always be endeavouring to return, and will
peep out and betray herself one time or other.=
_Tillotson._
=Where two or three are gathered together in
my name, there am I in the midst of them.=
_Jesus._
=Where vice is, vengeance follows.= _Sc. Pr._
=Where virtue dwells, the gods have placed
before / The dropping sweat that springs
from every pore, / And ere the feet can reach
her bright abode, / Long, rugged, steep the
ascent, and rough the road.= _Hesiod._
=Where we find echoes, we generally find= 55
=emptiness and hollowness; it is the contrary
with the echoes of the heart.= _J. F.
Boyes._
=Where wealth and freedom reign, contentment
fails, / And honour sinks where commerce
long prevails.= _Goldsmith._
=Where wilt thou go that thou wilt not have
to plough?= _Sp. Pr._
=Where Wisdom steers, wind cannot make you
sink.= _Delaune._
=Where words are scarce, they are seldom
spent in vain.= _Rich. II._, ii. 2.
=Where would be what silly people call Progress
if not for the grumblers?= _John Wagstaffe._
=Where you see your friend, trust to yourself.=
_Sp. Pr._
=Where your treasure is, there will your heart
be also.= _Jesus._
=Where your will is ready, your feet are light.= 5
_Pr._
=Where's the use of a woman's having brains
of her own if she's tackled to a geck as
everybody's a-laughing at?= _George Eliot._
=Whereas Johnson only bowed to every clergyman,
I would bow to every man, were it not
there is a devil dwells in man as well as a
divinity, and too often the bow is but pocketed
by the former.= _Carlyle._
=Where'er I wander, boast of this I can, /
Though banished, yet a true-born Englishman.=
_Rich. II._, i. 3.
=Where'er we tread, 'tis haunted, holy ground.=
_Byron._
=Wherever a man dwells he will be sure to= 10
=have a thorn-bush near his door.= _Pr._
=Wherever a true woman comes, home is
always around her. The stars may be over
her head, the glow-worms in the night-cold
grass may be the fire at her feet; but home
is where she is; and for a noble woman it
stretches far around her, better than houses
ceiled with cedar or painted with vermilion,
shedding its quiet light far for those who else
are homeless.= _Ruskin._
=Wherever in the world I am, / In whatsoe'er
estate, / I have a fellowship with hearts /
To keep and cultivate.= _A. L. Waring._
=Wherever nature does least, man does most.=
_Amer. Pr._
=Wherever snow falls, there is usually civil
freedom.= _Emerson._
=Wherever the devil makes a purchase, he= 15
=never fails to set his mark.= _Goldsmith._
=Wherever the health of the citizens is concerned,
much more where their souls' health,
and as it were their salvation, is concerned,
all governments that are not chimerical
make haste to interfere.= _Carlyle._
=Wherever the speech is corrupted the mind is
also.= _Sen._
=Wherever the tree of beneficence takes root,
it sends forth branches beyond the sky.=
_Saadi._
=Wherever there is a parliament, there must
of necessity be an opposition.= _John Wagstaffe._
=Wherever there is a sky above him and a= 20
=world around him, the poet is in his place;
for here too is man's existence, with its infinite
longings and small acquirings; its
ever-thwarted, ever-renewed endeavours;
its unspeakable aspirations, its fears and
hopes that wander through eternity; and
all the mystery of brightness and of gloom
that it was ever made of, in any age or
climate, since man first began to live.= _Carlyle._
=Wherever there is authority, there is a natural
inclination to disobedience.= _Judge Haliburton._
=Wherever there is cupidity, there the blessing
of the Gospel cannot rest. The actual poor,
therefore, may altogether fail to be objects
of that blessing, the actual rich may be the
objects of it in the highest degree.= _Matthew
Arnold._
=Wherever there is power there is age.= _Emerson._
=Wherever there is war, there must be injustice
on one side or the other, or on both.=
_Ruskin._
=Wherever women are honoured, the gods are= 25
=satisfied.= _Manu._
=Wherever work is done, victory is obtained.=
_Emerson._
=Wherever you see a gaming-table, be very
sure Fortune is not there.... She is ever
seen accompanying industry, and as often
trundling a wheelbarrow as lolling in a
coach and six.= _Goldsmith._
=Wherever your lot is cast, duty to yourself and
others suggests the propriety of adapting
your conduct to the circumstances in which
you are placed.= _Samuel Lover._
=Wherefore ever ramble on? / For the good is
lying near. / Fortune learn to seize alone, /
For that Fortune's ever here.= _Goethe._
=Wherefore waste I time to counsel thee / That= 30
=art a votary to fond desire?= _Two Gent. of
Verona_, i. 1.
=Wherein does barbarism consist, unless in not
appreciating what is excellent?= _Goethe._
=Wheresoever a man seeketh his own, there he
falleth from love.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Wheresoever the carcass is, there will the
eagles be gathered together.= _Jesus._
=Wheresoever the search after truth begins,
there life begins; wheresoever the search
ceases, there life ceases.= _Ruskin._
=Wheresoever two or three living men are= 35
=gathered together, there is society; or there
it will be, with its mechanisms and structures,
over-spreading this little globe, and
reaching upwards to Heaven and downwards
to Gehenna.= _Carlyle._
=Whereto serves mercy, / But to confront the
visage of offence? / And what's in prayer,
but this twofold force,--to be forestalled ere
we come to fall, / Or pardon'd, being down?
Then I'll look up.= _Ham._, iii. 3.
=Whether a child, or an old man, or a youth, be
come to thy house, he is to be treated with
respect; for of all men, thy guest is the
superior.= _Hitopadesa._
=Whether a revolution succeeds or fails, men of
great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.=
_Heine._
=Whether he be rich or whether he be poor, if
he= (a man), =have a good heart, he shall at all
times rejoice in a cheerful countenance; his
mind shall tell him more than seven watchmen
that sit above upon a tower on high.=
_Ecclus._
=Whether it be for life or death, do your own= 40
=work well.= _Ruskin._
=Whether one show one's self a man of genius
in science or compose a song, the only
point is, whether the thought, the discovery,
the deed, is living and can live on.= _Goethe._
=Whether religion be true or false, it must be
necessarily granted to be the only wise principle
and safe hypothesis for a man to live
and die by.= _Tillotson._
=Whether the pitcher strike the stone or the
stone the pitcher, it is bad for the pitcher.=
_Pr._
=Whether you boil snow or pound it, you can
have but water of it.= _Pr._
=Which death is preferable to every other?
"The unexpected."= _Cæsar._
=Which highest mortal, in this inane existence,
had I not found a shadow-hunter or shadow-hunted;
and, when I looked through his
brave garnitures, miserable enough?= _Carlyle._
=Which is the great secret? The open secret= 5
(open, that is, to all, seen by almost none).
_Goethe._
=Which is the lightest in the scale of Fate? /
That where fond Cupid still is adding
weight.= _Quarles._
=Which of all the philosophies think you will
stand? / I know not, but philosophy itself, I
hope will continue with us for ever.= _Schiller._
=Which of your philosophical systems is other
than a dream-theorem; a net quotient, confidently
given out, where divisor and dividend
are both unknown?= _Carlyle._
=Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell; / And
in the lowest deep a lower deep, / Still
threat'ning to devour me, opens wide, / To
which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.=
_Milton._
=Whichever you do, you will regret it.= _Socrates,_ 10
_to one who asked him whether he should marry
or not._
=While a man gets he never can lose.= _Sp. Pr._
=While conscience is our friend, all is peace;
but if once offended, farewell the tranquil
mind.= _Mary Wortley Montagu._
=While craving justice for ourselves, it is never
wise to be unjust to others.= _Lew Wallace._
=While digestion lasts, life cannot, in philosophical
language, be said to be extinct.=
_Carlyle._
=While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert= 15
=only irritates. You must wait till grief be
digested, and then amusement will dissipate
the remains of it.= _Johnson._
=While manufacture is the work of hands only,
art is the work of the whole spirit of man;
and as that spirit is, so is the deed of it.=
_Ruskin._
=While men sleep, / Sad-hearted mothers heave,
that wakeful lie, / To muse upon some darling
child / Roaming in youth's uncertain
wild.= _Keble._
=While mistakes are increasing, like population,
at the rate of twelve hundred a-day,
the benefit of seizing one and throttling it
would be perfectly inconsiderable.= _Carlyle._
=While others tippled, Sam from drinking
shrunk, / Which made the rest think Sam
alone was drunk.= _Lucian._
=While the serpent sheds its old skin, the new= 20
=is already formed beneath.= _Carlyle._
=While there is hope left, let not the weakness
of sorrow make the strength of resolution
languish.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=While thy shoe is on thy foot, tread upon the
thorns.= _Pr._
=While we are indifferent to our good qualities,
we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to
our faults, until we come to look upon them
as virtues.= _Heine._
=While we are reasoning concerning life, life is
gone.= _Hume._
=While we think to revenge an injury, we many= 25
=times begin one, and after that repent our
misconceptions.= _Feltham._
=While you live, tell truth and shame the devil.=
1 _Hen. IV._, iii. 1.
=Whilst a man confideth in Providence, he
should not slacken his own exertions; for
without labour he is unworthy to obtain the
oil from the seed.= _Hitopadesa._
=Whilst lions war and battle for their dens, /
Poor harmless lambs abide their enmity.=
3 _Hen. VI._, ii. 5.
=Whilst we converse with what is above us,
we do not grow old, but grow young.=
_Emerson._
=Whining lover may as well request / A scornful= 30
=breast / To melt in gentle tears, as woo
the world for rest.= _Quarles._
=Whistle, and I'll come to ye, my lad.= _Burns._
=Whistling aloud to bear his courage up.=
_Blair._
=White lies always introduce others of a darker
complexion.= _Paley._
=Who are wise in love, love most, say least.=
_Tennyson._
=Who ascends to mountain-tops, shall find /= 35
=The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and
snow.= _Byron._
=Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his
mind, / And to party gave up what was
meant for mankind; / Though fraught with
all learning, yet straining his throat / To
persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him a
vote.= _Goldsmith._
=Who bravely dares most sometimes risk a fall.=
_Smollett._
=Who breaks his own bond, forfeiteth himself.=
_George Herbert._
=Who breathes must suffer, and who thinks
must mourn; / And he alone is bless'd who
ne'er was born.= _Prior._
=Who builds a church to God and not to fame, /= 40
=Will never mark the marble with his name.=
_Pope._
=Who but the poet was it that first formed gods
for us; that exalted us to them, and brought
them down to us?= _Goethe._
=Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? /
Or sells eternity to get a toy?= _Shakespeare._
=Who by repentance is not satisfied / Is not of
heaven, nor earth.= _Two Gent. of Verona_,
v. 4.
