=Wachsamkeit ist die Tugend des Lasters=--Vigilance
is the virtue of vice. _C. J. Weber._
=Waft yourselves, yearning souls, upon the
stars; / Sow yourselves on the wandering
winds of space; / Watch patient all your
days, if your eyes take / Some dim, cold ray
of knowledge. The dull world / Hath need
of you--the purblind, slothful world!= _Lewis
Morris._
=Wage du zu irren und zu träumen: / Hoher= 15
=Sinn liegt oft im kind'schen Spiel=--Dare to
err and to dream; a deep meaning often lies in
the play of a child. _Schiller._
=Wages are no index of well-being to the working
man; without proper wages there can
be no well-being; but with them also there
may be none.= _Carlyle._
=Wahres und Gutes wird sich versöhnen, /
Wenn sich beide vermählen im Schönen=--True
and good will be reconciled when both are
wedded in the beautiful. _Rückert._
=Wahrheit gegen Freund und Feind=--Truth
in spite of friend and foe alike. _Schiller._
=Wahrheit immer wird, nie ist=--Truth always is
a-being, never is. _Schiller._
=Wahrheit wird wohl gedrückt, aber nicht= 20
=erstickt=--Truth may be smothered, but not
extinguished. _Ger. Pr._
=Wait upon him whom thou art to speak to
with thine eye; for there be many cunning
men that have secret heads and transparent
countenances.= _Burton._
=Waiting answers sometimes as well as working.=
_Mrs. Gatty._
=Walk not with the world where it is walking
wrong.= _Carlyle._
=Walk this world with no friend in it but God
and St. Edmund, and you will either fall
into the ditch or learn a good many things.=
_Carlyle._
=Wann? wie? und wo? das ist die leidige= 25
=Frage=--When? how? and where? That is
the vexing question. _Goethe._
=Want is the mother of industry.= _Pr._
=Want makes wit.= _Pr._
=Want maketh even servitude honourable.=
_Hitopadesa._
=Want o' wit is waur than want o' siller.= _Sc.
Pr._
=Want of care does us more damage than want= 30
=of knowledge.= _Ben. Franklin._
=Want of courage upon some occasions assumes
the appearance of ignorance, and betrays us
when we most want to excel.= _Goldsmith._
=Want of humility or self-denial is simply the
want of all religion, of all moral worth.=
_Carlyle._
=Want of prudence is too frequently the want
of virtue; nor is there on earth a more
powerful advocate for vice than poverty.=
_Goldsmith._
=Want of tenderness is want of parts, and is no
less a proof of stupidity than depravity.=
_Johnson._
=Want supplieth itself of what is next.= _Bacon._ 35
=Wanton jests make fools laugh and wise men
frown.= _Fuller._
=War disorganises, but it is to re-organise.=
_Emerson._
=War has its sweets, Hymen its alarms.= _La
Fontaine._
=War has no pity.= _Schiller._
=War is a game which, were their subjects= 40
=wise, kings should not play at.= _Cowper._
=War is a terrible trade; but in the cause that
is righteous, / Sweet is the smell of powder.=
_Longfellow._
=War its thousands slays, peace its ten thousands.=
_Beilby Porteous._
=War ought to be the only study of a prince.=
_Machiavelli._
=War suspends the rules of moral obligation,
and what is long suspended is in danger of
being totally abrogated.= _Burke._
=War--the trade of barbarians, and the art of= 45
=bringing the greatest physical force to bear
on a single point.= _Napoleon._
=War, with all its evils, is better than a peace
in which there is nothing to be seen but
usurpation and injustice.= _Pitt._
=Wäre der Geist nicht frei, dann wär' es ein
grosser Gedanke, / Dass ein Gedankenmonarch
über die Seele regiert=--Only if the
spirit of man were not free, would the thought
be a great one that there is a monarch of thought
who rules over our souls. _Platen._
=Warm fortunes are always sure of getting
good husbands.= _Goldsmith._
=Warm your body by healthful exercise, not
by cowering over a stove.= _Thoreau._
=Warm your spirit by performing independently
noble deeds, not by ignobly seeking the sympathy
of your fellows, who are no better than
yourself.= _Thoreau._
=Warn them that are unruly, support the weak,
be patient toward all men.= _St. Paul._
=Wars should be undertaken in order that we
may live in peace without suffering wrong.=
_Cic._
=Was, and is, and will be, are but "is."= _Tennyson._ 5
=Was der Löwe nicht kann, das kann der Fuchs=--What
the lion cannot manage to do, the fox
can. _Ger. Pr._
=Was der Socialismus will, ist nicht Eigenthum
aufheben, sondern im Gegentheile individuelles
Eigenthum, auf die Arbeit gegründetes
Eigenthum erst einführen=--What Socialism
means is not to abolish property, but, on the contrary,
to establish individual property, property
founded on labour. _Lassalle._
=Was die Fürsten geigen, müssen die Unterthanen
tanzen=--Subjects must dance as princes
fiddle to them. _Ger. Pr._
=Was die heulende Tiefe da unten verhehle, /
Das erzählt keine lebende glückliche Seele=--What
the howling deep down there conceals,
no blessed living soul can tell. _Schiller._
=Was die innere Stimme spricht / Das läuschet= 10
=die hoffende Seele nicht=--By what the inner
voice speaks the trusting soul is never deceived.
_Schiller._
=Was die Natur versteckt, zieht Unsinn an das
Licht=--What Nature hides from our gaze, want
of sense and feeling drags to the light. _Lessing._
=Was die Sage erzählt / Mit Geschichte vermählt, /
Mit Phantasie im Verein, / Das lass
dir willkommen sein=--Let what legend relates,
wedded to history and in union with fantasy, be
welcome to thee. (?)
=Was du besitzest, kann ein Raub des Schicksals
sein; / Was du besassest, bleibt für alle
Zeiten dein=--What you possess is at the mercy
of fortune; what you possessed remains your own
for ever. _Lorm._
=Was du denkest, sei wahr; und wie du denkest,
so rede! / Wolle das Gute, so folgt Segen
und Freude der That=--Be what thou thinkest
true; and as thou thinkest, so speak. Will what
is good; then will follow blessing and joy from
the deed. _C. L. Fernow._
=Was du ererbt von deinen Vätern hast, /= 15
=Erwirb es, um es zu besitzen. / Was man
nicht nützt, ist eine schwere Last; / Nur was
der Augenblick erschafft, das kann er nützen=--What
thou hast inherited from thy sires, acquire
so as to posses it as thy own. What we use not
is a heavy burden; only what the moment produces
can the moment profit by. _Goethe._
=Was einmal sein muss, wird nie zu früh gethan=--What
must be can never be too quickly done.
_Rückert._
=Was ever woman in this humour woo'd? /
Was ever woman in this humour won?=
_Rich. III._, i. 2.
=Was geboren ist auf Erden / Muss zu Erd'
und Asche werden=--What is born on earth
must to earth and ashes return. _J. G. Jacobi._
=Was gelten soll, muss wirken und muss dienen=--To
be of any worth a thing must be productive
and serviceable. _Goethe._
=Was glänzt ist für den Augenblick geboren; /= 20
=Das Echte bleibt der Nachwelt unverloren=--What
dazzles is produced for the moment; what
is genuine remains unlost to posterity. _Goethe._
=Was Gott thut, das ist wohlgethan=--What
God does is well done. _S. Rodigast._
=Was hab' ich mehr als meine Pflicht gethan? /
Ein guter Mann wird stets das Bessre
wählen=--What have I done more than my
duty? A good man will always select what is
better. _Schiller._
=Was Hände bauten, können Hände stürzen=--What
hands have built, hands can pull down.
_Schiller._
=Was Hänschen nicht lernt, lernt Hans nimmermehr=--What
little Jack does not learn, big John
never will. _Ger. Pr._
=Was hilft es mir, dass ich geniesse? Wie= 25
=Träume fliehn die wärmsten Küsse, / Und
alle Freude wie ein Kuss=--What help is there
for me in enjoyment? As dreams vanish the
warmest kisses, and as such is all joy. _Goethe._
=Was hilft laufen, wenn man nicht auf dem
rechten Weg ist?=--What boots running if one is
on the wrong road. _Ger. Pr._
=Was hilft's, wenn ihr ein Ganzes dargebracht? /
Das Publikum wird es euch doch zerpflücken=--What
boots it to present a whole? The public
will be sure to pull it to pieces for you. _Goethe._
=Was ich besitze, mag ich gern bewahren; der
Wechsel unterhält, doch nützt er kaum=--What
I possess I would like to keep; change
is entertaining, but is scarcely advantageous.
_Goethe._
=Was ich besitze, seh' ich wie im weiten, / Und
was verschwand, wird mir zu Wirklichkeiten=--What
I possess I see in the distance; and
what has vanished becomes for me actuality.
_Goethe._
=Was ich nicht loben kann, davon sprech' ich= 30
=nicht=--I do not speak of what I cannot praise.
_Goethe._
=Was im Leben uns verdriesst / Man im Bilde
gern geniesst=--What annoys us in life we enjoy
in a picture. _Goethe._
=Was in dem Herzen Anderer von uns lebt, /
Ist unser wahrestes und tiefstes Selbst=--What
of us lives in the heart of others is our
truest and deepest self. _Herder._
=Was ist deine Pflicht? Die Forderung des
Tages=--What is thy duty? To accept the
challenge of the passing day.
=Was ist der Tod? Nach einem Fieber / Ein
sanfter Schlaf, der uns erquickt! / Der Thor
erschreckt darüber, / Der Weise ist entzückt=--What
is death? A gentle sleep, which
refreshes us after a fever. The fool is frightened
at it; the wise man overjoyed. _Winter._
=Was ist ein Held ohne Menschenliebe=--What 35
is a hero without love for man? _Lessing._
=Was ist noch schlimmer als das Uebel?
Wenn man es nicht zu ertragen weiss=--"What
is still worse than evil?" Inability to
bear it. _C. J. Weber._
=Was ist unser höchstes Gesetz? Unser
eigener Vortheil=--What is our highest good?
Our own advantage. _Goethe._
=Was lehr' ich dich vor allen Dingen? / Könntest
mich lehren von meiner Schatte zu
springen!=--What before all shall I teach you?
That you could teach me to jump off my shadow!
_Goethe._
=Was man einmal ist, das muss man ganz
sein=--What we are at any moment we should
be entirely. _Bodenstedt._
=Was man Gott opfern will, muss man nicht
vom Teufel einsegnen lassen=--We must not
let the devil consecrate what we mean for God.
