=What a man does, that he is.= _Hegel._ 30
=What a man finds good of, and what he finds
hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health.=
_Bacon._
=What a man is contributes much more to his
happiness than what he has or how others
regard him.= _Schopenhauer._
=What a man is irresistibly urged to say, helps
him and us.= _Emerson._
=What a man wills, not what he knows, determines
his worth or unworth, his power or
impotence, his happiness or unhappiness.=
_Lindner._
=What a miserable world!--trouble if we love,= 35
=and trouble if we do not love.= _Count de
Maistre._
=What a piece of work is a man! How noble
in reason! How infinite in faculty! In
form and moving how express and admirable!
In action how like an angel! In
apprehension how like a God!= _Ham._, ii. 2.
=What a poor creature is the woman who, inspiring
desire, does not also inspire love and
reverence!= _Goethe._
=What a road had human nature to traverse
before it reached the point of being mild
to the guilty, merciful to the injurious, and
humane to the inhuman! Doubtless they
were men of godlike souls who first taught
this, who spent their lives in rendering the
practice of this possible, and recommending
it to others.= _Goethe._
=What a sense of security is in an old book
which Time has criticised for us!= _Lowell._
=What a strange thing man is! and what a= 40
=stranger / Is woman!= _Byron._
=What a thin film it is that divides the living
from the dead!= _Carlyle._
=What a vanity is painting, which attracts admiration
by the resemblance of things that
in the original we do not admire!= _Pascal._
=What a view a man must have of this universe
who thinks he can swallow it all, who
is not doubly and trebly happy that he can
keep it from swallowing him!= _Carlyle._
=What a wretched thing is all fame! A renown
of the highest sort endures, say for two
thousand years. And then? Why then a
fathomless eternity swallows it.= _Carlyle._
=What actually constitutes the human element= 45
=in man is a kindly spirit.= _Schiller._
=What an enormous camera obscura magnifier
is Tradition! How a thing grows in the
human memory, in the human imagination,
when love, worship, and all that lies in the
human heart is there to encourage it!= _Carlyle._
=What an inaccessible stronghold that man
possesses who is always in earnest with
himself and the things around him!= _Goethe._
=What are all our histories but God manifesting
himself, that he hath shaken, and tumbled
down, and trampled upon everything
that he hath not planted!= _Oliver Cromwell._
=What are all prayers beneath / But cries of
babes, that cannot know / Half the deep
thought they breathe?= _Keble._
=What are men better than sheep or goats, /= 5
=That nourish a blind life within the brain, /
If, knowing God, they lift not hands of
prayer / Both for themselves and those who
call them friend?= _Tennyson._
=What are the outward details of a life, if the
inner secret of it, the remorse, temptations,
true, often-baffled, never-ended struggle of
it, be forgotten? Details by themselves
will never teach us what it is.= _Carlyle._
=What are we great ones on the wave of
humanity? We think we rule it when it
rules us, and drives us up and down, hither
and thither, as it listeth.= _Goethe._
=What are words but empty sounds, that break
and scatter in the air, and make no real impression?=
_Thomas à Kempis._
=What are your axioms, and categories, and
systems, and aphorisms? Words, words.
High air-castles are cunningly built of words,
the words well bedded in good logic-mortar;
wherein, however, no knowledge will come
to lodge.= _Carlyle._
=What Art had Homer? what Art had Shakespeare?= 10
=Patient, docile, valiant intelligence,
conscious and unconscious, gathered from all
winds, of these two things--their own faculty
of utterance, and the audience they had to
utter to; add only to which, as the soul of
the whole, a blazing, radiant insight into
the fact, blazing, burning interest about it,
and we have the whole Art of Shakespeare
and Homer.= _Carlyle._
=What art was to the ancient world, science is
to the modern.= _Disraeli._
=What avail the largest gifts of Heaven, /
When drooping health and spirits go amiss? /
How tasteless then whatever can be given! /
Health is the vital principle of bliss, / And
exercise of health.= _Thomson._
=What avails a superfluity of freedom which we
cannot use?= _Goethe._
=What avails the dram of brandy while it
swims chemically united with its barrel of
wort? Let the distiller pass it and repass it
through his limbecs; for it is the drops of
pure alcohol we want, not the gallons of
water, which may be had in every ditch.=
_Carlyle._
=What belongs to everybody belongs to nobody.= 15
_Pr._
=What better time for driving, riding, walking,
moving through the air by any means, than
a fresh, frosty morning, when hope runs
cheerily through the veins with the brisk
blood and tingles in the frame from head to
foot?= _Dickens._
=What bitter pills, / Compos'd of real ills, /
Men swallow down to purchase one false
good.= _Quarles._
=What boots it at one gate to make defence, /
And at another to let in the foe?= _Milton._
=What boots the hero-arm without a hero-eye?=
_Jean Paul._
=What built St. Paul's Cathedral? Look at= 20
=the heart of the matter, it was that divine
Hebrew Book, the word partly of the man
Moses, an outlaw tending his Midianitish
herds four thousand years ago in the wildernesses
of Sinai!= _Carlyle._
=What by straight path cannot be reached, /
By crooked ways is never won.= _Goethe._
=What can be done, you must do for yourself.=
_Johnson._
=What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? /
Alas! not all the blood of all the Howards.=
_Pope._
=What can Fate devise to vanquish Love?=
_Lewis Morris._
=What can they see in the longest kingly line= 25
=in Europe, save that it runs back to a successful
soldier?= _Scott._
=What can we reason, but from what we know?=
_Pope._
=What cannot be abused is good for nothing.=
_Niebuhr._
=What cannot be avoided, / 'Twere childish
weakness to lament or fear.= 3 _Hen. VI._, v. 4.
=What cannot be eschew'd must be embraced.=
_Merry Wives_, v. 4.
=What can't be cured must be endured.= _Burton._ 30
=What care I for words? yet words do well /
When he that speaks them pleases those
that hear.= _As You Like It_, iii. 5.
=What cares any man for appearances except
as signs of what otherwise he cannot see?=
_Ed._
="What cheer? Brother, quickly tell." /
"Above"--"Below." "Good-night"--"All's
well."= _Dibdin._
=What chiefly distinguishes great artists from
feeble artists is first their sensibility and
tenderness; secondly, their imagination; and
thirdly, their industry.= _Ruskin._
=What comes from God to us, returns from= 35
=us to God.= (?)
=What comes from the heart goes to the heart.=
_Pr._
=What constitutes a state?... Men who their
duties know, / But know their rights, and
knowing, dare maintain.= _Sir William Jones._
=What devilry soever kings do, the Greeks
must pay the piper.= _Pr._
=What dire offence from amorous causes
springs! / What mighty contests rise from
trivial things!= _Pope._
=What distinguishes Christianity from all monotheistic
religions lies in nothing else than in
a making-dead to the law, the removal of the
Kantian imperative; instead of which Christianity
requires a free inclination.= _Schiller._
=What divine, what truly great thing has ever
been effected by force of public opinion?=
_Carlyle._
=What do I gain from a man into whose eyes
I cannot look when he is speaking, and the
mirror of whose soul is veiled to me by a pair
of glasses which dazzle me?= _Goethe._
=What do you mean by composing tragedies,
when Tragedy in person stalks every
street?= (?)
=What does competency in the long-run mean?
It means, to all reasonable beings, cleanliness
of person, decency of dress, courtesy
of manners, opportunities for education, the
delights of leisure, and the bliss of giving.=
_Whipple._
=Wha' does the utmost that he can, / Will
whyles= (sometimes) =do mair.= _Burns._
=What doth cherish weeds, but gentle air? /
And what makes robbers bold, but too much
lenity?= 3 _Hen. VI._, ii. 6.
=What doth the Lord require of thee, but to do= 5
=justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly
with thy God?= _Bible._
=What exile from himself can flee?= _Byron._
=What fates impose, that men must needs
abide; / It boots not to resist both wind and
tide.= 3 _Hen. VI._, iv. 3.
=What! fly from love? vain hope: there's no
retreat, / When he has wings and I have
only feet.= _Archias._
=What glitters is for the moment; the genuine
is for all time.= _Goethe._
=What God does all day is not to sit waiting= 10
=in churches for people to come and worship
him.= _Prof. Drummond._
=What God hath joined together, let not man
put asunder.= _Jesus._
=What God makes he never mars.= _Pr._
=What good I see humbly I seek to do, / And
live obedient to the law, in trust / That what
will come, and must come, shall come well.=
_Sir Edwin Arnold._
=What governs men is the fear of truth, except
such as is useful to them.= _Amiel._
=What great thing ever happened in this= 15
=world, a world understood always to be
made and governed by wisdom, without
meaning somewhat?= _Carlyle._
=What gunpowder did for war, the printing-press
has done for the mind; and the statesman
is no longer clad in the steel of special
education, but every reading man is his
judge.= _Wendell Phillips._
=What hands build, hands can pull down.=
_Schiller._
=What has been, may be; and what may be,
may be supposed to be.= _Swift._
=What has been written, as well as what has
been actually done, shrivels up and ceases to
be worth anything, until it has again been
taken up into life, been again felt, thought,
and acted upon.= _Goethe._
=What has never anywhere come to pass, that= 20
=alone never grows old.= _Schiller._
=What has posterity done for us / That we, lest
they their rights should lose, / Should trust
our necks to gripe of noose?= _John Trumbull._
=What hath he to do with a soul who doth
not keep his passions in subjection?= _Hitopadesa._
=What have I to do, ... either with your
amusements or your pleasures, unless it
was in my power to increase their measure?=
_Sterne._
=What have kings that privates have not too, /
Save ceremony, save general ceremony?=
_Hen. V._, iv. 1.
