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 3 of 9)

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 3 of 9)

=Errare malo cum Platone, quam cum istis vera= 45 =sentire=--I had rather be wrong with Plato than think right with those men. Cic.

=Errata=--Errors in print.

=Erringen will der Mensch, er will nicht sicher sein=--Man will ever wrestle; he will never trust. Goethe.

=Erring is not cheating.= Ger. Pr.

=Error cannot be defended but by error.= _Bp. Jewel._

=Error is always more busy than ignorance.= 50 =Ignorance is a blank sheet on which we may write, but error is a scribbled one from which we must first erase.= Colton.

=Error is always talkative.= Goldsmith.

=Error is but opinion in the making.= Milton.

=Error is but the shadow of truth.= Stillingfleet.

=Error is created; truth is eternal.= Wm. Blake.

=Error is on the surface; truth is hid in great depths.= Goethe.

=Error is sometimes so nearly allied to truth that it blends with it as imperceptibly as the colours of the rainbow fade into each other.= W. B. Clulow.

=Error is worse than ignorance.= Bailey.

=Error never leaves us, yet a higher need= 5 =always draws the striving spirit gently on to truth.= Goethe.

=Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.= Jefferson.

=Errors like straws upon the surface flow; / He who would search for pearls must dive below.= Dryden.

=Error, sterile in itself, produces only by means of the portion of truth which it contains.= Mme. Swetchine.

=Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them; ... from pure extravagance, and genuine, unmingled falsehood, the world never has sustained, and never can sustain, any mischief.= Sydney Smith.

=Error, when she retraces her steps, has farther= 10 =to go before she can arrive at truth than ignorance.= Colton.

=Erröten macht die Hässlichen so schön: / Und sollte Schöne nicht noch schöner machen?=--Blushing makes even the ugly beautiful, and should it not make beauty still more beautiful? Lessing.

=Ersparte Wahl ist auch ersparte Mühe=--Selection saved is trouble saved. Platin.

=Er steckt seine Nase in Alles=--He thrusts his nose into everything. Ger. Pr.

=Erst seit ich liebe ist das Leben schön, / Erst seit ich liebe, weiss ich, dass ich lebe=--Only since I loved is life lovely; only since I loved knew I that I lived. Körner.

=Erst wägen, dann wagen=--First weigh, then 15 venture. M. von Moltke.

=Ertragen muss man was der Himmel sendet. / Unbilliges erträgt kein edles Herz=--We must bear what Heaven sends. No noble heart will bear injustice. Schiller.

=Erudition is not like a lark, which flies high and delights in nothing but singing; 'tis rather like a hawk, which soars aloft indeed, but can stoop when she finds it convenient, and seize her prey.= Bacon.

=Er wünscht sich einen grossen Kreis / Um ihn gewisser zu erschüttern=--He desires a large circle in order with greater certainty to move it deeply. Goethe.

=Es bedarf nur einer Kleinigkeit, um zwei Liebende zu unterhalten=--Any trifle is enough to entertain two lovers. Goethe.

=Es bildet ein Talent sich in der Stille, / Sich ein= 20 =Character in dem Strom der Welt=--A talent is formed in retirement, a character in the current of the world. Goethe.

=Es bildet / Nur das Leben den Mann, und wenig bedeuten die Worte=--Only life forms the man, and words signify little. Goethe.

=Eschew fine words as you would rouge; love simple ones as you would native roses on your cheek.= Hare.

=Escuchas al agujero; oirás de tû mal y del ageno=--Listen at the keyhole; you will hear evil of yourself as well as your neighbour. Sp. Pr.

=E se finxit velut araneus=--He spun from himself like a spider.

=Esel singen schlecht, weil sie zu hoch anstimmen=--Asses 25 sing abominably, because they pitch their notes at too high a key. Ger. Pr.

=Es erben sich Gesetz' und Rechte / Wie eine ewige Krankheit fort=--Laws and rights descend like an inveterate inherited disease. Goethe.

=Es findet jeder seinen Meister=--Every one finds his master. Ger. Pr.

=Es geht an=--It is a beginning. Ger.

=Es giebt eine Höflichkeit des Herzens; sie ist der Liebe verwandt.=--There is a courtesy of the heart which is allied to love; out of it there springs the most obliging courtesy of external behaviour. Goethe.

=Es giebt eine Schwelgerei des Geistes wie= 30 =es eine Schwelgerei der Sinne giebt=--There is a debauchery of spirit, as there is of senses. Börne.

=Es giebt gewisse Dinge, wo ein Frauenzimmer immer schärfer sieht, als hundert Augen der Mannspersonen=--There are certain things in which a woman's vision is sharper than a hundred eyes of the male. Lessing.

=Es giebt keine andre Offenbarung, als die Gedanken der Weisen=--There is no other revelation than the thoughts of the wise among men. Schopenhauer.

=Es giebt kein Gesetz was hat nicht ein Loch, wer's finden kann=--There is no law but has in it a hole for him who can find it. Ger. Pr.

=Es giebt Männer welche die Beredsamkeit weiblicher Zungen übertreffen, aber kein Mann besitzt die Beredsamkeit weiblicher Augen=--There are men the eloquence of whose tongues surpasses that of women, but no man possesses the eloquence of women's eyes. Weber.

=Es giebt mehr Diebe als Galgen=--There are 35 more thieves than gallows. Ger. Pr.

=Es giebt Menschen, die auf die Mängel ihrer Freunde sinnen; dabei kommt nichts heraus. Ich habe immer auf die Verdienste meiner Widersacher Acht gehabt und davon Vortheil gezogen=--There are men who brood on the failings of their friends, but nothing comes of it. I have always had respect to the merits of my adversaries, and derived profit from doing so. Goethe.

=Es giebt Naturen, die gut sind durch das was sie erreichen, andere durch das was sie verschmähen=--There are natures which are good by what they attain, and others that are so by what they disdain. H. Grimm.

=Es giebt nur eine Religion, aber es kann vielerlei Arten der Glaubens geben=--There is only one religion, but there may be divers forms of belief. Kant.

=Es hört doch Jeder nur was er versteht=--Every one hears only what he understands. Goethe.

=Es irrt der Mensch, so lang er strebt=--Man is 40 liable to err as long as he strives. Goethe.

=Es ist besser, das geringste Ding von der Welt zu thun, als eine halbe Stunde für gering halten=--It is better to do the smallest thing in the world than to regard half an hour as a small thing. Goethe.

=Es ist bestimmt in Gottes Rath / Dass man vom Liebsten, was man hat, / Muss scheiden=--It is ordained in the counsel of God that we must all part from the dearest we possess. Feuchtersleben.

=Es ist das Wohl des Ganzen, wovon jedes patriotische, wovon selbst jedes eigennützige Gemüth das seinige hofft=--It is the welfare of the whole from which every patriotic, and even every selfish, soul expects its own. Gentz.

=Es ist der Geist, der sich den Körper baut=--It is the spirit which builds for itself the body. Schiller.

=Es ist freundlicher das menschliche Leben anzulachen, als es anzugrinzen=--It is more kindly to laugh at human life than to grin at it. Wieland.

=Es ist klug und kühn den unvermeidlichen. Uebel entgegenzugehen=--It shows sense and courage to be able to confront unavoidable evil. Goethe.

=Es ist nicht gut, wenn derjenige der die= 5 =Fackel trägt, zugleich auch den Weg sucht=--It is not good when he who carries the torch has at the same time also the way to seek. Cölvös.

=Es ist nicht nötig, dass ich lebe, wohl aber, dass ich meine Pflicht thue und für mein Vaterland kämpfe=--It is not a necessity that I should live, but it is that I should do my duty and fight for my fatherland. Frederick the Great. (?)

=Es ist öde, nichts ehren können, als sich selbst=--It is dreary for a man to be able to worship nothing but himself. Hebbel.

=Es ist schwer gegen den Augenblick gerecht sein; der gleichgültige macht uns Langeweile, am Guten hat man zu tragen und am Bösen zu schleppen=--It is difficult to be square with the moment; the indifferent one is a bore to us (lit. causes us ennui); with the good we have to bear and with the bad to drag. Goethe.

=Es ist so schwer, den falschen Weg zu meiden=--It is so difficult to avoid the wrong way. Goethe.

=Es ist unköniglich zu weinen--ach, / Und= 10 =hier nicht weinen ist unväterlich=--To weep is unworthy of a king--alas! and not to weep now is unworthy of a father. Schiller.

=Es kämpft der Held am liebsten mit dem Held=--Hero likes best to fight with hero. Körner.

=Es kann der beste Herz in dunkeln Stunden fehlen=--The best heart may go wrong in dark hours. Goethe.

=Es kann ja nicht immer so bleiben / Hier unter dem wechselnden Mond=--Sure it cannot always be so here under the changing moon. Kotzebue.

=Es kann nichts helfen ein grosses Schicksal zu haben, wenn man nicht weiss, dass man eines hat=--It is of no avail for a man to have a great destiny if he does not know that he has one. Rahel.

=Es kommen Fälle vor im Menschenleben, /= 15 =Wo's Weisheit ist, nicht allzu weise sein=--There are situations in life when it is wisdom not to be too wise. Schiller.

=Es leben Götter, die den Hochmut rächen=--There live gods who take vengeance on pride. Schiller.

=Es liebt die Welt das Strahlende zu schwärtzen, / Und das Erhabne in den Staub zu ziehn=--The world is fain to obscure what is brilliant, and to drag down to the dust what is exalted. Schiller.

=Es liesse sich Alles trefflich schlichten, Könnte man die Sachen zweimal verrichten=--Everything could be beautifully adjusted if matters could be a second time arranged. Goethe.

=Es muss auch solche Käuze geben=--There must needs be such fellows in the world too. Goethe.

[Greek: hê sophias pêgê dia bibliôn rheei]--The fountain 20 of wisdom flows through books. Gr. Pr.

=Espérance en Dieu=--Hope in God. M.

=Espionage=--The spy system. Fr.

=Esprit borné=--Narrow mind. Fr.

=Esprit de corps=--Spirit of brotherhood in a corporate body. Fr.

=Esprit de parti=--Party spirit. Fr. 25

=Esprit fort=--A free-thinker. Fr.

=Esprit juste=--Sound mind. Fr.

=Esprit vif=--Ready wit. Fr.

=Es reift keine Seligkeit unter dem Monde=--No happiness ever comes to maturity under the moon. Schiller.

=Essayez=--Try. M. 30

=Esse bonum facile est, ubi quod vetet esse remotum est=--It is easy to be good, when all that prevents it is far removed. Ovid.

=Esse quam videri=--To be rather than to seem.

[Greek: Essetai êmar hot' an pot' olôlê Ilios hirê]--A day will come when the sacred Ilium shall be no more. Hom.

=Es schwinden jedes Kummers Falten / So lang des Liebes Zauber walten=--The wrinkles of every sorrow disappear as long as the spell of love is unbroken. Schiller.

=Es sind nicht alle frei, die ihrer Ketten spotten=--All 35 are not free who mock their chains. Ger. Pr.

=Es sind so gute Katzen die Mäuse verjagen, als die sie fangen=--They are as good cats that chase away the mice as those that catch them. Ger. Pr.

=Es steckt nicht in Spiegel was man im Spiegel sieht=--That is not in the mirror which you see in the mirror. Ger. Pr.

=Es steht ihm an der Stirn' geschrieben, / Das er nicht mag eine Seele lieben=--It stands written on his forehead that he cannot love a single soul. Goethe, of Mephistopheles.

=Establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.= Bible.

=Est aliquid fatale malum per verba levare=--It 40 is some alleviation of an incurable disease to speak of it to others. Ovid.

=Est animus tibi / Rerumque prudens, et secundis / Temporibus dubiisque rectus=--You possess a mind both sagacious in the management of affairs, and steady at once in prosperous and perilous times. Hor.

=Est animus tibi, sunt mores et lingua, fidesque=--Thou hast a man's soul, cultured manners and power of expression, and fidelity. Hor., of a gentleman.

=Est assez riche qui ne doit rien=--He is rich enough who owes nothing. Fr. Pr.

=Est aviditas dives, et pauper pudor=--Covetousness is rich, while modesty is poor. Phædr.

=Est bonus, ut melior vir / Non alius quisquam=--He 45 is so good that no man can be better. Hor.

=Est brevitate opus, ut currat sententia=--There is need of conciseness that the thought may run on. Hor.

=Est demum vera felicitas, felicitate dignum videri=--True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it. Pliny.

=Est deus in nobis, agitante calescimus illo=--There is a god in us, who, when he stirs, sets us all aglow. Ovid.

=Est deus in nobis, et sunt commercia cœli=--There is a god within us, and we hold commerce with the sky. Ovid.

=Esteem a man of many words and many lies= 5 =much alike.= Fuller.

=Esteem is the harvest of a whole life spent in usefulness; but reputation is often bestowed upon a chance action, and depends most on success.= G. A. Sala.

=Est enim lex nihil aliud nisi recta et a numine deorum tracta ratio, imperans honesta, prohibens contraria=--For law is nothing else but right reason supported by the authority of the gods, commanding what is honourable and prohibiting the contrary. Cic.

=Est egentissimus in sua re=--He is in very straitened circumstances.

=Est etiam miseris pietas, et in hoste probatur=--Regard for the wretched is a duty, and deserving of praise even in an enemy. Ovid.

=Est etiam, ubi profecto damnnum præstet facere,= 10 =quam lucrum=--There are occasions when it is certainly better to lose than to gain. Plaut.

=Est genus hominum qui esse primos se omnium rerum volunt, / Nec sunt=--There is a class of men who wish to be first in everything, and are not. Ter.

=Est hic, / Est ubivis, animus si te non deficit æquus=--It (happiness) is here, it is everywhere, if only a well-regulated mind does not fail you. Hor.

=Est miserorum, ut malevolentes sint atque invideant bonis=--'Tis the tendency of the wretched to be ill-disposed towards and to envy the fortunate. Plaut.

=Est modus in rebus; sunt certi denique fines, / Quos ultra citraque nequit consistere rectum=--There is a mean in all things; there are, in fine, certain fixed limits, on either side of which what is right and true cannot exist. Hor.

=Est multi fabula plena joci=--It is a story full of 15 fun. Ovid.

=Est natura hominum novitatis avida=--It is the nature of man to hunt after novelty. Pliny.

=Estne Dei sedes nisi terra, et pontus, et aër, / Et cœlum, et virtus? Superos quid quærimus ultra? / Jupiter est, quodcunque vides, quodcunque moveris=--Has God a dwelling other than earth and sea and air and heaven and virtue? Why seek we the gods beyond? Whatsoever you see, wheresoever you go, there is Jupiter. Luc.

=Est nobis voluisse satis=--To have willed suffices us. Tibull.

=Esto perpetua=--Let it be perpetual.

=Esto quod es; quod sunt alii, sine quemlibet= 20 =esse: / Quod non es, nolis; quod potes esse, velis=--Be what you are; let whoso will be what others are. Don't be what you are not, but resolutely be what you can.

=Esto quod esse videris=--Be what you seem to be.

=Esto, ut nunc multi, dives tibi, pauper amicis=--Be, as many now are, rich to yourself, poor to your friends. Juv.

=Est pater ille quem nuptiæ demonstrant=--He is the father whom the marriage-rites point to as such. L.

=Est profecto Deus, qui quæ nos gerimus auditque et videt=--There is certainly a God who both hears and sees the things which we do. Plaut.

=Est proprium stultitiæ aliorum cernere vitia,= 25 =oblivisci suorum=--It is characteristic of folly to discern the faults of others and forget its own. Cic.

=Est quadam prodire tenus, si non datur ultra=--You may advance to a certain point, if it is not permitted you to go farther. Hor.

=Est quædam flere voluptas, / Expletur lachrymis egeriturque dolor=--There is a certain pleasure in weeping; grief is soothed and alleviated by tears. Ovid.

=Est quoque cunctarum novitas carissima rerum=--Novelty is the dearest to us of all things. Ovid.

=Es trägt Verstand und rechter Sinn / Mit wenig Kunst sich selber vor; und wenn's euch Ernst ist was zu sagen / Ist's nötig Worten nachzujagen?=--Understanding and good sense find utterance with little art; and when you have seriously anything to say, is it necessary to hunt for words? Goethe.

=Es trinken tausend sich den Tod, ehe einer= 30 =stirbt vor Durstes Noth=--A thousand will drink themselves to death ere one die under stress of thirst. Ger. Pr.

=Est tempus quando nihil, est tempus quando aliquid, nullum tamen est tempus in quo dicenda sunt omnia=--There is a time when nothing may be said, a time when something may, but no time when all things may. A Monkish Adage.

=Esurienti ne occurras=--Don't throw yourself in the way of a hungry man.

=Es will einer was er soll, aber er kann's nicht machen; es kann einer was er soll, aber er will's nicht; es will und kann einer, aber er weiss nicht, was er soll=--One would what he should, but he can't; one could what he should, but he won't; one would and could, but he knows not what he should. Goethe.

=Es wird wohl auch drüben nicht anders seyn als hier=--Even over there it will not be otherwise than it is here, I ween. Goethe.

[Greek: Ê tan ê epi tan]--Either this or upon this. (The 35 Spartan mother to her son on handing him his shield.)

=E tardegradis asinis equus non prodiit=--The horse is not the progeny of the slow-paced ass.

=Et cætera=--And the rest.

=Et c'est être innocent que d'être malheureux=--And misfortune is the badge of innocence. La Font.

=Et credis cineres curare sepultos?=--And do you think that the ashes of the dead concern themselves with our affairs? Virg.

=Et daligt hufoud hade han, men hjertat det= 40 =var godt=--He had a stupid head, but his heart was good. Swed. Pr.

=Et decus et pretium recti=--Both the ornament and the reward of virtue. M.

=E tenui casa sæpe vir magnus exit=--A great man often steps forth from a humble cottage. Pr.

=Eternal love made me.= Dante.

=Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, / As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.= Pope.

=Eternity, depending on an hour.= Young.

=Eternity looks grander and kinder if Time grow meaner and more hostile.= Carlyle.

=Eternity of being and well-being simply for= 5 =being and well-being's sake, is an ideal belonging to appetite alone, and which only the struggle of mere animalism= (Thierheit), =longing to be infinite gives rise to.= Schiller.

=Et facere et pati fortiter Romanum est=--Bravery and endurance make a man a Roman. Liv.

=Et genus et formam regina pecunia donat=--Money, like a queen, confers both rank and beauty. Hor.

=Et genus et proavos, et quæ non fecimus ipsi, / Vix ea nostra voco=--We can scarcely call birth and ancestry and what we have not ourselves done, our own. Ovid.

=Et genus et virtus, nisi cum re, vilior alga est=--Without money both birth and virtue are as worthless as seaweed. Hor.

=Ethics makes man's soul mannerly and wise,= 10 =but logic is the armoury of reason, furnished with all offensive and defensive weapons.= Fuller.

=Et hoc genus omne=--And everything of this kind.

=Etiam celeritas in desiderio, mora est=--When we long for a thing, even despatch is delay. Pub. Syr.

=Etiam fera animalia, si clausa teneas, virtutis obliviscuntur=--Even savage animals, if you keep them in confinement, forget their fierceness.

=Etiam fortes viros subitis terreri=--Even brave men may be alarmed by a sudden event. Tac.

=Etiam innocentes cogit mentiri dolor=--Pain 15 makes even the innocent forswear themselves. Pub. Syr.

=Etiam oblivisci quod scis, interdum expedit=--It is sometimes expedient to forget what you know. Pub. Syr.

=Etiam sanato vulnere cicatrix manet=--Though the wound is healed, a scar remains.

=Etiam sapientibus cupido gloriæ novissima exuitur=--Even by the wise the desire of glory is the last of all passions to be laid aside. Tac.

=Et jam summa procul villarum culmina fumant, / Majoresque cadunt altis de montibus umbræ=--And now the cottage roofs yonder smoke, and the shadows fall longer from the mountain-tops. Virg.

=Et je sais, sur ce fait, / Bon nombre d'hommes= 20 =qui sont femmes=--And I know a great many men who in this particular are women. La Font.

=Et l'avare Achéron ne lâche pas sa proie=--And greedy Acheron lets not go his prey. Racine.

=Et le combat cessa faute de combattants=--And the battle ceased for want of combatants. Corneille.

=Et l'on revient toujours / A ses premiers amours=--One returns always to his first love. Fr. Pr.

=Et mala sunt vicina bonis=--There are bad qualities near akin to good. Ovid.

=Et male tornatos incudi reddere versus=--And 25 take back ill-polished stanzas to the anvil. Hor.

=Et mea cymba semel vasta percussa procella, / Illum, quo læsa est, horret adire locum=--My bark, once shaken by the overpowering storm, shrinks from approaching the spot where it has been shattered. Ovid.

=Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor=--My aim ever is to subject circumstances to myself, not myself to them. Hor.

=Et minimæ vires frangere quassa valent=--A very small degree of force will suffice to break a vessel that is already cracked. Ovid.

=Et monere, et moneri, proprium est veræ amicitiæ=--To give counsel as well as take it, is a feature of true friendship. Cic.

=Et nati natorum, et qui nascentur ab illis=--The 30 children of our children, and those who shall be born of them, i.e., our latest posterity.

=Et nova fictaque nuper habebunt verba fidem, si / Græco fonte cadunt parce detorta=--And new and lately invented terms will be well received, if they descend, with slight deviation, from a Grecian source. Hor.

=Et pudet, et metuo, semperque eademque precari, / Ne subeant animo tædia justa tuo=--I am ashamed to be always begging and begging the same things, and fear lest you should conceive for me the disgust I merit. Ovid.

=Et quæ sibi quisque timebat, / Unius in miseri exitium conversa tulere=--And what each man dreaded for himself, they bore lightly when diverted to the destruction of one poor wretch. Virg.

=Et quiescenti agendum est, et agenti quiescendum est=--He who is indolent should work, and he who works should take repose. Sen.

=Et qui nolunt occidere quenquam / Posse= 35 =volunt=--Even those who have no wish to kill another would like to have the power. Juv.

=Et quorum pars magna fui=--And in which I played a prominent part. Virg.

=Etre capable de se laisser servir n'est pas une des moindres qualités que puisse avoir un grand roi=--The ability to enlist the services of others in the conduct of affairs is one of the most distinguishing qualities of a great monarch. Richelieu.

=Etre pauvre sans être libre, c'est le pire état où l'homme puisse tomber=--To be poor without being free is the worst condition into which man can sink. Rousseau.

=Etre sur le qui vive=--To be on the alert. Fr.

=Etre sur un grand pied dans le monde=--To be in 40 high standing (lit. on a great foot) in the world. Fr.

=Et rose elle a vécu ce que vivent les roses / L'espace d'un matin=--As rose she lived the life of a rose for but the space of a morning. Malherbe.

=Et sanguis et spiritus pecunia mortalibus=--Money is both blood and life to men. Pr.

=Et semel emissum volat irrevocabile verbum=--And a word once uttered flies abroad never to be recalled. Hor.

=Et sequentia=, =Et seq.=--And what follows.

=Et sic de ceteris=--And so of the rest. 45

=Et sic de similibus=--And so of the like.

="Et tu, Brute fili"=--And thou, son Brutus. Cæsar, at sight of Brutus among the conspirators.

=Et vaincre sans péril serait vaincre sans gloire=--To conquer without peril would be to conquer without glory. Corneille.

=Et vitam impendere vero=--Stake even life for truth. M.

=Et voilà justement comme on écrit l'histoire=--And that is exactly how history is written. Voltaire.

=Etwas ist besser als gar nichts=--Something is better than nothing at all. Ger. Pr.

=Euch zu gefallen war mein höchster Wunsch; / Euch zu ergötzen war mein letzter Zweck=--To please you was my highest wish; to delight you was my last aim. Goethe.

[Greek: Heudonti kyrtos hairei]--While the fisher sleeps the 5 net takes. Gr. Pr.

=Euge, poeta!=--Well done, poet! Pers.

=Eum ausculta, cui quatuor sunt aures=--Listen to him who has four ears, i.e., who is readier to hear than to speak. Pr.

[Greek: Eurêka]--I have found it. Archimedes when he found out the way to test the purity of Hiero's golden crown.

=Europe's eye is fixed on mighty things, / The fall of empires and the fate of kings.= Burns.

[Greek: Eutychia polyphilos]--Success is befriended by 10 many people. Gr. Pr.

[Greek: Eutychôn mê isthi hyperêphanos, aporêsas mê tapeinou]--Be not uplifted in prosperity nor downcast in adversity. Cleobulus.

=E' va più d'un asino al mercato=--There is more than one ass goes to the market. It. Pr.

=Evasion is unworthy of us, and is always the intimate of equivocation.= Balzac.

=Evasions are the common subterfuge of the hard-hearted, the false, and impotent, when called upon to assist.= Lavater.

=Even a fly has its spleen.= It. Pr. 15

=Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise.= Bible.

=Even a frog would bite if it had teeth.= It. Pr.

=Even a haggis could charge down-hill.= Scott.

=Even a hair casts a shadow.= Pr.

=Even a horse, though he has four feet, will= 20 =stumble.= Pr.

=Even among the apostles there was a Judas.= It. Pr.

=Even beauty cannot palliate eccentricity.= Balzac.

=Even by means of our sorrows we belong to the eternal plan.= W. v. Humboldt.

=Even foxes are outwitted and caught.= _It. Pr._

=Even in a righteous cause force is a fearful= 25 =thing; God only helps when men can help no more.= Schiller.

=Evening is the delight of virtuous age; it seems an emblem of the tranquil close of busy life.= Bulwer Lytton.

=Even in social life, it is persistency which attracts confidence, more than talents and accomplishments.= Whipple.

=Even perfect examples lead astray by tempting us to overleap the necessary steps in their development, whereby we are for the most part led past the goal into boundless error.= Goethe.

=Even so my sun one early morn did shine, / With all triumphant splendour on my brow; / But out, alack! it was but one hour mine.= Sh.

=Even success needs its consolations.= George 30 Eliot.

=Even that fish may be caught which resists most stoutly against it.= Dan. Pr.

=Even the just man has need of help.= It. Pr.

=Even the lowest book of chronicles partakes of the spirit of the age in which it was written.= Goethe.

=Even then a wish (I mind its power), / A wish that to my latest hour / Shall strongly heave my breast, / That I, for puir auld Scotland's sake, / Some usefu' plan or beuk could make, / Or sing a sang at least.= Burns at the plough.

=Even though the cloud veils it, the sun is ever= 35 =in the canopy of heaven= (Himmelszelt). =A holy will rules there; the world does not serve blind chance.= F. K. Weber.

=Even though vanquished, he could argue still.= Goldsmith.

=Even thou who mourn'st the daisy's fate, / That fate is thine--no distant date; / Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives elate / Full on thy bloom, / Till crush'd beneath the farrow's weight / Shall be thy doom.= Burns.

=Events are only the shells of ideas; and often it is the fluent thought of ages that is crystallised in a moment by the stroke of a pen or the point of a bayonet.= Chapin.

=Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.= Cowper.

=Eventus stultorum magister est=--Only the event 40 teaches fools. Liv.

=Even weak men when united are powerful.= Schiller.

=Evêque d'or, crosse de bois; crosse d'or, évêque de bois=--Bishop of gold, staff of wood; bishop of wood, staff of gold. Fr. Pr.

=Ever, as of old, the thing a man will do is the thing he feels commanded to do.= Carlyle.

=Ever charming, ever new, / When will the landscape tire the view?= John Dyer.

=Ever learning, and never able to come to the= 45 =knowledge of the truth.= St. Paul.

=Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor.= Rich. II., ii. 3.

=Ever must pain urge us to labour, and only in free effort can any blessedness be imagined for us.= Carlyle.

=Ever must the sovereign of mankind be fitly entitled king=, i.e., =the man who= kens =and= can. Carlyle.

=Ever since Adam's time fools have been in the majority.= Casimir Delavigne.

=Ever take it for granted that man collectively= 50 =wishes that which is right; but take care never to think so of one!= Schiller.

=Every absurdity has a champion to defend it; for error is talkative.= Goldsmith.

=Every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds.= Emerson.

=Every advantage has its tax, but there is none on the good of virtue; that is the incoming of God himself, or absolute existence.= Emerson.

=Every age regards the dawning of new light as the destroying fire of morality; while that very age itself, with heart uninjured, finds itself raised one degree of light above the preceding.= Jean Paul.

=Every attempt to crush an insurrection with means inadequate to the end foments instead of suppressing it.= C. Fox.

=Every author, in some degree, portrays himself in his works, be it even against his will.= Goethe.

=Every base occupation makes one sharp in its practice and dull in every other.= Sir P. Sidney.

=Every bean has its black.= Pr.

=Every beginning is cheerful; the threshold is= 5 =the place of expectation.= Goethe.

=Every beloved object is the centre of a paradise.= Novalis.

=Every being is a moving temple of the Infinite.= Jean Paul.

=Everybody is wise after the event.= Pr.

=Everybody knows that fanaticism is religion caricatured; yet with many, contempt of fanaticism is received as a sure sign of hostility to religion.= Whipple.

=Everybody knows that government never began= 10 =anything. It is the whole world that thinks and governs.= W. Phillips.

=Everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is a great deal better to be made in that way than not to be made at all.= Holmes.

=Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.= J. F. Cooper.

=Everybody's business in the social system is to be agreeable.= Dickens.

=Everybody's business is nobody's.= Pr.

=Everybody's friend is nobody's.= Pr. 15

=Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.= Emerson.

=Every book is written with a constant secret reference to the few intelligent persons whom the writer believes to exist in the million.= Emerson.

=Every brave life out of the past does not appear to us so brave as it really was, for the forms of terror with which it wrestled are now overthrown.= Jean Paul.

=Every brave man is a man of his word.= Corneille.

=Every brave youth is in training to ride and= 20 =rule his dragon.= Emerson.

=Every bullet has its billet.= Pr.

=Every Calvary has its Olivet.= H. Giles.

=Every capability, however slight, is born with us; there is no vague general capability in man.= Goethe.

=Every child is to a certain extent a genius, and every genius is to a certain extent a child.= Schopenhauer.

=Every cloud engenders not a storm.= 3 Hen. 25 VI., v. 3.

=Every cloud that spreads above / And veileth love, itself is love.= Tennyson.

=Every cock is proud on his own dunghill.= Pr.

=Every conceivable society may well be figured as properly and wholly a Church, in one or other of these three predicaments: an audibly preaching and prophesying Church, which is the best; a Church that struggles to preach and prophesy, but cannot as yet till its Pentecost come; a Church gone dumb with old age, or which only mumbles delirium prior to dissolution.= Carlyle.

=Every cottage should have its porch, its oven, and its tank.= Disraeli.

=Every couple is not a pair.= Pr. 30

=Every craw thinks her ain bird whitest.= Sc. Pr.

=Every creature can bear well-being except man.= Gael. Pr.

=Every crime has in the moment of its perpetration its own avenging angel.= Schiller.

=Every day hath its night, every weal its woe.= Pr.

=Every day in thy life is a leaf in thy history.= 35 Arab. Pr.

=Every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly until he knows that every day is Doomsday.= Emerson.

=Every day should be spent by us as if it were to be our last.= Pub. Syr.

=Every department of knowledge passes successively through three stages: the theological, or fictitious; the metaphysical, or abstract; and the scientific, or positive.= Comte.

=Every desire bears its death in its very gratification.= W. Irving.

=Every desire is a viper in the bosom, who,= 40 =when he was chill, was harmless, but when warmth gave him strength, exerted it in poison.= Johnson.

=Every dog must have his day.= Swift.

=Every door may be shut but death's door.= Pr.

=Every established religion was once a heresy.= Buckle.

=Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.= Holmes.

=Every evil to which we do not succumb is a= 45 =benefactor; we gain the strength of the temptation we resist.= Emerson.

=Every excess causes a defect; every deficit, an excess. Every sweet has its sour; every evil, its good. Every faculty which is a receiver of pleasure has an equal penalty put on its abuse.= Emerson.

=Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.= Emerson.

=Every faculty is conserved and increased by its appropriate exercise.= Epictetus.

=Every fancy that we would substitute for a reality is, if we saw it aright and saw the whole, not only false, but every way less beautiful and excellent than that which we sacrifice to it.= J. Sterling.

=Every flood has its ebb.= Dut. Pr. 50

=Every fool thinks himself clever enough.= _Dan. Pr._

=Every fool will be meddling.= Bible.

=Every foot will tread on him who is in the mud.= Gael. Pr.

=Every form of freedom is hurtful, except that which delivers us over to perfect command of ourselves.= Goethe.

=Every form of human life is romantic.= T. W. 55 Higginson.

=Every fresh acquirement is another remedy= =against affliction and time.= Willmott.

=Every friend is to the other a sun and a sunflower also: he attracts and follows.= Jean Paul.

=Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the herd.= Thoreau.

=Every generous action loves the public view, yet no theatre for virtue is equal to a consciousness of it.= Cic.

=Every genius has most power in his own language, and every heart in its own religion.= Jean Paul.

=Every genius is defended from approach by quantities of unavailableness.= Emerson.

=Every genuine work of art has as much reason= 5 =for being as the earth and the sun.= Emerson.

=Every gift which is given, even though it be small, is in reality great if it be given with affection.= Pindar.

=Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.= Mahomet.

=Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above.= St. James.

=Every good gift comes from God.= Pr.

=Every good picture is the best of sermons= 10 =and lectures: the sense informs the soul.= Sydney Smith.

=Every good writer has much idiom; it is the life and spirit of language.= Landor.

=Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is the triumph of enthusiasm.= Emerson.

=Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great or original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.= Wordsworth.

=Every great book is an action, and every great action is a book.= Luther.

=Every great genius has a special vocation,= 15 =and when he has fulfilled it, he is no longer needed.= Goethe.

=Every great man is unique.= Emerson.

=Every great mind seeks to labour for eternity. All men are captivated by immediate advantages; great minds alone are excited by the prospect of distant good.= Schiller.

=Every great poem is in itself limited by necessity, but in its suggestions unlimited and infinite.= Longfellow.

=Every great reform which has been effected has consisted, not in doing something new, but in undoing something old.= Buckle.

=Every great writer is a writer of history, let= 20 =him treat on almost what subject he may. He carries with him for thousands of years a portion of his times; and, indeed, if only his own effigy were there, it would be greatly more than a fragment of his century.= Landor.

=Every healthy effort is directed from the inward to the outward world.= Goethe.

=Every heart knows its own bitterness.= Pr.

=Every hero becomes a bore at last.= Emerson.

=Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good; but it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol.= Emerson.

=Every honest miller has a golden thumb.= 25 Pr.

=Every hour has its end.= Scott.

=Every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.= St. Paul.

=Every human being is intended to have a character of his own, to be what no other is, to do what no other can.= Channing.

=Every human feeling is greater and larger than the exciting cause--a proof, I think, that man is designed for a higher state of existence.= Coleridge.

=Every idea must have a visible unfolding.= 30 Victor Hugo.

=Every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.= Jesus.

=Every inch a king.= Lear, iv. 6.

=Every inch of joy has an ell of annoy.= Sc. Pr.

=Every individual colour makes on men an impression of its own, and thereby reveals its nature to the eye as well as the mind.= Goethe.

=Every individual nature has its own beauty.= 35 Emerson.

=Every inordinate cup is unbless'd, and the ingredient is a devil.= Othello, ii. 3.

=Every joy that comes to us is only to strengthen us for some greater labour that is to succeed.= Fichte.

=Every knave is a thorough knave, and a thorough knave is a knave throughout.= Bp. Berkeley.

=Every light has its shadow.= Pr.

=Every little fish expects to become a whale.= 40 Dan. Pr.

=Every little helps.= Pr.

=Every little helps, as the sow said when she snapt at a gnat.= Dan. Pr.

=Every loving woman is a priestess of the past.= Amiel.

=Every man alone is sincere; at the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.= Emerson.

=Every man as an individual is secondary to= 45 =what he is as a worker for the progress of his kind and the glory of the gift allotted to him.= Stedman.

=Every man can build a chapel in his breast, himself the priest, his heart the sacrifice, and the earth he treads on the altar.= Jeremy Taylor.

=Every man can guide an ill wife but him that has her.= Sc. Pr.

=Every man carries an enemy in his own bosom.= Dan. Pr.

=Every man carries within him a potential madman.= Carlyle.

=Every man deems that he has precisely the= 50 =trials and temptations which are the hardest to bear; but they are so because they are the very ones he needs.= Jean Paul.

=Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old.= Swift.

=Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.= Lowell.

=Every man has a bag hanging before him in which he puts his neighbour's faults, and another behind him in which he stows his own.= Coriolanus, ii. 1.

=Every man has a goose that lays golden eggs, if he only knew it.= Amer. Pr.

=Every man has at times in his mind the ideal= 55 =of what he should be, but is not. In all men that really seek to improve, it is better than the actual character.= Theo. Parker.

=Every man hath business and desire, / Such as it is.= Ham., i. 5.

=Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.= Timon of Athens, iii. 1.

=Every man has his lot, and the wide world before him.= Dan. Pr.

=Every man has his own style, just as he has his own nose.= Lessing.

=Every man has his weak side.= Pr. 5

=Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts the Columbus to his own soul.= Sir J. Stephens.

=Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding.= Pope.

=Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long.= Burton.

=Every man, however good he may be, has a still better man dwelling in him which is properly himself, but to whom nevertheless he is often unfaithful. It is to this interior and less unstable being that we should attach ourselves, not to the changeable every-day man.= W. v. Humboldt.

=Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his= 10 =faults.= Emerson.

=Every man is an impossibility until he is born; everything impossible till we see it a success.= Emerson.

=Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.= Emerson.

=Every man is a rascal as soon as he is sick.= Johnson.

=Every man is exceptional.= Emerson.

=Every man is his own greatest dupe.= A. B. 15 Alcott.

=Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men walk as prophecies of the next age.= Emerson.

=Every man is the architect of his own fortune.= Sallust.

=Every man must carry his own sack to the mill.= Dan. Pr.

=Every man must in a measure be alone in the world. No heart was ever cast in the same mould as that which we bear within us.= Berne.

=Every man of sound brain whom you meet= 20 =knows something worth knowing better than yourself.= Bulwer Lytton.

=Every man ought to have his opportunity to conquer the world for himself.= Emerson.

=Every man rejoices twice when he has a partner of his joy.= Jeremy Taylor.

=Every man seeks the truth, but God only knows who has found it.= Chesterfield.

=Every man shall bear his own burden.= St. Paul.

=Every man shall kiss his lips that giveth a= 25 =right answer.= Bible.

=Every man should study conciseness in speaking; it is a sign of ignorance not to know that long speeches, though they may please the speaker, are the torture of the hearer.= Feltham.

=Every man stamps his value on himself. The price we challenge for ourselves is given us.= Schiller.

=Every man takes care that his neighbour shall not cheat him.= Emerson.

=Every man acts truly so long as he acts his nature, or some way makes good the faculties in himself.= Sir T. Browne.

=Every man turns his dreams into realities as= 30 =far as he can. Man is cold as ice to the truth, but as fire to falsehood.= La Fontaine.

=Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into a genius.= Bulwer Lytton.

=Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an anvil as he is a hammer.= J. G. Holland.

=Every man who would do anything well must come to us from a higher ground.= Emerson.

=Every man willingly gives value to the praise which he receives, and considers the sentence passed in his favour as the sentence of discernment.= Johnson.

=Every man, within that inconsiderable figure= 35 =of his, contains a whole spirit-kingdom and reflex of the All; and, though to the eye but some six standard feet in size, reaches downwards and upwards, unsurveyable, fading into the regions of immensity and eternity.= Carlyle.

