Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. /
The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd; /
The next, in majesty; in both, the last. / The
force of Nature could no further go; / To
make a third, she join'd the former two.=
_Dryden._
=Three removes are as bad as a fire.= _Ben.
Franklin._
=Three things drive a man out of doors--smoke,= 25
=a leaking roof, and a scolding wife.= _Pr._
=Three things that enrich genius are contentment
of mind, the cherishing of good
thoughts, and the exercise of memory.=
_Southey._
=Three thousand miles of ocean space are less
impressive than three miles bounded by
rugged mountain walls.= _John Burroughs._
=Three women and a goose make a market.=
_It., Dut., and Dan. Pr._
=Thrice happy he who without rigour saves.=
_Thomson._
=Thrice happy life that's from ambition free.= 30
_Allan Ramsay._
=Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just; /
And he but naked, though locked up in
steel, / Whose conscience with injustice is
corrupted.= 2 _Hen. VI._, iii. 2.
=Thrift must begin with little savings.= _Pr._
=Thrifty be, but not covetous.= _George Herbert._
=Through certain humours or passions, and
from temper merely, a man may be completely
miserable, let his outward circumstances
be ever so fortunate.= _Lord Shaftesbury._
=Through every star, through every grass= 35
=blade, and most through every living soul,
the glory of a present God still beams.=
_Carlyle._
=Through steep ascents, through strait and
rugged ways, / Ourselves to glory's lofty
seats we raise: / In vain he hopes to reach
the bless'd abode / Who leaves the narrow
path for the more easy road.= _Boscan._
=Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear; /
Robes and furr'd gowns hide all.=
_King Lear_, iv. 6.
=Through "the ruins of a falling era," not once
missing his footing.= _Carlyle of his father._
=Through want of enterprise and faith men are
where they are, buying and selling, and
spending their lives like serfs.= _Thoreau._
=Through wisdom is an house builded; and by= 40
=understanding it is established; and by
knowledge shall the chambers be filled with
all precious and pleasant riches.= _Bible._
=Throw no gift again at the giver's head; /
Better is half a loaf than no bread.= _Pr._
=Throw physic to the dogs; I'll none of it.=
_Macb._, v. 3.
=Thu' nur das Rechte in deinen Sachen, / Das
Andre wird sich von selber machen=--In thy
affairs do thou only what is right, the rest will
follow of itself. _Goethe._
=Thursday come, and the week's gone.= _Pr._
=Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure;= 45
=/ Married in haste, we may repent at
leisure.= _Congreve._
=Thus the native hue of resolution / Is sicklied
o'er with the pale cast of thought.= _Ham._,
iii. 1.
=Thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.=
_Twelfth Night_, iv. 2.
=Thus we play the fools with the time; and the
spirits of the wise sit in the clouds, and mock
us.= 2 _Hen. IV._, ii. 2.
=Thus when I shun Scylla, your father, I fall
into Charybdis, your mother.= _Mer. of Venice_,
iii. 5.
=Thus with the year / Seasons return; but not= 50
=to me returns / Day, or the sweet approach
of even or morn, / Or sight of vernal bloom
or summer's rose, / Or flocks, or herds, or
human face divine; / But cloud instead, and
ever-during dark / Surrounds me.= _Milton._
=Thy actions, and thy actions alone, determine
thy worth.= _Fichte._
=Thy friend put in thy bosom; wear his eyes /
Still in thy heart, that he may see what's
there. / If cause require, thou art his sacrifice....
/ But love is lost; the way of friendship's
gone.= _George Herbert._
=Thy hand is never the worse for doing thy
own work.= _Pr._
=Thy love to me was wonderful, passing the
love of women.= _Bible._
=Thy nature / It is too full of the milk of human= 5
=kindness / To catch the nearest way.= _Macb._,
i. 5.
=Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy
power.= _Bible._
=Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike, / One
doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.=
_Ben. Jonson._
=Thy secret is thy prisoner.= _Pr._
=Thy soul was like a star and dwelt apart.=
_Wordsworth._
=Thy spirit, Independence, let me share; / Lord= 10
=of the lion-heart and eagle-eye! / Thy
steps I follow with my bosom bare, / Nor
heed the storm that howls along the sky!=
_Smollett._
=Thy sum of duty let two words contain; / Be
humble and be just.= _Prior._
=Thy true beginning and Father is in heaven,
whom with the bodily eye thou shalt never
behold, but only with the spiritual.= _Carlyle._
=Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought.=
2 _Hen. IV._, iv. 4.
=Tibi nullum periculum esse perspicio, quod
quidem sejunctum sit ab omnium interitu=--I
can see no danger to which you are exposed,
other than that which threatens the destruction of
us all. _Cic._
=Tickle me, Bobby, and I'll tickle you.= _Pr._ 15
=Tie up thy fears. / He that forbears / To suit
and serve his need, / Deserves his load.=
_George Herbert._
=Tie your camel up as best you can, and then
trust it to Providence.= _Mahomet._
=Tief und ernstlich denkende Menschen haben
gegen das Publikum einen bösen Stand=--Deeply
and earnestly thoughtful men stand on
an unfavourable footing with the public. _Goethe._
=Tief zu denken und schön zu empfinden ist
Vielen gegeben; Dichter ist nur, wer schön
sagt was er dacht' und empfand=--To think
deeply and to feel beautifully is given to many;
only he who expresses beautifully what he has
thought and felt is a poet. _Geibel._
=Tiens à la vérité=--Stick to the truth. _M._ 20
=Tiens à ta foy=--Hold to thy faith. _M._
=Tiers état=--The third estate; the commons. _Fr._
=Till the hand ... from reed or string / Draws
out faint echoes of the voice Divine / That
bring God nearer to a faithless world.= _Lewis
Morris._
=Time and chance can do nothing for those who
will do nothing for themselves. Providence
itself can scarcely save a people who are not
prepared to make a struggle for their safety.=
_Canning._
=Time and I against any two.= _Philip II._ 25
=Time and space are not God, but creations of
God; with God, as it is a universal Here, so
is it an everlasting Now.= _Carlyle._
=Time and thinking tame the strongest grief.=
_Pr._
=Time antiquates antiquities, and hath an art
to make dust of all things.= _Sir Thomas
Browne._
=Time, as it is, cannot stay; / Nor again, as it
was, can it be; / Disappearing and passing
away / Are the world, and the ages, and we.=
_Lord Lytton._
=Time brings roses.= _Pr._ 30
=Time conquers all, and we must time obey.=
_Pope._
=Time consecrates; and what is grey with age
becomes religion.= _Schiller._
=Time destroys the speculations of man, but
it confirms the judgment of nature.= _Cic._
=Time devours all things.= _Pr._
=Time dissipates to shining ether the solid= 35
=angularity of facts.= _Emerson._
=Time drinketh up the essence of every great
and noble action which ought to be performed,
and is delayed in the execution.=
_Hitopadesa._
=Time elaborately thrown away.= _Young._
=Time gives prudence; the lord of time, inspiration;
the one is a reward, the other a gift.=
_Börne._
=Time has a strange contracting influence on
many a wide-spread fame.= _Carlyle._
=Time has only a relative existence.= _Carlyle._ 40
=Time incessantly hasteneth on; he seeks for
perfection; if thou art true, thou canst cast
fetters eternal on him.= _Schiller._
=Time is a continual over-dropping of moments,
which fall down one upon the other and
evaporate.= _Jean Paul._
=Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical
tyrant, which in every century has a different
face for all that one says and does.= _Goethe._
=Time is a wonder-working god. In one hour
many thousand grains of sand run out, so
quickly do thoughts stir in the minds of men.=
_Schiller._
=Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I= 45
=drink at it; but while I drink I see the
sandy bottom, and detect how shallow it is.
Its thin current slides away, but eternity
remains. I would drink deeper, fish in the
sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars.=
_Thoreau._
=Time is but the measure of the difficulty of a
conception. Pure thought has scarcely any
need of time, since it perceives the two ends
of an idea almost the same moment.= _Amiel._
=Time is eternity, / Pregnant with all eternity
can give.= _Young._
=Time is generally the best doctor.= _Ovid._
=Time is incalculably long, and every day is a
vessel into which very much may be poured,
if one will really fill it up.= _Goethe._
=Time is like a fashionable host, / That slightly= 50
=shakes his parting guest by the hand; / And
with his arms outstretched, as he would fly, /
Grasps in the comer.= _Troil. and Cress._, iii. 3.
=Time is like a river, in which metals and solid
substances are sunk, while chaff and straws
swim upon the surface.= _Bacon._
=Time is money.= _Pr._
=Time is never more misspent than while we
declaim against the want of it.= _Zimmermann._
=Time is of more value than type, and the wear
and tear of temper than an extra page of
index.= _R. H. Busk._
=Time is the chrysalis of eternity.= _Jean Paul._
=Time is the life of the soul. If not this, then
tell me what is time?= _Longfellow._
=Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical
of things; the past is gone, the future is not
come, and the present becomes the past,
even while we attempt to define it, and, like
the flash of the lightning, at once exists and
expires.= _Colton._
=Time is the nurse and breeder of all good.= _Two_ 5
_Gent. of Ver._, iii. 1.
=Time is the old Justice that examines all offenders.=
_As You Like It_, iv. 1.
=Time is the stuff life is made of.= _Ben. Franklin._
=Time is the wheel-track in which we roll on
towards eternity.= _W. v. Humboldt._
=Time is trouble and the author of destruction;
he seizeth even from afar.= _Hitopadesa._
=Time reposes on eternity; the truly great and= 10
=transcendental has its basis and substance
in eternity; stands revealed to us as eternity
in a vesture of time.= _Carlyle._
=Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides: /
Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.=
_King Lear_, i. 1.
=Time, that black and narrow isthmus between
two eternities.= _Colton._
=Time the shuttle drives, but you / Give to
every thread its hue, / And elect your destiny.=
_W. H. Burleigh._
=Time trieth truth.= _Pr._
=Time was when a Christian used to apologise= 15
=for being happy. But the day has always
been when he ought to apologise for being
miserable.= _Prof. Drummond._
=Time wasted is existence; used, is life.=
_Young._
=Time, when well husbanded, is like a cultivated
field, of which a few acres produce more of
what is useful to life, than extensive provinces,
even of the richest soil, when overrun
with weeds and brambles.= _Hume._
=Time, which deadens hatred, secretly strengthens
love; and in the hour of threatened
separation its growth is manifested at once
in radiant brightness.= _Jean Paul._
=Time will discover everything to posterity;
it is a babbler, and speaks even when no
question is put.= _Euripides._
=Time works great changes.= _Pr._ 20
=Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow; /
Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest
now.= _Byron._
=Time's best gift to us is serenity.= _Bovee._
=Time's noblest offspring is the last.= _Berkeley._
=Time's the king of men; / He's both their
parent and he is their grave, / And gives
them what he will, not what they crave.=
_Pericles_, ii. 3.
=Time's waters will not ebb nor stay; / Power= 25
=cannot change them, but Love may; / What
cannot be, Love counts it done.= _Keble._
=Timely advised, the coming evil shun; / Better
not do the deed, than weep it done.= _Prior._
=Timeo Danaos, et dona ferentes=--I distrust the
Greeks, even when they bring gifts. _Virg._
=Times of general calamity and confusion have
ever been productive of the greatest minds.=
_Colton._
=Timet pudorem=--He fears shame. _M._
=Timidi mater non flet=--The mother of the coward 30
has no occasion to weep. _Pr._
=Timidus se vocat cautum, parcum sordidus=--The
coward calls himself cautious, the miser
thrifty. _Pub. Syr._
=Timor Domini fons vitæ=--The fear of the Lord
is a fountain of life. _M._
=Tinsel reflects the sun, but warms nothing.=
_Prof. Drummond._
=Tired Nature's sweet restorer, balmy Sleep! /
He, like the world, his ready visit pays /
Where Fortune smiles; the wretched he
forsakes: / Swift on his downy pinions flies
from woe, / And lights on lids unsullied with
a tear.= _Young._
=Tirer le diable par la queue=--To be in great 35
straits (_lit._ to pull the devil by the tail).
=Tirer les marrons du feu avec la patte du chat=--To
make a cat's paw of any one (_lit._ to take
the chestnuts from the fire with a cat's paw).
_La Fontaine._
=Tirez le rideau; la farce est jouée=--Draw the
curtain; the farce is played out. _Last words of
Rabelais._
='Tis a consummation / Devoutly to be wished.=
_Ham._, iii. 1.
='Tis a cruelty / To load a falling man.= _Henry
VIII._, v. 2.