=What have not you men to answer for who= 25
=talk of love to a woman when her face is all
you know of her, and her passions, her
aspirations, are for kissing to sleep, her very
soul a plaything?= _J. M. Barrie._
=What he greatly thought, he nobly dared.=
_Pope._
=What house more stately hath there been, /
Or can be, than is Man?= _George Herbert._
=What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we
talk of ourselves! Our words sound so
humble, while our hearts are so proud.=
_Hare._
=What I cannot praise I speak not of.= _Goethe._
=What I for many a day wished, life has not= 30
=granted me, but it has instead taught me
this, that my wish was a foolish one.= _Geibel._
=What I gave, that I have; / What I spent,
that I had; / What I left, that I lost.= _Epitaph
inscribed on the tomb of Robert of Doncaster._
=What I have written, I have written.= _Pilate
of the legend he wrote over the Cross._
=What I must do is all that concerns me, not
what the people think.= _Emerson._
=What I object to is, not the poetry of sadness,
but the sadness of poetry. Many of the
poets make out the fountain of poetry to be
only a fountain of tears.= _Bovee._
=What, indeed, is man's life generally but a= 35
=kind of beast-godhood; the god in us triumphing
more and more over the beast;
striving more and more to subdue it under
his feet?= _Carlyle._
=What is a foreign country to those who have
science?= _Hitopadesa._
=What is a handful of reasonable men against
a crowd with stones in their hands?= _George
Eliot._
=What is a man, / If his chief good and market
of his time, / Be but to sleep, and feed? A
beast, no more.= _Ham._, iv. 4.
=What is a man profited if he shall gain the
whole world and lose his own soul?= _Jesus._
=What is against Nature is against God.= 40
_Hebbel._
=What is all working, what is all knowing, but
a faint interpreting, and a faint showing
forth of the mystery, which ever remains
infinite?= _Carlyle._
=What, is any one, simply by birth, to be punished
or applauded?= _Hitopadesa._
=What is aught but as 'tis valued?= _Troil.
and Cress._, ii. 2.
=What is barely necessary cannot be dispensed
with.= _Goldsmith._
=What is becoming is honourable, and what is= 45
=honourable is becoming.= _Cic._
=What is beneath me floors me; what is on a
level with me bores me; only what is above
me supports and lifts me above myself.=
_Anon._
=What is bought is cheaper than a gift.= _Pr._
=What is bred in the bone will never come out
of the flesh.= _Pr._
=What is called the spirit of the times is at
bottom but the spirit of the gentlemen in
which the times are mirrored.= _Goethe._
=What is cheapest to you now is likely to be= 50
=dearest in the end.= _Ruskin._
=What is chiefly needed in the England of the
present day is to show the quantity of
pleasure that may be obtained by a consistent,
well-administered competence, modest,
confessed, and laborious.= _Ruskin._
=What is difficulty? Only a word indicating
the degree of strength requisite for accomplishing
particular objects; a mere notice of
the necessity for exertion; a bugbear to
children and fools; only a mere stimulus to
men.= _Samuel Warren._
=What is distance to the indefatigable?= _Hitopadesa._
=What is done by night appears by day.= _Pr._
=What is done for those who have not their= 5
=passions in subjection, is like washing the
elephant= (_i.e._, washing the blackamoor white).
_Hitopadesa._
=What is done in a hurry is never done well.= _Pr._
=What is done is done; has already blended
itself with the boundless, ever-living, ever-working
universe, and will also work there,
for good or evil, openly or secretly, through
all time.= _Carlyle._
=What is everybody's business is nobody's
business.= _Izaak Walton._
=What is excellent should never be carped at
nor discussed, but enjoyed and reverentially
thought over in silence.= _Goethe._
=What is extraordinary try to look at with your= 10
=own eyes.= _Old maxim._
=What is false taste but want of perception to
discern propriety and distinguish beauty?=
_Goldsmith._
=What is generally accepted as virtue in women
is very different from what is thought
so in men: a very good woman would make
but a paltry man.= _Pope._
=What is generally considered true amounts
to much the same as if it were actually true.=
_Cötvös._
=What is genius or courage without a heart?=
_Goldsmith._
=What is genuine but that which is truly excellent,= 15
=which stands in harmony with the
purest nature or reason, and which even
now ministers to our highest development!
What is spurious but the absurd and the
hollow, which brings no fruit--at least, no
good fruit.= _Goethe._
=What is gray with age becomes religion.=
_Schiller._
=What is happiness? To animals in this world,
health.= _Hitopadesa._
=What is important is to have a soul which
loves truth, and receives it wherever it finds
it.= _Goethe._
=What is in will out.= _Emerson._
=What is it= (thy protest against the devil) =properly= 20
=but an altercation with him before you begin
honestly fighting with him?= _Carlyle._
=What is it that keeps men in continual discontent
and agitation? It is that they cannot
make realities correspond with their conceptions,
that enjoyment steals away from
among their hands, that the wished-for comes
too late, and nothing reached and acquired
produces on the heart the effect which their
longing for it at a distance led them to anticipate.=
_Goethe._
=What is justice but another form of the reality
we love--a truth acted out?= _Carlyle._
=What is kindness? A principle in the good.=
_Hitopadesa._
=What is known to three is known to everybody.=
_Pr._
=What is learned in the cradle is carried to the= 25
=tomb.= _Pr._
=What is life but the choice of that good
which contains the least of evil!= _B. R.
Haydon._
=What is life except the knitting up of incoherences
into coherence?= _Carlyle._
=What is man but a symbol of God, and all that
he does, if not symbolical, a revelation to
sense of the mystic God-given force that
is in him?= _Carlyle._
=What is man, / If his chief good, and market
of his time, / Be but to sleep and feed? A
beast, no man.= _Ham._, iv. 4.
=What is mine, even to my life, is hers I love;= 30
=but the secret of my friend is not mine!= _Sir
P. Sidney._
=What is modesty, if it deserts from truth?=
_Johnson._
=What is more at ease, more abstracted from
the world, than a true single-hearted
honesty?= _Thomas à Kempis._
=What is much desired is not believed when it
comes.= _Sp. Pr._
=What is my life if I am no longer to be of use
to others?= _Goethe._
=What is nearest is often unattainably far off.= 35
_Goethe._
=What is nearest us touches us most.= _Johnson._
=What is new finds better acceptance than
what is good or great.= _Denham._
=What is noble?--That which places / Truth
in its enfranchised will, / Leaving steps, like
angel-traces, / That mankind may follow
still!= _C. Swain._
=What is not allotted the hand cannot reach,
and what is allotted will find you wherever
you may be.= _Saadi._
=What is not sung is properly no poem, but a= 40
=piece of prose cramped into jingling lines,--to
the great injury of the grammar, to the
great grief of the reader, for the most part!=
_Carlyle._
=What is not to be, that is not to be; if it be
to come to pass, it cannot be otherwise.
This reasoning is an antidote. Why doth
not the afflicted one drink of it?= _Hitopadesa._
=What is not true has this advantage that it
can be eternally talked about; whereas
about truth there is an urgency that cries
out for its application, for otherwise it has
no right to be there.= _Goethe._
=What is not worth reading more than once
is not worth reading at all.= _C. J. Weber._
=What is now called the nature of women is
an eminently artificial thing--the result of
forced repression in some directions, unnatural
stimulation in others.= _J. S. Mill._
=What is obvious is not always known, and what= 45
=is known is not always present.= _Johnson._
=What is of the earth has no permanence; our
hearts yearn after a better land.= _H. A.
Hoffmann._
=What is often termed shyness is nothing more
than refined sense, and an indifference to
common observations.= (?)
=What is our life but an endless flight of winged
facts or events?= _Emerson._
=What is past is past. There is a future left
to all men, who have the virtue to repent
and the energy to atone.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=What is philosophy? An entire separation
from the world.= _Hitopadesa._
=What is reason now was passion formerly.=
_Ovid._
=What is religion? Compassion for all things= 5
=that have life.= _Hitopadesa._
=What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the
gander.= _Pr._
=What is specially true of love is, that it is
a state of extreme impressionability; the
lover has more senses and finer senses than
others; his eye and ear are telegraphs; he
reads omens in the flower and cloud and
face and form and gesture, and reads them
aright.= _Emerson._
=What is strength without a double share /
Of wisdom? vast, unwieldy, burdensome, /
Proudly secure, yet liable to fall / By weakest
subtleties; not made to rule, / But to subserve
where wisdom bears command.= _Milton._
=What is the adored Supreme Perfection,
say?--/ What, but eternal never-resting
soul, / Almighty power, and all-directing
day; / By whom each atom stirs, the planets
roll; / Who fills, surrounds, informs, and
agitates the whole.= _Thomson._
=What is the best government? That which= 10
=teaches us to govern ourselves.= _Goethe._
=What is the best in the world? Healthy
blood, sinews of steel, and strong nerves.=
_Auerbach._
=What is the body when the head is off?=
3 _Hen. VI._, v. 1.
=What is the city but the people? True, the
people are the city.= _Coriolanus_, iii. 1.
=What is the elevation of the soul? A prompt,
delicate, certain feeling for all that is beautiful,
all that is grand; a quick resolution
to do the greatest good by the smallest
means; a great benevolence joined to a
great strength and great humility.= _Lavater._
=What is the good of fear? The whole solar= 15
=system were it to fall together about our
ears could kill us only once.= _Carlyle._
=What is the highest secret of victory and
peace? To will what God wills, and strike
a league with destiny.= _W. R. Alger._
=What is the majority? Majority is nonsense=
(_Unsinn_). =Understanding has always been
only with the minority.= _Schiller._
=What is the true test of character, unless it be
its progressive development in the bustle
and turmoil, in the action and reaction, of
daily life?= _Goethe._
=What is the use of a lamp to a blind man, although
it be burning in his hand?= _Hitopadesa._
=What is the use of health or of life, if not to= 20
=do some work therewith?= _Carlyle._
=What is the voice of song, when the world
lacks the ear of taste?= _Hawthorne._
=What is there good in us if it is not the power
and inclination to appropriate to ourselves
the resources of the outward world, and to
make them subservient to our higher ends?=
_Goethe._
=What! is there no bribing death?= _Last words
of Cardinal Beaufort._
=What is this day's strong suggestion? /
"The passing moment's all we rest on!"=
_Burns._
=What is this life of ours? Gone in a moment,= 25
=burnt up like a scroll, into the blank eternity.=
_Carlyle interpreting young Luther's reflexion
on the sudden death by his side of his friend
Alexis._
=What is too great a load for those who have
strength?= _Hitopadesa._
=What is truth?= _Pilate scoffingly to Jesus._
=What is twice read is commonly better remembered
than what is transcribed.= _Johnson._
=What is valuable is not new, and what is new
is not valuable.= _D. Webster._
="What is wanting," said Napoleon one day to= 30
=Madame Campan, "in order that the youth
of France be well educated?" "Good
mothers," was the reply. The Emperor
was most forcibly struck with this answer.