=Every man without passions has within him no principle of action nor motive to act.= Helvetius.

=Every man's blind in his ain cause.= Sc. Pr.

=Every man's destiny is in his own hands.= Sydney Smith.

=Every man's follies are the caricature resemblances of his wisdom.= J. Sterling.

=Every man's life lies within the present.= Marcus 40 Antoninus.

=Every man's man has a man, and that gar'd the Tarve= (a Douglas Castle) =fa'.= Sc. Pr.

=Every man's own reason is his best Œdipus.= Sir Thomas Browne.

=Every man's powers have relation to some kind of work, and wherever he finds that kind of work which he can do best, he finds that by which he can best build up or make his manhood.= J. G. Holland.

=Every man's reason is every man's oracle.= Bolingbroke.

=Every moment, as it passes, is of infinite= 45 =value, for it is the representative of a whole eternity.= Goethe.

=Every moment instructs, and every object, for wisdom is infused into every form. It has been poured into us as blood; it convulsed us as pain; it slid into us as pleasure.= Emerson.

=Every morsel to a satisfied hunger is only a new labour to a tired digestion.= South.

=Every mortal longs for his parade-place; would still wish, at banquets, to be master of some seat or other wherein to overtop this or that plucked goose of the neighbourhood.= Carlyle.

=Every movement in the skies or upon the earth proclaims to us that the universe is under government.= Draper.

=Every natural action is graceful.= Emerson. 50

=Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.= Emerson.

=Every newly discovered truth judges the world, separates the good from the evil, and calls on faithful souls to make sure their election.= Julia W. Howe.

=Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.= Carlyle.

=Every noble crown is, and on earth will ever be, a crown of thorns.= Carlyle.

=Every noble life leaves the fibre of it interwoven for ever in the work of the world.= Ruskin.

=Every noble work is at first impossible.= Carlyle.

=Every novel is a debtor to Homer.= Emerson. 5

=Every offence is not a hate at first.= _Mer. of Ven._, iv. 1.

=Every one believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake.= Goethe.

=Every one bows to the bush that bields= (protects) =him=, i.e., pays court to him that does so. Sc. Pr.

=Every one can master a grief but he that has it.= Much Ado, iii. 2.

=Every one complains of his memory, no one of= 10 =his judgment.= La Roche.

=Every one draws the water to his own mill.= Pr.

=Every one excels in something in which another fails.= Pub. Syr.

=Every one fault seeming monstrous till his fellow-fault came to match it.= As You Like It, iii. 2.

=Every one finds sin sweet and repentance bitter.= Dan. Pr.

=Every one for himself and God for us all.= Pr. 15

=Every one has a trial of his own: my wife is mine. Happy is he who has no other.= Saying of Pittacus.

=Every one is a preacher under the gallows.= Dut. Pr.

=Every one is as God made him, and often a great deal worse.= Cervantes.

=Every one is his own worst enemy.= Schefer.

=Every one is judge of what a man seems, no= 20 =one of what a man is.= Schiller.

=Every one is poorer in proportion as he has more wants, and counts not what he has, but wishes only what he has not.= Manlius.

=Every one is well or ill at ease according as he finds himself.= Montaigne.

=Every one knows best where his shoe pinches him.= Pr.

=Every one knows better than he practises, and recognises a better law than he obeys.= Froude.

=Every one knows good counsel except him who= 25 =needs it.= Ger. Pr.

=Every one of us believes in his heart, or would like to have others believe, that he is something which he is not.= Thackeray.

=Every one of us shall give account of himself to God.= Bible.

=Every one rakes the fire under his own pot.= Dan. Pr.

=Every one regards his duty as a troublesome master from whom he would like to be free.= La Roche.

=Every one should sweep before his own door.= 30 Pr.

=Every one sings as he has the gift, and marries as he has the luck.= Port. Pr.

=Every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.= Jesus.

=Every one that doeth evil hateth the light.= St. John.

=Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.= Jesus.

=Every one thinks his own burden the heaviest.= 35 Pr.

=Every one who is able to administer what he has, has enough.= Goethe.

=Every one would be wise; no one will become so.= Feuchtersleben.

=Every one would rather believe than exercise his own judgment.= Sen.

=Every opinion reacts on him who utters it.= Emerson.

=Every other master is known by what he= 40 =utters; the master of style commends himself to me by what he wisely passes over in silence.= Schiller.

=Every painter ought to paint what he himself loves.= Ruskin.

=Every passion gives a particular cast to the countenance, and is apt to discover itself in some feature or other.= Addison.

=Every people has its prophet.= Arab. Pr.

=Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices. Whoever saw old age that did not applaud the past and condemn the present?= Montaigne.

=Every period of life has its peculiar temptations= 45 =and dangers.= J. Hawes.

=Every period of life is obliged to borrow its happiness from the time to come.= Johnson.

=Every person who manages another is a hypocrite.= Thackeray.

=Every petition to God is a precept to man.= Jeremy Taylor.

=Every place is safe to him who lives with justice.= Epictetus.

=Every pleasure pre-supposes some sort of= 50 =activity.= Schopenhauer.

=Every poet, be his outward lot what it may, finds himself born in the midst of prose; he has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into the freedom and infinitude of an ideal.= Carlyle.

=Every power of both heaven and earth is friendly to a noble and courageous activity.= J. Burroughs.

=Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.= Disraeli.

=Every race has its own habitat.= Knox.

=Every reader reads himself out of the book= 55 =that he reads.= Goethe.

=Every real master of speaking or writing uses his personality as he would any other serviceable material.= Holmes.

=Every real need is appeased and every vice stimulated by satisfaction.= Amiel.

=Every rightly constituted mind ought to rejoice, not so much in knowing anything clearly, as in feeling that there is infinitely more which it cannot know.= Ruskin.

=Every rose has its thorn.= Pr.

=Every scripture is to be interpreted by the= 60 =same spirit which gave it forth.= _Quoted by Emerson._

=Every sect, as far as reason will help it, gladly uses it; when it fails them, they cry out it is matter of faith, and above reason.= Locke.

=Every shadow points to the sun.= Emerson.

=Every ship is a romantic object except that we sail in.= Emerson.

=Every shoe fits not every foot.= Pr.

=Every shot does not bring down a bird.= _Dut. Pr._

=Every soo (sow) to its ain trough.= Sc. Pr.

=Every species of activity is met by a negation.= 5 Goethe.

=Every spirit builds itself a house, and beyond its house a world, and beyond its world a heaven.= Emerson.

=Every spirit makes its house, but afterwards the house confines the spirit.= Emerson.

=Every step of life shows how much caution is required.= Goethe.

=Every step of progress which the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold and from stake to stake.= Wendell Phillips.

=Every Stoic was a Stoic, but in Christendom= 10 =where is the Christian?= Emerson.

=Every style formed elaborately on any model must be affected and strait-laced.= Whipple.

=Every subject's duty is the king's, but every subject's soul is his own.= Hen. V., iv. 1.

=Every tear of sorrow sown by the righteous springs up a pearl.= Matthew Henry.

=Everything a man parts with is the cost of something. Everything he receives is the compensation of something.= J. G. Holland.

=Everything calls for interest, only it must be= 15 =an interest divested of self-interest and sincere.= Desjardins.

=Everything comes if a man will only wait.= Disraeli.

=Everything, even piety, is dangerous in a man without judgment.= Stanislaus.

=Everything good in a man thrives best when properly recognised.= J. G. Holland.

=Everything good in man leans on what is higher.= Emerson.

=Everything good is on the highway.= Emerson. 20

=Everything great is not always good, but all good things are great.= Demosthenes.

=Everything holy is before what is unholy; guilt presupposes innocence, not the reverse; angels, but not fallen ones, were created.= Jean Paul.

=Everything in life, to be of value, must have a sequence.= Goethe.

=Everything in nature contains all the powers of nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.= Emerson.

=Everything in nature goes by law, and not by= 25 =luck.= Emerson.

=Everything in nature has a positive and a negative pole.= Emerson.

=Everything in nature is a puzzle until it finds its solution in man, who solves it in some way with God, and so completes the circle of creation.= T. T. Munger.

=Everything in the world can be borne except a long succession of beautiful days.= Goethe.

=Everything in this world depends upon will.= Disraeli.

=Everything in this world is a tangled yarn;= 30 =we taste nothing in its purity; we do not remain two moments in the same state.= Rousseau.

=Everything is as you take it.= Pr.

=Everything is beautiful, seen from the point of the intellect; but all is sour if seen as experience.= Emerson.

=Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Creator; everything degenerates in the hands of man.= Rousseau.

=Everything is mere opinion.= M. Aurelius.

=Everything is sold to skill and labour.= Hume. 35

=Everything is sweetened by risk.= A. Smith.

=Everything is what it is, and not another thing.= Bishop Butler.

=Everything is worth the money that can be got for it.= Pub. Syr.

=Everything looks easy that is practised to perfection.= Goethe.

=Everything rises but to fall, and increases but= 40 =to decay.= Sall.

=Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed; and to carry the danger to the edge of ruin, Nature causes each man's peculiarity to superabound.= Emerson.

=Everything springs into being and passes away according to law, yet how fluctuating is the lot that presides over the life which is to us so priceless.= Goethe.

=Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.= Sen.

=Everything that happens, happens of necessity.= Schopenhauer.

=Everything that happens in this world is part= 45 =of a great plan of God running through all time.= Ward Beecher.

=Everything that happens to us leaves some trace behind it, and everything insensibly contributes to make us what we are.= Goethe.

=Everything that is exquisite hides itself.= _J. Roux._

=Everything that is popular deserves the attention of the philosopher; although it may not be of any worth in itself, yet it characterises the people.= Emerson.

=Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for never is life so low as when occupied with the present.= Landor.

=Everything that tends to emancipate us from= 50 =external restraint without adding to our own power of self-government is mischievous.= Goethe.

=Everything unnatural is imperfect.= Napoleon.

=Everything useful to the life of man arises from the ground, but few things arise in that condition which is requisite to render them useful.= Hume.

=Every thought that arises in the mind, in its rising aims to pass out of the mind into act; just as every plant, in the moment of generation, struggles up to the light.= Emerson.

=Every thought was once a poem.= Emerson. (?)

=Every thought which genius and piety throw= 55 =into the world alters the world.= Emerson.

=Every time a man smiles, much more when he laughs, it adds something to his fragment of life.= Sterne.

=Every time you forgive a man you weaken him and strengthen yourself.= Amer. Pr.

=Every transition is a crisis, and a crisis presupposes sickness.= Goethe.

=Every traveller has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.= Dickens.

=Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire.= Jesus.

=Every true man's apparel fits your thief.= Meas. for Meas., iv. 2.

=Every tub must stand on its own bottom.= Pr.

=Every unpleasant feeling is a sign that I have= 5 =become untrue to my resolutions.= Jean Paul.

=Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.= Dan. Webster.

=Every vicious habit and chronic disease communicates itself by descent, and by purity of birth the entire system of the human body and soul may be gradually elevated, or by recklessness of birth degraded, until there shall be as much difference between the well-bred and ill-bred human creature (whatever pains be taken with their education) as between a wolf-hound and the vilest mongrel cur.= Ruskin.

=Every violation of truth is a stab at the health of society.= Emerson.

=Every wanton and causeless restraint of the will of the subject, whether practised by a monarch, a nobility, or a popular assembly, is a degree of tyranny.= Blackstone.

=Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in= 10 =my brother, because he has shut his own temple doors, and recites fables merely of his brother's or his brother's brother's God.= Emerson.

=Everywhere in life the true question is, not what we gain, but what we do; so also in intellectual matters it is not what we receive, but what we are made to give, that chiefly contents and profits us.= Carlyle.

=Everywhere the formed world is the only habitable one.= Carlyle.

=Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of two everlasting, hostile empires, Necessity and Free Will.= Carlyle.

=Everywhere the individual seeks to show himself off to advantage, and nowhere honestly endeavours to make himself subservient to the whole.= Goethe.

=Every white will have its black, / And every= 15 =sweet its sour.= T. Percy.

=Every why hath a wherefore.= Com. of Errors, ii. 2.

=Every wise woman buildeth her house, but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.= Bible.

=Every word was once a poem.= Emerson.

=Every worm beneath the moon / Draws different threads, and late and soon / Spins, toiling out his own cocoon.= Tennyson.

=Every youth, from the king's son downwards,= 20 =should learn to do something finely and thoroughly with his hand.= Ruskin.

=E vestigio=--Instantly.

=Evil and good are everywhere, like shadow and substance; (for men) inseparable, yet not hostile, only opposed.= Carlyle.

=Evil, be thou my good.= Milton.

=Evil comes to us by ells and goes away by inches.= Pr.

=Evil communications corrupt good manners.= 25 Pr.

=Evil events from evil causes spring.= Aristophanes.

=Evil is a far more cunning and persevering propagandist than good, for it has no inward strength, and is driven to seek countenance and sympathy.= Lowell.

=Evil is generally committed under the hope of some advantage the pursuit of virtue seldom obtains.= B. R. Haydon.

=Evil is merely privative, not absolute; it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity.= Emerson.

=Evil is wrought by want of thought / As well= 30 =as want of heart.= T. Hood.

=Evil, like a rolling stone upon a mountain-top, / A child may first impel, a giant cannot stop.= Trench.

=Evil men understand not judgment, but they that seek the Lord understand all things.= Bible.

=Evil news rides post, while good news bates.= Milton.

=Evil often triumphs, but never conquers.= _J. Roux._

=Evil, what we call evil, must ever exist while= 35 =man exists; evil, in the widest sense we can give it, is precisely the dark, disordered material out of which man's freewill has to create an edifice of order and good. Ever must pain urge us to labour; and only in free effort can any blessedness be imagined for us.= Carlyle.

=Evils can never pass away; for there must always remain something which is antagonistic to good.= Plato.

=Evils that take leave, / On their departure most of all show evil.= King John, iii. 4.

=Evolare rus ex urbe tanquam ex vinculis=--To fly from the town into the country, as though from bonds. Cic.

=Ewig jung zu bleiben / Ist, wie Dichter schreiben / Hochstes Lebensgut; / Willst du es erwerben / Musst du frühe sterben=--To continue eternally young is, as poets write, the highest bliss of life; wouldst thou attain to it, thou must die young. Rückert.

=Ewig zu sein in jedem Momente=--To be eternal 40 at every moment. Schleiermacher.

=Ex abrupto=--Without preparation.

=Ex abundante cautela=--From excessive precaution. L.

=Ex abusu non arguitur ad usum=--There is no arguing from the abuse of a thing against the use of it. L.

=Ex abusu non argumentum ad desuetudinem=--The abuse of a thing is no argument for its discontinuance. L.

=Exact justice is commonly more merciful in= 45 =the long run than pity, for it tends to foster in men those stronger qualities which make them good citizens.= Lowell.

=Ex æquo=--By right.

=Ex æquo et bono=--In justice and equity.

=Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood.= H. Ballou.

=Exaggeration is to paint a snake and add legs.= Chinese Pr.

=Examine the religious principles which have, in fact, prevailed in the world. You will scarcely be persuaded that they are anything but sick men's dreams.= Hume.

=Examine your soul and its emotions, and thoughts will be to you so many glorious revelations of the Godhead.= Nourisson.

=Example acquires tenfold authority when it speaks from the grave.= W. Phillips.

=Example has more followers than reason.= Bovee.

=Example is a hazardous lure: where the wasp= 5 =gets through, the gnat sticks.= La Fontaine.

=Example is more efficacious than precept.= Johnson.

=Example is more forcible than precept. People look at me six days in the week, to see what I mean on the seventh.= Cecil.

=Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.= Burke.

=Examples of rare intelligence, yet more rarely cultivated, are not lights kindled for a moment; they live on here in their good deeds, and in their venerated memories.= Gladstone.

=Examples would indeed be excellent things,= 10 =were not people so modest that none will set them, and so vain that none will follow them.= Hare.

=Ex animo=--From the soul; heartily.

=Ex aperto=--Openly.

=Ex auribus cognoscitur asinus=--An ass is known by his ears. Pr.

=Ex cathedra=--From the chair; with authority.

=Excellence is never granted to man but as the= 15 =reward of labour.= Sir Jos. Reynolds.

=Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul, / But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, / Chaos is come again.= Othello, iii. 3.

=Excelsior=--Still higher.

=Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone; but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.= Jesus.

=Except by mastership and servantship, there is no conceivable deliverance from tyranny and slavery.= Carlyle.

=Except I be by Silvia in the night, / There is= 20 =no music in the nightingale.= _Two Gent. of Ver._, iii. 1.

=Except in knowing what it has to do and how to do it, the soul cannot resolve the riddle of its destiny.= Ed.

=Except in obedience to the heaven-chosen is freedom not so much as conceivable.= Carlyle.

=Except pain of body and remorse of conscience, all our evils are imaginary.= Rousseau.

=Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it; except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh in vain.= Bible.

=Except ye be converted and become as little= 25 =children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.= Jesus.

=Exceptio probat regulam=--The exception proves the rule.

=Exceptis excipiendis=--The requisite exceptions being made.

=Excepto quod non simul esses, cætera lætus=--Except that you were not with me, in other respects I was happy.

=Excerpta=--Extracts. L.

=Excess generally causes reaction, and produces= 30 =a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.= Plato.

=Excess in apparel is costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones.= Wm. Penn.

=Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.= Marlowe.

=Excessit ex ephebis=--He has come to the age of manhood. Ter.

=Excessive distrust is not less hurtful than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived.= Vauvenargues.

=Excitari, non hebescere=--To be spirited, not 35 sluggish. M.

=Exclusa opes omnes=--All hope is gone. Plaut.

=Ex commodo=--Leisurely.

=Ex concesso=--Admittedly.

=Ex confesso=--Confessedly.

=Ex curia=--Out of court. 40

=Excusing of a fault / Doth make the fault worse by the excuse.= King John, iv. 2.

=Ex debito justitiæ=--From what is due to justice; from a regard to justice.

=Ex delicto=--From the crime.

=Ex desuetudine amittuntur privilegia=--Rights are forfeited by disuse. L.

=Ex diuturnitate temporis omnia præsumuntur= 45 =esse solemniter acta=--Everything established for a length of time is presumed to have been done in due form. L.

=Exeat=--Let him depart.

=Exegi monumentum ære perennius=--I have reared a memorial of myself more durable than brass. Hor.

=Exempli gratia=--By way of example.

=Exemplo plus quam ratione vivimus=--We live more by example than reason.

=Exemplumque Dei quisque est in imagine= 50 =parva=--Each man is the copy of his God in small. Manil.

Exercise is labour without weariness. Johnson.

=Exercise the muscles well, but spare the nerves always.= Schopenhauer.

=Exercitatio optimus est magister=--Practice is the best master. Pr.

=Exercitatio potest omnia=--Perseverance conquers all difficulties.

=Exeunt omnes=--All retire. 55

=Ex facie=--Evidently.

=Ex factis non ex dictis amici pensandi=--Friends are to be estimated from deeds, not words. Liv.

=Ex facto jus oritur=--The law arisen out of the fact, i.e., it cannot till then be put in force. L.

=Ex fide fortis=--Strong from faith. M.

=Ex fumo dare lucem=--To give light from smoke. 60 M.

=Ex humili magna ad fastigia rerum / Extollit, quoties voluit fortuna jocari=--As oft as Fortune is in a freakish mood, she raises men from a humble station to the imposing summit of things. Juv.

=Ex hypothesi=--Hypothetically.

=Exigite ut mores teneros ceu pollice ducat, / Ut si quis cera vultum facit=--Require him as with his thumb to mould their youthful morals, just as one fashions a face with plastic wax. Juv.

=Exigui numero, sed bello vivida virtus=--Few in number, yet their valour ardent for war. Virg.

=Exiguum est ad legem bonum esse=--It is but a small matter to be good in the eye of the law only. Sen.

=Exile is terrible to those who have, as it were, a circumscribed habitation; but not to those who look upon the whole globe as one city.= Cic.

=Exilioque domos et dulcia limina mutant /= 5 =Atque alio patriam quærunt sub sole jacentem=--They exchange their home and sweet thresholds for exile, and seek under another sun another home. Virg.

=Ex improviso=--Unexpectedly.

=Ex industria=--Purposely.

=Ex inimico cogita posse fieri amicum=--Think that you may make a friend of an enemy. Sen.

=Ex integro=--Anew; afresh.

=Ex intervallo=--At some distance. 10

=Existence is not to be measured by mere duration.= Caird.

=Exitio est avidium mare nautis=--The greedy sea is destruction to the sailors. Hor.

=Ex malis eligere minima=--Of evils to choose the least. Cic.

=Ex malis moribus bonæ leges natæ sunt=--From bad manners good laws have sprung. Coke.

=Ex mero motu=--Of one's own free will. 15

=Ex nihilo nihil fit=--Nothing produces nothing.

=Ex officio=--By virtue of his office.

=Ex opere operato=--By the external act.

=Exoriare aliquis nostris ex ossibus ultor=--An avenger shall arise out of my bones. Virg.

=Ex otio plus negotii quam ex negotio habemus=--Our 20 leisure gives us more to do than our business.

=Ex parte=--One-sided.

=Ex pede Herculem=--We judge of the size of the statue of Hercules by the foot.

=Expect injuries; for men are weak, and thou thyself doest such too often.= Jean Paul.

=Expediency is the science of exigencies.= Kossuth.

=Expense of time is the most costly of all expenses.= 25 Theophrastus.

=Experience, a jewel that I have purchased at an infinite rate.= Merry Wives, ii. 2.

=Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.= A. B. Alcott.

=Experience is a text to which reflection and knowledge supply the commentary.= Schopenhauer.

=Experience is by industry achieved, / And perfected by swift course of time.= Two Gent. of Ver., i. 3.

="Experience is the best teacher," only the= 30 =school-fees are heavy.= Hegel. (?)

=Experience is the grand spiritual doctor.= Carlyle.

=Experience is the mistress of fools.= Pr.

=Experience is the only genuine knowledge.= Goethe.

=Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.= Ben. Franklin.

=Experience makes even fools wise.= Pr. 35

=Experience makes us see a wonderful difference between devotion and goodness.= Pascal.

=Experience takes dreadfully high school-wages, but teaches as no other.= Carlyle.

=Experience teaches us again and again that there is nothing men have less command over than their tongues.= Spinoza.

=Experience teacheth that resolution is a sole help in need.= (?)

=Experience that is bought is good, if not too= 40 =dear.= Pr.

=Experience to most men is like the stern-lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed.= Coleridge.

=Experientia docet=--Experience teaches. Pr.

=Experimentum crucis=--A decisive experiment.

=Expert men can execute, but learned men are more fit to judge and censure.= Bacon.

=Experto credite=--Believe one who has had experience. 45 Virg.

=Expertus metuit=--He who has had experience is afraid. Hor.

=Expetuntur divitiæ ad perficiendas voluptates=--Riches are coveted to minister to our pleasures.

=Explorant adversa viros; perque aspera duro / Nititur ad laudem virtus interrita clivo=--Adversity tries men, and virtue struggles after fame, regardless of the adverse heights. Sil. Ital.

=Ex post facto=--After the event. L.

=Expression alone can invest beauty with= 50 =supreme and lasting command over the eye.= Fuseli.

=Expressio unius est exclusio alterius=--The naming of one man is the exclusion of another. L.

=Ex professo=--As one who knows; professedly.

=Ex quovis ligno non fit Mercurius=--A Mercury is not to be made out of any log. Pr.

=Ex scintilla incendium=--From a spark a conflagration. Pr.

=Ex tempore=--Off-hand; unpremeditated. 55

=Extended empire, like expanded gold, exchanges solid strength for feeble splendour.= Johnson.

=External manners of lament / Are merely shadows to the unseen grief / That swells with silence in the tortured soul.= Rich. II., iv. 1.

=Extinctus amabilis idem=--He will be beloved when he is dead (who was envied when he was living). Hor.

=Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science, as the strangled snakes beside that of Hercules.= Huxley.

=Extra ecclesiam nulla salus=--Outside the Church 60 there is no safety.

=Extra lutum pedes habes=--You have got your feet out of the mud. Pr.

=Extra muros=--Beyond the walls.

=Extra telorum jactum=--Beyond bow-shot.

=Extrema gaudii luctus occupat=--Grief treads on the confines of gladness. Pr.

=Extrema manus nondum operibus ejus imposita est=--The finishing hand has not yet been put to his works.

=Extreme justice is often extreme injustice.=

=Extremes beget extremes.= Pr.

=Extreme in all things! hadst thou been betwixt,= 5 =/ Thy throne had still been thine, or never been.= Byron.

=Extremes in nature equal ends produce; / In man they join to some mysterious use.= Pope.

=Extremes meet.= Pr.

=Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects; extreme heat mortifies, like extreme cold; extreme love breeds satiety as well as extreme hatred; and too violent rigour tempts chastity as much as too much license.= Chapman.

=Extremis malis extrema remedia=--Extreme remedies for extreme evils. Pr.

=Extremity is the trier of spirits.= Coriol. iv. 1. 10

=Exuerint sylvestrem animum, cultuque frequenti, / In quascunque voces artes, haud tarda sequentur=--They lay aside their rustic ideas, and by repeated instruction will advance apace into whatever arts you may initiate them. Virg.

=Ex umbra in solem=--Out of the shade into the sunshine. Pr.

=Ex ungue leonem=--The lion may be known by his claw.

=Ex uno disce omnes=--From one judge of all.

=Ex vita discedo, tanquam ex hospitio, non= 15 =tanquam ex domo=--I depart from life as from an inn, not as from a home. Cic.

=Ex vitio alterius sapiens emendat suum=--From the faults of another a wise man will correct his own. Laber.

=Ex vitulo bos fit=--From a calf an ox grows up.

=Ex vultibus hominum mores colligere=--To construe men's characters by their looks.

=Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.= St. Paul.

=Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, /= 20 =And catch the manners living as they rise.= Pope.

=Eyes are better, on the whole, than telescopes or microscopes.= Emerson.

=Eyes bright, with many tears behind them.= Carlyle, on his Wife.

=Eyes not down-dropp'd nor over-bright, but fed with the clear-pointed flame of chastity.= Tennyson.

=Eyes / Of microscopic power, that could discern / The population of a dewdrop.= _J. Montgomery._

=Eyes raised towards heaven are always beautiful,= 25 =whatever they be.= Joubert.

=Eyes speak all languages; wait for no letter of introduction; they ask no leave of age or rank; they respect neither poverty nor riches, neither learning, nor power, nor virtue, nor sex, but intrude and come again, and go through and through you in a moment of time.= Emerson.

=Eyes will not see when the heart wishes them to be blind; desire conceals truth as darkness does the earth.= Sen.

=Ez for war, I call it murder; / There you hev it plain and flat; / I don't want to go no furder / Than my Testyment for that.= Lowell.

F.

=Fa bene, e non guardare a chi=--Do good, no matter to whom. It. Pr.

=Faber suæ fortunæ=--The maker of his own fortune. 30 Sall.

=Fabricando fabri fimus=--We become workmen by working. Pr.

=Fabula, nec sentis, tota jactaris in urbe=--You are the talk, though you don't know it, of the whole town. Ovid.

=Faces are as legible as books, only they are read in much less time, and are much less likely to deceive us.= Lavater.

=Faces are as paper money, for which, on demand, there frequently proves to be no gold in the coffer.= F. G. Trafford.

=Faces are but a gallery of portraits.= Bacon. 35

=Faces which have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.= Scott.

=Fac et excusa=--Do it and so justify yourself. Pr.

=Facetiarum apud præpotentes in longum memoria est=--It is long before men in power forget the jest they have been the subject of. Tac.

=Fach=--Department. Ger.

=Facienda=--Things to be done. 40

=Facies non omnibus una, / Nec diversa tamen; qualem decet esse sororum=--The features were not the same in them all, nor yet are they quite different, but such as we would expect in sisters. Ovid.

=Facies tua computat annos=--Your face records your age. Juv.

=Facile est imperium in bonis=--It is easy to rule over the good. Plaut.

=Facile est inventis addere=--It is easy to add to or improve on what has been already invented. Pr.

=Facile largiri de alieno=--It is easy to be generous 45 with what is another's. Pr.

=Facile omnes cum valemus recta consilia / Ægrotis damus=--We can all, when we are well, easily give good advice to the sick. Ter.

=Facile princeps=--The admitted chief; with ease at the top.

=Facilis descensus Averno est, / Noctes atque dies patet atri janua Ditis; / Sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras, / Hoc opus, hic labor est=--The descent to hell is easy; night and day the gate of gloomy Dis stands open; but to retrace your steps and escape to the upper air, this is a work, this is a toil. Virg.

=Facilius crescit quam inchoatur dignitas=--It is more easy to obtain an accession of dignity than to acquire it in the first instance. Laber.

=Facilius sit Nili caput invenire=--It would be 50 easier to discover the source of the Nile. Old Pr.

=Facinus audax incipit, / Qui cum opulento pauper homine cœpit rem habere aut negotium=--The poor man who enters into partnership with a rich makes a risky venture. Plaut.

=Facinus majoris abollæ=--A crime of a very deep dye (lit. one committed by a man who wears the garb of a philosopher). Juv.

=Facinus quos inquinat æquat=--Those whom guilt stains it equals, i.e., it puts on even terms. Lucan.

=Facit indignatio versum=--Indignation gives inspiration to verse.

=Facito aliquid operis, ut semper te diabolus= 5 =inveniat occupatum=--Keep doing something, so that the devil may always find you occupied. St. Jerome.

=Faciunt næ intelligendo, ut nihil intelligant=--They are so knowing that they know nothing. Ter.

=Façon de parler=--A manner of speaking. Fr.

=Facsimile=--An engraved resemblance of a man's handwriting; an exact copy of anything (lit. do the like).

=Facta canam; sed erunt qui me finxisse loquantur=--I am about to sing of facts; but some will say I have invented them. Ovid.

=Facta ejus cum dictis discrepant=--His actions 10 do not harmonise with his words. Cic.

=Facta, non verba=--Deeds, not words.

=Fact is better than fiction, if only we could get it pure.= Emerson.

=Facts are apt to alarm us more than the most dangerous principles.= Junius.

=Facts are chiels that winna ding, / And downa be disputed.= Burns.

=Facts are stubborn things.= Le Sage. 15

=Facts are to the mind the same thing as food to the body.= Burke.

=Facts--historical facts, still more biographical--are sacred hierograms, for which the fewest have the key.= Carlyle.

=Factis ignoscite nostris / Si scelus ingenio scitis abesse meo=--Forgive what I have done, since you know all evil intention was far from me. Ovid.

=Factotum=--A man of all work (lit. do everything).

=Factum abiit; monumenta manent=--The event 20 is an affair of the past; the memorial of it is still with us. Ovid.

=Factum est=--It is done. M.

=Factum est illud; fieri infectum non potest=--It is done and cannot be undone. Plaut.

=Fader og Moder ere gode, end er Gud bedre=--Father and mother are kind, but God is kinder. Dan. Pr.

=Fæx populi=--The dregs of the people.

=Fagerhed uden Tugt, Rose uden Hugt=--Beauty 25 without virtue is a rose without scent. Dan. Pr.

=Fähigkeiten werden vorausgesetzt; sie sollen zu Fertigkeiten werden=--Capacities are presupposed: they are meant to develop into capabilities, or skilled dexterities. Goethe.

=Failures are with heroic minds the stepping-stones to success.= Haliburton.

=Fain would I, but I dare not; I dare, and yet I may not; / I may, although I care not, for pleasure when I play not.= Raleigh.

="Fain would I climb, but that I fear a fall."= Raleigh on a pane of glass, to which Queen Elizabeth added, "If thy heart fail thee, then why climb at all?"

=Fainéant=--Do nothing. Fr. 30

=Faint heart never won fair lady.= Pr.

=Faint not; the miles to heaven are but few and short.= S. Rutherford.

=Fair and softly goes far in a day.= Pr.

=Fair enough, if good enough.= Pr.

=Fair fa' guid drink, for it gars= (makes) =folk= 35 =speak as they think.= Sc. Pr.

=Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face, / Great chieftain o' the puddin' race! / Abune them a' ye tak' your place, / Paunch, tripe, or thairm; / Weel are ye wordy o' a grace / As lang's my airm.= Burns to a Haggis.

=Fair flowers don't remain lying by the highway.= Ger. Pr.

=Fair folk are aye fusionless= (pithless). Sc. Pr.

=Fair is not fair, but that which pleaseth.= Pr.

=Fair maidens wear nae purses= (the lads always 40 paying their share). Sc. Pr.

=Fair play's a jewel.= Pr.

=Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare, / And beauty draws us with a single hair.= Pope.

=Fair words butter no parsnips.= Pr.

=Faire bonne mine à mauvaise jeu=--To put a good face on the matter. Fr.

=Faire le chien couchant=--To play the spaniel; to 45 cringe. Fr.

=Faire le diable à quatre=--To play the devil or deuce. Fr.

=Faire le pendant=--To be the fellow. Fr.

=Faire mon devoir=--To do my duty. Fr.

=Faire patte de velours=--To coax (lit. make a velvet paw). Fr.

=Faire prose sans le savoir=--To speak prose 50 without knowing it. Molière.

=Faire sans dire=--To act without talking. Fr.

=Faire un trou pour en boucher un autre=--To make one hole in order to stop another. Fr. Pr.

=Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, / If better thou belong not to the dawn.= Milton.

=Fais ce que dois, advienne que pourra=--Do your duty, come what may. Fr. Pr.

=Fait accompli=--A thing already done. Fr. 55

=Faith affirms many things respecting which the senses are silent; but nothing that they deny.= Pascal.

=Faith always implies the disbelief of a lesser fact in favour of a greater. A little mind often sees the unbelief, without seeing the belief, of large ones.= Holmes.

=Faith and joy are the ascensive forces of song.= Stedman.

=Faith builds a bridge across the gulf of death, / To break the shock blind Nature cannot shun, / And lands thought smoothly on the farther shore.= Young.

=Faith builds a bridge from the old world to the= 60 =next.= Young.

=Faith doth not lie dead in the breast, but is lovely and fruitful in bringing forth good works.= Cranmer.

=Faith, fanatic faith, once wedded fast, / To save dear falsehood, hugs it to the last.= Moore.

=Faith has given man an inward willingness, a world of strength wherewith to front a world of difficulty.= Carlyle.

=Faith in a better than that which appears is no less required by art than religion.= John Sterling.

=Faith is generally strongest in those whose character may be called weakest.= Mme. de Staël.

=Faith is letting down our nets into the untransparent deeps at the Divine command, not knowing what we shall take.= Faber.

=Faith is like love; it does not admit of being forced.= Schopenhauer.

=Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.= 5 Channing.

=Faith is loyalty to some inspired teacher, some spiritual hero.= Carlyle.

=Faith is necessary to victory.= Hazlitt.

=Faith is nothing but spiritualised imagination.= Ward Beecher.

=Faith is nothing more than obedience.= Voltaire.

=Faith is not reason's labour, but repose.= 10 Young.

=Faith is not the beginning, but the end of all knowledge.= Goethe.

=Faith is our largest manufacturer of good works, and wherever her furnaces are blown out, morality suffers.= Birrell.

=Faith is required at thy hands, and a sincere life, not loftiness of intellect or inquiry into the deep mysteries of God.= Thomas à Kempis.

=Faith is taking God at His word.= Evans.

=Faith is that courage in the heart which trusts= 15 =for all good to God.= Luther.

=Faith is the creator of the Godhead; not that it creates anything in the Divine Eternal Being, but that it creates that Being in us.= Luther.

=Faith is the heroism of intellect.= C. H. Parkhurst.

=Faith is the soul of religion, and works the body.= Colton.

=Faith loves to lean on Time's destroying arm.= Holmes.

=Faith makes us, and not we it; and faith makes= 20 =its own forms.= Emerson.

=Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, / And looks to that alone; / Laughs at impossibilities, / And cries--"It shall be done."= C. Wesley.

=Faith opens a way for the understanding; unbelief closes it.= St. Augustine.

=Faith without works is like a bird without wings.= J. Beaumont.

=Faith's abode / Is mystery for evermore, / Its life, to worship and adore, / And meekly bow beneath the rod, / When the day is dark and the burden sore.= Dr. Walter Smith.

=Faiths that are different in their roots, /= 25 =Where the will is right and the heart is sound, / Are much the same in their fruits.= J. B. Selkirk.

=Faithful are the wounds of a friend.= Bible.

=Faithful found / Among the faithless; faithful only he.= Milton.

=Faithfulness and sincerity are the highest things.= Confucius.

=Falla pouco, e bem, ter-te-haô por alguem=--Speak little and well; they will take you for somebody. Port. Pr.

=Fallacia / Alia aliam trudit=--One falsehood 30 begets another (lit. thrusts aside another). Ter.

=Fallacies we are apt to put upon ourselves by taking words for things.= Locke.

=Fallentis semita vitæ=--The pathway of deceptive or unnoticed life. Hor.

=Fallit enim vitium, specie virtutis et umbra, / Cum sit triste habitu, vultuque et veste severum=--For vice deceives under an appearance and shadow of virtue when it is subdued in manner and severe in countenance and dress. Juv.

=Fallitur, egregio quisquis sub principe credit / Servitium. Nunquam libertas gratior extat / Quam sub rege pio=--Whoso thinks it slavery to serve under an eminent prince is mistaken. Liberty is never sweeter than under a pious king. Claud.

=Falls have their risings, wanings have their= 35 =primes, / And desperate sorrows wait for better times.= Quarles.

=Falsch ist das Geschlecht der Menschen=--False is the race of men. Schiller.

=False as dicers' oaths.= Ham., iii. 4.

=False by degrees and exquisitely wrong.= Canning.

=False face must hide what the false heart doth know.= Macb., i. 7.

=False folk should hae mony witnesses.= Sc. 40 Pr.

=False freends are waur than bitter enemies.= Sc. Pr.

=False friends are like our shadow, close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.= Bovee.

=False glory is the rock of vanity.= La Bruyère.

=False modesty is the masterpiece of vanity.= La Bruyère.

=False modesty is the most decent of all falsehood.= 45 Chamfort.

=False shame is the parent of many crimes.= Fox.

=Falsehood and death are synonymous.= Bancroft.

=Falsehood borders so closely upon truth, that a wise man should not trust himself too near the precipice.= (?)

=Falsehood is cowardice; truth is courage.= H. Ballou.

=Falsehood is easy, truth is difficult.= George 50 Eliot.

=Falsehood is folly.= Hom.

=Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth.= Colton.

=Falsehood is our one enemy in this world.= Carlyle.

=Falsehood is so much the more commendable, by how much more it resembles truth, and is the more pleasing the more it is doubtful and possible.= Cervantes.

=Falsehood is the devil's daughter, and speaks= 55 =her father's tongue.= Dan. Pr.

=Falsehood is the essence of all sin.= Carlyle.

=Falsehood, like poison, will generally be rejected when administered alone; but when blended with wholesome ingredients may be swallowed unperceived.= Whately.

=Falsehood, like the dry rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded.= Whately.

=Falso damnati crimine mortis=--Condemned to die on a false charge. Virg.

=Falsum in uno, falsum in omni=--False in one thing, false in everything.

=Falsus honor juvat, et mendax infamia terret / Quem nisi mendosum et medicandum=--Undeserved honour delights, and lying calumny alarms no one but him who is full of falsehood and needs to be reformed. Hor.

=Fama clamosa=--A current scandal.

