming partialities
in providence, so many things to
lessen and expand, yea, and with all man's
boast, so little real freedom of his will, that
to look a little lower than the surface, garb,
or dialect, or fashion, thou shalt feebly pronounce
for a saint, and faintly condemn for a
sinner.= _Tupper._
=There is so much trouble in coming into the
world, and so much more, as well as meanness,
in going out of it, that 'tis hardly worth
while to be here at all.= _Lord Bolingbroke._
=There is some soul of goodness in things evil, /
Would men observingly distil it out.= _Henry
V._, iv. 1.
=There is some use in having two attorneys in
one firm. Their movements resemble those
of the man and woman in a Dutch babyhouse.
When it is fair weather with the
client, out comes the gentleman partner to
fawn like a spaniel; when it is foul, forth
bolts the operative brother to pin like a
bull-dog.= _Scott._
=There is something behind the throne greater= 35
=than the king himself.= _Chatham._
=There is something in sorrow more akin to the
course of human affairs than joy.= _C. Fitzhugh._
=There is something irresistibly pleasing in the
conversation of a fine woman; even though
her tongue be silent, the eloquence of her
eyes teach wisdom.= _Goldsmith._
=There is something more awful in happiness
than in sorrow.= _Hawthorne._
=There is something not solid in the good that
is done for us.= _Emerson._
=There is something of all men in every man.= 40
_Lichtenberg._
=There is something so moving in the very
image of weeping beauty.= _Steele._
=There is something too dear in the hope of
seeing again.... "Dear heart, be quiet;"
we say; "you will not be long separated
from those people that you love; be quiet,
dear heart!" And then we give it in the
meanwhile a shadow, so that it has something,
and then it is good and quiet, like
a little child whose mother gives it a doll
instead of the apple which it ought not to
eat.= _Goethe._
=There is still a real magic in the action and
reaction of minds on one another. The
casual deliration of a few becomes, by this
mysterious reverberation, the frenzy of
many; men lose the use, not only of their
understandings, but of their bodily senses;
while the most obdurate unbelieving hearts
melt like the rest in the furnace where all
are cast as victims and as fuel.= _Carlyle._
=There is still enough to satisfy one in spite of
all misfortunes.= _Goethe._
=There is such a choice of difficulties that I am
myself at a loss how to determine.= _J. Wolfe
to Pitt._
=There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath
nothing: there is that maketh himself poor,
yet hath great riches.= _Bible._
=There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth:= 5
=and there is that withholdeth more than is
meet, but it tendeth to poverty.= _Bible._
=There is very great necessity indeed of getting
a little more silent than we are.= _Carlyle._
=There is work on God's wide earth for all men
that he has made with hands and hearts.=
_Carlyle._
=There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe
me, than in half the creeds.= _Tennyson._
=There may come a day when there shall be no
more curse; in the meantime you must be
humble and honest enough to take your
share of it.= _Ruskin._
=There may often be less vanity in following the= 10
=new modes than in adhering to the old ones.
It is true that the foolish invent them, but
the wise may conform to, instead of contradicting,
them.= _Joubert._
=There must always remain something that is
antagonistic to good.= _Plato._
=There must be a man behind a book.= _Emerson._
=There must be hearts which know the depths
of our being, and swear by us, even when
the whole world forsakes us.= _Gutzkow._
=There must be work done by the arms, or none
of us would live; and work done by the
brains, or the life would not be worth having.
And the same men cannot do both.= _Ruskin._
=There must first be seducing men before= 15
=seduced women.= _Jean Paul._
=There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the
grave / To tell us this.= _Ham._, i. 5.
=There needs not a great soul to make a hero;
there needs a god-created soul which will be
true to its origin; that will be a great soul.=
_Carlyle._
=There never did and never will exist anything
permanently noble and excellent in a character
which was a stranger to the exercise
of resolute self-denial.= _Scott._
=There never was a bad man but had ability for
good service.= _Burke._
=There never was a great man unless through= 20
=Divine inspiration.= _Cicero._
=There never was a literary age whose dominant
taste was not sickly.= _Joubert._
=There never was a talent, even for real literature,
but was primarily a talent for something
infinitely better of the silent kind.=
_Carlyle._
=There never was any heart truly great and
generous that was not also tender and compassionate.=
_South._
=There never was any party, faction, or sect in
which the most ignorant was not the most
violent.= _Pope._
=There never was so great a thought labouring= 25
=in the breasts of men as now.= _Emerson._
=There occur cases in human life when it is
wisdom not to be too wise.= _Schiller._
=There remaineth a rest to the people of God.=
_Bible._
=There seems to be no part of knowledge in
fewer hands than that of discerning when to
have done.= _Swift._
=There shall no evil happen to the just.= _Bible._
=There the wicked cease from troubling, and= 30
=there the weary be at rest.= _Bible._
=There was a little city, and few men within it;
and there came a great king against it, and
besieged it, and built bulwarks against it.
Now there was found in it a poor wise man,
and he by his wisdom delivered the city, yet no
man remembered that same poor man.= _Bible._
=There was a time when meadow, grove, and
stream, / The earth and every common
sight, / To me did seem / Apparelled in
celestial light, / The glory and the freshness
of a dream. / It is not now as it has been of
yore; / Turn wheresoe'er I may, / By night
or day, / The things which I have seen, I
now can see no more.= _Wordsworth._
=There was a time when the world acted upon
books. Now books act upon the world.=
_Joubert._
=There was but one Moses to the thousands of
Israel that entered Jordan.= _Ward Beecher._
=There was never a nation great until it came= 35
=to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the
world to go for help.= _C. D. Warner._
=There was never good or ill but women had to
do with it.= _Gaelic Pr._
=There was never yet philosopher / Who could
endure the toothache patiently.= _Much Ado_,
v. 1.