_Ger. Pr._
=Was man in der Jugend wünscht, hat man im
Alter die Fülle=--What one wishes in youth one
has to the full when old. _Goethe, by way of
motto to the second part of his "Wahrheit und
Dichtung."_
=Was man nicht versteht, besitzt man nicht=--What
we don't understand we do not possess.
_Goethe._
=Was man sein will, sei man ganz=--What one 5
will be, let him entirely be. _W. F. Flotow._
=Was man zu heftig fühlt, fühlt man nicht allzulang=--Very
acute suffering does not last long.
_Goethe._
=Was Menschen säen, werden die Götter
eraten; / Gott spricht durch seine Welt,
der Mensch durch seine That=--What men sow
the gods will reap. God speaks through his
world, man through his deed. _Tiedge._
=Was mir ein Augenblick genommen, / Das
bringt kein Frühling mir zurück=--What a
moment has taken from me no spring brings
back to me. _Hoffmann._
=Was never evening yet / But seemed far
beautifuller than its day.= _Browning._
=Was nicht von innen keimt hervor, / Ist in= 10
=der Wurzel schwach=--What does not germinate
forth from within is weak at its root.
_Uhland._
=Was nicht zusammen kann bestehen, thut am
besten sich zu lösen=--What cannot exist together
had better separate. _Schiller._
=Was niemals unser war, entbehrt man leicht=--We
easily dispense with what we never had.
_Platen._
=Was nützt, ist nur ein Theil des Bedeutenden=--What
is useful forms but a part of the important.
_Goethe._
=Was soll der fürchten, der den Tod nicht
fürchtet?=--What shall he fear who does not
fear death? _Schiller._
=Was there ever, since the beginning of the= 15
=world, a universal vote given in favour of
the worthiest man or thing?= _Carlyle._
=Was there, is there, or will there be a great
intellect ever heard tell of without being
first a true and great heart to begin with?
Never.... Think it not, suspect it not.
Worse blasphemy I could not readily utter.=
_Carlyle to John Sterling._
=Was thy life given to thee / For making pretty
sentences, and play / Of dainty humour for
the mirthful heart / To be more merry, or to
serve thy kind, / Redressing wrong?= _Dr.
W. Smith._
=Was uns alle bändigt, das Gemeine=--What
enthrals us all is the common. _Goethe._
=Was vergangen, kehrt nicht wieder; Aber
ging es leuchtend nieder, / Leuchtet's lange
noch zurück!=--What has gone by returns not
again, but if it went down shining, it reflects its
light for long. _Karl Förster._
=Was vernünftig ist, das ist wirklich; und= 20
=was wirklich ist, das ist vernünftig=--What is
rational is actual; and what is actual is rational.
_Hegel._
=Was verschmerze nicht der Mensch?=--What
can man not put up with? _Schiller._
=Was wir als Schönheit hier empfunden, / Wird
einst als Wahrheit uns entgegengehn=--What
we have felt here as beauty will one day
confront us as truth. _Schiller._
=Waste not time by trampling upon thistles
because they have yielded us no figs. Here
are books, and we have brains to read them;
here is a whole Earth and a whole Heaven,
and we have eyes to look on them.= _Carlyle._
=Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation.=
_Bible._
=Watch thy tongue; out of it are the issues of= 25
=life.= _Carlyle._
=Watched pot never boils.= _Pr._
=Watchman, what of the night?= _Bible._
=Water, air, and cleanliness are the chief
articles in my pharmacopœia.= _Napoleon._
=Water cannot rise above the level from which
it springs; no more can moral theories.= _J. C.
Sharp._
=Water, water everywhere, / And all the boards= 30
=did shrink, / Water, water everywhere, / Nor
any drop to drink.= _Coleridge._
=Waters that are deep do not babble as they
flow.= _Pr._
=We acquire the strength we have overcome.
Without war, no soldier; without enemies,
no hero. The sun were insipid if the universe
were not opaque.= _Emerson._
=We all bear the misfortunes of other people
with a heroic constancy.= _La Roche._
=We all complain of the shortness of time, and
yet have much more than we know what to
do with. Our lives are spent either in doing
nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the
purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought
to do; we are always complaining our days
are few, and acting as though there would
be no end of them.= _Sen._
=We all know a hundred whose coats are well= 35
=made, and a score who have excellent
manners; but of gentlemen how many? Let
us take a little scrap of paper and each
make out his list.= _Thackeray._
=We all know that the secret of breakdown
and wreck is seldom so much an insufficient
knowledge of the route, as imperfect discipline
of the will.= _John Morley._
=We all live upon the hope of pleasing somebody;
and the pleasure of pleasing ought
to be greatest, and at last always will be
greatest, when our endeavours are exerted
in consequence of our duty.= _Johnson._
=We always believe that God is like ourselves:
the indulgent affirm him indulgent; the
stern, terrible.= _Joubert._
=We always live prospectively, never retrospectively,
and there is no abiding moment.=
_Jacobi._
=We always take credit for the good, and attribute= 40
=the bad to fortune.= _La Fontaine._
=We are able easily to dispense with greater
perfection.= _Vauvenargues._
=We are all a kind of chameleons, taking our
hue, the hue of our moral character, from
those who are about us.= =Locke.=
=We are all, at times, unconscious prophets.=
_Spurgeon._
=We are all best affected to them who are of
the same opinion as ourselves.= _Thomas à
Kempis._
=We are all born for love. It is the principle
of existence, and its only end.= _I. Disraeli._
=We are all collective beings, let us place ourselves
as we may; for how little have we,
and are we, that we can strictly call our
own property?= _Goethe._
=We are all frail; but esteem none more frail
than thyself.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=We are all richer for the measurement of a= 5
=degree of latitude on the earth's surface.=
_Emerson._
=We are all visionaries, and what we see is our
soul in things.= _Amiel._
=We are always complaining our days are few,
and acting as though there would be no end
of them.= _Addison._
=We are always looking into the future, but we
see only the past.= _Mme. Swetchine._
=We are ancients of the earth / And in the
morning of the times.= _Tennyson._
=We are apt to mistake our vocation by looking= 10
=out of the way for occasions to exercise
great and rare virtues, and by stepping over
the ordinary ones that lie directly in the
road before us.= _Hannah More._
=We are apt to pick quarrels with the world
for every little foolery.= _L'Estrange._
=We are as liable to be corrupted by books as
by companions.= _Fielding._
=We are as much informed of a writer's genius
by what he selects as by what he originates.=
_Emerson._
=We are as turkeys driven, with a stick and
red clout, to market.= _Sterne._
=We are awkward for want of thought. The= 15
=inspiration is scanty, and does not arrive
at the extremities.= _Emerson._
=We are born with faculties and powers capable
almost of anything, such, at least, as might
carry us further than can easily be imagined;
but it is only the exercise of those
powers that gives us ability and skill in
anything, and leads us towards perfection.=
_Locke._
=We are bound to be honest, but not to be rich.=
_Pr._
=We are but of yesterday, and know nothing,
because our days upon earth are a shadow.=
_Bible._
=We are children for the second time at twenty-one,
and again when we are grey and put
all our burden on the Lord.= _J. M. Barrie._
=We are come too late, by several thousand= 20
=years, to say anything new in morality.
The finest and most beautiful thoughts concerning
manners have been carried away
before our times, and nothing is left for us
but to glean after the ancients and the more
ingenious of the moderns.= _La Bruyère._
=We are content with personating happiness--to
feel it is an art beyond us.= _Mackenzie._
=We are contented because we are happy,
and not happy because we are contented.=
_Landor._
=We are created to seek truth; to possess it is
the prerogative of a higher power.= _Montaigne._
="We are creatures that look before and after,"
the more surprising that we do not look
round a little, and see what is passing under
our eyes.= _Carlyle._
=We are great philosophers to each other, but= 25
=not to ourselves.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=We are here for the express purpose of stamping
on things perishable an imperishable
worth.= _Goethe._
=We are in a series of which we do not know
the extremes, and believe that it has none.=
_Emerson._
=We are in great danger; / The greater therefore
should our courage be.= _Hen. V._, iv. 1.
=We are inclined to believe those whom we do
not know, because they have never deceived
us.= _Johnson._
=We are incompetent to solve the times....= 30
=We can only obey our own polarity.= _Emerson._
=We are instinctively more inclined to hope
than to fear; just as our eyes turn of themselves
towards light rather than darkness.=
_Schopenhauer._
=We are less convinced by what we hear than
by what we see.= _Herodotus._
=We are members of one great body. Nature
planted in us a mutual love, and fitted us for
a social life. We must consider that we were
born for the good of the whole.= _Sen._
="We are men, my liege."--/ Ay, in the catalogue
ye go for men.= _Macb._, iii. 1.
=We are near awakening when we dream that= 35
=we dream.= _Novalis._
=We are ne'er like angels till our passion dies.=
_Denham._
=We are never farther from what we wish than
when we fancy that we have what we wished
for.= _Goethe._
=We are never made so ridiculous by the qualities
we have as by those we affect to have.=
_La Roche._
=We are never more discontented with others
than when we are discontented with ourselves.=
_Amiel._
=We are never more like God than when we= 40
=are doing good.= _Calvin._
=We are never present with, but always beyond
ourselves. Fear, desire, and hope are still
pushing us on towards the future.= _Montaigne._
=We are never properly ourselves till another
thinks entirely as we do.= _Goethe._
=We are never so happy or so unhappy as we
imagine.= _La Roche._
=We are not called upon to judge ourselves. /
With circumspection to pursue his path, /
Is the immediate duty of a man.= _Goethe._
=We are not ignorant of his devices.= _St. Paul_ 45
_of the Evil One._
=We are not indebted to the reason of man for
any of the great achievements which are the
landmarks of human action and human progress.=
_Disraeli._
=We are not, indeed, satisfied with our own
opinions, whatever we may pretend, till they
are ratified and confirmed by suffrage of the
rest of mankind. We dispute and wrangle
for ever; we endeavour to get men to come
to us when we do not go to them.= _Sir Joshua
Reynolds._
=We are not sent into this world to do anything
into which we cannot put our hearts. We
have certain work to do for our bread, and
that is to be done strenuously; other work
to do for our delight, and that is to be done
heartily; neither is to be done by halves or
shifts, but with a will; and what is not worth
this effort is not to be done at all.= _Ruskin._
=We are not strong by our power to penetrate,
but by our relatedness.= _Emerson._
=We are not to be astonished that the wise
walk more slowly in their road to virtue
than fools in their passage to vice; since
passion drags us along, while wisdom only
points out the way.= _Confucius._
=We are not to lead events, but to follow them.=
_Epictetus._
=We are not to quarrel with the water for= 5
=inundations and shipwrecks.= _L'Estrange._
=We are not troubled by the evanescence of
time, if the eternal is every moment present.=
_Goethe._
=We are often governed by people not only
weaker than ourselves, but even by those
whom we think so.= _Lord Greville._
=We are often prophets to others only because
we are our own historians.= _Mme. Swetchine._
=We are only so far worthy of esteem as we
know how to appreciate.= _Goethe._
=We are only vulnerable and ridiculous through= 10
=our pretensions.= _Mme. de Girardin._
=We are ourselves / Our heaven and hell, the
joy, the penalty, / The yearning, the fruition.=
_Lewis Morris._
=We are pent, / Who sing to-day, by all the
garnered wealth / Of ages of past song.=
_Lewis Morris._
=We are reformers in spring and summer; in
autumn and winter we stand by the old;
reformers in the morning, conservers at
night.= _Emerson._
=We are rid of the Wicked One, but the wicked
are still with us.= _Goethe._
=We are ruined not by what we really want,= 15
=but by what we think we do.= _Colton._
=We are seldom sure that we sincerely meant
what we omitted to do.= _Johnson._
=We are slaves, / The greatest as the meanest--nothing
rests / Upon our will.... And
when we think we lead, we are most led.=
_Byron._
=We are such stuff / As dreams are made on;
and our little life / Is rounded with a sleep.=
_Tempest_, iii. 3.
