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 4 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 4 of 9)

=If all the world were falcons, what of that? / The wonder of the eagle were the less, / But he not less the eagle.= Tennyson.

=If all the year were playing holidays, / To sport would be as tedious as to work.= 1 Hen. IV., i. 2.

=If all were rich, gold would be penniless.= Bailey.

=If an ass goes a-travelling, he'll not come home a horse.= Pr.

=If an ass kicks me, shall I strike him again?= 45 Socrates.

=If an ass looks in, you cannot expect an apostle to look out.= Lichtenberg.

=If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing him.= Burke.

=If any false step be made in the more momentous concerns of life, the whole scheme of ambitious designs is broken.= Addison.

=If any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth.= St. Peter.

=If any man will come after me, let him deny= 50 =himself, and take up his cross and follow me.= Jesus.

=If any one tells you that a man has changed his character, don't believe it.= Mahomet.

=If any speak ill of thee, fly home to thy own conscience and examine thy heart. If thou art guilty, it is a fair correction; if not guilty, it is a fair instruction.= George Herbert.

=If any would not work, neither should he eat.= St. Paul.

=If blushing makes ugly people so beautiful, ought it not to make the beautiful still more beautiful?= Lessing.

=If coals do not burn, they blacken.= Pr.

=If cheerfulness knocks for admission, we should= 5 =open our hearts wide to receive it, for it never comes inopportunely.= Schopenhauer.

=If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.= Goethe.

=If cut= (in the costume) =betoken intellect and talent, so does the colour betoken temper and heart.= Carlyle.

=If destructive criticism is injurious in anything, it is in matters of religion, for here everything depends upon faith, to which we cannot return when we have once lost it.= Goethe.

=If each one does his duty as an individual, and if each one works rightly in his own vocation, it will be well with the whole.= Goethe.

=If ever a fool's advice is good, a prudent man= 10 =must carry it out.= Lessing.

=If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings.= Welsh Pr.

=If everybody knew what one says of the other, there would not be four friends left in the world.= Pascal.

=If evil be said of thee, and if it be true, correct thyself; if it be a lie, laugh at it.= Epictetus.

=If fame is only to come after death, I am in no hurry for it.= Martial.

=If folly were a pain, there would be crying in= 15 =every house.= Sp. Pr.

=If fortune favour you, be not elated; if she frown, do not despond.= Ausonius.

=If fortune give thee less than she has done, / Then make less fire, and walk more in the sun.= Sir R. Baker.

=If fortune would make a man estimable, she gives him virtues; if she would have him esteemed, she gives him success.= Joubert.

=If frequent failure convince you of that mediocrity of nature which is incompatible with great actions, submit wisely and cheerfully to your lot.= Sydney Smith.

=If friendship is to rob me of my eyes, if it is= 20 =to darken the day, I will have none of it.= Thoreau.

=If fun is good, truth is still better, and love most of all.= Thackeray.

=If happiness ha'e not her seat / And centre in the breast, / We may be wise, or rich, or great, / But never can be blest.= Burns.

=If heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms.= Cowley.

=If Hercules and Lichas play at dice / Which is the better man, the greater throw / May turn by fortune from the weaker hand; / So is Alcides beaten by his page.= Mer. of Ven., ii. 1.

=If honour calls, where'er she points the= 25 =way, / The sons of honour follow and obey.= Churchill.

=If I am anything, which I much doubt, I made myself so merely by labour.= Sir Isaac Newton.

=If I am master and you are master, who shall drive the asses?= Arab. Pr.

=If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning.= Longfellow.

=If I am right, Thy grace impart / Still in the right to stay; / If I am wrong, O teach my heart to find the better way.= Pope.

=If I ascend up into heaven, Thou art there; if= 30 =I make my bed in hell, behold Thou art there; if I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there shall Thy hand lead me, and Thy right hand shall hold me.= Bible.

=If I be dear to some one else, / Then I should be to myself more dear.= Tennyson.

=If I call bad bad, what do I gain? But if I call good bad, I do a great deal of mischief.= Goethe.

=If I can catch him once upon the hip, / I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.= Mer. of Ven., i. 3.

=If I choose to take jest in earnest, no one shall put me to shame for doing so; and if I choose to carry on= (treiben) =earnest in jest, I shall be always myself= (immer derselbe bleiben). Goethe.

=If I do lose thee= (life), =I do lose a thing / That= 35 =none but fools would keep; a breath thou art, / Servile to all the skyey influences, / That do this habitation, where thou keep'st / Hourly inflict.= Meas. for Meas., iii. 1.

=If I for my opinion bleed, / Opinion shall be surgeon to my hurt.= 1 Hen. VI., ii. 4.

=If I had read as much as other men, I would have been as ignorant as they are.= Hobbes.

=If I had wit enough to get out of this wood, I have said enough to serve mine own turn.= Mid. Night's Dream, iii. 1.

=If I knew the way of the Lord, truly I would be only too glad to walk in it; if I were led into the temple of truth= (in der Wahrheit Haus), =I would not, with the help of God= (bei Gott), =go out of it again.= Goethe.

=If I lose mine honour, I lose myself.= Ant. and 40 Cleop., iii. 4.

=If I love thee, what is that to thee?= Goethe.

=If I'm designed yon lordling's slave, / By Nature's law designed, / Why was an independent wish / E'er planted in my mind?= Burns.

=If I must die, / I will encounter darkness as a bride / And hug it in my arms.= Meas. for Meas., iii. 1.

=If I seek an interest of my own detached from that of others, I seek an interest which is chimerical, and can never have existence.= James Harris.

=If I should say nothing, I should say much= 45 =(much being included in my love); though my love be such, that if I should say much, I should yet say nothing, it being, as Cowley says, equally impossible either to conceal or to express it.= Pope.

=If I wish for a horse-hair for my compass-sight, I must go to the stable; but the hair-bird, with her sharp eyes, goes to the road.= Thoreau.

=If ill thoughts at any time enter into the mind of a good man, he doth not roll them under his tongue as a sweet morsel.= Matthew Henry.

=If in the course of our life we see that done by others for which we ourselves at one time felt a vocation, and which we were, with much else, compelled to relinquish, then the noble feeling comes in, that only humanity altogether is the true man, and that the individual can only rejoice and be happy when he has the heart= (Muth) =to feel himself in the whole.= Goethe.

=If in youth the universe is majestically unveiling, and everywhere heaven revealing itself on earth, nowhere to the young man does this heaven on earth so immediately reveal itself as in the young maiden.= Carlyle.

="If" is the only peacemaker--much virtue in "if."= As You Like It, v. 4.

=If it be a bliss to enjoy the good, it is still= 5 =greater happiness to discern the better; for in art the best only is good enough.= Goethe.

=If it be asked, What is the improper expectation which it is dangerous to indulge, experience will quickly answer that it is such expectation as is dictated not by reason but by desire--an expectation that requires the common course of things to be changed, and the general rules of action to be broken.= Johnson.

=If it be aught toward the general good, / Set honour in one eye, and death i' the other, / And I will look on both indifferently; / For, let the gods so speed me, as I love / The name of honour more than I fear death.= Jul. Cæs., i. 2.

=If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.= St. Paul.

=If it is a happiness to be nobly descended, it is not less to have so much merit that nobody inquires whether we are so or not.= La Bruyère.

=If it is disgraceful to be beaten, it is only a= 10 =shade less disgraceful to have so much as fought.= Carlyle.

=If it rains--well! If it shines--well!= Pr.

=If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well / It were done quickly ... that but this blow / Might be the be all and the end all here.= Macb., i. 7.

=If it were not for hope, the heart would break.= Pr.

=If it were not for respect to human opinions, I would not open my window to see the Bay of Naples for the first time, whilst I would go five hundred leagues to talk with a man of genius whom I had not seen.= Mme. de Staël.

=If Jack were better, Jill would not be so bad.= 15 Pr.

=If ladies be but young and fair, / They have the gift to know it.= As You Like It, ii. 7.

=If life, like the olive, is a bitter fruit, then grasp both with the press and they will yield the sweetest oil.= Jean Paul.

=If man had a higher idea of himself and his destiny, he would neither call his business amusement nor amuse himself instead of transacting business.= Goethe.

=If man is not kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.= Bacon.

=If men duly felt the greatness of God, they= 20 =would be dumb, and for very veneration unwilling to name Him.= Goethe.

=If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be made to possess wealth as that it may be said to possess him.= Bacon.

=If money go before, all ways do lie open.= Merry Wives, ii. 2.

=If music be the food of love, play on; / Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, / The appetite may sicken, and so die.= Twelfth Night, i. 1.

=If my person be crooked, my verses shall be straight.= Pope.

=If Nature is one and a living indivisible= 25 =whole, much more is mankind, the image that reflects and creates Nature, without which Nature were not.= Carlyle.

=If new-got gold is said to burn the pockets till it be cast forth into circulation, much more may new truth.= Carlyle.

=If, of all words of tongue and pen, / The saddest are, "It might have been," / More sad are these we daily see: "It is, but hadn't ought to be."= Bret Harte.

=If once you find a woman gluttonous, expect from her very little virtue; her mind is enslaved to the lowest and grossest temptation.= Johnson.

=If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.= Thoreau.

=If one age believes too much, it is but a natural= 30 =reaction that another age should believe too little.= Buckle.

=If one door shuts, another will open.= Pr.

=If one sees one's fellow-creature following damnable error, by continuing in which the devil is sure to get him at last, are you to let him go towards such consummation, or are you not rather to use all means to save him?= Carlyle.

=If one were to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still.= Johnson.

=If our era is an era of unbelief, why murmur at it? Is there not a better coming--nay, come?= Carlyle. See Matt. v. 4.

=If people did not flatter one another, there= 35 =would be little society.= Vauvenargues.

=If people take no care for the future, they will soon have sorrow for the present.= Chinese Pr.

=If people were constant, it would surprise me. For see, is not everything in the world subject to change? Why then should our affections continue?= Goethe.

=If people would whistle more and argue less, the world would be much happier and probably just as wise.= Book of Wisdom.

=If poverty is the mother of crimes, want of sense is the father of them.= La Bruyère.

=If poverty makes a man groan, he yawns in= 40 =opulence.= Rivarol.

=If reasons were as plenty as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion.= 1 Hen. IV., ii. 4.

=If Satan ever laughs, it must be at hypocrites; they are the greatest dupes he has.= Colton.

=If she be not fit for me, / What care I for whom she be?= G. Wither.

=If solid happiness we prize, / Within our breast this jewel lies, / And they are fools who roam. / The world has nothing to bestow; / From our own selves our joys must flow, / And that dear hut, our home.= N. Cotton.

=If sorrow falls, / Take comfort still in deeming there may be / A way to peace on earth by woes of ours.= Sir Edwin Arnold.

=If speculation tends to a terrific unity, in= 5 =which all things are absorbed, action tends directly backwards to diversity.= Emerson.

=If that God give, the deil daurna reave= (bereave). Sc. Pr.

=If that thy fame with every toy be posed, / 'Tis a thin web which poisonous fancies make; / But the great soldier's honour was composed / Of thicker stuff, which would endure a shake.= George Herbert.

=If the Almighty waited six thousand years for a man to see what He has made, I may well wait two hundred for others to see what I have seen.= Kepler. See Isa. xxviii. 16 (last clause).

=If the ancients left us ideas, to our credit be it spoken, we moderns are building houses for them.= A. B. Alcott.

=If the beard were all, the goat might preach.= 10 Dan. Pr.

=If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.= Heb. Pr.

=If the cap fit, wear it.= Pr.

=If the chaff-cutter had the making of us, we should all be straw, I reckon.= George Eliot.

=If the counsel be good, no matter who gave it.= Pr.

=If the deil were dead, folk would do little for= 15 =God's sake.= Sc. Pr.

=If the devil takes a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as he was with them.= Lowell.

=If the doctor cures, the sun sees it; if he kills, the earth hides it.= Sc. Pr.

=If the East loves infinity, the West delights in boundaries.= Emerson.

=If the eye were not of a sunny nature= (sonnenhaft), =how could it see the sun? If God's own power did not exist within us, how could the godlike delight us?= Goethe.

=If the farmer cannot live who drives the plough,= 20 =how can he live who drives a fast-trotting mare?= Pr.

=If the heart of a man is depressed with cares, / The mist is dispelled when a woman appears.= Gay.

=If the hungry lion= (invited to a feast of chickenweed) =is to feast at all, it cannot be on the chickenweed, but only on the chickens.= Carlyle.

=If the king is in the palace, nobody looks at the walls. It is when he is gone, and the house is filled with grooms and gazers, that we turn from the people to find relief in the majestic men that are suggested by the pictures and the architecture.= Emerson.

="If the Lord tarry, yet wait for Him," for He "will surely come" and heal thee.= Thomas à Kempis.

=If the mountain will not come to Mahomet,= 25 =Mahomet will go to the mountain.= Mahomet.

=If the nose of Cleopatra had been a little shorter, it would have changed the history of the world.= Pascal.

=If the paternal cottage still shuts us in, its roof still screens us; and with a father we have as yet a prophet, priest, and king, and an obedience that makes us free.= Carlyle.

=If the pills were pleasant, they would not be gilded.= Pr.

=If the poet have nothing to interpret and reveal, it is better that he remain silent.= C. Fitzhugh.

=If the poor man cannot always get meat, the= 30 =rich man cannot always digest it.= _Henry Giles._

=If the profession you have chosen has some unexpected inconveniences, console yourself by reflecting that no profession is without them.= Johnson.

=If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.= Emerson.

=If the sun shines on me, what matters the moon?= Pr.

=If the sky fall, we shall catch larks.= Pr.

=If the time don't suit you, suit yourself to the= 35 =time.= Turk. Pr.

=If the tongue had not been formed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.= Emerson.

=If the true did not possess an objective value, human curiosity would have died out centuries ago.= Renan.

=If the weather don't happen to be good for my work to-day, it's good for some other man's, and will come round to me to-morrow.= Dickens.

=If the world were put into one scale and my mother into the other, the world would kick the beam.= Lord Langdale.

=If the young knew, if the old could, there's= 40 =nothing but would be done.= Pr.

=If there be / A devil in man, there is an angel too.= Tennyson.

=If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.= Pythagoras.

=If there be no enemy, no fight; if no fight, no victory; if no victory, no crown.= Savanar.

=If there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable and doomed to ruin.= Carlyle.

=If there were no clouds, we should not enjoy= 45 =the sun.= Pr.

=If there were no falsehood in the world, there would be no doubt; if no doubt, no inquiry; and if no inquiry, no wisdom, no knowledge, no genius.= Landor.

=If there were no fools, there would be no knaves.= Pr.

=If there were only one religion in the world, it would be haughtily and licentiously despotic.= Frederick the Great.

=If there's a hole in a' your coats, / I rede ye tent it: / A chiel's amang you takin' notes, / And faith he'll prent it.= Burns, of Capt. Grose.

=If they do these things in the green tree, what shall be done in the dry?= Jesus.

=If they hear not Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rose from the dead.= Jesus.

=If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.= Fuller.

=If them art rich, thou art poor; / For, like an ass whose back with ingots bows, / Thou bear'st thy heavy riches but a journey, / And death unloads thee.= Meas. for Meas., iii. 1.

=If thou art wise, thou knowest thine own= 5 =ignorance; and thou art ignorant, if thou knowest not thyself.= Luther.

=If thou be a severe, sour-complexioned man, then here I disallow thee to be a competent judge.= Isaac Walton.

=If thou be master-gunner, spend not all / That thou canst speak at once, but husband it.= George Herbert.

=If thou bear the cross cheerfully, it will bear thee.= Thomas à Kempis.

=If thou canst let others alone in their matters, they likewise will not hinder thee in thine.= Thomas à Kempis.

=If thou cast away one cross, without doubt= 10 =thou shalt find another, and that perhaps more heavy.= Thomas à Kempis.

=If thou deniest to a laborious man and a deserving, thou killest a bee; if thou givest to other than such, thou preservest a drone.= Quarles.

=If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted?= Bible.

=If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.= Bible.

=If thou hast fear of those who command thee, spare those who obey thee.= Rabbi Ben Azai.

=If thou hast run with the footmen, and they= 15 =have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?= Bible.

=If thou love learning, thou shalt be learned.= Isocrates.

=If thou seest the oppression of the poor, ... marvel not at the matter; for He that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.= Bible.

=If thou sustain injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.= Democrates.

=If thou wouldst profit by thy reading, read humbly, simply, honestly, and not desiring to win a character for learning.= Thomas à Kempis.

=If thou wouldst reap in love, / First sow in= 20 =holy fear; / So life a winter's morn may prove / To a bright endless year.= Keble.

=If thy estate be good, match near home and at leisure; if weak, far off and quickly.= Lord Burleigh.

=If thy son can make ten pound his measure, / Then all thou addest may be called his treasure.= George Herbert.

=If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.= Mer. of Ven., i. 2.

=If truth be with thy friend, be with them both.= George Herbert.

=If vain our toil, we ought to blame the culture,= 25 =not the soil.= Pope.

=If virtue keep court within, honour will attend without.= Pr.

=If we are not famous for goodness, we are practically infamous.= Spurgeon.

=If we are rich with the riches which we neither give nor enjoy, we are rich with the riches which are buried in the caverns of the earth.= Hitopadesa.

=If we are told a man is religious, we still ask what are his morals; but if we hear he has honest morals, we seldom think of the other question, whether he be religious.= Shaftesbury.

=If we are wise, we may thank ourselves; if we= 30 =are great, we must thank fortune.= _Bulwer Lytton._

=If we bear what we must bear with murmuring and grudging, we do but gall our shoulders with the yoke, and render that a heavy unprofitable load which might be fruitful and glorious.= Thomas à Kempis.

=If we ... / Cannot defend our own doors from the dog, / Let us be worried, and our nation lose / The name of hardiness and policy.= Hen. V., i. 2.

=If we cannot help committing errors, we must build none.= Goethe.

=If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us at least live so as to deserve happiness.= Fichte.

=If we cast off one burden, we are immediately= 35 =pursued and oppressed by another.= Thomas à Kempis.

=If we clear the metaphysical element out of modern literature, we shall find its bulk amazingly diminished, and the claims of the remaining writers, or of those whom we have thinned by this abstraction of their straw-stuffing, much more easily adjusted.= Ruskin.

=If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification. Time takes away as much as it gives.= Mme. de Sévigné.

=If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.= Longfellow.

=If we do not find happiness in the present moment, in what shall we find it?= Goldsmith.

=If we do not now reckon a great man literally= 40 =divine, it is that our notions of the divine are ever rising higher; not altogether that our reverence for the divine, as manifested in our like, is getting lower.= Carlyle.

=If we do well here, we shall do well there.= J. Edwin.

=If we engage into a large acquaintance and various familiarities, we set open our gates to the invaders of most of our time.= Cowley.

=If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.= Pascal.

=If we fail to conquer smaller difficulties, what will become of us when assaulted by greater?= Themas à Kempis.

=If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.= Addison.

=If we live truly, we shall see truly.= Emerson.

=If we love those we lose, can we altogether lose those we love?= Thackeray.

=If we reflect on the number of men we have seen and know, and consider how little we have been to them and they to us, what must our feelings be?= (wie wird uns da zu Muthe). =We meet with the man of genius= (Geistreich) =without conversing with him, with the scholar without learning from him, with the traveller without gaining information from him, the amiable man without making ourselves agreeable to him. And this, alas! happens not merely with passing acquaintances; society and families conduct themselves similarly towards their dearest members, cities towards their worthiest citizens, peoples towards their most excellent princes, and nations towards their most eminent men.= Goethe.

=If we saw all the things that really surround= 5 =us, we should be imprisoned and unable to move.= Emerson.

=If we should all bring our misfortunes into one place, most of us would be glad to take our own home again rather than take a proportion out of the common stock.= Solon.

=If we shut Nature out at the door, she will come in at the window.= Sir R. L'Estrange.

=If we sit down sullen and inactive, in expectation that God should do all, we shall find ourselves miserably deceived.= Rogers.

=If we will disbelieve everything because we cannot certainly know all things, we shall do much as wisely as he who would not use his legs, but sit still and perish because he had no wings.= Locke.

=If we wish to do good to men, we must pity= 10 =and not despise them.= Amiel.

=If we would amend the world, we should mend ourselves and teach our children what they should be.= Wm. Penn.

=If we would endeavour like brave men to stand in the battle, surely we should feel the assistance from Heaven.= Thomas à Kempis.

=If we would have a genuine torment, let us wish for too much time.= Goethe.

=If we would put ourselves in the place of other people, the jealousy and dislike which we often feel towards them would depart, and if we put others in our place, our pride and self-conceit would very much decrease.= Goethe.

=If what happens does not make us richer, we= 15 =must bid it welcome if it make us wiser.= Johnson.

=If "wise memory" is ever to prevail, there is need of much "wise oblivion" first.= Carlyle.

=If within the sophisticated man there is not an unsophisticated one, then he is but one of the devil's angels.= Thoreau.

=If women were humbler, men would be honester.= Vanbrugh.

=If wrong our hearts, our heads are right in vain.= Young.

=If ye believe a' ye hear, ye may eat a' ye see.= 20 Sc. Pr.

=If ye gi'e a woman a' her will, / Guid faith, she'll soon o'ergang ye.= Burns.

=If you agree to carry the calf, they'll make you carry the cow.= Pr.

=If you anticipate your inheritance, you can at last inherit nothing.= Johnson.

=If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle.= Johnson.

=If you cannot bite, never show your teeth.= 25 Pr.

=If you cannot drive the engine, you can clear the road.= Pr.

=If you cannot have the best, make the best of what you have.= Pr.

=If you cannot make a man think as you do, make him do as you think.= Amer. Pr.

=If you can't get a loaf, don't throw away a cake.= Pr.

=If you can't heal the wound, don't tear it open.= 30 Dan. Pr.

=If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. So you will have calm days, drowsy nights, and all the good business you have now, and none of the bad.= Ruskin.

=If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.= Pr.

=If you criticise a fine genius, the odds are that you are out of your reckoning, and instead of the poet, are censuring your own caricature of him.= Emerson.

=If you desire faith, then you've faith enough.= Browning.

=If you desire to enjoy my light, you must supply= 35 =oil to my lamp.= Pr.

=If you dinna see the bottom, don't wade= (i.e., don't venture, if you can't see your way). Sc. Pr.

=If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not.= Bacon.

=If you do anything for the sake of the world, it will take good care that you shall not do it a second time.= Goethe.

=If you do not err, you do not attain to understanding.= Goethe.

=If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you= 40 =had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.= Carlyle.

=If you don't do better to-day, you'll do worse to-morrow.= Pr.

=If you don't touch the rope, you won't ring the bell.= Pr.

=If you eat, eat a portion; do not eat all.= Wit and Wisdom from West Africa.

=If you have a good seat, keep it.= Pr.

=If you have a special weakness, do not expose= 45 =it by attempting to do things which will bring it out.= Spurgeon.

=If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.= Thoreau.

=If you have lived one day, you have seen all.= Montaigne.

=If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.= Jul. Cæs., iii. 2.

=If you have time, don't wait for time.= _Ben. Franklin._

=If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.= Ben. Franklin.

=If you lie upon roses when young, you will lie upon thorns when old.= Pr.

=If you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols.= Bacon.

=If you live among men, the heart must either break or turn to brass.= Chamfort.

=If you make a law against dancing-masters= 5 =imitating the fine gentleman, you should with as much reason enact, that no fine gentleman shall imitate the dancing-master.= Goldsmith.

=If you pity rogues, you are no great friend of honest men.= Pr.

=If you pull one pig by the tail, all the rest will squeak.= Dut. Pr.

=If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.= Pr.

=If you raise one ghost, you will have the churchyard in motion.= Pr.

=If you read the Bible with a predetermination to= 10 =pick out every text you approve of, on these terms you will find it entirely intelligible and wholly delightful; but if you read it with a real purpose of trying to understand it, and obey, and so read it all through steadily, you will find it, out and out, the crabbedest and most difficult book you ever tried.= Ruskin.

=If you resolve to do right, you will soon do wisely; but resolve only to do wisely, and you will never do right.= Ruskin.

=If you run after two hares, you will catch neither.= Pr.

=If you say nothing, nobody will repeat it.= Pr.

=If you seek warmth of affection from a similar motive to that from which cats and dogs and slothful persons hug the fire, you are on the downward road.= Thoreau.

=If you sell the cow, you sell her milk too.= Pr. 15

=If you sit down a mere philosopher, you will rise almost an atheist.= Anon.

=If you tell me all you see, you'll tell what will make you feel shame.= Gael. Pr.

=If you throw all your money into the sea, yet count it before you let it go.= Old saying.

=If you trust before you try, / You may repent before you die.= Pr.

=If you want a pretence to whip a dog, say= 20 =that he ate the frying-pan.= Pr.

=If you want learning, you must work for it.= J. G. Holland.

=If you want to gain a reputation for eccentricity and to be universally dreaded, blurt out the plain truth on all occasions.= Anon.

=If you want to know a man, make a solitary journey with him.= Pr.

=If you want work done, go to the man who is already fully occupied.= Pr.

=If you were as eager to discover good as evil,= 25 =and had the same delight in spreading the report of it; if good examples were made public as the bad ones always are, do you not think that the good would weigh down the balance? But gratitude speaks so low, and indignation so loudly, that you cannot hear but the last.= Marmontel.

=If you wish a wise answer, you must put a rational question.= Goethe.

=If you wish to astonish the whole world, tell the simple truth.= Rahel.

=If you would be a smith, begin with blowing the fire.= Pr.

=If you would be pungent, be brief, for it is with words as with sunbeams, the more they are condensed the deeper they burn.= Saxe.

=If you would be well served, you must serve= 30 =yourself.= Pr.

=If you would cease to dislike a man, try to get nearer his heart.= J. M. Barrie.

=If you would create something, you must be something.= Goethe.

=If you would ensure a peaceful old age, be careful of the acts of each day of your youth; for with youth the deeds thereof are not to be left behind.= Isaac Disraeli.

=If you would eschew pain, eschew pleasure.= The Cynics.

=If you would have a faithful servant and one= 35 =you like, serve yourself.= Ben. Franklin.

=If you would have it well done, you must do it yourself; you must not leave it to others.= Pr.

=If you would know and not be known, live in a city.= Colton.

=If you would learn to write, it is the street you must learn it in.= Emerson.

=If you would love mankind, you should not expect too much from them.= Helvetius.

=If you would make Fortune your friend; when= 40 =people say money is to be got here and money is to be got there, take no notice; mind your own business; stay where you are; and secure all you can get, without stirring.= Goldsmith.

=If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused.= Anon.

=If you would slip into a round hole, you must make a ball of yourself.= George Eliot.

=If you would succeed, you must not be too good.= It. Pr.

=If you would understand an author, you must understand his age.= Goethe.

=If you would work any man, know his nature= 45 =and fashions, and so lead him.= Bacon.

=If your mind and its affections be pure, and sincere, and moderate, nothing shall have the power to enslave you.= Thomas à Kempis.

=If your wife is short, stoop to her.= Pr.

=Ignavis semper feriæ sunt=--To the indolent every day is a holiday. Pr.

=Ignavissimus quisque, et, ut res docuit, in periculo non ausurus, nimio verbis et lingua ferox=--Every recreant, who, as experience has proved, will fly in the hour of danger, is the most boastful in his words and language afterwards. Tacit.

=Ignavum fucos pecus a præsepibus arcent=--They 50 (the bees) drive from their hives the drones, a lazy pack. Virg.

=Ignem gladio scrutare modo=--Only stir the fire with a sword! Hor.

=Ignem ne gladio fodito=--Do not stir the fire with a sword. Pr.

=Ignis aurum probat, miseria fortes viros=--Fire tests gold; adversity strong men. Sen.

=Ignis fatuus=--A deceiving light; a "Will-o'-the-wisp."

=Ignis sacer=--"St. Anthony's fire." Pliny.

=Ignobile vulgus=--The base-born multitude.

=Ignoramus=--An ignorant person (lit. we are ignorant).

=Ignorance is a heavy burden.= Gael. Pr. 5

=Ignorance is a prolonged infancy, only deprived of its charm.= De Boufflers.

=Ignorance is bold, and knowledge reserved.= Thucydides.

=Ignorance is the curse of God, knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.= 2 Hen. VI., iv. 7.

=Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.= Froude.

=Ignorance is the mother of devotion.= Jeremy 10 Taylor.

=Ignorance is the mother of impudence.= Pr.

=Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.= Confucius.

=Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.= Cousin.

=Ignorance is preferable to error.= Jefferson.

=Ignorance never settles a question.= Disraeli. 15

=Ignorance shuts its eyes and believes it is right.= Punch.

=Ignorant of guilt, I fear not shame.= Dryden.

=Ignorantia facti excusat=--Ignorance of the fact excuses. L.

=Ignorantia legis excusat neminem=--Ignorance of the law excuses nobody. L.

=Ignoratio elenchi=--Ignoring of the point at 20 issue.

=Ignoratione rerum bonarum et malarum, maxime hominum vita vexatur=--Through ignorance of the distinction between good and bad, the life of men is greatly harassed. Cic.

=Ignorent populi, si non in morte probaris, / An scires adversa pati=--The world would not know, if you did not prove by your death, that you knew how to bear up against adverse circumstances. Lucan, of Pompey.

=Ignoscas aliis multa, nil tibi=--You should pardon many things in others, nothing in yourself. Auson.

=Ignoti nulla cupido=--There is no desire for what is unknown. Pr.

=Ignotis errare locis, ignota videre / Flumina= 25 =gaudebat, studio minuente laborem=--He delighted to wander over unknown regions, to visit unknown rivers, the interest lessening the fatigue. Ovid.

=Ignotum argenti pondus et auri=--An untold mass of silver and gold. Virg.

=Ignotum per ignotius=--The unknown by the still more unknown.

=Ihr Kinder, lernet jetzt genug, / Ihr lernt nichts mehr in alten Zeiten=--Ye children, learn enough now, nothing more will you be able to learn ere long. Pfeffel.

=Ihr sagt es sei nichts als Glück / Zu siegen ohne die Tacktick / Doch besser ohne Tacktick siegen / Als mit derselben unterliegen=--You say it is nothing but luck to gain a victory without tactics, yet it is better to conquer without them, than therewith to be beaten. Tyrolese Pr.

=Ihr sucht die Menschen zu benennen, /= 30 =und glaubt am Namen sie zu kennen; / Wer tiefer sieht, gesteht sich frei, / Es ist das Anonymes dabei=--Ye seek to name men, and think that ye know them by name; he who sees deeper will freely confess there is something in them which there is no name for. Goethe.

=Il a inventé l'histoire=--He has invented history. Mme. du Deffand, of Voltaire.

=Il a la mer à boire=--He has the sea to drink up, i.e., has undertaken an impossible task. _Fr. Pr._

=Il a la tête près du bonnet=--He is of a passionate temper (lit. has his head near his cap). Fr. Pr.

=Il a le diable au corps=--The deuce (lit. the devil) is in him. Fr. Pr.

=Il a le verbe haut=--He assumes a high tone; he 35 has a loud voice. Fr. Pr.

=Il a le vin mauvais=--He is quarrelsome over his wine. Fr. Pr.

=Il a les yeux à fleur de tête=--He has prominent eyes. Fr. Pr.

=Il a mangé son pain blanc le premier=--He has eaten the best first. Fr. Pr.

=Il a plus que personne l'esprit que tout le monde a=--He has more than any other the mind which every one has. Montesquieu.

=Il a travaillé pour le roi de Prusse=--He has 40 worked for the King of Prussia, i.e., laboured in vain. Fr. Pr.

=Il a vu le loup=--He has seen the world. Fr. Pr.

=Il aboye à tout le monde=--He barks at everybody. Fr. Pr.

=Il arrive comme Mars en Carème=--He arrives opportunely (lit. like March in Lent). Fr. Pr.

=Il attend, que les alouettes lui tombent toutes rôties=--He expects larks to rain down all ready roasted. Hans Sachs.

=Il buon mercato vuota la borsa=--Great bargains 45 empty the purse. It. Pr.

=Il buono è buono, ma il meglio vince=--Good is good, but better surpasses it. It. Pr.

=Il can battuto dal bastone ha paura dell' ombra=--The dog that has been beaten with a stick is afraid of its shadow. It. Pr.

=Il castigo puo differirsi ma non si toglie=--Punishment may be tardy, but it is sure to overtake the guilty. It. Pr.

=Il conduit bien sa barque=--He manages his affairs well. Fr. Pr.

=Il connaît l'univers et ne se connaît pas=--He 50 knows everything and does not know himself. La Font.

=Il coûte peu à amasser beaucoup de richesse, et beaucoup à en amasser peu=--It costs little trouble to amass a great deal of wealth, but great labour to amass a little. Fr. Pr.

=Il diavolo tenta tutti, ma l'ozioso tenta il diavolo=--The devil tempts all, but the idle man tempts the devil. It. Pr.

=Il donne des entrailles à tous les mots=--He gives pathos to all his words. Joubert, of Rousseau.

=Il en est d'un homme qui aime, comme d'un moineau, pris à la glu; plus il se débat, plus il s'embarrasse=--It is with a man in love, as with a sparrow caught in bird-lime; the more he struggles, the more he is entangled. Fr. Pr.

=Il en fait ses choux gras=--He feathers his nest 55 with it. Fr. Pr.

=Il est aisé d'ajouter aux inventions des autres=--It is easy to add to the inventions of others. Fr. Pr.

=Il est aisé d'aller à pied, quand on tient son cheval par la bride=--It is easy to go afoot when one leads one's horse by the bridle. Fr. Pr.

=Il est aux anges=--He is supremely happy (lit. with the angels).

=Il est avis à vieille vache qu'elle ne fût oncques veau=--The old cow persuades herself that she never was a calf. Fr. Pr.

=Il est bien aisé à ceux qui se portent bien de= 5 =donner des avis aux malades=--It is very easy for those who are well to give advice to the sick. Fr. Pr.

=Il est bien difficile de garder un trésor dont tous les hommes ont la clef=--It is very difficult to guard a treasure of which all men have the key. Fr. Pr.

=Il est bien fou qui s'oublie=--He is a great fool who forgets himself. Fr. Pr.

=Il est bon d'être ferme par tempérament et flexible par réflexion=--It is good to be firm by temperament and pliable by reflexion. Vauvenargues.

=Il est bon d'être habile, mais non pas de le paraître=--It is good to be clever, but not to show it. Fr. Pr.

=Il est comme l'oiseau sur la branche=--He is 10 unsettled or wavering (lit. like a bird on a branch). Fr. Pr.

=Il est peu de distance de la roche Tarpéienne au Capitole=--It is but a short way from the Tarpeian rock to the Capitol. Mirabeau.

=Il est plus aisé d'être sage pour les autres que pour soi-même=--It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves. La Roche.

=Il est plus honteux de se défier de ses amis que d'en être trompé=--It is more disgraceful to suspect our friends than to be deceived by them. La Roche.

=Il est souvent plus court et plus utile de cadrer aux autres que de faire que les autres s'adjustent à nous=--It is often more easy and more convenient to conform to others than to make others conform to us. La Bruyère.

=Il est temps d'être sage quand on a la barbe au= 15 =menton=--It is time to be wise when you have a beard on your chin. Fr. Pr.

=Il est tout prêché qui n'a cure de bien faire=--He is past preaching to who does not care to do well. Fr. Pr.

=Il est trop difficile de penser noblement, quand on ne pense que pour vivre=--It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only to get a livelihood. Rousseau.

=Il faisoit de necessité vertu=--He made a virtue of necessity. Rabelais.

=Il fallait un calculateur, ce fut un danseur qui l'obtint=--A financier was wanted, a dancing-master got the post. Beaumarchais.

=Il faut attendre le boiteux=--We must wait for 20 the lame. Fr. Pr.

=Il faut avaler bien de la fumée aux lampes avant que de devenir bon orateur=--A man must swallow a great deal of lamp-smoke before he can be a good orator. Fr. Pr.

=Il faut avoir pitié des morts=--One must have pity on the dead. Victor Hugo.

=Il faut avoir une âme=--It is indispensable that we should have a soul. Tolstoi.

=Il faut de plus grandes vertus pour soutenir la bonne fortune que la mauvaise=--It requires greater moral strength to bear good fortune than bad. La Roche.

=Il faut en affrontant l'orage / Penser, vivre et= 25 =mourir en roi=--I must in face of the storm think, live, and die as a king. Frederick the Great.

=Il faut hurler avec les loups=--You must howl if you are among wolves. Fr. Pr.

=Il faut laver son linge sale en famille=--One's filthy linen should be washed at home. Fr. Pr.

=Il faut payer de sa vie=--One must pay with his life. Fr. Pr.

=Il faut perdre un véron pour pêcher un saumon=--We must lose a minnow to catch a salmon. Fr. Pr.

=Il faut qu'une porte soit ouverte ou fermée=--A 30 door must either be open or shut. Brueys et Palaprat.

=Il faut savoir s'ennuyer=--One must accustom one's self to be bored. Lady Bloomfield.

=Il faut sortir de la vie ainsi que d'un banquet, / Remerciant son hôte, et faisant son paquet=--One must quit life as one does a banquet, thanking the host and packing up one's belongings. Voltaire.

=Il fuoco non s'estingue con fuoco=--Fire is not extinguished by fire. It. Pr.

=Il fut historien pour rester orateur=--He turned historian that he might still play the orator.

=Il me faut du nouveau, n'en fût-il point au= 35 =monde=--I must have something new, even were there none in the world. La Fontaine.

=Il meglio è l'inimico del bene=--Better is an enemy to well. It. Pr.

=Il meurt connu de tous et ne se connaît pas=--He dies known by all and does not know himself. Vauquelin des Yvetaux.

=Il mondo è di chi ha pazienza=--The world is his who has patience. It. Pr.

=Il mondo è fatto a scale; / Chi le scende, e chi le sale=--The world is like a staircase; some are going up and some going down. It. Pr.

=Il mondo sta con tre cose: fare, disfare, e dare= 40 =ad intendere=--The world gets along with three things: doing, undoing, and pretending. It. Pr.

=Il monta sur ses grands chevaux=--He mounted his high horse. Fr. Pr.

=Il nage entre deux eaux=--He keeps fair with both parties (lit. swims between two waters). Fr. Pr.

=Il n'a ni bouche ni éperon=--He has neither wit nor go in him (lit. he has neither mouth nor spur). Fr.

=Il n'a pas inventé la poudre=--He was not the inventor of gunpowder. Fr. Pr.

=Il n'a pas l'air, mais la chanson=--He has not 45 the tune, but the song. Fr. Pr.

=Il n'appartient qu'aux grands hommes, d'avoir de grands défauts=--It is only great men who can afford to have great defects. La Roche.

=Il n'attache pas ses chiens avec des saucisses=--He does not chain his dogs together with sausages. Fr. Pr.

=Il n'avait pas précisément des vices, mais il était rongé d'une vermine de petits défauts, dont on ne pouvait l'épurer=--He had not vices exactly, but he was the prey to a swarm of small faults of which there was no ridding him. Fr.

=Il n'est d'heureux que qui croit l'être=--Only he is happy who thinks he is. Fr. Pr.

=Il n'est orgueil que de pauvre enrichi=--There is no pride like that of a poor man who has become rich. Fr. Pr.

=Il n'est pas d'homme nécessaire=--There is no man but can be dispensed with. Fr. Pr.

=Il n'est pas échappé qui traîne son lien=--He is not escaped who still drags his chains. Fr. Pr.

=Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens=--There 5 is nothing useless to people of sense. La Fontaine.

=Il n'est sauce que d'appétit=--Hunger is the best sauce. Fr. Pr.

=Il ne fait rien, et nuit à qui veut faire=--He produces nothing, and hinders those who would. Fr.

=Il ne faut jamais se moquer des misérables, / Car qui peut s'assurer d'être toujours heureux?=--We must never laugh at the miserable, for who can be sure of being always happy? La Fontaine.

=Il ne faut pas nous fâcher des choses passées=--We should not trouble ourselves (Sc. fash) about things that are past. Napoleon.

=Il ne faut pas parler latin devant les Cordeliers=--It 10 doesn't do to talk Latin before the Grey Friars. Fr. Pr.

=Il ne faut pas voler avant que d'avoir des ailes=--One must not fly before he develops wings. Fr. Pr.

=Il ne faut point parler de corde dans la famille d'un pendu=--Never speak of a rope in the family of one who has been hanged. Fr. Pr.

=Il ne sait plus de quel bois faire flèche=--He is put to his last shift (lit. knows of no wood to make his arrow). Fr. Pr.

=Il ne sait sur quel pied danser=--He knows not on which foot to dance (i.e. he is at his wit's end).

=Il n'y a de nouveau que ce qui a vieilli=--There 15 is nothing new but what has become antiquated. Fr. Pr.

=Il n'y a de nouveau que ce qui est oublié=--There is nothing new but what is forgotten. Mdlle. Bertine.

=Il n'y a de sots si incommodes que ceux qui ont de l'esprit=--There are no fools so unsufferable as those who have wit. La Roche.

=Il n'y a pas à dire=--There is no use saying anything; the thing is settled. Fr. Pr.

=Il n'y a pas de cheval si bon qu'il ne bronche pas=--There is no horse so sure-footed as never to trip. Fr. Pr.

=Il n'y a pas de gens plus affairés que ceux qui= 20 =n'ont rien à faire=--There are no people so busy as those who have nothing to do. Fr. Pr.

=Il n'y a pas de petit ennemi=--There is no such thing as an insignificant enemy. Fr. Pr.

=Il n'y a peut-être point de vérité qui ne soit à quelque esprit faux matière d'erreur=--There is, perhaps, no truth that is not to some false minds matter of error. Vauvenargues.

=Il n'y a plus de Pyrénées=--There are no longer any Pyrenees. Louis XIV., on the departure of the Duke of Anjou from Paris for Spain.

=Il n'y a point au monde un si pénible métier que celui de se faire un grand nom. La vie s'achève que l'on a à peine ébauché son ouvrage=--There is not a more laborious undertaking in the world than that of earning a great name; life comes to a close before one has well schemed out one's course. La Bruyère.

=Il n'y a point de chemin trop long à qui marche= 25 =lentement et sans se presser, il n'y a point d'avantages trop éloignés à qui s'y prépare par la patience=--No road is too long for him who advances slowly and does not hurry, and no attainment is beyond his reach who equips himself with patience to achieve it. La Bruyère.

=Il n'y a point de plus cruelle tyrannie que celle que l'on exerce à l'ombre des lois et avec les couleurs de la justice=--There is no crueller tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice. Montesquieu.

=Il n'y a que la vérité qui blesse=--It is only the truth that offends (lit. wounds). Fr. Pr.

=Il n'y a que le matin en toutes choses=--There is only the morning in all things. Fr. Pr.

=Il n'y a que le premier pas qui coûte=--It is only the first step which costs. Fr. Pr.

=Il n'y a que les honteux qui perdent=--It is only 30 the bashful who lose. Fr. Pr.

=Il n'y a que les morts qui ne reviennent pas=--It is only the dead who do not return. Barère.

=Il n'y a rien de si puissant qu'une république où l'on observe les lois, non pas par crainte, non pas par raison, mais par passion=--There is no commonwealth so powerful as one in which the laws are observed not from a principle of fear or reason, but passion. Montesquieu.

=Il n'y a rien que la crainte et l'espérance ne persuadent aux hommes=--There is nothing that fear and hope does not persuade men to do. Vauvenargues.

=Il paraît qu'on n'apprend pas à mourir en tuant les autres=--It does not appear that people learn how to die by taking away the lives of others. Chateaubriand.

=Il passa par la gloire, il passa par le crime, et il= 35 =n'est arrivé qu'au malheur=--He passed through glory and through crime, and has landed only in misfortune. Said of Napoleon III.

=Il penseroso=--The pensive man. It.

=Il plaît à tout le monde et ne saurait se plaire=--He pleases all the world but cannot please himself. Boileau, of Molière.

=Il porte le deuil de sa blanchisseuse=--He wears mourning for his laundress, i.e., his linen is dirty. Fr. Pr.

=Il riso fa buon sangue=--Laughter makes good blood; puts one in good humour. It. Pr.

=Il rit bien qui rit le dernier=--He laughs with 40 reason who laughs the last.

=Il sabio muda conscio, il nescio no=--A wise man changes his mind, a fool never. Sp. Pr.

=Il se fait entendre, à force de se faire écouter=--He makes himself understood by compelling people to listen to him. Villemain.

=Il se faut entr'aider; c'est la loi de nature=--We must assist one another; it is the law of Nature. Fr. Pr.

=Il sent le fagot=--He is suspected of heresy (lit. he smells of the faggot). Fr.

=Il tacer non fu mai scritto=--Silence was never 45 written down. It. Pr.

=Il tempo è un galant 'uomo=--Time is a fine lord (or lady). Mazarin.

=Il tempo buono viene una volta sola=--The good time comes but once. It. Pr.

=Il tempo è una lima sorda=--Time is a file that emits no noise. It. Pr.

=Il trouverait à tondre sur un œuf=--He would skin a flint (lit. find something to shave on an egg). Fr. Pr.

=Il va du blanc au noir=--He runs to extremes (lit. from white to black). Fr. Pr.

=Il vaut mieux avoir affaire à Dieu qu'à ses saints=--It is better to deal with God than with His saints. Fr. Pr.

=Il vaut mieux être fou avec tous, que sage tout seul=--Better to be mad with everybody, than wise all alone. Fr. Pr.

=Il vaut mieux être marteau qu'enclume=--It is 5 better to be hammer than anvil. Fr. Pr.

=Il vaut mieux être singe perfectionné qu'un Adam dégénéré=--Better a perfect ape than a degenerate man. Claparède.

=Il vaut mieux faire envie que pitié=--It is better to be envied than pitied. Fr. Pr.

=Il vaut mieux tâcher d'oublier ses malheurs que d'en parler=--It is better to try and forget one's misfortunes than to speak of them. Fr. Pr.

=Il vero punge, e la bugia unge=--Truth stings and falsehood salves over. It. Pr.

=Il villano en su tierra, y el hidalgo donde quiera=--The 10 clown in his own country, the gentleman where he pleases. Sp. Pr.

=Il volto sciolto, i pensieri stretti=--The countenance open, the thoughts reserved. It. Pr.

