Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them (part 2 of 9)

Preface

The present "Book of Quotations" was undertaken in the belief that, notwithstanding the many excellent compilations of the kind already in existence, there was room for another that should glean its materials from a wider area, and that should have more respect to the requirements, both speculative and practical, of the times we live in. The wide-spread materials at command had never yet been collected into a single volume, and certain modern writings, fraught with a wisdom that supremely deserves our regard, had hardly been quarried in at all.

The Editor has therefore studied to compile a more comprehensive collection; embracing something of this wisdom, which naturally bears more directly on the interests of the present day. To these interests the Editor has all along had an eye, and he has been careful to collect, from ancient sources as well as modern, sayings that seem to reveal an insight into them, and bear pertinently upon them; they are such as are specified on the title-page, and they are one and all more than passing ones. The aphorisms which wise men have uttered on these vital topics can never fail to deserve our regard, and they will prove edifying to us, even should we, led by a higher wisdom, be inclined to say nay to them. For, as it has been said, "The errors of a wise man are more instructive than the truths of a fool. The wise man travels in lofty, far-seeing regions; the fool in low-lying, high-fenced lanes; retracing the footsteps of the former, to discover where he deviated, whole provinces of the universe are laid open to us; in the path of the latter, granting even that he has not deviated at all, little is laid open to us but two wheel-ruts and two hedges."

The quotations collected in this book, (particularly those bearing on the vital interests referred to,) are, it will be generally admitted, the words of wise men; therefore the Editor has endeavoured to ascertain and give the names of their authors, when not known. For, though the truth and worth of the sayings are nowise dependent on their authorship, it is well to know who those were that felt the burden they express, and found relief in uttering them. What was of moment to them, may well be of moment to others, and must be worthy of all regard and well deserving of being laid to heart.

Except in the case of quotations from Shakespeare, the reader will observe that the Editor has quoted only the names of the authors or the books from which they are taken, and has not, as might be expected of him, supplied either chapter or verse. The reason is, he did not think it worth the labour and expense that would have been involved in doing so, while the quotations given are for most part independent of the context, and are perfectly intelligible in their own light. They are all more or less of an aphoristic quality, and the meaning and application are evident to any one who understands the subject of which they treat.

As for the other qualities of these quotations, they will be found to be in general brief in expression and pointed in application, and not a few of them winged as well as barbed. A great many are pregnant in meaning; suggest more than they express; and are the coinage of minds of no ordinary penetration and grasp of thought. While some of them are so simple that a child might understand them, there are others that border on regions in which the clearest-headed and surest-footed might stumble and come to grief.

The collection might have been larger; the quarry of the literature of the present century alone might have supplied materials for as big a book. But the Editor's task was to produce a work that should embrace gleanings from different fields of literature, and he could only introduce from that of the present day as much as his limits allowed. Yet, though the quantity given is no index of the quantity available, the Editor hopes the reader will allow that his selection has not been made in the dark, and that what he has given is of the true quality, as well as enough in quantity for most readers to digest. If the quality be good, the quantity is of little account, for what has been said of Reason may be said of Wisdom which is its highest expression: "Whoso hath any, hath access to the whole."

A word of explanation in regard to the Arrangement and the appended Index:--

The Arrangement adopted may not at once commend itself, but it was found to be the best; a topical one would have been too cumbersome, as, in that case, it would have been frequently necessary to introduce the same quotation under several different heads. The arrangement, it will be seen, is alphabetical, and follows the order of the initial letters of the initial word or words.

The Index, which is topical, was rendered necessary in consequence of the arrangement followed, and, though a copious one, it only refers to subjects of which there is anything of significance said. It does not include mottoes, and rarely proverbs; for, apart from the difficulty of indexing the latter, the attempt would almost have doubled the size of the book, and rendered it altogether unwieldy. The Index, too, is limited to subjects that are not in the alphabetical order in the body of the book. Thus there was no need to index what is said on "Art," on p. 18, on "Beauty," on p. 26, or on "Christianity," on pp. 42, 43, as the reader will expect to find something concerning them where they occur in the order adopted.

With these preliminary explanations the Editor leaves his book--the pleasant labour of more than three years--in the hands of the public, assured that they will judge of it by its own merits, and that they will be generous enough to acquit him of having compiled either a superfluous or an unserviceable work.

LONDON, 1893.

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

USED IN THIS DICTIONARY.

Amer. American. Apul. Apuleius. Arist. Aristotle. Aul. Gell. Aulus Gellius. Bret. Breton. Cæs. Cæsar. Catull. Catullus. Cic. Cicero. Claud. Claudius, Claudian. Corn. Corneille. Curt. Curtius. Dan. Danish. Dut. Dutch. Ecclus. Ecclesiasticus. Eurip. Euripides. Fr. French. Fris. Frisian. Gael. Gaelic. Ger. German. Gr. Greek. Heb. Hebrew. Hom. Homer. Hor. Horace. It. Italian. Jul. Julius. Just. Justinian. Juv. Juvenal. L. Law. Laber. Labertius. La Font. La Fontaine. La Roche. La Rochefoucauld. Lat. Latin. Liv. Livy. Luc. Lucan. Lucr., Lucret. Lucretius. M. Motto. Macrob. Macrobius. Mart. Martial. Mol. Molière. Per. Persius. Petron. Petronius. Phæd., Phædr. Phædrus. Plaut. Plautus. Port. Portuguese. Pr. Proverb. Pub. Syr. Publius Syrus. Quinct. Quinctilian. Russ. Russian. Sall. Sallust. Sc. Scotch. Schill. Schiller. Sen. Seneca. Sh. Shakespeare. Soph. Sophocles. Sp. Spanish. Stat. Statius. St. Aug. St. Augustine. Sueton. Suetonius. Swed. Swedish. Tac. Tacitus. Ter. Terence. Tert. Tertullian. Tibull. Tibullus. Turk. Turkish. Virg. Virgil.

DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS.

A.

=A' are guid lasses, but where do a' the ill wives come frae?= Sc. Pr.

=A' are no freens that speak us fair.= Sc. Pr.

=A aucun les biens viennent en dormant=--Good things come to some while asleep. Fr. Pr.

=Ab abusu ad usum non valet consequentia=--The abuse of a thing is no argument against its use. L. Max.

=Ab actu ad posse valet illatio=--From what has 5 happened we may infer what may happen.

=A bad beginning has a bad, or makes a worse, ending.= Pr.

=A bad dog never sees the wolf.= Pr.

=A bad thing is dear at any price.= Pr.

=Ab alio expectes, alteri quod feceris=--As you do to others, you may expect another to do to you. Laber.

=A barren sow was never good to pigs.= Pr. 10

=A bas=--Down! down with! Fr.

=A beast that wants discourse of reason.= Ham., i. 2.

=A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.= Fielding.

=A beau jeu beau retour=--One good turn deserves another. Fr. Pr.

=A beautiful form is better than a beautiful= 15 =face, and a beautiful behaviour than a beautiful form.= Emerson.

=A beautiful object doth so much attract the sight of all men, that it is in no man's power not to be pleased with it.= Clarendon.

=A beautiful woman is the "hell" of the soul, the "purgatory" of the purse, and the "paradise" of the eyes.= Fontenelle.

=A beggarly account of empty boxes.= Rom. and Jul., v. 1.

=A beggar's purse is always empty.= Pr.

=A belief in the Bible, the fruit of deep meditation,= 20 =has served me as the guide of my moral and literary life. I have found it a capital safely invested, and richly productive of interest.= Goethe.

=Abends wird der Faule fleissig=--Towards evening the lazy man begins to be busy. Ger. Pr.

=A beneficent person is like a fountain watering the earth and spreading fertility.= Epicurus.

=Aberrare a scopo=--To miss the mark.

=Abeunt studia in mores=--Pursuits assiduously prosecuted become habits.

=Ab extra=--From without. 25

=Abgründe liegen im Gemüthe, die tiefer als die Hölle sind=--There are abysses in the mind that are deeper than hell. Platen.

=Ab honesto virum bonum nihil deterret=--Nothing deters a good man from what honour requires of him. Sen.

=A big head and little wit.= Pr.

=Ab igne ignem=--Fire from fire.

=Abiit, excessit, evasit, erupit=--He has left, gone 30 off, escaped, broken away. Cic. of Catiline's flight.

=Ability to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false, is the characteristic of intelligence.= Swedenborg.

=Ab incunabilis=--From the cradle.

=Ab initio=--From the beginning.

=Ab inopia ad virtutem obsepta est via=--The way from poverty to virtue is an obstructed one. Pr.

=Ab intra=--From within. 35

=Ab irato=--In a fit of passion.

=A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.= Pr.

=A bis et à blanc=--By fits and starts. Fr.

=A bitter and perplex'd "What shall I do?" is worse to man than worst necessity.= Schiller.

=A black hen will lay a white egg.= Pr. 40

=A blind man should not judge of colours.= Pr.

=A blockhead can find more faults than a wise man can mend.= Gael. Pr.

=A blue-stocking despises her duties as a woman, and always begins by making herself a man.= Rousseau.

=Abnormis sapiens=--Wise without learning. Hor.

=A bon chat bon rat=--A good rat to match a good 45 cat. Tit for tat. Pr.

=A bon chien il ne vient jamais un bon os=--A good bone never falls to a good dog. Fr. Pr.

=A bon droit=--Justly; according to reason. Fr.

=A bon marché=--Cheap. Fr.

=A book may be as great a thing as a battle.= Disraeli.

=A book should be luminous, but not voluminous.= 50 Bovee.

=Ab origine=--From the beginning.

=About Jesus we must believe no one but himself.= Amiel.

=Above all Greek, above all Roman fame.= Pope.

=Above all things reverence thyself.= Pythagoras.

=Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light.= Victor Hugo.

=Ab ovo=--From the beginning (lit. from the egg).

=Ab ovo usque ad mala=--From the beginning to 5 the end (lit. from the egg to the apples).

=A bras ouverts=--With open arms. Fr.

=A brave man is clear in his discourse, and keeps close to truth.= Arist.

=A brave spirit struggling with adversity is a spectacle for the gods.= Sen.

=A breath can make them, as a breath has made.= Goldsmith.

=Abrégé=--Abridgment. Fr. 10

=Absence lessens weak, and intensifies violent, passions, as wind extinguishes a taper and lights up a fire.= La Roche.

=Absence makes the heart grow fonder.= Bayly.

=Absence of occupation is not rest; / A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.= Cowper.

=Absens hæres non erit=--The absent one will not be the heir. Pr.

=Absent in body, but present in spirit.= St. 15 Paul.

=Absit invidia=--Envy apart.

=Absit omen=--May the omen augur no evil.

=Absolute fiends are as rare as angels, perhaps rarer.= J. S. Mill.

=Absolute freedom is inhuman.= Rahel.

=Absolute individualism is an absurdity.= Amiel. 20

=Absolute nothing is the aggregate of all the contradictions of the world.= Jonathan Edwards.

=Absque argento omnia vana=--Without money all is vain.

=Abstineto a fabis=--Having nothing to do with elections (lit. Abstain from beans, the ballot at Athens having been by beans).

=Absurdum est ut alios regat, qui seipsum regere nescit=--It is absurd that he should govern others, who knows not how to govern himself. L. Max.

=Abundat dulcibus vitiis=--He abounds in charming 25 faults of style. Quint.

=Ab uno ad omnes=--From one to all. M.

=Ab uno disce omnes=--From a single instance you may infer the whole.

=Ab urbe condita= (A.U.C.)--From the building of the city, i.e., of Rome.

=A bureaucracy always tends to become a pedantocracy.= J. S. Mill.

=A burnt child dreads the fire.= Pr. 30

=Abusus non tollit usum=--Abuse is no argument against use. Pr.

=Academical years ought by rights to give occupation to the whole mind. It is this time which, well or ill employed, affects a man's whole after-life.= Goethe.

=A cader va chi troppo in alto sale=--He who climbs too high is near a fall. It. Pr.

=A capite ad calcem=--From head to heel.

=A careless master makes a negligent servant.= 35 Pr.

=A carper will cavil at anything.= Pr.

=A carrion kite will never make a good hawk.= Pr.

="A cat may look at a king," but can it= see =a king when it looks at him?= Ruskin.

=A causa perduta parole assai=--Plenty of words when the cause is lost. It. Pr.

=Accasca in un punto quel che non accasca in= 40 =cento anni=--That may happen in a moment which may not occur again in a hundred years. It. Pr.

=Accedas ad curiam=--You may go to the court. A writ to remove a case to a higher court. _L. Term._

=Accensa domo proximi, tua quoque periclitatur=--When the house of your neighbour is on fire, your own is in danger. Pr.

=Accent is the soul of speech; it gives it feeling and truth.= Rousseau.

=Acceptissima semper / Munera sunt, auctor quæ pretiosa facit=--Those presents are always the most acceptable which owe their value to the giver. Ovid.

=Accident ever varies; substance can never= 45 =suffer change or decay.= Wm. Blake.

=Accidents rule men, not men accidents.= Herodotus.

=Accipe nunc, victus tenuis quid quantaque secum afferat. In primis valeas bene=--Now learn what and how great benefits a moderate diet brings with it. Before all, you will enjoy good health. Hor.

=Accipere quam facere præstat injuriam=--It is better to receive than to do an injury. Cic.

=Acclinis falsis animus meliora recusat=--The mind attracted by what is false has no relish for better things. Hor.

=Accusare nemo se debet nisi coram Deo=--No 50 man is bound to accuse himself unless it be before God. L. Max.

=Accuse not Nature; she hath done her part; / Do thou thine.= Milton.

=Acer et vehemens bonus orator=--A good orator is pointed and impassioned. Cic.

=Acerrima proximorum odia=--The hatred of those most closely connected with us is the bitterest. Tac.

=Acerrimus ex omnibus nostris sensibus est sensus videndi=--The keenest of all our senses is the sense of sight. Cic.

=A certain degree of soul is indispensable to= 55 =save us the expense of salt.= Ben Jonson.

=A certain tendency to insanity has always attended the opening of the religious sense in men, as if they had been "blasted with excess of light."= Emerson.

=A chacun selon sa capacité, à chaque capacité selon ses œuvres=--Every one according to his talent, and every talent according to its works. Fr. Pr.

=A chacun son fardeau pèse=--Every one thinks his own burden heavy. Fr. Pr.

=A change came o'er the spirit of my dream.= Byron.

=A chaque fou plaît sa marotte=--Every fool is 60 pleased with his own hobby. Fr. Pr.

=A character is a completely-fashioned will.= Novalis.

=Ach! aus dem Glück entwickelt sich Schmerz=--Alas! that from happiness there so often springs pain. Goethe.

=A cheerful life is what the Muses love; / A soaring spirit is their prime delight.= Wordsworth.

=Acheruntis pabulum=--Food for Acheron. Plaut.

=Ach! es geschehen keine Wunder mehr=--Alas! there are no more any miracles. Schiller.

=A child is a Cupid become visible.= Novalis.

=A child may have too much of its mother's blessing.= Pr.

=A chill air surrounds those who are down in= 5 =the world.= George Eliot.

=A chip of the old block.=

=A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman.= Hare.

=Ach! unsre Thaten selbst, so gut als unsre Leiden / Sie hemmen unsers Lebens Gang=--We are hampered, alas! in our course of life quite as much by what we do as by what we suffer. Goethe.

=Ach! vielleicht indem wir hoffen / Hat uns Unheil getroffen=--Ah! perhaps while we are hoping, mischief has already overtaken us. Schiller.

=Ach wie glücklich sind die Todten!=--Ah! how 10 happy the dead are! Schiller.

=Ach! zu des Geistes Flügeln, wird so leicht kein körperlicher Flügel sich gesellen=--Alas! no fleshly pinion will so easily keep pace with the wings of the spirit. Goethe.

=A circulating library in a town is an ever-green tree of diabolical knowledge.= Sheridan.

=A circumnavigator of the globe is less influenced by all the nations he has seen than by his nurse.= Jean Paul.

=A clear conscience is a sure card.= Pr.

=A cock aye craws crousest (boldest) on his ain= 15 =midden-head.= Sc. Pr.

=A cœur ouvert=--With open heart; with candour. Fr.

=A cœur vaillant rien d'impossible=--To a valiant heart nothing is impossible. Fr. Pr.

=A cold hand, a warm heart.= Pr.

=A combination, and a form, indeed / Where every god did seem to set his seal / To give the world assurance of a man.= Ham., iii. 4.

=A' complain o' want o' siller; nane o' want o'= 20 =sense.= Sc. Pr.

=A compte=--In part payment (lit. on account). Fr.

=A confesseurs, médecins, avocats, la vérité ne cèle de ton cas=--Do not conceal the truth from confessors, doctors, and lawyers. Fr. Pr.

=A conscience without God is a tribunal without a judge.= Lamartine.

=A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance.= Disraeli.

=A constant fidelity in small things is a great= 25 =and heroic virtue.= Bonaventura.

=A constant friend is a thing hard and rare to find.= Plutarch.

=A contre cœur=--Against the grain. Fr.

=A corps perdu=--With might and main. Fr.

=A countenance more in sorrow than in anger.= Ham., i. 2.

=A courage to endure and to obey.= Tennyson. 30

=A couvert=--Under cover. Fr.

=Acqua lontana non spegne fuoco vicino=--Water afar won't quench a fire at hand. It. Pr.

=A crafty knave needs no broker.= Pr. quoted in Hen. VI.

=A craw's nae whiter for being washed.= Sc. Pr.

=A creation of importance can be produced only= 35 =when its author isolates himself; it is ever a child of solitude.= Goethe.

=Acribus initiis, incurioso fine=--Full of ardour at the beginning, careless at the end. Tac.

=A critic should be a pair of snuffers. He is often an extinguisher, and not seldom a thief.= Hare.

=A crowd is not company.= Bacon.

=A crown / Golden in show, is but a wreath of thorns.= Milton.

=A crown is no cure for the headache.= Pr. 40

=A cruce salus=--Salvation from the cross. M.

=A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.= Ouida.

=A crust of bread and liberty.= Pope.

=Acta exteriora indicant interiora secreta=--Outward acts betray the secret intention. L. Max.

=Act always so that the immediate motive of= 45 =thy will may become a universal rule for all intelligent beings.= Kant.

=Acti labores jucundi=--The remembrance of past labours is pleasant.

=Action can be understood and again represented by the spirit alone.= Goethe.

=Action is but coarsened thought.= Amiel.

=Action is the right outlet of emotion.= _Ward Beecher._

=Actions speak louder than words.= Pr. 50

=Actis ævum implet, non segnibus annis=--His lifetime is full of deeds, not of indolent years. Ovid.

=Activity is the presence, and character the record, of function.= Greenough.

=Actum est de republicâ=--It is all over with the republic.

=Actum ne agas=--What has been done don't do over again. Cic.

=Actus Dei nemini facit injuriam=--The act of 55 God does wrong to no man. L. Max.

=Actus legis nulli facit injuriam=--The act of the law does wrong to no man. L. Max.

=Actus me invito factus, non est meus actus=--An act I do against my will is not my act. L. Max.

=Actus non facit reum, nisi mens sit rea=--The act does not make a man guilty, unless the mind be guilty. L. Max.

=Act well your part; there all the honour lies.= Pope.

=A cuspide corona=--From the spear a crown, i.e., 60 honour for military exploits. M.

=A custom / More honoured in the breach than the observance.= Ham., i. 4.

=Adam muss eine Eve haben, die er zeiht was er gethan=--Adam must have an Eve, to blame for what he has done. Ger. Pr.

=Ad amussim=--Made exactly by rule.

=A danger foreseen is half avoided.= Pr.

=Adaptiveness is the peculiarity of human= 65 =nature.= Emerson.

=Ad aperturam=--Wherever a book may be opened.

=Ad arbitrium=--At pleasure.

=Ad astra per ardua=--To the stars by steep paths. M.

=A Daniel come to judgment.= Mer. of Ven., iv. 1.

=Ad avizandum=--Into consideration. Scots Law. 70

=A day may sink or save a realm.= Tennyson.

=A day of grace= (Gunst) =is as a day in harvest; one must be diligent as soon as it is ripe.= Goethe.

=A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.= Dickens.

=Ad calamitatem quilibet rumor valet=--When a disaster happens, every report confirming it obtains ready credence.

=Ad captandum vulgus=--To catch the rabble.

=Addere legi justitiam decus=--It is to one's honour 5 to combine justice with law. M.

=A death-bed repentance seldom reaches to restitution.= Junius.

=A deep meaning resides in old customs.= Schiller.

=A democracy is a state in which the government rests directly with the majority of the citizens.= Ruskin.

=A Deo et rege=--From God and the king. M.

=Adeo in teneris consuescere multum est=--So 10 much depends on habit in the tender years of youth. Virg.

=Ad eundem=--To the same degree. Said of a graduate passing from one university to another.

=Ad extremum=--At last.

=Ad finem=--To the end.

=Ad Græcas kalendas=--At the Greek calends, i.e., never.

=Ad gustum=--To one's taste. 15

=Adhibenda est in jocando moderatio=--Moderation should be used in joking. Cic.

=Ad hoc=--For this purpose.

=Ad hominem=--Personal (lit. to the man).

=Adhuc sub judice lis est=--The affair is not yet decided.

=Adhuc tua messis in herba est=--Your crop is 20 still in grass. Ovid.

=A die=--From that day.

=Adieu la voiture, adieu la boutique=--Adieu to the carriage, adieu to the shop, i.e., to the business. Fr. Pr.

=Adieu, paniers! vendanges sont faites=--Farewell, baskets! vintage is over. Fr.

=Ad infinitum=--To infinity.

=Ad interim=--Meanwhile. 25

=Ad internecionem=--To extermination.

=A Dio spiacente ed a' nemici sui=--Hateful to God and the enemies of God. Dante.

=A Dios rogando y con el mazo dando=--Praying to God and smiting with the hammer. Sp. Pr.

=A discrétion=--Without any restriction (lit. at discretion). Fr.

=Ad libitum=--At pleasure. 30

=Ad majorem Dei gloriam=--To the greater glory of God (M. of the Jesuits).

=Ad mala quisque animum referat sua=--Let each recall his own woes. Ovid.

=Admiration praises; love is dumb.= Börne.

=Ad modum=--In the manner.

=Ad nauseam=--To disgust; sickening. 35

=Ad ogni santo la sua torcia=--To every saint his own torch, i.e., his place of honour. It. Pr.

=Ad ogni nocello suo nido è bello=--Every bird thinks its own nest beautiful. It. Pr.

=Ad ognuno par più grave la croce sua=--Every one thinks his own cross the hardest to bear. It. Pr.

=A dog's life=--hunger and ease.

=A dog winna yowl if you fell him wi' a bane.= 40 Sc. Pr.

=Adolescentem verecundum esse decet=--A young man ought to be modest. Plaut.

=Ad omnem libidinem projectus homo=--A man addicted to every lust.

=Adó sacan y non pon, presto llegan al hondon=--By ever taking out and never putting in, one soon reaches the bottom. Sp. Pr.

=Ad patres=--Dead; to death (lit. to the fathers).

=A downright contradiction is equally mysterious= 45 =to wise men as to fools.= Goethe.

=Ad perditam securim manubrium adjicere=--To throw the helve after the hatchet, i.e., to give up in despair.

=Ad perniciem solet agi sinceritas=--Honesty is often goaded to ruin. Phædr.

=Ad pœnitendum properat, cito qui judicat=--He who decides in haste repents in haste. Pub. Syr.

=Ad populum phaleras, ego te intus et in cute novi=--To the vulgar herd with your trappings; for me, I know you both inside and out. Pers.

=Ad quæstionem legis respondent judices, ad= 50 =quæstionem facti respondent juratores=--It is the judge's business to answer to the question of law, the jury's to answer to the question of fact. L.

=Ad quod damnum=--To what damage. L.

=Ad referendum=--For further consideration.

=Ad rem=--To the point (lit. to the thing).

=A droit=--To the right. Fr.

=A drop of honey catches more flies than a= 55 =hogshead of vinegar.= Pr.

=A drop of water has all the properties of water, but it cannot exhibit a storm.= Emerson.

=A drowning man will catch at a straw.= Pr.

=Adscriptus glebæ=--Attached to the soil.

=Adsit regula, peccatis quæ pœnas irroget æquas=--Have a rule apportioning to each offence its appropriate penalty. Hor.

=Adstrictus necessitate=--Bound by necessity. Cic. 60

=Ad summum=--To the highest point.

=Ad tristem partem strenua est suspicio=--One is quick to suspect where one has suffered harm before. Pub. Syr.

=Ad unguem=--To a nicety (lit. to the nail).

=Ad unum omnes=--All to a (lit. one) man.

=A dur âne dur aiguillon=--A hard goad for a stubborn 65 ass. Fr. Pr.

=Ad utrumque paratus=--Prepared for either case.

=Ad valorem=--According to the value.

=Advantage is a better soldier than rashness.= Hen. V., iii. 6.

=Adversa virtute repello=--I repel adversity by valour. M.

=Adversity is a great schoolmistress, as many= 70 =a poor fellow knows that has whimpered over his lesson before her awful chair.= Thackeray.

=Adversity's sweet milk--philosophy.= _Rom. and Jul._, iii. 3.

=Adversus solem ne loquitor=--Speak not against the sun, i.e., don't argue against what is sun-clear. Pr.

=Ad vitam aut culpam=--Till some misconduct be proved (lit. for life or fault).

=Ad vivum=--To the life.

=A dwarf sees farther than the giant when he= 75 =has the giant's shoulders to mount on.= Coleridge.

=Ægis fortissima virtus=--Virtue is the strongest shield. M.

=Ægrescit medendo=--The remedy is worse than the disease (lit. the disorder increases with the remedy).

=Ægri somnia vana=--The delusive dreams of a sick man. Hor.

=Ægroto, dum anima est, spes est=--While a sick man has life, there is hope. Pr.

=Ae half o' the world doesna ken how the ither= 5 =half lives.= Sc. Pr.

=Ae man may tak' a horse to the water, but twenty winna gar (make) him drink.= Sc. Pr.

=Ae man's meat is anither man's poison.= Sc. Pr.

=Æmulatio æmulationem parit=--Emulation begets emulation. Pr.

=Æmulus atque imitator studiorum ac laborum=--A rival and imitator of his studies and labours. Cic.

=Aendern und bessern sind zwei=--To change, and 10 to change for the better, are two different things. Ger. Pr.

=Æquabiliter et diligenter=--By equity and diligence. M.

=Æquâ lege necessitas / Sortitur insignes et imos=--Necessity apportions impartially to high and low alike. Hor.

=Æquam memento rebus in arduis / Servare mentem, non secus in bonis / Ab insolenti temperatam / Lætitiâ=--Be sure to preserve an unruffled mind in adversity, as well as one restrained from immoderate joy in prosperity. Hor.

=Æquam servare mentem=--To preserve an even temper. M.

=Æquanimiter=--With equanimity. M. 15

=Æqua tellus / Pauperi recluditur / Regumque pueris=--The impartial earth opens alike for the child of the pauper and of the king. Hor.

=Æquo animo=--With an even or equable mind. M.

=Æquum est / Peccatis veniam poscentem reddere rursus=--It is fair that he who begs to be forgiven should in turn forgive. Hor.

=Ære perennius=--More enduring than brass. Hor.

=Ærugo animi, rubigo ingenii=--Rust, viz., idleness, 20 of mind is the blight of genius, i.e., natural capability of every kind.

=Æs debitorem leve, gravius inimicum facit=--A slight debt makes a man your debtor; a heavier one, your enemy. Laber.

=Ætatem non tegunt tempora=--Our temples do not conceal our age.

=Æternum inter se discordant=--They are eternally at variance with each other. Ter.

=Ævo rarissima nostro simplicitas=--Simplicity a very rare thing now-a-days. Ovid.

=A fact is a great thing: a sentence printed,= 25 =if not by God, then at least by the Devil.= Carlyle.

=A fact in our lives is valuable, not so far as it is true, but as it is significant.= Goethe.

=A facto ad jus non datur consequentia=--Inference from the fact to the law is not legitimate. L. Max.

="A fair day's wages for a fair day's work," is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing; yet in what corner of this planet was that ever realised?= Carlyle.

=A fair face may hide a foul heart.= Pr.

=A faithful friend is a true image of the Deity.= 30 Napoleon.

=A fault confessed is half redressed.= Pr.

=A favour does not consist in the service done, but in the spirit of the man who confers it.= Sen.

=A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind.= Garrick.

=A fellow who speculates is like an animal on a barren heath, driven round and round by an evil spirit, while there extends on all sides of him a beautiful green meadow-pasture.= Goethe.

="A few strong instincts and a few plain rules"= 35 =suffice us.= Emerson, from Wordsworth.

=Affaire d'amour=--A love affair. Fr.

=Affaire d'honneur=--An affair of honour; a duel. Fr.

=Affaire du cœur=--An affair of the heart. Fr.

=Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.= Guicciardini.

=Affection lights a brighter flame / Than ever= 40 =blazed by art.= Cowper.

=Affirmatim=--In the affirmative.

=Afflavit Deus et dissipantur=--God sent forth his breath, and they are scattered. Inscription on medal struck to commemorate the destruction of the Spanish Armada.

=Afflictions are blessings in disguise.= Pr.

=A fiery soul, which, working out its way / Fretted the pigmy body to decay.= Dryden.

=A fin=--To the end. 45

=A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.= J. Roux.

=A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism.= Victor Hugo.

=A flute lay side by side with Frederick the Great's baton of command.= Jean Paul.

=A fly is as untamable as a hyena.= Emerson.

=A fog cannot be dispelled with a fan.= Japan. Pr. 50

=A fond=--Thoroughly (lit. to the bottom).

=A fonte puro pura defluit aqua=--From a pure spring pure water flows. Pr.

=A fortiori=--With stronger reason.

=A fool always accuses other people; a partially wise man, himself; a wholly wise man, neither himself nor others.= Herder.

=A fool always finds a greater fool to admire= 55 =him.= Boileau.

=A fool and his money are soon parted.= Pr.

=A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.= Bulwer.

=A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.= Colton.

=A fool is wise in his own conceit.= Pr.

=A fool knows more in his own house than a= 60 =wise man in another's.= Pr.

=A fool may give a wise man counsel.= Pr.

=A fool may make money, but it takes a wise man to spend it.= Pr.

=A fool may sometimes have talent, but he never has judgment.= La Roche.

=A fool may speer= (ask) =mair questions than a wise man can answer.= Sc. Pr.

=A fool resents good counsel, but a wise man= 65 =lays it to heart.= Confucius.

=A fool's bolt is soon shot.= Hen. V., iii. 7.

=A fool's bolt may sometimes hit the mark.= Pr.

=A fool when he is silent is counted wise.= Pr.

=A fool who has a flash of wit creates astonishment and scandal, like a hack-horse setting out to gallop.= Chamfort.

=A fop is the mercer's friend, the tailor's fool, and his own foe.= Lavater.

=A force de mal aller tout ira bien=--By dint of going wrong all will go right. Fr. Pr.

=A force de peindre le diable sur les murs, il finit par apparaître en personne=--If you keep painting the devil on the walls, he will by and by appear to you in person. Fr. Pr.

=A friend in court makes the process short.= Pr. 5

=A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.= Emerson.

=A friend is never known till needed.= Pr.

=A friend loveth at all times.= Bible.

=A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature.= Emerson.

=A friend's eye is a good looking-glass.= Gael. Pr. 10

=A friendship will be young at the end of a century, a passion old at the end of three months.= Nigu.

=A friend to everybody is a friend to nobody.= Pr.

=A fronte præcipitium, a tergo lupus=--A precipice before, a wolf behind. Pr.

=After dinner rest awhile; after supper walk a mile.= Pr.

=After life's fitful fever he sleeps well.= Macb., 15 iii. 2.

=After meat mustard=, i.e., too late.

=After the spirit of discernment, the next rarest things in the world are diamonds and pearls.= La Bruyère.

=After-wit is everybody's wit.= Pr.

=A full cup is hard to carry.= Pr.

=A ganging fit (foot) is aye getting.= Sc. Pr. 20

=A gauche=--To the left. Fr.

=Age does not make us childish, as people say; it only finds us still true children.= Goethe.

=Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.= _G. W. Curtis._

=Age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.= Colton.

=A genius is one who is endowed with an excess= 25 =of nervous energy and sensibility.= Schopenhauer.

=Agent de change=--A stockbroker. Fr.

=A gentleman makes no noise; a lady is serene.= Emerson.

=A gentleman's first characteristic is fineness of nature.= Ruskin.

=A gentleman that will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.= Rom. and Jul., ii. 4.

=Age quod agis=--Attend to (lit. do) what you are 30 doing.

=Agere considerate pluris est quam cogitare prudenter=--It is of more consequence to act considerately than to think sagely. Cic.

=Agiotage=--Stockbroking. Fr.

=A giving hand, though foul, shall have fair praise.= Love's L. Lost, iv. 1.

=Agnosco veteris vestigia flammæ=--I own I feel traces of an old passion. Virg.

=A God all mercy is a God unjust.= Young. 35

=A God speaks softly in our breast; softly, yet distinctly, shows us what to hold by and what to shun.= Goethe.

=A gold key opens every door.= Pr.

=A good bargain is a pick-purse.= Pr.

=A good beginning makes a good ending.= Pr.

=A good book is the precious life-blood of a= 40 =master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.= Milton.

=A good friend is my nearest relation.= Pr.

=A good horse should be seldom spurred.= Pr.

=A good inclination is only the first rude draught of virtue, but the finishing strokes are from the will.= South.

=A good king is a public servant.= Ben Jonson.

=A good laugh is sunshine in a house.= Thackeray. 45

=A good law is one that holds, whether you recognise it or not; a bad law is one that cannot, however much you ordain it.= Ruskin.

=A good man in his dark striving is, I should say, conscious of the right way.= Goethe.

=A good man shall be satisfied from himself.= Bible.

=A good marksman may miss.= Pr.

=A good name is sooner lost than won.= Pr. 50

=A good presence is a letter of recommendation.= Pr.

=A good reader is nearly as rare as a good writer.= Willmott.

=A good rider on a good horse is as much above himself and others as the world can make him.= Lord Herbert of Cherbury.

=A good road and a wise traveller are two different things.= Pr.

=A good solid bit of work lasts.= George Eliot. 55

=A good surgeon must have an eagle's eye, a lion's heart, and a lady's hand.= Pr.

=A good thought is a great boon.= Bovee.

=A good wife and health are a man's best wealth.= Pr.

=A gorge déployée=--With full throat. Fr.

=A government for protecting business and= 60 =bread only is but a carcase, and soon falls by its own corruption to decay.= A. B. Alcott.

=A government may not waver; once it has chosen its course, it must, without looking to right or left, thenceforth go forward.= Bismarck.

=A grands frais=--At great expense. Fr.

=A grave and a majestic exterior is the palace of the soul.= Chinese Pr.

=A great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a soul full of new awe and new pity.= George Eliot.

=A great deal may and must be done which we= 65 =dare not acknowledge in words.= Goethe.

=A great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but less by assimilation than by friction.= Heine.

=A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a reformation.= Emerson.

=A great man is he who can call together the most select company when it pleases him.= Landor.

=A great man is one who affects the mind of his generation.= Disraeli.

=A great man living for high ends is the= 70 =divinest thing that can be seen on earth.= G. S. Hillard.

=A great man quotes bravely, and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good.= Emerson.

=A great master always appropriates what is good in his predecessors, and it is this which makes him great.= Goethe.

=A great observer, and he looks / Quite through the deeds of men.= Jul. Cæs., i. 2.

=A great reputation is a great noise; the more there is made, the farther off it is heard.= Napoleon.

=A great revolution is never the fault of the= 5 =people, but of the government.= Goethe.

=A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.= Goethe.

=A great spirit errs as well as a little one, the former because it knows no bounds, the latter because it confounds its own horizon with that of the universe.= Goethe.

=A great thing can only be done by a great man, and he does it without effort.= Ruskin.

=A great thing is a great book, but greater than all is the talk of a great man.= Disraeli.

=A great writer does not reveal himself here= 10 =and there, but everywhere.= Lowell.

=Agree, for the law is costly.= Pr.

=A green winter makes a fat churchyard.= Pr.

=A grey eye is a sly eye; a brown one indicates a roguish humour; a blue eye expresses fidelity; while the sparkling of a dark eye is, like the ways of Providence, always a riddle.= Bodenstedt.

=A growing youth has a wolf in his belly.= Pr.

=Agues come on horseback and go away on= 15 =foot.= Pr.

=A guilty conscience needs no accuser.= Pr.

=A hair of the dog that bit him.= Pr.

=A haute voix=--Loudly; audibly. Fr.

=A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.= Gibbon.

=A hedge between, keeps friendship green.= Pr. 20

=Ah! il n'y a plus d'enfants=--Ah! there are no children now-a-days! Mol.

=Ah me! for aught that ever I could read ... / The course of true love never did run smooth.= Mid. N.'s Dream, i. 1.

=Ah me! how sweet this world is to the dying!= Schiller.

=A hook's well lost to catch a salmon.= Pr.

=A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse.= 25 Rich. III., v. 4.

=Ah! pour être dévot, je n'en suis pas moins homme=--Though I am a religious man, I am not therefore the less a man. Mol.

=Ah! quam dulce est meminisse=--Ah! how sweet it is to remember! M.

=Ah! that deceit should steal such gentle shapes / And with a virtuous visor hide deep vice.= Rich. III., ii. 2.

=A hundred years cannot repair a moment's loss of honour.= Pr.

=A hungry belly has no ears.= Pr. 30

=Ah! vitam perdidi operose nihil agendo=--I have lost my life, alas! in laboriously doing nothing. Grotius.

=Aide-toi, et le ciel t'aidera=--Help yourself and Heaven will help you. Fr.

[Greek: Ai symphorai poiousi makrologous]--Misfortunes make men talk loquaciously. Appian.

[Greek: Aidôs olôlen]--Modesty has died out. Theognis.

=Ainsi que son esprit, tout peuple a son langage=--Every 35 nation has its own language as well as its own temperament. Voltaire.

=Air de fête=--Looking festive. Fr.

=Air distingué=--Distinguished looking. Fr.

=Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.= Lavater.

=Aisé à dire est difficile à faire=--Easy to say is hard to do. Fr. Pr.

=A jest loses its point when he who makes it= 40 =is the first to laugh.= Schiller.

=A jest's prosperity lies in the ear / Of him that hears it, never in the tongue / Of him that makes it.= Love's L. Lost, v. 2.

=A Jove principium=--Beginning with Jove.

=A judge who cannot punish, associates himself in the end with the criminal.= Goethe.

=A judicious= (verständiger) =man is of much value for himself, of little for the whole.= Goethe.

=A king of shreds and patches.= Ham., iii. 4. 45

=A king's son is no nobler than his company.= Gael. Pr.