=We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with
ourselves; it is a civil war, and in all such
contentions, triumphs are defeats.= _Colton._
=We are sure to judge wrong if we do not feel= 20
=aright.= _Hazlitt._
=We are taxed twice as much by our idleness,
three times as much by our pride, and four
times as much by our folly; and from these
taxes the Commissioners cannot ease or
deliver us by allowing an abatement.= _Ben.
Franklin._
=We are the children of our own deeds.= _Victor
Hugo._
=We are the miracle of miracles--the great
inscrutable mystery of God. We cannot
understand it, we know not how to speak of
it; but we may feel and know, if we like,
that it is verily so.= _Carlyle._
=We are the slaves of objects round us, and
appear little or important according as
these contract or give us room to expand.=
_Goethe._
=We are to earn the joys of a higher existence,= 25
=not by scorning, but by using, all the gifts
of God in this.= _W. R. Greg._
=We are too good for pure instinct.= _Goethe._
=We are very fond of some families because
they can be traced beyond the Conquest,
whereas indeed the farther back the worse,
as being the nearer allied to a race of
robbers and thieves.= _De Foe._
=We are wiser than we know.= _Emerson._
=We ask advice, but we mean approbation.=
_Colton._
=We barter life for pottage.= _Keble._ 30
=We boast our light; but if we look not wisely
on the sun itself, it smites us into darkness.=
_Milton._
=We build statues of snow, and weep to see
them melt.= _Scott._
=We by Fancy may assuage / The festering
sore by Fancy made.= _Keble._
=We can conceive or desire nothing more exquisite
or perfect than what is round us every
hour.= _W. R. Greg._
=We can do more good by being good than in= 35
=any other way.= _Rowland Hill._
=We can do nothing against the truth, but for
the truth.= _St. Paul._
=We can finish nothing in this life, but we can
make a beginning, and bequeath a noble
example.= _Smiles._
=We can hardly be confident of the state of
our own minds, but as it stands attested by
some external action.= _Johnson._
=We can have no dependence upon morality
without religion; so, on the other hand,
there is nothing better to be expected from
religion without morality.= _Sterne._
=We can live without our friends, but not without= 40
=our neighbours.= _Pr._
=We can more easily avenge an injury than
requite a kindness; on this account, because
there is less difficulty in getting the better of
the wicked than in making one's self equal
with the good.= _Cic._
=We can never soon enough convince ourselves
how easily we can be dispensed with
in the world.= _Goethe._
=We can offer up much in the large, but to
make sacrifices in little things is what we are
seldom equal to.= _Goethe._
=We can only know a little, and the question is
merely whether or not we know this well.=
_Goethe._
=We can only possess wealth according to our= 45
=capacity.= _Ruskin._
=We can receive anything from love, for that is
a way of receiving it from ourselves; but
not from any one who assumes to bestow.=
_Emerson._
=We can sometimes love what we do not understand,
but it is impossible completely to
understand what we do not love.= _Mrs.
Jameson._
=We can take up no scheme, however wild and
impracticable, but it will strike off some
flower or fruit from the tree of knowledge.=
_Ward Beecher._
=We cannot abolish fate, but we can in a
measure utilise it. The projectile force of
the bullet does not annul or suspend gravity;
it uses it.= _John Burroughs._
=We cannot all be masters, nor all masters /
Cannot be truly follow'd.= _King Lear_, v. 3.
=We cannot all serve our country in the same
way, but each may do his best, according as
God has endowed him.= _Goethe._
=We cannot approach beauty. Its nature is
like opaline dove's-neck lustres, hovering
and evanescent. Herein it resembles the
most excellent things, which have all this
rainbow character, defying all attempts at
appropriation and use.= _Emerson._
=We cannot be just if we are not humane.= 5
_Vauvenargues._
=We cannot be kind to each other here for an
hour; / We whisper, and hint, and chuckle,
and grin at a brother's shame; / However
we brave it out, we men are a little breed.=
_Tennyson._
=We cannot but speak the things we have seen
and heard.= _St. Peter and St. John._
=We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we
can yield to them in such a manner as to be
greater than if we could.= _Landor._
=We cannot fashion our children after our
fancy. We must have them and love them
as God has given them to us.= _Goethe._
=We cannot fight for love, as men may do; /= 10
=We should be wooed, and were not made to
woo.= _Mid. N.'s Dream_, ii. 2.
=We cannot make our exodus from Houndsditch=
(_i.e._, the now dead religion of the past)
=till we have got our own= (_i.e._, out of it) =along
with us.= _Carlyle._
=We cannot overstate our debt to the past, but
the moment has the supreme claim.= _Emerson._
=We cannot part with our friends. We cannot
let our angels go. We do not see that they
only go out that archangels may come in.
We are idolaters of the old. We do not
believe in the richness of the soul, in its
proper eternity and omnipresence.= _Emerson._
=We cannot pass our guardian angel's bound, /
Resign'd or sullen, he will hear our sighs.=
_Keble._
=We cannot speak a loyal word and be meanly= 15
=silent; we cannot kill and not kill at the
same moment; but a moment is room enough
for the loyal and mean desire, for the outflash
of a murderous thought, and the sharp
backward stroke of repentance.= _George Eliot._
=We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor
too humbly of ourselves.= _Colton._
=We conceive, I think, more nobly of the weak
presence of Paul than of the fair and ruddy
countenance of David.= _Ruskin._
=We consecrate a great deal of nonsense, because
it was allowed by great men.= _Emerson._
=We could not endure solitude, were it not for
the powerful companionship of hope, or of
some unseen one.= _Jean Paul._
=We crave a world unreal as the shell-heard= 20
=sea.= _E. L. Hamilton._
=We cultivate literature on a little oatmeal.=
_Sydney Smith._
=We darken the cages of birds when we would
teach them to sing.= _Jean Paul._
=We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate
artifices as we do ourselves.= _Schopenhauer._
=We deem those happy who, from their experience
of life, have learned to bear its ills without
descanting on the burden.= _Juv._
=We derive from nature no fault that may not= 25
=become a virtue, no virtue that may not degenerate
into a fault. Faults of the latter
kind are most difficult to cure.= _Goethe._
=We do everything by custom, even believe by
it; our very axioms, let us boast of our Freethinking
as we may, are oftenest simply such
beliefs as we have never heard questioned.=
_Carlyle._
=We do not believe immortality because we
have proved it, but we for ever try to prove
it because we believe it.= _James Martineau._
=We do not commonly find men of superior sense
amongst those of the highest fortune.= _Juv._
=We do not correct the man we hang; we correct
others by him.= _Montaigne._
=We do not count a man's years until he has= 30
=nothing else to count.= _Emerson._
=We do not determine what we will think....
We have little control over our thoughts.=
_Emerson._
=We do not die wholly at our deaths; we
have mouldered away gradually long before.=
_Hazlitt._
=We do not judge men by what they are in
themselves, but by what they are relatively
to us.= _Mme. Swetchine._
=We do not know what is really good or bad
fortune.= _Rousseau._
=We do not teach one another the lessons of= 35
=honesty and sincerity that the brutes do,
or of steadiness and solitude that the rocks
do. The fault is commonly mutual, for we
do not habitually demand any more of each
other.= _Thoreau._
=We don't always care most for those flat-pattern
flowers that press best in the herbarium.=
_Holmes._
=We draw the foam from the great river of
humanity with our quills, and imagine to ourselves
that we have caught floating islands
at least.= _Goethe._
=We eagerly lay hold of a law that serves as
a weapon to our passion.= _Goethe._
=We easily dispense with what was never our
own.= _Platen._
=We enjoy ourselves only in our work, our= 40
=doing; and our best doing is our best enjoyment.=
_Jacobi._
=We estimate= (_lit._ measure) =great men by their
virtue, not by their success.= _Corn. Nep._
=We exaggerate misfortune and happiness
alike. We are never either so wretched
or so happy as we say we are.= _Balzac._
=We expect a bright to-morrow; / All will be
well. / Faith can sing through days of sorrow, /
All, all is well.= _Peters._
=We expect everything, and are prepared for
nothing.= _Mme. Swetchine._
=We expect in letters to discover somewhat= 45
=of a person's real character. It is childish
indeed to expect that we are to find the
whole heart of the author unveiled....
Still as letters from one friend to another
make the nearest approaches to conversation,
we may expect to see more of a
character displayed in these than in other
productions which are studied for public
view.= _Blair._
=We expect old men to be conservative, but
when a nation's young men are so, its
funeral-bell is already rung.= _Ward Beecher._
=We fail? / But screw your courage to the
sticking-place, / And we'll not fail.= _Macb._,
i. 7.