='Tis a folly to fret; grief's no comfort.= _Pr._ 40
='Tis a good ill that comes alone.= _Pr._
='Tis a kind of good deed to say well: / And yet
words are no deeds.= _Henry VIII._, iii. 2.
='Tis a lucky day, boy, and we'll do good deeds
on't.= _Winter's Tale_, iii. 3.
='Tis a physic that's bitter to sweet end.= _Meas.
for Meas._, iv. 6.
='Tis a question whether adversity or prosperity= 45
=makes the most poets.= _Farquhar._
='Tis a vile thing to die ... / When men are
unprepar'd and look not for it.= _Rich. III._,
iii. 2.
='Tis all one to be a witch as to be counted one.=
_The Witch of Edmonton._
='Tis always a delightful thing to see the human
understanding following its imprescriptible
rights in spite of all hindrances, and hurrying
eagerly towards the utmost possible agreement
between ideas and objects.= _Goethe._
='Tis an economy of time to read old and famed
books.= _Emerson._
='Tis an old maxim in the schools / That flattery's= 50
=the food of fools; / Yet now and then
your men of wit / Will condescend to take a
bit.= _Swift._
='Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud; /
'Tis virtue that doth make them most admired; /
'Tis government that makes them
seem divine.= 3 _Hen. VI._, i. 4.
='Tis better to be lowly born, / And range with
humble livers in content, / Than to be
perked up in a glistering grief, / And wear a
golden sorrow.= _Hen. VIII._, ii. 2.
='Tis better to cry over your goods than after
them.= _Pr._
='Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never
to have loved at all.= _Tennyson._
='Tis but a base, ignoble mind / That mounts
no higher than a bird can soar.= 2 _Hen. VI._,
ii. 1.
='Tis but lame kindness that does its work by
halves.= _Blair._
='Tis, by comparison, an easy task / Earth to
despise; but to converse with heaven--/
This is not easy.= _Wordsworth._
='Tis certainly much easier for a man to restrain
himself from talking at all, than to enter into
discourse without saying more than becomes
him.= _Thomas à Kempis._
='Tis day still while the sun shines.= _Pr._ 5
='Tis death to me to be at enmity; / I hate it, and
desire all good men's love.= _Rich. III._, ii. 1.
='Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, /
And robes the mountain in its azure hue.=
_Campbell._
='Tis education forms the common mind, / Just
as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.= _Pope._
='Tis ever common that men are merriest when
they are from home.= _Hen. V._, i. 2.
='Tis expectation makes a blessing dear; /= 10
=Heaven were not heaven if we knew what it
were.= _Suckling._
='Tis God / Diffused through all that doth make
all one whole.= _Coleridge._
='Tis heaven alone that is given away; / 'Tis
only God may be had for the asking.= _Lowell._
='Tis impossible you should take true root, but
by the fair weather that you make yourself;
it is needful that you frame the season for
your own harvest.= _Much Ado_, i. 3.
='Tis, in fact, utter folly to ask whether a person
has anything from himself, or whether he has
it from others, whether he operates by himself,
or operates by means of others. The
main point is to have a great will, and skill
and perseverance to carry it out. All else is
indifferent.= _Goethe._
='Tis life itself to love.= _Goethe._ 15
='Tis life reveals to each his genuine worth.=
_Goethe._
='Tis little we can do for each other.= _Emerson._
='Tis long since death had the majority.= _Blair._
='Tis mad idolatry / To make the service greater
than the god.= _Troil. and Cress._, ii. 2.
='Tis my opinion 'tis necessary to be happy,= 20
=that we think no place more agreeable than
that where we are.= _Lady Montagu._
='Tis my vocation, Hal; 'tis no sin for a man to
labour in his vocation.= 1 _Hen. IV._, i. 2.
='Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, / But the
joint force and full result of all.= _Pope._
='Tis not always necessary that truth should
be embodied; it is sufficient if it hovers about
in the spirit, producing harmony; if, like the
chime of bells, it vibrates through the air
solemnly and kindly.= _Goethe._
='Tis not enough to keep the feeble up, / But to
support them after.= _Tim. of Athens_, i. 1.
='Tis not enough when swarming faults are= 25
=writ, / That here and there are scatter'd
sparks of wit.= _Dryden._
='Tis not enough your counsel still be true; /
Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods
do.= _Pope._
='Tis not in mortals to command success, / But
we'll do more, Sempronius--we'll deserve it.=
_Addison._
='Tis not prudent, 'tis not well, to meet / With
purposed misconception any man, / Let him
be who he may.= _Goethe._
='Tis not so above: / There is no shuffling; there
the action lies / In its true nature.= _Ham._, iii. 3.
='Tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but= 30
=the excess.= _Selden._
='Tis not the whole of life to live, / Nor all of
death to die.= _J. Montgomery._
='Tis not want, but rather abundance, that
creates avarice.= _Montaigne._
='Tis not what man does which exalts him, but
what man would do.= _Browning._
='Tis not worth while quarrelling with the
world, simply to afford it some amusement.=
_Goethe._
='Tis now the very witching time of night, /= 35
=When churchyards yawn, and hell itself
breathes out / Contagion to this world.=
_Ham._, iii. 2.
='Tis only humanity as a whole that perceives
Nature, only men collectively that live the
life of man.= _Goethe._
='Tis only in Rome one can duly prepare one's
self for Rome.= _Goethe._
='Tis only in the forehead Nature plants the
watchful eye; the back, without defence,
must find its shield in man's fidelity.= _Schiller._
='Tis only noble to be good; / Kind hearts are
more than coronets, / And simple faith than
Norman blood.= _Tennyson._
='Tis only strict precision of thought that confers= 40
=facility of expression.= _Schiller._
='Tis only woman's womanly beauty that makes
a true queen; wherever she appears, and
by her mere presence, she asserts her sovereignty.=
_Schiller._
='Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print; /
A book's a book, although there's nothing
in't.= _Byron._
='Tis rashness to conclude affairs in a lost condition
because some crosses have baulked
your expectations.= _Thomas à Kempis._
='Tis said fantastic ocean doth unfold the likeness
of whate'er on land is seen.= _Wordsworth._
='Tis said that virtue dwells sublime / On= 45
=rugged cliffs, full hard to climb; / ... But
mortal ne'er her form may see, / Unless his
restless energy / Breaks forth in sweat that
gains the goal, / The perfect manhood of the
soul.= _Simonides._
='Tis strange; / And oftentimes to win us to
our harm, / The instruments of darkness
tell us truths; / Win us with honest trifles,
to betray 's, / In deepest consequence.=
_Macb._, i. 3.
='Tis sweet to hear of heroes dead, / To know
them still alive, / But sweeter if we earn
their bread, / And in us they survive.= _Thomson._
='Tis the curse of service; preferment goes by
letter and affection, not by the old gradation
where each second stood heir to the first.=
_Othello_, i. 1.
='Tis the divinity that stirs within us; / 'Tis
heaven itself that points out an hereafter, /
And intimates eternity to man.= _Addison._
='Tis the fate of the noblest soul to sigh vainly= 50
=for a reflection of itself.= _Goethe._
='Tis the fine souls who serve us, and not what
is called fine society.= _Emerson._
='Tis the fulness of man that runs over into
objects, and makes his Bibles and Shakespeares
and Homers so great.= _Emerson._
='Tis the good reader that makes the good
book; a good head cannot read amiss; in
every book he finds passages which seem
confidences, or asides, hidden from all else and
unmistakably meant for his ear.= _Emerson._
='Tis the mind that makes the body rich; /
And as the sun breaks through the darkest
clouds, / So honour peereth in the meanest
habit.= _Tam. of Shrew_, iv. 3.
='Tis the old secret of the gods that they come
in low disguises. 'Tis the vulgar great who
come dizened with gold and jewels.= _Emerson._
='Tis the part of a poor spirit to undervalue= 5
=himself and blush.= _George Herbert._
='Tis the same to him who wears a shoe as if
the whole earth were thatched with leather.=
_Persian Pr._
='Tis the sublime of man, / Our noontide majesty,
to know ourselves / Parts and proportions
of one wondrous whole! / This fraternises
man, this constitutes / Our charities and
bearings.= _Coleridge._
='Tis this= (religion), =my friend, that streaks our
morning bright.= _Thomson._ (?)
='Tis too much proved that, with devotion's
visage / And pious action, we do sugar o'er /
The devil himself.= _Ham._, iii. 1.
='Tis well for once to do everything one can do,= 10
=in order to have the merit of knowing one's
self more intimately.= _Goethe._
='Tis well to be merry and wise, / 'Tis well to
be honest and true; / 'Tis well to be off
with the old love / Before you are on with
the new.= (?)
='Tis when sovereigns build, carters are kept
employed.= _Schiller._
='Tis with our judgments as our watches; none /
Go just alike, yet each believes his own.=
_Pope._
=Tit for tat is fair play.= _Pr._
=Titles and mottoes to books are like escutcheons= 15
=and dignities in the hands of a king. The wise
sometimes condescend to accept of them; but
none but a fool would imagine them of any
real importance. We ought to depend upon
intrinsic merit, and not the slender helps of
the title.= _Goldsmith._
=Titles of honour add not to his worth who is
himself an honour to his title.= _John Ford._
=Titles of honour conferred upon such as have
no personal merit are at best but the royal
stamp set upon base metal.= (?)
=Titus, amor et deliciæ humani generis=--Titus,
the delight and darling of the human race. _Suetonius._
=To a child in confinement its mother's knee is
a binding-post.= _Hitopadesa._
=To a dog the choicest thing in the world is a= 20
=dog: to an ox, an ox; to an ass, an ass;
and to a sow, a sow.= _Schopenhauer._
=To a father waxing old nothing is dearer than
a daughter.= _Euripides._
=To a father, when his child dies, the future
dies; to a child when his parents die, the
past dies.= _Auerbach._
=To a new truth nothing is more mischievous
than an old error.= _Goethe._
=To a poet nothing can be useless.= _Johnson._
=To accuse a man of lying is as much as to say= 25
=he is brave towards God and a coward towards
man.= _Montaigne._
=To achieve great things a man must so live
as if he had never to die.= _Vauvenargues._
=To acquire certainty in the appreciation of
things exactly as they are, and to know
them in their due subordination, and in their
proper relation to one another--this is really
the highest enjoyment to which we ought to
aspire, whether in the sphere of art, of nature,
or of life.= _Goethe._
=To act is easy, to think is hard; to act
according to our thought is troublesome.=
_Goethe._
=To act with a purpose is what raises man
above the brutes; to invent with a purpose,
to imitate with a purpose, is that which distinguishes
genius from the petty artists who
only invent to invent, and imitate to imitate.=
_Lessing._
=To adhere to what is set down in them, and= 30
=appropriate to one's self what one can for
moral strengthening and culture, is the only
edifying purpose to which we can turn the
Gospels.= _Goethe._
=To affect a quality is just to confess that you
have not got it.= _Schopenhauer._
=To aim at excellence, our reputation, our
friends, and our all must be ventured; by
aiming only at mediocrity, we run no risk
and we do little service.= _Goldsmith._
=To an ill-conditioned being all pleasure is like
delicate wine in a mouth embittered with
gall.= _Schopenhauer._
=To answer a question so as to admit of no
reply, is the test of a man.= _Emerson._
=To appear well-bred, a man must actually be= 35
=so.= _Goethe._
=To appreciate the noble is a gain which can
never be torn from us.= _Goethe._
=To arrive at perfection, a man should have
very sincere friends or inveterate enemies;
because he would be made sensible of his
good or ill conduct, either by the censures of
the one or the admonitions of the other.=
_Diogenes._
=To attack vices in the abstract without touching
persons, may be safe fighting indeed,
but it is fighting with shadows.= _Junius._
=To banish care, scare away sorrow, and soothe
pain is the business of the poet, or singer=
(_Sänger_). _Bodenstedt._
=To be a good poet and painter genius is required,= 40
=and this cannot be communicated.=
_Goethe._
=To be a man's own fool is bad enough; but the
vain man is everybody's.= _William Penn._
=To be a philosopher is but a retreat from the
world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is
God's.= _Cowley._
=To be a philosopher is not merely to have
subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school,
but so to love wisdom as to live, according to
its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence,
magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some
of the problems of life, not only theoretically,
but practically.= _Thoreau._
=To be a poet is to have a soul in which knowledge
passes instantaneously into feeling,
and feeling flashes back as a new organ of
knowledge.= _George Eliot._
=To be able simply to say of a man he has
character, is not only saying much of him,
but extolling him; for this is a rarity which
excites respect and wonder.= _Goethe._
=To be able to be silent shows power; to be
willing to be silent shows forbearance= (_Nachsicht_);
=to be compelled to be silent shows the
spirit of the time.= _Weber._
=To be acquainted with the merit of a Ministry,
we need only observe the condition of the
people.= _Junius._
=To be always lamenting and always complaining
without raising and nerving one's self to
resignation, is to lose at once both earth
and heaven, and have nothing over but a
watery sentimentalism.= _Schopenhauer._
=To be always thinking about your manners is= 5
=not the way to make them good; because
the very perfection of manners is not to
think about yourself.= _Whately._
=To be an enthusiast is to be the worthiest of
affection, the noblest and the best that a
mortal can be.= _Wieland._
=To be angry is to avenge the faults of others
upon ourselves.= _Pope._
=To be as good as our fathers, we must be
better. Imitation is not discipleship. When
some one sent a cracked plate to China to
have a set made, every piece in the new set
had a crack in it.= _Wendell Phillips._
=To be bodily tranquil, to speak little, and to
digest without effort are absolutely necessary
to grandeur of mind or of presence, or
to proper development of genius.= _Balzac._
=To be born in a duck's nest in a farmyard is of= 10
=no consequence to a bird if it is hatched from
a swan's egg.= _Hans Andersen._
=To be born with a silver spoon in the mouth.=
_Pr._
=To be borne seems to many ever more kingly
than to bear; and a ship carried with the
breeze is, in their eyes, a lordlier spectacle
than when it stands against it, victoriously
braving it.= _Ed._
=To be disobedient through temptation is human
sin; but to be disobedient for the sake of disobedience,
fiendish sin. To be obedient for
the sake of success in conduct is human virtue;
to be obedient for the sake of obedience,
angelic virtue.= _Ruskin._
=To be ever beloved, one must be ever agreeable.=
_Lady Montagu._
=To be free is not to do nothing, but to be the= 15
=sole arbiter of what we do and what we leave
undone.= _La Bruyère._
=To be good and disagreeable is high treason
against the royalty of virtue.= _Hannah More._
=To be great is to be misunderstood.= _Emerson._
=To be great one must be positive, and gain
strength through foes.= _Donn Piatt._
=To be guided in the right path by those who
know better than they is the first "right of
man," compared with which all other rights
are as nothing.= _Carlyle._
=To be happy is not the purpose of our being,= 20
=but to deserve happiness.= _Fichte._
=To be happy means to be sufficient for one's
self.= _Arist._
=To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one
man picked out of ten thousand.= _Ham._,
ii. 2.