"Here," said he, "is a system in one word."=
_Abbott._
=What is writ is writ.= _Byron._
=What joy a self-sufficing fortune yields, / Such
modest livelihood is dear to me. The wise
old maxim, "Not too much," / Too much
has power my heart to touch.= _Alpheus of
Mitylene._
=What life only half imparts to man, posterity
shall give entirely.= _Goethe._
=What love can do, that dares love attempt.=
_Rom. and Jul._, ii. 2.
=What love hides is raised as from the dead /= 35
=Some day, and kills the love which covered
it, / And frankest truth is more than subtle
wit.= _Dr. Walter Smith._
=What makes all doctrines plain and clear? /
About two hundred pounds a year. / And
that which was prov'd true before / Prove
false again, two hundred more.= _Butler._
=What makes life dreary is the want of motive.=
_George Eliot._
=What makes lovers never tire of each others'
society is that they talk always about themselves.=
_La Roche._
=What makes many so discontented with their
own condition is the absurd estimate they
form of the happiness of others.= _Fr._ (?)
=What makes old age so sad is, not that our= 40
=joys, but that our hopes then cease.= _Jean
Paul._
=What makes people discontented with their
condition is the chimerical idea they conceive
of the happiness of others.= _Thomson._
=What makes vanity so insufferable to us is
that it wounds our own.= _La Roche._
=What man dare do, in circumstances of
danger, an Englishman will. His virtues
seem to sleep in the calm, and are called
out only to combat the kindred storm.=
_Goldsmith._
=What man dare, I dare.= _Macb._, iii. 4.
=What man didst thou ever know unthrift, that= 45
=was beloved after his means?= _Timon of
Athens_, iv. 3.
=What man has done, man can do.= _Emerson._
=What man wants is always that the highest
in his nature be set at the top and actively
reign there.= _Carlyle._
=What matter though I doubt at every pore ... /
If finally I have a life to show, / The thing I
did, brought out in evidence / Against the
thing done to me underground / By hell and
all its brood, for aught I know?= _Browning._
=What matters it though the Gospels contradict
each other if the Gospel does not contradict
itself?= _Goethe._
=What matters it whether the alphabet= (by
which you are to spell out the meaning of life)
=be in large gilt letters or in small ungilt
ones, so you have an eye to read it?= _Carlyle._
=What may be dune at ony time will be dune at= 5
=nae time.= _Sc. Pr._
=What men prize most is a privilege, even if
it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.= (?)
=What men usually say of misfortunes, that
they never come alone, may with equal truth
be said of good fortune; nay, of other circumstances
which gather round us in a harmonious
way, whether it arise from a kind
of fatality, or that man has the power of
attracting to himself things that are mutually
related.= _Goethe._
=What men want is not talent; it is purpose.=
_Bulwer Lytton._
=What millions died that Cæsar might be great!=
_Campbell._
=What must be, shall be.= _Rom. and Jul._, iv. 1. 10
=What Nature does not reveal to thy spirit,
thou wilt not wrench from her with levers
and screws.= _Goethe._
=What need the bridge much broader than the
flood? The fairest grant is the necessity;
look, what will serve is fit.= _Much Ado_,
i. 1.
=What need we have any friends, if we should
never have need of them?= _Timon of Athens_,
i. 2.
=What needs my Shakespeare for his honour'd
bones?= _Milton._
=What of books? Hast thou not already a Bible= 15
=to write and publish in print that is eternal,
namely, a Life to lead?= _Carlyle._
=What once were vices are now the manners of
the day.= _Sen._
=What people call her= (England's) =history is not
hers at all; but that of her kings (though
the history of them is worth reading), or the
tax-gatherers employed by them, which is
as if people were to call Mr. Gladstone's
history or Mr. Lowe's, yours or mine.=
_Ruskin._
=What perils on a woman's life may throng, /
Sitting lonely with her thoughts, that chafe
and murmur like the surf!= _Dr. Walter
Smith._
=What persons are by starts, they are by
nature. You see them at such times off
their guard. Habit may restrain vice, and
virtue may be obscured by passion, but
intervals best discover the man.= _Sterne._
=What profit is it for men now to live in heaviness,= 20
=and after death to look for punishment?=
_Apocrypha._
=What proves the hero truly great, / Is never,
never to despair.= _Thomson._
=What quite infinite worth lies in Truth! how
all-pervading, omnipotent, in man's mind is
the thing we name Belief!= _Carlyle._
=What rage for fame attends both great and
small! / Better be damned than mentioned
not at all.= _John Wolcot._
=What rein can hold licentious wickedness /
When down the hill he holds his fierce
career?= _Hen. V._, iii. 3.
=What religion do I profess! None of all you= 25
=name to me. Why none? Out of respect to
religion.= _Schiller._
=What right have you, O passer-by-the-way, to
call any flower a weed? Do you know its
merits, its virtues, its healing qualities?
Because a thing is common, shall you despise
it? If so, you might despise the sunshine
for the same reason.= _Anon._
=What rights are his that dare not strike for
them?= _Tennyson._
="What says Lord Warwick? Shall we after
them?" "After them! Nay, before them if
we can."= 2 _Hen. VI._, v. 3.
=What shadows we are, and what shadows we
pursue!= _Burke._
=What shall be, shall be--that is all; / To one= 30
=great Will we stand and fall, / "The Scheme
hath need"--we ask not why, / And in this
faith we live or die.= _Lewis Morris._
=What shapest thou here at the world; 'Tis
shapen long ago; / The Maker shaped it,
He thought it best even so. / Thy lot is
appointed, go follow its hest; / Thy journey's
begun, thou must move and not rest; / For
sorrow and care cannot alter thy case, /
And running, not raging, will win thee the
race.= _Goethe._
=What signifies the life o' man / An' twerna for
the lasses, O?= _Burns._
=What signifies the loss of a Hercules even to
the loss of an idea?= _Ed._
=What signifies your gear? / A mind that's
scrimpit never wants some care.= _Allan
Ramsay._
=What should a wise man do if he is given a= 35
=blow? What Cato did when some one
struck him on the mouth;--not fire up or
revenge the insult, or even return the blow,
but simply ignore it.= _Sen._
=What skills it if a bag of stones or gold /
About thy neck do drown thee? Raise thy
head; / Take stars for money; stars not to
be told / By any art, yet to be purchased.=
_George Herbert._
=What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted!=
2 _Hen. VI._, iii. 2.
=What the eye does not admire, / The heart
does not desire.= _Pr._
=What the eye don't see, the heart don't grieve.=
_Pr._
=What the fool does in the end, the wise man= 40
=does at the beginning.= _It. Pr._
=What the heart has once owned and had, it
shall never lose.= _Ward Beecher._
=What the heart or the imagination dictates
always flows readily; but where there is
no subject to warm or interest these, constraint
appears.= _Blair._
=What the light of your mind pronounces incredible,
that, in God's name, leave uncredited.=
_Carlyle._
=What the Maker sends us remains mysteriously
with us after the bearer of it is dead
and gone; and we, as we "mourn over, long
for, and love distant and departed" goodness,
are more embraced and possessed by it than
we were when it was present with us only
in the flesh, and we could look upon it and
handle it.= _Ed._
=What the poet has to cultivate above all things
is love and truth;--what he has to avoid, like
poison, is the fleeting and the false.= _Leigh
Hunt._
=What the Puritans gave the world was not
thought, but action.= _Wendell Phillips._
=What the universe was thought to be in Judea
and other places, this may be very interesting
to know; what it is in England here
where we live and have our work to do, that
is the interesting point.= _Carlyle._
=What thou seest is not there on its own= 5
=account, strictly taken, is not there at all.=
_Carlyle._
=What though care killed a cat: thou hast mettle
enough in thee to kill care.= _Much Ado_, v. 1.
=What though on hamely fare we dine, / Wear
hodden gray, and a' that? / Gie fools their
silk, and knaves their wine, / A man's a
man for a' that.= _Burns._
=What though our songs to wit have no pretence, /
The fiddlestick shall scrape them
into sense.= (?)
=What though success will not attend on all! /
Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a
fall.= _Smollett._
=What though the field be lost? / All is not= 10
=lost; th' unconquerable will, / And study
of revenge, immortal hate, / And courage
never to submit or yield.= _Milton._
=What though the foot be shackled; the heart
is free.= _Goethe._
=What, though thou wert rich and of high
esteem, dost thou yield to sorrow because
of thy loss of fortune?= _Hitopadesa._
=What tragic wastes of gloom / Curtain the
soul that strives and sins below!= _R. Garnet._
=What trifling silliness is the childish fondness
of the every-day children of the world! 'Tis
the unmeaning toying of the younglings of
the fields and forests.= _Burns._
=What 'twas weak to do, / 'Tis weaker to= 15
=lament, once being done.= _Shelley._
=What unknown seas of feeling lie in man, and
will from time to time break through!= _Carlyle._
=What was my morning's thought, at night's
the same; / The poor and rich but differ in
the name. / Content's the greatest bliss we
can procure / Frae 'boon the lift; without it
kings are poor.= _Allan Ramsay._
=What was once to me / Mere matter of the
fancy, now has grown / The vast necessity
of heart and life.= _Tennyson._
=What we are going to, is abundantly obscure;
but what all men are going from, is very
plain.= _John Sterling._
=What we are, that only can we see.= _Emerson._ 20
=What we call conscience, in many instances, is
only a wholesome fear of the constable.= _Bovee._
=What we call our root-and-branch reforms of
slavery, war, gambling, intemperance, is only
medicating the symptoms. We must begin
higher up, namely, in education.= _Emerson._
=What we do determine oft we break, / Purpose
is but the slave to memory.= _Ham._,
iii. 2.