=We fancy we suffer from ingratitude, while in
reality we suffer from self-love.= _Landor._
=(We) feel that life is large, and the world
small, / So wait till life have passed from
out the world.= _Browning._
=We find God twice--once within, once without= 5
=us; within us as an eye, without us as a
light.= _Jean Paul._
=We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order
to be like other people.= _Schopenhauer._
=We furnish our minds as we furnish our houses--with
the fancies of others, and according to
the mode and age of our country; we pick up
our ideas and notions in common conversation
as in schools.= _Bolingbroke._
=We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves.
We encourage one another in mediocrity.
I am always longing to be with men
more excellent than myself.= _Lamb._
=We gain the strength of the temptation we
resist.= _Emerson._
=We gape, we grasp, we gripe, add store to= 10
=store; / Enough requires too much; too
much craves more.= _Quarles._
=We gild our medicines with sweets; why not
clothe truth and morals in pleasant garments
as well?= _Chamfort._
=We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom
to profit by it.= _La Roche._
=We give advice by the bucket, but take it by
the grain.= _W. R. Alger._
=We go by the major vote, and if the majority
are insane, the sane must go to the hospital.
As Satan said, "Evil, be thou my good," so
they say, "Darkness, be thou my light."=
_Horace Mann._
=We hang little thieves, and take off our hats= 15
=to great ones.= _Ger. Pr._
=We happiness pursue; we fly from pain; /
Yet the pursuit, and yet the flight is vain.=
_Prior._
=We hate delay, yet it makes us wise.= _Pr._
=We hate some persons because we do not
know them, and we will not know them
because we hate them.= _Colton._
=We have a great deal more kindness than is
ever spoken. Maugre all the selfishness
that chills like east winds the world, the
whole human family is bathed with an
element of love like a fine ether.= _Emerson._
=We have all a cure of souls, and every man is= 20
=a priest.= _Amiel._
=We have all a speck of the motley.= _Lamb._
=We have all of us one human heart.= _Wordsworth._
=We have all of us our ferries (to cross over)
in this world, and must know the river and
its ways, or get drowned some day.= _Carlyle._
=We have all strength enough to endure the
troubles of others.= _La Roche._
=We have always considered taxes to be the= 25
=sinews of the state.= _Cic._
=We have, and this is an interesting fact, a plant
which may serve as a symbol of the most advanced
age, since, having passed the period
of flowers and fruit, it still thrives cheerfully
without further foundation.= _Goethe._
=We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile,
believe always, and never turn back.= _Simms._
=We have done deeds of charity, / Made peace
of enmity, fair love of hate.= _Rich. III._,
ii. 1.
=We have just enough religion to make us hate,
but not enough to make us love, one another.=
_Swift._
=We have less charity for those who believe the= 30
=half of our creed than for those who deny the
whole of it.= _Colton._
=We have little control over our thoughts.
We are the prisoners of our ideas.= _Emerson._
=We have met the enemy, and they are ours.=
_Oliver H. Perry._
=We have more indolence in the mind than in
the body.= _La Roche._
=We have more mathematics than ever, but less
mathesis. Archimedes and Plato could not
have read the "Méchanique Céleste;" but
neither would the whole French Institute see
aught in that saying, "God geometrises," but
sentimental rhodomontade.= _Carlyle._
=We have no more / The world to choose from,= 35
=who, where'er we turn, / Tread through old
thoughts and fair. Yet must we sing--/ We
have no choice.= _Lewis Morris._
=We have not only multiplied diseases, but we
have made them more fatal.= _Rush._
=We have not read an author till we have seen
his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it.=
_Carlyle._
=We have not the innocence of Eden; but by
God's help and Christ's example, we may
have the victory of Gethsemane.= _Chapin._
=We have not the love of greatness, but the
love of the love of greatness.= _Carlyle._
=We have not wings, we cannot soar; / But= 40
=we have feet to scale and climb / By slow
degrees, by more and more, / The cloudy
summits of our time.= _Longfellow._
=We have nothing to do with what is happening
in space (or possibly may happen in time);
we have only to attend to what is happening
here--and now.= _Ruskin._
=We have raised Pain and Sorrow into heaven,
and in our temples, on our altars. Grief
stands symbol of our faith, and it shall last
as long as man is mortal and unhappy.= _Wm.
Smith._
=We have scotch'd the snake, but not killed
it.= _Macb._, iii. 2.
=We have such exorbitant eyes, that, on seeing
the smallest arc, we complete the curve, and
when the curtain is lifted from the diagram
which it served to veil, we are vexed to find
that no more was drawn than just that
fragment of an arc which we first beheld.=
_Emerson._
=We hear constantly of what Nature is doing,= 45
=but we rarely hear of what man is thinking.
We want ideas, and we get more facts.=
_Buckle._
=We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter
grief is loud, calm grief is silent.= _Auerbach._
=We, ignorant of ourselves, / Beg often our own
harms, which the wise powers / Deny us for
our good; so find we profit / By losing of our
prayers.= _Ant. and Cleo._, ii. 1.
=We in turn / Shall one day be Time's ancients,
and inspire / The wiser, higher race, which
yet shall sing; / Because to sing is human,
and high thought / Grows rhythmic ere its
close.= _Lewis Morris._
=We inherit, not life only, but all the garniture
and form of life; and work, and speak, and
even think and feel, as our fathers, and
primeval grandfathers, from the beginning,
have given it us.= _Carlyle._
=We injure mysteries, which are matters of
faith, by any attempt at explanation in order
to make them matters of reason. Could
they be explained, they would cease to be
mysteries; and it has been well said that a
thing is not necessarily against reason because
it happens to be above it.= _Colton._
=We keep but what we give, / And only daily= 5
=dying may we live.= _Lewis Morris._
=We know accurately only when we know
little; with knowledge doubt increases.=
_Goethe._
=We know better than we do.= _Emerson._
=We know God easily, provided we do not
constrain ourselves to define him.= _Joubert._
=We know not oftentimes what we are able to
do, but temptations shows us what we are.=
_Thomas à Kempis._
=We know truth when we see it, let sceptic= 10
=and scoffer say what they choose.= _Emerson._
=We know what we are, but we know not
what we may be.= _Ham._, iv. 5.
=We learn nothing from mere hearing, and he
who does not take an active part in certain
subjects knows them but half and superficially.=
_Goethe._
=We learn to know a thing best in the place
where it is native.= _Goethe._
=We learn to know nothing but what we love;
and the deeper we mean to penetrate into
any matter with insight, the stronger and
more vital must our love and passion be.=
_Goethe._
=We learn wisdom from failure much more than= 15
=from success; we often discover what will
do by finding out what will not do; and probably
he who never made a mistake never
made a discovery. Horne Tooke used to
say of his studies in intellectual philosophy,
that he had become all the better acquainted
with the country through having had the
good luck sometimes to lose his way.= _Smiles._
=We lie down and rise up with the skeleton
allotted to us for our mortal companion--the
phantom of ourselves.= _Dickens._
=We like only such actions as have long already
had the praise of men, and do not perceive
that anything man can do may be
divinely done.= _Emerson._
=We like slipping, but not falling; our real
desire is to be tempted enough.= _Hare._
=We like to see through others, but not that
others should see through us.= _La Roche._
=We live by admiration, hope, and love; / And= 20
=even as these are well and wisely fix'd, / In
dignity of being we ascend.= _Wordsworth._
=We live by our imaginations, by our admirations,
by our sentiments.= _Emerson._
=We live in a real, and a solid, and a truthful
world. In such a world only truth, in the
long run, can hope to prosper.= _Prof. Blackie._
=We live in a world which is full of misery and
ignorance, and the plain duty of each and
all of us is to try to make the little corner
he can influence somewhat less miserable
and somewhat less ignorant than it was
before he entered it. To do this effectually,
it is necessary to be fully possessed of only
two beliefs: the first, that the order of
nature is ascertainable by our faculties to an
extent which is practically unlimited; the
second, that our volition counts for something
as a condition of the course of events.=
_Huxley._
=We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not
breaths; / In feelings, not in figures on a
dial.= _Bailey._ (?)
=We live in the age of systems.= _Rückert._ 25
=We loathe what none are left to share; / Even
bless 'twere woe alone to bear.= _Byron._
=We long in vain to undo what has been done.=
_Schopenhauer._
=We long to use what lies beyond our scope, /
Yet cannot use even what within it lies.=
_Goethe._
=We look before and after, / And pine for what
is not; / E'en our sincerest laughter / With
some pain is fraught; / Our sweetest songs
are those which tell of saddest thought.=
_Shelley._
=We love a girl for very different things than= 30
=understanding. We love her for her beauty,
her youth, her mirth, her confidingness, her
character, with its faults, caprices, and God
knows what other inexpressible charms; but
we do not love her for her understanding. Her
mind we esteem (if it is brilliant), and it may
greatly elevate her in our opinion; nay,
more, it may enchain us when we already
love. But her understanding is not that
which awakens and inflames our passions.=
_Goethe._
=We love in others what we lack ourselves, /
And would be everything but what we are.=
_R. H. Stoddart._
=We love justice greatly, and just men but
little.= _Joseph Roux._
=We love peace, as we abhor pusillanimity;
but not peace at any price. There is a
peace more destructive of the manhood of
living man than war is destructive of his
material body. Chains are worse than
bayonets.= _Douglas Jerrold._
=We love those who admire us, but not those
whom we admire.= _La Roche._
=We love to see wisdom in unpretending forms,= 35
=to recognise her royal features under a
week-day vesture.= _Carlyle._
=We make trifles of terrors, ensconcing ourselves
into seeming knowledge, when we
should submit ourselves to an unknown fear.=
_All's Well_, ii. 3.