=Who can be patient in extremes?= 3 _Hen. VI._,
i. 1.
=Who can compute what the world loses in the= 45
=multitude of promising intellects combined
with timid characters, who dare not follow
out any bold, vigorous, independent train of
thought, lest it should land them in something
which would admit of being considered
irreligious or immoral?= _J. S. Mill._
=Who can direct when all pretend to know?=
_Goldsmith._
=Who can do nothing of sovran worth / Which
men shall praise, a higher task may find, /
Plodding his dull round on the common
earth, / But conquering envies rising in the
mind.= _Dr. W. Smith._
=Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price
is far above rubies. The heart of her husband
doth safely trust in her, so that he
shall have no need of spoil. She will do him
good and not evil, all the days of her life.
She looketh well to the ways of her household,
and eateth not the bread of idleness.
Her children arise up, and call her blessed.=
_Bible._
=Who can heal the woes of him to whom
balm has become poison, who has imbibed
hatred of mankind from the fulness of love?=
_Goethe._
=Who can say, I have made my heart clean,
I am pure from my sin?= _Bible._
=Who cannot rest till he good fellows find, /
He breaks up house, turns out of doors his
mind.= _George Herbert._
=Who chatters to you, will chatter of you.= 5
_Pr._
=Who coldly lives to himself and his own will
may gratify many a wish; but he who
strives to guide others well must be able
to dispense with much.= _Goethe._
=Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, /
He dreads a death-bed like the meanest
slave; / Who reasons wisely is not therefore
wise,--/ His pride in reasoning, not in
acting lies.= _Pope._
=Who could pin down a shadow to the ground, /
And take its measure?= _Dr. W. Smith._
=Who digs a pit for others falls into it himself.=
_Ger. Pr._
=Who does not act is dead; absorpt entire / In= 10
=miry sloth, no pride, no joy he hath: / O
leaden-hearted men, to be in love with
death!= _Thomson._
=Who does not help us at the needful moment
never helps; who does not counsel at the
needful moment never counsels.= _Goethe._
=Who does not in his friends behold the world, /
Deserves not that the world should hear of
him.= _Goethe._
=Who does the best his circumstance allows, /
Does well, does nobly; angels could no
more.= _Young._
=Who doth not work shall not eat.= _Pr._
=Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?= 15
_Marlowe._
=Who fastest walks, but walks astray, / Is only
farthest from his way.= _Prior._
=Who fears death forfeits life.= _Seume._
=Who fears to do ill sets himself a task; / Who
fears to do well sure should wear a mask.=
_Herbert._
=Who feels injustice, who shrinks before a
slight, who has a sense of wrong so acute,
and so glowing a gratitude for kindness,
as a generous boy?= _Thackeray._
=Who firmly can resolve, he conquers grief.= 20
_Goethe._
=Who follows all things forfeiteth his will.=
_George Herbert._
=Who forces himself on others is to himself
a load. Impetuous curiosity is empty and
inconstant. Prying intrusion may be suspected
of whatever is little.= _Lavater._
=Who gets by play proves loser in the end.=
_Heath._
=Who gives a trifle meanly is meaner than the
trifle.= _Lavater._
=Who gives the lilies clothing, / Will clothe his= 25
=people too.= _Cowper._
=Who goes a-borrowing, goes a-sorrowing.=
_Pr._
=Who had hoped for triumph, but who was prepared
for sacrifice.= _I. Disraeli._
=Who has a daring eye tells downright truths
and downright lies.= _Lavater._
=Who has a head will not want a hat.= _It.
Pr._
=Who has not felt how sadly sweet / The dream= 30
=of home, the dream of home, / Steals o'er the
heart, too soon to fleet, / When far o'er sea
or land we roam? / Sunlight more soft may
o'er us fall, / To greener shores our bark
may come; / But far more bright, more dear
than all, / That dream of home, that dream
of home.= _Moore._
=Who hath a greater combat than he that
laboureth to overcome himself?= _Thomas à
Kempis._
=Who hath not known ill fortune never knew
himself or his own virtue.= _Mallet._
=Who here with life would sport, / In life shall
prosper never; / And he who ne'er will rule
himself, / A slave shall be for ever.= _Goethe._
=Who, in the midst of just provocation to anger,
instantly finds the fit word which settles all
around him in silence, is more than wise or
just; he is, were he a beggar, of more than
royal blood--he is of celestial descent.= _Lavater._
=Who in want a hollow friend doth try, /= 35
=Directly seasons him his enemy.= _Ham._,
iii. 2.
=Who is a stranger to those who have the
habit of speaking kindly.= _Hitopadesa._
=Who is sure he hath a soul, unless / It see and
judge, and follow worthiness, / And by deeds
praise it? He who doth not this / May lodge
an inmate soul, but 'tis not his.= _Donne._
=Who is sure of his own motives can with confidence
advance or retreat.= _Goethe._
=Who is the best captain of a ship? The
grumbler and the man of discipline, who
will have things as they ought to be, even
though he lose every sailor serving under
him by his severity.= _John Wagstaffe._
=Who is the best general? The grumbler who= 40
=insists upon having everything in mathematical
order, and who has not the smallest
drop of the milk of human kindness about
him, whenever it is a question of duty or
efficiency.= _John Wagstaffe._
=Who is the happiest man? He who is alive
to the merit of others, and can rejoice in
their enjoyment as if it were his own.=
_Goethe._
=Who is the most sensible man? He who finds
what is to his own advantage in all that
happens to him.= _Goethe._
=Who is there almost, whose mind at some
time or other, love or anger, fear or grief,
has not so fastened to some clog that it
could not turn itself to any other object?=
_Locke._
=Who is there that can clutch into the wheel-spokes
of destiny, and say to the spirit of
the time: Turn back, I command thee?
Wiser were it that we yielded to the inevitable
and inexorable, and accounted even
this the best.= _Carlyle._
=Who is't can say, I'm at the worst? / I'm worse
than ere I was, / And worse I may be yet;
the worst is not, / So long as we can say, /
This is the worst.= _Lear_, iv. 1.
=Who judgeth well, well God them send; / Who
judgeth evil, God them amend.= _Sir Thomas
Wyatt._
=Who keeps no guard upon himself is slack, /
And rots to nothing at the next great thaw.=
_George Herbert._
=Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature,
but he who kills a good book kills reason
itself.= _Milton._
=Who knows art half, speaks much and is always= 5
=wrong; who knows it wholly, inclines
to act, and speaks seldom or late.= _Goethe._
=Who knows not that truth is strong, next to
the Almighty? She needs no politics, nor
stratagems, nor licensings to make her victorious;
those are the shifts and the defences
that error uses against her power; give her
but room and do not bind her when she
sleeps.= _Milton._
=Who knows the mind has the key to all things
else.= _A. B. Alcott._
=Who knows what Love is, may not sup /
On that which is not still divine.= _Dr. W.
Smith._
=Who leaves all receives more.= _Emerson._
=Who looks not before finds himself behind.= 10
_Pr._
=Who loves his own sweet shadow in the
streets / Better than e'er the fairest she he
meets.= _Burns._
=Who loves me, loves my dog.= _L. Pr._
=Who loves, raves.= _Byron._
=Who made the heart, 'tis He alone / Decidedly
can try us; / He knows each chord, its various
tone, / Each spring, its various bias. /
Then at the balance let's be mute, / We
never can adjust it; / What's done we partly
may compute, / But know not what's resisted.=
_Burns._
=Who make poor "will do" wait upon "I= 15
=should;" / We own they're prudent, but
who owns they're good?= _Burns._
=Who marks in church-time others' symmetry, /
Makes all their beauty his deformity.= _George
Herbert._
=Who never climbs will never fa'.= _Sc. Pr._
=Who never doubted never half believed.=
_Bailey._
=Who overcomes / By force, hath overcome
But half his foe.= _Milton._
=Who pants for glory finds but short repose; /= 20
=A breath revives him or a breath o'erthrows.=
_Pope._
=Who plays for more / Than he can lose with
pleasure, stakes his heart.= _George Herbert._
=Who questioneth much, shall learn much, and
content much.= _Bacon._
=Who riseth from a feast / With that keen
appetite that he sits down? / Where is the
horse that doth untread again / His tedious
measures with the unabated fire / That he
did pace them first? All things that are /
Are with more spirit chaséd than enjoy'd.=
_Mer. of Venice_, ii. 6.
=Who say, I care not, those I give for lost; /
And to instruct them, 'twill not quit the
cost.= _George Herbert._
=Who seeks Him in the dark and cold, / With= 25
=heart that elsewhere finds no rest, / Some
fringe of the skirts of God shall hold, /
Though round his spirit the mists may fold, /
With eerie shadows and fears untold.= _Dr.
W. Smith._
=Who shall be true to us, / When we are so unsecret
to ourselves?= _Troil. and Cress._, iii. 2.
=Who shall decide when doctors disagree, /
And soundest casuists doubt, like you and
me.= _Pope._
=Who shall place / A limit to the giant's unchained
strength, / Or curb his swiftness in
the forward race?= _W. C. Bryant._
=Who shall say that Fortune grieves him, /
While the star of hope she leaves him?=
_Burns._
=Who should be trusted when one's right= 30
=hand / Is perjured to the bosom?= _Two Gent.
of Verona_, v. 4.
=Who shuts love out shall be shut out from
love.= _Tennyson._
=Who so firm that cannot be seduced?= _Jul.
Cæs._, i. 2.