=There was sense in the sentences, but the sum-total
was nonsense.= _Criticism of a young
preacher's discourse._
=There was speech in their dumbness, language
in their very gesture.= _Winter's Tale_, v. 2.
=There were no ill language if it were not ill= 40
=taken.= _Pr._
=There where thou art, there where thou remainest,
accomplish what thou canst.= _Goethe._
=There will always be a government of force
where men are selfish.= _Emerson._
=There's a brave fellow! There's a man of
pluck! / A man who is not afraid to say his
say, / Though a whole town's against him.=
_Longfellow._
=There's a courage which grows out of fear.=
_Byron._
=There's a divinity that shapes our ends, /= 45
=Rough-hew them as we will.= _Ham._, v. 2.
=There's a medium in thoughtfulness and gaiety:
find it out and keep to it.= _Spurgeon._
=There's a special providence in the fall of a
sparrow.= _Ham._, v. 2.
=There's a sweeter flower than e'er / Blush'd
on the rosy spray, / A brighter star, a richer
bloom, / Than e'er did western heaven illume /
At close of summer day--/ 'Tis Love, the
last best gift of Heaven.= _Keble._
=There's always life for the living.= _Pr._
=There's beggary in the love that can be
reckoned.= _Ant. and Cleop._, i. 1.
=There's folks as make bad butter, and trusten
to the salt t' hide it.= _George Eliot._
=There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and
then say the fault was in their boots.= _George
Eliot._
=There's husbandry in heaven; / Their candles
are all out.= _Macb._, i. 7.
=There's language in her eye, her cheeks, her= 5
=lip, / Nay, her foot speaks.= _Troil. and Cress._,
iv. 5.
=There's many a good bit o' work done with
a sad heart.= _George Eliot._
=There's many a slip / 'Twixt the cup and the
lip.= _Pr._
=There's mercy in every place, / And mercy,
encouraging thought, / Gives even affliction
a grace, / And reconciles man to his
lot.= _Cowper._
=There's music in the sighing of a reed; / There's
music in the gushing of a rill; / There's music
in all things, if men had ears.= _Byron._
=There's nae sorrow there, John, / There's= 10
=neither cauld nor care, John, / The day is
aye fair, / In the land o' the leal.= _Lady
Nairne._
=There's no armour against fate.= _Shirley._
=There's no art / To find the mind's construction
in the face.= _Macb._, i. 4.
=There's no folk sic idiots as them that looks
like geniuses.= _J. M. Barrie._
=There's no glory like his who saves his country.=
_Tennyson._
=There's no grace in a benefit that sticks to the= 15
=fingers.= _Sen._
=There's no great banquet but some fares ill.=
_George Herbert._
=There's no pleasure i' living, if you're to be
corked up for ever, and only dribble your
mind out by the sly, like a leaky barrel.=
_George Eliot._
=There's no seeing one's way through tears.= _Pr._
=There's no slipping up-hill again, and no standing
still when once you've begun to slip down.=
_George Eliot._
=There's no work so tirin' as danglin' about an'= 20
=starin', an' not rightly knowin' what you're
goin' to do next; an' keepin' your face i'
smilin' order, like a grocer o' market-day.=
_George Eliot._
=There's not a joy the world can give like that
it takes away.= _Byron._
=There's not a place where Rest can say, / I'll
not have Labour here; / For Rest itself
would pine away / If Labour were not near.=
_Hall._
=There's not a string attuned to mirth / But
has its chord in melancholy.= _Hood._
=There's not one wise man among twenty that
will praise himself.= _Much Ado_, v. 2.
=There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st, /= 25
=But in his motion like an angel
sings, / Still quiring to the young-eyed
cherubims.= _Mer. of Ven._, v. 1.
=There's nothing but what's bearable as long as a
man can work.= _George Eliot._
=There's nothing certain but uncertainty.= _Pr._
=There's nothing half so sweet in life / As love's
young dream.= _Moore._
=There's nothing situate under heaven's eye, /
But hath its bound in earth, in sea, in sky.=
_Comedy of Errors_, ii. 1.
=There's none that can / Read God aright, unless= 30
=he first spell man.= _Quarles._
=There's small choice in rotten apples.= _Tam.
of Shrew_, i. 1.
=There's something good in all weathers. If it
don't happen to be good for my work to-day,
it's good for some other man's to-day, and
will come round to me to-morrow.= _Dickens._
=There's such divinity doth hedge a king, /
That treason can but peep to what it would.=
_Ham._, iv. 5.
=There's things it's best to put off kenning as
long as we can.= _J. M. Barrie._
=Thereby hangs a tale.= _As You Like It_, ii. 7. 35
=These / Are but the varied God. The rolling
year / Is full of thee.= _Thomson._
="These are my jewels."= _Cornelia, the mother
of the Gracchi, when she presented her five sons
to a lady who had paraded her ornaments
before her._
=These cases, wherein happiness would be sinful,
are just as much, but no more, the ordainments
of Providence as those more common
ones wherein happiness is natural and right.=
_W. R. Greg._
=These fair tales, which we know so beautiful, /
Show only finer than our lives to-day / Because
their voice was clearer, and they
found / A sacred bard to sing them.= _Lewis
Morris._
=These limbs, whence had we them; this= 40
=stormy force; this life-blood with its burning
passion? They are dust and shadow: a
shadow-system gathered round our Me;
wherein through some moments or years,
the divine essence is to be revealed in flesh.=
_Carlyle._
=These little things are great to little men.=
_Goldsmith._
=These moving things, ca'ed wife and weans, /
Wad move the very heart o' stanes.= _Burns._
=These violent delights have violent ends.=
_Rom. and Jul._, ii. 6.
=They are as sick that surfeit with too much,
as they that starve with nothing.= _Mer. of
Venice_, i. 2.
=They are but beggars that can count their= 45
=worth.= _Rom. and Jul._, ii. 6.