=Il y a anguille sous roche=--There is a snake in the grass; a mystery in the affair. Fr. Pr.

=Il y a bien des gens qu'on estime, parce qu'on ne les connaît point=--Many people are esteemed merely because they are not known. Fr. Pr.

=Il y a dans la jalousie plus d'amour-propre que d'amour=--There is more self-love than love in jealousy. La Roche.

=Il y a des gens à qui la vertu sied presque= 15 =aussi mal que le vice=--There are some men on whom virtue sits almost as awkwardly as vice. Bouhours.

=Il y a des gens auxquels il faut trois cent ans pour commencer voir une absurdité=--There are people who take three hundred years before they begin to see an absurdity. Fr. (?)

=Il y a des gens dégoûtants avec du mérite, et d'autres qui plaisent avec des défauts=--There are people who disgust us in spite of their merits, and others who please us in spite of their faults. La Roche.

=Il y a des gens qui ressemblent aux vaudevilles, qu'on ne chante qu'un certain temps=--Some men are like the ballads that are sung only for a certain time. La Roche.

=Il y a des reproches qui louent, et des louanges qui médisent=--There are censures which are commendations, and commendations which are censures. La Roche.

=Il y a des vérités qui ne sont pas pour tous= 20 =les hommes et pour tous les temps=--There are truths which are not for every man and for every occasion. Fr. (?)

=Il y a encore de quoi glaner=--There are still other fields to glean from; the subject is not exhausted. Fr. Pr.

=Il y a fagots et fagots=--There is a difference between one faggot and another. Molière.

=Il y a plus de quarante ans que je dis de la prose sans que j'en susse rien=--I have been speaking prose forty years without knowing it. Molière.

=Il y a plus fous acheteurs que de fous vendeurs=--There are more foolish buyers than foolish sellers. Fr. Pr.

=Il y a quelque chose dans les malheurs de nos= 25 =meilleurs amis qui ne nous déplaît pas=--There is something in the misfortunes of our best friends which does not displease us. Fr. Pr.

=Il y a souvent de l'illusion, de la mode, du caprice dans le jugement des hommes=--In the judgments of people there is often little more than self-deception, fashion, and whim. Voltaire.

=Il y a une espèce de honte d'être heureux à la vue de certaines misères=--It is a kind of shame to feel happy with certain miseries before our eyes. Fr.

=Il y en a peu qui gagnent à être approfondis=--Few men rise in our esteem on a closer scrutiny. Fr. Pr.

=Il y va de la vie=--Life depends on it; it is a matter of life or death.

=Iliacos intra muros peccatur et extra=--Sin is 30 committed as well within the walls of Troy as without, i.e., both sides were to blame. Hor.

=Ilicet infandum cuncti contra omina bellum / Contra fata deum, perverso numine poscunt=--Forthwith, against the omens and against the oracles of the gods, all to a man, under an adverse influence, clamour for unholy war. Virg.

=Ilka= (every) =blade o' grass keps= (catches) =it ain drap o' dew.= Sc. Pr.

=Ilka dog has his day.= Sc. Pr.

=Ilk happing bird, wee, helpless thing, / That, in the merry months of spring, / Delighted me to hear thee sing, / What comes o' thee? / Where wilt thou cower thy chittering wing, an' close thy e'e?= Burns, "A Winter Night."

=Ill bairns are best heard at hame.= Sc. Pr. 35

=Ill begun, ill done.= Dut. Pr.

=Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.= Spenser.

=Ill comes upon war's back.= Pr.

=Ill-doers are ill thinkers.= Pr.

=Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, /= 40 =Where wealth accumulates and men decay.= Goldsmith.

=Ill fortune never crushes that man whom good fortune deceived not.= Ben Jonson.

=Ill got, ill spent.= Pr.

=Ill-gotten wealth seldom descends to the third generation.= Pr.

=Ill habits gather by unseen degrees, / As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.= Dryden.

=Ill hearing mak's ill rehearsing.= Sc. Pr. 45

=Ill-humour is nothing more than an inward feeling of our own want of merit, a dissatisfaction with ourselves.= Goethe.

=Ill luck comes by pounds and goes away by ounces.= It. Pr.

=Ill news comes apace.= Pr.

=Ill weeds are not hurt by frost.= _Sp. and Port. Pr._

=Ill weeds grow apace.= Pr. 50

=Illa dolet vere quæ sine teste dolet=--She grieves sincerely who grieves when unseen. Mart.

=Illa est agricolæ messis iniqua suo=--That is a harvest which ill repays its husbandman. Ovid.

=Illa laus est, magno in genere et in divitiis maximis, / Liberos hominem educare, generi monumentum et sibi=--It is a merit in a man of high birth and large fortune to train up his children so as to be a credit to his family and himself. Plaut.

=Illa placet tellus in qua res parva beatum / Me facit, et tenues luxuriantur opes=--That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance. Mart.

=Illa victoria viam ad pacem patefecit=--By that victory he opened the way to peace.

=Illæso lumine solem=--[To gaze] on the sun with undazzled eye. M.

=Illam, quicquid agit, quoque vestigia flectit, /= 5 =Componit furtim, subsequiturque decor=--In whatever she does, wherever she turns, grace steals into her movements and attends her steps. Tibull.

=Ille crucem sceleris pretium tulit, hic diadema=--That one man has found a cross the reward of his guilt; this one, a diadem. Juv.

=Ille igitur nunquam direxit brachia contra / Torrentem; nec civis erat qui libera posset / Verba animi proferre, et vitam impendere vero=--He never exerted his arms against the torrent, nor was he a citizen who would frankly utter the sentiments of his mind, and stake his life for the truth. Juv.

=Ille per extentum funem mihi posse videtur / Ire poeta, meum qui pectus inaniter angit / Irritat mulcet falsis terroribus implet / Ut magus: et modo me Thebis, modo ponit Athenis=--That man seems to me able to do anything (lit. walk on the tight-rope) who, as a poet, tenures my breast with fictions, can rouse me, then soothe me, fill me with unreal terrors like a magician, set me down either at Thebes or Athens. Hor.

=Ille potens sui / Lætusque degit, cui licet in diem / Dixisse, Vixi: cras vel atra / Nube polum pater occupato / Vel sole puro=--The man lives master of himself and cheerful, who can say day after day, "I have lived; to-morrow let the Father above overspread the sky either with cloud or with clear sunshine." Hor.

=Ille sinistrorsum, hic dextrorsum, abit: unus= 10 =utrique / Error, sed variis illudit partibus=--One wanders to the left, another to the right; both are equally in error, but are seduced by different delusions. Hor.

=Ille terrarum mihi præter omnes / Angulus ridet=--That nook of the world has charms for me before all else. Hor.

=Ille vir, haud magna cum re, sed plenus fidei=--He is a man, not of large fortune, but full of good faith.

=Illi inter sese multa vi brachia tollunt / In numerum, versantque tenaci forcipe massam=--They (the Cyclops), keeping time, one by one raise their arms with mighty force, and turn the iron lump with the biting tongs. Virg.

=Illi robur et æs triplex / Circa pectus erat, qui fragilem truci / Commisit pelago ratem / Primus=--That man had oak and triple brass around his breast who first intrusted his frail bark to the savage sea. Hor.

=Illic apposito narrabis multa Lyæo=--There, 15 with the wine in front of you, you will tell many a story. Ovid.

=Illud amicitiæ sanctum ac venerabile nomen / Nunc tibi pro vili sub pedibusque jacet=--The sacred and venerable name of friendship is now despised and trodden under foot. Ovid.

=Illusion on a ground of truth is the secret of the fine arts.= Joubert.

=Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, / And every conqueror creates a muse.= Waller.

=Ils chantent, ils payeront=--Let them sing; they will have the piper to pay. Mazarin.

=Ils n'ont rien appris, ni rien oublié=--They have 30 learned nothing and forgotten nothing. Talleyrand, of the Bourbons.

=Ils s'amusaient tristement, selon la coutume de leur pays=--They (the English) are heavy-laden in their amusements, according to the custom of their country. Froissart.

=Ils se ne servent de la pensée que pour autoriser leurs injustices, et emploient les paroles que pour déguiser leurs pensées=--Men use thought only to justify their unjust acts, and employ speech only to disguise their thoughts. Voltaire.

=Ils sont passés, ces jours de fête=--They are gone, those festive days. Grétry.

=Ils veulent être libres et ne savent pas être justes=--They wish to be free and understand not how to be just. Abbé Sieyès.

=Im Alter erstaunt und bereut man nicht mehr=--In 25 old age one is astonished and repents no more. Goethe.

=Im Becher ersaufen mehr als im Meer=--More are drowned in the wine-cup than in the sea. Ger. Pr.

=Im Ganzen, Guten, Wahren resolut zu leben=--To live resolutely in the whole, the good, the true. Goethe.

=Im Gedränge hier auf Erden / Kann nicht jeder, was er will=--In the press of things on earth here, not every one can do what he would. Goethe.

=Im Grabe ist Ruh!=--In the grave is rest! _Langhaufen, Heine._

=Im Leben ist der Mensch zehn Jahre in Kriege= 30 =und zehn in der Irre, gleich dem Ulysses=--Man, like Ulysses, spends ten years in war and ten in wandering. Feuerbach.

=Im Leben ist nichts Gegenwart=--In life is the present nothing, or there is no present. Goethe.

=Im Mangel, nicht im Ueberfluss / Keimt der Genuss=--Enjoyment germinates not in abundance but in want. Herder.

=Im Schmerze wird die neue Zeit geboren=--In pain is the new time born. Chamisso.

=Im Unglück halte aus; / Im Glücke halte ein=--In bad fortune hold out; in good, hold in. Ger. Pr.

=Im Wasser kannst du dein Antlitz sehn, / Im= 35 =Wein des andern Herz erspähn=--In water thou canst see thine own face, in wine thou canst see into the heart of another. Pr.

=Imaginary evils soon become real ones by indulging our reflections on them.= Swift.

=Imagination is always the ruling and divine power, and the rest of the man is only the instrument which it sounds, or the tablet on which it writes.= Ruskin.

=Imagination is a mettled horse that will break the rider's neck when a donkey would have carried him to the end of his journey, slow but sure.= Southey.

=Imagination is but a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.= Carlyle.

=Imagination is central; fancy, superficial.= Emerson.

=Imagination is Eternity.= Wm. Blake.

=Imagination is the eye of the soul.= Joubert.

=Imagination is the mightiest despot.= Auerbach. 5

=Imagination is too often accompanied with a somewhat irregular logic.= Disraeli.

=Imagination rules the world.= Napoleon.

=Imitation is born with us, but what we ought to imitate is not easily found.= Goethe.

=Imitation is the sincerest flattery.= Colton.

=Imitation is suicide.= Emerson. 10

=Immediate are the acts of God, more swift / Than time or motion.= Milton.

=Immer etwas Neues, selten etwas Gutes=--Always something new, seldom anything good. Ger. Pr.

=Immer Neues spriesset / Eh' ein Mensch geniesset / Mit Verstand das Alte=--Not till a new thing sprouts up does a man ever enjoy intelligently that which is old. Rückert.

=Immer wird, nie ist=--Always a-being, never being. Schiller.

=Immer zu! Immer zu! / Ohne Rast und Ruh!=--Ever 15 onward! ever onward! without rest and quiet. Goethe.

=Immer zu misstrauen ist ein Irrthum wie immer zu trauen=--Always to distrust is an error, as well as always to trust. Goethe.

=Immo id, quod aiunt, auribus teneo lupum / Nam neque quomodo a me amittam, invenio: neque, uti retineam scio=--It is true they say I have caught a wolf by the ears; for I know not either how to get rid of him or keep him in restraint. Ter.

=Immodest words admit of no defence, / For want of decency is want of sense.= Roscommon.

=Immoritur studiis, et amore senescit habendi=--He is killing himself with his efforts, and in his greed of gain is becoming an old man. Hor.

=Immortale odium et nunquam sanabile vulnus=--A 20 deadly hatred, and a wound that can never be healed. Juv., on the effects of religious contention between neighbours.

=Immortalia ne speres monet annus, et almum / Quæ rapit hora diem=--The year in its course, and the hour that speeds the kindly day, admonishes you not to hope for immortal (i.e., permanent) blessings. Hor.

=Immortality will come to such as are fit for it; and he who would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now.= Emerson.

=Imo pectore=--From the bottom of the heart.

=Impatience changeth smoke to flame.= Erasmus.

=Impatience dries the blood sooner than age or= 25 =sorrow.= Chapin.

=Impatience is the principal cause of most of our irregularities and extravagances.= Sterne.

=Impatience waiteth on true sorrow.= 3 _Hen. VI._, iii. 3.

=Impavidum ruinæ ferient=--The wreck of things will strike him unmoved. Hor.

=Impera parendo=--Command by obeying. M.

=Imperat aut servit collecta pecunia cuique=--Money 30 amassed is either our slave or our tyrant. Hor.

=Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life. It is the sign of life in a mortal body, that is, of a state of progress and change.= Ruskin.

=Imperfection means perfection hid, / Reserved in part to grace the after-time.= Browning.

=Imperfections cling to a man, which, if he wait till he have brushed off entirely, he will spin for ever on his axis, advancing nowhither.= Carlyle.

=Imperia dura tolle, quid virtus erit?=--Remove severe restraint, and what will become of virtue? Sen.

=Imperious Cæsar, dead and turn'd to clay, /= 35 =Might stop a hole to keep the wind away.= Ham., v. 1.

=Imperium et libertas=--Empire and liberty. Cic.

=Imperium facile iis artibus retinetur, quibus initio partum est=--Power is easily retained by those arts by which it was at first acquired. Sall.

=Imperium in imperio=--A government within a government.

=Impertinent and lavish talking is in itself a very vicious habit.= Thomas à Kempis.

=Impetrare oportet, quia æquum postulas=--You 40 ought to obtain what you ask, as you only ask what is fair. Plaut.

=Implacabiles plerumque læsæ mulieres=--Women, when offended, are generally implacable.

="Impossible" est un mot que je ne dis jamais=--"Impossible" is a word which I never utter. Collin d'Hartevilles.

=Impossible is the precept "Know thyself," till it be translated into this partially possible one, "Know what thou canst work at."= Carlyle.

=Impossible! Ne me dites jamais ce bête de mot=--Impossible! Never name to me that blockhead of a word. Mirabeau, to his secretary, Dumont.

="Impossible" n'est pas français=--"Impossible" 45 is not French. Napoleon.

="Impossible," when Truth and Mercy and the everlasting voice of Nature order, has no place in the brave man's dictionary.= Carlyle.

="Impossible!" who talks to me of impossibilities?= Chatham.

=Impotentia excusat legem=--Inability suspends the action of law. L.

=Impransus=--One who has not dined, or who can't find a dinner.

=Imprimatur=--Let it be printed. 50

=Imprimis=--First of all.

=Imprimis venerare Deos=--Before all things reverence the gods. Virg.

=Improbæ / Crescunt divitiæ, tamen / Curtæ nescio quid semper abest rei=--Riches increase to an enormous extent, yet something is ever wanting to our still imperfect fortune. Hor.

=Improbe amor, quid non mortalia pectora cogis?=--Cruel love! what is there to which thou dost not drive mortal hearts? Virg.

=Improbe Neptunum accusat, qui naufragium= 55 =iterum facit=--He who suffers shipwreck twice is unjust if he throws the blame on Neptune. Pub. Syr.

=Improbis aliena virtus semper formidolosa est=--To wicked men the virtue of others is always matter of dread. Sall.

=Impromptu=--Off-hand; without premeditation.

=Improvement is Nature.= Leigh Hunt.

=Imprudent expression in conversation may be forgotten and pass away; but when we take the pen into our hand, we must remember that= litera scripta manet. Blair.

=Impudence is no virtue, yet able to beggar= 5 =them all.= Sir T. Osborne.

=Impunitas semper ad deteriora invitat=--Impunity always tempts to still worse crimes. Coke.

=In a boundless universe / Is boundless better, boundless worse.= Tennyson.

=In a calm sea, every man is a pilot.= Pr.

=In a commercial nation impostors are abroad in all professions.= Wm. Blake.

=In a fair gale every fool may sail, but wise= 10 =behaviour in a storm commends the wisdom of the pilot.= Quarles.

=In a free country there is much complaining but little suffering; under a despotism, much suffering but little complaining.= Giles' Proverbs.

=In a good lord there must first be a good animal, at least to the extent of yielding the incomparable advantage of animal spirits.= Emerson.

=In a great soul everything is great.= Pascal.

=In a healthy state of the organism all wounds have a tendency to heal.= Mme. Swetchine.

=In a lawsuit nothing is certain but the expense.= 15 A. Butler.

=In a leopard the spots are not observed.= _Herbert's Coll._

=In a lottery, where there is (at the lowest computation) ten thousand blanks to one prize, it is the most prudent choice not to venture.= Lady Montagu.

=In a man's letters his soul lies naked; his letters are only the mirror of his breast.= Johnson.

=In a matter of life and death don't trust even your mother; she might mistake a black bean= (used in voting) =for a white one.= Alcibiades.

=In a narrow circle the mind grows narrow; the= 20 =more a man expands, the larger his aims.= Schiller.

=In a noble race, levity without virtue is seldom found. In a mine of rubies, when shall we find pieces of glass?= Hitopadesa.

=In a poem there should be not only the poetry of images, but also the poetry of ideas.= Joubert.

=In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation, silence and speech acting together, some embodiment and revelation of the infinite, made to blend itself with the finite, to stand visible, and, as it were, attainable there.= Carlyle.

=In a thousand pounds of law there is not an ounce of love.= Pr.

=In a valiant suffering for others, not in a slothful= 25 =making others suffer for us, did nobleness ever lie.= Carlyle.

=In acta=--In the very act.

=In action, a great heart is the chief qualification; in work, a great head.= Schopenhauer.

=In æquali jure melior est conditio possidentis=--Where the right is equal, the claim of the party in possession is the best. L.

=In æternum=--For ever.

=In all battles, if you await the issue, each= 30 =fighter has prospered according to his right. His right and his might, at the close of the account, were the same.= Carlyle.

=In all faiths there is something true / ... Something that keeps the Unseen in view, / ... And notes His gifts with the worship due.= Dr. Walter Smith.

=In all human action, those faculties will be strong which are used.= Emerson.

=In all human narrative, it is the battle only, and not the victory, that can be dwelt on with advantage.= Carlyle.

=In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas, such sublime irrecognition of the unessential.= Lowell.

=In all matters prefer the less evil to the= 35 =greater, and solace yourself under any ill with the reflection that it might be worse.= Spurgeon.

=In all provinces there are artists and artisans; men who labour mechanically in a department, without eye for the whole, not feeling that there is a whole; and men who inform and ennoble the humblest department with an idea of the whole, and habitually know that only in the whole is the partial to be truly discerned.= Carlyle.

=In all science error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.= Horace Walpole.

=In all situations= (out of Tophet) =there is a duty, and our highest blessedness lies in doing it.= Carlyle.

=In all straits the good behave themselves with meekness and patience.= Thomas à Kempis.

=In all things that live there are certain irregularities= 40 =and deficiencies, which are not only signs of life, but sources of beauty.= Ruskin.

=In all things, to serve from the lowest station upwards is necessary.= Goethe.

=In all times it is only individuals that have advanced science, not the age.= Goethe.

=In all true work, were it but true hand-labour, there is something of divineness.= Carlyle.

=In all vital action the manifest purpose and effort of Nature is, that we should be unconscious of it.... Nature so meant it with us; it is so we are made.= Carlyle.

=In allem andern lass dich lenken / Nur nicht= 45 =im Fühlen und im Denken=--In everything else let thyself be led, only not in feeling and in thinking. v. Sallet.

=In alms regard thy means and others' merit. / Think Heaven a better bargain than to give / Only thy single market-money for it.= George Herbert.

=In ambiguo=--In doubt.

=In America you can get tea, and coffee, and meat every day. But the only true America is that country where you are at liberty to pursue such a mode of life as may enable you to do without these.= Thoreau.

=In an aristocratical institution like England, not trial by jury, but the dinner is the capital institution. It is the mode of doing honour to a stranger to invite him to eat, and has been for many a hundred years.= Emerson.

=In anima vili=--On a subject of little worth.

=In annulo Dei figuram ne gestato=--Wear not the image of the Deity in a ring, i.e., do not use the name of God on frivolous occasions, or in vain. Pr.

=In any controversy, the instant we feel angry we have already ceased striving for truth and begun striving for ourselves.= Goethe.

=In aqua scribis=--You are writing on water. Pr. 5

=In arena ædificas=--You are building on sand. Pr.

=In arguing, be calm; for fierceness makes / Error a fault, and truth discourtesy.= _George Herbert._

=In argument with men, a woman ever / Goes by the worse, whatever be her cause.= Milton.

=In art and in deeds, only that is properly achieved which, like Minerva, springs full-grown and armed from the head of the inventor.= Goethe.

=In art, to express the infinite one should suggest= 10 =infinitely more than is expressed.= Goethe.

=In articulo mortis=--At the point of death.

=In audaces non est audacia tuta=--Daring is not safe against daring men. Ovid.

=In beato omnia beata=--With the fortunate everything is fortunate. Hor.

=In bocca chiusa, non c' entran mosche=--Flies can't enter into a mouth that is shut. It. Pr.

=In books lies the soul of the whole past time;= 15 =the articulate audible voice of the past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.= Carlyle.

=In breathing there are two kinds of blessings= (Gnaden): =inhaling the air and exhaling= (lit. discharging) =it; the former is oppressive, the latter refreshing; so strangely is life mingled. Thank God when He lays a burden on thee, and thank Him when He takes it off.= Goethe.

=In bunten Bildern wenig Klarheit, / Viel Irrtum und ein Fünkchen Wahrheit, / So wird der beste Trank gebraut, / Der alle Welt erquickt und auferbaut=--With little clearness (light) in motley metaphors, much falsehood and a spark of truth, is the genuine draught prepared with which every one is refreshed and edified. Goethe.

=In buying horses and taking a wife, shut your eyes and commend yourself to God.= It. Pr.

=In caducum parietem inclinare=--To lean against a falling wall. Pr.

=In calamitoso risus etiam injuria est=--Even to 20 smile at the unfortunate is to do them an injury. Pub. Syr.

=In capite=--In chief.

=In casu extremæ necessitatis omnia sunt communia=--In a case of extreme emergency all things are common. L.

=In Catholic countries religion and liberty exclude each other; in Protestant ones they accept each other.= Amiel.

=In cauda venenum=--Poison lurks in the tail; or, there is a sting in the tail. Pr.

=In causa facili, cuivis licet esse diserto=--In an 25 easy matter any man may be eloquent. Ovid.

=In character, in manner, in style, in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.= Longfellow.

=In cheerful souls there is no evil; wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.= Novalis.

=In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in manhood just, and in old age prudent.= Socrates.

=In choosing friends, we should choose those whose qualities are innate, and their virtues virtues of the temperament.= Amiel.

=In Christ the infinite itself has come down to= 30 =the level of the finite, and the finite has been raised to the level of the infinite, and in His single person the spirit of the universe stands revealed.= Ed.

=In civil broils the worst of men may rise to honour.= Plutarch.

=In clothes, cheap handsomeness doth bear the bell.= George Herbert.

=In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself.= Joubert.

=In cœlo nunquam spectatum impune cometam=--A comet is never seen in the sky without indicating disaster. Claud.

=In cœlo quies=--There is rest in heaven. 35

=In cœlum jacularis=--You are aiming at the heavens; your anger is bootless.

=In commendam=--In trust or recommendation.

=In common things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.= Froude.

=In communism, inequality springs from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.= Proudhon.

=In composing a book, the last thing that one= 40 =learns is to know what to put first.= Pascal.

=In constitutional states, liberty is a compensation for heaviness of taxation; in despotic ones, lightness of taxation is a compensation for liberty.= Montesquieu.

=In contemplation, if a man begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.= Bacon.

=In conversation, boldness now bears sway.= George Herbert.

=In conversation, humour is more than wit, easiness more than knowledge.= Sir Wm. Temple.

=In courtesy rather pay a penny too much than= 45 =too little.= Pr.

=In crucifixo gloria mea=--I glory in the Crucified.

=In cumulo=--In a heap.

=In curia=--In the court.

=In cute curanda plus æquo operata juventus=--Youth unduly busy with pampering the outer man. Hor.

=In days of yore nothing was holy but the= 50 =beautiful.= Schiller.

=In deep waters men find great pearls.= Pr.

=In deinem Glauben ist dein Himmel, / In deinem Herzen ist dein Glück=--In thy faith is thy heaven, in thy heart thy happiness. Arndt.

=In deinem Nichts hoff' ich das All zu finden=--In thy nothing hope I to find the all. Goethe.

=In delay / We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day.= Rom. and Jul., i. 4.

=In Deo spero=--In God I hope. M. 55

=In der jetzigen Zeit soll Niemand schweigen oder nachgeben; man muss reden und sich rühren, nicht um zu überwinden, sondern sich auf seinem Posten zu erhalten; ob bei der Majorität oder Minorität, ist ganz gleichgültig=--At the present time no one should yield or keep silence; every one must speak and bestir himself, not in order to gain the upper hand, but to keep his own position--whether with the majority or the minority is quite indifferent. Goethe.

=In der Kunst ist das Beste gut genug=--In art the best is good enough. Goethe.

=In der Noth allein / Bewähret sich der Adel grosser Seele=--In difficulty alone does the nobility of great souls prove itself. Schiller.

=In dictione=--In the expression, or the form.

=In die Hölle kommt man mit grösserer Mühe,= 5 =als in den Himmel=--It's harder work getting to hell than heaven. Ger. Pr.

=In diem=--To some future day.

=In diem vivere=--To live from hand to mouth.

=In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds / On half the nations, and with fear of change perplexes monarchs.= Milton.

=In diving to the bottom of pleasures we bring up more gravel than pearls.= Balzac.

=In doubtful matters courage may do much; in= 10 =desperate, patience.= Pr.

=In dubiis=--In matters of doubt.

=In dubiis benigniora semper sunt præferenda=--In cases of doubt we should always lean to the side of mercy. L.

=In dulci jubilo=--Now sing and be joyful. Peter of Dresden.

=In duty prompt, at every call, / He watch'd, and wept, and felt, and prayed for all.= Goldsmith.

=In dyeing the spiritual nature there are two= 15 =processes--first, the cleansing and wringing out, which is the baptism with water; and then the infusing of the blue and scarlet colours, gentleness and justice, which is the baptism with fire.= Ruskin.

=In eadem re utilitas et turpitudo esse non potest=--In the same thing usefulness and baseness cannot coexist. Cic.

=In eating, after nature is once satisfied, every additional morsel brings stupidity and distempers with it.= Goldsmith.

=In eburna vagina, plumbeus gladius=--A leaden sword in an ivory sheath. Diogenes, of an empty fop.

=In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself; when consciously he makes himself the mere tongue of the occasion and the hour, and says what cannot but be said.= Emerson.

=In equilibrio=--In equilibrium. 20

=In esse=--In actual being.

=In every age and clime we see / Two of a trade can never agree.= Gay.

=In every battle the eye is first conquered.= Tac.

=In every beginning think of the end.= Pr.

=In every bone there is marrow, and within= 25 =every jacket there is a man.= Saadi.

=In every change there will be many that suffer real or imaginary grievances, and therefore many will be dissatisfied.= Johnson.

=In every child there lies a wonderful deep.= Schumann.

=In every country the sun rises in the morning.= Pr.

=In every creed there are two elements--the Divine substance and the human form. The form must change with the changing thoughts of men; and even the substance may come to shine with clearer light, and to reveal unexpected glories, as God and man come nearer together.= R. W. Dale.

=In every department of life we thank God that= 30 =we are not like our fathers.= Froude.

=In every department one must begin as a child; throw a passionate interest over the subject; take pleasure in the shell till one has the happiness to arrive at the kernel.= Goethe.

=In every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all others, is it not the arrival of a thinker in the world?= Carlyle.

=In every fault there is folly.= Pr.

=In every great epoch there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.= Buckle.

=In every heart are sown the sparks that kindle= 35 =fiery war; occasion needs but fan them, and they blaze.= Cowper.

=In every landscape the point of astonishment is the meeting of the sky and the earth, and that is seen from the first hillock as well as from the top of the Alleghanies.= Emerson.

=In every life there is an upward and a downward tendency= (Trieb); =he is to be praised who remains steadfast in the mean between.= Rückert.

=In every man there is a certain feeling that he has been what he is from all eternity, and by no means became such in time.= Schelling.

=In every parting there is an image of death.= George Eliot.

=In every phenomenon the beginning remains= 40 =always the most notable moment.= Carlyle.

=In every rank, or great or small, / 'Tis industry supports us all.= Gray.

=In every ship there must be a seeing pilot, not a mere hearing one.= Carlyle.

=In even the wisest soul lies a whole world of internal madness, an authentic demon-empire; out of which, indeed, his world of wisdom has been creatively built together, and now rests there, as on its dark foundation does a habitable flowery earth-rind.= Carlyle.

=In every village there will arise a miscreant to establish the most grinding tyranny by calling himself the people.= Sir R. Peel.

=In exalting the faculties of the soul we annihilate,= 45 =in a great degree, the delusion of the senses.= Aimé-Martin.

=In extenso=--In full.

=In extremis=--At the point of death.

=In failing circumstances no man can be relied on to keep his integrity.= Emerson.

=In Faith and Hope the world will disagree, / But all mankind's concern is Charity.= Pope.

=In faith everything depends on "that" you believe;= 50 =in knowledge everything depends on "what" you know, as well as how much and how well.= Goethe.

=In fashionable circles general satire, which attacks the fault rather than the person, is unwelcome; while that which attacks the person and spares the fault is always acceptable.= Jean Paul.

=In ferrum pro libertate ruebant=--They rushed upon the sword in defence of their liberty. M.

=In flagranti delicto=--In the act.

=In flammam flammas, in mare fundis aquas=--You add fire to fire, and water to the sea.

=In for a penny, in for a pound.= Pr. 5

=In forma pauperis=--As a pauper or poor man.

=In foro conscientiæ=--Before the tribunal of conscience.

=In frosty weather a nail is worth a horse.= Sp. Pr.

=In furias ignemque ruunt; amor omnibus idem=--They rush into the flames of passion; love is the same in all. Virg.

=In futuro=--In future; at a future time. 10

=In general, indulgence for those we know is rarer than pity for those we know not.= Rivarol.

=In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.= Ruskin.

=In generalibus latet dolus=--In general assertions some deception lurks.

=In giants we must kill pride and arrogance; but our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.= Cervantes.

=In Glück Vorsichtigkeit, in Unglück Geduld=--In 15 good fortune, prudence; in bad, patience. Ger. Pr.

=In good bearing beginneth worship.= _Hazlitt's Coll._

=In good years, corn is hay; in ill years, straw is corn.= Hazlitt's Coll.

=In granting and in refusing, in joy and in sorrow, in liking and in disliking, good men, because of their own likeness, show mercy unto all things which have life.= Hitopadesa.

=In great states, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents wanting to make men and women of them. In vile states, the children are always wanting to be men and women, and the parents to keep them children.= Ruskin.

=In health, to be stirring shall profit thee best; /= 20 =in sickness, hate trouble, seek quiet and rest.= Thomas Tusser.

=In heaven ambition cannot dwell, / Nor avarice in the vaults of hell.= Southey.

=In heaven the angels are advancing continually to the spring-time of their youth, so that the oldest angel appears the youngest.= Swedenborg.

=In Heaven's sight the mere wish to pray is prayer.= (?)

=In her eyes that never weep, lightnings are laid asleep.= A. Mary F. Robinson.

=In her first passion, woman loves her lover, /= 25 =In all the others, all she loves is love.= Byron.

=In high life every one is polished and courteous, but no one has the courage to be hearty and true.= Goethe.

=In Him we live and move and have our being.= St. Paul.

=In hoc signo spes mea=--In this sign is my hope. M.

=In hoc signo vinces=--By this sign (the cross) thou shalt conquer. M.

=In hoc statu=--In this state or condition. 30

=In hope to merit heaven by making earth a hell.= Byron.

=In idleness alone is there perpetual despair.= Carlyle.

=In illo viro, tantum robur corporis et animi fuit, ut quocunque loco natus esset, fortunam sibi facturus videretur=--In that man there was such oaken strength of body and mind, that whatever his rank by birth might have been, he gave promise of attaining the highest place in the lists of fortune. Livy, of Cato the elder.

=In intercourse with people of superior station, all that is required is not to be perfectly natural, but always to keep within the line of a certain conventional propriety.= Goethe.

=In jedem Menschen ist etwas von allen Menschen=--In 35 every man there is something of all men. Lichtenberg.

=In judicando criminosa est celeritas=--In pronouncing judgment, haste is criminal. L.

=In just and equal measure all is weighed; / One scale contains the sum of human weal, / And one, the good man's heart.= Shelley.

=In King Cambyses' vein.= 1 Hen. IV., ii. 4.

=In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.= Johnson.

=In learning anything, its first principles alone= 40 =should be taught by constraint.= Goethe.

=In letters, if anywhere, we look for the man, not for the author.= Blair.

=In life a friend may be often found and lost; but an old friend never can be found, and Nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost.= Johnson.

=In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.= Bulwer Lytton.

=In life every situation may bring its own peculiar pleasures.= Goldsmith.

=In life there is no present.= Byron. 45

=In limine=--At the threshold or outset.

=In literature to-day there are plenty good masons, but few good architects.= Joubert.

=In loco parentis=--In the place of a parent.

=In long-drawn systole and long-drawn diastole must the period of faith alternate with the period of denial; must the vernal growth, the summer luxuriance of all opinions, spiritual representations and creations, be followed by and again follow the autumnal decay, the winter dissolution.= Carlyle.

=In love all is risk.= Goethe. 50

=In love we are all fools alike.= Gay.

=In love we never think of moral qualities, and scarcely of intellectual ones. Temperament and manner alone, with beauty, excite love.= Hazlitt.

=In loving thou dost well, in passion not, / Wherein true love consists not.= Milton.

=In magnis et voluisse sat est=--In great things it is enough even to have willed. Propertius.

=In maiden meditation, fancy-free.= Mid. N.'s 55 Dream, ii. 1.

=In manners tranquillity is the supreme power.= Mme. de Maintenon.

=In marriage, as in other things, contentment excels wealth.= Molière.

=In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best; in matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.= Robert Hall.

=In mediæval art, thought is the first thing, execution the second; in modern art, execution is the first thing and thought the second.= Ruskin.

=In mediæval art, truth is first, beauty second; in modern art, beauty is first, truth second.= Ruskin.

=In medias res=--Into the midst of a thing at once.

=In medio tutissimus ibis=--You will go safest in the middle or in a middle course. Ovid.

=In medio virtus=--Virtue lies in the mean. Pr. 5

=In meinem Revier / Sind Gelehrten gewesen / Ausser ihrem Brevier / Konnten sie keines lesen=--In my domain there have been learned men, but outside their breviary they could read nothing. Goethe.

=In meinem Staate kann jeder nach seiner Façon selig werden=--In my dominions every one may be happy in his own fashion. Frederick the Great.

=In melle sunt sitæ linguæ vestræ atque orationes, / Corda felle sunt lita atque aceto=--Your tongues and your words are steeped in honey, but your hearts in gall and vinegar. Plaut.

=In memoriam=--To the memory of.

=In men we various ruling passions find; / In= 10 =women, two almost divide the mind; / Those, only fix'd, they first or last obey, / The love of pleasure and the love of sway.= Pope.

=In mercatura facienda multæ fallaciæ et quasi præstigiæ exercentur=--In commerce many deceptions, not to say juggleries, are practised.

=In misfortune, in error, and when the time appointed for certain affairs is about to elapse, a servant who hath his master's welfare at heart ought to speak unasked.= Hitopadesa.

=In moderating, not in satisfying desires, lies peace.= Bp. Heber.

=In modern England the ordinary habits of life and modes of education produce great plainness of mind in middle-aged women.= Ruskin.

=In morals, as in art, saying is nothing, doing= 15 =is all.= Renan.

=In morals good-will is everything, but in art it is ability.= Schopenhauer.

=In morals, what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion, what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism.= Mrs. Jameson.

=In much corn is some cockle.= Pr.

=In much wisdom is much grief, and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.= Bible.

=In my Father's house are many mansions.= 20 Jesus.

=In my virtue= (Tugend) =I wrap myself and sleep.= Platen.

=In Nature there's no blemish but the mind; / None can be called deformed but the unkind.= Twelfth Night, iii. 4.

=In Nature things move violently to their places, and calmly in their place; so virtue in ambition is violent, in authority settled and calm.= Bacon.

=In Nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it, and over it.= Goethe.

=In necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in= 25 =omnibus charitas=--In essential matters, unity, in doubtful, liberty; in all, charity. Melanthon.

=In nine cases out of ten, the evil tongue belongs to a disappointed man.= Bancroft.

=In no time or epoch can the Highest be spoken of in words--not in many words, I think, ever.= Carlyle.

=In nocte consilium=--In the night is counsel; take a night to think over it; sleep upon it.

=In nomine=--In the name of.

=In nomine Domini incipit omne malum=--In the 30 name of the Lord every evil begins. Mediæval Pr.

=In nubibus=--In the clouds.

=In nuce Ilias=--An Iliad in a nutshell.

=In obscuro=--In obscurity.

=In old age nothing any longer astonishes us.= Goethe.

=In old times men used their powers of painting= 35 =to show the objects of faith; in later times they used the objects of faith to show their powers of painting.= Ruskin.

=In omni re vincit imitationem veritas=--In everything truth surpasses its imitation or copy. Cic.

=In omnia paratus=--Prepared for all emergencies. M.

=In omnibus quidem, maxime tamen in jure, æquitas est=--In all things, but particularly in law, regard is to be had to equity. L.

=In one thing men of all ages are alike; they have believed obstinately in themselves.= Jacobi.

=In oratory the will must predominate.= Hare. 40

=In order to do great things, it is necessary to live as if one were never to die.= Vauvenargues.

=In order to love mankind, we must not expect too much of them.= Helvetius.

=In order to manage an ungovernable beast, he must be stinted in his provender.= Queen Elizabeth.

=In our age of down-pulling and disbelief, the very devil has been pulled down; you cannot so much as believe in a devil.= Carlyle.

=In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation, is= 45 =the aim.= Emerson.

=In our judgment of human transactions the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us.= Whately.

=In our own breast, there or nowhere flows the fountain of true pleasure.= Wieland.

=In pace leones, in prælio cervi=--Brave as lions in peace, timid as deer in war.

=In pain is a new time born.= Chamisso.

=In pari materia=--In a similar matter. 50

=In partibus infidelium=--In unbelieving countries.

=In peace, there's nothing so becomes a man / As modest stillness and humility; / But when the blast of war blows in our ears, / Then imitate the action of the tiger; / Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, / Disguise fair Nature with hard-favour'd rage, / Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; / Let it pry through the portage of the head / Like the brass cannons.= Hen. V., iii. 1.

=In peace, who is not wise?= Hitopadesa.

=In perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.= Rückert.

=In perpetuam rei memoriam=--In everlasting remembrance of a thing.

=In pertusum ingerimus dicta dolium=--We are pouring our words into a perforated cask, i.e., are throwing them away. Plaut.

=In petto=--Within the breast; in reserve. It.

=In pios usus=--For pious uses. 5

=In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man.= Macaulay.

=In pleno=--In full.

=In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.= Heine.

=In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.= Bovee.

=In politics, what begins in fear usually ends= 10 =in folly.= Coleridge.

=In pontificalibus=--In full canonicals.

=In portu quies=--Rest in port. M.

=In posse=--Possibly; in possibility.

=In practical life, the wisest and soundest men avoid speculation.= Buckle.

=In præsenti=--At present. 15

=In pretio pretium est; dat census honores, / Census amicitias; pauper ubique jacet=--Worth lies in wealth; wealth purchases honours, friendships; the poor man everywhere is neglected. Ovid.

=In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies; / All quit their sphere and rush into the skies.= Pope.

=In principatu commutando, civium / Nil præter domini nomen mutant pauperes=--In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name. Phædr.

=In private grieve, but with a careless scorn; / In public seem to triumph, not to mourn.= Granville.

=In proportion as one simplifies his life, the= 20 =laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness.= Thoreau.

=In propria persona=--In person.

=In prosperity caution, in adversity patience.= Dut. Pr.

=In prosperity no altars smoke.= It. Pr.

=In puris naturalibus=--Stark naked.

=In quietness and in confidence shall be your= 25 =strength.= Bible.

=In quite common things much depends on choice and determination, but the highest which falls to our lot comes from no man knows whence.= Goethe.

=In radiant, all-irradiating insight, a burning interest, and the glorious, melodious, perennial veracity that results from these two, lies the soul of all worth in all speaking men.= Carlyle.

=In re=--In the matter of.

=In referenda gratia, debemus imitari agros fertiles qui plus multo afferunt quam acceperunt=--In repaying kindness, we ought to imitate fertile lands, which give back much more than they have received. Cic.

=In regard to a book, the main point is what it= 30 =brings me, what it suggests to me.= Goethe.

=In regard to virtue, each one finds certainty by consulting his own heart.= Renan.

=In religion as in friendship, they who profess most are ever the least sincere.= Sheridan.

=In religion, the sentiment is all; the ritual or ceremony indifferent.= Emerson.

=In religion / What damnéd error but some sober brow / Will bless it and approve it with a text?= Mer. of Ven., iii. 2.

=In rerum natura=--In the nature of things. 35

=In resolving to do our work well, is the only sound foundation of any religion whatsoever; and by that resolution only, and what we have done, and not by our belief, Christ will judge us, as He has plainly told us He will.= Ruskin.

=In reverence is the chief joy and power of life.= Ruskin.

=In Rome the Ten Commandments consist of the ten letters, Da pecuniam, Give money.= C. J. Weber.

=In sæcula sæculorum=--For ages and ages; for ever and ever.

=In sanguine fœdus=--A covenant ratified in blood. 40 M.

=In saying aye or no, the very safety of our country and the sum of our well-being lies.= L'Estrange.

=In science read the newest works; in literature, the oldest.= Bulwer Lytton.

=In science the new is an advance; but in morals, as contradicting our inner ideals and historic idols, it is ever a retrogression.= Jean Paul.

=In science we have to consider two things: power and circumstance.= Emerson.

=In se magna ruunt=--Great interests are apt to 45 clash with each other. Lucan.

=In seipso totus, teres, atque rotundus=--Perfect in himself, polished, and rounded. Hor.

=In self-trust all the virtues are comprehended.= Emerson.

=In serum rem trahere=--To protract the discussion, or the sitting, to a late hour. Livy.

=In service, care or coldness / Doth ratably thy fortunes mar or make.= George Herbert.

=In situ=--In its original position. 50

=In small proportion we just beauties see, / And in short measures life may perfect be.= Ben Jonson.

=In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider it hard to find rules without exceptions.= George Eliot.

=In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.= Sterne.

=In solo Deo salus=--Salvation in God alone. M.

=In solo vivendi causa palato est=--To gratify the 55 palate is the sole object of their existence. Juv.

=In some men a certain mediocrity of mind helps to make them wise.= La Bruyère.

=In some men there is a malignant passion to destroy the works of genius, literature, and freedom.= Junius.

=In some sort, love is greater than God.= _Jacob Böhme._

=In some things all, in all things none, are crossed.= R. Southwell.

=In spite of all his faults, there is no creature= 60 =worthier of affection than man.= Goethe.

=In spite of all misfortunes, there is still enough to satisfy one.= Goethe.

=In spite of all the evil that is said of the unfortunates, kings sometimes have their good qualities too.= The Miller of Sans Souci.

=In spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern.= Emerson.

=In statu quo=--In the state in which it was.

=In stinting wisdom, greatest wisdom lies.= Sir 5 Richard Baker.

=In such a world as this a man who is rich in himself is like a bright, warm, happy room at Christmastide, while without are the frost and snow of a December night.= Schopenhauer.

=In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.= Not traceable.

=In tale or history your beggar is ever the first antipode to your king.= Lamb.

=In tenui labor, at tenuis non gloria=--Slight is the subject of my work, but not the glory. Virg.

=In terrorem=--As a warning. 10

=In that fire-whirlwind= (of the burning of the world-Phoenix), =creation and destruction proceed together; ever as the ashes of the old are blown out, do organic filaments of the new mysteriously spin themselves; and amid the rushing and waving of the whirlwind element come tones of a melodious death-song, which end not but in tones of a more melodious birth-song.= Carlyle.

=In the adversity of our best friends we always find something that does not altogether displease us.= La Roche.

=In the balance, hero dust / Is vile as vulgar clay: / Thou, mortality, art just / To all that pass away.= Byron.

=In the breast of every single man there slumbers a frightful germ= (Keim) =of madness= (Wahnsinn). Feuchtersleben.

=In the career of nations no less than of men,= 15 =the error of their intellect and the hardening of their hearts may be accurately measured by their denial of spiritual power.= Ruskin.

=In the catalogue ye go for men.= Macb., iii. 1.

=In the childhood of nations speaking was singing; let this be repeated in the childhood of the individual.= Jean Paul.

=In the coldest flint there is hot fire.= Pr.

=In the confidence of youth man imagines that very much is under his control; in the disappointment of old age, very little.= Draper.

=In the darkest spot on earth / Some love is= 20 =found.= Procter.

=In the degree in which you delight in the life of any creature, you can see it; not otherwise.= Ruskin.

=In the denial of self is the beginning of all that is truly generous and noble.= Carlyle.

=In the destitution of the wild desert does our young Ishmael acquire for himself the highest of all possessions, that of self-help.= Carlyle.

=In the divine commandment, "Thou shalt not steal," if well understood, is comprised the whole Hebrew decalogue, with Solon's and Lycurgus's constitutions, Justinian's pandects, the Code Napoleon, and all codes, catechisms, divinities, moralities whatsoever that man has devised (and enforced with altar-fire and gallows-ropes) for his social guidance.= Carlyle.

=In the division of the inheritance, friendship= 25 =standeth still.= Dut. Pr.

=In the dullest existence there is a sheen of inspiration or of madness (thou partly hast it in thy choice which of the two) that gleams in from the circumambient eternity, and colours with its own hues our little islet of time.= Carlyle.

=In the dusk the plainest writing is illegible.= Goethe.