=A knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear.= Ham., iv. 2.

=A l'abandon=--At random; little cared for. Fr.

=A la belle étoile=--In the open air. Fr.

=A la bonne heure=--Well-timed; very well. Fr. 50

=A l'abri=--Under shelter. Fr.

=A la chandelle la chèvre semble demoiselle=--By candlelight a goat looks like a young lady. Fr. Pr.

=A la dérobée=--By stealth. Fr.

=A la fin saura-t-on qui a mangé le lard=--We shall know in the end who ate the bacon. Fr. Pr.

=A la française=--In the French fashion. Fr. 55

=A la lettre=--Literally. Fr.

=A la mode=--According to the fashion. Fr.

=A l'amour satisfait tout son charme est ôté=--When love is satisfied all the charm of it is gone. Corneille.

=A la portée de tout le monde=--Within reach of every one. Fr.

=A la presse vont les fous=--Fools go in crowds. 60 Fr. Pr.

=Alas! the devil's sooner raised than laid.= Sheridan.

=A last judgment is necessary, because fools flourish.= Wm. Blake.

=A last judgment is not for making bad men better, but for hindering them from oppressing the good.= Wm. Blake.

=A latere=--From the side of (sc. the Pope).

=A lazy man is necessarily a bad man; an= 65 =idle, is necessarily a demoralised population.= Draper.

=Albæ gallinæ filius=--The son of a white hen.

=Album calculum addere=--To give a white stone, i.e., to vote for, by putting a white stone into an urn, a black one indicating rejection.

=Al corral con ello=--Out of the window with it. Sp.

=Alea belli=--The hazard of war.

=Alea jacta est=--The die is cast. 70

=Alea judiciorum=--The hazard or uncertainty of law.

=A leaden sword in an ivory scabbard.= Pr.

=A learned man is a tank; a wise man is a spring.= W. R. Alger.

=Al enemigo, si vuelve la espalda, la puente de plata=--Make a bridge of silver for the flying enemy. Sp. Pr.

=Alere flammam=--To feed the flame.

=Ales volat propriis=--A bird flies to its own.

=Al fin se canta la Gloria=--Not till the end is the 5 Gloria chanted. Sp. Pr.

=Al fresco=--In the open air. It.

=Aliam excute quercum=--Go, shake some other oak (of its fruit). Pr.

=Alia res sceptrum, alia plectrum=--Ruling men is one thing, fiddling to them another. Pr.

=A liar is always lavish of oaths.= Corneille.

=A liar should have a good memory.= Pr. 10

=Alias=--Otherwise.

=Alia tentanda via est=--We must try another way.

=Alibi=--Elsewhere.

=A lie is like a snowball; the farther you roll it, the bigger it becomes.= Luther.

=A lie has no legs, but scandal has wings.= 15 Pr.

=A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.= Tennyson.

=Aliena negotia centum / Per caput, et circa saliunt latus=--A hundred affairs of other people leap through my head and at my side. Hor.

=Aliena negotia curo / Excussus propriis=--I attend to other people's affairs, baffled with my own. Hor.

=Aliena nobis, nostra plus aliis placent=--That which belongs to others pleases us most; that which belongs to us pleases others more. Pub. Syr.

=Aliena opprobria sæpe / Absterrent vitiis=--We 20 are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others. Hor.

=Aliena optimum frui insania=--It is best to profit by the madness of other people. Pr.

=Aliena vitia in oculis habemus; a tergo nostra sunt=--We keep the faults of others before our eyes; our own behind our backs. Sen.

=Alieni appetens, sui profusus=--Covetous of other men's property, prodigal of his own. Sall.

=Alieni temporis flores=--Flowers of other days.

=Alieno in loco haud stabile regnum est=--Sovereignty 25 over a foreign land is insecure. Sen.

=Alieno more vivendum est mihi=--I must live according to another's humour. Ter.

=Alienos agros irrigas tuis sitientibus=--You water the fields of others, while your own are parched. Pr.

=A lie should be trampled on and extinguished wherever found.= Carlyle.

=A lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright / But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.= Tennyson.

=A life that is worth writing at all is worth= 30 =writing minutely.= Longfellow.

=A light heart lives long.= Pr.

=Alii sementem faciunt, alii metentem=--Some do the sowing, others the reaping.

=Aliis lætus, sapiens sibi=--Cheerful for others, wise for himself. Pr.

=A l'impossible nul n'est tenu=--No one can be held bound to do what is impossible. Fr. Pr.

=A l'improviste=--Unawares. Fr. 35

=Aliorum medicus, ipse ulceribus scates=--A physician to others, while you yourself are full of ulcers.

=Alio sub sole=--Under another sky (lit. sun).

=Aliquando bonus dormitat Homerus=--Sometimes even the good Homer nods. Hor.

=Aliquis non debet esse judex in propria causa=--No one may sit as judge in his own case. L.

=Alis volat propriis=--He flies with his own wings. 40 M.

=A little body often harbours a great soul.= Pr.

=A little fire is quickly trodden out; / Which being suffered, rivers cannot quench.= 3 Hen. VI., iv. 8.

=A little is better than none.= Pr.

=A little learning is a dangerous thing / Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.= Pope.

=A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.= 45 Pr.

=A little more than kin, and less than kind.= Ham., i. 2.

=A little neglect may breed great mischief.= Franklin.

=A little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.= Bacon.

=A little spark maks muckle wark.= Sc. Pr.

=Alitur vitium vivitque tegendo=--Evil is nourished 50 and grows by concealment. Virg.

=Aliud est celare, aliud tacere=--To conceal is one thing, to say nothing is another. L. Max.

=Aliud et idem=--Another and the same.

=Aliud legunt pueri, aliud viri, aliud senes=--Boys read books one way, men another, old men another. Ter.

=A living dog is better than a dead lion.= Pr.

=Alle anderen Dinge müssen; der Mensch ist= 55 =das Wesen, welches will=--All other things must; man is the only creature who wills. Schiller.

=Alle Frachten lichten, sagte der Schiffer, da warf er seine Frau über Bord=--All freights lighten, said the skipper, as he threw his wife into the sea. Ger. Pr.

=Allegans contraria non est audiendus=--No one is to be heard whose evidence is contradictory. L. Max.

=Allen gehört, was du denkest; dein eigen ist nur, was du fühlest=--What you think belongs to all; only what you feel is your own. Schiller.

=Aller Anfang ist heiter; die Schwelle ist der Platz der Erwartung=--Every beginning is cheerful; the threshold is the place of expectation. Goethe.

=Aller Anfang ist schwer, sprach der Dieb, und= 60 =stahl zuerst einen Amboss=--Every beginning is difficult, said the thief, when he began by stealing an anvil. Ger. Pr.

=Alle Schuld rächt sich auf Erden=--Every offence is avenged on earth. Goethe.

=Alles Gescheidte ist schon gedacht worden; man muss nur versuchen, es noch einmal zu denken=--Everything wise has already been thought; one can only try and think it once more. Goethe.

=Alles Vergängliche ist nur ein Gleichniss=--Everything transitory is only an allegory. Goethe.

=Alles wanket, wo der Glaube fehlt=--All is unsteady (lit. wavers) where faith fails. Ger. Pr.

=Alles wäre gut, wär kein Aber dabei=--Everything would be right if it were not for the "Buts." Ger. Pr.

=Alles, was ist, ist vernünftig=--Everything which is, is agreeable to reason. Hegel.

=Alles zu retten, muss alles gewagt werden=--To save all, we must risk all. Schiller.

=All advantages are attended with disadvantages.= 5 Hume.

=All are but parts of one stupendous whole / Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.= Pope.

=All argument will vanish before one touch of Nature.= Colman.

=All are not hunters that blow the horn.= Pr.

=All are not saints that go to church.= Pr.

=All are not soldiers that go to the wars.= 10 Pr.

=All are not thieves that dogs bark at.= Pr.

=All art is great, and good, and true, only so far as it is distinctively the work of manhood in its entire and highest sense.= Ruskin.

=All balloons give up their gas in the pressure of things, and collapse in a sufficiently wretched manner erelong.= Carlyle.

=All battle is misunderstanding.= Goethe.

=All beginnings are easy; it is the ulterior= 15 =steps that are of most difficult ascent and most rarely taken.= Goethe.

=All cats are grey in the dark.= Pr.

=All censure of a man's self is oblique praise; it is in order to show how much he can spare.= Johnson.

=All cruelty springs from weakness.= Sen.

=All death in nature is birth.= Fichte.

=All deep joy has something of awful in it.= 20 Carlyle.

=All delights are vain; but that most vain / Which, with pain purchas'd, doth inherit pain.= Love's L. Lost, i. 1.

=All destruction, by violent revolution or howsoever it be, is but new creation on a wider scale.= Carlyle.

=All disputation makes the mind deaf, and when people are deaf I am dumb.= Joubert.

[Greek: All' estin, entha chê dikê blabên pherei]--Sometimes justice does harm. Sophocles.

=All evil is as a nightmare; the instant you= 25 =begin to= stir =under it, the evil is gone.= Carlyle.

=All evils, when extreme, are the same.= Corneille.

=All faults are properly shortcomings.= Goethe.

=All faiths are to their own believers just / For none believe because they will, but must.= Dryden.

=All feet tread not in one shoe.= Pr.

=All flesh consorteth according to its kind, and= 30 =a man will cleave to his like.= Ecclus.

=All forms of government are good, so far as the wise and kind in them govern the unwise and unkind.= Ruskin.

=All good colour is in some degree pensive, and the purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.= Ruskin.

=All good government must begin at home.= H. R. Haweis.

=All good has an end but the goodness of God.= Gael. Pr.

=All good things / Are ours, nor soul helps= 35 =flesh more now / Than flesh helps soul.= Browning.

=All good things go in threes.= _Ger. and Fr. Pr._

=All governments are to some extent a treaty with the Devil.= Jacobi.

=All great art is the expression of man's delight in God's work, not in his own.= Ruskin.

=All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinkings.= C. H. Parkhurst.

=All great peoples are conservative.= Carlyle. 40

=All great song has been sincere song.= Ruskin.

=All healthy things are sweet-tempered.= Emerson.

=All his geese are swans.= Pr.

=All history is an inarticulate Bible.= Carlyle.

=All immortal writers speak out of their hearts.= 45 Ruskin.

=All imposture weakens confidence and chills benevolence.= Johnson.

=All inmost things are melodious, naturally utter themselves in song.= Carlyle.

=All is but toys.= Macb., ii. 3.

=All is good that God sends us.= Pr.

=All is influence except ourselves.= Goethe. 50

=All is not gold that glitters.= Pr.

=All is not lost that's in peril.= Pr.

=All live by seeming.= Old Play.

=All living objects do by necessity form to themselves a skin.= Carlyle.

=Allmächtig ist doch das Gold; auch Mohren= 55 =kann's bleichen=--Gold is omnipotent; it can make even the Moor white. Schiller.

=All mankind love a lover.= Emerson.

=All man's miseries go to prove his greatness.= Pascal.

=All martyrdoms looked mean when they were suffered.= Emerson.

=All measures of reformation are effective in proportion to their timeliness.= Ruskin.

=All men are bores except when we want them.= 60 Holmes.

=All men are born sincere and die deceivers.= Vauvenargues.

=All men are fools, and with every effort they differ only in the degree.= Boileau.

=All men commend patience, though few be willing to practise it.= Thomas à Kempis.

=All men have their price.= Anon.

=All men honour love, because it looks up, and= 65 =not down.= Emerson.

=All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong.= Carlyle.

=All men live by truth, and stand in need of expression.= Emerson.

=All men may dare what has by man been done.= Young.

=All men that are ruined are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.= Burke.

=All men think all men mortal but themselves.= 70 Young.

=All men would be masters of others, and no man is lord of himself.= Goethe.

=All men who know not where to look for truth, save in the narrow well of self, will find their own image at the bottom and mistake it for what they are seeking.= Lowell.

=All minds quote. Old and new make up the warp and woof of every moment.= Emerson.

=All mischief comes from our inability to be alone.= La Bruyère.

=All money is but a divisible title-deed.= Ruskin. 5

=All my possessions for a moment of time!= Queen Elizabeth's last words.

=All nature is but art unknown to thee. / All chance, direction which thou canst not see. / All discord, harmony not understood; / All partial evil, universal good.= Pope.

=All nobility in its beginnings was somebody's natural superiority.= Emerson.

=All objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude.= Carlyle.

=All orators are dumb when beauty pleadeth.= 10 Sh.

[Greek: all' ou Zeus andressi noêmata panta teleutâ]--Zeus, however, does not give effect to all the schemes of man. Hom.

[Greek: Allos egô]--Alter ego. Zeno's definition of a friend.

=All our evils are imaginary, except pain of body and remorse of conscience.= Rousseau.

=All our most honest striving prospers only in unconscious moments.= Goethe.

=All passions exaggerate; and they are passions= 15 =only because they do exaggerate.= Chamfort.

=All pleasure must be bought at the price of pain.= John Foster.

=All power appears only in transition.= Novalis.

=All power, even the most despotic, rests ultimately on opinion.= Hume.

=All power of fancy over reason is a degree of insanity.= Johnson.

=All promise outruns performance.= Emerson. 20

=All public disorder proceeds from want of work.= Courier.

=All speech, even the commonest, has something of song in it.= Carlyle.

=All strength lies within, not without.= Jean Paul.

=All strong men love life.= Heine.

=All strong souls are related.= Schiller. 25

=All's well that ends well.= Pr.

=All talent, all intellect, is in the first place moral.= Carlyle.

=All that a man has he will give for right relations with his mates.= Emerson.

=All that glisters is not gold; / Gilded tombs do worms infold.= Mer. of Ven., ii. 7.

=All that is best in the great poets of all countries= 30 =is not what is national in them, but what is universal.= Longfellow.

=All that is human must retrograde, if it do not advance.= Gibbon.

=All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast.= Goethe.

=All that lives must die, / Passing through nature to eternity.= Ham., i. 2.

=All that man does and brings to pass is the vesture of a thought.= Sartor Resartus.

=All that mankind has done, thought, gained,= 35 =or been, it is all lying in magic preservation in the pages of books.= Carlyle.

=All that tread the globe are but a handful to the tribes that slumber in its bosom.= Bryant.

=All the armed prophets have conquered, all the unarmed have perished.= Machiavelli.

=All the arts affecting culture= (i.e., =the fine arts=) =have a certain common bond, and are connected by a certain blood relationship with each other.= Cic.

=All the difference between the wise man and the fool is, that the wise man keeps his counsel, and the fool reveals it.= Gael. Pr.

=All the diseases of mind, leading to fatalest= 40 =ruin, are due to the concentration of man upon himself, whether his heavenly interests or his worldly interests, matters not.= Ruskin.

=All the faults of the man I can pardon in the player; no fault of the player can I pardon in the man.= Goethe.

=All the good of which humanity is capable is comprised in obedience.= J. S. Mill.

=All the great ages have been ages of belief.= Emerson.

=All the keys don't hang at one man's girdle.= Pr.

=All the makers of dictionaries, all the compilers= 45 =of opinions already printed, we may term plagiarists, but honest plagiarists, who arrogate not the merit of invention.= Voltaire.

=All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.= Macb., v. 1.

=All the pursuits of men are the pursuits of women also, and in all of them a woman is only a weaker man.= Plato.

=All the thinking in the world does not bring us to thought; we must be right by nature, so that good thoughts may come.= Goethe.

=All the wit in the world is not in one head.= Pr.

=All the wit in the world is thrown away upon= 50 =the man who has none.= Bruyère.

=All the world's a stage / And all the men and women merely players.= As You Like It, ii. 7.

=All things are double, one against another. Good is set against evil, and life against death.= Ecclus.

=All things are for the sake of the good, and it is the cause of everything beautiful.= Plato.

=All things are in perpetual flux and fleeting.= Pr.

=All things are symbolical, and what we call= 55 =results are beginnings.= Plato.

=All things happen by necessity; in Nature there is neither good nor bad.= Spinoza.

=All things that are / Are with more spirit chased than enjoyed.= Mer. of Ven., ii. 6.

=All things that love the sun are out of doors.= Wordsworth.

=All this (in the daily press) does not concern one in the least; one is neither the wiser nor the better for knowing what the day brings forth.= Goethe.

=All true men are soldiers in the same army,= 60 =to do battle against the same enemy--the empire of darkness and wrong.= Carlyle.

=All truth is not to be told at all times.= Pr.

=All virtue is most rewarded, and all wickedness most punished, in itself.= Bacon.

=All went as merry as a marriage-bell.= Byron.

=All, were it only a withered leaf, works together with all.= Carlyle.

=All will be as God wills.= Gael. Pr.

=All wise men are of the same religion, and= 5 =keep it to themselves.= Lord Shaftesbury.

=All women are good=, viz., =for something or nothing.= Pr.

=All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.= Pr.

=Allzugrosse Zartheit der Gefühle ist ein wahres Unglück=--It is a real misfortune to have too great delicacy of feeling. C. J. Weber.

=Allzustraff gespannt, zerspringt der Bogen=--If the bow is overstrained, it breaks. Schiller.

=Allzuviel ist nicht genug=--Too much is not 10 enough. Ger. Pr.

=Alma mater=--A benign mother; applied to one's university, also to the "all-nourishing" earth.

=Al molino, ed alla sposa / Sempre manca qualche cosa=--A mill and a woman are always in want of something. It. Pr.

=Almost all our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.= Schopenhauer.

=Almsgiving never made any man poor.= Pr.

=A loan should come laughing home.= Pr. 15

=A l'œuvre on connaît l'artisan=--By the work one knows the workman. La Font.

=A loisir=--At leisure. Fr.

=Alomban és szerelemben nincs lehetetlenséej=--In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities. J. Arany.

=Along the cool sequester'd vale of life / They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.= Gray.

=A los bobos se les aperece la Madre de Dios=--The 20 mother of God appears to fools. Sp. Pr.

=A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind.= _Love's L. Lost_, iv. 3.

=Alte fert aquila=--The eagle bears me on high. M.

=Altera manu fert lapidem, altera panem ostentat=--He carries a stone in one hand, and shows bread in the other. Pr.

=Altera manu scabunt, altera feriunt=--They tickle with one hand and smite with the other. Pr.

=Alter ego=--Another or second self. 25

=Alter idem=--Another exactly the same.

=Alter ipse amicus=--A friend is a second self. Pr.

=Alterius non sit qui suus esse potest=--Let no man be slave of another who can be his own master. M. of Paracelsus.

=Alter remus aquas, alter mihi radat arenas=--Let me skim the water with one oar, and with the other touch the sands, i.e., so as not to go out of my depth.

=Alterum tantum=--As much more. 30

=Although men are accused of not knowing their weakness, yet perhaps as few know their strength.= Swift.

=Although the last, not least.= King Lear, i. 1.

=Altissima quæque flumina minimo sono labuntur=--The deepest rivers flow with the least noise. Curt.

=Alt ist das Wort, doch bleibet hoch und wahr der Sinn=--Old is the Word, yet does the meaning abide as high and true as ever. Faust.

=Altro diletto che' mparar, non provo=--Learning 35 is my sole delight. Petrarch.

=Always filling, never full.= Cowper.

=Always have two strings to your bow.= Pr.

=Always strive for the whole; and if thou canst not become a whole thyself, connect thyself with a whole as a ministering member.= Schiller.

=Always there is a black spot in our sunshine, the shadow of ourselves.= Carlyle.

=Always to distrust is an error, as well as always= 40 =to trust.= Goethe.

=Always win fools first; they talk much, and what they have once uttered they will stick to.= Helps.

=Amabilis insania=--A fine frenzy. Hor.

=A machine is not a man or a work of art; it is destructive of humanity and art.= Wm. Blake.

=A madness most discreet, / A choking gall and a preserving sweet=, i.e., =Love is.= Rom. and Jul., i. 1.

=A mad world, my masters.= Middleton. 45

=A main armée=--By force of arms. Fr.

=Ama l'amico tuo con il diffetto suo=--Love your friend with all his faults. It. Pr.

=A man at sixteen will prove a child at sixty.= Pr.

=A man belongs to his age and race, even when he acts against them.= Renan.

=A man, be the heavens praised, is sufficient= 50 =for himself; yet were ten men, united in love, capable of being and doing what ten thousand singly would fail in.= Carlyle.

=A man can be so changed by love as to be unrecognisable as the same person.= Ter.

=A man= can =do no more than he can.= Pr.

=A man can keep another's secret better than his own; a woman, her own better than another's.= La Bruyère.

=A man canna wive and thrive the same year.= Sc. Pr.

=A man can never be too much on his guard= 55 =when he writes to the public, and never too easy towards those with whom he converses.= D'Alembert.

=A man can receive nothing except it be given him from heaven.= John Baptist.

=A man cannot be in the seventeenth century and the nineteenth at one and the same moment.= Carlyle's experience while editing Cromwell's Letters.

=A man cannot spin and reel at the same time.= Pr.

=A man cannot whistle and drink at the same time.= Pr.

=A man dishonoured is worse than dead.= Cervantes. 60

=A man does not represent a fraction, but a whole number; he is complete in himself.= Schopenhauer.

=A man hears only what he understands.= Goethe.

=A man he was to all the country dear, / And passing rich with forty pounds a year.= Goldsmith.

=A man in a farm and his thoughts away, is better out of it than in it.= Gael. Pr.

=A man in debt is so far a slave.= Emerson. 65

=A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone.= Amer. Pr.

=A man is a fool or his own physician at forty.= Pr.

=A man is a golden impossibility.= Emerson.

=A man is always nearest to his good when at home, and farthest from it when away.= J. G. Holland.

=A man is king in his own house.= Gael. Pr. 5

=A man is never happy till his vague striving has itself marked out its proper limitation.= Goethe.

=A man is not born the second time, any more than the first, without travail.= Carlyle.

=A man is not as God, / But then most godlike being most a man.= Tennyson.

=A man is not strong who takes convulsion fits, though six men cannot hold him; only he that can walk under the heaviest weight without staggering.= Carlyle.

=A man is only a relative and a representative= 10 =nature.= Emerson.

=A man is the façade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide.= Emerson.

=A man is the prisoner of his power.= Emerson.

=A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things.= Carlyle.

=A man may be proud of his house, and not ride on the rigging (ridge) of it.= Sc. Pr.

=A man may do what he likes with his own.= Pr. 15

=A man may smile, and smile, and be a villain.= Ham., i. 5.

=A man may spit in his nieve and do little.= Sc. Pr.

=A man may survive distress, but not disgrace.= Gael. Pr.

=A man / More sinn'd against than sinning.= King Lear, iii. 2.

=A man must ask his wife's leave to thrive.= Pr. 20

=A man must become wise at his own expense.= Montaigne.

=A man must be healthy before he can be holy.= Mme. Swetchine.

=A man must be well off who is irritated by trifles, for in misfortune trifles are not felt.= Schopenhauer.

=A man must carry knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge.= Johnson.

=A man must seek his happiness and inward= 25 =peace from objects which cannot be taken away from him.= W. von Humboldt.

=A man must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion.= Emerson.

=A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents.= Emerson.

=A man must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into certainty of Yes= or =No.= Carlyle.

=A man must wait for the right moment.= Schopenhauer.

=A man never feels the want of what it never= 30 =occurs to him to ask for.= Schopenhauer.

=A man never rises so high as when he knows not whither he is going.= Oliver Cromwell.

=A man of intellect without energy added to it is a failure.= Chamfort.

=A man of maxims only is like a Cyclops with one eye, and that eye in the back of his head.= Coleridge.

=A man of pleasure is a man of pains.= Young.

=A man often pays dear for a small frugality.= 35 Emerson.

=A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be.= La Bruyère.

=A man of wit would often be much embarrassed without the company of fools.= La Roche.

=A man only understands what is akin to some things already in his mind.= Amiel.

=A man places himself on a level with him whom he praises.= Goethe.

=A man protesting against error is on the way= 40 =towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.= Carlyle.

=A man so various, that he seem'd to be, / Not one, but all mankind's epitome.= Dryden.

=A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he have lost no time.= Bacon.

=A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.= Johnson.

=A man who cannot gird himself into harness will take no weight along these highways.= Carlyle.

=A man who claps his Pegasus into a harness,= 45 =and urges on his muse with the whip, will have to pay to Nature the penalty of this trespass.= Schopenhauer.

=A man who does not know rigour cannot pity either.= Carlyle.

=A man who feels that his religion is a slavery has not began to comprehend the real nature of it.= J. G. Holland.

=A man who has nothing to do is the devil's playfellow.= J. G. Holland.

=A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is ignorant of his own.= Goethe.

=A man who reads much becomes arrogant and= 50 =pedantic; one who sees much becomes wise, sociable, and helpful.= Lichtenberg.

=A man will love or hate solitude--that is, his own society--according as he is himself worthy or worthless.= Schopenhauer.

=A man will not be observed in doing that which he can do best.= Emerson.

=A man with half a volition goes backwards and forwards, and makes no way on the smoothest road.= Carlyle.

=A man with knowledge but without energy, is a house furnished but not inhabited; a man with energy but no knowledge, a house dwelt in but unfurnished.= John Sterling.

=A man's a man for a' that.= Burns. 55

=A man's aye crousest in his ain cause.= Sc. Pr.

=A man's best fortune or his worst is his wife.= Pr.

=A man's best things are nearest him, / Lie close about his feet.= Monckton Milnes.

=A man's fate is his own temper.= Disraeli.

=A man's friends belong no more to him than= 60 =he to them.= Schopenhauer.

=A man's gift makes room for him.= Pr.

=A man's happiness consists infinitely more in admiration of the faculties of others than in confidence in his own.= Ruskin.

=A man's house is his castle.= Pr.

=A man's power is hooped in by a necessity, which, by many experiments, he touches on every side until he learns its arc.= Emerson.

=A man's task is always light if his heart is= 65 =light.= Lew Wallace.

=A man's virtue is to be measured not by his extraordinary efforts, but his everyday conduct.= Pascal.

=A man's walking is a succession of falls.= Pr.

=A man's wife is his blessing or his bane.= _Gael. Pr._

=Amantes, amentes=--In love, in delirium. Ter.

=Amantium iræ amoris redintegratio est=--The 5 quarrels of lovers bring about a renewal of love. Ter.

=A man who cannot mind his own business is not to be trusted with the king's.= Saville.

=A ma puissance=--To my power. M.

=Amare et sapere vix deo conceditur=--To be in love and act wisely is scarcely in the power of a god. Faber.

[Greek: Hamartôlai ... en anthrôpoisin hepontai thnêtois]--Proneness to sin cleaves fast to mortal men. Theognis.

=Ambigendi locus=--Reason for questioning or 10 doubt.

=Ambiguas in vulgum spargere voces=--To scatter ambiguous reports among the people. Virg.

=Ambition is not a vice of little people.= Montaigne.

=Ambition is the germ from which all growth in nobleness proceeds.= T. D. English.

=Ambos oder Hammer=--One must be either anvil or hammer. Ger. Pr.

=Ame damnée=--Mere tool, underling. Fr. 15

=Ame de boue=--Base, mean soul. Fr.

=Amende honorable=--Satisfactory apology; reparation. Fr.

=A mensâ et thoro=--From bed and board; divorced.

=A menteur, menteur à demi=--To a liar, a liar and a half, i.e., one be a match for him. Fr.

=Amentium, haud amantium=--Of lunatics, not 20 lovers.

=A merchant shall hardly keep himself from doing wrong.= Ecclus.

=A merciful man is merciful to his beast.= Bible.

=A mere madness to live like a wretch and die rich.= Burton.

=A merry heart doeth good like a medicine; but a broken spirit drieth the bones.= Bible.

=A merveille=--To a wonder. Fr. 25

=Am Golde hängt doch Alles=--On gold, after all, hangs everything. Margaret in "Faust."

=Amici, diem perdidi=--Friends, I have lost a day. Titus (at the close of a day on which he had done good to no one).

=Amici probantur rebus adversis=--Friends are proved by adversity. Cic.

=Amici vitium ni feras, prodis tuum=--Unless you bear with the faults of a friend, you betray your own. Pub. Syr.

=Amico d'ognuno, amico di nessuno=--Everybody's 30 friend is nobody's friend. It. Pr.

=Amicorum esse communia omnia=--Friends' goods are all common property. Pr.

=Amicum ita habeas posse ut fieri hunc inimicum scias=--Be on such terms with your friend as if you knew he may one day become your enemy. Laber.

=Amicum perdere est damnorum maximum=--To lose a friend is the greatest of losses. Syr.

=Amicus animæ dimidium=--A friend the half of life.

=Amicus certus in re incerta cernitur=--A true 35 friend is seen when fortune wavers. Ennius.

=Amicus curiæ=--A friend to the court, i.e., an uninterested adviser in a case.

=Amicus est unus animus in duobus corporibus=--A friend is one soul in two bodies. Arist.

=Amicus humani generis=--A friend of the human race.

=Amicus Plato, sed magis amica veritas=--Plato is my friend, but truth is my divinity (lit. more a friend).

=Amicus usque ad aras=--A friend to the very 40 altar, i.e., to the death.

=A mighty maze! but not without a plan.= Pope.

=A millstone and a man's heart are kept constantly revolving; where they have nothing to grind, they grind and fray away their own substance.= Logan.

=A mirror is better than a whole gallery of ancestral portraits.= Menzel.

=A miser is as furious about a halfpenny as the man of ambition about the conquest of a kingdom.= Adam Smith.

=A miss is as good as a mile.= Pr. 45

="Am I to be saved? or am I to be lost?" Certain to be lost, so long as you put that question.= Carlyle.

=Amittit famam qui se indignis comparat=--He loses repute who compares himself with unworthy people. Phædr.

=Amittit merito proprium, qui alienum appetit=--He who covets what is another's, deservedly loses what is his own. (Moral of the fable of the dog and the shadow.) Phædr.

=Am meisten Unkraut trägt der fettste Boden=--The fattest soil brings forth the most weeds. Ger. Pr.

=A mob is a body voluntarily bereaving itself= 50 =of reason and traversing its work.= Emerson.

=A modest confession of ignorance is the ripest and last attainment of philosophy.= R. D. Hitchcock.

=A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.= Holmes.

=A monarchy is apt to fall by tyranny; an aristocracy, by ambition; a democracy, by tumults.= Quarles.

=Among nations the head has alway preceded the heart by centuries.= Jean Paul.

=Among the blind the one-eyed is a king.= Pr. 55

=Amor al cor gentil ratto s' apprende.=--Love is quickly learned by a noble heart. Dante.

=Amor a nullo amato amar perdona=--Love spares no loved one from loving. Dante.

=Amor bleibt ein Schalk, und wer ihm vertraut, ist betrogen=--Cupid is ever a rogue, and whoever trusts him is deceived. Goethe.

=Amore è di sospetti fabro=--Love is a forger of suspicions. It. Pr.

=Amore sitis uniti=--Be ye united in love. 60

=Amor et melle et felle est fecundissimus=--Love is most fruitful both of honey and gall. Plaut.

=Amor et obœdientia=--Love and obedience. M.

=Amor gignit amorem=--Love begets love.

=Amor omnibus idem=--Love is the same in all. Virg.

=Amor patriæ=--Love of one's country. 65

=Amor proximi=--Love for one's neighbour.

=Amor tutti eguaglia=--Love makes all equal. _It. Pr._

=Amoto quæramus seria ludo=--Jesting aside, let us give attention to serious business. Hor.

=Amour avec loyaulté=--Love with loyalty. M.

=Amour fait moult, argent fait tout=--Love can do much, but money can do everything. Fr. Pr.

=Amour propre=--Vanity; self-love. Fr.

=A mouse never trusts its life to one hole only.= 5 Plaut.

=Amphora cœpit / Institui: currente rota cur urceus exit?=--A vase was begun; why from the revolving wheel does it turn out a worthless pitcher? Hor.

=Ampliat ætatis spatium sibi vir bonus; hoc est / Vivere bis vitâ posse priore frui=--The good man extends the term of his life; it is to live twice, to be able to enjoy one's former life. Mar.

=Am Rhein, am Rhein, da wachsen uns're Reben=--On the Rhine, on the Rhine, there grow our vines! Claudius.

=Am sausenden Webstuhl der Zeit=--On the noisy loom of Time. Goethe.

=Amt ohne Geld macht Diebe=--Office without 10 pay makes thieves. Ger. Pr.

=A mucho hablar, mucho errar=--Talk much, err much. Sp. Pr.

=A multitude of sparks yields but a sorry light.= Amiel.

=Anacharsis among the Scythians=--A wise man among unwise.

=An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia.= Macaulay.

=An acre of performance is worth a whole world= 15 =of promise.= Howell.

=Analysis is not the business of the poet. His office is to portray, not to dissect.= Macaulay.

=Analysis kills spontaneity, just as grain, once it is ground into flour, no longer springs and germinates.= Amiel.

=An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth.= Sir H. Wotten.

=An ambitious man is slave to everybody.= Feijoó.

=A name is no despicable matter. Napoleon,= 20 =for the sake of a great name, broke in pieces almost half a world.= Goethe.

=An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.= Bismarck.

=An archer is known by his aim, not by his arrows.= Pr.

=An arc in the movement of a large intellect does not differ sensibly from a straight line.= Holmes.

=An Argus at home, a mole abroad.= Pr.

=An army, like a serpent, goes on its belly.= 25 Frederick the Great (?).

=A narrow faith has much more energy than an enlightened one.= Amiel.

=An artist is a person who has submitted to a law which it is painful to obey, that he may bestow a delight which it is gracious to bestow.= Ruskin.

=An artist is only then truly praised by us when we forget him in his work.= Lessing.

=An artist must have his measuring tools, not in the hand, but in the eye.= Michael Angelo.

=An artist should be fit for the best society, and= 30 =should keep out of it.= Ruskin.

=An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.= George Eliot.

=A nation which labours, and takes care of the fruits of labour, would be rich and happy, though there were no gold in the universe.= Ruskin.

[Greek: Ananka d' oude theoi machontai]--The gods themselves do not fight against necessity. Gr. Pr.

=Anche il mar, che è si grande, si pacifica=--Even the sea, great though it be, grows calm. It. Pr.

=Anch' io sono pittore=--I too am a painter. Correggio 35 before a picture of Raphael's.

=Anche la rana morderebbe se avesse denti=--Even the frog would bite if it had teeth. It. Pr.

=Ancient art corporealises the spiritual; modern spiritualises the corporeal.= Börne.

=Ancient art is plastic; modern, pictorial.= Schlegel.

=And better had they ne'er been born / Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.= Scott.

=And can eternity belong to me, / Poor pensioner= 40 =on the bounties of an hour?= Young.

=And earthly power doth then show likest God's, / When mercy seasons justice.= Mer. of Ven., iv. 1.

=And e'en his failings lean'd to virtue's side.= Goldsmith.

=And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost.= Milton.

=And he is oft the wisest man / Who is not wise at all.= Wordsworth.

="And is this all?" cried Cæsar at his height,= 45 =disgusted.= Young.

=An dives sit omnes quærunt, nemo an bonus=--Every one inquires if he is rich; no one asks if he is good.

=And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair.= Byron.

=And much it grieved my heart to think / What man has made of man.= Wordsworth.

=And, often times, excusing of a fault / Doth make the fault worse by the excuse.= King John, iv. 2.

=And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, /= 50 =And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot, / And thereby hangs a tale.= As You Like It, ii. 7.

=And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, / That one small head could carry all he knew.= Goldsmith.

=And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.= As You Like It, ii. 1.

=A needle's eye is wide enough for two friends; the whole world is too narrow for two foes.= Pers. Pr.

[Greek: Anechou kai apechou]--Bear and forbear. Epictetus.

=A nemico che fugge, fa un ponte d'oro=--Make 55 a bridge of gold for an enemy who is flying from you. It. Pr.

=An empty purse fills the face with wrinkles.= Pr.

=An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.= Whipple.

[Greek: Anêr ho pheugôn kai palin machêsetai]--The man who runs away will fight again.

=An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.= Amiel.

=An evening red and morning grey, is a sure sign of a fair day.= Pr.

=A new broom sweeps clean.= Pr.

=A new life begins when a man once sees with his own eyes all that before he has but partially read or heard of.= Goethe.

=A new principle is an inexhaustible source of new views.= Vauvenargues.

=An eye like Mars, to threaten or command.= 5 Ham., iii. 4.

=Anfang heiss, Mittel lau, Ende kalt=--The beginning hot, the middle lukewarm, the end cold. Ger. Pr.

=Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.= Macb., iv. 3.

=Angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.= George Eliot.

=Anger is like / A full-hot horse; who, being allow'd his way, / Self-mettle tires him.= Hen. VIII., i. 2.

=Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.= Fuller. 10

=Anger resteth in the bosom of fools.= Bible.

=Anger, when it is long in coming, is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept.= Quarles.

=Anglicè=--In English.

=Angling is somewhat like poetry; men are to be born so.= Isaak Walton.

=Anguis in herbâ=--A snake in the grass. 15

=An honest citizen who maintains himself industriously has everywhere as much freedom as he wants.= Goethe.

=An honest man's the noblest work of God.= Pope.

=An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told.= Rich. III., iv. 4.

=An idle brain is the devil's workshop.= Pr.

=An idler is a watch that wants both hands; /= 20 =As useless if it goes as if it stands.= Cowper.

=An ill-willie (ill-natured) cow should have short horns.= Sc. Pr.

=An ill wind that blows nobody good.= Pr.

=An ill workman quarrels with his tools.= Pr.

=Animal implume bipes=--A two-legged animal without feathers. Plato's definition of man.

=Animals can enjoy, but only men can be cheerful.= 25 Jean Paul.

=Anima mundi=--The soul of the world.

=Animo ægrotanti medicus est oratio=--Kind words are as a physician to an afflicted spirit. Pr.

=Animo et fide=--By courage and faith. M.

=Animo, non astutia=--By courage, not by craft. M.

=Animum pictura pascit inani=--He feeds his soul 30 on the unreal picture. Virg.

=Animum rege, qui nisi paret imperat=--Rule your spirit well, for if it is not subject to you, it will lord it over you. Hor.

=Animus æquus optimum est ærumnæ condimentum=--A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble. Plaut.

=Animus furandi=--The intention of stealing. L.

=Animus homini, quicquid sibi imperat, obtinet=--The mind of man can accomplish whatever it resolves on.

=Animus hominis semper appetit agere aliquid=--The 35 mind of man is always longing to do something. Cic.

=Animus non deficit æquus=--Equanimity does not fail us. M.

=Animus quod perdidit optat / Atque in præterita se totus imagine versat=--The mind yearns after what is gone, and loses itself in dreaming of the past. Petron.

=An indifferent agreement is better than a good verdict.= Pr.