=What we do not understand we have no business
to judge.= _Amiel._
=What we do not use is a heavy burden.= 25
_Goethe._
=What we don't know is just what we need to
know; and what we do know we can make
no use of.= _Goethe._
=What we foolishly call vastness is not more
wonderful or not more impressive than what
we insolently call littleness.= _Ruskin._
=What we have been makes us what we are.=
_George Eliot._
=What we have in us of the image of God is the
love of truth and justice.= _Demosthenes._
=What we have we prize not to the worth, /= 30
=Whiles we enjoy it; but being lack'd and
lost, / Why then we rack the value.= _Much
Ado_, iv. 1.
=What we hope ever to do with ease we may
learn first to do with diligence.= _Johnson._
=What we like determines what we are, and is
the sign of what we are.= _Ruskin._
=What we need most is not so much to realise
the ideal as to idealise the real.= _F. H. Hedge._
=What we poor mortals have to do is to endure
and keep ourselves upright as well and as
long as we can. God disposes as he thinks
best.= _Goethe._
=What we pray to ourselves for is always= 35
=granted.= _Emerson._
=What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that
in some sense we are. The mere aspiration,
by changing the frame of the mind, for the
moment realises itself.= _Mrs. Jameson._
=What we want to be pleased with flattery, is
to believe that the man is sincere who gives
it us.= _Steele._
=What we want to believe, what it suits our
convenience, or pleasure, or prejudice to
believe, one need not go to sea to learn
what slender logic will incline us to believe.=
_Burroughs._
=What? wearied out with half a life? / Scared
with this smooth unbloody strife? / Think
where thy coward hopes had flown / Had
Heaven held out the martyr's crown.= _Keble._
=What were mighty Nature's self? / Her= 40
=features could they win us, / Unhelp'd by
the poetic voice / That hourly speaks within
us?= _Wordsworth._
=What will not woman, gentle woman, dare, /
When strong affection stirs her spirit up?=
_Southey._
=What will you have? quoth God; pay for it
and take it.= _Pr._
=What you can't get is just what suits you.=
_Fr. Pr._
=What you do not risk all to part with= (_dahingeben_),
=thou hast not loved and possessed
entirely.= _J. G. Fisher._
=What you enjoy is yours; what for your heirs /= 45
=You hoard, already is not yours, but theirs.=
_From the Greek. Anon._
=What you see is but the smallest part / And
least proportion of humanity; / ... Were the
whole frame here, / It is of such a spacious
lofty pitch, / Your roof were not sufficient
to contain it.= 1 _Hen. VI._, ii. 3.
=What your heart thinks great is great. The
soul's emphasis is always right.= _Emerson._
=What's aught but as 'tis valued?= _Troil. and
Cress._, ii. 2.
=What's come to perfection perishes. / Things
learned on earth we shall practise in heaven; /
Works done least rapidly art most cherishes.=
_Browning._
=What's done cannot be undone.= _Macb._, v. 1.
=What's done we partly may compute, / But= 5
=know not what's resisted.= _Burns._
=What's fitting, that is right.= _Goethe._
=What's gone and what's past help / Should be
past grief.= _Winter's Tale_, iii. 2.
=What's good for the bee is good for the hive.=
_Pr._
=What's Hecuba to him or he to Hecuba, /
That he should weep for her?= _Ham._, ii. 2.
=What's impossible cannot be, / And never,= 10
=never comes to pass.= _George Colman the
younger._
=What's in a name? That which we call a
rose / By any other name would smell as
sweet.= _Rom. and Jul._, ii. 2.
=What's more miserable than discontent?=
2 _Hen. VI._, iii. 1.
=What's nane o' my profit will be nane o' my
peril.= _Sc. Pr._
=What's not set about to-day is never finished
on the morrow.= _Goethe._
=What's the good of a sun-dial in the shade?= _Pr._ 15
=What's the good of the pipe if it's not played
on?= _Gael. Pr._
=What's yours is mine, and what's mine's my
ain.= _Sc. Pr._
=Whate'er disturbs his onward course, / Whate'er
brings gloom or strife, / It must away,
for e'er he sings / The poet must have life.=
_Goethe._
=Whate'er he did was done with so much ease, /
In him alone 'twas natural to please.= _Dryden._
=Whate'er my future years may be: / Let joy= 20
=or grief my fate betide; / Be still an Eden
bright to me / My own, my own fireside!=
_A. A. Watts._
=Whate'er's begun in anger ends in shame.=
_Ben. Franklin._
=Whatever a man has to effect must emanate
from him as a second self; and how would
this be possible were not his first self entirely
pervaded by it?= _Goethe._
=Whatever be the cause of happiness, may be
made likewise the cause of misery. The
medicine which, rightly applied, has power
to cure, has, when rashness or ignorance
prescribes it, the same power to destroy.=
_Johnson._
=Whatever be the motive of insult, it is always
best to overlook it; for folly scarcely can deserve
resentment, and malice is punished by
neglect.= _Johnson._
=Whatever beauty may be, it has for its basis= 25
=order and for its essence unity.= _Father
André._
=Whatever befalls us, though it is wise to be
serious, it is useless and foolish, and perhaps
sinful, to be gloomy.= _Johnson._
=Whatever bit of a wise man's work is honestly
and benevolently done, that bit is his book
or his piece of art.= _Ruskin._
=Whatever comes from the brain carries the
hue of the place it came from; and whatever
comes from the heart carries the heat and
colour of its birthplace.= _Holmes._
=Whatever comes out of despair cannot bear
the title of valour, which should be lifted up
to such a height that, holding all things
under itself, it should be able to maintain its
greatness even in the midst of miseries.=
_Sir P. Sidney._
=Whatever crushes individuality is despotism,= 30
=by whatever name it may be called.= _J. S.
Mill._
=Whatever disunites man from God disunites
man from man.= _Burke._
=Whatever does not concern us is concealed
from us.= _Emerson._
=Whatever does not possess a true intrinsic
vitality cannot live long, and can neither be
nor ever become great.= _Goethe._
=Whatever expands the affections or enlarges
the sphere of our sympathies, whatever
makes us feel our relation to the universe,
and all that it inherits, in time and in eternity,
to the great and beneficent Cause of all,
must unquestionably refine our nature and
elevate us in the scale of being.= _Channing._
=Whatever foolish people read, does them= 35
=harm; and whatever they write, does other
people harm.= _Ruskin._
=Whatever government is not a government of
law is a despotism, let it be called what it
may.= _D. Webster._
=Whatever has exceeded its due bounds is ever
in a state of instability.= _Sen._
=Whatever hath been well consulted and well
resolved, whether it be to fight well or to
run away well, should be carried into execution
in due season, without any further
examination.= _Hitopadesa._
=Whatever honour we can pay to their memory,
is all that is owing to the dead. Tears and
sorrow are no duties to them, and make us
incapable of those we owe to the living.=
_Lady Montagu._
=Whatever in literature, art, or religion is done= 40
=for money is poisonous itself, and doubly
deadly in preventing the hearing or seeing
of the noble literature and art which have
been done for love and truth.= _Ruskin._
=Whatever is beautiful is also profitable.=
_Willmott._
=Whatever is best is safest, lies most out of the
reach of human power, can neither be given
nor taken away.= _Bolingbroke._
=Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever
is virtuous is graceful.= _Cic._
=Whatever is great in human art is the expression
of man's delight in God's work.=
_Ruskin._
=Whatever is great promotes cultivation as= 45
=soon as we are aware of it.= _Goethe._
=Whatever is highest and holiest is tinged
with melancholy. The eye of genius has
always a plaintive expression, and its natural
language is pathos. A prophet is sadder
than other men; and He who was greater
than all prophets was "a man of sorrow and
acquainted with grief."= _Mrs. Child._
=Whatever is, is right.= _Pope._
=Whatever is known to thyself alone has always
very great value.= _Emerson._
=Whatever is natural admits of variety.= _Mme.
de Stäel._
=Whatever is new is unlooked for, and ever it
mends some and impairs others; and he that
is holpen takes it for a fortune, and he that
is hurt for a wrong.= _Bacon._
=Whatever is not made of asbestos will have to
be burnt in this world.= _Carlyle._
=Whatever is pure is also simple. It does not
keep the eye on itself. The observer forgets
the window in the landscape it displays.
A fine style gives the view of fancy--its
figures, its trees, or its palaces--without a
spot.= _Willmott._
=Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing= 5
=well.= _Lord Chesterfield._
=Whatever lifts a man out of the common herd
always redounds to his advantage, even if it
sink him into a new crowd, in the midst of
which his powers of swimming and wading
must be put to the test again.= _Goethe._
=Whatever makes religion its second object,
makes it no object.= _Ruskin._
=Whatever may be the natural propensity of
any one, it is very hard to overcome. If a
dog were made king, would he not gnaw
his shoe-straps?= _Hitopadesa._
=Whatever may happen, every kind of fortune
is to be overcome by bearing it.= _Virg._
=Whatever may happen to thee, it was prepared= 10
=for thee from all eternity; and the
complication of causes was from eternity
spinning the thread not only of thy being,
but of that which is incident to it.= _Marcus
Aurelius._
=Whatever mitigates the woes or increases
the happiness of others, this is my criterion
of goodness; and whatever injures society
at large, or any individual in it, this is my
measure of iniquity.= _Burns._
=Whatever of goodness emanates from the
soul, gathers its soft halo from the eyes;
and if the heart be the lurking-place of crime,
the eyes are sure to betray the secret.= _F.
