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 5 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 5 of 9)

=Luctantem Icariis fluctibus Africum / Mercator metuens, otium et oppidi / Laudat rura sui: mox reficit rates / Quassas, indocilis pauperiem pati=--The merchant, dreading the south-west wind wrestling with the Icarian waves, praises retirement and the rural life of his native town, but soon he repairs his shattered bark, incapable of being taught to endure poverty. Hor.

=Ludere cum sacris=--To trifle with sacred things.

=Ludit in humanis divina potestas rebus, / Et= 45 =certam præsens vix habet hora fidem=--The divine power sports with human affairs so much that we can scarcely be sure of the passing hour. Ovid.

=Lugete o Veneres Cupidinesque=--Weep, all ye Venuses and Cupids. Cat.

=Lull'd in the countless chambers of the brain, / Our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; / Awake but one, and lo! what myriads rise! / Each stamps its image as the other flies.= Rogers.

=Lupo agnum eripere postulant=--They insist on snatching the lamb from the wolf. Plaut.

=Lupo ovem commisisti=--You have put the sheep to the care of the wolf. Ter.

=Lupus in fabula=--It is the wolf in the story; 50 talking of him, he appeared.

=Lupus non curat numerum (ovum)=--The wolf is not scared by the number of the sheep. Pr.

=Lupus pilum mutat, non mentem=--The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition. Pr.

=Lusisti satis, edisti satis, atque bibisti; / Tempus abire tibi est=--Thou hast amused thyself enough, hast eaten and drunk enough; 'tis time for thee to depart. Hor.

=Lust--hard by fate.= Milton.

=Lust is a sharp spur to vice, which always putteth the affections into a false gallop.= St. Ambrose.

=Lust is an enemy to the purse, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and a mortal bane to all the body.= Pliny.

=Lust is, of all the frailties of our nature, / What most we ought to fear; the headstrong beast / Rushes along, impatient of the course; / Nor hears the rider's call, nor fears the rein.= Rowe.

=Lust of gain, in the spirit of Cain, is it better= 5 =or worse / Than the heart of the citizen hissing in war on his own hearthstone?= Tennyson.

=Lust und Liebe sind die Fittiche / Zu grossen Thaten=--Ambition and love are the wings to great deeds. Goethe.

=Lust yielded to is a pleasant madness, but it is a desperate madness when opposed.= Bp. Hall.

=Lusus naturæ=--A freak of nature.

=Luther's shoes don't fit every country parson.= Ger. Pr.

=Luther's words are half battles.= Jean Paul. 10

=Luxuriæ desunt multa, avaritiæ omnia=--Luxury is in want of many things; avarice, of everything. Pub. Syr.

=Luxuriant animi rebus plerumque secundis; / Nec facile est æqua commoda mente pati=--The feelings generally run riot in prosperity; and to bear good fortune with evenness of mind is no easy task. Ovid.

=Luxury is a nice master, hard to be pleased.= Sir G. Mackenzie.

=Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail.= Victor Hugo.

=Luxury possibly may contribute to give bread= 15 =to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor.= H. Home.

=Lydius lapis=--A Lydian or test stone.

=Lying and stealing live next door to each other.= Pr.

=Lying is a breach of promise; for whoever seriously addresses his discourse to another tacitly promises to speak the truth, because he knows the truth is expected.= Paley.

=Lying is a disgraceful vice, "affording testimony," as Plutarch says, "that one first despises God and then fears men."= Montaigne.

=Lying is the strongest acknowledgment of= 20 =the force of truth.= Hazlitt.

=Lying lips are an abomination unto the Lord.= Bible.

=Lying may be pernicious in its general tendency, and therefore criminal, though it produce no particular or visible mischief to any one.= Paley.

=Lying pays no tax.= Pr.

=Lying rides on debt's back.= Pr.

=Lynx envers nos pareils, et taupes envers= 25 =nous=--Lynx-eyed to our neighbours, and mole-eyed to ourselves. La Fontaine.

=Lyrical poetry is much the same in every age, as the songs of the nightingales in every spring-time.= Heine.

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=Ma vie est un combat=--My life is a battle. Voltaire.

=Macbeth does murder sleep, the innocent sleep; / Sleep, that knits up the ravell'd sleeve of care, / The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, / Balm of hurt minds, great Nature's second course, / Chief nourisher in life's feast.= Macb., ii. 2.

=Mach' dich nicht zu hoch, die Thür ist niedrig=--Don't carry your head too high; the door is low. Ger. Pr.

=Mach' es Wenigen recht: Vielen gefallen ist= 30 =schlimm=--Be content to please a few; to please many is bad. Schiller.

=Machines cannot increase the possibilities of life, only the possibilities of idleness.= Ruskin.

=Macht, was ihr wollt; nur lasst mich ungeschoren=--Produce what ye like, only leave me unmolested (lit. unshorn). Goethe.

=Mächtig in Werke, nicht in Worte=--Mighty in deeds, not in words. Ger. Pr.

=Macies et nova febrium / Terris incubuit cohors=--A wasting disease and an unheard-of battalion of fevers have swooped down on the earth. Hor.

=Macte nova virtute, puer, sic itur ad astra=--Go 35 on in new deeds of valour, my son! That is the way to the stars. Virg.

=Macte virtute=--Persevere in virtue; go on and prosper.

=Macte virtute diligentiaque esto=--Persevere in virtue and diligence. Livy.

=Maculæ quas incuria fudit=--The blemishes, or errors, which carelessness has produced. Hor.

=Mad bulls cannot be tied up with a packthread.= Pr.

=Mad dogs cannot live long.= Pr. 40

=Mad people think others mad.= Pr.

=Madame fut douce envers la mort, comme elle l'était envers tout le monde=--She was gentle towards death, as she was towards every one. Bossuet.

=Madness in great ones must not unwatch'd go.= Ham., iii. 1.

=Madness is consistent, which is more than can be said for poor reason. Our passions and principles are steady in frenzy, but begin to shift and waver as we return to reason.= Sterne.

=Madness is the last stage of human debasement.= 45 =It is the abdication of humanity. Better to die a thousand times!= Napoleon.

=Madruga y verás, trabaja y habrás=--Rise betimes, and you will see; labour diligently, and you will have. Sp. Pr.

=Magalia quondam=--Formerly humble huts stood here. Virg.

=Magasins de nouveautés=--Linen-draper's, or fancy goods', shop. Fr.

=Magis gaudet quam qui senectam exuit=--He rejoices more than an old man who has put off old age, i.e., has become young again. Pr.

=Magis magni clerici non sunt magis sapientes=--The 50 greater scholars are not the wisest men. Pr.

=Magister alius casus=--Misfortune is a second master. Pliny the elder.

=Magister artis ingeniique largitor / Venter=--The belly (i.e., hunger or necessity) is the teacher of arts and the bestower of genius. Pers.

=Magister dixit=--The master has said so.

=Magistratum legem esse loquentem, legem autem mutum magistratum=--A judge is a speaking law, law a silent judge. Cic.

=Magistratus indicat virum=--Office shows the 5 man. M.

=Magna Charta=--The Great Charter (obtained from King John in 1215).

=Magna civitas, magna solitudo=--A great city is a great desert. Gr. and L. Pr.

=Magna comitante caterva=--A great crowd accompanying. Virg.

=Magna est admiratio copiose sapienterque dicentis=--Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion. Cic.

=Magna est veritas et prævalebit=--Truth is 10 mighty, and will in the end prevail.

=Magna est vis consuetudinis: hæc ferre laborem, contemnere vulnus et dolorem docet=--Great is the power of habit: teaching us as it does to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain. Cic.

=Magna fuit quondam capitis reverentia cani, / Inque suo pretio ruga senilis erat=--Great was the respect paid of old to the hoary head, and great the honour to the wrinkles of age. Ovid.

=Magna servitus est magna fortuna=--A great fortune is a great slavery. Sen.

=Magna vis est, magnum nomen, unum et idem sentientis senatus=--Great is the power, great the authority, of a senate which is unanimous in its opinions. Cic.

=Magnæ felicitates multum caliginis mentibus= 15 =humanis objiciunt=--Great and sudden prosperity has a deadening (lit. densely darkening) effect on the human mind. Sen.

=Magnæ fortunæ comes adest adulatio=--Adulation is ever the attendant on great wealth.

=Magnanimiter crucem sustine=--Bear up bravely under the cross. M.

=Magnanimity is the good sense of pride, and the noblest way of acquiring applause.= La Roche.

=Magnanimity owes to prudence no account of its motives.= Vauvenargues.

=Magnas inter opes inops=--Poor in the midst 20 of great wealth. Hor.

=Magni animi est injurias despicere=--It is the mark of a great mind to despise injuries. Sen.

=Magni animi est magna contemnere, ac mediocria malle quam nimia=--It is a sign of a great mind to despise greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess. Sen.

=Magni est ingenii revocare mentem a sensibus, et cogitationem a consuetudine abducere=--It argues a mind of great native force to be able to emancipate itself from the thraldom of the senses, and to wean its thoughts from old habits. Cic.

=Magni nominis umbra=--The shadow of a great name. Lucan.

=Magni refert quibuscum vixeris=--It matters a 25 great deal with whom you live. Pr.

=Magnificat=--The song of the Virgin Mary (lit. she magnifies). Luke, i. 44-45.

=Magnificence cannot be cheap, for what is cheap cannot be magnificent.= Johnson.

=Magnis excidit ausis=--He failed in bold attempts. Ovid.

=Magno conatu magnas nugas=--By great efforts to obtain great trifles. Ter.

=Magno cum periculo custoditur, quod multis= 30 =placet=--That is guarded at great risk which is coveted by many. Pub. Syr.

=Magno de flumine mallem / Quam ex hoc fonticulo tantundem sumere=--I had rather take my glass of water from a great river like this than from this little fountain. Hor., in reproof of those who lay by large stores and never use them.

=Magnorum haud unquam indignus avorum=--Never unworthy of his illustrious ancestors. Virg.

=Magnum est argumentum in utroque fuisse moderatum=--It speaks volumes for man that, when placed in quite different situations, he displays in each the same spirit of moderation.

=Magnum hoc ego duco / Quod placui tibi qui turpi secernis honestum=--I account it a great honour that I have pleased a man like you, who know so well to discriminate between the base and the honourable. Hor.

=Magnum hoc vitium vino est, / Pedes captat= 35 =primum; luctator dolosus est=--This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler. Plaut.

=Magnum pauperies opprobrium jubet / Quidvis aut facere aut pati=--Poverty, that deep disgrace, bids us do or suffer anything. Hor.

=Magnum vectigal est parsimonia=--Thrift is a great revenue. Cic.

=Magnus ab integro sæclorum nascitur ordo=--The great cycle of the ages begins its round anew. Virg.

=Magnus Alexander corpore parvus erat=--The great Alexander was small in stature. Pr.

=Magnus animus remissius loquitur et securius=--The 40 talk of a great soul is at once more careless and confident than that of other men. Sen.

=Magnus Apollo=--A great oracle.

=Magnus sine viribus ignis / Incassum furit=--A great fire, unless you feed it, spends its rage in vain. Virg.

=Mãi aguçosa, filha preguiçosa=--A busy mother makes slothful daughters. Port. Pr.

=Maidens' bairns and bachelors' wives are aye weel bred.= Sc. Pr.

=Maidens, like moths, are ever caught with= 45 =glare, / And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair.= Byron.

=Maidens should be mild and meek, / Swift to hear, and slow to speak.= Pr.

=Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.= As You Like It, iv. 1.

=Maids should be seen and not heard.= Pr.

=Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them they want everything.= Somerset Pr.

=Maids well summered, and warm kept, are like= 50 =flies at Bartholomew-tide--blind, though they have their eyes.= Hen. V., v. 2.

=Maintien le droit=--Maintain the right. M.

=Mair by luck than gude guiding= (management). Sc. Pr.

=Mais au moindre revers funeste / Le masque tombe, l'homme reste / Et le héros s'évanouit=--But at the least sad reverse the mask drops off, the man remains, and the hero vanishes. J. B. Rousseau.

=Mais de quoi sont composées les affaires du monde? Du bien d'autrui=--By of what is the business of the world made up? Of the wealth of other people. Béroalde Verville.

=Maison d'arrêt=--A jail, a prison. Fr.

=Maison de force=--A house of correction. Fr.

=Maître Jacques=--A handy fellow who is ready to 5 undertake all kinds of work. Fr.

=Major e longinquo reverentia=--Respect is greater at a distance. Tac.

=Major famæ sitis est quam / Virtutis; quis enim virtutem amplectitur ipsam, / Præmia si tollas?=--The thirst for fame is greater than that for virtue; for, if you take away its reward, who would embrace virtue? Juv.

=Major hereditas venit unicuique nostrum a jure et legibus, quam a parentibus=--A more valuable inheritance falls to each of us in our civil and legal rights than comes to us from our fathers. Cic.

=Major privato visus, dum privatus fuit, et omnium consensu capax imperii, nisi imperasset=--He was regarded as greater than a private individual so long as he remained one, and, by the consent of all, would have been deemed worthy to rule had he never ruled. Tac., of the Emperor Galba.

=Major rerum mihi nascitur ordo=--A greater 10 succession of events presents itself to my muse. Virg.

=Major sum quam cui possit Fortuna nocere / Multaque ut eripiat, multo mihi plura relinquet. / Excessere metum mea jam bona=--I am above being injured by fortune; though she snatch away much, more will remain to me. The blessings I now enjoy transcend fear. Ov.

=Majore tumultu / Planguntur nummi quam funera, nemo dolorem / Fingit in hoc casu / ... Ploratur lacrimis amissa pecunia veris=--Money is bewailed with a greater tumult than death. No one feigns grief in this case.... The loss of money is deplored with true tears. Juv.

=Majoresque cadunt altis de montibus umbræ=--And the shadows lengthen as they fall from the lofty mountains. Virg.

=Majori cedo=--I retire before my superior.

=Majority is applied to number, and superiority= 15 =to power.= Johnson.

=Majus et minus non variant speciem=--Greater and less don't change the nature of a thing.

=Make a crutch of your cross.= Pr.

=Make a virtue of necessity.= Burton.

=Make all sure, and keep all pure.= Pr.

=Make clean thy conscience; hide thee there.= 20 Quarles.

=Make clean work, and leave no tags. Allow no delays when you are at a thing; do it and be done with it.= Prof. Blackie.

=Make doors fast upon a woman's wit, and it will out at the casement; shut that, and 'twill out at the keyhole.= As You Like It, iv. 1.

=Make every bargain clear and plain, / That none may afterwards complain.= Pr.

=Make good cheese, if you make little.= Pr.

=Make haste slowly.= Pr. 25

=Make hay while the sun shines.= Pr.