=An individual helps not; only he who unites with many at the proper time.= Goethe.

=An individual man is a fruit which it cost all= 40 =the foregoing ages to form and ripen.= Emerson.

=An infant crying in the night, / An infant crying for the light; / And with no language but a cry.= Tennyson.

=An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.= Ruskin.

=An innocent man needs no eloquence; his innocence is instead of it.= Ben Jonson.

=An iron hand in a velvet glove.= Charles V., said of a gentle compulsion.

=An irreverent knowledge is no knowledge;= 45 =it may be a development of the logical or other handicraft faculty, but is no culture of the soul of a man.= Carlyle.

=An nescis longas regibus esse manus?=--Do you not know that kings have long, i.e., far-grasping, hands? Ovid.

=An nescis, quantilla prudentia mundus regatur= (or =regatur orbis=)?--Do you not know with how very little wisdom the world is governed? Axel Oxenstjerna to his son.

=An nichts Geliebtes muszt du dein Gemüt / Also verpfänden, dass dich sein Verlust / Untröstbar machte=--Never so set your heart on what you love that its loss may render you inconsolable. Herder.

=Anno domini=--In the year of our Lord.

=Anno mundi=--In the year of the world. 50

=Annus mirabilis=--The year of wonders.

=A noble heart will frankly capitulate to reason.= Schiller.

=A noble man cannot be indebted for his culture to a narrow circle. The world and his native land must act on him.= Goethe.

=An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him.= Pope.

=A nod for a wise man, and a rod for a fool.= 55 Heb. Pr.

=An old bird is not to be caught with chaff.= Pr.

=An old knave is no babe.= Pr.

=An old man in a house is a good sign in a house.= Heb. Pr.

=An old warrior is never in haste to strike the blow.= Metastasio.

=An open confession is good for the soul.= Pr. 60

=An open door may tempt a saint.= Pr.

=Another such victory and we are done.= Pyrrhus after his second victory over the Romans.

=An ounce of a man's own wit is worth a pound of other peoples'.= Sterne.

=An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.= Fuller.

=An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of= 65 =wit.= Pr.

=An ounce o' mother-wit is worth a pound o' clergy.= Sc. Pr.

=An ounce of practice is worth a pound of preaching.= Pr.

=An quidquid stultius, quam quos singulos contemnas, eos aliquid putare esse universos?=--Can there be any greater folly than the respect you pay to men collectively when you despise them individually? Cic.

[Greek: Anthrôpos ôn tout' isthi kai memnês' aei]--Being a man, know and remember always that thou art one. Philemon Comicus.

[Greek: Anthrôpos physei zôon politikon]--Man is by nature an animal meant for civic life. Arist.

=Ante lucem=--Before daybreak.

=Ante meridiem=--Before noon. 5

=Ante omnia=--Before everything else.

=Antequam incipias, consulto; et ubi consulueris, facto opus est=--Before you begin, consider well; and when you have considered, act. Sall.

=Ante senectutem curavi, ut bene viverem; in senectute, ut bene moriar=--Before old age, it was my chief care to live well; in old age, it is to die well. Sen.

=Ante tubam tremor occupat artus=--We tremble all over before the bugle sounds. Virg.

=Ante victoriam ne canas triumphum=--Don't 10 celebrate your triumph before you have conquered.

=Anticipation forward points the view.= Burns.

=Antiquâ homo virtute ac fide=--A man of antique valour and fidelity. M.

=Antiquitas sæculi juventus mundi=--The ancient time of the world was the youth of the world. Bacon.

=An unimaginative person can neither be reverent nor kind.= Ruskin.

=Anxiety is the poison of human life.= Blair. 15

=Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features; any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.= Thoreau.

=Any port in a storm.= Sc. Pr.

=Any road will lead you to the end of the world.= Schiller.

=Anything for a quiet life.= Pr.

="A pack of kinless loons;"= said of Cromwell's 20 judges by the Scotch.

=Apage, Satana=--Begone, Satan!

=A patron is one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached the land encumbers him with help.= Johnson.

[Greek: Hapax legomenon]--A word that occurs only once in an author or book.

=A peck of March dust is worth a king's ransom.= Pr.

=A pedant is a precocious old man.= De Boufflers. 25

=A penny hained (saved) is a penny gained.= Sc. Pr.

=Aperçu=--A sketch. Fr.

=A perfect woman, nobly planned, / To warn, to comfort, and command.= Wordsworth.

=Aperit præcordia liber=--Wine opens the seals of the heart. Hor.

=A perte de vue=--Beyond the range of vision. Fr. 30

=Aperte mala cum est mulier, tum demum est bona=--A woman when she is openly bad, is at least honest.

=Aperto vivere voto=--To live with every wish avowed. Pers.

=A pet lamb makes a cross ram.= Pr.

=Aphorisms are portable wisdom.= W. R. Alger.

=Apio opus est=--There is need of parsley, i.e., 35 to strew on the grave, meaning that one is dying.

=A pity that the eagle should be mew'd, / While kites and buzzards prey at liberty.= Rich. III., i. 1.

=A place for everything, and everything in its place.= Pr.

=A plague of sighing and grief; it blows a man up like a bladder.= 1 Hen. IV., i. 4.

=A plant often removed cannot thrive.= Pr.

=A pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.= 40 Bacon.

[Greek: Aplêstos pithos]--A cask that cannot be filled (being pierced at the bottom with holes.) Pr.

=A plomb=--Perpendicularly; firmly. Fr.

=A poem is the very image of life expressed in its eternal truth.= Schelling.

=A poet is a nightingale, who sits in the darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.= Shelley.

=A poet must be before his age, to be even with= 45 =posterity.= Lowell.

=A poet must sing for his own people.= Stedman.

=A poet on canvas is exactly the same species of creature as a poet in song.= Ruskin.

=A poison which acts not at once is not therefore a less dangerous poison.= Lessing.

=A position of eminence makes a great man greater and a little man less.= La Bruyère.

=Apothegms are, in history, the same as the= 50 =pearls in the sand or the gold in the mine.= Erasmus.

[Greek: 'Ap' echthrôn polla manthanousin hoi sophoi]--Wise men learn many things from their enemies. Aristoph.

=A point=--To a point exactly. Fr.

=Apollo himself confessed it was ecstasy to be a man among men.= Schiller.

=A posse ad esse=--From possibility to actuality.

=A posteriori=--From the effect to the cause; by 55 induction.

=Apothecaries would not sugar their pills unless they were bitter.= Pr.

=A pound of care won't pay an ounce of debt.= Pr.

=Apparent rari nantes in gurgite vasto=--A few are seen swimming here and there in the vast abyss. Virg.

=Appetitus rationi pareat=--Let reason govern desire. Cic.

=Applause is the spur of noble minds, the aim= 60 =and end of weak ones.= Colton.

=Après la mort le médecin=--After death the doctor. Fr. Pr.

=Après la pluie, le beau temps=--After the rain, fair weather. Fr. Pr.

=Après nous le déluge=--After us the deluge! Mme. de Pompadour.

=A primrose by a river's brim / A yellow primrose was to him, / And it was nothing more.= Wordsworth.

=A prince can mak' a belted knight, / A marquis,= 65 =duke, and a' that; / But an honest man's aboon his might, / Gude faith, he maunna fa' that.= Burns.

=A priori=--From the cause to the effect; by deduction.

=A progress of society on the one hand, a decline of souls on the other.= Amiel.

=A promise is a debt.= Gael. Pr.

=A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow, real poverty.= Hume.

=A prophet is not without honour, save in his= 5 =own country, and in his own house.= Jesus.

=A propos=--To the point; seasonably; in due time. Fr.

=A propos de bottes=--By-the-bye. Fr.

=A proverb is good sense brought to a point.= John Morley.

=A proverb is much matter decocted into few words.= Fuller.

=Apt alliteration's artful aid.= Churchill. 10

=Apt to revolt, and willing to rebel, / And never are contented when they're well.= Defoe.

=A puñadas entran las buenas hadas=--Good luck pushes its way (lit. gets on) by elbowing. Sp. Pr.

=A purpose you impart is no longer your own.= Goethe.

=A quatre épingles=--With four pins, i.e., done up like a dandy. Fr.

=Aquel pierde venta que no tiene que venda=--He 15 who has nothing to sell loses his market. Sp. Pr.

=A quien tiene buena muger, ningun mal le puede venir, que no sea de sufrir=--To him who has a good wife no evil can come which he cannot bear. Sp. Pr.

=Aquilæ senectus=--The old age of the eagle. Ter.

=Aquila non capit muscas=--An eagle does not catch flies. M.

=A qui veut rien n'est impossible=--Nothing is impossible to one with a will. Fr. Pr.

=A raconter ses maux, souvent on les soulage=--Our 20 misfortunes are often lightened by relating them. Corneille.

=A ragged colt may make a good horse.= Pr.

=Aranearum telas texere=--To weave spiders' webs, i.e., a tissue of sophistry.

=Arbeit ist des Blutes Balsam: / Arbeit ist der Tugend Quell=--Labour is balm to the blood: labour is the source of virtue. Herder.

=Arbiter bibendi=--The master of the feast (lit. the judge of the drinking).

=Arbiter elegantiarum=--The arbitrator of elegances; 25 the master of the ceremonies.

=Arbiter formæ=--Judge of beauty.

=Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.= Washington.

=Arbore dejecta qui vult ligna colligit=--When the tree is thrown down, any one that likes may gather the wood. Pr.

=Arbores serit diligens agricola, quarum aspiciet baccam ipse nunquam=--The industrious husbandman plants trees, not one berry of which he will ever see. Cic.

="Arcades ambo,"= id est, blackguards both. 30 Byron.

=Arcana imperii=--State, or government, secrets.

[Greek: Archê andra deixei]--Office will prove the man.

=Architecture is petrified music.= _Schelling, De Staël, Goethe._

=Architecture is the work of nations.= Ruskin.

[Greek: Archôn oudeis hamartanei tote hotan archôn ê]--No 35 ruler can sin so long as he is a ruler.

=Ardeat ipsa licet, tormentis gaudet amantis=--Though she is aflame herself, she delights in the torments of her lover. Juv.

=Ardentia verba=--Glowing words.

=Arde verde por seco, y pagan justos por pecadores=--Green burns for dry, and just men smart (lit. pay) for transgressors. Sp. Pr.

=Ardua molimur: sed nulla nisi ardua virtus=--I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth that is not of difficult achievement. Ovid.

=A really great talent finds its happiness in= 40 =execution.= Goethe.

=A reasoning mule will neither lead nor drive.= Mallett.

=A rebours=--Reversed. Fr.

=A reconciled friend is a double enemy.= Pr.

=A reculons=--Backwards. Fr.

=A re decedunt=--They wander from the point. 45

=A refusal is less than nothing.= Platen.

=Arena sine calce=--Sand without cement, i.e., speech unconnected. Suet.

=Arenæ mandas semina=--You are sowing grain in the sand. Pr.

=A republic is properly a polity in which the state, with its all, is at every man's service; and every man, with his all, is at the state's service.= Ruskin.

=Ares, no ares, renta me pagues=--Plough or not 50 plough, you must pay rent all the same. Sp. Pr.

=A rez de chaussée=--Even with the ground. Fr.

=Argent comptant=--Ready money. Fr.

=Argent comptant porte medicine=--Ready money works great cures. Fr. Pr.

=Argentum accepi, dote imperium vendidi=--I have received money, and sold my authority for her dowry. Plaut.

=Argilla quidvis imitaberis uda=--You may model 55 any form you please out of damp clay. Hor.

=Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation; as it is generally in books the worst sort of reading.= Swift.

=Argument is like an arrow from a cross-bow, which has great force though shot by a child.= Bacon.

=Argumentum ad crumenam=--An appeal to self-interest.

=Argumentum ad hominem=--An argument in refutation drawn from an opponent's own principles (lit. an argument to the man).

=Argumentum ad ignorantiam=--An argument 60 founded on the ignorance of an adversary.

=Argumentum ad invidiam=--An argument which appeals to low passions.

=Argumentum ad judicium=--An appeal to common sense.

=Argumentum ad misericordiam=--An appeal to the mercy of your adversary.

=Argumentum ad populum=--An appeal to popular prejudice.

=Argumentum ad verecundiam=--An appeal to 65 respect for some authority.

=Argumentum baculinum=--Club argument, i.e., by physical force.

=Argus at home, a mole abroad.= It. Pr.

=Argus-eyes=--Eyes ever wakeful and watchful.

=A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast, but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.= Bible.

[Greek: Ariston metron]--A mean or middle course is best. Cleobulus.

[Greek: Ariston men hydôr]--Water is best. Pindar.

=Aristocracy has three successive ages--of superiorities, of privileges, and of vanities; having passed out of the first, it degenerates in the second, and dies away in the third.= Chateaubriand.

=Arma amens capio; nec sat rationis in armis=--I 5 madly take to arms; but have not wit enough to use them to any purpose. Virg.

=Arma cerealia=--The arms of Ceres, i.e., implements connected with the preparation of corn and bread.

=Arm am Beutel, krank am Herzen=--Poor in purse, sick at heart. Goethe.

=Arma pacis fulcra=--Arms are the props of peace. M.

=Arma tenenti omnia dat, qui justa negat=--He who refuses what is just, gives up everything to an enemy in arms. Luc.

=Arma, viri, ferte arma; vocat lux ultima victos, /= 10 =Nunquam omnes hodie moriemur inulti=--Arms, ye men, bring me arms! their last day summons the vanquished. We shall never all die unavenged this day. Virg.

=Armé de foi hardi=--Bold from being armed with faith. M.

=Armes blanches=--Side arms. Fr.

=Arm in Arm mit dir, / So fordr' ich mein Jahrhundert in die Schranken=--Arm in arm with thee, I defy the century to gainsay me. Schiller.

=Arms and the man I sing.= Virg.

=Armuth des Geistes Gott erfreut, / Armuth,= 15 =und nicht Armseligkeit=--It is poverty of spirit that God delights in--poverty, and not beggarliness. Claudius.

=Armuth ist der sechste Sinn=--Poverty is the sixth sense. Ger. Pr.

=Armuth ist die grösste Plage, / Reichtum ist das höchste Gut=--Poverty is the greatest calamity, riches the highest good. Goethe.

=Armuth ist listig, sie fängt auch einen Fuchs=--Poverty is crafty; it outwits (lit. catches) even a fox. Ger. Pr.

=Armuth und Hunger haben viel gelehrte Jünger=--Poverty and hunger have many learned disciples. Ger. Pr.

=A rogue is a roundabout fool.= Coleridge. 20

=A rolling stone gathers no moss.= Pr.

=A Rome comment à Rome=--At Rome do as Rome does. Fr. Pr.

=A royal heart is often hid under a tattered coat.= Dan. Pr.

=Arrectis auribus adsto=--I wait with listening ears. Virg.

=Arrière pensée=--A mental reservation. Fr. 25

=Arrogance is the obstruction of wisdom.= Bion.

=Ars artium omnium conservatrix=--The art preservative of all others, viz., printing.

=Ars est celare artem=--It is the perfection of art to conceal art. Ovid.

=Ars est sine arte, cujus principium est mentiri, medium laborare, et finis mendicare=--It is an art without art, which has its beginning in falsehood, its middle in toil, and its end in poverty. Applied originally to the pursuits of the Alchemists.

=Ars longa, vita brevis=--Art is long, life is short. 30

=Ars varia vulpis, ast una echino maxima=--The fox has many tricks; the hedgehog only one, and that greatest of all. Pr.

=Art does not represent things falsely, but truly as they appear to mankind.= Ruskin.

=Arte magistra=--By the aid of art. Virg.

=Art is a jealous mistress.= Emerson.

=Art is long and time is fleeting, / And our= 35 =hearts, though stout and brave, / Still, like muffled drums, are beating / Funeral marches to the grave.= Longfellow.

=Art is noble, but the sanctuary of the human soul is nobler still.= W. Winter.

=Art is not the bread indeed, but it is the wine of life.= Jean Paul.

=Art is simply a bringing into relief of the obscure thought of Nature.= Amiel.

=Art is the mediatrix of the unspeakable.= Goethe.

=Art is the path of the creator to his work.= 40 Emerson.

=Art is the work of man under the guidance and inspiration of a mightier power.= Hare.

=Artists are of three classes: those who perceive and pursue the good, and leave the evil; those who perceive and pursue the good and evil together, the whole thing as it verily is; and those who perceive and pursue the evil, and leave the good.= Ruskin.

=Artium magister=--Master of arts.

=Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.= Dryden.

=Art may make a suit of clothes, but Nature= 45 =must produce a man.= Hume.

=Art must anchor in nature, or it is the sport of every breath of folly.= Hazlitt.

=Art must not be a superficial talent, but must begin further back in man.= Emerson.

=Art, not less eloquently than literature, teaches her children to venerate the single eye.= Willmott.

=Art not thou a man?= Bible.

=Art rests on a kind of religious sense, on a= 50 =deep, steadfast earnestness; and on this account it unites so readily with religion.= Goethe.

=Art thou afraid of death, and dost thou wish to live for ever? Live in the whole that remains when thou hast long been gone= (wenn du lange dahin bist). Schiller.

=A rude âne rude ânier=--A stubborn driver to a stubborn ass. Fr. Pr.

=A rusty nail, placed near the faithful compass, / Will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.= Scott.

=A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages.= Emerson.

=A saint abroad, a devil at home.= Pr. 55

=A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn.= Pope.

=As all men have some access to primary truth, so all have some art or power of communication in the head, but only in the artist does it descend into the hand.= Emerson.

=As a man makes his bed, so must he lie.= _Gael. Pr._

=As a priest, or interpreter of the holy, is the noblest and highest of all men; so is a sham priest the falsest and basest.= Carlyle.

=A satirical poet is the check of the layman on= 60 =bad priests.= Dryden.

=As a tree falls, so shall it lie.= Pr.

[Greek: asbestos gelôs]--Unquenchable, or Homeric, laughter. Hom.

=A scalded cat dreads cauld water.= Sc. Pr.

=As dear to me as are the ruddy drops / That visit my sad heart.= Jul. Cæs., ii. 1.

=A second Daniel.= Mer. of Ven., iv. 1.

=A secret is in my custody if I keep it; but if= 5 =I blab it, it is I that am prisoner.= Arab Pr.

=A self-denial no less austere than the saint's is demanded of the scholar.= Emerson.

=As ever in my great taskmaster's eye.= Milton.

=As every great evil, so every excessive power wears itself out at last.= Herder.

=As falls the dew on quenchless sands, / Blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.= Byron.

=As for discontentments, they are in the politic= 10 =body like humours in the natural, which are apt to gather a preternatural heat and inflame.= Bacon.

=As formerly we suffered from wickedness, so now we suffer from the laws.= Tac.

=As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then, to be sure. But there's no love lost between us.= Goldsmith.

=As for talkers and futile persons, they are commonly vain and credulous withal.= Bacon.

=As from the wing no scar the sky retains, / The parted wave no furrow from the keel; So dies in human hearts the thought of death.= Young.

=As good be out of the world as out of the= 15 =fashion.= Pr.

=As good almost kill a man as kill a good book; who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself.= Milton.

=As guid fish i' the sea as e'er came oot o't.= Sc. Pr.

=As guid may haud (hold) the stirrup as he that loups on.= Sc. Pr.

=A's guid that God sends.= Sc. Pr.

=As he alone is a good father who at table serves= 20 =his children first, so is he alone a good citizen who, before all other outlays, discharges what he owes to the state.= Goethe.

=As he who has health is young, so he who owes nothing is rich.= Pr.

=A short cut is often a wrong cut.= Dan. Pr.

=A sicht (sight) o' you is guid for sair een.= Sc. Pr.

=A sick man's sacrifice is but a lame oblation.= Sir Thomas Browne.

=As idle as a painted ship / Upon a painted= 25 =ocean.= Coleridge.

=A sight to dream of, not to tell.= Coleridge.

=A silent man's words are not brought into court.= Dan. Pr.

=A sillerless (moneyless) man gangs fast through the market.= Sc. Pr.

=A silver key can open an iron lock.= Pr.

=A simple child, / That lightly draws its breath, /= 30 =And feels its life in every limb, / What should it know of death?= Wordsworth.

=A simple maiden in her flower, / Is worth a hundred coats of arms.= Tennyson.

=A simple, manly character need never make an apology.= Emerson.

=As in a theatre, the eyes of men, / After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, / Are idly bent on him that enters next, / Thinking his prattle to be tedious.= Rich. II., v. 2.

=A single grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.= Lessing.

=A single moment may transform everything.= 35 Wieland.

=A single word is often a concentrated poem, a little grain of pure gold, capable of being beaten out into a broad extent of gold-leaf.= Trench.

=Asinum sub fræno currere docere=--To teach an ass to obey the rein, i.e., to labour in vain. Pr.

=Asinus ad lyram=--An ass at the lyre, i.e., one unsusceptible of music.

=Asinus asino, et sus sui pulcher=--An ass is beautiful to an ass, and a pig to a pig. Pr.

=Asinus in tegulis=--An ass on the house-tiles. 40

=Asinus inter simias=--An ass among apes, i.e., a fool among people who make a fool of him. Pr.

=Asinus in unguento=--An ass among perfumes, i.e., things he cannot appreciate.

=As is the garden, such is the gardener.= _Heb. Pr._

=As is the man, so is his God.= Rückert, Goethe.

=A sip is the most that mortals are permitted= 45 =from any goblet of delight.= A. B. Alcott.

=Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you.= Jesus.

=Ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein.= Bible.

=Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.= Goldsmith.

=Ask why God made the gem so small, / And why so huge the granite? / Because God meant mankind should set / The higher value on it.= Burns.

=As long as any man exists, there is some need= 50 =of him.= Emerson.

=As long lives a merry heart as a sad.= Pr.

=As love without esteem is capricious and volatile, esteem without love is languid and cold.= Swift.

=A slow fire makes sweet malt.= Pr.

=A small man, if he stands too near a great, may see single portions well, and, if he will survey the whole, must stand too far off, where his eyes do not reach the details.= Goethe.

=A small sorrow distracts us, a great one makes= 55 =us collected.= Jean Paul.

=A small unkindness is a great offence.= _Hannah More._

=As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, / Receives the lurking principle of death; / The young disease, that must subdue at length, / Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.= Pope.

=As many suffer from too much as too little.= Bovee.

=A smart coat is a good letter of introduction.= Dut. Pr.

=As merry as the day is long.= Much Ado, ii. 1. 60

=A smile abroad is oft a scowl at home.= Tennyson.

=A smile re-cures the wounding of a frown.= Shakespeare.

=As much love, so much mind, or heart.= Lat. Pr.

=As much virtue as there is, so much appears; as much goodness as there is, so much reverence it commands.= Emerson.

=A snapper up of unconsidered trifles.= _Winter's Tale_, iv. 2.

=A society of people will cursorily represent a certain culture, though there is not a gentleman or a lady in the group.= Emerson.

=A soldier, / Seeking the bubble reputation / Even in the cannon's mouth.= _As You Like It_, ii. 7.

=A solis ortu usque ad occasum=--From where the sun rises to where it sets.

=A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.= 5 Henry Giles.

=A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things.= Tennyson.

=A sorrow shared is but half a trouble, / But a joy that's shared is a joy made double.= Pr.

=A' sottili cascano le brache=--The cloak sometimes falls off a cunning man. It. Pr.

=A soul without reflection, like a pile / Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.= Young.

=A spark neglected makes a mighty fire.= Herrick. 10

=A species is a succession of individuals which perpetuates itself.= Cuvier.

=Asperæ facetiæ ubi multum ex vero traxere, acrem sui memoriam relinquunt=--Satire, when it comes near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it. Tac.

=Asperius nihil est humili, cum surgit in altum=--Nothing is more offensive than a low-bred man in a high station. Claud.

=Aspettare e non venire, / Stare in letto e non dormire, / Ben servire e non gradire, / Son tre cose da morire=--To wait for what never comes, to lie abed and not sleep, to serve and not be advanced, are three things to die of. It. Pr.

=A spirit may be known from only a single= 15 =thought.= Swedenborg.

=As poor as Job.= Merry Wives, v. 5.

=A spot is most seen on the finest cloth.= Pr.

=As proud go behind as before.= Pr.

=A spur in the head is worth two in the heels.= Pr.

=As reason is a rebel unto faith, so is passion= 20 =unto reason.= Sir T. Browne.

=Assai acqua passa per il molino, che il molinaio non se n'accorge=--A good deal of water passes by the mill which the miller takes no note of. It. Pr.

=Assai basta, e troppo guasta=--Enough is enough, and too much spoils. It. Pr.

=Assai ben balla, à chi fortuna suona=--He dances well to whom fortune pipes. It. Pr.

=Assai è ricco à chi non manca=--He is rich enough who has no wants. It. Pr.

=Assai guadagna chi vano sperar perde=--He 25 gains a great deal who loses a vain hope. It. Pr.

=Assai sa, chi non sa, se tacer sa=--He who knows not, knows a good deal if he knows how to hold his tongue. It. Pr.

=Assez a qui se contente=--He has enough who is content. Fr. Pr.

=Assez dort qui rien ne fait=--He sleeps enough who does nothing. Fr. Pr.

=Assez gagne qui malheur perd=--He gains enough who gets rid of a sorrow. Fr. Pr.

=Assez sait qui sait vivre et se taire=--He knows 30 enough who knows how to live and how to keep his own counsel. Fr. Pr.

=Assez tôt si assez bien=--Soon enough if well enough. Fr. Pr.

=Assez y a, si trop n'y a=--There is enough where there is not too much. Fr. Pr.

=Associate with the good, and you will be esteemed one of them.= Sp. Pr.

=As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form, / Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm, / Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, / Eternal sunshine settles on its head.= Goldsmith.

=As soon as a man is born he begins to die.= 35 Ger. Pr.

=As soon as beauty is sought, not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.= Emerson.

=As soon as the soul sees any object, it stops before that object.= Emerson.

=Assume a virtue, if you have it not.= Ham., iii. 4.

=Assumpsit=--An action on a verbal promise. L.

=Assurance is two-thirds of success.= Gael. Pr. 40

=A state is never greater than when all its superfluous hands are employed in the service of the public.= Hume.

=A state of violence cannot be perpetual, or disaster and ruin would be universal.= Bp. Burnet.

=A statesman requires rather a large converse with men, and much intercourse in life, than deep study of books.= Burke.

=A stern discipline pervades all Nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind.= Spenser.

=As the births of living creatures at first are= 45 =ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.= Bacon.

=As the first order of wisdom is to know thyself, so the first order of charity is to be sufficient for thyself.= Ruskin.

=As the fool thinks, the bell clinks.= Pr.

=As the good man saith, so say we: / As the good woman saith, so it must be.= Pr.

=As the husband is, the wife is: / Thou art mated with a clown, / And the grossness of his nature / Will have weight to drag thee down.= Tennyson.

=As the man is, so is his strength.= Bible. 50

=As the old cock crows, the young one learns.= Pr.

=As there is no worldly gain without some loss, so there is no worldly loss without some gain.= Quarles.

=As the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, / So honour peereth in the meanest habit.= Tam. of Shrew, iv. 3.

=As the youth lives in the future, so the man lives with the past; no one knows rightly how to live in the present.= Grillparzer.

=As thy days, so shall thy strength be.= Bible. 55

=A still, small voice.= Bible.

=A stitch in time saves nine.= Pr.

=As to the value of conversions, God alone can judge.= Goethe.

=Astra castra, numen lumen=--The stars my camp, the deity my light. M.

=Astræa redux=--Return of the goddess of justice. 60

=A straight line is the shortest in morals as well as in geometry.= Rahel.

=A strange fish.= Tempest, ii. 2.

=Astra regunt homines, sed regit astra Deus=--The stars govern men, but God governs the stars.

=A strenuous soul hates cheap success.= Emerson.

=A strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment.= Montaigne.

=A strong soil that has produced weeds may be made to produce wheat with far less difficulty than it would cost to make it produce nothing.= Colton.

=Astronomy has revealed the great truth that= 5 =the whole universe is bound together by one all-pervading influence.= Leitch.

=A' Stuarts are no sib (related) to the king= (the family name of the Scotch kings being Stuart). Sc. Pr.

=Astutior coccyge=--More crafty than the cuckoo (who deposits her eggs in another bird's nest). Pr.

=A subject's faults a subject may proclaim, / A monarch's errors are forbidden game.= Cowper.

=A substitute shines brightly as a king, until a king be by.= Mer. of Ven., v. 1.

=A sudden thought strikes me, / Let us swear= 10 =an eternal friendship.= Canning.

=A sunbeam passes through pollution unpolluted.= Eusebius.

=A surfeit of sweetest things.= Mid. N.'s Dream, ii. 3.

=As water spilt upon the ground, which cannot be gathered up again.= Bible.

=As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.= Froude.

=As we are born to work, so others are born to= 15 =watch over us while working.= Goldsmith.

=As weel be oot o' the world as oot o' the fashion.= Sc. Pr.

=As wholesome meat corrupteth to little worms, so good forms and orders corrupt into a number of petty observances.= Bacon.

=As yet a child, not yet a fool to fame, / I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.= Pope.

=As you do to others, expect others to do to you.= Pr.

=As you make your bed you must lie on it.= Pr. 20

=As you sow you shall reap.= Pr.

=A tale never loses in the telling.= Pr.

=A talisman that shall turn base metal into precious, Nature acknowledges not; but a talisman to turn base souls into noble, Nature has given us; and that is a "philosopher's stone," but it is a stone which the builders refuse.= Ruskin.

=A tâtons=--Groping. Fr.

=A tattler is worse than a thief.= Pr. 25

=A (man of) teachable mind will hang about a wise man's neck.= Bp. Patrick.

=At every trifle scorn to take offence; / That always shows great pride or little sense.= Pope.

=At first one omits writing for a little while; and then one stays a little while to consider of excuses; and at last it grows desperate, and one does not write at all.= Swift.

[Greek: Athanatous men prôta theous, nomô hôs diakeitai Tima]--Reverence, first of all, the immortal gods, as prescribed by law. Pythagoras.

=At the gates of the forest the surprised man= 30 =of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and foolish.= Emerson.

=Atheism is rather in the life than in the heart of man.= Bacon.

=Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erecteth an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.= Bacon.

=A thief knows a thief, as a wolf knows a wolf.= Pr.

=A thing is the bigger of being shared.= Gael. Pr.

=A thing is what it is, only in and by means of= 35 =its limit.= Hegel.

=A thing is worth what it= can =do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.= Ruskin.

=A thing of beauty is a joy for ever; / Its loveliness increases; it will never / Pass into nothingness.= Keats.

=A thing you don't want is dear at any price.= Pr.

=A thinking man is the worst enemy the Prince of Darkness can have.= Carlyle.

=A third interprets motion, looks, and eyes, /= 40 =At every word a reputation dies.= Pope.

=A thorn is a changed bud.= T. Lynch.

=A thorough-paced antiquary not only remembers what others have thought proper to forget, but he also forgets what others think proper to remember.= Colton.

=A thousand years scarce serve to form a state; / An hour may lay it in the dust.= Byron.

=A thread will tie an honest man better than a rope will do a rogue.= Sc. Pr.

=A threatened blow is seldom given.= Pr. 45

=A threefold cord is not quickly broken.= Bible.

=A thrill passes through all men at the reception of a new truth, or at the performance of a great action, which comes out of the heart of nature.... By the necessity of our constitution, a certain enthusiasm attends the individual's consciousness of that Divine presence.= Emerson.

=At ingenium ingens / Inculto latet hoc sub corpore=--Yet under this rude exterior lies concealed a mighty genius. Hor.

=At no age should a woman be allowed to govern herself as she pleases.= H. Mann.

=A tocherless dame sits lang at hame.= Sc. Pr. 50

=A toom (empty) pantry maks a thriftless guid-wife.= Sc. Pr.

=A tort et à travers=--Without consideration; at random. Fr.

=A toute force=--With all one's force. Fr.

=A toute seigneur tout honneur=--Let every one have his due honour. Fr. Pr.

=At pulchrum est digito monstrari et dicier hic= 55 =est=--Yet it is a fine thing to be pointed at with the finger and have it said, This is he! Persius.

=Atque in rege tamen pater est=--And yet in the king there is the father. Ovid.

=Atqui vultus erat multa et præclara minantis=--And yet you had the look of one that promised (lit. threatened) many fine things. Hor.

=A trade of barbarians.= Napoleon on war.

=A tragic farce.= Lille.

=A travelled man has leave to lie.= Pr. 60

=A traveller of taste at once perceives that the wise are polite all the world over, but that fools are only polite at home.= Goldsmith.

=A tree is known by its fruit.= Pr.

=Atria regum hominibus plena sunt, amicis vacua=--The courts of kings are full of men, empty of friends. Sen.

=Atrocitatis mansuetudo est remedium=--Gentleness is the antidote for cruelty. Phædr.

=A true-bred merchant is the best gentleman in the nation.= Defoe.

=A true genius may be known by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.= Swift.

=A true man hates no one.= Napoleon. 5

=A truly great genius will be the first to prescribe limits for its own exertions.= Brougham.

=A truth / Looks freshest in the fashion of the day.= Tennyson.

=A truth to an age that has rejected and trampled on it, is not a word of peace, but a sword.= Henry George.

=At spes non fracta=--Yet hope is not broken. M.

=Attempts at reform, when they fail, strengthen= 10 =despotism; as he that struggles tightens those cords he does not succeed in breaking.= Colton.

=Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt; / Nothing's so hard, but search will find it out.= Herrick.

=Attendez à la nuit pour dire que le jour a été beau=--Wait till night before saying that the day has been fine. Fr. Pr.

=Attention makes the genius; all learning, fancy, and science depend on it.= Willmott.

=At the sight of a= man =we too say to ourselves, Let us be= men. Amiel.

=At thirty, man suspects himself a fool, / Knows= 15 =it at forty, and reforms his plan. / At fifty, chides his infamous delay. / Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve. / Resolves--and re-resolves; then dies the same.= Young.

=At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.= Grattan.

=A tu hijo, buen nombre y oficio=--To your son a good name and a trade. Sp. Pr.

=A tutti non si adatta una sola scarpa=--One shoe does not fit every foot. It. Pr.

=At vindictum bonum vita jucundius ipsa. Nempe hoc indocti=--But revenge is a blessing sweeter than life itself; so rude men feel. Juv.

=At whose sight all the stars / Hide their diminished= 20 =heads.= Milton.

=Au bon droit=--By good right. Fr.

=Au bout de son Latin=--At his wit's end (lit. at the end of his Latin). Fr.

=Au bout du compte=--After the close of the account; after all. Fr.

=Auch aus entwölkter Höhe / Kann der zündende Donner schlagen; / Darum in deinen fröhlichen Tagen / Fürchte des Unglücks tückische Nähe=--Even out of a cloudless heaven the flaming thunderbolt may strike; therefore in thy days of joy have a fear of the spiteful neighbourhood of misfortune. Schiller.

=Auch Bücher haben ihr Erlebtes, das ihnen= 25 =nicht entzogen werden kann=--Even books have their lifetime, of which no one can deprive them. Goethe.

=Auch das Schöne muss sterben=--Even what is beautiful must die. Schiller.

=Auch der Löwe muss sich vor der Mücke wehren=--Even the lion has to defend itself against flies. Ger. Pr.

=Auch die Gerechtigkeit trägt eine Binde, / Und schliesst die Augen jedem Blendwerk zu=--Even Justice wears a bandage, and shuts her eyes on everything deceptive. Goethe.

=Auch die Kultur, die alle Welt beleckt, / Hat auf den Teufel sich erstreckt=--Culture, which has licked all the world into shape, has reached even the devil. Goethe.

=Auch die Kunst ist Himmelsgabe, / Borgt sie= 30 =gleich von ird'scher Glut=--Art is a gift of Heaven, yet does it borrow its fire from earthly passion. Schiller.

=Auch ein Haar hat seinen Schatten=--Even a hair casts its shadow. Ger. Pr.

=Auch für die rauhe Brust giebt's Augenblicke / Wo dunkle Mächte Melodien wecken=--Even the rude breast has moments in which dark powers awaken melodies. Körner.

=Auch ich war ein Jüngling mit lockigem Haar, / An Mut und an Hoffnungen reich=--I too was once a youth with curly locks, rich in courage and in hopes. Lortzing.

=Auch ich war in Arkadien geboren, / Und ward daraus entführt vom neidischen Glücke. / Ist hier der Rückweg? fragt' ich jede Brücke, / Der Eingang hier? fragt' ich an allen Thoren=--I too was born in Arcadia, and was lured away by envious Fortune. "Is this the way back?" asked I at every bridge-way; "This the entrance?" asked I at every portal. Rückert.

=Auch in der That ist Raum für Ueberlegung=--Even 35 in the moment of action there is room for consideration. Goethe.

=Auch was Geschriebenes forderst du, Pedant? / Hast du noch keinen Mann, nicht Mannes-Wort gekannt?=--Dost thou, O pedant, require something written too? Hast thou never yet known a man, not word of man? Faust.

=Au courant=--Perfectly acquainted with. Fr.

=Auctor pretiosa facit=--The giver makes the gift valuable. M.

=Aucto splendore resurgo=--I rise again with access of splendour. M.

=Aucun chemin de fleurs ne conduit à la gloire=--No 40 path of flowers conducts to glory. La Font.

=Audacia pro muro habetur=--Daring is regarded as a wall. Sallust.

=Audacter calumniare, semper aliquid hæret=--Calumniate boldly, always some of it sticks. Bacon.

=Audacter et sincere=--Boldly and heartily. M.

=Audax ad omnia fœmina, quæ vel amat vel odit=--A woman, when she either loves or hates, will dare anything. Pr.

=Audax omnia perpeti / Gens humana ruit per= 45 =vetitum et nefas=--Daring to face all hardships, the human race dashes through every human and divine restraint. Hor.

=Aude aliquid brevibus Gyaris et carcere dignum, / Si vis esse aliquis=--Dare to do something worthy of transportation and imprisonment, if you wish to be somebody. Juv.

=Audendo magnus tegitur timor=--Great fear is concealed under daring. Lucan.

=Audentes Fortuna juvat=--Fortune favours the brave. Virg.

=Au dernier les os=--For the last the bones. _Fr. Pr._

=Aude sapere=--Dare to be wise. 50

=Au désespoir=--In despair. Fr.

=Audi alteram partem=--Hear the other party; hear both sides. L. Max.

=Audiatur et altera pars=--Let the other side also have a hearing. Sen.

=Audio sed taceo=--I hear, but say nothing. M.

=Audita querela=--The complaint having been investigated. L.

=Auditque vocatus Apollo=--And Apollo hears 5 when invoked. Virg.

=Audi, vide, tace, si vis vivere in pace=--Use your ears and eyes, but hold your tongue, if you would live in peace.