=In the end / Things will mend.= Pr.

=In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.= Goethe.

=In the evening one may praise the day.= Pr. 30

=In the exact proportion in which men are bred capable of warm affection, common-sense, and self-command, and are educated to love, to think, and to endure, they become noble, live happily, die calmly, are remembered with perpetual honour by their race, and for the perpetual good of it.= Ruskin.

=In the eye of the Supreme, dispositions hold the place of actions.= Blair.

=In the face of every human being his history stands plainly written, his innermost nature steps forth to the light; yet they are the fewest who can read and understand.= Bodenstedt.

=In the fact that hero-worship exists, has existed, and will for ever exist universally among mankind, mayest thou discern the cornerstone of living rock, whereon all politics for the remotest time may stand secure.= Carlyle.

=In the family where the house-father rules= 35 =secure, there dwells the peace= (Friede) =which thou wilt in vain seek for elsewhere in the wide world outside.= Goethe.

=In the field none other can supply our place, each must stand alone,--on himself must rely.= Schiller.

=In the fine arts, as in many other things, we know well only what we have not learned.= Chamfort.

=In the fog of good and evil affections, it is hard for man to walk forward in a straight line.= Emerson.

=In the godlike only has man strength and freedom.= Carlyle.

=In the good as well as in the evil of life, less= 40 =depends upon what befalls us than upon the way in which we take it.= Schopenhauer.

=In the great duel= (of opinion), =Nature herself is umpire, and does no wrong.= Carlyle.

=In the great hand of God I stand.= Macb., ii. 3.

=In the grimmest rocky wildernesses of existence there are blessed well-springs, there is an everlasting guiding star.= Carlyle.

=In the hands of genius the driest stick becomes an Aaron's rod, and buds and blossoms out in poetry.= H. N. Hudson.

=In the husband, wisdom; in the wife, gentleness.= 45 Pr.

=In the interchange of thought use no coin but gold and silver.= Joubert.

=In the land of promise a man may die of hunger.= Dut. Pr.

=In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word as fail.= Bulwer Lytton.

=In the meanest hut there is a romance, if you knew the hearts there.= Varnhagen von Ense.

=In the midst of life we are in death.= _Burial Service._

=In the midst of the sun is the light, in the midst of the light is the truth, and in the midst of the truth is the imperishable being.= The Vedas.

=In the mind, as in a field, though some things may be sown and carefully brought up, yet what springs naturally is the most pleasing.= Tac.

=In the mirror we see the face; in wine, the= 5 =heart.= Ger. Pr.

=In the modesty of fearful duty / I read as much as from the rattling tongue / Of saucy and audacious eloquence.= Mid. Night's Dream, v. 1.

=In the morning mountains; / In the evening fountains.= Herbert's Coll.

=In the morning of life, work; in the mid-day, give counsel; in the evening, pray.= Gr. saying.

=In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.= Bible.

=In the multitude of words there wanteth not= 10 =sin.= Bible.

=In the ordinary concerns of life, moral energy is more serviceable than brilliant parts; while in the more important, these latter are of little weight without it, evaporating only in brief and barren flashes.= Prescott.

=In the perishable petals of the flower there resides more spirit and life than in the lumpish granite boulder that has defied the tear and wear of thousands of years.= Feuerbach.

=In the place where the tree falleth, there it shall lie.= Bible.

=In the pursuit of intellectual pleasure lies every virtue; of sensual, every vice.= Goldsmith.

=In the religion of Christ, as in the philosophy= 15 =of Hegel, the negative principle is the creative, or determinative, principle. Christianity begins in No, subsists in No, and survives in No, to the spirit of the world; this it at first peremptorily spurns, and then calmly disregards as of no account.= Ed.

=In the same measure in which you wish to receive, you must give. If you wish for a whole heart, give a whole life.= Rückert.

=In the smallest cottage there is room enough for two lovers.= Schiller.

=In the spiritual world, as in the astronomical, it is the earth that turns and produces the phenomena of the heavens.= Carlyle.

=In the spiritual world there is properly no in and no out.= Jean Paul.

=In the state nobody can enjoy life in peace,= 20 =but everybody must govern; in art, nobody will enjoy what has been produced, but every one wants to reproduce on his own account.= Goethe.

=In the sweat of thy brow shalt thou eat thy bread.= Bible.

=In the true Utopia, man will rather harness himself with his oxen to his plough, than leave the devil to drive it.= Ruskin.

=In the unhappy man forget the foe.= Addison.

=In the utmost solitudes of Nature, the existence of hell seems to me as legibly declared by a thousand spiritual utterances as that of heaven.= Ruskin.

=In the way of righteousness is life; and in the= 25 =pathway thereof there is no death.= Bible.

=In the wilderness of life there are springs and palm-trees.= S. Lover.

=In the winter, warmth stands for all virtue.= Thoreau.

=In the works of many celebrated authors men are mere personifications. We have not a jealous man, but jealousy; not a traitor, but perfidy; not a patriot, but patriotism. The mind of Bunyan, on the contrary, was so imaginative that personifications, when he dealt with them, became men.= Macaulay.

=In the world's opinion marriage, as in a play, winds up everything; whereas it is, in fact, the beginning of everything.= Mme. Swetchine.

=In the world-strife now waging, the victory= 30 =cannot be by violence; and every conquest under the Prince of War retards the standards of the Prince of Peace.= Ruskin.

=In the wreck of noble lives / Something immortal still survives.= Longfellow.

=In theatro ludus=--Like a scene at a play.

=In these days, whether we like it or not, the power is with the tongue.= Lord Salisbury.

=In these sick days, when the born of heaven first descries himself in a world such as ours, richer than usual in two things, in truths grown obsolete, and trades grown obsolete--what can the fool think but that it is all a den of lies, wherein whoso will not speak lies and act lies must stand idle and despair?= Carlyle.

=In these times we fight for ideas, and newspapers= 35 =are our fortresses.= Heine.

=In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.= A. B. Alcott.

=In things that may have a double sense, it is good to think the better was intended; so shall we still both keep our friends and quietness.= Feltham.

=In this blunder still you find, / All think their little set mankind.= Hannah More.

=In this theatre of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to look on.= Pythagoras.

=In this wild element of a life, man has to= 40 =struggle onwards; now fallen, deep-abased; and ever, with tears, repentance, with bleeding heart, he has to rise again, struggle again, still onwards. That his struggle be a faithful, unconquerable one--that is the question of questions.= Carlyle.

=In this world, full often our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.= Ward Beecher.

=In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.= Ward Beecher.

=In this world there is one godlike thing, the essence from first to last of all of godlike in it--the veneration done to human worth by the hearts of men.= Carlyle.

=In thy breast are the stars of thy fate.= Schiller.

=In thy thriving still misdoubt some evil: / Lest= 45 =gaining gain on thee, and make thee dim / To all things else.= George Herbert.

=In time comes he whom God sends.= _Herbert's Coll._

=In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.= Much Ado, i. 1.

=In time we hate that which we often fear.= Ant. and Cleop., i. 3.

=In times of anarchy one may seem a despot in order to be a saviour.= Mirabeau.

=In times of danger it is proper to be alarmed= 5 =until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.= Hitopadesa.

=In times of misfortune men's understandings even are sullied.= Hitopadesa.

=In times of necessity the words of the wise are worthy to be observed.= Hitopadesa.

=In too much disputing truth is lost.= Fr. Pr.

=In totidem verbis=--In so many words.

=In toto=--In the whole; entirely. 10

=In toto et pars continetur=--In the whole the part also is contained.

=In transitu=--In passing.

=In treachery it is not the fraud, but the cold-heartedness, that is chiefly dreadful.= Ruskin.

=In trinitate robur=--My strength lies in trinity (or triunity). M.

=In true marriage lies / Nor equal, nor unequal:= 15 =each fulfils / Defect in each, and always thought in thought, / Purpose in purpose, will in will, they grow, / The single pure and perfect animal, / The two-cell'd heart beating, with one full stroke, / Life.= Tennyson.

=In turbas et discordias pessimo cuique plurima vis=--In seasons of tumult and discord, the worst men have the greatest power. Tac.

=In unoquoque virorum bonorum habitat Deus=--God has his dwelling within every good man. Sen.

=In usum Delphini=--For the use of the Dauphin.

=In utero=--In the womb.

=In utramvis dormire aurem=--To sleep on both 20 ears, i.e., soundly, as no longer needing to keep awake. Pr.

=In utraque fortuna paratus=--Prepared in any change of fortune. M.

=In utroque fidelis=--Faithful in both. M.

=In vacuo=--In empty space.

=In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle.= Horace Mann.

=In vain does the mill clack / If the miller his= 25 =hearing lack.= Herbert's Coll.

=In veritate religionis confido=--I confide in the truth of religion. M.

=In veritate victoria=--Victory lies with the truth. M.

=In vino veritas=--There is truth in wine; that is, the truth comes out under its influence.

=In vitium ducit culpæ fuga=--In flying from one vice we are sometimes led into another. Hor.

=In water you may see your own face; in wine= 30 =the heart of another.= Pr.

=In well-regulated civil society there is scarcely a more melancholy suffering to be undergone than what is forced on us by the neighbourhood of an incipient player on the flute or violin.= Goethe.

=In wenig Stunden / Hat Gott das Rechte gefunden=--God takes but a short time to find out the right. Goethe.

=In wonder all philosophy began; in wonder it ends; and admiration fills up the interspace.= Coleridge.

=In wonder the spirits fly not as in fear, but only settle.= Bacon.

=In working well, if travail you sustain, / Into= 35 =the wind shall lightly pass the pain, / But of the deed the glory shall remain.= Nicholas Grimwald.

=In works of labour or of skill, / I would be busy too, / For Satan finds some mischief still / For idle hands to do.= Watts.

=In writing readily, it does not follow that you write well; but in writing well, you must be able to write readily.= Quinct.

=In your own country your name, in other countries your appearance.= Heb. Pr.

=In youth and beauty wisdom is but rare.= Pope, after Homer.

=In youth it is too early, in old age it is too late= 40 =to marry.= Diogenes.

=In youth, one has tears without grief; in age, grief without tears.= Jean Paul.

=Inactivity cannot be led to good.= _Hannah More._

=Inanis verborum torrens=--An unmeaning torrent of words. Quinct.

=Incedis per ignes / Suppositos cineri doloso=--You are treading on fire overlaid by treacherous ashes. Hor.

=Incedit in Scyllam qui vult vitare Charybdim=--He 45 falls into Scylla in struggling to escape Charybdis. Pr.

=Incendit omnem feminæ zelus domum=--The jealousy of a woman sets a whole house in a flame. Pr.

=Incense is a tribute for gods only but a poison for mortals.= Goethe.

=Inceptis gravibus plerumque et magna professis, / Purpureus, late qui splendeat, unus et alter / Adsuitur pannus=--Oftentimes to lofty beginnings and such as promise great things, one or two purple patches are stitched on in order to make a brilliant display. Hor.

=Incerta hæc si tu postules / Ratione certa facere, nihilo plus agas, / Quam si des operam ut cum ratione insanias=--If you require reason to make that certain which is uncertain, you are simply attempting to go mad by the rules of reason. Ter.

=Incerta pro nullis habetur=--What is uncertain 50 is to be treated as non-extant. L.

=Incerti sunt exitus belli=--The results of war are uncertain. Cic.

=Incertum est quo te loco mors expectet; itaque in omni loco illam expecta=--It is uncertain in what place death awaits you; be ready for it therefore in every place. Sen.

=Incessant scribbling is death to thought.= Carlyle.

=Incessu patuit Dea=--By her gait the goddess stood revealed. Virg.

=Incidents ought not to govern policy; but= 55 =policy, incidents.= Napoleon.

=Inclusio unius est exclusio alterius=--The mention by name of the one implies the exclusion of the other. L.

=Incoctum generoso pectus honesto=--A heart imbued with generous honour. Pers.

=Inconsiderate persons do not think till they they speak; or they speak, and then think.= Judge Hale.

=Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.= Daniel Webster.

=Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilisers of men.= Disraeli.

=Incrédules les plus crédules=--The incredulous 5 are the most credulous. Pascal.

=Incudi reddere=--To return to the anvil, i.e., to improve, or recast. Hor.

=Inde datæ leges ne fortior omnia posset=--Laws have been ordained to the end that the stronger may not have everything their own way. L.

=Inde iræ et lacrimæ=--Hence rage and tears. Juv.

=Indecision and delay are the parents of failure.= Canning.

=Independence, in all kinds, is rebellion; if unjust= 10 =rebellion, why parade it and everywhere prescribe it.= Carlyle.

=Independence, in all kinds, is rebellion. Were your superiors worthy to govern, and you worthy to obey, reverence for them were even your only possible freedom.= Carlyle.

=Independence, like honour, is a rocky island without a beach.= Napoleon.

=Independence you had better cease to talk of, for you are dependent not only on every act of people whom you never heard of, who are living round you, but on every past act of what has been dust for a thousand years.= Ruskin.

=Index expurgatorius=--An expurgatory index.

=Indica tigris agit rabida cum tigride pacem /= 15 =Perpetuam: sævis inter se convenit ursis. / Ast homini ferrum letale incude nefanda / Produxisse parum est=--The Indian tigers live in perpetual peace with each rabid tigress; savage bears agree among themselves, but man without remorse beats out the deadly sword on the accursed anvil. Juv.

=Indictum sit=--Be it unsaid.

=Indigestion is the devil--nay, 'tis the devil and all. It besets a man in every one of his senses.= Burns.

=Indigna digna habenda sunt hæres quæ facit=--Things unbecoming are to be held becoming if the master does them. Plaut.

=Indignant good sense is often the perfection of absurdity.= Thackeray.

=Indignante invidia florebit justus=--The just 20 man will prosper in spite of envy. M.

=Indigne vivit per quem non vivit alter=--He by whom another does not live does not deserve to live.

=Indignor quidquam reprehendi, non quia crasse / Compositum, illepideve putetur, sed quia nuper=--I feel indignant when a work is censured not as uncouth or rough, but as new.

=Individuality is everywhere to be spared and respected, as the root of everything good.= Jean Paul.

=Individuality is of far more account than nationality.= Schopenhauer.

=Individually man is a weak being, but strong= 25 =in union with others.= Herder.

=Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone can create a nation.= Disraeli.

=Individuals must be modest, but modesty degrades nations.= Gioberti.

=Indocilis pauperiem pati=--One that cannot learn to bear poverty. Hor.

=Indocilis privata loqui=--Incapable of betraying secrets. Lucan.

=Indocti discant, et ament meminisse periti=--Let 30 the ignorant learn, and the learned take pleasure in refreshing their remembrance. President Hénault, after Pope.

=Indolence and stupidity are first cousins.= Rivarol.

=Indolence is the paralysis of the soul.= Lavater.

=Indolence is the sleep of the mind.= Vauvenargues.

=Industria floremus=--By industry we flourish. M.

=Industriæ nil impossibile=--Nothing is impossible 35 to industry.

=Industry is Fortune's right hand, and Frugality her left.= Pr.

=Industry is the parent of success.=

=Industry is the parent of virtue.=

=Industry need not wish.= Ben. Franklin.

=Indutus virtute ab alto=--Anointed with virtue 40 from above.

=Inest et formicæ sua bilis=--Even the ant has its bile.

=Inest sua gratia parvis=--Even little things have a grace of their own.

=Inest virtus et mens interrita lethi=--He has a valiant heart and a soul undaunted by death. Ovid.

=Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to Paradise.= Emerson.

=Infancy presents body and spirit in unity; the= 45 =body is all animated.= Coleridge.

=Infandum, regina, jubes renovare dolorem=--Indescribable, O Queen, is the grief you bid me renew. Virg.

=Infecta pace=--Without effecting a peace. Ter.

=Inferior poetry is an injury to the good, inasmuch as it takes away the freshness of rhymes, blunders upon and gives a wretched commonality to good thoughts, and, in general, adds to the weight of human weariness in a most woeful and culpable manner.= Ruskin.

=Infidelity is not always built upon doubt, for this is diffident; nor philosophy always upon wisdom, for this is meek; but pride is neither.= Colton.

=Infidelity, like death, admits of no degrees.= 50 Mme. de Girardin.

=Infinite is the help man can yield to man.= Carlyle.

=Infinite pity, yet also infinite rigour of law; it is so Nature is made.= Carlyle.

=Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist; but, by ascending a little, you may often overlook it altogether.= Helps.

=Inflatum plenumque Nerone propinquo=--Puffed up and full of his relationship to Nero. Juv.

=Inflict not on an enemy every injury in your= 55 =power, for he may afterwards become your friend.= Saadi.

=Influence is to be measured not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind.= Channing.

=Infra dignitatem=--Beneath one's dignity.

=Ingenii largitor venter=--The belly is the bestower of genius.

=Ingeniis patuit campus, certusque merenti / Stat favor: ornatur propriis industria donis=--The field is open to talent and merit is sure of its reward. The gifts with which industry is crowned are her own. Claud.

=Ingenio facies conciliante placet=--When the 5 disposition wins us, the features please. Ovid.

=Ingenio non ætate adipiscitur sapientia=--Wisdom is a birth of Nature, not of years.

=Ingenio stat sine morte decus=--The honour accorded to genius is immortal. Propert.

=Ingeniorum cos æmulatio=--Rivalry is the whetstone of talent.

=Ingenium ingens / Inculto latet hoc sub corpore=--A great intellect lies concealed under that uncouth exterior. Hor.

=Ingenium mala sæpe movent=--Misfortunes often 10 stir up genius. Ovid.

=Ingenium res adversæ nudare solent, celare secundæ=--As a rule, adversity reveals genius, and prosperity conceals it. Hor.

=Ingens telum necessitas=--Necessity is a powerful weapon.

=Ingentes animos angusto in corpore versant=--They have mighty souls at work within a stinted body. Virg.

=Ingenuas didicisse fideliter artes / Emollit mores, nec sinit esse feros=--A faithful study of the liberal arts refines the manners and corrects their harshness. Ovid.

=Ingrata patria, ne ossa quidem habebis=--Ungrateful 15 country, thou shalt not have even my bones. Scipio.

=Ingratis servire nefas=--To serve the ungrateful is an offence to the gods.

=Ingratitude and compassion never cohabit in the same breast.= South.

=Ingratitude drieth up wells, / And time bridges fells.= Wodroephe.

=Ingratitude is a crime so shameful, that the man was never yet found who would acknowledge himself guilty of it.= (?)

=Ingratitude! thou marble-hearted fiend, / More= 20 =hideous, when thou show'st thee in a child, / Than the sea-monster.= King Lear, i. 4.

=Ingratus est qui remotis testibus agit gratiam=--He is an ungrateful man who is unwilling to acknowledge his obligation before others. Sen.

=Ingratus unus miseris omnibus nocet=--One ungrateful man does an injury to all needy people. Pub. Syr.

=Inimicus et invidus vicinorum oculus=--An enemy and an envious man is an eye over his neighbour. Pr.

=Iniqua nunquam regna perpetua manent=--Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration. Sen.

=Iniquum est aliquem rei sui esse judicem=--It is 25 unjust that any one should be judge in his own cause. Coke.

=Initia magistratuum nostrorum meliora ferme, et finis inclinat=--The commencement of our official duties is characterised by greater vigour and alacrity, but towards the end they flag. Tac.

=Initium est salutis, notitia peccati=--The first step in a man's salvation is knowledge of his sin. Sen.

=Injuria absque damno=--Injury without loss.

=Injuriæ spretæ exolescunt, si irascaris agnitæ videntur=--Injuries that are slighted and unnoticed are soon forgotten; if you are angry, they are seen to be acknowledged. Pr.

=Injuriam qui facturus est jam facit=--He who is 30 bent on doing an injury has already done it. Sen.

=Injuriarum remedium est oblivio=--Oblivion is the best remedy for injuries. Pr.

=Injuries come only from the heart.= Sterne.

=Injusta ab justis impetrare non decet; / Justa autem ab injustis petere, insipientia est=--To ask what is unreasonable from the reasonable is not right; to ask what is reasonable from the unreasonable is folly. Plaut.

=Inmost things are all melodious, naturally utter themselves in song. The meaning of song goes deep.= Carlyle.

=Innocence has a friend in heaven.= Schiller. 35

=Innocence is a flower which withers when touched, and blooms not again though watered with tears.= Hooper.

=Inopem me copia fecit=--Plenty has made me poor; wealth makes wit waver. Ovid.

=Inopi beneficium bis dat, qui dat celeriter=--He confers a twofold benefit on a needy man who does so quickly. Pub. Syr.

=Inops, potentem dum vult imitari, perit=--An incapable man who attempts to imitate a capable is sure to come to grief. Phædr.

=Inquinat egregios adjuncta superbia mores=--The 40 best manners are stained by the addition of pride. Claud.

=Inquisitiveness as seldom cures jealousy as drinking in a fever quenches the thirst.= Wycherley.

=Ins Innre der Natur / Dringt kein erschaffner Geist. / Glückselig, wem sie nur / Die äussre Schale weist=--No created spirit penetrates into the inner secret of Nature. Happy he to whom she shows but the outer shell. Haller.

=Insani sapiens nomen ferat, æquus iniqui, / Ultra quod satis est virtutem si petat ipsam=--Let the wise man bear the name of fool, and the just of unjust, if he pursue Virtue herself beyond the proper bounds. Hor.

=Insanire parat certa ratione modoque=--He is preparing to act the madman with a certain degree of reason and method. Hor.

=Insanity is often the logic of an accurate= 45 =mind overtasked.= Holmes.

=Insanus omnis furere credit cæteros=--Every madman believes that all others are mad. Syr.

=Insculpsit=--He engraved it.

=Inservi Deo et lætare=--Serve God and rejoice. M.

=Insipientis est dicere, Non putarem=--It is the part of a fool to say, "I should not have thought so."

=Insita hominibus natura violentiæ resistere=--It 50 is natural to man to resist oppression. Tac.

=Insita mortalibus natura, propere sequi quæ piget inchoare=--People are naturally ready enough to follow in matters in which they are disinclined to take the lead. Tac.

=Insolence is pride when her mask is pulled off.= Pr.

=Insouciance=--Indifference. Fr.

=Insperata accidunt magis sæpe quam quæ speres=--What you do not expect happens more frequently than what you do. Plaut.

=Inspicere, tanquam in speculum, in vitas omnium / Jubeo, atque ex aliis sumere exemplum sibi=--I would have you to look into the lives of all, as into a mirror, and draw from others an example for yourself. Ter.

=Inspiration must find answering inspiration.= A. B. Alcott.

=Inspirations that we deem our own are our= 5 =divine foreshadowing and foreseeing of things beyond our reason and control.= Longfellow.

=Inspiring bold John Barleycorn! / What dangers thou canst make us scorn!= Burns.

=Instar omnium=--Like all the others.

=Instead of the piteous and frightful figure of Death, stepping whip to hand by the peasant's side in the field, ... place there a radiant angel, sowing with full hands the blessed grain in the smoking furrow.= George Sand.

=Instead of watching the bird as it flies above our heads, we chase his shadow along the ground; and, finding we cannot grasp it, we conclude it to be nothing.= Hare.

=Instinct is a great matter; I was a coward on= 10 =instinct.= 1 Hen. IV., ii. 4.

=Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.= John Sterling.

=Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.= Goethe.

=Intaminatis fulget honoribus=--He shines with unspotted honours. M.

=Integer vitæ scelerisque purus / Non eget Mauris jaculis neque arcu=--The man of upright life and free from crime has no need of Moorish javelin or bow. Hor.

=Integrity gains strength by use.= Tillotson. 15

=Integrity is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line, and will hold out and last longest.= Tillotson.

=Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.= Johnson.

=Intellect annuls fate; so far as a man thinks, he is free.= Emerson.

=Intellect is aristocratic; charity is democratic.= Amiel.

=Intellect is not speaking and logicising; it= 20 =is seeing and ascertaining.= Carlyle.

=Intellect lies behind genius, which is intellect constructive.= Emerson.

=Intellectual fairness is often only another name for indolence and inconclusiveness of mind, just as love of truth is sometimes a fine phrase for temper.= J. Morley.

=Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity.= Emerson.

=Intelligabilia, non intellectum, fero=--I provide you with things intelligible, but not with intelligence.

=Intemperans adolescentia effetum corpus= 25 =tradet senectuti=--An incontinent youth will transmit a worn-out bodily frame to old age. Cic.

=Intemperate wits will spare neither friend nor foe, and make themselves the common enemies of mankind.= L'Estrange.

=Intense study of the Bible will keep any man from being vulgar in point of style.= Coleridge.

=Inter alia=--Among other matters.

=Inter amicos omnium rerum communitas=--Among friends all things are common. Cic.

=Inter arma leges silent=--In the midst of arms 30 the laws are silent. Cic.

=Inter canem et lupum=--Between the dog and the wolf; at the twilight.

=Inter cetera mala, hoc quoque habet stultitia proprium, semper incipit vivere=--Among other evils, folly has also this special characteristic, it is always beginning to live. Sen.

=Inter delicias semper aliquid sævi nos strangulat=--In the midst of our enjoyments there is always some wrong to torture us. Pr.

=Inter Græcos græcissimus, inter Latinos latinissimus=--In Greek he is the most accomplished Grecian, and in Latin the most thorough Latinist.

=Inter malleum et incudem=--Between the hammer 35 and the anvil.

=Inter nos=--Between ourselves.

=Inter nos sanctissima divitiarum / Majestas=--Among us the most sacred majesty is that of riches. Juv.

=Inter pueros senex=--An old man among boys. Pr.

=Inter spem curamque, timores inter et iras, / Omnem crede diem tibi diluxisse supremum: / Grata superveniet quæ non sperabitur hora=--In the midst of hope and care, in the midst of fears and passions, believe each day that dawns on you is your last; welcome will steal upon you the hour that is not hoped for. Hor.

=Inter sylvas Academi quærere verum=--Amid 40 the woods of Academus to seek for truth. Hor.

=Inter utrumque tene=--Keep a mid course between the two extremes. Ovid.

=Inter vivos=--Among the living.

=Interdum lacrymæ pondera vocis habent=--Sometimes tears have the weight of words. Ovid.

=Interdum stultus bene loquitur=--Sometimes a fool speaks reasonably.

=Interdum vulgus rectum videt, est ubi peccat=--Sometimes 45 the common people judge aright; at other times they err. Hor.

=Interea gustus elementa per omnia quærunt, / Nunquam animo pretiis obstantibus; interius si / Attendas, magis illa juvant, quæ pluris emuntur=--Meantime they search for relishes through all the elements, with minds regardless of expense; look at it closely, those things please more which cost the higher price. Juv.

=Interest blinds some people and enlightens others.= La Roche.

=Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls.= Rousseau.

=Interest reipublicæ ut quisque re sua bene utatur=--It is for the interest of the state that every one make a good use of his property.

=Interest speaks all sorts of tongues, and plays= 50 =all sorts of parts, even the part of the disinterested.= La Roche.

=Interim fit aliquid=--- Something is going on meanwhile. Ter.

=Into a mouth shut flies fly not.= Pr.

=Into contradicting / Be thou never led away; / When with the ignorant they strive, / The wise to folly fall away.= Goethe.

=Into each life some rain must fall, / Some days must be dark and dreary.= Longfellow.

=Intolerabilius nihil est quam fœmina dives=--There is nothing more insufferable than a rich woman. Juv.

=Intra muros=--Within the walls.

=Introite, nam et hic dii sunt=--Enter, for here too are gods. Heraclitus, from Arist.

=Intuition is the clear conception of the whole= 5 =at once. It seldom belongs to man to say without presumption, "I came, I saw, I conquered."= Lavater.

=Intus et in cute novi hominem=--I know the man inside and out. Pers.

=Intus et in jecore ægro / Nascuntur domini=--Masters spring up in our own breasts, and from a morbid liver. Pers.

=Intus si recte, ne labora=--If inwardly right, don't worry.

=Intuta quæ indecora=--What is unbecoming is unsafe. Tac.

=Inveni portum, Spes et Fortuna valete, / Sat= 10 =me lusistis, ludite nunc alios=--I have reached the port; hope and fortune, farewell; you have made sport enough of me; make sport of others now. Lines at the end of Le Sage's "Gil Blas."

=Invent first, and then embellish.= Johnson.

=Invention breeds invention.= Emerson.

=Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.= Swift.

=Inventions have all been invented over and over fifty times. Man is the arch-machine, of which all these shifts drawn from himself are toy models.= Emerson.

=Invia virtuti nulla est via=--No way is impassable 15 to virtue. Ovid.

=Invidia gloriæ comes=--Envy is the attendant on glory. Ovid.

="Invidia," jealousy of your neighbour's good, has been, since dust was first made flesh, the curse of man; and "charitas," the desire to do your neighbour grace, the one source of all human glory, power and material blessing.= Ruskin.

=Invidia Siculi non invenere tyranni / Tormentum majus=--Sicilian tyrants invented nothing that is a greater torment than envy. Juv.

=Invidiam ferre aut fortis aut felix potest=--Only the brave or the fortunate are able to endure envy. Pub. Syr.

=Invidiam placare paras, virtute relicta?=--Are 20 you trying to appease envy by the abandonment of virtue?

=Invidus alterius macrescit rebus opimis=--The envious man grows lean at the prosperity of another. Hor.

=Invidus, iracundus, iners, vinosus, amator, / Nemo adeo ferus est, ut non mitescere possit, / Si modo culturæ patientem commodet aurem=--The envious, the passionate, the indolent, the drunken, the lewd--none is so savage that he cannot be tamed, if he only lend a patient ear to culture. Hor.

=Invisa nunquam imperia retinentur diu=--Hated governments never hold out long. Sen.

=Invisa potentia, atque miseranda vita eorum, qui se metui quam amari malunt=--The power is detested, and the life wretched, of those who would rather be feared than loved. Corn. Nep.

=Invita Minerva=--Without genius or the requisite 25 inspiration; against the will of Minerva.

=Invitat culpam qui peccatum præterit=--He who overlooks one crime invites the commission of another. Pub. Syr.

=Invitum qui servat idem facit occidenti=--He who saves a man against his will, does the same as if he killed him. Hor.

=Invitum sequitur honos=--Honour follows him unsolicited. M.

=Inward cheerfulness is an implicit praise and thanksgiving to Providence under all its dispensations.= Addison.

=Ipsæ rursum concedite sylvæ=--Once again, ye 30 woods, adieu! Virg.

=Ipse dixit=--He himself (viz. Pythagoras) said it. Assertion without proof.

=Ipse docet quid agam: fas est et ab hoste doceri=--He himself teaches me what to do; one ought not to be above taking a lesson even from an enemy. Ovid.

=Ipse Jupiter, neque pluens omnibus placet, neque abstinens=--Even Jupiter himself cannot please all, whether he sends rain or fair weather. Pr.

=Ipse pavet; nec qua commissas flectat habenas, / Nec scit qua sit iter; nec, si sciat, imperet illis=--Scared himself, he knows neither how to turn the reins intrusted to him, nor which way to go; nor if he did, could he control the horses. Ovid, of Phaethon.

=Ipsissima verba=--The exact words. 35

=Ipso facto=--By the fact itself.

=Ipso jure=--By the law itself.

=Ir por lana, y volver trasquilado=--To go for wool and come back shorn. Sp. Pr.

=Ira furor brevis est; animum rege, qui, nisi paret, / Imperat: hunc frenis, hunc tu compesce catena=--Anger is a shortlived madness; control thy temper, for unless it obeys, it commands thee; restrain it with bit and chain. Hor.

=Ira quæ tegitur nocet; / Professa perdunt= 40 =odia vindictæ locum=--Resentment which is concealed is dangerous; hatred avowed loses its opportunity of revenge. Sen.

=Irarum tantos volvis sub pectore fluctus?=--Dost thou roll such billows of wrath within your breast? Virg.

=Iratus cum ad se redit, sibi tum irascitur=--When an angry man returns to himself, he is angry with himself. Pub. Syr.

=Ire tamen restat, Numa quo devenit et Ancus=--It still remains for you to go where Numa has gone, and Ancus before you. Hor.

=Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.= Bible.

=Iron with often handling is worn to nothing.= 45 Lyly's Euphues.

=Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.= Whipple.

=Irony is jesting hidden behind gravity.= _John Weiss._

=Irremeabilis unda=--The river there is no recrossing; the styx. Hor.

=Irresolution loosens all our joints; like an ague, it shakes not this limb or that limb, but all the body is at once in a fit. The irresolute man hatches nothing, but addles all his actions.= Feltham.

=Irritabis crabrones=--You will irritate the hornets. 50 Plaut.

=Irritation, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.= George Eliot.

=Irrthum verlässt uns nie; doch ziehet ein höher Bedürfniss immer den strebenden Geist leise zur Wahrheit hinan=--Error never leaves us, yet a higher need always draws the striving spirit gently on to truth. Goethe.

=Is a man one whit the better because he is grown great in other men's esteem?= Thomas à Kempis.

=Is any place so inaccessible that an ass laden with gold cannot penetrate?= Philip of Macedon to a scout who pronounced a certain territory impregnable.

=Is beauty vain because it will fade? Then are earth's green robe and heavens light vain.= Pierpont.

=Is cadet ante senem, qui sapit ante diem=--He 5 will die before he is old who is prematurely wise. Pr.

=Is common opinion the standard of merit?= Thomas à Kempis.

=Is habitus animorum fuit, ut pessimum facinus auderent pauci, plures vellent, omnes paterentur=--Such was the public temper, that some few dared to perpetrate the vilest crimes, more were fain to do so, and all looked passively on. Tac.

=Is it in destroying and pulling down that skill is displayed? The shallowest understanding, the rudest hand, is more equal to that task.= Burke.

=Is it not astonishing that the love of repose keeps us in continual agitation?= Stanislaus.

=Is it not strange that men should be so ready= 10 =to fight for religion and so reluctant to observe its precepts?= Lichtenberg.

=Is it not the same to whoso wears a shoe as if the earth were thatched all over with leather?= Hitopadesa.

=Is it right to despair, and shall truth make us sad?= Renan.

=Is maxime divitiis utitur, qui minime divitiis indiget=--He employs riches to the best purpose who least needs them. Sen.

=Is mihi demum vivere et frui anima videtur, qui aliquo negotio intentus, præclari facinoris aut artis bonæ famam quærit=--He alone appears to me to live and to enjoy life, who, being engaged in some business, seeks reputation by some illustrious action or some useful art. Sall.

=Is mihi videtur amplissimus qui sua virtute in= 15 =altiorem locum pervenit=--He is in my regard the most illustrious man who has risen by his own virtues. Cic.

=Is not belief the true God-announcing miracle?= Novalis.

=Is not cant the= prima materia =of the devil, from which all falsehoods, imbecilities, abominations body themselves, from which no true thing can come?= Carlyle.

=Is not light greater than fire? It is the same element in a state of purity.= Carlyle.

=Is not marriage an open question when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?= Emerson.

=Is not shame the soil of all virtue, of all good= 20 =manners and good morals?= Carlyle.

=Is ordo vitio careto, cæteris specimen esto=--Let this class (viz. the nobility of Rome) be free from vice and a pattern to the rest. The Twelve Tables.

=Is sapiens qui se ad casus accommodet omnes; / Stultus pugnat in adversis ire natator aquis=--He is a wise man who adapts himself to all contingencies; the fool struggles like a swimmer against the stream.

=Is that a wonder which happens in two hours; and does it cease to be wonderful if happening in two millions?= Carlyle.

=Is the God present, felt in my own heart, a thing which Herr von Voltaire will dispute out of me or dispute into me? To the "worship of sorrow"= (Christianity) =ascribe what origin and genesis thou pleasest, has not that worship originated and been generated; is it not here? Feel it in thy heart and then say whether it is of God!= Carlyle.

=Is the jay more precious than the lark because= 25 =his feathers are more beautiful?= _Tam. of Shrew_, iv. 3.

=Is there anything of its own nature beautiful or not beautiful? The beauty of a thing is even that by which it shineth.= Hitopadesa.

=Is there evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it?= Bible.

=Is there for honest poverty / That hangs his head, and a' that? / The coward slave we pass him by, / We dare be poor for a' that.= Burns.

=Is there no God, then? but at best an absentee God, sitting idle, ever since the first Sabbath, at the outside of His universe, and seeing it go?= Carlyle.

=Is there no stoning save with flint and rock?= 30 Tennyson.

=Is there no way to bring home a wandering sheep but by worrying him to death?= Thomas Fuller.

=Is this a dagger which I see before me, / The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.= Macb., ii. 1.

=Is thy complexion sour? / Then keep such company.= Herbert.

=Is your trumpeter dead, that you are obliged to praise yourself?= Pr.

=Isaac's fond blessing may not fall on scorn, /= 35 =Nor Balaam's curse on love which God hath blest.= Keble.

=Island ez hinn besta haud sun solinn shinnar uppà=--Iceland is the best land on which the sun shines. Icelandic Pr.

=Isolation is the sum-total of wretchedness to a man.= Carlyle.

=Ist's Gottes Werk, so wird's besteh'n / Ist's Menschenwerk, wird's untergeh'n=--If it be God's work, it will stand; if man's, it will perish.

=Ista decens facies longis vitiabitur annis; / Rugaque in antiqua fronte senilis erit=--That comely face of thine will be marred by length of years, and the wrinkle of age will one day scar thine aged brow. Ovid.

=Istæc in me cudetur faba=--I shall have to smart 40 for it (lit. that bean will hit me). Ter.

=Istuc est sapere, non quod ante pedes modo est / Videre, sed etiam illa quæ futura sunt / Prospicere=--That is wisdom, not merely to see what is immediately before one's eyes, but to forecast what is going to happen. Ter.

=Istuc est sapere, qui, ubicunque opus sit, animum possis flectere=--You are a wise man if you can easily direct your attention to whatever may require it. Ter.

=It= (love) =adds a precious seeing to the eye.= Love's L. Lost, iv. 3.

=It belongs to great men to have great defects.= Fr. Pr.

=It can do us no harm to look at what is extraordinary with our own eyes.= Goethe.

=It chanceth in an hour that cometh not in seven years.= Pr.

=It costs more to revenge injuries than to bear= 5 =them.= Pr.

=It dawns no sooner for one's early rising.= Port. Pr.

=It exalteth a man from earthly things to love those that are heavenly.= Thomas à Kempis.

=It happens as with cages, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.= Montaigne.

=It happens to men of learning as to ears of corn; they shoot up and raise their heads high while they are empty; but when full and swelled with grain, they begin to flag and droop.= (?)

=It has been well said that our anxiety does= 10 =not empty to-morrow of its sorrows, but only empties to-day of its strength.= Spurgeon.

=It is a bad trade that of censor; he is sure to incur the hatred of those he censures, without finding them improved by the correction.= Guy Patin.

=It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that he thinks no evil of the object loved.= Longfellow.

=It is a beggarly conception to judge as if poetry should always be capable of a prose rendering.= John Morley.

=It is a brave act of valour to contemn death; but when life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valour to dare to live.= Sir T. Browne.

=It is a characteristic of true genius to disturb= 15 =all settled ideas.= Goethe.

=It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.= Schopenhauer.

=It is a common error to think that in politics legislation is everything and administration nothing.= Macaulay.

=It is a common failing of old men to attribute all wisdom to themselves.= Fielding.

=It is a common law of Nature, which no time will ever change, that superiors shall rule their inferiors.= Dionysius.

=It is a custom / More honoured in the breach= 20 =than the observance.= Ham., i. 4.

=It is a damnable audacity to bring forth that torturing Cross, and the Holy One who suffers on it, and to expose them to the light of the sun, which hid its face when a reckless world forced such a sight on it; to take these mysterious secrets, in which the divine depth of sorrow lies hid, and play with them, fondle them, trick them out, and rest not till the most reverend of all solemnities appears vulgar and paltry.= Goethe.

=It is a delusion= (Wahn) =to suppose that adversity= (Unglück) =makes man better. As well believe that the rust makes the knife sharp, dirt promotes purity, and mud clarifies the stream.= Bodenstedt.

="It is a devout imagination."= The Regent Murray's answer to John Knox's proposal to conserve the property of the Church for the spiritual benefit of the lieges.

=It is a fair and holy office to be a prophet of Nature.= Novalis.

=It is a fine thing to command, though it were= 25 =but a herd of cattle.= Cervantes.

=It is a foul bird that dirties its own nest.= Pr.

=It is a golden rule not to judge men according to their opinions, but according to the effect these opinions have on their character.= Lichtenberg.

=It is a good divine that follows his own instructions.= Mer. of Ven., i. 2.

=It is a good horse that never stumbles, and a good wife that never grumbles.= Pr.

=It is a good thing to stay away till one's company= 30 =is desired, but not so good to stay after it is desired.= Johnson.

=It is a grave offence to bind a Roman citizen, a crime to flog him, almost the act of a parricide to put him to death; what shall I call crucifying him? Language worthy of such an enormity it is impossible to find.= Cic.

=It is a great ease to have one in our own shape a species below us, and who, without being enlisted in our service, is by nature of our retinue.= Steele.

=It is a great journey to life's end.= Pr.

=It is a great misfortune not to possess talent enough to speak well, or sense enough to hold one's tongue.= La Bruyère.

=It is a great mistake to think that because= 35 =you have read a masterpiece once or twice or ten times, therefore you have done with it.... You ought to live with it and make it part of your daily life.= John Morley.

=It is a great piece of folly to sacrifice the inner for the outer man.= Schopenhauer.

=It is a great pity when the man who should be the head figure is a mere figure-head.= Spurgeon.

=It is a great point of wisdom to find out one's own folly.= Pr.

=It is a great shame to a man to have a poor heart and a rich purse.= Cato.

=It is a great sin to swear unto a sin, / But a= 40 =greater still to keep a sinful oath.= 2 _Hen. VI._, v. 1.

=It is a great step in finesse to make people under-estimate your acuteness.= La Bruyère.

=It is a hard winter when one wolf eats another.= Pr.

=It is a kindly spirit which actually constitutes the human element in man.= Schiller.

=It is a long lane that has no turning.= Pr.

=It is a long way from granite to the oyster;= 45 =farther yet to Plato, and the preaching of the immortality of the soul.= Emerson.

=It is a low benefit to give me something; it is a high benefit to enable me to do somewhat of myself.= Emerson.

=It is a lucky eel that escapes skinning.= _George Eliot._

=It is a main lesson of wisdom to know your own from another's.= Emerson.

=It is a man's sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.= Carlyle.

=It is a mathematical fact that the casting of a pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.= Carlyle.

=It is a maxim of those who are esteemed perfect, that abundance is the perverter of reason.= Hitopadesa.

=It is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends, without which the world is but a wilderness.= Bacon.

=It is a moral impossibility that any son or daughter of Adam can stand on any ground that mortal treads, and gainsay the healthy tenure on which we hold our existence.= Dickens.

=It is a poor art that the artisan can't live by.= 5 It. Pr.

=It is a poor heart that never rejoices.= Pr.

=It is a poor horse that is not worth its oats.= Dan. Pr.

=It is a poor mouse that has but one hole.= Pr.

=It is a poor sport that is not worth the candle.= George Herbert.

=It is a profound error to presume that everything= 10 =has been discovered; it is to take the horizon which bounds the eye for the limit of the world.= Lemierre.

=It is a proof of mediocrity of intellect to be addicted to relating stories.= La Bruyère.

=It is a rare thing, except it be from a perfect and entire friend, to have counsel given us, but such as shall be bowed and crooked to some ends which he hath that giveth it.= Bacon.

=It is a reproach to be the first gentleman of one's race, but greater to be the last.= Pr.

=It is a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.= Pr.

=It is a shame for a man to desire honour because= 15 =of his ancestors, and not to deserve it by his own virtue.= St. Chrysostom.

=It is a sign that your reputation is small or sinking if your own tongue must praise you.= Judge Hale.

=It is a sin against hospitality to open your doors and shut up your countenance.= Pr.

=It is a small virtue to keep silence on matters, but a grave fault to speak of what should be kept silent.= Ovid.

=It is a sorry goose that will not baste itself.= Pr.

=It is a strange habit of wise humanity to speak= 20 =in enigmas only.= Ruskin.

=It is a universal weakness of human nature to have an inordinate faith in things unseen and unknown, and to be affected unduly by them.= Cæsar.

=It is a very good world to live in, / To lend, or to spend, or to give in; / But to beg, or to borrow, or to get a man's own, / It is the very worst world that ever was known.= Rochester.

=It is a very risky, nay, a fatal thing, to be sociable.= Schiller.

=It is a virtue in hermits to forgive their enemies as well as their friends; but it is a fault in princes to show clemency towards those who are guilty.= Hitopadesa.

=It is a wise father that knows his own child.= 25 Mer. of Ven., ii. 2.

=It is absurd to contend for any sense of words in opposition to usage; for all senses are founded upon usage, and upon nothing else.= Paley.

=It is advisable that a man should know at least three things:--first, where he is; secondly, where he is going; thirdly, what he had best do under the circumstances.= Ruskin.

=It is all in my eye=, i.e., it is nowhere else. Pr.

=It is allowed by the laws of war to deceive an enemy by feints, false colours, spies, false intelligence, or the like; but by no means in treaties, truces, signals of capitulation or surrender.= Paley.

=It is always an ease, and sometimes a happiness,= 30 =to have nothing.= Joseph Hall.

=It is always by adventurers that great deeds are done, and not by the sovereigns of great empires.=

=It is always good when a man has two irons in the fire.= F. Beaumont.

=It is always necessary to show some good opinion of those whose good opinion we solicit.= Johnson.

=It is always term time in the court of conscience.= Pr.

=It is always the individual, not the age, that= 35 =stands up for the truth.= Goethe.

=It is always vitally important to ourselves to be scrupulously true.= Spurgeon.

=It is an argument of great wisdom to do nothing rashly, nor to be obstinate and inflexible in our opinions.= Thomas à Kempis.

=It is an assured sign of a worthy and generous spirit whom honour amends; for honour is, or should be, the place of virtue.= Bacon.

=It is an egregious error to go by the exception instead of the rule.= Pascal.

=It is an equal failing to trust everybody and= 40 =to trust nobody.= Pr.

=It is an honour for a man to cease from strife.= Bible.

=It is an ill sign to see a fox lick a lamb.= Pr.

=It is an ill wind that blows nobody good.= Pr.

=It is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as to invent.= Emerson.

=It is as easy to be a scholar as a gamester.= 45 Haweis.