=They are dead even for this life who hope for
no better.= _Lorenzo de Medici._
=They are never alone that are accompanied
with noble thoughts.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=They are not a pipe for fortune's finger, / To
sound what stop she please.= _Ham._, iii. 2.
=They are not all free who scorn their chains.=
_Lessing._
=They are not kings who sit on thrones, but= 50
=they who know how to govern.= _Emerson._
=They are not sages who do not declare men's
duty.= _Hitopadesa._
=They are slaves who dare not be / In the right
with two or three.= _Lowell._
=They asked Lucman the fabulist, "From
whom did you learn manners?" He answered,
"From the unmannerly."= _Saadi._
=They can conquer who believe they can.=
_Virgil._
=They do most by books who could do much
without them; and he that chiefly owes
himself unto himself is the substantial man.=
_Sir T. Browne._
=They ever do pretend / To have received a
wrong who wrong intend.= _Daniel._
=They fool me to the top of my bent.= _Ham._, iii. 2.
=They found no end, in wandering mazes lost.=
_Milton._
=They grew in beauty side by side, / They fill'd= 5
=one home with glee; / Their graves are
sever'd far and wide, / By mount, and
stream, and sea.= _Mrs. Hemans._
=They govern the world, these sweet-lipped
women, because beauty is the index of a
larger fact than wisdom.= _Holmes._
=They had the divine right of kings to settle,
these unfortunate ancestors of ours; ... and
they did, on hest of necessity, manage
to settle it.= _Carlyle of the Puritans._
=They have been at a great feast of languages,
and stolen the scraps.= _Love's L. Lost_, v. 1.
=They have destroyed the beaten track to
heaven; we are now compelled to make for
ourselves ladders.= _Joubert._
=They laugh that win.= _Othello_, iv. 2. 10
=They lose it= (the world) =that do buy it with
much care.= _Mer. of Ven._, i. 1.
=They love least that let men know their love.=
_Two Gent. of Verona_, i. 2.
=They love most who are least valued.= _Pr._
=They love not poison that do poison need.=
_Rich. II._, v. 6.
=They love us truly who correct us freely.= _Pr._ 15
=They most assume who know the least.= _Gay._
=They must hunger in winter that will not work
in summer.= _Pr._
=They must often change who would be constant
in happiness or wisdom.= _Confucius._
=They never taste who always drink; / They
always talk who never think.= _Prior._
=They only are wise who know that they know= 20
=nothing.= _Carlyle._
=They only babble that practise not reflection.=
_Sheridan._
=They only should own who can administer.=
_Emerson._
=They only who build on ideas build for eternity.=
_Emerson._
=They pass best over the world who trip over
it quickly; for it is but bog--if we stop, we
sink.= _Queen Elizabeth._
=They said that Love would die when Hope was= 25
=gone, / And Love mourn'd long, and sorrow'd
after Hope; / At last she sought out Memory,
and they trod / The same old paths where
Love had walk'd with Hope, / And Memory
fed the soul of Love with tears.= _Tennyson._
=They say best men are moulded out of faults, /
And, for the most, become much more the
better / For being a little bad.= _Meas. for
Meas._, v. 1.
=They say Doubt is weak, but yet, if life be in the
doubt, / The living doubt is more than Faith
that life did never know.= _Dr. W. Smith._
="They say so" is half a lie.= _Pr._
=They, sweet soul, that most impute a crime /
Are pronest to it, and impute themselves, /
Wanting the mental range; or low desire /
Not to feel lowest makes them level all; /
Yea, they would pare the mountain to the
plain, / To leave an equal baseness.= _Tennyson._
=They that are above have ends in everything.= 30
_Beaumont and Fletcher._
=They that are against superstition oftentimes
run into it of the wrong side. If I wear all
colours but black, then I am superstitious in
not wearing black.= _Selden._
=They that are booted are not always ready.=
_Pr._
=They that be whole need not a physician; but
they that are sick.= _Jesus._
=They that be wise shall shine as the brightness
of the firmament; and they that turn
many to righteousness, as the stars for ever
and ever.= _Bible._
=They that bear a noble mind, / Where they= 35
=want of riches find.= _Wither._
=They that by pleading clothes / Do fortunes
seek, when worth and service fail, / Would
have their tale believed for their oaths, /
And are like empty vessels under sail.=
_George Herbert._
=They that deny a God destroy man's nobility.
For, certainly, man is of kin to the beasts,
by his body; and if he be not of kin to God
by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.=
_Bacon._
=They that do change old love for new, / Pray
gods, they change for worse.= _George Peele._
=They that do nothing are in the readiest way
to do that which is worse than nothing.=
_Zimmermann._
=They that drive away time spur a free horse.= 40
_Robert Mason._
=They that govern the most make the least
noise.= _Selden._
=They that hold by the Divine / Clasp too the
Human in their faith.= _Dr. W. Smith._
=They that know one another salute afar off.=
_Pr._
=They that marry ancient people merely in expectation
to bury them, hang themselves in
hope that one will come and cut the halter.=
_Fuller._
=They that mean to make no use of friends will= 45
=be at little trouble to gain them: and to be
without friendship is to be without one of
the first comforts of our present state.=
_Johnson._
=They that observe lying vanities forsake their
own mercy.= _Bible._
=They that plough iniquity and sow wickedness
reap the same.= _Bible._
=They that stand high have many blasts to
shake them; and if they fall, they dash
themselves to pieces.= _Richard III._, i. 3.
=They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.= _Bible._
=They that sow the wind shall reap the whirlwind.= 50
_Bible._
=They that will crowd about bonfires may,
sometimes very fairly, get their beards
singed; it is the price they pay for such
illumination; natural twilight is safe and
free to all.= _Carlyle._
=They told me I was everything; 'tis a lie: I
am not ague-proof.= _King Lear_, iv. 6.