=Au fait=--Expert; skilful. Fr.

=Auf dem Grund des Glaubenmeeres / Liegt die Perle der Erkenntniss; Heil dem Taucher, der sie findet=--At the bottom of the faith-sea lies the pearl of knowledge; happy the diver that finds it. Bodenstedt.

=Auf den Bergen ist Freiheit=--On the mountains is freedom. Schiller.

=Auf die warnenden Symptome sieht kein= 10 =Mensch, auf die Schmeichelnden und Versprechenden allein ist die Aufmerksamkeit gerichtet=--To the warning word no man has respect, only to the flattering and promising is his attention directed. Goethe.

=Auf Dinge, die nicht mehr zu ändern sind, / Muss auch kein Blick zurück mehr fallen! Was / Gethan ist, ist gethan und bleiht's=--On things which are no more to be changed a backward glance must be no longer cast! What is done is done, and so remains. Schiller.

=Auf ebnem Boden straucheln ist ein Scherz, / Ein Fehltritt stürzt vom Gipfel dich herab=--To stumble on a level surface is matter of jest; by a false step on a height you are hurled to the ground. Goethe.

=Auferimur cultu: gemmis auroque teguntur / Omnia; pars minima est ipsa puella sui=--Dress deceives us: jewels and gold hide everything: the girl herself is the least part of herself. Ovid.

=Aufgeschoben ist nicht aufgehoben=--Postponed is not abandoned. Ger. Pr.

=Aufklärung=--Illuminism. Ger. 15

=Au fond=--To the bottom. Fr.

=Aufrichtig zu sein kann ich versprechen; unparteiisch zu sein aber nicht=--I can promise to be candid, but not to be impartial. Goethe.

=Auf Teufel reimt der Zweifel nur; / Da bin ich recht am Platze=--Only Zweifel (doubt) rhymes to Teufel (devil); here am I quite at home. The Sceptic in "Faust."

=Auf Wind und Meer gebautes Glück ist schwankend=--The fortune is insecure that is at the mercy of wind and wave. Gutzkow.

=Augiæ cloacas purgare=--To cleanse the Augean 20 stables, i.e., achieve an arduous and disagreeable work. Sen.

=Augusto felicior, Trajano melior=--A more fortunate man than Augustus, and a more excellent than Trajan. Eutrop.

=Aujourd'hui marié, demain marri=--To-day married, to-morrow marred. Fr. Pr.

=Aula regis=--The court of the king.

=Auld folk are twice bairns.= Sc. Pr.

=Auld Nature swears the lovely dears, / Her= 25 =noblest work she classes, O; / Her 'prentice han' she tried on man, / An' then she made the lasses, O.= Burns.

=Au nouveau tout est beau=--Everything is fine that is new. Fr. Pr.

=Au pis aller=--At the worst. Fr.

=Au plaisir fort de Dieu=--By the all-powerful will of God. M.

=Aura popularis=--Popular favour (lit. breeze).

=Aurea mediocritas=--The golden mean. 30

=Aurea nunc vere sunt sæcula; plurimus auro / Venit honos: auro conciliatur amor=--The age we live in is the true age of gold; by gold men attain to the highest honour, and win even love itself. Ovid.

=Aureo piscari hamo=--To fish with a golden hook.

=Au reste=--For the rest. Fr.

=Au revoir=--Farewell till we meet again. Fr.

=Auri sacra fames=--The accursed lust of gold. 35 Virg.

=Auro loquente nihil pollet quævis ratio=--When gold speaks, no reason the least avails. Pr.

=Aurora musis amica=--Aurora is friendly to the Muses. Pr.

=Aus dem Gebet erwächst des Geistes Sieg=--It is from prayer that the spirit's victory springs. Schillerbuch.

=Aus dem Kleinsten setzt / Sich Grosses zusammen zuletzt, / Und keins darf fehlen von allen, / Wenn nicht das Ganze soll fallen=--Out of the smallest a great is at length composed, and none of all can fail, unless the whole is fated to break up. Rückert.

=Aus dem Leben heraus sind der Wege drei= 40 =dir geöffnet, / Zum Ideale führt einer, der andre zum Tod=--Two ways are open for thee out of life; one conducts to the ideal, the other to death. Schiller.

=Aus der Jugendzeit, aus der Jugendzeit / Klingt ein Lied mir immerdar, / O wie liegt so weit, O wie liegt so weit, / Was mein einst war=--Out of youth-time, out of youth-time sounds a lay of mine ever; O how so far off lies, how so far off lies, what once was mine! Rückert.

=Aus der schlechtesten Hand kann Wahrheit noch mächtig wirken; / Bei dem Schönen allein macht das Gefäss den Gehalt=--Truth may work mightily though in the hand of the sorriest instrument; in the case of the beautiful alone the casket constitutes the jewel (lit. the vessel makes the content). Schiller.

=Aus derselben Ackerkrume / Wächst das Unkraut wie die Blume / Und das Unkraut macht sich breit=--Out of the same garden-mould grows the weed as the flower, and the weed flaunts itself abroad. Bodenstedt.

=A useful trade is a mine of gold.= Pr.

=A useless life is an early death.= Goethe. 45

=Aus grauser Tiefe tritt das Höhe kühn hervor; / Aus harter Hülle kämpft die Tugend sich hervor; / Der Schmerz ist die Geburt der höhern Naturen=--Out of a horrible depth the height steps boldly forth; out of a hard shell virtue fights its way to the light; pain is the birth (medium) of the higher natures. Tiedge.

=Aus jedem Punkt im Kreis zur Mitte geht ein Steg. / Vom fernsten Irrtum selbst zu Gott zurück ein Weg=--There is a way from every point in a circle to the centre; from the farthest error there is a way back to God Himself. Rückert.

=Aus Mässigkeit entspringt ein reines Glück=--Out of moderation a pure happiness springs. Goethe.

=Auspicium melioris ævi=--The pledge of happier times. M.

=Aussitôt dit, aussitôt fait=--No sooner said than done. Fr.

=Aus ungelegten Eiern werden spät junge Hühner=--Chickens are long in coming out of unlaid eggs. Ger. Pr.

=Ausus est vana contemnere=--He dared to scorn vain fears.

=Aut amat, aut odit mulier; nil est tertium=--A 5 woman either loves or hates; there is no alternative. Pub. Syr.

=Autant chemine un homme en un jour qu'un limaçon en cent ans=--A man travels as far in a day as a snail in a hundred years. Fr. Pr.

=Autant dépend chiche que large, et à la fin plus davantage=--Niggard spends as much as generous, and in the end a good deal more. Fr. Pr.

=Autant en emporte le vent=--All idle talk (lit. so much the wind carries away). Fr. Pr.

=Autant pèche celui qui tient le sac que celui qui met dedans=--He is as guilty who holds the bag as he who puts in. Fr. Pr.

=Autant vaut l'homme comme il s'estime=--A 10 man is rated by others as he rates himself. Fr. Pr.

=Aut bibat, aut abeat=--Either drink or go.

=Aut Cæsar aut nihil=--Either Cæsar or nobody. M. of Cæsar Borgia.

=Authority, not majority.= Stahl.

=Authors alone, with more than savage rage, / Unnatural war with brother authors wage.= Churchill.

=Authors are martyrs, witnesses to the truth,= 15 =or else nothing.= Carlyle.

=Authors may be divided into falling stars, planets, and fixed stars: the first have a momentary effect; the second, a much longer duration; and the third are unchangeable, possess their own light, and shine for all time.= Schopenhauer.

=Aut insanit homo, aut versus facit=--The man is either mad, or he is making verses. Hor.

=Aut non tentaris, aut perfice=--Either don't attempt it, or go through with it. Ovid.

=Auto-da-fé=--An act of faith; a name applied to certain proceedings of the Inquisition connected with the burning of heretics.

[Greek: Autos epha]--He himself said it; ipse dixit. 20

=Aut prodesse volunt aut delectare poetæ=--Poets wish either to profit or to please. Hor.

=Autrefois acquis=--Acquitted before. Fr.

=Aut regem aut fatuum nasci oportere=--A man ought to be born either a king or a fool. Pr. in Sen.

=Autre temps, autres mœurs=--Other times, other fashions. Fr. Pr.

=Aut vincere aut mori=--Either to conquer or die. 25

=Aut virtus nomen inane est, / Aut decus et pretium recte petit experiens vir=--Either virtue is an empty name, or the man of enterprise justly aims at honour and reward. Hor.

=Aux armes=--To arms. Fr.

=Aux grands maux les grands remèdes=--Desperate maladies require desperate remedies. Fr. Pr.

=Auxilium ab alto=--Help from above. M.

=Auxilium meum a Domino=--My help cometh 30 from the Lord. M.

=Avant propos=--Prefatory matter. Fr.

=Avaler des couleuvres=--To put up with abuse (lit. swallow snakes). Fr.

=A valiant and brave soldier seeks rather to preserve one citizen than to destroy a thousand enemies.= Scipio.

=Avancez=--Advance. Fr.

=Avarice has ruined more men than prodigality.= 35 Colton.

=Avarus, nisi cum moritur, nil recte facit=--A miser does nothing right except when he dies. Pr.

=Avec un Si on mettrait Paris dans une bouteille=--With an "if" one might put Paris in a bottle. Fr. Pr.

=A verbis ad verbera=--From words to blows.

=A verse may find him who a sermon flies, / And turn delight into a sacrifice.= _George Herbert._

=A very excellent piece of villany.= Tit. Andron., 40 ii. 3.

=A very good woman may make but a paltry man.= Pope.

=A veste logorata poco fede vien prestata=--A shabby coat finds small credit. It. Pr.

=A vinculo matrimonii=--From the bond or tie of marriage.

=A virtuous name is the sole precious good for which queens and peasants' wives must contest together.= Schiller.

=Avise la fin=--Consider the end. Fr. 45

=Avito viret honore=--He flourishes with inherited honours. M.

=Avoid the evil, and it will avoid thee.= _Gael. Pr._

=A volonté=--At will. Fr.

=A votre santé=--To your health. Fr.

=A wee bush is better than nae bield (shelter).= 50 Sc. Pr.

=A weel-bred dog gaes oot when he sees them preparing to kick him oot.= Sc. Pr.

=A well-bred man is always sociable and complaisant.= Montaigne.

=A well-cultivated mind is, so to say, made up of all the minds of the centuries preceding.= Fontenelle.

=A well-governed appetite is a great part of liberty.= Sen.

=A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent= 55 =one.= Carlyle.

=A wicked fellow is the most pious when he takes to it. He'll beat you all in piety.= Johnson.

=A wilful man must have his way.= Pr.

=A willing mind makes a light foot.= Pr.

=A wise man gets learning frae them that hae nane.= Sc. Pr.

=A wise man is never less alone than when= 60 =alone.= Pr.

=A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength.= Bible.

=A wise man neither suffers himself to be governed, nor attempts to govern others.= La Bruyère.

=A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.= Swift.

=A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.= Bacon.

=A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, / Is more than armies to the public weal.= Pope.

=A wise scepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.= Lowell.

=A wise writer does not reveal himself here and there, but everywhere.= Lowell.

=A witless heed (head) mak's weary feet.= Sc. Pr.

=A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.= 5 Pope.

=A wolf in sheep's clothing.= Pr.

=A woman conceals what she does not know.= Pr.

=A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy: the smile that accepts the lover before the words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first-born baby, and assures it of a mother's love.= Haliburton.

=A woman in love is a very poor judge of character.= J. G. Holland.

=A woman moved is like a fountain troubled, /= 10 =Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty.= Tam. of Sh., v. 2.

=A woman's friendship borders more closely on love than a man's.= Coleridge.

=A woman's head is always influenced by her heart; but a man's heart is always influenced by his head.= Lady Blessington.

=A woman sometimes scorns what best contents her.= Two Gent. of Ver., iii. 1.

=A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.= W. Irving.

=A word and a stone let go cannot be recalled.= 15 Pr.

=A word from a friend is doubly enjoyable in dark days.= Goethe.

=A word once vulgarised can never be rehabilitated.= Lowell.

=A word sooner wounds than heals.= Goethe.

=A word spoken in season, at the right moment, is the mother of ages.= Carlyle.

=A word spoken in due season, how good is it?= 20 Bible.

=A work of real merit finds favour at last.= _A. B. Alcott._

=A world all sincere, a believing world; the like has been; the like will again be--cannot help being.= Carlyle.

=A world in the hand is worth two in the bush.= Emerson.

=A world this in which much is to be done, and little to be known.= Goethe.

=A worn-out sinner is sometimes found to make= 25 =the best declaimer against sin.= Lamb.

=A worthless man will always remain worthless, and a little mind will not, by daily intercourse with great minds, become an inch greater.= Goethe.

=A wounded spirit who can bear?= Bible.

=A wound never heals so well that the scar cannot be seen.= Dan. Pr.

=A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea.= Dut. Pr.

=A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, / We= 30 =bid be quiet when we hear it cry; / But were we burdened with like weight of pain, / As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.= Com. of Errors, ii. 1.

=Ay, but to die, and go we know not where; / To lie in cold obstruction and to rot.= Meas. for Meas., iii. 1.

=Aye free, aff-han' your story tell, when wi' a bosom crony; / But still keep something to yoursel' / Ye scarcely tell to ony.= Burns.

=Aye in a hurry, and aye ahint.= Sc. Pr.

=Ay, every inch a king.= King Lear, iv. 6.

=Ay me! for aught that ever I could read, /= 35 =Could ever hear by tale or history, / The course of true love never did run smooth.= Mid. N.'s Dream, i. 1.

=Aymez loyauté=--Love loyalty. M.

=A young man idle, an old man needy.= It. Pr.

=Ay, sir, to be honest as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of two thousand.= Ham., ii. 2.

B.

=Bachelor, a peacock; betrothed, a lion; wedded, an ass.= Sp. Pr.

="Bad company," muttered the thief, as he= 40 =stepped to the gallows between the hangman and a monk.= Dut. Pr.

=Bad is by its very nature negative, and can do nothing; whatsoever enables us to do anything, is by its very nature good.= Carlyle.

=Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.= Burke.

=Bad men excuse their faults; good men will leave them.= Ben Jonson.

=Bal abonné=--A subscription ball. Fr.

=Bal champêtre=--A country ball. Fr. 45

=Ballon d'essai=--A balloon sent up to ascertain the direction of the wind; any test of public feeling. Fr.

=Banish the canker of ambitious thoughts.= 2 Hen. VI., i. 2.

=Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease.= Dryden.

=Barba bagnata è mezza rasa=--A beard well lathered is half shaved. It. Pr.

=Barbæ tenus sapientes=--Wise as far as the beard 50 goes. Pr.

=Barbarism is no longer at our frontiers; it lives side by side with us.= Amiel.

=Barbarism is the non-appreciation of what is excellent.= Goethe.

=Barbarus hic ego sum, quia non intelligor ulli=--I am a barbarian here, for no one understands what I say. Ovid.

=Barbouillage=--Scribbling. Fr.

=Barking dogs seldom bite.= Pr. 55

=Bas bleu=--A blue-stocking. Fr.

=Base envy withers at another's joy, / And hates that excellence it cannot reach.= Thomson.

=Base in kind, and born to be a slave.= Cowper.

=Base men, being in love, have then a nobility in their natures more than is native to them.= Othello, ii. 1.

=Base souls have no faith in great men.= Rousseau. 60

=Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.= Arist.

=Bashfulness is but the passage from one season of life to another.= Bp. Hurd.

=Basis virtutum constantia=--Constancy is the basis of all the virtues. M.

=Battering the gates of heaven with storms of prayer.= Tennyson.

=Battle's magnificently stern array.= Byron.

=Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.= Hume.

=Beard was never the true standard of brains.= Fuller.

=Bear one another's burdens.= St. Paul.

=Bear wealth, poverty will bear itself.= Pr. 5

=Be a sinner and sin manfully (fortiter), but believe and rejoice in Christ more manfully still.= Luther to Melanchthon.

=Be as you would seem to be.= Pr.

=Beatæ memoriæ=--Of blessed memory.

=Beati monoculi in regione cæcorum=--Blessed are the one-eyed among those who are blind. Pr.

=Beatus ille qui procul negotiis, / Ut prisca= 10 =gens mortalium, / Paterna rura bobus exercet suis, / Solutus omni fœnore=--Happy the man who, remote from busy life, is content, like the primitive race of mortals, to plough his paternal lands with his own oxen, freed from all borrowing and lending. Hor.

=Beaucoup de mémoire et peu de jugement=--A retentive memory and little judgment. Fr. Pr.

=Beau idéal=--Ideal excellence, or one's conception of perfection in anything. Fr.

=Beau monde=--The fashionable world. Fr.

=Beauté et folie sont souvent en compagnie=--Beauty and folly go often together. Fr. Pr.

=Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; /= 15 =Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.= Pope.

=Beautiful it is to understand and know that a thought did never yet die; that as thou, the originator thereof, hast gathered it and created it from the whole past, so thou wilt transmit to the whole future.= Carlyle.

=Beauty blemished once, for ever's lost.= Shakespeare.

=Beauty can afford to laugh at distinctions; it is itself the greatest distinction.= Bovee.

=Beauty carries its dower in its face.= Dan. Pr.

=Beauty depends more on the movement of the= 20 =face than the form of the features.= _Mrs. Hall._

=Beauty doth varnish age, as if new-born, / And gives the crutch the cradle's infancy. / O, 'tis the sun that maketh all things shine.= Love's L's. Lost, iv. 3.

=Beauty draws us with a single hair.= Pope.

=Beauty is a good letter of introduction.= Ger. Pr.

=Beauty is a hovering, shining, shadowy form, the outline of which no definition holds.= Goethe.

=Beauty is an all-pervading presence.= Channing. 25

=Beauty is a patent of nobility.= G. Schwab.

=Beauty is as summer fruits, which are easy to corrupt and cannot last.= Bacon.

=Beauty is a witch, / Against whose charms faith melteth into blood.= Much Ado, ii. 1.

=Beauty is bought by judgment of the eye, / Not utter'd by base sale of chapmen's tongues.= Love's L's. Lost, ii. 1.

=Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good.= 30 Shakespeare.

=Beauty is everywhere a right welcome guest.= Goethe.

=Beauty is never a delusion.= Hawthorne.

=Beauty is the flowering of virtue.= Gr. Pr.

=Beauty is the highest principle and the highest aim of art.= Goethe.

=Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.= Emerson. 35

=Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.= Michael Angelo.

=Beauty is truth, truth beauty--that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.= Keats.

=Beauty is worse than wine; it intoxicates both holder and the beholder.= Zimmermann.

=Beauty, like wit, to judges should be shown; / Both most are valued where they best are known.= Lyttelton.

=Beauty lives with kindness.= Two Gen. of 40 Ver., iv. 2.

=Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.= As You Like It, i. 3.

=Beauty should be the dowry of every man and woman.= Emerson.

=Beauty stands / In the admiration only of weak minds, / Led captive.= Milton.

=Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile.= Campbell.

=Beauty too rich for use; for earth too dear.= 45 Rom. and Jul., i. 5.

=Beauty, when unadorned, adorned the most.= Thomson.

=Beauty without expression tires.= Emerson.

=Beauty without grace is a violet without smell.= Pr.

=Beaux esprits=--Men of wit. Fr.

=Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.= 50 Spenser.

=Be checked for silence, / But never tax'd for speech.= All's Well, i. 1.

=Be commonplace and cringing, and everything is within your reach.= Beaumarchais.

=Bedenkt, der Teufel der ist alt, / So werdet alt ihn zu verstehen=--Consider, the devil is old; therefore grow old to understand him. Goethe.

=Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any.= Wellington.

=Be England what she will, / With all her faults= 55 =she is my country still.= Churchill.

=Bees will not work except in darkness; thought will not work except in silence; neither will virtue work except in secrecy.= Carlyle.

=Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full-blown flower there is no more; in the leafless root there is no less.= Emerson.

=Before every one stands an image (Bild) of what he ought to be; so long as he is not that, his peace is not complete.= Rückert.

=Before honour is humility.= Bible.

=Before man made us citizens, great Nature= 60 =made us men.= Lowell.

=Before the curing of a strong disease, / Even in the instant of repair and health, / The fit is strongest; evils that take leave, / On their departure most of all show evil.= King John, iii. 4.

=Before the immense possibilities of man, all mere experience, all past biography, however spotless and sainted, shrinks away.= Emerson.

=Before the revelations of the soul, Time, Space, and Nature shrink away.= Emerson.

=Before you trust a man, eat a peck of salt with him.= Pr.

=Beggars, mounted, run their horse to death.= 3 Hen. VI., i. 4.

=Beggars must not be choosers.= Pr.

=Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks.= Ham., ii. 2.

=Begnügt euch doch ein Mensch zu sein=--Let it content thee that thou art a man. Lessing.

=Begun is half done.= Pr. 5

=Behaupten ist nicht beweisen=--Assertion is no proof. Ger. Pr.

=Behaviour is a mirror in which each one shows his image.= Goethe.

=Behind a frowning providence / God hides a shining face.= Cowper.

=Behind us, as we go, all things assume pleasing forms, as clouds do afar off.= Emerson.

=Behind every individual closes organisation;= 10 =before him opens liberty.= Emerson.

=Behind every mountain lies a vale.= Dut. Pr.

=Behold how great a matter a little fire kindleth.= St. James.

=Beholding heaven and feeling hell.= Moore.

=Behold now is the accepted time.= St. Paul.

=Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, /= 15 =Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.= Pope.

=Bei den meisten Menschen gründet sich der Unglaube in einer Sache auf blinden Glauben in einer andern=--With most men unbelief in one thing is founded on blind belief in another. Lichtenberg.

=Bei Geldsachen hört die Gemütlichkeit auf=--When money is in question, good day to friendly feeling. D. Hansemann.

=Beinahe bringt keine Mücke um=--Almost never killed a fly. Ger. Pr.

=Being alone when one's belief is firm, is not to be alone.= Auerbach.

=Being done, / There is no pause.= Othello, 20 v. 2.

=Being without well-being is a curse; and the greater being, the greater curse.= Bacon.

=Be in possession, and thou hast the right, and sacred will the many guard it for thee.= Schiller.

=Be it never so humble, there's no place like home.= J. H. Payne.

=Bei wahrer Liebe ist Vertrauen=--With true love there is trust. Ph. Reger.

=Be just and fear not; / Let all the ends thou= 25 =aim'st at be thy country's, / Thy God's, and truth's.= Henry VIII., iii. 2.

=Be just before you be generous.= Pr.

=Beleidigst du einen Mönch, so knappen alle Kuttenzipfel bis nach Rom=--Offend but one monk, and the lappets of all cowls will flutter as far as Rome. Ger. Pr.

=Bel esprit=--A person of genius; a brilliant mind. Fr.

=Belief and love,--a believing love, will relieve us of a vast load of care.= Emerson.

=Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of= 30 =the soul; unbelief, in denying them.= Emerson.

=Believe not each accusing tongue, / As most weak persons do; / But still believe that story wrong / Which ought not to be true.= Sheridan.

=Believe not every spirit.= St. John.

=Bella! horrida bella!=--War! horrid war! Virg.

=Bella femmina che ride, vuol dire borsa che piange=--The smiles of a pretty woman are the tears of the purse. It. Pr.

=Bella matronis detestata=--Wars detested by 35 mothers. Hor.

=Belle, bonne, riche, et sage, est une femme en quatre étages=--A woman who is beautiful, good, rich, and wise, is four stories high. Fr. Pr.

=Belle chose est tôt ravie=--A fine thing is soon snapt up. Fr. Pr.

=Bellet ein alter Hund, so soll man aufschauen=--When an old dog barks, one must look out. Ger. Pr.

=Bellicæ virtutis præmium=--The reward of valour in war. M.

=Bellua multorum capitum=--The many-headed 40 monster, i.e., the mob.

=Bellum internecinum=--A war of extermination.

=Bellum ita suscipiatur, ut nihil aliud nisi pax quæsita videatur=--War should be so undertaken that nothing but peace may seem to be aimed at. Cic.

=Bellum nec timendum nec provocandum=--War ought neither to be dreaded nor provoked. Plin. the Younger.

=Bellum omnium in omnes=--A war of all against all.

=Bellum, pax rursus=--A war, and again a peace. 45 Ter.

[Greek: beltion thanein hapax ê dia bion tremein]--Better die outright than be all one's life long in terror. Æsop.

=Bemerke, höre, schweige. Urteile wenig, frage viel=--Take note of what you see, give heed to what you hear, and be silent. Judge little, inquire much. Platen.

=Be modest without diffidence, proud without presumption.= Goethe.

=Benchè la bugia sia veloce, la verità l'arriva=--Though a lie may be swift, truth overtakes it. It. Pr.

=Beneath the loveliest dream there coils a fear.= 50 T. Watts.

=Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.= Bulwer Lytton.

=Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, / Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap, / Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, / The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.= Gray.

=Ben è cieco chi non vede il sole=--He is very blind who does not see the sun. It. Pr.

=Benedetto è quel male che vien solo=--Blessed is the misfortune that comes alone. It. Pr.

=Bene est cui Deus obtulit / Parca quod satis= 55 =est manu=--Well for him to whom God has given enough with a sparing hand. Hor.

=Benefacta male locata, malefacta arbitror=--Favours injudiciously conferred I reckon evils. Cic.

=Benefacta sua verbis adornant=--They enhance their favours by their words. Plin.

=Beneficia dare qui nescit injuste petit=--He who knows not how to bestow a benefit is unreasonable if he expects one. Pub. Syr.

=Beneficia plura recipit qui scit reddere=--He receives most favours who knows how to return them. Pub. Syr.

=Beneficium accipere libertatem vendere est=--To 60 accept a favour is to forfeit liberty. Laber.

=Beneficium dignis ubi des, omnes obliges=--Where you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favour on all. Pub. Syr.

=Beneficium invito non datur=--There is no conferring a favour (involving obligation) on a man against his will. L. Max.

=Beneficus est qui non sua, sed alterius causa benigne facit=--He is beneficent who acts kindly, not for his own benefit, but for another's. Cic.

=Bene merenti bene profuerit, male merenti par erit=--To a well-deserving man God will show favour, to an ill-deserving He will be simply just. Plaut.

=Bene merentibus=--To the well-deserving. M. 5

=Bene nummatum decorat Suedela Venusque=--The goddesses of persuasion and of love adorn the train of the well-moneyed man. Hor.

=Bene orasse est bene studuisse=--To have prayed well is to have striven well.

=Bene qui latuit, bene vixit=--Well has he lived who has lived well in obscurity. Ovid.

=Benevolence is the distinguishing characteristic of man.= Mencues.

=Benigno numine=--By the favour of Providence. 10 M.

=Benignus etiam dandi causam cogitat=--The benevolent man even weighs the grounds of his liberality. Pr.

=Be no one like another, yet every one like the Highest; to this end let each one be perfect in himself.= Goethe.

=Be not angry that you cannot make others what you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself what you wish to be.= Thomas à Kempis.

=Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.= St. Paul.

=Be not righteous overmuch.= Bible. 15

=Be not the first by whom the new is tried, / Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.= Pope.

=Ben trovato=--Well invented. It.

=Be our joy three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; / Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!= Browning.

=Berretta in mano non fece mai danno=--Cap in hand never harmed any one. It. Pr.

=Bescheiden freue dich des Ruhms, / So bist du= 20 =wert des Heiligthums=--If thou modestly enjoy thy fame, thou art not unworthy to rank with the holy. Goethe.

=Bescheidenheit ist eine Zier, / Doch weiter kommt man ohne ihr=--Modesty is an ornament, yet people get on better without it. Ger. Pr.

=Beseht die Gönner in der Nähe! Halb sind sie kalt, halb sind sie roh=--Look closely at those who patronise you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught. Goethe.

=Besiegt von einem, ist besiegt von allen=--Overpowered by one is overpowered by all. Schiller.

=Be silent, or say something better than silence.= Sp. Pr.

=Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in= 25 =changing him.= Sc. Pr.

=Be sober, be vigilant.= St. Peter.

=Besser ein Flick als ein Loch=--Better a patch than a hole. Ger. Pr.

=Besser ein magrer Vergleich als ein fetter Prozess=--Better is a lean agreement than a fat lawsuit. Ger. Pr.

=Besser frei in der Fremde als Knecht daheim=--Better free in a strange land than a slave at home. Ger. Pr.

=Besser freundlich versagen als unwillig gewähren=--Better 30 a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent (lit. pledge). Ger. Pr.

=Besser Rat kommt über Nacht=--Better counsel comes over-night. Lessing.

=Besser was als gar nichts=--Better something than nothing at all. Ger. Pr.

=Besser zweimal fragen dann einmal irre gehn=--Better ask twice than go wrong once. Ger. Pr.

=Be still and have thy will.= Tyndal.

=Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire; /= 35 =Threaten the threatner, and outface the brow / Of bragging horror; so shall inferior eyes, / That borrow their behaviours from the great, / Grow great by your example, and put on / The dauntless spirit of resolution.= King John, v. 1.

=Best men are moulded out of faults.= _Meas. for Meas._, v. 1.

=Be strong, and quit yourselves like men.= Bible.

=Best time is present time.= Pr.

=Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.= Sir Thomas Browne.

=Be sure you can obey good laws before you= 40 =seek to alter bad ones.= Ruskin.

=Be sure your sin will find you out.= Bible.

=Be swift to hear, slow to speak.= Pr.

=Bête noir=--An eyesore; a bugbear (lit. a black beast). Fr.

=Beter eens in den hemel dan tienmaal aan de deur=--Better once in heaven than ten times at the door. Dut. Pr.

=Be thankful for your ennui; it is your last= 45 =mark of manhood.= Carlyle.

=Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.= Ham., iii. 1.

=Be thou assured, if words be made of breath, / And breath of life, I have no life to breathe / What thou hast said to me.= Ham., iii. 4.

=Be thou faithful unto death.= St. John.

=Bêtise=--Folly; piece of folly. Fr.

=Be to her virtues very kind; / Be to her faults= 50 =a little blind.= Prior.

=Betrogene Betrüger=--The deceiver deceived. Lessing.

=Betrügen und betrogen werden, / Nichts ist gewöhnlicher auf Erden=--Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived. Seume.

=Betrug war Alles, Lug, und Schein=--All was deception, a lie, and illusion. Goethe.

=Bettelsack ist bodenlos=--The beggar's bag has no bottom. Ger. Pr.

=Better a blush in the face than a blot in the= 55 =heart.= Cervantes.

=Better a child should be ignorant of a thousand truths than have consecrated in its heart a single lie.= Ruskin.

=Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one.= Chinese Pr.

=Better a fortune in a wife than with a wife.= Pr.

=Better a fremit freend than a freend fremit=, i.e., a stranger for a friend than a friend turned stranger. Sc. Pr.

=Better a living dog than a dead lion.= Pr.

=Better an egg to-day than a hen to-morrow.= Pr.

=Better an end with terror than a terror without= 5 =end.= Schill.

=Better a toom (empty) house than an ill tenant.= Sc. Pr.

=Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.= _Twelfth Night_, i. 5.

=Better bairns greet (weep) than bearded men.= Sc. Pr.

=Better be at the end o' a feast than the beginning o' a fray.= Sc. Pr.

=Better be a nettle in the side of your friend= 10 =than his echo.= Emerson.

=Better be a poor fisherman than have to do with the governing of men.= Danton.

=Better be disagreeable in a sort than altogether insipid.= Goethe.

=Better be idle than ill employed.= Sc. Pr.

=Better bend than break.= Pr.

=Better be persecuted than shunned.= Ebers. 15

=Better be poor than wicked.= Pr.

=Better be unborn than untaught.= Gael. Pr.

=Better buy than borrow.= Pr.

=Better deny at once than promise long.= Pr.

=Better far off, than--near, be ne'er the near'.= 20 Rich. II., v. 1.

=Better far to die in the old harness than to try to put on another.= J. G. Holland.

=Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.= Tennyson.

=Better go back than go wrong.= Pr.

=Better go to bed supperless than rise in debt.= Sc. Pr.

=Better haud (hold on) wi' the hound than rin= 25 =wi' the hare.= Sc. Pr.

=Better is an ass that carries us than a horse that throws us.= J. G. Holland.

=Better it is to be envied than pitied.= Pr.

=Better keep the deil oot than hae to turn him oot.= Sc. Pr.

=Better keep weel than mak' weel.= Sc. Pr.

=Better knot straws than do nothing.= Gael. Pr. 30

=Better lose a jest than a friend.= Pr.

=Better mad with all the world than wise all alone.= Fr. Pr.

=Better my freen's think me fremit as fasheous=, i.e., strange rather than troublesome. Sc. Pr.

=Better never begin than never make an end.= Pr.

=Better not be at all / Than not be noble.= 35 Tennyson.

=Better not read books in which you make the acquaintance of the devil.= Niebuhr.

=Better one-eyed than stone-blind.= Pr.

=Better one living word than a hundred dead ones.= Ger. Pr.

=Better rue sit than rue flit=, i.e., regret remaining than regret removing. Sc. Pr.

=Better say nothing than nothing to the purpose.= 40 Pr.

=Better sit still than rise and fa'.= Sc. Pr.

=Better sma' fish than nane.= Sc. Pr.

=Better suffer for truth than prosper by falsehood.= Dan. Pr.

=Better ten guilty escape than one innocent man suffer.= Pr.

=Better that people should laugh at one while= 45 =they instruct, than that they should praise without benefiting.= Goethe.

=Better the ill ken'd than the ill unken'd=, i.e., the ill we know than the ill we don't know. Sc. Pr.

=Better the world know you as a sinner than God as a hypocrite.= Dan. Pr.

=Better to ask than go astray.= Pr.

=Better to get wisdom than gold.= Bible.

=Better to hunt in fields for health unbought, /= 50 =Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. / The wise for cure on exercise depend; / God never made his work for man to mend.= Dryden.

=Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.= Milton.

=Better to say "Here it is" than "Here it was."= Pr.

=Better understand the world than condemn it.= Gael. Pr.

=Better untaught than ill taught.= Pr.

=Better wear out than rust out.= Bishop Cumberland. 55

=Better wear shoon (shoes) than sheets.= Sc. Pr.

=Better wrong with the many than right with the few.= Port. Pr.

=Between a woman's "Yes" and "No" you may insert the point of a needle.= Ger. Pr.

=Between saying and doing there's a long road.= Pr.

=Between the acting of a dreadful thing / And= 60 =the first motion, all the interim is / Like a phantasma or a hideous dream.= Jul. Cæs., ii. 1.

=Between the deil and the deep sea.= Sc. Pr.

=Between us and hell or heaven there is nothing but life, which of all things is the frailest.= Pascal.

=Beware, my lord, of jealousy; / It is the green-eyed monster that doth mock / The meat it feeds on.= Othello, iii. 3.

=Beware of a silent dog and still water.= Pr.

=Beware of a silent man and a dog that does= 65 =not bark.= Pr.

=Beware of a talent which you cannot hope to cultivate to perfection.= Goethe.

=Beware / Of entrance to a quarrel; but, being in, / Bear 't that the opposed may beware of thee.= Ham., i. 3.

=Beware of false prophets.= Jesus.

=Beware of "Had I wist."= Pr.

=Beware of one who has nothing to lose.= It. 70 Pr.

=Beware of too much good staying in your hand.= Emerson.

=Beware the fury of a patient man.= Dryden.

=Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.= Emerson.

=Be warned by thy good angel and not ensnared by thy bad one.= Bürger.

=Be wisely worldly; be not worldly wise.= 75 Quarles.

=Be wise to-day; 'tis madness to defer.= Young.

=Be wise with speed; / A fool at forty is a fool indeed.= Young.

=Bewunderung verdient ein Wunder wohl, / Doch scheint ein Weib kein echtes Weib zu sein, / So bald es nur Bewunderung verdient=--What is admirable justly calls forth our admiration, yet a woman seems to be no true woman who calls forth nothing else. Platen.

=Be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.= Jesus.

=Bezwingt des Herzens Bitterkeit. Es bringt /= 5 =Nicht gute Frucht, wenn Hass dem Hass begegnet=--Control the heart's bitterness. Nothing good comes of returning hatred for hatred. Schiller.

=Bibula charta=--Blotting-paper.

=Bien dire fait rire; bien faire fait taire=--Saying well makes us laugh; doing well makes us silent. Fr. Pr.

=Bien est larron qui larron dérobe=--He is a thief with a witness who robs another. Fr. Pr.

=Bien nourri et mal appris=--Well fed but ill taught. Fr. Pr.

=Bien perdu bien connu=--We know the worth of 10 a thing when we have lost it. Fr.

=Bien predica quien bien vive=--He preaches well who lives well. Sp. Pr.

=Bien sabe el asno en cuya cara rabozna=--The ass knows well in whose face he brays. Sp. Pr.

=Bien sabe el sabio que no sabe, el nescio piensa que sabe=--The wise man knows well that he does not know; the ignorant man thinks he knows. Sp. Pr.

=Bien sabe la vulpeja con quien trebeja=--The fox knows well with whom he plays tricks. Sp. Pr.

=Bien vengas, mal, si vienes solo=--Welcome, misfortune, 15 if thou comest alone. Sp. Pr.

=Bien vient à mieux, et mieux à mal=--Good comes to better and better to bad. Fr. Pr.

=Big destinies of nations or of persons are not founded= gratis =in this world.= Carlyle.

=Bigotry murders religion, to frighten fools with her ghost.= Colton.

=Big words seldom accompany good deeds.= Dan. Pr.

=Billet-doux=--A love-letter. Fr. 20

=Biography is the most universally pleasant, the most universally profitable, of all reading.= Carlyle.

=Biography is the only true history.= Carlyle.

=Birds of a feather flock together.= Pr.

=Birds of prey do not flock together.= Port. Pr.

=Birth is much, but breeding is more.= Pr. 25

=Bis dat qui cito dat=--He gives twice who gives quickly. L. Pr.

=Bis est gratum quod opus est, si ultro offeras=--That help is doubly acceptable which you offer spontaneously when we stand in need. Pub. Syr.

=Bis interimitur qui suis armis perit=--He dies twice who perishes by his own weapons or devices. Pub. Syr.

=Bisogna amar l'amico con i suoi difetti=--We must love our friend with all his defects. It. Pr.

=Bis peccare in bello non licet=--It is not permitted 30 to blunder in war a second time. Pr.

=Bist du Amboss, sei geduldig; bist du Hammer, schlage hart=--Art thou anvil, be patient; art thou hammer, strike hard. Ger. Pr.

=Bist du ein Mensch? so fühle meine Noth=--Art thou a man? then feel for my wretchedness. Margaret in "Faust."

=Bist du mit dem Teufel du und du, / Und willst dich vor der Flamme scheuen?=--Art thou on familiar terms with the devil, and wilt thou shy at the flame? Goethe's "Faust."