=Fama crescit eundo=--Rumour grows as it goes. 5 Virg.

=Fama nihil est celerius=--Nothing circulates more swiftly than scandal. Livy.

=Famæ damna majora sunt, quam quæ æstimari possint=--The loss of reputation is greater than can be possibly estimated. Livy.

=Famæ laboranti non facile succurritur=--It is not easy to repair a damaged character. Pr.

=Famam extendere factis.=--To extend one's fame by valiant feats. Virg.

=Fame and censure with a tether / By fate are= 10 =always linked together.= Swift.

=Fame at its best is but a poor compensation for all the ills of existence.= Mrs. Oliphant.

=Fame comes only when deserved, and then it is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.= Longfellow.

=Fame is a fancied life in others' breath.= Pope.

=Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave.= Colton.

=Fame is a revenue payable only to our ghosts.= 15 Mackenzie.

=Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck only at one end of a room, it will soon fall to the floor. To keep it up, it must be struck at both ends.= Johnson.

=Fame is but the breath of the people, and that often unwholesome.= Pr.

=Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.= Milton.

=Fame is not won on downy plumes nor under canopies.= Dante.

=Fame is the advantage of being known by= 20 =people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.= Stanislaus.

=Fame is the breath of popular applause.= Herrick.

=Fame is the perfume of noble deeds.= Socrates.

=Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, / (That last infirmity of noble minds,) / To scorn delights and live laborious days.= Milton.

=Fame may be compared to a scold; the best way to silence her is to let her alone, and she will at last be out of breath in blowing her own trumpet.= Fuller.

=Fame only reflects the estimate in which a= 25 =man is held in comparison with others.= Schopenhauer.

=Fame sometimes hath created something of nothing.= Fuller.

=Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else; very rarely to those who say to themselves, "Go to now, let us be a celebrated individual."= Holmes.

=Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of a man; like light, it can give little or nothing, but at most may show what is given; often it is but a false glare, dazzling the eyes of the vulgar, lending, by casual extrinsic splendour, the brightness and manifold glance of the diamond to pebbles of no value.= Carlyle.

=Fame with men, / Being but ampler means to serve mankind, / Should have small rest or pleasure in herself, / But work as vassal to the larger love, / That dwarfs the petty love of one to one.= Tennyson.

=Fames et mora bilem in nasum conciunt=--Hunger 30 and delay stir up one's bile (lit. in the nostrils). Pr.

=Fames, pestis, et bellum, populi sunt pernicies=--Famine, pestilence, and war are the destruction of a people.

=Familiare est hominibus omnia sibi ignoscere=--It is common to man to pardon all his own faults.

=Familiarity breeds contempt.= Pr.

=Familiarity is a suspension of almost all the laws of civility which libertinism has introduced into society under the notion of ease.= La Roche.

=Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it.= 35 George Eliot.

=Famine hath a sharp and meagre face.= Dryden.

=Fammi indovino, e ti farò ricco=--Make me a prophet, and I will make you rich. It. Pr.

=Fanaticism is a fire which heats the mind indeed, but heats without purifying.= Warburton.

=Fanaticism is such an overwhelming impression of the ideas relating to the future world as disqualifies for the duties of this.= R. Hall.

=Fanaticism is to superstition what delirium is= 40 =to fever and rage to anger.= Voltaire.

=Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.= Gibbon.

=Fanaticism, soberly defined, / Is the false fire of an o'erheated mind.= Cowper.

=Fancy is capricious; wit must not be searched for, and pleasantry will not come in at a call.= Sterne.

=Fancy is imagination in her youth and adolescence.= Landor.

=Fancy kills and fancy cures.= Sc. Pr. 45

=Fancy requires much, necessity but little.= Ger. Pr.

=Fancy restrained may be compared to a fountain, which plays highest by diminishing the aperture.= Goldsmith.

=Fancy rules over two-thirds of the universe, the past and the future, while reality is confined to the present.= Jean Paul.

=Fancy runs most furiously when a guilty conscience drives it.= Fuller.

=Fancy surpasses beauty.= Pr. 50

=Fancy, when once brought into religion, knows not where to stop.= Whately.

=Fanfaronnade=--Boasting. Fr.

=Fanned fires and forced love ne'er did weel.= Sc. Pr.

=Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart, / How hard thy yoke! how cruel is thy dart! / Those 'scape thy anger who refuse thy sway, / And those are punished most who most obey.= Prior.

=Fantasy is of royal blood; the senses, of noble descent; and reason, of civic= (bürgerlichen) =origin.= Feuerbach.

=Fantasy is the true heaven-gate and hell-gate of man.= Carlyle.

=Far ahint maun follow the faster.= Sc. Pr.

=Far-awa fowls hae aye fair feathers.= Sc. 5 Pr.

=Far better it is to know everything of a little than a little of everything.= Pickering.

=Far frae court, far frae care.= Sc. Pr.

=Far from all resort of mirth / Save the cricket on the hearth.= Milton.

=Far from home is near to harm.= Fris. Pr.

=Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, /= 10 =Their sober wishes never learned to stray; / Along the cool sequester'd vale of life / They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.= Gray.

=Far greater numbers have been lost by hopes / Than all the magazines of daggers, ropes, / And other ammunitions of despair, / Were ever able to despatch by fear.= Butler.

=Far niente=--A do-nothing.

=Far-off cows have long horns.= Gael. Pr.

=Far-off fowls hae feathers fair, / And aye until ye try them; / Though they seem fair, still have a care, / They may prove waur than I am.= Burns.

=Far or forgot to me is near; / Shadow and= 15 =sunlight are the same; / The vanished gods to me appear; / And one to me are shame and fear.= Emerson.

=Fare, fac=--Speak, do.

=Fare thee well! and if for ever, / Still for ever fare thee well! / E'en though unforgiving, never / 'Gainst thee shall my heart rebel.= Byron.

=Fare you weel, auld Nickie-ben! / O wad ye tak' a thocht and men'! / Ye aiblins micht--I dinna ken--/ Still hae a stake: / I'm wae to think upo' yon den, / E'en for your sake.= Burns.

=Farewell, a long farewell to all my greatness! / This is the state of man: to-day he puts forth / The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, / And bears his blushing honours thick upon him: / The third day comes a frost, a killing frost: / And when he thinks, good easy man, full surely / His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root / And then he falls, as I do.= Hen. VIII., iii. 2.

=Farewell! God knows when we shall meet= 20 =again. / I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins, / That almost freezes up the heat of life.= Rom. and Jul., iv. 3.

=Farewell, happy fields, / Where joy for ever dwells; hail, horror, hail!= Milton.

=Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content! / Farewell the plumed troop and the big wars / That make ambition virtue! oh, farewell! / Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump, / The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, / The royal banner, and all quality, / Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war!= Othello, iii. 3.

=Farewell to Lochaber, farewell to my Jean, / Where heartsome wi' thee I hae mony days been; / For Lochaber no more, Lochaber no more, / We'll maybe return to Lochaber no more.= Allan Ramsay.

=Fari quæ sentiat=--To speak what he thinks. M.

=Farmers are the founders of civilisation.= 25 Daniel Webster.

=Farrago libelli=--The medley of that book of mine. Juv.

=Fas est et ab hoste doceri=--It is right to derive instruction even from an enemy. Ovid.

=Fashionability is a kind of elevated vulgarity.= G. Darley.

=Fashion, a word which fools use, / Their knavery and folly to excuse.= Churchill.

=Fashion begins and ends in two things it= 30 =abhors most--singularity and vulgarity.= Hazlitt.

=Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting.= Stedman.

=Fashion is aristocratic-autocratic.= J. G. Holland.

=Fashion is, for the most part, nothing but the ostentation of riches.= Locke.

=Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity, and afraid to be overtaken by it. It is a sign that the two things are not far asunder.= Hazlitt.

=Fashion is the great governor of the world.= 35 Fielding.

=Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.= Locke.

=Fashion seldom interferes with Nature without diminishing her grace and efficiency.= Tuckerman.

=Fashion wears out more apparel than the man.= Much Ado, iii. 3.

=Fast and loose.= Love's L. Lost, i. 1.

=Fast bind, fast find.= Pr. 40

=Faster than his tongue / Did make offence, his eye did heal it up.= As You Like It, iii. 5.

=Fastidientis est stomachi multa degustare=--Tasting so many dishes shows a dainty stomach. Sen.

=Fasti et nefasti dies=--Lucky and unlucky days.

=Fat hens are aye ill layers.= Sc. Pr.

=Fat paunches make lean pates, and dainty= 45 =bits / Make rich the ribs, but bankrupt quite the wits.= Love's L. Lost, i. 1.

=Fata obstant=--The fates oppose it.

=Fata volentem ducunt, nolentem trahunt=--Fate leads the willing, and drags the unwilling.

=Fate follows and limits power; power attends and antagonises fate; we must respect fate as natural history, but there is more than natural history.= Emerson.

=Fate hath no voice but the heart's impulses.= Schiller.

=Fate is a distinguished but an expensive tutor.= 50 Goethe.

=Fate is character.= W. Winter.

=Fate is ever better than design.= Thos. Doubleday.

=Fate is known to us as limitations.= Emerson.

=Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a former state of existence.= Hindu saying.

=Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad.= W. R. Alger.

=Fate is unpenetrated causes.= Emerson.

=Fate leads the willing, but drives the stubborn.= Pr.

=Fate made me what I am, may make me nothing; / But either that or nothing must I be; / I will not live degraded.= Byron.

=Fate steals along with silent tread, / Found= 5 =oftenest in what least we dread; / Frowns in the storm with angry brow, / But in the sunshine strikes the blow.= Cowper.

=Fatetur facinus is qui judicium fugit=--He who shuns a trial confesses his guilt. L.

=Father of all! in every age, / In every clime adored, / By saint, by savage, and by sage, / Jehovah, Jove, or Lord.= Pope.

=Fathers alone a father's heart can know, / What secret tides of sweet enjoyment flow / When brothers love! But if their hate succeeds, / They wage the war, but 'tis the father bleeds.= Young.

=Fathers first enter bonds to Nature's ends; / And are her sureties ere they are a friend's.= George Herbert.

=Fathers that wear rags / Do make their children= 10 =blind; / But fathers that wear bags / Do make their children kind.= King Lear, ii. 4.

=Fathers their children and themselves abuse / That wealth a husband for their daughters choose.= Shirley.

=Fatigatis humus cubile est=--To the weary the bare ground is a bed. Curt.

=Fatta la legge, trovata la malizia=--As soon as a law is made its evasion is found out. It. Pr.

=Faulheit ist der Schlüssel zur Armuth=--Sloth is the key to poverty. Ger. Pr.

=Faulheit ist Dummheit des Körpers, und= 15 =Dummheit Faulheit des Geistes=--Sluggishness is stupidity of body, and stupidity sluggishness of spirit. Seume.

=Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null.= Tennyson.

=Faults are beauties in lover's eyes.= Theocritus.

=Faults are thick when love is thin.= Pr.

=Faute de grives le diable mange des merles=--For want of thrushes the devil eats blackbirds. Fr. Pr.

=Faux pas=--A false step. Fr. 20

=Favete linguis=--Favour with words of good omen (lit. by your tongues). Ovid.

=Favourable chance is the god of all men who follow their own devices instead of obeying a law they believe in.= George Eliot.

=Favour and gifts disturb justice.= Dan. Pr.

=Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.= Bible.

=Favours, and especially pecuniary ones, are= 25 =generally fatal to friendship.= Hor. Smith.

=Favours unused are favours abused.= Sc. Pr.

=Fax mentis honestæ gloria=--Glory is the torch of an honourable mind. M.

=Fax mentis incendium gloriæ=--The flame of glory is the torch of the mind. M.

=Fay ce que voudras=--Do as you please. M.

=Fear always springs from ignorance.= Emerson. 30

=Fear and sorrow are the true characters and inseparable companions of most melancholy.= Burton.

=Fear can keep a man out of danger, but courage only can support him in it.= Pr.

=Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.= Bible.

=Fear God; honour the king.= St. Peter.

=Fear guards the vineyard.= It. Pr. 35

=Fear guides more to their duty than gratitude.= Goldsmith.

=Fear has many eyes.= Cervantes.

=Fear hath torment.= St. John.

=Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions. It has boded, and mowed, and gibbered for ages over government and property.= Emerson.

=Fear is described by Spenser to ride in armour,= 40 =at the clashing whereof he looks afeared of himself.= Peacham.

=Fear is far more painful to cowardice than death to true courage.= Sir P. Sidney.

=Fear is the underminer of all determinations; and necessity, the victorious rebel of all laws.= Sir P. Sidney.

=Fear is the virtue of slaves; but the heart that loveth is willing.= Longfellow.

=Fear is worse than fighting.= Gael. Pr.

=Fear not that tyrants shall rule for ever, / Or= 45 =the priests of the bloody faith; / They stand on the brink of that mighty river / Whose waves they have tainted with death.= Shelley.

=Fear not the confusion= (Verwirrung) =outside of thee, but that within thee; strive after unity, but seek it not in uniformity; strive after repose, but through the equipoise, not through the stagnation= (Stillstand), =of thy activity.= Schiller.

=Fear not the future; weep not for the past.= Shelley.

=Fear not, then, thou child infirm; / There's no god dare wrong a worm.= Emerson.

=Fear not where Heaven bids come; / Heaven's never deaf but when man's heart is dumb.= Quarles.

=Fear of change / Perplexes monarchs.= Milton. 50

=Fear oftentimes restraineth words, but makes not thought to cease.= Lord Vaux.

=Fear sometimes adds wings to the heels, and sometimes nails them to the ground and fetters them from moving.= Montaigne.

=Fear to do base, unworthy things is valour; / If they be done to us, to suffer them / Is valour too.= Ben Jonson.

=Fear's a fine spur.= Samuel Lover.

=Fear's a large promiser; who subject live /= 55 =To that base passion, know not what they give.= Dryden.

=Fears of the brave and follies of the wise.= Johnson.

=Fearfully and wonderfully made.= Bible.

=Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns.= 3 Hen. VI., iv. 7.

=Feasting makes no friendship.= Pr.

=Feast-won, fast-lost.= Tim. of Athens, ii. 2. 60

=Feather by feather the goose is plucked.= Pr.

=Fecisti enim nos ad te, et cor inquietum donec requiescat in te=--Thou hast made us for Thee, and the heart knows no rest until it rests in Thee. St. Augustine.

=Fecit=--He did it.

=Fecundi calices quem non fecere disertum?=--Whom have not flowing cups made eloquent? Hor.

=Fede ed innocenzia son reperte / Solo ne' pargoletti=--Faith and innocence are only to be found in little children. Dante.

=Feeble souls always set to work at the wrong time.= Cardinal de Reiz.

=Feebleness is sometimes the best security.= 5 Pr.

=Feed a cold and starve a fever.= Pr.

=Feed no man in his sins; for adulation / Doth make thee parcel-devil in damnation.= George Herbert.

=Feeling comes before reflection.= H. R. Haweis.

=Feeling should be stirred only when it can be sent to labour for worthy ends.= Brooke.

=Feelings are always purest and most glowing= 10 =in the hour of meeting and farewell; like the glaciers, which are transparent and rose-hued only at sunrise and sunset, but throughout the day grey and cold.= Jean Paul.

=Feelings are like chemicals; the more you analyse them, the worse they smell.= Kingsley.

=Feelings come and go like light troops following the victory of the present; but principles, like troops of the line, are undisturbed, and stand fast.= Jean Paul.

=Feelings, like flowers and butterflies, last longer the later they are delayed.= Jean Paul.

=Fehlst du, lass dich's nicht betrüben; Denn der Mangel führt zum Lieben; / Kannst dich nicht vom Fehl befrein, / Wirst du Andern gern verzeihn=--Shouldst thou fail, let it not trouble thee, for failure (lit. defect) leads to love. If thou canst not free thyself from failure, thou wilt never forgive others. Goethe.

=Feindlich ist die Welt / Und falsch gesinnt;= 15 =Es liebt ein jeder nur / Sich selbst=--Hostile is the world, and falsely disposed. In it each one loves himself alone. Schiller.

=Felices errore suo=--Happy in their error. Lucan.

=Felices ter et amplius / Quos irrupta tenet copula, nec, malis / Divulsus quærimoniis, / Suprema citius solvet amor die=--Thrice happy they, and more than thrice, whom an unbroken link binds together, and whom love, unimpaired by evil rancour, will not sunder before their last day. Hor.

=Felicitas nutrix est iracundiæ=--Prosperity is the nurse of hasty temper. Pr.

=Feliciter is sapit, qui periculo alieno sapit=--He is happily wise who is wise at the expense of another. M.

=Felicity lies much in fancy.= Pr. 20

=Felicity, not fluency, of language is a merit.= Whipple.

=Felix, heu nimium felix=--Happy, alas! too happy! Virg.

=Felix qui nihil debet=--Happy is he who owes nothing.

=Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas=--Happy he who has succeeded in learning the causes of things. Virg.

=Felix, qui quod amat, defendere fortiter andet=--Happy 25 he who dares courageously to defend what he loves. Ovid.

=Fell luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksands, poverty or chains.= Hannah More.

=Fell sorrow's tooth doth never rankle more / Than when it bites but lanceth not the sore.= Rich. II., i. 3.

=Fellowship in treason is a bad ground of confidence.= Burke.

=Felo de se=--A suicide. L.

=Female friendships are of rapid growth.= 30 Disraeli.

=Feme covert=--A married woman. L.

=Feme sole=--An unmarried woman. L.

=Femme, argent et vin ont leur bien et leur venin=--Women, money, and wine have their blessing and their bane. Fr. Pr.

=Femme de chambre=--A chambermaid. Fr.

=Femme de charge=--A housekeeper. Fr. 35

=Femme rit quand elle peut, et pleure quand elle veut=--A woman laughs when she can, and weeps when she likes. Fr. Pr.

=Feræ naturæ=--Of a wild nature.

=Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt=--Men in general are fain to believe that which they wish to be true. Cæs.

=Feriis caret necessitas=--Necessity knows no holiday.

=Ferme fugiendo in media fata ruitur=--How 40 often it happens that men fall into the very evils they are striving to avoid. Liv.

=Ferme modèle=--A model farm. Fr.

=Fern von Menschen wachsen Grundsätze; unter ihnen Handlungen=--Principles develop themselves far from men; conduct develops among them. Jean Paul.

=Ferreus assiduo consumitur annulus usu=--By constant use an iron ring is consumed. Ovid.

=Ferro, non gladio=--By iron, not by my sword. M.

=Fervet olla, vivit amicitia=--As long as the pot 45 boils, friendship lasts. Pr.

=Fervet opus=--The work goes on with spirit. Virg.

=Festina lente=--Hasten slowly. Pr.

=Festinare nocet, nocet et cunctatio sæpe; / Tempore quæque suo qui facit, ille sapit=--It is bad to hurry, and delay is often as bad; he is wise who does everything in its proper time. Ovid.

=Festinatione nil tutius in discordiis civilibus=--Nothing is safer than despatch in civil quarrels. Tac.

=Festinatio tarda est=--Haste is tardy. Pr. 50

=Fetch a spray from the wood and place it on your mantel-shelf, and your household ornaments will seem plebeian beside its nobler fashion and bearing. It will wave superior there, as if used to a more refined and polished circle. It has a salute and response to all your enthusiasm and heroism.= Thoreau.

=Fête champêtre=--A rural feast. Fr.

=Fêtes des mœurs=--Feasts of morals. Fr.

=Fette Küche, magere Erbschaft=--A fat kitchen, a lean legacy. Ger. Pr.

=Feu de joie=--Firing of guns in token of joy. 55 Fr.

=Few are fit to be entrusted with themselves.= Pr.

=Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men to persuasion.= Goethe.

=Few, few shall part where many meet; The snow shall be their winding-sheet, / And every turf beneath their feet / Shall be a soldier's sepulchre.= Campbell.

=Few have all they need, none all they wish.= R. Southwell.

=Few have borne unconsciously the spell of loveliness.= Whittier.

=Few have the gift of discerning when to have done.= Swift.

=Few have wealth, but all must have a home.= 5 Emerson.

=Few love to hear the sins they love to act.= Pericles, i. 1.

=Few may play with the devil and win.= Pr.

=Few men are much worth loving in whom there is not something well worth laughing at.= Hair.

=Few men have been admired by their domestics.= Montaigne.

=Few men dare show their thoughts of worst or= 10 =best.= Byron.

=Few men have any next; they live from hand to mouth without plan, and are ever at the end of their line.= Emerson.

=Few men have imagination enough for the truth of reality.= Goethe.

=Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.= Washington.

=Few minds wear out; more rust out.= Bovee.

=Few mortals are so insensible that their affections= 15 =cannot be gained by mildness, their confidence by sincerity, their hatred by scorn or neglect.= Zimmermann.

=Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered, from the time of the seven sages of Greece to that of Poor Richard, have prevented a single foolish action.= Macaulay.

=Few people know how to be old.= La Roche.

=Few persons have courage to appear as good as they really are.= Hair.

=Few spirits are made better by the pain and languor of sickness; as few great pilgrims become eminent saints.= Thomas à Kempis.

=Few take wives for God's sake, or for fair= 20 =looks.= Pr.

=Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.= Johnson.

=Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is from want of application rather than want of means that men fail of success.= La Roche.

=Few things are more unpleasant than the transaction of business with men who are above knowing or caring what they have to do.= Johnson.

=Fiandeira, fiai manso, que me estorvais, que estou rezando=--Spinner, spin quietly, so as not to disturb me; I am praying. Port. Pr.

=Fiar de Dios sobre buena prenda=--Trust in God 25 upon good security. Sp. Pr.

=Fiat experimentum in corpore vili=--Let the experiment be made on some worthless body.

=Fiat justitiam, pereat mundus=--Let justice be done, and the world perish. Pr.

=Fiat justitia, ruat cœlum=--Let justice be done, though the heavens should fall in. Pr.

=Fiat lux=--Let there be light.

=Fickleness has its rise in the experience of the= 30 =deceptiveness of present pleasures, and in ignorance of the vanity of absent ones.= Pascal.

=Ficta voluptatis causa sit proxima veris=--Fictions meant to please should have as much resemblance as possible to truth. Hor.

=Fiction is a potent agent for good in the hands of the good.= Mme. Necker.

=Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.= Burke.

=Fiction, while the feigner of it knows that he is feigning, partakes, more than we suspect, of the nature of lying; and has ever an, in some degree, unsatisfactory character.= Carlyle.

=Fictis meminerit nos jocari fabulis=--Be it remembered 35 that we are amusing you with tales of fiction. Phædr.

=Fidarsi è bene, ma non fidarsi è meglio=--To trust one's self is good, but not to trust one's self is better. It. Pr.

=Fidati era un buon uomo, Nontifidare era meglio=--Trust was a good man, Trust not was a better. It. Pr.

=Fide abrogata, omnis humana societas tollitur=--If good faith be abolished, all human society is dissolved. Livy.

=Fide et amore=--By faith and love. M.

=Fide et fiducia=--By faith and confidence. M. 40

=Fide et fortitudine=--By faith and fortitude. M.

=Fide et literis=--By faith and learning. M.

=Fide, non armis=--By good faith, not by arms. M.

=Fidei coticula crux=--The cross is the touchstone of faith. M.

=Fidei defensor=--Defender of the faith. 45

=Fideli certa merces=--The faithful are certain of their reward. M.

=Fidelis ad urnam=--Faithful to death (lit. the ashes-urn). M.

=Fidelis et audax=--Faithful and intrepid. M.

=Fidélité est de Dieu=--Fidelity is of God. M.

=Fideliter et constanter=--Faithfully and firmly. 50 M.

=Fidelity, diligence, decency, are good and indispensable; yet, without faculty, without light, they will not do the work.= Carlyle.

=Fidelity is the sister of justice.= Hor.

=Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy.= Sen.

=Fidelius rident tiguria=--The laughter of the cottage is more hearty and sincere than that of the court. Pr.

=Fidem qui perdit perdere ultra nil potest=--He 55 who loses his honour has nothing else he can lose. Pub. Syr.

=Fidem qui perdit, quo se servet relicuo?=--Who loses his good name, with what can he support himself in future? Pub. Syr.

=Fides facit fidem=--Confidence awakens confidence. Pr.

=Fides probata coronat=--Approved faith confers a crown. M.

=Fides Punica=--Punic faith; treachery.

=Fides servanda est=--Faith must be kept. Plaut. 60

=Fides sit penes auctorem=--Credit this to the author.

=Fides ut anima, unde abiit, eo nunquam redit=--Honour, like life, when once it is lost, is never recovered. Pub. Syr.

=Fidus Achates=--A faithful companion (of Æneas). Virg.

=Fidus et audax=--Faithful and intrepid. M.

=Fie! fie! how wayward is this foolish love, / That like a testy babe will scratch the nurse, / And presently, all humbled, kiss the rod.= Two Gent. of Verona, i. 2.

=Fiel pero desdichado=--True though unfortunate. 5 Sp.

=Fierce fiery warriors fought upon the clouds, / In ranks and squadrons, and right form of war, / Which drizzled blood upon the Capitol.= Jul. Cæs., ii. 2.

=Fieri facias=--See it be done. A writ empowering a sheriff to levy the amount of a debt or damages.

=Fight on, thou brave true heart, and falter not, through dark fortune and through bright, the cause thou fightest for, so far as it is true, is very sure of victory.= Carlyle.

=Fight the good fight.= St. Paul.

=Filii non plus possessionum quam morborum= 10 =hæredes sumus=--We sons are heirs no less to diseases than to estates.

=Filius nullius=--The son of no one; a bastard. L.

=Filius terræ=--A son of the earth; one low-born.

=Fille de chambre=--A chambermaid. Fr.

=Fille de joie=--A woman of pleasure; a prostitute. Fr.

=Fin contre fin=--Diamond cut diamond. Fr. 15

=Fin de siècle=--Up to date. Fr.

=Find earth where grows no weed, and you may find a heart where no error grows.= Knowles.

=Find employment for the body, and the mind will find enjoyment for itself.= Pr.

=Find fault, when you must find fault, in private, if possible, and some time after the offence, rather than at the time.= Sydney Smith.

=Find mankind where thou wilt, thou findest it= 20 =in living movement, in progress faster or slower; the phœnix soars aloft, hovers with outstretched wings, filling earth with her music; or, as now, she sinks, and with spheral swan-song immolates herself in flame, that she may soar the higher and sing the clearer.= Carlyle.

=Find out men's wants and will, / And meet them there. All worldly joys go less / To the one joy of doing kindnesses.= Herbert.

=Finding your able man, and getting him invested with the symbols of ability, is the business, well or ill accomplished, of all social procedure whatsoever in this world.= Carlyle.

=Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together; the head inferior to the heart, and the hand inferior to both heart and head.= Ruskin.

=Fine by defect and delicately weak.= Pope.

=Fine by degrees and beautifully less.= Prior. 25

=Fine feathers make fine birds.= Pr.

=Fine feelings, without vigour of reason, are in the situation of the extreme feathers of a peacock's tail--dragging in the mud.= John Foster.

=Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds. None are truly great without this ornament.= A. B. Alcott.

=Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.= Emerson.

=Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so= 30 =useful as common sense.= Pope.

=Fine speeches are the instruments of knaves / Or fools, that use them when they want good sense; / Honesty needs no disguise or ornament.= Otway.

=Fine words without deeds go not far.= _Dan. Pr._

=Finem respice=--Have regard to the end.

=Finge datos currus, quid agas?=--Suppose the chariot (of the sun) committed to you, what would you do? Apollo to Phaethon in Ovid.

=Fingers were made before forks, and hands= 35 =before knives.= Swift.

=Fingunt se medicos quivis idiota, sacerdos, Judæus, monachus, histrio, rasor, anus=--Any untrained person, priest, Jew, monk, playactor, barber, or old wife is ready to prescribe for you in sickness. Pr.

=Finis coronat opus=--The end crowns the work, i.e., first enables us to determine its merits. Pr.

=Fire and sword are but slow engines of destruction in comparison with the tongue of the babbler.= Steele.

=Fire and water are good servants but bad masters.= Pr.

=Fire in the heart sends smoke into the head.= 40 Ger. Pr.

=Fire is the best of servants; but what a master!= Carlyle.

=Fire maks an auld wife nimble.= Sc. Pr.

=Fire that's closest kept burns most of all.= _Two Gent. of Verona_, i. 2.

=Fire trieth iron, and temptation a just man.= Thomas à Kempis.

=Firmior quo paratior=--The stronger the better 45 prepared. M.

=Firmness, both in sufferance and exertion, is a character I would wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and the cowardly feeble resolve.= Burns.

=First assay / To stuff thy mind with solid bravery; / Then march on gallant: get substantial worth: / Boldness gilds finely, and will set it forth.= George Herbert.

=First cast the beam out of thine own eye, and then thou shalt see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.= Jesus.

=First catch your hare.= Mrs. Glass's advice to the housewife.

=First come, first served.= Pr. 50

=First deserve and then desire.= Sc. Pr.

=First flower of the earth and first gem of the sea.= Moore.

=First keep thyself in peace, and then thou shalt be able to keep peace among others.= Thomas à Kempis.

=First must the dead letter of religion own itself dead, and drop piecemeal into dust, if the living spirit of religion, freed from its charnel-house, is to arise in us, new-born of heaven, and with new healing under its wings.= Carlyle.

=First resolutions are not always the wisest, but they are usually the most honest.= Lessing.

=First worship God; he that forgets to pray / Bids not himself good-morrow nor good day.= T. Randolph.

=Fishes live in the sea, ... as men do on land--the great ones eat up the little ones.= Pericles, ii. 1.

=Fit cito per multas præda petita manus=--The spoil that is sought by many hands quickly accumulates. Ovid.

=Fit erranti medicina confessio=--Confession is as 5 healing medicine to him who has erred.

=Fit fabricando faber=--A smith becomes a smith by working at the forge. Pr.

=Fit in dominatu servitus, in servitute dominatus=--In the master there is the servant, and in the servant the master (lit. in masterhood is servanthood, in servanthood masterhood). Cic.

=Fit scelus indulgens per nubila sæcula virtus=--In times of trouble leniency becomes crime.

=Fit the foot to the shoe, not the shoe to the foot.= Port. Pr.

=Fit words are fine, but often fine words are= 10 =not fit.= Pr.

=Five great intellectual professions have hitherto existed in every civilised nation: the soldier's, to defend it; the pastor's, to teach it; the physician's, to keep it in health; the lawyer's, to enforce justice in it; and the merchant's, to provide for it; and the duty of all these men is, on due occasion, to die for it.= Ruskin.

=Five minutes of to-day are worth as much to me as five minutes in the next millennium.= Emerson.

=Fix'd to no spot is happiness sincere; / 'Tis nowhere to be found, or everywhere.= Pope.

=Fixed like a plant on his peculiar spot, / To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.= Pope.

=Flagrante bello=--During the war. 15

=Flagrante delicto=--In the very act.

=Flames rise and sink by fits; at last they soar / In one bright flame, and then return no more.= Dryden.

=Flamma fumo est proxima=--Where there is smoke there is fire (lit. flame is very close to smoke). Plaut.

=Flatter not the rich; neither do thou appear willingly before the great.= Thomas à Kempis.

=Flatterers are cats that lick before, and scratch= 20 =behind.= Ger. Pr.

=Flatterers are the bosom enemies of princes.= South.

=Flatterers are the worst kind of traitors.= Raleigh.

=Flattery brings friends, but the truth begets enmity.= Pr.

=Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver, and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.= Burke.

=Flattery is a base coin, to which only our= 25 =vanity gives currency.= La Roche.

=Flattery is the bellows blows up sin; / The thing the which is flattered, but a spark, / To which that blast gives heat and stronger glowing; / Whereas reproof, obedient and in order, / Fits kings, as they are men, for they may err.= Pericles, i. 2.

=Flattery is the destruction of all good fellowship.= Disraeli.

=Flattery is the food of pride, and may be well assimilated to those cordials which hurt the constitution while they exhilarate the spirits.= Arliss' Lit. Col.

=Flattery labours under the odious charge of servility.= Tac.

=Flattery sits in the parlour when plain dealing= 30 =is kicked out of doors.= Pr.

=Flattery's the turnpike road to Fortune's door.= Walcot.

=Flebile ludibrium=--A "tragic farce;" a farce to weep at.

=Flebit, et insignis tota cantabitur urbe=--He shall rue it, and be a marked man and the talk of the whole town. Hor.

=Flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo=--If I cannot influence the gods, I will stir up Acheron. Virg.

=Flecti, non frangi=--To bend, not to break. M. 35

=Flee sloth, for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.= Cato.

=Flee you ne'er so fast, your fortune will be at your tail.= Sc. Pr.

=Flesh will warm in a man to his kin against his will.= Gael. Pr.

=Flet victus, victor interiit=--The conquered one weeps, the conqueror is ruined.

=Fleur d'eau=--Level with the water. Fr. 40

=Fleur de terre=--Level with the land. Fr.

=Fleurs-de-lis=--Lilies. Fr.

=Fleying= (frightening) =a bird is no the way to catch it.= Sc. Pr.

=Flies are easier caught with honey than vinegar.= Fr. Pr.

=Fling away ambition; / By that sin fell the= 45 =angels; how can man, then, / The image of his Maker, hope to win by it?= Hen. VIII., iii. 2.

=Flints may be melted, but an ungrateful heart cannot; no, not by the strongest and noblest flame.= South.

=Floriferis ut apes in saltibus omnia libant=--As bees sip of everything in the flowery meads. Lucret.

=Flour cannot be sown and seed-corn ought not to be ground.= Goethe.

=Flowers and fruits are always fit presents--flowers, because they are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of man.= Emerson.

=Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of= 50 =Nature, by which she indicates how much she loves us.= Goethe.

=Flowers are the pledges of fruit.= Dan. Pr.

=Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.= Ward Beecher.

=Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm.= Jean Paul.

=Flowers of rhetoric in sermons and serious discourses are like the blue and red flowers in corn, pleasing to those who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap profit from it.= Pope.

=Fluctus in simpulo exitare=--To raise a tempest 55 in a teapot. Cic.

=Fluvius cum mari certas=--You but a river, and contending with the ocean. Pr.

=Fly idleness, which yet thou canst not fly / By dressing, mistressing, and compliment. / If these take up thy day, the sun will cry / Against thee; for his light was only lent.= George Herbert.

=Fœdum inceptu, fœdum exitu=--Bad in the beginning, bad in the end. Livy.

=Fœnum habet in cornu, longe fuge, dummodo risum / Excutiat sibi, non hic cuiquam parcit amico=--He has (like a wild bull) a wisp of hay on his horn: fly afar from him; if only he raise a laugh for himself, there is no friend he would spare. Hor.

=Foliis tantum ne carmina manda; / Ne turbata volent rapidis ludibria ventis=--Only commit not thy oracles to leaves, lest they fly about dispersed, the sport of rushing winds. Virg.

=Folk canna help a' their kin= (relatives). Sc. Pr. 5

=Folk wi' lang noses aye tak' till themsels.= Sc. Pr.

=Folks as have no mind to be o' use have always the luck to be out o' the road when there's anything to be done.= George Eliot.

=Folks must put up with their own kin as they put up with their own noses.= George Eliot.

=Folle est la brébis qui au loup se confesse=--It is a silly sheep that makes the wolf her confessor. Fr. Pr.

=Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it= 10 =will follow thee.= Pr.

=Follow the copy though it fly out of the window.= Printer's saying.

=Follow the customs or fly the country.= _Dan. Pr._

=Follow the devil faithfully, you are sure to go to the devil.= Carlyle.

=Follow the river, and you will get to the sea.= Pr.

=Follow the road, and you will come to an inn.= 15 Port. Pr.

=Follow the wise few rather than the vulgar many.= It. Pr.

=Folly, as it grows in years, / The more extravagant appears.= Butler.

=Folly ends where genuine hope begins.= Cowper.

=Folly is its own burden.= Sen.

=Folly is the most incurable of maladies.= 20 Sp. Pr.

=Folly, letting down buckets into empty wells, and growing old with drawing nothing up.= Cowper.

=Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.= Byron.

=Fond fools / Promise themselves a name from building churches.= Randolph.

=Fond gaillard=--A basis of joy or gaiety. Fr.

=Fons et origo mali=--The source and origin of the 25 mischief.

=Fons malorum=--The origin of evil.

=Fons omnium viventium=--The fountain of all living things.

=Fontes ipsi sitiunt=--Even the fountains complain of thirst. Pr.

=Food can only be got out of the ground, or the air, or the sea.= Ruskin.

=Food fills the wame and keeps us livin'; /= 30 =Though life's a gift no worth receivin', / When heavy dragg'd wi' pine and grievin'; / But oil'd by thee, the wheels o' life gae doonhill scrievin' / Wi' rattlin' glee.= _Burns, on Scotch drink._

=Food for powder.= 1 Hen. IV., iv. 2.

=Fool before all is he who does not instantly seize the right moment; who has what he loves before his eyes, and yet swerves= (schweift) =aside.= Platen.

=Fool not; for all may have, / If they dare try, a glorious life or grave.= George Herbert.

=Fool, not to know that love endures no tie, / And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury.= Dryden.

=Fool of fortune.= King Lear, iv. 6. 35

=Fooled thou must be, though wisest of the wise; / Then be the fool of virtue, not of vice.= Persian saying.

=Foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting.= Emerson.

=Foolish people are a hundred times more averse to meet with wise people than wise people are to meet with foolish.= Saadi.

=Fools and bairns shouldna see things half done.= Sc. Pr.

=Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.= 40 Pr.

=Fools are apt to imitate only the defects of their betters.= Swift.

=Fools are aye fond o' flittin', and wise men o' sittin'.= Sc. Pr.

=Fools are aye seeing ferlies= (wonderful things). Sc. Pr.

=Fools are known by looking wise.= Butler.

=Fools are my theme; let satire be my song.= 45 Byron.

=Fools ask what's o'clock, but wise men know their time.= Pr.

=Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.= Ger. Pr.

=Fools can indeed find fault, but cannot act more wisely.= Langbern.

=Fools for arguments use wagers.= Butler.

=Fools grant whate'er ambition craves, / And= 50 =men, once ignorant, are slaves.= Pope.

=Fools grow of themselves without sowing or planting.= Rus. Pr.

=Fools grow without watering.= Pr.

=Fools invent fashions and wise men follow them.= Fr. Pr.

=Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men much from fools.= Dut. Pr.

=Fools make a mock at sin.= Bible. 55

=Fools mak' feasts, and wise men eat them. / Wise men mak' jests, and fools repeat them.= Sc. Pr.

=Fools may our scorn, not envy raise, / For envy is a kind of praise.= Gay.

=Fools measure actions after they are done by the event; wise men beforehand, by the rules of reason and right.= Bp. Hale.

=Fools need no passport.= Dan. Pr.

=Fools ravel and wise men redd= (unravel). Sc. Pr. 60

=Fools, to talking ever prone, / Are sure to make their follies known.= Gay.

=Fools with bookish knowledge are children with edged weapons; they hurt themselves and put others in pain.= Zimmermann.

=Footpaths give a private, human touch to the landscape that roads do not. They are sacred to the human foot. They have the sentiment of domesticity, and suggest the way to cottage doors and to simple, primitive times.= John Burroughs.

=Foppery is never cured; once a coxcomb, always a coxcomb.= Johnson.

=For age, long age! / Nought else divides us from the fresh young days / Which men call ancient.= Lewis Morris.

=For a genuine man it is no evil to be poor.= Carlyle.

=For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again.= Bible.