=Who so unworthy but may proudly deck him /
With his fair-weather virtue, that exults /
Glad o'er the summer main? The tempest
comes, / The rough winds rage aloud; when
from the helm / This virtue shrinks, and in
a corner lies / Lamenting.= _Thomson._
=Who soars too near the sun with golden
wings melts them.= _Shakespeare._
=Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the= 35
=deepest in man, and finds the readiest response.=
_A. B. Alcott._
=Who spouts his message to the wilderness, /
Lightens his soul and feels one burden less; /
But to the people preach, and you will find /
They'll pay you back with thanks ill to your
mind.= _Goethe, Prof. Blackie's translation._
=Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something,
nothing; / 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has
been slave to thousands; / But he that filches
from me my good name, / Robs me of that
which not enriches him, / And makes me poor
indeed.= _Othello_, iii. 3.
=Who surpasses or subdues mankind / Must
look down on the hate of those below.= _Byron._
=Who the race of men doth love, / Loves also
him above.= _Lewis Morris._
=Who to dumb forgetfulness a prey, / This= 40
=pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd; / Left
the warm precincts of the cheerful day, /
Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind?=
_Gray._
=Who track the steps of glory to the grave.=
_Byron._
=Who trusts in God fears not his rod.= _Goethe._
=Who values a good night's rest will not lie
down with enmity in his heart if he can help
it.= _Sterne._
=Who values that anger which is consumed
only in empty menaces?= _Goldsmith._
=Who walks through fire will hardly heed the= 45
=smoke.= _Tennyson._
=Who watches not catches not.= _Dut. Pr._
="Who will guard the guards?" says a Latin
verse,--"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"
I answer, "The enemy." It is the enemy
who keeps the sentinel watchful.= _Mme.
Swetchine._
=Who will not mercy unto others show, / How
can he mercy ever hope to have?= _Spenser._
=Who would bear the whips and scorns of
time, / The oppressor's wrong, the proud
man's contumely, / The pangs of despised
love, the law's delay, / The insolence of
office and the spurns / That patient merit
of the unworthy takes, / When he himself
might his quietus make / With a bare bodkin?=
_Ham._, iii. 1.
=Who would check the happy feeling / That
inspires the linnet's song? / Who would stop
the swallow wheeling / On her pinions swift
and strong?= _Wordsworth._
=Who would fardels bear, / To grunt and sweat
under a weary life, / But that the dread of
something after death, / The undiscover'd
country from whose bourn / No traveller
returns, puzzles the will, / And makes us
rather bear those ills we have / Than fly to
others that we know not of?= _Ham._, iii. 1.
=Whoever acquires knowledge but does not= 5
=practise it, is as one who ploughs but does
not sow.= _Saadi._
=Whoever aims at doing or enjoying all and
everything with his entire nature, whoever
tries to link together all that is without him
by such a species of enjoyment will only lose
his time in efforts that can never be successful.=
_Goethe._
=Whoever can administer what he possesses,
has enough, and to be wealthy is a burdensome
affair, unless you understand it.= _Goethe._
=Whoever can discern truth has received his
commission from a higher source than the
chiefest judge in the world, who can discern
only law.= _Thoreau._
=Whoever can make two ears of corn or two
blades of grass grow where only one grew
before, deserves better of mankind, and does
more service to his country, than the whole
race of politicians put together.= _Swift._
=Whoever can turn his weeping eyes to heaven= 10
=has lost nothing, for there above is everything
he can wish for here below. He only
is a loser who persists in looking down on
the narrow plains of the present time.= _Jean
Paul._
=Whoever converses much among old books
will be hard to please among new.= _Temple._
=Whoever despises mankind will never get the
best out of others or himself.= _Tocqueville._
=Whoever does not respect confidence will
never find happiness in his path.= _Saying._
=Whoever fights, whoever falls, / Justice conquers
evermore.= _Emerson._
=Whoever gives himself to this= (evil-speaking and 15
evil-wishing), =soon comes to be indifferent towards
God, contemptuous towards the world,
spiteful towards his equals; and the true,
genuine indispensable sentiment of self-estimation
corrupts into self-conceit and presumption.=
_Goethe._
=Whoever has lived twenty years ought to
know how to order himself without physic.=
_Tiberius, quoted by Montaigne._
=Whoever has no fixed opinions has no constant
feelings.= _Joubert._
=Whoever has seen the masked at a ball dance
amicably together, and take hold of hands
without knowing each other, leaving the
next moment to meet no more, can form an
idea of the world.= _Vauvenargues._
=Whoever has sixpence is sovereign over all
men--to the extent of the sixpence; commands
cooks to feed him, philosophers to
teach him, kings to mount guard over him--to
the extent of sixpence.= _Carlyle._
=Whoever has so far formed his taste as to be= 20
=able to relish and feel the beauties of the
great masters, has gone a great way in his
study.= _Joshua Reynolds._
=Whoever is a genuine follower of truth, keeps
his eye steady upon his guide, indifferent
whither he is lead, provided that she is the
leader.= _Burke._
=Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing
he is about is too big for him. Haste and
hurry are very different things.= _Chesterfield._
=Whoever is king, is also the father of his
country.= _Congreve._
=Whoever is out of patience is out of possession
of his soul.= _Bacon._
=Whoever may / Discern true ends will grow= 25
=pure enough / To love them, brave enough
to strive for them, / And strong enough to
reach them, though the road be rough.= _E.
B. Browning._
=Whoever perseveres will be crowned.= _Herder._
=Whoever serves his country well has no need
of ancestors.= _Voltaire._
=Whoever sinks his vessel by overloading it,
though it be with gold, and silver, and
precious stones, will give his owner but an
ill account of his voyage.= _Locke._
=Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, /
Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall
be.= _Pope._
=Whoever will thrust Magdalen into the pit= 30
=will find that he has dropped with her into
the flames the key that should have opened
heaven for him, and assuredly shall he remain
outside until she, her purification completed,
shall take pity on him and bring it
thence.= _Celia Burleigh._
=Whoever wishes to attain an English style,
familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not
ostentatious, must give his days and nights
to the volumes of Addison.= _Johnson._
=Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide
from us that he possesses one.= _Goethe._
=Whoever would persuade men to religion
both with art and efficacy, must found the
persuasion of it upon this, that it interferes
not with any rational pleasure, that it bids
nobody quit the enjoyment of any one thing
that his reason can prove to him ought to be
enjoyed.= _South._
=Whole, half, and quarter mistakes are very
difficult and troublesome to correct and sift,
and it is hard to set what is true in them in
its proper place.= _Goethe._
=Wholesome berries thrive and ripen best, /= 35
=Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality.= _Hen.
V._, i. 1.
=Wholly a man of action, with speech subservient
thereto.= _Carlyle of his father._
=Whom God teaches not, man cannot.= _Gael._
=Whom Heaven has made a slave, no parliament
of men, nor power that exists on earth,
can render free.= _Carlyle._
="Whom the gods love die young," was said
of yore.= _Byron._
=Whom the grandeur of his office elevates over
other men will soon find that the first hour of
his new dignity is the last of his independence.=
_Chancellor D'Aguesseau._
=Whom the heart of man shuts out, straightway
the heart of God takes in.= _Lowell._
=Whom well inspir'd the oracle pronounced /
Wisest of men.= _Milton, of Socrates._
=Whose faith has centre everywhere, / Nor
cares to fix itself to form.= _Tennyson._
=Whoso believes, let him begin to fulfil.= _Carlyle._ 5
=Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like
clouds and wind without rain.= _Bible._
=Whoso can look on death will start at no
shadows.= _Greek saying._
=Whoso can speak well is a man.= _Luther._
=Whoso cannot obey cannot be free, still less
bear rule; he that is the inferior of nothing,
can be the superior of nothing, the equal of
nothing.= _Carlyle._
=Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his= 10
=lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.=
_Bible._
=Whoso devours the substance of the poor will
at length find in it a bone to choke him.=
_Fr. Pr._
=Whoso does not good, does evil enough.= _Pr._
=Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing,
and obtaineth favour of the Lord.= _Bible._
=Whoso hath love in his heart hath spurs in his
sides.= _It. Pr._
=Whoso findeth me= (Wisdom) =findeth life, and= 15
=shall obtain favour of the Lord.= _Bible._
=Whoso hath skill in this art= (music) =is of a good
temperament, fitted for all things.= _Martin
Luther._
=Whoso is not a misanthropist at forty can
never have loved his kind.= _Chamfort._
=Whoso keepeth the fig-tree shall eat the fruit
thereof; so he that waiteth on his master
shall be honoured.= _Bible._
=Whoso lives for humanity must be content to
lose himself.= _O. B. Frothingham._
=Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his= 20
=Maker; and he that is glad at calamities
shall not be unpunished.= _Bible._
=Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not
depart from his house.= _Bible._
=Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and
saith, It is no transgression, the same is the
companion of a destroyer.= _Bible._
=Whoso serves the public is a poor creature=
(_ein armes Thier_); =he worries himself, and no
one is grateful to him for his services.= _Goethe._
=Whoso should combine the intrepid candour
and decisive scientific clearness of Hume
with the reverence, the love, and devout
humility of Johnson, were the whole man of
a new time.= _Carlyle._
=Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the= 25
=poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not
be heard.= _Bible._
=Whoso trusteth in the Lord, happy is he.=
_Bible._
=Whoso, without poetic frenzy, knocks at the
doors of the Muses, presuming that his art
alone will suffice to make him a poet, both
he and his poetry are hopelessly thrown
away.= _Plato._
=Whoso would find God must bring him with
him; thou seest him in things outside of
thee, only when he is within thee.= _Rückert._
=Whoso would work aright must not concern
himself about what is ill done, but only do
well himself.= _Goethe._
=Whoso would write clearly must think clearly,= 30
=and if he would write in a noble style, he
must first possess a noble soul.= _Goethe._
=Whosoever and whatsoever introduces itself
and appears, in the firm earth of human
business, or, as we well say, comes into
existence, must proceed from the world of
the supernatural; whatsoever of a material
sort deceases and disappears might be expected
to go thither.= _Carlyle._
=Whosoever forsaketh not all that he hath,
cannot be my disciple.= _Jesus._
=Whosoever has not seized the whole cannot
yet speak truly (much less musically, concordantly)
of any part.= _Carlyle._
=Whosoever hath not patience, neither doth be
possess philosophy.= _Saadi._
=Whosoever hath his mind fraught with many= 35
=thoughts, his wits and understanding do
clarify and break up, in the communicating
and discoursing with another. He
tosseth his thoughts more easily, he marshalleth
them more orderly, he seeth how
they look when they are turned into
words; finally, he waxeth wiser than himself.=
_Bacon._
=Whosoever, in the frame of his nature and
affections, is unfit for friendship, he taketh
it of the beast, and not from humanity.=
_Bacon._
="Whosoever quarrels with his fate, does not
understand it," says Bettine; and among all
her inspired sayings, she spoke none wiser.=
_Mrs. Child._
=Whosoever shall do the will of my Father
which is in heaven, the same is my brother,
and sister, and mother.= _Jesus._
=Whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased;
and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.=
_Jesus._
=Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of= 40
=God as a little child, he shall not enter
therein.= _Jesus._
=Whosoever will be great among you, let him be
your servant.= _Jesus to his disciples._
=Whosoever will save his life shall lose it; and
whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall
find it.= _Jesus._
=Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit
once; / And He that might the vantage best
have took / Found out the remedy. How
would you be / If He, which is the top of
judgment, should / But judge you as you
are?= _Meas. for Meas._, ii. 2.