=Bis vincit qui se vincit in victoria=--He conquers twice who, at the moment of victory, conquers (i.e., restrains) himself. Pub. Syr.

=Bitin' and scartin' 's Scotch folk's wooing.= Sc. 35 Pr.

=Black detraction will find faults where they are not.= Massinger.

=Blame is the lazy man's wages.= Dan. Pr.

=Blame where you must, be candid where you can, / And be each critic the good-natured man.= Goldsmith.

=Blanc-bec=--A greenhorn. Fr.

=Blasen ist nicht flöten; ihr musst die Finger= 40 =bewegen=--To blow on the flute is not to play on it; you must move the fingers as well. Goethe.

=Blasphemy is wishing ill to anything, and its outcome wishing ill to God; while Euphemy is wishing well to everything, and its outcome wishing well to--"Ah, wad ye tak' a thocht, and men'."= Ruskin.

=Blasted with excess of light.= Gray.

=Bleib nicht allein, denn in der Wüste trat / Der Satansengel selbst dem Herrn des Himmels=--Remain not alone, for it was in the desert that Satan came to the Lord of Heaven himself. Schiller.

=Bless, and curse not.= St. Paul.

=Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet= 45 =have believed.= Jesus.

=Blessed are they that hear the Word of God, and keep it.= Bible.

=Blessed be he who first invented sleep; it covers a man all over like a cloak.= Cervantes.

=Blessed be nothing.= Pr.

=Blessed is he that considereth the poor.= Bible.

=Blessed is he that continueth where he is; here= 50 =let us rest and lay out seed-fields; here let us learn to dwell.= Carlyle.

=Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.= Swift.

=Blessed is he who is made happy by the sound of a rat-tat.= Thackeray.

=Blessed is the man that endureth temptation.= St. James.

=Blessed is the voice that, amid dispiritment, stupidity, and contradiction, proclaims to us, Euge!= (i.e., Excellent! Bravo!). Carlyle.

=Blessedness is a whole eternity older than= 55 =damnation.= Jean Paul.

=Blessings are upon the head of the just.= Bible.

=Blinder Eifer schadet nur=--Blind zeal only does harm. M. G. Lichtwer.

=Blinder Gaul geht geradezu=--A blind horse goes right on. Ger. Pr.

=Blindfold zeal can do nothing but harm--harm everywhere, and harm always.= Lichtner.

=Bloemen zijn geen vruchten=--Blossoms are not 60 fruits. Dut. Pr.

=Blood is thicker than water.= Pr.

=Blosse Intelligenz ohne correspondirende Energie des Wollens ist ein blankes Schwert in der Scheide, verächtlich, wenn es nie und nimmer gezückt wird=--Mere intelligence without corresponding energy of the will is a polished sword in its scabbard, contemptible, if it is never drawn forth. Lindner.

=Blow, blow, thou winter wind, / Thou art not so unkind / As man's ingratitude.= As You Like It, ii. 7.

=Blow, wind! come, wrack! / At least we'll die with harness on our back.= Macb., v. 5.

=Blue are the hills that are far from us.= _Gael. Pr._

=Blunt edges rive hard knots.= Troil. and Cress., 5 i. 3.

=Blushes are badges of imperfection.= Wycherley.

=Blut ist ein ganz besondrer Saft=--Blood is a quite peculiar fluid. Mephisto, in Faust.

=Boca de mel, coraçaõ de fel=--A tongue of honey, a heart of gall. Port. Pr.

=Boca que diz sim, diz naõ=--The mouth that can say "Yea," can say "Nay." Port. Pr.

=Bodily exercise profiteth little.= St. Paul. 10

=Bœotum in crasso jurares aëre natum=--You would swear he was born in the foggy atmosphere of the Bœotians. Hor.

=Bois ont oreilles et champs œillets=--Woods have ears and fields eyes. Fr. Pr.

=Bole com o rabo o caõ, naõ por ti, senaõ pelo paõ=--The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for your bread. Port. Pr.

=Bon accord=--Good harmony. M.

=Bonæ leges malis ex moribus procreantur=--Good 15 laws grow out of evil acts. Macrob.

=Bona fide=--In good faith; in reality.

=Bona malis paria non sunt, etiam pari numero; nec lætitia ulla minimo mœrore pensanda=--The blessings of life do not equal its ills, even when of equal number; nor can any pleasure, however incense, compensate for even the slightest pain. Pliny.

=Bona nemini hora est, ut non alicui sit mala=--There is no hour good for one man that is not bad for another. Pub. Syr.

=Bonarum rerum consuetudo est pessima=--Nothing can be worse than being accustomed to good things. Pub. Syr.

=Bona vacantia=--Goods that have no owner. L. 20

=Bon avocat, mauvais voisin=--A good lawyer is a bad neighbour. Fr. Pr.

=Bon bourgeois=--A substantial citizen. Fr.

=Bon chien chasse de race=--A good dog hunts from pure instinct. Fr. Pr.

=Bon diable=--A good-natured fellow. Fr.

=Bon droit a besoin d'aide=--A good cause needs 25 help. Fr. Pr.

=Bon gré, mal gré=--Whether willing or not. Fr.

=Bon guet chasse maladventure=--A good lookout drives ill-luck away. Fr. Pr.

=Bonne épée point querelleur=--A good swordsman is not given to quarrel. Fr. Pr.

=Bonne est la maille que sauve le denier=--Good is the farthing that saves the penny. Fr. Pr.

=Bonhomie=--Good nature. Fr. 30

=Boni pastoris est tondere pecus, non deglubere=--It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to flay them. Tiberius Cæsar, in reference to taxation.

=Bonis avibus=--Under favourable auspices.

=Bonis nocet quisquis pepercerit malis=--He does injury to the good who spares the bad. Pub. Syr.

=Bonis omnia bona=--All things are good to the good. M.

=Bonis quod benefit haud perit=--A kindness done 35 to good men is never thrown away. Plaut.

=Bonis vel malis avibus=--Under good, or evil, omens.

=Bon jour=--Good day. Fr.

=Bon jour, bonne œuvre=--The better the day, the better the deed. Fr. Pr.

=Bon marché tire l'argent hors de la bourse=--A good bargain is a pick-purse. Fr. Pr.

=Bon mot=--A witticism or jest. Fr. 40

=Bon naturel=--Good nature or disposition. Fr.

=Bonne=--A nurse. Fr.

=Bonne bouche=--A delicate morsel. Fr.

=Bonne et belle assez=--Good and handsome enough. Fr. M.

=Bonne journée fait qui de fol se délivre=--He 45 who rids himself of a fool does a good day's work. Fr. Pr.

=Bonne renommée vaut mieux que ceinture dorée=--A good name is worth more than a girdle of gold. Fr. Pr.

=Bonnet rouge=--The cap of liberty. Fr.

=Bonnie feathers mak' bonnie fowls.= Sc. Pr.

=Bon poète, mauvais homme=--Good as a poet, bad as a man. Fr.

=Bon sang ne peut mentir=--Good blood disdains 50 to lie. Fr. Pr.

=Bons et máos mantem cidade=--Good men and bad make a city. Port. Pr.

=Bons mots n'épargnent nuls=--Witticisms spare nobody. Fr. Pr.

=Bon soir=--Good evening. Fr.

=Bon ton=--The height of fashion. Fr.

=Bonum ego quam beatum me esse nimio dici= 55 =mavolo=--I would much rather be called good than well off. Plaut.

=Bonum est fugienda aspicere in alieno malo=--Well if we see in the misfortune of another what we should shun ourselves. Pub. Syr.

=Bonum est, pauxillum amare sane, insane non bonum est=--It is good to be moderately sane in love; to be madly in love is not good. Plaut.

=Bonum summum quo tendimus omnes=--That supreme good at which we all aim. Lucret.

=Bonus animus in mala re dimidium est mali=--Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome. Plaut.

=Bonus atque fidus / Judex honestum prætulit= 60 =utili=--A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honourable to the expedient. Hor.

=Bonus dux bonum reddit militem=--The good general makes good soldiers. L. Pr.

=Bonus vir semper tiro=--A good man is always a learner.

=Bon vivant=--A good liver. Fr.

=Bon voyage=--A pleasant journey or voyage. Fr.

=Books are divisible into two classes, the books= 65 =of the hour and the books of all time.= Ruskin.

=Books are embalmed minds.= Bovee.

=Books are made from books.= Voltaire.

=Books cannot always please, however good; / Minds are not ever craving for their food.= Crabbe.

=Books generally do little else than give our errors names.= Goethe.

=Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.= Joineriana.

=Books still accomplish miracles; they persuade men.= Carlyle.

=Books, we know, / Are a substantial world, pure and good.= Wordsworth.

=Boomen die men veel verplant gedijen zelden=--Trees 5 you transplant often, seldom thrive. Dut. Pr.

=Borgen thut nur einmal wohl=--Borrowing does well only once. Ger. Pr.

=Born to excel and to command!= Congreve.

=Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul.= Cic.

=Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending on interest is not much better than stealing.= Lessing.

=Bos alienus subinde prospectat foras=--A strange 10 ox every now and then turns its eyes wistfully to the door. Pr.

=Böser Brunnen, da man Wasser muss eintragen=--It is a bad well into which you must pour water. Ger. Pr.

=Böser Pfennig kommt immer wieder=--A bad penny always comes back again. Ger. Pr.

=Bos in lingua=--He has an ox on his tongue, i.e., a bribe to keep silent, certain coins in Athens being stamped with an ox. Pr.

=Bos lassus fortius figit pedem=--The tired ox plants his foot more firmly. Pr.

=Botschaft hör' ich wohl, allein mir fehlt der= 15 =Glaube=--I hear the message indeed, but I want the faith. Goethe's "Faust."

[Greek: bouleuou pro ergôn, hopôs mê môra pelêtai]--Before the act consider, so that nothing foolish may arise out of it. Gr. Pr.

=Bought wit is best=, i.e., bought by experience. Pr.

=Boutez en avant=--Push forward. Fr.

=Bowels of compassion.= St. John.

=Brag is a good dog, but Holdfast is better.= 20 Pr.

=Brain is always to be bought, but passion never comes to market.= Lowell.

=Brave men are brave from the very first.= Corneille.

=Bread at pleasure, / Drink by measure.= Pr.

=Bread is the staff of life.= Swift.

=Breathes there the man with soul so dead, /= 25 =Who never to himself hath said, / "This is my own, my native land?"= Scott.

=Breathe his faults so quaintly, / That they may seem the taints of liberty; / The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind.= Ham., ii. 1.

=Breed is stronger than pasture.= George Eliot.

=Brevet d'invention=--A patent. Fr.

=Breveté=--Patented. Fr.

=Breve tempus ætatis satis est longum ad bene= 30 =honesteque vivendum=--A short term on earth is long enough for a good and honourable life. Cic.

=Brevi manu=--Offhand; summarily (lit. with a short hand).

=Brevis a natura nobis vita data est: at memoria bene redditæ vitæ est sempiterna=--A short life has been given us by Nature, but the memory of a well-spent one is eternal. Cic.

=Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio=--When labouring to be concise, I become obscure. Hor.

=Brevis ipsa vita est, sed longior malis=--Life itself is short, but lasts longer than misfortunes. Pub. Syr.

=Brevis voluptas mox doloris est parens=--Short-lived 35 pleasure is the parent of pain. Pr.

=Brevity is the body and soul of wit.= _Jean Paul._

=Brevity is the soul of wit.= Ham., iii. 2.

=Bric-à-brac=--Articles of vertu or curiosity. Fr.

=Bricht ein Ring, so bricht die ganze Katte=--A link broken, the whole chain broken. Ger. Pr.

=Brief as the lightning in the collied night, /= 40 =That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, / And ere a man hath power to say, "Behold!" / The jaws of darkness do devour it up.= Mid. N.'s Dream, i. 1.

=Briefe gehören unter die wichtigsten Denkmäler die der einzelne Mensch hinterlassen kann=--Letters are among the most significant memorials a man can leave behind him. Goethe.

=Briller par son absence=--To be conspicuous by its absence. Fr.

=Bring down my grey hairs with sorrow to the grave.= Bible.

=Bring forth men-children only! / For thy undaunted mettle should compose / Nothing but males.= Macb., i. 7.

=Broad thongs may be cut from other people's= 45 =leather.= It. Pr.

=Broken friendships may be sowthered (soldered), but never sound.= Sc. Pr.

=Brouille sera à la maison si la quenouille est maîtresse=--There will be disagreement in the house if the distaff holds the reins. Fr. Pr.

=Brûler la chandelle par les deux bouts=--To burn the candle at both ends. Fr.

=Brute force holds communities together as an iron nail, if a little rusted with age, binds pieces of wood; but intelligence binds like a screw, which must be gently turned, not driven.= Draper.

=Brutum fulmen=--A harmless thunderbolt. L. 50

=Brutus, thou sleep'st; awake, and see thyself.= Jul. Cæs., ii. 1.

=Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Cæsar.= Jul. Cæs., i. 2.

=Bûche tortue fait bon feu=--A crooked log makes a good fire. Fr. Pr.

=Buen siglo haya quien dijó bolta=--Blessings on him that said, Right about face! Sp. Pr.

=Buey viejo sulco derecho=--An old ox makes a 55 straight furrow. Sp. Pr.

=Buffoonery is often want of wit.= Bruyère.

=Bullies are generally cowards.= Pr.

=Buon cavallo non ha bisogno di sproni=--Don't spur a willing horse. It. Pr.

=Burlaos con el loco en casa, burlará con vos en la plaza=--Play with the fool in the house and he will play with you in the street. Sp. Pr.

=Burnt bairns dread the fire.= Sc. Pr. 60

=Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done.= Bulwer Lytton.

=Busy readers are seldom good readers.= Wieland.

=But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, / When once destroyed, can never be supplied.= Goldsmith.

=But all was false and hollow; though his tongue / Dropp'd manna, and could make the worse appear / The better reason, to perplex and dash / Maturest counsels.= Milton.

=But by bad courses may be understood, / That their events can never fall out good.= Rich. II., ii. 1.

=But Cristes lore, and his apostles twelve, / He taught, but first he folwed it himselve.= Chaucer.

=But earthlier happy is the rose distilled, / Than= 5 =that which, withering on the virgin thorn, / Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.= Mid. N's. Dream, i. 1.

=But evil is wrought by want of thought / As well as want of heart.= Hood.

=But facts are chiels that winna ding, / An' douna be disputed.= Burns.

=But far more numerous was the herd of such / Who think too little and who talk too much.= Dryden.

=But for women, our life would be without help at the outset, without pleasure in its course, and without consolation at the end.= Jouy.

=But from the heart of Nature rolled / The burdens= 10 =of the Bible old.= Emerson.

=But human bodies are sic fools, / For a' their colleges and schools, / That, when nae real ills perplex them, / They make enow themsels to vex them.= Burns.

=But hushed be every thought that springs / From out the bitterness of things.= Wordsworth.

=But I am constant as the northern star, / Of whose true-fixed and resting quality, / There is no fellow in the firmament.= Jul. Cæs., iii. 1.

=But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve / For daws to peck at.= Othello, i. 1.

=But man, proud man, / Drest in a little brief= 15 =authority, / Most ignorant of what he's most assured, / His glassy essence,--like an angry ape, / Plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven / As make the angels weep.= Meas. for Meas., ii. 2.

=But men may construe things after their fashion, clean from the purpose of the things themselves.= Jul. Cæs., i. 3.

=But men must work, and women must weep, / Though storms be sudden and waters deep, / And the harbour bar be moaning.= C. Kingsley.

=But mercy is above this sceptred sway; / It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, / It is an attribute to God Himself, / And earthly power doth then show likest God's / When mercy seasons justice.= Mer. of Ven., iv. 1.

=But now our fates from unmomentous things / May rise like rivers out of little springs.= Campbell.

=But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand, / And= 20 =the sound of a voice that is still.= Tennyson.

=But O what damned minutes tells he o'er, / Who dotes, yet doubts; suspects, yet strongly loves?= Othello, iii. 3.

=But pleasures are like poppies spread, / You seize the flower, its bloom is shed; / Or, like the snowfall on the river, / A moment white--then melts for ever.= Burns.

=But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be; / Within that circle none durst walk but he.= Dryden.

=But shapes that come not at an earthly call, / Will not depart when mortal voices bid.= Wordsworth.

=But souls that of His own good life partake, /= 25 =He loves as His own self; dear as His eye / They are to Him; He'll never them forsake; / When they shall die, then God Himself shall die: / They live, they live in blest eternity.= H. More.

=But spite of all the criticising elves, / Those that would make us feel, must feel themselves.= Churchill.

=But there are wanderers o'er eternity, / Whose bark drives on and on, and anchor'd ne'er shall be.= Byron.

=But there's nothing half so sweet in life / As love's young dream.= Moore.

=But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool; / And time, that takes survey of all the world, / Must have a stop.= 1 Henry IV., v. 4.

=But to see her was to love her--love but her,= 30 =and love for ever.= Burns.

=But truths on which depend our main concern, / That 'tis our shame and misery not to learn, / Shine by the side of every path we tread, / With such a lustre, he that runs may read.= Cowper.

=But war's a game which, were their subjects wise, / Kings would not play at.= Cowper.

=But were I Brutus, / And Brutus Antony, there were an Antony / Would ruffle up your spirits, and put a tongue / In every wound of Cæsar, that should move / The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny.= Jul. Cæs., iii. 2.

=But what fate does, let fate answer for.= Sheridan.

=But whether on the scaffold high, / Or in the= 35 =battle's van, / The fittest place where man can die / Is where he dies for man.= M. J. Barry.

=But who would force the soul, tilts with a straw / Against a champion cased in adamant.= Wordsworth.

=But winter lingering chills the lap of May.= Goldsmith.

=But words are things, and a small drop of ink, / Falling, like dew, upon a thought, produces / That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.= Byron.

=But wouldst thou know what's heaven? I'll tell thee what: / Think what thou canst not think, and heaven is that.= Quarles.

=But yesterday the word of Cæsar might /= 40 =Have stood against the world; now lies he there, / And none so poor to do him reverence.= Jul. Cæs., iii. 2.

=Buying is cheaper than asking.= Ger. Pr.

=Buy the truth, and sell it not.= Bible.

=Buy what ye dinna want, an' ye'll sell what ye canna spare.= Sc. Pr.

=By-and-by is easily said.= Ham., iii. 2.

=By any ballot-box, Jesus Christ goes just as= 45 =far as Judas Iscariot.= Carlyle.

=By blood a king, in heart a clown.= Tennyson.

=By bravely enduring it, an evil which cannot be avoided is overcome.= Pr.

=By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.= Democritus.

=By dint of dining out, I run the risk of dying by starvation at home.= Rousseau.

=By doing nothing we learn to do ill.= Pr.

=By education most have been misled.= Dryden.

=By experience we find out a short way by a= 5 =long wandering.= Roger Ascham.

=By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen about his ears.= Carlyle.

=By night an atheist half believes a God.= Young.

=By nothing do men more show what they are than by their appreciation of what is and what is not ridiculous.= Goethe.

=By others' faults wise men correct their own.= Pr.

=By persisting in your path, though you forfeit= 10 =the little, you gain the great.= Emerson.

=By pious heroic climbing of our own, not by arguing with our poor neighbours, wandering to right and left, do we at length reach the sanctuary--the victorious summit, and see with our own eyes.= Carlyle.

=By pride cometh contention.= Bible.

=By robbing Peter he paid Paul ... and hoped to catch larks if ever the heavens should fall.= Rabelais.

=By seeking and blundering we learn.= Goethe.

=By shallow rivers to whose falls / Melodious= 15 =birds sing madrigals.= Marlowe.

=By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd, / The sports of children satisfy the child.= Goldsmith.

=By strength of heart the sailor fights with roaring seas.= Wordsworth.

=By the long practice of caricature I have lost the enjoyment of beauty: I never see a face but distorted.= Hogarth to a lady who wished to learn caricature.

=By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is the noblest; second, by imitation, which is the easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.= Confucius.

=By time and counsel do the best we can: /= 20 =Th' event is never in the power of man.= Herrick.

C.

=Ca' (drive) a cow to the ha' (hall), and she'll rin to the byre.= Sc. Pr.

=Cabin'd, cribb'd, confin'd.= Macb., iii. 4.

=Cacoëthes carpendi=--An itch for fault-finding. 25

=Cacoëthes scribendi=--An itch for scribbling.

=Cacoëthes loquendi=--An itch for talking.

=Cada cousa a seu tempo=--Everything has its time. Port. Pr.

=Cada qual en seu officio=--Every one to his trade. Port. Pr.

=Cada qual hablé en lo que sabe=--Let every one talk of what he understands. Sp. Pr.

=Cada uno es hijo de sus obras=--Every one is the son of his own works; i.e., is responsible for his own acts. Sp. Pr.

=Cadenti porrigo dextram=--I extend my right 30 hand to a falling man. M.

=Cadit quæstio=--The question drops, i.e., the point at issue needs no further discussion. L.

=Cæca invidia est, nec quidquam aliud scit quam detrectare virtutes=--Envy is blind, and can only disparage the virtues of others. Livy.

=Cæca regens vestigia filo=--Guiding blind steps by a thread.

=Cæsarem vehis, Cæsarisque fortunam=--You carry Cæsar and his fortunes; fear not, therefore. Cæsar to a pilot in a storm.

=Cæsar non supra grammaticos=--Cæsar has no 35 authority over the grammarians. Pr.

=Cæsar's wife should be above suspicion.= Plut.

=Cæteris major qui melior=--He who is better than others is greater. M.

=Cahier des charges=--Conditions of a contract. Fr.

=Ça ira=--It shall go on (a French Revolution song). Ben. Franklin.

=Caisse d'amortissement=--Sinking fund. Fr. 40

=Calamitosus est animus futuri anxius=--The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable. Sen.

=Calamity is man's true touchstone=--Beaumont and Fletcher.

=Calf love, half love; old love, cold love.= _Fris. Pr._

=Call a spade a spade.=

=Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps= 45 =are all a clear Because to a clear Why.= Lavater.

=Callida junctura=--Skilful arrangement. Hor.

=Call me what instrument you will, though you fret me, you cannot play on me.= Ham., iii. 2.

=Call not that man wretched who, whatever ills he suffers, has a child he loves.= Southey, Coleridge.

=Call not the devil; he will come fast enough without.= Dan. Pr.

=Call your opinions your creed, and you will= 50 =change it every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you may keep it to the end.= _P. Brooks._

=Calmness of will is a sign of grandeur. The vulgar, far from hiding their will, blab their wishes. A single spark of occasion discharges the child of passions into a thousand crackers of desire.= Lavater.

=Calumnies are sparks which, if you do not blow them, will go out of themselves.= Boerhaave.

=Calumny is like the wasp which worries you; which it were best not to try to get rid of, unless you are sure of slaying it, for otherwise it will return to the charge more furious than ever.= Chamfort.

=Calumny will sear / Virtue itself: these shrugs, these hums and ha's.= Winter's Tale, ii. 1.

=Camelus desiderans cornua etiam aures perdidit=--The 55 camel begging for horns was deprived of his ears as well. Pr.

=Campos ubi Troja fuit=--The fields where Troy once stood. Lucan.

=Campus Martius=--A place of military exercise (lit. field of Mars).

=Canaille=--The rabble. Fr.

=Canam mihi et Musis=--I will sing to myself and the Muses, i.e., if no one else will listen. Anon.

="Can" and "shall," well understood, mean the same thing under this sun of ours.= Carlyle.

=Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce? or when sensible men, and the right sort of men, and the right sort of women, were plentiful?= Emerson.

=Can ch' abbaia non morde=--A dog that barks does not bite. It. Pr.

=Can che morde non abbaia in vano=--A dog that bites does not bark in vain. It. Pr.

=Can despots compass aught that hails their= 5 =sway? / Or call with truth one span of earth their own, / Save that wherein at last they crumble bone by bone?= Byron.

=Candida pax homines, trux decet ira feras=--Wide-robed peace becomes men, ferocious anger only wild beasts. Ovid.

=Candide et caute=--With candour and caution. M.

=Candide et constanter=--With candour and constancy. M.

=Candide secure=--Honesty is the best policy. M.

=Candidus in nauta turpis color: æquoris unda /= 10 =Debet et a radiis sideris esse niger=--A fair complexion is a disgrace in a sailor; he ought to be tanned, from the spray of the sea and the rays of the sun. Ovid.

="Can do" is easy (easily) carried aboot.= _Sc. Pr._

=Candor dat viribus alas=--Candour gives wings to strength. M.

=Candour is the brightest gem of criticism.= Disraeli.

=Canes timidi vehementius latrant quam mordent=--Cowardly dogs bark more violently than they bite. Q. Curt.

=Cane vecchio non abbaia indarno=--An old dog 15 does not bark for nothing. It. Pr.

=Can I choose my king? I can choose my King Popinjay, and play what farce or tragedy I may with him; but he who is to be my ruler, whose will is higher than my will, was chosen for me in heaven.= Carlyle.

=Canina facundia=--Dog (i.e., snarling) eloquence. Appius.

=Canis a non canendo=--Dog is called "canis," from "non cano," not to sing. Varro.

=Canis in præsepi=--The dog in the manger (that would not let the ox eat the hay which he could not eat himself).

=Cannon and firearms are cruel and damnable= 20 =machines. I believe them to have been the direct suggestion of the devil.= Luther.

=Can storied urn or animated bust / Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? / Can honour's voice provoke the silent dust, / Or flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death?= Gray.

=Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd, / Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, / Raze out the written troubles of the brain? / And with some sweet oblivious antidote, / Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff / Which weighs upon the heart?= Macb., v. 3.

=Can such things be, / And overcome us like a summer's cloud, / Without our special wonder?= Macb., iii. 4.

=Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator=--The penniless traveller will sing in presence of the robber. Juv.

=Can that which is the greatest virtue in philosophy,= 25 =doubt, be in religion, what we priests term it, the greatest of sins?= Bovee.

=Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?= Bible.

=Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth?= Nathanael.

=Cantilenam eandem canis=--You are always singing the same tune, i.e., harping on one theme. Ter.

=Cant is properly a double-distilled lie, the second power of a lie.= Carlyle.

=Cant is the voluntary overcharging or prolonging= 30 =of a real sentiment.= Hazlitt.

=Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, / What gay distress! what splendid misery! / Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, / The mind annihilates and calls for more.= Young.

=Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten, when their noblest and most enduring works decay?= Ausonius.

="Can you tell a plain man the plain road to heaven?"--"Surely. Turn at once to the right, then go straight forward."= Bp. Wilberforce.

=Caõ que muito ladra, nunca bom para a caça=--A dog that barks much is never a good hunter. Port. Pr.

=Capable of all kinds of devotion, and of all= 35 =kinds of treason, raised to the second power, woman is at once the delight and the terror of man.= Amiel.

=Capacity without education is deplorable, and education without capacity is thrown away.= Saadi.

=Cap-à-pié=--From head to foot. Fr.

=Capias=--A writ to order the seizure of a defendant's person. L.

=Capias ad respondendum=--You may take him to answer your complaint. L.

=Capias ad satisfaciendum=--You may take him 40 to satisfy your claim. L.

=Capiat, qui capere possit=--Let him take who can. Pr.

=Capistrum maritale=--The matrimonial halter. Juv.

=Capitis nives=--The snowy locks of the head. Hor.

=Capo grasso, cervello magro=--Fat head, lean brains. It. Pr.

=Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can= 45 =befall man.= Cervantes.

=Captivity, / That comes with honour, is true liberty.= Massinger.

=Captum te nidore suæ putat ille culinæ=--He thinks he has caught you with the savoury smell of his kitchen. Juv.

=Caput artis est, decere quod facias=--The chief thing in any art you may practise is that you do only the one you are fit for. Pr.

=Caput inter nubila condit=--(Fame) hides her head amid the clouds. Virg.

=Caput mortuum=--The worthless remains; a ninny. 50

=Caput mundi=--The head of the world, i.e., Rome, both ancient and modern.

=Cara al mio cuor tu sei, / Ciò ch'è il sole agli occhi miei=--Thou art as dear to my heart as the sun to my eyes. It. Pr.

=Care, and not fine stables, makes a good horse.= Dan. Pr.

=Care is no cure, but rather a corrosive, / For things that are not to be remedied.= 1 Hen. VI., iii. 3.

=Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky.= Goethe.

=Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye, / And where care lodges, sleep will never lie.= Rom. and Jul., ii. 2.

=Care killed the cat.= Pr. 5

=Carelessness is worse than theft.= Gael. Pr.

=Careless their merits or their faults to scan, / His pity gave ere charity began.= Goldsmith.

=Care's an enemy to life.= Twelfth Night, i. 3.

=Cares are often more difficult to throw off than sorrows; the latter die with time, the former grow with it.= Jean Paul.

=Care that has enter'd once into the breast, /= 10 =Will have the whole possession ere it rest.= Ben Jonson.

=Caret=--It is wanting.

=Caret initio et fine=--It has neither beginning nor end.

=Caret periculo, qui etiam cum est tutus cavet=--He is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety, is on his guard. Pub. Syr.

=Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt, / And every grin, so merry, draws one out.= Wolcot.

=Care will kill a cat, but ye canna live without= 15 =it.= Sc. Pr.

=Carica volontario non carica=--A willing burden is no burden. It. Pr.

=Car il n'est si beau jour qui n'amène sa nuit=--There is no day, however glorious, but sets in night. Fr.

=Carior est illis homo quam sibi=--Man is dearer to them (i.e., the gods) than to himself. Juv.

=Cari sunt parentes, cari liberi, propinqui, familiares; sed omnes omnium caritates, patria una complexa est=--Dear are our parents, dear our children, our relatives, and our associates, but all our affections for all these are embraced in our affection for our native land. Cic.

=Carmen perpetuum primaque origine mundi= 20 =ad tempora nostra=--A song for all ages, and from the first origin of the world to our own times. Transposed from Ovid.

=Carmen triumphale=--A song of triumph.

=Carmina nil prosunt; nocuerunt carmina quondam=--My rhymes are of no use; they once wrought me harm. Ovid.

=Carmina spreta exolescunt; si irascare, agnita videntur=--Abuse, if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it. Tac.

=Carmine di superi placantur, carmine Manes=--The gods above and the gods below are alike propitiated by song. Hor.

=Carmine fit vivax virtus; expersque sepulcri,= 25 =notitiam seræ posteritatis habet=--By verse virtue is made immortal; and, exempt from burial, obtains the homage of remote posterity. Ovid.

=Carpet knights.= Burton.

=Carpe diem=--Make a good use of the present. Hor.

=Carry on every enterprise as if all depended on the success of it.= Richelieu.

=Carte blanche=--Unlimited power to act (lit. blank paper). Fr.

=Car tel est votre plaisir=--For such is your pleasure. 30 Fr.

=Casa hospidada, comida y denostada=--A house which is filled with guests is both eaten up and spoken ill of. Sp. Pr.

=Casa mia, casa mia, per piccina che tu sia, tu mi sembri una badia=--Home, dear home, small though thou be, thou art to me a palace. It. Pr.

=Casar, casar, e que do governo?=--Marry, marry, and what of the management of the house? Port. Pr.

=Casar, casar, soa bem, e sabe mal=--Marrying sounds well, but tastes ill. Port. Pr.

=Cassis tutissima virtus=--Virtue is the safest 35 helmet. M.

=Casta ad virum matrona parendo imperat=--A chaste wife acquires an influence over her husband by obeying him. Laber.

=Casta moribus et integra pudore=--Of chaste morals and unblemished modesty. Mart.

=Cast all your cares on God; that anchor holds.= Tennyson.

=Cast forth thy act, thy word, into the ever-living, ever-working universe. It is a seed-grain that cannot die; unnoticed to-day, it will be found flourishing as a banyan-grove, perhaps, alas! as a hemlock forest, after a thousand years.= Carlyle.

=Cast him (a lucky fellow) into the Nile, and he= 40 =will come up with a fish in his mouth.= _Arab. Pr._

=Castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up.= Bulwer Lytton.

=Castor gaudet equis, ovo prognatus eodem / Pugnis=--Castor delights in horses; he that sprung from the same egg, in boxing. Hor.

=Castrant alios, ut libros suos, per se graciles, alieno adipe suffarciant=--They castrate the books of others, that they may stuff their own naturally lean ones with their fat. Jovius.

=Cast thy bread upon the waters, for thou shalt find it after many days.= Bible.

=Cast thy bread upon the waters; God will= 45 =know of it, if the fishes do not.= _Eastern Pr._

=Casus belli=--A cause for war; originally, fortune of war.

=Casus quem sæpe transit, aliquando invenit=--Misfortune will some time or other overtake him whom it has often passed by. Pub. Syr.

=Casus ubique valet; semper tibi pendeat hamus. / Quo minimè credas gurgite, piscis erit=--There is scope for chance everywhere; let your hook be always hanging ready. In the eddies where you least expect it, there will be a fish. Ovid.

=Catalogue raisonné=--A catalogue topically arranged. Fr.

=Catch as catch can.= Antiochus Epiphanes. 50

=Catching a Tartar=, i.e., an adversary too strong for one.

=Catch not at the shadow and lose the substance.= Pr.

=Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; / Improve each moment as it flies; / Life's a short summer--man a flower--/ He dies--alas! how soon he dies!= Johnson.

=Catholicism commonly softens, while Protestantism strengthens, the character; but the softness of the one often degenerates into weakness, and the strength of the other into hardness.= Lecky.

=Cato contra mundum=--Cato against the world.

=Cato esse, quam videri, bonus malebat=--Cato would rather be good than seem good. Sallust.

=Cattiva è quella lana, che non si può tingere=--Bad is the cloth that won't dye. It. Pr.

=Cattivo è quel sacco che non si puo rappezzare=--Bad 5 is the sack that won't patch. It. Pr.

=Cattle go blindfold to the common to crop the wholesome herbs, but man learns to distinguish what is wholesome (Heil) and what is poisonous (Gift) only by experience.= Rückert.

=Catus amat pisces, sed non vult tingere plantas=--Puss likes fish, but does not care to wet her feet. Pr.

=Causa causans=--The Cause of causes.

=Causa latet, vis est notissima=--The cause is hidden, but the effect is evident enough. Ovid.

=Causa sine qua non=--An indispensable condition. 10

=Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.= Emerson.

=Cause and effect, means and end, seed and fruit, cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed.= Emerson.

=Cause célèbre=--A celebrated trial or action at law. Fr.

=Caute, non astute=--Cautiously, not craftily. M.

=Caution is the parent of safety.= Pr. 15

=Cautious age suspects the flattering form, and only credits what experience tells.= Johnson.

=Cautis pericla prodesse aliorum solent=--Prudent people are ever ready to profit from the experiences of others. Phædr.

=Cautus enim metuit foveam lupus, accipiterque / Suspectos laqueos, et opertum miluus hamum=--For the wary wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk the suspected snare, and the fish the concealed hook. Hor.

=Cavallo ingrassato tira calci=--A horse that is grown fat kicks. It. Pr.

=Cave ab homine unius libri=--Beware of a man of 20 one book. Pr.

=Caveat actor=--Let the doer be on his guard. L.

=Caveat emptor=--Let the buyer be on his guard. L.

=Cave canem=--Beware of the dog.

=Cavendo tutus=--Safe by caution. M.

=Cave paratus=--Be on guard while prepared. 25 M.

=Caviare to the general.= Ham., ii. 2.

=Cease, every joy, to glimmer in my mind, / But leave,--oh! leave the light of hope behind! / What though my winged hours of bliss have been, / Like angel-visits, few and far between?= Campbell.

=Cease to lament for that thou canst not help, / And study help for that which thou lament'st.= Two Gent. of Ver., iii. 1.

=Cedant arma togæ=--Let the military yield to the civil power (lit. to the gown). Cic.

=Cedant carminibus reges, regumque triumphi=--Kings, 30 and the triumphs of kings, must yield to the power of song. Ovid.

=Cedat amor rebus; res age, tutus eris=--Let love give way to business; give attention to business, and you will be safe. Ovid.

=Cede Deo=--Yield to God. Virg.

=Cede nullis=--Yield to none. M.

=Cede repugnanti; cedendo victor abibis=--Yield to your opponent; by so doing you will come off victor in the end. Ovid.

=Cedite, Romani scriptores; cedite, Graii=--Give 35 place, ye Roman writers; give place, ye Greeks (ironically applied to a pretentious author). Prop.

=Cedunt grammatici; vincuntur rhetores; / Turba tacet=--The grammarians give way; the rhetoricians are beaten off; all the assemblage is silent. Juv.

=Cela fera comme un coup d'épée dans l'eau=--It will be all lost labour (lit. like a sword-stroke in the water). Fr. Pr.

=Cela m'échauffe la bile=--That stirs up my bile. Fr.

=Cela n'est pas de mon ressort=--That is not in my department, or line of things. Fr.

=Cela saute aux yeux=--That is quite evident 40 (lit. leaps to the eyes). Fr. Pr.

=Cela va sans dire=--That is a matter of course. Fr.

=Cela viendra=--That will come some day. Fr.

=Celebrity is but the candle-light which will show= what =man, not in the least make him a better or other man.= Carlyle.

=Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people whom we don't know, and who don't know us.= Chamfort.

=Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the= 45 =punishment of talent.= Chamfort.

=Celer et audax=--Swift and daring. M.

=Celer et fidelis=--Swift and faithful. M.

=Celerity is never more admired / Than by the negligent.= Ant. & Cleop., iii. 7.

=Celsæ graviore casu / Decidunt turres=--Lofty towers fall with no ordinary crash. Hor.

=Celui est homme de bien qui est homme de= 50 =biens=--He is a good man who is a man of goods. Fr. Pr.

=Celui-là est le mieux servi, qui n'a pas besoin de mettre les mains des autres au bout de ses bras=--He is best served who has no need to put other people's hands at the end of his arms. Rousseau.

=Celui qui a grand sens sait beaucoup=--A man of large intelligence knows a great deal. Vauvenargues.

=Celui qui aime mieux ses trésors que ses amis, mérite de n'être aimé de personne=--He who loves his wealth better than his friends does not deserve to be loved by any one. Fr. Pr.

=Celui qui dévore la substance du pauvre, y trouve à la fin un os qui l'étrangle=--He who devours the substance of the poor will in the end find a bone in it to choke him. Fr. Pr.

=Celui qui est sur épaules d'un géant voit plus= 55 =loin que celui qui le porte=--He who is on the shoulders of a giant sees farther than he does who carries him. Fr. Pr.

=Celui qui veut, celui-là peut=--The man who wills is the man who can. Fr.

=Ce ne sont pas les plus belles qui font les grandes passions=--It is not the most beautiful women that inspire the greatest passion. Fr. Pr.

=Ce n'est pas être bien aisé que de rire=--Laughing is not always an index of a mind at ease. Fr.

=Ce n'est que le premier pas qui coûte=--It is only the first step that is difficult (lit. costs). Fr.