=For a large conscience is all one, / And signifies= 5 =the same with none.= Hudibras.

=For all a rhetorician's rules / Teach nothing but to name his tools.= Butler.

=For all he did he had a reason, / For all he said, a word in season; / And ready ever was to quote / Authorities for what he wrote.= Butler.

=For all men live and judge amiss / Whose talents do not jump with his.= Butler.

=For all right judgment of any man or thing it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.= Carlyle.

=For all their luxury was doing good.= L. 10 Garth.

=For an honest man half his wits are enough; for a knave, the whole are too little.= It. Pr.

=For an orator delivery is everything.= Goethe.

=For a republic you must have men.= Amiel.

=For as a fly that goes to bed / Rests with his tail above his head, / So, in this mongrel state of ours, / The rabble are the supreme powers.= Butler.

=For as a ship without a helm is tossed to and= 15 =fro by the waves, so the man who is careless and forsaketh his purpose is many ways tempted.= Thomas à Kempis.

=For a' that, and a' that, / Our toils obscure, and a' that; / The rank is but the guinea's stamp, / The man's the gowd for a' that.= Burns.

=For a tint= (lost) =thing carena.= Sc. Pr.

=For aught I see, they are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing.= Mer. of Ven., i. 2.

=For aught that ever I could read, / Could ever hear by tale or history, / The course of true love never did run smooth.= Mid. N.'s Dream, i. 1.

=For a web begun God sends thread.= Fr. and 20 It. Pr.

=For behaviour, men learn it, as they take diseases, one of another.= Bacon.

=For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, / And though a late, a sure reward succeeds.= Congreve.

=For Brutus is an honourable man, / So are they all, all honourable men.= Jul. Cæs., iii. 2.

=For captivity, perhaps your poor watchdog is as sorrowful a type as you will easily find.= Ruskin.

=For contemplation he and valour form'd, / For= 25 =softness she and sweet attractive grace; / He for God only, she for God in him, / His fair large front and eye sublime declared.= Milton.

=For cowards the road of desertion should be left open; they will carry over to the enemy nothing but their fears.= Bovee.

=For dear to gods and men is sacred song.= Pope.

=For ebbing resolution ne'er returns, / But falls still further from its former shore.= Home.

=For emulation hath a thousand sons, / That one by one pursue; if you give way, / Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, / Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost.= Troil. and Cres. iii. 3.

=For ever and a day.= As You Like It, iv. 1. 30

=For ever is not a category that can establish itself in this world of time.= Carlyle.

=For every dawn that breaks brings a new world, / And every budding bosom a new life.= Lewis Morris.

=For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly.= Emerson.

=For every ten jokes thou hast got an hundred enemies.= Sterne.

=For everything you have missed, you have= 35 =gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something.= Emerson.

=For fate has wove the thread of life with pain, / And twins e'en from the birth are misery and man.= Pope.

=For faith, and peace, and mighty love / That from the Godhead flow, / Show'd them the life of heaven above / Springs from the earth below.= Emerson.

=For fault o' wise men fools sit on binks= (seats, benches). Sc. Pr.

=For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.= Pope.

=For forms of government let fools contest; /= 40 =Whate'er is best administered is best.= Pope.

=For Freedom's battle, once begun, / Bequeath'd by bleeding sire to son, / Though baffled oft, is ever won.= Byron.

=For glances beget ogles, ogles sighs, / Sighs wishes, wishes words, and words a letter; / And then God knows what mischief may arise / When love links two young people in one fetter.= Byron.

=For gold the merchant ploughs the main, / The farmer ploughs the manor; / But glory is the soldier's prize, / The soldier's wealth is honour.= Burns.

=For good and evil must in our actions meet; / Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.= Donne.

=For greatest scandal waits on greatest state.= 45 Shakespeare.

=For grief indeed is love, and grief beside.= _Mrs. Browning._

=For he being dead, with him is beauty slain, / And, beauty dead, black chaos comes again.= Shakespeare.

=For he, by geometric scale, / Could take the size of pots of ale.= Butler.

=For he is but a bastard to the time / That doth not smack of observation.= King John, i. 1.

=For he lives twice who can at once employ /= 50 =The present well and e'en the past enjoy.= Pope.

=For he that fights and runs away / May live to fight another day; / But he who is in battle slain, / Can never rise and fight again.= Goldsmith.

=For he that worketh high and wise, / Nor pauses in his plan, / Will take the sun out of the skies / Ere freedom out of man.= Emerson.

=For his bounty, / There was no winter in't; an autumn 'twas, / That grew the more by reaping.= Ant. and Cleop., v. 2.

=For his chaste Muse employed her heaven-taught lyre / None but the noblest passions to inspire, / Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, / One line which, dying, he could wish to blot.= Littleton on Thomson.

=For hope is but the dream of those that wake.= Prior.

=For I am nothing if not critical.= Othello, 5 ii. 1.

=For I am full of spirit, and resolved / To meet all perils very constantly.= Jul. Cæs., v. 1.

=For I say this is death, and the sole death, / When a man's loss comes to him from his gain, / Darkness from light, from knowledge ignorance, / And lack of love from love made manifest.= Browning.

=For it so falls out, / That what we have we prize not to the worth / While we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, / Why, then we rack the value.= Much Ado, iv. 1.

=For it stirs the blood in an old man's heart, / And makes his pulses fly, / To catch the thrill of a happy voice / And the light of a pleasant eye.= N. P. Willis.

=For just experience tells, in every soil, / That= 10 =those that think must govern those that toil.= Goldsmith.

=For knowledge is a barren tree and bare, / Bereft of God, and duty but a word, / And strength but tyranny, and love, desire, / And purity a folly.= Lewis Morris.

=For knowledge is a steep which few may climb, / While duty is a path which all may tread.= Lewis Morris.

=For let our finger ache, and it endues / Our other healthful members ev'n to that sense / Of pain.= Othello, iii. 4.

=For loan oft loses both itself and friend.= Ham., i. 3.

=For love of grace, / Lay not the flattering= 15 =unction to your soul / That not your trespass but my madness speaks.= Ham., iii. 4.

=For lovers' eyes more sharply sighted be / Than other men's, and in dear love's delight / See more than any other eyes can see.= Spenser.

=For man's well-being faith is properly the one thing needful; with it, martyrs, otherwise weak, can cheerfully endure the shame and the cross; and without it, worldlings puke up their sick existence by suicide in the midst of luxury.= Carlyle.

=For man there is but one misfortune, when some idea lays hold of him which exerts no influence upon his active life, or still more, which withdraws him from it.= Goethe.

=For men are brought to worse diseases / By taking physic than diseases, / And therefore commonly recover / As soon as doctors give them over.= Butler.

=For men at most differ as heaven and earth, /= 20 =But women, worst and best, as heaven and hell.= Tennyson.

=For men cherish love, for gods reverence.= Grillparzer.

=For men may come and men may go, / But I go on for ever.= Tennyson.

=For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; / His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.= Pope.

=For murder, though it hath no tongue, will speak / With most miraculous organ.= Ham., ii. 2.

=For my means, I'll husband them so well, /= 25 =They shall go far with little.= Ham., iv. 5.

=For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, to foreign nations, and to the next ages.= Bacon.

=For nought so vile that on the earth doth live, / But to the earth some special good doth give; / Nor aught so good, but strain'd from that fair use, / Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse.= Rom. and Jul., ii. 3.

=For now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face.= St. Paul.

=For oaths are straws, men's faith are wafer cakes, / And holdfast is the only dog, my duck.= Hen. V., ii. 3.

=For of all sad words of tongue or pen, / The= 30 =saddest were these: "It might have been."= Whittier.

=For of fortunes sharpe adversite, / The worst kind of infortune is this, / A man that hath been in prosperite, / And it remember when it passéd is.= Chaucer.

=For of the soul the body form doth take, / For soul is form, and doth the body make.= Spenser.

=For one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.= Carlyle.

=For one person who can think, there are at least a hundred who can observe. An accurate observer is, no doubt, rare; but an accurate thinker is far rarer.= Buckle.

=For one rich man that is content there are a= 35 =hundred who are not.= Pr.

=For one word a man is often deemed wise, and for one word he is often deemed foolish.= Confucius.

=For our pleasure, the lackeyed train, the slow parading pageant, with all the gravity of grandeur, moves in review; a single coat, or a single footman, answers all the purposes of the most indolent refinement as well; and those who have twenty, may be said to keep one for their own pleasure, and the other nineteen merely for ours.= Goldsmith.

=For pity is the virtue of the law, / And none but tyrants use it cruelly.= Timon of Athens, iii. 5.

=For pleasures past I do not grieve, / Nor perils gathering near; / My greatest grief is that I leave / Nothing that claims a tear.= Byron.

=For poems to have beauty of style is not= 40 =enough; they must have pathos also, and lead at will the hearer's soul.= Hor.

=For present grief there is always a remedy. However much thou sufferest, hope. The greatest happiness of man is hope.= Leopold Schefer.

=For rarely do we meet in one combined / A beauteous body and a virtuous mind.= Juv.

=For rhetoric, he could not ope / His mouth, but out there flew a trope.= Butler.

=For rhyme the rudder is of verses, / With which, like ships, they steer their courses.= Butler.

=For right is right, since God is God, / And right the day must win; / To doubt would be disloyalty, / To falter would be sin.= F. W. Faber.

=For sacred even to gods is misery.= Pope.

=For Satan finds some mischief still / For idle= 5 =hands to do.= Watts.

=For slander lives upon successión, / For ever housed where it gets possessión.= Comedy of Errors, iii. 1.

=For solitude sometimes is best society, / And short retirement urges sweet return.= Milton.

=For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.= Mer. of Ven., i. 3.

=For suffering and enduring there is no remedy but striving and doing.= Carlyle.

=For that fine madness still he did retain /= 10 =Which rightly should possess a poet's brain.= Drayton.

=For the apotheosis of Reason we have substituted that of Instinct; and we call everything instinct which we find in ourselves, and for which we cannot trace any rational foundation.= J. S. Mill.

=For the bow cannot possibly stand always bent, nor can human nature or human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.= Cervantes.

=For the buyer a hundred eyes are too few, for the seller one is enough.= It. Pr.

=For thee the family of man has no use; it rejects thee; thou art wholly as a dissevered limb: so be it; perhaps it is better so.= Carlyle, or Teufelsdröckh rather, arrived at the "Centre of Indifference, through which whoso travels from the Negative Pole to the Positive must necessarily pass."

=For the fashion of this world passeth away.= 15 St. Paul.

=For the gay beams of lightsome day / Gild but to flout the ruins grey.= Scott.

=For the greatest crime of man is that he was born.= Calderon.

=For the narrow mind, whatever he attempts, is still a trade; for the higher, an art; and the highest, in doing one thing does all; or, to speak less paradoxically, in the one thing which he does rightly, he sees the likeness of all that is done rightly.= Goethe.

=For the rain it raineth every day.= Lear, iii. 2.

=For there's nae luck aboot the hoose, / There's= 20 =nae luck ava', / There's little pleesure in the hoose / When oor guidman's awa'.= W. J. Mickle.

=For there was never yet philosopher / That could endure the toothache patiently.= Much Ado, v. 1.

=For the sake of one good action a hundred evil actions should be condoned.= Chinese Pr.

=For the son of man there is no noble crown, well-worn or even ill-worn, but is a crown of thorns.= Carlyle.

=For the true the price is paid before you enjoy it; for the false, after you enjoy it.= John Foster.

=For the world was built in order, / And the= 25 =atoms march in tune; / Rhyme the pipe, and the Time the warder, / The sun obeys them and the moon.= Emerson.

=For they can conquer who believe they can.= Dryden.

=For 'tis a truth well known to most, / That whatsoever thing is lost, / We seek it, ere it comes to light, / In every cranny but the right.= Cowper.

=For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich: / And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, / So honour peereth in the meanest habit.= Tam. of Shrew, iv. 3.

=For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.= Bible.

=For to see and eek for to be seye.= Chaucer. 30

=For truth has such a face and such a mien, / As to be loved needs only to be seen.= Dryden.

=For truth is precious and divine, / Too rich a pearl for carnal swine.= Butler.

=For use almost can change the stamp of Nature, / And either curb the devil or throw him out / With wondrous potency.= Ham., iii. 4.

=For us, the winds do blow, / The earth doth rest, heaven move, and fountains flow; / Nothing we see but means our good, / As our delight, or as our treasure; / The whole is either our cupboard of food, / Or cabinet of pleasure.= George Herbert.

=For virtue's sake I am here; but if a man,= 35 =for his task, forgets and sacrifices all, why shouldst not thou?= Jean Paul.

=For virtue's self may too much zeal be had; / The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.= Pope.

=For want of a block a man will stumble at a straw.= Swift.

=For want of a nail the shoe was lost, for want of a shoe the horse was lost, and for want of a horse the rider was lost.= Ben. Franklin.

=For wealth is all things that conduce / To man's destruction or his use; / A standard both to buy and sell / All things from heaven down to hell.= Butler.

=For what are men who grasp at praise sublime, /= 40 =But bubbles on the rapid stream of time, / That rise and fall, that swell and are no more, / Born and forgot, ten thousand in an hour.= Young.

=For what are they all in their high conceit, / When man in the bush with God may meet?= Emerson.

=For what thou hast not, still thou striv'st to get, / And what thou hast, forgetst.= Meas. for Meas., iii. 1.

=For when disputes are wearied out, / 'Tis interest still resolves the doubt.= Butler.

=For where is any author in the world / Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye?= Love's L. Lost, iv. 3.

=For while a youth is lost in soaring thought, /= 45 =And while a mind grows sweet and beautiful, / And while a spring-tide coming lights the earth, / And while a child, and while a flower is born, / And while one wrong cries for redress and finds / A soul to answer, still the world is young.= Lewis Morris.

=For whom ill is fated, him it will strike.= _Gael. Pr._

=For whom the heart of man shuts out, / Straightway the heart of God takes in, / And fences them all round about / With silence 'mid the world's loud din.= Lowell.

=For who to dumb forgetfulness a prey, / This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, / Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, / Nor cast one longing lingering look behind?= Gray.

=For who would lose, / Though full of pain, this intellectual being, / Those thoughts that wander through eternity; / To perish rather, swallowed up and lost, / In the wide womb of uncreated night?= Milton.

=For wisdom cries out in the streets, and no man regards it.= 1 Henry IV., i. 2.

=For youth no less becomes / The light and= 5 =careless livery that it wears, / Than settled age his sables and his weeds, / Importing health and graveness.= Ham., iv. 7.

=Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.= 2 Hen. VI., iii. 3.

=Forbearance is not acquittance.= Ger. Pr.

=Forbid a fool do a thing, and that he will do.= Sc. Pr.

=Forbidden fruit is sweetest.= Pr.

=Force and right rule everything in this world;= 10 =force till right is ready.= Joubert. (?)

=Force can never annul right.= Berryer.

=Force is no argument.= John Bright.

=Forced love does not last.= Dut. Pr.

=Forced prayers are no gude for the soul.= _Sc. Pr._

=Force n'a pas droit=--Might knows no right. 15 Fr. Pr.

=Force rules the world, and not opinion, but opinion is that which makes use of force.= Pascal.

=Force without forecast is of little avail.= Pr.

=Foresight is indeed necessary in trusting, but still more necessary in distrusting.= Cötvös.

=Forewarned, forearmed.= Cervantes.

=Forget the hours of thy distress, but never= 20 =forget what they taught thee.= Gessner.

=Forget thyself to marble.= Milton.

=Forgetting of a wrong is a mild revenge.= Pr.

=Forgetting one's self, or knowing one's self, around these everything turns.= Auerbach.

=Forgiveness is better than revenge; for forgiveness is the sign of a gentle nature, but revenge the sign of a savage nature.= Epictetus.

=Forgiveness is commendable, but apply not= 25 =ointment to the wound of an oppressor.= Saadi.

=Forgiveness is the divinest of victories.= Schiller.

=Forgiveness to the injured does belong, / But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong.= Dryden.

=Forgiveness is not forgotten.= Ger. Pr.

=Forgotten pains, when follow gains.= Sc. Pr.

=Forma bonum fragile est=--Beauty is a fragile 30 good. Ovid.

=Forma viros neglecta decet=--Neglect of appearance becomes men. Ovid.

=Formerly it was the fashion to preach the natural; now it is the ideal.= Schlegel.

=Formerly the richest countries were those in which Nature was most bountiful; now the richest countries are those in which man is most active.= Buckle.

=Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.= Bovee.

=Formidabilior cervorum exercitus, duce leone,= 35 =quam leonum cervo=--An army of stags would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than one of lions commanded by a stag. Pr.

=Formosa facies muta commendatio est=--A handsome face is a mute recommendation. Pub. Syr.

=Formosos sæpe inveni pessimos, / Et turpi facie multos cognovi optimos=--I have often found good-looking people to be very base, and I have known many ugly people most estimable. Phæd.

=Forms which grow round a substance will be true, good; forms which are consciously put round a substance, bad.= Carlyle.

=Formulas are the very skin and muscular tissue of a man's life; and a most blessed indispensable thing, so long as they have vitality withal, and are a living skin and tissue to him.= Carlyle.

=Forsake not God till you find a better maister.= 40 Sc. Pr.

=Forsan et hæc olim meminisse juvabit; Durate, et vosmet rebus servate secundis=--Perhaps it will be a delight to us some day to recall these misfortunes. Bear them, therefore, and reserve yourselves for better times. Virg.

=Forsan miseros meliora sequentur=--Perhaps a better fortune awaits the unhappy. Virg.

=Fors et virtus miscentur in unum=--Fortune and valour are blended into one. Virg.

=Forte è l'aceto di vin dolce=--Strong is vinegar from sweet wine. It. Pr.

=Forte et fidele=--Strong and loyal. M. 45

=Fortem facit vicina libertas senem=--The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave. Sen.

=Fortem posce animum mortis terrore carentem, / Qui spatium vitæ extremum inter munera ponat / Naturæ=--Pray for a strong soul free from the fear of death, which regards the final period of life among the gifts of Nature. Juv.

=Fortes creantur fortibus et bonis: / Est in juvencis, est in equis patrum / Virtus, nec imbellem feroces / Progenerant aquilæ columbam=--Brave men are generated by brave and good: there is in steers and in horses the virtue of their sires, nor does the fierce eagle beget the unwarlike dove. Hor.

=Forte scutum salus ducum=--The safety of leaders is a strong shield. M.

=Fortes fortuna adjuvat=--Fortune assists the 50 brave. Ter.

=Fortes in fine assequendo et suaves in modo assequendi simus=--Let us be resolute in prosecuting our purpose and mild in the manner of attaining it. Aquaviva.

=Forti et fideli nihil difficile=--To the brave and true nothing is difficult. M.

=Fortify courage with the true rampart of patience.= Sir P. Sidney.

=Fortify yourself with moderation; for this is an impregnable fortress.= Epictetus.

=Fortior et potentior est dispositio legis quam hominis=--The disposition of the law is stronger and more potent than that of man. L.

=Fortis cadere, cedere non potest=--A brave man may fall, but cannot yield. M.

=Fortis et constantis animi est, non perturbari in rebus asperis=--It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances. Cic.

=Fortis sub forte fatiscet=--A brave man will yield to a brave. M.

=Fortiter et recte=--Courageously and honourably. 5 M.

=Fortiter ferendo vincitur malum quod evitari non potest=--By bravely enduring it, an evil which cannot be avoided is overcome. Pr.

=Fortiter, fideliter, feliciter=--Boldly, faithfully, successfully. M.

=Fortiter geret crucem=--He will bravely support the cross. M.

=Fortiter in re, suaviter in modo=--Vigorous and resolute in deed, gentle in manner.

=Fortitude is the guard and support of the= 10 =other virtues.= Locke.

=Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armour of the will, and the fort of reason.= Bacon.

=Fortitude is to be seen in toils and dangers; temperance in the denial of sensual pleasures; prudence in the choice between good and evil; justice in awarding to every one his due.= Cic.

=Fortitude rises upon an opposition; and, like a river, swells the higher for having its course stopped.= Jeremy Collier.

=Fortitudini=--For bravery. M.

=Fortuito quodam concursu atomorum=--Certain 15 fortuitous concourse of atoms. Cic.

=Fortunæ cætera mando=--I commit the rest to fortune. Ovid.

=Fortunæ filius=--A child or favourite of fortune. Hor.

=Fortunæ majoris honos, erectus et acer=--An honour to his elevated station, upright and brave. Claud.

=Fortuna favet fatuis=--Fortune favours fools. Pr.

=Fortuna favet fortibus=--Fortune favours the 20 brave. Pr.

=Fortuna magna magna domino est servitus=--A great fortune is a great slavery to its owner. Pub. Syr.

=Fortunam debet quisque manere suam=--Every one ought to live within his means. Ovid.

=Fortuna meliores sequitur=--Fortune befriends the better man. Sall.

=Fortuna miserrima tuta est=--A very poor fortune is safe. Ovid.

=Fortuna multis dat nimium, nulli satis=--To 25 many fortune gives too much, to none enough. Mart.

=Fortuna nimium quem fovet, stultum facit=--Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much. Pub. Syr.

=Fortuna non mutat genus=--Fortune does not change nature. Hor.

=Fortuna obesse nulli contenta est semel=--Fortune is not content to do one an ill turn only once. Pub. Syr.

=Fortuna opes auferre, non animum potest=--Fortune may bereave us of wealth, but not of courage. Sen.

=Fortuna parvis momentis magnas rerum commutationes= 30 =efficit=--Fortune in brief moments works great changes in our affairs.

=Fortuna sequatur=--Let fortune follow. M.

=Fortunato omne solum patria est=--To a favourite of fortune every land is his country.

=Fortunatas et ille deos qui novit agrestes=--Happy the man who knows the rural gods. Virg.

=Fortunatus' purse=--A purse which supplies you with all you wish.

=Fortuna vitrea est, tum cum splendet frangitur=--Fortune 35 is like glass; while she shines she is broken. Pub. Syr.

=Fortune brings in some boats that are ill-steered.= Cymbeline, iv. 3.

=Fortune can take from us nothing but what she gave.= Pr.

=Fortune does not change men; it only unmasks them.= Mme. Riccoboni.

=Fortune favours the brave, as the old proverb says, but forethought much more.= Cic.

=Fortune has rarely condescended to be the= 40 =companion of genius.= Isaac Disraeli.

=Fortune hath something of the nature of a woman, who, if she be too closely wooed, goes commonly the farther off.= Charles V.

=Fortune is like a mirror--it does not alter men; it only shows men just as they are.= Billings.

=Fortune is like the market, where many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.= Bacon.

=Fortune is merry, and in this mood will give us anything.= Jul. Cæs., iii. 2.

=Fortune is not content to do a man one ill= 45 =turn.= Bacon.

=Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.= Lowell.

=Fortune makes folly her peculiar care.= Churchill.

=Fortune makes him a fool whom she makes her darling.= Bacon.

=Fortune often knocks at the door, but the fool does not invite her in.= Dan. Pr.

=Fortune reigns in the gifts of the world, not in= 50 =the lineaments of nature.= As You Like It, i. 2.

=Fortune! There is no fortune; all is trial, or punishment, or recompense, or foresight.= Voltaire.

=Fortune turns round like a mill-wheel, and he that was yesterday at the top lies to-day at the bottom.= Sp. Pr.

=Forward, forward let us range, / Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.= Tennyson.

=Forwardness spoils manners.= Gael. Pr.

=Foster the beautiful, and every hour thou= 55 =callest new flowers to birth.= Schiller.

=Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets; / But gold that's put to use, more gold begets.= Shakespeare.

=Foul deeds will rise, / Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.= Ham., i. 2.

=Fou (full) o' courtesy, fou o' craft.= Sc. Pr.

=Four eyes see more than two.= Pr.

=Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.= Napoleon.

=Foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of Man hath not where to lay his head.= Jesus.

=Foy est tout=--Faith is everything. M.

=Foy pour devoir=--Faith for duty. Old Fr.

=Frae saving comes having.= Sc. Pr. 5

=Fragili quærens illidere dentem / Offendet solido=--Trying to fix her tooth in some tender part, / Envy will strike against the solid. Hor.

=Fraile que pide por Dios pide por dos=--The friar who begs for God begs for two. Sp. Pr.

=Frailty, thy name is woman.= Ham., i. 2.

=Frame your mind to mirth and merriment, / Which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.= Tam. of Sh., Ind. 2.

=Frangas, non flectes=--You may break, but you 10 will not bend me.

=Frappe fort=--Strike hard. M.

=Fraternité ou la Mort=--Fraternity or death. _The watchword of the first French Revolution. Fr._

=Frauen, richtet nur nie des Mannes einzelne Thaten; / Aber über den Mann sprechet das richtende Wort=--Women, judge ye not the individual acts of the man; the word that pronounces judgment is above the man. Schiller.

=Frauen und Jungfrauen soll man loben, es sei wahr oder erlogen=--Truly or falsely, women and maidens must be praised. Ger. Pr.

=Fraus est celare fraudem=--It is a fraud to conceal 15 fraud. L.

=Frau und Mond leuchten mit fremden Licht=--Madame and the moon shine with borrowed light. Ger. Pr.

=Freedom and slavery, the one is the name of virtue, the other of vice, and both are acts of the will.= Epictetus.

=Freedom and whisky gang thegither! / Tak' aff your dram.= Burns.

=Freedom consists not in refusing to recognise anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us.= Goethe.

=Freedom exists only with power.= Schiller. 20

=Freedom has a thousand charms to show, / That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.= Cowper.

=Freedom is a new religion--the religion of our time.= Heine.

=Freedom is not caprice, but room to enlarge.= C. A. Bartol.

=Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.= Ruskin.

=Freedom is only in the land of dreams, and the= 25 =beautiful only blooms in song.= Schiller.

=Freedom is the eternal youth of nations.= _Gen. Foy._

=Freedom's sun cannot set so long as smiths hammer iron.= C. M. Arndt.

=Free governments have committed more flagrant acts of tyranny than the most perfect despotic governments which we have ever known.= Burke.

=Free-livers on a small scale, who are prodigal within the compass of a guinea.= W. Irving.

=Freends are like fiddle-strings; they maunna= 30 =be screwed ower tight.= Sc. Pr.

=Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all.= Sterne.

=Free will I be in thought and in poetry; in action the world hampers us enough.= Goethe.

=Freie Kirche im freien Staat=--A free Church in a free State. Cavour.

=Freilich erfahren wir erst im Alter, was uns in der Tugend begegnete=--Not till we are old is it that we learn to know (lit. experience) what we met with when young. Goethe.

=Frei muss ich denken, sprechen und atmen= 35 =Gottes Luft, / Und wer die drei mir raubet, der legt mich in die Gruft=--Freely must I think, speak, and breathe what God inspires in me, and he who robs me of these three entombs me. Chamisso.

=Freits= (prognostications) =follow those who look to them.= Sc. Pr.

=Frei von Tadel zu sein ist der niedrigste Grad und der höchste, / Denn nur die Ohnmacht führt oder die Grösse dazu=--To be free from blame is to be of the lowest and highest grade, for only imbecility or greatness leads to it. Schiller.

=Freiwillige Abhängigkeit ist der schönste Zustand, und wie wäre der möglich ohne Liebe?=--Voluntary dependence is the noblest condition we can be in; and how were that possible without love? Goethe.

=Fremde Kinder, wir lieben sie nie so sehr als die eignen; / Irrtum das eigne Kind, ist uns dem Herzen so nah=--We never love the child of another so much as our own; for this reason error, which is our own child, is so near to our heart. Goethe.

=Fremdes Pferd und eigene Sporen haben bald= 40 =den Wind verloren=--Another's horse and our own spurs soon outstrip the wind. Ger. Pr.

=Freno indorato non megliora il cavallo=--A golden bit, no better a horse. It. Pr.

=Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill-manners.= Chesterfield.

=Fresh as a bridegroom, and his chin, new reap'd, / Show'd like a stubble-field at harvest-home; / He was perfuméd like a milliner, / And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held / A pouncet-box, which ever and anon / He gave his nose, and took 't away again.= Hen. IV., i. 3.

=Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun.= Goethe.

=Fret not thyself because of evil men, neither= 45 =be thou envious at the wicked; for there shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle of the wicked shall be put out.= Bible.

=Fretting cares make grey hairs.= Pr.

=Freude hat mir Gott gegeben=--God has to me given joy. Schiller.

=Freud' muss Leid, Leid muss Freude haben=--Joy must have sorrow; sorrow, joy. Goethe.

=Freundschaft ist ein Knotenstock auf Reisen, / Lieb' ein Stäbchen zum Spazierengehn=--Friendship is a sturdy stick to travel with; love a slender cane to promenade with. Chamisso.

=Friar Modest never was prior.= It. Pr. 50

=Friend after friend departs; / Who hath not lost a friend? / There is no union here of hearts / That finds not here an end.= J. Montgomery.

=Friend, hast thou considered the "rugged, all-nourishing earth," as Sophocles well names her; how she feeds the sparrow on the housetop, much more her darling, man?= Carlyle.

=Friend, however thou camest by this book, I will assure thee thou wert least in my thoughts when I writ it.= Bunyan.

="Friend, I never gave thee any of my jewels!" "No, but you have let me look at them, and that is all the use you can make of them yourself; moreover, you have the trouble of watching them, and that is an employment I do not much desire."= Goldsmith.

=Friends and acquaintances are the surest passports to fortune.= Schopenhauer.

=Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom.= Gael. Pr.

=Friends are ourselves.= Donne. 5

=Friends are rare, for the good reason that men are not common.= Joseph Roux.

=Friends are the leaders of the bosom, being more ourselves than we are, and we complement our affections in theirs.= A. B. Alcott.

=Friends, like mushrooms, spring up in out-of-the-way places.= Pr.

=Friends may meet, / But mountains never greet.= Pr.

=Friends reveal to each other most clearly= 10 =exactly that upon which they are silent.= Goethe.

=Friends should associate friends in grief and woe.= Tit. Andron., v. 3.

=Friends should be weighed, not told.= Coleridge.

=Friends show me what I can do; foes teach me what I should do.= Schiller.

=Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.= Emerson.

=Friends will be much apart. They will respect= 15 =more each other's privacy than their communion, for therein is the fulfilment of our high aims and the conclusion of our arguments.... The hours my friend devotes to me were snatched from a higher society.= Thoreau.

=Friendship can originate and acquire permanence only practically= (pracktisch). =Liking= (Neigung), =and even love, contribute nothing to friendship. True, active, productive friendship consists in this, that we keep the same pace= (gleichen Schritt) =in life, that my friend approves of my aims, as I of his, and that thus we go on steadfastly= (unverrückt) =together, whatever may be the difference otherwise between our ways of thinking and living.= Goethe.

=Friendship canna stand a' on ae side.= _Sc. Pr._

=Friendship, in the old heroic sense of that term, no longer exists; except in the cases of kindred or other legal affinity, it is in reality no longer expected or recognised as a virtue among men.= Carlyle.

=Friendship is a plant which one must water often.= Ger. Pr.

=Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed= 20 =by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it never can be trusted after.= Landor.

=Friendship is but a name.= Napoleon.

=Friendship is communion.= Arist.

=Friendship is constant in all other things, / Save in the office and affairs of love; / Therefore, all hearts in love use their own tongues; / Let every eye negotiate for itself, / And trust no agent.= Much Ado, ii. 1.

=Friendship is infinitely better than kindness.= Cic.

=Friendship is like a debt of honour; the= 25 =moment it is talked of, it loses its real name, and assumes the more ungrateful form of obligation.= Arliss' Lit. Col.

=Friendship is love with understanding.= _Ger. Pr._

=Friendship is love without its flowers or veil.= Hare.

=Friendship is love without its wings.= Byron.

=Friendship is no plant of hasty growth.= Joanna Baillie.

=Friendship is one soul in two bodies.= Porphyry. 30

=Friendship is stronger than kindred.= _Pub. Syr._

=Friendship is the greatest bond in the world.= Jeremy Taylor.

=Friendship is the ideal; friends are the reality; the reality always remains far apart from the ideal.= Joseph Roux.

=Friendship is the marriage of the soul.= Voltaire.

=Friendship is the shadow of the evening,= 35 =which strengthens with the setting sun of life.= La Fontaine.

=Friendship is too pure a pleasure for a mind cankered with ambition or the lust of power and grandeur.= Junius.

=Friendship, like love, is but a name, / Unless to one you stint the flame.= Gay.

=Friendship, like love, is self-forgetful.= _H. Giles._

=Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.= Emerson.

=Friendship made in a moment is of no moment.= 40 Pr.

=Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship--never.= Colton.

=Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.= Emerson.

=Friendship, unlike love, which is weakened by fruition, grows up, thrives, and increases by enjoyment; and being of itself spiritual, the soul is reformed by the habit of it.= Montaigne.

=Friendships are discovered rather than made.= Mrs. Stowe.

=Friendship's as it's kept.= Gael. Pr. 45

=Friendship's full of dregs.= Timon of Athens, i. 2.

=Friendships that are disproportioned ever terminate in disgust.= Goldsmith.

=Friendship's the privilege / Of private men.= N. Tate.

=Friendship's the wine of life; but friendship new is neither strong nor pure.= Young.

=Friendships which are born in misfortune are= 50 =more firm and lasting than those which are formed in happiness.= D'Urfey.

=Frigidam aquam effundere=--To throw cold water on a business.

=Frisch gewagt ist halb gewonnen=--Boldly ventured is half done (won). Ger. Pr.

=From a bad paymaster get what you can.= Pr.

=From a closed door the devil turns away.= Port. Pr.

=From camp to camp, through the foul womb of night, / The hum of either army stilly sounds, / That the fix'd sentinels almost receive / The secret whispers of each other's watch; / Fire answers fire, and through their paly flames / Each battle sees the other's umber'd face; / Steed threatens steed in high and boastful neighs, / Piercing the night's dull ear, and from the tents / The armourers, accomplishing the knights, / With busy hammers closing rivets up, / Give dreadful note of preparation.= Hen. V., iv. (chorus).

=From every moral death there is a new birth; / in this wondrous course of his, man may indeed linger, but cannot retrograde or stand still.= Carlyle.

=From every spot on earth we are equally near heaven and the infinite.= Amiel.

=From grave to gay, from lively to severe.= Pope.

=From great folks great favours are to be= 5 =expected.= Cervantes.

=From hand to mouth will never make a worthy man.= Gael. Pr.

=From hearing comes wisdom, from speaking repentance.= Pr.

=From Helicon's harmonious springs / A thousand rills their mazy progress take.= Gray.

=From his cradle / He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one; / Exceeding wise, fair-spoken, and persuading; / Lofty and sour to them that loved him not, / But to those men who sought him, sweet as summer; / And to add greater honours to his age / Than man could give; he died fearing God.= Hen. VIII., iv. 2.

=From ignorance our comfort flows; / The only= 10 =wretched are the wise.= Prior.

=From kings and priests and statesmen war arose, / Whose safety is man's deep embittered woe, / Whose grandeur his debasement.= Shelley.

=From labour health, from health contentment springs.= Beattie.

=From lowest place where virtuous things proceed, / The place is dignified by the doer's deed.= As You Like It, ii. 3.

=From obedience and submission spring all other virtues, as all sin does from self-opinion.= Montaigne.

=From our ancestors come our names, from our= 15 =virtues our honours.= Pr.

=From out the throng and stress of lies, / From out the painful noise of sighs, / One voice of comfort seems to rise, / It is the meaner part that dies.= Lewis Morris.

=From pillar to post=--originally from whipping-post to pillory, i.e. from bad to worse. Pr.

=From saying "No," however cleverly, no good can come.= Goethe.

=From seeming evil still educing good.= Thomson.

=From servants hasting to be gods.= Pollock. 20

=From small beginnings come great things.= Dut. Pr.

=From stratagem to stratagem we run, / And he knows most who latest is undone; / An honest man will take a knave's advice, / But idiots only will be cozened twice.= Dryden.

=From the beginning and to the end of time, Love reads without letters and counts without arithmetic.= Ruskin.

=From the deepest desire oftentimes ensues the deadliest hate.= Socrates.

=From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we= 25 =tend, / Path, motive, guide, original and end.= Johnson.

="From the height of these pyramids forty centuries look down on you."= Napoleon to his troops in Egypt.

=From the lowest depth there is a path to the loftiest height.= Carlyle.

=From the low prayer of want and plaint of woe / O never, never turn away thine ear! / Forlorn is this bleak wilderness below, / Ah! what were man should heaven refuse to hear!= Beattie.

=From the same flower the bee extracts honey and the wasp gall.= It. Pr.

=From the summit of power men no longer turn= 30 =their eyes upward, but begin to look about them.= Lowell.

=From the sum / Of duty, blooms sweeter and more divine / The fair ideal of the race, than comes / From glittering gains of learning.= Lewis Morris.

=From time to time in history men are born a whole age too soon.= Emerson.

=From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.= Emerson.

=From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: / They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; / They are the books, the arts, the academes, / That show, contain, and nourish all the world; / Else none at all in aught proves excellent.= Love's L. Lost, iv. 3.

=From yon blue heaven above us bent, / The= 35 =grand old gardener and his wife / Smile at the claims of long descent.= Tennyson.

=Fromm, Klug, Weis, und Mild, gehört in des Adels Schild=--The words pious, prudent, wise, and gentle are appropriately suitable on the shield of a noble. Ger. Pr.

=Fromme Leute wohnen weit auseinander=--Good people dwell far apart. Ger. Pr.

=Frömmigkeit ist kein Zweck, sondern ein Mittel, um durch die reinste Gemüthsruhe zur höchsten Cultur zu gelangen=--Piety is not an end, but a means to attain the highest culture through the purest peace of mind. Goethe.

=Fronti nulla fides=--There is no trusting external appearances (lit. features). Juv.

=Frost and fraud both end in foul.= Pr. 40

=Frost is God's plough.= Fuller.

=Fructu non foliis arborem æstima=--Judge of a tree from its fruit, not from its leaves. Phæd.

=Frugality, and even avarice, in the lower orders of mankind are true ambition. These afford the only ladder for the poor to rise to preferment.= Goldsmith.

=Frugality is an estate.= Pr.

=Frugality is founded on the principle that all= 45 =riches have limits.= Burke.

=Frugality is good, if liberality be joined with it.= Wm. Penn.

=Frugality may be termed the daughter of prudence, the sister of temperance, and the parent of liberty.= Johnson.

=Fruges consumere nati=--Born merely to consume the fruits of the earth. Hor.

=Frühe Hochzeit, lange Liebe=--Early marriage, long love. Ger. Pr.

=Fruit is seed.= Pr.

=Frustra fit per plura, quod fieri potest per pauciora=--It is vain to do by many agencies what may be done by few.

=Frustra Herculi=--In vain to speak against Hercules. 5 Pr.

=Frustra laborat qui omnibus placere studet=--He labours in vain who studies to please everybody. Pr.

=Frustra retinacula tendens / Fertur equis auriga, neque audit currus habenas=--In vain as he tugs at the reins is the charioteer borne along by the steeds, and the chariot heeds not the curb. Virg.

=Frustra vitium vitaveris illud, / Si te alio pravus detorseris=--In vain do you avoid one fault if you perversely turn aside into another. Hor.

=Fugam fecit=--He has taken to flight. L.

=Fuge magna; licet sub paupere tecto / Reges= 10 =et regum vita præcurrere amicos=--Shun grandeur; under a poor roof you may surpass even kings and the friends of kings in your life. Hor.

=Fugere est triumphus=--Flight (i.e., from temptation) is a triumph. Pr.