=Why am I loth to leave this earthly scene? /
Have I so found it full of pleasing charms? /
Some drops of joy with draughts of ill between; /
Some gleams of sunshine 'mid renewing
storms.= _Burns._
=Why are taste= (_Geschmack_) =and genius so= 45
=seldom willing to unite? The former is
shy of power, the latter scorns restraint.=
_Schiller._
=Why complain of wanting light? It is courage,
energy, perseverance that I want.=
_Carlyle._
=Why do we discover faults so much more
readily than perfections?= _Mme. de Sévigné._
=Why do we pray to Heaven without setting
our own shoulder to the wheel?= _Carlyle._
=Why does it signify to us what they think of
us after death, when our being has become
only an empty sound?= _Auerbach._
=Why does that hyssop grow there in the
chink of the wall? Because the whole universe,
sufficiently occupied otherwise, could
not hitherto prevent its growing. It has the
might and the right.= _Carlyle._
=Why don't the men propose, mamma? / Why= 5
=don't the men propose?= _T. H. Bayly._
=Why dost thou try to find / Where charity
doth flow? / Upon the waters cast thy bread, /
Who eats it, who may know?= _Goethe._
=Why has not man a microscopic eye? / For
this plain reason--man is not a fly.= _Pope._
=Why insist, ye heroes, against the will of
Jupiter, in pressing a Hercules into your
enterprise? Know ye not that for him there
is quite other work appointed, which he
must do all alone, and not another with
him?= _Ed._
=Why is it that Love must so often sigh in
vain for an object, and Hate never?= _Jean
Paul._
=Why is it that we can better bear to part in= 10
=spirit than in body, and, while we have the
fortitude to act farewell, have not the nerve
to say it?= _Dickens._
=Why is there no man who confesses his vices?
It is because he has not yet laid them aside.
It is a waking man only who can tell his
dreams.= _Sen._
=Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow
world / Like a Colossus, and we petty men /
Walk under his huge legs and peep about /
To find ourselves dishonourable graves.=
_Jul. Cæs._, i. 2.
=Why, nothing comes amiss, so money comes
withal.= _Tam. the Shrew_, i. 2.
=Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, /
Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, / And
hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, /
Than in the perfumed chambers of the
great, / Under the canopies of costly state, /
And lull'd with sounds of sweetest melody?=
2 _Hen. IV._, iii. 1.
=Why seek at once to dive into / The depth of= 15
=all that meets your view? / Wait for the
melting of the snow, / And then you'll see
what lies below.= _Prof. Blackie from Goethe._
=Why should a man, whose blood is warm
within, / Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster?=
_Mer. of Venice_, i. 1.
="Why should calamity be full of words?" /
"Let them have scope; though what they
do impart / Help not at all, yet do they ease
the heart."= _Rich. III._, iv. 4.
=Why should honour outlive honesty?= _Othello_,
v. 2.
=Why should I make a shadow where God
makes all so bright?= _Dr. Walter Smith._
=Why should not conscience have vacation /= 20
=As well as other courts o' th' nation?= _Butler._
=Why should the Garment of Praise destroy
the Spirit of Heaviness? Because an old
woman cannot sing and cry at the same
moment ... one emotion destroys another.=
_Prof. Drummond._
=Why should the poor be flatter'd? / No, let
the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, / And
crook the pregnant hinges of the knee, /
Where thrift may follow fawning.= _Ham._,
iii. 2.
=Why should thy satisfaction be placed upon
a thing which makes thee not one whit the
better or the worse?= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Why should we crave a hallow'd spot? / An
altar is in each man's cot, / A church in
every grove that spreads / Its living roof
above our heads.= _Wordsworth._
=Why should we faint and fear to live alone, /= 25
=Since all alone, so Heaven has willed, we
die, / Nor even the tenderest heart, and
next our own, / Knows half the reasons why
we smile or sigh?= _Keble._
=Why should we go a-jaunting when the heart
wants to repose.= _Dr. Walter Smith._
=Why should we have any serious disgust at
kitchens? Perhaps they are the holiest recesses
of the house. There is the hearth, after
all,--and the settle, and the fagots, and the
kettle, and the crickets. They are the heart,
the left ventricle, the very vital part of the
house.= _Thoreau._
=Why so large cost, having so short a lease, /
Dost thou upon thy fading mansion spend?=
_Shakespeare._
=Why such heat= (crushing superstition)? =Other
nonsense, quite equal to it, will be almost
sure to follow.= _Frederick the Great to Voltaire._
=Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker if it= 30
=is not the truth that he is speaking? If an
eloquent speaker is not speaking the truth,
is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?=
_Carlyle._
=Why, then, the world's mine oyster, / Which
I with sword will open.= _Merry Wives_,
ii. 2.
=Why, universal plodding prisons up / The
nimble spirits in the arteries, / As motion and
long-during action tires / The sinewy vigour
of the traveller.= _Love's L. Lost_, iv. 3.
=Why, what should be the fear? / I do not set
my life at a pin's fee; / And for my soul, what
can it do to that, / Being a thing immortal as
itself?= _Ham._, i. 4.
=Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually
set their mark upon the face, especially
the eyes.= _Schopenhauer._
=Wickedness is its own punishment.= _Quarles._ 35
=Wickedness is voluntary frenzy, and every
sinner does more extravagant things than
any man that is crazed and out of his wits,
only that he knows better what he does.=
_Tillotson._
=Wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that
leadeth to destruction.= _Jesus._
=Wide our world displays its worth, man's
strife and strife's success, / All the good and
beauty, wonder crowning wonder, / Till my
heart and soul applaud perfection, nothing
less.= _Browning._
=Wide will wear, but tight will tear.= _Pr._
=Wie alles sich zum Ganzen webt / Eins in= 40
=dem andern wirkt und lebt!=--How everything
weaves itself into the whole; one works and
lives in the other. _Goethe._
=Wie bitter sind der Trennung Leiden!=--How
bitter are the pangs of parting! _Mozart._
=Wie das Auge, hat das Herz / Seine Sprache
ohne Worte=--The heart, like the eye, has its
speech without words. _Bodenstedt._
=Wie das Gestirn, / Ohne Hast, / Aber ohne
Rast, / Drehe sich jeder / Um die eigne Last=--Like
a star, without haste, yet without rest, let
each one revolve round his own task. _Goethe._
=Wie der alte verbrennt, steigt der neue sogleich
wieder aus der Asche hervor=--(Our
passions are true phœnixes;) when the old one
is burnt out, the new one rises straightway out
of its ashes. _Goethe._
=Wie der Sternenhimmel still und bewegt=--Like
the starry heavens, still and in motion. _J. C. F.
Hölderlin._
=Wie die Alten sungen, so zwitschern auch die= 5
=Jungen=--As the old birds sing, so will the young
ones twitter.
=Wie die Blumen die Erd', und die Sterne den
Himmel / Zieren, so zieret Athen Hellas und
Hellas die Welt=--As the flowers adorn the
earth and the stars the sky, so Athens adorns
Greece, and Greece the world. _Herder._
=Wie ein Pfeil nach seinem Ziele fliegt des
braven Mannes Wort=--Like an arrow to its
aim flies the good man's word. _Platen._
=Wie eng-gebunden des Weibes Glück!=--How
straitened is the lot of woman! _Goethe._
=Wie fruchtbar ist der kleinste Kreis, / Wenn
man ihn wohl zu pflegen weiss!=--How fruitful
the smallest space if we but knew how to cultivate
it! _Goethe._
=Wie gewonnen, so zerronnen=--Easily gained, 10
easily spent.
=Wie ist das Menschenherz so klein! / Und
doch auch da zieht Gott herein=--How small
is the human heart, and yet even there God
enters in. _W. Hey._
=Wie schränkt sich Welt und Himmel ein, /
Wenn unser Herz in seinen Schranken
banget!=--How earth and heaven contract when
our heart frets within its barriers! _Goethe._
=Wie? Wann? und Wo? Die Götter bleiben
stumm. / Du halte dich ans Weil, und frage
nicht Warum?=--How? when? and where? the
gods keep silence. Keep you to the "Because,"
and ask not "Why?" _Goethe._
=Wild ambition loves to slide, not stand; / And
Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.= _Dryden._
=Wilful waste makes woeful want.= _Pr._ 15
=Will a courser of the sun work softly in the
harness of a dray-horse? His hoofs are of
fire, and his path is through the heavens,
bringing light to all lands; will he lumber
on mud highways, dragging ale for earthly
appetites from door to door?= _Carlyle on the
career and sorrowful fate of Burns._
=Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood /
Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will
rather / The multitudinous seas incarnadine, /
Making the green one red.= _Macb._, ii. 2.