Saunders._
=Whatever our wanderings, our happiness will
always be found within a narrow compass,
and amidst the objects more immediately
within our reach.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=Whatever outward thing offers itself to the
eye, is merely the garment or body of a
thing which already existed invisibly within.=
_Carlyle._
=Whatever purifies the heart, fortifies it.= 15
_Blair._
=Whatever sceptic could inquire for, / For
every why he had a wherefore.= _Buller._
=Whatever that be which thinks, which understands,
which wills, which acts, it is something
celestial and divine; and upon that
account must necessarily be eternal.= _Cic._
=Whatever the benefits of fortune are, they yet
require a palate fit to relish and taste them;
it is fruition, and not possession, that renders
us happy.= _Montaigne._
=Whatever the place allotted to us by Providence,
that for us is the post of honour and
duty.= _T. Edwards._
=Whatever the skill of any country may be in= 20
=the sciences, it is from its excellence in polite
learning alone that it must expect a character
from posterity.= _Goldsmith._
=Whatever theologians may choose to assert,
it is certain that mankind at large has far
more virtue than vice.= _Buckle._
=Whatever these two men= (the Carlyles, father
and son) =touched with their hands in honest
toil became sacred to them, a page out of
their own lives. A silent, inarticulate kind
of religion they put into their work.= _John
Burroughs._
=Whatever we think out, whatever we take in
hand to do, should be perfectly and finally
finished, that a word, if it must alter, will
only tend to spoil it; we have then nothing
to do but to unite the severed, to recollect
and restore the dismembered.= _Goethe._
=Whatever you are, be a man.= _Pr._
=Whatever you may think now, they= (the deeds 25
of each day) =are only biding their time; and
when you are weak and at their mercy, when
the world you fancied you were beyond, has
leisure to hear their story and scoff at you,
they will come forward and tell all the bitter
tale.= _Disraeli to young men._
=Whatso we have done is done, and for us
annihilated, and ever must we go and do
anew.= _Carlyle._
=Whatsoever a man ought to obey, he cannot
but obey.= _Carlyle._
=Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also
reap.= _St. Paul._
=Whatsoever God doeth, nothing can be put to
it, nor anything taken from it.= _Ecclus._
=Whatsoever sensibly exists, whatsoever represents= 30
=spirit to spirit, is properly a suit of
raiment put on for a season and to be laid
off.= _Carlyle._
=Whatsoever thine ill, / It must be borne, and
these wild starts are useless.= _Byron._
=Whatsoever thou takest in hand, remember
the end, and thou shalt never do amiss.=
_Ecclus._
=Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with
thy might.= _Bible._
=When a base man means to be your enemy, he
always begins with being your friend.= _Wm.
Blake._
=When a bold man is out of countenance, he= 35
=makes a very wooden figure on it.= _Collier._
=When a child can be brought to tears, not
from fear of punishment, but from repentance
for his offence, he needs no chastisement.
When the tears begin to flow from grief at
one's own conduct, be sure there is an angel
nestling in the bosom.= _Horace Mann._
=When a gentleman is cudgelling his brain to
find any rhyme for sorrow besides "borrow"
or "to-morrow," his woes are nearer at an
end than he thinks.= _Thackeray._
=When a good man has talent, he always
works morally for the salvation of the world.=
_Goethe._
=When a great man strikes out into a sudden
irregularity, he needs not question the respect
of a retinue.= _Collier._
=When a head and a book come into collision,= 40
=and one sounds empty, is it always the book?=
_Lichtenberg._
=When a husband is embraced without affection,
there must be some reason for it.=
_Hitopadesa._
=When a man becomes dear to me, I have
touched the goal of fortune.= _Emerson._
=When a man dies, they who survive him ask
what property he has left behind. The
angel who bends over the dying man asks
what good deeds he has sent before him.=
_Koran._
=When a man gives himself up to the government
of a ruling passion--or, in other words,
when his hobby-horse grows headstrong--farewell
cool reason and fair discretion!=
_Sterne._
=When a man gives proof that his heart is
sound and that his life is sound, there is
no divergence of opinion that should keep
us from fellowship with him.= _Ward Beecher._
=When a man has no occasion to borrow, he
finds numbers willing to lend him.= _Goldsmith._
=When a man has not a good reason for doing= 5
=a thing, he has one good reason for letting
it alone.= _Scott._
=When a man has once forfeited the reputation
of his integrity, he is set fast; and nothing
will then serve his turn, neither truth nor
falsehood.= _Tillotson._
=When a man is base at the heart, he blights
his virtues into weaknesses; but when he is
true at the heart, he sanctifies his weaknesses
into virtues.= _Ruskin._
=When a man is conscious that he does no
good himself, the next thing is to cause
others to do some.= _Pope._
=When a man is going downhill, everybody
gives him a kick.= _Pr._
=When a man is in indigence, picking herbs is= 10
=his philosophy; the enjoyment of his wife
his only commerce, and vassalage his food.=
_Hitopadesa._
=When a man is in love with one woman in a
family, it is astonishing how fond he becomes
of every person connected with it.=
_Thackeray._
=When a man is treated with solemnity, he
looks upon himself as a higher being, and
goes through his solemn feasts devoutly.=
_Jean Paul._
=When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he
always gets angry.= _Haliburton._
=When a man lives with God, his voice shall be
as sweet as the murmur of the brook and
the rustle of the corn.= _Emerson._
=When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons= 15
=and things, this is madness.= _Coleridge._
=When a man smiles, and much more when he
laughs, it adds something to his fragment
of life.= _Sterne._
=When a man versed in his subject treats any
topic lovingly and thoroughly, he gives us a
share in his interest, and forces us to enter
into the topic.= _Goethe._
=When a man's dog deserts him on account of
his poverty, he can't get any lower down in
this world.= _Amer. Pr._
=When a man's pride is subdued, it is like the
sides of Mount Ætna. It was terrible during
the eruption, but when that is over and
the lava is turned into soil, there are vineyards
and olive-trees which grow up to the
top.= _Beecher._
=When a man's ways please the Lord, he= 20
=maketh even his enemies to be at peace
with him.= _Bible._
=When a mean wretch cannot vie with another
in virtue, out of his wretchedness he begins
to slander.= _Saadi._
=When a misfortune is impending, I cry, "God
forbid!" but when it falls upon me, I say,
"God be praised!"= _Sterne._
=When a noble life has prepared old age, it is
not the decline that it recalls, but the first
days of immortality.= _Mme. de Staël._
=When a nobleman writes a book he ought to
be encouraged.= _Johnson._
=When a pepin is planted on a pepin-stock, the= 25
=fruit growing thence is called a renate, a
most delicious apple, as both by sire and
dame well descended. Thus his blood must
needs be well purified who is gentilely born
on both sides.= _Fuller._
=When a poor creature (outwardly and visibly
such) comes before thee, do not stay to inquire
whether the "seven small children,"
in whose name he implores thy assistance,
have a veritable existence.= _Lamb._
=When a Sark-foot wife gets on her broomstick,
the dames of Allonby are ready to
mount.= _Pr._
=When a secret is revealed, it is the fault of the
man who has intrusted it.= _La Bruyère._
=When a thought is too weak to be simply expressed,
it is a clear proof that it should be
rejected.= _Vauvenargues._
=When a thought of Plato becomes a thought= 30
=to me,--when a truth that fired the soul of
Pindar fires mine, time is no more.= _Emerson._
=When a tree is dead it will lie any way; alive,
it will have its own growth.= _Ward Beecher._
=When a true genius appears in the world you
may know him by this sign, that the dunces
are all in confederacy against him.= _Swift._
=When a wife has a good husband it is easily
seen in her face.= _Goethe._
=When a wise man findeth an occasion, he may
bear away his enemy upon his shoulder, as
it were.= _Hitopadesa._
=When a woman wears the breeches, she has a= 35
=good right to them.= _Amer. Pr._
=When a work has a unity, it is as much so in
a part as in the whole.= _Wm. Blake._
=When a writer sets to work again after a
long pause, his faculties have, as it were,
to be caught in the field and brought in and
harnessed.= _Froude._
=When a youth is fully in love with a girl, and
feels that he is wise in loving her, he should
at once tell her so plainly, and take his
chance bravely with other suitors.= _Ruskin._
=When Adam dolve and Eve span, / Who was
then the gentleman?= _Pr._
=When affliction thunders over our roofs, to= 40
=hide our heads and run into our graves
shows us no men, but makes us fortune's
slaves.= _Ben Jonson._
=When all else is lost, the future still remains.=
_Bovee._
=When all is done, the help of good counsel
is that which setteth business straight.=
_Bacon._
=When all is said, the greatest art is to limit
and isolate one's self.= _Goethe._
=When all the blandishments of life are gone, /
The coward sneaks to death, the brave live
on.= _George Sewell._
=When ambitious men find an open passage,
they are rather busy than dangerous; and
if well watched in their proceedings, they
will catch themselves in their own snare,
and prepare a way for their own destruction.=
_Quarles._
=When an author is too fastidious about his
style, you may presume that his mind is
frivolous and his matter flimsy.= _Sen._
=When any fit of anxiety, or gloominess or
perversion of the mind, lays hold upon you,
make it a rule not to publish it by complaints,
but exert your whole care to hide
it; by endeavouring to hide it you will drive
it away.= _Johnson._
=When any man finds himself disposed to complain
with how little care he is regarded, let
him reflect how little he contributes to the
happiness of others.= _Johnson._
=When any one ceases to care for his home, it= 5
=is one of the worst possible signs of moral
sickness.= _Spurgeon._
=When any one has offended me, I try to raise
my soul so high that the offence cannot
reach it.= _Descartes._
=When at one with ourselves, we are so with
others.= _Goethe._
=When bad men combine, the good must associate;
else they will fall one by one, an
unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.=
_Burke._
=When bairns are young they gar their parents'
heads ache; when they are auld they make
their hearts break.= _Sc. Pr._
=When baseness is exalted, do not bate / The= 10
=place its honour for the person's sake.= _George
Herbert._
=When beggars die, there are no comets seen: /
The heavens themselves blaze forth the
death of princes.= _Jul. Cæs._, ii. 2.