=It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding it out.= La Roche.

=It is as great a point of wisdom to hide ignorance, as to discover knowledge.= (?)

=It is as little the part of a wise man to reflect much on the nature of beings above him as of beings beneath him.= Ruskin.

=It is as much a part of true temperance to be pleased with the little that we know and the little that we can do as with the little that we have.= Ruskin.

=It is as much intemperance to weep too much= 50 =as to laugh too much.= Pr.

=It is as natural for the old to be prejudiced as for the young to be presumptuous; and in the change of centuries each generation has something to judge for itself.= Ruskin.

=It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet an old man whose opinions are not ossified.= J. F. Boyes.

=It is as sport to a fool to do mischief.= Bible.

=It is at least fatal to the philosophic pretension of a line or stanza if, when it is fairly reduced to prose, the prose discloses that it is nonsense.= John Morley.

=It is bad, having once known the right, / And the impulse of nobleness prized, / To accept the less worthy, and order the fight / For a cause that is meaner, and walk by a light / That you once had despised.= Dr. Walter Smith.

=It is beneath the dignity of a soul that has but a grain of sense to make chance, and winds, and waves the arbitrary disposers of happiness.= Lucas.

=It is best not to be angry; and best, in the next= 5 =place, to be quickly reconciled.= Johnson.

=It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.= Arist.

=It is best to take half in hand and the rest by and by.= Pr.

=It is best to take with thankfulness and admiration from each man what he has to give.= John Morley.

=It is better and kinder to flog a man to his work than to leave him idle till he robs and flog him afterwards.= Ruskin.

=It is better for a young man to blush than to= 10 =turn pale.= Cato.

=It is better for the man whom God helps than for him who rises early.= Cervantes.

=It is better living on a little than outliving a great deal.= (?)

=It is better not to live at all than to live dishonoured.= Sophocles.

=It Is better to be a self-made man, filled up according to God's original pattern, than to be half a man, made after some other man's pattern.= J. G. Holland.

=It is better to be affected with a true penitent= 15 =sorrow for sin than to be able to resolve the most difficult cases about it.= Thomas à Kempis.

=It is better to be lost than to be saved all alone.= Amiel.

=It is better to be nothing than a knave.= _M. Antoninus._

=It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.= Fr. Pr.

=It is better to be the head o' the commonalty than the tail o' the gentry.= Sc. Pr.

=It is better to be wrong by rule than to be= 20 =wrong with nothing but the fitful caprice of our disposition to impel us.= Natalia in "Wilhelm Meister."

=It is better to cleanse ourselves of our sins now, than to reserve them to be cleansed at some future time.= Thomas à Kempis.

=It is better to create than to be learned. Creating is the essence of life.= Niebuhr.

=It is better to die once than live always in fear of death.= Cæsar.

=It is better to do well than to say well.= Pr.

=It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop= 25 =than with a brawling woman in a wide house.= Bible.

=It is better to fight for the good than to rail at the ill.= Tennyson.

=It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting.= Bible.

=It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.= Defoe.

=It is better to have friends in our passage through life than grateful dependants; and as love is a more willing, so it is a more lasting tribute than extorted obligation.= Goldsmith.

=It is better to have loved and lost than never= 30 =to have loved at all.= Tennyson.

=It is better to have one's evil days when one is young than when one is old.= Carlyle.

=It is better to have to do with God than with His saints.= Fr. Pr.

=It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise than for a man to hear the song of fools.= Bible.

=It is better to live by begging one's bread than to gratify the mouth at the expense of others.= Hitopadesa.

=It is better to live in a haunted forest ... than= 35 =to live amongst relations after the loss of wealth.= Hitopadesa.

=It is better to live on the crust of your own industry than on the fruits of other people's.= Cervantes.

=It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.= B. R. Haydon.

=It is better to trust the eye than the ear.= Ger. Pr.

=It is bitter fare eating one's own words.= _Dan. Pr._

=It is but the outer hem of God's great mantle= 40 =our poor stars do gem.= Ruskin.

=It is but vain to waste honey on those that will be caught with gall.= Quarles.

=It is by attempting to reach the top by a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.= Cobbett.

=It is by being conversant with the inventions of others that we learn to invent, as by reading the thoughts of others we learn to think.= Joshua Reynolds.

=It is by faith that poetry as well as devotion soars above this dull earth.= Henry Giles.

=It is by his personal conduct that any man of= 45 =ordinary power will do the greatest amount of good that is in him to do.= Ruskin.

=It is by imitation, more than by precept, that we learn anything.= Burke.

=It is by presence of mind in untried circumstances that the native metal of a man is tested.= Lowell.

=It is by study that we become contemporaries of every age and citizens of the world.= (?)

=It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the moment I can convince another mind thereof.= Novalis.

=It is certain that either wise bearing or= 50 =ignorant carriage is caught as men take diseases, one of another.= 2 Hen. IV., v. 1.

=It is character which builds an existence out of circumstance. Our strength is measured by our plastic power.= Carlyle.

=It is cheap enough to say, "God help you."= Pr.

=It is common to esteem most what is unknown.= Tac.

=It is commonly the imagination which is wounded first, rather than the heart; it is so much more sensitive.= Thoreau.

=It is courage that conquers in war, and not good weapons.= Sp. Pr.

=It is cowardly to quit the post the gods elect for us before they permit us.= Pythagoras.

=It is delightful, after wandering in the thick darkness of metaphysics, to behold again the fair face of Truth.= Carlyle.

=It is delightful to transport one's self into the spirit of the past, to see how a wise man has thought before us, and to what a glorious height we have at last reached.= Goethe.

=It is difficult to act a part long, for where= 5 =truth is not at the bottom, nature will peep out and betray itself one time or other.= South.

=It is difficult to descend with grace without seeming to fall.= Blair.

=It is difficult to do good without multiplying the sources of evil.= Ruskin.

=It is difficult to feel deep veneration and great affection for one and the same person.= La Roche.

=It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.= Longfellow.

=It is difficult to say whether irresolution renders= 10 =a man the more unhappy or the more despicable; also whether it is productive of worse consequences to make a bad resolution, or none at all.= La Bruyère.

=It is difficulties that give birth to miracles.= Dr. Sharpe.

=It is dreary= (öde) =to be able to respect nothing but one's self.= Fr. Hebbel.

=It is doubt= (Zweifel) =which turns good into bad.= Goethe.

=It is downright madness to contend where we are sure to be worsted.= L'Estrange.

=It is easier for a wit to keep fire in his mouth,= 15 =than to hold in a witty saying that he is burning to tell.= Cic.

=It is easier not to begin to go wrong than it is to turn back and do better after beginning.= President Garfield.

=It is easier to carry the world in one's thoughts than on one's shoulders.= A. B. Alcott.

=It is easier to know man in general than men in particular.= La Roche.

=It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.= Ben. Franklin.

=It is easier to worship than to obey.= Jean 20 Paul.

=It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.= Montaigne.

=It is easy for a man who sits idle at home, and has nobody to please but himself, to ridicule or censure the common ways of mankind.= Johnson.

=It is easy for men to write and talk like philosophers; but to act with wisdom, there's the rub.= Rivarole.

=It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.= Emerson.

=It is easy to be a spendthrift with other people's= 25 =property.= Platen.

=It is easy to condemn; it is better to pity.= Abbott.

=It is easy to criticise an author, but it is difficult to appreciate him.= Vauvenargues.

=It is easy to give offence, though it is hard to appease.= Grillparzer.

=It is easy to open a shop, but hard to keep it open.= Chinese Pr.

=It is easy to screw one's self up into high and= 30 =ever higher altitudes of Transcendentalism, and see nothing under one but the everlasting snows of Himalaya, the earth shrinking into a planet, and the indigo firmament sowing itself with daylight stars; but whither does it lead? One dreads always to inanity and mere injuring of the lungs.= Carlyle to Emerson.

=It is enough for thee to know what each day wills; and what each day wills the day itself will tell.= Goethe.

=It is exactly in the treatment of trifles that a man shows what he is.= Schopenhauer.

=It is exceedingly difficult for a man to be as narrow as he could have been had he lived a century ago.= Whipple.

=It is excellent / To have a giant's strength, but tyrannous / To use it like a giant.= Meas. for Meas., ii. 2.

=It is falling in with their own mistaken ideas= 35 =that makes fools and beggars of the half of mankind.= Young.

=It is fancy, not the reason of things, that makes us so uneasy.= L'Estrange.

=It is far better to give work which is above the men than to educate the men to be above their work.= Ruskin.

=It is far easier to make a great rush than to plod steadily on through a long life.= Spurgeon.

=It is far from universally true that to get a thing you must aim at it. There are some things which can only be gained by renouncing them.= Renan.

=It is far more difficult to be simple than to be= 40 =complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and ease exertion in the proper place, than to expend both indiscriminately.= Ruskin.

=It is folly to lay out money in the purchase of repentance.= Ben. Franklin.

=It is folly to live in Rome and strive with the Pope.= Pr.

=It is folly to pretend that one ever wholly recovers from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.= Longfellow.

=It is for the sake of him= (the virtuous man) =and of those like him that the earth exists and maintains itself in being.= Renan.

=It is for truth that God created genius.= Lamartine. 45

=It is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail of success.= La Roche.

=It is force and right that determine everything in the world; force till right is ready.= Joubert (?).

=It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.= Cic.

=It is from books that wise men derive consolation in the troubles of life.= Victor Hugo.

=It is from the difference we feel between the= 50 =finitude of fact and the infinitude of fantasy that all the evils spring which torment humanity.= Rousseau.

=It is fruition, and not possession, that renders us happy.= Montaigne.

=It is generally a sign of a small mind to think differently from great minds.= Goethe.

=It is given us to live only once in the world.= Goethe.

=It is good for a man to be driven, were it by never such harsh methods, into looking at this great universe with his own eyes, for himself and not for another, and trying to adjust himself truly there.= Carlyle.

=It is good that we sometimes be contradicted,= 5 =and that we always bear it well; for perfect peace cannot be had in this world.= Jeremy Taylor.

=It is good to do nothing bad, but better to wish nothing bad.= M. Claudius.

=It is good to fear the worst; the best can save itself.= Pr.

=It is good to lend to God and the soil; they pay good interest.= Dan. Pr.

=It is good to rub and polish our brains against that of others.= Montaigne.

=It is great, it is manly, to disdain disguise.= 10 Young.

=It is great prudence to gain as many friends as we honestly can, especially when it may be done at so easy a rate as a good word.= Judge Hale.

=It is hard even to the most miserable to die.= Pr.

=It is hard for an empty sack to stand upright.= Pr.

=It is hard to be poor and honest.= Pr.

=It is hard to carry a full cup.= Pr. 15

=It is hard to kick against the pricks.= Pr.

=It is hard to maintain the truth, but much harder to be maintained by it.= South.

=It is hard to put old heads on young shoulders.= Pr.

=It is hard to suffer wrong and pay for it too.= Pr.

=It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause;= 20 =for this may be done by one great or wise action in an age; but to escape censure, a man must pass his whole life without saying or doing one ill or foolish thing.= (?)

=It is harder to marry a daughter well than to bring her up well.= Pr.

=It is harder to weave than to gather wool.= Spurgeon.

=It is harder work to resist vices and passions, than to toil in bodily labours.= Thomas à Kempis.

=It is his excess of sensibility that distinguishes man from other animals.= Schopenhauer.

=It is his moral sentences on mankind or the= 25 =state that rank the prose writer among the sages.= John Morley.

=It is his restraint which is honourable to a man, not his liberty.= Ruskin.

=It is human nature to hate him whom you have injured.= Tac.

=It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where men care not to do a thing, they shelter themselves under a persuasion that it cannot be done.= South.

=It is ill standing in dead men's shoes.= Pr.

=It is ill to take out of the flesh what is bred in= 30 =the bone.= Pr.

=It is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.= Mrs. Jameson.

=It is impossible for any man to form a right judgment of his neighbour's sufferings.= Addison.

=It is impossible that an ill-natured man can have a public spirit; for how should he love ten thousand men who never loved one?= Pope.

=It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.= Swift.

=It is impossible to be a hero in anything unless= 35 =one is first a hero in faith.= Jacobi.

=It is impossible to be just, if one is not generous.= Pascal.

=It is in great perils we see great acts of daring.= Regnard.

=It is in human nature soon to relax when not impelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.= Goethe.

=It is in the politic as in the human constitution; if the limbs grow too large for the body, their size, instead of improving, will diminish, the vigour of the whole.= Goldsmith.

=It is in the soul of man, when reverence, love,= 40 =intelligence, magnanimity have been developed there, that the Highest can disclose itself face to face in sun-splendour, independent of all cavils and jargonings;--there, of a surety, and nowhere else.= Carlyle.

=It is in the world that a man, devout or other, has his life to lead, his work waiting to be done.= Carlyle.

=It is in trifles that the mind betrays itself.= Bulwer.

=It is in vain for a man to be born fortunate, if he be unfortunate in his marriage.= Dacier.

=It is incalculable what by arranging, commanding, and regimenting you can make of men.= Carlyle.

=It is inconceivable how much wit it requires= 45 =to avoid being ridiculous.= Chamfort.

=It is incredible how much the mind can do to sustain the body.= Goethe.

=It is indeed all twilight in this world, a trifle more or less.= Goethe.

=It is indeed only in old age that intellectual men attain their sublime expression.= Schopenhauer.

=It is infamy to die and not be missed.= _C. Wilcox._

=It is invariably found that the contented man= 50 =is a weak man.= John Wagstaffe.

=It is joy to think the best we can of human kind.= Wordsworth.

=It is just those who grope with the mole and cling with the bat who are vainest of their sight and of their wings.= Ruskin.

=It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.= Tac.

=It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, but is ruled by prudence.= Dryden.

=It is matter of the commonest remark how a= 55 =timid man who is in love will show courage, or an indolent man will show diligence.= Matthew Arnold.

=It is meet / That noble minds keep ever with their likes; / For who so firm that cannot be seduced?= Jul. Cæs., i. 2.

=It is mere cowardice to take safety in negations.= George Eliot.

=It is mere Philistinism on the part of private individuals to bestow too much interest on matters that do not concern them.= Goethe.

=It is more blessed to give than to receive.= Jesus.

=It is more difficult, and calls for higher energies= 5 =of the soul, to live a martyr than to die one.= H. Mann.

=It is more honourable to be raised to a throne than be born to one; fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.= Petrarch.

=It is more important to discover a new source of happiness on earth than a new planet in the sky.= (?)

=It is more kindly to laugh at human life than to grin at it.= Wieland.

=It is more painful to do nothing than something.= Pr.

=It is more pleasing to see smoke brightening= 10 =into flame than flame sinking into smoke.= Johnson.

=It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.= Disraeli.

=It is much easier to bind on a wreath than to find a head worthy to wear it.= Goethe.

=It is much easier to recognise error than to find truth; the former lies on the surface, the latter rests in the depths.= Goethe.

=It is much more easy to inspire a passion than a faith.= Simms.

=It is much safer to obey than to govern.= 15 Thomas à Kempis.

=It is natural to a man to believe what he wishes to be true, and to believe it because be wishes it.= Schopenhauer.

=It is natural to man to regard himself as the final cause of creation.= Goethe.

=It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer; but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.= Bible.

=It is never permitted to any one in heaven to stand behind another and look at the back of his head: for then the influx which is from the Lord is disturbed.= Swedenborg.

=It is never too late to mend.= Pr. 20

=It is never wise to slip the bonds of discipline.= Lew. Wallace.

=It is no man's business whether he has genius or not: work he must, whatever he is, but quietly and steadily; and the natural and unforced results of such work will always be the things that God meant him to do, and will be his best.= Ruskin.

=It is no mean happiness to be seated in the mean.= Mer. of Ven., i. 2.

=It is no more in our power to love always than it was not to love.= La Bruyère.

=It is no more possible to prevent thought from= 25 =reverting to an ideal than the sea from returning to the shore.= Joseph Cook.

=It is no small commendation to manage a little well. He is a good waggoner that can turn in a little room.= Bp. Hall.

=It is no such heinous matter to fall afflicted, as, being down, to lie dejected.= S. Chrysostom.

=It is no wonder man's religion has much suffering in it; no wonder he needs a suffering God.= George Eliot.

=It is nobler to become great than to be born great.= Pr.

=It is nobler to convert souls than to conquer= 30 =kingdoms.= Louis le Debonnaire.

=It is not a question how much a man knows, but what use he can make of what he knows.= J. G. Holland.

=It is not advisable to reward where men have the tenderness not to punish.= L'Estrange.

=It is not always necessary that the true should embody= (verkörpere) =itself; enough if it hovers around spiritually and produce accordance= (Uebereinstimmung) =in us; if it hover= (wogt) =through the atmosphere in earnest friendly tones like the sound of bells.= Goethe.

=It is not an unhealthy= (kränkelnde) =moral philosophy, but a sturdy morality that is of any profit to us.= Feuchtersleben.

=It is not because of his toils that I lament for= 35 =the poor; we must all toil, or steal, which is worse; no faithful workman finds his task a pastime.... But what I do mourn over is that the lamp of his soul should go out; that no ray of heavenly, or even earthly, knowledge should visit him; but only in the haggard darkness, like two spectres, Fear and Indignation bear him company.= Carlyle.

=It is not by shirking difficulties that we can remove them or escape them.= M. R. Greg.

=It is not enough that a poet possess inspiration; his inspiration must be that of a cultured spirit.= Schiller.

=It is not enough to aim; you must hit.= _It. Pr._

=It is not enough to know how to steal; one must know also how to conceal.= It. Pr.

=It is not enough to know, one must also apply;= 40 =it is not enough to will to do, one must also do.= Goethe.

=It is not enough to speak, but to speak true.= Mid. Night's Dream, v. 1.

=It is not enough to take steps which may some day lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.= Goethe.

=It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.= Colton.

=It is not everybody one would set to choose a horse or a pig; how much less a member of Parliament?= Ruskin.

=It is not everybody who can bend the bow of= 45 =Ulysses, and most men only do themselves a mischief by trying to bend it.= John Morley.

=It is not fit to tell others anything but what they can take up. A man understands nothing but what is commensurate with him.= Goethe.

=It is not from masters, but from their equals, that youths learn a knowledge of the world.= Goldsmith.

=It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.= Fielding.

=It is not given to the world to be contented.= Goethe.

=It is not good for man to be, especially to work,= 50 =alone.= Goethe.

=It is not good to have an oar in every one's boat.= Camden.

=It is not good to meddle with divine mysteries.= Goethe.

=It is not good to pass by that we dislike, even to gain that which we like; for the water of life becometh mortal when mixed with a poison.= Hitopadesa.

=It is not he who gives abuse or blows who affronts, but the view we take of these things as insulting.= Epictetus.

=It is not his own individual sins that the hero atones for, but original sin=, i.e., the crime of existence. Schopenhauer.

=It is not history which educates the conscience;= 5 =it is conscience which educates history.= Amiel.

=It is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.= Bible.

=It is not juggling that is to be blamed, but much juggling; for the world cannot be governed without it.= Selden.

=It is not lost that comes at last.= Pr.

=It is not merely by virtue of the sunlight that falls now, and the rain and dew which it brings, that we continue here, but by virtue of the sunlight of æons of past ages.= John Burroughs.

=It is not metre, but metre-making agreement= 10 =that makes a poem, a thought so passionate and alive, that, like the spirit of a plant or an animal, it has an architect of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing.= Emerson.

=It is not poetry, but prose run mad.= Pope.

=It is not possible to buy obedience with money.= Carlyle.

=It is not proper to place confidence in one who cometh without any apparent cause.= Hitopadesa.

=It is not propositions, not new dogmas and a logical exposition of the world, that are our first need; but to watch and tenderly cherish the intellectual and moral sensibilities, those fountains of right thought, and woo them to stay and make their home with us.= Emerson.

=It is not quite so easy to do good as those may= 15 =imagine who never try.= Rd. Sharp.

=It is not so much our neighbour's interest as our own that we love him.= Bp. Wilson.

=It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as the having overcome them, that is an advantage to us.= Swift.

=It is not strength, but art obtains the prize.= Pope.

=It is not the beard that makes the philosopher.= Pr.

=It is not the custom when a prince doth sneeze= 20 =to say, as to other persons, "God help you," but only to make a low reverence.= Gerbier.

=It is not the face which deceives; it is we who deceive ourselves in reading in it what is not there.= Schopenhauer.

=It is not the fact that a man has riches which keeps him from the kingdom of heaven, but the fact that riches have him.= Dr. Caird.

=It is not the fraud, but the cold-heartedness which is chiefly dreadful in treachery.= Ruskin.

=It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.= Cobbett.

=It is not the insurrections of ignorance that= 25 =are dangerous, but the revolts of intelligence.= Lowell.

=It is not the knowledge, but the use which is made of it that is productive of real benefit.= Scott.

=It is not the loss of heritage / That makes life poor; It is that, stage by stage, / Some leave us with a lessening faith in man, / And less of love than when our life began.= Dr. Walter Smith.

=It is not the manner of noble minds to leave anything half done.= Wieland.

=It is not the number of facts he knows, but how much of a fact he is himself, that proves the man.= Bovee.

=It is not the punishment, but the crime that is= 30 =the disgrace.= Alfieri.

=It is not the quantity, but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.= W. E. Channing.

=It is not the reading of many books that is necessary to make a man wise and good, but the well-reading of a few.= R. Baxter.

=It is not the stamp on the coin that gives it its value, though on the bank-note it is.= J. Burroughs.

=It is not the victory that constitutes the joy of noble souls, but the combat.= Montalembert.

=It is not thy works, which are all mortal,= 35 =infinitely little, ... but only the spirit thou workest in, that can have worth or continuance.= Carlyle.

=It is not titles that reflect honour on men, but men on their titles.= Machiavelli.

=It is not to taste sweet things, but to do noble and true things, and vindicate himself under God's heaven as a God-made man, that the poorest son of Adam dimly longs.= Carlyle.

=It is not, truly speaking, the labour that is divided, but the men; divided into mere segments of men, broken into small fragments and crumbs of life; so that all the little piece of intelligence that is left in a man is not enough to make a pin or a nail, but exhausts itself in making the point of a pin or the head of a nail.= Ruskin.

=It is not want, but rather abundance that creates avarice.= Montaigne.

=It is not want of good fortune, want of happiness,= 40 =but want of wisdom that man has to dread.= Carlyle.

=It is not well to make great changes in old age.= Spurgeon.

=It is not what he has, nor even what he does, which directly expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.= Amiel.

=It is not wisdom, but ignorance which teaches men presumption.= Bulwer Lytton.

=It is not with saying, "Honey, honey," that sweetness comes into the mouth.= Turk. Pr.

=It is not work that kills men, it is worry.= 45 =It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.= Ward Beecher.

=It is of more importance to teach manners and customs than to establish laws and tribunals.= Mirabeau.

=It is of no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.= La Fontaine.

=It is of some consequence for a man to forego his own inclinations, even in matters of no great importance.= Thomas à Kempis.

=It is often because an author proceeds from the thought to the expression, and the reader from the expression to the thought, that a clear writer is obscure.= Speroni.

=It is often easier, as well as more advantageous, to conform to the opinions of others than to persuade them into ours.= La Bruyère.

=It is often even wise to reveal what cannot long remain concealed.= Schiller.

=It is one of the wretchednesses of the great= 5 =that they have no approved friends.= Channing.

=It is one soul which animates all men.= Emerson.

=It is one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.= Shakespeare.

=It is one thing to see that a line is crooked, and another thing to be able to draw a straight one.= Rd. Sharp.

=It is one thing to speak much, and another to speak pertinently.= Pr.

=It is only a part of art that can be taught; the= 10 =artist needs the whole.= Goethe.

=It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression upon us.= Schopenhauer.

=It is only because they are not used to taste of what is excellent that the generality of people take delight in silly and insipid things, provided they be new.= Goethe.

=It is only by labour that thought can be made healthy, and only by thought that labour can be made happy.= Ruskin.

=It is only by universals, and never by singulars, that we can think.= Dr. Hutchison Stirling.

=It is only God's business to make laws, and= 15 =the lawyer's to read and enforce them.= Ruskin.

=It is only in society that a man's powers can have full play.= Schopenhauer.

=It is only in their misery that we recognise the hand and finger of God leading good men to good.= Goethe.

=It is only kindred griefs that draw forth our tears, and each weeps really for himself.= Heine.

=It is only men collectively that live the life of man.= Goethe.

=It is only necessary to grow old to become= 20 =indulgent. I see no fault committed that I have not committed myself.= Goethe.

=It is only on reality that any power of action can be based.= Emerson.

=It is only people who possess firmness that can possess true gentleness.= La Roche.

=It is only reason that teaches silence. The heart teaches us to speak.= Jean Paul.

=It is only rogues who feel the restraints of law.= J. S. Holland.

=It is only strict precision of thought that confers= 25 =facility of expression.= Schiller.

=It is only the finite that has wrought and suffered; the infinite lies stretched in smiling repose.= Emerson.

=It is only time that possesses full reality, and our existence lies in it exclusively.= Schopenhauer.

=It is only when a man is alone that he is really free.= Schopenhauer.

=It is only when it is bent that the bow shows its strength.= Grillparzer.

=It is only with renunciation that life, strictly= 30 =speaking, can be said to begin.= Goethe.

=It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence over us. The same wind that carries one vessel into port may blow another off shore.= Bovee.

=It is petty expenses that empty the purse.= It. Pr.

=It is pleasant to die if there be gods, and sad to live if there be none.= Marcus Antoninus.

=It is possible to sin against charity, when we do not sin against truth.= Pr.

=It is precisely in accepting death as the end= 35 =of all and in laying down, on that sorrowful condition, his life for his friends, that the hero and patriot of all time has become the glory and safety of his country.= Ruskin.

=It is profound ignorance that inspires a degenerate tone.= La Bruyère.

=It is proof of a high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.= Emerson.

=It is proper and beneficial sometimes to be left to thyself.= Thomas à Kempis.

=It is prudent to be on the reserve even with your best friend, when he betrays a too eager curiosity to worm out your secret.= La Bruyère.

=It is rare indeed that there is not ample= 40 =occasion for grumbling.= John Wagstaffe.

=It is religion that has formed the Bible, not the Bible that has formed religion.= _R. D. C. Levin._

=It is sad to have to live in a place where all our activity must simmer within ourselves.= Goethe.

=It is sad to see how an extraordinary man so often strangles himself, struggling in vain with himself, his circumstances, and his time, without once coming upon a green branch.= Goethe.

=It is said no man is a hero to his valet. The reason is that it requires a hero to recognise a hero. The valet, however, will probably know well enough how to estimate his equals.= Goethe.

=It is so much easier to do what one has done= 45 =before than to do a new thing, that there is a perpetual tendency to a set mode.= Emerson.

=It is St. Christopher that carries Christ, not Christ St. Christopher=, i.e., in this myth, it is not Christ that bears the Church, but the Church that bears Christ. Ed.

=It is sure to be dark if you shut your eyes.= Pr.

=It is the ambiguous distracted training which they are subject to that makes men uncertain; it awakens wishes when it should quicken tendencies.= Goethe.

=It is the best sign of a great nature, that it opens a foreground, and, like the breath of morning landscapes, invites us onward.= Emerson.

=It is the best use of fate to teach a fatal courage.= 50 Emerson.

=It is the bright day that brings forth the adder, / And that craves wary walking.= Jul. Cæs., ii. 1.

=It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.= Napoleon.

=It is the common error of builders and parents to follow some plan they think beautiful (and perhaps is so) without considering that nothing is beautiful which is displaced.= Lady Montagu.

=It is the common wonder of all men how, among so many millions of faces, there should be none alike.= Sir Thomas Browne.

=It is the company, and not the charge that makes the feast.= Pr.

=It is the condition of humanity to design what= 5 =never will be done, and to hope what never will be attained.= Johnson.

=It is the curse of kings to be attended / By slaves, that take their humours for a warrant.= King John.

=It is the curse of talent, that, though it works more surely and persistently than genius, it reaches no goal; while genius, hovering for long on the summit= (Spitze) =of the ideal, looks round, smiling, far above.= Schumann.

=It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.= Rivarole.

=It is the fate of a woman / Long to be patient and silent, to wait like a ghost that is speechless, / Till some questioning voice dissolves the spell of its silence.= Longfellow.

=It is the fate of the great ones of the earth to= 10 =begin to be appreciated by us only after they are gone.= Old Ger. saying.

=It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.= Carlyle.

=It is the first principle of economy to make use of available vital power first, then the inexpensive natural forces, and only at last to have recourse to artificial power.= Ruskin.

=It is the flash that murders; the poor thunder never harm'd head.= Tennyson.

=It is the frog's own croak that betrays him.= Pr.

=It is the glistening and softly-spoken lie, ...= 15 =the patriotic lie of the historian, the provident lie of the politician, the zealous lie of the partisan, the merciful lie of the friend, and the careless lie of each man to himself, that cast the black mystery over humanity, through which we thank any man who pierces, as we would thank one who had dug a well in the desert.= Ruskin.

=It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains.= Bulwer Lytton.

=It is the great error of reformers and philanthropists in our time to nibble at the consequences of unjust power, instead of redressing the injustice itself.= J. S. Mill.

=It is the greatest invention man has ever made, this of marking down the unseen thought that is in him by written characters.= Carlyle.

=It is the heart that makes the critic, not the nose.= Max Muller.

=It is the height of folly to throw up attempting= 20 =because you have failed. Failures are wonderful elements in developing the character.= Anon.

=It is the inspiration of the Almighty that giveth man understanding.= Job.

=It is the law of fate that we shall live in part by our own efforts, but in the greater part by the help of others; and that we shall also die in part for our own faults, but in the greater part for the faults of others.= Ruskin.

=It is the life in literature that acts upon life.= J. G. Holland.

=It is the little rift within the lute / That by and by will make the music mute, / And, ever widening, slowly silence all.= Tennyson.

=It is the lot of man to suffer.= Disraeli. 25

=It is the mark of a great man to treat trifles as trifles, and important matters as important.= Lessing.

=It is the master-wheel which makes the mill go round.= Pr.

=It is the monotony of his own nature that makes solitude intolerable to a man.= Schiller.

=It is the music in the ear that finds and interprets the music of the orchestra.= C. H. Parkhurst.

=It is the nature of despair to blind us to all= 30 =means of safety.= Fielding.

=It is the nature of extreme self-lovers, as they will set an house on fire, an it were but to roast their eggs.= Bacon.

=It is the nature of parties to retain their original enmities far more firmly than their original principles.= Macaulay.

=It is the office of the Church to teach, not to train.= Ward Beecher.

=It is the ordinary way of the world to keep folly at the helm, and wisdom under the hatches.= Pr.

=It is the part of a good man to do great and= 35 =noble deeds, though he risks everything.= Plutarch.

=It is the part of a wise man to resist pleasures, but of a foolish one to be a slave to them.= Epictetus.

=It is the poet's function to keep before the minds of the people not only the underlying truths and beauties of all Nature, but the high and pure ideal of humanity which all should strive to attain.= C. Fitzhugh.

=It is the possession of a great heart or a great head, and not the mere fame of it, which is of worth and conducive to happiness.= Schopenhauer.

=It is the power of thought which gives man the mastery over Nature, the thoughts go forth into the world.= Hans Andersen.

=It is the privilege of every human work which= 40 =is well done, to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness.= Emerson.

=It is the privilege of genius that to it life never grows common-place, as to the rest of us.= Lowell.

=It is the property of every hero to come back to reality; to stand upon things, not shows of things.= Carlyle.

=It is the secret of the world that all things subsist, and do not die, but only retire a little from sight, and afterwards return again.= Emerson.

=It is the setting up of a claim to happiness that ruins everything in the world.= Merck to Goethe.

=It is the strange fate of man that even in the= 45 =greatest evils the fear of worse continues to haunt him.= Goethe.

=It is the temper of the highest hearts, like the palm-tree, to strive most upwards when it is most burdened.= Sir P. Sidney.

=It is the thought writ down we want, / Not its effect, not likenesses of likenesses; / And such descriptions are not, more than gloves / Instead of hands to shake, enough for us.= J. Bailey.

=It is the treating of the common-place with the feeling of the sublime that gives to art its true power.= J. F. Millet.

=It is the unseen and spiritual in man that determines the outward and actual.= Carlyle.

=It is the vain endeavour to make ourselves= 5 =what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough.= Lowell.

=It is the wise alone who are capable of discerning that impartial justice is the truest mercy.= Goldsmith.

=It is the witness still of excellency / To put a strange face on his own perfection.= Much Ado, ii. 3.

=It is the work of a philosopher to be every day subduing his passions and laying aside his prejudices.= Addison.

=It is through the feeling of wonder that men philosophise.= Arist.

=It is time enough to answer questions when= 10 =they are asked.= Emerson.

=It is time enough to doff your hat when you see the man.= Dan. Pr.

=It is time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.= Pericles, i. 2.

=It is to be doubted whether he will ever find the way to heaven who desires to go thither alone.= Feltham.

=It is too late to husband when all is spent.= Pr.

=It is too late to spare when the bottom is bare.= 15 Pr.

=It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.= Sen.

=It is truth that makes a man angry.= Pr.

=It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.= Swift.

=It is useless to deny with the tongue that which man gives credence to with the heart.= Johnson.

=It is very easy to obey a noble ruler who convinces= 20 (überzeugt) =while he commands us.= Goethe.

=It is very good to be left alone with the truth sometimes, to hear with all its sternness what it will say to one.= Carlyle.

=It is very little that we can ever know of the ways of Providence or the laws of existence; but that little is enough, and exactly enough.= Ruskin.

=It is war's prize to take all advantages, / And ten to one is no impeach of valour.= 3 Hen. VI., i. 4.

=It is we that are blind, not Fortune.= _Sir T. Browne._

=It is well that there is no one without a fault,= 25 =for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem to belong to a different species.= Hazlitt.

=It is well to go for a light to another man's fire, but by no means to tarry by it.= Plutarch.

=It is when the hour of conflict is over, that history comes to a right understanding of the strife, and is ready to exclaim: "Lo! God is here, and we knew it not."= Bancroft.

=It is wholesomer for the moral nature to be restrained, even by arbitrary power, than to be allowed to exercise arbitrary power.= J. S. Mill.

=It is wisdom alone that can recognise wisdom.= Carlyle.

=It is wise not to know a secret, and honest= 30 =not to reveal it.= Pr.

=It is with a fine genius as with a fine fashion; all those are displeased at it who are not able to follow it.= Warton.

=It is with diseases of the mind as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorders, and half cured when we do.= Colton.

=It is with history as it is with nature, as it is with everything profound, past, present, or future; the deeper we earnestly search into them, the more difficult are the problems that arise. He who does not fear these, but boldly confronts them, will, with every step or advance, feel himself both more at his ease and more highly educated.= Goethe.

=It is with ideas as with pieces of money; those of least value generally circulate the best.= Punch.

=It is with narrow-soul'd people as with narrow-neck'd= 35 =bottles; the less they have in them the more noise they make in pouring it out.= Swift.

=It is with our thoughts as with flowers. Those whose expression is simple carry their seed with them; those that are double, by their richness and pomp charm the mind, but produce nothing.= Joubert.

=It is with words as with sunbeams; the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.= Southey.

=It makes a great difference to the force of any sentence whether there be a man behind it or no. In the learned journal, in the influential newspaper, I discern no form; only some irresponsible shadow; oftener some moneyed corporation, or some dangler, who hopes, in the mask and robes of his paragraph, to pass for somebody.= Emerson.

=It matters less to a man where he is born than where he can live.= Turk. Pr.

=It matters little whether a man be mathematically,= 40 =or philologically, or artistically cultivated, so he be cultivated.= Goethe.

=It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.= Johnson.

=It matters not that a woman is well dressed if her manners be bad; ill-breeding mars a fine dress more than dirt.= Plaut.

=It matters not whether our good-humour be construed by others into insensibility, or even idiotism; it is happiness to ourselves.= Goldsmith.

=It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, / And see the great Achilles whom we knew.= Tennyson.

=It may indeed be that man is frightfully threshed at times by public and domestic ill-fortune, but the ruthless destiny, if it smites the rich sheaves, only crumples the straw; the grains feel nothing of it, and bound merrily hither and thither on the threshing-floor, unconcerned whether they wander into the mill or the cornfield.= Goethe.

=It must be bad indeed if a book has a more demoralising effect than life itself.= Goethe.

=It needs a man to perceive a man.= A. B. Alcott.

=It ne'er was wealth, it ne'er was wealth, / That coft contentment, peace, or pleasure; / The bands and bliss o' mutual love, / O that's the chiefest warld's treasure!= Burns.

=It never occurs to fools that merit and good= 5 =fortune are closely united.= Goethe.

=It never rains but it pours.= Pr.

=It never smokes but there's fire.= Pr.

=It offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb show and noise.= Ham., ii. 2.

=It oft falls out to have what we would have; we speak not what we mean.= Meas. for Meas., ii. 4.

=It requires a great deal of boldness and a= 10 =great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have got it, it requires ten times as much wit to keep it.= Emerson.

=It requires a great deal of poetry to gild the pill of poverty.= Mme. Deluzy.

=It requires a long time to know any one.= Cervantes.

=It requires more than mere genius to be an author.= La Bruyère.

=It requires much courage not to be down-hearted in the world.= Goethe.

=It requires no preterhuman force of will in any= 15 =young man or woman ... to get at least half an hour out of a solid busy day for good and disinterested reading.= John Morley.

=It seems a law of society to despise a man who looks discontented because its requirements have compelled him to part with all he values in his life.= Goethe.

=It seems as if them as aren't wanted here are th' only ones as aren't wanted i' the other world.= George Eliot.

=It should not be suspected of a man, whose life hath been spent in noble deeds, that his reason is lost, when he is only involved in trouble. A fire may be overturned, but its flames will never descend.= Hitopadesa.

=It so falls out, / That what we have we prize not to the worth / Whiles we enjoy it; but being lack'd and lost, / Why then we rack the value.= Much Ado, iv. 1.

=It takes a good many spadefuls of earth to= 20 =bury the truth.= Ger. Pr.

=It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.= Ruskin.

=It takes a great man to make a good listener.= Helps.

=It takes much more penetration to discover a fool than a clever man.= Cato.

=It takes ten pounds of common-sense to carry one pound of learning.= Persian Pr.

=It was a stroke / Brought the stream from the= 25 =flinty rock.= Dr. W. Smith.

=It was alway yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too common.= 2 Hen. IV., i. 2.

=It was always the aim of the artists as well as the wise men of antiquity, to mean much though they might say little.= Winkelmann.

=It was for beauty that the world was made.= Quoted by Emerson.

=It was the nightingale, and not the lark / That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear.= Rom. and Jul., iii. 5.

=It was the wisdom of the ancients to regard= 30 =the most useful as the most illustrious.= Sen.

=It were better to be of no church than bitter for any.= W. Penn.

=It were easier to stop Euphrates at its source than one tear of a true and tender heart.= Byron.

=It were good for a man to have some anchorage deeper than the quicksands of this world; for these drift to and fro so as to baffle all conjecture.= Carlyle.

=It were no virtue to bear calamities if we did not feel them.= Mme. Necker.

=It will be all the same a hundred years hence.= 35 Pr.

=It will be an ill web to bleach.= Pr.

=It will have blood; they say, blood will have blood; / Stones have been known to move, and trees to speak.= Macb., iii. 4.

=It will never out of the flesh that's bred in the bone.= Ben Jonson.

=It would be better that we should not exist, than that we should guiltily disappoint the purposes of existence.= Ruskin.

=It would be some advantage to live a primitive= 40 =and frontier life, though in the midst of an outward civilisation, if only to learn what are the gross necessaries of life, and what methods have been taken to obtain them.= Thoreau.

=It's a gude heart that says nae ill, but a better that thinks nane.= Sc. Pr.

=It's a poor man that always counts his sheep.= Pr.

=It's a poor sport that's not worth the candle.= George Herbert.

=It's a sair field where a's slain.= Sc. Pr.

=It's a small joke sets men laughing when they= 45 =sit a-staring at one another wi' a pipe i' their mouths.= George Eliot.

=It's a weary warld, and naebody bides in't.= J. M. Barrie.

=It's all very well having a ready-made rich man, but it may happen he'll be a ready-made fool.= George Eliot.

=It's an ill wind that blaws naebody gude.= Sc. Pr.

=It's aye the cheapest lawyer's fee / To taste the barrel.= Burns.

=It's bad flesh that won't take salt; worse is= 50 =the body that won't take warning.= _Gael. Pr._

=It's difficult to give sense to a fool.= _Gael. Pr._

=It's dogged as does it.= Pr.

=It's good sheltering under an old hedge.= Pr.

=It's hard sailing when there is no wind.= Pr.

=It's hard to take the twist out of an oak that grew in the sapling.= Gael.

=It's hard to tell which is Old Harry when everybody's got boots on.= George Eliot.

=It's harder work getting to hell than to heaven.= 5 Ger. Pr.

=It's hardly in a body's power / To keep, at times, frae being sour, / To see how things are shared.= Burns.

=It's height makes Grantham steeple stand awry.= Pr.

=It's ill livin' in a hen-roost for them as doesn't like fleas.= George Eliot.

=It's ill living where everybody knows everybody.= Pr.

=It's ill talking between a full man and a fasting.= 10 Sc. Pr.

=It's ill wool that will take no dye.= Pr.

=It's lang ere the devil dee by the dyke-side.= Sc. Pr.

=It's never too late to learn.= Pr.

=It's no in titles nor in rank; / It's no in wealth like London bank, / To purchase peace and rest: / It's no in makin' muckle mair, / It's no in books, it's no in lear, / To mak' us truly blest.= Burns.

=It's no tint= (lost) =that a friend gets.= Sc. 15 Pr.

=It's no use filling your pocket full of money if you have got a hole in the corner.= George Eliot.

=It's no use killing nettles to grow docks.= Pr.

=It's no use pumping a dry well.= Pr.

=It's not "What has she?" but "What is she?"= Pr.

=It's poor eating where the flavour of the meat= 20 =lies in the cruets.= George Eliot.

=It's poor friendship that needs to be constantly bought.= Gael. Pr.

=It's pride that puts this country down; / Man, take thine old cloak about thee.= Old ballad.

=It's sin, and no poverty, that maks a man miserable.= Sc. Pr.

=It's them as take advantage that get advantage i' this world, I think; folks have to wait long enough before it's brought to 'em.= George Eliot.

=It's too late to cast anchor when the ship is= 25 =on the rocks.= Pr.

=It's wiser being good than bad; / It's safer being meek than fierce; / It's fitter being sane than mad. / My own hope is, a sun will pierce / The thickest cloud earth ever stretch'd; / That after last returns the first, / Though a wide compass round be fetch'd; / That what began best can't end worst, / Nor what God blessèd once prove accurst.= Browning.

=It's your dead chicks take the longest hatchin'.= George Eliot.

=Ita lex scripta=--Thus the law is written.

=Ivory does not come from a rat's mouth.= Chinese Pr.

J.

=J'ai bonne cause=--I have good cause or reason. 30 M.

=J'ai en toujours pour principe de ne faire jamais par autrui ce que je pouvais faire par moi-même=--I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was possible for me to do myself. Montesquieu.

=J'ai failli attendre=--I was all but kept waiting. Louis XIV., as his carriage drove up just at the last moment.

=J'ai graissé la patte au concierge=--I have tipped the door-keeper (lit. greased his paw). Fr. Pr.

=J'ai ris, me voilà désarmé=--I was set a-laughing, and lo! I was at once disarmed. Piron.

=J'ai toujours vu que, pour réussir dans le= 35 =monde, il fallait avoir l'air fou et être sage=--I have always observed that to succeed in the world a man must seem simple but be wise. Montesquieu.

=J'ai trouvé chaussure à mon pied=--I have found a good berth (lit. shoes for my feet). Fr. Pr.

=J'ai vécu=--I existed through it all (the Reign of Terror). Siéyès.

=J'ai voulu voir, j'ai vu=--I wish to see, and have seen. Racine.

=J'aime mieux ma mie=--I love my lass better. A French Old Song.

=J'appelle un chat un chat, et Rolet un fripon=--I 40 call a cat a cat, and Rolet a knave. Boileau.

=J'embrasse mon rival, mais c'est pour l'étouffer=--I press my rival to my heart, but it is to smother him. Corneille.

=J'en passe et des meilleurs=--I pass by them, and better than they. Victor Hugo.

=J'étais poète, historien, / Et maintenant je ne suis rien=--I was once a poet and a historian, and now I am nothing. Boudier, for his epitaph.

=J'étais pour Ovide à quinze ans, / Mais je suis pour Horace à trente=--I was for Ovid at fifteen, but I am for Horace at thirty. Ducerceau.

=J'évite d'être long, et je deviens obscur=--In 45 avoiding to be diffuse, I become obscure. Boileau, after Horace.

=J'y suis, et j'y reste=--Here I am, and here I remain. _MacMahon in the trenches before the Malakoff._

=Ja, das Gold ist nur Chimäre=--Yes, gold is but a chimæra. Scribe-Meyerbeer.

=Ja, der Krieg verschlingt die Besten!=--Yes, war swallows up the best people! Schiller.

=Ja, grosse Männer werden stets verfolgt, / Und kommen immer in Verlegenheiten=--Yes, great men are always subject to persecution, and always getting into straits. Schiller.

=Ja, so schätzt der Mensch das Leben, als= 50 =heiliges Kleinod, / Dass er jenen am meisten verehrt, der es trotzig verschmähet=--Yes, man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it. Platen.

=Jacet ecce Tibullus, / Vix manet e toto parva quod urna capit=--See, here Tibullus lies; of all that he was there hardly remains enough to fill a little urn. Ovid.

=Jack at a pinch.= Pr.

=Jack is as good as Jill.= Pr.

=Jack-o'-both sides is, before long, trusted by nobody, and abused by both parties.= Pr.

=Jack of all trades and master of none.= Pr.

=Jack shall pipe and Jill shall dance.= G. 5 Wither.

=Jack will never be a gentleman.= Pr.

=Jack's as good as his master.= Pr.

=Jacta alea est=--The die is cast. Cæsar, when he passed the Rubicon.

=Jactitatio=--A boasting. Jactitation of marriage is cognizable in the Ecclesiastical Courts. L.