=To be idle and to be poor have always been
reproaches; and therefore every man endeavours
with his utmost care to hide his
poverty from others, and his idleness from
himself.= _Johnson._
=To be ill thought of is sometimes for thy good,
... if thou seek not thy own glory, but His
that sent thee, the affliction will not be very
grievous to be borne.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=To be in too great a hurry to discharge an= 25
=obligation is itself a kind of ingratitude.=
_La Roche._
=To be introduced into a decent company, there
is need of a dress cut according to the taste
of the public to which one wishes to present
one's self.= _Goethe._
=To be magnanimous--mighty of heart, mighty
of mind--is to be great in life; to become
this increasingly is to "advance in life."=
_Ruskin._
=To be mindful of an absent friend in the hours
of mirth and feasting, when his company is
least wanted, shows no slight degree of
sincerity.= _Goldsmith._
=To be misunderstood is the cross and bitterness
of life.= _Amiel._
=To be obliged to wear black, and buy it into= 30
=the bargain, is more than my tranquillity of
temper can bear.= _Goldsmith._
=To be once in doubt is once to be resolved.=
_Othello_, iii. 3.
=To be, or not to be, that is the question; /
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer /
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, /
Or to take up arms against a sea of
troubles, / And, by opposing, end them.=
_Ham._, iii. 1.
=To be perfectly just, is an attribute of the
divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our
abilities is the glory of man.= (?)
=To be poor, and to seem poor, is a certain
method never to rise.= _Goldsmith._
=To be prepared for war is one of the most= 35
=effectual means of preserving peace.= _Washington._
=To be provoked with every slanderous word
argues a littleness of soul, a want of due regard
to God.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=To be rich is to have a ticket of admission to
the master-works and chief men of each race.=
_Emerson._
=To be seventy years young is sometimes far
more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty
years old.= _Holmes._
=To be spiritually minded is life and peace.=
_Paul._
=To be thus is nothing; / But to be safely thus.= 40
_Macb._, iii. 1.
=To be true in heart and just in act are the
first qualities necessary for the elevation of
humanity.= _Froude._
=To be vain is rather a mark of humility than
pride.= _Swift._
=To be vain of one's rank or place is to disclose
that one is below it.= _Stanislaus._
=To be weak is miserable, / Doing or suffering.=
_Milton._
=To be wholly loved with the whole heart, one= 45
=must be suffering.= _Heine._
=To be wise and love exceeds man's might.=
_Troil. and Cress._, iii. 2.
=To be without a servant in this world is not
good; but to be without a master, it appears,
is a still fataller predicament for some.=
_Carlyle._
=To be without passion is worse than a beast;
to be without reason is to be less than a man.=
_A. Warwick._
=To be wroth with one we love, / Doth work
like madness in the brain.= _Coleridge._
=To be young is to be as one of the immortals.=
_Hazlitt._
=To bear is to conquer our fate.= _Campbell._ 5
=To become properly acquainted with a truth,
we must first have disbelieved it and disputed
against it.= _Novalis._
=To beguile the time, / Look like the time;
bear welcome in your eye, / Your hand,
your tongue; look like the innocent flower, /
But be the serpent under 't.= _Macb._, i. 5.
=To believe your own thought, to believe that
what is true for you in your private heart is
true for all men--that is genius.= _Emerson._
=To blow is not to play the flute; you must move
the fingers as well.= _Goethe._
=To breed a fresh soul, is it not like brooding a= 10
=fresh (celestial) egg, wherein as yet all is
formless, powerless? Yet by degrees organic
elements and fibres shoot through the watery
albumen; out of vague sensation grows
thought, grows fantasy and force, and we
have philosophies, dynasties, nay, poetries
and religions.= _Carlyle._
=To bring nations to surrender themselves to
new ideas is not the affair of a day.= _Draper._
=To bring the generality of admirers on our
side, it is sufficient to attempt pleasing a
very few.= _Goldsmith._
=To business that we love we rise betime, / And
go to 't with delight.= _Ant. and Cleop._, iv. 4.
=To call a man ungrateful is to sum up all the
evil he can be guilty of.= _Swift._
=To carry on the feelings of childhood into the= 15
=powers of manhood, to combine the child's
sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances
which every day, for perhaps forty
years, has rendered familiar; this is the
character and privilege of genius, and one of
the marks which distinguish genius from
talent.= _Coleridge._
=To cast away a virtuous friend is as bad as to
cast away one's own life, which one loves
best.= _Sophocles._
=To catch dame Fortune's golden smile, / Assiduous
wait upon her; / And gather gear by
ev'ry wile / That's justified by honour; / Not
for to hide it in a hedge, / Nor for a train
attendant, / But for the glorious privilege /
Of being independent.= _Burns._
=To circumstances and custom the law must
yield.= _Dan. Pr._
=To climb a tree to catch a fish is talking much
and doing nothing.= _Chinese Pr._
=To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.= 20
_Hen. VIII._, i. 1.
=To confess Christ is, first, to believe righteously,
truthfully, and continently; and,
then, to separate ourselves from those who
are manifestly or by profession rogues, liars,
and fornicators.= _Ruskin._
=To conquer inclination is difficult, but if habit,
taking root, gradually associates itself with
it, then it is unconquerable.= _Goethe._
=To conquer without danger would be to conquer
without glory.= _Corneille._
=To consume your own choler, as some chimneys
consume their own smoke; to keep a
whole Satanic school spouting, if it must
spout, inaudibly, is a negative yet no slight
virtue, nor one of the commonest in these
times.= _Carlyle._
=To corporeal beings unthought-of troubles= 25
=arise; so, in like manner, do blessings make
their appearance. In this, I think Providence
hath extended them farther than
usual.= _Hitopadesa._
=To dance attendance on their lordships' pleasures.=
_Hen. VIII._, v. 2.
=To-day comes only once, and never again
returns.= _Schopenhauer._
=To-day is a king in disguise.= _Emerson._
=To-day is ours, we have it here, ... / To the
gods belong to-morrow.= _Cowley._
=To-day must not borrow of to-morrow.= _Ger. Pr._ 30
=To deny is easy; nothing is sooner learned or
more generally practised. As matters go,
we need no man of polish to teach it; but
rather, if possible, a hundred men of wisdom
to show us its limits and teach us its reverse.=
_Carlyle._
=To depersonalise man is the dominant drift of
our epoch.= _Amiel._
=To despise our own species is the price we
must too often pay for a knowledge of it.=
_Colton._
=To die for truth is not to die for one's country
but to die for the world.= _Jean Paul._
=To die is landing on some silent shore, / Where= 35
=billows never break nor tempests roar.= _S.
Garth._
=To die, to sleep; / No more; and by a sleep
to say we end / The heartache and the
thousand natural shocks / That flesh is heir
to, 'tis a consummation / Devoutly to be
wished.= _Ham._, iii. 1.
=To die, to sleep; / No more! perchance to
dream; ay, there's the rub; / For in that
sleep of death what dreams may come, /
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, /
Must give us pause.= _Ham._, iii. 1.
=To do as much good and as little evil as we
can is the brief and intelligible principle
that comprehends all subordinate maxims.=
_R. Sharp._
=To do easily what is difficult for others is the
mark of talent.= _Amiel._
=To do good to the ungrateful is to throw rosewater= 40
=into the sea.= _Pr._
=To do him any wrong was to beget / A kindness
from him, for his heart was rich, / Of
such fine mould, that if you sow'd therein /
The seed of Hate, it blossom'd Charity.=
_Tennyson._
=To do justice and judgment is more acceptable
to the Lord than sacrifice.= _Bible._
=To do no evil is good; to intend none is better.=
_Claudius._
=To do nothing by halves is the way of noble
minds.= _Wieland._
=To do, one must be doing.= _Fr. Pr._ 45
=To do what is impossible for talent is the mark
of genius.= _Amiel._
=To doubt is to dip love in the mire.= _J. M.
Barrie._
=To draw a long bow=, _i.e._, exaggerate. _Pr._
=To dread no eye, and to suspect no tongue,
is the greatest prerogative of innocence; an
exemption granted only to invariable virtue.=
_Johnson._
=To dwell alone is the fate of all great souls.=
_Schopenhauer._
=To each nation its believed history is its Bible.=
_Carlyle._
=To eat or drink too much, to play too much,= 5
=to work too much, or to grumble too much--all
these are equally pernicious.= _John Wagstaffe._
=To educate the intelligence is to enlarge the
horizon of its desires and wants.= _Lowell._
=To educate the wise man, the State exists;
and with the appearance of the wise man, the
State expires. The wise man is the State.=
_Emerson._
=To elevate above the spirit of the age must
be regarded as the end of education.= _Jean
Paul._
=To endeavour all one's days to fortify our
minds with learning and philosophy is to
spend so much in armour that one has nothing
left to defend.= (?)
=To endeavour to work upon the vulgar with= 10
=fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks
with a razor.= _Pope._
=To endure is the first and most necessary lesson
a child has to learn.= _Rousseau._
=To equal a predecessor, one must have twice
his worth.= _Gracian._
=To err is human, to forgive divine.= _Pope._
=To escape from arrangements that tortured
me, my heart sought refuge in the world of
ideas, when as yet I was unacquainted with
the world of realities, from which iron bars
excluded me.= _Schiller at his training-school._
=To every deep there is a deeper still.= _Pr._ 15
=To everything there is a season.= _Bible._
=To excite a fierce dog to capture a lame rabbit
is to attack a contemptible enemy.= _Chinese
Pr._
=To expect an author to talk as he writes is
ridiculous: or even if he did, you would find
fault with him as a pedant.= _Hazlitt._
=To express the most difficult matters clearly,
and everything intelligibly, is to strike coins
out of pure gold.= _Geibel._
=To fail at all is to fail utterly.= _Lowell._ 20
=To fear is easy, but grievous; to reverence is
difficult, but satisfactory.= _Goethe._
=To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength, /
Gives, in your weakness, strength unto your
foe.= _Rich. II._, iii. 2.
=To feel and respect a great personality, one
must be something one's self.= _Goethe._
=To fight and die is death destroying death; /
Where fearing dying, pays death servile
breath.= _Rich. II._, iii. 2.