=Make it an invariable and obligatory law to yourself never to mention your own mental diseases. When you talk of them, it is plain that you want either praise or pity; for praise there is no room, and pity will do you no good.= Johnson.

=Make knowledge circle with the winds; / But let her herald, Reverence, fly / Before her to whatever sky / Bear seed of men and growth of minds.= Tennyson.

=Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.= Colton.

=Make not a bosom friend of a melancholy sad= 30 =soul.... He goes always heavy-loaded, and thou must bear half.= Fenélon.

=Make not another's shoes by your own foot.= Pr.

=Make not thy friend too cheap to thee, nor thyself to thy friend.= Pr.

=Make not thy sport abuses; for the fly, / That feeds on dung, is coloured thereby.= George Herbert.

=Make not thy tail broader than thy wings.= Pr.

=Make not two sorrows of one.= Pr. 35

=Make short the miles with talk and smiles.= Pr.

=Make temperance thy companion, so shall health sit on thy brow.= Dodsley.

=Make the most and the best of your lot, and compare yourself not with the few that are above you, but with the multitudes which are below you.= Johnson.

=Make the most of time, it flies away so fast; yet method will teach you to win time.= Goethe.

=Make the night night, and the day day, and= 40 =you will have a pleasant time of it.= Port. Pr.

=Make the plaster as large as the sore.= Pr.

=Make thee my knight? my knights are sworn to vows / Of utter hardihood, utter gentleness, / And, loving, utter faithfulness in love, / And uttermost obedience to the king.= Tennyson.

=Make thick my blood, / Stop up the access and passage to remorse, / That no compunctious visitings of Nature / Shake my fell purpose.= Macb., i. 5.

=Make thy claim of wages for this world, and all worlds, at zero--at nothing; thus, and thus only, hast thou the world at thy feet.= Carlyle.

=Make your educational laws strict, and your= 45 =criminal ones may be gentle; but leave youth its liberty, and you will have to dig dungeons for age.= Ruskin.

=Make your hay as best you may.= Pr.

=Make your mark, but mind what your mark is.= Pr.

=Make yourself an ass, and you'll have every man's sack on your shoulders.= Dan. Pr.

=Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one rascal less in the world.= Carlyle.

=Make yourself necessary to the world and= 50 =mankind will give you bread.= Emerson.

=Make yourselves necessary to somebody.= Emerson.

=Mal à propos=--Ill-timed; unseasonable. Fr.

=Mala causa silenda est=--'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause. Ovid.

=Mala fides=--Bad faith.

=Mala gallina, malum ovum=--Bad hen, bad egg. Pr.

=Mala grammatica non vitiat chartam=--Bad grammar does not vitiate a deed. L.

=Mala mali malo mala contulit omnia mundo=--The jawbone of the evil one by means of an apple brought all evils into the world.

=Mala mens, malus animus=--Bad mind, bad 5 heart. Ter.

=Mala merx hæc, et callida est=--She's a bad bargain and a crafty one. Plaut.

=Mala ultro adsunt=--Misfortunes come unsought. Pr.

=Maladie du pays=--Home-sickness. Fr.

=Male cuncta ministrat / Impetus=--Violence (of passion) conducts everything badly. Stat.

=Male imperando summum imperium amittitur=--By 10 misgovernment the supreme rule is lost. Pub. Syr.

=Male parta male dilabuntur=--Things ill gotten go ill. Pr.

=Male partum male disperit=--Property ill got is ill spent; lightly come, lightly go. Plaut.

=Male secum agit æger, medicum qui hæredem facit=--A sick man acts foolishly for himself who makes his doctor his heir.

=Male verum examinat omnis / Corruptus judex=--Badly is the truth weighed by a corrupt judge. Hor.

=Male vivunt qui se semper victuros putant=--They 15 live ill who think they will live for ever. Pub. Syr.

=Malebranche saw all things in God, and M. Necker saw all things in Necker.= Mirabeau.

=Maledicus a malefico non distat nisi occasione=--An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer in nothing but want of opportunity. Quinct.

=Malesuada fames=--Hunger that tempts to evil. Virg.

=Malheureux celui qui est en avance de son siècle=--Unhappy is the man who is in advance of his time. Fr. Pr.

=Mali principii malus finis=--Bad beginnings have 20 bad endings (lit. a bad end of a bad beginning). Ter.

=Malice is a passion so impetuous and precipitate, that it often involves the agent and the patient.= Government of the Tongue.

=Malice sucks up the greatest part of our own venom, and poisons herself.= Montaigne.

=Malim indisertam prudentiam, quam stultitiam loquacem=--I prefer sense that is faulty in expression to loquacious folly. Cic.

=Malim inquietam libertatem quam quietum servitium=--I would prefer turbulent liberty to quiet slavery.

=Malis avibus=--With a bad omen (lit. with bad 25 birds). Cic.

=Malo benefacere tantumdem est periculum / Quantum bono malefacere=--To do good to the bad is a danger just as great as to do bad to the good. Plaut.

=Malo cum Platone errare, quam cum aliis recte sentire=--I had rather be wrong with Plato than think right with others. Cic.

=Malo mihi male quam molliter esse=--I prefer being ill to being idle. Sen.

=Malo mori quam fœdari=--I had rather die than be disgraced. M.

=Malo nodo malus quærendus cuneus=--For a 30 hard knot a hard tool must be sought. Pr.

=Malorum facinorum ministri quasi exprobrantes aspiciuntur=--Accomplices in evil actions are always regarded as reproaching the deed. Tac.

=Malum consilium consultori pessimum=--Bad advice is most pernicious to the adviser. Ver. Flaccus.

=Malum est consilium quod mutari non potest=--That is bad counsel which cannot be changed. Pub. Syr.

=Malum in se=--A thing evil in itself.

=Malum nascens facile opprimitur; inveteratum= 35 =fit robustius=--An evil habit is easily subdued in the beginning, but when it becomes inveterate it gains strength. Cic.

=Malum prohibitum=--A crime because forbidden by law, such as smuggling. L.

=Malum vas non frangitur=--A worthless vessel is seldom broken. Pr.

=Malus bonum ubi se simulat, tunc est pessimus=--A bad man, when he pretends to be a good one, is worst of all. Pub. Syr.

=Malus est enim custos diuturnitatis metus, contraque benevolentia fidelis vel ad perpetuitatem=--Fear is a bad preserver of that which is intended to last; whereas mildness and good-will ensure fidelity for ever. Cic.

=Malus usus est abolendus=--An evil custom should 40 be abolished. L.

=Mammon has enriched his thousands, and has damned his ten thousands.= South.

=Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell / From heaven.= Milton.

=Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair.= Byron.

=Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.= Sir W. Temple.

=Man always worships something; always he= 45 =sees the infinite shadowed forth in something finite; and indeed can and must so see it in any finite thing, once tempt him well to fix his eyes thereon.= Carlyle.

=Man am I grown, a man's work must I do. / Follow the deer? follow the Christ, the King, / Live pure, speak true, right wrong, follow the King--/ Else wherefore born?= Tennyson.

=Man and man only can do the impossible; / ... He to the moment endurance can lend.= Goethe.

=Man becomes greater in proportion as he learns to know himself and his faculty. Let him once become conscious of what he is, and he will soon also learn to be what he should.= Schelling.

=Man becomes man only by the intelligence, but he is man only by the heart.= Amiel.

=Man, behind his everlasting blind, which he= 50 =only colours differently, and makes no thinner, carries his pride with him from one step to another, and on the higher step blames only the pride of the lower.= Jean Paul.

=Man can dispense with much but not with men.= Börne.

=Man can elect the universal man, / And live in life that ends not with his breath.= R. W. Dixon.

=Man can invent nothing nobler than humanity.= Ruskin.

=Man can only learn to rise from the consideration of that which he cannot surmount.= Jean Paul.

=Man cannot be a naturalist, until he satisfies all the demands of the spirit.= Emerson.

=Man cannot choose his duties.= George Eliot.

=Man cannot live without his formulas.= _Dr. Walter Smith._

=Man carries under his hat a private theatre,= 5 =wherein a greater drama is acted than ever on the mimic stage, beginning and ending in eternity.= Carlyle.

=Man consists in truth. If he exposes truth, he exposes himself. If he betrays truth, he betrays himself. We speak not here of lies, but of acting against conviction.= Novalis.

=Man could direct his ways by plain reason, and support his life by tasteless food; but God has given us wit, and flavour, and brightness, and laughter, and perfumes, to enliven the day of man's pilgrimage, and to charm his pained steps over the burning marl.= Sydney Smith.

=Man creeps into childhood, bounds into youth, sobers into manhood, and softens into age.= H. Giles.

=Man darf nur sterben, um gelobt zu werden=--One has but to die to be praised. Ger. Pr.

=Man delights not me; no, nor woman neither.= 10 Ham., ii. 2.

=Man disputirt mehr über die Schaale, als über den Kern=--People dispute more about the shell than the kernel. Ger. Pr.

=Man does not willingly submit himself to reverence; or rather, he never so submits himself: it is a higher sense which must be communicated to his nature, which only in some peculiarly favoured individuals unfolds itself spontaneously, who on this account too have of old been looked upon as saints and gods.= Goethe.

=Man does not wish to be told the truth.= Pascal.

=Man doth what he can, and God what He will.= Pr.

=Man dreams of fame while woman wakes to= 15 =love.= Tennyson.

=Man ever tends to reckon his own insight as final, and goes upon it as such.= Carlyle.

=Man everywhere is the born enemy of lies.= Carlyle.

=Man findet tausend Gelehrte, bis man auf einen weisen Mann stösst=--We may come upon a thousand men of learning before we stumble upon a single wise man. Klinger.

=Man for the field and woman for the hearth; / Man for the sword and for the needle she: / Man with the head and woman with the heart: / Man to command and woman to obey; / All else confusion.= Tennyson.

=Man, forget not death, for death certainly forgets= 20 =not thee.= Turkish Pr.

=Man gives up all pretension to the infinite while he feels here that neither with thought nor without it is he equal to the finite.= Goethe.

=Man had not a hammer to begin, not a syllabled articulation; they had it all to make--and they have made it.= Carlyle.

=Man has a brief flowering season and a long fading.= Uhland.

=Man has a silent and solitary literature written by his heart upon the tables of stone in Nature; and next to God's finger, a man's heart writes the most memorable things.= Ward Beecher.

=Man has a soul as certainly as he has a body;= 25 =nay, much more certainly; properly it is the course of his unseen spiritual life, which informs and rules his external visible life, rather than receives rule from it, in which spiritual life the true secret of his history lies.= Carlyle.

=Man has always humour enough to make merry with what he cannot help.= Goethe.

=Man has ever been a striving, struggling, and, in spite of wide-spread calumnies to the contrary, a veracious creature.= Carlyle.

=Man has in his own soul an Eternal; can read something of the Eternal there, if he will look.= Carlyle.

=Man has not a greater enemy than himself.= Petrarch.

=Man has quite a peculiar pleasure in making= 30 =proselytes; in causing others to enjoy what he enjoys, in finding his own likeness represented and reflected back to him.= Goethe.

=Man has seldom an offer of kindness to make to a woman but she has a presentiment of it some moments before.= Sterne.

=Man has two and a half minutes here below--one to smile, one to sigh, and half a one to love; for in the midst of this minute he dies.= Jean Paul.

=Man, if he compare himself with all he can see, is at the zenith of his power; but if he compare himself with all he can conceive, he is at the nadir of his weakness.= Colton.

=Man is a born owl.= Carlyle.

=Man is a bundle of habits.= Pr. 35

=Man is a darkened being; he knows not whence he comes, nor whither he goes; he knows little of the world and least of himself.= Goethe.

=Man is a fallen god, who remembers heaven, his former dwelling-place.= Lamartine.

=Man is a forked radish with head fantastically carved.= Swift.

=Man is a forked straddling animal with bandy legs.= Swift.

=Man is a military animal, / Glories in gunpowder= 40 =and loves parade.= P. J. Bailey.

=Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.= Sir T. Browne.

=Man is a poetical animal, and delights in fiction.= Hazlitt.

=Man is a spirit, and bound by invisible bonds to all men.= Carlyle.

=Man is a stream whose source is hidden.= Emerson.

=Man is a substance clad in shadows.= John 45 Sterling.

=Man is a sun; his senses are the planets.= Novalis.

=Man is a tool-using animal; ... without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.= Carlyle.

=Man is actually here, not to ask questions but to do work; in this time, as in all times, it must be the heaviest evil for him if his faculty of action lie dormant, and only that of sceptical inquiry exert itself.= Carlyle.

=Man is an animal that cooks his victuals.= Burke.

=Man is an animal that makes bargains; no other animal does this.= Adam Smith.

=Man is an imitative creature, and whoever is foremost leads the herd.= Schiller.

=Man is, and always was, a blockhead and dullard; much readier to feel and digest than to think and consider.= Carlyle.

=Man is, beyond dispute, the most excellent of created beings, and the vilest animal is a dog; but the sages agree that a grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man.= Saadi.

=Man is born not to solve the problems of the= 5 =universe, but to find out where the problem begins, and then to restrain himself within the limits of the comprehensible.= Goethe.

=Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.= Bible.

=Man is but a little thing in the midst of the objects of nature, yet, by the moral quality radiating from his countenance, he may abolish all considerations of magnitude, and, in his manners, equal the majesty of the world.= Emerson.

=Man is but a reed, the weakest thing in nature, but he is a reed that thinks.= Pascal.

=Man is created free, is free, even if he were born in chains.= Schiller.

=Man is created to fight; he is perhaps best of= 10 =all definable as a born soldier; his life "a battle and a march" under the right generals.= Carlyle.

=Man is emphatically a proselytising creature.= Carlyle.

=Man is ever the most interesting object to man, and perhaps should be the only one to interest him.= Goethe.

=Man is explicable by nothing less than all his history.= Emerson.

=Man is fire and woman tow; the devil comes and sets them in a blaze.= Pr.

=Man is first a spirit, bound by invisible bonds= 15 =to all men; and secondly, he wears clothes, which are the visible emblems of that fact.= _Carlyle, the two main ideas emphasised in "Sartor."_

=Man is for ever the born thrall of certain men, born master of certain other men, born equal of certain others, let him acknowledge the fact or not.= Carlyle.

=Man is for ever the brother of man.= Carlyle.

=Man is free as the bird is in its cage: he can move about within certain limits.= Lavater.

=Man is God's image; but a poor man is / Christ's stamp to boot: both images regard. / God reckons for him, counts the favour His.= George Herbert.

=Man is greater than a world, than systems of= 20 =worlds; there is more mystery in the union of soul with the physical than in the creation of a universe.= H. Giles.

=Man is his own star, and the soul that can / Render an honest and a perfect man, / Commands all light, all influence, all fate; / Nothing to him falls early or too late.= Beaumont and Fletcher.