=They well deserve to have / That know the
strong'st and surest way to get.= _Richard
II._, iii. 3.
=They went out from us, but they were not of
us; for if they had been of us, they would no
doubt have continued with us.= _St. John._
=They who accuse and blacken thee wrongfully
are much the greatest sufferers by
their own malice and injustice.= _Thomas à
Kempis._
=They who but slowly pacèd are / By plodding
on may travel far.= _Wither._
=They who contract absurd habits are such as
have no fear.= _Johnson._
=They who crouch to those who are above them,
always trample on those who are below
them.= _Buckle._
=They who do not feel the darkness will never= 5
=look for the light.= _Buckle._
=They who embrace the entire universe with
love, for the most part love nothing but
their narrow selves.= _Herder._
=They who gratefully the gods adore, / Still
find their joys increasing more and more.=
_Theocritus._
=They who have lost an infant are never, as it
were, without an infant child.= _Leigh Hunt._
=They who have no other trade but seeking
their fortune, need never hope to find her;
coquette-like, she flies from her close pursuers,
and at last fixes on the plodding
mechanic who stays at home and minds his
business.= _Goldsmith._
=They who lie soft and warm in a rich estate= 10
=seldom come to heat themselves at the altar.=
_South._
=They who oppose a Ministry have always a
better field for ridicule and reproof than they
who defend it.= _Goldsmith._
=They who place their affections on trifles at
first for amusement, will find those trifles at
last become their serious concern.= _Goldsmith._
=They who play with the devil's rattles will be
brought by degrees to wield his sword.=
_Fuller._
=They who pretend most to universal benevolence
are either deceivers or dupes--men
who desire to cover their private ill-nature
by a pretended regard for all.= _Goldsmith._
=They who resign life rather than part with= 15
=liberty do only a prudent action; but those
who lay it down for friends and country do a
heroic one.= _Steele._
=They who resist indiscriminately all improvement
as innovation, may find themselves
compelled at last to submit to innovations
although they are not improvements.= _Canning._
=They who seek only for faults see nothing
else.= _Pr._
=They who sustain their cross shall likewise be
sustained by it in return.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=They who travel in pursuit of wisdom walk
only in a circle, and, after all their labour,
at last return to their pristine ignorance.=
_Goldsmith._
=They who want a farthing, and have no friend= 20
=that will lend them it, think farthings very
good things.= _Goldsmith._
=They who want money when they come to
borrow, will always want money when they
should come to pay.= _Goldsmith._
=They who will watch Providence will never
want a Providence to watch.= (?)
=They whom truth and wisdom lead / Can
gather honey from a weed.= _Cowper._
=Thick as autumnal leaves that strew the
brooks / In Vallombrosa.= _Milton._
=Thine ears shall hear a word behind thee,= 25
=saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when
ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn
to the left.= _Bible._
=Thine is the right, for thine the might.= _Tennyson._
=Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake
not; neither go into thy brother's house
in the day of thy calamity: for better is a
neighbour that is near than a brother far off.=
_Bible._
=Thine own worm be not: yet such jealousy,
As hurts not others, but may make thee
better, / Is a good spur.= _George Herbert._
=Things all are big with jest; nothing that's
plain / But may be witty, if thou hast the
vein ... / Many affecting wit beyond their
power, / Have got to be a dear fool for an
hour.= _George Herbert._
=Things are graceful in a friend's mouth which= 30
=are blushing in a man's own.= _Bacon._
=Things are his property alone who knows how
to use them.= _Xenophon._
=Things are long-lived, and God above appoints
their term; yet when the brains of a thing
have been out for three centuries and odd, one
does wish it would be kind enough and die.=
_Carlyle._
=Things are not so false always as they seem.=
_Carlyle._
=Things are sullen, and will be as they are,
whatever we think them or wish them to
be.= _Cudworth._
=Things are what they are by nature, not by= 35
=will.= _Cudworth._
=Things at the worst will cease, or else climb
upward / To what they were before.= _Macb._,
iv. 2.
=Things bad begun make strong themselves by
ill.= _Macb._, iii. 2.
=Things base and vile, holding no quantity, /
Love can transpose to form and dignity.=
_Mid. N.'s Dream_, i. 1.
=Things fasten upon thee only according as
the degree of thy own love and inclination
for them gives opportunity and advantage.=
_Thomas à Kempis._
=Things good, great Jove, asked or unasked,= 40
=supply: / Things evil, though we ask for
them, deny.= _Anon._
=Things have their laws as well as men; and
things refuse to be trifled with.= _Emerson._
=Things ill got had ever bad success.... I'll
leave my son my virtuous deeds behind.=
3 _Hen. VI._, ii. 2.
=Things may serve long, but not serve ever.=
_All's Well_, ii. 2.
=Things more excellent than every image are
expressed through images.= _Jamblichus._
=Things must turn when they can go no farther.= 45
_Spurgeon._
=Things refuse to be mismanaged long.= _Carlyle._
=Things seen are mightier than things heard.=
_Tennyson._
=Things will always right themselves in time,
if only those who know what they want to
do, and can do, persevere unremittingly in
work and action.= _Goethe._
=Things will never be bettered by an excess of
haste.= _Pr._
=Things without remedy should be without regard;
what is done, is done.= _Macb._, iii. 2.
=Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the
doing.= _Troil. and Cress._, i. 2.
=Think all you speak, but speak not all you
think.= _Delaune._
=Think and thank God.= _Pr._ 5
=Think naught a trifle, though it small appear; /
Small sands the mountain, moments make
the year, / And trifles life.= _Young._
=Think not, dream not that thou livest, / If thy
hand doth idly lie, / If thy soul for ever longing, /
Yearn but for the by and bye.= _M. W.