=When brothers part for manhood's race, /
What gift may most endearing prove / To
keep fond memory in her place, / And certify
a brother's love? / ... No fading frail
memorial give / To sooth his soul when thou
art gone, / But wreathes of hope for aye to
live, / And thoughts of good together done.=
_Keble._
=When caught by a tempest, wherever it be, /
If it lightens and thunders, beware of a tree.=
_Pr._
=When children stand quiet, they have done
some harm.= _Pr._
=When children, we are sensualists; when in= 15
=love, idealists.= _Goethe._
=When clouds appear like rocks and towers, /
The earth's refreshed with frequent showers.=
_Pr._
=When clouds appear, wise men put on their
cloaks; / When great leaves fall, the winter
is at hand.= _Rich. III._, ii. 3.
=When death comes, it is never our tenderness
that we repent of, but our severity.= _George
Eliot._
=When desperate ills demand a speedy cure,
distrust is cowardice and prudence folly.=
_Johnson._
=When did friendship take / A breed for barren= 20
=metal of his friend?= _Mer. of Ven._, i. 2.
=When difficulties are overcome they become
blessings.= _Saying._
=When each comes forth from his mother's
womb, the gate of gifts closes behind him.=
_Emerson._
=When every one minds his own business the
work is done.= _Dan. Pr._
=When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.=
_Napoleon._
=When fools fall out for every flaw, / They run= 25
=horn mad to go to law; / A hedge awry, a
wrong plac'd gate, / Will serve to spend a
whole estate.= _Saying._
=When Fortune means to men most good, /
She looks upon them with a threatening eye.=
_King John_, iii. 1.
=When found, make a note of.= _Dickens._
=When fresh sorrows have caused us to take
some steps in the right way, we may not
complain. We have invested in a life annuity,
but the income remains.= _Mme. Swetchine._
=When friends meet hearts warm.= _Sc. Pr._
=When friendships are real, they are not glass= 30
=threads or frost-work, but the solidest things
we know.= _Emerson._
=When God gives light he gives it for all.=
_Sp. Pr._
=When God will, no wind but brings rain.= _Pr._
=When God would punish a land, he deprives
its rulers of wisdom.= _Ger. and It. Pr._
=When Goethe says that in every human condition
foes lie in wait for us, "invincible
save by cheerfulness and equanimity," he
does not mean that we can at all times be
really cheerful, or at a moment's notice;
but that the endeavour to look at the better
side of things will produce the habit, and
that this habit is the surest safeguard
against the danger of sudden evils.= _Leigh
Hunt._
=When Greeks joined Greeks, then was the= 35
=tug of war.= _Lee._
=When griping grief the heart doth wound, /
And doleful dumps the mind oppress, / Then
music, with her silver sound, / With speedy
help doth lend redress.= _Rom. and Jul._, iv. 5.
=When half-gods go, / The gods arrive.= _Emerson._
=When he speaks, / The air, a charter'd libertine,
is still.= _Hen. V._, i. 1.
=When holy and devout religious men / Are at
their beads, 'tis hard to draw them thence.=
_Rich. III._, iii. 7.
=When I am angry, I can pray well and preach= 40
=well.= _Luther._
=When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat. / Yet
fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit; /
Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay. /
To-morrow's falser than the former day; /
Lies worse, and while it says we shall be
blest / With some new joys, cuts off what we
possest.= _Dryden._
=When I have told the truth, my part with it
is done; and if the world will not listen, the
world will just do the other way.= _Carlyle._
=When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am
invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to
the earliest times and to the latest.= _H. D.
Thoreau._
=When I strove after wisdom I appeared foolish
to fools, and wise when I lived like them.
The fool only esteems himself wise.= _Bodenstedt._
=When I want any good head-work done, I
always choose a man, if suitable otherwise,
with a long nose.= _Napoleon._
=When I was happy I thought I knew men, but
it was fated that I should know them in misfortune
only.= _Napoleon._
=When I wish to ascertain the real felicity of
any rational man, I always inquire whom he
has to love. If I find he has nobody, or does
not love those he has, I pronounce him a
being deep in adversity.= _Mrs. Inchbald._
=When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thank'd
enough; / I've done my duty, and I've done
no more.= _Henry Fielding._
=When ilka ane gets his ain, the thief will get= 5
=the widdie= (gallows). _Sc. Pr._
=When in company, people will rather be entertained
than instructed.= _Knegge._
=When, in your last hour (think of this), all
faculty in the broken spirit shall fade away
and sink into inanity--imagination, thought,
effort, enjoyment--then will the flower of belief,
which blossoms even in the night, remain
to refresh you with its fragrance in the
last darkness.= _Jean Paul._
=When industry builds upon nature, we may
expect pyramids.= _Sir T. Browne._
=When it goeth well with the righteous, the
city rejoiceth: and when the wicked perish,
there is shouting.= _Bible._
=When it rains porridge, the beggar has no= 10
=spoon.= _Dan. Pr._
=When it's dark at Dover, / It is dark all the
world over.= _Pr._
=When labour is employed, labour can consume;
when it is not employed, it cannot
consume.= _Daniel Webster._
=When love begins to sicken and decay / It useth
an enforced ceremony.= _Jul. Cæs._, iv. 2.
=When love cools our fauts are seen.= _Sc. Pr._
=When love speaks, the voice of all the gods /= 15
=Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony.=
_Love's L. Lost_, iv. 3.
=When lovely woman stoops to folly / And finds,
too late, that men betray, / What charm can
soothe her melancholy? / What art can wash
her guilt away?= _Goldsmith._
=When loving hearts are separated, not the
one which is exhaled to heaven, but the survivor
it is which tastes the sting of death.=
_Duchesse de Praslin._
=When maidens sue, / Men give like gods.=
_Meas. for Meas._, i. 1.
=When man arrives at his highest perfection,
he will (as at the creation) be again dumb.=
_Hawthorne._
=When man seized the loadstone of science,= 20
=the loadstar of superstition vanished in the
clouds.= _W. R. Alger._
=When matters are desperate, we must put on
a desperate face.= _Burns._
=When men add a new wing to their house
they do not call the action virtue, but if
they give to a fellow-creature for their own
gratification, they demand of God a good
mark for it.= _J. M. Barrie._
=When men are lonely they stoop to any companionship.=
_Lew Wallace._
=When men are pure, laws are useless; when
men are corrupt, laws are broken.= _Disraeli._
=When men grow virtuous in their old age,= 25
=they only make a sacrifice to God of the
devil's leavings.= _Pope._
=When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic
wakes.= _Dryden._
=When money's taken, / Freedom's forsaken.=
_Pr._
=When musing on companions gone, / We
doubly feel ourselves alone.= _Scott._
=When nations are to perish in their sins, /
'Tis in the Church the leprosy begins; / The
priest, whose office is, with zeal sincere, / To
watch the fountain and preserve it clear, /
Carelessly nods and sleeps upon the brink, /
While others poison what the flock must
drink.= _Cowper._
=When Nature fills the sails, the vessel goes= 30
=smoothly on; and when judgment is the
pilot, the insurance need not be high.= _Sir
T. Browne._
=When Nature is sovereign there is no need
of austerity or self-denial.= _Froude._
=When Nature removes a great man, people
explore the horizon for a successor; but
none comes, and none will.= _Emerson._
=When need is highest, help is nighest.= _Ger.
Pr._
=When neither he to whom we speak nor he
who speaks to us understands, that is metaphysics.=
_Voltaire._
=When nothing is enjoyed, can there be greater= 35
=waste?= _Thomson._
=When on life we're tempest driven, / A conscience
but a canker, / A correspondence
fixed wi' heaven / Is sure a noble anchor.=
_Burns._
=When once a man is determined to believe,
the very absurdity of the doctrine confirms
him in his faith.= _Junius._
=When once infidelity can persuade men that
they shall die like beasts, they will soon be
brought to live like beasts also.= _South._
=When once our grace we have forgot, /
Nothing goes right; we would, and we
would not.= _Meas. for Meas._, iv. 4.
=When once the young heart of a maiden is= 40
=stolen, / The maiden herself will steal after
it soon.= _Moore._
=When once you profess yourself a friend, endeavour
to be always such. He can never
have any true friends that will be often
changing them.= (?)
=When one does nothing else but while time
away, it must of necessity often be a burden.=
_Goethe._
=When one encourages the beautiful alone, and
another encourages the useful alone, it takes
them both to form a man.= _Goethe._
=When one is in love, one wishes to be in fetters.=
_Goethe._
=When one is not received as one comes, this= 45
=is a nether-fire pain.= _Goethe._
=When one is truly in love, one not only says
it, but shows it.= _Longfellow._
=When one is young, one is nothing completely.=
_Goethe._
=When one thinks of the real agony one has
gone through in consequence of false teaching,
it makes human nature angry with the
teachers who have added to the bitterness
of life.= _General Gordon._
=When our actions do not, / Our fears do make
us traitors.= _Macb._, iv. 1.