=Will is deaf, and hears no heedful friends.=
_Shakespeare._
=Will it, and set to work briskly.= _Schiller._
=Will localises us; thought universalises us.= 20
_Amiel._
=Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.=
_Schopenhauer._
="Will-to-do," which is the spirit of the true
God, is eternally incompatible with "wish-to-have,"
which is the proper spirit of the
false.= _Ed._
=Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, /
Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike.= _Pope._
=Willows are weak, yet they bind other wood.=
_Pr._
=Willst du den Dichter verstehen, so lerne wie= 25
=Dichter empfinden=--Wilt thou understand a
poet, then learn to feel as a poet. _G. Keil._
=Willst du dich am Ganzen erquicken, / So
musst du das Ganze im Kleinsten erblicken=--Wilt
thou strengthen thyself in the whole, then
must thou see the whole in the least object.
_Goethe._
=Willst du immer weiter schweifen? / Sieh, das
Gute liegt so nah! / Lerne nur das Glück
ergreifen, / Denn das Glück ist immer da=--Wilt
thou for ever roam? See, what is good lies
so near thee! Only learn to seize the good fortune
that offers, for it is ever there. _Goethe._
=Willst du in's Unendliche schreiten, / Geh' nur
im Endliche nach allen Seiten=--Wouldst thou
step forward into the infinite, keep strictly within
the limits of the finite. _Goethe._
=Willst du leben, musst du dienen; willst du
frei sein, musst du sterben=--Wouldst thou
love, thou must serve; would thou be free, thou
must die. _Hegel._
=Willst du mit Kinderhänden / In des Schicksals= 30
=Speichen greifen? / Seines Donnerwagens
Lauf / Hält kein sterblich Wesen
auf=--Wilt thou clutch the spokes of destiny
with thy child's hands? The course of its car
of thunder no mortal hand can stay. _Grillparzer._
=Willst lustig leben, geh' mit zwei Säcken, /
Einen zu geben, einen um einzustecken=--Would
you live a merry life, go with two
wallets, one for giving out and one for putting
in. _Goethe._
=Wilt thou draw near the nature of the gods?
Draw near them, then, in being merciful.=
_Sh._
=Wilt thou know a man, above all a mankind,
by stringing together beadrolls of what
thou namest facts? The man is the spirit
he worked in; not what he did, but what
he became.= _Carlyle._
=Wilt thou know thyself, see how others do;
wilt thou understand others, look into thine
own heart.= _Schiller._
="Win hearts," said Burleigh to Queen Elizabeth,= 35
="and you have all men's hearts and
purses."= _Smiles._
=Wine and youth are fire upon fire.= _Fielding._
=Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and
whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.=
_Bible._
=Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an
enemy.= _Fielding._
=Wine neither keeps secrets nor fulfils promises.=
_Pr._
=Wine washes off the daub.= _Pr._ 40
=Wings have we--and as far as we can go, /
We may find pleasure: wilderness and
wood, / Blank ocean and mere sky, support
that mood / Which with the lofty, sanctifies
the low.= _Wordsworth._
=Wink at small faults.= _Pr._
=Wir Menschen sind ja alle Brüder=--We men
are for certain all brothers. _Zschokke._
=Wisdom alone is a science of other sciences
and of itself.= _Plato._
=Wisdom and Fortune combating together, / If
that the former dare but what he can, / No
chance may shake it.= _Ant. and Cleo._, iii. 11.
=Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability
of thy times.= _Bible._
=Wisdom becomes nonsense= (_Unsinn_) =in the
mouth of a fanatic= (_Schwärmer_). _Otto Ludwig._
=Wisdom begins at the end.= _Webster._
=Wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth= 5
=darkness.= _Bible._
=Wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence:
but the excellency of knowledge is, that
wisdom giveth life to them that have it.=
_Bible._
=Wisdom is a pearl; with most success / Sought
in still water and beneath clear skies.= _Cowper._
=Wisdom is intrinsically of a silent nature; it
cannot at once, or completely at all, be read
off in words, and is only legible in whole
when its work is done.= _Carlyle._
=Wisdom is justified of her children.= _Jesus._
=Wisdom is not found with those who dwell at= 10
=their ease; rather Nature, when she adds
brain, adds difficulty.= _Emerson._
=Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than
when we soar.= _Wordsworth._
=Wisdom is only in truth.= _Goethe._
=Wisdom is that attribute through which
every action of a man receives its ideal
value or import= (_Gehalt_). _Schleiermacher._
=Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get
wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.=
_Bible._
=Wisdom is too high for a fool.= _Bible._ 15
=Wisdom makes a slow defence against trouble,
though at last a sure one.= _Goldsmith._
=Wisdom may be the ultimate arbiter, but is
seldom the immediate agent in human affairs.=
_Sir J. Stephen._
=Wisdom may sometimes wear a look austere, /
But smiles and jests are oft her helpmates
here.= _De Bosch._
=Wisdom not only gets, but, got, retains.=
_Quarles._
=Wisdom picks friends; civility plays the rest. /= 20
=A toy shunn'd cleanly passeth with the best.=
_George Herbert._
=Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath
understanding.= _Bible._
=Wisdom sends us to childhood; "unless ye
become as little children."= _Pascal._
=Wisdom sits with children round her knees.=
_Wordsworth._
=Wisdom sometimes walks in clouted shoes.= _Pr._
=Wisdom that is hid, and treasure that is= 25
=hoarded up, what profit is in them both?=
_Ecclus._
=Wisdom, which represents the marriage of
truth and virtue, is by no means synonymous
with gravity. She is L'Allegro as well as
Il Penseroso, and jests as well as preaches.=
_Whipple._
=Wisdom will out; it is the one thing in this
world that cannot be suppressed or annulled.=
_John Burroughs._
=Wisdom's a trimmer thing than shop e'er
gave.= _George Herbert._
=Wisdom's path is steep; but, gained the
height, / The Muse's gifts will fill you with
delight.= _Onestes._
=Wise above that which is written.= _St. Paul._ 30
=Wise, cultivated, genial conversation is the
best flower of civilisation, and the best result
which life has to offer us--a cup for gods,
which has no repentance. Conversation is
our account of ourselves. All we have, all
we can, all we know is brought into play,
and as the reproduction, in finer form, of all
our havings.= _Emerson._
=Wise is the man prepared for either end, /
Who in due measure can both spare and
spend.= _Lucian._
=Wise kings have generally wise councillors,
as he must be a wise man himself who is
capable of distinguishing one.= _Diogenes._
=Wise men are instructed by reason; men of
less understanding, by experience; the most
ignorant, by necessity; and beasts, by nature.=
_Cic._
=Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will= 35
=speak five times from their taste or their
humour to one from their reason.= _Emerson._
=Wise men are wise but not prudent, in that
they know nothing of what is for their own
advantage, but know surpassing things,
marvellous things, difficult things, and divine
things.= _Ruskin._
=Wise men argue causes, and fools decide
them.= _Anacharsis._
=Wise men, for the most part, are silent at
present, and good men powerless; the senseless
vociferate, and the heartless govern;
while all social law and providence are dissolved
by the enraged agitation of a multitude,
among whom every villain has a
chance of power, every simpleton of praise,
and every scoundrel of fortune.= _Ruskin._
=Wise men mingle mirth with their cares, as a
help either to forget or overcome them; but
to resort to intoxication for the ease of one's
mind is to cure melancholy by madness.=
_Charron._
=Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, / But= 40
=cheerly seek how to redress their harms.=
3 _Hen. VI._, v. 4.
=Wise men say nothing in dangerous times.=
_Selden._
=Wise sayings are as saltpits; you may extract
salt out of them, and sprinkle it where you
will.= _Cic._
=Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but
for action and business, having a point or
edge, whereby knots in business are pierced
and discovered.= _Bacon._
=Wise sayings are the guiding oracles which
man has found out for himself in that great
business of ours, of learning how to be, to
do, to do without, and to depart.= _John
Morley._
=Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.= _Pope._ 45
=Wise, well-calculated breeding of a young
soul lies fatally over the horizon in these
epochs.= _Carlyle._
=Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.=
_Rom. and Jul._, ii. 3.
=Wishing, of all employments, is the worst.=
_Young._
=Wissen ist leichter als thun=--To know is easier
than to do. _Ger. Pr._
=Wit and judgment often are at strife, / Though= 50
=meant each other's aid, like man and wife.=
_Pope._
=Wit and understanding are trifles without
integrity.= _Goldsmith._
=Wit and wisdom are born with a man.= _Selden._
=Wit, bright, rapid, and blasting as the lightning,
flashes, strikes, and vanishes in an
instant; humour, warm and all-embracing as
the sunshine, bathes its object in a genial
and abiding light.= _Whipple._
=Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the
possessor, if he knows not how to use it
discreetly.= _Montaigne._
=Wit is a pernicious thing when it is not tempered= 5
=with virtue and humanity.= _Addison._
=Wit is brushwood, judgment timber; the one
gives the greatest flame, the other yields the
durablest heat; and both meeting make the
best fire.= _Sir Thomas Overbury._
=Wit is of the true Pierian spring, that can
make anything of anything.= _Chapman._
=Wit marries ideas lying wide apart, by a
sudden jerk of the understanding.= _Whipple._
=Wit once bought is worth twice taught.=
_Pr._
=Wit strews a single ray= (of the prism) =separated= 10
=from the rest upon an object; never
white light, that is the province of wisdom.=
_Holmes._
=Wit, when neglected by the great, is generally
despised by the vulgar.= _Goldsmith._
=Wit without employment is a disease.= _Burton._
=Wit without wisdom is salt without meat.=
_Horne._
=Wit-work is always play, when it is good.=
_Ruskin._
=Wit's an unruly engine, wildly striking / Sometimes= 15
=a friend, sometimes the engineer: /
Hast thou the knack? pamper it not with
liking; / But if thou want it, buy it not too
dear.= _George Herbert._
=Witchcraft has been put a stop to by Act of
Parliament, but the mysterious relations
which it emblemed still continue.= _Carlyle._
=With all appliances and means to boot.= 2 _Hen.