=We make way for the man who boldly pushes
past us.= _Bovee._
=We manufacture everything there= (in our manufacturing
cities) =except men; we blanch cotton,
and strengthen steel, and refine sugar, and
shape pottery; but to brighten, to strengthen,
to refine, or to form a single living
spirit, never enters into our estimate of advantages.=
_Ruskin._
=We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered
if it is once lost.= _Rousseau._
=We may all agree in lamenting that there are
so many houses where you will not find a
good atlas, a good dictionary, or a good
cyclopædia of reference. What is still more
lamentable, in a good many more houses
where these books are, is that they are
never referred to or opened.= _John Morley._
=We may almost say that a new life begins
when a man once sees with his own eyes
all that before he has but partially read or
heard of.= _Goethe._
=We may be as good as we please, if we please
to be good.= _Barrow._
=We may be pretty certain that persons whom= 5
=all the world treats ill deserve entirely the
treatment they get.= _Thackeray._
=We may build more splendid habitations, /
Fill our rooms with paintings and with sculptures,/
But we cannot / Buy with gold the
old associations!= _Longfellow._
=We may daily discover crowds acquire sufficient
wealth to buy gentility, but very few
that possess the virtues which ennoble human
nature, and (in the best sense of the word)
constitute a gentleman.= _Shenstone._
=We may despise the world, but we cannot do
without it.= _Baron Wessenberg._
=We may fall in with a thousand learned men
before we fall in with one wise.= _Klinger._
=We may give more offence by our silence than= 10
=even by impertinence.= _Hazlitt._
=We may grasp virtue so hard as to convert
it into a vice.= _Montaigne._
=We may have a law, or we may have no law,
but we cannot have half a law.= _Johnson._
=We may have once been slugs, and may one
day be angels, but we are men now; and
we must, as men, do our work honourably and
thoroughly.= _Ruskin._
=We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we
would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer
the tasting of them too long, we shall find
that both are soured by age.= _Colton._
=We may, like the ships, by tempests be toss'd /= 15
=On perilous deeps, but cannot be lost.= _Newton._
=We may not be able to parry evil thoughts, but
we may surely guard against their taking root
in us and bringing forth evil deeds.= _Luther._
=We may outrun / By violent swiftness that
which we run at, / And lose by overrunning.=
_Hen. VIII._, i. 1.
=We may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said
of strawberries, "Doubtless God could have
made a better berry, but doubtless God
never did;" and so, if I might be judge, God
never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent
recreation than angling.= _Izaak Walton._
=We may seek God by our intellect= (_Verstand_),
=but we can find him only with the
heart.= _Cötvös._
=We may take Fancy for a companion, but must= 20
=follow Reason as our guide.= _Johnson._
=We mount to heaven mostly on the ruins of
our cherished schemes, finding our failures
were successes.= _A. B. Alcott._
=We move too much in platoons; we march
by sections; we do not live in our vital individuality
enough; we are slaves to fashion,
in mind and in heart, if not to our passions
and appetites.= _Chapin._
=We must accept ourselves as we are.= _Scherer._
=We must accept the post to which Heaven
appoints us, and do the duty to which
Heaven calls us, and think it no shame,
but an honour, to hold any office, however
lowly, under heaven's King.= _Ed._
=We must all receive and learn both from those= 25
=who were before us and from those who are
with us. Even the greatest genius would not
go far if he tried to owe everything to his
own internal self.= _Goethe._
=We must all toil--or steal; no faithful workman
finds his life a pastime.= _Carlyle._
=We must avoid fastidiousness; neatness, when
it is moderate, is a virtue; but when it is
carried to an extreme, it narrows the mind.=
_Fénelon._
=We must be as courteous to a man as we are
to a picture, which we are willing to give the
advantage of a good light.= _Emerson._
=We must be free or die who speak the tongue /
That Shakespeare spake, the faith and morals
hold / Which Milton held.= _Wordsworth._
=We must be our own before we can be= 30
=another's.= _Emerson._
=We must bear what Heaven sends us; no
noble heart will bear injustice.= _Schiller._
=We must carry the beautiful with us, or we
find it not.= _Emerson._
=We must first cross a valley before we regain
a favourable and cheerful height; meanwhile,
let us see how we can stroll through
it with our friends pleasantly and profitably.=
_Goethe._
=We must first pray, and then labour; first implore
the blessing of God, and use those
means which he puts into our hands.=
_Johnson._
=We must have the real thing before we can= 35
=have a science of the thing.= _Froude._
=We must hold by what is definite, and not
split up our strength in many directions.=
_Hegel._
=We must, if we would husband life and not
waste it, bravely resolve to dispense with
the dispensable, to content ourselves with
the minimum of want, to stake our reputation,
if such be dear to us, upon intrinsic
worth, and show once again, if we can, by
our mere life and labour, what are the "roots
of honour" and the "veins of wealth."= _Ed._
=We must judge of a form of government by its
general tendency, not by happy accidents.=
_Macaulay._
=We must labour unceasingly to render our
piety reasonable, and our reason pious.=
_Mme. Swetchine._
=We must needs die, and are as water spilt on= 40
=the ground which cannot be gathered up
again.= _Bible._
=We must not arrogate to ourselves a spirit of
forgiveness, until we have been touched to
the quick where we are sensitive and borne
it meekly.= _Ward Beecher._
=We must not contradict, but instruct, him that
contradicts us.= _Antisthenes._
=We must not judge of despots by the temporary
successes which the possession of
power enabled them to achieve, but by the
state in which they leave their country at
their death or at their fall.= _Mme. de Staël._
=We must not make a scarecrow of the law.=
_Meas. for Meas._, ii. 1.
=We must not only strike the iron while it is
hot, but strike it till it is made hot.= _Sharp._
=We must not regard what the many say of us;
but what he, the one man who has understanding
of just and unjust, will say, and
what the truth will say.= _Plato._
=We must not stand upon trifles.= _Cervantes._
=We must not stint / Our necessary actions, in= 5
=the fear / To cope malicious censurers; which
ever, / As ravenous fishes, do a vessel follow /
That is new trimmed, but benefit no further /
Than vainly longing.= _Hen. VIII._, i. 2.
=We must not suppose ourselves always to have
conquered a temptation when we have fled
from it.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=We must not take the faults of our youth with
us into our old age, for old age brings with it
its own defects.= _Goethe._
=We must put up with our contemporaries,
since we can neither live with our ancestors
nor posterity.= _George Eliot._
=We must sometimes cease to adhere to our
own opinion for the sake of peace.= _Thomas
à Kempis._
=We must strive to make of humanity one= 10
=single family.= _Mazzini._
=We must take the current when it serves, / Or
lose our ventures.= _Jul. Cæs._, iv. 3.
=We must take the world as we find it.= _Pr._
=We need change of objects.= _Emerson._
=We= (in England) =need examples of people who,
leaving Heaven to decide whether they are
to rise in the world, decide for themselves
that they will be happy in it, and have resolved
to seek--not greater wealth, but
simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but
deeper felicity; making the first of possessions
self-possession, and honouring themselves
in the harmless pride and calm pursuits
of peace.= _Ruskin._
=We need greater virtues to sustain good than= 15
=evil fortune.= _La Roche._
=We need not die while we are living.= _Ward
Beecher._
=We needs must love the highest when we see
it, / Not Lancelot, nor another.= _Tennyson._
=We never can know the truth of sin; for its
nature is to deceive alike on the one side
the sinner and on the other the judge.=
_Ruskin._
=We never can say why we love, but only that we
love. The heart is ready enough at feigning
excuses for all that it does or imagines of
wrong; but ask it to give a reason for any
of its beautiful and divine motions, and it can
only look upward and be dumb.= _Lowell._
=We never desire ardently what we desire= 20
=rationally.= _La Roche._
=We never learn what people are by their
coming to us; we must go to them if we
wish to know what they are made of, and
see how they conduct or misconduct their
surroundings.= _Goethe._
=We never live, but we hope to live; and as we
are always arranging for being happy, it
cannot be but that we never are so.= _Pascal._
=We never love truly but once. It is the first
time. Succeeding passions are less involuntary.=
_Du Cœur._
=We never reflect on the man we love without
exulting in our choice; while he who has
bound us to him by benefits alone rises to
our idea as a person to whom we have, in
some measure, forfeited our freedom.= _Goldsmith._
=We never see anything isolated in Nature,= 25
=but everything in connection with something
else which is before it, beside it, under
it, and over it.= _Goethe._
=We never sufficiently consider that a language
is properly only symbolical, only figurative,
and expresses objects never immediately,
but only in reflection; yet how difficult it is
not to put the sign in place of the thing,
always to keep the thing as it is= (_das Wesen_)
=before one's mind, and not annihilated by
the expression= (_das Wort_). _Goethe._
=We often quarrel with the unfortunate to get
rid of pitying them.= _Vauvenargues._
=We ought certainly to despise malice if we
cannot oppose it.= _Goldsmith._
=We ought not, in general, to take the opinions
of others upon trust, but to reason and judge
for ourselves.= _Locke._
=We ought not to isolate ourselves, for we= 30
=cannot remain in a state of isolation. Social
intercourse makes us the more able to bear
with ourselves and with others.= _Goethe._
=We ought not to judge men by their absolute
excellence, but by the distance which they
have travelled from the point at which they
started.= _Ward Beecher._
=We ought not to quit our post without the
permission of Him who commands; the post
of man is life.= _Pythagoras._
=We ought not to seek too high joys. We may
be bright without transfiguration.= _Ward
Beecher._
=We ought not to teach children the sciences,
but to give them a taste for them.= _Rousseau._
=We ought to attempt no more than what is in= 35
=the compass of our genius and according to
our vein.= _Dryden._
=We ought to be ashamed of our pride, but
never proud of our shame.= (?)
=We ought to obey God rather than man.= _St.
Peter._
=We ought to regard our servants as friends in
a lower state.= _Plato._
=We our betters see bearing our woes, / We
scarcely think our miseries our foes.= _King
Lear_, iii. 6.
=We owe it to our ancestors to preserve entire= 40
=those rights which they have delivered to
our care; we owe it to our posterity not to
suffer their dearest inheritance to be destroyed.=
_Junius._
=We owe to man higher succours than food and
fire. We owe to man, man.= _Emerson._
=We own whom we love. The universe is
God's because He loves.= _Ward Beecher._
=We pain ourselves to please nobody.= _Emerson._
=We pardon as long as we love.= _La Roche._
=We part with true joy almost more lightly= 45
=than with a beautiful dream.= _Fr. Grillparzer._
=We pass our life in deliberation, and we die
upon it.= _Pasquier Quesnel._
=We pity in others only those evils which we
have ourselves experienced.= _Rousseau._
=We play the fools with the time, and the spirits
of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us.=
_Hen. IV._, ii. 2.
=We poets in our youth begin in gladness, /
But thereof come in the end despondency
and madness.= _Wordsworth._
=We promise according to our hopes, and perform
according to our fears.= _La Roche._
=We properly learn from those books only
which are above our criticism, which we
cannot judge.= _Goethe._
=We read far too many things, thus losing time= 5
=and gaining nothing. We should only read
what we admire.= _Goethe._
=We readily believe what we wish to be true.= _Pr._
=We reap what we sow, but Nature has love
over and above that justice, and gives us
shadow and blossom and fruit that spring
from no planting of ours.= _George Eliot._
=We receive but little advantage from repeated
protestations of gratitude, but they cost
them very much from whom we exact them
in return.= _Goldsmith._
=We reform others unconsciously when we
walk uprightly.= _Mme. Swetchine._
=We retain from our studies only that which= 10
=we practically apply.= _Goethe._
=We sacrifice to dress till household joys and
comforts cease. Dress drains our cellar
dry and keeps our larder lean.= _Cowper._
=We see but the outside of the rich man's
happiness; few consider him to be like the
silkworm, that, when she seems to play, is
at the very same time spinning her own
bowels and consuming herself.= _Isaac Walton._
=We see farthest into the future--and that is
not far--when we most carefully consider
the facts of the present.= _Dr. Jowett._
=We see so darkly into futurity, we never know
when we have real cause to rejoice or lament.