Wood._
=Think not I came to send peace on the earth;
I came not to send peace but a sword.= _Jesus._
=Think not thy fame at every twitch will break; /
By great deeds show that thou canst little
do; / And do them not; that shall thy wisdom
be; / And change thy temperance into
bravery.= _George Herbert._
=Think not thy own shadow longer than that of= 10
=others.= _Sir Thomas Browne._
=Think not your estate your own, while any
man can call upon you for money which you
cannot pay.= _Johnson._
=Think of ease, but work on.= _George Herbert._
=Think of "living!" Thy life, wert thou the
"pitifullest of all the sons of earth," is no
idle dream, but a solemn reality. It is thy
own; it is all thou hast to front eternity
with.= _Carlyle._
=Think of the hosts of worlds, and of the plagues
in this world-mote--death puts an end to the
whole.= _Carlyle._
=Think with awe on the slow, the quiet power= 15
=of time.= _Schiller._
=Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases
think for yourself.= _Lessing._
=Think ye that God made the universe, and
then let it run round his finger?= (_am Finger
laufen liesse_). _Goethe._
=Think you, 'mid all this mighty sum / Of things
for ever speaking, / That nothing of itself
will come, / But we must still be seeking.=
_Wordsworth._
=Thinkers are scarce as gold; but he whose
thoughts embrace all his subject, pursues it
uninterruptedly and fearless of consequences,
is a diamond of enormous size.=
_Lavater._
=Think'st thou existence doth depend on time? /= 20
=It doth; but actions are our epochs.= _Byron._
=Thinking about sin, beyond what is indispensable
for the firm effort to get rid of it, is
waste of energy and waste of time.= _Matthew
Arnold._
=Thinking is but an idle waste of thought; /
For nought is everything, and everything is
nought.= _Smith, "Rejected Addresses."_
=Thinking is the function; living is the functionary.=
_Emerson._
=Thinking leads man to knowledge. He may
see and hear, and read and learn, whatever
he pleases, and as much as he pleases; he
will never know anything of it, except that
which he has thought over, that which by
thinking he has made the property of his
mind.= _Pestalozzi._
=Thinking nurseth thinking.= _Sir P. Sidney._ 25
=This above all; to thine own self be true, /
And it must follow as the night the day, /
Thou canst not then be false to any man.=
_Ham._, i. 3.
=This bodes some strange eruption to our state.=
_Ham._, i. 1.
=This century is not ripe for my ideal; I live a
citizen of those that are to come.= _Schiller._
="This comes of walking on the earth."= _The
Spanish swell, as he picked himself up from the
ground. Sp. Pr._
=This communicating of a man's self to his= 30
=friend works two contrary effects, for it redoubleth
joys and cutteth griefs in halves.=
_Bacon._
=This day / Shall change all griefs and quarrels
into love.= _Henry V._, v. 2.
=This day's propitious to be wise in.= _Burns._
=This even-handed justice / Commends the ingredients
of our poison'd chalice / To our
own lips.= _Macb._, i. 7.
=This ever-renewing generation of appearances
rests on a reality, and a reality that is alive.=
_Emerson._
=This fell sergeant, death, / Is strict in his= 35
=arrest.= _Ham._, v. 2.
=This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe, /
For freedom only deals the deadly blow: /
Then sheathes in calm repose the vengeful
blade / For gentle peace in freedom's hallowed
shade.= _John Quincy Adams._
=This I think charity--to love God for himself, and
our neighbour for God.= _Sir Thomas Browne._
=This is a great--properly the greatest--moment
in a man's life, when, reconciling
himself to necessity, he is able with clearness
of purpose to say, "Let the will of the gods
be done."= _Ed._
="This is a sharp medicine, but it cures all disorders."=
_Raleigh of the axe of his executioner._
=This is faith; it is nothing more than obedience.= 40
_Voltaire._
=This is how I define talent; it is a gift God
has given us in secret, which we reveal
without knowing it.= _Montesquieu._
=This is not a time for purism of style; and style
has little to do with the worth or unworth of
a book.= _Carlyle._
=This is not the liberty which we can hope, that
no grievance should arise in the commonwealth,
but when complaints are freely heard,
deeply considered, and speedily reformed,
then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained
that wise men look for.= _Milton._
=This is the first condition of a living morality as
well as of vital religion, that the soul shall
find a true centre out from and above itself,
round which it shall revolve.= _J. C. Sharp._
=This is the humour of it.= _Henry V._, ii. 1. 45
=This is the monstrosity in love--that the will is
infinite, and the execution confined; that the
desire is boundless, and the act a slave to
limit.= _Troil. and Cress._, iii. 2.
=This is the state of man: to-day he puts forth /
The tender leaves of hopes; to-morrow
blossoms, / And bears his blushing honours
thick upon him; / The third day comes a
frost, a killing frost; / And when he thinks,
good easy man, full surely / His greatness
is a-ripening, nips his root, / And then he
falls, as I do.= _Hen. VIII._, iii. 2.
=This is the very coinage of your brain; / This
bodiless creation ecstasy / Is very cunning
in.= _Ham._, iii. 4.
=This is the very curse of an evil deed, that it
engenders and must bring forth more evil.=
_Schiller._
=This is true philanthropy, that buries not its
gold in ostentatious charity, but builds its
hospital in the human heart.= _Harley._
=This low man seeks a little thing to do, / Sees
it and does it; / This high man, with a great
thing to pursue, / Dies ere he knows it.=
_Browning._
=This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with= 5
=them.= _Said of Jesus by the Jews in way of
reproach._
=This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless
seas, / The past, the future--two eternities.=
_Moore._
=This nothing's more than matter.= _Ham._, iv. 5.