IV._, iii. 1.
=With bag and baggage.= _As You Like It_,
iii. 2.
=With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, /
Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb.= _Milton._
=With consistency a great soul has simply= 20
=nothing to do. He may as well concern
himself with his shadow on the wall.= _Emerson._
=With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, /
Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.=
_Churchill._
=With devotion's visage / And pious action we
do sugar over / The devil himself.= _Ham._,
iii. 1.
=With disadvantages enough to call him down
to humility, a Scotchman is one of the proudest
things alive.= _Goldsmith._
=With every anguish of our earthly part the
spirit's sight grows clearer; this was meant
when Jesus touched the blind man's lids
with clay.= _Lowell._
=With every breath we draw, an ethereal= 25
=stream of Lethe runs through our whole
being, so that we have but a partial recollection
of our joys, and scarcely any of our
sorrows.= _Goethe._
=With faith, martyrs, otherwise weak, can
cheerfully endure the shame and the cross:
and without it worldlings puke up their sick
existence, by suicide, in the midst of luxury.=
_Carlyle._
=With fingers weary and worn, / With eyelids
heavy and red, / A woman sat in unwomanly
rags, / Plying her needle and thread--/
Stitch! stitch! stitch!= _Hood._
="With it, or upon it, my son."= _A Spartan
mother, when she handed her son his shield as
he set out to fight for his country._
=With just enough of learning to misquote.=
_Byron._
=With love come life and hope.= _John Sterling._ 30
=With malice towards none, with charity
for all, with firmness in the right, as God
gives us to see the right.= _John Quincy
Adams._
=With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles
come.= _Mer. of Ven._, i. 1.
=With moral, political, religious considerations,
high and dear as they may otherwise be, the
philosopher, as such, has no concern.= _Carlyle._
=With much we surfeit; plenty makes us poor.=
_Drayton._
=With narrow-minded persons, and those in a= 35
=state of mental darkness, we find conceit:
while with mental clearness and high endowments
we never find it. In such cases
there is generally a joyful feeling of strength,
but since this strength is actual, the feeling
is anything else you please, only not conceit.=
_Goethe._
=With none who bless us, none whom we can
bless--/ This is to be alone; this, this is
solitude!= _Byron._
=With necessity, the tyrant's plea, excused his
devilish deeds.= _Milton._
=With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance,
all things are attainable.= _Sir
T. F. Buxton._
=With parsimony a little is sufficient, and without
it nothing is sufficient, whereas frugality
makes a poor man rich.= _Sen._
=With patient mind thy path of duty run; /= 40
=God nothing does, nor suffers to be done, /
But thou thyself wouldst do, if thou couldst
see / The end of all events as well as
he.= (?)
=With poetry, as with going to sea, we should
push from the shore and reach a certain
elevation before we unfurl all our sails.=
_Goethe._
=With poetry second-rate in quality, no one
ought to be allowed to trouble mankind.=
_Ruskin._
=With remembrance of the greater grief to
banish the less.= _Howard, Earl of Surrey._
=With respect to luxuries and comforts, the
wisest have ever lived a more simple and
meagre life than the poor.= _Thoreau._
=With some life is exactly like a sleigh-drive,= 45
=showy and tinkling, but affording just as
little for the heart as it offers much to eyes
and ears.= _Goethe._
=With stupidity and sound digestion man may
front much; but what in these dull, unimaginative
days are the terrors of conscience
to the diseases of the liver!= _Carlyle._
=With temperance, health, cheerfulness, friends,
a chosen task, one pays the cheapest fees for
living, and may well dispense with other
physicians.= _A. B. Alcott._
=With the dead there is no rivalry. In the dead
there is no change. Plato is never sullen.
Cervantes is never petulant. Demosthenes
never comes unseasonably. Dante never
stays too long.= _Macaulay._
=With the Gospels one becomes a heretic.=
_It. Pr._
=With the majority of men unbelief in one thing
is founded on blind belief in another thing.=
_Lichtenberg._
=With the possession or certain expectation of= 5
=good things our demand rises, and increases
our capacity for further possession and larger
expectations.= _Schopenhauer._
=With thought, with the ideal, is immortal
hilarity, the rose of joy. Round it all the
Muses sing.= _Emerson._
=With too much quickness ever to be taught; /
With too much thinking to have common
thought.= _Pope._
=With virtue, capacity, and good conduct, one
still can be insupportable. The manners,
which are neglected as small things, are
often those which decide men for or against
you. A slight attention to them would
have prevented their ill judgments.= _La
Bruyère._
=With well-doing ye may put to silence foolish
men.= _St. Peter._
=With what a heavy and retarding weight does= 10
=expectation load the wing of time.= _William
Mason._
=With what is debateable I am unconcerned;
and when I have only opinions about things
... I do not talk about them. I attack only
what cannot on any possible ground be defended;
and state only what I know to be
incontrovertibly true.= _Ruskin._
=With women worth the being won, / The softest
lover ever best succeeds.= _Aaron Hill._
=Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour's house;
lest he be weary of thee, and so hate thee.=
_Bible._
=Withhold not good from them to whom it is
due, when it is in the power of thine hand
to do it.= _Bible._
=Within man is the soul of the whole; the= 15
=wise silence, the universal beauty, to which
every part and particle is equally related--the
Eternal One.= _Emerson._
=Within that awful volume lies / The mystery
of mysteries.= _Scott._
=Within the hollow crown / That rounds the
mortal temples of a king, / Keeps Death his
court.= _Rich. II._, iii. 2.
=Within the most starched cravat there passes
a windpipe and weasand, and under the
thickliest embroidered waistcoat beats a
heart.= _Carlyle._
=Within us all a universe doth dwell.= _Goethe._
=Within yourselves deliverance must be= 20
sought; / =Each man his prison makes.= _Sir
Edwin Arnold._
=Without a belief in personal immortality religion
surely is like an arch resting on one
pillar, like a bridge ending in an abyss.= _Max
Müller._
=Without a God there is for man neither purpose,
nor goal, nor hope, only a wavering
future, an eternal dread of every darkness.=
_Jean Paul._
=Without a rich heart wealth is an ugly beggar.=
_Emerson._
=Without a sign his sword the brave man
draws, / And asks no omen but his country's
cause.= _Pope._
=Without adversity a man hardly knows= 25
=whether he is honest or not.= _Fielding._
=Without affecting stoicism, it may be said
that it is our business to exempt ourselves
as much as we can from the power of external
things.= _Johnson._
=Without cheerfulness no man can be a poet.=
_Emerson._
=Without discretion learning is pedantry and wit
impertinence; virtue itself looks like weakness.
The best parts only qualify a man to
be more sprightly in errors, and active to his
own prejudice.= _Addison._
=Without earnestness there is nothing to be
done in life; yet among the people we name
cultivated, little earnestness is to be found.=
_Goethe._
=Without economy none can be rich, and with= 30
=it few can be poor.= _Johnson._
=Without enjoyment, the wealth of the miser
is the same to him as if it were another's.
But when it is said of a man "he hath so
much," it is with difficulty he can be induced
to part with it.= _Hitopadesa._
=Without eyes thou shalt want light: profess
not the knowledge therefore that thou hast
not.= _Ecclus._
=Without friends no one would choose to live,
even if he had all other good things.= _Arist._
=Without God in the world.= _St. Paul._
=Without great men, great crowds of people in= 35
=a nation are disgusting; like moving cheese,
like hills of ants or of fleas--the more, the
worse.= _Emerson._
=Without great men nothing can be done.= _Renan._
=Without justice society is sick, and will continue
sick till it dies.= _Froude._
=Without me ye can do nothing.= _Jesus to his
disciples._
=Without passion man is a mere latent force
and possibility.= _Amiel._
=Without passion there is no geniality.= _Mommsen._ 40
=Without philosophy we should be little above
the lower animals.= _Voltaire._
=Without poetry our science will appear incomplete,
and most of what now passes with
us for religion and philosophy will be replaced
by poetry.= _Matthew Arnold._
=Without real masters you cannot have servants.=
_Carlyle._
=Without some strong motive to the contrary,
men united by the pursuit of a clearly defined
common aim of irresistible attractiveness
naturally coalesce; and since they coalesce
naturally, they are clearly right in coalescing
and find their advantage in it.= _Matthew
Arnold._
=Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact= 45
=teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers
who are always inquiring never learn anything.=
_I. Disraeli._
=Without the spiritual world the material world
is a disheartening enigma.= _Joubert._
=Without the way there is no going; without
the truth, no knowing; without the life, no
living.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Without were fightings, within were fears.=
_St. Paul._
=Without wonder there is no faith.= _Jean Paul._
=Witticisms please as long as we keep them= 5
=within bounds, but pushed to excess they
cause offence.= _Phædr._
=Witty, above all, O be not witty; none of us
is bound to be witty, under penalties; to be
wise and true we all are, under the terriblest
penalties.= _Carlyle._
=Wives are young men's mistresses, companions
for middle age, and old men's nurses.= _Bacon._
=Wo der Teufel nicht hin mag; da send er
seinen Boten hin=--Where the devil cannot
come, he will send his messenger. _Ger. Pr._
=Wo fasse ich dich, unendliche Natur?=--Where
can I grasp thee, infinite Nature? _Goethe._
=Wo grosse Höh', ist grosse Tiefe=--Where there 10
is great height there is great depth. _Schiller._
=Wo innen Sklaverei ist, wird sie von aussen
bald kommen=--Where there is slavery in the
heart, it will soon show itself in the outward
conduct. _Seume._
=Wo man singet, lass dich ruhig nieder, / Ohne
Furcht, was man am Lande glaubt; / Wo
man singet wird kein Mensch beraubt; /
Bösewichter haben keine Lieder=--Where
people sing, there quietly settle, never fearing
what may be the belief of the people of the land.
Where people sing, nobody will be robbed. Bad
people have no songs. _Seume._
=Wo viel Freiheit, ist viel Irrthum=--Where there
is much freedom there is much error. _Schiller._
=Wo viel Licht ist, ist starker Schatten=--The
shadow is deeper where the light is strong.