=To fight with its neighbours never was, and is= 25
=now less than ever, the real trade of England.=
_Carlyle._
=To fill the hour, that is happiness.= _Emerson._
=To find out your real opinion of any one, observe
the impression made upon you by the
first sight of a letter from him.= _Schopenhauer._
=To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.=
_Pascal._
=To fix a child's attention on what is present,
to give him a description of a name, is the
best thing we can do for him.= _Goethe._
=To forget a wrong is the best revenge.= _It. Pr._ 30
=To forgive and forget is to throw away dearly-bought
experience.= _Schopenhauer._
=To form a poet, the heart must be full to overflowing
of noble feeling.= _Goethe._
=To free a man from error is to give, and not to
take away.= _Schopenhauer._
=To gain what is fit ye're able, / If ye in faith
can but excel; / Such are the myths of fable, /
If ye have observed them well.= _Goethe._
=To gather riches do not hazard health; / For,= 35
=truth to say, health is the wealth of wealth.=
_Sir Richard Baker._
=To genius irregularity is incident, and the
greatest genius is often marked by eccentricity,
as if it disdained to move in the vulgar
orbit.= _Brougham._
=To genius life never grows commonplace.=
_Lowell._
=To get general ideas first and make particular
observations last is to invert the process of
education.= _Schopenhauer._
=To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, / To
throw a perfume on the violet, / To smooth
the ice, or add another hue / Unto the
rainbow, or with taper-light / To seek the
beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, / Is
wasteful and ridiculous excess.= _King John_,
iii. 1.
=To give alms is nothing unless you give= 40
=thought also, and therefore it is written,
not "Blessed is he that feedeth the poor,"
but "Blessed is he that considereth the
poor."= _Ruskin._
=To give should be our pleasure, but to receive
our shame.= _Goldsmith._
=To give the world more than it gives us, to
love it more than it loves us, and never to
make suit for its applause, ensures a peaceful
life and a happy departure.= _Bodenstedt._
=To give to the human mind a direction which
it shall retain for ages is the rare prerogative
of a few imperial spirits.= _Macaulay._
=To go back is easy, if we have missed our way
on the road uphill; it is impossible only when
the road is downhill.= _Froude._
=To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to= 45
=outrage humanity.= _Pascal._
=To God belongeth the east and the west;
therefore, whithersoever ye turn yourselves
to pray, there is the word of God, for God is
omnipresent and omniscient.= _Koran._
=To govern men, you must either excel them
in their accomplishments or despise them.=
_Disraeli._
=To grasp, to seize, is the essence of all mastery.=
_Goethe._
=To great evils one must oppose great virtues;
and also to small, which is the harder task
of the two.= _Carlyle._
=To guard from error is not the instructor's= 50
=business; but to lead the erring pupil.=
_Goethe._
=To guide scoundrels by love is a method that
will not hold together; hardly for the flower
of men will love do; and for the sediment
and scoundrelism of them it has not even
a chance to do.= _Carlyle._
=To have a respect for ourselves guides our
morals; and to have a deference for others
governs our manners.= _Sterne._
=To have all one's wants satisfied is something
intolerable.= _Schopenhauer._
=To have any chance of lasting, a book must
satisfy, not merely some fleeting fancy of
the day, but a constant longing and hunger
of human nature.= _Lowell._
=To have ascertained what is ascertainable,
and calmly to reverence what is not, is the
fairest portion that can fall to a thinking
man.= _Goethe._
=To have done anything by which you earned= 5
=money merely is to have been truly idle, or
worse.= _Thoreau._
=To have done, is to hang / Quite out of fashion,
like a rusty mail, / In monumental mockery.=
_Troil. and Cres._, iii. 3.
=To have gold is to be in fear, and to want it to
be in sorrow.= _Johnson._
=To have heard the voice / Of Godhead in the
winds and in the seas, / To have known him
in the circling of the suns, / And in the
changeful fates and lives of men.= _Lewis
Morris._
=To have ideas is to gather flowers; to think
is to weave them into garlands.= _Mme.
Swetchine._
=To have neither superior, nor inferior, nor= 10
=equal, united manlike to you; without father,
without child, without brother,--man knows
no sadder destiny.= _Carlyle._
=To have no assistance from other minds in
resolving doubts, in appeasing scruples, in
balancing deliberations, is a very wretched
destitution.= _Johnson._
=To have no pain, and not be bored, is the
utmost happiness possible to man on earth.=
_Schopenhauer._
=To have read the greatest works of any great
poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest
works of any great painter or musician, is
a possession added to the best things of life.=
_Swinburne._
=To have religion upon authority, and not upon
conviction, is like a finger-watch, to be set
forwards or backwards, as he pleases that
has it in keeping.= _William Penn._
=To have the fear of God before our eyes, and,= 15
=in our mutual dealings with each other, to
govern our actions by the eternal measures
of right and wrong; the first of these will
comprehend the duties of religion; the
second, those of morality.= _Sterne._
=To have the gift of life and bread to sustain it
with can never suffice as a substitute for the
ministry and service which the life itself is
given us that we may fulfil. To find and
work out this is man's only satisfaction and
true reward.= _Ed._
=To hear complaints is wearisome alike to the
wretched and the happy.= _Johnson._
=To Him no high, no low, no great, no small; /
He fills, He bounds, connects and equals all.=
_Pope._
=To him that knoweth to do good, and doeth
it not, to him it is sin.= _St. James._
=To his= (the host's) =imagination all things travel= 20
=save his sign-post and himself.= _Thoreau._
=To hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature.=
_Ham._, iii. 2.
=To holy tears, / In lonely hours, Christ risen
appears; / In social hours, who Christ would
see / Must turn all tasks to charity.= _Keble._
=To imitate the style of another is said to be
wearing a mask. However beautiful it may
be, it is through its lifelessness insipid and
intolerable, so that even the most ugly living
face is more engaging.= _Schopenhauer._
=To improve the golden moment of opportunity,
and catch the good that is within our reach,
is the great art of life.= _Johnson._
=To judge by the event is an error all abuse= 25
=and all commit; for in every instance, courage,
if crowned with success, is heroism; if
clouded by defeat, temerity.= _Colton._
=To judge is to see clearly, to care for what is
just.= _Amiel._
=To keep the wolf from the door.= _Pr._
=To know a man, observe how he wins his
object, rather than how he loses it; for
when we fail, our pride supports us,--when
we succeed, it betrays us.= _Colton._
=To know by rote is no knowledge; it is only
to retain in the memory what is entrusted
to it.= _Montaigne._
=To know evil of others and not speak it, is= 30
=sometimes discretion; to speak evil of others
and not know it, is always dishonesty. He
may be evil himself who speaks good of
others upon knowledge, but he can never
be good himself who speaks evil of others
upon suspicion.= _Arthur Warwick._
=To know how to dissemble is the knowledge
of kings.= _Richelieu._
=To know how to grow old is the master-work
of wisdom, and one of the most difficult
chapters in the great art of living.= _Amiel._
=To know how to suggest is the great art of
teaching.= _Amiel._
=To know how to wait is the great secret of
success.= _De Maistre._
=To know life we must detach ourselves from= 35
=life.= _Feuerbach._
=To know my deed, 'twere best not know myself.=
_Macb._, ii. 2.
=To know of some one here and there with whom
we accord, who is living on with us even in
silence, this makes our earthly ball a peopled
garden.= _Goethe._
=To know one profession only, is enough for
one man to know.= _Goldsmith._
=To know / That which before us lies in daily
life, / Is the prime wisdom.= _Milton._
=To know the divine laws and inner harmonies= 40
=of this universe must always be the highest
glory for a man; and not to know them
always the highest disgrace for a man,
however common it be.= _Carlyle._
=To know the true opinions of men, one ought
to pay more respect to their actions than
their words.= _Descartes._
=To know the world, a modern phrase! a modern
phrase / For visits, ombre, balls, and plays.=
_Swift._
=To know, to esteem, to love, and then to part, /
Makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart.=
_Coleridge._
=To know; to get into the truth of anything,
is ever a mystic act, of which the best
logics can only babble on the surface.= _Carlyle._
=To know what is useful and what useless, and
to be skilful to provide the one and wise to
scorn the other, is the first need for all industrious
men.= _Ruskin._
=To lament the past is vain; what remains is to
look for hope in futurity.= _Johnson._
=To lapse in fulness / Is sorer than to lie for
need; and falsehood / Is worse in kings than
beggars.= _Cymbeline_, iii. 6.
=To learn obeying is the fundamental art of
governing.= _Carlyle._
=To live by one man's will became the cause of= 5
=all men's misery.= _Hooker._
=To live happily only means to live tolerably.=
_Schopenhauer._
=To live in hearts we leave behind / Is not to
die.= _Campbell._
=To live is not to breathe; it is to act.= _Rousseau._
=To live is to achieve a perpetual triumph.=
_Amiel._
=To live long is to outlive much.= _Goethe._ 10
=To look at things as well as we can, to inscribe
them in our memory, to be observant, and
let no day pass without gathering something;
then to apply one's self to those
branches of knowledge which give the mind
a sure direction, to apportion everything its
place, to assign to everything its value (in
my opinion a genuine philosophy and a fundamental
mathesis), this is what we have
now to do.= _Goethe._
=To lose one's self in revery, one must be either
very happy or very unhappy. Revery is the
child of extreme.= _Rivarol._
=To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness
of existence.= _Sydney Smith._
=To love all mankind, from the greatest to the
lowest, a cheerful state of being is required;
but in order to see into mankind, into life,
and still more into ourselves, suffering is
requisite.= _Jean Paul._
=To love early and marry late is to hear a lark= 15
=singing at dawn, and at night to eat it
roasted for supper.= _Jean Paul._
=To love is to be useful to yourself; to cause
love is to be useful to others.= _Béranger._
=To maintain one's self on this earth is not a
hardship, but a pastime, if we would live
simply and wisely.= _Thoreau._
=To mak' a happy fireside clime / To weans and
wife, / That's the true pathos and sublime /
O' human life.= _Burns._
=To make a boy despise his mother's care is the
straightest way to make him also despise his
Redeemer's voice; and to make him scorn his
father and his father's house, the straightest
way to make him deny his God and his God's
heaven.= _Ruskin._
=To make elaborate preparations for life is one= 20
=of the greatest and commonest of human
follies.= _Schopenhauer._
=To make proselytes is the natural ambition of
every one.= _Goethe._
=To make some nook of God's creation a little
fruitfuller, better, more worthy of God; to
make some human hearts a little wiser,
manfuller, happier, more blessed, less accursed!
It is work for a God.= _Carlyle._
=To make the common marvellous, as if it were
a revelation, is the test of genius.= _Lowell._
=To man, in this his trial state, / The privilege
is given, / When tost by tides of human
fate, / To anchor fast in heaven.= _Watts._
=To me more dear, congenial to my heart, / One= 25
=native charm, than all the gloss of art.=
_Goldsmith._
=To me the eternal existence of my soul is
proved from my idea of activity. If I work
incessantly until my death, nature will give
me another form of existence when the present
can no longer sustain my spirit.= _Goethe._
=To me the meanest flower that blows can
give / Thoughts that do often lie too deep for
tears.= _Wordsworth._
=To men we can give no help, and they hinder
us from helping ourselves.= _Jarno, in Goethe's
"Wilhelm Meister."_
=To misconstrue a good thing is a treble wrong--to
myself, the action, and the author.= _Bp.
Hall._
=To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, / 30
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, /
To the last syllable of recorded time; / And
all our yesterdays have lighted fools / To
dusty death.= _Macb._, v. 5.
=To-morrow is a satire on to-day, and shows its
weakness.= _Young._
="To-morrow, to-morrow, only not to-day,"
lazy people always say.= _C. F. Weisse._
=To-morrow will I live, the fool does say: / To-day
itself's too late; the wise lived yesterday.=
_Cowley._
=To-morrow you will live, you always cry; / In
what far country does this morrow lie?=
_Cowley._
=To most men experience is like the stern= 35
=lights of a ship, which illumine only the
track it has passed.= _Coleridge._
=To mourn a mischief that is past and gone, /
Is the next way to draw new mischief on.=
_Othello_, i. 3.
=To no man does Fortune throw open all the
kingdoms of this world, and say: It is thine;
choose where thou wilt dwell! To the most
she opens hardly the smallest cranny or dog-hutch,
and says, not without asperity: There,
that is thine while thou canst keep it; nestle
thyself there, and bless Heaven!= _Carlyle._
=To no man, whatever his station in life, or his
power to serve me, have I ever paid a compliment
at the expense of truth.= _Burns._
=To nurse the flowers, to root up the weeds, is
the business of the gardener.= _Bodenstedt._
=To obey is the best grace of woman.= _Lewis_ 40
_Morris._
=To one thing at one time.= _Chancellor Thurlow._
=To open your windows be ever your care.= _Pr._
=To overcome difficulties is to experience the
full delight of existence.= _Schopenhauer._
=To overcome evil with good is good, to resist
evil by evil is evil.= _Mahomet._
=To pass through a bustling crowd with its restless= 45
=excitement is strange but salutary. All
go crossing and recrossing one another, and
yet each finds his way and his object. In so
great a crowd and bustle one feels himself
perfectly calm and solitary.= _Goethe._
=To persevere / In obstinate condolement, is a
course / Of impious stubbornness; 'tis unmanly
grief: / It shows a will most incorrect
to heaven.= _Ham._, i. 2.