=This of old is sure, / That change of toil is
toil's sufficient cure.= _Lewis Morris._
=This one fact the world hates--that the soul
becomes.= _Emerson._
=This present is a ruinous and ruining world.= 10
_Carlyle._
=This she knows in joys and woes, / That saints
will aid if men will call; / For the blue sky
bends over all.= _Coleridge._
=This so solid-seeming world is, after all, but an
air-image, our Me the only reality; and
Nature, with its thousand-fold production
and destruction, but the reflex of our own
inward force, the "Phantasy of our Dream,"
or, what the earth-spirit in "Faust" names
it, "the living visible garment of God."=
_Carlyle._
=This time, like all times, is a very good one, if
we but knew what to do with it.= _Emerson._
=This was a man.= _Jul. Cæs._, v. 5.
=This was the most unkindest cut of all.= _Jul._ 15
_Cæs._, iii. 2.
=This will prove a brave kingdom to me, where
I shall have my music for nothing.= _Tempest_,
iii. 2.
=This world belongs to the energetic.= _Emerson._
=This world is a busy scene, and man a creature
destined for a progressive struggle.=
_Burns._
=This world is all a fleeting show, / For man's
illusion given: / The smiles of joy, the tears
of woe, / Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, /
There's nothing true but heaven.= _Moore._
=This world is full of fools, and he who would= 20
=not wish to see one must not only shut himself
up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.=
_Boileau._
=This world surely is wide enough to hold both
thee and me!= (uncle Toby to the fly). _Sterne._
=This world, where much is to be done and little
to be known.= _Johnson._
=Thistles and thorns prick sore, but evil tongues
prick more.= _Dut. Pr._
=Tho' men may bicker with the things they
love, / They would not make them laughable
in all eyes, / Not while they loved them.=
_Tennyson._
=Tho' world on world in myriad myriads roll /= 25
=Round us, each with different powers, / And
other form of life than ours, / What know we
greater than the soul?= _Tennyson._
=Those are not empty-hearted whose low sound /
Reverbs no hollowness.= _Lear_, i. 1.
=Those are often raised into the greatest transports
of mirth who are subject to the greatest
depressions of melancholy.= _Addison._
=Those deserve to be doubly laughed at that are
peevish and angry for nothing to no purpose.=
_L'Estrange._
=Those faces which have charmed us the most
escape us the soonest.= _Scott._
=Those faults conscience has not strength to= 30
=prevent, it seldom has justice enough to
accuse.= _Goldsmith._
=Those friends thou hast, and their adoption
tried, / Grapple them to thy soul with hoops
of steel.= _Ham._, i. 3.
=Those holy fields / Over whose acres walked
those blessèd feet / Which, fourteen hundred
years ago were nailed, / For our advantage,
on the bitter cross.= 1 _Hen. IV._, i. 1.
=Those of us who are worth anything spend
our manhood in unlearning the follies or
expiating the mistakes of our youth.= _Shelley._
=Those only are beautiful which, like the planets,
have a steady, lambent light--are luminous,
not sparkling.= _Longfellow._
=Those only are despicable who fear to be= 35
=despised.= _La Roche._
=Those only deserve a monument who do not
need one.= _Hazlitt._
=Those only obtain love, for the most part, who
seek it not.= _Goethe._
=Those only who know little can be said to
know anything. The greater the knowledge
the greater the doubt.= _Goethe._
=Those people who are always improving never
become great. Greatness is an eminence,
the ascent to which is steep and lofty, and
which a man must seize on at once by natural
boldness and vigour, and not by patient,
wary steps.= _Hazlitt._
=Those persons who do most good are least= 40
=conscious of it.= _Ward Beecher._
=Those tender tears that humanise the soul.=
_Thomson._
=Those that are the loudest in their threats are
the weakest in the execution of them.= _Colton._
=Those that come unsought for are commonly
the most valuable, and should be secured,
because they seldom return.= _Bacon._
=Those that dare lose a day are dangerously
prodigal; those that dare misspend it, desperate.=
_Bishop Hall._
=Those that fly may fight again, / Which he can= 45
=never do that's slain.= _Butler._
=Those that have loved longest love best.= _Johnson._
=Those that think must govern those that toil.=
_Goldsmith._
=Those that with haste will make a mighty fire, /
Begin with weak straws.= _Jul. Cæs._, i. 3.
=Those who are bent to do wickedly will never
want tempters to urge them on.= _Tillotson._
=Those who are elevated enough in life to reason= 50
=and to reflect, yet low enough to keep clear
of the venal contagion of a court--these are
a nation's strength!= _Burns._
=Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do
nothing; those who are not quite satisfied
are the sole benefactors of the world.= _Landor._
=Those who attempt to level never equalise;
they load the edifice of society by setting
up in the air what the solidity of the structure
requires to be on the ground.= _Burke._
=Those who attempt to reason us out of our
follies, begin at the wrong end, since the
attempt naturally presupposes us capable of
reason.= _Goldsmith._
=Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others
cannot keep it from themselves.= _J. M. Barrie._
=Those who can sit at home and gloat over their
thousands in silent satisfaction are generally
found to do it in plain clothes.= _Goldsmith._
=Those who carry much upon their clothes= 5
=are remarked for having but little in their
pockets.= _Goldsmith._
=Those who do nothing generally take to shouting.=
_Pr._
=Those who dwell in fear dwell next door to
hate; and I think it is the cowardice of
women that makes them such intense haters.=
_Mrs. Jameson._
=Those who educate children well are more to
be honoured than they who produce them;
for these only gave them life, those the art
of living well.= _Arist._
=Those who first study fate, and say, Fate is
the only cause of fortune and misfortune,
terrify themselves.= _Hitopadesa._
=Those who give the first shock to a state are= 10
=naturally the first to be overwhelmed in its
ruin. The fruits of public commotion are
seldom enjoyed by the man who was the first
to set it a-going; he only troubles the waters
for another's net.= _Montaigne._
=Those who have even studied good books may
still be fools.= _Hitopadesa._
=Those who injure one party to benefit another
are quite as unjust as if they converted the
property of others to their own benefit.= _Cic._
=Those who make the best use of their time
have none to spare.= _Pr._
=Those who make the worst use of their time
most complain of its shortness.= _La Bruyère._
=Those who only run after little things will not= 15
=go far.= _J. M. Barrie._
=Those who profess most are ever the least sincere.=
_Sheridan._
=Those who regularly undertake to cultivate
friendship find ingratitude generally repays
their endeavours.= _Arliss._
=Those who seek for something more than
happiness in this world must not complain if
happiness be not their portion.= _Froude._
=Those who seem to doubt or deny us what is
justly ours, let us either pity their prejudice
or despise their judgment.= _Burns._
=Those who set their minds to deny things, and= 20
=are fond of pulling things to pieces, must be
treated like deniers-of-motion; one need only
keep incessantly walking up and down before
them in as composed a manner as possible.=
_Goethe._
=Those who trust us educate us.= _George Eliot._
=Those who will not be ruled by the rudder
must be ruled by the rock.= _Cornish Pr._
=Those who would make us feel must feel themselves.=
_Churchill._
=Thou art Heaven's tasker; and thy God requires /
The purest of thy flour, as well as
of thy fires.= _Quarles._
=Thou art ignorant of what thou art, and much= 25
=more ignorant of what is fit for thee.= _Thomas
à Kempis._
=Thou art in the end what thou art.= _Goethe._
=Thou art not alone if thou have faith. There
is a communion of saints, unseen, yet not
unreal, accompanying and brotherlike embracing
thee, so thou be worthy.= _Carlyle._
=Thou art the ruin of the noblest man / That
ever lived in the tide of times.= _Jul. Cæs._,
iii. 1.