=Man is intended for a limited condition; objects that are simple, near, determinate, he comprehends, and he becomes accustomed to employ such means as are at hand; but on entering a wider field he now knows neither what he would nor what he should.= Goethe.

=Man is like the worker at Gobelins, who weaves on the wrong side a tapestry of which he does not see the design.= Renan.

=Man is made great or little by his own will.= Schiller.

=Man is man by virtue of willing, not by virtue= 25 =of knowing and understanding; and as he is, so he sees.= Emerson.

=Man is man everywhere.= Carlyle.

=Man is man only as he makes life and nature happier to us.= Emerson.

=Man is more often injured than helped by the means he uses.= Emerson.

=Man is more than constitutions.= Whittier.

=Man is neither an angel nor a brute, and it is= 30 =his evil destiny if he aspires to be the former, to sink into the latter.= Pascal.

=Man is neither the vile nor the excellent being which he sometimes imagines himself to be.= Disraeli.

=Man is not a piece of clay to be moulded, but a plant to be cultivated.= Garve.

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

=Man is not born to be free, and for the noble there is no fairer fortune than to serve a prince whom he honours.= Goethe.

=Man is not God, but hath God's end to serve, /= 35 =A master to obey, a course to take, / Somewhat to cast off, somewhat to become.= Browning.

=Man is not made to question, but adore.= Young.

=Man is not the creature of circumstances; circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.= Disraeli.

=Man is nothing but contradiction; the less he knows it the more dupe he is.= Amiel.

=Man is of the earth, but his thoughts are with the stars. A pigmy standing on the outward crest of this small planet, his far-reaching spirit stretches outward to the infinite, and there alone finds rest.= Carlyle.

=Man is often a wolf to man, a serpent to God,= 40 =and a scorpion to himself.= Spurgeon.

=Man is one, and he hath one great heart.= Bailey.

=Man is one world, and hath / Another to attend him.= George Herbert.

=Man is only truly great when he acts from his passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.= Disraeli.

=Man is only what he becomes, but he becomes only what he is.= Amiel.

=Man is physically as well as metaphysically a= 45 =thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.= Emerson.

=Man is placed in this world as a spectator; when he is tired with wondering at all the novelties about him, and not till then, does he desire to be made acquainted with the causes that create those wonders.= Goldsmith.

=Man is properly an incarnated word; the word that he speaks is the man himself.= Carlyle.

=Man is, properly speaking, based upon Hope, he has no other possession but Hope; this world of his is emphatically the Place of Hope.= Carlyle.

=Man is quite sufficiently saddened by his own passions and destiny, and need not make himself more so by the darkness of a barbaric past. He needs enlightening and cheering influences, and should therefore turn to those eras in art and literature during which remarkable men obtained perfect culture.= Goethe.

=Man is so inconsistent a creature that it is impossible to reason from his belief to his conduct, or from one part of his belief to another.= Macaulay.

=Man is so prone to occupy himself with what is most common, the soul and the senses are so easily blunted to the impressions of the beautiful and perfect, that one ought by all means to preserve the capability of feeling it. We ought every day at least to hear a little song, read a good poem, see an excellent painting, and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words.= Goethe.

=Man is that noble endogenous plant which grows, like the palm, from within outward.= Emerson.

=Man is the arch-machine of which all these= 5 =shifts drawn from himself are toy models. He helps himself on each emergency by copying or duplicating his own structure, just so far as the need is=. Emerson.

=Man is the circled oak, woman the ivy.= _Aaron Hill._

=Man is the dwarf of himself.= Emerson.

=Man is the end towards which all the animal creation has tended.= Agassiz.

=Man is the favourite= (Günstling) =of Nature, not in the sense that Nature has done everything for him, but that she has given him the power of doing everything for himself=. Zachariae.

=Man is the higher sense of our planet, the= 10 =star which connects it with the upper world, the eye which it turns towards heaven=. Novalis.

=Man is the jewel of God, who has created this material world to keep his treasure in.= Theo. Parker.

=Man is the maker of expedients, but not of laws. In his solicitude as to his approaching lot, he has neither time nor desire to raise his eyes to the heavens to watch and record their phenomena; no leisure to look upon himself and consider what and where he is. In the imperious demand for a present support, he dare not venture on speculative attempts at ameliorating his state; he is doomed to be a helpless, isolated, spellbound savage, or, if not isolated, the companion of other savages as careworn as himself.= Draper.

=Man is the merriest species of the creation.= Addison.

=Man is the Messiah of Nature.= Novalis.

=Man is the meter of all things; the hand is= 15 =the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms=. Arist.

=Man is the Missionary of Order; he is the servant not of the devil and chaos, but of God and the universe.= Carlyle.

=Man is the nobler growth our realms supply, / And souls are ripened in our northern sky.= Mrs. Barbauld.

=Man is the slave of beneficence.= Arab. Pr.

=Man is the sum-total of all the animals.= Oken.

=Man is the sun of the world; more than the= 20 =real sun. The fire of his wonderful heart is the only light and heat worth gauge or measure. Where he is, are the tropics; where he is not, the ice-world=. Ruskin.

=Man is the weeping animal born to govern all the rest.= Pliny.

=Man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn; and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie enfolded already in the first man.= Emerson.

=Man is the will and woman is the sentiment. In this ship of humanity, Will is the rudder and Sentiment the sail; when woman affects to steer, the rudder is only a masked sail.= Emerson.

=Man is to man the sorest, surest ill.... / Earth trembles ere her yawning jaws devour; / And smoke betrays the wide-consuming fire; / Ruin from man is most conceal'd when near, / And sends the dreadful tidings in the blow.= Young.

=Man is too near all kinds of beasts--a fawning= 25 =dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, a rapacious vulture=. Cowley.

=Man ist nur eigentlich lebendig, wenn man sich des Wohlwollens Anderer freut=--A man is only truly alive when he enjoys the goodwill of others. Goethe.

=Man, it's surely a pity that thou should'st sit yonder, with nothing but the eye of Omniscience to see thee, and thou with such gift to speak.= James Carlyle to his son, when he first discovered this gift in him.

=Man kan geen loopend paard beslaan=--One cannot shoe a running-horse. Dut. Pr.

=Man kann den Menschen nicht verwehren, / Zu denken, was sie wollen=--There is no hindering people from thinking what thoughts they like. Schiller.

=Man kann ein klarer Denker ohne Gefühl=, 30 =aber kein starker, kühner Denker ohne dasselbe sein=--Without feeling one may be a clear thinker, but not a powerful and a bold. Klinger.

=Man kann in wahrer Freiheit leben / Und doch nicht ungebunden sein=--One may enjoy true freedom, and yet be in chains. Goethe.

=Man kann nicht stets das Fremde meiden, / Das Gute liegt uns oft so fern. / Ein echter deutscher Mann mag keinen Franzen leiden, / Doch ihre Weine trinkt er gern=--We cannot always avoid what is foreign; what is good often lies so far off. A true German cannot abide the French, and yet he will drink their wines with the most genuine relish. Goethe.

=Man kann nicht wider sein Geshick=--There is no striving against one's fate. Schiller.

=Man knows nothing but what he has learned from experience.= Wieland.

=Man kommt zu schaun, Man will am liebsten= 35 =sehn=--People come to look; their greatest pleasure is to feast their eyes. Goethe.

=Man lebt nur einmal in der Welt=--Only once is it given us to live in the world. Goethe.

=Man, like the gen'rous vine, supported, lives;/ The strength he gains is from the embrace he gives.= Pope.

=Man little knows what calamities are beyond his patience to bear till he tries them.= Goldsmith.

=Man lives in Time, has his whole earthly being, endeavour, and destiny shaped for him by Time; only in the transitory Time-symbol is the ever-motionless eternity we stand on made manifest.= Carlyle.

=Man lives where he acts.= Renan.

=Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport of the overmastering present.= Schiller.

=Man lobt den Künstler dann erst recht, wenn= 5 =man über sein Werk sein Lob vergisst=--We first truly praise an artist when the merit of his work is such as to make us forget himself. Lessing.

=Man löst sich nicht allmählich von dem Leben!=--It is by no gradual process we detach ourselves from (lose our hold of) life. Schiller.

=Man loves before he sees; his heart is open before his eyes; love must irradiate his world for him before he well knows he is in it, what it is made of, and what to make of it.= Ed.

=Man loves little and often, woman much and rarely.= Basta.

=Man, made of the dust of the world, does not forget his origin; and all that is yet inanimate will one day speak and reason.= Emerson.

=Man mag Amphion sein und Fels und Wald= 10 =bewegen, / Deswegen kann man doch nicht Bauern widerlegen=--One may be a very Amphion and be able to move trees and rocks, and yet be unable to reduce peasants to reason. Gellert.

=Man may doubt here and there, but mankind does not doubt.= H. R. Haweis.

=Man muss die Menschen nur mit dem Krämergewicht, keinesweges mit der Goldwage wiegen=--We must weigh men with merchant's scales, and by no means with the goldsmith's. Goethe.

=Man muss handeln können, wie man will, um zu handeln, wie man soll=--We must be able to act as we would in order to act as we should. Zachariæ.

=Man muss keinem Menschen trauen, der bei seinen Versicherungen die Hand auf's Herz legt=--We should trust no man who in his protestations lays his hand on his heart. Lichtenberg.

=Man muss nicht reicher scheinen wollen, als= 15 =man ist=--We must not wish to appear richer than we are. Lessing.

=Man muss seine Irrthümer theuer bezahlen, wenn man sie los werden will, und dann hat man noch von Glück zu sagen=--Men must pay dearly for their errors, if they would be free from them, and then they may regard it a happiness to do so. Goethe.

=Man muss, will man ein Glück geniessen, / Die Freiheit zu behaupten wissen=--If we would enjoy what fortune gives us, we must know how to maintain our freedom. Gellert.

=Man must hold fast by the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible, otherwise he would not search.= Goethe.

=Man must serve his time to every trade / Save censure; critics all are ready made.= Byron.

=Man never comprehends how anthropomorphic= 20 =he is.= Goethe.

=Man, never so often deceived, still watches for the arrival of a brother who can hold him steady to a truth until he has made it his own.= Emerson.

=Man, on the dubious waves of error tost.= Cowper.

=Man only can create music, for nothing is perfect until, in some way, it touches or passes through man.= T. T. Munger.

=Man only mars kind Nature's plan, / And turns the fierce pursuit on man.= Scott.

=Man ought always to have something which= 25 =he prefers to life.= Seume.

=Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.= Browning.

=Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law and without justice.= Arist.

=Man proposes, God disposes.= Pr.

=Man, proud man, / Dress'd in a little brief authority; / Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd, / His glassy essence, like an angry ape, / Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, / As make the angels weep.= Meas. for Meas., ii. 2.

=Man reconciles himself to almost every event,= 30 =however trying, if it happens in the ordinary course of nature. It is the extraordinary that he rebels against.= W. v. Humboldt.

=Man rettet gern aus trüber Gegenwart / Sich in das heitere Gebiet der Kunst, / Und für die Kränkungen der Wirklichkeit / Sucht man sich Heilung in des Dichters Träumen=--We are fain to escape out of the distracted present into the untroubled sphere of art, and for the miseries of real life we seek healing in the dreams of the poet. Uhland.

=Man schont die Alten, wie man die Kinder schont=--We bear with old people as we do with children. Goethe.

=Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.= Bible.

=Man should let alone other's prejudices and examine his own.= Locke.

=Man should not be over-anxious for a subsistence,= 35 =for it is provided by the Creator. The infant no sooner droppeth from the womb than the breasts of the mother begin to stream.= Hitopadesa.

=Man sieht sich, lernt sich kennen, / Liebt sich, muss sich trennen=--We greet each other, learn to know each other, love each other, and then--we part.

=Man soll die Stimmen wägen und nicht zählen=--Votes ought to be weighed, not counted. Schiller.

=Man soll kein Buch nach dem Titelblatt beurtheilen=--We should not judge of a book from the title-page. Ger. Pr.

=Man soll nicht mehr Teufel rufen, als man bannen kann=--One should raise no more devils than one can lay. Ger. Pr.

=Man spends his life in reasoning on the past,= 40 =complaining of the present, and trembling for the future.= Rivarol.

=Man spricht selten von der Tugend, die man hat; aber desto öfter von der, die uns fehlt=--We seldom boast (lit. speak) of the virtue which we have, but oftener of that which we have not. Lessing.

=Man spricht vergebens viel, nur zu versagen, / Der and're hört von allem nur das Nein!=--In vain we speak much only to refuse; the other, of all we say, hears only the "No!" Goethe.

=Man spricht vom vielen Trinken stets, / Doch nie vom vielen Durste=--They make much of our drinking, but never think of our thirst. Scheffel.

=Man steigt den grünen Berg des Lebens hinauf, um oben auf dem Eisberge zu sterben=--We ascend the green mountain of life in order to die up there upon the glaciers. (?)

=Man steigt nicht ungestraft vom Göttermahle / Herunter in den Kreis der Sterblichen=--One does not descend from a banquet with the gods into a company of common mortals without suffering for it. Grillparzer.

=Man supposes that he directs his life and= 5 =governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny.= Goethe.

=Man, that is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.= Bible.

=Man, the aristocrat amongst the animals.= Heine.

=Man, the little god of this world, is still ever of the same stamp, and is as whimsical as on the first day.= Mephisto in Goethe.

=Man the peasant is a being of more marked national character than man the educated and refined.= Ruskin.

=Man thee for the high endeavour, / Shun the= 10 =crowd's ignoble ease! / Fails the noble spirit never, / Wise to think and prompt to seize.= Goethe.

=Man thereby= (by his fantasy as the organ of the godlike), =though based to all seeming on the small visible, does nevertheless extend down into the infinite deeps of the Invisible, of which Invisible, indeed, his life is properly the bodying forth.= Carlyle.

=Man thinks he has an estate of reputation, and is glad to see one that will bring any of it home to him; it is no matter how dirty a bag it is conveyed to him in, or by how clownish a messenger, so the money is good.= Steele.

=Man! / Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and a tear.= Byron.

=Man, though, as Swift has it, "a forked straddling animal with bandy legs," yet is also a spirit, and unutterable mystery of mysteries.= Carlyle.

=Man unconnected is at home everywhere,= 15 =unless he may be said to be at home nowhere.= Johnson.

=Man verändert sich oft und bessert sich selten=--People change often enough, but seldom for the better. Ger. Pr.

=Man wants but little here below, / Nor wants that little long.= Goldsmith.

=Man was created to work--not to speculate, or feel, or dream.= Carlyle.

=Man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.= Bacon.

=Man, while he loves, is never quite depraved.= 20 Lamb.