=Censor morum=--Censor of morals and public conduct.

=Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.= Swift.

=Cent ans n'est guère, mais jamais c'est beaucoup=--A 5 hundred years is not much, but "never" is a long while. Fr. Pr.

=Cento carri di pensieri, non pagaranno un' oncia di debito=--A hundred cartloads of care will not pay an ounce of debt. It. Pr.

=Cent 'ore di malinconia non pagano un quattrino di' debito=--A hundred hours of vexation will not pay one farthing of debt. It. Pr.

=Centum doctûm hominum consilia sola hæc devincit dea / Fortuna=--This goddess, Fortune, single-handed, frustrates the plans of a hundred learned men. Plaut.

=Ce que femme veut, Dieu le veut=--What woman wills, God wills. Fr. Pr.

=Ce qui fait qu'on n'est pas content de sa condition,= 10 =c'est l'idée chimérique qu'on forme du bonheur d'autrui=--What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others. Fr. Pr.

=Ce qu'il nous faut pour vaincre, c'est de l'audace, encore de l'audace, toujours de l'audace!=--In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare. Danton.

=Ce qui manque aux orateurs en profondeur, / Ils vous le donnent en longueur=--What orators want in depth, they make up to you in length. Montesquieu.

=Ce qui ne vaut pas la peine d'être dit, on le chante=--What is not worth the trouble of being said, may pass off very fairly when it is sung. Beaumarchais.

=Ce qui suffit ne fut jamais peu=--What is enough was never a small quantity. Fr. Pr.

=Ce qui vient de la flûte, s'en retourne au tambour=--What 15 is earned by the fife goes back to the drum; easily gotten, easily gone. Fr. Pr.

=Ce qu'on apprend au berceau dure jusqu'au tombeau=--What is learned in the cradle lasts till the grave. Fr. Pr.

=Ce qu'on fait maintenant, on le dit; et la cause en est bien excusable: on fait si peu de chose=--Whatever we do now-a-days, we speak of; and the reason is this: it is so very little we do. Fr.

=Cercato ho sempre solitaria vita / (Le rive il sanno, e le campagne e i boschi)=--I have always sought a solitary life. (The river-banks and the open fields and the groves know it.)

=Ceremonies are different in every country; but true politeness is everywhere the same.= Goldsmith.

=Ceremony is necessary as the outwork and= 20 =defence of manners.= Chesterfield.

=Ceremony is the invention of wise men to keep fools at a distance.= Steele.

=Ceremony keeps up all things; 'tis like a penny glass to a rich spirit or some excellent water; without it the water were spilt, the spirit lost.= Selden.

=Ceremony leads her bigots forth, / Prepared to fight for shadows of no worth; / While truths, on which eternal things depend, / Find not, or hardly find, a single friend.= Cowper.

=Ceremony was but devised at first / To set a gloss on faint deeds ... / But where there is true friendship, there needs none.= Timon of Athens, i. 2.

=Cereus in vitium flecti, monitoribus asper=--(Youth), 25 pliable as wax to vice, obstinate under reproof. Hor.

=Cernit omnia Deus vindex=--God as avenger sees all things. M.

=Certa amittimus dum incerta petimus=--We lose things certain in pursuing things uncertain. Plaut.

=Certain defects are necessary to the existence of the individual. It would be painful to us if our old friends laid aside certain peculiarities.= Goethe.

=Certain it is that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as that of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.= Addison.

=Certe ignoratio futurorum malorum utilius est= 30 =quam scientia=--It is more advantageous not to know than to know the evils that are coming upon us. Cic.

=Certiorari=--To order the record from an inferior to a superior court. L.

=Certum est quia impossibile est=--I am sure of it because it is impossible. Tert.

=Certum pete finem=--Aim at a definite end. M.

=Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away.= Byron.

=Ces discours sont fort beaux dans un livre=--All 35 that would be very fine in a book, i.e., in theory, but not in practice. Boileau.

=Ces malheureux rois / Dont on dit tant de mal, ont du bon quelquefois=--Those unhappy kings, of whom so much evil is said, have their good qualities at times. Andrieux.

=Ce sont les passions qui font et qui défont tout=--It is the passions that do and that undo everything. Fontenelle.

=Ce sont toujours les aventuriers qui font de grandes choses, et non pas les souverains des grandes empires=--It is always adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires. Montesquieu.

=Cessante causa, cessat et effectus=--When the cause is removed, the effect must cease also. Coke.

=Cessio bonorum=--A surrender of all one's property 40 to creditors. Scots Law.

=C'est-à-dire=--That is to say. Fr.

=C'est dans les grands dangers qu'on voit les grands courages=--It is amid great perils we see brave hearts. Regnard.

=C'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur=--It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. La Font.

=C'est fait de lui=--It is all over with him. Fr.

=C'est la grande formule moderne: Du travail,= 45 =toujours du travail, et encore du travail=--The grand maxim now-a-days is: To work, always to work, and still to work. Gambetta.

=C'est là le diable=--There's the devil of it, i.e., there lies the difficulty. Fr.

=C'est la prospérité qui donne des amis, c'est l'adversité qui les éprouve=--It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them. Fr.

=C'est le chemin des passions qui m'a conduit à la philosophie=--It is by my passions I have been led to philosophy. Rousseau.

=C'est le commencement de la fin=--It is the beginning of the end. Talleyrand on the Hundred Days.

=C'est le crime qui fait honte, et non pas l'échafaud=--It is the crime, not the scaffold, which is the disgrace. Corneille.

=C'est le gesi paré des plumes du paon=--He is 5 the jay decked with the peacock's feathers. Fr.

=C'est le ton qui fait la musique=--In music everything depends on the tone. Fr. Pr.

=C'est le valet du diable, il fait plus qu'on ne lui ordonne=--He who does more than he is bid is the devil's valet. Fr. Pr.

=C'est l'imagination qui gouverne le genre humain=--The human race is governed by its imagination. Napoleon.

=C'est partout comme chez nous=--It is everywhere the same as among ourselves. Fr. Pr.

=C'est peu que de courir; il faut partir à point=--It 10 is not enough to run, one must set out in time. Fr. Pr.

=C'est plus qu'un crime, c'est une faute=--It is worse than a crime; it is a blunder. Fouché.

=C'est posséder les biens que de savoir s'en passer=--To know how to dispense with things is to possess them. Regnard.

=C'est son cheval de bataille=--That is his forte (lit. war-horse). Fr.

=C'est trop aimer quand on en meurt=--It is loving too much to die of loving. Fr. Pr.

=C'est une autre chose=--That's another matter. 15 Fr.

=C'est une grande folie de vouloir être sage tout seul=--It is a great folly to wish to be wise all alone. La Roche.

=C'est une grande misère que de n'avoir pas assez d'esprit pour bien parler, ni assez de jugement pour se taire=--It is a great misfortune not to have enough of ability to speak well, nor sense enough to hold one's tongue. La Bruyère.

=C'est un zéro en chiffres=--He is a mere cipher. Fr.

=Cet animal est très méchant: / Quand on l'attaque, il se défend=--That animal is very vicious; it defends itself if you attack it. Fr.

=Ceteris paribus=--Other things being equal. 20

=Ceterum censeo=--But my decided opinion is. Cato.

=Cet homme va à bride abattue=--That man goes at full speed (lit. with loose reins). Fr. Pr.

=Ceux qui parlent beaucoup, ne disent jamais rien=--Those who talk much never say anything worth listening to. Boileau.

=Ceux qui s'appliquent trop aux petites choses deviennent ordinairement incapables des grandes=--Those who occupy their minds too much with small matters generally become incapable of great. La Roche.

=Chacun à sa marotte=--Every one to his hobby. 25 Fr. Pr.

=Chacun à son goût=--Every one to his taste. Fr.

=Chacun à son métier, et les vaches seront bien gardées=--Let every one mind his own business, and the cows will be well cared for. Fr. Pr.

=Chacun cherche son semblable=--Like seeks like. Fr. Pr.

=Chacun dit du bien de son cœur et personne n'en ose dire de son esprit=--Every one speaks well of his heart, but no one dares boast of his wit. La Roche.

=Chacun doit balayer devant sa propre porte=--Everybody 30 ought to sweep before his own door. Fr. Pr.

=Chacun en particulier peut tromper et être trompé; personne n'a trompé tout le monde, et tout le monde n'a trompé personne=--Individuals may deceive and be deceived; no one has deceived every one, and every one has deceived no one. Bonhours.

=Chacun n'est pas aise qui danse=--Not every one who dances is happy. Fr. Pr.

=Chacun porte sa croix=--Every one bears his cross. Fr.

=Chacun pour soi et Dieu pour tous=--Every one for himself and God for all. Fr. Pr.

=Chacun tire l'eau à son moulin=--Every one 35 draws the water to his own mill. Fr. Pr.

=Chacun vaut son prix=--Every man has his value. Fr. Pr.

[Greek: Chalepa ta kala]--What is excellent is difficult.

=Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.= La Roche.

=Chance generally favours the prudent.= Joubert.

=Chance is but the pseudonym of God for those= 40 =particular cases which He does not choose to subscribe openly with His own sign-manual.= Coleridge.

=Chance is the providence of adventurers.= Napoleon.

=Chance will not do the work: / Chance sends the breeze, / But if the pilot slumber at the helm, / The very wind that wafts us towards the port / May dash us on the shelves.= Scott.

=Chances, as they are now called, I regard as guidances, and even, if rightly understood, commands, which, as far as I have read history, the best and sincerest men think providential.= Ruskin.

=Change is inevitable in a progressive country--is constant.= Disraeli.

=Change of fashions is the tax which industry= 45 =imposes on the vanity of the rich.= Chamfort.

=Changes are lightsome, an' fules are fond o' them.= Sc. Pr.

=Change yourself, and your fortune will change too.= Port. Pr.

=Chansons-à-boire=--Drinking-songs. Fr.

=Chapeau bas=--Hats off. Fr.

=Chapelle ardente=--Place where a dead body lies 50 in state. Fr.

=Chapter of accidents.= Chesterfield.

=Chaque âge a ses plaisirs, son esprit, et ses mœurs=--Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its peculiar manners. Boileau.

=Chaque branche de nos connaissances passe successivement par trois états théoretiques différents: l'état théologique, ou fictif; l'état métaphysique, ou abstrait; l'état scientifique, ou positif=--Each department of knowledge passes in succession through three different theoretic stages: the theologic stage, or fictitious; the metaphysical, or abstract; the scientific, or positive. A. Comte.

=Chaque demain apporte son pain=--Every to-morrow supplies its own loaf. Fr. Pr.

=Chaque instant de la vie est un pas vers la mort=--Each moment of life is one step nearer death. Corneille.

=Chaque médaille a son revers=--Every medal has its reverse. Fr. Pr.

=Chaque potier vante sa pot=--Every potter cracks up his own vessel. Fr. Pr.

=Char-à-bancs=--A pleasure car. Fr. 5

=Character gives splendour to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and grey hairs.= Emerson.

=Character is a fact, and that is much in a world of pretence and concession.= A. B. Alcott.

=Character is a perfectly educated will.= Novalis.

=Character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence and without means.= Emerson.

=Character is a thing that will take care of= 10 =itself.= J. G. Holland.

=Character is centrality, the impossibility of being displaced or overset.= Emerson.

=Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function; living is the functionary.= Emerson.

=Character is impulse reined down into steady continuance.= C. H. Parkhurst.

=Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.= Hume.

=Character is the spiritual body of the person,= 15 =and represents the individualisation of vital experience, the conversion of unconscious things into self-conscious men.= Whipple.

=Character is victory organised.= Napoleon.

=Character is what Nature has engraven on us; can we then efface it?= Voltaire.

=Characters are developed, and never change.= Disraeli.

=Character teaches over our head, above our wills.= Emerson.

=Character wants room; must not be crowded= 20 =on by persons, nor be judged of from glimpses got in the press of affairs or a few occasions.= Emerson.

=Charbonnier est maître chez soi=--A coalheaver's house is his castle.

=Charge, Chester, charge! On, Stanley, on! / Were the last words of Marmion.= Scott.

=Chargé d'affaires=--A subordinate diplomatist. Fr.

=Charity begins at hame, but shouldna end there.= Sc. Pr.

=Charity begins at home.= Pr. 25

=Charity draws down a blessing on the charitable.= Le Sage.

=Charity gives itself rich; covetousness hoards itself poor.= Ger. Pr.

=Charity is the scope of all God's commands.= St. Chrysostom.

=Charity is the temple of which justice is the foundation, but you can't have the top without the bottom.= Ruskin.

=Charity shall cover the multitude of sins.= St. 30 Peter.

=Charm'd with the foolish whistling of a name.= Cowley.

=Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.= Pope.

=Charms which, like flowers, lie on the surface and always glitter, easily produce vanity; whereas other excellences, which lie deep like gold and are discovered with difficulty, leave their possessors modest and proud.= Jean Paul.

=Charta non erubescit=--A document does not blush. Pr.

=Chasse cousin=--Bad wine, i.e., such as was given 35 to poor relations to drive them off. Fr.

=Chassez le naturel, il revient au galop=--Drive out Nature, she is back on you in a trice. Fr. from Hor.

=Chaste as the icicle / That's curded by the frost from purest snow, / And hangs on Dian's temple.= Coriolanus, v. 3.

=Chastise the good, and he will grow better; chastise the bad, and he will grow worse.= It. Pr.

=Chastity is like an icicle; if it once melts, that's the last of it.= Pr.

=Chastity is the band that holds together the= 40 =sheaf of all holy affections and duties.= Vinet.

=Chastity, lost once, cannot be recalled; it goes only once.= Ovid.

=Châteaux en Espagne.=--Castles in the air (lit. castles in Spain). Fr.

=Chat échaudé craint l'eau froide=--A scalded cat dreads cold water. Fr. Pr.

=Cheapest is the dearest.= Pr.

=Che dorme coi cani, si leva colle pulci=--Those 45 who sleep with dogs will rise up with fleas. It. Pr.

=Cheerfulness is health; the opposite, melancholy, is disease.= Haliburton.

=Cheerfulness is just as natural to the heart of a man in strong health as colour to his cheek.= Ruskin.

=Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health, and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.= Addison.

=Cheerfulness is the daughter of employment.= Dr. Horne.

=Cheerfulness is the heaven under which everything= 50 =but poison thrives.= Jean Paul.

=Cheerfulness is the very flower of health.= Schopenhauer.

=Cheerfulness opens, like spring, all the blossoms of the inward man.= Jean Paul.

=Cheese is gold in the morning, silver at mid-day, and lead at night.= Ger. Pr.

=Chef de cuisine=--A head-cook. Fr.

=Chef-d'œuvre=--A masterpiece. Fr. 55

=Chemin de fer=--The iron way, the railway. Fr.

=Che ne può la gatta se la massaia è matta=--How can the cat help it if the maid is fool (enough to leave things in her way)? It. Pr.

=Che quegli è tra gli stolti bene abbasso, / Che senza distinzion afferma o niega, / Così nell' un, come nell' altro passo=--He who without discrimination affirms or denies, ranks lowest among the foolish ones, and this in either case, i.e., in denying as well as affirming. Dante.

=Chercher à connaître, c'est chercher à douter=--To seek to know is to seek occasion to doubt. Fr.

=Che sarà, sarà=--What will be, will be. M. 60

=Chevalier d'industrie=--One who lives by persevering fraud (lit. a knight of industry). Fr.

=Chevaux de frise=--A defence of spikes against cavalry. Fr.

=Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy.= As You Like It, iv. 3.

=Chew the cud of politics.= Swift.

=Chi altri giudica, sè condanna=--Whoso judges others condemns himself. It. Pr.

=Chi ama, crede=--He who loves, believes. It. Pr. 5

=Chi ama, qual chi muore / Non ha da gire al ciel dal mondo altr' ale=--He who loves, as well as he who dies, needs no other wing by which to soar from earth to heaven. Michael Angelo.

=Chi ama, teme=--He who loves, fears. It. Pr.

=Chi asino è, e cervo esser si crede, al saltar del fosso se n'avvede=--He who is an ass and thinks he is a stag, will find his error when he has to leap a ditch. It. Pr.

=Chi compra ciò pagar non può, vende ciò che non vuole=--He who buys what he cannot pay for, sells what he fain would not. It. Pr.

=Chi compra ha bisogno di cent occhi=--He who 10 buys requires an hundred eyes. It. Pr.

=Chi compra terra, compra guerra=--Who buys land, buys war. It. Pr.

=Chi con l'occhio vede, di cuor crede=--Seeing is believing (lit. he who sees with the eye believes with the heart). It. Pr.

=Chi da il suo inanzi morire s'apparecchia assai patire=--He who gives of his wealth before dying, prepares himself to suffer much. It. Pr.

=Chi dinanzi mi pinge, di dietro mi tinge=--He who paints me before, blackens me behind. It. Pr.

=Chi due padroni ha da servire, ad uno ha da= 15 =mentire=--Whoso serves two masters must lie to one of them. It. Pr.

=Chi é causa del suo mal, pianga se stesso=--He who is the cause of his own misfortunes may bewail them himself. It. Pr.

=Chi edifica, sua borsa purifica=--He who builds clears his purse. It. Pr.

=Chien sur son fumier est hardi=--A dog is bold on his own dunghill. Fr. Pr.

=Chi erra nelle decine, erra nelle migliaja=--He who errs in the tens, errs in the thousands. It. Pr.

=Chiesa libera in libero stato=--A free church in 20 a free state. Cavour.

=Chi fa il conto senza l'oste, gli convien farlo due volte=--He who reckons without his host must reckon again. It. Pr.

=Chi fa quel ch' e' può, non fa mal bene=--He who does all he can do never does well. It. Pr.

=Chi ha capo di cera non vada al sole=--Let not him whose head is of wax walk in the sun. It. Pr.

=Chi ha danari da buttar via, metta gli operaj, e non vi stia=--He who has money to squander, let him employ workmen and not stand by them. It. Pr.

=Chi ha denti, non ha pane; e chi ha pane, non= 25 =ha denti=--He who has teeth is without bread, and he who has bread is without teeth. It. Pr.

=Chi ha, è=--He who has, is.

=Chi ha l'amor nel petto, ha lo sprone a' fianchi=--He who has love in his heart has spurs in his sides. It. Pr.

=Chi ha lingua in bocca, può andar per tutto=--He who has a tongue in his head can travel all the world over. It. Pr.

=Chi ha paura del diavolo, non fa roba=--He who has a dread of the devil does not grow rich. It. Pr.

=Chi ha sanità è ricco, e non lo sa=--He who has 30 good health is rich, and does not know it. It. Pr.

=Chi ha sospetto, di rado è in difetto=--He who suspects is seldom at fault. It. Pr.

=Chi ha tempo, non aspetti tempo=--He who has time, let him not wait for time.

=Childhood and youth see all the world in persons.= Emerson.

=Childhood has no forebodings; but then it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.= George Eliot.

=Childhood is the sleep of reason.= Rousseau. 35

=Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.= Mrs. Child.

=Childhood often holds a truth in its feeble fingers which the grasp of manhood cannot retain, and which it is the pride of utmost age to recover.= Ruskin.

=Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.= Milton.

=Childhood, who like an April morn appears, / Sunshine and rain, hopes clouded o'er with fears.= Churchill.

=Children always turn toward the light.= Hare. 40

=Children and chickens are always a-picking.= Pr.

=Children and drunk people speak the truth.= Pr.

=Children and fools speak the truth.= Pr.

=Children are certain sorrows, but uncertain joys.= Dan. Pr.

=Children are the poor man's wealth.= Dan. Pr. 45

=Children are very nice observers, and they will often perceive your slightest defects.= Fénélon.

=Children blessings seem, but torments are, / When young, our folly, and when old, our fear.= Otway.

=Children generally hate to be idle; all the care is then that their busy humour should be constantly employed in something of use to them.= Locke.

=Children have more need of models than of critics.= Joubert.

=Children have scarcely any other fear than= 50 =that produced by strangeness.= Jean Paul.

=Children, like dogs, have so sharp and fine a scent, that they detect and hunt out everything--the bad before all the rest.= Goethe.

=Children of night, of indigestion bred.= Churchill of dreams.

=Children of wealth or want, to each is given / One spot of green, and all the blue of heaven.= Holmes.

=Children see in their parents the past, they again in their children the future; and if we find more love in parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad indeed, but natural. Who does not fondle his hopes more than his recollections?= Eötvös.

=Children should have their times of being off= 55 =duty, like soldiers.= Ruskin.

=Children should laugh, but not mock; and when they laugh, it should not be at the weaknesses and the faults of others.= Ruskin.

=Children suck the mother when they are young, and the father when they are old.= Pr.

=Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.= Bacon.

=Children tell in the highway what they hear by the fireside.= Port. Pr.

=Children think not of what is past, nor what is to come, but enjoy the present time, which few of us do.= La Bruyère.

=Chi lingua ha, a Roma va=--He who has a tongue 5 may go to Rome, i.e., may go anywhere. It. Pr.

=Chi nasce bella, nasce maritata=--She who is born a beauty is born married. It. Pr.

=Chi niente sa, di niente dubita=--He who knows nothing, doubts nothing. It. Pr.

=Chi non dà fine al pensare, non dà principio al fare=--He who is never done with thinking never gets the length of doing. It. Pr.

=Chi non ha cuore, abbia gambe=--He who has no courage should have legs (to run). It Pr.

=Chi non ha, non è=--He who has not, is not. It. 10 Pr.

=Chi non ha piaghe, se ne fa=--He who has no worries makes himself some. It. Pr.

=Chi non ha testa, abbia gambe=--He who has no brains should have legs. It. Pr.

=Chi non istima vien stimato=--To disregard is to win regard. It. Pr.

=Chi non puo fare come voglia, faccia come puo=--He who cannot do as he would, must do as he can. It. Pr.

=Chi non sa fingere, non sa vivere=--He that 15 knows not how to dissemble knows not how to live. It. Pr.

=Chi non vede il fondo, non passi l'acqua=--Who sees not the bottom, let him not attempt to wade the water. It. Pr.

=Chi non vuol servir ad un sol signor, a molto ha da servir=--He who will not serve one master will have to serve many. It. Pr.

=Chi offende, non perdona mai=--He who offends you never forgives you. It. Pr.

=Chi offende scrive nella rena, chi è offeso nel marmo=--He who offends writes on sand; he who is offended, on marble. It. Pr.

=Chi parla semina, chi tace raccoglie=--Who 20 speaks, sows; who keeps silence, reaps. It. Pr.

=Chi piglia leone in assenza suol temer del topi in presenza=--He who takes a lion far off will shudder at a mole close by. It. Pr.

=Chi più sa, meno crede=--Who knows most, believes least. It. Pr.

=Chi più sa, meno parla=--Who knows most, says least. It. Pr.

=Chi sa la strada, puo andar di trotto=--He who knows the road can go at a trot. It. Pr.

=Chi sa poco presto lo dice=--He who knows little 25 quickly tells it. It. Pr.

=Chi serve al commune serve nessuno=--He who serves the public serves no one. It. Pr.

=Chi si affoga, s'attaccherebbe a' rasoj=--A drowning man would catch at razors. It. Pr.

=Chi si fa fango, il porco lo calpestra=--He who makes himself dirt, the swine will tread on him. It. Pr.

=Chi si trova senz' amici, è come un corpo senz' anima=--He who is without friends is like a body without a soul. It. Pr.

=Chi sta bene, non si muova=--Let him who is 30 well off remain where he is. It. Pr.

=Chi tace confessa=--Silence is confession. _It. Pr._

=Chi t'ha offeso non ti perdonera mai=--He who has offended you will never forgive you. It. Pr.

=Chi troppo abbraccia nulla stringe=--He who grasps at too much holds fast nothing. It. Pr.

=Chi tutto vuole, tutto perde=--Covet all, lose all. It. Pr.

=Chivalry was founded invariably by knights= 35 =who were content all their lives with their horse and armour and daily bread.= Ruskin.

=Chi va piano, va sano, chi va sano va lontano=--He who goes softly goes safely, and he who goes safely goes far. It. Pr.

=Chi va, vuole; chi manda, non se ha cura=--He who goes himself, means it; he who sends another does not care. It. Pr.

=Chi vuol dell' acqua chiara, vada alla fonte=--He who wants the water pure must go to the spring-head. It. Pr.

=Chi vuol esser mal servito tenga assai famiglia=--Let him who would be ill served keep plenty servants. It. Pr.

=Chi vuol il lavoro mal fatto, paghi innanzi= 40 =tratto=--If you wish your work ill done, pay beforehand. It. Pr.

=Chi vuol presto e ben, faccia da se=--He who wishes a thing done quickly and well, must do it himself. It. Pr.

=Choose a good mother's daughter, though her father were the devil.= Gael. Pr.

=Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be. Custom will render it easy and agreeable.= Pythagoras.

=Choose an author as you choose a friend.= Earl of Roscommon.

=Choose thy speech.= Gael. Pr. 45

=Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.= Gael. Pr.

=Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure / Thrill the deepest notes of woe.= Burns.

=Chose perdue, chose connue=--A thing lost is a thing known, i.e., valued. Fr. Pr.

[Greek: Chôris to t' eipein polla kai ta kairia]--Volubility of speech and pertinency are sometimes very different things. Sophocles.

=Christen haben keine Nachbarn=--Christians 50 have no neighbours. Ger. Pr.

=Christianity has not yet penetrated into the whole heart of Jesus.= Amiel.

=Christianity appeals to the noblest feelings of the human heart, and these are emotion and imagination.= Shorthouse.

=Christianity has a might of its own; it is raised above all philosophy, and needs no support therefrom.= Goethe.

=Christianity has made martyrdom sublime and sorrow triumphant.= Chopin.

=Christianity is a religion that can make men= 55 =good, only if they are good already.= Hegel.

=Christianity is salvation by the conversion of the will; humanism by the enlightenment of the mind.= Amiel.

=Christianity is the apotheosis of grief, the marvellous transmutation of suffering into triumph, the death of death and the defeat of sin.= Amiel.

=Christianity is the practical demonstration that holiness and pity, justice and mercy, may meet together and become one in man and in God.= Amiel.

=Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.= Novalis.

=Christianity is the worship of sorrow.= Goethe.

=Christianity's husk and shell / Threaten its heart like a blight.= (J. B.) Selkirk.

=Christianity teaches us to love our neighbour.= 5 =Modern society acknowledges no neighbour.= Disraeli.

=Christianity, which is always true to the heart, knows no abstract virtues, but virtues resulting from our wants, and useful to all.= Chateaubriand.

=Christianity without the cross is nothing.= _W. H. Thomson._

=Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded / That all the apostles would have done as they did.= Byron.

=Christ is not valued at all, unless He is valued above all.= St. Augustine.

=Christ left us not a system of logic, but a few= 10 =simple truths.= B. R. Hayden.

=Christmas comes but once a year.= Pr.

=Christ never wrote a tract, but He went about doing good.= Horace Mann.

=Christ's truth itself may yet be taught / With something of the devil's spirit.= (J. B.) Selkirk.

=Churches are not built on Christ's principles, but on His tropes.= Emerson.

=Ci-devant=--Former. Fr. 15

=Cieco è l'occhio, se l'animo è distratto=--The eye sees nothing if the mind is distracted. It. Pr.

=Ciencia es locura si buen senso no la cura=--Knowledge is of little use if it is not under the direction of good sense. Sp. Pr.

=Ci-git=--Here lies. Fr.

=Cineri gloria sera venit=--Glory comes too late to one in the dust. Mart.

=Ciò che Dio vuole, io voglio=--What God wills, I 20 will. M.

=Ciò che si usa, non ha bisogno di scusa=--That which is customary needs no excuse. It. Pr.

=Circles are prais'd, not that abound / In largeness, but th' exactly round; / So life we praise, that does excel, / Not in much time, but acting well.= Waller.

=Circles in water as they wider flow, / The less conspicuous in their progress grow, / And when at last they trench upon the shore, / Distinction ceases, and they're view'd no more.= Crabbe.

=Circles to square, and cubes to double, / Would give a man excessive trouble.= Prior.

=Circuitus verborum=--A roundabout story or expression. 25

=Circulus in probando=--Begging the question, or taking for granted the point at issue (lit. a circle in the proof).

=Circumstances are beyond the control of man, but his conduct is in his own power.= Disraeli.

=Circumstances are things round about; we are in them, not under them.= Landor.

=Circumstances form the character, but, like petrifying matters, they harden while they form.= Landor.

=Circumstances? I make circumstances.= 30 Napoleon.

=Cita mors ruit=--Death is a swift rider.

=Citharœdus / Ridetur chorda qui semper obberrat eadem=--The harper who is always at fault on the same string is derided. Hor.

=Cities force growth, and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial.= Emerson.

=Cities give not the human senses room enough.= Emerson.

=Cities have always been the fire-places= (i.e., 35 foci) =of civilisation, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark, cold world.= Theodore Parker.

=Citius venit periculum cum contemnitur=--When danger is despised, it arrives the sooner. Syr.

=Civil dissension is a viperous worm / That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth.= 1 Hen. VI., iii. 1.

=Civilisation degrades the many to exalt the few.= A. B. Alcott.

=Civilisation depends on morality.= Emerson.

=Civilisation is the result of highly complex= 40 =organisation.= Emerson.

=Civilisation means the recession of passional and material life, and the development of social and moral life.= Ward Beecher.

=Civilisation tends to corrupt men, as large towns vitiate the air.= Amiel.

=Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.= M. Wortley Montagu.

=Clamorous labour knocks with its hundred hands at the golden gate of the morning.= Newman Hall.

=Claqueur=--One hired to applaud. Fr. 45

=Clarior e tenebris=--The brighter from the obscurity. M.

=Clarum et venerabile nomen=--An illustrious and honoured name.

=Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.= Johnson.

=Classisch ist das Gesunde, romantisch das Kranke=--The healthy is classical, the unhealthy is romantic. Goethe.

=Claude os, aperi oculos=--Keep thy mouth shut, 50 but thy eyes open.

=Claudite jam rivos, pueri; sat prata biberunt=--Close up the sluices now, lads; the meadows have drunk enough. Virg.

=Clausum fregit=--He has broken through the enclosure, i.e. committed a trespass. L.

=Clay and clay differs in dignity, / Whose dust is both alike.= Cymbeline, iv. 2.

=Cleanliness is near of kin to godliness.= Pr.

=Clear and bright it should be ever, / Flowing= 55 =like a crystal river; / Bright as light, and clear as wind.= Tennyson on the Mind.

=Clear conception leads naturally to clear and correct expression.= Boileau.

=Clear writers, like clear fountains, do not seem so deep as they are; the turbid look the most profound.= Landor.

=Clear your mind of cant.= Johnson.

=Clemency alone makes us equal with the gods.= Claudianus.

=Clemency is one of the brightest diamonds in= 60 =the crown of majesty.= W. Secker.

=Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.= Amiel.

=Clever people will recognise and tolerate nothing but cleverness.= Amiel.

=Climbing is performed in the same posture as creeping.= Swift.

=Clocks will go as they are set; but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.= Otway.

=Close sits my shirt, but closer sits my skin.= Pr. 5

=Clothes are for necessity; warm clothes, for health; cleanly, for decency; lasting, for thrift; and rich, for magnificence.= Fuller.

=Clothes have made men of us; they are threatening to make clothes-screens of us.= Carlyle.

=Clothes make the man.= Dut. Pr.

=Clouds are the veil behind which the face of day coquettishly hides itself, to enhance its beauty.= Jean Paul.

=Coal is a portable climate.= Emerson. 10

=Cobblers go to mass and pray that the cows may die= (i.e., for the sake of their hides). Port. Pr.

=Cobra buena fama, y échate á dormir=--Get a good name, and go to sleep. Sp. Pr.

=Cobre gana cobre que no huesos de hombre=--Money (lit. copper) breeds money and not man's bones. Sp. Pr.

=Cœlitus mihi vires=--My strength is from heaven. M.

=Cœlo tegitur qui non habet urnam=--He who 15 has no urn to hold his bones is covered by the vault of heaven. Lucan.

=Cœlum ipsum petimus stultitia=--We assail heaven itself in our folly. Hor.

=Cœlum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt=--Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character. Hor.

=Coerced innocence is like an imprisoned lark; open the door, and it is off for ever.= Haliburton.

=Cogenda mens est ut incipiat=--The mind must be stimulated to make a beginning. Sen.

=Cogi qui potest nescit mori=--He who can be 20 compelled knows not how to die. Sen.

=Cogitatio nostra cœli munimenta perrumpit, nec contenta est, id, quod ostenditur, scire=--Our thoughts break through the muniments of heaven, and are not satisfied with knowing what is offered to sense observation. Sen.

=Cogito, ergo sum=--I think, therefore I am. Descartes.

=Cognovit actionem=--He has admitted the action. L.

=Coigne of vantage.= Macb., i. 6.

=Coin heaven's image / In stamps that are forbid.= 25 Meas. for Meas., ii. 4.

=Cold hand, warm heart.= Pr.

=Cold pudding settles one's love.= Pr.

=Collision is as necessary to produce virtue in men, as it is to elicit fire in inanimate matter; and chivalry is the essence of virtue.= Lord John Russell.

=Colonies don't cease to be colonies because they are independent.= Disraeli.

=Colour answers to feeling in man; shape, to= 30 =thought; motion, to will.= John Sterling.

=Colour blindness, which may mistake drab for scarlet, is better than total blindness, which sees no distinction of colour at all.= George Eliot.

=Colour is the type of love. Hence it is especially connected with the blossoming of the earth, and with its fruits; also with the spring and fall of the leaf, and with the morning and evening of the day, in order to show the waiting of love about the birth and death of man.= Ruskin.

=Colours are the smiles of Nature ... her laughs, as in the flowers.= Leigh Hunt.

=Colubram in sinu fovere=--To cherish a serpent in one's bosom.

=Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely= 35 =as himself.= Emerson.

=Combien de héros, glorieux, magnanimes, ont vécu trop d'un jour=--How many famous and high-souled heroes have lived a day too long! J. B. Rousseau.

=Combinations of wickedness would overwhelm the world, did not those who have long practised perfidy grow faithless to each other.= Johnson.

=Come, and trip it as you go, / On the light fantastic toe.= Milton.

=Come, civil night, / Thou sober-suited matron, all in black.= Rom. and Jul., iii. 2.

=Come, cordial, not poison.= Rom. and Jul., v. 1. 40

=Comedians are not actors; they are only imitators of actors.= Zimmermann.

=Come è duro calle=--How hard is the path. Dante.

=Come, fair Repentance, daughter of the skies! / Soft harbinger of soon returning virtue; / The weeping messenger of grace from heaven.= Browne.

=Come forth into the light of things, / Let Nature be your teacher.= Wordsworth.

=Come he slow or come he fast, / It is but= 45 =Death who comes at last.= Scott.

=Come like shadows, so depart.= Bowles.

=Come, my best friends, my books, and lead me on.= Cowley.

=Come one, come all! this rock shall fly / From its firm base as soon as I.= Scott.

=Comes jucundus in via pro vehiculo est=--A pleasant companion on the road is as good as a carriage. Pub. Syr.

=Come the three corners of the world in arms, /= 50 =And we shall shock them. Nought shall make us rue, / If England to itself do rest but true.= King John, v. 7.

=Come, we burn daylight.= Rom. and Jul., i. 4.

=Come what come may, / Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.= Macb., i. 3.

=Come what sorrow can, / It cannot countervail th' exchange of joy / That one short minute gives me in her sight.= Rom. and Jul., ii. 6.

=Comfort is the god of this world, but comfort it will never obtain by making it an object.= Whipple.

=Comfort's in heaven; and we are on the earth, /= 55 =Where nothing lives but crosses, care, and grief.= Rich. II., ii. 2.

=Coming events cast their shadows before.= Campbell.

=Comitas inter gentes=--Courtesy between nations.

=Command large fields, but cultivate small ones.= Virg.

=Comme il faut=--As it should be. Fr.

=Comme je fus=--As I was. M. 60

=Comme je trouve=--As I find it. M.

=Commend a fool for his wit or a knave for his honesty, and he will receive you into his bosom.= Fielding.

=Commend me rather to him who goes wrong in a way that is his own, than to him who walks correctly in a way that is not.= Goethe.

=Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.= T. Gray.

=Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, contingent, transitory, almost as liable to change as the winds and waves that waft it to our shores.= Colton.

=Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the= 5 =signet of all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore and called it gold.= Shelley.

=Commerce is a game of skill, which every one cannot play, which few men can play well.= Emerson.

=Commerce is one of the daughters of Fortune, inconstant and deceitful as her mother. She chooses her residence where she is least expected, and shifts her abode when her continuance is, in appearance, most firmly settled.= Johnson.

=Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.= Emerson.

=Committunt multi eadem diverso crimina fato, / Ille crucem sceleris pretium tulerit, hic diadema=--How different the fate of men who commit the same crimes! For the same villany one man goes to the gallows, and another is raised to a throne.

=Common as light is love, / And its familiar= 10 =voice wearies not ever.= Shelley.

=Common chances common men can bear.= Coriolanus, iv. 1.

=Common distress is a great promoter both of friendship and speculation.= Swift.

=Common fame is seldom to blame.= Pr.

=Commonly they use their feet for defence whose tongue is their weapon.= Sir P. Sidney.

=Common men are apologies for men; they= 15 =bow the head, excuse themselves with prolix reasons, and accumulate appearances, because the substance is not.= Emerson.

=Common-place people see no difference between one man and another.= Pascal.

=Common-sense is calculation applied to life.= Amiel.

=Common-sense is the average sensibility and intelligence of men undisturbed by individual peculiarities.= W. R. Alger.

=Common-sense is the genius of humanity.= Goethe.

=Common-sense is the measure of the possible;= 20 =it is calculation applied to life.= Amiel.

=Common souls pay with what they do; nobler souls, with what they are.= Emerson.

=Communautés commencent par bâtir leur cuisine=--Communities begin with building their kitchen. Fr. Pr.

=Commune bonum=--A common good.

=Commune naufragium omnibus est consolatio=--A shipwreck (disaster) that is common is a consolation to all. Pr.

=Commune periculum concordiam parit=--A common 25 danger tends to concord. L.

=Communia esse amicorum inter se omnia=--All things are common among friends. Ter.

=Communibus annis=--One year with another.

=Communi consensu=--By common consent.

=Communion is the law of growth, and homes only thrive when they sustain relations with each other.= J. G. Holland.

=Communism is the exploitation of the strong= 30 =by the weak. In communism, inequality springs from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.= Proudhon.

=Como canta el abad, así responde el monacillo=--As the abbot sings, the sacristan answers. Sp. Pr.

=Compagnon de voyage=--A fellow-traveller. Pr.

=Company, villanous company, has been the spoil of me.= 1 Hen. IV., iii. 3.