=Fugit improbus, ac me / Sub cultro linquit=--The wag runs away and leaves me with the knife at my throat, i.e., to be sacrificed. Hor.

=Fugit irreparabile tempus=--Time flies, never to be repaired. Virg.

=Fühlst du dein Herz durch Hass von Menschen weggetrieben--/ Thu' ihnen Gutes! schnell wirst du sie wieder lieben=--Shouldst thou feel thy heart repelled from men through hatred, do thou them good, soon shall thy love for them revive in thee. B. Paoli.

=Fuimus=--We have been. M. 15

=Fuimus Troes, fuit Ilium, et ingens / Gloria Teucrorum=--We Trojans are no more; Ilium is no more, and the great renown of the Teucri. Virg.

=Fuit hæc sapientia quondam, / Publica privatis secernere, sacra profanis, / Concubitu prohibere vago, dare jura maritis, / Oppida moliri, leges incidere ligno=--This of old was accounted wisdom, to separate public from private property, things sacred from profane, to restrain from vagrant concubinage, to ordain laws for married people, to build cities, to engrave laws on tablets. Hor.

=Fuit Ilium=--Troy was.

=Fules are aye fond o' flittin'.= Sc. Pr.

=Fulgente trahit constrictos gloria curru, / Non= 20 =minus ignotos generosis=--Glory draws all bound to her shining car, low-born and high-born alike. Hor.

=Full little knowest thou that hast not tried / What hell it is in suing long to bide; / To lose good days that might be better spent, / To waste long nights in pensive discontent.= Spenser.

=Full many a day for ever is lost / By delaying its work till to-morrow; / The minutes of sloth have often cost / Long years of bootless sorrow.= Eliza Cook.

=Full many a gem of purest ray serene / The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear; / Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, / And waste its sweetness on the desert air.= Gray.

=Full many a stoic eye and aspect stern / Masks hearts where grief has little left to learn; / And many a withering thought lies hid, not lost, / In smiles that least befit who wears them most.= Byron.

=Full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing.= 25 Macb., v. 5.

=Full oft have letters caused the writers / To curse the day they were inditers.= Butler.

=Full of wise saws and modern instances.= _As You Like It_, ii. 7.

=Full seldom doth a man repent, or use / Both grace and will to pick the vicious quitch / Of blood and custom wholly out of him, / And make all clean, and plant himself afresh.= Tennyson.

=Full twenty times was Peter fear'd / For once that Peter was respected.= Wordsworth.

=Full vessels give the least sound.= Pr. 30

=Full wise is he that can himselven knowe.= Chaucer.

=Fully to possess and rule an object, one must first study it for its own sake.= Goethe.

=Fumos vendere=--To sell smoke. Mart.

=Fumum, et opes, strepitumque Romæ=--The smoke, the wealth, and din of the town. Juv.

=Functus officio=--Having discharged his duties 35 and resigned.

=Fundamentum est justitiæ fides=--The foundation of justice is good faith. Cic.

=Fungar vice cotis, acutum / Reddere quæ ferrum valet, exsors ipsa secandi=--I will discharge the office of a whetstone, which can give an edge to iron, though it cannot cut itself. Hor.

=Fürchterlich / Ist einer der nichts zu verlieren hat=--Terrible is a man who has nothing to lose. Goethe.

=Für den Dialektiker ist die Welt ein Begriff, für den Schöngeist ein Bild, für den Schwärmer ein Traum, für den Forscher Wahrheit=--For the thinker the world is a thought; for the wit, an image; for the enthusiast, a dream; for the inquirer, truth. L. Büchner.

=Für eine Nation ist nur das gut was aus ihrem= 40 =eignen Kern und ihrem eignen allgemeinen Bedürfniss hervorgegangen, ohne Nachäffung einer andern=--Only that is good for a nation which issues from its own heart's core and its own general wants, without apish imitation of another; since (it is added) what may to one people, at a certain stage, be wholesome nutriment, may perhaps prove a poison for another. Goethe.

=Für einen Leichnam bin ich nicht zu Haus; / Mir geht es wie der Katze mit der Maus=--For a dead one I am not at home; I am like the cat with the mouse. Goethe's Mephistopheles.

=Für ewig ist ja nicht gestorben, was man für diese Welt begräbt=--What is buried for this world is not for ever dead. K. v. Holtei.

=Für Gerechte giebt es keine Gesetze=--There are no laws for just men. Ger. Pr.

=Furiosus absentis loco est=--A madman is treated as one absent. Coke.

=Furiosus furore suo punitur=--A madman is punished 45 by his own madness. L.

=Furor arma ministrat=--Their rage finds them arms. Virg.

=Furor fit læsa sæpius patientia=--Patience, when outraged often, is converted into rage. Pr.

=Furor iraque mentem præcipitant=--Rage and anger hurry on the mind. Virg.

=Furor loquendi=--A rage for speaking.

=Furor poëticus=--The poet's frenzy.

=Furor scribendi=--A rage for writing.

=Für seinen König muss das Volk sich opfern, /= 5 =Das ist das Schicksal und das Gesetz der Welt=--For its chief must the clan sacrifice itself; that is the destiny and law of the world. Schiller.

=Fürst Bismarck glaubt uns zu haben, und wir haben ihn=--Prince Bismarck thinks he has us, and we have him. Socialist organ.

=Fürsten haben lange Hände und viele Ohren=--Princes have long hands and many ears. Ger. Pr.

=Further I will not flatter you, / That all I see in you is worthy love, / Than this; that nothing do I see in you / That should merit hate.= King John, ii. 2.

=Fury wasteth, as patience lasteth.= Pr.

=Futurity is impregnable to mortal kin; no= 10 =prayer pierces through heaven's adamantine walls.= Schiller.

=Futurity is the great concern of mankind.= Burke.

=Futurity still shortens, and time present sucks in time to come.= Sir Thomas Browne.

=Fuyez les procès sur toutes les choses, la conscience s'y intéresse, la santé s'y altère, les biens s'y dissipent=--Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property. La Bruyère.

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=Gäb es keine Narren, so gäb es keine Weisen=--Were there no fools, there would be no wise men. Ger. Pr.

=Gaieté de cœur=--Gaiety of heart. Fr. 15

=Gaiety is often the reckless ripple over depths of despair.= Chapin.

=Gaiety is the soul's health; sadness is its poison.= Stanislaus.

=Gaiety overpowers weak spirits; good-humour recreates and revives them.= Johnson.

=Gaiety pleases more when we are assured that it does not cover carelessness.= Mme. de Staël.

=Gain at the expense of reputation should be= 20 =called loss.= Pub. Syr.

='Gainst the tooth of time / And rasure of oblivion.= Meas. for Meas., v. 1.

=Galea spes salutis=--Hope is the helmet of salvation. M.

=Galeatum sero duelli pœnitet=--After donning the helmet it is too late to repent of war, i.e., after enlistment. Juv.

=Gallantry thrives most in a court atmosphere.= Mme. Necker.

=Gallicè=--In French. 25

=Gallus in sterquilinio suo plurimum potest=--The cock is proudest on his own dunghill. Pr.

=Gambling is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality.= Colton.

=Gambling with cards, or dice, or stocks, is all one thing; it is getting money without giving an equivalent for it.= Ward Beecher.

=Game is a civil gunpowder, in peace / Blowing up houses with their whole increase.= Herbert.

[Greek: Gamein ho mellôn eis metanoian erchetai]--He 30 who is about to marry is on the way to repentance. Gr. Pr.

=Games of chance are traps to catch school-boy novices and gaping country squires, who begin with a guinea and end with a mortgage.= Cumberland.

=Gaming finds a man a cully and leaves him a knave.= T. Hughes.

=Gaming has been resorted to by the affluent as a refuge from= ennui; =it is a mental dram, and may succeed for a moment, but, like other stimuli, it produces indirect debility.= Colton.

=Gaming is the destruction of all decorum; the prince forgets at it his dignity, and the lady her modesty.= Marchioness d'Alembert.

=Gammel Mands Sagn er sielden usand=--An 35 old man's sayings are rarely untrue. Dan. Pr.

[Greek: Gamos gar anthrôpoisin euktaion kakon]--Marriage is an evil men are eager to embrace. Men.

=Gang to bed wi' the lamb and rise wi' the laverock= (lark). Sc. Pr.

=Garçon=--A boy; a waiter. Fr.

=Garde à cheval=--Horse-guards; mounted guard. Fr.

=Garde à pied=--Foot-guards. Fr. 40

=Garde à vous=--Attention. Fr.

=Garde-chasse=--Gamekeeper. Fr.

=Garde du corps=--A bodyguard. Fr.

=Garde-feu=--A fire-guard. Fr.

=Garde-fou=--A hand-rail. Fr. 45

=Gardez=--Keep it. Fr.

=Gardez bien=--Take care. Fr.

=Gardez cela pour la bonne bouche=--Keep that for a tit-bit. Fr. Pr.

=Gardez la foi=--Guard the faith. M.

=Garments that have once a rent in them are= 50 =subject to be torn on every nail, and glasses that are once cracked are soon broken; such is a good man's name once tainted with just reproach.= Bp. Hall.

=Garrit aniles / Ex re fabellas=--He relates old women's tales very apropos. Hor.

=Gar Vieles lernt man, um es wieder zu vergessen; / Um an den Ziel zu stehen, muss man die Bahn durchmessen=--Much we learn only to forget it again; to stand by the goal, we must traverse all the way to it. Rückert.

=Gâteau et mauvaise coutume se doivent rompre=--A cake and a bad custom are fated to be broken. Fr. Pr.

=Gâter une chandelle pour trouver une épingle=--To waste a candle to find a pin. Fr. Pr.

=Gather gear by every wile that's justified by= 55 =honour; / Not for to hide it in a hedge, nor for a train attendant; / But for the glorious privilege of being independent.= Burns.

=Gather the rosebuds while ye may, / Old Time is still a-flying, / And this same flower that smiles to-day, / To-morrow will be dying.= Herrick.

=Gathering gear= (wealth) =is pleasant pain.= _Sc. Pr._

=Gathering her brows like gathering storm, / Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.= Burns.

=Gato maullador nunca buen cazador=--A mewing cat is never a good mouser. Sp. Pr.

=Gaude, Maria Virgo=--Rejoice, Virgin Mary.

=Gaudeamus=--Let us have a joyful time.

=Gaudent prænomine molles / Auriculæ=--His delicate ears are delighted with a title. Hor.

=Gaudet equis, canibusque, et aprici gramine= 5 =campi=--He delights in horses, and dogs, and the grass of the sunny plain. Hor.

=Gaudet tentamine virtus=--Virtue rejoices in being put to the test.

=Gaudetque viam fecisse ruina=--He rejoices at having made his way by ruin. Lucan, of Julius Cæsar.

=Gave / His body to that pleasant country's earth, / And his pure soul unto his captain Christ, / Under whose colours he had fought so long.= Rich. II., iv. 1.

=Gay hope is theirs by fancy fed, / Less pleasing when possest; / The tear forgot as soon as shed, / The sunshine of the breast.= Gray.

=Gear is easier gained than guided.= Pr. 10

=Geben ist Sache des Reichen=--Giving is the business of the rich. Goethe.

=Gebrade duijven vliegen niet door de lucht=--Roasted pigeons don't fly through the air. Dut. Pr.

=Gebratene Tauben, die einem im Maul fliegen?=--Do pigeons fly ready-roasted into one's mouth? Ger. Pr.

=Gebraucht der Zeit, sie geht so schnell von hinnen, / Doch Ordnung lehrt euch Zeit gewinnen=--Make the most of time, it glides away so fast; but order teaches you to gain time. Goethe.

=Gebt ihr ein Stück, so gebt es gleich in Stücken=--If 15 your aim is to give a piece, be sure you give it in pieces. Goethe.

=Gedanken sind zollfrei, aber nicht höllenfrei=--Thoughts are toll-free, but not hell-free. Ger. Pr.

=Gedenke zu leben=--Think of living. Goethe.

=Gedichte sind gemalde Fensterscheiben=--Poems are painted window-panes, i.e., when genuine, they transmit heaven's light through a contracted medium coloured by human feeling and fantasy. Goethe.

=Gedult gaat boven geleerdheid=--Patience excels learning. Dut. Pr.

=Gedwongen liefde vergaat haast=--Love that is 20 forced does not last. Dut. Pr.

=Geese are plucked as long as they have any feathers.= Dut. Pr.

=Gefährlich ist's, den Leu zu wecken, / Verderblich ist des Tigers Zahn; / Jedoch der schrecklichste der Schrecken, / Das ist der Mensch in seinem Wahn=--Dangerous it is to rouse the lion, fatal is the tiger's tooth, but the most frightful of terrors is man in his self-delusion. Schiller.

=Gefährlich ist's ein Mordgewehr zu tragen / Und auf den Schützen springt der Pfeil zurück=--It is dangerous to carry a murderous weapon, and the arrow rebounds on the archer. Schiller.

=Gefährlich ist's mit Geistern sich gesellen=--To fraternise with spirits is a dangerous game. Goethe.

=Gefährte munter kürzt die Meilen=--Lively 25 companionship shortens the miles. Ger. Pr.

=Gefühl ist alles; / Name ist Schall und Rauch / Umnebelnd Himmelsglut=--Feeling is all; name is sound and smoke veiling heaven's splendour. Goethe.

=Gegen grosse Vorzüge eines andern giebt es kein Rettungsmittel als die Liebe=--To countervail the inequalities arising from the great superiority of one over another there is no specific but love. Goethe.

=Gegner glauben uns widerlegen, wenn sie ihre Meinung wieder holen und auf die unsrige nicht achten=--Our adversaries think they confuse us by repeating their own opinion and paying no heed to ours. Goethe.

=Geheimnissvoll am lichten Tag / Lässt sich Natur des Schleiers nicht berauben, / Und was sie deinem Geist nicht offenbaren mag, / Das zwingst du ihr nicht ab mit Hebeln und mit Schrauben=--In broad daylight inscrutable, Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt not wrest from her by levers and screws. Goethe.

=Geld beheert de wereld.=--Money rules the 30 world. Dut. Pr.

=Geld ist der Mann=--Money makes (lit. is) the man. Ger. Pr.

=Geld im Beutel vertreibt die Schwermuth=--Money in the purse drives away melancholy. Ger. Pr.

=Gelegenheit macht den Dieb=--Opportunity makes the thief. Ger. Pr.

=Gelehrte Dummkopf=--A learned blockhead; dryasdust.

[Greek: Gelôs akairos en brotois deinon kakon]--Ill-timed 35 laughter in men is a grievous evil. Men.

=Gemeen goed, geen goed=--Common goods, no goods. Dut. Pr.

=Gemsen steigen hoch und werden doch gefangen=--The chamois climb high, and yet are caught. Ger. Pr.

=General abstract truth is the most precious of all blessings; without it man is blind; it is the eye of reason.= Rousseau.

=General infidelity is the hardest soil which the propagators of a new religion can have to work upon.= Paley.

=General suffering is the fruit of general misbehaviour,= 40 =general dishonesty.= Carlyle.

=General truths are seldom applied to particular occasions.= Johnson.

=Generally all warlike people are a little idle, and love danger better than travail.= Bacon.

=Generally speaking, an author's style is a faithful copy of his mind. If you would write a lucid style, let there first be light in your own mind; and if you would write a grand style, you ought to have a grand character.= Goethe.

=Generations are as the days of toilsome mankind; death and birth are the vesper and the matin bells that summon mankind to sleep, and to rise refreshed for new advancement.= Carlyle.

=Generosity during life is a very different thing= 45 =from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.= Horace Mann.

=Generosity is catching: and if so many escape it, it is somewhat for the same reason that countrymen escape the small-pox--because they meet with no one to give it to them.= Lord Greville.

=Generosity is the flower of justice.= Hawthorne.

=Generosity is the part of the soul raised above the vulgar.= Goldsmith.

=Generosity should never exceed ability.= Cic.

=Generosity, wrong placed, becomes a vice.= 5 =A princely mind will undo a private family.= Fuller.

=Generous souls are still most subject to credulity.= Sir W. Davenant.

=Geniesse, wenn du kannst, und leide, wenn du musst, / Vergiss den Schmerz, erfrische das Vergnügen=--Enjoy if thou canst, endure if thou must; / forget the pain and revive the pleasure. Goethe.

=Genius and virtue, like diamonds, are best plain set.= Emerson.

=Genius always gives its best at first, prudence at last.= Lavater.

=Genius begins great works, labour alone finishes= 10 =them.= Joubert.

=Genius believes its faintest presentiment against the testimony of all history, for it knows that facts are not ultimates, but that a state of mind is the ancestor of everything.= Emerson.

=Genius borrows nobly.= Emerson.

=Genius can never despise labour.= Abel Stevens.

=Genius cannot escape the taint of its time more than a child the influence of its begetting.= Ouida.

=Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere= 15 =of freedom.= J. S. Mill.

=Genius counts all its miracles poor and short.= Emerson.

=Genius does not need a special language; it newly uses whatever tongue it finds.= Stedman.

=Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.= Owen Meredith.

=Genius easily hews out its figure from the block, but the sleepless chisel gives it life.= Willmott.

=Genius, even as it is the greatest good, is the= 20 =greatest harm.= Emerson.

=Genius ever stands with nature in solemn union, and what the one foretells the other will fulfil.= Schiller.

=Genius finds its own road and carries its own lamp.= Willmott.

=Genius grafted on womanhood is like to overgrow it and break its stem.= Holmes.

=Genius has privileges of its own; it selects an orbit for itself; and be this never so eccentric, if it is indeed a celestial orbit, we mere star-gazers must at last compose ourselves, must cease to cavil at it, and begin to observe it and calculate its laws.= Carlyle.

=Genius in poverty is never feared, because= 25 =Nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.= B. R. Haydon.

=Genius invents fine manners, which the baron and the baroness copy very fast, and, by the advantage of a palace, better the instruction. They stereotype the lesson they have learned into a mode.= Emerson.

=Genius is always ascetic, and piety and love.= Emerson.

=Genius is always a surprise, but it is born with great advantages when the stock from which it springs has been long under cultivation.= Holmes.

=Genius is always consistent when most audacious.= Stedman.

=Genius is always impatient of its harness; its= 30 =wild blood makes it hard to train.= Holmes.

=Genius is always more suggestive than expressive.= Abel Stevens.

=Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over-influence.= Emerson.

=Genius is a nervous disease.= De Tours.

=Genius is ever a secret to itself.= Carlyle.

=Genius is ever the greatest mystery to itself.= 35 Schiller.

=Genius is inconsiderate, self-relying, and, like unconscious beauty, without any intention to please.= I. M. Wise.

=Genius is intensity of life; an overflowing vitality which floods and fertilises a continent or a hemisphere of being; which makes a nature many-sided and whole, while most men remain partial and fragmentary.= H. W. Mabie.

=Genius is lonely without the surrounding presence of a people to inspire it.= T. W. Higginson.

=Genius is mainly an affair of energy.= _Matthew Arnold._

=Genius is not a single power, but a combination= 40 =of great powers. It reasons, but it is not reasoning; it judges, but it is not judgment; imagines, but it is not imagination; it feels deeply and fiercely, but it is not passion. It is neither, because it is all.= Whipple.

=Genius is nothing but a great capacity for patience.= Buffon.

=Genius is nothing but labour and diligence.= Hogarth.

=Genius is nothing more than our common faculties refined to a greater intensity.= Haydon.

=Genius is nothing more than the effort of the idea to assume a definite form.= Fichte.

=Genius is nourished from within and without.= 45 Willmott.

=Genius is only as rich as it is generous.= Thoreau.

=Genius is religious.= Emerson.

=Genius is that in whose power a man is.= Lowell.

=Genius is that power of man which by its deeds and actions gives laws and rules; and it does not, as used to be thought, manifest itself only by over-stepping existing laws, breaking established rules, and declaring itself above all restraint.= Goethe.

=Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the= 50 =miner who works and brings it out.= _Lady Blessington._

=Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.= Coleridge.

=Genius is the transcendent capacity of taking trouble first of all.= Carlyle.

=Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes.= Simms.

=Genius is to other gifts what the carbuncle is to the precious stones. It sends forth its own light, whereas other stones only reflect borrowed light.= Schopenhauer.

=Genius loci=--The presiding genius of the place.

=Genius makes its observations in shorthand; talent writes them out at length.= Bovee.

=Genius may at times want the spur, but it stands as often in need of the curb.= Longinus.

=Genius melts many ages into one.... A work= 5 =of genius is but the newspaper of a century, or perchance of a hundred centuries.= Hawthorne.

=Genius must be born, and never can be taught.= Dryden.

=Genius of a kind is necessary to make a fortune, and especially a large one.= La Bruyère.

=Genius only commands recognition when it has created the taste which is to appreciate it.= Froude.

=Genius only leaves behind it the monuments of its strength.= Hazlitt.

=Genius should be the child of genius, and every= 10 =child should be inspired.= Emerson.

=Genius, the Pythian of the beautiful, leaves its large truths a riddle to the dull.= Bulwer Lytton.

=Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.= Beecher.

=Genius will reconcile men to much.= Carlyle.

=Genius works in sport, and goodness smiles to the last.= Emerson.

=Gens d'armes=--Armed police. Fr. 15

=Gens de bureau=--Officials in a government office. Fr.

=Gens de condition=--People of rank. Fr.

=Gens d'église=--Churchmen. Fr.

=Gens de guerre=--Soldiers. Fr.

=Gens de langues=--Linguists. Fr. 20

=Gens de lettres=--Literary people. Fr.

=Gens de lois=--Lawyers. Fr.

=Gens de même famille=--Birds of a feather. Fr.

=Gens de peu=--The lower classes. Fr.

=Gens togata=--The nation with the toga, i.e., the 25 Roman.

=Gentility is nothing else but ancient riches.= Lord Burleigh.

=Gentility without ability is waur= (worse) =than plain begging.= Sc. Pr.

=Gentle passions brighten the horizon of our existence, move without wearying, warm without consuming, and are the badges of true strength.= Feuchtersleben.

=Gentle words, quiet words, are, after all, the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing.= W. Gladden.

=Gentleman, in its primal, literal, and perpetual= 30 =meaning, is a man of pure race.= Ruskin.

=Gentleman is a term which does not apply to any station, but to the mind and the feelings in every station.= Talfourd.

=Gentlemanliness is just another word for intense humanity.= Ruskin.

=Gentlemen have to learn that it is no part of their duty or privilege to live on other people's toil; that there is no degradation in the hardest manual or the humblest servile labour, when it is honest.= Ruskin.

="Gentlemen of the jury, you will now consider your verdict."= Lord Tenterden's last words.

=Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in= 35 =our manners.= Blair.

=Gentleness! more powerful than Hercules.= Ninon de l'Enclos.

=Gentleness, when it weds with manhood, makes a man.= Tennyson.

=Gently comes the world to those / That are cast in gentle mould.= Tennyson.

=Gently didst thou ramble round the little circle of thy pleasures, jostling no creature in thy way: for each one's sorrows thou hadst a tear; for each man's need thou hadst a shilling.= Sterne's Uncle Toby.

=Gently, gently touch a nettle, / And it stings= 40 =you for your pains; / Grasp it like a man of mettle, / And it soft as silk remains.= Aaron Hill.

=Genug ist über einer Sackvoll=--Enough excels a sackful. Ger. Pr.

=Genuine morality depends on no religion, though every one sanctions it and thereby guarantees to it its support.= Schopenhauer.

=Genuine religion is matter of feeling rather than matter of opinion.= Bovee.

=Genuine simplicity of heart is a healing and cementing principle.= Burke.

=Genus et proavos et quæ non fecimus ipsi, /= 45 =Vix ea nostra voco=--Birth, ancestry, and what we have ourselves not done, I would hardly call our own. Ovid.

=Genus humanum superavit=--He surpassed the human race in natural ability. Lucret.

=Genus immortale manet, multosque per annos / Stat fortuna domus, et avi numerantur avorum=--The race continues immortal, and through many years the fortune of the house stands steadfast, and it numbers grandsires of grandsires. Virg.

=Genus irritabile vatum=--The sensitive tribe of poets.

[Greek: Gêraskô d' aei polla didaskomenos]--Always learning many things the older I grow. Solon.

=Gerechtigkeit ist mehr die männliche, Menschenliebe= 50 =mehr die weibliche Tugend=--Justice is properly the virtue of the man, charity of the woman. Schopenhauer.

=Geredt ist geredt, man kann es mit keinem Schwamme abwischen=--What is said is said; there is no sponge that can wipe it out. Ger. Pr.

=Germanicè=--In German.

=Gescheite Leute sind immer das beste Konversationslexikon=--Clever people are always the best Conversations-lexicon. Goethe.

=Geschichte ist eigentlich nichts anderes, als eine Satire auf die Menschheit=--History is properly nothing else but a satire on humanity. C. J. Weber.

=Geschrei macht den Wolf grösser als er ist=--Fear 55 makes the wolf bigger than he is. Ger. Pr.

=Gesellschaft ist die Grossmutter der Menschheit durch ihre Töchter, die Erfindungen=--Society is the grandmother of humanity through her daughters, the inventions. C. J. Weber.

=Gesetz ist mächtig, mächtiger ist die Noth=--Law is powerful; necessity is more so. Goethe.

=Gesetzlose Gewalt ist die furchbarste Schwäche=--Lawless power is the most frightful weakness. Herder.

=Gespenster sind für solche Leute nur / Die sehn sie wollen=--Ghosts visit only those who look for them. Holtei.

=Get a good name and go to sleep.= Pr.

=Get money, honestly if you can, but get money.= Pr.

=Get once into the secret of any Christian act, and you get practically into the secret of Christianity itself.= Ed.

=Get on the crupper of a good stout hypothesis,= 5 =and you may ride round the world.= Sterne.

=Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace; / If not, by any means get wealth and place.= Pope.

=Get spindle and distaff ready, and God will send the flax.= Pr.

=Get thee to a nunnery!= Ham., iii. 1.

=Get to live; / Then live and use it; else it is not true / That thou hast gotten.= Herbert.

=Get what ye can and keep what ye hae.= Sc. 10 Pr.

=Get your enemies to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you.= Pope.

=Geteilte Freud' ist doppelt Freude=--Joy shared is joy doubled. Goethe.

=Gewalt ist die beste Beredsamkeit=--Power is the most persuasive rhetoric. Schiller.

=Gewinnen ist leichter als Erhalten=--Getting is easier than keeping. Ger. Pr.

=Gewöhne dich, da stets der Tod dir dräut, /= 15 =Dankbar zu nehmen, was das Leben beut=--Accustom thyself, since death ever threatens thee, to accept with a thankful heart whatever life offers thee. Bodenstedt.

=Gewöhnlich glaubt Mensch, wenn er nur Worte hört, / Es müsse sich dabei doch auch was denken lassen=--Men generally believe, when they hear only words, that there must be something in it. Goethe.

=Ghosts! There are nigh a thousand million walking the earth openly at noontide; some half-hundred have vanished from it, some half-hundred have arisen in it, ere thy watch ticks once.= Carlyle.

=Giant Antæus in the fable acquired new strength every time he touched the earth; so some brave minds gain fresh energy from that which depresses and crushes others.= Murphy.

=Gibier de potence=--A gallows-bird. Fr.

=Gie a bairn his will and a whelp his fill, an'= 20 =neither will do well.= Sc. Pr.

=Gie a beggar a bed, and he'll pay you with a louse.= Sc. Pr.

=Gie him tow enough and he'll hang himsel'=, i.e., give him enough of his own way. Sc. Pr.

=Gie me a canny hour at e'en, / My arms about my dearie, O, / An' warl'ly cares an' warl'ly men / May a' gang tapsalteerie, O.= Burns.

=Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire! / That's a' the learning I desire; / Then though I drudge through dub and mire, / At pleugh or cart, / My Muse, though hamely in attire, / May touch the heart.= Burns.

=Gie me a peck o' oaten strae, / An' sell your wind= 25 =for siller.= The cow to the piper who put her off with piping to her.

=Gie the deil his due, an' ye'll gang till him.= Sc. Pr.

=Gie the greedy dog a muckle bane.= Sc. Pr.

=Gie wealth to some be-ledger'd cit, / In cent. per cent.; / But gie me real, sterling wit, / And I'm content.= Burns.

=Gie your heart to God and your awms= (alms) =to the poor.= Sc. Pr.

=Gie your tongue mair holidays than your head.= 30 Sc. Pr.

=Giebt es Krieg, so macht der Teufel die Hölle weiter=--When war falls out, the devil enlarges hell. Ger. Pr.

=Giebt's schönre Pflichten für ein edles Herz / Als ein Verteidiger der Unschuld sein, / Das Recht der unterdrückten zu beschirmen?=--What nobler task is there for a noble heart than to take up the defence of innocence and protect the rights of the oppressed? Schiller.

=Gierigheid is niet verzadigd voor zij den mond vol aarde heeft=--Greed is never satisfied till its mouth is filled with earth. Dut. Pr.

=Giff-gaff maks gude friends=, i.e., mutual giving. Sc. Pr.

=Gift of prophecy has been wisely denied to= 35 =man. Did a man foresee his life, and not merely hope it and grope it, and so by necessity and free-will make and fabricate it into a reality, he were no man, but some other kind of creature, superhuman or subterhuman.= Carlyle.

=Gifts are as gold that adorns the temple; grace is like the temple that sanctifies the gold.= Burkett.

=Gifts are often losses.= It. Pr.

=Gifts come from on high in their own peculiar forms.= Goethe.

=Gifts from the hand are silver and gold, but the heart gives that which neither silver nor gold can buy.= Ward Beecher.

=Gifts make their way through stone walls.= 40 Pr.

=Gifts weigh like mountains on a sensitive heart.= Mme. Fee.

=Gigni pariter cum corpore, et una / Crescere sentimus pariterque senescere mentem=--We see that the mind is born with the body, that it grows with it, and also ages with it. Lucret.

=Gin= (if) =ye hadna been among the craws, ye wadna hae been shot.= Sc. Pr.

=Giovine santo, diavolo vecchio=--A young saint, an old devil. It. Pr.

=Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, / Suffering= 45 =yet hoping all things.= Mrs. Hemans.

=Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.= Goethe.

=Give a boy address and accomplishments, and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.= Emerson.

=Give a dog an ill name and hang him.= Pr.

=Give a hint to a man of sense and consider the thing done.= Pr.

=Give alms, that thy children may not ask= 50 =them.= Dan. Pr.

=Give a man luck and throw him into the sea.= Pr.

=Give ample room and verge enough.= Gray.

=Give an ass oats, and it runs after thistles.= _Dut. Pr._

=Give, and it shall be given to you.= Jesus.

=Give and spend, / And God will send.= Pr. 55

=Give and take.= Pr.

=Give a rogue rope enough, and he will hang himself.= Pr.

=Give, but, if possible, spare the poor man the shame of begging.= Diderot.

=Give every flying minute / Something to keep in store.= Walker.

=Give every man his due.= Pr.

=Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; /= 5 =Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.= Ham., i. 3.

=Give from below what ye get from above, / Light for the heaven-light, love for its love, / A holy soul for the Holy Dove.= Dr. Walter Smith.

=Give God the margin of eternity to justify Himself in.= Haweis.

=Give him an inch and he'll take an ell.= Pr.

=Give him a present! give him a halter.= Mer. of Ven., ii. 2.

=Give me again my hollow tree, / A crust of= 10 =bread, and liberty.= Pope.

=Give me a look, give me a face, / That makes simplicity a grace, / Robes loosely flowing, hair as free; / Such sweet neglect more taketh me, / Than all the adulteries of art; / They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.= Ben Jonson.

=Give me but / Something whereunto I may bind my heart; / Something to love, to rest upon, to clasp / Affection's tendrils round.= Mrs. Hemans.

=Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.= Emerson.

=Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds.... This idea has inspired the genius of Goldsmith, Burns, Cowper, and, in a newer time, of Goethe, Wordsworth, and Carlyle. Their writing is blood-warm.= Emerson.

=Give me my Romeo: and, when he shall die, /= 15 =Take him and cut him out in little stars, / And he will make the face of heaven so fine / That all the world will be in love with night, / And pay no homage to the garish sun.= Rom. and Jul., iii. 2.

=Give me that man / Who is not passion's slave, and I will wear him / In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of hearts.= Ham., iii. 2.

=Give me the avow'd, th' erect, the manly foe, / Bold I can meet, perhaps may turn, his blow; / But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, / Save, save, oh! save me from the candid friend.= Canning.

=Give me the eloquent cheek, where blushes burn and die.= Mrs. Osgood.

=Give me the liberty to know, to think, to believe, and to utter freely, according to conscience, above all other liberties.= Milton.

=Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked= 20 =for it.= Pr.

=Give not that which is holy to the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine.= Jesus.

=Give only so much to one that you may have to give to another.= Dan. Pr.

=Give orders, but no more, and nothing will be done.= Sp. and Port. Pr.

=Give pleasure to the few; to please many is vain.= Schiller.

=Give ruffles to a man who wants a shirt.= Fr. 25 Pr. (?)

=Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak, / Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break.= Macbeth, iv. 3.

=Give the devil his due.= 1 Hen. IV., i. 2.

=Give the devil rope enough and he will hang himself.= Pr.

=Give thy need, thine honour, and thy friend his due.= Herbert.

=Give thy thoughts no tongue, / Nor any unproportioned= 30 =thought his act. / Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. / The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, / Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; / But do not dull thy palm with entertainment / Of each new-hatch'd unfledged comrade.= Ham., i. 3.

=Give to a gracious message / An host of tongues; but let ill tidings tell / Themselves when they be felt.= Ant. and Cleo., ii. 5.

=Give to him that asketh of thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.= Jesus.

=Give to the masses nothing to do, and they will topple down thrones and cut throats; give them the government here, and they will make pulpits useless, and colleges an impertinence.= Wendell Phillips.

=Give tribute, but not oblation, to human wisdom.= Sir P. Sidney.

=Give unto me, made lowly wise, / The spirit of= 35 =self-sacrifice; / The confidence of reason give; / And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live.= Wordsworth.

=Give us the man who sings at his work! Be his occupation what it may, he will be equal to any of those who follow the same pursuit in silent sullenness. He will do more in the same time; he will do it better; he will persevere longer.= Carlyle.

=Give way to your betters.= Pr.

=Give you a reason on compulsion? If reasons were as plenty as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion.= 1 Hen. IV., ii. 4.

=Give your tongue more holiday than your hands or eyes.= Rabbi Ben Azai.

=Given a living man, there will be found clothes= 40 =for him; he will find himself clothes; but the suit of clothes pretending that it is both clothes and man--= Carlyle.

=Given a world of knaves, to educe an Honesty from their united action, is a problem that is becoming to all men a palpably hopeless one.= Carlyle.

=Given the men a people choose, the people itself, in its exact worth and worthlessness, is given.= Carlyle.

=Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade / To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep, / Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy / To kings that fear their subjects' treachery.= 3 Hen. VI., ii. 5.

=Giving alms never lessens the purse.= Sp. Pr.

=Giving away is the instrument for accumulated= 45 =treasures; it is like a bucket for the distribution of the waters deposited in the bowels of a well.= Hitopadesa.

=Giving to the poor increaseth a man's store.= Sc. Pr.

=Gladiator in arena consilium capit=--The gladiator is taking advice when he is already in the lists. Pr.

=Glänzendes Elend=--Shining misery. Goethe.

=Glasses and lasses are brittle ware.= Sc. Pr.

=Glaube nur, du hast viel gethan / Wenn dir Geduld gewöhnest an=--Assure yourself you have accomplished no small feat if only you have learned patience. Goethe.

[Greek: Glauk' Athênaze]--Owls to Athens.

=Glebæ ascriptus=--Attached to the soil. 5

=Gleiches Blut, gleiches Gut, und gleiche Jahre machen die besten Heirathspaare=--Like blood, like estate, and like age make the happiest wedded pair. Ger. Pr.

=Gleich sei keiner dem andern; doch gleich sei jeder dem Höchsten. Wie das zu machen? Es sei jeder vollendet in sich=--Let no one be like another, yet every one like the Highest. How is this to be done? Be each one perfect in himself. Goethe.

=Gleich und Gleich gesellt sich gern, sprach der Teufel zum Köhler=--Like will to like, as the devil said to the charcoal-burner. Ger. Pr.

=Gleichheit est immer das festeste Band der Liebe=--Equality is the firmest bond of love. Lessing.

=Gleichheit ist das heilige Gesetz der Menschheit=--Equality 10 is the holy law of humanity. Schiller.

=Gli alberi grandi fanno più ombra che frutto=--Large trees yield more shade than fruit. It. Pr.

=Gli amici legano la borsa con un filo di ragnatelo=--Friends tie their purses with a spider's thread. It. Pr.

=Gli uomini alla moderna, e gli asini all' antica=--After the modern stamp men, and after the ancient, asses. It. Pr.

=Gli uomini fanno la roba, e le donne la conservano=--Men make the wealth and women husband it. It. Pr.

=Gli uomini hanno gli anni che sentono, e le= 15 =donne quelli che mostrano=--Men are as old as they feel, and women as they look. It. Pr.

=Gli uomini hanno men rispetto di offendere uno che si facci amare che uno che si facci temere=--Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear. Machiavelli.

=Gloria in excelsis Deo=--Glory to God in the highest.

=Gloria vana florece, y no grana=--Glory which is not real may flower, but will never fructify. Sp. Pr.

=Gloria virtutis umbra=--Glory is the shadow (i.e., the attendant) of virtue.

=Gloriæ et famæ jactura facienda est, publicæ= 20 =utilitatis causa=--A surrender of glory and fame must be made for the public advantage. Cic.

=Gloriam qui spreverit, veram habet=--He who despises glory will have true glory. Livy.

=Glories, like glow-worms, afar-off shine bright, / But looked at near, have neither heat nor light.= Webster.

=Glorious men are the scorn of wise men, the admiration of fools, the idols of parasites, and the slaves of their own vaunts.= Bacon.

=Glory and gain the industrious tribe provoke; / And gentle dulness ever loves a joke.= Pope.

=Glory fills the world with virtue, and, like a= 25 =beneficent sun, covers the whole earth with flowers and fruits.= Vauvenargues.

=Glory grows guilty of detested crimes.= _Love's L. Lost_, iv. 1.

=Glory is like a circle in the water, / Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, / Till, by broad spreading, it disperse to naught.= 1 Hen. VI., i. 2.

=Glory is safe when it is deserved; not so popularity; the one lasts like mosaic, the other is effaced like a crayon drawing.= Boufflers.

=Glory is so enchanting that we love whatever we associate with it, even though it be death.= Pascal.

=Glory is the fair child of peril.= Smollett. 30

=Glory is the unanimous praise of good men.= Cic.

=Glory long has made the sages smile, / 'Tis something, nothing, words, illusion, wind, / Depending more upon the historian's style / Than on the name a person leaves behind.= Byron.

=Glory relaxes often and debilitates the mind; censure stimulates and contracts--both to an extreme.= Shenstone.

=Glück auf dem Weg=--Good luck by the way. Ger. Pr.

=Glück macht Mut=--Luck inspires pluck. Goethe. 35

=Glück und Weiber haben die Narren lieb=--Fortune and women have a liking for fools. Ger. Pr.

=Glücklich, glücklich nenn' ich den / Dem des Daseins letzte Stunde / Schlägt in seiner Kinder Mitte=--Happy! happy call I him the last hour of whose life strikes in the midst of his children. Grillparzer.