The worst appearances have often happy
consequences, as the best lead many times
into the greatest misfortunes.= _Lady Montagu._
=We see the blossoms wither and the leaves= 15
=fall, but we likewise see fruits ripen and new
buds shoot forth.= _Goethe._
=We seek but half the causes of our deeds, /
Seeking them only in the outer life, / And
heedless of the encircling spirit-world, /
Which, though unseen, is felt, and sows in
us / All germs of pure and world-wide purposes.=
_Lowell._
=We seldom give our love to what is worthiest
in its object.= _J. M. Barrie._
=We seldom speak of the virtue we have, but
much more frequently of that which we have
not.= _Lessing._
="We shall fight in the shade."= _Leonidas, to
the threat of the Persians that their forest of
arrows would darken the sun._
=We shall find no fiend in hell can match the= 20
=fury of a disappointed woman,--scorned,
slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.=
_Cibber._
=We should always keep a corner of our heads
open and free, that we may make room for
the opinions of our friends.= _Joubert._
=We should be slower to think that the man
at his worst is the real man, and certain
that the better we are ourselves the less
likely is he to be at his worst in our company.=
_J. M. Barrie._
=We should be sparing in our intimacies; because
it so very often happens that the more
perfectly men are understood, the less they
are esteemed.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=We should come home from adventures, and
perils, and discoveries every day with new
experience and character.= _Thoreau._
=We should count time by heart-throbs. / He= 25
=most lives / Who thinks most, feels the
noblest, / Acts the best.= _Bailey._
=We should despise the wretch who has never
once thought what it is he is doing= (_vollbringt_).
_Goethe_ (?).
=We should distinguish between laughter inspired
by joy, and that which arises from
mockery.= _Goldsmith._
=We should eat to live, and not live to eat.=
_Pr._
=We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its
oppression.= _Confucius._
=We should forgive freely, but forget rarely.= 30
=I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my
enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe
to myself.= _Colton._
=We should guard against a talent which we
cannot hope to practise in perfection. Improve
it as we may, we shall always in the
end, when the merit of the master has become
apparent to us, painfully lament the
loss of time and strength devoted to such
botching.= _Goethe._
=We should have all our communications with
men as in the presence of God; and with
God, as in the presence of men.= _Colton._
=We should hold the immutable mean that lies
between insensibility and anguish; our attempts
should be, not to extinguish nature,
but to repress it; not to stand unmoved at
distress, but endeavour to turn every disaster
to our own advantage.= _Confucius._
=We should labour to treat with ease of things
that are difficult; with familiarity, of things
that are novel; and with perspicuity, of things
that are profound.= _Colton._
=We should live each day as if it were the full= 35
=term of our life.= (?)
=We should manage our fortune like our constitution;
enjoy it when good, have patience
when bad, and never apply violent remedies
but in cases of necessity.= _La Roche._
=We should never risk pleasantry except with
well-bred people, and people with brains.=
_La Bruyère._
=We should never so entirely avoid danger as
to appear irresolute and cowardly; but, at
the same time, we should avoid unnecessarily
exposing ourselves to danger, than
which nothing can be more foolish.= _Cic._
=We should not be too hasty in bestowing either
our praise or censure on mankind, since we
shall often find such a mixture of good and
evil in the same character, that it may require
a very accurate judgment and a very
elaborate inquiry to determine on which side
the balance turns.= _Fielding._
=We should not spur a willing horse.= _Pr._ 40
=We should not trust the heart too much. The
heart speaks to us very gladly, as our mouth
expresses itself. If the mouth were as much
inclined to speak the feelings of the heart,
it would have been the fashion long ago to
put a padlock on the mouth.= _Lessing._
=We should often feel ashamed of our most
brilliant actions were the world to see the
motives from which they sprung.= _La Roche._
=We should only utter higher maxims so far as
they can benefit the world. The rest we
should keep within ourselves, and they will
diffuse over our actions a lustre like the mild
radiance of a hidden sun.= _Goethe._
=We should round every day of stirring action
with an evening of thought. We learn
nothing of our experience except we muse
upon it.= _Bovee._
=We should seem ignorant that we oblige, and
leave the mind at full liberty to give or refuse
its affections; for constraint may indeed
leave the receiver still grateful but it will
certainly produce disgust.= _Goldsmith._
=We should take a prudent care for the future,= 5
=but so as to enjoy the present. It is no part
of wisdom to be miserable to-day, because
we may happen to be so to-morrow.= (?)
=We should, to the last moment of our lives,
continue a settled intercourse with all the true
examples of grandeur.= _Sir Joshua Reynolds._
=We shut our eyes, and, like people in the
dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we
search for, without finding it.= _Sen._
=We sink to rise.= _Emerson._
=We smile at the satire expended upon the
follies of others, but we forget to weep at our
own.= _Mme. Necker._
=We sometimes meet an original gentleman,= 10
=who, if manners had not existed, would have
invented them.= _Emerson._
=We sometimes see a change of expression in
our companion, and say, His father or his
mother comes to the windows of his eyes,
and sometimes a remote relative. In different
hours, a man represents each of several of
his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight
of us rolled up in each man's skin--seven or
eight ancestors at least--and they constitute
the variety of notes for that new piece of
music which his life is.= _Emerson._
=We speak that we do know, and testify that
we have seen.= _Jesus._
=We still are fain, with wrath and strife, / To
seek for gain, to shrink from loss, / Content
to scratch our shallow cross / On the rough
surface of old life.= _Dr. W. Smith._
=We swallow at one gulp a lie which flatters
us, but only drop by drop a truth which is
bitter to us.= _Diderot._
=We take a great deal for granted in this world,= 15
=and expect that everything, as a matter of
course, ought to fit into our humours, wishes,
and wants; it is often only when danger
threatens that we awake to the discovery
that the guiding reins are held by one whom
we had well-nigh forgotten in our careless
ease.= _Mrs. Gatty._
=We take a pleasure in being severe upon
others, but cannot endure to hear of our own
faults.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=We take greater pains to persuade others
that we are happy than in endeavouring to
think so ourselves.= _Confucius._
=We take no note of time but from its loss.= _Young._
=We talk little if we do not talk about ourselves.=
_Hazlitt._
=We talk on principle, but we act on interest.= 20
_Landor._
=We tell our triumphs to the crowd, but our
own hearts are the sole confidants of our
sorrows.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=We tell the ladies that good wives make good
husbands; I believe it is a more certain
position that good brothers make good
sisters.= _Johnson._
=We that acquaint ourselves with every zone, /
And pass the tropics, and behold each pole; /
When we come home, are to ourselves unknown,
/ And unacquainted still with our
own soul.= _Davies._
=We think our civilisation near its meridian;
but we are yet only at the cock-crowing and
the morning star.= _Emerson._
=We tolerate everybody, because we doubt= 25
=everything; or else we tolerate nobody, because
we believe something.= _Mrs. E. B.
Browning._
=We trample grass, and prize the flowers of
May; / Yet grass is green when flowers do
fade away.= _R. Southwell._
=We treat God with irreverence by banishing
him from our thoughts, not by referring to
his will on slight occasions.= _Ruskin._
=We triumph without glory when we conquer
without danger.= _Corn._
=We unconsciously imitate what pleases us,
and insensibly approximate to the characters
we most admire. In this way, a generous
habit of thought and of action carries with
it an incalculable influence.= _Bovee._
=We underpin our houses with granite; what= 30
=of our habits and our lives?= _Thoreau._
=We use up in the passions the stuff that was
given us for happiness.= _Joubert._
=We usually lose the to-day, because there has
been a yesterday, and to-morrow is coming.=
_Goethe._
=We very often have to do things during our
lives of which we do not understand the
reasons, but the more clearly we understand
the work we have to do, depend upon it, the
better the work will be done.= _W. E. Forster._
=We wander there, we wander here, / We eye
the rose upon the brier, / Unmindful that the
thorn is near, / Amang the leaves.= _Burns._
=We want but two or three friends, but these= 35
=we cannot do without, and they serve us in
every thought we think.= _Emerson._
=We want downright facts at present more
than anything else.= _Ruskin._
=We want foolishly to think the creed a man
professes a more significant fact than the
man he is.= _Thoreau._
=We want one man to be always thinking, and
another to be always working, and we call
the one a gentleman, and the other an operative;
whereas the workman ought often to
be thinking, and the thinker often to be
working, and both should be gentlemen in
the best sense.= _Ruskin._
=We waste our best years in distilling the
sweetest flowers of life into potions which,
after all, do not immortalise, but only intoxicate.=
_Longfellow._
=We wear a face of joy because / We have been= 40
=glad of yore.= _Wordsworth._
=We, who name ourselves its= (the world) =sovereigns,
we, / Half dust, half deity, alike unfit /
To sink or soar.= _Byron._
=We will have others severely corrected, and will
not be corrected ourselves.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=We will not estimate the sun by the quantity
of gaslight it saves us.= _Carlyle._
=We will not from the helm, to sit and weep; /
But keep our course, though the rough wind
say no.= (?)
=We will obey the voice of the Lord our God,
that it may be well with us.= _Bible._
=We wish to be happier than other people; and= 5
=this is almost always difficult, for we believe
others to be happier than they are.= _Montesquieu._
=We would commend a faith that even seems
audacious, like that of the sturdy Covenanter
Robert Bruce, who requested, as he was
dying, that his finger might be placed on
one of God's strong promises, as though to
challenge the Judge of all with it as he
should enter his presence.= _Dr. Gordon._
=We wound our modesty and make foul the
clearness of our deservings when of ourselves
we publish them.= _All's Well_, i. 3.
=We wrap ourselves up in the cloak of our own
better fortune, and turn away our eyes, lest
the wants and woes of our brother-mortals
should disturb the selfish apathy of our
souls.= _Burns._
=We write from aspiration and antagonism, as
well as from experience. We paint those
qualities which we do not possess.= _Emerson._
=We'd jump the life to come. But, in these= 10
=cases, / We still have judgment here; that
we but teach / Bloody instructions, which,
being taught, return / To plague the inventor.