=Man, who lives to die, dies to live well, / So if he guide his ways by blamelessness / And earnest will to hinder not, but help, / All things both great and small which suffer life.= Sir Edwin Arnold.

=Man wird nie betrogen; man betrügt sich selbst=--We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. Goethe.

=Man without patience is the lamp without oil, and pride in a rage is a bad counsellor.= A. de Musset.

=Man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.= Ward Beecher.

=Man yields to custom as he bows to fate, /= 25 =In all things ruled--mind, body, and estate; / In pain, in sickness, we for cure apply / To them we know not, and we know not why.= Crabbe.

=Man's activity is all too fain to relax; he soon gets fond of unconditional repose.= Goethe.

=Man's best candle is his understanding.= Pr.

=Man's body and his mind are exactly like a jerkin and a jerkin's lining--rumple the one, you rumple the other.= Sterne.

=Man's conviction should be strong, and so well timed that worldly advantages may seem to have no share in it.= Addison.

=Man's extremity is God's opportunity.= Pr. 30

=Man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart; his next, to escape the censures of the world.= Addison.

=Man's grand fault is, and remains, that he has so many small ones.= Jean Paul.

=Man's grief is but his grandeur in disguise, and discontent is immortality.= Young.

=Man's gullability is not his worst blessing.= Carlyle.

=Man's heart eats all things, and is hungry= 35 =still.= Young.

=Man's highest merit always is as much as possible to rule external circumstances, and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.= Goethe.

=Man's history is little else than a narrative of designs that have failed and hopes that have been disappointed.= Johnson.

=Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn.= Burns.

=Man's liberty ends, and it ought to end, when that liberty becomes the curse of his neighbours.= Farrar.

=Man's life and nature is as it was, and as it= 40 =will ever be.= Carlyle.

=Man's life is a progress, and not a station.= Emerson.

=Man's life is an appendix to his heart.= South.

=Man's life is filed by his foe.= Pr.

=Man's life is never anything but an ever-vanishing present.= Schopenhauer.

=Man's life is not an affair of mere instinct, but= 45 =of steady self-control.= Goethe.

=Man's life never was a sport to him; it was a stern reality--altogether a serious matter to be alive.= Carlyle.

=Man's life now, as of old, is the genuine work of God; wherever there is a man, a God also is revealed, and all that is godlike; a whole epitome of the Infinite, with its meanings, lies enfolded in the life of every man.= Carlyle.

=Man's love is of man's life a thing apart; / 'Tis woman's whole existence.= Byron.

=Man's obligations do not tend toward the past. We know of nothing that binds us to what is behind: our duty lies ahead.= C. Richet.

=Man's only true happiness is to live in Hope of something to be won by him, in Reverence of something to be worshipped by him, and in Love of something to be cherished by him, and cherished--for ever.= Ruskin.

=Man's own heart must be ever given to gain that of another.= Goldsmith.

=Man's own judgment is the proper rule and measure of his actions.= Thomas à Kempis.

=Man's philosophies are usually the "supplement= 5 =of his practice;" some ornamental logic-varnish, some outer skin of articulate intelligence, with which he strives to render his dumb instinctive doings presentable when they are done.= Carlyle.

=Man's second childhood begins when a woman gets hold of him.= J. M. Barrie.

=Man's spiritual nature is essentially one and indivisible.= Carlyle.

=Man's true, genuine estimate, / The grand criterion of his fate, / Is not--Art thou high or low? / Did thy fortune ebb or flow?= Burns.

=Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which, with all his cunning, he cannot quite bury under the finite.= Carlyle.

=Man's walk, like all walking, is a series of= 10 =falls.= Carlyle.

=Man's word is God in man.= Tennyson.

=Man's work lasts till set of sun; / Woman's work is never done.= Pr.

=Manche gingen nach Licht und stürzten in tiefere Nacht nur; sicher im Dämmerschein wandelt die Kindheit dahin=--Many have gone in quest of light and fallen into deeper darkness; whereas childhood walks on secure in the twilight. Schiller.

=Mancher wähnt sich frei, und siehet / Nicht die Bande, die ihn schnüren=--Many a one thinks himself free and sees not the bands that bind him. Rückert.

=Mandamus=--We enjoin. A writ issuing from the 15 Queen's Bench, commanding certain things to be done. L.

=Manebant vestigia morientis libertatis=--There still remained traces of expiring liberty. Tac.

=Manège=--Riding-house; horsemanship. Fr.

=Manet alta mente repostum, / Judicium Paridis spretæque injuria formæ=--Deep seated in her mind remains the judgment of Paris, and the wrong done to her slighted beauty. Virg., of Juno's vengeance.

=Mange-tout=--A spendthrift (lit. eat-all). Fr.

=Manhood begins joyfully and hopefully, not= 20 =when we have made a truce with necessity, or even surrendered to it, but only when we have reconciled ourselves to it, and learned to feel that in necessity we are free.= Carlyle.

=Manhood, when verging into age, grows thoughtful, / Full of wise saws and modern instances.= As You Like It, ii. 7.

=Manibus pedibusque=--With hands and feet; with tooth and nail.

=Manibus victoria dextris=--Victory by my right hand. M.

=Manifold is human strife, / Human passion, human pain; / Yet many blessings still are rife, / And many pleasures still remain.= Goethe.

=Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.= 25 Hawthorne.

=Mankind are unco' weak, / And little to be trusted; / If self the wavering balance shake, / It's rarely right adjusted.= Burns.

=Mankind at large alway resemble frivolous children; they are impatient of thought, and wish to be amused.= Emerson.

="Mankind follow their several bell-wethers; and if you hold a stick before the wether, so that he is forced to vault in his passage, the whole flock will do the like when the stick is withdrawn; and the thousandth sheep will be seen vaulting impetuously over air, as the first did over an otherwise impassable barrier."= Carlyle, quoting Jean Paul.

=Mankind in general agree in testifying their devotion, their gratitude, their friendship, or their love, by presenting whatever they hold dearest.= Burns.

=Mankind is a science that defies definitions.= 30 Burns.

=Mankind suffer to this hour, and will for long, as is like, because they do not know what to make of the fire of Prometheus. He dared to purloin from the gods and commit into the hands of ordinary men an element= (fire), =which, as the result has shown, only gods and their wise-hearted offspring can with safety handle.= Ed.

=Mankind will never lack obstacles to give it trouble, and the pressure of necessity to develop its powers.= Goethe.

=Manliana=--A Manlian, i.e., a harsh and severe sentence, such as that of Titus Manlius, who ordered his son to be scourged and beheaded for fighting contrary to orders.

=Männer richten nach Gründen; des Weibes Urteil ist seine Liebe; wo es nicht liebt, hat schon gerichtet das Weib=--Men judge on rational grounds; the woman's judgment is her love; where the woman does not love, she has judged. Schiller.

=Manners are not idle, but the fruit / Of loyal= 35 =nature and of noble mind.= Tennyson.

=Manners are of more importance than laws; upon them in a great measure laws depend.= Burke.

=Manners are stronger than laws.= Pr.

=Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into a usage.= Emerson.

=Manners are the root, laws only the branches.= Horace Mann.

=Manners are the shadows of virtues, the= 40 =momentary display of those qualities which our fellow-creatures love and respect.= Sydney Smith.

=Manners carry the world for the moment, character for all time.= A. B. Alcott.

=Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.= Horace Mann.

=Manners make laws, manners likewise repeal them.= Johnson.

=Manners make the man.= M.

=Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world. Like a great rough diamond, it may do very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value.= Chesterfield.

=Männliche, tüchtige Geister werden durch Erkennen eines Irrthums erhöht und gestärkt=--Sturdy manly souls are exalted and strengthened in the presence of (lit. by the knowledge of) an error. Goethe.

[Greek: Mantis d' aristos hostis eikazei kalôs]--He is the best diviner who conjectures well. Eurip.

=Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc / Parthenope. Cecini pascua, rura, duces=--Mantua bore me, Calabria carried me off, Naples holds me now. I sang of pastures, fields and heroes. Virgil's epitaph.

=Mantua, væ! miseræ nimium vicina Cremonæ=--Mantua, 5 alas! too near the unhappy Cremona. Quoted by Dean Swift on seeing a lady sweep a violin off a table with her dress.

=Manu forti=--With a strong hand. M.

=Manu scriptum=--Written by the hand.

=Manufacture is intelligible but trivial; creation is great and cannot be understood.= Carlyle.

=Manum de tabula!=--Hand off the picture! i.e., leave off touching up.

=Manum non verterim, digitum non porrexerim=--I 10 would not turn my hand or stretch out my finger. Cic.

=Manus e nubibus=--Hand from the clouds.

=Manus hæc inimica tyrannis=--This hand is hostile to tyrants. M.

=Manus manum lavat=--One hand washes the other.

=Many a cow stands in the meadow and looks wistfully at the common.= Pr.

=Many a dangerous temptation comes to us= 15 =in fine gay colours that are but skin-deep.= Henry.

=Many a discord betwixt man and man the returning seasons soften by degrees into sweetest harmony; but that which bridges over the greatest gap is Love, whose charm unites the earth with heaven above.= Goethe.

=Many a father might say, ... "I put in gold into the furnace, and there came out this calf."= Spurgeon.

=Many a fine dish has nothing on it.= Pr.

=Many a genius has been of slow growth. Oaks, that flourish for a thousand years, do not spring up into beauty like a reed.= G. H. Lewis.

=Many a good cow hath a bad calf.= Pr. 20

=Many a good drop of broth may come out of an old pot.= Pr.

=Many a good father hath but a bad son.= Pr.

=Many a hand moulded by Nature to give elegance of form to a kid glove is "stinted of its fair proportion" by grubbing toil.= S. Lover.

=Many a man is mad in certain instances, and goes through life without having perceived it.= Johnson.

=Many a man settleth more by an inch of his= 25 =will than by an ell of his thrift.= Pr.

=Many a man's vices have at first been nothing worse than good qualities run wild.= Hare.

=Many a meandering discourse one hears, in which the preacher aims at nothing, and--hits it.= Whately.

=Many a one is good because he can do no mischief.= Pr.

=Many a one labours for the day he will never live to see.= Dan. Pr.

=Many a one threatens while he quakes for= 30 =fear.= It. and Ger. Pr.

=Many a seeming farce played on the great stage of the world is in reality a tragedy, if we could but see into the heart of it.= Anon.

=Many a true word is spoken in jest.= Pr.

=Many a young damsel has been ruined by a fine copy of verses, which she would have laughed at if she had known it had been stolen from Mr. Waller.= Lady Montagu.

=Many acquaintances, but few friends.= Johnson.

=Many acres will not make a wiseacre.= Pr. 35

=Many an honest man stands in need of help that has not the face to beg it.= Pr.

=Many an irksome noise, when a long way off, is heard as music.= Thoreau.

=Many and many a heart of woman, who has not uttered a word during her whole life, has felt more truly and intensely than the poet that has sung most sweetly.= Renan.

=Many are called but few chosen.= Jesus.

=Many are idly busy. Domitian was busy, but= 40 =then it was catching flies.= Jeremy Taylor.

=Many are wise in jest but fools in earnest.= Pr.

=Many arrive at second masters / Upon their first lord's neck.= Tim. of Athens, iv. 3.

=Many beat the sack, and mean the miller.= Pr.

=Many books owe their success to the good memories of their authors and the bad memories of their readers.= Colton.

=Many by-walks, many balks; many balks,= 45 =much stumbling.= Latimer.

=Many can argue, not many converse.= _A. B. Alcott._

=Many can bear adversity, but few contempt.= Pr.

=Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.= Love's L. Lost, iv. 2.

=Many can make bricks, but cannot build.= Pr.

=Many causes that can plead well for themselves= 50 =in the courts of Westminster, have yet in the general court of the universe and free soul of man no word to utter.= Carlyle.

=Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.= Bovee.

=Many commit sin and blame Satan.= Pr.

=Many cooks spoil the broth.= Pr.

=Many cut broad thongs out of other people's leather.= Pr.

=Many deceive themselves, imagining to find= 55 =happiness in change.= Thomas à Kempis.

=Many delight more in giving of presents than in paying their debts.= Sir P. Sidney.

=Many estates are spent in the getting, / Since women, for tea, forsook spinning and knitting, / And men, for their punch, forsook hewing and splitting.= Pr.

=Many find fault without any end, / And yet do nothing at all to mend.= Pr.

=Many flowers open to the sun, but only one follows him constantly. Heart, be thou the sunflower, not only open to receive God's blessing, but constant in looking to Him.= Jean Paul.

=Many get into a dispute well that cannot get out well.= Pr.

=Many go in quest of wool, and come back shorn.= Ger. Pr.

=Many go out for clothes, and come home stript.= Pr.

=Many good purposes lie in the churchyard.= Philip Henry.

=Many hands make light work.= Pr. 5

=Many have been harmed by speech; through thinking, few or none.= Lord Vaux.

=Many have been ruined by buying good penny-worths.= Pr.

=Many have been ruined by their fortunes; many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it, the great have become little, and the little great.= Zimmermann.

=Many have come to port after a great storm.= Pr.

=Many have genius, / But, wanting art, are for= 10 =ever dumb.= Longfellow.

=Many have the talents which would make them poets if they had the genius; a few have the genius yet want the talents.= J. Sterling.

=Many have too much, but none enough.= _Dan. Pr._

=Many hope that the tree may be felled who expect to gather chips by the fall.= Fuller.

=Many indifferent things which men originally did from a motive of some sort, they continue to do from habit.= J. S. Mill.

=Many kinds of books are permissible, but= 15 =there is one kind that is not permissible, the kind that has nothing in it=--le genre ennuyeux (the kind that bore you). Carlyle.

=Many kiss the hand they wish cut off.= Pr.

=Many lick before they bite.= Pr.

=Many littles make a mickle.= Pr.

=Many are fain to praise what is right and do what is wrong.= Dan. Pr.

=Many men and women spend their lives in= 20 =unsuccessful attempts to spin the flax God sends them upon a wheel they can never use.= J. G. Holland.

=Many men attain a knowledge of what is perfect, and of their own insufficiency, and go on doing things by halves to the end of their days.= Goethe.

=Many men fancy that what they experience they also understand.= Goethe.

=Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.= Alex. Pope.

=Many men, in all ages, have triumphed over death, and led it captive; converting its physical victory into a moral victory for themselves, into a zeal and immortal consecration for all that their past life had achieved.= Carlyle.

=Many men involve themselves deeper in temptations= 25 =by being too solicitous to decline them.= Thomas à Kempis.

=Many men know how to flatter; few men know how to praise.= Wendell Phillips.

=Many men love in themselves what they hate in others.= Benzel Sternan.

=Many men spend their lives in gazing at their own shadows, and so dwindle away into shadows thereof.= Hare.