=Glücklich wer jung in jungen Tagen, / Glücklich wer mit Zeit gestählt, Gelernt des Lebens Ernst zu tragen=--Happy he who is young in youth, happy who is hardened as steel with time, has learned to bear life's earnestness. Puschkin.

=Gluttony and drunkenness have two evils attendant on them; they make the carcass smart as well as the pocket.= Marcus Antoninus.

=Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities= 40 =and the fountain of all our diseases. As a lamp is choked by a superabundance of oil, a fire extinguished by an excess of fuel, so is the natural health of the body destroyed by intemperate diet.= Burton.

=Gluttony kills more than the sword.= Pr.

=Gluttony, where it prevails, is more violent, and certainly more despicable, than avarice itself.= Johnson.

=Gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite / The man that mocks at it and sets it light.= Rich. II., i. 3.

=Gnats are unnoticed whereso'er they fly, / But eagles gazed upon by every eye.= Shakespeare.

[Greek: Gnôthi seauton]--Know thyself. 45

=Go deep enough, there is music everywhere.= Carlyle.

=Go down the ladder when thou marriest a wife; go up when thou choosest a friend.= Rabbi Ben Azai.

=Go, miser, go; for lucre sell thy soul; / Truck wares for wares, and trudge from pole to pole. / That men may say, when thou art dead and gone: / "See what a vast estate he left his son!"= Dryden.

=Go, poor devil, get thee gone; why should I hurt thee? This world, surely, is wide enough to hold both thee and me.= Uncle Toby to the fly that had tormented him, as he let it out by the window.

=Go to Jericho and let your beards grow.= See 2 Sam. x. 5.

=Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.= Bible.

=Go to your bosom; / Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know / That's like my brother's fault; if it confess / A natural guiltiness, such as his is, / Let it not sound a thought upon your tongue / Against my brother's life.= Meas. for Meas., ii. 2.

=Go where you may, you still find yourself in= 5 =a conditional world.= Goethe.

=Go whither thou wilt, thou shalt find no rest but in humble subjection to the government of a superior.= Thomas à Kempis.

=Go, wondrous creature, mount where science guides. / Go, measure earth, weigh air, and state the tides; / Instruct the planets in what orbs to run, / Correct old Time, and regulate the sun; / Go, teach Eternal Wisdom how to rule, / Then drop into thyself and be a fool.= Pope.

=Go you and try a democracy in your own house.= Lycurgus, to one who asked why he had not instituted a democracy.

=Go, you may call it madness, folly; / You shall not chase my gloom away; / There's such a charm in melancholy, / I would not, if I could, be gay.= Rogers.

=Gobe-mouches=--A fly-catcher; one easily gulled. 10 Fr.

=God alone can properly bind up a bleeding heart.= J. Roux.

=God alone is true; God alone is great; alone is God.= Laboulaye.

=God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, / And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, / A gauntlet with a gift in it.= Mrs. Browning.

=God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it; the only choice is how.= Ward Beecher.

=God asks not what, but whence, thy work is:= 15 =from the fruit / He turns His eye away, to prove the inmost root.= Trench.

=God assists those who rise early in the morning.= Sp. Pr.

=God blesses still the generous thought, / And still the fitting word He speeds, / And truth, at His requiring taught, / He quickens into deeds.= Whittier.

=God blesses the seeking, not the finding.= Ger. Pr.

=God builds His temple in the heart and on the ruins of churches and religions.= Emerson.

=God comes at last, when we think He is= 20 =farthest off.= Pr.

=God comes in distress, and distress goes.= Gael. Pr.

=God comes to see us without bell.= Pr.

=God comes with leaden feet, but strikes with iron hands.= Pr.

=God created man in his own image.= Bible.

=God deals His wrath by weight, but His= 25 =mercy without weight.= Pr.

=God deceiveth thee not.= Thomas à Kempis.

=God defend me from the man of one book.= Pr.

=God desireth to make your burden light to you, for man hath been created weak.= Koran.

=God does not measure men by inches.= _Sc. Pr._

=God does not pay every week, but He pays at= 30 =the end.= Dut. Pr.

=God does not require us to live on credit; He pays what we earn as we earn it, good or evil, heaven or hell, according to our choice.= C. Mildmay.

=God does not smite with both hands.= Sp. Pr.

=God does not weigh criminality in our scales. God's measure is the heart of the offender, a balance so delicate that a tear cast in the other side may make the weight of error kick the beam.= Lowell.

=God does with His children as a master does with his pupils; the more hopeful they are, the more work He gives them to do.= Plato.

=God enters by a private door into every individual.= 35 Emerson.

=God estimates us not by the position we are in, but by the way in which we fill it.= T. Edwards.

=God gave thy soul brave wings; put not those feathers / Into a bed to sleep out all ill weathers.= Herbert.

=God gives all things to industry.= Pr.

=God gives birds their food, but they must fly for it.= Dut. Pr.

=God gives every bird its nest, but does not= 40 =throw it into the nest.= J. G. Holland.

=God gives his angels charge of those who sleep, / But He Himself watches with those who wake.= Harriet E. H. King.

=God gives sleep to the bad, in order that the good may be undisturbed.= Saadi.

=God gives strength to bear a great deal, if we only strive ourselves to endure.= Hans Andersen.

=God gives the will; necessity gives the law.= Dan. Pr.

=God gives us love. Something to love / He= 45 =lends us; but when love is grown / To ripeness, that on which it throve / Falls off, and love is left alone.= Tennyson.

=God giveth speech to all, song to the few.= _Dr. Walter Smith._

=God grant you fortune, my son, for knowledge avails you little.= Sp. Pr.

=God hands gifts to some, whispers them to others.= W. R. Alger.

=God hangs the greatest weights on the smallest wires.= Bacon.

=God has been pleased to prescribe limits to His= 50 =own power, and to work out His ends within these limits.= Paley.

=God has commanded time to console the unhappy.= Joubert.

=God has connected the labour which is essential to the bodily sustenance with the pleasures which are healthiest for the heart; and while He made the ground stubborn, He made its herbage fragrant and its blossoms fair.= Ruskin.

=God has delegated Himself to a million deputies.= Emerson.

=God has given a prophet to every people in its own tongue.= Arab Pr.

=God has given nuts to some who have no teeth.= Port. Pr.

=God has given us wit and flavour, and brightness and laughter, and perfumes to enliven the days of man's pilgrimage, and to charm his pained steps over the burning marl.= Sydney Smith.

=God has His little children out at nurse in many a home.= Dr. Walter Smith.

=God has lent us the earth for our life; it is a great entail.= Ruskin.

=God has made man to take pleasure in the use= 5 =of his eyes, wits, and body; and the foolish creature is continually trying to live without looking at anything, without thinking about anything, and without doing anything.= Ruskin.

=God has made sunny spots in the heart; why should we exclude the light from them?= Haliburton.

=God has not said all that thou hast said.= _Gael. Pr._

=God has sunk souls in dust, that by that means they may burst their way through errors to truth, through faults to virtue, and through sufferings to bliss.= Engel.

=God hath anointed thee to free the oppressed and crush the oppressor.= Bryant.

=God hath given to man a short time here upon= 10 =earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.= Jeremy Taylor.

=God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another: you jig, you amble, and you lisp, and you nickname God's creatures, and make your wantonness your ignorance.= Ham., iii. 1.

=God hath many sharp-cutting instruments and rough files for the polishing of His jewels.= Leighton.

=God hath yoked to Guilt her pale tormentor, Misery.= Bryant.

=God help the children of dependence!= Burns.

=God help the poor, for the rich can help themselves.= 15 Sc. Pr.

=God help the rich folk, for the poor can beg.= Sc. Pr.

=God help the sheep when the wolf is judge.= Dan. Pr.

=God help the teacher, if a man of sensibility and genius, when a booby father presents him with his booby son, and insists on lighting up the rays of science in a fellow's head whose skull is impervious and inaccessible by any other way than a positive fracture with a cudgel.= Burns.

=God helps the strongest.= Ger. and Dut. Pr.

=God helps those who help themselves.= Pr. 20

=God Himself cannot do without wise men.= Luther.

=God Himself cannot procure good for the wicked.= Welsh Triad.

=God is able to do more than man can understand.= Thomas à Kempis.

=God is a circle whose centre is everywhere, and its circumference nowhere.= St. Augustine.

=God is a creditor who has no bad debts.= Ger. 25 Pr.

=God is a good worker, but He loves to be helped.= Basque Pr.

=God is alpha and omega in the great world; endeavour to make Him so in the little world.= Quarles.

=God is always ready to strengthen those who strive lawfully.= Thomas à Kempis.

=God is a shower to the heart burnt up with grief, a sun to the face deluged with tears.= Joseph Roux.

=God is a sure paymaster. He may not pay= 30 =at the end of every week or month or year, but He pays in the end.= Anne of Austria.

=God is a= tabula rasa, =on which nothing more stands written than what thou thyself hast inscribed thereon.= Luther.

=God is at once the great original I and Thou.= Jean Paul.

=God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.= W. Penn.

=God is goodness itself, and whatsoever is good is of Him.= Sir P. Sidney.

=God is glorified, not by our groans, but by our= 35 =thanksgivings; and all good thought and good action claim a natural alliance with good cheer.= Willmott.

=God is great, and we know Him not; neither can the number of His years be searched out.= Bible.

=God is great in what is the greatest and the smallest.= Herder.

=God is greater than man.= Bible.

=God is His own interpreter.= Cowper.

=God is in heaven, and thou upon earth; therefore= 40 =let thy words be few.= Bible.

=God is in the generation of the righteous.= Bible.

=God is in the word "ought" and therefore it outweighs all but God.= Joseph Cook.

=God is kind to fou= (drunk) =folk and bairns.= Sc. Pr.

=God is light.= St. John.

=God is love.= St. John. 45

=God is more delighted in adverbs than in nouns=, i.e., not in what is done so much as how it is done. Heb. Pr.

=God is, nay, alone is; for with like emphasis we cannot say that anything else is.= Carlyle.

=God is not a man, that He should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath He said it, and shall He not do it? or hath He spoken, and shall He not make it good?= Bible.

=God is not found by the tests that detect you an acid or a salt.= Dr. Walter Smith.

=God is not so poor in felicities or so niggard in= 50 =His bounty that He has not wherewithal to furnish forth two worlds.= W. R. Greg.

=God is not to be known by marring His fair works and blotting out the evidence of His influences upon His creatures; not amidst the hurry of crowds and the crash of innovation, but in solitary places, and out of the glowing intelligences which He gave to men of old.= Ruskin.

=God is on the side of virtue; for whoever dreads punishment suffers it, and whoever deserves it dreads it.= Colton.

=God is patient, because eternal.= St. Augustine.

=God is spirit.= Jesus.

=God made all the creatures, and gave them our love and our fear, / To give sign we and they are His children, one family here.= Browning.

=God is the great composer; men are only the performers. Those grand pieces which are played on earth were composed in heaven.= Balzac.

=God is the light which, never seen itself, makes all things visible, and clothes itself in colours. Thine eye feels not its ray, but thine heart feels its warmth.= Jean Paul.

=God is the number, the weight, and the measure which makes the world harmonious and eternal.= Renan.

=God is the perfect poet, / Who in His person= 5 =acts His own creations.= Browning.

=God is the reason of those who have no reason.= Renan.

=God is where He was.= Pr.

=God is with every great reform that is necessary, and it prospers.= Goethe.

=God keep me from my friends; from my enemies I will keep myself.= It. Pr.

=God knows I'm no the thing I should be, / Nor= 10 =am I ev'n the thing I could be; / But twenty times I rather would be / An atheist clean, / Than under Gospel colours hid be, / Just for a screen.= Burns.

=God Konge er bedre end gammel Lov=--A good king is better than an old law. Dan. Pr.

=God loveth a cheerful giver.= St. Paul.

=God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man.= Mer. of Ven., i. 2.

=God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.= Ward Beecher.

=God made man upright, but they have sought= 15 =out many inventions.= Bible.

=God made me one man; love makes me no more / Till labour come, and make my weakness score.= Herbert.

=God made the country; man made the town.= Cowper.

=God made the flowers to beautify / The earth and cheer man's careful mood; / And he is happiest who hath power / To gather wisdom from a flower, / And wake his heart in every hour / To pleasant gratitude.= Wordsworth.

=God made us, and we admire ourselves.= _Sp. Pr._

=God manifests Himself to men in all wise,= 20 =good, humble, generous, great, and magnanimous souls.= Lavater.

=God may consent, but only for a time.= Emerson.

=God moves in a mysterious way / His wonders to perform; / He plants His footsteps in the sea, / And rides upon the storm.= Cowper.

=God must needs laugh outright, could such a thing be, to see His wondrous manikins here below.= Hugo von Trimberg, quoted by Carlyle.

=God narrows Himself to come near man, and man narrows himself to come near God.= Ed.

=God never forsakes His own.= Pr. 25

=God never imposes a duty without giving the time to do it.= Ruskin.

=God never made His work for man to mend.= Dryden.

=God never meant that man should scale the heavens / By strides of human wisdom.... He commands us in His Word / To seek Him rather where His mercy shines.= Cowper.

=God never pardons; the laws of the universe are irrevocable. God always pardons; sense of condemnation is but another word for penitence, and penitence is already new life.= Wm. Smith.

=God never sends mouths but He sends meat.= 30 Dan. Pr.

=God never shuts one door but He opens another.= Irish Pr.

=God offers to every man his choice between truth and repose.= Emerson.

=God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.= Joseph Roux.

=God only opened His hand to give flight to a thought that He had held imprisoned from eternity.= J. G. Holland.

=God pardons like a mother, who kisses the= 35 =offence into everlasting forgetfulness.= _Ward Beecher._

=God permits, but not for ever.= Pr.

=God said, Let there be light; and there was light.= Bible.

=God save the fools, and don't let them run out; for, without them, wise men couldn't get a living.= Amer. Pr.

=God save the mark.= 1 Hen. IV., i. 3.

=God send us some siller, for they're little= 40 =thought o' that want it.= Sc. Pr.

=God send you mair sense and me mair siller.= Sc. Pr.

=God sendeth and giveth both mouth and the meat.= Tusser.

=God sends meat and the devil sends cooks.= It. Pr.

=God sends nothing but what can be borne.= It. Pr.

=God should be the object of all our desires,= 45 =the end of all our actions, the principle of all our affections, and the governing power of our whole souls.= Massillon.

=God, sir, he gart kings ken that there was a lith in their neck.= Boswell's father of Cromwell.

=God stays long, but strikes at last.= Pr.

=God taketh an account of all things.= Koran.

=God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.= Sterne.

=God the first garden made, and the first city= 50 =Cain.= Cowley.

=God, through the voice of Nature, calls the mass of men to be happy; He calls a few among them to the grander task of being severely but serenely sad.= W. R. Greg.

=God trusts every one with the care of his own soul.= Sc. Pr.

=God will accept your first attempt, not as a perfect work, but as a beginning.= Ward Beecher.

=God will not make Himself manifest to cowards.= Emerson.

=God will punish him who sees and him who is= 55 =seen.= Eastern saying.

=God, when He makes the prophet, does not unmake the man.= Locke.

=God works in moments.= Fr. Pr.

=God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers, and clouds and stars.= Luther.

=God's commandments are the iron door into Himself. To keep them is to have it opened, and His great heart of love revealed.= S. W. Duffield.

=God's creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself indeed in every finite form, but compromised by none.= Henry James.

=God's free mercy streameth / Over all the= 5 =world, / And His banner gleameth, / Everywhere unfurled.= How.

=God's goodness is the measure of His providence.= More.

=God's help is nearer than the door.= _Irish Pr._

=God's in His heaven: / All's right with the world!= Browning.

=God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, / Rests never on the track till it reach / Delinquency.= Browning.

=God's men are better than the devil's men, and= 10 =they ought to act as though they thought they were.= Ward Beecher.

=God's mill grinds slow but sure.= _George Herbert._

=God's mills grind slow, but they grind woe.= Eastern saying.

=God's providence is on the side of clear heads.= Ward Beecher.

=God's sovereignty is not in His right hand or His intellect, but His love.= Ward Beecher.

=Gods water over Gods akker laten loopen=--Let 15 God's waters run over God's fields. _Dut. Pr._

=God's way of making worlds is to make them make themselves.= Prof. Drummond.

=Godfrey sent the thief that stole the cash away, / And punished him that put it in his way.= Pope.

="Godlike men love lightning;" godless men love it not; shriek murder when they see it, shutting their eyes, and hastily putting on smoked spectacles.= Carlyle.

=Godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.= St. Paul.

=Godliness with contentment is great gain.= St. 20 Paul.

=Godly souls have often interdicted the gratifications of the flesh in order to help their spirits in the Godward direction.= John Pulsford.

=Godt Haandværk har en gylden Grund=--A good handicraft rests on a golden foundation. Dan. Pr.

=Goed verloren, niet verloren; moed verloren, veel verloren; eer verloren, meer verloren; ziel verloren, al verloren=--Money lost, nothing lost; courage lost, much lost; honour lost, more lost; soul lost, all lost. Dut. Pr.

=Goethe's devil is a cultivated personage and acquainted with the modern sciences; sneers at witchcraft and the black art even while employing them, and doubts most things, nay, half disbelieves even his own existence.= Carlyle.

=Going by railroad I do not consider as travelling= 25 =at all; it is merely "being sent" to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.= Ruskin.

=Going to ruin is silent work.= Gael. Pr.

=Gold and diamonds are not riches.= Ruskin.

=Gold beheert de wereld=--Gold rules the world. Dut. Pr.

=Gold does not satisfy love; it must be paid in its own coin.= Mme. Deluzy.

=Gold, father of flatterers, of pain and care= 30 =begot, / A fear it is to have thee, and a pain to have thee not.= Palladas.

=Gold glitters most when virtue shines no more.= Young.

=Gold has wings which carry everywhere except to heaven.= Rus. Pr.

=Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding; it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant, accommodates itself to the meanest capacities, silences the loud and clamorous, and brings over the most obstinate and inflexible.= Addison.

=Gold is Cæsar's treasure, man is God's; thy gold hath Cæsar's image, and thou hast God's.= Quarles.

=Gold is the fool's curtain, which hides all his= 35 =defects from the world.= Feltham.

=Gold is the sovereign of all sovereigns.= Pr.

=Gold is tried in the fire, friendship in need.= Dan. Pr.

=Gold liegt tief im Berge, aber Koth am Wege=--Gold lies deep in the mountain, but dirt on the highway. Ger. Pr.

=Gold, like the sun, which melts wax and hardens clay, expands great souls and contracts bad hearts.= Rivarol.

=Gold that is put to use more gold begets.= 40 Sh.

=Gold thou may'st safely touch; but if it stick / Unto thy hands, it woundeth to the quick.= Herbert.

=Gold, worse poison to men's souls, / Doing more murder in this loathsome world, / Than these poor compounds that thou may'st not sell.= Sh.

=Gold's worth is gold.= It. Pr.

=Golden chains are heavy, and love is best!= Dr. Walter Smith.

=Golden lads and girls all must, / As chimney-sweepers,= 45 =come to dust.= Cymb., iv. 2.

=Gone for ever is virtue, once so prevalent in the state, when men deem a mischievous citizen worse than its bitterest enemy, and punish him with severer penalties.= Cic.

=Gone is gone; no Jew will lend upon it.= _Ger. Pr._

=Good actions done in secret are the most worthy of honour.= Pascal.

=Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.= S. Smiles.

=Good advice can be given, a good name cannot= 50 =be given.= Turk. Pr.

=Good advice / Is beyond all price.= Pr.

=Good advice may be communicated, but not good manners.= Turk. Pr.

=Good ale needs no wisp= (of hay for advertisement). Sc. Pr.

=Good and bad men are less so than they seem.= Coleridge.

=Good and evil are names that signify our appetites and aversions.= Hobbes.

=Good and evil will grow up in this world together; and they who complain in peace of the insolence of the populace must remember that their insolence in peace is bravery in war.= Johnson.

=Good and quickly seldom meet.= Pr.

=Good as is discourse, silence is better, and shames it.= Emerson.

=Good bees never turn drones.= Pr. 5

=Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen, the more select the more enjoyable.= A. B. Alcott.

=Good bread needs baking.= Pr. in Goethe.

=Good-breeding carries along with it a dignity that is respected by the most petulant.= Chesterfield.

=Good-breeding differs, if at all, from high-breeding, only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own.= Carlyle.

=Good-breeding is benevolence in trifles, or the= 10 =preference of others to ourselves in the little daily occurrences of life.= Chatham.

=Good-breeding is surface Christianity.= Holmes.

=Good-breeding is the result of much good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.= Chesterfield.

=Good-breeding shows itself most where to an ordinary eye it appears least.= Addison.

=Good-bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine.= Emerson.

=Good company and good discourse are the= 15 =very sinews of virtue.= Izaak Walton.

=Good company upon the road is the shortest cut.= Pr.

=Good counsel is no better than bad counsel, if it is not taken in time.= Dan. Pr.

=Good counsel rejected returns to enrich the giver's bosom.= Goldsmith.

=Good counsels observed are chains to grace.= Fuller.

=Good counsel tendered to fools rather provokes= 20 =than satisfies them. A draught of milk to serpents only increases their venom.= Hitopadesa.

=Good counsel without good fortune is a windmill without wind.= Ger. Pr.

=Good counsellors lack no clients.= _Meas. for Meas._, i. 2.

=Good courage breaks ill-luck.= Pr.

=Good deeds in this life are coals raked up in embers to make a fire next day.= Sir T. Overbury.

=Good discourse sinks differences and seeks= 25 =agreements.= A. B. Alcott.

=Good digestion wait on appetite, / And health on both.= Macb., iii. 4.

=Good example always brings forth good fruits.= S. Smiles.

=Good example is half a sermon.= Ger. Pr.

=Good fortune is the offspring of our endeavours, although there be nothing sweeter than ease.= Hitopadesa.

=Good gear goes in sma' book= (bulk). Sc. Pr. 30

=Good-humour and generosity carry the day with the popular heart all the world over.= Alex. Smith.

=Good-humour may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society.= Thackeray.

=Good hunters track closely.= Dut. Pr.

=Good husbandry is good divinity.= Pr.

=Good is a good doctor, but Bad is sometimes= 35 =better.= Emerson.

=Good is best when soonest wrought, / Lingering labours come to nought.= Southwell.

=Good is good, but better carrieth it.= Pr.

=Good is never a something into which a man can be borne, but always a something born of the man, which he himself carries, and which does not carry him.= Ed.

=Good is not got without grief.= Gael. Pr.

=Good is the delay that makes sure.= Port. 40 Pr.

=Good judges are as rare as good authors.= _St. Evremond._

=Good laws often proceed from bad manners.= Pr.

=Good leading makes good following.= _Dut. Pr._

=Good luck comes by cuffing.= Pr.

=Good luck is the willing handmaid of upright,= 45 =energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.= Lowell.

=Good luck lies in odd numbers.= Merry Wives, v. 1.

=Good management is better than a good income.= Port. Pr.

=Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.= Emerson.

=Good manners are part of good morals.= Whately.

=Good manners give integrity a bleeze, / When= 50 =native virtues join the arts to please.= _Allan Ramsay._

=Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy is the best bred in the company.= Swift.

=Good maxims are the germs of all excellence.= Joubert.

=Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.= Ben Jonson.

=Good mind, good find.= Pr.

=Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, /= 55 =Is the immediate jewel of their souls; / Who steals my purse, steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; / 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands; / But he that filches from me my good name, / Robs me of that which not enriches him, / And makes me poor indeed.= Othello, iii. 2.

=Good-nature and good sense are usually companions.= Pope.

=Good-nature and good sense must ever join; / To err is human, to forgive divine.= Pope.

=Good-nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.= Addison.

=Good-nature is stronger than tomahawks.= Emerson.

=Good-nature is the beauty of the mind, and,= 60 =like personal beauty, wins almost without anything else.= Hanway.

=Good-nature is the very air of a good mind, the sign of a large and generous soul, and the peculiar soil in which virtue flourishes.= Goodman.

=Good-night, good-night; parting is such sweet sorrow / That I will say good-night till it be to-morrow.= Rom. and Jul., ii. 2.

=Good pastures make fat sheep.= _As You Like It_, iii. 2.

=Good people live far apart.= Ger. Pr.

=Good poetry is always personification, and= 5 =heightens every species of force by giving it a human volition.= Emerson.

=Good poets are the inspired interpreters of the gods.= Plato.

=Good qualities are the substantial riches of the mind, but it is good-breeding that sets them off to advantage.= Locke.

=Good reasons must of force give place to better.= Jul. Cæs., iv. 3.

=Good right needs good help.= Dut. Pr.

=Good-sense and good-nature are never separated,= 10 =though the ignorant world has thought otherwise.= Dryden.

=Good-sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, / And though no science, fairly worth the seven.= Pope.

=Good shepherd, tell this youth what 'tis to love.... It is to be all made of sighs and tears.... It is to be all made of faith and service.... It is to be all made of fantasy, / All made of passion, and all made of wishes; / All adoration, duty, and observance; / All humbleness, all patience, and impatience; / All purity, all trial, all observance.= As You Like It, v. 2.

=Good sword has often been in poor scabbard.= Gael. Pr.

=Good take heed / Doth surely speed.= Pr.

=Good taste cannot supply the place of genius= 15 =in literature, for the best proof of taste, when there is no genius, would be not to write at all.= Mme. de Staël.

=Good taste comes more from the judgment than from the mind.= La Roche.

=Good taste is the flower of good sense.= _A. Poincelot._

=Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired.= Mme. Girardin.

=Good the more / Communicated more abundant grows.= Milton.

=Good things take time.= Dut. Pr. 20

=Good thoughts are no better than good dreams unless they be executed.= Emerson.

=Good to begin well, but better to end well.= Pr.

=Good to the heels the well-worn slipper feels / When the tired player shuffles off the buskin; / A page of Hood may do a fellow good / After a scolding from Carlyle or Ruskin.= Lowell.

=Good unexpected, evil unforeseen, / Appear by turns, as fortune shifts the scene; / Some rais'd aloft, come tumbling down amain / And fall so hard, they bound and rise again.= Lord Lansdowne.

=Good ware makes a quick market.= Pr. 25

=Good-will is everything in morals, but nothing in art; in art, capability alone is anything.= Schopenhauer.

=Good-will, like a good name, is got by many actions and lost by one.= Jeffrey.

=Good wine is a good familiar creature, if it be well used.= Othello, ii. 3.

=Good wine is its own recommendation.= Dut. Pr.

=Good wine needs no brandy.= Amer. Pr. 30

=Good wine needs no bush=, i.e., advertisement. Pr.

=Good women grudge each other nothing, save only clothes, husbands, and flax.= Jean Paul.

=Good words and no deeds.= Pr.

=Good words cool more than cold water.= Pr.

=Good words cost nothing and are worth much.= 35 Pr.

=Good words do more than hard speeches; as the sunbeams, without any noise, will make the traveller cast off his cloak, which all the blustering winds could not do, but only make him bind it closer to him.= Leighton.

=Good works will never save you, but you will never be saved without them.= Pr.

=Good writing and brilliant discourse are perpetual allegories.= Emerson.

=Goodman Fact is allowed by everybody to be a plain-spoken person, and a man of very few words; tropes and figures are his aversion.= Addison.

=Goodness and being in the gods are one; / He= 40 =who imputes ill to them makes them none.= Euripides.

=Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.= Chapin.

=Goodness is beauty in its best estate.= Marlowe.

=Goodness is everywhere, and is everywhere to be found, if we will only look for it.= P. Desjardins.

=Gorgons, and hydras, and chimæras dire.= Milton.

=Gossiping and lying go hand in hand.= Pr. 45

=Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it; it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.= George Eliot.

=Gott hilft nur dann, wenn Menschen nicht mehr helfen=--God comes to our help only when there is no more help for us in man. Schiller.

=Gott ist ein unaussprechlicher Seufzer, in Grunde der Seele gelegen=--God is an unutterable sigh planted in the depth of the soul. Jean Paul.

=Gott ist eine leere Tafel, auf der / Nichts weiter steht, als was du selbst / Darauf geschrieben=--God is a blank tablet on which nothing further is inscribed than what thou hast thyself written thereupon. Luther.

=Gott ist mächtiger und weiser als wir; darum= 50 =macht er mit uns nach seinem Gefallen=--God is mightier and wiser than we; therefore he does with us according to his good pleasure. Goethe.

=Gott ist überall, ausser wo er seinem Statthalter hat=--God is everywhere except where his vicar is. Ger. Pr.

=Gottlob! wir haben das Original=--God be praised, we have still the original. Lessing.

=Gott macht gesund, und der Doktor kriegt das Geld=--God cures us, and the doctor gets the fee. Ger. Pr.

=Gott mit uns=--God with us. Ger.

=Gott müsst ihr im Herzen suchen und finden=--Ye must seek and find God in the heart. Jean Paul.

=Gott schuf ja aus Erden den Ritter und Knecht. / Ein hoher Sinn adelt auch niedres Geschlecht=--God created out of the clay the knight and his squire. A higher sense ennobles even a humble race. Bürger.

=Gott-trunkener Mensch=--A god-intoxicated man. Novalis, of Spinoza.

=Gott verlässt den Mutigen nimmer=--God never 5 forsakes the stout of heart. Körner.

=Göttern kann man nicht vergelten; / Schön ist's, ihnen gleich zu sein=--We cannot recompense the gods; beautiful it is to be like them. Schiller.

=Gottes Freund, der Pfaffen Feind=--God's friend, priest's foe. Ger. Pr.

=Gottes ist der Orient, / Gottes ist der Occident, / Nord-und Südliches Gelände / Ruht im Friede seiner Hände=--God's is the east, God's is the west; north region and south rests in the peace of his hands. Goethe.

=Gottes Mühle geht langsam, aber sie mahlt fein=--God's mill goes slow, but it grinds fine. Ger. Pr.

=Göttliche Apathie und thierische Indifferenz= 10 =werden nur zu oft verwechselt=--Divine indifference and brutish indifference are too often confounded. Feuchtersleben.

=Goutte à goutte=--Drop by drop. Fr.

=Govern the lips as they were palace-doors, the king within; / Tranquil and fair and courteous be all words which from that presence win.= Sir Edwin Arnold.

=Government and co-operation are in all things the laws of life; anarchy and competition, the laws of death.= Ruskin.

=Government arrogates to itself that it alone forms men.... Everybody knows that Government never began anything. It is the whole world that thinks and governs.= Wendell Phillips.

=Government began in tyranny and force, in= 15 =the feudalism of the soldier and the bigotry of the priest; and the ideas of justice and humanity have been fighting their way like a thunderstorm against the organised selfishness of human nature.= Wendell Phillips.

=Government has been a fossil; it should be a plant.= Emerson.

=Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.= Burke.

=Government is a necessary evil, like other go-carts and crutches. Our need of it shows exactly how far we are still children. All governing over-much kills the self-help and energy of the governed.= Wendell Phillips.

=Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.= H. Clay.

=Government is the greatest combination of= 20 =forces known to human society. It can command more men and raise more money than any and all other agencies combined.= D. D. Field.

=Government must always be a step ahead of the popular movement= (Bewegung). Count Arnim.

=Government of the people, by the people and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.= Abraham Lincoln.

=Government of the will is better than increase of knowledge.= Pr.

=Government should direct poor men what to do.= Emerson.

=Governments exist only for the good of the= 25 =people.= Macaulay.

=Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.= Wendell Phillips.

=Governments have their origin in the moral identity of men.= Emerson.

=Gowd= (gold) =gets in at ilka= (every) =gate except heaven.= Sc. Pr.

=Gowd is gude only in the hand o' virtue.= Sc. Pr.

=Goza tû de tu poco, mientras busca mas el= 30 =loco=--Enjoy your little while the fool is in search of more. Sp. Pr.

=Grace abused brings forth the foulest deeds, / As richest soil the most luxuriant weeds.= Cowper.

=Grace has been defined the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.= Hazlitt.

=Grace in women has more effect than beauty.= Hazlitt.

=Grace is a light superior to Nature, which should direct and preside over it.= Thomas à Kempis.

=Grace is a plant, where'er it grows / Of pure= 35 =and heavenly root; / But fairest in the youngest shows, / And yields the sweetest fruit.= Cowper.

=Grace is in garments, in movements, and manners; beauty in the nude and in forms.= Joubert.

=Grace is more beautiful than beauty.= Emerson.

=Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.= Schiller.

=Grace is the proper relation of the acting person to the action.= Winckelmann.

=Grace is to the body what good sense is to the= 40 =mind.= La Roche.

=Grace pays its respects to true intrinsic worth, not to the mere signs and trappings of it, which often only show where it ought to be, not where it really is.= Thomas à Kempis.

=Grace was in all her steps, heav'n in her eye, / In every gesture dignity and love.= Milton.

=Gracefulness cannot subsist without ease.= Rousseau.

=Gradatim=--Step by step; by degrees.

=Gradu diverso, via una=--By different steps but 45 the same way.

=Gradus ad Parnassum=--A help to the composition of classic poetry.

=Græcia capta ferum victorem cepit, et artes / Intulit agresti Latio=--Greece, conquered herself, in turn conquered her uncivilised conqueror, and imported her arts into rusticated Latium. Hor.

=Gram. loquitur; Dia. vera docet; Rhe. verba colorat; Mu. canit; Ar. numerat; Geo. ponderat; As. docet astra=--Grammar speaks; dialectics teaches us truth; rhetoric gives colouring to our speech; music sings; arithmetic reckons; geometry measures; astronomy teaches us the stars.

=Grammar knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hand make them obey.= Molière.

=Grammaticus Rhetor Geometres Pictor Aliptes / Augur Schœnobates Medicus Magus--omnia novit=--Grammarian, rhetorician, geometrician, painter, anointer, augur, tight-rope dancer, physician, magician--he knows everything. Juv.

=Grain of glory mixt with humbleness / Cures both a fever and lethargicness.= Herbert.

=Grand besoin a de fol qui de soi-même le fait=--He has great need of a fool who makes himself one. Fr. Pr.

=Grand bien ne vient pas en peu d'heures=--Great 5 wealth is not gotten in a few hours. Fr.

=Grande parure=--Full dress. Fr.

=Grandescunt aucta labore=--They grow with increase of toil. M.

=Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other.= Shenstone.

=Grandeur has a heavy tax to pay.= Alex. Smith.

=Grand parleur, grand menteur=--Great talker, 10 great liar. Fr. Pr.

=Grand venteur, petit faiseur=--Great boaster, little doer. Fr. Pr.

=Grant but memory to us, and we can lose nothing by death.= Whittier.

=Granted the ship comes into harbour with shrouds and tackle damaged; the pilot is blameworthy; he has not been all-wise and all-powerful; but to know how blameworthy, tell us first whether his voyage has been round the globe or only to Ramsgate and the Isle of Dogs.= Carlyle.

=Gran victoria es la que sin sangre se alcanza=--Great is the victory that is gained without bloodshed. Sp. Pr.

=Grasp all, lose all.= Pr. 15

=Grass grows not on the highway.= Pr.

=Gratia naturam vincit=--Grace overcomes Nature.

=Grata superveniet quæ non sperabitur hora=--The hour of happiness will come the more welcome when it is not expected. Hor.

=Gratiæ expectativæ=--Expected benefits.

=Gratia gratiam parit=--Kindness produces kindness. 20 Pr.

=Gratia, Musa, tibi. Nam tu solatia præbes; / Tu curæ requies, tu medicina mali=--Thanks to thee, my Muse. For thou dost afford me comfort; thou art a rest from my cares, a cure for my woes. Ovid.

=Gratia placendi=--The satisfaction of pleasing.

=Gratia pro rebus merito debetur inemtis=--Thanks are justly due for things we have not to pay for. Ovid.

=Gratior et pulchro veniens in corpore virtus=--Even virtue appears more lovely when enshrined in a beautiful form. Virg.

=Gratis=--For nothing. 25

=Gratis anhelans, multa agendo nihil agens=--Out of breath for nothing, making much ado about nothing. Phæd.

=Gratis asseritur=--It is asserted but not proved.

=Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.= Rousseau.

=Gratitude is a keen sense of favours to come.= Talleyrand.

=Gratitude is a species of justice.= Johnson. 30

=Gratitude is memory of the heart.= (?)

=Gratitude is never conferred but where there have been previous endeavours to excite it; we consider it as a debt, and our spirits wear a load till we have discharged the obligation.= Goldsmith.

=Gratitude is one of the rarest of virtues.= Theodore Parker.

=Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul; and the heart of man knoweth none more fragrant.= H. Ballou.

=Gratitude is the least of virtues, ingratitude= 35 =the worst of vices.= Pr.

=Gratitude is with most people only a strong desire for greater benefits to come.= La Roche.

=Gratitude once refused can never after be recovered.= Goldsmith.

=Gratitude which consists in good wishes may be said to be dead, as faith without good works is dead.= Cervantes.

=Gratis dictum=--Said to no purpose; irrelevant to the question at issue.

=Gratum hominem semper beneficium delectat;= 40 =ingratum semel=--A kindness is always delightful to a grateful man; to an ungrateful, only at the time of its receipt. Sen.

=Grau' Haare sind Kirchhofsblumen=--Gray hairs are churchyard flowers. Ger. Pr.

=Grau, teurer Freund, ist alle Theorie, / Und grün des Lebens goldner Baum=--Gray, dear friend, is all theory, and green life's golden tree. Goethe.

=Grave nihil est homini quod fert necessitas=--No burden is really heavy to a man which necessity lays on him.

=Grave paupertas malum est, et intolerabile, quæ magnum domat populum=--The poverty which oppresses a great people is a grievous and intolerable evil.

=Grave pondus illum magna nobilitas premit=--His 45 exalted rank weighs heavy on him as a grievous burden. Sen.

=Grave senectus est hominibus pondus=--Old age is a heavy burden to man.

=Graves, the dashes in the punctuation of our lives.= S. W. Duffield.

=Grave virus / Munditiæ pepulere=--More elegant manners expelled this offensive style. Hor.

=Graviora quædam sunt remedia periculis=--Some remedies are worse than the disease. Pub. Syr.

=Gravis ira regum semper=--The anger of kings 50 is always heavy. Sen.

=Gravissimum est imperium consuetudinis=--The empire of custom is most mighty. Pub. Syr.

=Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body, invented to cover the defects of the mind.= La Roche.

=Gravity is a taught trick to gain credit of the world for more sense and knowledge than a man is worth.= Sterne.

=Gravity is only the bark of wisdom, but it preserves it.= Confucius.

=Gravity is the ballast of the soul, which keeps= 55 =the mind steady.= Fuller.

=Gravity is the best cloak for sin in all countries.= Fielding.

=Gravity is the inseparable companion of pride.= Goldsmith.

=Gravity is twin brother to stupidity.= Bovee.

=Gravity, with all its pretensions, was no better, but often worse, than what a French wit had long ago defined it, viz., a mysterious carriage of the body to cover the defects of the mind.= Sterne.

=Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the light of a soft moon, silvering over the evening of life.= Jean Paul.

=Gray is all theory, and green the while is the golden tree of life.= Goethe.

=Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing....= 5 =His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff; you will seek all day ere you find them; and when you have them, they are not worth the search.= Mer. of Ven., i. 1.

=Great actions crown themselves with lasting bays; / Who well deserves needs not another's praise.= Heath.

=Great acts grow out of great occasions, and great occasions spring from great principles, working changes in society and tearing it up by the roots.= Hazlitt.

=Great ambition is the passion of a great character. He who is endowed with it may perform very good or very bad actions; all depends upon the principles which direct him.= Napoleon.