=To persevere in one's duty and to be silent is
the best answer to calumny.= _Washington._
=To place wit before good sense is to place the
superfluous before the necessary.= _M. de
Montlosier._
=To plough and sow, to reap and mow, my
father bred me early, / For one, he said, to
labour bred, was a match for fortune fairly.=
_Burns._
=To popular religion, the real kingdom of God
is the New Jerusalem with its jaspers and
emeralds; righteousness and peace and joy
are only the kingdom of God figuratively.=
_Matthew Arnold._
=To pour oil on the fire is not the way to quench= 5
=it.= _Pr._
=To prefer one future mode of life to another,
upon just reasons, requires faculties which
it has not pleased our Creator to give us.=
_Johnson._
=To promise is already to give, to hope already
to enjoy.= _Delille._
=To prove, as to doubt, the existence of God,
is to prove or doubt the existence of existence.=
_Jean Paul._
=To put the cart before the horse.= _Pr._
=To raise the weaker sex in self-respect, as= 10
=well as in the esteem of the stronger, is the
first step from barbarism to civilisation.=
_Canning._
=To read without reflecting is like eating without
digesting.= _Burke._
=To receive a simple primitive phenomenon, to
recognise it in its high significance, and to
go to work with it, requires a productive
spirit, which is able to take a wide survey,
and is a rare gift, only to be found in very
superior natures.= _Goethe._
=To receive gifts is to lose liberty.= _Saadi._
=To reconcile despotism with freedom is to make
your despotism just.= _Carlyle._
=To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise= 15
=man will undertake; and all but foolish men
know that the only solid, though a far
slower, reformation, is what each man begins
and perfects on himself.= _Carlyle._
=To reign is worth ambition, though in hell; /
Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n.=
_Milton._
=To rejoice in the prosperity of another is to
partake of it.= _William Austin._
=To remember one worthy thing, how many
thousand unworthy must a man be able to
forget!= _Carlyle._
=To repel one's cross is to make it heavier.=
_Amiel._
=To require two things is the way to have them= 20
=both undone.= _Johnson._
=To rescue, to avenge, to instruct, or protect
a woman is all the same as to love her.=
_Jean Paul._
=To revenge is no valour, but to bear.= _Timon
of Athens_, iii. 5.
=To run away / Is but a coward's trick; to run
away / From this world's ills, that at the
very worst / Will soon blow o'er.= _Blair._
=To say of a man "He means well," is worth
nothing except he does well.= _Plaut._
=To say that we have a clear conscience is to= 25
=utter a solecism; had we never sinned, we
would have had no conscience.= _Carlyle._
=To scorn delights and live laborious days.=
_Milton._
=To secure and promote the feeling of cheerfulness
should be the supreme aim of all our
endeavours after happiness.= _Schopenhauer._
=To see a world in a grain of sand / And a
heaven in a wild flower, / Hold infinity in
the palm of your hand, / And eternity in an
hour.= _Wm. Blake._
=To see and listen to the wicked is already the
beginning of wickedness.= _Confucius._
=To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion--all= 30
=in one.= _Ruskin._
=To see her is to love her, / And love but her
for ever.= _Burns._
=To see some small soul pirouetting throughout
life on a single text, and judging all the
world because it cannot find a partner, is
not a Christian sight.= _Prof. Drummond._
=To see the best is to see most clearly, and it
is the lover's privilege.= _J. M. Barrie._
=To seek to change opinions by laws is worse
than futile.= _Buckle._
=To seem and not to be, is throwing the shuttle= 35
=without weaving.= _Pr._
=To seize a character, even that of one man,
in its life and secret mechanism, requires a
philosopher; to delineate it with truth and
impressiveness, is work for a poet.= _Carlyle._
=To serve from the lowest station upwards=
(_von unten hinauf_) =is in all things necessary.=
_Goethe._
=To serve God and love him is higher and better
than happiness, though it be with wounded
feet, and bleeding brow, and a heart loaded
with sorrow.= _W. R. Greg._
=To shape the whole future is not our problem;
but only to shape faithfully a small part of
it, according to rules laid down.= _Carlyle._
=To shoot wide of the mark=, _i.e._, guess foolishly 40
when you don't know. _Pr._
=To show mercy is nothing--thy soul must be
full of mercy; to be pure in act is nothing--thou
shalt be pure in heart also.= _Ruskin._
=To sigh, yet feel no pain; / To weep, yet scarce
know why; / To sport an hour with beauty's
charm, / Then throw it idly by.= _Moore._
=To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not
repent.= _Crabbe._
=To simplify complications is, in all branches
of knowledge, the first essential of success.=
_Buckle._
=To sow is not so difficult as to reap.= _Goethe._ 45
=To spend much and gain little is the sure road
to ruin.= _Ger. Pr._
=To spend too much time in studies is sloth.=
_Bacon._
=To spur a free horse soon makes a jade of
him.= _Sterne._
=To step aside is human.= _Burns._
=To strain at a gnat and swallow a camel.= _Pr._ 50
=To strive to get rid of an evil is to aim at
something definite, but to desire a better
fortune than we have is blind folly.= _Goethe._
=To study nature or man, we ought to know
things that are in the ordinary course, not
the unaccountable things that happen out
of it.= _Fisher Ames._
=To succeed in the world it is much more necessary
to be able to diagnose a fool than a
clever man.= _Cato._
=To talk without effort is, after all, the great
charm of talking.= _Hare._
=To taste of human flesh is less criminal in the
eyes of God than to stifle human thought.=
_Draper._
=To tax the community for the advantage of a
class is not protection; it is plunder, and I
disclaim it.= _Disraeli._
=To tell our own secrets is generally folly, but
that folly is without guilt; to communicate
those with which we are intrusted is always
treachery, and treachery for the most part
combined with folly.= _Johnson._
=To the capable man this world is not dumb.= 5
_Goethe._
=To the exiled wanderer how godlike / The
friendly countenance of man appears.= _Goethe._
=To the Hindu the world is the dream of Brahma.=
_Amiel._
=To the innocent, deliverance and reparation;
to the misled, compassion; and to the guilty,
avenging justice.= _Goethe._
=To the man of firm purpose all men and things
are servile.= _Goethe._
=To the minnow every cranny and pebble, and= 10
=quality and accident, of its little native creek
may have become familiar; but does the minnow
understand the ocean tides and periodic
currents, the trade-winds, and monsoons, and
moon's eclipses; by all of which the condition
of its little creek is regulated, and may (from
time to time, unmiraculously enough) be quite
overset and reversed? Such a minnow is
man; his creek, this planet earth; his ocean,
the immeasurable All; his monsoons and
periodic currents, the mysterious course of
Providence through æons of æons.= _Carlyle._
=To the noble mind / Rich gifts wax poor when
givers prove unkind.= _Ham._, iii. 1.
=To the persevering mortal the blessed immortals
are swift.= _Zoroaster._
=To the strictly just and virtuous person everything
is annexed.= _Hitopadesa._
=To the understanding of anything, two conditions
are equally required--intelligibility in
the thing itself being no whit more indispensable
than intelligence in the examiner
of it.= _Carlyle._
=To the unregenerate Prometheus Vinctus of= 15
=a man, it is ever the bitterest aggravation
of his wretchedness that he is conscious of
virtue, that he feels himself the victim not of
suffering only, but of injustice.= _Carlyle._
=To the vulgar eye few things are wonderful
that are not distant. It is difficult for men
to believe that the man, the mere man whom
they see, may perhaps painfully feel, toiling
at their side through the poor jostlings of
existence, can be made of finer clay than
themselves.= _Carlyle._
=To the wisest man, wide as is his vision, Nature
remains of quite infinite depth, of quite infinite
expansion; and all experience thereof
limits itself to some few computed centuries
and measured square miles.= _Carlyle._
=To the "Worship of sorrow"= (Goethe's definition
of Christianity) =ascribe what origin and
genesis thou pleasest, has not that worship
originated and been generated? Is it not
here? Feel it in thy heart, and then say
whether it is of God!= _Carlyle._
=To think and to feel constitute the two grand
divisions of men of genius--the men of reasoning
and the men of imagination.= _I. Disraeli._
=To think aright is the sum of human duty.= 20
_Pascal._
=To think is to act.= _Emerson._
=To this burden women are born; they must
obey their husbands, be they never such
blockheads.= _Cervantes._
=To those by whom liberality is practised, the
whole world is but as one family.= _Hitopadesa._
=To those that have lived long together, everything
heard and everything seen recalls
some pleasure communicated or some benefit
conferred, some petty quarrel or some
slight endearment.= _Johnson._
=To those to whom we owe affection, let us be= 25
=dumb until we are strong, though we should
never be strong.= _Emerson._
=To those who are fallen into misfortunes, what
was a blessing becometh an evil.= _Hitopadesa._
=To those whose god is honour, disgrace alone
is sin.= _Hare._
=To threats the stubborn sinner oft is hard, /
Wrapp'd in his crimes, against the storm
prepared; / But, when the milder beams of
mercy play, / He melts, and throws his
cumbrous cloak away.= _Dryden._
=To toy with human hearts is more than human
hearts will brook.= _Dr. W. Smith._
=To tread upon the brink is safe, but to come a= 30
=step further is destruction.= _Johnson._
=To try things oft, and never to give over, doth
wonders.= _Bacon._
=To understand one thing well is better than understanding
many things by halves.= _Goethe._
=To understand that the sky is blue everywhere,
we need not go round the world.=
_Goethe._
=To understand the serious side of things requires
a matured faculty; the ridiculous is
caught more easily.= _Froude._
=To understand things we must once have been= 35
=in them, and then have come out of them.=
_Amiel._
=To unpractised eyes, a Peak of Teneriffe, nay,
a Strasburg Minster, when we stand on it,
may seem higher than a Chimborazo; because
the former rise abruptly, without
abutement or environment; the latter rises
gradually, carrying half a world along with
it; and only the deeper azure of the heavens,
the widened horizon, the "eternal sunshine,"
disclose to the geographer that the "region
of change" lies far below.= _Carlyle._
=To use books rightly is to go to them for help.=
_Ruskin._
=To use studies too much for ornament is
affectation.= _Bacon._
=To vice, innocence must always seem only a
superior kind of chicanery.= _Ouida._
=To wail friends lost / Is not by much so wholesome,= 40
=profitable, / As to rejoice at friends
but newly found.= _Love's L. Lost_, v. 2.
=To wed unequally is to suffer equally.= _Anon._
=To what base uses we may return, Horatio!=
_Ham._, v. 1.
=To what excesses men go for a religion of
whose truth they are so little persuaded, and
to whose precepts they pay so little regard.=
_La Bruyère._
=To what they know best entice all neatly; /
For so thou dost thyself and him a pleasure.=
_George Herbert._
=To whom is the mere glare of the fire a virtue?=
_Hitopadesa._
=To wilful men / The injuries that they themselves
procure / Must be their schoolmasters.=
_King Lear_, ii. 4.
=To work without money, and be poor; to work
without pleasure, and be chaste; to work
according to orders, and be obedient.= _Rules
of the Order of St. Francis._
=To write a good love-letter, you ought to begin= 5
=without knowing what you mean to say,
and to finish without knowing what you
have written.= _Rousseau._
=To write down to children's understandings is
a mistake; set them on the scent and let
them puzzle it out.= _Scott._
=To write prose, one must have something to
say, but he who has nothing to say can still
make verses.= _Goethe._
=To write well is to think well, to feel well, and
to render well; it is to possess at once
intellect, soul, and taste.= _Buffon._
=To write what is worth publishing, to find
honest men to publish it, and get sensible
men to read it, are the three great difficulties
in authorship.= _Colton._
=To yield my breath, / Life's purpose unfulfilled!= 10
=this is thy sting, O Death.= _Sir Noel
Paton._
=To yourself be critic most severe.= _Dryden._
=Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will
cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you
choose to make them pay high for such joy
as they give and such harm as they do.=
_Emerson._
=Tocher's nae word in a true lover's parle.=
_Burns._
=Todte Hunde beissen nicht=--Dead dogs don't
bite. _Ger. Pr._
[Greek: to êthos ethos esti polychronion]--Character is 15
simply prolonged habit. _Plutarch._
=Toga virilis=--The manly robe.