=Many of our troubles are God dragging us, and they would end if we would stand upon our feet, and go whither He would have us.= Ward Beecher.

=Many of sounding name from Jamblicus down= 30 =to Aubrey have wasted their time in devising imaginary remedies for non-existing diseases.= Scott.

=Many of the supposed increasers of knowledge have only given a new name, and often a worse, to what was well known before.= Hare.

=Many old camels carry the skins of the young ones to the market.= Pr.

=Many people are sincere without being simple. They do not wish to be taken for other than they are; and they always fear lest they should be taken for what they are not.= Fénelon.

=Many people place virtue more in regretting than in amendment.= Lichtenberg.

=Many people take no care of their money till= 35 =they have come nearly to an end of it, and others do just the same with their time.= Goethe.

=Many people think of knowledge as of money. They would like knowledge, but cannot face the perseverance and self-denial that go to the acquisition of it.= John Morley.

=Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings.= Longfellow.

=Many rendings need many mendings.= Pr.

=Many sacrifices have been made just to enjoy the feeling of vengeance, without any intention of causing an amount of injury equivalent to what one has suffered.= Schopenhauer.

=Many see more with one eye than others with= 40 =two.= Ger. Pr.

=Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.= Bible.

=Many so spend their whole term, and in ever-new expectation, ever-new disappointment, shift from enterprise to enterprise, and from side to side, till at length, as exasperated striplings of threescore and ten, they shift into their last enterprise, that of getting buried.= Carlyle.

=Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches and preferment; but they mean the riches and preferment possessed by other men.= Colton.

=Many strokes, though with a little axe, / Hew down and fell the hardest timber'd oak.= 3 Hen. VI., ii. 1.

=Many talk like philosophers and live like fools.= 45 Pr.

=Many that are first shall be last, and the last shall be first.= Jesus.

=Many there be that buy nothing with their money but repentance.= Pr.

=Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more to be spoken.= Novalis.

=Many things difficult to design prove easy of performance.= Johnson.

=Many things there are / That we may hope to= 50 =win with violence; / While others only can become our own / Through moderation and wise self-restraint. / Such is virtue; such is love.= Goethe.

=Many times death passeth with less pain than the torture of a limb; for the most vital parts are not the quickest of sense.= Bacon.

=Many ventures make a full freight.= Pr.

=Many walk into the battle and are carried out of it.= Fielding.

=Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.= Bible.

=Many words hurt more than swords.= Pr. 5

=Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.= Pr.

=Many would have been worse if their estates had been better.= Pr.

=Many young persons believe themselves natural when they are really ill-mannered and coarse.= La Roche.

=Mar not what, marred, cannot be mended.= Pr.

=March dust is a thing / Worth ransom of a= 10 =king.= Old saw.

=March winds and April showers.= Pr.

=Marchand qui perd ne peut rire=--The dealer who loses is not the one to laugh. Dandin.

=Marchandise de rencontre=--Second-hand goods. Fr.

=Marchandise qui plait est à demie vendue=--Goods which please are half sold. Fr. Pr.

=Mare apertum=--A sea open to commerce. 15

=Mare clausum=--A sea closed to commerce.

=Mare cœlo miscere=--To confound sea and sky.

=Mare ditat, rosa decorat=--The sea enriches, the rose adorns. M.

=Mare quidem commune certo est omnibus=--The sea surely is common to all. Plaut.

=Margarita e stercore=--A pearl from a dunghill. 20 Pr.

=Maria montesque polliceri cœpit=--He began to promise seas and mountains. Sall.

=Mariage de convenance=--A marriage from considerations of advantage. Fr.

=Marie ton fils quand tu voudras, mais ta fille quand tu pourras=--Marry your son when you like, your daughter when you can. Fr. Pr.

=Mark if his birth makes any difference, if to his words it adds one grain of sense.= Dryden.

=Mark what another says; for many are /= 25 =Full of themselves, and answer their own notion. / Take all into thee; then with equal care / Balance each chain of reason, like a potion.= George Herbert.

=Marmoreo Licinus tumulo jacet, at Cato parvo, / Pompeius nullo. Quis putet esse deos? / Saxa premunt Licinum, levat altum Fama Catonem, / Pompeium tituli. Credimus esse deos=--Licinus lies in a marble tomb, Cato in a humble one, Pompey in none. Who can believe that the gods exist? Ans.--Heavy lies the stone on Licinus; Fame raises Cato on high; his glories, Pompey. We believe that the gods do exist.

=Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.= Bovee.

=Marriage comes unawares, like a soot-drop.= Irish Pr.

=Marriage, indeed, may qualify the fury of his passion, but it very rarely mends a man's manners.= Congreve.

=Marriage is a desperate thing. The frogs in= 30 =Æsop were extremely wise; they had a great mind to some water, but they would not leap into the well, because they could not get out again.= Selden.

=Marriage is the best state for man in general; and every man is a worse man in proportion as he is unfit for the married state.= Johnson.

=Marriage is the bloom or blight of all men's happiness.= Byron.

=Marriage is the feast where the grace is better than the dinner.= Colton.

=Marriage is the mother of the world, and preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.= Jeremy Taylor.

=Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy= 35 =or of conquest.= George Eliot.

=Marriage with peace is the world's paradise; with strife, this life's purgatory.= Pr.

=Marriages are best of dissimilar material.= Theo. Parker.

=Marriages are made in heaven.= Pr.

=Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.= Sydney Smith.

=Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.= 40 Congreve.

=Marry above your match, and you get a master.= Pr.

=Marry and grow tame.= Sp. Pr.

=Marry for love and work for siller.= Sc. Pr.

=Marry for love, but only love that which is lovely.= Pr.

=Marrying is easy, but housekeeping is hard.= 45 Pr.

=Mars gravior sub pace latet=--A more serious war lies concealed under a show of peace. Claud.

=Martem accendere cantu=--To waken up the war-spirit by his note. Virg.

=Mas vale buen amigo que pariente primo=--A good friend is better than a near relation. Sp. Pr.

=Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled.= Emerson.

=Mässigkeit und klarer Himmel sind Apollo= 50 =und die Musen=--Moderation and a clear sky are Apollo and the Muses. Goethe.

=Masters are mostly the greatest servants in the house.= Pr.

=Masters should be sometimes blind and sometimes deaf.= Pr.

=Masters two / Will not do.= Pr.

=Mastery passes often for egotism.= Goethe.

=Match-makers often burn their fingers.= Pr. 55

=Mater artium necessitas=--Necessity is the mother of invention (lit. the arts).

=Mater familias=--The mother of a family.

=Materia medica=--Substances used in medicine; therapeutics.

=Materia prima=--The primary substance or substrate.

=Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything;= 60 =makes everything vulgar, and every truth false.= Amiel.

=Materiem, qua sis ingeniosus, habes=--You have a subject on which to show your ingenuity. Ovid.

=Materiem superabat opus=--The workmanship surpassed the material. Ovid.

=Mathematic form is eternal in the reasoning memory; living form is eternal existence.= Wm. Blake.

=Mathematics can remove no prejudices and soften no obduracy. It has no influence in sweetening the bitter strife of parties, and in the moral world generally its action is perfectly null.= Goethe.

[Greek: mathousin audô, kou mathousi lêthomai]--I speak to experts; those who are not I ignore. Æsch.

=Matinée=--A morning recital or performance. 5 Fr.

=Matrimony, the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.= Heine.

=Matter exists only spiritually, and to represent some idea and body it forth.= Carlyle.

=Matter, were it never so despicable, is spirit, the manifestation of spirit: were it never so honourable, can it be more?= Carlyle.

=Mature fieri senem, si diu velis esse senex=--You must become an old man soon if you would be an old man long. Pr. in Cic.

=Maulesel treiben viel Parlaren / Dass ihre= 10 =Voreltern Pferde waren=--Mules boast much that their ancestors were horses. Ger. Pr.

=Mauvaise honte=--False shame. Fr.

=Mauvaise langue=--A slanderous tongue. Fr.

=Mauvais pas=--A scrape; a difficulty. Fr.

=Mauvais sujet=--A bad or worthless fellow. Fr.

=Mauvais ton=--Bad manners. Fr. 15

=Maxim or aphorism, let us remember that this wisdom of life is the true salt of literature; that those books are most nourishing which are most richly stored with it, and that it is one of the main objects ... which men ought to seek in the reading of books.= John Morley.

=Maxima debetur pueris reverentia=--The greatest respect is due to youth (lit. our boys). Juv.

=Maxima illecebra est peccandi impunitatis spes=--The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity. Cic.

=Maxima quæque domus servis est plena superbis=--Every great house is full of haughty servants. Juv.

=Maximas virtutes jacere omnes necesse est,= 20 =voluptate dominante=--Where pleasure prevails, all the greatest virtues must lie dormant. Cic.

=Maxims are to the intellect what laws are to actions; they do not enlighten, but they guide and direct.= Joubert.

=Maximum remedium iræ dilatio est!=--Deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger. Seneca.

=Maximus in minimis=--Very great in very little things.

=Maximus novator tempus=--Time is the greatest innovator. Pr.

="May-be" is very well, but "must" is the= 25 =master.= Pr.

=May cauld ne'er catch you but a hap, / Nor hunger but in plenty's lap.= Burns.

=May never wicked fortune touzle= (tease) =him! / May never wicked man bamboozle him! / Until a pow as auld's Methusalem / He canty= (cheerily) =claw. / Then to the blessed New Jerusalem / Fleet wing awa'!= Burns.

=May the idea of pureness, extending itself even to the very morsel which I take into my mouth, become ever dearer and more luminous within me.= Goethe.

=Me judice=--In my opinion or judgment.

=Me justum esse gratis oportet=--It is my duty 30 to show justice without recompense. Sen.

[Greek: Mê kaka kerdainein; kaka kerdea is' atêsin]--Do not make evil gains; evil gains are equal to losses. Hesiod.

[Greek: Mê kinei Kamarinan]--Don't stir Lake Camarina (otherwise pestilence).

=Me miseram, quod amor non est medicabilis herbis!=--Oh, unhappy me, that there should be no herbs to cure love!

=Me nemo ministro / Fur erit=--No one shall play the thief with my help. Juv.

=Me non solum piget stultitiæ meæ, sed etiam= 35 =pudet=--I am not only annoyed at my folly, I am ashamed of it. L.

=Me, poor man, my library was dukedom large enough.= Tempest, i. 1.

=Me (they will kill) when they are mad, but you when they recover their reason.= Phocion to Demosthenes, who had threatened him with death at the hands of his fellow-citizens.

=Mea virtute me involvo=--I wrap myself in my virtue. Hor.

=Meal is finer than grain; women are finer than men.= Gael. Pr.

=Meals and matins minish never.= Pr. 40

=Mean spirits under disappointment, like small beer in a thunderstorm, always turn sour.= Randolph.

=Measure men around the heart.= Pr.

=Measure not by a scale of perfection the meagre product of reality.= Schiller.

=Measure three times before you cut once.= Pr.

=Measure your cloth ten times; you can cut= 45 =it but once.= Russ. Pr.

=Measures, not men, have always been my mark.= Goldsmith.

=Meat and matins hinder no man's journey.= Pr.

=Meat is devoured by the birds in the air, by the beasts in the fields, and by the fishes in the waters; so, in every situation, there is plenty.= Hitopadesa.

=Meat is more than its carving, and truth is more than oratory.= Pr.

=Mecum facile redeo in gratiam=--I easily recover 50 my good-will myself. Phædr.

[Greek: mêden agan]--No excess. Anon.

[Greek: Mêdena kakêgoreito mêdeis]--Let nobody speak mischief of anybody. Plato.

=Medici, causa morbi inventa, curationem inventam putant=--Physicians, when they have found out the cause of a disease, consider they have found out the cure. Cic.

=Medicines are not meant to feed on.= Pr.

=Medio de fonte leporam / Surgit amari aliquid= 55 =quod in ipsis floribus angat=--From the midst of the very fountain of delight something bitter arises to vex us even amid the flowers themselves. Lucret.

=Medio tutissimus ibis=--You will go most safely in the middle. Ovid.

=Médiocre et rampant, et l'on arrive à tout=--Be second-rate and fawning, and you may attain to anything. Beaumarchais.

=Mediocria firma=--The middle station is the most secure. M.

=Mediocribus esse poetis / Non Di, non homines, non concessere columnæ=--Mediocrity in poets is condemned by gods and men, and booksellers too. Hor.

=Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.= I. Disraeli.

=Mediocrity is not allowed to poets either by gods or men.= Hor.

=Mediocrity of enjoyment only is allowed to= 5 =man.= Blair.

=Meditation has taught all men in all ages that this world is after all but a show--a phenomenon or appearance, no real thing.= Carlyle.

=Meditation is a busy search in the storehouse of phantasy for some ideas of matters to be cast in the moulds of resolution into some forms of words and action; in which search I find this is the best conclusion, that to meditate on the best is the best of meditations, and a resolution to make a good end is a good end of my resolutions.= A. Warwick.

=Meditation is the life of the soul; action, the soul of meditation; honour, the reward of action.= Quarles.

=Meditation is the soul's perspective glass, whereby in her long removes she discerneth God as if he were nearer at hand.= Feltham.

=Medium tenuere beati!=--Happy they who 10 steadily pursue a middle course.

=Meekness is not mere white-facedness, a mere contemplative virtue; it is maintaining peace and patience in the midst of pelting provocations.= Ward Beecher.

=Meekness is not weakness.= Pr.

=Meekness is the bridle of anger.= Saying.

=Meekness is the cherish'd bent / Of all the truly great and all the innocent.= Wordsworth.

[Greek: Mega biblion mega kakon]--A great book is a 15 great evil. Callimachus.

=Meglio amici da lontano che nemici d'appresso=--Better be friends at a distance than enemies near each other. It. Pr.

=Meglio solo che mal accompagnato=--Better alone than in bad company. It. Pr.

=Meglio tardi che mai=--Better late than never. It. Pr.

=Mehr Leute beten die aufgehende, als die untergehende Sonne an=--More people pay homage to the rising than to the setting sun. Jean Paul.

=Mehr Licht!=--More light! Goethe's last words. (?) 20

=Meikle crack fills nae sack.= Sc. Pr.

=Mein einz'ger Wunsch ist meiner Wünsche Ruhe=--My only wish is that my wishes should be at rest. Rückert.

=Mein erst Gesetz ist, in der Welt / Die Frager zu vermeiden=--A first rule of mine is to avoid the inquiring class of people. Goethe.

=Mein Herz gleicht ganz dem Meere, / Hat Sturm und Ebb' und Flut, / Und manche schöne Perle / In seiner Tiefe ruht=--My heart altogether resembles the sea; it has its storms, its ebbs and floods, and far down in its quiet depths rests many a shining pearl. Heine.