=Great art dwells in all that is beautiful; but false art omits or changes all that is ugly. Great art accepts Nature as she is, but directs the eyes and thoughts to what is most perfect in her; false art saves itself the trouble of direction by removing or altering whatever is objectionable.= Ruskin.

=Great attention to what is said and sweetness= 10 =of speech, a great degree of kindness and the appearance of awe, are always tokens of a man's attachment.= Hitopadesa.

=Great barkers are nae biters.= Sc. Pr.

=Great boast, small roast.= Pr.

=Great books are written for Christianity much oftener than great deeds are done for it.= H. Mann.

=Great causes are never tried on their merits; but the cause is reduced to particulars to suit the size of the partisans, and the contention is ever hottest on minor matters.= Emerson.

=Great countries are those that produce great= 15 =men.= Disraeli.

=Great cowardice is hidden by a bluster of daring.= Lucan.

=Great cry but little wool, as the devil said when he shear'd his hogs.= Pr.

=Great deeds cannot die; / They with the sun and moon renew their light, / For ever blessing those that look on them.= Tennyson.

=Great deeds immortal are--they cannot die, / Unscathed by envious blight or withering frost, / They live, and bud, and bloom; and men partake / Still of their freshness, and are strong thereby.= Aytoun.

=Great dejection often follows great enthusiasm.= 20 Joseph Roux.

=Great edifices, like great mountains, are the work of ages.= Victor Hugo.

=Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.= Goethe.

=Great, ever fruitful; profitable for reproof, for encouragement, for building up in manful purposes and works, are the words of those that in their day were men.= Carlyle.

=Great evils one triumphs over bravely, but the little eat away one's heart.= Mrs. Carlyle.

=Great fleas have little fleas / Upon their backs= 25 =to bite 'em; / And little fleas have lesser fleas, / And so ad infinitum.= Lowell.

=Great folks have five hundred friends because they have no occasion for them.= Goldsmith.

=Great fools have great bells.= Dut. Pr.

=Great genial power consists in being altogether receptive.= Emerson.

=Great geniuses have always the shortest biographies.= Emerson.

=Great gifts are for great men.= Pr. 30

=Great God, I had rather be / A Pagan suckled in some creed outworn; / So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, / Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn.= Wordsworth.

=Great grief makes those sacred upon whom its hand is laid. Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate.= H. Greeley.

=Great griefs medicine the less.= Cymbeline, iv. 2.

=Great haste makes great waste.= _Ben. Franklin._

=Great honours are great burdens; but on= 35 =whom / They're cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.= Ben Jonson.

=Great joy is only earned by great exertion.= Goethe.

=Great is he who enjoys his earthenware as if it were plate, and not less great the man to whom all his plate is no more than earthenware.= Sen.

=Great is not great to the greater.= _Sir P. Sidney._

=Great is self-denial! Life goes all to ravels and tatters where that enters not.= Carlyle.

=Great is song used to great ends.= Tennyson. 40

=Great is the soul, and plain. It is no flatterer, it is no follower; it never appeals from itself.= Emerson.

=Great is the strength of an individual soul true to its high trust; mighty is it, even to the redemption of a world.= Mrs. Child.

=Great is truth, and mighty above all things.= Apocrypha.

=Great is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated; it is the highest achievement of man.= Carlyle.

=Great joy, especially after a sudden change= 45 =and revolution of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.= Fielding.

=Great knowledge, if it be without vanity, is the most severe bridle of the tongue.= Jeremy Taylor.

=Great lies are as great as great truths, and prevail constantly and day after day.= Thackeray.

=Great lords have great hands, but they do not reach to heaven.= Dan. Pr.

=Great Mammon!--greatest god below the sky.= Spenser.

=Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.= Arist.

=Great men are among the best gifts which God bestows upon a people.= G. S. Hillard.

=Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.= Schopenhauer.

=Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality.= Emerson.

=Great men are never sufficiently known but in= 5 =struggles.= Burke.

=Great men are not always wise.= Bible.

=Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.= T. W. Higginson.

=Great men are sincere.= Emerson.

=Great men are the fire-pillars in this dark pilgrimage of mankind; they stand as heavenly signs, ever-living witnesses of what has been, prophetic tokens of what may still be, the revealed, embodied possibilities of human nature.= Carlyle.

=Great Men are the inspired (speaking and= 10 =acting) Texts of that Divine Book of Revelations, whereof a Chapter is completed from epoch to epoch, and by some named History.= Carlyle.

=Great men are the modellers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do and attain.= Carlyle.

=Great men are the true men, the men in whom Nature has succeeded.= Amiel.

=Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.= Emerson.

=Great men do not content us. It is their solitude, not their force, that makes them conspicuous.= Emerson.

=Great men do not play stage tricks with the= 15 =doctrines of life and death; only little men do that.= Ruskin.

=Great men essay enterprises because they think them great, and fools because they think them easy.= Vauvenargues.

=Great men get more by obliging inferiors than by disdaining them.= South.

=Great men, great nations have ever been perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.= Emerson.

=Great men have their parasites.= Sydney Smith.

=Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by= 20 =being near us; ordinary men gain much.= Landor.

=Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them, / But in the less, foul profanation.= Meas. for Meas., ii. 2.

=Great men need to be lifted upon the shoulders of the whole world, in order to conceive their great ideas or perform their great deeds; that is, there must be an atmosphere of greatness round about them. A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.= Hawthorne.

=Great men not only know their business, but they usually know that they know it, and are not only right in their main opinions, but they usually know that they are right in them.= Ruskin.

=Great men oft die by vile Bezonians.= 2 _Hen. VI._, iv. 1.

=Great men often rejoice at crosses of fortune,= 25 =just as brave soldiers do at wars.= Sen.

=Great men or men of great gifts you will easily find, but symmetrical men never.= Emerson.

=Great men, said Themistocles, are like the oaks, under the branches of which men are happy in finding a refuge in the time of storm and rain; but when they have to pass a sunny day under them, they take pleasure in cutting the bark and breaking the branches.= Goethe.

=Great men should drink with harness on their throats.= Tim. of Athens, i. 2.

=Great men should think of opportunity, and not of time. Time is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits.= Disraeli.

=Great men stand like solitary towers in the= 30 =city of God, and secret passages running deep beneath external Nature give their thoughts intercourse with higher intelligences, which strengthens and consoles them, and of which the labourers on the surface do not even dream.= Longfellow.

=Great men, though far above us, are felt to be our brothers; and their elevation shows us what vast possibilities are wrapped up in our common humanity. They beckon us up the gleaming heights to whose summits they have climbed. Their deeds are the woof of this world's history.= Moses Harvey.

=Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for.= Landor.

=Great men will always pay deference to greater.= Landor.

=Great minds erect their never-failing trophies on the firm base of mercy.= Massinger.

=Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous= 35 =applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it.= Colton.

=Great minds, like Heaven, are pleased in doing good, / Though the ungrateful subjects of their favours / Are barren in return.= Rowe.

=Great minds seek to labour for eternity. All other men are captivated by immediate advantages; great minds are excited by the prospect of distant good.= Schiller.

=Great names stand not alone for great deeds; they stand also for great virtues, and, doing them worship, we elevate ourselves.= H. Giles.

=Great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions.= Lowell.

=Great passions are incurable diseases; the= 40 =very remedies make them worse.= Goethe.

=Great patriots must be men of great excellence; this alone can secure to them lasting admiration.= H. Giles.

=Great people and champions are special gifts of God, whom He gives and preserves; they do their work and achieve great actions, not with vain imaginations or cold and sleepy cogitations, but by motion of God.= Luther.

=Great pleasures are much less frequent than great pains.= Hume.

=Great poets are no sudden prodigies, but slow results.= Lowell.

=Great poets try to describe what all men see= 45 =and to express what all men feel; if they cannot describe it, they let it alone.= Ruskin.

=Great profits, great risks.= Chinese Pr.

=Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.= S. Smiles.

=Great revolutions, whatever may be their causes, are not lightly commenced, and are not concluded with precipitation.= Disraeli.

=Great souls are always royally submissive, reverent to what is over them; only small, mean souls are otherwise.= Carlyle.

=Great souls are not cast down by adversity.= Pr.

=Great souls are not those which have less= 5 =passion and more virtue than common souls, but only those which have greater designs.= La Roche.

=Great souls attract sorrows as mountains do storms. But the thunder-clouds break upon them, and they thus form a shelter for the plains around.= Jean Paul.

=Great souls care only for what is great.= Amiel.

=Great souls endure in silence.= Schiller.

=Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.= Dryden.

=Great spirits and great business do keep out= 10 =this weak passion= (love). Bacon.

=Great talents are rare, and they rarely recognise themselves.= Goethe.

=Great talents have some admirers, but few friends.= Niebuhr.

=Great talkers are like leaky pitchers, everything runs out of them.= Pr.

=Great talkers are little doers.= Pr.

=Great thieves hang little ones.= Ger. 15

=Great things are done when men and mountains meet; / These are not done by jostling in the street.= Wm. Blake.

=Great things through greatest hazards are achiev'd, / And then they shine.= Beaumont.

=Great thoughts and a pure heart are the things we should beg for ourselves from God.= Goethe.

=Great thoughts come from the heart.= Vauvenargues.

=Great thoughts, great feelings come to them, /= 20 =Like instincts, unawares.= M. Milnes.

=Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.= Hazlitt.

=Great towns are but a large sort of prison to the soul, like cages to birds or pounds to beasts.= Charron.

=Great warmth at first is the certain ruin of every great achievement. Doth not water, although ever so cool, moisten the earth?= Hitopadesa.

=Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.= Bovee.

=Great wealth, great care.= Dut. Pr. 25

=Great wits are sure to madness near allied, / And thin partitions do their bounds divide.= Dryden.

=Great wits to madness nearly are allied; / Both serve to make our poverty our pride.= Emerson.

=Great women belong to history and to self-sacrifice.= Leigh Hunt.

=Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.= Johnson.

=Great writers and orators are commonly economists= 30 =in the use of words.= Whipple.

=Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.= Jesus.

=Greater than man, less than woman.= Essex, of Queen Elizabeth.

=Greatest scandal waits on greatest state.= Shakespeare.

=Greatly to find quarrel in a straw, / When honour's at the stake.= Ham., iv. 4.

=Greatness and goodness are not means, but= 35 =ends.= Coleridge.

=Greatness appeals to the future.= Emerson.

=Greatness, as we daily see it, is unsociable.= Landor.

=Greatness can only be rightly estimated when minuteness is justly reverenced. Greatness is the aggregation of minuteness; nor can its sublimity be felt truthfully by any mind unaccustomed to the affectionate watching of what is least.= Ruskin.

=Greatness doth not approach him who is for ever looking down.= Hitopadesa.

=Greatness envy not; for thou mak'st thereby /= 40 =Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.= Herbert.

=Greatness, in any period and under any circumstances, has always been rare. It is of elemental birth, and is independent alike of its time and its circumstances.= W. Winter.

=Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.= Matthew Arnold.

=Greatness is its own torment.= Theodore Parker.

=Greatness is like a laced coat from Monmouth Street, which fortune lends us for a day to wear, to-morrow puts it on another's back.= Fielding.

=Greatness is not a teachable nor gainable= 45 =thing, but the expression of the mind of a God-made man: teach, or preach, or labour as you will, everlasting difference is set between one man's capacity and another's; and this God-given supremacy is the priceless thing, always just as rare in the world at one time as another.... And nearly the best thing that men can generally do is to set themselves, not to the attainment, but the discovery of this: learning to know gold, when we see it, from iron-glance, and diamond from flint-sand, being for most of us a more profitable employment than trying to make diamonds of our own charcoal.= Ruskin.

=Greatness is nothing unless it be lasting.= Napoleon.

=Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right using of strength. He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.= Ward Beecher.

=Greatness may be present in lives whose range is very small.= Phil. Brooks.

=Greatness of mind is not shown by admitting small things, but by making small things great under its influence. He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.= Ruskin.

=Greatness, once and for ever, has done with opinion.= Emerson.

=Greatness, once fallen out with fortune, / Must fall out with men too; what the declined is, / He shall as soon read in the eyes of others / As feel in his own fall.= Troil. and Cress., iii. 3.

=Greatness stands upon a precipice; and if prosperity carry a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.= Colton.

=Greatness, thou gaudy torment of our souls, / The wise man's fetter and the rage of fools.= Otway.

=Greatness, with private men / Esteem'd a= 5 =blessing, is to me a curse; / And we, whom from our high births they conclude / The only free men, are the only slaves: / Happy the golden mean.= Massinger.

=Greediness bursts the bag.= Pr.

=Greedy folk hae lang airms.= Sc. Pr.

=Greedy misers rail at sordid misers.= Helvetius.

=Greek architecture is the flowering of geometry.= Emerson.

=Greek art, and all other art, is fine when it= 10 =makes a man's face as like a man's face as it can.= Ruskin.

=Greif nicht leicht in ein Wespennest, Doch wenn du greifst, so stehe fest=--Attack not thoughtlessly a wasp's nest, but if you do, stand fast. M. Claudius.

=Greife schnell zum Augenblicke, nur die Gegenwart ist dein=--Quickly seize the moment: only the present is thine. Körner.

=Grex totus in agris / Unius scabie cadit=--The entire flock in the fields dies of the disease introduced by one. Juv.

=Grex venalium=--A venal pack. Sueton.

=Grey hairs are wisdom--if you hold your= 15 =tongue; / Speak--and they are but hairs, as in the young.= Philo.

=Grief best is pleased with grief's society.= Shakespeare.

=Grief boundeth where it falls, / Not with an empty hollowness, but weight.= Rich. II., i. 2.

=Grief divided is made lighter.= Pr.

=Grief fills the room up of my absent child, / Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me; / Puts on his pretty look, repeats his words, / Remembers me of all his gracious parts, / Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form: / Then have I reason to be fond of grief.= King John, iii. 4.

=Grief finds some ease by him that like doth= 20 =bear.= Spenser.

=Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads.= Bailey.

=Grief has its time.= Johnson.

=Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can, and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.= Lamartine.

=Grief is a species of idleness, and the necessity of attention to the present, preserves us from being lacerated and devoured by sorrow for the past.= Dr. Johnson.

=Grief is a stone that bears one down, but two= 25 =bear it lightly.= W. Hauff.

=Grief is only the memory of widowed affection.= James Martineau.

=Grief is proud and makes his owner stout.= King John, iii. 1.

=Grief is so far from retrieving a loss that it makes it greater; but the way to lessen it is by a comparison with others' losses.= Wycherley.

=Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.= Disraeli.

=Grief is the culture of the soul; it is the true= 30 =fertiliser.= Mme. de Girardin.

=Grief, like a tree, has tears for its fruit.= Philemon.

=Grief makes one hour ten.= Rich. II., i. 3.

=Grief or misfortune seems to be indispensable to the development of intelligence, energy, and virtue.= Fearon.

=Grief sharpens the understanding and strengthens the soul, whereas joy seldom troubles itself about the former, and makes the latter either effeminate or frivolous.= F. Schubert.

=Grief should be / Like joy, majestic, equable,= 35 =sedate, / Conforming, cleansing, raising, making free.= Aubrey de Vere (the younger).

=Grief should be the instructor of the wise; / Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most / Must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth, / The Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life.= Byron.

=Grief still treads upon the heels of Pleasure.= Congreve.

=Grief, which disposes gentle natures to retirement, to inaction, and to meditation, only makes restless spirits more restless.= Macaulay.

=Griefs assured are felt before they come.= Dryden.

=Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled= 40 =front.... He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber, / To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.= Rich. III., i. 1.

=Grind the faces of the poor.= Bible.

=Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it is a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible.= Colton.

=Gross Diligenz und klein Conscienz macht reich=--Great industry and little conscience make one rich. Ger. Pr.

=Gross ist, wer Feinde tapfer überwand; / Doch grösser ist, wer sie gewonnen=--Great is he who has bravely vanquished his enemies, but greater is he who has gained them. Seume.

=Gross kann man sich im Glück, erhaben nur= 45 =im Unglück zeigen=--One may show himself great in good fortune, but exalted only in bad. Schiller. (?)

=Gross und leer, wie das Heidelberger Fass=--Big and empty, like the Heidelberg tun. Ger. Pr.

=Grosse Leidenschaften sind Krankheiten ohne Hoffnung; was sie heilen könnte, macht sie erst recht gefährlich=--Great passions are incurable diseases; what might heal them is precisely that which makes them so dangerous. Goethe.

=Grosse Seelen dulden still=--Great souls endure in silence. Schiller.

=Grosser Herren Leute lassen sich was bedünken=--Great people's servants think themselves of no small consequence. Ger. Pr.

=Grudge not another what you canna get yoursel'.= Sc. Pr.

=Grudge not one against another.= St. James.

=Guardalo ben, guardalo tutto / L'uom senza danar quanto è brutto=--Watch him well, watch him closely; the man without money, how worthless he is! It. Pr.

=Guardati da aceto di vin dolce=--Beware of the vinegar of sweet wine. It. Pr.

=Guardati da chi non ha che perdere=--Beware of 5 him who has nothing to lose. It. Pr.

=Guardati dall' occasione, e ti guarderà / Dio da peccati=--Keep yourself from opportunities, and God will keep you from sins. It. Pr.

=Guards from outward harms are sent; / Ills from within thy reason must prevent.= Dryden.

=Guard well thy thought; / Our thoughts are heard in heaven.= Young.

=Gude advice is ne'er out o' season.= Sc. Pr.

=Gude bairns are eith to lear=, i.e., easy to teach. 10 Sc. Pr.

=Gude breeding and siller mak' our sons gentlemen.= Sc. Pr.

=Gude claes= (clothes) =open a' doors.= Sc. Pr.

=Gude folk are scarce, tak' care o' ane.= _Sc. Pr._

=Gude foresight furthers the wark.= Sc. Pr.

=Gude wares mak' a quick market.= Sc. Pr. 15

=Guds Raadkammer har ingen Nögle=--To God's council-chamber we have no key. _Dan. Pr._

=Guenille, si l'on veut; ma guenille m'est chère=--Call it a rag, if you please; my rag is dear to me. Molière.

=Guerra al cuchillo=--War to the knife. Sp.

=Guerra cominciata, inferno scatenato=--War begun, hell let loose. It. Pr.

=Guerre à mort=--War to the death. Fr. 20

=Guerre à outrance=--War of extermination; war to the uttermost. Fr.

=Guerre aux châteaux, paix aux chaumières!=--War to the castles, peace to the cottages! Fr.

=Guessing is missing= (the point). Dut. Pr.

=Guilt is a spiritual Rubicon.= Jane Porter.

=Guilt is ever at a loss, and confusion waits= 25 =upon it.= Congreve.

=Guilt is the source of sorrow; 'tis the fiend, / Th' avenging fiend that follows us behind / With whips and stings.= Rowe.

=Guilt, though it may attain temporal splendour, can never confer real happiness.= Scott.

=Guiltiness will speak, though tongues were out of use.= Othello, v. 1.

=Guilty consciences make men cowards.= Vanbrugh.

=Gunpowder is the emblem of politic revenge,= 30 =for it biteth first and barketh afterwards; the bullet being at the mark before the noise is heard, so that it maketh a noise not by way of warning, but of triumph.= Fuller.

=Gunpowder makes all men alike tall.... Hereby at last is the Goliath powerless and the David resistless; savage animalism is nothing, inventive spiritualism is all.= Carlyle.

=Gustatus est sensus ex omnibus maxime voluptarius=--The sense of taste is the most exquisite of all. Cic.

=Gut Gewissen ist ein sanftes Ruhekissen=--A good conscience is a soft pillow. Ger. Pr.

=Gut verloren, etwas verloren; / Ehre verloren, viel verloren; / Mut verloren, alles verloren=--Wealth lost, something lost; honour lost, much lost; courage lost, all lost. Goethe.

=Güte bricht einem kein Bein=--Kindness breaks 35 no one's bones. Ger. Pr.

=Guter Rath kommt über Nacht=--Good counsel comes over-night. Ger. Pr.

=Guter Rath lässt sich geben, aber gute Sitte nicht=--Good advice may be given, but manners not. Turkish Pr.

=Gutes aus Gutem, das kann jedweder Verständige bilden; / Aber der Genius ruft Gutes aus Schlechtem hervor=--Good out of good is what every man of intellect can fashion, but it takes genius to evoke good out of bad. Schiller.

=Gutes und Böses kommt unerwartet dem Menschen; / Auch verkündet, glauben wir's nicht=--Good and evil come unexpected to man; even if foretold, we believe it not. Goethe.

=Gutta cavat lapidem, consumitur annulus= 40 =usu, / Et teritur pressa vomer aduncus humo=--The drop hollows the stone, the ring is worn by use, and the crooked ploughshare is frayed away by the pressure of the earth. Ovid.

=Gutta cavat lapidem non vi, sed sæpe cadendo=--The drop hollows the stone not by force, but by continually falling. Pr.

=Gutta fortunæ præ dolio sapientiæ=--A drop of good fortune rather than a cask of wisdom. Pr.

H.

=Ha! lass dich den Teufel bei einem Haar fassen, und du bist sein auf ewig=--Ha! let the devil seize thee by a hair, and thou art his for ever. Lessing.

=Ha! welche Lust, Soldat zu sein=--Ah! what a pleasure it is to be a soldier. Boieldieu.

=Hab' mich nie mit Kleinigkeiten abgegeben=--I 45 have never occupied myself with trifles. Schiller.

="Habe gehabt," ist ein armer Mann=--"I have had," is a poor man. Ger. Pr.

=Habeas corpus=--A writ to deliver one from prison, and show reason for his detention, with a view to judge of its justice, lit. you may have the body. L.

=Habeas corpus ad prosequendum=--You may bring up the body for the purpose of prosecution. L. Writ.

=Habeas corpus ad respondendum=--You may bring up the body to make answer. L. Writ.

=Habeas corpus ad satisfaciendum=--You may 50 bring up the body to satisfy. L. Writ.

=Habemus confitentem reum=--We have the confession of the accused. L.

=Habemus luxuriam atque avaritiam, publice egestatem, privatim opulentiam=--We have luxury and avarice, but as a people poverty, and in private opulence. Cato in Sall.

=Habent insidias hominis blanditiæ mali=--Under the fair words of a bad man there lurks some treachery. Phaedr.

=Habent sua fata libelli=--Books have their destinies. Hor.

=Habeo senectuti magnam gratiam, quæ mihi sermonis aviditatem auxit=--I owe it to old age, that my relish for conversation is so increased. Cic.

=Habere derelictui rem suam=--To neglect one's affairs. Aul. Gell.

=Habere et dispertire=--To have and to distribute.

=Habere facias possessionem=--You shall cause to take possession. L. Writ.

=Habere, non haberi=--To hold, not to be held. 5

=Habet aliquid ex iniquo omne magnum exemplum, quod contra singulos, utilitate publica rependitur=--Every great example of punishment has in it some tincture of injustice, but the wrong to individuals is compensated by the promotion of the public good. Tac.

=Habet iracundia hoc mali, non vult regi=--There is in anger this evil, that it will not be controlled. Sen.

=Habet salem=--He has wit; he is a wag.

=Habit and imitation are the source of all working and all apprenticeship, of all practice and all learning, in this world.= Carlyle.

=Habit gives endurance, and fatigue is the best= 10 =nightcap.= Kincaid.

=Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.= St. Augustine.

=Habit is a cable. We weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it.= Horace Mann.

=Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first.= Pascal.

=Habit is necessary to give power.= Hazlitt.

=Habit is ten times nature.= Wellington. 15

=Habit is the deepest law of human nature.= Carlyle.

=Habit is the purgatory in which we suffer for our past sins.= George Eliot.

=Habit is too arbitrary a master for my liking.= Lavater.

=Habit, with its iron sinews, clasps and leads us day by day.= Lamartine.

=Habits are at first cobwebs, at last cables.= 20 Pr.

=Habits= (of virtue) =are formed by acts of reason in a persevering struggle through temptation.= Bernard Gilpin.

=Habits leave their impress upon the mind, even after they are given up.= Spurgeon.

=Habitual intoxication is the epitome of every crime.= Douglas Jerrold.

=Hablar sin pensar es tirar sin encarar=--Speaking without thinking is shooting without taking aim. Sp. Pr.

=Hac mercede placet=--I accept the terms. 25

=Hac sunt in fossa Bedæ venerabilis ossa=--In this grave lie the bones of the Venerable Bede. Inscription on Bede's tomb.

=Hac urget lupus, hac canis=--On one side a wolf besets you, on the other a dog. Hor.

=Hactenus=--Thus far.

=Had Cæsar or Cromwell changed countries, the one might have been a sergeant and the other an exciseman.= Goldsmith.

=Had God meant me to be different, He would= 30 =have created me different.= Goethe.

=Had I but serv'd my God with half the zeal / I serv'd my king, He would not in mine age / Have left me naked to mine enemies.= _Hen. VIII._, iii. 2.

=Had I succeeded well, I had been reckoned amongst the wise; so ready are we to judge from the event.= Euripides.

=Had not God made this world, and death too, it were an insupportable place.= Carlyle.

=Had religion been a mere chimæra, it would long ago have been extinct; were it susceptible of a definite formula, that formula would long ago have been discovered.= Renan.

=Had sigh'd to many, though he loved but one.= 35 Byron.

=Had we never loved sae kindly, / Had we never loved sae blindly, / Never met or never parted, / We had ne'er been broken-hearted!= Burns.

=Hæ nugæ seria ducent / In mala=--These trifles will lead to serious mischief. Hor.

=Hæ tibi erant artes, pacisque imponere morem, / Parcere subjectis et debellare superbos=--These shall be thy arts, to lay down the law of peace, to spare the conquered, and to subdue the proud. Virg.

=Hae you gear= (goods), =or hae you nane, / Tine= (lose) =heart, and a's gane.= Sc. Pr.

=Hæc a te non multum abludit imago=--This 40 picture bears no small resemblance to yourself. Hor.

=Hæc amat obscurum; volet hæc sub luce videri, / Judicis argutum quæ non formidat acumen; / Hæc placuit semel; hæc decies repetita placebit=--One (poem) courts the shade; another, not afraid of the critic's keen eye, chooses to be seen in a strong light; the one pleases but once, the other will still please if ten times repeated. Hor.

=Hæc brevis est nostrorum summa malorum=--Such is the short sum of our evils. Ovid.

=Hæc ego mecum / Compressis agito labris; ubi quid datur oti, / Illudo chartis=--These things I revolve by myself with compressed lips, When I have any leisure, I amuse myself with my writings. Hor.

=Hæc est condicio vivendi, aiebat, eoque / Responsura tuo nunquam est par fama labori=--"Such is the lot of life," he said, "and so your merits will never receive their due meed of praise." Hor.

=Hæc generi incrementa fides=--This fidelity will 45 bring new glory to our race. M.

=Hæc olim meminisse juvabit=--It will be a joy to us to recall this, some day. Virg.

=Hæc omnia transeunt=--All these things pass away. M.

=Hæc perinde sunt, ut illius animus, qui ea possidet. / Qui uti scit, ei bona, illi qui non utitur recte, mala=--These things are exactly according to the disposition of him who possesses them. To him who knows how to use them, they are blessings; to him who does not use them aright, they are evils. Ter.

=Hæc prima lex in amicitia sanciatur, ut neque rogemus res turpes, nec faciamus rogati=--Be this the first law established in friendship, that we neither ask of others what is dishonourable, nor ourselves do it when asked. Cic.

=Hæc scripsi non otii abundantia, sed amoris= 50 =erga te=--I have written this, not as having abundance of leisure, but out of love for you. Cic.

=Hæc studia adolescentiam alunt, senectutem oblectant, secundas res ornant, adversis solatium ac perfugium præbent, delectant domi, non impediunt foris, pernoctant nobiscum, peregrinantur, rusticantur=--These studies are the food of youth and the consolation of old age; they adorn prosperity and are the comfort and refuge of adversity; they are pleasant at home and are no encumbrance abroad; they accompany us at night, in our travels, and in our rural retreats. Cic.

=Hæc studia oblectant=--These studies are our delight. M.

=Hæc sunt jucundi causa cibusque mali=--These things are at once the cause and food of this delicious malady. Ovid.

=Hæc vivendi ratio mihi non convenit=--This mode of living does not suit me. Cic.

=Hæredis fletus sub persona risus est=--The 5 weeping of an heir is laughter under a mask. Pr.

=Hæreditas nunquam ascendit=--The right of inheritance never lineally ascends. L.

=Hæres jure repræsentationis=--An heir by right of representation. L.

=Hæres legitimus est quem nuptiæ demonstrant=--He is the lawful heir whom marriage points out as such. L.

=Hæret lateri lethalis arundo=--The fatal shaft sticks deep in her side. Virg.

=Halb sind sie kalt, Halb sind sie roh=--Half of 10 them are without heart, half without culture. Goethe.

=Half a house is half a hell.= Ger. Pr.

=Half a loaf is better than no bread.= Pr.

=Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.= Emerson.

=Half a word fixed upon, or near, the spot is worth a cartload of recollection.= Gray to Palgrave.

=Half the ease of life oozes away through the= 15 =leaks of unpunctuality.= Anon.

=Half the gossip of society would perish if the books that are truly worth reading were but read.= George Dawson.

=Half the ills we hoard within our hearts are ills because we hoard them.= Barry Cornwall.

=Half the logic of misgovernment lies in this one sophistical dilemma: if the people are turbulent, they are unfit for liberty; if they are quiet, they do not want liberty.= Macaulay.

=Half-wits greet each other.= Gael. Pr.

=Hältst du Natur getreu im Augenmerk, /= 20 =Frommt jeder tüchtige Meister dir: / Doch klammerst du dich blos an Menschenwerk, / Wird alles, was du schaffst, Manier=--If you keep Nature faithfully in view, the example of every thorough master will be of service to you; but if you merely cling to human work, all that you do will be but mannerism. Geibel.

=Hanc personam induisti, agenda est=--You have assumed this part, and you must act it out. Sen.

=Hanc veniam petimusque damusque vicissim=--We both expect this privilege, and give it in return. Hor.

=Hands that the rod of empire might have sway'd. / Or waked to ecstacy the living lyre.= Gray.

=Handsome is that handsome does.= Pr.

=Handsomeness is the more animal excellence,= 25 =beauty the more imaginative.= Hare.

=Häng' an die grosse Glocke nicht / Was jemand im Vertrauen spricht=--Blaze not abroad to others what any one confides to you in secret. Claudius.

=Hang a thief when he's young, and he'll no steal when he's auld.= Sc. Pr.

=Hang constancy! you know too much of the world to be constant, sure.= Fielding.

=Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat, / And therefore let's be merry.= G. Wither.

=Hänge nicht alles auf einen Nagel=--Hang not 30 all on one nail. Ger. Pr.

=Hanging and wiving goes by destiny.= Mer. of Ven., ii. 9.

=Hannibal ad portas=--Hannibal is at the gates. Cic.

=Hap and mishap govern the world.= Pr.

=Happiest they of human race, / To whom God has granted grace / To read, to fear, to hope, to pray, / To lift the latch and force the way; / And better had they ne'er been born, / Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.= Scott.

=Happily to steer / From grave to gay, from= 35 =lively to severe.= Pope.

=Happiness consists in activity; it is a running stream, and not a stagnant pool.= J. M. Good.

=Happiness depends not on the things, but on the taste.= La Roche.

=Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked up in strangers' galleries.= Douglas Jerrold.

=Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.= Goethe.

=Happiness is a chimæra and suffering a reality.= 40 Schopenhauer.

=Happiness is "a tranquil acquiescence under an agreeable delusion."= Quoted by Sterne.

=Happiness is but a dream, and sorrow a reality.= Voltaire.

=Happiness is deceitful as the calm that precedes the hurricane, smooth as the water on the verge of the cataract, and beautiful as the rainbow, that smiling daughter of the storm.= Arliss' Lit. Col.

=Happiness is like the mirage in the desert; she tantalises us with a delusion that distance creates and that contiguity destroys.= Arliss' Lit. Col.

=Happiness is like the statue of Isis, whose= 45 =veil no mortal ever raised.= Landor.

=Happiness is matter of opinion, of fancy, in fact, but it must amount to conviction, else it is nothing.= Chamfort.

=Happiness is neither within us nor without us; it is the union of ourselves with God.= Pascal.

=Happiness is nothing but the conquest of God through love.= Amiel.

=Happiness is only evident to us by deliverance from evil.= Nicole.

=Happiness is the fine and gentle rain which= 50 =penetrates the soul, but which afterwards gushes forth in springs of tears.= M. de Guérin.

=Happiness is unrepented pleasure.= Socrates.

=Happiness lies first of all in health.= _G. W. Curtis._

=Happiness, like Juno, is a goddess in pursuit, but a cloud in possession, deified by those who cannot enjoy her, and despised by those who can.= Arliss' Lit. Col.

=Happiness never lays its fingers on its pulse.= A. Smith.

=Happiness springs not from a large fortune, but temperate habits and simple wishes. Riches increase not by increase of the supply of want, but by decrease of the sense of it,--the minimum of it being the maximum of them.= Ed.

=Happiness, that grand mistress of ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.= Arliss' Lit. Col.

=Happiness travels incognita to keep a private= 5 =assignation with contentment, and to partake of a tête-à-tête and a dinner of herbs in a cottage.= Arliss' Lit. Col.

=Happiness, when unsought, is often found, and when unexpected, often obtained; while those who seek her the most diligently fail the most, because they seek her where she is not.= Arliss' Lit. Col.

=Happy are they that hear their detractions, and can put them to mending.= Much Ado, ii. 3.

=Happy child! the cradle is still to thee an infinite space; once grown into a man, and the boundless world will be too small to thee.= Schiller.

=Happy contractedness of youth, nay, of mankind in general, that they think neither of the high nor the deep, of the true nor the false, but only of what is suited to their own conceptions.= Goethe.

=Happy he for whom a kind heavenly sun= 10 =brightens the ring of necessity into a ring of duty.= Carlyle.

=Happy he that can abandon everything by which his conscience is defiled or burdened.= Thomas à Kempis.

=Happy in that we are not over-happy; / On Fortune's cap we are not the very button.= Ham., ii. 2.

=Happy is he who soon discovers the chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.= Goethe.

=Happy is that house and blessed is that congregation where Martha still complains of Mary.= S. Bern.

=Happy he whose last hour strikes in the midst= 15 =of his children.= Grillparzer.

=Happy is he that is happy in his children.= Pr.

=Happy is he to whom his business itself becomes a puppet, who at length can play with it, and amuse himself with what his situation makes his duty.= Goethe.

=Happy is the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.= Hare.

=Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.= Emerson.

=Happy is the man who can endure the highest= 20 =and the lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.= Sen.

=Happy is the man whose father went to the devil.= Pr.

=Happy lowly clown! / Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown!= 2 Hen. IV., iii. 1.

=Happy men are full of the present, for its bounty suffices them; and wise men also, for its duties engage them. Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.= Carlyle.

=Happy season of virtuous youth, when shame is still an impassable celestial barrier, and the sacred air-castles of hope have not shrunk into the mean clay hamlets of reality, and man by his nature is yet infinite and free.= Carlyle.

=Happy that I can / Be crossed and thwarted= 25 =as a man, / Not left in God's contempt apart, / With ghastly smooth life, dead at heart, / Tame in earth's paddock, as her prize.= Browning.

=Happy the man, and happy he alone, / He who can call to-day his own; / He who, secure within, can say, / To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived to-day.= Dryden, after Horace.

=Happy the man to whom Heaven has given a morsel of bread without his being obliged to thank any other for it than Heaven itself.= Cervantes.

=Happy the people whose annals are blank in History's book.= Montesquieu.

=Happy thou art not; / For what thou hast not still thou striv'st to get, / And what thou hast, forgett'st.= Meas. for Meas. iii. 1.

=Happy who in his verse can gently steer, /= 30 =From grave to light, from pleasant to severe.= Dryden.

=Hard is the factor's rule; no better is the minister's.= Gael. Pr.

=Hard pounding, gentlemen; but we shall see who can pound the longest.= Wellington at Waterloo.

=Hard with hard builds no houses; soft binds hard.= Pr.

=Hard work is still the road to prosperity, and there is no other.= Ben. Franklin.

=Hardness ever of hardiness is mother.= Cymbeline, 35 iii. 6.

=Hardship is the native soil of manhood and self-reliance.= John Neal.

=Harm watch, harm catch.= Pr.

=Hart kann die Tugend sein, doch grausam nie, / unmenschlich nie=--Virtue may be stern, though never cruel, never inhuman. Schiller.

=Harvests are Nature's bank dividends.= Haliburton.

=Has any man, or any society of men, a truth= 40 =to speak, a piece of spiritual work to do; they can nowise proceed at once and with the mere natural organs, but must first call a public meeting, appoint committees, issue prospectuses, eat a public dinner; in a word, construct or borrow machinery, wherewith to speak it and do it. Without machinery they were hopeless, helpless; a colony of Hindoo weavers squatting in the heart of Lancashire.= Carlyle.

=Has patitur pœnas peccandi sola voluntas. / Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogitat ullum, / Facti crimen habet=--Such penalties does the mere intention to sin suffer; for he who meditates any secret wickedness within himself incurs the guilt of the deed. Juv.

=Has pœnas garrula lingua dedit=--This punishment a prating tongue brought on him. Ovid.

=Has vaticinationes eventus comprobavit=--The event has verified these predictions. Cic.

=Hassen und Neiden / Muss der Biedre leiden. / Es erhöht des Mannes Wert, / Wenn der Hass sich auf ihn kehrt=--The upright must suffer hatred and envy. It enhances the worth of a man if hatred pursues him. Gottfried von Strassburg.

=Hast du im Thal ein sichres Haus, / Dann wolle nie zu hoch hinaus=--Hast thou a secure house in the valley? Then set not thy heart on a higher beyond. Förster.

=Haste and rashness are storms and tempests,= 5 =breaking and wrecking business; but nimbleness is a full, fair wind, blowing it with speed to the haven.= Fuller.

=Haste is of the devil.= Koran.

=Haste makes waste, and waste makes want, and want makes strife between the gudeman and the gudewife.= Sc. Pr.

=Haste trips up its own heels, fetters and stops itself.= Sen.

=Haste turns usually on a matter of ten minutes too late.= Bovee.

=Hasty resolutions seldom speed well.= Pr. 10

=Hat man die Liebe durchgeliebt / Fängt man die Freundschaft an=--After love friendship (lit. when we have lived through love we begin friendship). Heine.

=Hate injures no one; it is contempt that casts men down.= Goethe.

=Hate makes us vehement partisans, but love still more so.= Goethe.

=Hâtez-vous lentement, et sans perdre courage=--Leisurely, and don't lose heart. Fr.

=Hath fortune dealt thee ill cards? Let wisdom= 15 =make thee a good gamester.= Quarles.

=Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall not we revenge?= Mer. of Venice, iii. 1.

=Hatred does not cease by hatred at any time; hatred ceases by love.= Buddha.

=Hatred is a heavy burden. It sinks the heart deep in the breast, and lies like a tombstone on all joys.= Goethe.

=Hatred is active, and envy passive, disgust; there is but one step from envy to hate.= Goethe.

=Hatred is but an inverse love.= Carlyle. 20

=Hatred is keener than friendship, less keen than love.= Vauvenargues.

=Hatred is like fire; it makes even light rubbish deadly.= George Eliot.

="Hätte ich gewusst," ist ein armer Mann=--"If I had known," is a poor man. Ger. Pr.