This even-handed justice / Commends
the ingredients of our poison'd chalice /
To our own lips.= _Macb._, i. 7.
=We'll stand up for our properties, was the
beggar's song, that lived upon the alms-basket.=
_L'Estrange._
=Weak eyes are precisely the fondest of glittering
objects.= _Carlyle._
=Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as
under adversity; strong and deep ones have
two highest tides--when the moon is at the
full, and when there is no moon.= _Hare._
=Weak persons cannot be sincere.= _La Roche._
=Weak Virtue that amid the shade / Lamenting= 15
=lies, with future schemes amused, /
While Wickedness and Folly, kindred
powers, / Confound the world!= _Thomson._
=Weakness of character is the only defect
which cannot be amended.= _La Roche._
=Weaknesses, so called, are neither more nor
less than vice in disguise.= _Lavater._
=Wealth and want equally harden the human
heart, as frost and fire are both alien to the
human flesh. Famine and gluttony alike
drive nature away from the heart of man.=
_Theodore Parker._
=Wealth consists of the good, and therefore
useful, things in the possession of the nation;
money is only the written or coined
sign of the relative quantities of wealth in
each person's possession.= _Ruskin._
=Wealth cannot purchase any great private= 20
=solace or convenience. Riches are only the
means of sociality.= _Thoreau._
=Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished;
but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.=
_Bible._
=Wealth heaped on wealth, nor truth nor safety
buys; / The dangers gather as the treasures
rise.= _Johnson._
=Wealth imparts a birdlime quality to the possessor,
at which the man in his native poverty
would have revolted.= _Burns._
=Wealth implies the possession of what is of
intrinsic value and of a capacity to use it.=
_Ruskin._
=Wealth is a shift. The wise man angles with= 25
=himself only, and with no meaner bait.=
_Emerson._
=Wealth is not his that has it, but his that
enjoys it.= _Ben. Franklin._
=Wealth is the application of mind to nature;
and the art of getting rich consists not in
industry, much less in saving, but in a better
order, in timeliness, in being at the right
spot.= _Emerson._
=Wealth is the conjuror's devil; / Whom when he
thinks he hath, the devil hath him.= _Herbert._
=Wealth is the possession of useful articles
which we can use, (so that) instead of depending
merely on a "have," it is thus seen
to depend on a "can."= _Ruskin._
=Wealth leaves us at death; kinsmen at the= 30
=grave; but virtues of the mind unto the
heavens with us we have.= _Lord Vaux._
=Wealth makes wit waver.= _Sc. Pr._
=Wealth maketh many friends, but the poor is
separated from his neighbour.= _Bible._
=Wealth of every species necessarily flows to
the hands of him who exerteth himself.=
_Hitopadesa._
=Wealth only by its use we know.= _Anon._
=Wealth, power, and even the advantages of= 35
=youth, have little to do with that which
gives repose to the mind and firmness to
the frame.= _Scott._
=Wealth richer than both the Indies lies for
every man, if he will endure. Not his oaks
only and his fruit-trees, his very heart roots
itself wherever he may abide--roots itself,
draws nourishment from the deep fountains
of universal being.= _Carlyle._
=Wealth which breeds idleness, of which the
English peerage is an example, and of which
we are beginning to abound in specimens in
this country= (America), =is only a sort of human
oyster-bed, where heirs and heiresses are
planted, to spend a contemptible life of
slothfulness in growing plump and succulent
for the grave-worm's banquet.= _Horace Mann._
=Wealth without contentment climbs a hill, /
To feel those tempests which fly over
ditches.= _George Herbert._
=Wear your learning, like your watch, in a
private pocket; and do not pull it out and
strike it, merely to show that you have one.
If you are asked what o'clock it is, tell it,
but do not proclaim it hourly and unasked,
like the watchmen.= _Chesterfield._
=Wearers of rings and chains! / Pray do not= 40
=take the pains / To set me right. / In vain
my faults ye quote; / I write as others wrote /
On Sunium's height.= _Landor._
=Weariness / Can snore upon the flint, when
resty sloth / Finds the down pillow hard.=
_Cymbeline_, iii. 6.
=Weary the path that does not challenge reason.
Doubt is an incentive to truth, and patient
inquiry leadeth the way.= _H. Ballou._
=Weave in faith and God will find thread.= _Pr._
=Weder sicher noch gerathen ist, etwas wider
Gewissen zu thun. Hier stehe ich, ich kann
nicht anders. Gott helfe mir=--It is neither
safe nor prudent to do aught against conscience.
Here stand I, I cannot do otherwise. God be
helping me. _Luther at the Diet of Worms._
=Wedlock, indeed, hath oft compared been /
To publick feasts, where meet a publick
rout: / When they that are without would
fain go in, / And they that are within would
fain go out.= _Sir J. Davis._
=Wedlock is like a besieged fortress: those
who are outside wish to get in, and those
who are inside wish to get out.= _Arab. Pr._
=Wee modest crimson-tipped flower, / Thou's= 5
=met me in an evil hour; / For I maun crush
amang the stour / Thy slender stem; / To
spare thee now is past my power, / Thou
bonny gem.= _Burns._
=Wee Willie Winkie rins through the toun, /
Upstairs and dounstairs, in his nicht-goun, /
Tirlin' at the window, cryin' at the lock, /
"Are the weans in their bed? for it's noo
ten o'clock."= _William Miller._
=Weed your better judgments / Of all opinion
that grows rank in them.= _As You Like It_,
ii. 7.
=Weeds make dunghills gracious.= _Tennyson._
=Weel is that weel does.= _Sc. Pr._
=Weep no more, lady, weep no more. / For= 10
=sorrow is in vain; / For violets pluck'd, the
sweetest showers / Will ne'er revive again.=
_Anon._
=Weeping may endure for a night, but joy
cometh in the morning.= _Bible._
=Weh dem Lande, wo man nicht mehr singt=--Woe
to the land where the voice of song has
gone dumb. _Seume._
=Weigh not so much what men say, as what
they prove: remembering that truth is simple
and naked, and needs not invective to apparel
her comeliness.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=Weighty things are done in solitude, that is,
without society. The means of improvement
consist not in projects, or in any violent
designs, for these cool, and cool very soon,
but in patient practising for whole long days,
by which I make the thing clear to my highest
reason.= _Jean Paul._
=Weighty work must be done with few words.= 15
_Dan. Pr._
=Weise Hut, / Behält ihr Gut=--Wise care keeps
what it has gained. _Ger. Pr._
=Weise sein ist nicht allzeit gut=--It is not always
good to be wise. _Ger. Pr._
=Weiser Mann, starker Mann=--A wise man is
a strong man. _Ger. Pr._
=Weisheit, du wirst Unsinn / Im Mund des
Schwärmers=--Wisdom, thou changest into
folly in the mouth of the fanatic. _Otto Ludwig._
=Welch Glück geliebt zu werden: / Und lieben,= 20
=Götter, welch ein Glück!=--What a happiness
to be loved! and to love, ye gods, what bliss!
_Goethe._
=Welcome evermore to gods and men is the
self-helping man.= _Emerson._
=Welcome is the best cheer.= _Pr._
=Welcome, Misfortune, if thou comest alone.= _Pr._
=Well at ease are the sleepers for whom existence
is a shallow dream.= _Carlyle._
=Well for the drones of the social hive that there= 25
=are bees of an industrious turn, willing, for
an infinitesimal share of the honey, to undertake
the labour of its fabrication.= _Hood._
=Well has Ennius said, "Kindnesses misplaced
are nothing but a curse and disservice."= _Cic._
=Well-married, a man is winged; ill-matched,
he is shackled.= _Ward Beecher._
=Well roared, lion.= _Mid. N.'s Dream_, v. 1.
=Well thriveth that well suffereth.= _Pr._
=Well to work and make a fire, / Doth both= 30
=care and skill require.= _Pr._
=Well, well, is a word of malice.= _Cheshire Pr._
=Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, / And
say, there is no sin but to be rich; / And
being rich, my virtue then shall be, / To say,
there is no vice but beggary.= _King John_, ii. 2.
=Well, you may fear too far.--/ Safer than
trust too far.= _King Lear_, i. 4.
=Wem nicht zu rathen ist, dem ist auch nicht
zu helfen=--Who will not be advised, cannot be
helped. _Ger. Pr._
=Wen die Natur zum Dichter schuf, den lehrt= 35
=sie auch zu paaren / Das Schöne mit dem
Kräftigen, das Neue mit dem Wahren=--Him
whom Nature hast created for a poet, she also
teaches to combine the beautiful with the powerful,
and the new with the true. _Platen._
=Wen Gott niederschlägt, der richtet sich selbst
nicht auf=--He raises not himself up again whom
God smites down. _Goethe._
=Wen jemand lobt, dem stellt er sich gleich=--Every
one puts himself on a level with him whom
he praises. _Goethe._
=Wenn alle untreu werden, / So bleib' ich dir
doch treu=--Though all deny thee, yet will not
I ever. _Novalis._
=Wenn das Geld im Kasten klingt, / Die Seele
aus dem Fegfeuer springt=--As soon as the
money jingles in the box, the soul leaps out of
purgatory. _Sallet after Tetzel._
=Wenn das Glück anpocht, soll man ihm aufthun=--When 40
fortune knocks, open the door.
_Ger. Pr._
=Wenn das Leblose lebendig ist, so kann es
auch wohl Lebendiges hervorbringen=--When
what is lifeless has life, it can also produce what
has life. _Goethe._
=Wenn der Purpur fällt, muss auch der Herzog
nach=--If the purple goes, the duke must follow.
_Schiller._
=Wenn du eine weise Antwort verlangst, /
Musst du vernünftig fragen=--If thou desirest
a wise answer, thou must ask a reasonable question.