[Greek: to gar trephon me, tout' egô krinô theon]--What
maintains me in life, that I regard as God. (?)
[Greek: to gar perissa prassein ouk echei noun
oudena]--Doing more than one is able for argues
a want of intelligence. (?)
=Toil is polish'd man's vocation; / Praises are
the meed of skill; / Kings may vaunt their
crown and station, / We will vaunt our
labour still.= _Mangan_
=Toil on, faint not, keep watch, and pray.= _Bonar._ 20
=Toils of empires pleasures are.= _Waller._
[Greek: to kalon]--The beautiful.
=Toleration is good for all, or it is good for
none.= _Burke._
=Tolle jocos; non est jocus esse malignum=--Away
with such jokes; there is no joking where
there is malignity.
=Tolle periclum, / Jam vaga prosiliet frænis= 25
=natura remotis=--Take away the danger, remove
restraint, and vagrant nature bounds forth
free. _Hor._
=Tombs are the clothes of the dead--a grave
but a plain suit, and a rich monument one
embroidered.= _Fuller._
[Greek: ton gar ouk onta hapas eiôthen epainein]--All
are wont to praise him who is no more. _Thucydides._
[Greek: ton tethnêkota mê kakologein]--Speak not evil
of the dead. _Chilon._
[Greek: to holon]--The whole.
=Too austere a philosophy makes few wise men;= 30
=too rigorous politics, few good subjects; and
too hard a religion, few religious persons
whose devotion is of long continuance.= _St.
Evremond._
=Too early and too thoroughly we cannot be
trained to know that Would, in this world of
ours, is as mere zero to Should, and, for most
part, the smallest of fractions to Shall.= _Carlyle._
=Too elevated qualities often unfit a man for
society.= _Chamfort._
=Too fair to worship, too divine to love.= _Milman._
=Too low they build who build beneath the stars.=
_Young._
=Too many cooks spoil the broth.= _Pr._ 35
=Too many instances there are of daring men,
who by presuming to sound the deep things
of religion, have cavilled and argued themselves
out of all religion.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Too much gravity argues a shallow mind.=
_Lavater._
=Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a
man's time much more completely, and leaves
him less his own master, than any sort of
employment whatsoever.= _Burke._
=Too much is always bad; old proverbs call /
Even too much honey nothing else than
gall.= _Anon._
=Too much mercy is want of mercy.= _Tennyson._ 40
=Too much of a good thing.= _As You Like It_,
iv. 1.
=Too much of one thing is good for nothing.=
_Thales and Solon._
=Too much painstaking speaks disease in one's
mind, as much as too little.= _Carlyle._
=Too much rest is rust.= _Scott._
=Too much rest itself becomes a pain.= _Homer._ 45
=Too much sensibility creates unhappiness; too
much insensibility creates crime.= _Talleyrand._
=Too much wit / Makes the world rotten.=
_Tennyson._
=Too surely, every setting day, / Some lost
delight we mourn.= _Keble._
=Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.= _Rom.
and Jul._, ii. 6.
=Tooth of time.= _Meas. for Meas._, v. 1. 50
=Top and bottom teeth sometimes come into
awkward collision.= _Ch. Pr._
[Greek: to prepon]--That which is becoming or decorous.
=Torrens dicendi copia multis / Et sua mortifera
est facundia=--To many a torrent flow of
speech and their own eloquence is fatal. _Juv._
=Toss'd on a sea of troubles, soul, my soul, /
Thyself do thou control; / And to the weapons
of advancing foes / A stubborn breast
oppose.= _Archilochus._
=Tot capita, tot sensus=--So many heads, so many 55
opinions. _Ter._
=Tot homines, quot sententiæ=--So many men, so
many minds.
=Tot rami quot arbores=--So many branches, so
many trees. _M._
=Tota in minimis existit natura=--The whole of
nature exists in the very smallest things. _Quoted
by Emerson._
=Totidem verbis=--In so many words.
=Toties quoties=--As often, so often.
=Toto cœlo=--By the whole heavens; as wide as
the poles asunder.
=Totus in toto, et totus in qualibet parte=--Whole 5
in the whole, and whole in every part. _Said of
the human mind._
=Totus mundus exercet histrioniam=--All the
world acts the player.
[Greek: tou aristeuein heneka]--In order to excel. _M._
=Touched by a loving heart, wakened by kindness, /
Chords that were broken will vibrate
once more.= _Mrs. van Alstyne._
=Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him
out.= _Bible._
=Toujours=--Always. _M._ 10
=Toujours en vedette=--Always on the lookout.
_M. of Frederick the Great._
=Toujours perdrix=--Always partridges. _Fr._
="Toujours perdrix" is sickening.= _John Wagstaffe._
=Toujours prêt=--Always ready.
=Toujours propice=--Always propitious. _M._ 15
=Toujours tout droit, Dieu t'aidera!=--Always
straightforward, and God will help you! _M._
=Tour d'adresse=--A trick of sleight of hand. _Fr._
=Tour de force=--A feat of strength or skill. _Fr._
=Tourner autour du pot=--To beat about the bush.
_Fr._
=Tourner casaque=--To change sides; become a 20
turncoat. _Pr._
=Tous frais faits=--All charges paid. _Fr._
=Tous les genres sont bons hors le genre
ennuyeux=--All kinds are good except the kind
that bores you. _Voltaire._
=Tous les hommes sont foux, et malgré tous
leurs soins, / Ne diffèrent entr'eux, que du
plus ou du moins=--All men are fools, and notwithstanding
all their care, they differ but in
degree. _Boileau._
=Tous les méchants sont buveurs d'eau; / C'est
bien prouvé par le déluge=--All the wicked are
water-drinkers; this the deluge proves.
=Tout-à-fait=--Quite. _Fr._ 25
=Tout bien ou rien=--All or nothing. _M._
=Tout chemin mène à Rome=--Every road leads
to Rome.
=Tout d'en haut=--All from above. _M._
=Tout doit tendre au bon sens: mais pour y
parvenir / Le chemin est glissant et pénible
a tenir=--Everything ought to lead to good sense;
but in order to attain to it, the road is slippery
and difficult to walk in. _Boileau._
=Tout éloge imposteur blesse une âme sincère=--Praise 30
undeservedly bestowed wounds an honest
heart. _Boileau._
=Tout est contradiction chez nous: la France,
à parler sérieusement, est le royaume de
l'esprit et de la sottise, de l'industrie et de
la paresse, de la philosophie et du fanatisme,
de la gaieté et du pédantisme, des loix et des
abus, de bon goût et de l'impertinence=--With
us all is inconsistency. France, seriously speaking,
is the country of wit and folly, of industry
and idleness, of philosophy and fanaticism, of
gaiety and pedantry, laws and their abuses, good
taste and impertinence. _Voltaire._
=Tout est perdu fors l'honneur=--All is lost save
our honour. _Francis I., after his defeat at
Pavia._
=Tout est pour le mieux dans le meilleur des
mondes possibles=--All is for the best in the
best possible of worlds. _Voltaire, in mockery
of Leibnitz's optimism._
=Tout faiseur de journaux doit tribut au malin=--Every
journalist owes tribute to the evil one. _La
Fontaine._
=Tout finit par des chansons=--Everything in the 35
end passes into song. _Beaumarchais._
=Tout flatteur vît au dépens de celui qui l'écoute=--Every
flatterer lives at the expense of him who
listens to him. _La Fontaine._
=Tout notre mal vient de ne pouvoir être seul=--All
our unhappiness comes from our inability to
be alone. _La Bruyère._
=Tout par raison=--Everything agreeable to reason.
_Richelieu._
=Tout soldat français porte dans sa giberne le
bâton de maréchal de France=--Every private
in the French army carries a field-marshal's baton
in his knapsack. _Napoleon._
=Tout va à qui n'a pas besoin=--Everything goes 40
to him who does not need it. _Fr. Pr._
=Tout vient à point à qui sait attendre=--Everything
comes in time to the man who knows how
to wait. _Fr. Pr._
=Tout vient de Dieu=--Everything comes from
God. _M._
=Toute révélation d'un secret est la faute de
celui qui l'a confié=--The disclosure of a secret
is always the fault of him who confided it. _Fr._
=Toutes les fois que je donne une place vacante,
je fais cent mécontents, et un ingrat=--Every
time I appoint to a vacant post, I make a hundred
discontented and one ungrateful. _Louis
XIV._
=Towards great persons use respective boldness: /= 45
=That temper gives them theirs, and
yet doth take / Nothing from thine.= _George
Herbert._
=Towers are measured by their shadows.=
_Chinese Pr._
=Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay.=
_Johnson._
=Traditions make up the reasonings of the
simple, and serve to silence every inquiry.=
_Goldsmith._
=Traduttori, traditori=--Translators, traitors. _It.
Pr._
=Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving= 50
=too much importance to life and death.= _Chamfort._
=Tragedy warms the soul, elevates the heart,
can and ought to create heroes. In this
sense, perhaps, France owes a part of her
great actions to Corneille.= _Napoleon._
=Trahit ipse furoris / Impetus, et visum est lenti
quæsisse nocentem=--The very violence of their
rage drags them on, and to inquire who is guilty
were a waste of time. _Lucan._
=Trahit sua quemque voluptas=--Each man is led
by his own liking. _Virg._
=Train up a child in the way he should go: and
when he is old he will not depart from it.=
_Bible._
=Tranquil pleasures last the longest. We are= 55
=not fitted to bear long the burden of great
joys.= _Bovee._
=Tranquillity is better than jollity, and to appease
pain than to invent pleasure.= _Sir T.
Browne._
=Transeat in exemplum=--Let it stand as a precedent,
or an example.
=Transitory is all human work, small in itself,
contemptible; only the worker thereof and
the spirit that dwelt in him is significant.=
_Carlyle._
=Trau keinem Freunde sonder Mängel, / Und
lieb' ein Mädchen, keinen Engel=--Trust no
friend without faults, and love a maiden, but no
angel. _Lessing._
=Travel gives a character of experience to our= 5
=knowledge, and brings the figures upon the
tablet of memory into strong relief.= _Tuckerman._
=Travel in the younger sort is a part of education;
in the older, a part of experience.=
_Bacon._
=Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives,
and the serious part of frivolous ones.= _Mme.
Swetchine._
=Travel teaches toleration.= _Disraeli._
=Travelling is a fool's paradise.= _Emerson._
=Travelling is like gambling; it is ever connected= 10
=with winning and losing, and generally
where least expected we receive more
or less than we hoped for.= _Goethe._
=Tre lo sanno, tutti lo sanno=--If three know it,
all know it. _It. Pr._
=Tre taceranno, se due vi non sono=--Three may
keep counsel if two be away. _It. Pr._
=Treachery don't come natural to beaming
youth: but trust and pity, love and constancy,
they do.= _Dickens._
=Treason doth never prosper; what's the reason?
/ Why if it prosper, none dare call it
treason.= _Sir J. Harrington._
=Treason has done his worst; nor steel, nor= 15
=poison, / Malice domestic, foreign levy,
nothing / Can touch him further.= _Macb._,
iii. 2.
=Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but
justice delivers from death.= _Bible._
=Trees and fields tell me nothing; men are my
teachers.= _Plato._
=Tremblez, tyrans; vous êtes immortels=--Tremble,
ye tyrants; ye cannot die. _Delille._
=Tria juncta in uno=--Three joined in one. _M._
=Tribulation will not hurt you unless it does--what,= 20
=alas! it too often does--unless it
hardens you, and makes you sour and narrow
and sceptical.= _Chapin._
=Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools
that have not wit enough to be honest.= _Ben.
Franklin._
=Trifles light as air / Are to the jealous confirmations
strong / As proofs of holy writ.=
_Othello_, iii. 3.
=Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no
trifle.= _Michael Angelo._
=Trifles make up the happiness or misery of
mortal life.= _Alex. Smith._
=Trifles themselves are elegant in him.= _Pope._ 25
=Trifles unconsciously bias us for or against a
person from the very beginning.= _Schopenhauer._
=Trifling precautions will often prevent great
mischiefs; as a slight turn of the wrist
parries a mortal thrust.= _R. Sharp._
=Trinitas in Trinitate=--Trinity in Trinity. _M._
=Tristis eris, si solus eris=--You will be sad if you
are alone. _Ovid._
=Triumphs for nothing and lamenting toys, /= 30
=Is jollity for apes and grief for boys.= _Cymbeline_,
iv. 2.