=Haud æquum facit, / Qui quod didicit, id dediscit=--He does not do right who unlearns what he has learnt. Plaut.

=Haud facile emergunt quorum virtutibus obstat= 25 =/ Res angusta domi=--Not easily do those attain to distinction whose abilities are cramped by domestic poverty. Juv.

=Haud ignara ac non incauta futuri=--Neither ignorant nor inconsiderate of the future. Hor.

=Haud ignara mali miseris succurrere disco=--Not unfamiliar with misfortune myself, I have learned to succour the wretched. Virg.

=Haud passibus æquis=--With unequal steps. Virg.

=Haut et bon=--Great and good. M.

=Haut goût=--High flavour. Fr. 30

=Have a care o' the main chance.= Butler.

=Have a spécialité, a work in which you are at home.= Spurgeon.

=Have any deepest scientific individuals yet dived down to the foundations of the universe and gauged everything there? Did the Maker take them into His counsel, that they read His ground-plan of the incomprehensible All, and can say, This stands marked therein, and no more than this? Alas! not in any wise.= Carlyle.

=Have I a religion, have I a country, have I a love, that I am ready to die for? are the first trial questions to itself of a true soul.= Ruskin.

=Have I in conquest stretched mine arm so far /= 35 =To be afeard to tell gray-beards the truth?= Jul. Cæs., ii. 2.

=Have I not earn'd my cake in baking of it?= Tennyson.

=Have more than thou showest; / Speak less than thou knowest; / Lend less than thou owest; / Learn more than thou trowest; / Set less than thou throwest.= King Lear, i. 4.

=Have not all nations conceived their God as omnipresent and eternal, as existing in a universal Here, an everlasting Now?= Carlyle.

=Have not thy cloak to make when it begins to rain.= Pr.

=Have the French for friends, but not for neighbours.= 40 Pr.

=Have you found your life distasteful? / My life did, and does, smack sweet. / Was your youth of pleasure wasteful? / Mine I saved and hold complete. / Do your joys with age diminish? / When mine fail me, I'll complain. / Must in death your daylight finish? / My sun sets to rise again.= Browning.

=Have you known how to compose your manners, you have achieved a great deal more than he who has composed books. Have you known how to attain repose, you have achieved more than he who has taken cities and subdued empires.= Montaigne.

=Have you not heard it said full oft, / A woman's nay doth stand for nought?= Shakespeare.

=Have you prayed to-night, Desdemona?= Othello, v. 2.

=Having food and raiment, let us be therewith= 45 =content.= St. Paul.

=Having is having, come whence it may.= Ger. Pr.

=Having is in no case the fruit of lusting, but of living.= Ed.

=Having sown the seed of secrecy, it should be properly guarded and not in the least broken; for being broken, it will not prosper.= Hitopadesa.

=Having waste ground enough, / Shall we desire to raze the sanctuary / And pitch our evils there?= Meas. for Meas., ii. 2.

=Hay buena cuenta, y no paresca blanca=--The account is all right, but the money-bags are empty. Sp. Pr.

=He alone has energy that cannot be deprived of it.= Lavater.

=He alone is happy, and he is truly so, who can say, "Welcome life, whatever it brings! welcome death, whatever it is!"= Bolingbroke.

=He alone is worthy of respect who knows what is of use to himself and others, and who labours to control his self-will.= Goethe.

=He also that is slothful in his work is brother= 5 =to him that is a great waster.= Bible.

=He always wins who sides with God.= Faber.

=He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand; but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.= Bible.

=He behoves to have meat enou' that sal stop ilka man's mou'.= Sc. Pr.

=He best restrains anger who remembers God's eye is upon him.= Plato.

=He buys very dear who begs.= Port. Pr. 10

=He by whom the geese were formed white, parrots stained green, and peacocks painted of various hues--even He will provide for their support.= Hitopadesa.

=He can ill run that canna gang= (walk). _Sc. Pr._

=He cannot lay eggs, but he can cackle.= _Dut. Pr._

=He cannot see the wood for the trees.= Ger. Pr.

=He cast off his friends, as a huntsman his= 15 =pack, / For he knew, when he pleased, he could whistle them back.= Goldsmith.

=He cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney-corner.= Sir P. Sidney.

=He conquers grief who can take a firm resolution.= Goethe.

=He could distinguish and divide / A hair 'twixt south and south-west side.= Butler.

=He cries out before he is hurt.= It. Pr.

=He dances well to whom fortune pipes.= Pr. 20

=He doesna aye flee when he claps his wings.= Sc. Pr.

=He does not deserve wine who drinks it as water.= Bodenstedt.

=He does nothing who endeavours to do more than is allowed to humanity.= Johnson.

=He doeth much that doeth a thing well.= Thomas à Kempis.

=He doeth well that serveth the common= 25 =good rather than his own will.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=He doth bestride the narrow world / Like a Colossus; and we petty men / Walk under his huge legs, and peep about / To find ourselves dishonourable graves.= Jul. Cæs., i. 2.

=He doubts nothing who knows nothing.= _Port. Pr._

=He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.= Love's L. Lost, v. 1.

=He draws nothing well who thirsts not to draw everything.= Ruskin.

=He either fears his fate too much, / Or his= 30 =deserts are small, / Who dares not put it to the touch / To win or lose it all.= Marquis of Montrose.

=He frieth in his own grease.= Pr.

=He gave his honours to the world again, / His blessed part to heaven, and slept in peace.= Hen. VIII., iv. 2.

=He giveth His beloved sleep.= Bible.

=He goeth back that continueth not.= St. Augustine.

=He goeth better that creepeth in his way= 35 =than he that runneth out of his way.= _St. Augustine._

=He had a face like a benediction.= Cervantes.

=He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement seasons.= Swift.

=He had never kindly heart / Nor ever cared to better his own kind, / Who first wrote satire with no pity in it.= Tennyson.

=He has a bee in his bonnet=, i.e., is hare-brained. Sc. Pr.

=He has a head, and so has a pin.= Port. 40 Pr.

=He has a killing tongue and a quiet sword, by the means whereof 'a breaks words and keeps whole weapons.= Hen. V., iii. 2.

=He has faut= (need) =o' a wife wha marries mam's pet.= Sc. Pr.

=He has hard work who has nothing to do.= Pr.

=He has no religion who has no humanity.= Arab. Pr.

=He has not learned the lesson of life who= 45 =does not every day surmount a fear.= Emerson.

=He has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle.= Ben. Franklin.

=He has seen a wolf.= Pr. of one who suddenly curbs his tongue.

=He has verily touched our hearts as with a live coal from the altar who in any way brings home to our heart the noble doings, feelings, darings, and endurances of a brother man.= Carlyle.

=He has wit at will that, when angry, can sit him still.= Sc. Pr.

=He hath a heart as sound as a bell, and his= 50 =tongue is the clapper; for what his heart thinks his tongue speaks.= Much Ado, iii. 2.

=He hath a tear for pity, and a hand / Open as day for melting charity.= 2 Hen. IV., iv. 4.

=He hath ill repented whose sins are repeated.= St. Augustine.

=He hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book.= Love's L. Lost, iv. 2.

=He honours God that imitates Him.= _Sir T. Browne._

=He in whom there is much to be developed will= 55 =be later than others in acquiring true perceptions of himself and the world.= Goethe.

=He is a fool who empties his purse, or store, to fill another's.= Sp. Pr.

=He is a fool who thinks by force or skill / To turn the current of a woman's will.= _S. Tuke._

=He is a great and a good man from whom the needy, or those who come for protection, go not away with disappointed hopes and discontented countenances.= Hitopadesa.

=He is a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought, into which other men rise with labour and difficulty: he has but to open his eyes to see things in a true light and in large relations, while they must make painful corrections, and keep a vigilant eye on many sources of error.= Emerson.

=He is a happy man that hath a true friend at his need, but he is more truly happy that hath no need of his friend.= Arthur Warwick.

=He is a hard man who is only just, and he a sad man who is only wise.= Voltaire.

=He is a little chimney, and heated hot in a moment!= Longfellow.

=He is a little man; let him go and work with= 5 =the women!= Longfellow.

=He is a madman= (Rasender) =who does not embrace and hold fast the good fortune which a god= (ein Gott) =has given into his hand.= Schiller.

=He is a man who doth not suffer his members and faculties to cause him uneasiness.= Hitopadesa.

=He is a minister who doth not behave with insolence and pride.= Hitopadesa.

=He is a poor smith who cannot bear smoke.= Pr.

=He is a strong man who can hold down his= 10 =opinion.= Emerson.

=He is a true sage who learns from all the world.= Eastern Pr.

=He is a very valiant trencherman; he hath an excellent stomach.= Much Ado, i. 1.

=He is a wise child that knows his own father.= Pr.

=He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.= Epictetus.

=He is a wise man who knoweth that his words= 15 =should be suited to the occasion, his love to the worthiness of the object, and his anger according to his strength.= Hitopadesa.

=He is a wise man who knows what is wise.= Xenophon.

=He is a worthy person who is much respected by good men.= Hitopadesa.

=He is all there when the bell rings.= Pr.

=He is an eloquent man who can speak of low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.= Cic.

=He is an unfortunate and on the way to ruin= 20 =who will not do what he can, but is ambitious to do what he cannot.= Goethe.

=He is below himself who is not above an injury.= Quarles.

=He is best served who has no need to put the hands of others at the end of his arms.= Rousseau.

=He is but a bastard to the time / That doth not smack of observation.= King John, i. 1.

=He is but the counterfeit of a man who hath not the life of a man.= Shakespeare.

=He is gentil that doth gentil dedes.= Chaucer. 25

=He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.= Emerson.

=He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his own home.= Goethe.

=He is happy who is forsaken by his passions.= Hitopadesa.

=He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances.= Hare.

=He is just as truly running counter to God's= 30 =will by being intentionally wretched as by intentionally doing wrong.= W. R. Greg.

=He is kind who guardeth another from misfortune.= Hitopadesa.

=He is lifeless that is faultless.= Pr.

=He is my friend that grinds at my mill.= Pr.

=He is my friend that helps me, and not he that pities me.= Pr.

=He is nearest to God who has the fewest wants.= 35 Dan. Pr.

=He is neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring.= Pr.

=He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.= Johnson.

=He is noble who feels and acts nobly.= Heine.

=He is not a bad driver who knows how to turn.= Dan. Pr.

=He is not a true man of science who does not= 40 =bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something by behaviour as well as application.= Thoreau.

=He is not only idle who does nothing, but he is idle who might be better employed.= Socrates.

=He is not the best carpenter who makes the most chips.= Pr.

=He is not yet born who can please everybody.= Dan. Pr.

=He is oft the wisest man / Who is not wise at all.= Wordsworth.

=He is richest that has fewest wants.= Pr. 45

=He is the best dressed gentleman whose dress no one observes.= Trollope.

=He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.= Victor Hugo.

=He is the free man whom the truth makes free, / And all are slaves besides.= Cowper.

=He is the greatest artist who has embodied in the sum of his works the greatest number of the greatest ideas.= Ruskin.

=He is the greatest conqueror who has conquered= 50 =himself.= Pr.

=He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.= Ward Beecher.

=He is the half part of a blessèd man, / Left to be finishèd by such as she; / And she a fair divided excellence, / Whose fulness of perfection lies in him.= King John, ii. 2.

=He is the rich man in whom the people are rich, and he is the poor man in whom the people are poor; and how to give access to the masterpieces of art and nature is the problem of civilisation.= Emerson.

=He is the rich man who can avail himself of all men's faculties.= Emerson.

=He is the world's master who despises it, its= 55 =slave who prizes it.= It. Pr.

=He is truly great who is great in charity.= Thomas à Kempis.

=He is ungrateful who denies a benefit; he is ungrateful who hides it; he is ungrateful who does not return it; he, most of all, who has forgotten it.= Sen.

=He is well paid that is well satisfied.= _Mer. of Ven._, iv. 1.

=He is wise that is wise to himself.= Euripides.

=He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of daily virtuous living; he who trains us to see old truth under academic formularies may be wise or not, as it chances, but we love to see wisdom in unpretending forms, to recognise her royal features under a week-day vesture.= Carlyle.

=He is wit's pedlar, and retails his wares / At wakes and wassails, meetings, markets, fairs; / And we that sell by gross, the Lord doth know, / Have not the grace to grace it with such show.= Love's L. Lost, v. 2.

=He is wrong who thinks that authority based= 5 =on force is more weighty and more lasting than that which rests on kindness.= Ter.

=He jests at scars that never felt a wound.= Rom. and Jul., ii. 2.

=He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith the Lord.= Bible.

=He kens muckle wha kens when to speak, but far mair wha kens when to haud= (hold) =his tongue.= Sc. Pr.

=He knew what's what, and that's as high / As metaphysic wit can fly.= Butler.

=He knocks boldly at the door who brings good= 10 =news.= Pr.

=He knows best what good is that has endured evil.= Pr.

=He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.= Fuller.

=He knows much who knows how to hold his tongue.= Pr.

=He knows not how to speak who cannot be silent, still less how to act with vigour and decision.= Lavater.

=He knows not what love is that has no children.= 15 Pr.

=He knows the water the best who has waded through it.= Pr.

=He knows very little of mankind who expects, by facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party-man.= Lavater.

=He left a name at which the world grew pale, / To point a moral or adorn a tale.= Johnson.

=He lies there who never feared the face of man.= The Earl of Morton at John Knox's grave.

=He life's war knows / Whom all his passions= 20 =follow as he goes.= George Herbert.

=He little merits bliss who others can annoy.= Thomson.

=He lives twice who can at once employ / The present well and e'en the past enjoy.= Pope.

=He lives who lives to God alone, / And all are dead beside; / For other source than God is none / Whence life can be supplied.= Cowper.

=He looks the whole world in the face, / For he owes not any man.= Longfellow.

=He loses his thanks who promises and delays.= 25 Pr.

=He loves but lightly who his love can tell.= Petrarch.

=He makes no friend who never made a foe.= Tennyson.

=He= (your Father) =maketh His sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.= Jesus.

=He maun lout= (stoop) =that has a laigh= (low) =door.= Sc. Pr.

=He may rate himself a happy man who lives= 30 =remote from the gods of this world.= Goethe.

=Hé, mon ami, tire-moi du danger; tu feras après ta harangue=--Hey! my friend, help me out of my danger first; you can make your speech afterwards. La Fontaine.

=He most lives / Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.= P. J. Bailey.

=He must be a good shot who always hits the mark.= Dut. Pr.

=He must be a thorough fool who can learn nothing from his own folly.= Hare.

=He must cry loud who would frighten the devil.= 35 Dan. Pr.

=He must needs go that the devil drives.= Pr.

=He must stand high who would see his destiny to the end.= Dan. Pr.

=He must mingle with the world that desires to be useful.= Johnson.

=He needs a long spoon who eats out of the same dish with the devil.= Pr.

=He needs no foil, but shines by his own proper= 40 =light.= Dryden.

=He ne'er made a gude darg= (day's work) =wha gaed= (went) =grumbling about it.= Sc. Pr.

=He never is crowned / With immortality, who fears to follow / Where airy voices lead.= Keats.

=He never knew pain who never felt the pangs of love.= Platen.

=He never lees= (lies) =but when the holland's= (holly's) =green=, i.e., always. Sc. Pr.

=He never yet stood sure that stands secure.= 45 Quarles.

=He on whom Heaven bestows a sceptre knows not the weight of it till he bears it.= Corneille.

=He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.= Cic.

=He only is advancing in life whose heart is getting softer, whose blood warmer, whose brain quicker, and whose spirit is entering into living peace.= Ruskin.

=He only is an acute observer who can observe minutely without being observed.= Lavater.

=He only is exempt from failures who makes= 50 =no efforts.= Whately.

=He only is great of heart who floods the world with a great affection. He only is great of mind who stirs the world with great thoughts. He only is great of will who does something to shape the world to a great career; and he is greatest who does the most of all these things, and does them best.= R. D. Hitchcock.

=He only is rich who owns the day.= Emerson.

=He only who forgets to hoard has learned to live.= Keble.

=He ought to remember benefits on whom they are conferred; he who confers them ought not to mention them.= Cic.

=He paidles a guid deal in the water, but he= 55 =tak's care no to wet his feet.= Sc. Pr.

=He prayeth best who loveth best / All things, both great and small; / For the dear Lord who loveth us, / He made and loveth all.= Coleridge.

=He preaches well who lives well.= Sp. Pr.

=He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown.= Bovee.

=He rais'd a mortal to the skies, / She drew an angel down.= Dryden.

=He raises not himself up whom God casts down.= Goethe.

=He reads much: / He is a great observer, and he looks / Quite through the deeds of men: he loves no plays, / As thou dost, Anthony; he hears no music: / Seldom he smiles; and smiles in such a sort / As if he mock'd himself, and scorn'd his spirit / That could be moved to smile at anything. / Such men as he be never at heart's ease / Whiles they behold a greater than themselves; / And therefore are they very dangerous.= Jul. Cæs., i. 2.

=He rideth easily enough whom the grace of= 5 =God carrieth.= Thomas à Kempis.

=He runs far who never turns.= It. Pr.

=He scarce is knight, yea, but half-man, nor meet / To fight for gentle damsel, he who lets / His heart be stirr'd with any foolish heat / At any gentle damsel's waywardness.= Tennyson.

=He serves his party best who serves his country best.= R. B. Hayes.

=He shall be a god to me who can rightly divide and define.= Quoted by Emerson.

=He shone with the greater splendour because= 10 =he was not seen.= Tac.

=He sins as much who holds the sack as he who puts into it.= Fr. Pr.

=He sleeps as dogs do when wives bake=, i.e., is wide awake, though pretending not to see. Sc. Pr.

=He spends best that spares to spend again.= Pr.

=He submits himself to be seen through a microscope who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.= Lavater.

=He swallows the egg and gives away the shell= 15 =in alms.= Ger. Pr.

=He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him.= Bible.

=He that aspires to be the head of a party will find it more difficult to please his friends than to perplex his foes. He must often act from false reasons, which are weak, because he dares not avow the true reasons, which are strong.= Colton.

=He that at twenty is not, at thirty knows not, and at forty has not, will never either be, or know, or have.= It. Pr.

=He that believeth shall not make haste.= Bible.

=He that blows the coals in quarrels he has= 20 =nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.= Ben. Franklin.

=He that boasts of his ancestors confesses that he has no virtue of his own.= Charron.

=He that builds by the wayside has many masters.= Pr.

=He that buyeth magistracy must sell justice.= Pr.

=He that buys what he does not want, must often sell what he does want.= Pr.

=He that, by often arguing against his own= 25 =sense, imposes falsehoods on others, is not far from believing them himself.= Locke.

=He that by the plough would thrive, / Himself must either hold or drive.= Pr.

=He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.= Bible.

=He that can be patient has his foe at his feet.= Dut. Pr.

=He that can be won with a feather will be lost with a straw.= Pr.

=He that can conceal his joys is greater than he= 30 =who can hide his griefs.= Lavater.

=He that can define, he that can answer a question so as to admit of no further answer, is the best man.= Emerson.

=He that can discriminate is the father of his father.= The Vedas.

=He that can endure / To follow with allegiance a fall'n lord, / Does conquer him that did his master conquer, / And earns a place i' the story.= Ant. and Cleop., iii. 11.

=He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported by the latter.= Fielding.

=He that can write a true book to persuade= 35 =England, is not he the bishop and archbishop, the primate of England and of all England?= Carlyle.

=He that cannot be the servant of many will never be master, true guide, and deliverer of many.= Carlyle.

=He that cannot keep his mind to himself cannot practise any considerable thing whatever.= Carlyle.

=He that cannot pay in purse must pay in person.= Pr.

=He that ceases to be a friend never was a good one.= Pr.

=He that claims, either in himself or for another,= 40 =the honours of perfection will surely injure the reputation which he designs to assist.= Johnson.

=He that climbs the tall tree has won a right to the fruit: / He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.= Scott.

=He that comes unca'd= (uninvited) =sits unsair'd= (unserved). Sc. Pr.

=He that cometh to seek after knowledge with a mind to scorn and censure, shall be sure to find matter for his humour, but none for his instruction.= Bacon.

=He that complies against his will, / is of the same opinion still.= Butler.

=He that conquers himself conquers an enemy.= 45 Gael. Pr.

=He that cuts himself wilfully deserves no salve.= Pr.

=He that defers his charity until he is dead is, if a man weighs it rightly, rather liberal of another man's goods than his own.= Bacon.

=He that descends not to word it with a shrew does worse than beat her.= L'Estrange.

=He that deserves nothing should be content with anything.= Pr.

=He that dies, pays all debts.= Tempest, iii. 2. 50

=He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together.= Jeremy Taylor.

=He that does not knot his thread will lose his first stitch.= Gael.

=He that does not know those things which are of use and necessity for him to know, is but an ignorant man, whatever he may know besides.= Tillotson.

=He that does what he can, does what he ought.= Pr.

=He that does you a very ill turn will never forgive you.= Pr.

=He that doeth evil hateth the light.= Jesus. 5

=He that doeth truth cometh to the light.= _St. John._

=He that doth not plough at home won't plough abroad.= Gael. Pr.

=He that doth the ravens feed, / Yea, providently caters for the sparrow, / Be comfort to my age.= As You Like It, ii. 3.

=He that eats longest lives longest.= Pr.

=He that endureth is not overcome.= Pr. 10

=He that, ever following her (Duty's) commands, / On with toil of heart and knees and hands, / Thro' the long gorge to the far light has won / His path upward, and prevail'd, / Shall find the toppling crags of Duty scaled, / Are close upon the shining tablelands / To which our God Himself is moon and sun.= Tennyson.

=He that falls into sin, is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil; yet some glory in that shame, counting the stains of sin the best complexion of their souls.= Fuller.

=He that feareth is not made perfect in love.= St. John.

=He that fights and runs away / May live to fight another day.= Goldsmith.

=He that filches from me my good name / Robs= 15 =me of that which not enriches him, / And makes me poor indeed.= Othello, iii. 3.

=He that finds something before it is lost will die before he falls ill.= Dut. Pr.

=He that flees not will be fled from.= Gael. Pr.

=He that gallops his horse on Blackstone edge / May chance to catch a fall.= Old song.

=He that gets gear= (wealth) =before he gets wit, is but a short time master o' it.= Sc. Pr.

=He that gets patience, and the blessing which /= 20 =Preachers conclude with, hath not lost his pains.= George Herbert.

=He that gives to the poor lends to the Lord.= Pr.

=He that goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing.= Pr.

=He that goes softly goes safely.= Pr.

=He that grasps at too much holds nothing fast.= Pr.

=He that has a head of wax should not walk in= 25 =the sun.= Pr.

=He that has a head will not want a hat.= It. Pr.

=He that has a wife has a master.= Sc. Pr.

=He that has ae sheep in a flock will like a' the lave= (rest) =better for 't.= Sc. Pr.

=He that has an ill wife likes to eat butter= (but her, i.e. without her). Sc. Pr.

=He that has been taught only by himself has= 30 =had a fool for a master.= Ben Jonson.

=He that has just enough can soundly sleep; / The o'ercome only fashes fowk to keep.= Allan Ramsay.

=He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the centre and enjoy bright day.= Milton.

=He that has lost his faith, what staff has he left?= Bacon.

=He that has muckle would aye hae mair.= Sc. Pr.

=He that has no head needs no hat.= Sp. Pr. 35

=He that has no sense at thirty will never have any.= Pr.

=He that has no shame has no conscience.= Pr.

=He that has siller in his purse canna want= (do without) =a head on his shoulders.= _Sc. Pr._

=He that has to choose has trouble.= Dut. Pr.

=He that hateth gifts shall live.= Bible. 40

=He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man.= Much Ado, ii. 1.

=He that hath a satirical vein, as he maketh others afraid of his wit, so he hath need to be afraid of others' memory.= Bacon.

=He that hath a trade hath an estate, and he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honour.= Ben. Franklin.

=He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.= Bacon.

=He that hath but gained the title of a jester,= 45 =let him assure himself the fool is not far off.= Quarles.

=He that hath care of keeping days of payment is lord of another man's purse.= Lord Burleigh.

=He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.= Jesus.

=He that hath gained an entire conquest over himself will find no mighty difficulties to subdue all other opposition.= Thomas à Kempis.

=He that hath knowledge spareth his words.= Bible.

=He that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he.= 50 Bible.

=He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down and without walls.= Bible.

=He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth to the Lord.= Bible.

=He that hath sense hath strength.= Hitopadesa.

=He that hears much and speaks not at all, / Shall be welcome both in bower and hall.= Pr.

=He that high growth on cedars did bestow, /= 55 =Gave also lowly mushrooms leave to grow.= R. Southwell.

=He that hinders not a mischief is guilty of it.= Pr.

=He that humbles himself shall be exalted.= Pr.

=He that imposes an oath makes it, / Not he that for convenience takes it.= Butler.

=He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.= Bible.

=He that invented the Maiden, first hanselled it=, 60 i.e., first put it to the proof. (The Maiden was a kind of guillotine.) Sc. Pr.

=He that is a friend to himself is a friend to all men.= Sen.

=He that is born of a hen must scrape for a living.= Pr.

=He that is courteous at all, will be courteous to all.= Gael. Pr.

=He that is discontented and troubled is tossed with divers suspicions; he is neither quiet himself, nor suffereth others to be quiet.= Thomas à Kempis.

=He that is doing nothing is seldom without helpers.= Pr.

=He that is down needs fear no fall; / He that= 5 =is low no pride.= Bunyan.

=He that is down, the world cries "Down with him!"= Pr.

=He that is embarked with the devil must sail with him.= Dut. Pr.

=He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much; and he that is unjust in the least, is unjust also in the much.= Jesus.

=He that is full of himself is very empty.= Pr.

=He that is ill to himself will be good to nobody.= 10 Pr.

=He that is not against us is on our part.= Jesus.

=He that is not handsome at twenty, strong at thirty, rich at forty, nor wise at fifty, will never be handsome, strong, wise, or rich.= Pr.

=He that is not open to conviction is not qualified for discussion.= Whately.

=He that is not with me is against me.= Jesus.

=He that is of a merry heart hath a continual= 15 =feast.= Bible.

=He that is proud eats up himself; pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle; and whatever praises itself but in the deed devours the deed in the praise.= Troil. and Cress., ii. 3.

=He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, / Let him not know 't, and he's not robb'd at all.= Othello, iii. 3.

=He that is ready to slip is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.= Bible.

=He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit, than he that taketh a city.= Bible.

=He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding.= 20 Bible.

=He that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.= St. Paul.

=He that is surety for another, is never sure himself.= Pr.

=He that is the inferior of nothing can be the superior of nothing, the equal of nothing.= Carlyle.

=He that is tied with one slender string, such as one resolute struggle would break, is prisoner only to his own sloth; and who would pity his thraldom?= Decay of Piety.

=He that is to-day a king, to-morrow shall die.= 25 Ecclus.

=He that is violent in the pursuit of pleasure won't mind to turn villain for the purchase.= M. Aurelius.

=He that is well-ordered and disposed within himself careth not for the strange and perverse behaviour of men.= Thomas à Kempis.

=He that keeks= (pries) =through a keyhole may see what will vex him.= Sc. Pr.

=He that keepeth his way preserveth his soul.= Bible.

=He that kills a man when he is drunk must be= 30 =hanged for it when he is sober.= Pr.

=He that knoweth not that which he ought to know, is a brute beast among men; he that knoweth no more than he hath need of, is a man among brute beasts; and he that knoweth all that may be known, is a god amongst men.= Pythagoras.

=He that knows a little of the world will admire it enough to fall down and worship it; he that knows it most will most despise it.= Colton.

=He that knows, and knows not that he knows, is asleep. Arouse him.= Arabian Pr.

=He that knows, and knows that he knows, is wise. Follow him.= Arabian Pr.

=He that knows is strong.= Gael. Pr. 35

=He that knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is stupid. Shun him.= Arabian Pr.

=He that knows not, and knows that he knows not, is good. Teach him.= Arabian Pr.

=He that lacks time to mourn lacks time to mend.= Sir H. Taylor.

=He that lies down with dogs will rise up with fleas.= Pr.

=He that lives in perpetual suspicion lives the= 40 =life of a sentinel, of a sentinel never relieved.= Young.

=He that lives longest sees most.= Gael. Pr.

=He that lives must grow old; and he that would rather grow old than die, has God to thank for the infirmities of old age.= Johnson.

=He that lives upon hopes will die fasting.= Ben. Franklin.

=He that lives with cripples learns to limp.= Pr.

=He that lives with wolves will learn to howl.= 45 Pr.

=He that loses his conscience has nothing left that is worth keeping.= Izaak Walton.

=He that loves Christianity better than truth will soon love his own sect or party better than Christianity.= Coleridge.

=He that loves God aright must not desire that God should love him in return=, i.e., love to God, as to man, should be entirely unselfish. Spinoza.

=He that loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter.= Isaac Barrow.

=He that loveth danger shall perish therein.= 50 Ecclus.

=He that loveth father and mother more than me is not worthy of me.= Jesus.

=He that loveth not his brother, whom he hath seen, how can he love God, whom he hath not seen?= St. John.

=He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man.= Bible.

=He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase.= Bible.

=He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be= 55 =innocent.= Bible.

=He that marries before he is wise will die before he thrive.= Sc. Pr.

=He that marries for money sells his liberty.= Pr.

=He that meddleth with strife belonging not to him is like one that taketh a dog by the ears.= Bible.

=He that needs five thousand pound to live, / Is full as poor as he that needs but five.= George Herbert.

=He that never thinks can never be wise.= Johnson.

=He that observeth the wind shall not sow;= 5 =and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.= Bible.

=He that on pilgrimages goeth ever, / Becometh holy late or never.= Pr.

=He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.= Bible.

=He that pities another minds himsel'.= Sc. Pr.

=He that prieth in at her windows shall also hearken at her doors.= Ecclus.

=He that promises too much means nothing.= Pr. 10

=He that purposes to be happy by the affection or acquaintance of the best, the greatest man alive, will always find his mind unsettled and perplexed.= Thomas à Kempis.

=He that questioneth much will learn much.= Bacon.

=He that revels in a well-chosen library has innumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavour.= W. Godwin.

=He that ruleth among men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.= Bible.

=He that runs in the dark may well stumble.= 15 Pr.

=He that runs may read.= Pr.

=He that seeks others to beguile, / Is oft o'ertaken in his own wile.= Pr.

=He that seeks to have many friends never has any.= It. Pr.

=He that serves the altar should live by the altar.= Pr.

=He that shuts his eyes against a small light= 20 =would not be brought to see that which he had no mind to see, let it be placed in never so clear a light and never so near him.= Atterbury.

=He that sows in the highway loses his corn.= Pr.

=He that sows iniquity shall reap sorrow.= Pr.

=He that spares the bad injures the good.= Pr.

=He that spares the rod spoils the child.= Pr.

=He that speaks the thing he should not / Must= 25 =often hear the thing he would not.= Pr.

=He that speaks the truth will find himself in sufficiently dramatic situations.= Prof. Wilson.

=He that spends his gear= (property) =before he gets it will hae little gude o't.= Sc. Pr.

=He that stands upon a slippery place / Makes nice of no vain hold to stay him up.= King John, iii. 4.

=He that steals a preen= (pin) =will steal a better thing.= Sc. Pr.

=He that steals for others will be hanged for= 30 =himself.= Pr.

=He that strikes with the sword shall perish by the sword.= Pr.

=He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green.= Bacon.

=He that takes away reason to make way for revelation puts out the light of both.= Locke.

=He that talks deceitfully for truth must hurt it more by his example than he promotes it by his arguments.= Atterbury.

=He that talks much errs much.= Pr. 35

=He that talks much lies much.= Pr.

=He that tholes= (bears up) =o'ercomes.= Sc. Pr.

=He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread.= Bible.

=He that turns not from every sin, turns not aright from any one sin.= Brooks.

=He that undervalues himself will undervalue= 40 =others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.= Johnson.

=He that voluntarily continues ignorant is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces.= Johnson.

=He that waits long at the ferry will get over some time.= Gael. Pr.

=He that walketh uprightly walks surely.= Bible.

=He that walketh with wise men shall be wise; but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.= Bible.

=He that wants good sense is unhappy in having= 45 =learning, for he has thereby only more ways of exposing himself; and he that has sense knows that learning is not knowledge, but rather the art of using it.= Steele.

=He that wants money, means, and content is without three good friends.= As You Like It, iii. 2.

=He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.= Sallust.

=He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a very long head or a very short creed.= Colton.

=He that will carry nothing about him but gold will be every day at a loss for readier change.= Pope.

=He that will have his son have a respect for= 50 =him must have a great reverence for his son.= Locke.

=He that will lose his friend for a jest, deserves to die a beggar by the bargain.= Fuller.

=He that will love life and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile.= St. Peter.

=He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot, is a fool; and he that dare not, is a slave.= Sir W. Drummond.

=He that will not when he may, / When he will he shall have nay.= Pr.

=He that will not work shall not eat.= Pr. 55

=He that will to Cupar, maun to Cupar=, i.e., he that will to jail, must to jail. Sc. Pr.

=He that will watch Providence will never want a Providence to watch.= Flavel.

=He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow.= Bible.

=He that winna be counselled canna be helped.= Sc. Pr.

=He that winna save a penny will ne'er hae= 60 =ony.= Sc. Pr.

=He that won't plough at home won't plough abroad.= Gael. Pr.

=He that would be rich in a year will be hanged in half a year.= Pr.

=He that would be singular in his apparel had need of something superlative to balance that affectation.= Feltham.

=He that would have eggs must endure the cackling of the hens.= Pr.

=He that would have his virtue published is not the servant of virtue, but of glory.= Johnson.

=He that would live in peace and rest / Must hear, and see, and say the best.= Pr.

=He that would reap well must sow well.= 5 Pr.

=He that would reckon up all the accidents preferments depend upon, may as well undertake to count the sands or sun up infinity.= South.

=He that would relish success to purpose should keep his passion cool and his expectation low.= Collier.

=He that would reproach an author for obscurity should look into his own mind to see whether it is quite clear there. In the dusk the plainest writing is illegible.= Goethe.

=He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill.= Burke.

=He that wrongs his friend / Wrongs himself= 10 =more, and ever bears about / A silent court of justice in his breast, / Himself the judge and jury, and himself / The prisoner at the bar, ever condemned.= Tennyson.

=He the cross who longest bears / Finds his sorrow's bounds are set.= Winkworth.

=He thinks no evil who means no evil.= _Gael. Pr._

=He thinks too much; such men are dangerous.= Jul. Cæs., i. 2.

=He thought as a sage though he felt as a man.= J. Beattie.

=He thought he thought, and yet he did not= 15 =think, / But only echoed still the common talk, / As might an empty room.= Walter C. Smith.

=He thought the World to him was known, / Whereas he only knew the Town; / In men this blunder still you find, / All think their little set--Mankind.= Hannah More.

=He travels safe and not unpleasantly who is guarded by poverty and guided by love.= Sir P. Sidney.

=He trudged along, unknowing what he sought, / And whistled as he went, for want of thought.= Dryden.

=He wants wit that wants resolved will.= _Two Gent. of Ver._, ii. 6.

=He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.= 20 Swift.

=He was a man, take him for all in all, / I shall not look upon his like again.= Ham., i. 2.

=He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one; / Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading; / Lofty and sour to them that loved him not; / But to those men that sought him, sweet as summer.= Hen. VIII., iv. 2.

=He was exhaled; his great Creator drew / His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.= Dryden.

=He was my friend, faithful and just to me.= Jul. Cæs., iii. 2.

=He was not of an age, but for all Time, / Sweet= 25 =Swan of Avon.= Ben Jonson.

=He was perfumed like a milliner, / And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held / A pouncet-box, which ever and anon / He gave his nose, and took 't away again.= 1 Hen. IV., i. 3.

=He was scant o' news that told that his father was hanged.= Sc. Pr.

=He was the Word that spake it; / He took the bread and brake it; / And what that Word did make it, / I do believe and take it.= Dr. Donne.

=He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.= Much Ado, i. 1.

=He wha eats but= (only) =ae dish seldom needs= 30 =the doctor.= Sc. Pr.

=He who asks a favour for another has the confidence which a sense of justice inspires; while he who solicits for himself experiences all the embarrassment and shame of one appealing for mercy.= La Bruyère.

=He who avoids the temptation avoids the sin.= Pr.

=He who begins with trusting every one will end with estimating every one a knave.= Hebbel.

=He who breaks confidence has for ever forfeited it.= Schopenhauer.

=He who can at all times sacrifice pleasure to= 35 =duty approaches sublimity.= Lavater.

=He who can conceal his joys is greater than he who can conceal his griefs.= Lavater.

=He who can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity or disgrace them by servility, proves that he is as perfect a gentleman by nature as his companions are by rank.= Colton.

=He who cannot bear foes deserves no friend.= Schafer.

=He who cannot profit you as a friend may at any time injure you as an enemy.= Gellert.

=He who carries his heart on his tongue runs= 40 =the risk of expectorating it.= Saar.

=He who ceases to grow greater grows smaller.= Amiel.

=He who ceases to pray ceases to prosper.= Pr.

=He who coldly lives to himself and his own will may gratify many a wish, but he who strives to guide others well must be able to dispense with much.= Goethe.

=He who combines every defect will be more likely to find favour in the world than the man who is possessed of every virtue.= Fr. Pr.

=He who comes up to his own ideal of greatness= 45 =must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind.= Hazlitt.

=He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.= Plato.

=He who conforms to the rule which the genius of the human understanding whispers secretly in the ear of every new-born being, viz., to test action by thought and thought by action, cannot err; and if he errs, he will soon find himself again in the right way.= Goethe.

=He who considers too much will accomplish little.= Schiller.

=He who deals with honey will sometimes be licking his fingers.= Pr.

=He who despises mankind will never get the= 50 =best out of either others or himself.= Tocqueville.

=He who did well in war just earns the right / To begin doing well in peace.= Browning.

=He who does a good deed is instantly ennobled; he who does a mean deed, is by the action itself contracted.= Emerson.

=He who does evil that good may come, pays a toll to the devil to let him into heaven.= Hare.

=He who does me good teaches me to be good.= Pr.

=He who does not advance falls backward.= 5 Amiel.

=He who does not expect a million of readers should not write a line.= Goethe.

=He who does not help us at the needful moment never helps; he who does not counsel at the needful moment never counsels.= Goethe.

=He who does not imagine in stronger and better lineaments, and in stronger and better light than his perishing mortal eye can see, does not imagine at all.= Wm. Blake.

=He who does not know foreign languages knows nothing of his own.= Goethe.

=He who does not lose his wits over certain= 10 =matters has none to lose.= Lessing.

=He who does not think too highly of himself is more than he thinks.= Goethe.

=He who does nothing for others does nothing for himself.= Goethe.

=He who doth not speak an unkind word to his fellow-creatures is master of the whole world to the extremities of the ocean.= Hitopadesa.

=He who dwells in temporary semblances and does not penetrate into the eternal substance, will not answer the sphinx-riddle of to-day or of any day.= Carlyle.

=He who enquires into a matter has often= 15 =found more at a glance than he wished to find.= Lessing.

=He who entereth uncalled for, unquestioned speaketh much, and regardeth himself with satisfaction, to his prince appeareth one of a weak judgment.= Hitopadesa.

=He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions he draws from them or the advantage to which they can be put, is a philosopher.= Bulwer.

=He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.= Epictetus.

=He who fears not death fears not threats.= Corneille.