=Mein Leben ist für Gold nicht feil=--My life is 25 not to be bartered away for gold. Bürger.

=Mein Leipzig lob' ich mir! / Es ist klein Paris, und bildet seine Leute=--Leipzig for me! It is quite a little Paris, and its people acquire an easy finished air (lit. it fashions its people). Goethe.

=Mein Pathos brächte dich gewiss zum Lachen, / Hätt'st du dir nicht das Lachen abgewöhnt=--My pathos would surely provoke you to mirth, if you had not long ago forborne to smile. Mephisto to the Lord, in Goethe's "Faust."

=Mein Ruh' ist hin, / Mein Herz ist schwer; / Ich finde sie nimmer / Und nimmermehr=--My peace is gone; my heart is heavy; I shall find it (peace) never and nevermore. Gretchen in Goethe's "Faust."

=Mein Sohn, nichts in der Welt ist unbedeutend. / Das erste aber und Hauptsächlichste / Bei allem ird'schen Ding ist Ort und Stunde=--My son, nothing in this world is without significance, but the first and most essential matter in every earthly thing is the place where and the hour when. Schiller.

=Mein Wille ist rein, das weitere gebe ich der= 30 =Vorsehung anheim!=--My intention is pure; the rest I leave in the hands of Providence. Frederick William II. of Prussia.

=Meine Herren, did you never hear of the man that vilified the sun because it would not light his cigar?= Carlyle's challenge to certain canting pietistic depreciators of Goethe.

=Meine Zeit in Unruhe, meine Hoffnung in Gott!=--The time I live in is a time of turmoil; my hope is in God. Frederick William III. of Prussia.

=Meiner Idee nach ist Energie die erste und einzige Tugend des Menschen=--In my regard energy is the first and only virtue of man. W. v. Humboldt.

=Meines Lebens Wunsch ist stiller Friede=--The wish of my life is a tranquil peace. Seume.

=Mel in ore, verba lactis, / Fel in corde, fraus in= 35 =factis=--Honey in his mouth, words of milk; gall in his heart, deceit in his deeds.

=Melancholy advanceth men's conceits more than any humour whatever.= Burton.

=Melancholy attends on the best joys of a merely ideal life.= Margaret Fuller.

=Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.= _Victor Hugo._

=Melancholy spreads itself betwixt heaven and earth, like envy between man and man, and is an everlasting mist.= Byron.

[Greek: Meletê to pan]--Practice is everything. Periander. 40

=Melior est conditio possidentis=--The condition of the party in possession, or the defendant, is the better of the two. L.

=Melior tutiorque est certa pax, quam sperata victoria=--A certain peace is better and safer than an expected victory. L.

=Meliora sunt ea quæ natura, quam quæ arte perfecta sunt=--The things which are perfect by nature are better than those which are perfect by art. Cic.

=Meliores priores=--The better first. L.

=Melioribus auspiciis=--Under more favourable 45 auspices.

=Melius est pati semel, quam cavere semper=--It is better to suffer once than to be in perpetual apprehension. Jul. Cæs.

=Melius est peccata cavere quam mortem fugere=--It is better to avoid sin than to fly from death. Thomas à Kempis.

=Melius, pejus, prosit, obsit, nil vident nisi quod libuerit=--Better or worse, for good or for harm, they see nothing but what they please. Ter.

=Mellitum venenum, blanda oratio=--A flattering speech is honied poison. Pr.

=Membra reformidant mollem quoque saucia tactum; / Vanaque sollicitis incutit umbra metum=--The wounded limb shrinks from even a gentle touch, and the unsubstantial shadow strikes the timid with alarm. Ovid.

=Même quand l'oiseau marche, on sent qu'il a des ailes=--Even when a bird walks, we may see that it has wings. Fr. Pr.

=Meminerunt omnia amantes=--Lovers remember 5 everything. Ovid.

=Memini etiam quæ nolo: oblivisci non possum quæ volo=--I remember what I would not, and I cannot forget what I would. Themistocles.

=Memor et fidelis=--Mindful and faithful. M.

=Memorabilia=--Things to be remembered or recorded.

=Memorem immemorem facit, qui monet quod memor meminit=--He who reminds a man with a good memory of what he remembers, makes him forget. Plaut.

=Memoria in æterna=--In eternal remembrance. 10 M.

=Memoria minuitur, nisi eam exerceas=--Your power of recollection will wax feeble unless you exercise it. Cic.

=Memoriter=--By rote.

=Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.= Rivarol.

=Memory, and thou, Forgetfulness, not yet / Your powers in happy harmony I find; / One oft recalls what I would fain forget, / And one blots out what I would bear in mind.= Macedonius.

=Memory is a Muse in herself; or rather the= 15 =mother of the Muses.= (?)

=Memory is like a purse: if it be over-full, that it cannot be shut, all will drop out of it.= Fuller.

=Memory is not so brilliant as hope, but it is more beautiful, and a thousand times more true.= G. D. Prentice.

=Memory is the cabinet of imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and the council-chamber of thought.= Basile.

=Memory is the conservative faculty.= _Sir Wm. Hamilton._

=Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous= 20 =ally of invention.= Colton.

=Memory is the golden thread linking all the mental gifts and excellencies together.= E. P. Hood.

=Memory= (Erinnerung) =is the only paradise out of which we cannot be driven.= Jean Paul.

=Memory is the primary and fundamental power, without which there could be no other intellectual operation.= Johnson.

=Memory is the scribe of the soul.= Arist.

=Memory, of all things good remind us still: /= 25 =Forgetfulness, obliterate all that's ill.= Macedonius.

=Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.= Lactantius.

=Memory, the warder of the brain.= Macb., i. 7.

=Men and communities in this world are often in the position of Arctic explorers, who are making great speed in a given direction, while the ice-floe beneath them is making greater speed in the opposite.= John Burroughs.

=Men and cucumbers are worth nothing as soon as they are ripe.= Jean Paul.

=Men and pyramids are not made to stand on= 30 =their head.= G. K. Pfeffel.

=Men and women who "grill" over the petty annoyances incident to existence, and inseparable from it, go to ruin like a careworn cat.= C. J. Dunphie.

=Men apt to promise are apt to forget.= Pr.

=Men are April when they woo, December when they wed.= As You Like It, iv. 1.

=Men are as the time is.= Lear, v. 3.

=Men are at best only stewards, and they are= 35 =very select men indeed who are elected of heaven to this honour. The most want the necessary discrimination, and are in their place only when, like Athenian maidens, "bearers of the basket."= Ed.

=Men are but children of a larger growth; / Our appetites are apt to change as theirs, / And full as craving too, and full as vain.= Dryden.

=Men are content to be brushed like flies from the path of a great person, so that justice shall be done by him to that common nature which it is the dearest desire of all to see enlarged and glorified.= Emerson.

=Men are contented to be laughed at for their wit, but not for their folly.= Swift.

=Men are enlisted for the labour that kills; let them be enlisted for the labour that feeds; and let the captains of the latter be held as much gentlemen as the captains of the former.= Ruskin.

=Men are eternally divided into the two classes= 40 =of poet (or believer, maker, and praiser), and dunce (or unbeliever, unmaker, and dispraiser).= Ruskin.

=Men are everything, measures are comparatively nothing.= Canning.

=Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.= W. Penn.

=Men are happy in proportion as their range of vision, their sphere of action, and their points of contact with the world are restricted and circumscribed.= Schopenhauer.

=Men are impatient and for precipitating things; but the Author of Nature appears deliberate throughout his operations, accomplishing his natural ends by slow successive steps.= Bishop Butler.

=Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and= 45 =so cruel, that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy.= Voltaire.

=Men are led by trifles.= Napoleon.

=Men are less afraid of injuring one who awakens love than one who inspires fear.= Machiavelli.

=Men are like flies--for men are insects too, / Little in mind, howe'er our bodies run!--/ We're all in sects: in sects that hate each other, / And deem it love of God to hate one's brother.= Edward Irwin.

=Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.= Whately.

=Men are made by nature unequal: it is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.= Froude.

=Men are men; the best sometimes forget.= Othello, ii. 3.

=Men are more inclined to ask curious questions than to obtain necessary instruction.= Pasquier Quesnel.

=Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.= Pliny.

=Men are mostly so slow, their thoughts overrun= 5 ='em, an' they can only catch 'em by the tail.= George Eliot.

=Men are much in disposition and feelings according to the nature of the country which they inhabit.= Polybius.

=Men are much more prone (the greater is the pity) both to speak and believe ill than well of their neighbours.= Thomas à Kempis.

=Men are never so easily deceived as while they are endeavouring to deceive others.= La Roche.

=Men are never wise but returning from law.= Pr.

=Men are not always what they seem to be.= 10 Lessing.

=Men are not influenced by things, but by their thoughts about things.= Epictetus.

=Men are not leaning willows, but can and must detach themselves.= Emerson.

=Men are not put into this world to be everlastingly fiddled on by the fingers of joy.= Ward Beecher.

=Men are not so ungrateful as they are said to be. If they are often complained of, it generally happens that the benefactor claims more than he has given.= Napoleon.

=Men are not to be measured by inches.= Pr. 15

=Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.= Walpole.

=Men are oftener treacherous through weakness than design.= La Roche.

=Men are readier to forgive calumny than admonition= (Ermahnung). Jean Paul.

=Men are respectable only as they respect.= Emerson.

=Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and= 20 =good sense at the same time.= Livy.

=Men are seldom more innocently employed than when they are making money.= Johnson.

=Men are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake himself what he sees done by others, whether he has aptitude for it or not.= Goethe.

=Men are solitary among each other; no one will help his neighbour; each has even to assume a defensive attitude lest his neighbour should hinder him.= Carlyle.

=Men are tatooed with their special beliefs like so many South Sea islanders; but a real human heart, with divine love in it, beats with the same glow under all the patterns of all earth's thousand tribes.= Holmes.

=Men are the sport of circumstances, when= 25 =the circumstances seem the sport of men.= Byron.

=Men are unwiser than children; they do not know the hand that feeds them.= Carlyle.

=Men are very generous with that which costs them nothing.= Pr.

=Men are we, and must grieve when even the shade / Of that which once was great is passed away.= Wordsworth.

=Men are what their mothers made them.= Emerson.

=Men are wiser than they know.= Emerson. 30

=Men at most differ as heaven and earth, / But women, worst and best, as heaven and hell.= Tennyson.

=Men at some time are masters of their fate.= Jul. Cæs., i. 2.

=Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanities.= La Bruyère.

=Men can be estimated by those who know them not, only as they are represented by those who know them.= Johnson.

=Men / Can counsel, and speak comfort to that= 35 =grief / Which they themselves not feel; but, tasting it, / Their counsel turns to passion, which before / Would give preceptial medicine to rage, / Fetter strong madness in a silken thread, / Charm ache with air and agony with words.= Much Ado, v. 1.

=Men can make an idol of the Bible.= _Ward Beecher._

=Men can see through a barn-door, they can. Perhaps that's the reason they can see so little o' this side on't.= George Eliot.

=Men cannot be well educated without the Bible.= Dr. Nott.

=Men cannot benefit those that are with them as they can benefit those that come after them; and of all the pulpits from which the human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.= Ruskin.

=Men cannot live by lending money to each= 40 =other.= Ruskin.

=Men cannot live isolated; we are all bound together, for mutual good or else for mutual misery, as living nerves in the same body. No highest man can disunite himself from any lowest.= Carlyle.

=Men carry the head erect indeed, yet how mean and cringing are the thoughts within.= Heine.

=Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations.= Emerson.

=Men chew not when they have no bread.= Pr.

=Men commonly think according to their inclinations,= 45 =speak according to their learning and imbibed opinions, but generally act according to custom.= Bacon.

=Men complain of not finding a place of repose. They are in the wrong; they have it for seeking. What they indeed should complain of is, that the heart is an enemy to that very repose they seek.= Goldsmith.

=Men contemplate distinctions because they are stupefied with ignorance= (viz., of the substantial identity of things). Eastern saying, quoted by Emerson.

=Men deal with life as children with their play, / Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.= Cowper.

=Men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies.= Goethe.

=Men descend to meet.= Emerson.

=Men do not make their homes unhappy because they have genius, but because they have not enough genius.= Wordsworth.

=Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them: they don't live by trade but by work.= Ruskin.

=Men dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.= Pope.

=Men, elevated above all states, are now the= 5 =educators of states--dead men, for instance, like Plato.= Jean Paul.

=Men err from selfishness, women because they are weak.= Mme. de Staël.

=Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark.= Bacon.

=Men fear only him who does not know them, and he who shuns them will soon misjudge them.= Goethe.

=Men feed themselves rather upon illusion than upon truth.= Amiel.

=Men find it more easy to flatter than to praise.= 10 Jean Paul.

=Men have been wise in very different modes; but they have always laughed the same way.= Johnson.

=Men have but too much cause to secure themselves from men.= Goethe.

=Men have come to speak of the revelation as somewhat long ago given and done, as if God were dead.= Emerson.

=Men have many faults; / Poor women have but two; / There's nothing good they say, / And nothing right they do.= Anon.

=Men have their metal, as of gold and silver.= 15 Koran.

=Men in all ways are better than they seem.= Emerson.

=Men in general experience a great joy in colour. The eye needs it as much as it does light. Let any one recall the refreshing sensation one experiences when on a gloomy day the sun shines out on a particular spot on the landscape, and makes the colours of it visible. That healing powers were ascribed to coloured precious stones may have arisen out of the deep feeling of this inexpressible pleasure.= Goethe.

=Men in great place are thrice servants--servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.= Bacon.

=Men, in spite of all their failings, best deserve our affections of all that exists.= Goethe.

=Men learn behaviour, as they take diseases,= 20 =one of another.= Emerson.

=Men like advising the women better than doing right themselves.= Spurgeon.

=Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.= Jean Paul.

=Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.= Bovee.

=Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay.= Holmes.

=Men look to what people think of them;= 25 =women to what they say.= Hippel.

=Men love at first, and most warmly; women love last and longest. This is natural enough, for nature makes women to be won, and men to win.= G. W. Curtis.

=Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.= Byron.

=Men love things best; women love persons best.= Jean Paul.

=Men love to nurse their cares, and seem as uneasy without some fret, as an old friar would be without his hair-girdle.= Ward Beecher.

=Men love us, or they need our love.= Keble. 30

=Men make the best friends.= La Bruyère.

=Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.= Young.

=Men may rise on stepping-stones / Of their dead selves to higher things.= Tennyson.

=Men might live quiet and easy enough, if they would be careful not to give themselves trouble, and forbear meddling with what other people do and say, in which they are in no way concerned.= Thomas à Kempis.

=Men more easily renounce their interests than= 35 =their tastes.= La Roche.

=Men must be taught as though you taught them not.= Pope.