=Troops of furies march in the drunkard's
triumph.= _Zimmermann._
=Trop de zèle gâte tout=--Too much zeal spoils
all. _Fr. Pr._
=Tros Tyriusve mihi nullo discrimine agetur=--Trojan
or Tyrian, it shall make no difference to
me. _Virg._
=Trotz alledem und alledem=--For 'a that and 'a
that. _F. Freiligrath._
=Trouble is a thing that will come without our= 35
=call; but true joy will not spring up without
ourselves.= _Bp. Patrick._
=Trouble teaches men how much there is in
manhood.= _Ward Beecher._
=Truditur dies die, / Novæque pergunt interire
lunæ=--Day presses on the heels of day, and new
moons hasten to their wane. _Hor._
=True art is like good company; it constrains
us in the most charming way to recognise
the standard after which and up to which our
innermost being is shaped by culture.= _Goethe._
=True art, which requires free and healthy
faculties, is opposed to pedantry, which
crushes the soul under a burden.= _Hamerton._
=True bravery proposes a just end, measures= 40
=the dangers, and, if necessary, the affront,
with coldness.= _Francis la None._
=True blue will never stain.= _Pr._
=True comeliness, which nothing can impair, /
Dwells in the mind; all else is vanity and
glare.= _Thomson._
=True coral needs no painter's brush.= _Pr._
=True dignity is never gained by place, and
never lost when honours are withdrawn.=
_Massinger._
=True ease in writing comes from art, not= 45
=chance, / As those move easiest who have
learned to dance.= _Pope._
=True eloquence consists in saying all that is
proper, and nothing more.= _La Roche._
=True eloquence scorns eloquence.= _Pascal._
=True fame is ever likened to our shade, / He
sooneth misseth her, that most= (haste) =hath
made / To overtake her; whoso takes his
wing, / Regardless of her, she'll be following;
/ Her true proprietie she thus discovers,
/ Loves her contemners, and contemns
her lovers.= _Sir T. Browne._
=True fortitude I take to be the quiet possession
of a man's self, and an undisturbed doing
his duty, whatever evil besets him or danger
lies in his way.= _Locke._
=True fortitude of understanding consists in not= 50
=letting what we know be embarrassed by
what we do not know.= _Emerson._
=True friends are the whole world to one
another; and he that is a friend to himself is
also a friend to mankind. Even in my studies
the greatest delight I take is of imparting it
to others; for there is no relish to me in the
possession of anything without a partner.=
_Sen._
=True friendship can afford true knowledge.
It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.=
_Thoreau._
=True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and
must undergo and withstand the shocks of
adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.=
_Washington._
=True friendship is like sound health, the value
of it is seldom known until it be lost.= _Colton._
=True friendship often shows itself in refusing
at the right time, and love often grants a
hurtful good.= _Goethe._
=True greatness is, first of all, a thing of the
heart.= _R. D. Hitchcock._
=True heroism consists in being superior to the= 5
=ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge
him to combat.= _Napoleon._
=True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's
wings; / Kings it makes gods, and meaner
creatures kings.= _Richard III._, v. 2.
=True humility is contentment.= _Amiel._
=True humour is as closely allied to pity as it is
abhorrent to derision.= _Henry Giles._
=True humour is sensibility in the most catholic
and deepest sense; but it is the sport of
sensibility; wholesome and perfect therefore;
as it were, the playful teasing fondness
of a mother to her child.= _Carlyle._
=True humour springs not more from the head= 10
=than from the heart; it is not contempt, its
essence is love; it issues not in laughter, but
in still smiles, which lie far deeper. It is a
sort of inverse sublimity, exalting, as it
were, into our affections what is below us,
while sublimity draws down into our affections
what is above us.= _Carlyle._
=True influence is latent influence.= _Renan._
=True joy is a serene and sober motion; and
they are miserably out, that take laughing
for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and
there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions
of a brave mind that has fortune under its
feet.= _Sen._
=True joy is only hope put out of fear.= _Lord
Brooke._
=True knowledge is of virtues only.= _Ruskin._
=True knowledge of any thing or any creature= 15
=is only of the good of it.= _Ruskin._
=True liberty is a positive force, regulated by
law; false liberty is a negative force, a release
from restraint.= _Philip Schaff._
=True love is still the same; the torrid zones, /
And those more rigid ones, / It must not
know; / For love grown cold or hot / Is lust
or friendship, not / The thing we show.=
_Suckling._
=True love is that which ennobles the personality,
fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence.=
_Amiel._
=True love is the parent of a noble humility.=
_Channing._
=True love will creep, not having strength to= 20
=go.= _Quarles._
=True love works never for the loved one so, /
Nor spares skin-surface, smoothing truth
away.= _Browning._
=True love's the gift which God has given / To
man alone beneath the heaven.= _Scott._
=True mercy is ashamed of itself; hides itself,
and does not complain. You may know it
by that.= _Varnhagen von Ense._
=True modesty avoids everything that is
criminal; false modesty everything that is
unfashionable.= _Addison._
=True morality scorns morality; that is, the= 25
=morality of the judgment scorns the morality
of the mind, which is without rules.=
_Pascal._
=True music is intended for the ear alone;
whoever sings it to me must be invisible.=
_Goethe._
=True nobility is derived from virtue, not birth.=
_Burton._
=True obedience is true liberty.= _Ward Beecher._
=True poetry is truer than science, because it is
synthetic, and seizes at once what the combination
of all the sciences is able, at most,
to attain as a final result.= _Amiel._
=True quietness of heart is gotten by resisting= 30
=our passions, not by obeying them.= _Thomas
à Kempis._
=True religion is always mild, propitious, and
humble; plays not the tyrant, plants no faith
in blood, nor bears destruction on her chariot-wheels;
but stoops to polish, succour, and
redress, and builds her grandeur on the
public good.= _James Miller._
=True religion is the poetry of the heart; it has
enchantments useful to our manners; it
gives us both happiness and virtue.= _Joubert._
=True religion teaches us to reverence what is
under us, to recognise humility and poverty,
mockery and despite, wretchedness and disgrace,
suffering and death, as things divine.=
_Goethe, of the Christian religion._
=True repentance consists in the heart being
broken for sin, and broken from sin.= _Thornton._
=True repentance is to cease from sin.= _St._ 35
_Ambrose._
=True sense and reason reach their aim / With
little help from art or rule. / Be earnest!
Then what need to seek / The words that
best your meaning speak?= _Goethe._
=True, sharp, precise thought is preferable to a
cloudy fancy; and a hundred acres of solid
earth are far more valuable than a million
acres of cloud and vapour.= _C. Fitzhugh._
=True singing is of the nature of worship; as
indeed all true working may be said to be;
whereof such singing is but the record, and
fit melodious representation, to us.= _Carlyle._
=True statesmanship is the art of changing a
nation from what it is into what it ought to
be.= _W. R. Alger._
=True taste is for ever growing, learning, reading,= 40
=worshipping, laying its hand upon its
mouth because it is astonished, casting its
shoes from off its feet because it finds all
ground holy.= _Ruskin._
=True valour lies in the middle between cowardice
and rashness.= _Cervantes._
=True virtue, being united to heavenly grace
of faith, makes up the highest perfection.=
_Milton._
=True virtue's soul's always in all deeds all.=
_Donne._
=True wit never made us laugh.= _Emerson._
=Truly great men are always simple-hearted.= 45
_Klinger._
=Truly great men are ever most heroic to those
most intimate with them.= _Ruskin._
=Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but
there is no gulf-stream setting for ever in
one direction.= _Lowell._
=Truly unhappy is the man who leaves undone
what he can do, and undertakes what he
does not understand; no wonder he comes
to grief.= _Goethe._
=Trusse up thy packe, and trudge from me, to
every little boy, / And tell them thus from
me, their time most happy is, / If to theyr
time they reason had, to know the truth of
this.= _Chaucer._
=Trust as little as you can to report, and
examine all you can by your own senses.=
_Johnson._
=Trust begets truth.= _Pr._
=Trust, but not too much.= _Pr._ 5
=Trust dies because bad pay poisons him.= _Pr._
=Trust him little who praises all, him less who
censures all, and him least who is indifferent
about all.= _Lavater._
=Trust in that man's promise who dares to refuse
that which he fears he cannot perform.=
_Spurgeon._
=Trust in the Lord, and do good, so shalt thou
dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be
fed.= _Bible._
=Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and= 10
=lean not onto thine own understanding. In
all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall
direct thy paths.= _Bible._
=Trust instinct to the end, though you can
render no reason.= _Emerson._
=Trust me not at all or all in all.= _Tennyson._
=Trust me, that for the instructed, time will
come / When they shall meet no object but
may teach / Some acceptable lesson to their
minds / Of human suffering or human joy. /
For them shall all things speak of man.=
_Wordsworth._
=Trust men, and they will be true to you; treat
them greatly, and they will show themselves
great.= _Emerson._
=Trust no future, howe'er pleasant; / Let the= 15
=dead past bury its dead. / Act, act in the
living present; / Heart within, and God
o'erhead!= _Longfellow._
=Trust no man who pledges you with his hand
on his heart.= _Lichtenberg._
=Trust not him that hath once broken faith.=
3 _Hen. VI._, iv. 4.
=Trust not in him that seems a saint.= _Fuller._
=Trust not the heart of that man for whom old
clothes are not venerable.= _ Carlyle._
=Trust not this hollow world; she's empty;= 20
=hark, she sounds.= _Quarles._
=Trust not those cunning waters of his eyes,
for villany is not without such rheum.= _King
John_, iv. 3.
=Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience
in everything.= _Sterne._
=Trust thyself; every heart vibrates to that
iron string.= _Emerson._
=Truth alone wounds.= _Napoleon._
=Truth and fidelity are the pillars of the temple= 25
=of the world; when these are broken, the
fabric falls, and crushes all to pieces.= _Feltham._
=Truth and oil are ever above.= _Pr._
=Truth being weighed against a thousand
Aswamedha sacrifices, was found to be of
more consequence than the whole thousand
offerings.= _Hitopadesa._
=Truth contradicts our nature, error does not,
and for a very simple reason: truth requires
us to regard ourselves as limited, error
flatters us to think of ourselves as in one
or other way unlimited.= _Goethe._
=Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again, / The
eternal years of God are hers; / But error,
wounded, writhes with pain, / And dies
among his worshippers.= _W. C. Bryant._
=Truth does not conform itself to us, but we= 30
=most conform ourselves to it.= _M. Claudius._
=Truth does not consist in minute accuracy of
detail, but in conveying a right impression;
and there are vague ways of speaking that
are truer than strict facts would be. When
the Psalmist said, "Rivers of water run
down mine eyes, because men keep not thy
law," he did not state the fact but he stated
a truth deeper than fact and truer.= _Dean
Alford._
=Truth does not do as much good in the world
as the shows of it do of evil.= _La Roche._
=Truth dwells not in the clouds; the bow that's
there / Doth often aim at, never hit the
sphere.= _George Herbert._
=Truth for ever on the scaffold, wrong for ever
on the throne.= _Lowell._
=Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, /= 35
=And fools who came to scoff remain'd to pray.=
_Goldsmith._
=Truth has a quiet breast.= _Rich. II._, i. 3.
=Truth has no gradations; nothing which admits
of increase can be so much what it is
as truth is truth. There may be a strange
thing, and a thing more strange; but if a
proposition be true, there can be none more
true.= _Johnson._
=Truth hath always a fast bottom.= _Pr._
=Truth hath better deeds than words to grace
it.= _Two Gent. of Verona_, ii. 2.
="Truth," I cried, "though the heavens crush= 40
=me for following her; no falsehood, though
a whole celestial Lubberland were the price
of apostasy!"= _Carlyle._
=Truth in its own essence cannot be / But good.=
_Byron._
=Truth, in the great practical concerns of life,
is so much a question of the reconciling and
combining of opposites, that very few have
minds sufficiently capacious and impartial
to make the adjustment with an approach
to correctness.= _J. S. Mill._
=Truth irritates only those whom it enlightens,
but does not convert.= _Pasquier Quesnel._
=Truth is a good dog; but beware of barking
too close to the heels of an error, lest you
get your brains kicked out.= _Coleridge._
=Truth is a queen who has her eternal throne= 45
=in heaven, and her seat of empire in the heart
of God.= _Bossuet._
=Truth is a stronghold, and diligence is laying
siege to it; so that it must observe all the
avenues and passes to it.= _South._
=Truth is always consistent with itself and
needs nothing to help it out; it is always
near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and
is ready to drop out before we are aware.=
_Tillotson._
=Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.=
_Byron._
=Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward
touch as the sunbeam.= _Milton._
=Truth is born with us; and we must do violence
to nature, to shake off our veracity.= _St.