=Comparaison n'est pas raison=--Comparison is no proof. Fr. Pr.

=Compare her face with some that I shall= 35 =show, / And I will make thee think thy swan a crow.= Rom. and Jul., i. 2.

=Comparisons are odious.= Burton.

=Comparisons are odorous.= Much Ado, iii. 5.

=Compassion to the offender who has grossly violated the laws is, in effect, a cruelty to the peaceable subject who has observed them.= Junius.

=Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.= Ward Beecher.

=Compendia dispendia=--Short cuts are roundabout 40 ways.

=Compendiaria res improbitas, virtusque tarda=--Vice is summary in its procedure, virtue is slow.

=Compesce mentem=--Restrain thy irritation. Hor.

=Complaining never so loud, and with never so much reason, is of no use.= Emerson.

=Complaining profits little; stating of the truth may profit.= Carlyle.

=Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives,= 45 =and the sincerest part of our devotion.= Swift.

=Compliments are only lies in court clothes.= J. Sterling.

=Componitur orbis / Regis ad exemplum; nec sic inflectere sensus / Humanos edicta valent, quam vita regentis=--Manners are fashioned after the example of the king, and edicts have less effect on them than the life of the ruler. Claud.

=Compose thy mind, and prepare thy soul calmly to obey; such offering will be more acceptable to God than every other sacrifice.= Metastasio.

=Compositum miraculi causa=--A story trumped up to astonish. Tac.

=Compos mentis=--Of a sound mind. 50

=Compound for sins they are inclined to / By damning those they have no mind to.= Butler.

=Comprendre c'est pardonner=--To understand is to pardon. Mad. de Staël.

=Compte rendu=--Report, return. Fr.

=Con agua pasada no muele molino=--The mill grinds no corn with water that has passed. Sp. Pr.

=Con amore=--With love; earnestly. It.

=Con arte e con inganno si vive mezzo l'anno; con inganno si vive l'altra parte=--People live with art and deception one half the year, and with deception and art the other half. It. Pr.

=Conceal not the meanness of thy family, nor think it disgraceful to be descended from peasants; for when it is seen thou art not thyself ashamed, no one will endeavour to make thee so.= Cervantes.

=Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works.= Ham., iii. 4.

=Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.= Ruskin.

=Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short, in all the management of human affairs.= Emerson.

=Concio ad clerum=--An address to the clergy. 5

=Concordia discors=--A jarring or discordant concord. Ovid.

=Concordia res parvæ crescunt, discordia maximæ dilabuntur=--With concord small things increase, with discord the greatest go to ruin. Sall.

=Concours=--A competition. Fr.

=Condemnable idolatry is insincere idolatry--a human soul clinging spasmodically to an Ark of the Covenant, which it half feels is now a phantasm.= Carlyle.

=Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it! /= 10 =Why, every fault's condemned ere it be done.= Meas. for Meas., ii. 2.

=Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol, and an audience is electrified.= Emerson.

=Con dineros no te conocerás, sin dineros no te conocerán=--With money you would not know yourself; without it, no one would know you. Sp. Pr.

=Condition, circumstance, is not the thing, / Bliss is the same in subject or in king.= Pope.

=Conditions are pleasant or grievous to us according to our sensibilities.= Lew. Wallace.

=Con el Rey y con la Inquisicion, chitos=--With 15 the King and the Inquisition, hush! Sp. Pr.

=Confessed faults are half mended.= Sc. Pr.

=Confess yourself to Heaven; / Repent what's past; avoid what is to come; / And do not spread the compost on the weeds, / To make them ranker.= Ham., iii. 4.

=Confess you were wrong yesterday; it will show you are wise to-day.= Pr.

=Confidence imparts a wondrous inspiration to its possessor. It bears him on in security, either to meet no danger or to find matter of glorious trial.= Milton.

=Confidence in another man's virtue is no slight= 20 =evidence of a man's own.= Montaigne.

=Confidence in one's self is the chief nurse of magnanimity.= Sir P. Sidney.

=Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom.= Chatham.

=Confidence is a thing not to be produced by compulsion. Men cannot be forced into trust.= D. Webster.

=Confido, conquiesco=--I trust, and am at rest. M.

=Confine your tongue, lest it confine you.= Pr. 25

=Confrère=--A brother monk or associate. Fr.

=Confusion now hath made his masterpiece. / Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope / The Lord's anointed temple, and stole thence / The life o' the building.= Macb., ii. 1.

=Confusion worse confounded.= Milton.

=Congé d'élire=--A leave to elect. Fr.

=Con poco cervello si governa il mondo=--The 30 world is governed with small wit. It. Pr.

=Conquer we shall, but we must first contend; / 'Tis not the fight that crowns us, but the end.= Herrick.

=Conscia mens recti famæ mendacia risit=--The mind conscious of integrity ever scorns the lies of rumour. Ovid.

=Conscience does make cowards of us all; / And thus the native hue of resolution / Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; / And enterprises of great pith and moment, / With this regard, their currents turn awry, / And lose the name of action.= Ham., iii. 1.

=Conscience is but a word that cowards use, / Devised at first to keep the strong in awe; / Our strong arms be our conscience, swords our law.= Rich. III., v. 3.

=Conscience is our magnetic needle; / reason,= 35 =our chart.= Joseph Cook.

=Conscience is the chamber of justice.= Origen.

=Conscience is the compass of the unknown.= Joseph Cook.

=Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.= Johnson.

=Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions, of the body.= Rousseau.

=Conscience is wiser than science.= Lavater. 40

=Conscientia mille testes=--Conscience is equal to a thousand witnesses. Pr.

=Con scienza=--With a knowledge of the subject. It.

=Consecrated is the spot which a good man has trodden.= Goethe.

=Consecration is going out into the world where God Almighty is, and using every power for His glory.= Ward Beecher.

=Conseil d'état=--Council of state. 45

=Consensus facit legem=--Consent makes the law. L.

=Consequitur quodcunque petit=--He attains to whatever he aims at. M.

=Conservatism is the pause on the last movement.= Emerson.

=Consideration, like an angel, came, / And whipp'd th' offending Adam out of him, / Leaving his body as a paradise, / To envelop and contain celestial spirits.= Henry V., i. 1.

=Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow;= 50 =they toil not, neither do they spin; and yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.= Jesus.

=Consilio et animis=--By counsel and courage. M.

=Conspicuous by its absence.= Lord John Russell.

=Constans et fidelitate=--Constant and with faithfulness. M.

=Constant attention wears the active mind, / Blots out her powers, and leaves a blank behind.= Churchill.

=Constantia et virtute=--By constancy and virtue. 55 M.

=Constantly choose rather to want less than to have more.= Thomas à Kempis.

=Constant occupation prevents temptation.= _It. Pr._

=Constant thought will overflow in words unconsciously.= Byron.

=Consuetudinis magna vis est=--The force of habit is great. Cic.

=Consuetudo est altera lex=--Custom is a second 60 law. L.

=Consuetudo est secunda natura=--Custom is a second nature. St. Aug.

=Consuetudo pro lege servatur=--Custom is observed as law. L.

=Consult duty, not events.= Landor.

=Contaminate our fingers with base bribes?... I'd rather be a dog and bay the moon than such a Roman.= Jul. Cæs., iv. 3.

=Contas na maõ, e o demonio no coraçaõ=--Rosary 5 in the hand, and the devil in the heart. Port. Pr.

=Contemni est gravius stultitiæ quam percuti=--To be despised is more galling to a foolish man than to be whipped.

=Contemporaries appreciate the man rather than his merit; posterity will regard the merit rather than the man.= Colton.

=Contempt is a dangerous element to sport in; a deadly one, if we habitually live in it.= Carlyle.

=Contempt is a kind of gangrene, which, if it seizes one part of a character, corrupts all the rest by degrees.= Johnson.

=Contempt is the only way to triumph over= 10 =calumny.= Mde. de Maintenon.

=Contented wi' little, an' cantie (cheerily happy) wi' mair.= Burns.

=Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, / The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.= Pope.

=Contention is a hydra's head; the more they strive, the more they may.= Burton.

=Contention, like a horse / Full of high feeding, madly hath broken loose, / And bears all down before him.= 2 Hen. IV., i. 1.

=Contentions fierce, / Ardent, and dire, spring= 15 =from no petty cause.= Scott.

=Contentions for trifles can get but a trifling victory.= Sir P. Sidney.

=Content is better than riches.= Pr.

=Content is the true philosopher's stone.= Pr.

=Contentment, as it is a short road and pleasant, has great delight and little trouble.= Epictetus.

=Contentment consisteth not in adding more= 20 =fuel, but in taking away some fire.= Fuller.

=Contentment is natural wealth.= Socrates.

=Contentment will make a cottage look as fair as a palace.= W. Secker.

=Contentment without money is the philosopher's stone.= Lichtwer.

=Content's a kingdom, and I wear that crown.= Heywood.

=Content thyself to be obscurely good; / When= 25 =vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, / The post of honour is a private station.= Addison.

=Content with poverty, my soul I arm; / And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.= Dryden after Hor.

=Contesa vecchia tosto si fa nuova=--An old feud is easily renewed. It. Pr.

=Conticuere omnes, intentique ora tenebant=--All were at once silent and listened intent. Virg.

=Continued eloquence wearies.= Pascal.

=Contra bonos mores=--Against good morals. 30

=Contra malum mortis, non est medicamen in hortis=--Against the evil of death there is no remedy in the garden.

=Contraria contrariis curantur=--Contraries are cured by contraries.

=Contrast increases the splendour of beauty, but it disturbs its influence; it adds to its attractiveness, but diminishes its power.= Ruskin.

=Contrat social=--The social compact, specially Rousseau's theory thereof.

=Contra verbosos noli contendere verbis; /= 35 =Sermo datur cunctis, animi sapientia paucis=--Don't contend with words against wordy people; speech is given to all, wisdom to few. Cato.

=Contredire, c'est quelquefois frapper à une porte, pour savoir s'il y a quelqu'un dans la maison=--To contradict sometimes means to knock at the door in order to know whether there is any one in the house. Fr. Pr.

=Contre fortune bon cœur=--Against change of fortune set a bold heart. Fr. Pr.

=Contre les rebelles, c'est cruauté que d'estre humain et humanité d'estre cruel=--Against rebels it is cruelty to be humane, and humanity to be cruel. Corneille Muis.

=Contre-temps=--A mischance. Fr.

=Contrivances of the time / For sowing broadcast= 40 =the seeds of crime.= Longfellow.

=Contumeliam si dicis, audies=--If you utter abuse, you must expect to receive it. Plaut.

=Conversation enriches the understanding; but solitude is the school of genius.= Gibbon.

=Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint, and the poet.= Emerson.

=Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons.= A. B. Alcott.

=Conversation is an art in which a man has all= 45 =mankind for competitors.= Emerson.

=Conversation is a traffic; and if you enter into it without some stock of knowledge to balance the account perpetually, the trade drops at once.= Sterne.

=Conversation will not corrupt us if we come to the assembly in our own garb and speech, and with the energy of health to select what is ours and reject what is not.= Emerson.

=Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching.= Emerson.

=Conversion--a grand epoch for a man; properly the one epoch; the turning-point which guides upwards, or guides downwards, him and his activities for evermore.= Carlyle.

=Conversion is the awakening of a soul to see= 50 =into the awful= truth =of things; to see that Time and its shows all rest on Eternity, and this poor earth of ours is the threshold either of heaven or hell.= Carlyle.

=Convey a libel in a frown, / And wink a reputation down.= Swift.

=Convey thy love to thy friend as an arrow to the mark; not as a ball against the wall, to rebound back again.= Quarles.

=Conviction, never so excellent, is worthless till it convert itself into conduct.= Carlyle.

=Copia verborum=--Superabundance of words.

=Coraçaõ determinado, naõ soffre conselho=--He 55 brooks no advice whose mind is made up. Port. Pr.

=Coram domino rege=--Before our lord the king.

=Coram nobis=--Before the court.

=Coram non judice=--Before one who is not a judge.

=Corbies (crows) and clergy are kittle shot (hard to hit).= Sc. Pr.

=Corbies dinna pick oot corbies' een=, i.e., harm each other. Sc. Pr.

=Cordon bleu=--A skilful cook (lit. a blue ribbon). Fr.

=Cordon sanitaire=--A guard to prevent a disease spreading. Fr.

=Corn is gleaned with wind, and the soul with= 5 =chastening.= Geo. Herbert.

=Cor nobile, cor immobile=--A noble heart is an immovable heart.

=Coronat virtus cultores suos=--Virtue crowns her votaries. M.

=Corpo ben feito naõ ha mester capa=--A body that is well made needs no cloak. Port. Pr.

=Corpora lente augescunt, cito extinguuntur=--All bodies are slow in growth, rapid in decay. Tac.

=Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be= 10 =outlawed nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.= Coke.

=Corporations have neither bodies to be punished nor souls to be damned.= Thurlow.

=Corporis et fortunæ bonorum, ut initium, finis est. Omnia orta occidunt, et aucta senescunt=--The blessings of health and fortune, as they have a beginning, must also have an end. Everything rises but to fall, and grows but to decay. Sall.

=Corpo satollo non crede all' affamato=--A satisfied appetite does not believe in hunger. It. Pr.

=Corps d'armée=--A military force. Fr.

=Corps diplomatique=--The diplomatic body. Fr. 15

=Corpus Christi=--Festival in honour of the Eucharist or body of Christ.

=Corpus delicti=--The body of the offence. L.

=Corpus sine pectore=--A body without a soul. Hor.

=Correct counting keeps good friends.= Gael. Pr.

=Correction does much, but encouragement does= 20 =more.= Goethe.

=Correction is good, administered in time.= _Dan. Pr._

=Corre lontano chi non torna mai=--He runs a long way who never turns. It. Pr.

=Corrigenda=--Corrections to be made.

=Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves.= Garrick.

=Corruption is like a ball of snow, when once= 25 =set a rolling it must increase.= Colton.

=Corruptions can only be expiated by the blood of the just ascending to heaven by the steps of the scaffold.= De Tocqueville.

=Corruptio optimi pessima=--The corruption of the best is the worst. Anon.

=Corruptissima in republica plurimæ leges=--In a state in which corruption abounds laws are very numerous. Tac.

=Cor unum, via una=--One heart, one way. M.

=Corvées=--Forced labour, formerly exacted of the 30 peasantry in France. Fr.

=Cosa ben fatta è fatta due volte=--A thing well done is twice done. It. Pr.

=Cosa fatta, capo ha=--A thing which is done has a head, i.e., it is never done till completed. It. Pr.

=Cosa mala nunca muere=--A bad thing never dies. Sp. Pr.

=Così fan tutti=--So do they all. It.

=Cos ingeniorum=--A whetstone to their wit. 35

=Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, / But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy; / For the apparel oft proclaims the man.= Ham., i. 3.

=Costumbre hace ley=--Custom becomes law. _Sp. Pr._

=Could everything be done twice, it would be done better.= Ger. Pr.

=Could great men thunder / As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet; / For every pelting, petty officer / Would use his heaven for thunder; nothing but thunder.= Meas. for Meas., ii. 2.

=Could we forbear dispute and practise love, /= 40 =We should agree as angels do above.= Waller.

=Could you see every man's career in life, you would find a woman clogging him ... or cheering him and goading him.= Thackeray.

=Couleur de rose=--A flattering representation. Fr.

=Count art by gold, and it fetters the feet it once winged.= Ouida.

=Count the world not an inn but an hospital; and a place not to live in, but to die in.= Colton.

=Countries are well cultivated, not as they= 45 =are fertile, but as they are free.= Montesquieu.

=Coup de grace=--The finishing stroke. Fr.

=Coup de main=--A bold effort; a surprise.

=Coup de pied=--A kick. Fr.

=Coup de soleil=--Stroke of the sun. Fr.

=Coup d'essai=--First attempt. Fr. 50

=Coup d'état=--A sudden stroke of policy. Fr.

=Coup de théâtre=--Theatrical effect. Fr.

=Coup d'œil=--A glance of the eye; a prospect.

=Courage against misfortune, and reason against passion.= Pr.

=Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal= 55 =of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate.= Goethe.

=Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.= Emerson.

=Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in meeting it with the eyes open.= Jean Paul.

=Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause.= Plutarch.

=Courage! even sorrows, when once they are vanished, quicken the soul, as rain the valley.= Salis.

=Courage is generosity of the highest order,= 60 =for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.= Colton.

=Courage is on all hands considered an essential of high character.= Froude.

=Courage is the wisdom of manhood; foolhardiness, the folly of youth.= Pr.

=Courage mounteth with occasion.= King John, ii. 1.

=Courage never to submit or yield.= Milton.

=Courage of soul is necessary for the triumphs= 65 =of genius.= Mme. de Staël.

=Courage of the soldier awakes the courage of woman.= Emerson.

=Courage, or the degree of life, is as the degree of circulation of the blood in the arteries.= Emerson.

=Courage sans peur=--Courage without fear. Fr.

=Courage, sir, / That makes man or woman look their goodliest.= Tennyson.

=Courage, so far as it is a sign of race, is peculiarly the mark of a gentleman or a lady; but it becomes vulgar if rude or insensitive.= Ruskin.

=Courtesy costs nothing.= Pr. 5

=Courtesy is cumbersome to him that kens it not.= Sc. Pr.

=Courtesy is often sooner found in lowly sheds with smoky rafters, than in tapestry halls and courts of princes, where it first was named.= Milton.

=Courtesy itself must convert to disdain, if you come in her presence.= Much Ado, i. 1.

=Courtesy never broke one's crown.= _Gael. Pr._

=Courtesy of temper, when it is used to veil= 10 =churlishness of deed, is but a knight's girdle around the breast of a base clown.= Scott.

=Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.= Sterne.

=Coûte qu'il coûte=--Let it cost what it may. Fr.

=Cover yourself with honey and the flies will fasten on you.= Pr.

=Covetous men need money least, yet most affect it; and prodigals, who need it most, do least regard it.= Theod. Parker.

=Covetousness bursts the bag.= Pr. 15

=Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but greedy of honour and feeding on selfishness.= Chamfort.

=Covetousness is ever attended with solicitude and anxiety.= B. Franklin.

=Covetousness is rich, while modesty goes barefoot.= Phædrus.

=Covetousness, like jealousy, when it has once taken root, never leaves a man but with his life.= T. Hughes.

=Covetousness often starves other vices.= Sc. 20 Pr.

=Covetousness swells the principal to no purpose, and lessens the use to all purposes.= Jeremy Taylor.

=Covetousness, which is idolatry.= St. Paul.

=Coward dogs / Most spend their mouths when what they seem to threaten / Runs far before them.= Henry V., ii. 4.

=Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.= Epictetus.

=Cowards are cruel, but the brave / Love mercy,= 25 =and delight to save.= Gay.

=Cowards die many times before their deaths; / The valiant never taste of death but once. / Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; / Seeing that death, a necessary end, / Will come when it will come.= Jul. Cæsar, ii. 2.

=Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.= Queen Elizabeth.

=Cowards father cowards, and base things sire base; / Nature hath meal and bran, contempt and grace.= Cymb., iv. 2.

=Cowards tell lies, and those that fear the rod.= G. Herbert.

=Crabbed age and youth / Cannot live together.= 30 Shakespeare.

=Craftiness is a quality in the mind and a vice in the character.= Sanial Dubay.

=Craft maun hae claes (clothes), but truth gaes naked.= Sc. Pr.

=Crafty men contemn studies; simple men admire them; and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is wisdom without them, and above them won by observation.= Bacon.

=Craignez honte=--Fear shame. M.

=Craignez tout d'un auteur en courroux=--Fear 35 the worst from an enraged author. Fr.

=Crambe repetita=--Cabbage repeated (kills). Juv.

=Cras credemus, hodie nihil=--To-morrow we will believe, but not to-day. Pr.

=Crea el cuervo, y sacarte ha los ojos=--Breed up a crow and he will peck out your eyes. Sp. Pr.

=Creaking waggons are long in passing.= _Fris. Pr._

=Created half to rise and half to fall, / Great= 40 =lord of all things, yet a prey to all; / Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world.= Pope.

=Creation is great, and cannot be understood.= Carlyle.

=Creation lies before us like a glorious rainbow; but the sun that made it lies behind us, hidden from us.= Jean Paul.

=Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine.= Goldsmith.

=Creation sleeps! 'Tis as the general pulse / Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause, / An awful pause, prophetic of her end.= Young.

=Credat Judæus Apella=--Apella, the Jew, may 45 believe that; I cannot. Hor.

=Crede quod est quod vis=--Believe that that is which you wish to be. Ovid.

=Crede quod habes, et habes=--Believe that you have it, and you have it.

=Credit keeps the crown o' the causey=, i.e., is not afraid to show its face. Sc. Pr.

=Creditors have better memories than debtors.= Pr.

=Credo, quia absurdum=--I believe it because it is 50 absurd. Tert.

=Credula res amor est=--Love is a credulous affection. Ovid.

=Credula vitam / Spes fovet, et fore cras semper ait melius=--Credulous hope cherishes life, and ever whispers to us that to-morrow will be better. Tibull.

=Credulity is perhaps a weakness almost inseparable from eminently truthful characters.= Tuckerman.

=Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue.= Johnson.

=Creep before you gang (walk).= Sc. Pr. 55

=Crescentem sequitur cura pecuniam, / Majorumque fames=--Care accompanies increasing wealth, and a craving for still greater riches. Hor.

=Crescit amor nummi quantum ipsa pecunia crescit=--The love of money increases as wealth increases. Juv.

=Crescit occulto velut arbor ævo=--It grows as a tree with a hidden life. Hor.

=Crescit sub pondere virtus=--Virtue thrives under oppression. M.

=Cressa ne careat pulchra dies nota=--Let not a day so fair be without its white mark. Hor.

=Creta an carbone notandi?=--Are they to be marked with chalk or charcoal? Hor.

=Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.= 5 =Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens within the flower of the pleasure that concealed it.= Emerson.

=Crime cannot be hindered by punishment, but only by letting no man grow up a criminal.= Ruskin.

=Crime, like virtue, has its degrees.= Racine.

=Crimen læsæ majestatis=--Crime of high treason.

=Crimen quos inquinat, æquat=--Crime puts those on an equal footing whom it defiles.

=Crimes generally punish themselves.= Goldsmith. 10

=Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.= Hare.

=Crimina qui cernunt aliorum, non sua cernunt, / Hi sapiunt aliis, desipiuntque sibi=--Those who see the faults of others, but not their own, are wise for others and fools for themselves. Pr.

=Crimine ab uno / Disce omnes=--From the base character of one learn what they all are. Virg.

=Cripples are aye better schemers than walkers.= Sc. Pr.

=Criticism is a disinterested endeavour to learn= 15 =and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.= Matthew Arnold.

=Criticism is as often a trade as a science, requiring, as it does, more health than wit, more labour than capacity, more practice than genius.= La Bruyère.

=Criticism is like champagne, nothing more execrable if bad, nothing more excellent if good.= Colton.

=Criticism is not construction; it is observation.= G. W. Curtis.

=Criticism must never be sharpened into anatomy. The life of the imagination, as of the body, disappears when we pursue it.= Willmott.

=Criticism often takes from the tree caterpillars= 20 =and blossoms together.= Jean Paul.

=Criticism should be written for the public, not the artist.= Wm. Winter.

=Critics all are ready made.= Byron.

=Critics are men who have failed in literature and art.= Disraeli.

=Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews to challenge every new author.= Longfellow.

=Critics must excuse me if I compare them to= 25 =certain animals called asses, who, by gnawing vines, originally taught the great advantage of pruning them.= Shenstone.

=Crosses are ladders that lead to heaven.= Pr.

=Crows do not pick out crows' eyes.= Pr.

=Cruci dum spiro fido=--Whilst I breathe I trust in the cross. M.

=Crudelem medicum intemperans æger facit=--A disorderly patient makes a harsh physician. Pub. Syr.

=Crudelis ubique / Luctus, ubique pavor, et= 30 =plurima mortis imago=--Everywhere is heart-rending wail, everywhere consternation, and death in a thousand shapes. Virg.

=Cruel as death, and hungry as the grave.= Thomson.

=Cruel men are the greatest lovers of mercy; avaricious, of generosity; proud, of humility,--in others.= Colton.

=Cruelty in war buyeth conquest at the dearest price.= Sir P. Sidney.

=Cruelty is no more the cure of crimes than it is the cure of sufferings.= Landor.

=Crux criticorum=--The puzzle of critics. 35

=Crux est si metuas quod vincere nequeas=--It is torture to fear what you cannot overcome. Ausonius.

=Crux medicorum=--The puzzle of physicians.

=Cry "Havock," and let slip the dogs of war.= Jul. Cæs., iii. 1.

=Cucullus non facit monachum=--The cowl does not make the monk. Pr.

=Cudgel thy brains no more about it, for your= 40 =dull ass will not mend his pace with beating.= Ham., v. 1.

=Cui bono?=--Whom does it benefit?

=Cuidar muitas cousas, fazer huma=--Think of many things, do only one. Port. Pr.

=Cuidar naõ he saber=--Thinking is not knowing. Port. Pr.

=Cui lecta potenter erit res / Nec facundia deseret hunc nec lucidus ordo=--He who has chosen a theme suited to his powers will never be at a loss for felicitous language or lucid arrangement. Hor.

=Cuilibet in arte sua perito credendum est=--Every 45 man is to be trusted in his own art. Pr.

=Cui licitus est finis, etiam licent media=--Where the end is lawful the means are also lawful. A Jesuit maxim.

=Cui malo?=--Whom does it harm?

=Cui mens divinior atque os / Magna sonaturum des nominis hujus honorem=--To him whose soul is more than ordinarily divine, and who has the gift of uttering lofty thoughts, you may justly concede the honourable title of poet. Hor.

=Cui non conveniat sua res, ut calceus olim, / Si pede major erit, subvertet, si minor, uret=--As a shoe, when too large, is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet; so is it with him whose fortune does not suit him. Hor.

=Cui placet alterius, sua nimirum est odio sors=--When 50 a man envies another's lot, it is natural he should be discontented with his own. Hor.

=Cui placet, obliviscitur; cui dolet, meminit=--Acts of kindness are soon forgotten, but the memory of an offence remains. Pr.

=Cui prodest scelus, is fecit=--He has committed the crime who profits by it. Sen.

=Cuique suum=--His own to every one. Pr.

=Cui serpe mozzica, lucenta teme=--Whom a serpent has bitten fears a lizard. It. Pr.

=Cujus est solum, ejus est usque ad cœlum=--He 55 who owns the soil owns everything above it to the very sky. L.

=Cujus rei libet simulator atque dissimulator=--A finished pretender and dissembler. Sall.

=Cujusvis hominis est errare: nullius nisi insipientis in errore perseverare=--Every one is liable to err; none but a fool will persevere in error. Cic.

=Cujus vita fulgor, ejus verba tonitrua=--His words are thunderbolts whose life is as lightning. Mediæval Pr.

=Cujus vulturis hoc erit cadaver?=--To what harpy's will shall this carcass fall? Mart.

=Cul de sac=--A street, a lane or passage, that has no outlet. Fr.

=Culpam pœna premit comes=--Punishment follows 5 hard upon crime as an attendant. Hor.

=Cultivated labour drives out brute labour.= Emerson.

=Cultivate not only the cornfields of your mind, but the pleasure-grounds also.= Whately.

=Cultivation is as necessary to the mind as food to the body.= Cic.

=Culture, aiming at the perfection of the man as the end, degrades everything else, as health and bodily life, into means.= Emerson.

=Culture enables us to express ourselves.= 10 Hamerton.

=Culture implies all which gives the mind possession of its own powers.= Emerson.

=Culture inverts the vulgar views of nature, and brings the mind to call that apparent which it uses to call real, and that real which it uses to call visionary.= Emerson.

=Culture is a study of perfection.= _Matthew Arnold._

=Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is more) the passion for making them prevail.= Matthew Arnold.

=Culture (is the process by which a man) becomes= 15 =all that he was created capable of being, resisting all impediments, casting off all foreign, especially all noxious, adhesions, and showing himself at length in his own shape and stature, be these what they may.= Carlyle.

=Culture merely for culture's sake can never be anything but a sapless root, capable of producing at best a shrivelled branch.= J. W. Cross.

=Culture must not omit the arming of the man.= Emerson.

=Culture of the thinking, the dispositions= (Gesinnungen), =and the morals is the only education that deserves the name, not mere instruction.= Herder.

=Cum grano salis=--With a grain of salt, i.e., with some allowance.

=Cum privilegio=--With privilege. 20

=Cunctando restituit rem=--He restored the cause (of Rome) by delay. Said of Fabius, surnamed therefore Cunctator.

=Cuncti adsint, meritæque expectent præmia palmæ=--Let all attend, and expect the rewards due to well-earned laurels. Virg.

=Cunctis servatorem liberatoremque acclamantibus=--All hailing him as saviour and deliverer.

=Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.= Hazlitt.

=Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom.= W. G. 25 Alger.

=Cunning is the intensest rendering of vulgarity, absolute and utter.= Ruskin.

=Cunning is to wisdom as an ape to a man.= William Penn.

=Cunning leads to knavery; 'tis but a step, and that a very slippery, from the one to the other. Lying only makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.= La Bruyère.

=Cunning signifies especially a habit or gift of over-reaching, accompanied with enjoyment and a sense of superiority.= Ruskin.

=Cunning surpasses strength.= Ger. Pr. 30

=Cupias non placuisse nimis=--Do not aim at too much popularity. Mart.

=Cupid is a knavish lad, / Thus to make poor females mad.= Mid. N. Dream, iii. 2.

=Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's plumes.= Sir P. Sidney.

=Cupido dominandi cunctis affectibus flagrantior est=--The desire of rule is the most ardent of all the affections of the mind. Tac.

=Cupid's butt-shaft is too hard for Hercules'= 35 =club.= Love's L. Lost, i. 2.

=Curæ leves loquuntur, ingentes stupent=--Light troubles are loud-voiced, deeper ones are dumb. Sen.

=Cura facit canos=--Care brings grey hairs. Pr.

=Cura pii dis sunt, et qui coluere, coluntur=--The pious-hearted are cared for by the gods, and they who reverence them are reverenced. Ovid.

=Cura ut valeas=--Take care that you keep well. Cic.

=Curiosa felicitas=--Studied felicity of thought or 40 of style.

=Curiosis fabricavit inferos=--He fashioned hell for the inquisitive. St. Augustine.

=Curiosity is a desire to know why and how; such as is in no living creature but man.= Hobbes.

=Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.= Emerson.

=Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.= Victor Hugo.

=Curiosity is the direct incontinency of the spirit.= 45 =Knock, therefore, at the door before you enter on your neighbour's privacy; and remember that there is no difference between entering into his house and looking into it.= Jeremy Taylor.

=Curiosity is the kernel of the forbidden fruit.= Fuller.

=Curiosus nemo est, quin idem sit malevolus=--Nobody is inquisitive about you who does not also bear you ill-will. Plaut.

=Curious to think how, for every man, any the truest fact is modelled by the nature of the man.= Carlyle.

=Currente calamo=--With a running pen.

=Cursed be the social ties that warp us from= 50 =the living truth.= Tennyson.

=Curse on all laws but those which love has made.= Pope.

=Curses always recoil on the head of him who imprecates them. If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.= Emerson.

=Curses are like chickens; they always return home.= Pr.

=Curses, not loud, but deep, mouth-honour, breath, / Which the poor heart would fain deny, but dare not.= Macb., v. 3.

=Curst be the man, the poorest wretch in life, / The crouching vassal to the tyrant wife, / Who has no will but by her high permission; / Who has not sixpence but in her possession; / Who must to her his dear friend's secret tell; / Who dreads a curtain lecture worse than hell. / Were such the wife had fallen to my part, / I'd break her spirit or I'd break her heart.= Burns.

=Curst be the verse, how well soe'er it flow, / That tends to make one worthy man my foe, / Give virtue scandal, innocence a fear, / Or from the soft-ey'd virgin steal a tear.= Pope.

=Curs'd merchandise, where life is sold, / And avarice consents to starve for gold.= Rowe from Lucan.

=Custom does often reason overrule, / And only serves for reason to the fool.= Rochester.

=Custom doth make dotards of us all.= Carlyle. 5

=Custom forms us all; / Our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed belief, / Are consequences of our place of birth.= A. Hill.

=Custom is the law of one set of fools, and fashion of another; but the two often clash, for precedent is the legislator of the one and novelty of the other.= Colton.

=Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools.= Pr.

=Custom may lead a man into many errors, but it justifies none.= Fielding.

=Custom reconciles to everything.= Burke. 10

=Custos morum=--The guardian of morality.

=Custos regni=--The guardian of the realm.

=Custos rotulorum=--The keeper of the rolls.

=Cutis vulpina consuenda est cum cute leonis=--The fox's skin must be sewed to that of the lion. L. Pr.

=Cut men's throats with whisperings.= Ben 15 Jonson.

=Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin, / Unhousel'd, disappointed, unanel'd; / No reckoning made, but sent to my account / With all my imperfections on my head.= Ham., i. 5.

=Cut out the love of self, like an autumn lotus, with thy hand.= Buddha.

=Cutting honest throats by whispers.= Scott.

=Cut your coat according to your cloth.= Pr.

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=Daar niets goeds in is, gaat niets goeds nit=--Where 20 no good is in, no good comes out. Dut. Pr.

=Daar 't een mensch wee doet, daar heeft hij de hand=--A man lays his hand where he feels the pain. Dut. Pr.

=Daar twee kijven hebben ze beiden schuld=--When two quarrel both are to blame. Dut. Pr.

=Daar zijn meer dieven als er opgehangen worden=--There are more thieves than are hanged. Dut. Pr.

=Dabit Deus his quoque finem=--God will put an end to these calamities also. Virg.

=Da capo=--From the beginning. It. 25

=D'accord=--Agreed; in tune. Fr.

=Da chi mi fido, / Guardi mi Dio. / Da chi non mi fido, / Mi guarderò io=--From him I trust may God keep me; from him I do not trust I will keep myself. It. Pr.

=Dachtet ihr, der Löwe schliefe, weil er nicht brüllte?=--Did you think the lion was sleeping because it did not roar? Schiller.

=Da die Götter menschlicher noch waren, / Waren Menschen göttlicher=--When the gods were more human, men were more divine. Schiller.

=Dádivas quebrantan peñas=--Gifts dissolve rocks. 30 Sp. Pr.

=Da du Welt nicht kannst entsagen, / Erobre dir sie mit Gewalt=--Where thou canst not renounce the world, subdue it under thee by force. Platen.

=Dafür bin ich ein Mann, dass sich aushalte in dem was ich begonnen, dass ich einstehe mit Leib und Leben für das Trachten meines Geistes=--For this end am I a man, that I should persevere steadfastly in what I have began, and answer with my life for the aspiration of my spirit. Laube.

=Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book.= Goethe.

[Greek: daitos eïsês]--An equal diet. Hom.

[Greek: Dakry' adakrya]--Tearless tears. Eurip. 35

=Dal detto al fatto v'è un gran tratto=--From saying to doing is a long stride. It. Pr.

=Da locum melioribus=--Make way for your betters. Ter.

=Dame donde me asiente, que yo me haré donde me acueste=--Give where I may sit down, and I will make where I may lie down. Sp. Pr.

=Dames quêteuses=--Ladies who collect for the poor. Fr.

=Dämmerung ist Menschenlos in jeder Beziehung=--Twilight 40 (of dawn) is the lot of man in every relation. Feuchtersleben.

=Damna minus consueta movent=--Losses we are accustomed to, affect us little. Juv.

=Damnant quod non intelligunt=--They condemn what they do not understand. Quinct.

=Damn'd neuters, in their middle way of steering, / Are neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red-herring.= Dryden.

=Damnosa hæreditas=--An inheritance which entails loss. L.

=Damnosa quid non imminuit dies?=--What is 45 there that corroding time does not impair? Hor.

=Damnum absque injuria=--Loss without injustice. L.

=Damnum appellandum est cum mala fama lucrum=--Gain at the expense of credit must be set down as loss. Pr.

=Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, / And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer. / Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike; / Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike.= Pope.

=Danari fanno danari=--Money breeds money. It. Pr.

=Dance attendance on their lordships' pleasure.= 50 Hen. VIII., v. 2.

=Dan Chaucer, well of English undefiled, / On Fame's eternal bead-roll worthy to be filed.= Spenser.

=Dandies, when first-rate, are generally very agreeable men.= Bulwer Lytton.

=Danger for danger's sake is senseless.= _Victor Hugo._

=Danger is the very basis of superstition. It produces a searching after help supernaturally when human means are no longer supposed to be available.= B. R. Haydon.

=Danger levels man and brute, / And all are fellows in their need.= Byron.

=Danger past, God forgotten.= Pr. 5

=Dannosa è il dono che toglie la libertà=--Injurious is the gift that takes away our liberty. It. Pr.

=Dans l'adversité de nos meilleurs amis, nous trouvons toujours quelque chose qui ne nous déplait pas=--In the misfortune of our best friends we find always something which does not displease us. La Roche.

=Dans la morale, comme l'art, dire n'est rien, faire est tout=--In morals as in art, talking is nothing, doing is all. Renan.

=Dans l'art d'intéresser consiste l'art d'écrire=--The art of writing consists in the art of interesting. Fr.

=Dans le nombre de quarante ne fait-il pas un= 10 =zéro?=--In the number forty is there not bound to be a cipher? Fr.

=Dans les conseils d'un état, il ne faut pas tant regarder ce qu'on doit faire, que ce qu'on peut faire=--In the councils of a state, the question is not so much what ought to be done, as what can be done. Fr.

=Dante was very bad company, and was never invited to dinner.= Emerson.

=Dante, who loved well because he hated, / Hated wickedness that hinders loving.= Browning.

=Dantur opes nulli nunc nisi divitibus=--Wealth now-a-days goes all to the rich. Mart.

=Dapes inemptæ=--Dainties unbought, i.e., home 15 produce. Hor.

=Dapibus supremi / Grata testudo Jovis=--The shell (lyre) a welcome accompaniment at the banquets of sovereign Jove. Hor.

=Dare pondus idonea fumo=--Fit only to give importance to trifles (lit. give weight to smoke). Pr.

=Dare to be true, nothing can need a lie; / A fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.= George Herbert.

=Daring nonsense seldom fails to hit, / Like scattered shot, and pass with some for wit.= Butler.

=Darkness visible.= Milton. 20

=Darkness which may be felt.= Bible.

=Dark night, that from the eye his function takes, / The ear more quick of apprehension makes.= Mid. N. Dream, iii. 2.

=Dark with excessive bright.= Milton.

=Das Alte stürzt, es ändert sich die Zeit, / Und neues Leben blüht aus den Ruinen=--The old falls, the time changes, and new life blossoms out of the ruins. Schiller.