=Thou art thyself to all eternity.= _D. G. Rossetti._
=Thou awakest us to delight in thy praise; for= 30
=thou madest us for thyself, and our heart is
restless until it repose in thee.= _St. Augustine._
=Thou bear'st thy heavy riches but a journey, /
And death unloads thee.= _Meas. for Meas._,
iii. 1.
=Thou canst not be entirely free till thou hast
attained to such a mastery as entirely to
subdue and deny thyself.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Thou dost not strive, O Sun, but, meek and
still, / Thou dost the type of Jesus best
fulfil, / A noiseless revelation in the sky.=
_F. W. Faber._
=Thou hast given me / A world of earthly blessings
to my soul, / If sympathy of love unite
our thoughts.= 2 _Hen. VI._, i. 1.
=Thou hast not what others have, and others= 35
=have not the gift thou hast. From this imperfection
springs sociability.= _Gellert._
=Thou little thinkest what a little foolery
governs the world.= _John Selden._
=Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger
by always eating, as wiser by always reading.=
_Fuller._
=Thou mayest be more prodigal of praise when
thou writest a letter than when thou speakest
in presence.= _Fuller._
=Thou must learn to break thine own will in
many things if thou wilt have peace and
concord with others.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Thou must live unto another if thou wilt live= 40
=unto thyself.= _Sen._
=Thou must renounce; thou must abstain! is
the eternal song which sounds in the ears of
every one, which every hour is singing to us
all our life long.= _Goethe._
=Thou, Nature, art my goddess; to thy law /
My services are bound.= _King Lear_, i. 2.
=Thou of an independent mind, / With soul
resolved, with soul resigned; / Prepared
Power's proudest frown to brave, / Who
wilt not be, nor have a slave; / Virtue alone
who dost revere, / Thy own reproach alone
dost fear, / Approach this shrine= (Independence),
=and worship here.= _Burns._
=Thou shall hear no more complaints from me;
thou shalt hear only what happens to the
wanderer.= _Goethe._
="Thou shalt" is written upon life in characters= 45
=as legible as "Thou shalt not."= _Carlyle._
=Thou shalt look outward, not inward.= _Carlyle._
=Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth
out the corn.= _Bible._
=Thou, too curious ear, that fain / Wouldst
thread the maze of Harmony, / Content
thee with one simple strain, / ... Till thou
art duly trained, and taught / The concord
sweet of Love divine.= _Keble._
=Thou who didst the stars and sunbeams know, /
Self-schooled, self-scanned, self-honoured,
self-secure, / Didst walk on earth unguessed
at.= _M. Arnold on Shakespeare._
=Thou! why, thou wilt quarrel with a man that
hath a hair more or a hair less in his beard
than thou hast. Thou wilt quarrel with a
man for cracking nuts, having no other reason
but because thou hast hazel eyes.... Thy
head is full of quarrels as an egg is full of
meat.= _Rom. and Jul._, iii. 1.
=Thou wilt never sell thy life, or any part of
thy life, in a satisfactory manner. Give it
like a royal heart; let the price of it be
nothing; then hast thou in a certain sense
got all for it.= _Carlyle._
=Thou would'st as soon go kindle fire with
snow, / As seek to quench the fire of love
with words.= _Two Gent. of Verona_, ii. 7.
=Thou wouldst do little for God if the devil= 5
=were dead.= _Sc. Pr._
=Though a man may become learned by
another's learning, he never can be wise but
by his own wisdom.= (?)
=Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and
his days be prolonged, yet surely I know
that it shall be well with them that fear
God, which fear before him.= _Bible._
=Though all his works abroad, / The heart
benevolent and kind / The most resembles
God.= _Burns._
=Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is
often the parent of virtues.= _Quinct._
=Though an honourable title may be conveyed= 10
=to posterity, yet the ennobling qualities
which are the soul of greatness are a sort of
incommunicable perfections, and cannot be
transferred.= (?)