=Men must endure / Their going hence, even as their coming hither: / Ripeness is all.= Lear, v. 2.

=Men must have righteous principles in the first place, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.= Luther.

=Men must leave the ingle-nook, / And for a larger wisdom brook / Experience of a harder law, / And learn humility and awe.= Dr. Walter Smith.

=Men must work, and women must weep, /= 40 =Though storms be sudden, and waters deep, / And the harbour bar be moaning.= _Charles Kingsley._

=Men no longer wholly believe; in this age of blindness and scientific pride, no one is any longer seen bowing before his god on both his knees.= Victor Hugo.

=Men no sooner find their appetites unanswered than they complain the times are injurious.= Raleigh.

=Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.= Bacon.

=Men of courage, men of sense, and men of letters are frequent; but a true gentleman is what one seldom sees.= Steele.

=Men of few words are the best men.= Henry 45 V., iii. 2.

=Men of genius are dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to the earth, is only a stone.= Longfellow.

=Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.= Coleridge.

=Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labour in it, but they labour in it because they excel.= Hazlitt.

=Men of genius have acuter feelings than common men; they are like the wind-harp, which answers to the breath that touches it, now low and sweet, now rising into wild swell or angry scream, as the strings are swept by some passing gust.= Froude.

=Men of God have always, from time to time, walked among men, and made their commission felt in the heart and soul of the commonest hearer.= Emerson.

=Men of great gifts you will easily find, but symmetrical men never.= Emerson.

=Men of great intellect live in the world without really belonging to it.= Schiller.

=Men of great learning or genius are too full to be exact, and therefore choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.= Spectator.

=Men of great parts are often unfortunate in= 5 =the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of their imagination.= Swift.

=Men of humour are always in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely so, although a man of genius may, amongst other gifts, possess wit, as Shakespeare.= Coleridge.

=Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law.= Milton.

=Men of science should leave controversy to the little world below them.= Goldsmith.

=Men of sense esteem wealth to be the assimilation of nature to themselves, the converting of the sap and juices of the planet to the incarnation and nutriment of their design.= Emerson.

=Men of sense often learn from their enemies.= 10 Aristophanes.

=Men of the first quality learn nothing, and become wise; men of the second rank become sensible= (klug), =and learn long; men of the third sort remain stupid, and learn words.= Rückert.

=Men of the greatest abilities are most fired with ambition, and, on the contrary, mean and narrow minds are the least actuated by it.= Addison.

=Men of true wisdom and goodness are contented to take persons and things as they are, without complaining of their imperfections or attempting to amend them.= Fielding.

=Men of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their powers.= Goethe.

=Men only associate in parties by sacrificing= 15 =their opinions, or by having none worth sacrificing; and the effect of party government is always to develop hostilities and hypocrisies, and to extinguish ideas.= Ruskin.

=Men only rightly know themselves as far as they have experimented on things.= Emerson.

=Men ought to find the difference between saltness and bitterness.= Bacon.

=Men possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.= Froude.

=Men possessing small souls are generally the authors of great evils.= Goethe.

=Men prize the thing ungained more than it is.= 20 Troil. and Cress., i. 2.

=Men rate the virtues of the heart at almost nothing, while they idolise endowments of body and intellect.= La Bruyère.

=Men rattle their chains to show that they are free.= Pr.

=Men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places.= Emerson.

=Men say their pinnacles point to heaven. Why, so does every tree that buds, and every bird that rises as it sings. Men say their aisles are good for worship. Why, so is every mountain glen and rough seashore. But this they have of distinct and indisputable glory,--that their mighty walls were never raised, and never shall be, but by men who love and aid each other in their weakness.= Ruskin.

=Men seek within the short span of life to= 25 =satisfy a thousand desires, each of which alone is insatiable.= Goldsmith.

=Men seem to be led by their noses, but in reality it is by their ears.= Carlyle.

=Men should be prized, not for their exemption from fault, but the size of those virtues they are possessed of.= Goldsmith.

=Men should be what they seem; / Or those that be not, would they might seem none.= Othello, iii. 3.

=Men should keep their eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.= Mme. Scudéri.

=Men should not be told of the faults which= 30 =they have mended.= Johnson.

=Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.= Goethe.

=Men, some to business, some to pleasure take; / But every woman is at heart a rake; / Men, some to quiet, some to public strife; / But every lady would be queen for life.= Pope.

=Men speak but little when vanity does not induce them to speak.= La Roche.

=Men spend their lives in the service of their passions instead of employing their passions in the service of their lives.= Steele.

=Men still are what they always have been, a= 35 =medley= (Gemisch) =of strength and weakness, often obedient to reason, and oftener to passion; so have they come down the stream of time for six thousand years, and mostly in such shape as the moment has fashioned them.= Seume.

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

=Men that hazard all / Do it in hope of fair advantages.= Mer. of Ven., ii. 7.

=Men that make / Envy and crooked malice nourishment / Dare bite the best.= Hen. VIII., v. 3.

=Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.= Hare.

=Men think they are quarrelling with one= 40 =another, and both sides feel that they are in the wrong.= Goethe.

=Men think to mend their condition by a change of circumstances. They might as well hope to escape their shadows.= Froude, Carlyle.

=Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.= Sterne.

=Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is summary and effectual.= Seneca.

=Men understand not what is among their hands; as calmness is the characteristic of strength, so the weightiest causes may be the most silent.= Carlyle.

=Men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble, and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.= Sir T. More.

=Men, who are knaves individually, are in the mass very honourable people.= Montesquieu.

=Men who begin by losing their independence will end by losing their energy.= Buckle.

=Men who, being always bred in affluence,= 5 =see the world only on one side, are surely improper judges of human nature.= Goldsmith.

=Men who earn nothing but compliments are not likely to be very diligent in so unprofitable a service.= Spurgeon.

=Men who form their judgment upon sense often err.= Thomas à Kempis.

=Men who know the same things are not long the best company for each other.= Emerson.

=Men who make money rarely saunter; men who save money rarely swagger.= Bulwer Lytton.

=Men who their duties know, / But know their= 10 =rights, and, knowing, dare maintain.= _Sir W. Jones._

=Men will always act according to their passions. Therefore the best government is that which inspires the nobler passions and destroys the meaner.= Jacobi.

=Men will blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.= Pr.

=Men will die for an opinion as soon as for anything else.= Hazlitt.

=Men will face powder and steel, because they cannot face public opinion.= Chapin.

=Men will forget what we suffer, and not what= 15 =we do.= Tennyson.

=Men will marry a fool that sings, sooner than one that has learned to scoff.= Dr. Walter Smith.

=Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it--anything but live for it.= Colton.

=Men work themselves into atheistical judgments by atheistical practice.= Whichcote.

=Men would be angels, angels would be gods.= Pope.

=Men would not live long in society, were they= 20 =not the mutual dupes of each other.= _La Roche._

=Men's actions are not to be judged of at first sight.= Pr.

=Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.= Emerson.

=Men's best successes come after their disappointments.= Ward Beecher.

=Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues / We write in water.= Henry VIII., iv. 2.

=Men's hearts ought not to be set against one= 25 =another, but set with one another, and all against the evil thing only.= Carlyle.

=Men's ignorance makes the priest's pot boil.= Fr. Pr.

=Men's muscles move better when their souls are making merry music.= George Eliot.

=Men's natures wrangle with inferior things, / Though great ones are their object.= Othello, iii. 4.

=Men's prosperity is in their own hands, and no forms of government are, in themselves, of the least use.= Ruskin.

=Men's souls 'twixt sorrow and love are cast.= 30 O. M. Brown.

=Men's thoughts and opinions are, in a great degree, vassals of him who invents a new phrase or reapplies an old epithet.= Lowell.

=Men's thoughts are much according to their inclinations; their discourses and speeches, according to their learning and infused opinions.= Bacon.

=Men's vows are women's traitors.= Cymbeline, iii. 4.

=Menace-moi de vivre et non pas de mourir=--Threaten me with life and not with death. Fr.

=Ménage=--Housekeeping. Fr. 35

=Mendacem memorem esse oportet=--A liar ought to have a good memory. Quinct.

=Mendaces, ebriosi, verbosi=--Liars, drunkards, and wordy people.

=Mendaci homini, ne verum quidem dicenti credere solemus=--We give no credit to a liar, even when he speaks the truth. Cic.

=Mendici, mimi, balatrones, et hoc genus omne=--Beggars, actors in farces, buffoons, and all that sort of people. Hor.

=Mendico ne parentes quidem amici sunt=--To 40 a beggar not even his own parents show affection. Pr.

=Mendings are honourable, rags are abominable.= Pr.

=Mens æqua rebus in arduis=--Equanimity in arduous enterprises. M.

=Mens agitat molem=--A mind moves or informs the mass. Virg.

=Mens bona regnum possidet=--A good mind possesses a kingdom. Pr.

=Mens conscia recti=--A mind conscious of rectitude. 45

=Mens cujusque est quisque=--The mind of the man is the man. M.

=Mens immota manet; lachrymæ volvuntur inanes=--His resolve remains unshaken; tears are shed in vain. Virg.

=Mens interrita lethi=--A mind undaunted by death. Ovid.

=Mens invicta manet=--The mind remains unsubdued.

=Mens peccat, non corpus, et unde consilium= 50 =abfuit culpa abest=--It is the mind that sins, not the body, and where there was no intention there is no criminality. Liv.

=Mens sana in corpore sano=--A sound mind in a sound body. Juv.

=Mens sine pondere ludit=--The mind is playful when unburdened.

=Mensa et toro=--From bed and board. L.

=Menschenkenntniss ist Unglaube an Tugend und Redlichkeit=--A knowledge of mankind tends to induce a want of faith in virtue and probity. C. J. Weber.

=Menschlich ist es bloss zu strafen, / Aber= 55 =göttlich zu verzeihn=--To punish is merely human, but to forgive is divine. P. von Winter.

=Mensque pati durum sustinet ægra nihil=--A mind diseased cannot bear anything harsh. Ovid.

=Mensuraque juris / Vis erat=--And might was the measure of right. Lucan.

=Mental courage, infinitely rarer than valour, presupposes the most eminent qualities.= Diderot.

=Mental pleasures never cloy: unlike those of the body, they are increased by repetition, approved of by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment.= Colton.

=Mental prayer= (mentale Gebet), =which includes and excludes all religions, and only in a few God-favoured men permeates the whole course of life, develops itself in most men as only a blazing, beatific feeling of the moment, immediately after the vanishing of which the man, thrown in upon himself unsatisfied and unoccupied, lapses back into the most utter and absolute weariness.= Goethe.

=Mentally and bodily endowed men are the= 5 =most modest, while, on the other hand, all who have some peculiar mental defect think a great deal more of themselves.= Goethe.

=Mentis gratissimus error=--A most delightful reverie of the mind. Hor.

=Mentis penetralia=--The inmost recesses of the mind; the secrets of the heart.

=Menu=--Bill of fare. Fr.

=Menus plaisirs=--Pocket-money. Fr.

=Meo sum pauper in ære=--I am poor, but I am 10 not in debt. Hor.

=Merces virtutis laus est=--Applause is the reward of virtue. Pr.

=Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.= Bible.

=Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.= Rom. and Jul., iii. 1.

=Mercy is above this sceptred sway, / It is enthronéd in the hearts of kings, / It is an attribute to God himself; / And earthly power doth then show likest God's / When mercy seasons justice.= Mer. of Ven., iv. 1.

=Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so; / Pardon= 15 =is still the nurse of second woe.= _Meas. for Meas._, ii. 1.

=Mercy, misericordia, does not in the least mean forgiveness of sins, but pity of sorrows.= Ruskin.

=Mercy to him that shows it is the rule.= Cowper.

=Mercy turns her back to the unmerciful.= Quarles.

=Mercy's gate opens to those who knock.= Saying.

=Mere bashfulness without merit is awkward,= 20 =and merit without modesty insolent; but modest merit has a double claim to acceptance.= T. Hughes.

=Mere family never made a man great. Thought and deed, not pedigree, are the passports to enduring fame.= Skobeleff.

=Mere madness, to live like a wretch and die rich.= Burton.

=Mere pleasure ought not to be the prime motive of action.= Johnson.

=Mere sensibility is not true taste, but sensibility to real excellence is.= Hazlitt.

=Mere wishes are bony fishes.= Pr. 25

=Merit and good works is the end of man's motion, and conscience of the same is the accomplishment of man's rest.= Bacon.

=Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded.= Napoleon.

=Merit in appearance is oftener rewarded than merit itself.= La Roche.

=Merit is never so conspicuous as when coupled with an obscure origin, just as the moon never appears so lustrous as when it emerges from a cloud.= Bovee.

=Merit lives from man to man.= Tennyson. 30

=Merry be the first, / And merry be the last, / And merry be the first of August.= Pr.

=Merry larks are ploughmen's clocks.= _Love's L. Lost_, v. 2.

=Merx ultronea putret=--Proffered service stinks (i.e. is despised). Pr.

=Mésalliance=--A marriage with one of inferior rank. Pr.

=Messe tenus propria vive=--Live within your 35 means (lit. harvest).

[Greek: Metabolê pantôn glyky]--There is always a pleasure in variety. Euripides.

=Metaphysicians and philosophers are, on the whole, the greatest troubles the world has got to deal with.... Busy metaphysicians are always entangling good and active people, and weaving cobwebs among the finest wheels of the world's business, and are, as much as possible, by all prudent persons, to be brushed out of their way.= Ruskin.

=Metaphysics, with which physics cannot dispense, is that wisdom of thought which was before all physics, lives with it, and will endure after it.= Goethe.

[Greek: Mête dikên dikasês, prin amphoin mythou akousês]--Don't pronounce sentence till you have heard the story of both parties. Pr.

=Method is the very hinge of business.= Hannah 40 More.

=Method will teach you to win time.= Goethe.

=Methods are the masters of masters.= Talleyrand.

=Methought I heard a voice cry, Sleep no more!= Macb., ii. 2.

=Métier d'auteur, métier d'oseur=--The profession of author is a daring profession. Fr.

=Metiri se quemque suo modulo ac pede verum= 45 =est=--It is meet that every man should measure himself by his own rule and standard. Hor.

=Mettre les pieds dans le plat=--To put one's foot in it. Fr. Pr.

=Metuenda corolla draconis=--The dragon's crest is to be feared.

=Meum et tuum=--Mine and thine.

=Meus mihi, suus cuique est carus=--Mine is dear to me, and dear is his own to every man. Plaut.

=Mezzo termine=--A middle course. It. 50

=Micat inter omnes=--It shines amongst all, i.e., it outshines all. Hor.

=Mich dräng'st den Grundtext aufzuschlagen, / Mit redlichem Gefühl einmal / Das heilige Original / In mein geliebtes Deutsch zu übertragen=--I must turn up the primitive text just to translate the sacred original with honest feeling into my dear German tongue. Faust, in Goethe.