_Goethe._
=Wo viel zu wagen ist, ist viel zu wägen=--Where 15
there is much to risk, there is much to
consider. _Platen._
=Woe does the heavier sit / Where it perceives
it is but faintly borne.= _Rich. II._, i. 3.
=Woe, that too late repents.= _King Lear_, i. 4.
=Woe to every sort of culture which destroys
the most effectual means of all true culture,
and directs us to the end, instead of rendering
us happy on the way.= _Goethe._
=Woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for
he hath not another to help him up.= _Bible._
=Woe to that land that's govern'd by a child.= 20
_Rich. III._, ii. 3.
=Woe unto him that is never alone, and cannot
bear to be alone.= _Hamerton._
=Woe unto you when all men speak well of
you.= _Jesus._
=Woe, woe to youth, to life, which idly boasts, /
I am the End, and mine the appointed Way.=
_Lewis Morris._
=Wohl unglückselig ist der Mann, / Der unterlässt
das, was er kann, / Und unterfängt
sich, was er nicht versteht; / Kein Wunder,
dass er zu Grunde geht=--Unhappy indeed is
the man who leaves off doing what he can do,
and undertakes to do what he does not understand;
no wonder he comes to no good. _Goethe._
=Wohlgethan überlebt den Tod=--Well-done outlives 25
death. _Ger. Pr._
=Wohlthätigheit kennt keinen Unterschied
der Nation=--Charity knows no distinction of
nation. _Count Moltke._
=Wollt ihr auf Menschen wirken, / Müsst ihr
erst Menschen werden=--Would you have an
influence over men, you must first become men.
_Sallet._
=Wollt ihr immer leben?=--Would you live for
ever? _Frederick the Great to his guards, on
their complaining of what they thought exposure
to unnecessary danger._
=Wolves in sheep's clothing.= _Jesus, of false prophets._
=Woman alone knows true loyalty of affection.= 30
_Schiller._
=Woman, divorced from home, wanders
unfriended like a waif upon the wave.=
_Goethe._
=Woman endeavours to breed her daughter a
fine lady, qualifying her for a station in
which she will never appear, and at the
same time incapacitating her for that retirement
to which she is destined.= _Lady
Montagu._
=Woman, in accordance with her unbroken,
clear-seeing nature, loses herself, and what
she has of heart and happiness, in the object
she loves.= _Jean Paul._
=Woman is at once the delight and the terror
of man.= _Amiel._
=Woman is like the reed which bends to every= 35
=breeze, but breaks not in the tempest.=
_Whately._
=Woman is mistress of the art of completely
embittering the life of the person on whom
she depends.= _Goethe._
=Woman is not undevelopt man, / But diverse;
could we make her as the man, / Sweet love
were slain: his dearest bond is this / Not
like to like, but like in difference.= _Tennyson._
=Woman is seldom merciful to the man who is
timid.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=Woman is the blood-royal of life; let there be
slight degrees of precedency among them,
but let them be all sacred.= _Burns._
=Woman is the lesser man.= _Tennyson._ 40
=Woman is the salvation or the destruction of
the family.= _Amiel._
=Woman is too soft to hate permanently; even
if a hundred men have been a grief to her,
she will still love the hundred and first.= _G.
Kinkel._
=Woman, last at the cross and earliest at the
grave.= _E. S. Barret._
=Woman, once made equal to man, becometh
his superior.= _Soc._
=Woman sees deep; man sees far. To the man= 45
=the world is his heart; to the woman the
heart is her world.= _Grabbe._
=Woman's at best a contradiction still.= _Pope._
=Woman's cause is man's; they rise or sink /
Together, dwarfed or godlike, bond or free.=
_Tennyson._
=Woman's counsel is not worth much, yet he
that despises it is no wiser than he should
be.= _Cervantes._
=Woman's dignity lies in her being unknown;
her glory, in the esteem of her husband; and
her pleasure, in the welfare of her family.=
_Rousseau._
=Woman's fear and love hold quantity; / In
neither aught, or in extremity.= _Ham._,
iii. 2.
=Woman's function is a guiding, not a determining
one.= _Ruskin._
=Woman's grief is like a summer storm, short
as it is violent.= _Joanna Baillie._
=Woman's heart is just like a lithographer's
stone--what is once written upon it cannot
be rubbed out.= _Thackeray._
=Woman's love, like lichens upon a rock, will= 5
=still grow where even charity can find no
soil to nurture itself.= _Bovee._
=Woman's power is for rule, not for battle; and
her intellect is not for invention or creation,
but for sweet ordering, arrangement, and
decision.= _Ruskin._
=Woman's power is over the affections. A
beautiful dominion is hers, but she risks
its forfeiture when she seeks to extend it.=
_Bovee._
=Woman's tongue is her sword, which she never
lets rust.= _Mme. Necker._
=Woman's virtue is the music of stringed instruments,
which sound best in a room; but
man's that of wind instruments, which sound
best in the open air.= _Jean Paul._
=Woman's work, grave sirs, is never done.= 10
_Eusden._
=Women always show more taste in adorning
others than themselves; and the reason is,
that their persons are like their hearts--they
read another's better than they can their
own.= _Jean Paul._
=Women and clergymen have so long been in
the habit of using pretty words without
troubling themselves to understand them,
that they now revolt from the effort, as if it
were impiety.= _Ruskin._
=Women and men of retiring timidity are
cowardly only in dangers which affect
themselves, but the first to rescue when
others are endangered.= _Jean Paul._
=Women are as roses, whose fair flower / Being
once display'd, doth fall that very hour.=
_Twelfth Night_, ii. 4.
=Women are born worshippers.= _Carlyle._ 15
=Women are confined within the narrow limits
of domestic assiduity, and when they stray
beyond them they move beyond their sphere,
and consequently without grace.= _Goldsmith._
=Women are ever in extremes; they are either
better or worse than men.= _La Bruyère._
=Women are like limpets, they need something
to hold on by.= _Sigma._
=Women are the poetry of the world, in the
same sense as the stars are the poetry of
heaven. Clear, light-giving, harmonious,
they are the terrestrial planets that rule the
destinies of mankind.= _Hargrave._
=Women bestow on friendship only what they= 20
=borrow from love.= _Chamfort._
=Women cannot see so far as men can, but
what they do see they see quicker.= _Buckle._
=Women exceed the generality of men in love.=
_La Bruyère._
=Women famed for their valour, their skill in
politics or their learning, leave the duties
of their own sex in order to invade the privileges
of men's.= _Goldsmith._
=Women forgive injuries, but never forget
slights.= _T. C. Haliburton._
=Women have a kind of sturdy sufferance= 25
=which qualifies them to endure beyond,
much beyond, the common run of men, but
... they are by no means famous for seeing
remote consequences in all their real importance.=
_Burns._
=Women, it has been observed, are not naturally
formed for great cares themselves, but
to soften ours.= _Goldsmith._
=Women judge women hardly; ... they have
no shading, / No softening tints, no generous
allowance / For circumstance to make the
picture human, / And true because so human.=
_Dr. Walter Smith._
=Women know by nature how to disguise their
emotions far better than the most consummate
male courtiers can do.= _Thackeray._
=Women, like princes, find few real friends.=
_Lord Lyttleton._
=Women, like the plants in woods, derive their= 30
=softness and tenderness from the shade.=
_Landor._
=Women may fall when there's no strength in
men.= _Rom. and Jul._, ii. 3.
=Women, priests, and poultry have never
enough.= _Pr._
=Women should learn betimes to serve according
to station, for by serving alone she at
last attains to the mastery, to the due influence
which she ought to possess in the
household.= _Goethe._
=Women that are the least bashful are not unfrequently
the most modest; and we are
never more deceived than when we would
infer any laxity of principle from that freedom
of demeanour which often arises from
a total ignorance of vice.= _Colton._
=Women, though they have the warmest hearts,= 35
=are no citizens of the world, scarcely citizens
of a town or a village, but only of their own
home.= _Jean Paul._
=Women who have lost their faith / Are angels
who have lost their wings.= _Dr. Walter
Smith._
=Women wish to be loved, not because they
are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful,
or intelligent, but because they are themselves.=
_Amiel._
=Women's hearts are made of stout leather;
there's a plaguy sight of wear in them.=
_Judge Haliburton._
=Women's jars breed men's wars.= _Pr._
=Women's rage, like shallow water, / Does= 40
=but show their hurtless nature; / When the
stream seems rough and frowning, / There
is still least fear of drowning.= _Durfey._
=Women's sins are not alone the ills they do, /
But those that they provoke you to.= _Dr.
Walter Smith._
=Wonder is from surprise, and surprise ceases
upon experience.= _South._
=Wonder on till truth make all things plain.=
_Mid. N.'s Dream._
="Wonder," says Aristotle, "is the first cause
of philosophy." This is quite as true in the
progress of the individual as in that of the
concrete mind; and the constant aim of
philosophy is to destroy its parent.= _Bulwer
Lytton._
=Wondrous indeed is the virtue of a true book.
Not like a dead city of stones, yearly crumbling,
yearly needing repair; more like a tilled
field, but then a spiritual field; like a spiritual
tree, let me rather say, it stands from year to
year, and from age to age (we have books
that already number some one hundred and
fifty human ages); and yearly comes its
new produce of leaves (commentaries, deductions,
philosophical, political systems, or
were it only sermons, pamphlets, journalistic
essays), every one of which is talismanic and
thaumaturgic, for it can persuade men.= _Carlyle._
=Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness,
altogether past calculation its powers of
endurance.= _Carlyle._
=Woodman, spare that tree! / Touch not a
single bough! / In youth it sheltered me, /
And I'll protect it now.= _G. P. Morris._
=Words are also actions, and actions are a kind
of words.= _Emerson._
=Words are but poor interpreters in the realms= 5
=of emotion. When all words end, music
begins; when they suggest, it realises; and
hence the secret of its strange, ineffable
power.= _H. R. Haweis._
=Words are but wind, but seein's believin'.=
_Sc. Pr._
=Words are fools' pence.= _Pr._
=Words are good, but they are not the best.