=Jam nunc minaci murmure cornuum / Perstringis= 10 =aures; jam litui strepunt=--Even now you stun our ears with the threatening murmur of horns; already I hear the clarions sound. Hor.

=Jam pauca aratro jugera regiæ / Moles relinquent=--Soon will regal piles leave but few acres to the plough. Hor.

=Jam portum inveni, Spes et Fortuna valete! / Nil mihi vobiscum est, ludite nunc alios=--Now I have gained the port, hope and fortune, farewell! I have nothing more to do with you; go now and make sport of others. A Greek epitaph.

=Jam redit et Virgo, redeunt Saturnia regna=--Now the Virgin goddess of justice returns; now the reign of Saturn and age of gold returns. Virg.

=Jam seges est ubi Troja fuit, resecandaque falce / Luxuriat Phrygio sanguine pinguis humus=--New fields of corn wave where Troy once stood, and the ground enriched with Trojan blood is luxuriant with grain ready for the sickle. Ovid.

=Jam summa procul villarum culmina fumant=--Now 15 the high tops of the far-off villas send forth their smoke. Virg.

=Jamais abattu=--Never cast down. M.

=Jamais arrière=--Never behind. M.

=Jamais l'innocence et le mystère n'habitèrent long tems ensemble=--Innocence and mystery never dwelt any length of time together. Fr.

=Jamais la cornemuse ne dit mot si elle n'a le ventre plein=--The bagpipe never utters a word till its belly is full. Fr. Pr.

=Jamais long nez n'a gâté beau visage=--A big 20 nose never disfigured a handsome face, i.e., it is disfigured already. Fr. Pr.

=Jamais nous ne goûtons de parfaite allégresse; / Nos plus heureux succès sont mêlés de tristesse=--We never taste happiness in perfection; our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness. Corneille.

=Jamais on ne vaincra les Romains que dans Rome=--The Romans will never be conquered except in Rome. Fr.

=Jamque opus exegi, quod nec Jovis ira, nec ignis, / Nec poterit ferrum, nec edax abolere vetustas=--And now I have completed what neither the wrath of Jove, nor fire, nor the sword, nor the corroding tooth of time will be able to destroy. Ovid.

=Januæ mentis=--Inlets of knowledge (lit. gates of the mind).

=Januis clausis=--With closed doors. 25

=Jardin des plantes=--A botanical garden. Fr.

=Jasper fert myrrham, thus Melchior, Balthazar aurum. / Hæc quicum secum portet tria nomina regum, / Solvitur a morbo, Domini pietate, caduco=--Jasper brings myrrh, Melchior frankincense, and Balthazar gold. Whoever carries with him the names of these three kings (the three kings of Cologne, the Magi) will, by the grace of God, be exempt from the falling sickness. A Mediæval charm.

=Je allseitiger, je individueller=--The more universal a man is, the greater he is as an individual. Mme. Varnhagen von Ense.

=Je cognois tout, fors que moy-mesme=--I know everything except myself. Old Fr.

=Je crains Dieu, cher Abner, et n'ai pas d'autre= 30 =crainte=--I fear God, Abner, and have no other fear. Racine.

=Je crains l'homme d'un seul livre=--I am afraid of the man of one book. Thomas Aquinas.

=Je fetter der Floh, je magerer der Hund=--The fatter the flea, the leaner the dog. Ger. Pr.

=Je jouis des ouvrages qui surpassent les miens=--I enjoy works which surpass my own. La Harpe.

=Je laisse à penser la vie / Que firent ces deux amis=--I leave you to imagine the festive time these two friends (the town mouse and the country mouse) had of it. La Fontaine.

=Je le tiens=--I hold it. M. 35

=Je m'en vais chercher un grand peut-être; tirez le rideau, la farce est jouée=--I am going in quest of a great perhaps; let the curtain drop, the farce is played out. Rabelais, on his deathbed.

=Je m'en vais voir le soleil pour la dernière fois!=--I shall see the sun for the last time. Rousseau's last words.

=Je m'estonne fort pourquoy / La mort osa songer a moy / Qui ne songeais jamais à elle=--I wonder greatly why death should condescend to think of me, who never thought of her. Regnier.

=Je maintiendrai le droit=--I will maintain the right. M.

=Je me fie en Dieu=--I put my trust in God. M. 40

=Je mehr der Brunnen gebraucht wird, desto mehr giebt er Wasser=--The more the well is used, the more water it gives. Ger. Pr.

=Je mehr Gesetze, je weniger Recht=--The more laws, the less justice. Ger. Pr.

=Je mehr man das Ich versteckt, je mehr Welt hat man=--The more we merge our I, the larger is our world. Hippel.

=Je mets en fait que, si tous les hommes savaient ce qu'ils disent les uns des autres, il n'y aurait pas quatre amis dans le monde=--I lay it down as beyond dispute that if every one knew what every one said of another, there would not be four friends in the world. Pascal.

=Je minder sich der Kluge selbst gefällt, / Um= 45 =desto mehr schätzt ihn die Welt=--The less the sage pleases himself, the more the world esteems him. Gellert.

=Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parceque je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte=--I have made this (letter) a rather long one, only because I had not the leisure to make it shorter. Pascal.

=Je n'ai mérité / Ni cet excès d'honneur ni cette indignité=--I have deserved neither so much honour nor such disgrace. Corneille.

=Je n'ai point d'ennemis que ceux de l'état=--I have no enemies whatever but those of the state. Richelieu to his confessor on his death-bed.

=Je n'oublierai jamais=--I will never forget. M.

=Je ne change qu'en mourant=--I change only when I die. M.

=Je ne changerois pas mon répos pour tous les trésors du monde=--I would not exchange my leisure hours for all the wealth in the world.

=Je ne cherche qu'un=--I seek but one. M. 5

=Je ne connais que trois moyens d'exister dans la société: être ou voleur, ou mendiant, ou salarié=--I know only three means of subsisting in society: by stealing, begging, or receiving a salary. Mirabeau, to the Clergy.

=Je ne puis pas me refondre=--I cannot change my opinion or purpose (lit. recast myself). Fr.

=Je ne sais quoi=--I know not what. Fr.

=Je pense=--I think. M.

=Je pense plus=--I think more. M. 10

=Je plie et ne romps pas=--I bend, but don't break. La Font.

=Je prends mon bien où je le trouve=--I take my own where I find it. Molière.

=Je sais à mon pot comment les autres bouillent=--I can tell by my own pot how others boil. Fr. Pr.

=Je schöner die Wirthin, je schwerer die Zeche=--The fairer the hostess the heavier the bill. Ger. Pr.

=Je sens qu'il y a un Dieu, et je ne sens pas= 15 =qu'il n'y en ait point; cela me suffit=--I feel there is a God, and I don't feel there is none; that is enough for me. La Bruyère.

=Je suis assez semblable aux girouettes, qui ne se fixent que quand elles sont rouillées=--I am like enough to the weathercocks, which don't veer only when they become rusty. Voltaire.

=Je suis oiseau, voyez mes ailes! / Je suis souris; vivent les rats=--I am a bird, see my wing! I am a mouse; long live the rats. La Fontaine.

=Je suis prêt=--I am ready. M.

=Je suis riche des biens dont je sais me passer=--I am rich in the goods that I can do without. Vigée.

=Je t'aime d'autant plus que je t'estime moins=--I 20 love you all the more the less I esteem you. Collé Cocatrix.

=Je veux de bonne guerre=--I am for fairplay in war. M.

=Je veux le droit=--I mean to have my right. M.

=Je veux que, le dimanche, chaque paysan ait sa poule au pot=--It is my wish that every peasant may have a fowl in his pot on Sundays. Henry IV. of France.

=Je vis en espoir=--I live in hope. M.

=Je vois, je sais, je crois, je suis désabusé=--I 25 see, I know, I believe, I am undeceived. Corneille.

=Je voudrais voir un homme sobre, modéré. chaste, équitable prononcer qu'il n'y-a point de Dieu; il parlerait du moins sans intérêt; mais cet homme ne se trouve point=--I should like to see a man who is sober, moderate, chaste and just assert that there is no God; he would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a man is not to be found. La Bruyère.

=Je vous apprendrai à vivre=--I will teach you better manners (lit. to live). Fr. Pr.

=Je vous ferai voir de quel bois je me chauffe=--I will let you see what metal I am made of (lit. with what wood I heat myself). Fr. Pr.

=Je weniger die Worte, je besser Gebet=--The fewer the words, the better the prayer. Ger. Pr.

=Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, /= 30 =Seeking the bubble reputation / Even in the cannon's mouth.= As You Like It, ii. 7.

=Jealousy dislikes the world to know it.= Byron.

=Jealousy / Hath in it an alchemic force to fuse / Almost into one metal love and hate.= Tennyson.

=Jealousy is a painful passion; yet without some share of it, the agreeable affection of love has difficulty to subsist in its full force and violence.= Hume.

=Jealousy is always born with love, but it does not always die with it.= La Roche.

=Jealousy is cruel as the grave; the coals= 35 =thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.= Bible.

=Jealousy is love's bed of burning snarl.= _George Meredith._

=Jealousy is often the helpmate of sweet love.= Kingsley.

=Jealousy is the forerunner of love, and sometimes its awakener.= F. Marion Crawford.

=Jealousy is the rage of a man.= Bible.

=Jealousy is the sister of love, as the devil is= 40 =the brother of the angel.= Weber.

=Jealousy: / It is the green-eyed monster that doth mock / The meat it feeds on.= Othello, iii. 2.

=Jealousy lives upon doubts; it becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.= La Roche.

=Jean a étudié pour être bête=--John has been to college to learn to be a fool. Fr. Pr.

=Jean s'en alla comme il était venu=--John went away as he came. La Fontaine's epitaph, written by himself.

=Jeddart justice: First hang a man, and syne= 45 (then) =try him.= Sc. Pr.

=Jede grosse Zeit erfasst den ganzen Menschen=--Every great epoch seizes possession of the whole man. Mommsen.

=Jede Macht, welche wir über andere Gegenstände ausüben, hängt von der Macht ab, die wir über uns selbst besitzen=--All the power which we, in every case, exercise over other objects depends on the power we have over ourselves. Cötvös.

=Jede That der Weltgeschichte / Zeugt auch wieder eine That=--Every deed in the history of the world begets another deed in turn. Arnold Schlönbach.

=Jede Unthat, / Trägt ihren eignen Racheengel schon, / Die böse Hoffnung unter ihrem Herzen=--Every evil deed already bears its own avenging angel, the dread of evil, in the heart of it. Schiller.

=Jedem das Seine ist nicht zu viel=--To no one is 50 his own too much. Ger. Pr.

=Jedem redlichen Bemühn / Sel Beharrlichkeit verliehn.=--Be perseverance vouchsafed to every honest endeavour. Goethe.

=Jeden anderen Meister erkennt man an dem, was er ausspricht; was er weiss, verschweigt, zeigt mir den Meister des Styls=--Every other master may be known by what he expresses; what he wisely suppresses reveals to me the master of style. Schiller.

=Jeder ausserordentliche Mensch hat eine gewisse Sendung, die er zu vollführen berufen ist=--Every man above the ordinary has a certain mission which he is called to fulfil. Goethe.

=Jeder freut sich seiner Stelle, / Bietet dem Verächter Trutz=--Every one is proud of his office, and bids defiance to the scorner. Schiller.

=Jeder gilt so viel als er hat=--Every one is worth as much as he has. Ger. Pr.

=Jeder ist seiner Worte bester Ausleger=--Every one is the best interpreter of his own words. Ger. Pr.

=Jeder Jüngling sehnt sich so zu lieben. / Jedes= 5 =Mädchen so geliebt zu sein: / Ach, der heiligste von unsern Trieben / Warum quillt aus ihm die grimme Pein?=--The youth longs so to love, the maiden so to be loved; ah! why does there spring out of this holiest of all our instincts such agonising pain? Goethe.

=Jeder Krämer lobt seine Ware=--Every dealer cracks up his wares. Ger. Pr.

=Jeder Mensch muss nach seiner Weise denken: denn er findet auf seinem Wege immer ein Wahres, oder eine Art von Wahrem, die ihm durchs Leben hilft; nur darf er sich nicht gehen lassen; er muss sich controliren; der blosse nackte Instinct geziemt nicht dem Menschen=--Every man must think in his own way; for on his own pathway he always finds a truth, or a measure of truth, which is helpful to him in his life; only he must not follow his own bent without restraint; he must control himself; to follow mere naked instinct does not beseem a man. Goethe.

=Jeder Morgen ruft zu, das Gehörige zu thun, und das Mögliche zu erwarten=--We are summoned every morning to do what it requires of us, and to expect what it may bring. Goethe.

=Jeder muss der Natur seine Schuld bezahlen=--Every one must pay his debt to Nature. Ger. Pr.

=Jeder muss ein Paar Narrenschuhe zerreissen,= 10 =zerreisst er nicht mehr=--Every one must wear out one pair of fool's shoes, if he wear out no more. Ger. Pr.

=Jeder, sieht man ihn einzeln, ist leidlich klug und verständig; / Sind sie in corpori, gleich wird euch ein Dummkopf daraus=--Every man, as we see him singly, is tolerably wise and intelligent; but see him in a corporate capacity, and you think him a born blockhead and fool. Schiller.

=Jeder stirbt / Und sterben ist die grösste That für jedem=--Every one dies, and for every one to die is his greatest act. L. Schefer.

=Jeder Tag hat seine Plage / Und die Nacht hat ihre Lust=--Every day has its torment, and the night has its pleasure. Philina, in Goethe.

=Jeder Weg zum rechten Zwecke / Ist auch recht in jeder Strecke=--Every road to the right end is also right in every stretch (step or turn) of it. Goethe.

=Jeder Zustand, ja jeder Augenblick, ist von= 15 =unendlichem Werth, denn er ist der Repräsentant einer ganzen Ewigkeit=--Every condition, nay, every moment, is of infinite value, for it is the representative of a whole eternity. Goethe.

=Jedes ausgesprochene Wort erregt den Eigensinn=--Every uttered (lit. outspoken) word rouses our self-will. Goethe.

=Jedes Weib will lieber schön als fromm sein=--Every woman would rather be handsome than pious. Ger. Pr.

=Jedes Weibes / Fehler ist des Mannes Schuld=--The husband is to blame for the fault of the wife (in every case). Herder.

=Jedwede Tugend / Ist fleckenrein bis auf den Augenblick / Der Probe=--Every virtue is stainless up to the moment of trial. Schiller.

=Jedwede Zeit hat ihre Wehen=--Every time has 20 its sorrows. Freiligrath.

=Jedweder ist des dunkeln Schicksals Knecht=--Every one is dark fate's thrall. Schillerbuch.

=Jeer not others upon any occasion.= South.

=Jeerers must be content to taste of their own broth.= Pr.

=Jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit=--The hungry stomach rarely scorns plain fare. Hor.

=Jeshurun waxed fat and kicked.= Bible. 25

=Jess would have been an omnivorous reader of books had it not been her conviction that reading was idling.= George Eliot.

=Jest not with the eye, nor religion.= Pr.

=Jest so that it may not become earnest.= _Sp. Pr._

=Jest with an ass, and he will flap you in the face with his tail.= Pr.

=Jest with your equals.= Dan. Pr. 30

=Jesters do oft prove prophets.= King Lear, v. 3.

=Jesting brings serious sorrows.= Pr.

=Jesting lies bring serious sorrows.= Pr.

=Jesting Pilate, asking, "What is truth?" had not the smallest chance to ascertain it. He could not have known it had a god shown it to him.= Carlyle.

=Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets.= 35 =He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, He lived in it, and had His being there.= Emerson.

=Jesus hominum salvator=--Jesus the Saviour of men. M.

=Jesus of Nazareth, and the life He lived and the death He died;--through this, as through a miraculous window, the heaven of Martyr Heroism, the "divine depths of sorrow," of noble labour, and the unspeakable silent expanses of eternity, first in man's history disclose themselves.= Carlyle.

=Jesus of Nazareth was not poor, though He had not where to lay His head.= (?)

=Jesus speaks always from within, and in a degree that transcends all others. In that is the miracle.= Emerson.

=Jet d'eau=--A jet of water. Fr. 40

=Jeter le manche après la cognée=--To throw the helve after the hatchet. Fr. Pr.

=Jetzt giebt es keine Riesen mehr; Gewalt / Ist für den Schwachen jederzeit ein Riese=--There are no more any giants now; for the weak, force is a giant at all times. Schiller.

=Jeu d'enfant=--Child's play. Fr.

=Jeu de hazard=--Game of chance. Fr.

=Jeu de mains, jeu de vilain=--Horse-play, or 45 practical joking, is vulgar. Fr.

=Jeu de mots=--Quibble; pun. Fr.

=Jeu de theâtre=--Stage-trick; clap-trap. Fr.

=Jeune chirurgien, vieux médécin=--A surgeon (should be) young, a physician old. Fr. Pr.

=Jeune, et dans l'âge heureux qui méconnait la crainte=--Young, and at that happy age which knows no fear. Fr.

=Jeune, on conserve pour sa vieillesse; vieux, on épargne pour la mort=--In youth men save for old age; in old age, they hoard for death. La Bruyère.

=Jewels five words long, / That on the stretch'd forefinger of all time / Sparkle for ever.= Tennyson.

=Jo ædlere Blod, jo mindre Hovmod=--The nobler the blood, the less the pride. Dan. Pr.

=Jo argere Skalk, je bedre Lykke=--The greater 5 knave, the better luck. Dan. Pr.

=Jo mere af Lov, jo mindre af Ret=--The more by law, the less by right. Dan. Pr.

=Joan is as good as my lady in the dark.= Pr.

=John Gilpin kiss'd his loving wife; / O'erjoy'd was he to find / That, though on pleasure she was bent, / She had a frugal mind.= Cowper.

=Johnsons are rare; yet, Boswells are perhaps still rarer.= Carlyle.

=Join hands with God to make a man to live.= 10 George Herbert.

=Joindre les mains, c'est bien; les ouvrir, c'est mieux=--To fold the hands (in prayer) is well; to open them (in charity) is better. Fr. Pr.

=Joke at your leisure; ye kenna wha may jibe yoursel'.= Sc. Pr.

=Joke with a slave, and he'll soon show his heels.= Ar. Pr.

=Jong rijs is te buigen, maar geen oude boomen=--Young twigs will bend, but not old trees. Dut. Pr.

=Jonge lui, domme lui; oude lui, koude lui=--Young 15 folk, silly folk; old folk, cold folk. Dut. Pr.

=Jouk and let the jaw= (or =jaup=) =gae by=, i.e., duck and let the dash of dirty water pass over you. Sc. Pr.

=Jour de fête=--Holiday. Fr.

=Jour de ma vie=--The day of my life. M.

=Jour gras=--Flesh day. Fr.

=Jour maigre=--Fish day. Fr. 20

=Journal pour rire=--Comic journal. Fr.

=Journalists are like little dogs; whenever anything stirs they immediately begin to bark.= Schopenhauer.

=Journeys end in lovers' meeting, / Every wise man's son doth know.= Twelfth Night, ii. 3.

=Jove tonante cum populo agi non est fas=--When Jove thunders there must be no parleying with the people. Cic.

=Jovis omnia plena=--All things are full of Jove, 25 i.e., of the deity. Virg.

=Joy? a moon by fits reflected in a swamp or watery bog.= Wordsworth.

=Joy and grief are never far apart.= Willmott.

=Joy and sorrow / Are to-day and to-morrow.= Pr.

=Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.= Jean Paul.

=Joy has this in common with pain, that it robs= 30 =men of reason.= Platen.

=Joy, in a changeable subject, must necessarily change as the subject changeth.= S. Bern.

=Joy is a guest who generally comes uninvited.= Schopenhauer.

=Joy is a sunbeam between two clouds.= _Mme. Deluzy._

=Joy is as a raiment fine, / Spun of magic threads divine; / Which as you are in act to don, / The wearer and the robe are gone.= Sophocles.

=Joy is buyable--by forsaking all that a man= 35 =hath.= Ruskin.

=Joy is like the ague; one good day between two bad ones.= Dan. Pr.

=Joy is more divine than sorrow; for joy is bread, and sorrow is medicine.= Ward Beecher.

=Joy is the best of wine.= George Eliot.

=Joy is the mainspring in the whole round of universal Nature; joy moves the wheels of the great timepiece of the world; she it is that loosens flowers from their buds, suns from their firmaments, rolling spheres in distant space not seen by the glass of the astronomer.= Schiller.

=Joy is the sweet voice, joy the luminous cloud.= 40 Coleridge.

=Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate.= Horace Greely.

=Joy must have sorrow; sorrow, joy.= Goethe.

=Joy never feasts so high as when the first course is of misery.= Suckling.

=Joy ruled the day and love the night.= Dryden.

=Joy shared is joy doubled.= Goethe. 45

=Joy surfeited turns to sorrow.= Pr.

=Joy wholly from without is false, precarious and short. Joy from within is like smelling the rose on the tree; it is more sweet, and fair, and lasting.= Young.

=Joy's a subtle elf; / I think man's happiest when he forgets himself.= Cyril Tourneur.

=Joys are for the gods; / Man's common course of nature is distress; / His joys are prodigies; and like them too, / Portend approaching ill. The wise man starts / And trembles at the perils of a bliss.= Young.

=Joys are our wings, sorrows are our spurs.= 50 Jean Paul.

=Joys carried too far change into sorrows.= Justin Bertuch.

=Joy's recollection is no longer joy, while sorrow's memory is a sorrow still.= Byron.

=Joys shared with others are more enjoyed.= Pr.

=Joys, tender and true, / Yet all with wings.= Proctor.

=Joyful to live, yet not afraid to die.= Prior. 55

=Joyfulness= (Freudigkeit) =is the mother of all virtues.= Goethe.

=Jubilate Deo=--Be joyful in the Lord.

=Jucunda est memoria præteritorum malorum=--The recollection of past miseries is pleasant. Cic.

=Jucunda et idonea dicere vitæ=--To describe what is pleasant and suited for life. Hor.

=Jucunda rerum vicissitudo=--A delightful change 60 of circumstances.

=Jucundi acti labores=--It is pleasant to think of labours that are past. Cic.

=Jucundum et carum sterilis facit uxor amicum=--A wife who has no children makes (to her husband's heirs) a dear and engaging friend. Juv.

=Judex damnatur cum nocens absolvitur=--The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted. Pub. Syr.

=Judex non potest esse testis in propria causa=--A judge cannot be a witness in his own cause. Coke.

=Judge before friendship, then confide till death, / Well for thy friend, but nobler far for thee.= Young.

=Judge me, ye powers; let fortune tempt or frown, I am prepared; my honour is my own.= Lansdowne.

=Judge not according to the appearance, but= 5 =judge righteous judgment.= Jesus.

=Judge not of men and things at first sight.= Pr.

=Judge not, that ye be not judged.= Jesus.

=Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, / But trust Him for His grace.= Cowper.

=Judge not the play before the play is done; / Her plot has many changes; every day / Speaks a new scene; the last act crowns the play.= Quarles.

=Judge not the preacher.... Do not grudge /= 10 =To pick out treasures from an earthen pot. / The worst speak something good; if all want sense, / God takes a text and preacheth patience.= George Herbert.

=Judge of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye.= Bacon.

=Judge thou me by what I am, / So shalt thou find me fairest.= Tennyson.

=Judge thyself with a judgment of sincerity, and thou wilt judge others with a judgment of charity.= Mason.

=Judges and senates have been bought for gold; / Esteem and love were never to be sold.= Pope.

=Judges are but men, and are swayed, like other= 15 =men, by vehement prejudices.= _D. Dudley Field._

=Judges ought to be more learned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.= Bacon.

=Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.= Carlyle.

=Judgment is forced upon us by experience.= Johnson.

=Judgment is not a swift-growing plant; it requires time and culture to mature it.= H. Ballou.

=Judgment is turned away backward, and justice= 20 =standeth afar off; for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.= Bible.

=Judgment must sway the feelings and keep them in their right place, or harm will be done where good was intended.= Spurgeon.

=Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.= Bible.

=Judgments that are made on the wrong side of the danger amount to no more than an affectation of skill, without either credit or effect.= L'Estrange.

=Judicandum est legibus, non exemplis=--Judgment should be given according to law and not precedent. L.

=Judicata res pro veritate accipitur=--A matter 25 that has been adjudged is received as true. L.

=Judice te mercede caret, per seque petenda est / Externis virtus incomitata bonis=--In your judgment virtue needs no reward, and is to be sought for her own sake, unaccompanied by external benefits. Ovid.

=Judicia Dei sunt ita recondita ut quis illa scrutari nullatenus possit=--The purposes of God are so abstruse that no one can possibly scrutinise them. Cic.

=Judicio acri perpendere=--To weigh with a keen judgment. Lucret.

=Judicious persons will think all the less of us because of the ill-judged praises of our silly friends.= Spurgeon.

=Judicis est innocentiæ subvenire=--It is the duty 30 of the judge to support innocence. Cic.

=Judicis est judicare secundum allegata et probata=--It is the judge's duty to decide in accordance with what is alleged and proved. L.

=Judicis est jus dicere non dare=--It is the judge's duty to enunciate the law, not to make it. L.

=Judicis officium est, ut res, ita tempora rerum quærere=--It is the judge's duty to inquire into not only the facts, but the circumstances. Ovid.

=Judicium a non suo judice datum nullius est momenti=--Judgment given by a judge in a matter outside his jurisdiction is of no legal force. L.

=Judicium Dei=--The judgment of God (as by 35 ordeal).

=Judicium parium aut leges terræ=--The judgment of our peers or the laws of the land. L.

=Judicium subtile videndis artibus=--A judgment nice in discriminating works of art. Hor.

=Jugez un homme par ses questions, plutôt que par ses réponses=--Judge of a man by his questions rather than his answers. Fr.

=Jugulare mortuos=--To stab the dead; to slay the slain. Pr.

=Juncta juvant=--Trivial things when united aid 40 each other.

=Junctæque Nymphis Gratiæ decentes=--The beauteous Graces linked hand in hand with the nymphs. Hor.

=Junge Faullenzer, alte Bettler=--A young idler makes an old beggar. Ger. Pr.

=Junger Spieler, alter Bettler=--Young a gambler, old a beggar. Ger. Pr.

=Jungere dextras=--To join right hands; to shake hands. Virg.

=Jungere equos Titan velocibus imperat Horis=--Titan 45 commands the swift-flying Hours to yoke the horses of the sun. Ovid.

=Juniores ad labores=--The younger men for labours, i.e., the heavier burdens.

=Jupiter est quodcunque vides, quocunque moveris=--Whatever you see, wherever you turn, there is Jupiter (Deity). Lucan.

=Jupiter in multos temeraria fulmina torquet, / Qui pœnam culpa non meruere pati=--Jupiter hurls his reckless thunderbolts against many who have not guiltily deserved such punishment. Ovid.

=Jupiter tonans=--The thunderer Jove.

=Jura negat sibi nata, nihil non arrogat armis=--He 50 says that laws were not framed for him; he claims everything by force of arms. Hor.

=Jurado ha el vano de lo negro no hacer blanco=--The bath has sworn not to wash the black man white. Sp. Pr.

=Jurare in verba magistri=--To swear by the words of the master.

=Juravi lingua, mentem injuratam gero=--I have sworn with my tongue, but I bear a mind unsworn. Cic.

=Jure divino=--By Divine right, or ordination of heaven.

=Jure humano=--By human law, or the will of the people.

=Jure, non dono=--By right, not by gift. M. 5

=Jure repræsentationis=--By right of representation. L.

=Jurgia præcipue vino stimulata caveto=--Above all, avoid quarrels excited by wine. Ovid.

=Juris utriusque doctor=--Doctor of both laws, civil and canon.

=Juristen, böse Christen=--Jurists are bad Christians. Ger. Pr.

=Jus civile=--The civil or Roman law. 10

=Jus civile neque inflecti gratia, neque perfringi potentia, neque adulterari pecunia debet=--The law ought neither to be warped by favour, nor broken through by power, nor corrupted by money. Cic.

=Jus commune=--The common or customary law.

=Jus devolutum=--A devolved right, specially of a presbytery in Scotland to present to a benefice, the patron having failed to do so. L.

=Jus et norma loquendi=--The law and rule of language.

=Jus gentium=--The law of nations, as the basis 15 of their international relations.

=Jus gladii=--The right of the sword.

=Jus in re=--A real right. L.

=Jus omnium in omnia, et consequenter bellum omnium in omnes=--The right of all to everything, and therefore of all to make war on all. Hobbes.

=Jus mariti=--The right of a husband. L.

=Jus postliminii=--The law of recovery of forfeited 20 rights. L.

=Jus primogenituræ=--The right of primogeniture. L.

=Jus proprietatis=--The right of property. L.

=Jus regium=--Royal right, or right of the Crown. L.

=Jus sanguinis=--The right of consanguinity, or blood. L.

=Jus summum sæpe summa malitia est=--Extreme 25 law is often extreme wrong. Ter.

=Jusqu'où les hommes ne se portent-ils point par l'intérêt de la religion, dont ils sont si peu persuadés, et qu'ils pratiquent si mal?=--To what excesses are not men carried in the interest of a religion of which they have little or no faith, and which they so badly practise? La Bruyère.

=Just a kind word and a yielding manner, and anger and complaining may be avoided.= Spurgeon.

=Just a path that is sure, / Thorny or not, / And a heart honest and pure / Keeping the path that is sure, / That be my lot.= Dr. W. Smith.

=Just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints.= Bible.

=Just are the ways of God, / And justifiable to= 30 =men; / Unless there be who think not God at all.= Milton.

=Just as a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man.= St. Chrysostom.

=Just as "dirt is something in its wrong place," so social evils are mainly wrong applications of right powers.= H. Willett.

=Just as gymnastic exercise is necessary to keep the body healthy, so is musical exercise necessary to keep the soul healthy; the proper nourishment of the intellect and passions can no more take place without music than the proper functions of the stomach and the blood without exercise.= Plato, interpreted by Ruskin.

=Just as the flint contains the spark, unknown to itself, which the steel alone can wake into life, so adversity often reveals to us hidden gems which prosperity or negligence would cause for ever to lie hid.= Billings.

=Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, / When= 35 =thought is speech, and speech is truth.= Scott.

=Just enou', and nae mair, like Janet Howie's shearers' meat.= Sc. Pr.

=Just hatred of scoundrels, fixed, irreconcilable, inexorable enmity to the enemies of God; this, and not love of them, is the backbone of any religion whatsoever, let alone the Christian.= Carlyle.

=Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true, / A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew.= Cowper.

=Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with.= Froude.

=Just plain duty to know, / Irksome or not, /= 40 =And truer and better to grow / In doing the duty I know, / That I have sought.= Dr. W Smith.

=Justa razon engañar el engañador=--It is fair to cheat the cheater. Sp. Pr.

=Justæ causæ facilis est defensio=--The defence of a just cause is easy.

=Juste milieu=--Right medium. M. of the government of Louis Philippe.

=Justi ut sidera fulgent=--The just shine as the stars. M.

=Justice always is, whether we define or not.= 45 =Everything done, suffered, or proposed in Parliament, or out of it, is either just or unjust; either is accepted by the gods and eternal facts, or is rejected by them.= Carlyle.

=Justice and humanity have been fighting their way, like a thunderstorm, against the organised selfishness of human nature. God has given manhood but one clue to success--utter and exact justice.= Wendell Phillips.

=Justice and judgment are the habitation of God's throne.= Bible.

=Justice and reverence are the everlasting central law of this universe.= Carlyle.

=Justice and truth alone are capable of being "conserved" and preserved.= Carlyle.

=Justice and truth are two points of such exquisite= 50 =delicacy, that our coarse and blunted instruments will not touch them accurately.= Pascal.

=Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving no offence.= Cic.

=Justice consists mainly in the granting to every human being due aid in the development of such faculties as it possesses for action and enjoyment, ... taking most pains with the best material.= Ruskin.

=Justice gives sentence many times / On one man for another's crimes.= Butler.

=Justice= (such as Giotto represents her) =has no bandage about her eyes, and weighs not with scales, but with her own hands; and weighs, not merely the shares and remunerations of men, but the worth of them; and finding them worth this or that, gives them what they deserve--death or honour.= Ruskin.

=Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.= Daniel Defoe.

=Justice is blind; he knows nobody.= Dryden.

=Justice is conformity to what the Maker has= 5 =seen good to make.= Carlyle.

=Justice is lame as well as blind among us.= Otway.

=Justice is love's order.= J. M. Gibbon.

=Justice is not postponed. A perfect equality adjusts its balance in all parts of life.= Emerson.

=Justice is the bread of the nation; it is always hungry for it.= Chateaubriand.

=Justice is the first virtue of those who command,= 10 =and stops the complaints of those who obey.= Diderot.

=Justice is the freedom of those who are equal. Injustice is the freedom of those who are unequal.= Jacobi.

=Justice is the great end of civil society.= _Dudley Field._

=Justice is the keynote of the world, and all else is ever out of tune.= Theod. Parker.

=Justice is the whole secret of success in governments; as absolutely essential to the training of an infant as to the control of a mighty nation.= Simms.

=Justice is truth in action.= Disraeli. 15

=Justice, like lightning, ever shall appear, / To few men's ruin, but to all men's fear.= Swetnam.

=Justice may be furnished out of fire, as far as her sword goes; and courage may be all over a continual blaze.= Addison.

=Justice must and will be done.= Carlyle.

=Justice of thought and style, refinement in manners, good breeding, and politeness of every kind, can come only from the trial and experience of what is best.= Duncan.

=Justice pleaseth few in their own house.= Pr. 20

=Justice satisfies everybody, and justice alone.= Emerson.

=Justice, self-command, and true thought are our salvation.= Plato.

=Justice, the miracle-worker among men.= _John Bright._

=Justice were cruel weakly to relent; / From Mercy's self she got her sacred glaive: / Grace be to those who can and will repent; / But penance long and dreary to the slave.= Thomson.

=Justice, while she winks at crimes, / Stumbles= 25 =on innocence sometimes.= Butler.

=Justice without power is inefficient; power without justice is tyranny.= Pascal.

=Justice without wisdom is impossible.= Froude.

=Justicia, mas no por mi casa=--Justice by all means, but not in my own house. Sp. Pr.

=Justissimus unus / Et servantissimus æqui=--Just and observant of what is right, as no other is. Virg.

=Justitia erga Deum religio dicitur; erga parentes= 30 =pietas=--The discharge of our duty towards God is called religion; towards our parents, piety. Cic.

=Justitia est constans et perpetua voluntas jus suum cuique tribuendi=--Justice is the constant and unswerving desire to render to every man his own. Just.

=Justitia est obtemperatio scriptis legibus=--Justice is conformity to the written laws. Cic.

=Justitia et pax=--Justice and peace. M.

=Justitia nihil expetit præmii=--Justice seeks no reward. Cic.

=Justitia non novit patrem nec matrem, solum= 35 =veritatem spectat=--Justice knows neither father nor mother; it regards the truth alone. L.

=Justitia tanta vis est, ut ne illi quidem, qui maleficio et scelere pascuntur, possint sine ulla particula justitiæ vivere=--There is such force in justice, that those even who live by crime and wickedness cannot live without some small portion of it among them. Cic.

=Justitia virtutum regina=--Justice is the queen of virtues. M.

=Justitiæ partes sunt, non violare homines verecundiæ non offendere=--It is the office of justice to injure no man; of propriety, to offend none. Cic.

=Justitiæ soror fides=--Faith the sister of justice. M.

=Justitiæ tenax=--Tenacious of justice. M. 40

=Justum bellum quibus necessarium, et pia arma quibus nulla nisi in armis relinquitur spes=--War is just to those to whom it is necessary; and to take up arms is a sacred duty with those who have no other hope left. Livy.

=Justum et tenacem propositi virum, / Non civium ardor prava jubentium, / Non vultus instantis tyranni / Mente quatit solida=--Not the rage of the citizens commanding wrongful measures, not the aspect of the threatening tyrant, can shake from his firm purpose the man who is just and resolute. Hor.

=Justus propositi tenax=--A just man steadfast to his purpose. Hor.

=Justus ut palma florebit=--The just shall flourish as a palm tree. M.

=Juvante Deo=--By the help of God. M. 45

=Juvenile vitium regere non posse impetum=--It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence. Sen.

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[Greek: Kadmeia nikê]--A Cadmæan victory, i.e., one in which the conquerors suffer as much as the conquered.

[Greek: Kai touto toi t' andreion, hê promêthia]--And forethought too is a manly virtue. Euripides.

[Greek: Kairon gnôthi]--Know your opportunity. Pittachus, one of the seven sages of Greece.

[Greek: Kakon anankaion]--A necessary evil. 50

[Greek: Kakou korakos kakon ôon]--From a bad crow a bad egg. Pr.

=Kalendæ Græcæ=--Never (lit. the Greek Kalends).

=Kalte Hand, warmes Herz=--A cold hand, a warm heart. Ger. Pr.

=Kann auch der Sonne Kraft ein irrer Stern entwallen? / Wie könnte denn ein Mensch aus Gottes Liebe fallen?=--Can a planet wander away even from the power of the sun? How then can man fall out of the love of God? Rückert.

=Kann er mir mehr als seine Seele geben?=--Can he give me more than his soul? Lortzing.

=Kann ich Armeen aus der Erde stampfen? / Wächst mir ein Kornfeld in der flachen Hand?=--Can I stamp armies out of the earth? Does a field of corn grow on the palm of my hand? Schiller.

=Kannst dem Schicksal widerstehen, / Aber manchmal giebt es Schläge; / Will's nicht aus dem Wege gehen, / Ei! so geh' du aus dem Wege.=--Thou canst withstand fate, but many a time it gives blows. Will it not go out of thy way, why then, go thou out of its. Goethe.

=Kannst du nicht allen gefallen durch deine= 5 =That und dein Kunstwerk: / Mach' es wenigen recht; vielen gefallen ist schlimm=--If thou canst not by thy act or thy art please every one, be it thy endeavour to please a few; to attempt to please many is naught. Schiller.

=Kannst du nicht der Welt entsagen, / Winkt das Glück dir nimmer zu=--If thou canst not renounce the world, the genius of happiness never salutes thee. Prutz.

=Kannst du nicht schön empfinden, dir bleibt doch, vernünftig zu wollen, / Und als ein Geist zu thun, was du als Mensch nicht vermagst=--If thou canst not have fineness of feelings, it is still open to thee to will what is reasonable, and to do as a spirit what thou canst not do as a man. Goethe.

=Kartenspiel ist des Teufels Gebetsbuch=--A pack of cards is the devil's prayer-book. Ger. Pr.

[Greek: Kat' exochên]--By way of excellence; pre-eminently.

[Greek: Katopin heorês]--After the feast; too late. 10

[Greek: Katthane kai Patroklos, hoper seo pollon ameinôn]--Even Patroclus is dead, who was much better than thou. Hom.

=Kauf bedarf hundert Augen; Verkauf hat an einem genug=--One who buys needs a hundred eyes; one is enough for him who sells. Ger. Pr.

=Kaufen ist wohlfeiler als Bitten=--Buying is cheaper than asking. Ger. Pr.

=Kaum ist ein Irrthum unterdrückt, so erhebt sich wieder ein anderer, den man schon in tiefe Vergessenheit begraben glaubte=--No sooner is one error suppressed than another rises up again which was believed to be buried in eternal oblivion. Oersted.

=Keep a gamester from dice, and a good student= 15 =from his book.= Merry Wives, iii. 1.

=Keep a thing seven years, and you find a use for it.= Sc. Pr.

=Keep all thy native good, and naturalise / All foreign of that name; but scorn their ill; / Embrace their activeness, not vanities.= George Herbert.

=Keep always in your mind that, with due submission to Providence, a man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.= Johnson.

=Keep company with the humble, with the devout, and with the virtuous; and confer with them of things that edify.= Thomas à Kempis.

=Keep cool, and you command everybody.= St. 20 Just.

=Keep good company, and you shall be of the number.= Pr.

=Keep me in patience; and, with ripened time, / Unfold the evil which is here wrapt up / In countenance.= Meas. for Meas., v. 1.

=Keep my judgments and do them.= Bible.

=Keep not standing fix'd and rooted; / Briskly venture, briskly roam; / Head and hand, where'er thou foot it, / And stout heart are still at home. / In what land the sun does visit, / Brisk are we, whate'er betide; / To give space for wandering is it / That the world was made so wide.= Goethe.

=Keep oot o' his company wha cracks o' his= 25 =cheatery=, i.e., boasts of cunning. Sc. Pr.

=Keep some till more come.= Pr.

=Keep the bowels open, the head cool, and the feet warm, and a fig for the doctors.= Pr.

=Keep the common road and you are safe.= Pr.

=Keep the dogs near when thou suppest with the wolf.= Eastern Pr.

=Keep the doors of thy mouth from her that= 30 =lieth in thy bosom.= Bible.

=Keep the imagination sane; that is one of the truest conditions of communion with heaven.= Hawthorne.

=Keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother.= Bible.

=Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear than to give the sacrifice of fools.= Bible.

=Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.= Bible.

=Keep thy mind always at its own disposal.= 35 Thomas à Kempis.

=Keep thyself perfectly still, however it may storm around thee. The more thou feelest thyself to be a man, so much the more dost thou resemble the gods.= Goethe.

=Keep to companions of your own rank.= Goldsmith.

=Keep to your subject close in all you say; / Nor for a sounding sentence ever stray.= Dryden.

=Keep well while you are well.= Pr.

=Keep what you want, cast what you can, and= 40 =expect nothing back once lost or once given.= Ruskin.

=Keep you in the rear of your affection, / Out of the shot and danger of desire.= Ham., i. 3.

=Keep your ain fish guts for your ain seamaws=, i.e., what you don't need yourselves for your own friends. Sc. Pr.

=Keep your breath to cool your own crowdie= (cold stirabout), i.e., till you can use it to some purpose. Sc. Pr.

=Keep your eyes wide open before marriage; half-shut afterwards.= Amer. Pr.

=Keep your gab steeket= (mouth shut) =when ye= 45 =kenna= (know not) =your company.= Sc. Pr.

=Keep your hurry in your fist.= Irish Pr.

=Keep your idea while you can; let it still circulate in your blood, and there fructify; inarticulately inciting you to good activities; giving to your whole spiritual life a ruddier health. And when the time comes for speaking it you will speak it all the more concisely and the more expressively; and if such a time should never come, have you not already acted it and uttered it as no words can?= Carlyle.

=Keep your mouth and keep your friend.= _Dan. Pr._

=Keep your mouth shut and your een open.= Sc. Pr.

=Keep your shop, and your shop will keep you.= Pr.

=Keeping from falling is better than helping up.= Pr.

=Kein Baum fällt auf den ersten Schlag=--No 5 tree falls at the first blow. Ger. Pr.

=Kein Bündniss ist mit dem Gezücht der Schlangen=--No covenant is to be made with the serpent's brood. Schiller.

=Kein Ding ist so schlecht, dass es nicht zu etwas nützen sollte=--There's nothing so bad as not to be of service for something. Ger. Pr.

=Kein grosser Mann muss eines natürlichen Todes sterben=--No great man is ordained to die a natural death. Goethe.

=Kein Kaiser hat dem Herzen vorzuschreiben=--No emperor has power to dictate to the heart. Schiller.

=Kein kluger Streiter hält den Feind gering=--No 10 prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversary. Goethe.

=Kein Mann ist im Stande, den Werth eines Weibes zu fühlen, das nicht sich zu ehren weiss=--No man is able to feel the worth of a woman who knows not how to respect herself. Goethe.

=Kein Mensch ergründet sein Verhängniss=--No man ever fathoms the mystery of his fate. Bodenstedt.

=Kein Mensch kann so ganz Teufel sein, dass er / Des Lichtes letzten Strahl in sich ersticke=--No man can be so entirely evil as to stifle the last ray of light in his soul. Körner.

=Kein Mensch / Muss das Unmögliche erzwingen wollen=--No man must seek to constrain the impossible. Goethe.

=Kein Mensch muss müssen=--No man is compelled 15 to be compelled (lit., must must). Lessing.

=Kein schöner Ding ist wohl auf Erden / Als Frauenlieb, wem sie mag werden=--There is no finer thing, I ween, on earth than woman's love to him who may be the object of it. Luther.

=Kein Schurke ist so dumm, dass er nicht einen Grund für seine Niederträchtigkeit fände=--No scoundrel is so stupid as not to find a reason for his vile conduct. Körner.

=Kein Wunder, dass wir uns Alle mehr oder weniger im Mittelmässigen gefallen, weil es uns in Ruhe lässt; es giebt das behagliche Gefühl, als wenn man mit seines Gleichen umginge=--No wonder we are all more or less content with the ordinary, for it leaves us undisturbed; we have the comfortable feeling of having only to deal with our like. Goethe.

=Keine Gaukelkunst berückt / Das Flammenauge, das ins Innere blickt=--By no juggler's art can you beguile the eye of fire which glances into the inner soul of things. Schiller.

=Keine Kunst ist, Geister loszulassen; / Kunstgerecht= 20 =sie binden, ist die Kunst=--There is no art in freeing spirits; to bind them by art is art. Rückert.

=Keine Probe ist gefährlich, zu der man Muth hat=--No ordeal is hazardous which one has the courage to face. Goethe.

=Keinen Glauben hat die Liebe / Als den Glauben an sich selber!=--Love has no faith but faith in itself. Bodenstedt.

=Keinen Reimer wird man finden, / Der sich nicht den besten hielte, / Keinen Fiedler, der nicht lieber / Eigne Melodien spielte=--You will meet with no rhymer who does not think himself the best, no fiddler who does not prefer to play his own tunes. Goethe.

=Keiner ist so klug, dass er nicht ein wenig Narrheit übrig hätte=--No one is so wise as not to have a little folly to spare. Ger. Pr.

=Ken when to spend, and when to spare, and= 25 =when to buy, and you'll ne'er be bare.= _Sc. Pr._

=Ken yoursel', and your neebours winna mistak' you.= Sc. Pr.

=Kennst du das herrliche Gift der unbefriedigten Liebe? / Es versengt und erquickt, zehret am Mark und erneut's=--Knowest thou the lordly poison of disappointed love? It withers up and quickens, consumes to the marrow and renews. Goethe.

=Kennst du das Land, wo die Citronen blüh'n?=--Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom? Goethe.

=Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness than all the other holes in this world put together.= Sterne.

=Ki sokat markol, keveset szorit=--He who 30 roves much takes firm root nowhere. J. Arany.

=Kill, and thou shalt be killed, and they shall kill him who kills thee.= Sp. Pr.

=Kill no more than you can salt.= Dan. Pr.

=Kin or no kin, evil to him who has nothing.= It. Pr.

=Kind hearts are more than coronets, and simple faith than Norman blood.= Tennyson.

=Kind words are worth much and they cost= 35 =little.= Pr.

=Kind words don't wear the tongue.= Dan. Pr.

=Kind words prevent a good deal of that perverseness which rough and imperious usage often produces in generous minds.= Locke.

=Kindle not a fire that you cannot extinguish.= Pr.

=Kindliness decreases when money is in question.= Hausemann.

=Kindness by secret sympathy is tied; / For= 40 =noble souls in nature are allied.= Dryden.

=Kindness canna aye lie on ae side o' the hoose.= Sc. Pr.

=Kindness comes o' will; it canna be coft= (bought). Sc. Pr.

=Kindness has resistless charms; / All things else but weakly move; / Fiercest anger it disarms, / And clips the wings of flying love.= Rochester.

=Kindness, in act at least, is in our power, but fondness is not.= Johnson.

=Kindness in us is the honey that blunts the= 45 =sting of unkindness in another.= Landor.

=Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.= Tam. the Shrew, iv. 2.

=Kindness is a good thing in itself.= Johnson.

=Kindness is lost upon an ungrateful man.= Pr.

=Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.= Goethe.

=Kindness is virtue itself.= Lamartine. 50

=Kindness, nobler ever than revenge.= _As You Like It_, iv. 3.

=Kindness out of season destroys authority.= Saadi.

=Kindness overcomes a' dislike.= Sc. Pr.

=Kindness will creep whaur it canna gang.= _Sc. Pr._

=Kindnesses, like grain, increase by sowing.= 5 Pr.

=Kindnesses misplaced are nothing but a curse and a disservice.= Ennius.

=Kindred weaknesses induce friendship as often as kindred virtues.= Bovee.

=Kings alone are no more than single men.= Pr.

=Kings and bears aft worry their keepers.= Sc. Pr.

=Kings and their subjects, masters and slaves,= 10 =find a common level in two places--at the foot of the cross and in the grave.= Colton.

=Kings are but the slaves of their position; they dare not follow what their own hearts dictate.= Schiller.

=Kings are like stars; they rise and set; they have / The worship of the world, but no repose.= Shelley.

=Kings are said to have long arms; but every man should have long arms, and should pluck his living, his instruments, his power, and his knowing from the sun, moon, and stars.= Emerson.

=Kings are willing to be aided, but not surpassed.= Grattan.

=Kings' caff= (chaff) =is better than ither folk's= 15 =corn=, i.e., perquisites in his service are better than the wages others give. Sc. Pr.

=Kings' cheese gangs half awa' in parings=, i.e., in the expense of collecting it. Sc. Pr.

=Kings chiefly in this should imitate God; their mercy should be above all their works.= Wm. Penn.

=Kings do with men as with pieces of money; they give them what value they please, and we are obliged to receive them at their current, and not at their real value.= La Roche.

=Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.= Dryden.

=Kings hae long lugs= (ears). Sc. Pr. 20

=Kings have long arms.= Pr.

=Kings may be bless'd, but Tam was glorious, / O'er a' the ills o' life victorious.= Burns.

=Kings ought to be kings in all things.= Adrian.

=Kings ought to shear, not skin their sheep.= Herrick.

=Kings' titles commonly begin by force, / Which= 25 =time wears off, and mellows on to right.= Dryden.

=Kings who affect to be familiar with their companions make use of men as they do of oranges, which, when they have well sucked, they throw away.= Alva.

=Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.= Burke.

=Kings wish to be absolute, and they are sometimes told that the best way to become so is to make themselves beloved by the people; but the maxim, unhappily, is laughed at in court.= Rousseau.

=Kiss (a) from my mother made me a painter.= Ben. West.

=Kisses are like grains of gold or silver found= 30 =upon the ground, of no value themselves, but precious as showing what a mine is near.= George Villiers.

=Kisses are pledges and incentives of love.= Cotton.

=Kisses are the messengers of love.= Dan. Pr.

=Kissing goes by favour.= Pr.

=Klein gewin brengt rijkdom in=--Small gains bring riches in. Dut. Pr.

=Kleine Diebe henkt man, grosse lässt man= 35 =laufen=--We hang little thieves, but we let big ones off. Ger. Pr.

=Kleine Diebe henkt man, vor grossen zieht man den Hut ab=--We hang little thieves, and doff our hats to big ones. Ger. Pr.

=Kleine Feinde und kleine Wunden sind nicht zu verachten=--Paltry enemies and trifling wounds are not to be despised. Ger. Pr.

=Kleine Geschenke erhalten die Freundschaft=--Little gifts keep friendship green. Montesquieu.

=Kleiner Profit und oft, ist besser wie grosser und selten=--Slender profits and often are better than large ones and seldom. Ger. Pr.

=Kluge Männer suchen wirthliche Frauen=--Prudent 40 men woo thrifty women--Ger. Pr.

=Knave! because thou strikest as a knight; / Being but knave, I hate thee all the more.= Tennyson.

=Knavery is supple, and can bend, but honesty is firm and upright, and yields not.= Collier.

=Knavery may serve for a turn, but honesty is best in the long-run.= Pr.

=Knavery's plain face is never seen till used.= Othello, ii. 1.

=Knaves easily believe that others are like= 45 =themselves; they can hardly be deceived, and they do not deceive others for any length of time.= La Bruyère.

=Knaves starve not in the land of fools.= Churchill.

=Knaves will thrive when honest plainness knows not how to live.= Shirley.

=Kneeling ne'er spoiled silk stockings; quit thy state; / All equal are within the church's gate.= George Herbert.

=Know ere thou hint, and then thou may'st slack: / If thou hint ere thou know, then it is too late.= Pr.

=Know, fools only trade by the eye.= Quarles. 50

=Know from the bounteous heaven all riches flow; / And what man gives, the gods by man bestow.= Pope.

=Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.= Longfellow.

=Know, Nature's children all divide her care; / The fur that warms a monarch warm'd a bear.= Pope.

=Know of a truth that only the time-shadows have perished or are perishable; that the real being of whatever was, and whatever is, and whatever will be, is even now and for ever.= Carlyle.

=Know that nothing can so foolish be / As= 55 =empty boldness.= George Herbert.

=Know that the loudest roar of the million is not fame; that the wind bag, are ye mad enough to mount it, will burst, or be shot through with arrows, and your bones too shall act as scarecrows.= Carlyle.

=Know then this truth (enough for man to know), / Virtue alone is happiness below.= Pope.

=Know then thyself; presume not God to scan; / The proper study of mankind is man.= Pope.

=Know thy thought--believe it--front heaven and earth with it, in whatsoever words nature and art have made readiest for thee.= Carlyle.

=Know thyself, for through thyself only thou canst know God.= Ruskin.

=Know whom to honour, and emulate, and= 5 =follow; know whom to dishonour and avoid, and coerce under hatches, as a foul rebellious thing--this is all the Law and all the Prophets.= Carlyle.

=Know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God?= St. James.

=Know ye not who would be free themselves must strike the blow? / By their right arms the conquest must be wrought.= Byron.

=Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle / Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime; / Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, / Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime?= Byron.

=Knowing I loved my books, he furnished me / From mine own library with volumes that / I prize above my dukedom.= Tempest, i. 2.

=Knowing is seeing.= Locke. 10

=Know'st thou yesterday, its aim and reason; / Work'st thou well to-day for worthy things; / Calmly wait the morrow's hidden season; / Need'st not fear what hap soe'er it brings.= Carlyle, after Goethe.

=Knowledge advances by steps, and not by leaps.= Macaulay.

=Knowledge always desires increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself.= Johnson.

=Knowledge and timber should not be much used until they are seasoned.= Holmes.

=Knowledge and Wisdom, far from being one, /= 15 =Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells / In heads replete with thoughts of other men; / Wisdom, in minds attentive to their own.= Cowper.

=Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.= Plato.

=Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true.= Locke.

=Knowledge by rote is no knowledge, it is only a retention of what has been intrusted to the memory.= Montaigne.

=Knowledge by suffering entereth, / And life is perfected by death.= E. B. Browning.

=Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.= Tennyson. 20

=Knowledge comes from experience alone.= Carlyle.

=Knowledge conquered by labour becomes a possession--a property entirely our own.= S. Smiles.

=Knowledge descries alone, wisdom applies; / That makes some fools, this maketh none but wise.= Quarles.

=Knowledge exists to be imparted.= Emerson.

=Knowledge has its penalties and pains as= 25 =well as its prizes.= Bulwer Lytton.

=Knowledge hath a bewildering tongue, and she will stoop and lead you to the stars, and witch you with her mysteries, till gold is a forgotten dross, and power and fame toys of an hour, and woman's careless love light as the breath that breaks it.= Willis.

=Knowledge humbleth the great man, astonisheth the common man, and puffeth up the little man.= Pr.

=Knowledge in music is in the thinking, and not in memorising.= H. E. Holt.

=Knowledge introduceth man to acquaintance; and, as the humble stream to the ocean, so doth it conduct him into the hard-acquired presence of the prince, whence fortune floweth.= Hitopadesa.

=Knowledge is a perennial spring of wealth,= 30 = ... and of itself is riches.= Saadi.

=Knowledge is a retreat and shelter for us in advanced age; and if we do not plant it when young, it will give us no shade when we grow old.= Chesterfield.

=Knowledge is as food, and needs no less / Her temp'rance over appetite, to know / In measure what the mind may well contain, / Oppresses else with surfeit, and soon turns / Wisdom to folly, as nourishment to wind.= Milton.

=Knowledge is boundless; human capacity limited.= Chamfort.

=Knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth.= Bible.

=Knowledge is escape from one's self.= (?) 35

=Knowledge is essential to freedom.= Channing.

=Knowledge is just like the sun in the heavens, inviting us to noble deeds and lighting our path.= M. Harvey.

=Knowledge is like current coin. A man may have some right to be proud of possessing it, (only) if he has worked for the gold of it, and assayed it, and stamped it, so that it may be received of all men as true, or earned it fairly, being already assayed.= Ruskin.

=Knowledge is more than equivalent to force.= Bacon.

=Knowledge is most surely engraved on brains= 40 =well prepared for it.= Rousseau.

=Knowledge is no burden.= Pr.

=Knowledge is not an inert and passive principle, which comes to us whether we will or no; but it must be sought before it can be won; it is the product of great labour, and therefore of great sacrifice.= Buckle.

=Knowledge is not education, and can neither make us happy nor rich.= Ruskin.

=Knowledge is not happiness, and science but an exchange of ignorance for that which is another kind of ignorance.= Byron.

=Knowledge is of things we see; / And yet we= 45 =trust it comes from thee, / A beam in darkness; let it grow.= Tennyson.

=Knowledge is power.= Bacon.

=Knowledge is proud that he has learn'd so much; / Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.= Cowper.

=Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.= Addison.

=Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.= Jeremy Collier.

=Knowledge is the excellency of man, whereby he is usually differenced from the brute.= Swinnock.

=Knowledge is the knowing that we cannot know.= Emerson.

=Knowledge is the material with which genius builds her fabrics.= Bryant.

=Knowledge is the parent of love; wisdom,= 5 =love itself.= Hare.

=Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.= Wm. Penn.

=Knowledge is the treasure of the mind, but discretion is the key to it, without which it is useless. The practical part of wisdom is the best.= Feltham.

=Knowledge is to one a goddess, to another only an excellent cow.= Schiller.

=Knowledge, love, power constitute the complete life.= Amiel.

=Knowledge may not be as a courtesan for= 10 =pleasure and vanity only; or as a bond-woman, to acquire and gain for her master's use; but as a spouse, for generation, fruit, and comfort.= Bacon.

=Knowledge of my way is a good part of my journey.= A. Warwick.

=Knowledge of our duties is the most useful part of philosophy.= Whately.

=Knowledge of the world is dearly bought at the price of moral purity.= E. Wigglesworth.

=Knowledge perverted is knowledge no longer.= Bulwer Lytton.

=Knowledge produceth humility; from humility= 15 =proceedeth worthiness; from worthiness riches are acquired; from riches religion, and thence happiness.= Hitopadesa.

=Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.= St. Paul.

=Knowledge shall vanish away.= St. Paul.

=Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth.= Schopenhauer.

=Knowledge that terminates in curiosity and speculation is inferior to that which is useful, and of all useful knowledge that is the most so which consists in a due care and just notion of ourselves.= St. Bernard.

=Knowledge, the wing wherewith we fly to= 20 =heaven.= 2 Hen. VI., iv. 7.

=Knowledge to their eyes her ample page, / Rich with the spoils of time, did ne'er unroll; / Chill penury repress'd their noble rage, / And froze the genial current of the soul.= Gray.

=Knowledge, when wisdom is too weak to guide her, / Is like a headstrong horse that throws the rider.= Quarles.

=Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.= Hor.

=Knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.= Johnson.

=Knowledge without justice ought to be called= 25 =cunning rather than wisdom.= Plato.

=Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.= Swinnock.

=Known unto God are all His works from the beginning of the world.= St. Paul.

=Komm jedem, wie er sei, mit edeln Sinn entgegen, / Vielleicht wird dann in ihm, was edel ist, sich regen=--Accost whoever you may meet with noble feeling; perhaps what is noble will begin to stir in him. J. Trojan.

=Kraft erwart' ich vom Mann, des Gesetzes Würde behaupt' er; / Aber durch Anmuth allein herrschet und herrsche das Weib=--I look for power in the man; he affirms the dignity of the law; but the woman rules, and will continue to rule, through grace alone. Schiller.

=Krankes Fleisch, kranker Geist=--Sickly in body, 30 sickly in mind. Ger. Pr.

=Krieg bis aufs Messer=--War to the knife. Ger.

=Krieg ist ewig zwischen List und Argwohn, / Nur zwischen Glauben und Vertraun ist Friede=--War is unending between cunning and mistrust; only between faith and trust is there peace. Schiller.

[Greek: Kreisson toi sophiê kai megalês aretês]--Wisdom is better than even great valour. Theognis.

[Greek: Kreitôn hê pronoia tês metameleias]--Thought beforehand is better than regret afterwards. Dionysius of Hal.

[Greek: Ktêma es aei]--A possession for ever. Thucydides. 35

[Greek: Kudos]--Fame; glory. Gr.

=Kühl bis an's Herz hinan=--Cool to the very heart. Goethe.

[Greek: Kynos ommat' echôn]--Having dog's eyes. Hom.

=Kunst ist die rechte Hand der Natur. Diese hat nur Geschöpfe, jene hat Menschen gemacht=--Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has made only creatures, the former has made men. Schiller.

=Kurz ist der Lieb' Entzücken, doch ewig ist= 40 =die Pein=--Short is the rapture of love, but eternal is the pain. S. Rossini.

=Kurz ist der Schmerz, und ewig ist die Freude!=--Short is the pain and eternal the joy! Schiller.

=Kyrie eleeison=--Lord, have mercy upon us.

=Kythe= (appear) =in your ain colours, that folk may ken ye.= Sc. Pr.

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=L'absence est à l'amour ce qu'est au feu le vent; / Il éteint le petit, il allume le grand=--Absence is to love what wind is to a fire; it quenches the small flame and quickens the large. Bussy.

=L'adresse surmonte la force=--Skill surpasses 45 strength. Fr. Pr.

=L'adversité est sans doute un grand maître; mais ce maître se fait payer cher ses leçons, et souvent le profit qu'on en retire ne vaut pas le prix qu'elles ont coûté=--Adversity is without doubt a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dear for his instructions, and often the profit we derive from them is not worth the price we are required to pay. Rousseau.

=L'adversité fait l'homme, et le bonheur les monstres=--Men are formed in adversity, monsters in prosperity. Fr.

=L'affaire s'achemine=--The affair is going forward. Fr.

=L'âge d'or était l'âge où l'or ne regnait pas=--The golden age was the age in which gold did not reign. Lézay de Marnézia.

=L'âge d'or, qu'une aveugle tradition a placé jusqu'ici dans le passé, est devant nous=--The golden age, which a blind tradition has hitherto placed behind us, is before us. St. Simon.

=L'aigle d'une maison est un sot dans une autre=--The eagle of one house is a fool in another. Gresset.

=L'aimable siècle où l'homme dit à l'homme, / Soyons frères, ou je t'assomme=--That loving time when one man said to another, "Let us be brothers, or I will brain you." Le Brun, of French Revolution times.

=L'Allégorie habite un palais diaphane=--Allegory 5 dwells in a transparent palace. Lemierre.

=L'Allegro=--The merry Muse.

=L'âme n'a pas de secret que la conduite ne révèle=--The heart has no secret which our conduct does not reveal. Fr. Pr.

=L'âme qui n'a point de but établi, elle se perd; c'est n'être en aucun bien, qu'être par tout=--The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere is to be nowhere. Montaigne.

=L'ami du genre humain n'est point du tout mon fait=--He who is the friend of every one has no interest for me. Molière.

=L'amitié est l'amour sans ailes=--Friendship is 10 love without wings, i.e., is steadfast. Fr. Pr.

=L'amour apprend aux ânes à danser=--Love teaches even asses to dance. Fr. Pr.

=L'amour de la justice n'est, en la plus part des hommes, que la crainte de souffrir l'injustice=--The love of justice is, in the majority of mankind, nothing else than the fear of suffering injustice. La Roche.

=L'amour est le roman du cœur, / Et le plaisir en est l'histoire=--Love is the heart's romance, pleasure is its history. M. de Bièvre.

=L'amour est un vrai recommenceur=--Love is a true renewer. Bussy-Rabutin.

=L'amour est une passion qui vient souvent= 15 =sans savoir comment, et qui s'en va aussi de même=--Love is a passion which comes often we know not how, and which goes also in like manner. Fr.

=L'amour et la fumée ne peuvent se cacher=--Love and smoke cannot be concealed. Fr. Pr.

=L'amour-propre est le plus grand de tous les flatteurs=--Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers. La Roche.

=L'amour-propre est un ballon gonflé de vent, dont il sort des tempêtes quand on lui fait une piqûre=--Self-love is a balloon blown up with wind, from which tempests of passion issue as soon as it is pricked into. Voltaire.

=L'amour-propre offensé ne pardonne jamais=--Self-love offended never forgives. Vigée.

=L'amour soumet la terre, assujettit les cieux, /= 20 =Les rois sont à ses pieds, il gouverne les dieux=--Love rules the earth, subjects the heavens; kings are at his feet; he controls the gods. Corn.

=L'anglais a les préjugés de l'orgueil, et les français ceux de la vanité=--The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity. Rousseau.

=L'anime triste di coloro / Che visser senza infamia, e senza lodo=--The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise. Dante.

=L'animal delle lunghe orecchie, dopo aver beveto dà calci al secchio=--The ass (lit. long-eared animal), after having drunk, gives a kick to the bucket. It. Pr.

=L'apparente facilité d'apprendre est cause de la perte des enfants=--The apparent facility of learning is a reason why children are lost. Rousseau.

=L'appétit vient en mangeant=--Appetite comes 25 with eating, i.e., the more one has, the more one would have. Rabelais.

=L'arbre de la liberté ne croît qu'arrosé par le sang des tyrans=--The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants. Barere.

=L'arco si rompe se sta troppo teso=--The bow when overstrained will break. It. Pr.

=L'argent est un bon passe-partout=--Money is a good pass-key or passport. Fr. Pr.

=L'argent est un bon serviteur et un méchant maître=--Money is a good servant, but a bad master. Fr. Pr.

=L'art de vaincre est celui de mépriser la mort=--The 30 art of conquering is that of despising death. Mme. de Sivry.

=L'asino che ha fame mangia d'ogni strame=--The ass that is hungry will eat any kind of litter. It. Pr.

=L'aspettar del malo è mal peggiore / Forse che non parebbe il mal presente=--The anticipation of evil is perhaps worse than the evil is felt to be when it comes. Tasso.

=L'atrocité des lois en empêche l'exécution=--The severity of the laws prevents the execution of them. Montesquieu.

=L'avare est comme ces amans qu'un excès d'amour empêche de jouir=--The miser is like a lover the excess of whose passion bars the enjoyment of it. Fr.

=L'avenir=--The future. Fr. 35

=L'élévation est au merité, ce que la parure est aux belles personnes=--Exalted station is to merit what the ornament of dress is to handsome persons. Fr.

=L'éloquence a fleuri le plus à Rome lorsque les affaires ont été en plus mauvais état=--Eloquence flourished most in Rome when its affairs were in the worst condition. Montaigne.

="L'empire, c'est la paix"=--"The empire, that is peace." Napoleon III.

=L'empire des lettres=--The republic of letters. Fr.

=L'ennui du beau, amène le goût du singulier=--When 40 we tire of the beautiful it induces a taste for singularity. Fr.

=L'ennui naquit un jour de l'uniformité=--Ennui was born one day of uniformity. Lamotte-Houdard.

=L'enseigne fait la chalandise=--A good sign attracts custom. La Fontaine.

=L'esclave n'a qu'un maître; l'ambitieux en a autant qu'il y a de gens utiles à sa fortune=--A slave has but one master; the ambitious man has as many as there are people who help him to his fortune. La Bruyère.

=L'espérance est le songe d'un homme éveillé=--Hope is the dream of a man awake. Fr. Pr.

=L'esprit a son ordre, qui est par principes et= 45 =démonstrations, le cœur en a un autre=--The mind has its way of proceeding by principles and demonstrations; the heart has a different method. Pascal.

=L'esprit de la conversation consiste bien moins à en montrer beaucoup qu'à en faire trouver aux autres=--Wit in conversation consists much less in displaying much of it than in stimulating it in others. La Bruyère.

=L'esprit de la plupart des femmes sert plus à fortifier leur folie que leur raison=--The wit of most women goes more to strengthen their folly than their reason. La Roche.

=L'esprit de modération doit être celui du législateur=--A legislator should be animated by the spirit of moderation. Montesquieu.

=L'esprit est le dieu des instants, le génie est le dieu des âges=--Wit is the god of the moments, but genius is the god of the ages. Fr.

=L'esprit est toujours la dupe du cœur=--The 5 mind is always the dupe of the heart. La Roche.

=L'esprit est une plante dont on ne sauroit arrêter la végétation sans la faire périr=--Wit is a plant of which you cannot arrest the development without destroying it. Fr. Pr.

=L'esprit qu'on veut avoir, gâte celui qu'on a=--The wit which we strive to possess spoils that which we naturally possess. Gresset.

=L'esprit ressemble aux coquettes; ceux qui courent après lui sont ceux qu'il favorise le moins=--Wit is like a coquette; those who run after it are the least favoured. Fr.

="L'état, c'est moi"=--"The state, I am the state." Louis XIV.

=L'état doit avoir aussi des entrailles=--The state 10 as well as the individual ought to have a feeling heart. Cousin.

="L'Europe m'ennuie"=--"I am tired of Europe." _Napoleon, when he took the field against Russia._

=L'exactitude est la politesse des rois=--Punctuality is the politeness of kings. Max. of Louis XVIII.

=L'excellence et la grandeur d'une âme brille et éclate d'avantage dans le mépris de richesse=--The excellence and greatness of a soul are most conspicuously and strikingly displayed in the contempt of riches. Fr.

=L'expérience de beaucoup d'opinions donne à l'esprit beaucoup de flexibilité, et l'affermit dans celles qu'il croit les meilleures=--Acquaintance with a wide range of opinion imparts to the mind great flexibility, and confirms it in those which it believes to be the best. Fr.

=L'imitazione del male supera sempre l'essempio;= 15 =come per il contrario l'imitazione del bene è sempre inferiore=--He who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model, while he, on the contrary, who imitates what is good always comes short of it. Guicciardini.

=L'impromptu est justement la pierre de touche de l'esprit=--Impromptu is precisely the touchstone of wit. Molière.

=L'habit ne fait point le moine=--It is not the garb he wears that makes the monk. Pascal.

=L'heure est à Dieu, l'espérance à tous=--The hour appertains to God, hope to all. Fr.

=L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs=--History is but a picture of crimes and misfortunes. Voltaire.

=L'homme absurde est celui qui ne change= 20 =jamais=--The absurd man is he who never changes. Barthélemy.

=L'homme est de glace aux vérités, / Il est de feu pour les mensonges=--Man is as ice to what is true, and as fire to falsehood. La Fontaine.

=L'homme est sourd à ses maux tant qu'à ses intérêts quand il s'agit de ses plaisirs=--Men are regardless of their misfortunes as well as their interests when either are in competition with their pleasures. Fr.

=L'homme est toujours l'enfant, et l'enfant toujours l'homme=--The man is always the child, and the child is always the man. Fr.

=L'homme est un apprenti, la douleur est son maître; / Et nul ne se connaît, tant qu'il n'a pas souffert=--Man is an apprentice, pain is his master; and none knows himself so long as he has not suffered. A. de Musset.

=L'homme n'est jamais moins misérable que= 25 =quand il paraît dépourvu de tout=--Man is never less miserable than when he appears destitute of everything. Fr.

=L'homme n'est ni ange ni bête, et le malheur veut que qui veut faire l'ange fait la bête=--Man is neither an angel nor a brute, but, as the evil genius will have it, he who aspires to be an angel degenerates into the brute. Pascal.

=L'homme n'est qu'un roseau, le plus faible de la nature, mais c'est un roseau pensant=--Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a reed that thinks. Pascal.

=L'homme nécessaire=--The right man. Fr.

=L'homme propose et Dieu dispose=--Man proposes and God disposes. Fr. Pr.

=L'homme vraiment libre ne veut que ce qu'il= 30 =peut, et fait ce qu'il lui plait=--The man who is truly free wills only what he can, and does only what pleases him. Rousseau.

=L'honneur acquis est caution de celui qu'on doit acquérir=--Honour acquired is an earnest of that which is to follow. La Roche.

=L'hypocrisie est un hommage que le vice rend à la vertu=--Hypocrisy is the homage which vice renders to virtue. La Roche.

=L'imagination est la folle du logis=--Imagination is the madcap of the brain (lit. the merryandrew of the dwelling). Malebranche.

=L'imagination galope, le jugement ne va que le pas=--The imagination gallops, the judgment merely walks. Fr.

=L'impossibilité où nous sommes de prouver= 35 =que Dieu n'est pas, nous découvre son existence=--The impossibility which we feel of proving that there is not a God reveals to us His existence. Fr.

=L'incrédulité est une croyance, une religion très exigeante, qui a ses dogmes, sa liturgie, ses pratiques, ses rites ... son intolerance, ses superstitions=--Incredulity is a belief, a religion highly peremptory, which has its dogmas, its liturgy, its practices, its rites, ... its intolerance, and its superstitions. Alphonse Karr.

=L'incroyable=--The incredible; past belief.

=L'industrie des hommes s'épuise à briguer les charges, il ne leur en reste plus pour en remplir les devoirs=--The energies of men are so exhausted in canvassing for places, that they have none left to perform the duties which belong to them. Fr.

=L'influence féminine devient l'auxiliaire indispensable de tout pouvoir spirituel, comme le moyen âge l'a tant montré=--The influence of woman proves to be the indispensable auxiliary of all spiritual power, as the Middle Ages have so abundantly testified. (?)

=L'ingegno, che spopola e che spalea / E l'asino d'un pubblico insolente, / Che mai lo pasce e sempre lo cavalca=--The genius which devastates and destroys is the ass of the insolent public, who always mount and ride it, but never feed it. Giuseppe Giusti.

=L'injustice à la fin produit l'indépendance=--Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice. Voltaire.

=L'institut des Jésuites est une épée, dont la poignée est à Rome et la pointe partout=--The order of the Jesuits is a sword, the handle of which is at Rome and the point everywhere. Dupin.

=L'Italia farà da se=--Italy will do it by herself. M. of the Italian Revolution of 1849.

=L'occasion fait le larron=--Opportunity makes 5 the thief. Fr. Pr.

=L'on espère de vieillir et l'on craint la vieillesse; c'est à dire l'on aime la vie et l'on fuit la mort=--We hope to grow old, yet we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and shrink from death. La Bruyère.

=L'on ne peut aller loin dans l'amitié, si l'on n'est pas disposé à se pardonner, les uns aux autres, les petits défauts=--Friendship cannot go far if we are not disposed mutually to forgive each other's venial faults. La Bruyère.

=L'on ne vaut dans ce monde que ce que l'on veut valoir=--We are valued in this world at the rate at which we desire to be valued. La Bruyère.

=L'on se repent rarement de parler peu, très souvent de trop parler: maxime usée et triviale que tout le monde sait, et que tout le monde ne pratique pas=--We rarely repent of having spoken too little, very often of having spoken too much: a maxim this which is old and trivial, and which every one knows, but which every one does not practise. La Bruyère.

=L'or est une chimère=--Gold is but a chimæra, or 10 fabulous monster. S. Meyerbeer.

=L'orateur cherche par son discours un archevêché, l'apôtre fait des conversions; il mérite de trouver ce que l'autre cherche=--The preacher aims by his eloquence at an archbishopric, the apostle makes converts; he deserves to get what the other aims at. La Bruyère.

=L'oreille est le chemin du cœur=--The ear is the road to the heart. Voltaire.

=L'orgueil ne veut pas devoir, et l'amour-propre ne veut pas payer=--Pride wishes not to owe, and self-love does not wish to pay. La Roche.

=L'ozio é il padre di tutti i visi=--Idleness is the parent of all the vices. It. Pr.

=L'ultima che si perde è la speranza=--Hope is 15 the last thing we lose. It. Pr.

=L'une des marques de la médiocrité d'esprit est de toujours conter=--One of the marks of a mediocrity of intellect is to be given to story-telling. La Bruyère.

=L'union fait la force=--Union is strength. M.

=L'usage fréquent des finesses est toujours l'effet d'une grande incapacité, et la marque d'un petit esprit=--The frequent recourse to finesse is always the effect of incapacity and the mark of a small mind. Fr.

=La beauté de l'esprit donne de l'admiration, celle de l'âme donne de l'estime, et celle du corps de l'amour=--The charms of wit excite admiration, those of the soul esteem, and those of the body love. Fr.

=La beauté sans vertu est une fleur sans parfum=--Beauty 20 without virtue is a flower without fragrance. Fr. Pr.

=La biblioteca è l'nutrimento dell'anima=--Books are nourishment to the mind. It. Pr.

=La bonne fortune et la mauvaise sont nécessaire à l'homme pour le rendre habile=--Good fortune and bad are alike necessary to man in order to develop his capability. Fr.

=La bride sur le cou=--With loose reins; at full speed. Fr.

=La buena vida padre y madre olvida=--Prosperity forgets father and mother. Sp. Pr.

=La carrière des lettres est plus épineuse que= 25 =celle de la fortune. Si vous avez le malheur d'être médiocre, voilà des remords pour la vie; si vous réussissiez, voilà des ennemis; vous marchez sur le bord d'un abîme entre le mépris et la haine=--A literary career is a more thorny path than that which leads to fortune. If you have the misfortune not to rise above mediocrity, you feel mortified for life; and if you are successful, a host of enemies spring up against you. Thus you find yourself on the brink of an abyss between contempt and hatred. Voltaire.

=La carrière ouverte aux talents=--The course is open to men of talent--the tools to the man that can handle them (of which truth Napoleon has been described as the great preacher). Fr.

=La Charte sera désormais une vérité=--The Charter shall be henceforward a reality. _Louis Philippe._

=La clémence des princes n'est souvent qu'une politique pour gagner l'affection des peuples=--The clemency of princes is often only a political manœuvre to gain the affections of their subjects. La Roche.

=La colpa seguira la parte offensa / In grido, como suol=--Blame, as is wont, wreaks its rage on those who suffer wrong. Dante.

=La condition par excellence de la vie, de la= 30 =santé et de la force chez l'être organisé, est l'action. C'est par l'action qu'il developpe ses facultés, qu'il en augmente l'énergie, et qu'il atteint la plénitude de sa destinée=--The chief condition on which depends the life, health, and vigour of an organised being is action. It is by action that it develops its faculties, that it increases its energy, and that it attains to the fulfilment of its destiny. Proudhon.

=La confiance fournit plus à la conversation que l'esprit=--Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit. La Roche.

=La conscience est la voix de l'âme, les passions sont la voix du corps=--Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. Rousseau.

=La constance des sages n'est que l'art de renfermer leur agitation dans leur cœur=--The constancy of the wise is nothing but the art of shutting up whatever might disturb them within themselves. La Roche.

=La corruption de chaque gouvernement commence presque toujours par celle des principes=--The decay of every government almost always dates from the decay of the principles on which it is founded. Montesquieu.

=La cour est comme un édifice bâti de marbre;= 35 =je veux dire qu'elle est composée d'hommes fort durs mais fort polis=--The court is like an edifice built of marble; I mean, it is composed of men very hard but very polished. La Bruyère.

=La cour ne rend pas content, elle empêche qu'on ne le soit ailleurs=--The court does not make a man happy, and it prevents him from being so elsewhere. La Bruyère.

=La crainte suit le crime, et c'est son châtiment=--Fear haunts crime, and this is its punishment. Voltaire.

=La crédulité est plutôt une erreur qu'une faute, et les plus de gens de bien en sont susceptibles=--Credulity is rather an error than a fault, and the worthiest people are most subject to it. Fr.

=La criaillerie ordinaire fait qu'on s'y accoutume et chacun la méprise=--By continually scolding your inferiors, they at length become accustomed to it, and despise your reproof. Fr.

=La critique est aisée, et l'art est difficile=--Criticism 5 is easy, and art is difficult. Destouches.

=La décence est le teint naturel de la vertu, et le fard du vice=--Decency is the natural complexion of virtue and the deceptive guise of vice. Fr. Pr.

=La défense est un charme; on dit qu'elle assaisonne les plaisirs, et surtout ceux que l'amour nous donne=--Prohibition acts as a charm; it is said to give a zest to pleasures, especially to those which love imparts. La Fontaine.

=La diffidenza è la madre della sicurtà=--Diffidence (caution) is the mother of safety. _It. Pr._

=La dissimulation la plus innocente n'est jamais sans inconvénient; criminel ou non, l'artifice est toujours dangereux, et presque inévitablement nuisible=--Dissimulation, even the most innocent, is always embarrassing; whether with evil intent or not, artifice is always dangerous, and almost inevitably disgraceful. La Bruyère.

=La docte antiquité est toujours vénérable, / Je= 10 =ne la trouve pas cependant adorable=--To the learning of antiquity I always pay due veneration, but I do not therefore adore it as sacred. Boileau.

=La donna è mobile=--Woman is inconstant. It.

=La durée de nos passions ne dépend pas plus de nous que la durée de notre vie=--The duration of our passions no more depends upon ourselves than the duration of our lives. La Roche.

=La faiblesse de l'ennemi fait notre propre force=--The weakness of the enemy forms part of our own strength. Pr.

=La faim chasse le loup hors du bois=--Hunger drives the wolf out of the wood. Fr. Pr.

=La fama degli eroi spetta un quarto alla loro= 15 =audacia, due quarti alla sorte e l'altro quarto ai loro delitti=--Great men owe a fourth part of their fame to their daring, two-fourths to fortune, and the remaining fourth to their crimes. U. Foscolo.

=La farina del Diavolo, va tutta in crusca=--The devil's meal turns all to chaff. Sp.

=La farine du diable s'en va moitié en son=--The devil's meal goes half to bran. Fr. Pr.

=La faveur met l'homme au-dessus de ses égaux; et sa chute au-dessous=--Favour exalts a man above his equals, and his fall or disgrace beneath them. La Bruyère.

=La femme est l'élément le plus moral de l'humanité=--Woman is the element in humanity that has the most moral power. (?).

=La feuille tombe à terre, ainsi tombe la beauté=--The 20 leaf falls to earth, so also does beauty.

=La finesse n'est ni une trop bonne ni une très mauvaise qualité: elle flotte entre le vice et la vertu; il n'y a point de rencontre où elle ne puisse, et peut-être où elle ne doive être suppléée par la prudence=--Finesse is neither a very good nor yet a very bad quality. It hovers between vice and virtue, and there are few occasions in which it cannot be, and perhaps ought not to be superseded by common prudence. La Bruyère.

=La fleur des pois=--The tip-top of fashion. Fr.

=La force, proprement dite, c'est-ce qui régit les actes, sans régler les volontés=--Force, strictly speaking, is that which rules the actions without regulating the will. (?)

=La fortune du pot=--Pot-luck. Fr.

=La fortune passe partout=--The vicissitudes of 25 fortune are felt everywhere. M.

=La fortune vend ce qu'on croit qu'elle donne=--Fortune sells what we think she gives. Fr. Pr.

=La France est une monarchie absolue, tempérée par des chansons=--France is an absolute monarchy tempered by epigrams. Quoted by Chamfort.

=La France marche à la tête de la civilisation=--France leads the van in the civilisation of the world. Guizot.

=La garde meurt et ne se rend pas=--The guard dies but does not surrender. Ascribed to Gen. Cambronne at Waterloo.

=La générosité suit la belle naissance; / La= 30 =pitié l'accompagne et la reconnaissance=--Generosity follows in the train of high birth; pity and gratitude are attendants. Corneille.

=La gola e'l sonno e l'oziose piume / Hanno del mondo ogni vertù sbandita=--Lust, sleep, and idleness have banished every virtue out of the world. Petrarch.

=La goutte de rosée à l'herbe suspendue, / y réfléchit un ciel aussi vaste, aussi pur, / Que l'immense océan dans ses plaines d'azur=--The drop of dew which hangs suspended from the grass-blade reflects a heaven as vast and pure as the ocean does in its wide azure plains. Lamartine.

=La grammaire, qui sait régenter jusqu'aux rois=--Grammar, that knows how to lord it even over kings. Molière.

=La grande nation=--The great nation. Napoleon when General Bonaparte, of France.

=La grande sagesse de l'homme consiste à= 35 =connaître ses folies=--It is in the knowledge of his follies that man shows his superior wisdom. Fr. Pr.

=La guerre ou l'amour=--War or love. M.

=La jeunesse devrait être une caisse d'épargne=--Youth ought to be a savings' bank. Mme. Swetchine.

=La jeunesse vit d'espérance, la vieillesse de souvenir=--Youth lives on hope, old age on memory. Fr. Pr.

=La justice de nos jugements et de nos actions n'est jamais que la rencontre heureuse de notre intérêt avec l'intérêt public=--The justice of our judgment and actions is never anything but the happy coincidence of our private with the public interest. Helvetius.

=La justice et la vérité sont deux pointes si= 40 =subtiles, que nos instrumens sont trop émoussés pour y toucher exactement=--Justice and truth are two points so fine that our instruments are too blunt to touch them exactly. Pascal.

=La langue des femmes est leur épée, et elles ne la laissent pas rouiller=--The tongue of a woman is her sword, which she seldom suffers to rust. Fr. Pr.

=La légalité nous tue=--Legality will be the death of us. M. Viennet.

=La libéralité consiste moins à donner beaucoup, qu'à donner à-propos=--Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in giving seasonably. La Bruyère.

=La libertad es la juventud eterna de las naciones=--Liberty is the eternal youth of the nations. Gen. Foy.

=La liberté, convive aimable, / Met les deux= 5 =coudes sur la table=--Liberty, an amiable guest, puts both her elbows upon the table, i.e., is free and at her ease. Voltaire.

=La liberté est ancienne; c'est le despotisme qui est nouveau=--Liberty is of ancient date; it is despotism that is new. Fr.

=La lingua batte dove la dente duole=--The tongue strikes where the tooth aches. It. Pr.

=La loi ne saurait égaliser les hommes malgré la nature=--The law cannot equalise men in spite of nature. Vauvenargues.

=La maladie sans maladie.=--The disease without disease, i.e., hypochondria. Fr.

=La manière de former les idées est ce qui donne= 10 =caractère à l'esprit humain=--It is the way in which our ideas are formed that a character is imparted to our minds. Rousseau.

=La marque d'un mérite extraordinaire est de voir que ceux qui l'envient le plus, sont contraints de le louer=--The proof of superior merit is to see how those who envy it most are constrained to praise it. Fr.

=La menzogna c'insegue anche sotterra=--Falsehood follows us even into the grave. Giuseppe Nicolini.

=La mode est un tyran dont rien nous délivre, / A son bizarre goût il faut s'accommoder=--Fashion is a tyrant from which there is no deliverance; all must conform to its whimsical taste. Fr.

=La modération des faibles est médiocrité=--The moderation of the weak is mediocrity. Vauvenargues.

=La moitié du monde prend plaisir à médire, et= 15 =l'autre moitié à croire les médisances=--One half of the world takes delight in slander, and the other half in believing it. Fr. Pr.

=La moltiplicità delle leggi e dei medici in un paese sono egualmente segni di malore di quello=--A multiplicity of laws and a multiplicity of physicians in any country are proofs alike of its bad state. It. Pr.

=La montagne est passée, nous irons mieux=--We are over the hill; we shall go better now. Frederick the Great's last words.

=La moquerie est souvent indigence d'esprit=--Derision is often poverty of wit. La Bruyère.

=La morale trop austère se fait moins aimer qu'elle ne se fait craindre; et qui veut qu'on profite de ses leçons donne envie de les entendre=--Morality when too austere makes itself less loved than feared; and he who wishes others to profit from its lessons should awaken a desire to listen to them. Fr.

=La mort est plus aisée à supporter sans y= 20 =penser, que la pensée de la mort sans péril=--Death is more easy to bear when it comes without thought of it, than the thought of it without the risk of it. Pascal.

=La mort ne surprend point le sage; / Il est toujours prêt à partir, / S'étant su lui-même avertir / Du temps où l'on se doit résoudre à ce passage=--Death is no surprise to the wise man; he is always ready to depart, having learnt to anticipate the time when he must make up his mind to take this last journey. La Fontaine.

=La musique seule est d'une noble inutilité, et c'est pour cela qu'elle nous émeut si profondément; plus elle est loin de tout but, plus elle se rapproche de cette source intime de nos pensées que l'application à un objet quelconque reserve dans son cours=--Music alone is nobly non-utilitarian, and that is why it moves us so profoundly; the further it is removed from serving any purpose, the nearer it approaches that inner spring of our thoughts which the application to any object whatever hampers in its course. Mme. de Staël.

=La naissance n'est rien où la vertu n'est pas=--Birth is nothing where virtue is not. Molière.

=La nation en deuil=--The nation in mourning. Montalembert on Poland.

=La nation ne fait pas corps en France; elle= 25 =réside toute entière dans la personne du roy=--In France the nation is not a corporate body; it resides entirely in the person of the king. Louis XIV.

=La nature a donné deux garants de la chastité des femmes, la pudeur et les remords; la confession les prive de l'un, et l'absolution de l'autre=--Nature has given two safeguards for female chastity, modesty and remorse, but confession deprives them of the one and absolution of the other. Fr.

=La nature aime les croisements=--Nature is partial to cross-breedings. Fourier.

=La nature est juste envers les hommes=--Nature is just to men. Montesquieu.

=La nature s'imite=--Nature imitates herself. Pascal.

=La nuit porte conseil=--The night brings good 30 counsel. Fr. Pr.

=Là ou ailleurs=--There or elsewhere. M.

=Là où la chèvre est attachée, il faut qu'elle broute=--The goat must browse where it is tethered. Fr. Pr.

=La parfaite valeur est de faire sans témoins ce qu'on serait capable de faire devant tout le monde=--Sterling worth shows itself in doing unseen what we would be capable of doing in the eye of the world. La Roche.

=La parole a été donnée à l'homme pour déguiser sa pensée=--Speech has been given to man to conceal his thought. Voltaire.

=La passion déprave, mais elle élève aussi=--Passion 35 depraves, but it also elevates. Lamartine.

=La passion fait souvent un fou du plus habile homme, et rend souvent habiles les plus sots=--Love often makes a fool of the cleverest man, and often gives cleverness to the most foolish. La Roche.

=La patience est amère, mais le fruit en est doux=--Patience is bitter, but it yields sweet fruit. Rousseau.

=La patience est l'art d'espérer=--Patience is the art of hoping. Vauvenargues.

=La patience est le remède le plus sûre contre les calomnies: le temps, tôt ou tard, découvre la vérité=--Patience is the surest antidote against calumny; time, sooner or later, will disclose the truth. Fr.

=La patrie veut être servie, et non pas dominée=--Our country requires us to serve her, and not to lord it over her. Fr.

=La pauvreté n'est pas un péché, / Mieux vaut cependant la cacher=--Poverty is not a sin; but it is better to hide it. Fr. Pr.

=La perfection marche lentement, il lui faut la main du temps=--Perfection is attained by slow degrees; she requires the hand of time. Voltaire.

=La peur est un grand inventeur=--Fear is a great inventor. Fr. Pr.

=La philosophie non seulement dissipe nos inquiétudes,= 5 =mais elle nous arme contre tous les coups de la fortune=--Philosophy not only dissipates our anxieties, but it arms us against the buffets of fortune. Fr.

=La philosophie qui nous promet de nous rendre heureux, trompe=--Philosophy, so far as she promises us happiness, deceives us. Fr.

=La philosophie triomphe aisément des maux passés, et des maux à venir; mais les maux présents triomphent d'elle=--Philosophy triumphs easily enough over misfortunes that are past and to come, but present misfortunes triumph over her. La Roche.

=La plupart des hommes, pour arriver à leurs fins, sont plus capables d'un grand effort que d'une longue persévérance=--To attain their ends most people are more capable of a great effort than of continued perseverance. La Bruyère.

=La plupart des peuples, ainsi que des hommes, ne sont dociles que dans leur jeunesse; ils deviennent incorrigibles en vieillisant=--Most nations, as well as men, are impressible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow old. Rousseau.

=La plupart des troubles de ce monde sont= 10 =grammairiens=--The majority of the troubles in this world are the fault of the grammarians. Montaigne.

=La plus belle victoire est de vaincre son cœur=--The noblest victory is to conquer one's own heart. La Fontaine.

=La plus courte folie est toujours la meilleure=--The short folly is always the best. Fr.

=La plus part des hommes emploient la première partie de leur vie à rendre l'autre misérable=--The generality of men expend the early part of their lives in contributing to render the latter part miserable. La Bruyère.