Evremond._
=Truth is God's daughter.= _Pr._
=Truth is never learned, in any department of
industry, by arguing, but by working and
observing.= _Ruskin._
=Truth is one, for ever absolute, but opinion is
truth filtered through the moods, the blood,
the dispositions of the spectator.= _Wendell
Phillips._
=Truth is quite beyond the reach of satire.= 5
_Lowell._
=Truth is simple and gives little trouble, but
falsehood gives occasion for the frittering
away of time and strength.= _Goethe._
=Truth is simple indeed, but we have generally
no small trouble in learning to apply it to
any practical purpose.= _Goethe._
=Truth is the body of God, and light his shadow.=
_Plato._
=Truth is the daughter of Time.= _Pr._
=Truth is the easiest part of all to play= (_das_ 10
_leichteste Spiel von allen_). =Present thyself
as thou art= (_stelle dich selber dar_), =and thou
runnest no risk of falling out of thy rôle.=
_Rückert._
=Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.=
_Chaucer._
=Truth is the root, but human sympathy is the
flower of practical life.= _Chapin._
=Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our
end, carrying us thither in a straight line.=
_Tillotson._
=Truth is to be costly to you--of labour and
patience; and you are never to sell it, but
to guard and to give.= _Ruskin._
=Truth is to be loved purely and solely because= 15
=it is true.= _Carlyle._
=Truth is too simple for us; we do not like
those who unmask our illusions.= _Emerson._
=Truth is tough. It will not break, like a
bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it
about all day like a football, and it will be
round and full at evening. Does not Mr.
Bryant say that Truth gets well if she is
run over by a locomotive, while Error dies of
lockjaw if she scratches her finger?= _Holmes._
=Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.= _Meas.
for Meas._, v. 1.
=Truth itself shall lose its credit, if delivered by
a person that has none.= _South._
=Truth lies at the bottom of a well, the depth= 20
=of which, alas! gives but little hope of
release.= _Democritus._
=Truth, like gold, is not the less so for being
newly brought out of the mine.= _Locke._
=Truth, like roses, often blossoms upon a thorny
stem.= _Hafiz._
=Truth, like the juice of a poppy, in small
quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and
irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences
in its excess.= _Landor._
=Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured;
but, like the sun, only for a time.= _Bovee._
=Truth, like the Venus de Medici, will pass= 25
=down in thirty fragments to posterity; but
posterity will collect and recompose them
into a goddess.= _Richter._
=Truth loves open dealing.= _Henry VIII._, iii. 1.
=Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken,
and always gets above falsehood, as oil
does above water.= _Cervantes._
=Truth may languish, but can never perish.= _Pr._
=Truth may lie in laughter, and wisdom in a
jest.= _Dr. W. Smith._
=Truth may perhaps come to the price of a= 30
=pearl, that showeth best by day, but it will
not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle,
that showeth best in varied lights.=
_Bacon._
=Truth, or clothed or naked let it be.= _Tennyson._
=Truth provokes those whom it does not convert.=
_Bp. Wilson._
=Truth reaches her full action by degrees, and
not at once.= _Draper._
=Truth, says Horne Tooke, means simply the
thing trowed, the thing believed; and now,
from this to the thing itself, what a new
fatal deduction have we to suffer.= _Carlyle._
=Truth scarce ever yet carried it by vote anywhere= 35
=at its first appearance.= _Locke._
=Truth seeks no corners.= _Pr._
=Truth shines with its own light; it is not by
the flames of funeral piles that the minds of
men are illuminated.= _Belisarius._
=Truth should be strenuous and bold; but the
strongest things are not always the noisiest,
as any one may see who compares scolding
with logic.= _Chapin._
=Truth will be uppermost one time or another
like cork, though kept down in the water.=
_Sir W. Temple._
=Truth will bear / Neither rude handling, nor= 40
=unfair / Evasion of its wards, and mocks /
Whoever would falsely enter there.= _Dr.
Walter Smith._
=Truth's a dog that must to kennel. He must
be whipped out, when the lady brach may
stand by the fire and stink.= _Lear_, i. 4.
=Truths are first clouds, then rain, then harvests
and food.= _Ward Beecher._
=Truths that wake, / To perish never.= _Wordsworth._
=Try and Trust will move mountains.= _Pr._
=Try for yourselves what you can read in half-an-hour, ...= 45
=and consider what treasures you
might have laid by at the end of the year;
and what happiness, fortitude and wisdom
they would have given you during all the
days of your life.= _John Morley._
=Try it, ye who think there is nothing in it;
try what it is to speak with God behind
you.= _Ward Beecher._
=Try to do your duty, and you at once know
what is in you.= _Goethe._
=Try to forget our cares and our maladies, and
contribute, as we can, to the cheerfulness of
each other.= _Johnson._
=Try what repentance can; what can it not?
Yet what can it, when one cannot repent?=
_Ham._, iii. 2.
=Tu, Domine, gloria mea=--Thou, O Lord, art my 50
glory. _M._
=Tu dors, Brutus, et Rome est dans les fers!=--Sleepest
thou, Brutus, and Rome in bonds!
_Voltaire._
=Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito /
Quam tua te fortuna sinet=--Do not yield to
misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet
them, as your fortune shall permit you. _Virg._
=Tu ne quæsieris, scire nefas, quem mihi quem
tibi / Finem di dederint, Leuconoë=--Forbear
to inquire, thou mayst not know, Leuconoë, for
you may not know what the gods have appointed
either for you or for me. _Hor._
=Tu nihil invita dices faciesve Minerva=--You
must say and do nothing against the bent of
your genius, _i.e._, in default of the necessary inspiration.
_Hor._
=Tu pol si sapis, quod scis nescis=--You, if you
are wise, will not know what you do know. _Ter._
=Tu quamcunque Deus tibi fortunaverit horam, /
Grata sume manu; nec dulcia differ in annum,
/ Ut quocunque loco fueris, vixisse
libenter / Te dicas=--Receive with a thankful
hand every hour that God may have granted
you, and defer not the comforts of life to another
year; that in whatever place you are, you may
say you have lived agreeably. _Hor._
=Tu quoque=--You too; you're another. 5
=Tu quoque, Brute!=--You too, Brutus!
=Tu recte vivis, si curas esse quod audis=--You
live a true life if you make it your care to be
what you seem. _Hor._
=Tu si animum vicisti, potius quam animus te,
est quod gaudeas=--If you have conquered
your inclination, rather than your inclination
you, you have something to rejoice at. _Plaut._
=Tu si hic sis, aliter sentias=--If you were in my
place, you would think differently. _Terence._
=Tu vincula frange=--Break thy chains. _M._ 10
=Tua camicia non sappia il secreto=--Let not your
shirt know your secret. _It. Pr._
=Tua res agitur=--It is a matter that concerns
you.
=Tuebor=--I will protect. _M._
=Tui me miseret, mei piget=--I pity you and vex
myself. _Ennius._
=Tunica propior pallio est=--My tunic is nearer 15
than my cloak. _Plaut._
=Turba Remi sequitur fortunam, ut semper, et
odit / Damnatos=--The Roman mob follows the
lead of fortune, as it always does, and hates
those that are condemned. _Juv._
=Turn, Fortune, turn thy wheel with smile or
frown; / With that wild wheel we go not up
or down; / Our hoard is little, but our hearts
are great.= _Tennyson._
=Turn him to any cause of policy, / The Gordian
knot of it he will unloose, / Familiar as his
garter.= _Henry V._, i. 1.
=Turpe est aliud loqui, aliud sentire; quanto
turpius aliud scribere, aliud sentire!=--It is
base to say one thing and to think another; how
much more base to write one thing and think
another! _Sen._
=Turpe est in patria peregrinari, et in eis rebus= 20
=quæ ad patriam pertinent hospitem esse=--It
is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's
country, and be an alien in those matters which
affect our welfare. _Manutius._
=Turpius ejicitur quam non admittitur hospes=--It
is more disgraceful to turn a guest out than
not to admit him. _Ovid._
=Turris fortissima est nomen Jehovah=--A most
strong tower is the name of Jehovah. _M._
=Tuta petant alii. Fortuna miserrima tuta
est; / Nam timor eventus deterioris abest=--Let
others seek security. My most wretched fortune
is secure; for there is no fear of worse to
follow. _Ovid._
=Tuta scelera esse possunt, non secura=--Wickedness
may be safe, but not secure. _Sen._
=Tuta timens=--Fearing even safety. _Virg._ 25
=Tutte quanti=--Et cetera. _It._
=Tuum est=--It is thine. _M._
='Twas doing nothing was his curse--/ Is there
a vice can plague us worse?= _Hannah More._
='Twas strange, 'twas passing strange, / 'Twas
pitiful; 'twas wondrous pitiful.= _Othello_, i. 3.
=Twenty people can gain money for one who= 30
=can use it; and the vital question for individuals
and for nations, is never "how much
do they make," but "to what purpose do
they spend."= _Ruskin._
='Twere all as good to ease one beast of grief, /
As sit and watch the sorrows of the world /
In yonder caverns with the priests who pray.=
_Sir Edwin Arnold._
=Twist ye, twine ye! even so, / Mingle shades
of joy and woe, / Hope, and fear, and peace,
and strife, / In the thread of human life.=
_Scott._
=Two are better than one, because they have a
good reward for their labour.= _Bible._
=Two dogs over one bone seldom agree.= _Pr._
=Two dogs strive for a bone, and a third runs= 35
=away with it.= _Pr._
=Two gifts are indispensable to the dramatic
poet; one is the power of forgetting himself,
the other is the power of remembering his
characters.= _Stoddart._
=Two grand tasks have been assigned to the
English people--the grand Industrial task
of conquering some half, or more, of the
terraqueous planet for the use of man; then,
secondly, the grand Constitutional task of
sharing, in some pacific endurable manner,
the fruit of said conquest, and showing all
people how it might be done.= _Carlyle._
=Two heads are better than one, or why do
folks marry?= _Pr._
=Two in distress make sorrow less.= _Pr._
=Two is company, but three is none.= _Pr._ 40
=Two kitchen fires burn not on one hearth.= _Pr._
=Two may keep counsel, putting one away.= _Pr._
=Two may talk and one may hear, but three
cannot take part in a conversation of the
most sincere and searching sort.= _Emerson._
=Two meanings have our lightest fantasies, /
One of the flesh, and of the spirit one.=
_Lowell._
=Two men I honour, and no third. First, the= 45
=toilworn craftsman that with earth-made
implement laboriously conquers the earth,
and makes her man's.... A second man I
honour, and still more highly--him who is
seen toiling for the spiritually indispensable;
not daily bread, but the bread of life....
These two in all their degrees I honour; all
else is chaff and dust, which let the wind
blow whither it listeth.= _Carlyle._
=Two misfortunes are twice as many at least
as are needful to be talked over at one time.=
_Sterne._
=Two of a trade seldom agree.= _Pr._
=Two orders of poets I admit, but no third; the
creative (Shakespeare, Homer, Dante), and
reflective or perceptive (Wordsworth, Keats,
Tennyson); and both these must be first-rate
in their range.= _Ruskin._
=Two pots stood by a river, one of brass, the
other of clay; the water carried them away;
the earthen vessel kept aloof from the other.=
_L'Estrange._
=Two principles in human nature reign--/ Self-love
to urge, and reason to restrain.= _Pope._
=Two qualities are demanded of a statesman
who would direct any great movement of
opinion in which he himself takes a part; he
must have a complete understanding of the
movement itself, and he must be animated
by the same motives as those which inspire
the movement.= _Lamartine._
=Two removals are as bad as a fire.= _Pr._
=Two sorts of writers possess genius; those= 5
=who think, and those who cause others to
think.= _J. Roux._
=Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere.=
_Hen. IV._, v. 4.
=Two things a man should never be angry
at; what he can help, and what he cannot.=
_Pr._
=Two things I abhor: the learned in his infidelities,
and the fool in his devotions.=
_Mahomet._
=Two things strike me dumb: the infinite
starry heavens, and the sense of right and
wrong in man.= _Kant._
=Two things, well considered, would prevent= 10
=many quarrels: first, to have it well ascertained
whether we are not disputing about
terms rather than things; and, secondly,
to examine whether that on which we differ
is worth contending about.= _Colton._
=Type of the wise who soar, but never roam, /
True to the kindred points of Heaven and
Home.= _Wordsworth._
=Tyran, descends du trône, et fais place à ton
maître=--Tyrant, come down from the throne,
and give place to your master! _Corn._
=Tyranny and anarchy are never far asunder.=
_Bentham._
=Tyranny is irresponsible power ... whether
the power be lodged in one or many.=
_Canning._