=When our hatred is too keen, it places us beneath
those we hate.= _La Roche._
=When our names are blotted out, and our
place knows us no more, the energy of each
social service will remain.= _J. Morley._
=When people complain of life, it is almost
always because they have asked impossible
things from it.= _Renan._
=When people laugh at their own jokes, their= 5
=wit is very small beer, and is lost in its own
froth.= _Spurgeon._
=When people once are in the wrong, / Each
line they add is much too long.= _Prior._
=When Peter's cock begins to crow, 'tis day.=
_Quarles._
=When pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it.=
_Johnson._
=When pleasure is arrived, it is worthy of
attention; when trouble presenteth itself,
the same. Pain and pleasures have their
revolutions like a wheel.= _Hitopadesa._
=When poverty comes in at the door, love flies= 10
=out at the window.= _Pr._
=When pride cometh, then cometh shame; but
with the lowly is wisdom.= _Bible._
=When remedies are past, the griefs are ended /
By seeing the worst, which late on hopes
depended.= _Othello_, i. 3.
=When rich villains have need of poor ones,
poor ones may make what price they will.=
_Much Ado_, iii. 3.
=When rogues fall out, honest men get their
own.= _Pr._
=When shall we three meet again, in thunder,= 15
=lightning, or in rain?= _Macb._, i. 1.
=When soldiers have been baptised in the fire
of a battlefield, they have all one rank in my
eyes.= _Napoleon._
=When soon or late they reach that coast, /
O'er life's rough ocean driven, / May they
rejoice, no wanderer lost, / A family in
heaven.= _Burns._
=When sorrows come, they come not single
spies, / But in battalions.= _Ham._, iv. 5.
=When speech is given to a soul holy and true,
time and its dome of ages becomes as a
mighty whispering-gallery, round which the
imprisoned utterance runs, and reverberates
forever.= _James Martineau._
=When sun is set the little stars will shine.= _R._ 20
_Southwell._
=When that the poor have cried, Cæsar hath
wept; / Ambition should be made of sterner
stuff.= _Jul. Cæs._, iii. 2.
=When the affections are moved there is no
place for the imagination.= _Hume._
=When the artist forgets himself in admiration
of his work, there is a fatal inversion and
subversion of all art whatsoever; and for
Love to worship Venus, his own creation,
except as an index and light to himself, is in
reality Love's apostasy, not his apotheosis.=
_Ed._
=When the ass is given thee, run and take him
by the halter; and when good luck knocks
at the door, let him in, and keep him there.=
_Sp. Pr._
=When the belly is empty, the body becomes= 25
=spirit; when it is full, the spirit becomes
body.= _Saadi._
=When the blind lead the blind, both shall fall
into the ditch; wherefore, in such circumstances,
may it not sometimes be safer if
both leader and led simply sit still?= _Carlyle._
=When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul /
Lends the tongue vows.= _Ham._, i. 3.
=When the cat's away, / The mice will play.= _Pr._
=When the devil dies, he never lacks a chief
mourner.= _Pr._
=When the fight begins within himself, / A= 30
=man's worth something.= _Browning._
=When the fox preaches, take care of your
geese.= _Pr._
=When the glede's in the blue cloud, / The
laverock lies still; / When the hound's in
the green wood, / The hind keeps the hill.=
_Old ballad._
=When the gods come among men, they are
not known.= _Emerson._
=When the great God lets loose a thinker on
this planet, then all things are at risk. There
is not a piece of science, but its flank may be
turned to-morrow; there is not any literary
reputation, nor the so-called eternal names
of fame, that may not be revised and condemned.=
_Emerson._
=When the heart is afire, some sparks will fly= 35
=out at the mouth.= _Pr._
=When the heart is heavy and low, / The beauty
that on earth we find, / Or strain of music on
the wind, / Shall touch it like an utter woe!=
_Dr. W. Smith._
=When the heart is still agitated by the remains
of a passion, we are more ready to receive a
new one than when we are entirely cured.=
_La Roche._
=When the heart of a man is sincere and tranquil,
he is fain to enjoy nothing but himself;
every movement, even corporeal movement,
shakes the brimming nectar cup too rudely.=
_Jean Paul._
=When the hungry curate licks the knife, there
is not much for the clerk.= _Pr._
=When the man's fire and the wife's tow, in comes= 40
=the dell and blaws it in a lowe= (flame). _Sc. Pr._
=When the master passeth over all alike without
distinction, then the endeavours of those
who are capable of exertion are entirely lost.=
_Hitopadesa._
=When the million applaud you, seriously ask
yourself what harm you have done; when
they censure you, what good.= _Colton._
=When the mind's free, the body's delicate.=
_Lear_, iii. 4.
=When the new light which we beg for shines
in upon us, there be who envy and oppose,
if it come not in first at their casements.=
_Milton._
=When the oak-tree is felled, the whole forest= 45
=echoes with it; but a hundred acorns are
planted silently by some unnoticed breeze.=
_Carlyle._
=When the Phœnix is fanning her funeral pyre,
will there not be sparks flying?= _Carlyle._
=When the power of imparting joy / Is equal to
the will, the human soul / Requires no other
heaven.= _Shelley._
=When the quality of bravery is near, a great
man's terrors are at a distance. In the hour
of misfortune such a great man overcometh
bravery.= _Hitopadesa._
=When the reason of old establishments is gone,
it is absurd to keep nothing but the burden
of them. This is superstitiously to embalm
a carcase not worth an ounce of the gums
that are used to embalm it.= _Burke._
=When the sheep is too meek, all the lambs
suck it.= _Spurgeon._
=When the shore is won at last, / Who will
count the billows past?= _Keble._
=When the soul breathes through a man's intellect,
it is genius; when it breaks through
his will, it is virtue; when it flows through
his affection, it is love.= _Emerson._
=When the strong box contains no more, ... /= 5
=Both friends and flatterers shun the door.=
_Plutarch._
=When the sun is highest, he casts the least
shadow.= _Pr._
=When the tale of bricks is doubled, then
comes Moses.= _Heb. Pr._
=When the weather been maist fair, the dust
flies highest in the air.= _Sir David Lindsay._
=When the will's ready the feet's licht.= _Sc. Pr._
=When the wind= (civic tumult) =arises, worship= 10
=the echo= (retire into the country). _Pythagoras._
=When the world has once got hold of a lie, it
is astonishing how hard it is to get it out of
the world. You beat it about the head, till
it seems to have given up the ghost, and lo!
the next day it is as healthy as ever.= _Bulwer
Lytton._
=When they will not give a doit to relieve a
lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a
dead Indian.= _Tempest_, ii. 2.
=When things are at their worst, they will
mend.= _Pr._
=When things are once come to the execution,
there is no secrecy comparable to celerity,
like the motion of a bullet in the air, which
flieth so swift as it outruns the eye.= _Bacon._
=When thou dost purpose ought within thy= 15
=power, / Be sure to do it, though it be but
small.= _George Herbert._
=When thou hast thanked thy God for every
blessing sent, / What time will then remain
for murmurs or lament?= _French._
=When thou makest presents, let them be of
such things as will last long; to the end
they may be in some sort immortal, and may
frequently refresh the memory of the receiver.=
_Fuller._
=When thou wishest to give thyself delight, think
of the excellencies of those who live with thee;
the energy of one, the modesty of another, the
liberal kindness of a third.= _Marcus Aurelius._
=When three know it, all know it.= _Pr._
=When thy judgments are in the earth the inhabitants= 20
=of the world will learn righteousness.=
_Bible._
=When Time, who steals our years away, /
Shall steal our pleasures too, / The mem'ry
of the past will stay, / And half our joys
renew.= _T. Moore._
=When timorous knowledge stands considering, /
Audacious ignorance hath done the
deed.= _Daniel._
=When, to gratify a private appetite, it is once
resolved upon that an innocent and a helpless
creature shall be sacrificed, 'tis an easy
matter to pick up sticks enough from any
thicket where it has strayed to make a fire
to offer it up with.= _Sterne._
=When two brethren strings are set alike, / To
move them both but one of them we strike.=
_Cowley._
=When two friends have a common purse, one= 25
=sings and the other weeps.= _Pr._
=When two friends part, they should lock up
one another's secrets and exchange their
keys.= _Owen Feltham._
=When two loving hearts are torn asunder, it is
a shade better to be the one that is driven
away into action, than the bereaved twin
that petrifies at home.= _Charles Reade._
=When unadorn'd, adorn'd the most.= _Thomson._
=When was a god found agreeable to everybody?=
_Carlyle._
=When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe= 30
=this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also
Plato was debtor.= _Emerson._
=When we build= (public edifices), =let us think that
we build for ever.= _Ruskin._
=When we cannot get at the very thing we
wish, never to take up with the next best in
degree to it, that's pitiful beyond description.=
_Sterne._
=When we can't do as we would, we must do
as we can.= _Pr._
=When we destroy an old prejudice, we have
need of a new virtue.= _Mme. de Staël._
=When we discern justice, when we discern= 35
=truth, we do nothing of ourselves; we allow
a passage to its beams.= _Emerson._
=When we have broken our god of tradition,
and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then
may God fire the heart with his presence.=
_Emerson._
=When we have not what we love, we must
love what we have.= _Bussy-Rabutin._
=When we meet with a natural style, we are
surprised and delighted, for we expected to
find an author, and we have found a man.=
_Pascal._
=When we our betters see bearing our woes, /
We scarcely think our miseries our foes.=
_King Lear_, iii. 6.
=When we rise in knowledge, as the prospect= 40
=widens, the objects of our regard become
more obscure, and the unlettered peasant,
whose views are only directed to the narrow
sphere around him, beholds nature with a
finer relish, and tastes her blessings with a
keener appetite, than the philosopher whose
mind attempts to grasp a universal system.=
_Goldsmith._
=When we take people merely as they are, we
make them worse; when we treat them as
if they were what they should be, we improve
them as far as they can be improved.=
_Goethe._
=When whins are out of bloom, kissing is out
of fashion.= _Pr._
=When wine is in, nature comes out.= _George
Meredith._
=When words are scarce they're seldom spent
in vain, / For they breathe truth that breathe
their words in pain.= _Rich. II._, ii. 1.