=La plus part des hommes n'ont pas le courage de corriger les autres, parcequ'ils n'ont pas le courage de souffrir qu'on les corrige=--The generality of mankind have not the courage to correct others, because they have not themselves the courage to bear correction.

=La poesia non muore=--Poetry does not die. 15 B. Zendrini.

=La politesse est l'art de rendre à chacun sans effort ce que lui est socialement dû=--Politeness is the art of rendering spontaneously to every one that which is his due as a member of society. Fr.

=La popularité c'est la gloire en gros sous=--Popularity is glory in penny-pieces. Victor Hugo.

=La prière est un cri d'espérance=--Prayer is a cry of hope. A. de Musset.

=La propriété c'est le vol=--Property, that is theft. Proudhon.

=La propriété exclusive est un vol dans la= 20 =nature=--Exclusive ownership is a theft in nature. Fr.

=La prospérité fait peu d'amis=--Prosperity makes few friends. Vauvenargues.

=La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure=--The argument of the strongest is always the best, i.e., has most weight. La Fontaine.

=La raison émancipée n'a pas nui à la cause de Dieu; elle l'a servie=--The emancipation of reason has not injured the cause of God; it has promoted it. V. Cousin.

=La raison seule peut faire des lois obligatoires et durables=--Reason alone can render laws binding and stable. Mirabeau.

=La recherche de la paternité est interdite=--Investigation 25 of paternity is forbidden. Code Napoléon.

=La recherche du vrai, et la pratique du bien, sont les deux objets les plus importants de la philosophie=--The pursuit of what is true and the practice of what is good are the two most important objects of philosophy. Voltaire.

=La reconnaissance est un fardeau, et tout fardeau est fait pour être secoué=--Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off. Diderot.

=La réputation d'un homme est comme son ombre, qui tantôt le suit, et tantôt le précède; quelquefois elle est plus longue, et quelquefois plus courte que lui=--A man's reputation is like his shadow, which sometimes follows, sometimes precedes him, and which is occasionally longer, occasionally shorter than he is. Fr.

=La roche Tarpéienne est près du Capitole=--The Tarpeian rock is near the Capitol, i.e., the place of execution is near the scene of triumph. Jouy-Spontini.

=La ruse est le talent des égoïstes, et ne peut= 30 =tromper que les sots que prennent la turbulence pour l'esprit, la gravité pour la prudence, effronterie pour le talent, l'orgueil pour la dignité.=--Cunning is the accomplishment of the selfish, and can only impose upon silly people, who take bluster for sense, gravity for prudence, effrontery for talent, and pride for dignity. Mirabeau.

=La sage conduite roule sur deux pivots, le passé et l'avenir=--Prudent conduct turns on two pivots, the past and the future, i.e., on a faithful memory and forethought. La Bruyère.

=La sauce vaut mieux que le poisson=--The sauce is better than the fish. Fr. Pr.

=La science du gouvernement n'est qu'une science de combinaisons, d'applications et d'exceptions, selon le temps, les lieux, les circonstances=--The science of government is only a science of combinations, applications, and exceptions, according to time, place, and circumstance. Rousseau.

=La seule vertu distingue les hommes, dès qu'ils sont morts=--By their virtues alone are men distinguished after they are dead. L'Abbé de Choisy.

=La silence est la vertu de ceux qui ne sont= 35 =pas sages=--Silence is the virtue of the foolish. Bouhours.

=La speranza è l'ultima ch'abbandona l'infelice=--Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy. It. Pr.

=La tempérance et le travail sont les deux vrais médicins de l'homme=--Temperance and labour are the two real physicians of man. Rousseau.

=La terre est couverte de gens qui ne méritent pas qu'on leur parle=--The earth swarms with people who are not worth talking to. Voltaire.

=La verdad es hija de Dios=--Truth is the daughter of God. Sp. Pr.

=La verdad es sempre verde=--Truth is always green. Sp. Pr.

=La vérité est cachée au fond du puits=--Truth is hidden at the bottom of a well. Fr. Pr.

=La vérité ne fait pas autant de bien dans le= 5 =monde que ses apparences y font de mal=--Truth does not produce so much good in the world as the hypocritical profession of it does mischief. Fr.

=La vertu a des appas qui nous portent au véritable bonheur=--Virtue has attractions which lead us to true happiness. Fr.

=La vertu dans l'indigence est comme un voyageur, que le vent et la pluie contraignent de s'envelopper de son manteau=--Virtue in want is like a traveller who is compelled by the wind and rain to wrap himself up in his cloak. Fr. Pr.

=La virtù è simile ai profumi, che rendono più grato odore quando triturati=--Virtue is like certain perfumes, which yield a more agreeable odour from being rubbed. It.

=La vertu est la seule noblesse=--Virtue is the only true nobility. M.

=La vertu est partout la même: c'est qu'elle= 10 =vient de Dieu, et le reste est des hommes=--Virtue is everywhere the same; the reason is it proceeds from God, and the rest is from men. Voltaire.

=La vertu fut toujours en minorité sur la terre=--Virtue has ever been in the minority on earth. Robespierre.

=La vertu n'iroit pas si loin, si la vanité ne lui tenait compagnie=--Virtue would not go so far if vanity did not bear her company. La Roche.

=La vicinanza de' grandi sempre è pericolosa ai picoli; sono grandi come il fuoco, che brucia eziandio quei che vi gettano dell' incenso se troppo vi si approsimino=--The neighbourhood of the great is always dangerous to the little. The great are to them as a fire which scorches those who approach it too nearly. It.

=La vida es corta y la esperanza larga, / El bien huye de mi y el mal se alarga=--Life is short, yet hope endures; good flies off, but evil ever lurks about. Luis de Góngora.

=La vie des héros a enrichi l'histoire, et l'histoire= 15 =a embelli les actions des héros=--The lives of heroes have enriched history, and history has embellished the exploits of heroes. La Bruyère.

=La vieillesse nous attache plus de rides en l'esprit qu'en visage=--Old age contracts more wrinkles on the mind than the countenance. Montaigne.

=La ville est le séjour de profanes humains, les dieux habitent la campagne=--Towns are the dwelling-places of profane mortals; the gods inhabit rural retreats. Rousseau.

=La violence est juste où la douceur est vaine=--Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not. Corneille.

=La volontà è tutto=--The will is everything. _It. Pr._

=La vraie science et le vrai étude de l'homme,= 20 =c'est l'homme=--The real science and the real study for man, is man himself. Charron.

=Labitur et labetur in omne volubilis ævum=--The stream flows, and will go on flowing for ever. Hor.

=Labitur occulte, fallitque volubilis ætas=--Time glides on stealthily, and eludes us as it steals past. Ovid.

=Labor ipse voluptas=--Labour itself is a pleasure. M.

=Labor omnia vincit / Improbus, et duris urgens in rebus egestas=--Persevering labour overcomes all difficulties, and want that urges us on in the pressure of things. Virg.

=Laborare est orare=--Work is worship (lit. to 25 labour is to pray). Monkish Pr.

=Labore=--By labour. M.

=Labore et honore=--By labour and honour. M.

=Labore vinces=--By labour you will conquer. M.

=Laborum dulce lenimen=--The sweet soother of my toils. Hor. to his lyre.

=Labour bestowed on nothing is fruitless.= Hitopadesa. 30

=Labour endears rest, and both together are absolutely necessary for the proper enjoyment of human existence.= Burns.

=Labour for labour's sake is against nature.= Locke.

=Labour has a bitter root but a sweet taste.= Dan. Pr.

=Labour is exercise continued to fatigue; exercise is labour used only while it produces pleasure.= Johnson.

=Labour is life. From the inmost heart of the= 35 =worker rises his God-given force--the sacred celestial life-essence breathed into him by Almighty God.= Carlyle.

=Labour is preferable to idleness, as brightness to rust.= Plato.

=Labour is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.= Anon.

=Labour is the fabled magician's wand, the philosopher's stone, and the cap of Fortunatus.= J. Johnson.

=Labour is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of the will.= J. G. Holland.

=Labour is the Lethe of both past and present.= 40 Jean Paul.

=Labour is the ornament of the citizen; the reward of toil is when you confer blessings on others; his high dignity confers honour on the king; be ours the glory of our hands.= Schiller.

=Labour is the talisman that has raised man from the condition of the savage.= M'Culloch.

=Labour itself is but a sorrowful song, / The protest of the weak against the strong.= Faber.

=Labour, if it were not necessary for the existence, would be indispensable for the happiness, of man.= Johnson.

=Labour, like everything else that is good, is= 45 =its own reward.= Whipple.

=Labour like this our want supplies, / And they must stoop who mean to rise.= Cowper.

=Labour of the hands, even when pursued to the verge of drudgery, is perhaps never the worst form of idleness (for the mind); it has a constant and imperishable moral.= Thoreau.

=Labour past is pleasant.= Pr.

=Labour to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire--conscience.= Washington.

=Labour, wide as the earth, has its summit in heaven.= Carlyle.

=Labour with what zeal we will, / Something= 5 =still remains undone, / Something uncompleted still / Waits the rising of the sun.= Longfellow.

=Lachen, Weinen, Lust und Schmerz / Sind Geschwister-Kinder=--Laughing and weeping, pleasure and pain, are cousins german. Goethe.

=Lacrymæque decoræ, / Gratior et pulchro veniens in corpore virtus=--His tears, that so well become him, and a merit still more pleasing that shows itself in his fair form. Virg.

=Lactuca innatat acri / Post vinum stomacho=--Lettuce after wine floats on the acrid stomach. Hor.

=Lad's love is lassie's delight, / And if lads won't love, lassies will flite= (scold). Craven.

=Lad's love's a busk of broom, hot awhile and= 10 =soon done.= Pr.

=Lade nicht alles in ein Schiff=--Embark not your all in one venture. Ger. Pr.

=Ladies like variegated tulips show; / 'Tis to their changes half their charms they owe.= Pope.

=Læso et invicto militi=--For our wounded but unconquered soldiery. Inscription on the Berlin Invalidenhaus.

=Lætus in præsens animus, quod ultra est / Oderit curare, et amara lento / Temperet risu. Nihil est ab omni / Parte beatum=--The mind that is cheerfully contented with the present will shrink from caring about anything beyond, and will temper the bitters of life with an easy smile. There is nothing that is blessed in every respect. Hor.

=Lætus sorte tua vives sapienter=--You will live 15 wisely if you live contented with your lot. Pr.

=Lætus sum laudari a laudato viro=--I am pleased to be praised by a man who is so praised as you are. Cic.

=Laisser dire le monde, et toujours bien faire, c'est une maxime, qui étant bien observée assure notre repos, et établit enfin notre réputation=--To let the world talk, and always to act correctly, is a maxim which, if well observed, will secure our repose, and in the end establish our reputation. Fr.

=Laissez dire les sots, le savoir a son prix=--Let ignorance talk, learning has its value. La Fontaine.

=Laissez faire, laissez passer!=--Let it be! Let it pass! Gournay, Quesnay.

=Laissez faire--the "let alone" principle, is, in= 20 =all things which man has to do with, the principle of death. It is ruin to him, certain and total, if he lets his land alone--if he lets his fellow-men alone--if he lets his own soul alone.= Ruskin.

=Laissez-leur prendre un pied chez vous, / Ils en auront bientôt pris quatre=--Let them take one foot in your house, and they will soon have taken four (give them an inch and they will take an ell). La Fontaine.

=Lamenting becomes fools, and action wise folk.= Sir P. Sidney.

=Lampoons and satires, that are written with wit and spirit, are like poisoned darts, which not only inflict a wound, but make it incurable.= Addison.

=Land is the right basis of an aristocracy. No true aristocracy but must possess the land.= Carlyle.

=Land of lost gods and godlike men.= Byron of 25 Greece.

=Land should be given to those who can use it, and tools to those who can use them.= Ruskin.

=Land was never lost for want of an heir.= Pr.

=Lands intersected by a narrow firth / Abhor each other. Mountains interposed / Make enemies of nations, which had else, / Like kindred drops, been mingled into one.= Cowper.

=Lands mortgaged may return, and more esteemed; / But honesty once pawned is ne'er redeemed.= Middleton.

=Lang ill, soon weel.= Sc. Pr. 30

=Lang syne, in Eden's bonny yaird, / When youthfu' lovers first were pair'd, / And all the soul of love they shared, / The raptured hour, / Sweet on the fragrant flowery swaird, / In shady bower, / Then you, ye auld sneck-drawing= (latch-lifting) =dog, / Ye cam' to Paradise incog, / And play'd on man a curséd brogue, / (Black be your fa') / And gied the infant warld a shog= (shake), / ='Maist ruin'd a'.= Burns to the Deil.

=Langage des halles=--Language of the fishmarket. Fr.

=Lange ist nicht ewig=--Long is not for ever. Ger. Pr.

=Lange Ueberlegungen zeigen gewöhnlich, dass man den Punkt nicht im Auge hat, von dem die Rede ist; übereilte Handlungen, dass man ihn gar nicht kennt=--Long pondering on a matter usually indicates that one has not properly got his eye on the point at issue; and too hasty action that he does not know it at all. Goethe.

=Langes Leben heisst viele überleben=--To live 35 long is to outlive many. Goethe.

=Langeweile ist ein böses Kraut / Aber auch eine Würze, die viel verdaut=--Ennui is an ill weed, but also a condiment which digests a good deal. Goethe.

=Langh festjen is nin brae sperjen=--A long fast saves no bread. Fris. Pr.

=Langsam nur im Menschengeiste / Reift das Saatkorn der Erkenntniss, / Doch die Blumen wachsen schnell=--The seed-grain of knowledge ripens but slowly in the spirit of man, yet the flowers grow fast. Bodenstedt.

=Language at its infancy is all poetry.= Emerson.

=Language is always wise.= Emerson. 40

=Language is fossil poetry.= Trench.

=Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.= Sir H. Davy.

=Language is only clear when it is sympathetic.= Ruskin.

=Language is properly the servant of thought, but not unfrequently it becomes its master.= W. B. Clulow.

=Language is the armoury of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past, and the weapons of its future, conquests.= Coleridge.

=Language is the dress of thought.= Johnson.

=Language is the memory of the human race. It is a thread or nerve of life running through all the ages, connecting them into one common, prolonged, and advancing existence.= Wm. Smith.

=Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee.= Ben Jonson.

=Languages are more properly to be called= 5 =vehicles of learning than learning itself.... True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words.= Lady Montagu.

=Languages are the barometers of national thought and character.= Hare.

=Languages are the pedigree of nations.= Johnson.

=Lapidary inscriptions should be historical rather than lyrical.= Carlyle.

=Lapis philosophorum=--The philosopher's stone.

=Lapis qui volvitur algam non generat=--A rolling 10 stone gathers no moss. Pr.

=Lapsus memoriæ=--A slip of the memory.

=Lares et penates=--Household gods.

=Large bodies are far more likely to err than individuals. The passions are inflamed by sympathy; the fear of punishment and the sense of shame are diminished by partition. Every day we see men do for their faction what they would die rather than do for themselves.= Macaulay.

=Large charity doth never soil, but only whiten, soft white hands.= Lowell.

=Large fortunes are all founded either on occupation= 15 =of land, or usury, or taxation of labour.= Ruskin.

=Large fortunes cannot be made by the work of any one man's hands or head.= Ruskin.

=Large masses of mankind, in every society of our Europe, are no longer capable of living at all by the things which have been.= Carlyle.

=Largitio fundum non habet=--Giving has no bottom. Pr.

=Las manos blancas no ofenden=--White hands cannot harm one. Sp. Pr.

=Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch'entrate=--Abandon 20 all hope, ye who enter here. Dante.

=Lascivi soboles gregis=--The offspring of a wanton herd. Hor.

=Lass das Vergangne vergangen sein=--Let what is past be past. Goethe, Faust to Margaret in the end.

=Lass deine Zunge nie das Amt des Schwertes führen=--Never let thy tongue do the work of the sword. (?)

=Lass dich nicht verblüffen=--Don't let yourself be disconcerted. Herder.

=Lass die Leute reden und die Hunde bellen=--Let 25 the people talk and the dogs bark. Ger. Pr.

=Lass die schwerste Pflicht dir die allerheiligste Pflicht sein=--Let the most arduous duty be the most sacred of all to thee. Lavater.

=Lass die Winde stürmen auf des Lebens Bahn, / Ob sie Wogen türmen gegen deinen Kahn. / Schiffe ruhig weiter, wenn der Mast auch bricht, / Gott ist dein Begleiter, er vergisst dich nicht=--Let winds storm on life's course, even though they swell over and threaten thy skiff. Sail quietly on, even if the mast gives way. God is thy convoy; He forgets thee not. Tiedge.

=Lass diesen Händedruck dir sagen / Was unaussprechlich ist=--Let this pressure of the hand reveal to thee what is unutterable. Goethe, Faust to Margarite.

=Lass ruhn, lass ruhn die Toten, / Du weckst sie mit Klagen nicht auf=--Let them rest, let thy dead ones rest, thou awakest them not with thy wailing. Chamisso.

=Lasses and glasses are brittle wares.= Sc. Pr. 30

=Lasst fahren hin das allzu Flüchtige! / Ihr sucht bei ihm vergebens Rat! / In dem Vergangnen lebt das Tüchtige / Verewigt sich in schöner That=--Let the too transient pass by; ye seek counsel in vain of it. Yet what will avail you lives in the past, and lies immortalised in what has been nobly done. Goethe.

=Lasst uns hell denken, so werden wir feurig lieben=--Let us think clearly, we shall love ardently. Schiller.

=Last come, worst served.=

=Last in bed, best heard.= Pr.

=Last, not least.= Jul. Cæs., iii. 1. Lear, i. 1. 35

=Last scene of all, ... / Is second childishness and mere oblivion; / Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.= As You Like It, ii. 7.

=Late children are early orphans.= Sp. Pr.

=Late fruit keeps well.= Ger. Pr.

=Lateat scintillula forsan=--A small spark may perhaps lurk unseen. M.

=Laterem laves=--You may as well wash a clay 40 brick white. Ter.

=Latet anguis in herba=--There is a snake in the grass. Virg.

[Greek: lathe biôsas]--Remain hidden in life. Epicurus.

=Latitat=--He lurks; a writ of summons (Law).

=Latius regnes, avidum domando / Spiritum, quam si Libyam remotis / Gadibus jungas, et uterque Pœnus / Serviat uni=--By subduing an avaricious spirit you will rule a wider empire than if you united Lybia to the far-off Gades, and the Carthaginian on both shores should be subject to you alone. Hor.

=Latrante uno, latrat statim et alter canis=--When 45 one dog barks, another straightway begins to bark too. Pr.

=Latrantem curatne alta Diana canem?=--Does the high-stepping Diana care for the dog that bays her? Pr.

=Laudant quod non intelligunt=--They praise what they don't understand.

=Laudari a viro laudato maxima est laus=--To be commended by a man of high repute is the greatest possible praise.

=Laudat venales qui vult extrudere merces=--He praises his wares who wishes to palm them off upon others. Hor.

=Laudato ingentia rura, / Exiguum colito=--Praise 50 a large estate, but cultivate a small one. Virg.

=Laudator temporis acti=--The praiser of bygone times. Hor.

=Laudatur ab his, culpatur ab illis=--Some praise him, others censure him. Hor.

=Laudatus abunde, / Non fastiditus si tibi, lector, ero=--Abundantly, reader, shall I be praised if I do not cause thee disgust. Ovid.

=Laudem virtutis necessitati damus=--We give to necessity the praise of virtue. Quinct.

=Laudibus arguitur vini vinosus=--He is convicted of being a wine-bibber by his praises of wine. Hor.

=Laudo Deum verum, plebem voco, congrego= 5 =clerum, / Defunctos ploro, pestem fugo, festa decoro=--I praise the true God, I summon the people, I call together the clergy, I bewail the dead, I put to flight the plague, I celebrate festivals. Inscription on a church bell.

=Laudo manentem; si celeres quatit / Pennas, resigno quæ dedit, et mea / Virtute me involvo probamque / Pauperiem sine dote quæro=--I praise her (Fortune) while she stays with me; if she flaps her swift pinions, I resign all she has given me, and wrap myself up in my own virtue and pay my addresses to honest undowered poverty. Hor.

=Laugh and be fat.= Ben Jonson.

=Laugh at all twaddle about fate. A man's fate is what he makes it, nothing else.= Anon.

=Laugh at leisure; ye may greet= (weep) =ere nicht.= Sc. Pr.

=Laugh not too much: the witty man laughs= 10 =least: / For wit is news only to ignorance. / Less at thine own things laugh: lest in the jest / Thy person share, and the conceit advance.= George Herbert.

=Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, / But vindicate the ways of God to man.= Pope.

=Laughing cheerfulness throws the light of day on all the paths of life; sorrow is more confusing and distracting than so-called giddiness.= Jean Paul.

=Laughter almost ever cometh of things most disproportioned to ourselves.= Sir P. Sidney.

=Laughter and tears are meant to turn the wheels of the same machinery of sensibility; one is wind-power, and the other water-power, that is all.= Holmes.

=Laughter, holding both his sides.= Milton. 15

=Laughter is akin to weeping, and true humour is as closely allied to pity as it is abhorrent to derision.= H. Giles.

=Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.= Leigh Hunt.

=Laughter is the cipher-key wherewith we decipher the whole man.= Carlyle.

=Laughter leaves us doubly serious shortly after.= Byron.

=Laughter makes good blood.= It. Pr. 20

=Laughter should dimple the cheek, not furrow the brow.= Feltham.

=Laus Deo=--Praise be to God. M.

=Laus est facere quod decet, non quod licet=--It is doing what we ought to do, and not merely doing what we may do, that is the ground of praise.

=Laus in proprio ore sordescit=--Self-praise is offensive. Pr.

=Laus magna natis obsequi parentibus=--Great 25 praise is the meed of children who respect the wishes of their parents. Phaedr.

=Lavish promises lessen credit.= Hor.

=Lavishness is not generosity.= Pr.

=Law and equity are two things which God hath joined, but which man hath put asunder.= Colton.

=Law cannot persuade when it cannot punish.= Pr.

=Law has her seat in the bosom of God, her= 30 =voice in the harmony of the world.= Hooker.

=Law is a bottomless pit; keep far from it.= Pr.

=Law is a lottery.= Pr.

=Law is not law if it violates the principles of eternal justice.= L. M. Child.

=Law is powerful, necessity more so.= Goethe.

=Law it is which is without name, or colour, or= 35 =hands, or feet; which is smallest of the least, and largest of the large; all, and knowing all things; which hears without ears, sees without eyes, moves without feet, and seizes without hands.= Emerson.

=Law licks up a'.= Sc. Pr.

=Law-makers should not be law-breakers.= Pr.

=Law, man's sole guardian ever since the day when the old brazen age in sadness saw love fly the world.= Schiller.

=Law teaches us to know when we commit injury and when we suffer it.= Johnson.

=Law that shocks equity is reason's murderer.= 40 A, Hill.

=Lawless are they that make their wills their law.= Sh.

=Laws act after crimes have been committed; prevention goes before them both.= Zimmermann.

=Laws and rights are transmitted like an inveterate hereditary disease.= Goethe.

=Laws are generally found to be nets of such texture as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle size are alone entangled in.= Shenstone.

=Laws are intended to guard against what= 45 =men may do, not to trust what they will do.= Junius.

=Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.= Swift.

=Laws are like spider webs, small flies are ta'en, / While greater flies break in and out again.= Braithwaite.

=Laws are not made for particular cases, but for men in general.= Johnson.

=Laws are not made like nets--to catch, but like sea-marks--to guide.= Sir P. Sidney.

=Laws are not masters, but servants, and he= 50 =rules them who obeys them.= Ward Beecher.

=Laws are not our life, only the house wherein our life is led; nay, they are but the bare walls of the house; all whose essential furniture, the inventions and traditions and daily habits that regulate and support our existence, are the work not of Dracos and Hampdens, but of Phœnician mariners, of Italian masons, and Saxon metallurgists, of philosophers, alchymists, prophets, and the long-forgotten train of artists and artisans, who from the first have been jointly teaching us how to think and how to act, how to rule over spiritual and physical nature.= Carlyle.

=Laws are the silent assessors of God.= _W. R. Alger._

=Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns.= _Louis XIV._

=Laws are the very bulwarks of liberty. They define every man's rights, and stand between and defend the individual liberties of all.= J. G. Holland.

=Laws are usually most beneficial in operation on the people who would have most strongly objected to their enactment.= Ruskin.

=Law's costly; tak' a pint and 'gree.= Sc. Pr.

=Laws exist in vain for those who have not the courage and the means to defend them.= Macaulay.

=Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the= 5 =law.= Goldsmith.

=Laws, like cobwebs, catch flies, but let hornets go free.= Pr.

=Laws of Nature are God's thoughts thinking themselves out in the orbs and the tides.= C. H. Parkhurst.

=Laws should be like death, which spares no one.= Montesquieu.

=Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.= Montesquieu.

=Laws were made for rogues.= It. Pr. 10

=Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as death, are there, and thou shalt not disobey them.= Carlyle.

=Lawyers and painters can soon make black white.= Pr.

=Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills.= Pr.

=Lawyers are always more ready to get a man into troubles than out of them.= Goldsmith.

=Lawyers are needful to keep us out of law.= 15 Pr.

=Lawyers' houses are built of fools' heads.= _Fr. Pr._

=Lawyers, of whose art the basis / Is raising feuds and splitting cases.= Butler.

=Lawyers' robes are lined with the obstinacy of litigants.= It. Pr.

=Lawyers will live as long as mine and thine does.= Ger. Pr.

=Lay by, like ants, a little store, / For summer= 20 =lasts not evermore.= Pr.

=Lay by something for a rainy day.= Pr.

=Lay not all the load on the lame horse.= Pr.

=Lay not that flattering unction to your soul.= Ham., iii. 4.

=Lay not thine heart open to every one, but treat of thy affairs with the wise and such as fear God.= Thomas à Kempis.

=Lay the blame at the right door.= Pr. 25

=Lay the proud usurpers low! / Tyrants fall in every foe! / Liberty's in every blow! / Forward! let us die.= Burns.

=Lay thy hand upon thy halfpenny twice before thou partest with it.= Pr.

=Lay up and lay out should go together.= Pr.

=Lay up that you may lay out.= Pr.

=Lazarus did not go to Abraham's bosom because= 30 =he was poor, or every sluggard would go there easily.= Spurgeon.

=Laziness begins with cobwebs and ends with iron chains.= Pr.

=Laziness is nothing unless you carry it out.= Pr.

=Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.= Ben. Franklin.

=Lazy as Ludlam's dog, that laid his head against the wall to bark.= Pr.

=Lazy folks ask for work with their lips, but= 35 =their hearts pray God that they may not find it.= Creole saying.

=Lazy folk's stomachs don't get tired.= _Uncle Remus._

=Lazy is the hand that ploughs not.= _Gael. Pr._

=Le beau monde=--The fashionable world. Fr.

=Le bestemmie fanno come le processioni; ritornano donde partirono=--Curses are like processions, they come back to whence they set out. It. Pr.

=Le bien ne se fait jamais mieux que lorsqu'il= 40 =opère lentement=--Good is never more effectually done than when it is produced slowly. Fr. Pr.

=Le bon sens vulgaire est un mauvais juge quand il s'agit des grandes choses=--Good common-sense is a bad judge when it is a question of high matters. Renan.

=Le bon temps viendra=--The good time will come. M.

=Le bonheur de l'homme en cette vie ne consiste pas à être sans passions, il consiste à en être le maître=--The happiness of man in this life does not consist in being devoid of passions, but in mastering them. Fr.

=Le bonheur des méchants comme un torrent s'écoule=--The happiness of the wicked passes away like a brook. Racine.

=Le bonheur des peuples dépend et de la félicité= 45 =dont ils jouissent au dedans et du respect qu'ils inspirent au dehors=--The welfare of nations depends at once on the happiness which they enjoy at home and the respect which they command abroad. Helvetius.

=Le bonheur et le malheur des hommes ne dépendent pas moins de leur humeur que de la fortune=--The happiness and unhappiness of men depend as much on their dispositions as on fortune. La Roche.

=Le bonheur n'est pas chose aisée; il est très-difficile de le trouver en nous, et impossible de le trouver ailleurs=--Happiness is no easy matter; it is very hard to find it within ourselves, and impossible to find it elsewhere. Chamfort.

=Le bonheur ne peut être / Où la vertu n'est pas=--Happiness cannot exist where virtue is not. Quinault.

=Le bonheur ou le malheur vont ordinairement à ceux qui ont le plus de l'un ou de l'autre=--Good fortune or bad generally falls to those who have the greatest share of either. La Roche.

=Le bonheur semble fait pour être partagé=--Happiness 50 seems appointed to be shared. Racine.

=Le bruit est si fort, qu'on n'entend pas Dieu tonner=--The noise (of things) is so deafening that we cannot hear God when He thunders. Fr. Pr.

=Le bruit est pour le fat, la plainte est pour le sot, / L'honnête homme trompé s'éloigne et ne dit mot=--Blustering is for the fop, whimpering for the fool; the sensible man when deceived goes off and says nothing. Lanoue.

=Le chemin est long du projet à la close=--The road is a long one from the projection of a thing to its accomplishment. Molière.

=Le ciel me prive d'une épouse qui ne m'a jamais donné d'autre chagrin que celui de sa mort=--Heaven bereaves me of a spouse who never caused me any other vexation than by her death. Louis XIV. of his wife.

=Le citoyen peut périr, et l'homme rester=--The citizen may perish and man remain. Montesquieu.

=Le cœur a ses raisons, que la raison ne connoit pas=--The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know. Pascal.

=Le cœur de l'homme n'est jamais si inflexible que son esprit=--The heart of man is never so inflexible as his intellect. Lamartine.

=Le cœur d'une femme est un vrai miroir qui= 5 =reçoit toutes sortes d'objets sans s'attacher à aucun=--The heart of woman is a real mirror, which reflects every object without attaching itself to any. Fr.

=Le congrès ne marche pas; il danse=--The Congress does not advance; it dances. The Prince de Ligne of the Vienna Congress.

=Le conquérant est craint, le sage est estimé, / Mais le bienfaiteur plait, et lui seul est aimé=--The conqueror is held in awe, the sage is esteemed, but it is the benevolent man who wins our affections and is alone beloved. Fr.

=Le conseil manque à l'âme, / Et le guide au chemin=--The soul wants counsel, and the road a guide. Fr.

=Le contraire des bruits qui courent des affaires, ou des personnes, est souvent la vérité=--The converse of what is currently reported about things and people is often the truth. La Bruyère.

=Le contrat du gouvernement est tellement dissous= 10 =par despotisme que le despot n'est le maître qu'aussi long temps qu'il est le plus fort; et que si tôt qu'on peut l'expulser, il n'a point à réclaimer contre la violence=--The contract of government is so dissolved by despotism, that the despot is master only so long as he is the strongest, and that as soon as there is power to expel him, he has no right to protest against the violent proceeding. Rousseau.

=Le corps politique, aussi bien que le corps de l'homme, commence à mourir dès sa naissance, et porte en lui-même les causes de sa destruction=--The body politic, like the body of man, begins to die as soon as it is born, and bears within it the seeds of its own dissolution. Rousseau.

=Le cose non sono come sono, ma come si vedono=--Things are not as they are, but as they are regarded. It. Pr.

=Le courage est souvent un effet de la peur=--Courage is often an effect of fear. Fr. Pr.

=Le coûte en ôte le goût=--The cost takes away from the relish. Fr. Pr.

=Le cri d'un peuple heureux est la seule éloquence= 15 =qui doit parler des rois=--The acclaim of a happy people is the only eloquence which ought to speak in the behalf of kings.

=Le crime fait la honte, et non pas l'échafaud=--It is the crime that's the disgrace, not the scaffold. Corneille.

=Le désespoir comble non seulement notre misère, mais notre faiblesse=--Despair gives the finishing blow not only to misery, but to weakness. Vauvenargues.

=Le désespoir redouble les forces=--Despair doubles our powers. Fr. Pr.

=Le despotisme tempéré par l'assassinat, c'est notre Magna Charta=--Despotism tempered by assassination is our Magna Charta. A Russian noble to Count Münster on the murder of the Czar Paul.

=Le dessous des cartes=--The lower side of the 20 cards. Fr.

=Le devoir, c'est l'âme intérieure, c'est la vie de l'éducation=--Duty is the inner soul, the life of education. Michelet.

=Le devoir des juges est de rendre justice, leur métier est de la différer; quelques uns savent leur devoir, et font leur métier=--The duty of judges is to administer justice, but their practice is to delay it; some of them know their duty, but adhere to the practice. La Bruyère.

=Le diable était beau quand il était jeune=--The devil was handsome when he was young. Fr. Pr.

=Le divorce est le sacrement de l'adultère=--Divorce is the sacrament of adultery.

=Le doute s'introduit dans l'âme qui rêve, la foi= 25 =descend dans l'âme qui souffre=--Doubt insinuates itself into a soul that is dreaming; faith comes down into one that struggles and suffers.

=Le droit est au plus fort en amour comme en guerre, / Et la femme qu'on aime aura toujours raison=--Right is with the strongest in love as in war, / And the woman we love will always be right. A. de Musset.

=Le feu qui semble éteint souvent dort dans la cendre=--The fire which seems extinguished often slumbers in the ashes. Corneille.

=Le génie c'est la patience=--Genius is just patience. Fr. Pr.

=Le génie n'est autre chose qu'une grande aptitude à la patience=--Genius is nothing else than a sovereign capacity for patience. Buffon.

=Le géologue est un nouveau genre d'antiquaire=--The 30 geologist is a new species of antiquarian. (?)

=Le gouvernement représentatif est la justice organisée, la raison vivante, la morale armée=--Representative government is justice organised, reason in living action, and morality armed. Royer Collard.

=Le grand art de la supériorité, c'est de saisir les hommes par leur bon côté=--The great art of superiority is getting hold of people by their right side. Mirabeau.

=Le grand monarque=--The grand monarch, Louis XIV.

=Le grandeur et le discernement sont des choses différentes, et l'amour pour la vertu, et pour les vertueux une troisième chose=--High rank and discernment are two different things, and love for virtue and for virtuous people is a third thing. La Bruyère.

=Le hasard donne les pensées; le hazard les= 35 =ôte: point d'art pour conserver ni pour acquérir=--Chance suggests thoughts; changes deprive us of them: there is no rule for preserving or acquiring them. Pascal.

=Le hasard est un sobriquet de la Providence=--Chance is a nickname for Providence. Chamfort.

=Le jeu est le fils de l'avarice et le père du désespoir=--Gambling is the son of avarice and the father of despair. Fr. Pr.

=Le jeu n'en vaut pas la chandelle=--The game is not worth the candle. Fr. Pr.

=Le jour viendra=--The day will come. M.

=Le masque tombe, l'homme reste / Et le héros s'évanouit=--The mask falls off, the man remains, and the heroic vanishes. J. B. Rousseau.

=Le mauvais métier que celui de censeur=--A bad business that of censor. Guy Patin.

=Le méchant n'est jamais comique=--A bad man is never amusing. De Maistre.

=Le médicin Tant-pis et le médicin Tant-mieux=--The pessimist and the optimist (lit. Doctor So-much-the-worse and Doctor So-much-the-better). La Fontaine.

=Le mérité est souvent un obstacle à la fortune;= 5 =c'est qu'il produit toujours deux mauvais effets, l'envie et la crainte=--Merit is often an obstacle to fortune; the reason is it produces two bad effects, envy and fear. Fr.

=Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien=--Better is the enemy of well. Fr. Pr.

=Le moindre grain de mil serait bien mieux mon affaire=--The smallest grain of millet would serve my needs better. La Fontaine, "The Cock and the Pearl."

=Le moineau en la main vaut mieux que l'oie qui vole=--A sparrow in the hand is worth a goose on the wing. Fr. Pr.

=Le monde, chère Agnès, est une étrange chose=--The world, dear Agnes, is a queer concern. Molière.

=Le monde est le livre des femmes=--The world 10 is the book of women. Rousseau.

=Le monde est plein de fous, et qui n'en veut pas voir / Doit se tenir tout seul et casser son miroir=--The world is full of madmen, and he who would not see one must keep himself quite alone and break his looking-glass.

=Le monde paye d'ingratitude=--The world pays with ingratitude. Fr. Pr.

=Le monde savant=--The learned world. Fr.

=Le mort est le dernier trait du tableau de la vie=--Death is the finishing touch in the picture of life. Fr.

=Le mot de l'énigme=--The key to the riddle. Fr. 15

=Le moy est haïssable=--Egotism is hateful. Pascal.

=Le moyen le plus sûr de se consoler de tout ce qui peut arriver, c'est de s'attendre toujours au pire=--The surest way to console one's self against whatever may happen is always to expect the worst. Fr.

=Le nombre des élus au Parnasse est complet=--The list of the elect of Parnassus is made up. (?)

=Le nombre des sages sera toujours petit=--The wise will always be few in number.

=Le parjure est une vertu, / Lorsque le serment= 20 =fut un crime=--Perjury is a virtue when the oath was a crime. Voltaire.

=Le pas=--Precedence in place or rank. Fr.

=Le pays du mariage a cela de particulier, que les étrangers ont envie de l'habiter, et les habitans naturels voudroient en être exilés=--The land of matrimony possesses this peculiarity, that strangers to it would like to dwell in it, and the natural inhabitants wish to be exiled. Montaigne.

=Le pédant et l'instituteur disent à peu près les mêmes choses; mais le premier les dit à tout propos: le second ne les dit que quand il est sûr de leur effet=--The pedant and the teacher say nearly the same things; but the former on every occasion, the latter only when he is sure of their effect. Rousseau.

=Le petit monde=--The lower orders. Fr.

=Le peuple anglais pense être libre; il ne l'est= 25 =que durant l'élection des membres du parlement=--The English think they are free; they are free only during the election of members of Parliament. Rousseau.

=Le peuple est le cœur du pays=--The people is the heart of a country. Lamartine.

=Le peuple ne comprend que ce qu'il sent. Les seuls orateurs pour lui sont ceux qui l'émeuvent=--The people understand only what they feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them. Lamartine.

=Le plaisir le plus délicat est de faire celui d'autrui=--The most exquisite pleasure consists in promoting the pleasures of others. La Bruyère.

=Le plus âne des trois n'est pas celui qu'on pense=--The greatest ass of the three is not the one who seems so. La Fontaine, "The Miller, his Son, and his Ass."

=Le plus dangereux ridicule des vieilles personnes= 30 =qui sont aimables, c'est d'oublier qu'elles ne le sont plus=--For old people, however estimable, to forget that they are no longer estimable is to expose themselves to certain ridicule. La Roche.

=Le plus lent à promettre est toujours le plus fidèle à tenir=--He who is slow in promising is always the most faithful in performing. Rousseau.

=Le plus sage est celui qui ne pense point l'être=--The wisest man is he who does not think he is so. Boileau.

=Le plus semblable aux morts meurt le plus à regret=--He who most resembles the dead dies with most reluctance. La Fontaine.

=Le plus véritable marque d'être né avec de grandes qualités, c'est d'être né sans envie=--The sure mark of being born with noble qualities is being born without envy. La Roche.

=Le premier écu est plus difficile à gagner que= 35 =le second million=--The first five shillings are harder to win than the second million. Fr. Pr.

=Le premier soupir de l'amour est le dernier de la sagesse=--The first sigh of love is the last of wisdom. Charron.

=Le présent est gros de l'avenir=--The present is big with coming events. Leibnitz.

=Le présent est pour ceux qui jouissent, l'avenir pour ceux qui souffrent=--The present is for those who enjoy, the future for those who suffer. Fr.

=Le public! combien faut-il de sots pour faire un public?=--The public! How many fools must there be to make a public? Chamfort.

=Le réel est étroit, le possible est immense=--The 40 real is limited, the possible is unlimited. Lamartine.

=Le refus des louanges est souvent un désir d'être loué deux fois=--The refusal of praise often proceeds from a desire to have it repeated.

=Le repos est une bonne chose, mais l'ennui est son frère=--Repose is a good thing, but ennui is his brother. Voltaire.

=Le reste ne vaut pas l'honneur d'être nommé=--The rest don't deserve to be mentioned. Corneille.

=Le roi est mort; vive le roi!=--The king is dead; long live the king! The form of announcing the death of a French king.

=Le roy et l'état=--The king and the state. M. 45

=Le roi le veut=--The king wills it. The formula of royal assent in France.

=Le roi régne et ne gouverne pas=--The king reigns but does not govern. Thiers at the accession of Louis Philippe.

=Le roi s'avisera=--The king will consider it. The form of a royal veto in France.

=Le sage entend à demi-mot=--A hint suffices for a wise man. Fr. Pr.

=Le sage quelquefois évite le monde de peur d'être ennuyé=--The wise man sometimes shuns society from fear of being bored. La Bruyère.

=Le sage songe avant que de parler à ce qu'il= 5 =doit dire; le fou parle, et ensuite songe à ce qu'il a dit=--A wise man thinks before he speaks what he ought to say; the fool speaks and thinks afterwards what he has said. Fr. Pr.

=Le savoir faire=--Knowing how to act; ability.

=Le savoir vivre=--Knowing how to live; good manners.

=Le secret d'ennuyer est celui de tout dire=--The secret of boring people is saying all that can be said on a subject. Voltaire.

=Le sens commun est le génie de l'humanité=--Common sense is the genius of humanity. Goethe.

=Le sentiment de la liberté est plus vif, plus il= 10 =y entre de malignité=--The passion for liberty is the keener the greater the malignity associated with it. Fr.

=Le silence du peuple est la leçon des rois=--The silence of the people is a lesson to kings. M. de Beauvais.

=Le silence est l'esprit des sots, / Et l'une des vertus du sage=--Silence is the wit of fools, and one of the virtues of the wise man. Bonnard.

=Le silence est la vertu de ceux qui ne sont pas sages=--Silence is the virtue of those who want it. Bouhours.

=Le silence est le parti le plus sûr pour celui qui se défie de soi-même=--Silence is the safest course for the man who is diffident of himself. La Roche.

=Le soleil ni la mort ne se peuvent regarder= 15 =fixement=--Neither the sun nor death can be looked at fixedly. La Roche.

=Le sort fait les parents, le choix fait les amis=--It is to chance we owe our relatives, to choice our friends. Delille.

=Le style est l'homme même=--The style is the man himself. Buffon.

=Le superflu, chose très-nécessaire=--The superfluous, a thing highly necessary. Voltaire.

=Le temps est un grand maître, il régle bien les choses=--Time is a great master; it regulates things well. Corneille.

=Le temps guérit les douleurs et les querelles,= 20 =parcequ'on change, on n'est plus la même personne=--Time heals our griefs and wranglings, because we change, and are no longer the same. Pascal.

=Le temps n'épargne pas ce qu'on fait sans lui=--Time preserves nothing that has been done without her, i.e., that has taken no time to do. Favolle.

=Le tout ensemble=--The whole together. Fr.

=Le travail du corps délivre des peines de l'esprit; et c'est ce qui rend les pauvres heureux=--Bodily labour alleviates the pains of the mind, and hence arises the happiness of the poor. La Roche.

=Le travail éloigne de nous trois grand maux, l'ennui, le vice, et le besoin=--Labour relieves us from three great evils, ennui, vice, and want. Fr.

=Le trépas vient tout guérir; / Mais ne bougeons= 25 =d'où nous sommes: / Plutôt souffrir que mourir, / C'est la devise des hommes=--Death comes to cure everything, but let us not stir from where we are. "Endure sooner than die," is the proper device for man. La Fontaine.

=Le trident de Neptune est le sceptre du monde=--The trident of Neptune is the sceptre of the world. Lemierre.

=Le vesciche galleggiano sopre aqua, mentre le cose di peso vanno al fondo=--Bladders swim on the surface of the water, while things of weight sink to the bottom. It. Pr.

=Le vivre et le couvert, que faut-il davantage?=--Life and good fare, what more do we need? La Fontaine, "The Rat in Retreat."

=Le vrai mérite ne dépend point du temps ni de la mode=--True merit depends on neither time nor mode. Fr. Pr.

=Le vrai moyen d'être trompé, c'est de se croire= 30 =plus fin que les autres=--The most sure way to be imposed on is to think one's self cleverer than other people. La Roche.

=Le vrai n'est pas toujours vraisemblable=--The true is not always verisimilar. Fr. Pr.

=Le vrai peut quelquefois n'être pas vraisemble=--What is true may sometimes seem unlike truth. Boileau.

=Lead, kindly light, amid th' encircling gloom, / Lead thou me on.= Newman.

=Lead thine own captivity captive, and be Cæsar within thyself.= Sir Thomas Browne.

=Leal heart leed never.= Sc. Pr. 35

=Lean liberty is better than fat slavery.= Pr.

=Lean not upon a broken reed, which will not only let thee fall, but pierce thy arm too.= Thomas à Kempis.

=Lean, rent, and beggared by the strumpet wind!= Mer. of Ven., ii. 6.

=Learn a craft while you are young, that you may not have to live by craft when you are old.= Pr.

=Learn never to repine at your own misfortunes,= 40 =or to envy the happiness of another.= Addison.

=Learn of the little nautilus to sail, / Spread the thin oar and catch the driving gale.= Pope.

=Learn taciturnity; let that be your motto.= Burns.

=Learn that nonsense is none the less nonsense because it is in rhyme; and that rhyme without a purpose or a thought that has not been better expressed before is a public nuisance, only to be tolerated because it is good for trade.= C. Fitzhugh.

=Learn the value of a man's words and expressions, and you know him. Each man has a measure of his own for everything; this he offers you inadvertently in his words. He who has a superlative for everything wants a measure for the great or small.= Lavater.

=Learn to be good readers, which is perhaps a= 45 =more difficult thing than you imagine. Learn to be discriminative in your reading; to read faithfully, and with your best attention, all kinds of things which you have a real interest in--a real, not an imaginary--and which you find to be really fit for what you are engaged in.= Carlyle to students.

=Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth so far as it makes us of benefit to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.= Plutarch.

=Learn to creep before you leap.= Pr.

=Learn to hold thy tongue. Five words cost Zacharias forty weeks' silence.= Fuller.

=Learn to labour and to wait.= Longfellow.

=Learn to say before you sing.= Pr. 5

=Learn to say No! and it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.= Spurgeon.