=Though gentle, yet not dull, / Strong without
rage, without o'erflowing, full.= _Denham._
=Though great the force of little words, / Sped
in an evil hour, / As great the might, and
great the good, / Of one in Wisdom's power.=
_M. W. Wood._
=Though He comes in many shapes, / His love
is throbbing in them all, / And from His love
no soul escapes, / And from His mercy none
can fall.= _Dr. W. Smith._
=Though he says nothing, he pays it with thinking,
like the Welshman's jackdaw.= _Pr._
=Though He slay me, I shall yet trust in Him.= 15
_Bible._
=Though I am always in haste, I am never in
a hurry.= _John Wesley._
=Though justice be thy plea, consider this--/ That
in the course of justice none of us /
Should see salvation.= _Mer. of Venice_, iv. 1.
=Though last, not least.= _Jul. Cæs._, iii. 1.
=Though little fire grows great with little wind, /
Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire and all.=
_Tam. of Shrew_, ii. 1.
=Though losses and crosses / Be lessons right= 20
=severe, / There's wit there ye'll get there, /
Ye'll find nae ither where.= _Burns._
=Though lost to sight, to memory dear.= _Anon._
=Though love cannot plant morals in the human
breast, it cultivates them when there.= _Goldsmith._
=Though much is taken, much abides.= _Tennyson._
=Though old the thought and oft repress'd, /
'Tis his at last who says it best.= _Lowell._
=Though peace be in every man's wishes, yet= 25
=the qualifications and predispositions necessary
for procuring and preserving it are the
care of very few.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Though scorn's malignant glances / Prove him
poorest of his clan, / He's the noble--who
advances / Freedom, and the cause of Man!=
_C. Swain._
=Though stars in skies may disappear, / And
angry tempests gather, / The happy hour
may soon be near / That brings us pleasant
weather.= _Burns._
=Though the cat winks a while, yet sure she
is not blind.= _Pr._
=Though the heavens fall, the orbs of truth and
justice fall not.= _J. Burroughs._
=Though the world exists for thought, thought= 30
=is daunted in presence of the world.= _Emerson._
=Though this be madness, yet there is method
in't.= _Ham._, ii. 2.
=Though thousands hate physic, because of the
cost, / Yet thousands it helpeth, that else
should be lost.= _Thomas Tusser._
=Though we lose our fortune, yet we should
not lose our patience.= _Pr._
=Though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps / At
wisdom's gate; and to simplicity / Resigns
her charge, while goodness thinks no ill
where no ill seems.= _Milton._
=Though you can fret me, you cannot play upon= 35
=me.= _Ham._, iii. 2.
=Though you had the wisdom of Newton or
the wit of Swift, garrulousness would lower
you in the eyes of your fellow-creatures.=
_Burns._
=Though you stroke the nettle ever so kindly,
yet it will sting you.= _Pr._
=Thought and science follow their own law of
development; they are slowly elaborated in
the growth and forward pressure of humanity,
in what Shakespeare calls ... The
prophetic soul / Of the wide world dreaming
on things to come.= _Matthew Arnold._
=Thought discovered is the more possessed.=
_Young._
=Thought disturbs the world, and thought of= 40
=God / Unsettles most of all; for it is life, /
And only life can comprehend its force, / Or
guide it.= _Dr. W. Smith._
=Thought expands, but lames; action animates,
but narrows.= _Goethe._
=Thought is deeper than all speech; / Feeling
deeper than all thought; / Souls to souls can
never teach / What unto themselves was
taught.= _C. P. Cranch._
=Thought is free.= _As You Like It_, i. 3.
=Thought is like opium: it can intoxicate us
while it leaves us broad awake.= _Amiel._
=Thought is silence.= _Sheridan._ 45
=Thought is the property of him who can entertain
it, and of him who can adequately place
it.= _Emerson._
=Thought is the seed of action; but action is as
much its second form as thought is its first.
It rises in thought, to the end that it may be
uttered and acted. The more profound the
thought, the more burdensome. Always in
proportion to the depth of its sense does it
knock importunately at the gates of the soul,
to be spoken, to be done.= _Emerson._
=Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and
mankind the vessel.= _Hare._
=Thought means life, since those who do not
think do not live in any high or real sense.
Thinking makes the man.= _A. B. Alcott._
=Thought once awakened does not again
slumber.= _Carlyle._
=Thought takes man out of servitude into
freedom.= _Emerson._
=Thought, true labour of any kind, highest= 5
=virtue itself, is it not the daughter of pain?
Born as out of the black whirlwind; true
effort in fact, as of a captive struggling to
free itself--that is thought.= _Carlyle._
=Thought without reverence is barren, perhaps
poisonous; at best dies, like cookery, with
the day that called it forth.= _Carlyle._
=Thought works in silence, so does virtue.=
_Carlyle._
=Thoughtlessness is precisely the chief public
calamity of our day.= _Ruskin._
=Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be
tried.= _Shakespeare._
=Thoughts are not always at our beck; we= 10
=must wait till they come.= _Schopenhauer._
=Thoughts= (are) =the slaves of life, and life time's
fool; / And time, that takes survey of all the
world, / Must have a stop.= 1 _Hen. IV._, v. 4.
=Thoughts are your own; your words are so
no more.= _Delaune._
=Thoughts come into our minds by avenues
which we never left open, and thoughts go
out of our minds through avenues which we
never voluntary opened.= _Emerson._
=Thoughts shut up want air, and spoil, like
bales unopened to the sun.= _Young._
=Thoughts take up no room.= _Jeremy Collier._ 15
=Thoughts that breathe and words that burn.=
_Gray._
=Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.=
_Wordsworth._
=Thoughts that voluntary move / Harmonious
numbers.= _Milton._
=Thoughts we have had and pictures we have
seen can be recalled by the mind; but the
heart is not so obliging; it does not reproduce
our pleasing emotions.= _Goethe._
=Threaten the threatener, and outface the= 20
=brow / Of bragging horror; so shall inferior
eyes, / That borrow their behaviours from the
great, / Grow great by your example, and
put on / The dauntless spirit of resolution.=
_King John_, v. 1.
=Threatened folks live long.= _Pr._
=Three may keep a secret--if two of them are
dead.= _Ben. Franklin._