=When words end, music begins; when they= 45
=suggest, it realises.= _Haweis._
=When worthy men fall out, only one of them
may be faulty at the first; but if strife continue
long, commonly both become guilty.=
_Fuller._
=When you are all agreed upon the time, quoth
the vicar, I'll make it rain.= _Pr._
=When you are compelled to choose between
two hated evils, look both full in the face,
and choose that which least hampers the
spirit and fetters pious deeds.= _Goethe._
=When you are down, poverty, like snowshoes,
keeps your feet fast and prevents
your rising.= _Amer. Pr._
=When you are in doubt abstain.= _Zoroaster._
=When you are predetermined to take one= 5
=soul's advice, act without consulting further
with any soul living.= _Sterne._
=When you are stung by slanderous tongues=
(die Lästerzunge), =comfort yourself with this
thought: it is not the worst fruits that are
gnawed by wasps.= _G. A. Bürger._
=When you cannot get dinner ready, put the
clock back.= _Swift._
=When you do not know what to do, it is a
clear indication that you are to do nothing.=
_Spurgeon._
=When you find yourselves tempted, be sure to
ask advice; and when you see another so,
deal with him gently.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=When you go to Rome, do as Rome does.= _St._ 10
_Ambrose of Milan._
=When you grind your corn, give not the flour
to the devil, and the bran to God.= _It.
Pr._
=When you have bought one fine thing, you
must buy ten more to be all of a piece.=
_Ben. Franklin._
=When you have got so much true knowledge
as is worth fighting for, you are bound to
fight or to die for it, but not to debate
about it any more.= _Ruskin._
=When you have nothing to say, say nothing.=
_Colton._
=When you hear that your neighbour has= 15
=picked up a purse of gold in the street, never
run out into the same street, looking about
you, in order to pick up such another.= _Goldsmith._
=When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be
brief.= _Hor._
=When you know a thing, to hold that you
know it; and when you do not know a thing,
to allow that you do not know it: this is
knowledge.= _Confucius._
=When you leave the unimpaired hereditary
freehold to your children, you do but half
your duty. Both liberty and property are
precarious, unless the possessors have sense
and spirit enough to defend them.= _Junius._
=When you lie down with a short prayer, commit
yourself into the hands of your faithful
Creator; and when you have done, trust
Him with yourself as you must do when you
are dying.= _Jeremy Taylor._
=When you organise a strike, it is war you= 20
=organise; / But to organise our labour were
the labour of the wise.= _Dr. Walter Smith._
=When you see a man with a great deal of religion
displayed in his shop-window, you may
depend upon it he keeps a very small stock
of it within.= _Spurgeon._
=When you see a snake, never mind where he
came from.= _Pr._
=When you see a woman paint, your heart
needna faint.= _Sc. Pr._
=When your broth's ready-made for you, you
mun swallow the thickenin', or else let the
broth alone.= _George Eliot._
=When your head did but ache, / I knit my= 25
=handkerchief about your brows, / The best
I had; a princess wrought it me; / And I
did never ask it you again.= _King John_, iv. 1.
=Whence? O Heavens, whither? Sense knows
not; faith knows not; only that it is through
mystery to mystery, from God to God.= _Carlyle
on the drama of life._
=Whene'er a noble deed is wrought, / Whene'er
is spoken a noble thought, / Our hearts, in
glad surprise, / To higher levels rise.= _Longfellow._
=Whenever a man talks loudly against religion,
always suspect that it is not his reason,
but his passions, which have got the better
of his creed. A bad life and a good belief
are disagreeable and troublesome neighbours;
and when they separate, depend
upon it, 'tis for no other cause but quietness'
sake.= _Sterne._
=Whenever a separation is made between
liberty and justice, neither is, in my opinion,
safe.= _Burke._
=Whenever I see a new-married couple more= 30
=than ordinarily fond before faces, I consider
them as attempting to impose upon the company
or themselves; either hating each other
heartily, or consuming that stock of love in
the beginning of their course which should
serve them throughout their whole journey.=
_Goldsmith._
=Whenever the offence inspires less horror than
the punishment, the rigour of penal law is
obliged to give way to the common feelings
of mankind.= _Gibbon._
=Whenever the people flock to see a miracle,
it is a hundred to one but that they see a
miracle.= _Goldsmith._
=Whenever you find humour, you find pathos
close by its side.= _Whipple._
=Whensoever a man desireth anything inordinately,
he is presently disquieted in himself.=
_Thomas à Kempis._
=Where content is there is a feast.= _Pr._ 35
=Where do we find ourselves? In a series of
which we do not know the extremes, and
believe that it has none.= _Emerson._
=Where drink goes in, wit goes out.= _Pr._
=Where else is the God's presence manifested,
not to our eyes only, but to our hearts, as
in our fellow-men?= _Carlyle._
=Where envying and strife is, there is confusion
and every evil work.= _St. James._
=Where friends are in earnest, each day brings= 40
=its own gain, so that at last the year, when
summed up, is of incalculable advantage.
Details in reality constitute the life; results
may be valuable, but they are more surprising
than useful.= _Goethe._
=Where God gives, envy harms not; and where
he gives not, no labour avails.= _L. Pr._
=Where God has built a church, there the devil
would also build a chapel.= _Luther._
=Where God helps, nought harms.= _Pr._
=Where have they who are running here and
there in search of riches such happiness as
those placid spirits enjoy who are gratified
at the immortal fountain of happiness?= _Hitopadesa._
=Where I am, there every one is.= _Rabbi Hillel._
=Where idolatry ends, Christianity begins; and
where idolatry begins, Christianity ends.=
_Jacobi._
=Where ignorance is bliss, / 'Tis folly to be
wise.= _Gray._
=Where is any author in the world / Teaches
such beauty as a woman's eye?= _Love's L.
Lost_, iv. 3.
=Where is the good of having a right to make= 5
=both yourself and your neighbours miserable?... Mutual
accommodation is the law
of the world, or its inhabitants would all be
wretched together.= _Mrs. Gatty._
=Where is the man who has the power and
skill / To stem the torrent of a woman's
will? / For if she will she will, you may
depend on't; / And if she won't, she won't,
and there's an end on't.= _Dane John Monument
at Canterbury._
=Where it is weakest, the thread breaketh.=
_Pr._
=Where law ends, tyranny begins.= _Fielding._
=Where lies are easily admitted, the father of
lies will not easily be excluded.= _Quarles._
=Where love reigns, disturbing jealousy doth= 10
=call himself affection's sentinel.= _Shakespeare._
=Where man is, are the tropics; where he is
not, the ice-world.= _Ruskin._
=Where Nature's end of language is declined, /
And men talk only to conceal the mind.= (?)
=Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in
the multitude of counsellers there is safety.=
_Bible._
=Where no fault is, there needs no pardon.=
_Pr._
=Where no hope is left, is left no fear.= _Milton._ 15
=Where no oxen are, the crib is clean.= _Pr._
=Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out:
so where there is no tale-bearer, the strife
ceaseth.= _Bible._
=Where none thou canst discern, make for thyself
a path.= _Goethe._
=Where once Truth's flame has burnt, I doubt /
If ever it go fairly out.= _Hannah More._
=Where one is wise, two are happy.= _Pr._ 20
=Where one man shapes his life by precept
and example, there are a thousand who
have it shaped for them by impulse and by
circumstances.= _Lowell._
=Where one member suffers, all the members
suffer with it.= _St. Paul._
=Where peace / And rest can never dwell, hope
never comes, / That comes to all.= _Milton._
=Where people are tied for life, 'tis their mutual
interest not to grow weary of one another.=
_Lady Montagu._
=Where power is absent we may find the robe= 25
=of genius, but we miss the throne.= _Landor._
=Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or
roguery is not far off.= _Johnson._
=Where shame is, there is fear.= _Milton._
=Where the carcase is, the ravens will gather.=
_Pr._
=Where the devil cannot come, he will send.=
_Ger. Pr._
=Where the devil has smoothed your road, /= 30
=Keep to the right like an honest man.= _Dr.
W. Smith._
=Where the greater malady is fix'd, / The
lesser is scarce felt.= _King Lear_, iii. 4.
=Where the heart goes before, like a lamp, and
illumines the pathway, many things are
made clear that else lie hidden in darkness.=
_Longfellow._
=Where the heart is, there the Muses, there the
gods sojourn.= _Emerson._
=Where the meekness of self-knowledge veileth
the front of self-respect, there look thou for
the man whose name none can know but
they will honour.= _Tupper._
=Where there is a mother in the home, matters= 35
=speed well.= _A. B. Alcott._
=Where there is a splashing of dirt, it is good
not to meddle and to keep far away.= _Hitopadesa._
=Where there is much light there is a darker
shadow.= _Goethe._
=Where there is music, nothing really bad can
be.= _Cervantes._
=Where there is mystery, it is generally supposed
that there must also be evil.= _Byron._
=Where there is no envy in the case, our propensity= 40
=to sympathise with joy is much
stronger than our propensity to sympathise
with sorrow.= _Adam Smith._
=Where there is no hook, to be sure there will
hang no bacon.= _Sp. Pr._
=Where there is no hope, there can be no endeavour.=
_Johnson._
=Where there is no law, there is no transgression.=
_St. Paul._
=Where there is no love, all are faults.= _Pr._
=Where there is no shame, there is no honour.= 45
_Pr._
=Where there is no sympathy with the spirit
of man, there can be no sympathy with any
higher spirit.= _Ruskin._
=Where there is smoke there is fire.= _Pr._
=Where there is too much light, our senses don't
perceive; they are only stunned or dazzled
or blinded.= _Pascal._
=Where there's a will there's a way.= _Pr._
=Where there's muckle courtesy there's little= 50
=kindness.= _Sc. Pr._