=Learn wisdom from the follies of others.= Pr.

=Learn you a bad habit, an' ye'll ca'd a custom.= Sc. Pr.

=Learn young, learn fair; / Learn auld, learn mair.= Sc. Pr.

=Learned fools are the greatest of all fools.= 10 Ger. Pr.

=Learned Theban.= Lear, iii. 4.

=Learned without sense and venerably dull.= Churchill.

=Learning by study must be won, / 'Twas ne'er entail'd from son to son.= Gay.

=Learning hath gained most by those books by which printers have lost.= Fuller.

=Learning hath its infancy, when it is almost= 15 =childish; then its youth, when luxurious and juvenile; then its strength of years, when solid; and lastly its old age, when dry and exhaust.= Bacon.

=Learning is a companion on a journey to a strange country.= Hitopadesa.

=Learning is a dangerous weapon, and apt to wound its master if it is wielded by a feeble hand, and by one not well acquainted with its use.= Montaigne.

=Learning is a livelihood.= Hitopadesa.

=Learning is a sceptre to some, a bauble to others.= Pr.

=Learning is a superior sight.= Hitopadesa. 20

=Learning is an addition beyond / Nobility of birth; honour of blood, / Without the ornament of knowledge, is / A glorious ignorance.= Shirley.

=Learning is better than hidden treasure.= Hitopadesa.

=Learning is better worth than house or land.= Crabbe.

=Learning is but an adjunct to ourself; / And, where we are, our learning likewise is.= Love's L. Lost, iv. 3.

=Learning is not to be tacked to the mind, but= 25 =we must fuse and blend them together, not merely giving the mind a slight tincture, but a thorough and perfect dye.= Montaigne.

=Learning is pleasurable, but doing is the height of enjoyment.= Novalis.

=Learning is strength inexhaustible.= Hitopadesa.

=Learning is the dictionary, but sense the grammar, of science.= Sterne.

=Learning is the source of renown, and the fountain of victory in the senate.= Hitopadesa.

=Learning itself, received into a mind / By= 30 =nature weak or viciously inclined, / Serves but to lead philosophers astray, / Where children would with ease discern the way.= Cowper.

=Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly devoid of use; or, if sterling, may require good management to make it serve the purpose of sense and happiness.= Shenstone.

=Learning, like the lunar beam, affords light, not heat.= Young.

=Learning makes a man a fit companion for himself.= Pr.

=Learning makes a man wise, but a fool is made all the more a fool by it.= Pr.

=Learning needs rest; sovereignty gives it.= 35 =Sovereignty needs counsel; learning affords it.= Ben Jonson.

=Learning once made popular is no longer learning.= Johnson.

=Learning passes for wisdom among them who want both.= Sir W. Temple.

=Learning puffeth men up; words are but wind, and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.= Swift.

=Learning to a man is a name superior to beauty.= Hitopadesa.

=Learning to the inexperienced is a poison.= 40 Hitopadesa.

=Learning without thought is labour lost.= Pr.

=Least said is soonest mended.= Pr.

=Leave a jest when it pleases you best.= Pr.

=Leave a man to his passions, and you leave a wild beast of a savage and capricious nature.= Burke.

=Leave a welcome behind you.= Pr. 45

=Leave all piggies' ears alone rather than seize upon the wrong one.= Spurgeon.

=Leave all things to a Father's will, / And taste, before him lying still, / Even in affliction, peace.= Anstice.

=Leave all to God, / Forsaken one, and stay thy tears!= Winkworth.

=Leave Ben Lomond where it stands.= _Sc. Pr._

=Leave her to heaven, / And to those thorns= 50 =that in her bosom lodge, / To prick and sting her.= Ham., i. 5.

=Leave it if you cannot mend it.= Pr.

=Leave not the meat to gnaw the bones, / Nor break your teeth on worthless stones.= Pr.

=Leave off no clothes / Till you see a June rose.= Pr.

="Leave off your fooling and come down, sir."= Oliver Cromwell.

=Leave the court ere the court leave you.= 55 Sc. Pr.

=Leave the great ones of the world to manage their own concerns, and keep your eyes and observations at home.= Thomas à Kempis.

=Leave this keen encounter of our wits, / And fall somewhat into a slower method.= Rich. III., i. 2.

=Leave to-morrow till to-morrow.= Pr.

=Leave to the diamond its ages to grow, nor expect to accelerate the births of the eternal.= Emerson.

=Leave well alone.= Pr. 60

=Leave you your power to draw, / And I shall have no power to follow you.= Mid. Night's Dream, ii. 2.

=Leaves enough, but few grapes.= Pr.

=Leaves have their time to fall, / And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath, / And stars to set; but all, / Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O death!= Mrs. Hemans.

=Leaving for gleaner makes farmer no leaner.= Pr.

=Lebe, wie du, wenn du stirbst, / Wünschen wirst, gelebt zu haben=--Live, as you will wish to have lived when you come to die. Gellert.

=Leben athme die bildende Kunst, / Geist fordr' ich vom Dichter=--Let painting and sculpture breathe life; it is spirit itself I require of the poet. Schiller.

=Leben heisst träumen: weise sein heisst= 5 =angenehm träumen=--To live is to dream, to be wise is to dream agreeably. Schiller.

=Leberide cæcior=--Blinder than a serpent's slough. Pr.

=Led by illusions romantic and subtle deceptions of fancy, / Pleasure disguised as duty, and love in the semblance of friendship.= Longfellow.

=Leeze me o' drink; it gies us mair / Than either school or college; / It kindles wit, it waukens lair= (learning), / =It pangs= (stuffs) =us fu' o' knowledge.= Burns.

=Legant prius et postea despeciant=--Let them read first, and despise afterwards. Lope de Vega.

=Legatus a latere=--An extraordinary Papal ambassador. 10

=Lege totum si vis scire totum=--Read the whole if you wish to know the whole.

=Legem brevem esse oportet quo facilius ab imperitis teneatur=--A law ought to be short, that it may be the more easily understood by the unlearned. Sen.

=Leges ad civium salutem, civitatumque incolumitatem conditæ sunt=--Laws were framed for the welfare of citizens and the security of states. Cic.

=Leges bonæ malis ex moribus procreantur=--Good laws are begotten of bad morals. Pr.

=Leges mori serviunt=--Laws are subordinate to 15 custom. Plaut.

=Leges posteriores priores contrarias abrogant=--Later statutes repeal prior contrary ones. L.

=Leges sunt inventæ quæ cum omnibus semper una atque eadem voce loquerentur=--Laws are so devised that they may always speak with one and the same voice to all. Cic.

=Legimus ne legantur=--We read that others may not read. Lactantius.

=Legis constructio non facit injuriam=--The construction of the law does injury to no man. L.

=Legum ministri magistratus, legum interpretes= 20 =judices; legum denique idcirco omnes servi sumus, ut liberi esse possimus=--The magistrates are the ministers of the laws, the judges their interpreters; we are all, in short, servants of the laws, that we may be free men. Cic.

=Leib und Seele schmachten in hundert Banden, die unzerreissbar sind, aber auch in hundert andern, die ein einziger Entschluss zerreisst=--Body and soul languish under a hundred entanglements from which there is no deliverance, but also in hundreds of others which a single resolution can snap away. Feuchtersleben.

=Leicht zu sättigen ist, und unersättlich, die Liebe=--Love is at once easy to satisfy and insatiable. Rückert.

=Leichter trägt, was er trägt, / Wer Geduld zur Bürde legt=--He bears what he bears more lightly who adds patience to the burden. Logau.

=Leisure and solitude are the best effect of riches, because mother of thought. Both are avoided by most rich men, who seek company and business, which are signs of their being weary of themselves.= Sir W. Temple.

=Leisure for men of business, and business for= 25 =men of leisure, would cure many complaints.= Mrs. Thrale.

=Leisure is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction except in solitude.= Zimmermann.

=Leisure is the reward of labour.= Pr.

=Leisure is time for doing something useful; this leisure the diligent man will obtain; the lazy man never.= Ben. Franklin.

=Lend, hoping for nothing again.= Bible.

=Lend only what you can afford to lose.= 30 Pr.

=Length of saying makes languor of hearing.= J. Roux.

=Lenior et melior fis, accedente senecta=--You become milder and better as old age advances. Hor.

=Leniter ex merito quidquid patiare ferendum est, / Quæ venit indigne pœna dolenda venit=--Whatever you suffer deservedly should be borne with resignation; the penalty that comes upon us undeservedly comes as a matter of just complaint. Ovid.

=Lenity is part of justice.= Joubert.

=Lenity will operate with greater force, in some= 35 =instances, than rigour. It is, therefore, my first wish to have my whole conduct distinguished by it.= G. Washington.

=Leonem larva terres=--You frighten a lion with a mask. Pr.

=Leonina societas=--Partnership with a lion.

=Leonum ora a magistris impune tractantur=--The mouths of lions are with impunity handled by their keepers. Sen.

=Leporis vitam vivit=--He lives the life of a hare, i.e., always full of fear. Pr.

=Lern' entbehren, O Freund, / Beut Trotz dem= 40 =Schmerz und dem Tode, / Und kein Gott des Olymps fühlet sich freier, als du=--Learn to dispense with things, O friend, bid defiance to pain and death, and no god on Olympus breathes more freely than thou. Bürger.

=Lerne vom Schlimmsten Gutes, und Schlimmes nicht vom Besten=--Learn good from the worst, and not bad from the best. Lavater.

=Les affaires? c'est bien simple: c'est l'argent des autres=--Business? That's easily defined: it is other people's money. Dumas fils.

=Les affaires font les hommes=--Business makes men. Fr.

=Les amertumes sont en morale ce que sont les amers en médicine=--Afflictions are in morals what bitters are in medicine. Fr.

=Les âmes privilégiées rangent à l'égal des= 45 =souverains=--Privileged souls rank on a level with princes. Frederick the Great.

=Les amis, ces parents que l'on se fait soi-même=--Friends, those relations that we make ourselves.

=Les amis de mes amis sont mes amis=--My friends' friends are my friends. Fr. Pr.

=Les anglais s'amusent tristement=--The English have a heavy-hearted way of amusing themselves. Sully.

=Les beaux esprits se rencontrent=--Great wits draw together. Fr. Pr.

=Les belles actions cachées sont les plus estimables=--The acts that we conceal are regarded with the highest esteem. Pascal.

=Les biens mal acquis s'en vont à vau-l'eau=--Wealth ill acquired soon goes (lit. goes with the stream). Fr. Pr.

=Les biens viennent, les biens s'en vont, /= 5 =Comme la fumée, comme toute chose=--Wealth comes and goes like smoke, like everything. Bret. Pr.

=Les bras croisés=--Idle (lit. the arms folded). Fr.

=Les cartes sont brouillées=--A fierce dissension has arisen (lit. the cards are mixed).

=Les choses valent toujours mieux dans leur source=--Things are always best at their source. Pascal.

=Les cloches appellent à l'église, mais n'y entrent pas=--The bells call to church, but they do not enter. Fr. Pr.

=Les consolations indiscrètes ne font qu'aigrir= 10 =les violentes afflictions=--Consolation indiscreetly pressed only aggravates the poignancy of the affliction. Rousseau.

=Les délicats sont malheureux, / Rien ne saurait les satisfaire=--The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them. La Fontaine.

=Les enfants sont ce qu'on les fait=--Children are what we make them. Fr. Pr.

=Les envieux mourront, mais non jamais l'envie=--The envious will die, but envy never will. Molière.

=Les esprits médiocres condamnent d'ordinaire tout ce qui passe leur portée=--Men of limited intelligence generally condemn everything that is above their power of understanding. La Roche.

=Les extrêmes se touchent=--Extremes meet. 15 Mercier.

=Les femmes ont toujours quelque arrière-pensée=--Women have always some mental reservation. Destouches.

=Les femmes ont un instinct céleste pour le malheur=--Women have a divine instinctive feeling for misfortune. Fr.

=Les femmes peuvent tout, parcequ'elles gouvernent les personnes qui gouvernent tout=--Women can accomplish everything, because they govern those who govern everything. Fr. Pr.

=Les femmes sont extrêmes: elles sont meilleures ou pires que les hommes=--Women indulge in extremes; they are always either better or worse than men. La Bruyère.

=Les gens qui ont peu d'affaires, sont de très= 20 =grands parleurs=--People who have little to do are excessive talkers. Fr.

=Les gens sans bruit sont dangereux=--Still people are dangerous. La Fontaine.

=Les girouettes qui sont placées le plus haut, tournent le mieux=--Weathercocks placed on the most elevated stations turn the most readily. Fr. Pr.

=Les grandes âmes ne sont pas celles qui ont moins de passions et plus de vertus que les âmes communes, mais celles seulement qui ont de plus grands desseins=--Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than common souls, but those only who have greater designs. La Roche.

=Les grands et les petits ont mêmes accidents, et mêmes fâcheries et mêmes passions, mais l'un est au haut de la roue et l'autre près du centre, et ainsi moins agité par les mêmes mouvements=--Great and little are subject to the same mischances, worries, and passions, but one is on the rim of the wheel and the other near the centre, and so is less agitated by the same movements. Pascal.

=Les grands hommes ne se bornent jamais dans= 25 =leurs desseins=--Great men never limit themselves to a circumscribed sphere of action. Bouhours.

=Les grands hommes sont non-seulement populaires: ils donnent la popularité à tout ce qu'ils touchent=--Great men are not only popular themselves; they give popularity to whatever they touch. Fournier.

=Les grands ne sont grands que parceque nous sommes à genoux; relevons-nous!=--The great are great only because we are on our knees. Let us rise up. Quoted by Prudhomme.

=Les grands noms abaissent, au lieu d'élever ceux qui ne les savent pas soutenir=--High titles lower, instead of raising, those who know not how to support them. La Roche.

=Les grands seigneurs ont des plaisirs, le peuple a de la joie=--High people have pleasures, common people have joy. Montesquieu.

=Les haines sont si longues et si opiniâtres,= 30 =que le plus grand signe de mort dans un homme malade, c'est la réconciliation=--The passion of hatred is so long-lived and obstinate a malady, that the surest prognostic of death in a sick man is his desire for reconciliation. La Bruyère.

=Les hommes extrêmement heureux et les hommes extrêmement malheureux, sont également portés à la dureté=--Men extremely happy and men extremely unhappy are alike prone to become hard-hearted. Montesquieu.

=Les hommes font les lois, les femmes font les mœurs=--Men make the laws, women the manners. Guibert.

=Les hommes fripons en détail sont en gros de très honnêtes gens=--Men who are knaves severally are in the mass highly honourable people. Montesquieu.

=Les hommes ne sont justes qu'envers ceux qu'ils aiment=--Men are just only to those they love. Fr.

=Les hommes sont cause que les femmes ne= 35 =s'aiment point=--It is on account of the men that the women do not love each other. La Bruyère.

=Les hommes sont rares=--Men are rare. _Fr. Pr._

=Les honneurs changent les mœurs=--Honours change manners. Fr. Pr.

=Les honneurs coutent à qui veut les posséder=--Honours are dearly bought by whoever wishes to possess them. Fr. Pr.

=Les jeunes gens disent ce qu'ils font, les vieillards ce qu'ils ont fait, et les sots ce qu'ils ont envie de faire=--Young people talk of what they are doing, old people of what they have done, and fools of what they have a mind to do. Fr.

=Les jours se suivent et ne se ressemblent pas=--The 40 days follow, but are not like each other. Fr. Pr.

=Les magistrates, les rois n'ont aucune autorité sur les âmes; et pourvu qu'on soit fidèle aux lois de la société dans ce monde, ce n'est point à eux de se mêler de ce qu'on deviendra dans l'autre, où ils n'ont aucune inspection=--Rulers have no authority over men's souls; and provided we are faithful to the laws of society in this world, it is no business of theirs to concern themselves with what may become of us in the next, over which they have no supervision. Rousseau.

=Les maladies viennent à cheval, retournent à pied=--Diseases make their attack on horseback, but retire on foot. Fr.

=Les malheureux qui ont de l'esprit trouvent des resources en eux-mêmes=--Men of genius when under misfortune find resources within themselves. Bouhours.

=Les maximes des hommes décèlent leur cœur=--Men show what they are by their maxims. Vauvenargues.

=Les méchants sont toujours surpris de trouver= 5 =de l'habilité dans les bons=--Wicked men are always surprised to discover ability in good men. Vauvenargues.

=Les médiocrités croient égaler le génie en dépassant la raison=--Men of moderate abilities think to rank as geniuses by outstripping reason. Lamartine.

=Les mœurs du prince contribuent autant à la liberté que les lois=--The manners of the prince conduce as much to liberty as the laws. Montesquieu.

=Les mœurs se corrompent de jour en jour, et on ne saurait plus distinguer les vrais d'avec les faux amis=--Our manners are daily degenerating, and we can no longer distinguish true friends from false. Fr.

=Les moissons, pour mûrir, ont besoin de rosée, / Pour vivre et pour sentir, l'homme a besoin des pleurs=--Harvests to ripen have need of dew; man, to live and to feel, has need of tears. A. de Musset.

=Les mortels sont égaux; ce n'est point la naissance, /= 10 =C'est la seule vertu qui fait la différence=--All men are equal; it is not birth, it is virtue alone that makes the difference. Voltaire.

=Les murailles= (or =murs=) =ont des oreilles=--Walls have ears. Fr. Pr.

=Les passions personelles se lassent et s'usent; les passions publiques jamais=--Private passions tire and exhaust themselves; public ones never. Lamartine.

=Les passions sont les seuls orateurs qui persuadent toujours=--The passions are the only orators which always convince us. La Roche.

=Les passions sont les vents qui enflent les voiles du vaisseau; elles le submergent quelquefois, mais sans elles il ne pourrait voguer=--The passions are the winds that fill the sails of the ship; they sometimes sink it, but without them it could not make any way. Voltaire.

=Les passions sont les vents qui font aller notre= 15 =vaisseau, et la raison est le pilote qui le conduit; le vaisseau n'irait point sans les vents, et se perdrait sans le pilote=--The passions are the winds which propel our vessel; our reason is the pilot that steers her; without winds the vessel would not move; without pilot she would be lost. Fr.

=Les petits chagrins rendent tendre; les grands, dur et farouche=--Slight troubles render us tender; great ones make us hard and unfeeling. André Chénier.

=Les peuples une fois accoutumés à des maîtres ne sont plus en état de s'en passer=--People once accustomed to masters are no longer able to dispense with them. Rousseau.

=Les plaisirs sont amers si tôt qu'on en abuse=--Pleasures become bitter as soon as they are abused. Fr. Pr.

=Les plus grands crimes ne coutent rien aux ambitieux, quand il s'agit d'une couronne=--The greatest crimes cause no remorse in an ambitious man when a crown is at stake. Fr.

=Les plus grands hommes d'une nation sont= 20 =ceux qu'elle met à mort=--The greatest men of a nation are those whom it puts to death. Renan.

=Les plus malheureux osent pleurer le moins=--Those who are most wretched dare least give vent to their grief. Fr.

=Les querelles ne dureraient pas longtemps, si le tort n'était que d'un côté=--Quarrels would not last so long if the fault lay only on one side. La Roche.

=Les races se féminisent=--Races are becoming effeminate. Fr.

=Les républiques finissent par le luxe; les monarchies par la pauvreté=--Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies. Montesquieu.

=Les rivières sont des chemins qui marchent=--Rivers 25 are moving roads. Pascal.

=Les sophistes ont ébranlé l'autel, mais ce sont les prêtres qui l'ont avili=--The sophists have shaken the altar, but it is the priests that have disgraced it. Regnault de Waren.

=Les sots depuis Adam sont en majorité=--Ever since Adam's time fools have been in the majority. Delavigne.

=Les talents sont distribués par la nature, sans égard aux généalogies=--Talents go by nature, not by birth. Frederick the Great.

=Les utopies ne sont souvent que des vérités prématuriées=--Utopias are often only premature truths. Lamartine.

=Les vérités sont des fruits qui ne doivent être= 30 =cueillis que bien mûrs=--Truths, like fruits, ought not to be gathered until they are quite ripe, i.e., till the time is ripe for them. Fr. Pr.

=Les vers sont enfants de la lyre; / Il faut les chanter, non les lire=--Verses are children of the lyre; they must be sung, not read. Fr.

=Les vertus se perdent dans l'intérêt comme les fleuves se perdent dans la mer=--Our virtues lose themselves in our interests, as the rivers lose themselves in the ocean. La Roche.

=Les vieillards aiment à donner de bons préceptes, pour se consoler de n'être plus en état de donner de mauvais exemples=--Old men like to give good precepts, to make amends for being no longer able to set bad examples. La Roche.

=Les vieilles coutumes sont les bonnes coutumes=--The old customs are the good customs. Bret. Pr.

=Les vieux fous sont plus fous que les jeunes=--Old 35 fools are more foolish than young ones. La Roche.

=Les villes sont le gouffre de l'espèce humaine=--Towns are the sink of our race. Rousseau.

=Lèse-majesté=--High-treason. Fr.

=Leser, wie gefall' ich dir? / Leser, wie gefällst du mir?=--Reader, how please I thee? Reader, how pleasest thou me? M.

=Less in rising into lofty abstractions lies the difficulty, than in seeing well and lovingly the complexities of what is at hand.= Carlyle.

=Less of your courtesy and more of your purse.= Pr.

=Less of your honey and more of your honesty.= 5 Pr.

=Lessons hard to learn are sweet to know.= Pr.

=Lessons of wisdom have never such power over us as when they are wrought into the heart through the groundwork of a story which engages the passions.= Sterne.

=Lessons of wisdom open to our view / In all life's varied scenes of gay or gloomy hue.= De Bosch.

=Let a good pot have a good lid.= Pr.

=Let a hoard always be made, but not too= 10 =great a hoard.= Hitopadesa.

=Let a horse drink when he will, not what he will.= Pr.

=Let a man be a man, and a woman a woman.= Pr.

=Let a man be but born ten years sooner or ten years later, his whole aspect and performance shall be different.= Goethe.

=Let a man believe in God, and not in names, places, and persons.= Emerson.

=Let a man do his work; the fruit of it is the= 15 =care of Another than he.= Carlyle.

=Let a man overcome anger by love, let him overcome evil by good; let him overcome the greedy by liberality, the liar by truth.= Buddha.

=Let a saint be ever so humble, he will have his wax taper.= Dan. Pr.

=Let a woman once give you a task, and you are hers, heart and soul; all your care and trouble lend new charms to her for whose sake they are taken.= Jean Paul.

=Let ae deil ding= (beat) =anither.= Sc. Pr.

=Let all things be done decently and in order.= 20 St. Paul.

=Let anger's fire be slow to burn.= Pr.

=Let another do what thou wouldst do.= Pr.

=Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.= Bible.

=Let another's shipwreck be your beacon.= Pr.

=Let any man compare his present fortune= 25 =with the past, and he will probably find himself, upon the whole, neither better nor worse than formerly.= Goldsmith.

=Let authors write for glory or reward; / Truth is well paid when she is sung and heard.= Bp. Corbet.

=Let but the mirror be clear, this is the great point; the picture must and will be genuine.= Carlyle.

=Let but the public mind once become thoroughly corrupt, and all attempts to secure property, liberty, or life by mere force of laws written on parchment will be as vain as putting up printed notices in an orchard to keep off canker-worms.= Hor. Mann.

=Let byganes be byganes, / Wha's huffed at anither, / Dinna cloot the auld days / And the new anes thegither; / Wi' the fauts and the failings / O' past years be dune, / Wi a grip o' fresh freen'ship / A New-Year begin.= M. W. Wood.

=Let charity be warm if the weather be cold.= 30 Pr.

=Let dogs delight to bark and bite, / For God hath made them so.= Watts.

=Let each tailor mend his own coat.= Pr.

=Let every bird sing its own note.= Dan. Pr.

=Let every eye negotiate for itself, and trust no agent.= Much Ado, ii. 1.

=Let every fox take care of his own brush.= 35 Pr.

=Let every herring hang by its own tail.= Irish Pr.

=Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.= St. Paul.

=Let every man come to God in his own way.= Ward Beecher.

=Let every man do what he was made for.= Pr.

=Let every man praise the bridge he goes over.= 40 Pr.

=Let every minute be a full life to thee.= _Jean Paul._

=Let every one inquire of himself what he loveth, and he shall resolve himself of whence he is a citizen.= S. Augustine.

=Let every one look to himself, and no one will be lost.= Dut. Pr.

=Let every tailor keep to his goose.= Pr.

=Let every thought too, soldier-like, be= 45 =stripped, / And roughly looked over.= _P. J. Bailey._

=Let ev'ry man enjoy his whim; / What's he to me or I to him?= Churchill.

=Let fate do her worst; there are moments of joy, / Bright dreams of the past, which she cannot destroy; / Which come in the nighttime of sorrow and care, / And bring back the features that joy used to wear.= Moore.

=Let fortune empty her whole quiver on me, / I have a soul that, like an ample shield, / Can take in all, and verge enough for more.= Dryden.

=Let fouk bode weel, and strive to do their best; / Nae mair's required; let Heaven mak' out the rest.= Allan Ramsay.

=Let gleaners glean, though crops be lean.= 50 Pr.

=Let go desire, and thou shalt lay hold on peace.= Thomas à Kempis.

=Let go quarrel and contention, nor embroil thyself in trouble and differences by being over-solicitous in thy own defence.= Thomas à Kempis.

=Let go thy hold when a great wheel runs down a hill, lest it break thy neck with following it; but the great one that goes up the hill, let him draw thee after.= Lear, ii. 4.

=Let grace our selfishness expel, / Our earthliness refine.= Gurney.

=Let her= (woman) =make herself her own, / To= 55 =give or keep, to live, and learn, and be, / All that not harms distinctive womanhood.= Tennyson.

=Let Hercules himself do what he may, / The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.= Ham., v. 1.

=Let him be kept from paper, pen, and ink; / So may he cease to write, and learn to think.= Prior.

=Let him count himself happy who lives remote from the gods of this world.= Goethe.

=Let him tak' his fling, and find oot his ain wecht= (weight). Sc. Pr.

=Let him that does not know you buy you.= 5 Pr.

=Let him that earns eat.= Pr.

=Let him that stole steal no more; but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.= St. Paul.

=Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.= St. Paul.

=Let him who gives say nothing, and him who receives speak.= Port. Pr.

=Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or= 10 =uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this precept well to heart: "Do the duty which lies nearest thee," which thou knowest to be a duty! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.= Carlyle.

=Let him who has hold of the devil keep hold of him; he is not likely to catch him a second time in a hurry.= Goethe.

=Let him who is reduced to beggary first try every one and then his friend.= It. Pr.

=Let him who is well off stay where he is.= Pr.

=Let him who knows not how to pray go to sea.= Pr.

=Let him who sleeps too much borrow the pillow= 15 =of a debtor.= Sp. Pr.

=Let him who would move and convince others be first moved and convinced himself. Let a man but speak forth with genuine earnestness the thought, the emotion, the actual condition of his own heart, and other men, so strangely are we all knit together by the tie of sympathy, must and will give heed to him.= Carlyle.

=Let him who would write heroic poems make his life a heroic poem.= Milton.

=Let ilka ane soop= (sweep) =before his ain door.= Sc. Pr.

=Let it be your first care not to be in any man's debt.= Johnson.

=Let it not be grievous to thee to humble and= 20 =submit thyself to the capricious humours of men with whom thou conversest in this world, but rather ... endure patiently whatever they shall, but should not, do to thee.= Thomas à Kempis.

=Let it not be imagined that the life of a good Christian must necessarily be a life of melancholy and gloominess; for he only resigns some pleasures, to enjoy others infinitely greater.= Pascal.

=Let John Bull beware of John Barleycorn.= Pr.

=Let justice guide your feet.= Hipparchus.

=Let knowledge grow from more to more, / But more of reverence in us dwell.= Tennyson.

=Let man be noble, helpful, and good, for that= 25 =alone distinguishes him from every other creature we know.= Goethe.

=Let man's own sphere confine his view.= Beattie.

=Let May be oot= (out) =before you cast a cloot= (a piece of clothing). Sc. Pr.

=Let me be cruel, not unnatural; / I will speak daggers to her, but use none. / My tongue and soul in this be hypocrites.= Ham., iii. 2.

=Let me die to the sounds of the delicious music.= Last words of Mirabeau.

=Let me have men about me that are fat; /= 30 =Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights; / Yond' Cassius has a lean and hungry look; / He thinks too much; such men are dangerous.= Jul. Cæs., i. 2.

=Let me have no lying; it becomes none but tradesmen.= Winter's Tale, iv. 3.

=Let me keep from vice myself, and pity it in others.= Goldsmith.

=Let me make the ballads of a people, and I care not who makes the laws.= Quoted by Fletcher of Saltoun.

=Let me play the fool; / With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come, / And let my liver rather heat with wine / Than my heart cool with mortifying groans.= Mer. of Ven., i. 1.

=Let me say amen betimes, lest the devil cross= 35 =my prayers.= Mer. of Ven., iii. 1.

=Let me still take away the harms I fear, / Not fear still to be taken.= Lear, i. 4.

=Let me tell the adventurous stranger, / In our calmness lies our danger; / Like a river's silent running, / Stillness shows our depth and cunning.= Durfey.

=Let me warn you very earnestly against scruples.= Johnson.

=Let men know that they are men, created by God, responsible to God, who work in any meanest moment of time what will last through eternity.= Carlyle's version of John Knox's gospel to the Scotch.

=Let men laugh when you sacrifice desire to= 40 =duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.= Theodore Parker.

=Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.= M. Aurelius.

=Let never day nor night unhallow'd pass, / But still remember what the Lord hath done.= 2 Hen. VI., ii. 1.

=Let never maiden think, however fair, / She is not finer in new clothes than old.= Tennyson.

=Let no complaisance, no gentleness of temper, no weak desire of pleasing on your part, no wheedling, coaxing, nor flattery on other people's, make you recede one jot from any point that reason and prudence have bid you pursue.= Chesterfield.

=Let no man be called happy before his death.= 45 Solon.

=Let no man doubt the omnipotence of nature, doubt the majesty of man's soul; let no lonely unfriended son of genius despair. If he have the will, the right will, then the power also has not been denied him.= Carlyle.

=Let no man measure by a scale of perfection the meagre product of reality.= Schiller.

=Let no man think he is loved by any man, when he loves no man.= Epictetus.

=Let no man trust the first false step of guilt; it hangs upon a precipice, whose steep descent in last perdition ends.= Young.

=Let no man value at a little price a virtuous woman's counsel.= George Chapman.

=Let no mean spirit of revenge tempt you to throw off your loyalty to your country, and to prefer a vicious celebrity to obscurity crowned with piety and virtue.= Sydney Smith.

=Let no one so conceive of himself as if he were the Messiah the world was praying for.= Goethe.

=Let no one think that he can conquer the first impressions of his youth.= Goethe.

=Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy;= 5 =even love unreturned has its rainbow.= J. M. Barrie.

=Let nobility and virtue keep company, for they are nearest of kin.= William Penn.

=Let none admire / That riches grow in hell; that soil may best / Deserve the precious bane.= Milton.

=Let none henceforth seek needless cause t' approve / The faith they owe; when earnestly they seek / Such proof, conclude they then begin to fail.= Milton.

=Let none presume / To wear an undeservéd dignity.= Mer. of Ven., ii. 9.

=Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast= 10 =himself as he that putteth it off.= Bible.

=Let not man tempt the gods, or ever desire to pry into what they graciously conceal under a veil of darkness or terror.= Schiller.

=Let not mercy and truth forsake thee.= Bible.

=Let not mirth turn to mischief.= Pr.

=Let not my bark in calm abide, / But win her cheerless way against the chafing tide.= Keble.

=Let not one enemy be few, nor a thousand= 15 =friends many, in thy sight.= Heb. Pr.

=Let not one look of fortune cast you down; / She were not fortune if she did not frown; / Such as do braveliest bear her scorns awhile / Are those on whom at last she most will smile.= Orrery.

=Let not plenty make you dainty.= Pr.

=Let not poverty part good company.= Pr.

=Let not the emphasis of hospitality lie in bed and board; but let truth and love and honour and courtesy flow in all thy deeds.= Emerson.

=Let not the grass grow on the path of friendship.= 20 American-Indian Pr.

=Let not the remembrance of thy former trials discourage thee.= Thomas à Kempis.

=Let not the sun go down upon your wrath=, i.e., let it set with the sun, or, as Ruskin suggests, let it never go down so long as the wrong is there. St. Paul.

=Let not thine heart be hasty to utter anything before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth; therefore let thy words be few.= Bible.

=Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.= Jesus.

=Let not your money become your master.= Pr. 25

=Let not your mouth swallow you.= Pr.

=Let not your sail be bigger than your boat.= Ben Jonson.

=Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory.= St. Paul.

=Let nothing in excess be done; with this let all comply.= Anon.

=Let observation, with extensive view, / Survey= 30 =mankind, from China to Peru; / Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, / And watch the busy scenes of crowded life.= Johnson.

=Let our finger ache, and it endues / Our other healthful members ev'n to that sense / Of pain.= Othello, iii. 4.

=Let pleasure be ever so innocent, the excess is always criminal.= St. Evremond.

=Let present rapture, comfort, ease, / As heaven shall bid them, come and go; / The secret this of rest below.= Keble.

=Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.= Chapman, Jonson, and Marston.

=Let prideful priests do battle about creeds, /= 35 =The Church is mine that does most Christ-like deeds.= Prof. Blackie.

=Let prudence number o'er each sturdy son, / Who life and wisdom at one race begun.= Burns.

=Let rumours be, when did not rumours fly?= Tennyson.

=Let sleeping dogs lie.= Sc. Pr.

=Let still the woman take / An elder than herself; so wears she to him, / So sways she level in her husband's heart; / For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, / Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, / More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn / Than women's are.= Twelfth Night, ii. 4.

=Let such teach others who themselves excel, /= 40 =And censure freely who have written well.= Pope.

=Let that which is lost be for God.= Sp. Pr.

=Let the angry person always have the quarrel to himself.= Rev. John Clark.

=Let the best horse leap the hedge first.= Pr.

=Let the cobbler stick to his last.= Pr.

=Let the dainty rose awhile / Her bashful fragrance= 45 =hide; / Rend not her silken veil too soon, / But leave her, in her own soft noon, / To flourish and abide.= Keble.

=Let the dead bury their dead=, i.e., let the spiritually dead bury the bodily dead. Jesus.

=Let the devil catch you by a hair, and you are his for ever.= Lessing.

=Let the devil get into the church, and he will soon be on the altar.= Ger. Pr.

=Let the foibles of the great rest in peace.= Goldsmith.

=Let the galled jade wince, our withers are unwrung.= 50 Ham., iii. 2.

=Let the great book of the world be your principal study.= Chesterfield.

=Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change.= Tennyson.

=Let the matter be good, and let the manner befit it.= Spurgeon.

=Let the night come before we praise the day.= Pr.

=Let the path be open to talent.= Napoleon. 55 See La Carrière.

=Let the reader have seen before he attempts to oversee.= Carlyle.

=Let the road be rough and dreary, / And its end far out of sight, / Foot it bravely! strong or weary, / "Trust in God, and do the right."= Dr. Norman Macleod.

=Let the shoemaker stick to his last, the peasant to his plough, and let the prince understand how to rule.= Goethe.

=Let the thing we do be what it will, it is the principle upon which we do it that must recommend it.= Thomas à Kempis.

=Let the tow= (rope) =gang wi' the bucket.= _Sc. Pr._

=Let the world slide, let the world go; / A fig for care, and a fig for woe! / If I can't pay, why, I can owe, / And death makes equal the high and low.= Heywood.

=Let the world wag.= Pr.

=Let the young people mind what the old people= 5 =say, / And where there is danger keep out of the way.= Pr.

=Let them call it mischief; / When it is past and prosper'd it will be virtue.= Ben Jonson.

=Let them obey that know not how to rule.= 2 Hen. VI., v. 1.

=Let there be thistles, there are grapes; / If old things, there are new; / Ten thousand broken lights and shapes, / Yet glimpses of the true.= Tennyson.

=Let thine eyes look right on.= Bible.

=Let this be an example for the acquisition of= 10 =all knowledge, virtue, and riches. By the fall of drops of water, by degrees, a pot is filled.= Hitopadesa.

=Let those have night that love the night.= Quarles.

=Let those who believe in immortality enjoy their belief in silence, and give themselves no airs about it.= Goethe.

=Let those who hope for brighter shores no more, / Not mourn, but turning inland, bravely seek / What hidden wealth redeems the shapeless shore.= Eugene Lee Hamilton.

=Let thy alms go before, and keep heaven's gate / Open for thee, or both may come too late.= George Herbert.

=Let thy child's first lesson be obedience, and= 15 =the second will be what thou wilt.= _Ben. Franklin._

=Let thy fair wisdom, not thy passion, sway.= Twelfth Night, iv. 1.

=Let thy great deeds force fate to change her mind; / He that courts fortune boldly, makes her kind.= Dryden.

=Let thy mind still be bent, still plotting where, / And when, and how thy business may be done, / Slackness breeds worms; but the sure traveller, / Though he alights sometimes, still goeth on.= George Herbert.

=Let thy mind's sweetness have his operation / Upon thy body, clothes, and habitation.= George Herbert.

=Let thy words be few.= Bible. 20

=Let us a little permit Nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.= Montaigne.

=Let us approach our friend with an audacious trust in the truth of his heart, in the breadth, impossible to be overturned, of his foundations.= Emerson.

=Let us be back'd with God, and with the seas, / Which He hath given for fence impregnable, / And with these helps only defend ourselves; / In them, and in ourselves, our safety lies.= 3 Hen. VI., iv. 1.

=Let us be content in work / To do the thing we can, and not presume / To fret because it's little.= E. B. Browning.

=Let us be men with men, and always children= 25 =before God.= Joubert.

=Let us be poised, and wise, and our own to-day.= Emerson.

=Let us be silent, for so are the gods.= Emerson.

=Let us beware that our rest become not the rest of stones, which, so long as they are torrent-tossed and thunder-stricken, maintain their majesty; but when the stream is silent and the storm passed, suffer the grass to cover them and the lichen to feed upon them, and are ploughed down into dust.= Ruskin.

=Let us do the work of men while we bear the form of them.= Ruskin

=Let us endeavour to see things as they are,= 30 =and then inquire whether we ought to complain.= Johnson.

=Let us enjoy the cloven flame whilst it glows on our walls.= Emerson.

=Let us fear the worst, but work with faith; the best will always take care of itself.= Victor Hugo.

=Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us dare to do our duty as we understand it.= Lincoln.

=Let us have the crisis; we shall either have death or the cure.= Carlyle.

=Let us know what to love, and we shall know= 35 =also what to reject; what to affirm, and we shall know also what to deny; but it is dangerous to begin with denial and fatal to end with it.= Carlyle.

=Let us learn upon earth those things that can call us to heaven.= St. Jerome.

=Let us leave the question of origins to those who busy themselves with insoluble problems, and have nothing better to do.= Goethe.

=Let us make haste to live, since every day to a wise man is a new life.= Sen.

=Let us march intrepidly wherever we are led by the course of human accidents. Where-ever they lead us, on what coasts soever we are thrown by them, we shall not find ourselves absolutely strangers.= Bolingbroke.

=Let us not burden our remembrances with /= 40 =A heaviness that's gone.= The Tempest, v. 1.

=Let us not make imaginary evils when we have so many real ones to encounter.= Goldsmith.

=Let us not strive to rise too high, that we may not fall too low.= Schiller.

=Let us not throw away any of our days upon useless resentment, or contend who shall hold out longest in stubborn malignity.= Johnson.

=Let us th' important "now" employ, / And live as those who never die.= Burns.

=Let us, then, be up and doing, / With a heart= 45 =for every fate; / Still achieving, still pursuing, / Learn to labour and to wait.= Longfellow.

=Let us, then, be what we are, and speak what we think, and in all things / Keep ourselves loyal to truth and the sacred professions of friendship.= Longfellow.

=Let us try what esteem and kindness can effect.= Johnson.

=Let vain men pursue vanity; leave them to their own methods.= Thomas à Kempis.

=Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die, / But leave us still our old nobility.= Lord J. Manners.

=Let wealth shelter and cherish unprotected merit, and the gratitude and celebrity of that merit will richly repay it.= Burns.

=Let whatever you are and whatever you do, grow out of a firm root of truth and a strong soil of reality.= Prof. Blackie.

=Let Whig and Tory stir their blood; / There must be stormy weather; / But for some true result of good, / All parties work together.= Tennyson.

=Let woman learn betimes to serve according= 5 =to her destination, for only by serving will she at last learn to rule, and attain the influence that belongs to her in the household.= Goethe.

=Let women spin, not preach.= Pr.

=Let your daily wisdom of life be in making a good use of the opportunities given you.= Prof. Blackie.

=Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but let them feel, at the same time, the steadiness of your just resentment.= Chesterfield.

=Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.= Hor.

=Let your pen fail, begin to trifle with blotting-paper,= 10 =look at the ceiling, bite your nails, and otherwise dally with your purpose, and you waste your time, scatter your thoughts, and repress the nervous energy necessary for your task.= G. H. Lewes.

=Let your purse be your master.= Pr.

=Let your reason with your choler question.... To climb steep hills / Requires slow pace at first.= Hen. VIII., i. 1.

=Let your rule in reference to your social sentiments be simply this; pray for the bad, pity the weak, enjoy the good, and reverence both the great and the small, as playing each his part aptly in the divine symphony of the universe.= Prof. Blackie.

=Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how to answer every man.= St. Paul.

=Let your trouble tarry till its own day comes.= 15 Pr.

=Let's live with that small pittance which we have; / Who covets more is evermore a slave.= Herrick.

=Let's not unman each other--part at once; / All farewells should be sudden when for ever, / Else they make an eternity of moments, / And clog the last sad sands of life with tears.= Byron.

=Let's take the instant by the forward top; / For we are old, and on our quick'st decrees / Th' inaudible and noiseless foot of time / Steals ere we can effect them.= All's Well, v. 3.

=Let's teach ourselves that honourable stop, not to out-sport discretion.= Othello, ii. 3.

=Letters may be always made out of the books= 20 =of the morning or talk of the evening.= Johnson.

=Letters of mere compliment, congratulation, or affected condolence, which have cost the authors most labour in composing, never fail of being the most disagreeable and insipid to the readers.= Blair.

=Letters that are warmly sealed are often coldly opened.= Jean Paul.

=Letters without virtue are like pearls in a dunghill.= Cervantes.

=Letting down buckets into empty wells, and growing old with drawing nothing up.= Cowper.

=Lettres de cachet=--Warrants of imprisonment 25 under royal seal, liberally issued in France before the Revolution.

=Leuk twice or ye loup ance=, i.e., look twice before you leap once. Sc. Pr.

=Leve æs alienum debitorem facit, grave inimicum=--A small debt makes a man your debtor, a large one your enemy. Sen.

=Leve fit quod bene fertur onus=--The burden which is cheerfully borne becomes light. Ovid.

=Leve incommodum tolerandum est=--A slight inconvenience must be endured. M.

=Leve= (trust) =none better than thyself.= Hazlitt's 30 Poems.

=Level roads run out from music to every side.= Goethe.

=Leves homines futuri sunt improvidi=--Light-minded men are improvident of the future. Tac.

=Levia perpessi sumus, / Si flenda patimur=--Our sufferings are light, if they are merely such as we should weep for.

=Leviores sunt injuriæ, quæ repentino aliquo motu accidunt, quam eæ quæ meditate præparata inferuntur=--The injuries which befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which we are deliberately anticipating. Cic.

=Levis est dolor qui capere consilium potest=--Grief 35 is light which can take advice. Sen.

=Levis sit tibi terra=--May the earth lie light on thee.

=Levity is a prettiness in a child, a disgraceful defect in men, and a monstrous folly in old age.= La Roche.

=Levity is often less foolish, and gravity less wise, than each of them appears.= Colton.

=Levity of behaviour is the bane of all that is good and virtuous.= Sen.

=Levius fit patientia / Quicquid corrigere est= 40 =nefas=--Whatever cannot be amended becomes easier to bear if we exercise patience. Hor.

=Levius solet timere qui propius timet=--A man's fears are lighter when the danger is near at hand. Sen.

=Lex aliquando sequitur æquitatem=--Law is sometimes according to equity. L.

=Lex citius tolerare vult privatum damnum quam publicum malum=--The law will sooner tolerate a private loss than a public evil. Coke.

=Lex neminem cogit ad impossibilia=--The law compels no one to do what is impossible. L.

=Lex non scripta=--The common law. 45

=Lex prospicit non respicit=--The law is prospective, not retrospective. L.

=Lex scripta=--The statute law.

=Lex talionis=--The law of retaliation.

=Lex terræ=--The law of the land.

=Lex universa est quæ jubet nasci et mori=--There 50 is a universal law which commands that we shall be born and shall die. Pub. Syr.

=Liars act like the salt-miners; they undermine the truth, but leave just so much standing as is necessary to support the edifice.= Jean Paul.

=Liars are always ready to take oath.= Alfieri.

=Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world.= Epictetus.

=Liars ought to have good memories.= Sidney.

=Libenter homines id, quod volunt, credunt=--Men are fain to believe what they wish. Cæsar.

=Libera chiesa in libero stato=--A free church in 5 a free state. Cavour.

=Libera Fortunæ mors est: capit omnia tellus / Quæ genuit=--Death is not subject to fortune; the earth contains everything which she ever brought forth. Luc.

=Libera me ab homine malo, a meipso=--Deliver me from the evil man, from myself. St. Augustine.

=Libera te metu mortis=--Deliver thyself from the fear of death. Sen.

=Liberality consists less in giving profusely than in giving judiciously.= La Bruyère.

=Liberality is not giving largely but wisely.= Pr. 10

=Libertas=--Liberty. M.

=Libertas est potestas faciendi id quod jure licet=--Liberty consists in the power of doing what the law permits. L.

=Libertas in legibus=--Liberty under the laws. M.

=Libertas, quæ sera, tamen respexit inertem=--Liberty, which, though late, regarded me in my helpless state. Virg.

=Libertas sub rege pio=--Liberty under a pious 15 king. M.

=Libertas ultima mundi / Quo steterit ferienda loco=--In the spot where liberty has made her last stand she was fated to be smitten. Lucan.

=Liberté toute entière=--Liberty perfectly entire. M.