_Goethe._
=Wenn du nicht irrst, kommst du nicht zu Verstand=--If
thou dost not err, thou doest not come
to understand. _Goethe._
=Wenn ein Edler gegen dich fehlt, / So thu' als= 45
=hättest du's nicht gezählt; / Er wird es in
sein Schuldbuch schreiben / Und dir nicht
lange im Debet bleiben=--If a noble man has
done thee a wrong, act as though thou hadst
taken no note of it; he will write it in his ledger,
and not remain long in thy debt. _Goethe._
=Wenn Gott sagt: Heute, sagt der Teufel:
Morgen=--When God says "To-day," the devil
says "To-morrow." _Ger. Pr._
=Wenn ihr's nicht fühlt, ihr werdet's nicht erjagen=--If
you do not feel it, you will not get
it by hunting for it. _Goethe._
=Wenn man von den Leuten Pflichten fordert
und ihnen keine Rechte zugestehen will,
muss man sie gut bezahlen=--When we exact
duties from people and acknowledge no just
claims they may have on us, we ought to pay
them well. _Goethe._
=Wenn man was Böses thut, erschrickt man
vor dem Bösen=--When people do evil, they are
afraid of the Evil One. _Goethe._
=Wenn mancher Mann wüsste, / Wer mancher
Mann wär', / Thät' mancher Mann manchem
Mann / Manchmal mehr Ehr'=--If many a man
knew who many a man was, many a man would do
many a time more honour to many a man. _Ger. Pr._
=Wenn Moses nicht bei Aaron ist, so macht
Aaron--Kälber=--If Moses is not with Aaron, then
Aaron makes him--calves. _Frederick the Great._
=Wenn sich der Verirrte findet / Freuen alle= 5
=Götter sich=--When the wanderer finds his way
again, all the gods rejoice. _Goethe._
=Wer allen alles traut, dem kann man wenig
trauen=--Him who trusts everything to every
one, we can trust with little. _Lessing._
=Wer darf das Kind beim rechten Namen
nennen?=--Who dare name the child by his right
name? _Goethe._
=Wer darf ihn nennen?=--Who dare name Him?
_Goethe._
=Wer den Tod fürchtet, hat das Leben verloren=--He
who fears death is forfeit of life. _Seume._
=Wer der Dichtkunst Stimme nicht vernimmt, /= 10
=Ist ein Barbar, er sei auch wer er sei=--He
who has no ear for the voice of poesy is a barbarian,
be he who he may. _Goethe._
=Wer der Vorderste ist, führt die Herde=--The
foremost leads the herd. _Schiller._
=Wer die Leiter hinauf will, muss bei der untersten
Sprosse schon beginnen=--He who would
mount a ladder must begin at the lowest step.
_Ger. Pr._
=Wer die Wahrheit kennet und saget sie nicht, /
Der bleibt fürwahr ein erbärmlicher Wicht=--Verily,
he is a wretched creature who knows
the truth and speaks it not. _Binzer._
=Wer dir als Freund nichts nützen kann / Kann
allemal als Feind dir schaden=--He who can
do you no service as a friend, can always work
you harm as an enemy. _Gellert._
=Wer edel ist, den suchet die Gefahr / Und er= 15
=sucht sie, sie müssen sich treffen=--Whoso is
noble, danger courts him, and he courts danger;
so the two are sure to meet. _Goethe._
=Wer erst klug wird nach der That, / Braucht
seine Weisheit viel zu spat=--He who is wise
only after the deed, uses his wisdom much too
late. _Rollenhagen._
=Wer fertig ist, dem ist nichts recht zu machen; /
Ein Werdender wird immer dankbar
sein=--To him who is finished off, nothing
you can do is right; a growing man (a learner)
will be always thankful. _Goethe._
=Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts
von seiner eignen=--He who knows not foreign
languages knows nothing of his own. _Goethe._
=Wer fröhlich sein will sein Lebenlang / Lasse
der Welt ihren tollen Gang=--He who will be
happy through life must leave the world alone
in its own mad career. _Rückert._
=Wer ist der Weiseste? Der nichts anders= 20
=weiss und will, als das was begegnet=--Who is
the wisest man? He who neither knows nor wishes
for anything else than what happens. _Goethe._
=Wer ist ein unbrauchbarer Man? Der nicht
befehlen und auch nicht gehorchen kann=--Who
is a good-for-nothing? He who can neither
command nor even obey. _Goethe._
=Wer ist grösser, Schiller, Goethe? / Wie man
nur so mäkeln mag! / Himmlisch ist die
Morgenröte, / Himmlisch ist der helle Tag=--Which
is greater, Schiller or Goethe? One is,
or the other is, as you judge of them. Of
heaven is the red dawn of morning; of heaven
the clear light of day. _Bauernfeld._
=Wer ist mächtiger als der Tod? / Wer da
kann lachen, wenn er droht=--Who is mightier
than death? He who can smile when death
threatens. _Rückert._
=Wer kann was Dummes, wer was Kluges denken, /
Das nicht die Vorwelt schon gedacht?=--Who
can think anything stupid or sensible
that the world has not thought already? _Goethe._
=Wer lange bedenkt, der wählt nicht immer= 25
=das Beste=--He who is long in making up his
mind does not always choose the best. _Goethe._
=Wer lügt, der stiehlt=--He who lies, steals. _Ger. Pr._
=Wer mit sich selber eins, ist eins mit Gott=--He
who is one with himself is one with God.
_Bodenstedt._
=Wer nicht Bitteres gekostet hat, weiss nicht
was süss ist=--He who has not tasted bitter does
not know what sweet is. _Ger. Pr._
=Wer nicht hören will, der muss fühlen=--He
that will not hear must be made to feel. _Ger. Pr._
=Wer nicht liebt Wein, Weib und Gesang /= 30
=Der bleibt ein Narr sein Lebenlang=--Who
loves not wine, woman, and song, remains a fool
all his life long. _Luther._ (?)
=Wer nichts für andre thut, thut nichts für sich=--He
who does nothing for others does nothing
for himself. _Goethe._
=Wer nichts fürchtet, ist nicht weniger mächtiger,
als der, den alles fürchtet=--He who fears
nothing is not less mighty than he whom everything
fears. _Schiller._
=Wer nie sein Brod mit Thränen ass, / Wer
nicht die kummervollen Nächte / Auf seinem
Bette weinend sass / Der kennt euch nicht,
ihr himmlischen Mächte=--He who never ate
his bread with tears, who sat not on his bed
through sorrowful nights weeping, he knows
you not, ye heavenly Powers. _Goethe._
=Wer oft schiesst, trifft endlich=--He who shoots
often, hits the mark at last. _Ger. Pr._
=Wer sein eigener Lehrmeister sein will, hat= 35
=einen Narren zum Schüler=--He who undertakes
to be his own teacher has a fool for a
pupil. _Ger. Pr._
=Wer sich behaglich fühlt zu Haus, / Der rennt
nicht in die Welt hinaus; / Weltunzufriedenheit
beweisen / Die vielen Weltentdeckungsreisen=--He
who feels at ease at home, runs not
out into the world beyond. The many voyages
of discovery over the world argue a world-wide
discontent. _Rückert._
=Wer will, der vermag=--He is able who is willing.
_Ger. Pr._
=Wer will was Lebendig's erkennen und beschreiben /
Sucht erst den Geist herauszutreiben, /
Dann hat er die Teile in seiner
Hand, / Fehlt leider, nur das geistige Band=--He
who would know and describe anything
living, sets himself to drive out the spirit first; he
has then all the parts in his hand, only unhappily
the living bond is wanting. _Goethe, Mephisto
in "Faust."_
=Wer wohl sitzt, der rücke nicht=--Let him who
is well seated not stir. _Ger. Pr._
=Were a man of pleasure to arrive at the
full extent of his several wishes, he must
immediately feel himself miserable.= _Shenstone._
=Were defeat unknown, neither would victory
be celebrated with songs of triumph.= _Carlyle._
=Were I a steam-engine, wouldst thou take the
trouble to tell lies of me?= _Carlyle._
=Were I so tall to reach the pole / Or grasp= 5
=the ocean with my span, / I must be measured
by my soul: / The mind's the standard
of the man.= _Watts._
=Were it no for hope the heart wad break.=
_Sc. Pr._
=Were it not miraculous, could I stretch forth
my hand and clutch the sun? Dost thou
not see that the true inexplicable God-revealing
miracle lies in this, that I can stretch
forth my hand at all, that I have free force
to clutch aught therewith?= _Carlyle._
=Were man / But constant, he were perfect.=
_Two Gent. of Verona_, v. 4.
=Were man not a poor hungry dastard, and
even much of a blockhead withal, he would
cease criticising his victuals to such extent,
and criticise himself rather, what he does
with his victuals.= _Carlyle._
=Were one to preach a sermon on Health, as= 10
=really were worth doing, Scott ought to be
the text.= _Carlyle._
=Were the eye not sun-related= (_sonnenhaft_), =it
could never see the sun; were there not in
us divine affinities, how could the divine so
ravish us?= _Goethe._
="Were there as many devils in Worms as
there are roof-tiles, I would on."= _Luther's
answer to his friends who pled with him not
to go._
=Were there but one man in the world, he
would be a terror to himself; and the
highest man not less so than the lowest.=
_Carlyle._
=Were we as eloquent as angels, we would
please some men, some women, and some
children much more by listening than by
talking.= _Colton._
=Were we to take as much pains to be what we= 15
=ought to be as we do to disguise what we
really are, we might appear like ourselves,
without being at the trouble of any disguise
at all.= _La Roche._
=Were wisdom given me with this reservation,
that I should keep it shut up within myself
and not impart it, I would spurn it.= _Sen._
=Were wisdom to be sold, she would give no
price; every man is satisfied with the share
he has from nature.= _Henry Home._
=Westward the course of empire takes its way.=
_Berkeley._
=What a blessed thing it is that Nature, when
she invented, manufactured, and patented
her authors, contrived to make critics out of
the chips that were left!= _Holmes._
=What a delight to have a husband beside you,= 20
=were it only to salute you when you sneeze,
and say "God bless you!"= _Molière._
=What a dismal, debasing, and confusing element
is that of a sick body on the human
soul or thinking part!= _Carlyle._
=What a fool is he who locks his door to keep
out spirits, who has in his own bosom a
spirit he dares not meet alone; whose voice,
smothered far down, and piled over with
mountains of earthliness, is yet like the forewarning
trumpet of doom!= _Mrs. Stowe._
=What a force of illusion begins life with us,
and attends us to the end!= _Emerson._
=What a heavy burden is a name that has become
too soon famous!= _Voltaire._
=What a hell of witchcraft lies in the small orb= 25
=of one particular tear!= _Shakespeare._
=What a large volume of adventures may be
grasped within this little span of life by him
who interests his heart in everything.= _Sterne._
=What a man can do is his greatest ornament,
and he always consults his dignity by doing
it.= _Carlyle._
=What a man does not believe can never at bottom
be of any true interest to him.= _Carlyle._