The best is not to be explained by words.=
_Goethe._
=Words are like leaves, and when they most
abound / Much fruit of sense beneath is
rarely found.= _Pope._
=Words are like sea-shells on the shore; they= 10
=show / Where the mind ends, and not how
far it has been.= _Bailey._
=Words are men's daughters, but God's sons
are things.= _Izaak Walton._
=Words are rather the drowsy part of poetry;
imagination the life of it.= _Owen Feltham._
=Words are the motes of thought, and nothing
more.= _Bailey._
=Words are things, and a small drop of ink, /
Falling like dew upon a thought, produces /
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions,
think.= _Byron._
=Words are wise men's counters, but they are= 15
=the money of fools.= _Hobbes._
=Words are women, deeds are men.= _George
Herbert._
=Words become luminous when the finger of
the poet touches them with his phosphorus.=
_Joubert._
=Words do sometimes fly from the tongue that
the heart did neither hatch nor harbour.=
_Feltham._
=Words, like Nature, half reveal / And half
conceal the soul within.= _Tennyson._
=Words may be counterfeit, false coined, and= 20
=current only from the tongue, without the
mind; but passion is in the soul, and always
speaks the heart.= _Southern._
=Words of love are works of love.= _W. R.
Alger._
=Words pay no debts.= _Troil. and Cress._,
iii. 2.
=Words that are now dead were once alive.=
_A. Coles._
=Words, "those fickle daughters of the earth,"
are the creation of a being that is finite, and
when applied to explain that which is infinite,
they fail; for that which is made surpasses
not the maker; nor can that which is immeasurable
by our thoughts be measured by
our tongues.= _Colton._
=Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath= 25
=give.= _Macb._, ii. 1.
=Words which flow fresh and warm from a full
heart, and which are instinct with the life
and breath of human feeling, pass into household
memories, and partake of the immortality
of the affections from which they
spring.= _Whipple._
=Words without thoughts never to heaven go.=
_Ham._, iii. 3.
=Work, according to my feeling, is as much of
a necessity to man as eating and sleeping.
Even those who do nothing which to a sensible
man can be called work, still imagine
that they are doing something. The world
possesses not a man who is an idler in his
own eyes.= _W. v. Humboldt._
=Work alone is noble.= _Carlyle._
="Work and wait," "Work and wait," is what= 30
=God says to us in creation and in providence.=
_J. G. Holland._
=Work earnestly at anything, you will by degrees
learn to work at almost all things.=
_Carlyle._
=Work first, you are God's servants; fee first,
you are the fiend's.= _Ruskin._
=Work for eternity: not the meagre rhetorical
eternity of the periodical critics, but for the
real eternity, wherein dwelleth the Divine.=
_Carlyle._
=Work for immortality if you will: then wait
for it.= _J. G. Holland._
=Work for some good, be it ever so slowly; /= 35
=Cherish some flower, be it ever so lowly; /
Labour! all labour is noble and holy: / Let
thy great deeds be thy prayer to thy God.=
_Francis S. Osgood._
=Work, go, fall, rise, speak, be silent! In this
manner do the rich sport with those needy
men, who are held by the grip of dependence.=
_Hitopadesa._
=Work is for the living.= _Carlyle._
=Work is not man's punishment; it is his reward
and his strength, his glory and his
pleasure.= _George Sand._
=Work is of a religious nature,--work is of
a brave nature, which it is the aim of all
religion to be. "All work of man is as the
swimmer's." A waste ocean threatens to
devour him; if he front it not bravely, it
will keep its word. By incessant wise defiance
of it, lusty rebuke and buffet of it,
behold how it loyally supports him,--bears
him as its conqueror along! "It is so," says
Goethe, "with all things that man undertakes
in this world."= _Carlyle._
=Work is only done well when it is done with= 40
=a will.= _Ruskin._
=Work is our business; its success is God's.=
_Ger. Pr._
=Work is the cure for all the maladies and
miseries of man--honest work, which you
intend getting done.= _Carlyle._
=Work is the inevitable condition of human life,
the true source of human welfare.= _Tolstoi._
=Work is the mission of man on this planet.=
_Carlyle._
=Work is the only universal currency which
God accepts. A nation's welfare will depend
on its ability to master the world; that, on
power of work; that, on its power of thought.=
_Theodore Parker._
=Work, properly so called, is an appeal from
the Seen to the Unseen--a devout calling
upon Higher Powers; and unless they stand
by us, it will not be a work, but a quackery.=
_Carlyle._
=Work till the last beam fadeth, / Fadeth to
shine no more; / Work while the night is
darkening, / When man's work is o'er.=
_Walker._
=Work touches the keys of endless activity,= 5
=opens the infinite, and stands awe-struck
before the immensity of what there is to do.=
_Phillips Brooks._
=Work was made for man, and not man for
work.= _J. G. Holland._
=Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, /
And hope without an object cannot live.=
_Coleridge._
=Work, work, work, / Till the brain begins to
swim; / Work, work, work, / Till the eyes
are heavy and dim; / Seam, and gusset,
and band, / Band, and gusset, and seam, /
Till over the buttons I fall asleep, / And sew
them on in a dream.= _Hood._
=Works of true merit are seldom very popular
in their own day; for knowledge is on the
march, and men of genius are the "præstolatores"
or "videttes," that are far in advance
of their comrades. They are not with them,
but before them; not in the camp, but beyond
it.= _Colton._
=Worldly affairs, which my friends thought so= 10
=heavy upon me, they are most of them of
our own making, and fall away as soon as
we know ourselves.= _Law._
=Worldly riches are like nuts; many clothes
are torn in getting them, many a tooth
broke in cracking them, but never a belly
filled with eating them.= _R. Venning._
=Worse than being fool'd / Of others, is to fool
one's self.= _Tennyson._
=Worse than despair, / Worse than the bitterness
of death, is hope; / It is the only ill
which can find place / Upon the giddy, sharp,
and narrow hour / Tottering beneath us.=
_Shelley._
=Worship is transcendent wonder; wonder for
which there is no limit or measure.= _Carlyle._
=Worship that is false will kill the soul as= 15
=quickly as no worship.= _Saying._
=Worship your heroes from afar; contact
withers them.= _Mme. Necker._
=Worte sind der Seele Bild=--Words are the soul's
magic. _Goethe._
=Worte sind gut, wenn Werke folgen=--Words
are good if works follow. _Ger. Pr._
=Worth makes the man, and want of it the
fellow; / The rest is all but leather or prunello.=
_Pope._
=Worth many thousand is the first salute; /= 20
=Him that salutes thee, therefore, friendly
greet.= _Goethe._
=Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.=
_Socrates._
=Would they could sell us experience, though
at diamond prices, but then no one would
use the article second-hand!= _Balzac._
=Would we but pledge ourselves to truth as
heartily as we do to a real or imaginary
mistress, and think life too short only because
it abridges our time of service, what
a new world we should have!= _Lowell._
=Would we but quit ourselves like men, and
resolutely stand our ground, we should not
fail of succours from above.= _Thomas à
Kempis._
=Would Wisdom for herself be wooed, / And= 25
=wake the foolish from his dream, / She must
be glad as well as good, / And must not only
be, but seem.= _Coventry Patmore._
=Would you have men think well of you, then
do not speak well of yourself.= _Pascal._
=Wouldst thou a maiden make thy prize, /
Thyself alone the bribe must be.= _Goethe._
=Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it?=
_George Herbert._
=Wouldst thou know thyself, then see how
others act; wouldst thou understand others,
look thou into thine own heart.= _Schiller._
=Wouldst thou plant for eternity? then plant= 30
=into the deep infinite faculties of man, his
fantasy and heart. Wouldst thou plant for
year and day? then plant into his shallow
superficial faculties, his self-love and arithmetical
understanding, what will grow there.=
_Carlyle._
="Wouldst thou," so the helmsman answered, /
"Learn the secret of the sea? / Only those
who brave its dangers / Comprehend its
mystery!"= _Longfellow._
=Wouldst thou subject all things to thyself?
Subject thyself to reason.= _Seneca._
=Wouldst thou the life of souls discern? / Nor
human wisdom nor divine / Helps thee by
aught beside to learn; / Love is life's only
sign.= _Keble._
=Wouldst thou travel the path of truth and
goodness? Never deceive either thyself or
others.= _Goethe._
=Wounds and hardships provoke our courage,= 35
=and when our fortunes are at the lowest, our
wits and minds are commonly at the best.=
_Charron._
=Wounds cannot be cured without searching.=
_Bacon._
=Wrap thyself up like a woodlouse, and dream
revenge.= _Congreve._
=Write down the advice of him who loves
you, though you like it not at present.=
_Pr._
=Write how you will, the critic shall show the
world you could have written better.= _Goldsmith._
=Write, so much given to God; thou shalt be= 40
=heard.= _George Herbert._
=Write thy wrongs in ashes.= _Sir T. Browne._
=Writers of novels and romances in general
bring a double loss on their readers--they
rob them both of their time and money; representing
men, manners, and things, that never
have been, nor are likely to be; either confounding
or perverting history and truth,
inflating the mind, or committing violence
upon the understanding.= _Mary Wortley
Montagu._
=Writing is not literature unless it gives to the
reader a pleasure which arises not only from
the things said, but from the way in which
they are said; and that pleasure is only given
when the words are carefully or curiously
or beautifully put together into sentences.=
_Stopford Brooke._
=Written all of it= (Christianity) =in us already in
sympathetic ink. Bible awakens it, and you
can read.= _Dr. Chalmers to Carlyle in conversation._
=Wrong is not only different from right, but it
is in strict scientific terms infinitely different.=
_Carlyle._
=Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt
never is. Our pride remembers it for ever.
It implies a discovery of weaknesses, which
we are much more careful to conceal than
crimes. Many a man will confess his crimes
to a common friend, but I never knew a man
who would tell his silly weaknesses to his
most intimate one.= _Chesterfield._
=Würf er einen Groschen auf's Dach, fiel ihm= 5
=ein Thaler herunter=--If he threw a penny up,
a dollar came down. _Ger. Pr._