=Das Alter der göttlichen Phantasie / Es= 25 =ist verschwunden, es kehret nie=--The age of divine fantasy is gone, never to return. Schiller.

=Das Alter wägt, die Jugend wagt=--Age considers, youth ventures. Raupach.

=Das arme Herz, hienieden / Von manchem Sturm bewegt, / Erlangt den wahren Frieden, / Nur, wo es nicht mehr schlägt=--The poor heart, agitated on earth by many a storm, attains true peace only when it ceases to beat. Salis-Seewis.

=Das Auge des Herrn schafft mehr als seine beiden Hände=--The master's eye does more than both his hands. Ger. Pr.

=Das begreife ein andrer als ich!=--Let another try to understand that; I cannot. A. Lortzing.

=Das Beste, was wir von der Geschichte haben,= 30 =ist der Enthusiasmus, den sie erregt=--The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm which it excites. Goethe.

=Das Edle zu erkennen ist Gewinnst / Der nimmer uns entrissen werden kann=--The ability to appreciate what is noble is a gain which no one can ever take from us. Goethe.

=Das einfach Schöne soll der Kenner schätzen; / Verziertes aber spricht der Menge zu=--The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people are satisfied with ornament. Goethe.

=Das Erste und Letzte, was vom Genie gefordert wird, ist Wahrheitsliebe=--The first and last thing which is required of genius is love of truth. Goethe.

=Das Geeinte zu entzweien, das Entzweite zu einigen, ist das Leben der Natur=--Dividing the united, uniting the divided, is the life of Nature. Goethe.

=Das Geheimniss ist für die Glücklichen=--Mystery 35 is for the favoured of fortune. Schiller.

=Das Genie erfindet, der Witz findet bloss=--Genius invents, wit merely finds. Weber.

=Das Gesetz ist der Freund des Schwachen=--Law is the protector of the weak. Schiller.

=Das Gesetz nur kann uns Freiheit geben=--Only law can give us freedom. Goethe.

=Das Gewebe dieser Welt ist aus Nothwendigkeit und Zufall gebildet; die Vernunft des Menschen stellt sich zwischen beide, und weiss sie zu beherrschen=--The web of this world is woven out of necessity and contingency; the reason of man places itself between the two, and knows how to control them. Goethe.

=Das glaub' ich=--That is exactly my opinion. 40 Ger. Pr.

=Das Glück deiner Tage / Wäge nicht mit der Goldwage. / Wirst du die Krämerwage nehmen, / So wirst du dich schämen und dich bequemen=--Weigh not the happiness of thy days with goldsmith's scales. Shouldst thou take the merchant's, thou shalt feel ashamed and adapt thyself. Goethe.

=Das Glück giebt Vielen zu viel, aber Keinem genug=--Fortune gives to many too much, but to no one enough. Ger. Pr.

=Das glücklichste Wort es wird verhöhnt, / Wenn der Hörer ein Schiefohr ist=--The happiest word is scorned, if the hearer has a twisted ear. Goethe.

=Das grosse unzerstörbare Wunder ist der Menschenglaube an Wunder=--The great indestructible miracle is man's faith in miracle. Jean Paul.

=Das Grösste, was dem Menschen begegnen= 45 =kann, ist es wohl, in der eigenen Sache die allgemeine zu vertheitigen=--The noblest function, I should say, that can fall to man is to vindicate all men's interests in vindicating his own. Ranke.

=Das hat die Freude mit dem Schmerz gemein, / Dass sie die Menschen der Vernunft beraubt=--Joy has this in common with pain, that it bereaves man of reason. Platen.

=Das Heiligste, die Pflicht, ist leider das, was wir am öftersten in uns bekämpfen und meistens wider Willen thun=--Duty, alas! which is the most sacred instinct in our nature, is that which we most frequently struggle with in ourselves, and generally do against our will. R. Gutzkow.

=Das Herz gleicht dem Mühlsteine der Mehl gibt, wenn man Korn aufshüttet, aber sich selbst zerreibt, wenn man es unterlasst=--The heart is like a millstone, which yields meal if you supply it with grain, but frets itself away if you neglect to do so. Weber.

=Das Herz und nicht die Meinung ehrt den Mann=--It is his heart, and not his opinion, that is an honour to a man. Schiller.

=Das höchste Glück ist das, welches unsere= 5 =Mängel verbessert und unsere Fehler ausgleicht=--The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings. Goethe.

=Das Hohngelächter der Hölle=--The scoffing laughter of Hell. Lessing.

=Das Ideal in der Kunst, Grösse in Ruhe darzustellen, sei das Ideal auf dem Throne=--Let the ideal in art, the representation of majesty in repose, be the ideal on the throne. Jean Paul.

=Das ist die wahre Liebe, die immer und immer sich gleich bleibt, / Wenn man ihr alles gewährt, wenn man ihr alles versagt=--That is true love which is ever the same (lit. equal to itself), whether everything is conceded to it or everything denied. Goethe.

=Das Jahrhundert / Ist meinem Ideal nicht reif. Ich lebe / Ein Bürge derer, welche kommen werden=--The century is not ripe for my ideal; I live as an earnest of those that are to come. Schiller.

=Das Kind mit dem Bade verschütten=--To throw 10 away the child with the bath, i.e., the good with the bad. Ger. Pr.

=Das Kleine in einen grossen Sinne behandeln, ist Hoheit des Geistes; das Kleine für gross und wichtig halten, ist Pedantismus=--To treat the little in a large sense is elevation of spirit; to treat the little as great and important is pedantry. Feuchersleben.

=Das Leben dünkt ein ew'ger Frühling mir=--Life seems to me an eternal spring. Lortzing.

=Das Leben eines Staates ist, wie ein Strom, in fortgehender Bewegung; wenn der Strom steht, so wird er Eis oder Sumpf=--The life of a state, like a stream, lies in its onward movement; if the stream stagnates, it is because it is frozen or a marsh. J. v. Müller.

=Das Leben gehört den Lebendigen an, und wer lebt, muss auf Wechsel gefasst sein=--Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes. Goethe.

=Das Leben heisst Streben=--Life is a striving. 15 Ger. Pr.

=Das Leben ist die Liebe / Und des Lebens Leben Geist=--Life is love, and the life of life, spirit. Goethe.

=Das Leben ist nur ein Moment, der Tod ist auch nur einer=--Life is but a moment, death also is but another. Schiller.

=Das Leben lehrt uns, weniger mit uns / Und andern strenge sein=--Life teaches us to be less severe both with ourselves and others. Goethe.

=Das Nächste das Liebste=--The nearest is the dearest. Ger. Pr.

=Das Nächste steht oft unergreifbar fern=--What 20 is nearest is often unattainably far off. Goethe.

=Da spatium tenuemque moram; male cuncta, ministrat / Impetus=--Allow time and slight delay; haste and violence ruin everything. Stat.

=Das Publikum, das ist ein Mann / Der alles weiss und gar nichts kann=--The public is a personage who knows everything and can do nothing. L. Roberts.

=Das Recht hat eine wächserne Nase=--Justice has a nose of wax. Ger. Pr.

=Das Reich der Dichtung ist das Reich der Wahrheit / Schliesst auf das Heiligthum, es werde Licht=--The kingdom of poetry is the kingdom of truth; open the sanctuary and there is light. A. v. Chamisso.

=Das Schicksal ist ein vornehmer aber theurer= 25 =Hofmeister=--Fate is a distinguished but expensive pedagogue. Goethe.

=Das schönste Glück des denkenden Menschen ist, das Erforschliche erforscht zu haben, und das Unerforschliche ruhig zu verehren=--The fairest fortune that can fall to a thinking man is to have searched out the searchable, and restfully to adore the unsearchable. Goethe.

=Das schwere Herz wird nicht durch Worte leicht=--Words bring no relief to a saddened heart. Schiller.

=Das Schwerste in allen Werken der Kunst ist dass dasjenige, was sehr ausgearbeitet worden, nicht ausgearbeitet scheine=--The most difficult thing in all works of art is to make that which has been most highly elaborated appear as if it had not been elaborated at all. Winkelmann.

=Das Siegel der Wahrheit ist Einfachheit=--The seal of truth is simplicity. Boerhave.

=Das sind die Weisen, / Die durch Irrtum zur= 30 =Wahrheit reisen; / Die bei dem Irrtum verharren, / Das sind die Narren=--Those are wise who through error press on to truth; those are fools who hold fast by error. Rückert.

=Das Sprichwort sagt: Ein eigner Herd, / Ein braves Weib sind Gold und Perlen wert=--A proverb says: A hearth of one's own and a good wife are worth gold and pearls. Goethe.

=Das Talent arbeitet, das Genie schafft=--Talent works, genius creates. Schumann.

=Das Unglück kann die Weisheit nicht, Doch Weisheit kann das Unglück tragen=--Misfortune cannot endure wisdom, but wisdom can endure misfortune. Bodenstedt.

=Das Universum ist ein Gedanke Gottes=--The universe is a thought of God. Schiller.

=Das Unvermeidliche mit Würde trage=--Bear 35 the inevitable with dignity. Streckfuss.

=Das Vaterland der Gedanken ist das Herz: an dieser Quelle muss schöpfen, wer frisch trinken will=--The native soil of our thoughts is the heart; whoso will have his fresh must draw from this spring. Börne.

=Das Verhängte muss geschehen, / Das Gefürchte muss nahn=--The fated must happen; the feared must draw near. Schiller.

=Das Volk ist frei; seht an, wie wohl's ihm geht!=--The people are free, and see how well they enjoy it. Mephisto, in "Faust."

=Das Volk schätzt Stärke vor allem=--The people rate strength before everything. Goethe.

=Das Vortreffliche ist unergründlich, man mag damit anfangen was man will=--What is excellent cannot be fathomed, probe it as and where we will. Goethe.

=Das Wahre ist gottähnlich; es erscheint nicht unmittelbar, wir müssen es ans seinen Manifestationen errathen=--Truth is like God; it reveals itself not directly; we must divine it out of its manifestations. Goethe.

=Das Warum wird offenbar, / Wann die Toten aufersteh'n=--We shall know the wherefore when the dead rise again. Müllner.

=Das was mir wichtig scheint, hältst du für= 5 =Kleinigkeiten; / Das was mich ärgert hat bei dir nichts zu bedeuten=--What is to me important you regard as a trifle, and what puts me out has with you no significance. Goethe.

=Das Weib sieht tief, der Mann sieht weit. Dem Manne ist die Welt das Herz, dem Weibe ist das Herz die Welt=--The woman's vision is deep reaching, the man's far reaching. With the man the world is his heart, with the woman her heart is her world. Grabbe.

=Das Wenige verschwindet leicht dem Blick, / Der vorwärts sieht, wie viel noch übrig bleibt=--The little (achieved) is soon forgotten by him who looks before him and sees how much still remains to be done. Goethe.

=Das Werk lobt den Meister=--The work praises the artist. Ger. Pr.

=Das Wort ist frei, die That ist stumm, der Gehorsam blind=--The word is free, action dumb, obedience blind. Schiller.

=Das Wunder ist des Glaubens liebstes Kind=--Miracle 10 is the pet child of faith. Goethe.

=Data fata secutus=--Following what is decreed by fate. M.

=Dat Deus immiti cornua curta bovi=--God gives the vicious ox short horns. Pr.

=Dà tempo al tempo=--Give time to time. _It. Pr._

=Date obolum Belisario=--Give a mite to Belisarius!

=Dat Galenus opes, dat Justinianus honores /= 15 =Sed Moses sacco cogitar ire pedes=--Galen gives wealth, Justinian honours, but Moses must go afoot with a beggar's wallet.

=Dat inania verba, / Dat sine mente sonum=--He utters empty words; he utters sound without meaning. Virg.

=Dat veniam corvis, vexat censura columbas=--He pardons the ravens, but visits with censure the doves. Juv.

=Daub yourself with honey, and you'll be covered with flies.= Pr.

=Dauer im Wechsel=--Persistence in change. Goethe.

=Da veniam lacrymis=--Forgive these tears. 20

=Da ventura a tu hijo, y echa lo en el mar=--Give your son luck and then throw him into the sea. Sp. Pr.

=Davus sum, non Œdipus=--I am a plain man, and no Œdipus (who solved the riddle of the Sphinx). Ter.

=Dawted dochters mak' dawly wives=, i.e. petted daughters make slovenly wives. Sc. Pr.

=Day follows the murkiest night; and when the time comes, the latest fruits also ripen.= Schiller.

=Day is driven on by day, and the new moons= 25 =hasten to their wane.= Smart, from Hor.

=Daylight will come, though the cock does not crow.= Dan. Pr.

=Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.= Bible.

=De adel der ziel is meer waardig dan de adel des geslachts=--Nobility of soul is more honourable than nobility by birth. Dut. Pr.

=Dead men open living men's eyes.= Sp. Pr.

=Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection.= 30 Byron.

=De alieno largitor, et sui restrictor=--Lavish of what is another's, tenacious of his own. Cic.

=Deal mildly with his youth; / For young hot colts, being raged, do rage the more.= Rich. II., ii. 1.

=Deal so plainly with man and woman as to constrain the utmost sincerity and destroy all hope of trifling with you.= Emerson.

=Dear is cheap, and cheap is dear.= Port. Pr.

=Dear son of memory, great heir of fame.= 35 Milton on Shakespeare.

=Death and life are in the power of the tongue.= Bible.

=Death-bed repentance is sowing seed at Martinmas.= Gael. Pr.

=Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.= Bp. Hall.

=Death but supplies the oil for the inextinguishable lamp of life.= Coleridge.

=Death comes equally to us all, and makes us= 40 =all equal when it comes.= Donne.

=Death finds us 'mid our playthings--snatches us, / As a cross nurse might do a wayward child. / From all our toys and baubles.= Old Play.

=Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.= Jean Paul.

=Death is a black camel that kneels at every man's door.= Turk. Pr.

=Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man eternity is seen looking through time.= Goethe.

=Death is a fearful thing.= Meas. for Meas., 45 iii. 1.

=Death is a friend of ours, and he who is not ready to entertain him is not at home.= Bacon.

=Death is but another phasis of life, which also is awful, fearful, and wonderful, reaching to heaven and hell.= Carlyle.

=Death is but a word to us. Our own experience alone can teach us the real meaning of the word.= W. v. Humboldt.

=Death is but what the haughty brave, / The weak must bear, the wretch must crave.= Byron.

=Death is sure / To those that stay and those= 50 =that roam.= Tennyson.

=Death is the only physician, the shadow of his valley the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering fatigue of years.= George Eliot.

=Death is the quiet haven of us all.= Wordsworth.

=Death is the tyrant of the imagination.= _Barry Cornwall._

=Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.= Sen.

=Death joins us to the great majority; / 'Tis to be borne to Platos and to Cæsars; / 'Tis to be great for ever; / 'Tis pleasure, 'tis ambition, then, to die.= Young.

=Death lays his icy hand on kings.= Shirley.

=Death levels all distinctions.=

=Death lies on her, like an untimely frost, / Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.= Rom. and Jul., iv. 5.

=Death may expiate faults, but it does not= 5 =repair them.= Napoleon.

=Death opens the gate of fame, and shuts the gate of envy after it.= Sterne, after Bacon.

=Death pays all debts.= Pr.

=Death puts an end to all rivalship and competition. The dead can boast no advantage over us, nor can we triumph over them.= Hazlitt.

=Death rides in every passing breeze, / He lurks in every flower.= Heber.

=Death's but a path that must be trod, / If= 10 =man would ever pass to God.= Parnell.

=Death shuns the wretch who fain the blow would meet.= Byron.

=Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, / And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.= Byron.

=Death stands behind the young man's back, before the old man's face.= T. Adams.

=Death treads in pleasure's footsteps round the world.= Young.

=Death will have his day.= Rich. II., iii. 2. 15

=De auditu=--By hearsay.

=Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine; the former angular, the latter circular and radiant of the underlying unity.= A. B. Alcott.

=De beste zaak heeft nog een goed' advocaat noodig=--The best cause has need of a good pleader. Dut. Pr.

=Debetis velle quæ velimus=--You ought to wish as we wish. Plaut.

=De bonne grâce=--With good grace; willingly. 20 Fr.

=De bonne lutte=--By fair means. Fr.

=De bon vouloir servir le roy=--To serve the king with good-will. M.

=Debt is the worst kind of poverty.= Pr.

=Debt is to a man what the serpent is to the bird; its eye fascinates, its breath poisons, its coil crushes both sinew and bone; its jaw is the pitiless grave.= Bulwer Lytton.

=Debts make the cheeks black.= Arab. Pr. 25

=De calceo sollicitus, at pedem nihil curans=--Anxious about the shoe, but careless about the foot. L. Pr.

=Deceit and falsehood, whatever conveniences they may for a time promise or produce, are, in the sum of life, obstacles to happiness.= Johnson.

=Deceit is a game played only by small minds.= Corneille.

=Decency is the least of all laws, yet it is the one which is the most strictly observed.= La Roche.

=Deceptio visus=--Optical illusion. 30

=Decet affectus animi neque se nimium erigere nec subjicere serviliter=--We ought to allow the affections of the mind to be neither too much elated nor abjectly depressed. Cic.

=Decet imperatorem stantem mori=--An emperor ought to die at his post (lit. standing). Vespasian.

=Decet patriam nobis cariorem esse quam nosmetipsos=--Our country ought to be dearer to us than ourselves. Cic.

=Decet verecundum esse adolescentem=--It becomes a young man to be modest. Plaut.

=Decies repetita placebit=--Ten times repeated, it 35 will still please. Hor.

=Decipimur specie recti=--We are deceived by the semblance of rectitude. Hor.

=Decipit / Frons prima multos=--First appearances deceive many.

=Decision and perseverance are the noblest qualities of man.= Goethe.

=Declaring the end from the beginning, and from the ancient times the things that are not yet done.= Bible.

=Decori decus addit avito=--He adds honour to 40 the honour of his ancestors. M.

=Decorum ab honesto non potest separari=--Propriety cannot be sundered from what is honourable. Cic.

=De court plaisir, long repentir=--A short pleasure, a long penance. Fr.

=Decrevi=--I have decreed. M.

=Decus et tutamen=--An honour and defence. M.

=Dedecet philosophum abjicere animum=--It does 45 not beseem a philosopher to be dejected. Cic.

=De die in diem=--From day to day.

=Dedimus potestatem=--We have given power. L.

=Dediscit animus sero quod didicit diu=--The mind is slow in unlearning what it has been long learning. Sen.

=Deeds survive the doers.= Horace Mann.

=Deep calleth unto deep.= Bible. 50

=Deep insight will always, like Nature, ultimate its thought in a thing.= Emerson.

=Deep in the frozen regions of the north, / A goddess violated brought thee forth, / Immortal liberty.= Smollett.

=Deep on his front engraven / Deliberation sat, and public care.= Milton.

=Deep subtle wits, / In truth, are master spirits in the world.= Joanna Baillie.

=Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep 55 silence.= Alfieri.

=Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself.= Milton.

=De ezels dragen de haver, en de paarden eten die=--Asses fetch the oats and horses eat them. Dut. Pr.

=De facto=--In point of fact.

=Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.= Ward Beecher.

=Defeat is nothing but education, nothing but 60 the first step to something better.= Wendell Phillips.

=Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perception.= Emerson.

=Defectio virium adolescentiæ vitiis efficitur sæpius quam senectutis=--Loss of strength is more frequently due to the faults of youth than of old age. Cic.

=Defendit numerus junctæque umbone phalanges=--Their numbers protect them and their compact array. Juv.

=Defend me, common sense, say I, / From reveries so airy, from the toil / Of dropping buckets into empty wells, / And growing old with drawing nothing up.= Cowper.

=Defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.= Maréchal Villars.

=Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments.= Shenstone.

=Defer no time; / Delays have dangerous ends.= 1 Henry VI., iii. 2.

=Defer not the least virtue; life's poor span /= 5 =Make not an ell, by trifling in thy woe. / If thou do ill, the joy fades, not the pains; / If well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains.= George Herbert.

=Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, / To-morrow's sun to thee may never rise.= Congreve.

=Deficiunt vires=--Ability is wanting.

=Defienda me Dios de my=--God defend me from myself. Sp. Pr.

=Definition of words has been commonly called a mere exercise of grammarians; but when we come to consider the innumerable evils men have inflicted on each other from mistaking the meaning of words, the exercise of definition certainly begins to assume rather a more dignified aspect.= Sydney Smith.

=Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time /= 10 =Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, / And that so lamely and unfashionable, / That dogs bark at me as I halt by them.= Rich. III., i. 1.

=Deformity is daring; it is its essence to overtake mankind by heart and soul, and make itself the equal, ay, the superior of the rest.= Byron.

=De fumo in flammam=--Out of the frying-pan into the fire. Pr.

=Dégagé=--Free and unrestrained. Fr.

=De gaieté de cœur=--In gaiety of heart; sportively; wantonly. Fr.

=Degeneres animos timor arguit=--Fear is proof 15 of a low-born soul. Virg.

=Degli uomini si può dire questo generalmente che sieno ingrate, volubili simulatori, fuggitori pericoli, cupidi di guadagno=--Of mankind we may say in general that they are ungrateful, fickle, hypocritical, intent on a whole skin and greedy of gain. Machiavelli.

=Degrees infinite of lustre there must always be, but the weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him, and which, worthily used, will be a gift also to his race for ever.= Ruskin.

=De gustibus non disputandum=--There is no disputing about tastes.

=De hambre a nadie vi morir, de mucho comer a cien mil=--I never saw a man die of hunger, but thousands die of overfeeding. Sp. Pr.

=De haute lutte=--By main force. Fr. 20

=De hoc multi multa, omnes aliquid, nemo satis=--Of this many have said many things, all something, no one enough.

=Dei gratia=--By the grace of God.

=Dei jussu non unquam credita Teneris=--Fated she (i.e., Cassandra) never to be believed by her Trojan countrymen. Virg.

=Deil stick pride, for my dog deed o'd.= _Sc. Pr._

=Deil tak' the hin'most! on they drive, / Till= 25 =a' their weel-swall'd kytes belyve / Are bent like drums, / And auld guid man maist like to rive / "Bethankit" hums.= Burns.

=Dein Auge kann die Welt trüb' oder hell dir machen; / Wie du sie ansiehst, wird sie weinen oder lachen=--Thy eye can make the world dark or bright for thee; as thou look'st on it, it will weep or laugh. Rückert.

=De industria=--Purposely.

=De integro=--Over again; anew.

[Greek: Dei pherein ta tôn theôn]--We must bear what the gods lay on us.

=Dei plena sunt omnia=--All things are full of God. 30 Cic.

=Déjeûner à la fourchette=--A meat breakfast. Fr.

=De jure=--By right.

=De kleine dieven hangt men, de groote laat men loopen=--We hang little thieves and let great ones off. Dut. Pr.

=Del agua mansa me libre Dios; que de la recia me guardaré yo=--From smooth water God guard me; from rough, I can guard myself. Sp. Pr.

=De lana caprina=--About goat's wool, i.e., a worthless 35 matter.

=Delay has always been injurious to those who are ready.= Lucan.

=Delay in vengeance gives a heavier blow.= _J. Ford._

=Delay of justice is injustice.= Landor.

=Delectando pariterque monendo=--By pleasing as well as instructing. Hor.

=Delenda est Carthago=--Carthage must be destroyed. 40 Cato Major.

=Del giudizio, ognun ne vende=--Of judgment every one has some to sell. It. Pr.

=Deliberando sæpe perit occasio=--An opportunity is often lost through deliberation. Pub. Syr.

=Deliberandum est diu quod statuendum est semel=--We must take time for deliberation, where we have to determine once for all. Pub. Syr.

=Deliberate treachery entails punishment upon the traitor.= Junius.

=Deliberate with caution, but act with decision;= 45 =and yield with graciousness or oppose with firmness.= Colton.

=Deliberat Roma, perit Saguntum=--While Rome deliberates, Saguntum perishes. Pr.

=Delicacy is to the affections what grace is to the beauty.= Degerando.

=Delicacy of taste has the same effect as delicacy of passion; it enlarges the sphere both of our happiness and misery, and makes us sensible to pain as well as pleasures, which escape the rest of mankind.= Hume.

=Deliciæ illepidæ atque inelegantes=--Unmannerly and inelegant pleasures. Catull.

=Deligas tantum quem diligas=--Choose only him 50 whom you love.

=Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, / To teach the young idea how to shoot.= Thomson.

=Deliramenta doctrinæ=--The crazy absurdities of learned men. L.

=Delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi=--Whatsoever devilry kings do, the Greeks must pay the piper. Hor.

=Deliriums are dreams not rounded with a sleep.= Jean Paul.

=Deliverer, God hath appointed thee to free the oppressed and crush the oppressor.= Bryant.

=Dell' albero non si giudica dalla scorza=--You can't judge of a tree by its bark. It. Pr.

=De loin c'est quelque chose, et de près ce n'est rien=--At a distance it is something, at hand nothing. La Fontaine.

=Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus aprum=--He 5 paints a porpoise in the woods, a boar amidst the waves. Hor.

=De lunatico inquirendo=--To inquire into a man's state of mind.

=Delusion and weakness produce not one mischief the less because they are universal.= Burke.

=Delusion may triumph, but the triumphs of delusion are but for a day.= Macaulay.

=Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.= Bovee.

=Delusive ideas are the motives of the greatest= 10 =part of mankind, and a heated imagination the power by which their actions are incited. The world in the eye of a philosopher may be said to be a large madhouse.= Mackenzie.

=Del vero s'adira l'uomo=--It is the truth that irritates a man. It. Pr.

=De mal en pis=--From bad to worse. Fr.

=De male quæsitis vix gaudet tertius hæres=--A third heir seldom enjoys what it dishonestly acquired. Juv.

=Demean thyself more warily in thy study than in the street. If thy public actions have a hundred witnesses, thy private have a thousand.= Quarles.

=De medietate linguæ=--Of a moiety of languages, 15 i.e., foreign jurymen. L.

=Dem Esel träumet von Disteln=--When the ass dreams, it is of thistles. Ger. Pr.

=Dem Glücklichen schlägt keine Stunde=--When a man is happy he does not hear the clock strike. Ger. Pr.

=Dem harten Muss bequemt sich Will' und Grille=--To hard necessity one's will and fancy (must) conform. Goethe.

=Dem Herlichsten, was auch der Geist empfangen, drängt Stoff sich an=--Matter presses heavily on the noblest efforts of the spirit. Goethe, in "Faust."

=Dem Hunde, wenn er gut gezogen / Wird= 20 =selbst ein weiser Mann gewogen=--Even a wise man will attach himself to the dog when he is well bred. Goethe.

=De minimis non curat lex=--The law takes no notice of trifles. L.

=Dem Menschen ist / Ein Mensch noch immer lieber als ein Engel=--A man is ever dearer to man than an angel. Lessing.

=Democracies are prone to war, and war consumes them.= W. H. Seward.

=Democracy has done a wrong to everything that is not first-rate.= Amiel.

=Democracy is always the work of kings.= 25 =Ashes, which in themselves are sterile, fertilise the land they are cast upon.= Landor.

=Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-cancelling business, and gives in the long-run a net result of zero.= Carlyle.

=Democracy is the healthful life-blood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.= Coleridge.

=Democracy is the most powerful solvent of military organisation. The latter is founded on discipline; the former on the negation of discipline.= Renan.

=De monte alto=--From a lofty mountain. M.

=De mortuis nil nisi bonum= (or =bene=)--Let nothing 30 be said of the dead but what is favourable.

=De motu proprio=--From the suggestion of one's own mind; spontaneously.

=Dem thätigen Menschen kommt es darauf an, dass er das Rechte thue; ob das Rechte geschehe, soll ihn nicht kümmern=--With the man of action the chief concern is that he do the right thing; the success of that ought not to trouble him. Goethe.

=Den Bösen sind sie los; die Bösen sind geblieben=--They are rid of the Wicked One, (but) the wicked are still there. Goethe.

=De nihilo nihil, in nihilum nil posse reverti=--From nothing is nothing, and nothing can be reduced to nothing.

=Denique non omnes eadem mirantur amantque=--All 35 men do not admire and love the same things. Hor.

=Den Irrthum zu bekennen, schändet nicht=--It is no disgrace to acknowledge an error. R. Gutzkov.

=Denken und Thun, Thun und Denken, das ist die Summe aller Weisheit von jeher anerkannt, von jeher geübt, nicht eingesehen von einem jeden=--To think and act, to act and think, this is the sum of all the wisdom that has from the first been acknowledged and practised, though not understood by every one, i.e., (as added) the one must continually act and react on the other, like exhaling and inhaling, must correspond as question and answer. Goethe.

=Denke nur niemand, dass man auf ihn als den Heiland gewartet habe=--Let no one imagine that he is the man the world has been waiting for as its deliverer. Goethe.

=Den leeren Schlauch bläst der Wind auf, / Den leeren Kopf der Dünkel=--The empty bag is blown up with wind, the empty head with self-conceit. Claudius.

=Den Mantel nach dem Winde kehren=--To trim 40 one's sails (lit. to turn one's cloak) to the wind. Ger. Pr.

=Den Menschen Liebe, den Göttern Ehrfurcht=--To men, affection; to gods, reverence. Grillparzer.

=Denn geschwätzig sind die Zeiten, / Und sie sind auch wieder stumm=--For the times are babbly, and then again the times are dumb. Goethe.

=De non apparentibus, et non existentibus, eadem est ratio=--Things which do not appear are to be treated as the same as those which do not exist. Coke.

=De novo=--Anew.

=Den Profit som kom seent, er bedre end aldeles= 45 =ingen=--The profit which comes late is better than none at all. E. H. Vessel.

=Den rechten Weg wirst nie vermissen, / Handle nur nach Gefühl und Gewissen=--Wilt thou never miss the right way, thou hast only to act according to thy feeling and conscience. Goethe.

=Den schlecten Mann muss man verachten / Der nie bedacht was er vollbringt=--We must spurn him as a worthless man who never applies his brains to what he is working at. Schiller.

=Dens theonina=--A calumniating disposition (lit. tooth).

=Deo adjuvante non timendum=--God assisting, there is nothing to be feared.

=Deoch an doris=--The parting cup. Gael.

=Deo dante nil nocet invidia, et non dante, nil= 5 =proficit labor=--When God gives, envy injures us not; when He does not give, labour avails not.

=Deo date=--Give unto God. M.

=Deo duce, ferro comitante=--God my guide, my sword my companion. M.

=Deo duce, fortuna comitante=--God for guide, fortune for companion. M.

=Deo ducente=--God guiding. M.

=Deo favente=--With God's favour. 10

=Deo fidelis et regi=--Faithful to God and the king. M.

=Deo gratias=--Thanks to God.

=Deo honor et gloria=--To God the honour and glory. M.

=Deo ignoto=--To the unknown God.

=Deo juvante=--With God's help. 15

=De omnibus rebus, et quibusdam aliis=--About everything, and certain things else.

=De omni re scibile et quibusdam aliis=--On everything knowable and some other matters.

=Deo, non fortuna=--From God, not fortune. M.

=Deo, optimo maximo=--To God, the best and greatest. M.

=Deo, patriæ, amicis=--For God, country, and 20 friends. M.

=Deo, regi, patriæ=--To God, king, and country. M.

=Deo, regi, vicino=--For God, king, and our neighbour. M.

=Deo, republicæ, amicis=--To God, the state, and friends. M.

=Deorum cibus est=--A feast fit for the gods.

=De oui et non vient toute question=--All disputation 25 comes out of "Yes" and "No." Fr. Pr.

=Deo volente=--With God's will.

=Depart from the highway and transplant thyself in some enclosed ground; for it is hard for a tree that stands by the wayside to keep her fruit till it be ripe.= St. Chrysostom.

=De paupertate tacentes / Plus poscente ferent=--Those who say nothing of their poverty fare better than those who beg. Hor.

=De' peccati de' signori fanno penitenza i poveri=--The poor do penance for the sins of the rich. It. Pr.

=Dependence goes somewhat against the grain= 30 =of a generous mind; and it is no wonder, considering the unreasonable advantage which is often taken of the inequality of fortune.= Jeremy Collier.

=Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity than any other motive whatsoever.= Addison.

=Depend upon it, if a man talks of his misfortunes, there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him.= Johnson.

=De pilo=, or =de filo, pendet=--It hangs by a hair. Pr.

=De pis en pis=--From worse to worse. Fr.

=De plano=--With ease. 35

=De præscientia Dei=--Of the foreknowledge of God.

=Deprendi miserum est=--To be caught is a wretched experience.

=Depressus extollor=--Having been depressed, I am exalted. M.

=De profundis=--Out of the depths.

=De propaganda fide=--For propagating the Catholic 40 faith.

=De publico est elatus=--He was buried at the public expense. Livy.

=Der Ausgang giebt den Thaten ihre Titel=--It is the issue that gives to deeds their title. Goethe.

=Der beste Prediger ist die Zeit=--Time is the best preacher. Ger. Pr.

=Der Böse hat nicht nur die Guten, sondern auch die Bösen gegen sich=--The bad man has not only the good, but also the evil opposed to him. Bischer.

=Der brave Mann denkt an sich selbst zuletzt=--The 45 brave man thinks of himself last of all. Schiller.

=Der civilisierte Wilde ist der schlimmste aller Wilden=--The civilised savage is the worst of all savages. C. J. Weber.

=Der den Augenblick ergreift / Das ist der rechte Mann=--He who seizes the moment is the right man. Goethe.

=Der Dichter steht auf einer höhern Warte / Als auf den Zinnen der Partei=--The poet stands on a higher watch-tower than the pinnacle of party. Freiligrath.

=Der echte Geist schwingt sich empor / Und rafft die Zeit sich nach=--The genuine spirit soars upward, and snatches the time away after it. Uhland.

=Derelictio communis utilitatis contra naturam=--The 50 abandonment of what is for the common good is a crime against nature. Cic.

=Der Erde Paradies und Hölle / Liegt in dem Worte "Weib"=--Heaven and Hell on earth lie in the word "woman." Seume.

=Der Fluss bleibt trüb, der nicht durch einen See gegangen, / Das Herz unsauber, das nicht durch ein Weh gegangen=--The river remains troubled that has not passed through a lake, the heart unpurified that has not passed through a woe. Rückert.

=Der Frauen Zungen ja nimmer ruhn=--Women's tongues never rest. A. v. Chamisso.

=Der Friede ist immer die letzte Absicht des Krieges=--Peace is ever the final aim of war. Wieland.

=Der Fuchs ändert den Pelz und behält den= 55 =Schalk=--The fox changes his skin but keeps his knavery. Ger. Pr.

=Der Fürst ist nichts, als der erste Diener des Staates=--The prince is nothing but the first servant of the state. Frederick the Great.

=Der Geist, aus dem wir handeln, ist das Höchste=--The spirit from which we act is the principal (lit. the highest) matter. Goethe.

=Der Geist der Medicin ist leicht zu fassen; / Ihr durchstudiert die gross' und kleine Welt, / Um es am Ende gehn zu lassen, / Wie's Gott gefällt=--The spirit of medicine is easy to master; you study through the great and the little worlds, to let it go in the end as God pleases. Mephisto, in "Faust."

=Der Geist, der stets verneint=--The spirit that constantly denies, that says everlastingly "No." Goethe's "Mephistopheles."

=Der Geist ist immer autochthone=--Spirit is always indigenous, i.e., always native to the soil out of which it springs. Goethe.

=Der geringste Mensch kann complet sein, wenn er sich innerhalb der Gränzen seiner Fähigkeiten und Fertigkeiten bewegt=--The humblest mortal may attain completeness if he confine his activities within the limits of his capability and skill. Goethe.

=Der Glaube ist der rechte, der, dass er der rechte bleibt, nicht gezwungen ist einen andern irrgläubig zu finden=--That faith is the orthodox which, that it may remain such, is under no necessity of finding another heterodox. Börne.

=Der Gott, der mir im Busen wohnt, / Kann= 5 =tief mein Innerstes erregen; der über allen meinen Kräften thront, er kann nach aussen nichts bewegen=--The God who dwells in my breast can stir my inmost soul to its depths; he who sits as sovereign over all my powers has no control over things beyond. Goethe.

=Der grösste Mensch bleibt stets ein Menschenkind=--The greatest man remains always a man-child, or son of man. Goethe.

=Der grösste Schritt ist der aus der Thür=--The greatest step is that out of the door. Ger. Pr.

=Der gute Mann braucht überall viel Boden=--The good man needs always large room. Lessing.

=Der gute Wille ist in der Moral alles; aber in der Kunst ist er nichts: da gilt, wie schon das Wort andeutet, allein Können=--Goodwill is everything in morals, but in art it is nothing: in it, as the word indicates, only ability counts for aught. Schopenhauer.

=Der Hahn schliesst die Augen, wann er krähet,= 10 =weil er es auswendig kann=--The cock shuts his eyes when he crows, because he has it by heart. Ger. Pr.

=Der Handelnde ist immer gewissenlos, es hat niemand Gewissen, als der Betrachtende=--The man who acts merely is always without conscience; no one has conscience but the man who reflects. Goethe.

=Der hat die Macht, an den die Menge glaubt=--He has the power whom the majority believe in. Raupach.

=Der hat nie das Glück gekostet, der's in Ruh geniessen will=--He has never tasted happiness who will enjoy it in peace. Th. Körner.

=Der Hauptfehler des Menschen bleibt, dass er so viele kleine hat=--Man's chief fault is ever that he has so many small ones. Jean Paul.

=Der Himmel giebt die Gunst des Augenblicks; /= 15 =Wer schnell sie fasst, wird Meister des Geschicks=--Heaven gives the grace needed for the moment; he who seizes it quickly becomes master of his fate. Raupach.

=Der Himmel kann ersetzen / Was er entzogen hat=--What Heaven has taken away, Heaven can make good. Rückert.

=Der Historiker ist ein rückwärts gekehrter Prophet=--The historian is a prophet with his face turned backwards. F. v. Schlegel.

=Der höchste Stolz und der höchste Kleinmuth ist die höchste Unkenntniss seiner selbst=--Extreme pride and extreme dejection are alike extreme ignorance of one's self. Spinoza.

=Der höchste Vorwurf der Kunst für denkende Menschen ist der Mensch=--The highest subject of art for thinking men is man. Winkelmann.

=Deridet, sed non derideor=--He laughs, but I am 20 not laughed at.

=Der Irrthum ist recht gut, so lange wir jung sind; man muss ihn nur nicht mit ins Alter schleppen=--Error is very well so long as we are young, but we must not drag it with us into old age. Goethe.

=Der ist edel, / Welcher edel fühlt und handelt=--He is noble who feels and acts nobly. Heine.

=Der Jugend Führer sei das Alter; beiden sei / Nur wenn sie als Verbundne wandeln, Glück versichert=--Be age the guide of youth; both will be happy only if they go hand in hand (lit. as confederates) together. Goethe.