=Mich hat mein Glaube nicht betrogen!=--My faith has not betrayed me. Schiller.

=Mich plagen keine Scrupel noch Zweifel, / Fürchte mich weder vor Hölle noch Teufel=--I am troubled by no scruples or doubts; I fear neither hell nor devil. Faust, in Goethe.

=Mich schuf aus gröberm Stoffe die Natur, / Und zu der Erde zieht mich die Begierde=--Out of coarser clay has Nature created me, and I am drawn by lust to the dust. Schiller.

=Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, / Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home; / A charm from the skies seems to hallow us there, / Which, sought through the world, is ne'er met with elsewhere.= J. H. Payne.

=Midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, / To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, / And roam along, the world's tired denizen, / With none who bless us, none whom we can bless; / ... This is to be alone; this, this is solitude!= Byron.

=Mieux nourri qu'instruit=--Better fed than taught. Fr. Pr.

=Mieux serra=--Better times are coming. M. 5

=Mieux vaut glisser du pied que de la langue=--Better slip with the foot than the tongue. Fr. Pr.

=Mieux vaut perdre la laine que la brebis=--Better lose the wool than the sheep. Fr. Pr.

=Mieux vaut un bon renom, que du bien plein la maison=--Better a good name than a house full of riches. Fr. Pr.

=Mieux vaut un "Tiens" que deux "Tu l'auras"=--One "Take this" is better than two "You shall have it." Fr. Pr.

=Mieux vaut une once de fortune qu'une livre= 10 =de sagesse=--An ounce of fortune is better than a pound of wisdom. Fr. Pr.

=Mieux vaut voir un chien enragé, qu'un soleil chaud en Janvier=--Better see a mad dog than a hot sun in January.

=Might and right do differ frightfully from hour to hour; but give them centuries to try it in, they are found to be identical.= Carlyle.

=Mightier far / Than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway / Of magic, potent over sun and star, / Is Love, though oft to agony distrest, / And though his favourite seat be feeble woman's breast.= Wordsworth.

=Mightiest powers by deepest calms are fed, / And sleep, how oft, on things that gentlest be.= B. M. Procter.

=Mighty events turn on a straw; the crossing= 15 =of a brook decides the conquest of the world.= Carlyle.

=Migravit ab aure voluptas / Omnis=--All pleasure has fled from the ear, (dumb show having taken the place of dialogue on the stage). Hor.

=Mihi est propositum in taberna mori=--I purpose to end my days in an inn.

=Mihi forsan, tibi quod negarit, / Porriget hora=--The hour will perhaps extend to me what it has denied to you. Hor.

=Mihi istic nec seritur nec metitur=--There is neither sowing nor reaping in that affair for my benefit. Plaut.

=Mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor=--My 20 aim is to subject circumstances to me, and not myself to them. Hor.

=Mihi tarda fluunt ingrataque tempora=--For me the time passes slowly and joyously away. Hor.

=Mildness governs more than anger.= Pr.

=Militat omnis amans=--Every lover is engaged in a war. Ovid.

=Militiæ species amor est=--Love is a kind of warfare. Ovid.

=Mille hominum species et rerum discolor usus; /= 25 =Velle suum cuique est, nec voto vivitur uno=--There are a thousand kinds of men, and different hues they give to things; each one follows his own inclination, nor do they all agree in their wishes. Pers.

=Mille verisimili non fanno un vero=--A thousand probabilities do not make one truth. It. Pr.

=Millia frumenti tua triverit area centum, / Non tuus hinc capiet venter plus ac meus=--Though your threshing-floor should yield a hundred thousand bushels of corn, will your stomach therefore hold more than mine? Hor.

=Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth / Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep.= Milton.

=Minatur innocentibus qui parcit nocentibus=--He threatens the innocent who spares the guilty. Coke.

=Mind and body are intimately related; if the= 30 =former is joyful, the latter feels free and well; and many an evil flies before cheerfulness.= Goethe.

=Mind and body--that beauteous couple--exercise much and variously, but at home, at home, indoors, and about things indoors; for God is there too.= Landor.

=Mind is stronger than matter; mind is the creator and shaper of matter; not brute force, but only persuasion and faith is the king of this world.= Carlyle.

=Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.= Webster.

=Mind is the partial side of men; the heart is everything.= Rivarol.

=Mind not high things, but condescend to men= 35 =of low estate.= St. Paul.

=Mind unemployed is mind unenjoyed.= Bovee.

=Mind your P's and Q's.= Pr.

=Mind your work, and God will find your wages.= Pr.

=Minds are of celestial birth; / Make we then a heaven of earth.= Montgomery.

=Minds that have nothing to confer / Find little= 40 =to perceive.= Wordsworth.

=Minds that never rest are subject to many digressions.= Joubert.

=Mind the corner where life's road turns.= Pr.

=Mine honour my life is; both grow in one; / Take honour from me, and my life is done.= Richard II., i. 1.

=Minimæ vires frangere quassa valent=--Very little avails to break a bruised thing. Ov.

=Minima de malis=--Of two evils choose the least. 45 Pr.

=Minister flicken am Staate, / Die Richter flicken am Rate, / Die Pfarrer an dem Gewissen, / Die Aerzte an Händen und Füszen! O Jobsen! was flickest denn du? / Weit besser! Gerissene Schuh!=--Ministers cobble away at the state, judges at the law, parsons at the conscience, doctors at our hands and feet; what cobblest thou at, friend Jobson? Far better--shoes that have been torn. Weisse.

=Minor est quam servus, dominus qui servos timet=--A master who fears his servants is lower than a servant.

=Minorities lead and save the world, and the world knows them not till long afterwards.= John Burroughs.

=Minuentur atræ / Carmine curæ=--Black care will be soothed by song. Hor.

=Minuit præsentia famam=--Acquaintanceship lessens fame. Claud.

=Minus afficit sensus fatigatio quam cogitatio=--Bodily fatigue affects the mind less than intense thought. Quinct.

=Minuti / Semper et infirmi est animi exiguique voluptas / Ultio=--Revenge is ever the delight of a stinted and weak and petty mind. Juv.

=Minutiæ=--Trifles; minute details. 5

=Mir gäb' es keine gröss're Pein, / Wär' ich im Paradies allein=--There were for me no greater torment than to be in Paradise alone. Goethe.

=Mir wird bei meinem kritischen Bestreben / Doch oft um Kopf und Busen bang=--Often during my critical studies I fear as if I would lose both head and heart. Wagner in Goethe's "Faust."

=Mira quædam in cognoscendo suavitas et delectatio=--There is a certain wonderful sweetness and delight in gaining knowledge.

=Mirabile dictu!=--Wonderful to be told!

=Mirabile visu!=--Wonderful to behold! 10

=Miracles are ceased, and therefore we must needs admit the means, how things are perfected.= Hen. V., i. 1.

=Miracles do not serve to convert, but condemn.= Pascal.

=Miramur ex intervallo fallentia=--We admire at a distance things which deceive us. Pr.

=Miremur te non tua=--Let me have something to admire in yourself, not in what belongs to you. Juv.

=Mirth is God's medicine.= Ward Beecher. 15

=Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.= Addison.

=Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent.= Addison.

=Misce stultitiam consiliis brevem=--Mix a little folly with your serious thoughts. Hor.

=Miscellaneous reading avoid.= Prof. Blackie to young men.

=Mischief, thou art afoot; / Take thou what= 20 =course thou wilt.= Jul. Cæs., iii. 2.

=Mise en scène=--The getting up or putting in preparation for the stage. Fr.

=Misera contribuens plebs!=--The poor tax-paying people. Verböczy.

=Misera est magni custodia census=--The custody of a large fortune is a wretched business. Juv.

=Misera est servitus ubi jus est aut vagum aut incognitum=--Obedience to the law is a hardship where the law is either unsettled or unknown. L.

=Miserable beyond all names of wretchedness= 25 =is that unhappy pair who are doomed to reduce beforehand to the principles of abstract reason all the details of each domestic day.= Johnson.

=Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari=--An unhappy peace may be profitably exchanged for war. Tac.

=Misericordia Domini inter pontem et fontem=--Between bridge and stream the Lord's mercy may be found. St. Augustine.

=Miseros prudentia prima relinquit=--Prudence is the first thing to forsake the wretched. Ovid.

=Miserrima est fortuna quæ inimico caret=--Most wretched is the lot of him who has not an enemy. Pub. Syr.

=Miserum est aliorum incumbere famæ / Ne= 30 =collapsa ruant subductis tecta columnis=--It is a wretched thing to lean for support on the reputation of others, lest the roof should fall in ruins when the pillars are withdrawn. Juv.

=Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.= Tempest, ii. 2.

=Misery and ruin to thousands are in the blast that announces the destructive demon= (war). Burns.

=Misery doth part / The flux of company.= _As You Like It_, ii. 1.

=Misery is like love; to speak its language truly, the author must have felt it.= Burns.

=Misery is trodden down by many, / And, being= 35 =low, never relieved by any.= Shakespeare.

=Misery that I miss is a new mercy.= _Isaac Walton._

=Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.= Mrs. L. M. Child.

=Misfortune sprinkles ashes on the head of the man, but falls like dew on the head of the woman, and brings forth germs of strength of which she herself had no conscious possession.= Anna C. Mowatt.

=Misfortune, when we look upon it with our eyes, is smaller than when our imagination sinks the evil down into the recesses of the soul.= Goethe.

=Misfortunes come on wings and depart on foot.= 40 Pr.

=Misfortunes have their dignity and their redeeming power.= G. S. Hillard.

=Misfortunes never come single.= Pr.

=Misfortunes when asleep are not to be wakened.= Pr.

=Mislike me not for my complexion, / The shadow'd livery of the burnish'd sun, / To whom I am a neighbour and near bred.= Mer. of Ven., ii. 1.

=Misreckoning is no payment.= Pr. 45

=Mist of words, / Like halos round the moon, though they enlarge / The seeming size of thoughts, make the light less / Doubly.= Bailey.

=Mistake not, man; the devil never sleeps.= Thomas à Kempis.

=Mistrust the man who finds everything good, and the man who finds everything evil, and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.= Lavater.

=Misunderstanding brings lies to town.= Pr.

=Misunderstanding goes on like a fallen stitch= 50 =in a stocking, which in the beginning might have been taken up with a needle.= Goethe.

=Mit deinem Meister zu irren ist dein Gewinn=--To err with thy master is thy gain. Goethe.

=Mit dem Genius steht die Natur im ewigen Bunde! / Was der eine verspricht, leistet die andre gewiss=--Nature stands in eternal league with genius; what the one promises the other as surely performs. Schiller.

=Mit dem Wissen wächst der Zweifel=--Doubt ever grows alongside of knowledge. Goethe.

=Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens=--With stupidity the gods themselves fight in vain. Schiller.

=Mit Frauen soll man sich nie unterstehn zu scherzen=--One should never venture to joke with ladies. Mephisto in Goethe's "Faust."

=Mit fremdem Gut ist leicht ein Prasser sein=--It is easy to live riotously (be a rake) at another's expense. Platen.

=Mit Kleinen thut man kleine Thaten, / Mit Grossen wird der Kleine gross=--With little people we do little deeds, with great people the little one becomes great. Goethe.

=Mit seltsamen Geberden / Giebt man sich= 5 =viele Pein; / Kein Mensch will etwas werden, / Ein jeder will schon was sein=--We are easily disconcerted by strange manners; no man is willing to become anything, every one gives himself out as already something. Goethe.

=Mit vier Strangschlägern zu fahren ist gefährlich, aber ich werde es versuchen=--It is risky to drive with four horses that kick over the traces, but I shall try. Bismarck.

=Mit Worten lässt sich trefflich streiten / Mit Worten ein System bereiten, / An Worten lässt sich trefflich glauben, / Von einem Wort lässt sich kein Iota rauben=--With words disputes may be effectively carried on; with words a system may be built up; on words one may rest religious belief; from a word must not one iota be taken. Mephisto in Goethe's "Faust."

=Mit Worten nicht, mit Thaten lasst mich danken=--Let me thank you with deeds, not with words. Körner.

=Mitgefühl erweckt Vertrauen; / Und Vertrauen ist der Schlüssel / Der des Herzens Pforte öffnet=--Sympathy awakens confidence, and confidence is the key which unlocks the doors of the heart. Bodenstedt.

=Mittagsschlaf ist ein brennend Licht am Tage=--Sleep 10 at midday is a candle burning in the daytime. Hippel.

=Mitte hanc de pectore curam=--Dismiss these anxieties from your breast. Virg.

=Mittimus=--We send. A writ for transferring records from one court to another; a precept committing an accused person to prison by a justice of the peace. L.

=Mobilis et varia est ferme natura malorum=--Misfortunes generally are of a variable and changeable nature. Juv.

=Mobilitate viget, viresque acquirit eundo=--It grows by moving, and gathers strength as it speeds on. Virg., of Fame.

=Mobilium turba Quiritium=--A crowd of fickle 15 citizens. Hor.

=Mock me not with the name of free, when you have but knit up my chains into ornamental festoons.= Carlyle.

=Mockery is the fume of little hearts.= Tennyson.

=Moderari animo et orationi, cum sis iratus, non mediocris ingenii est=--To be able to temper your indignation and language when you are angry is evidence of a chastened disposition. Cic.

=Moderata durant=--Things we use in moderation last long. Sen.

=Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead,= 20 =excessive grief the enemy to the living.= _All's Well_, i. 1.

=Moderate riches will carry you; if you have more, you must carry them.= Pr.

=Moderation and judgment are, for most purposes, more than the flash and the glitter even of genius.= J. Morley.

=Moderation is good, but moderation alone is no virtue= (Tugend). Rückert.

=Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with genius it has not even a nodding acquaintance.= Colton.

=Moderation is the silken string running through= 25 =the pearl chain of all virtues.= Thomas Fuller.

=Moderation is the virtue best adapted to the dawn of prosperity.= Pitt.

=Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain we can no more manage our mobs.= Ruskin.

=Modern education too often covers the fingers with rings, and at the same time cuts the sinews at the wrists.= J. Sterling.

=Modern poets put a great deal of water in their ink.= Goethe.

=Modern Protestantism sees in the cross, not a= 30 =furca to which it is to be nailed, but a raft on which it, and all its valuable properties, are to be floated into Paradise.= Ruskin.

=Modern revolution has nothing grand about it; it is merely the resolution of society into its component atoms.= Froude.

=Modern science gives lectures on botany, to show there is no such thing as a flower; on humanity, to show there is no such thing as a man; and on theology, to show there is no such thing as a God. No such thing as a man, but only a mechanism. No such thing as a God, but only a series of forces.= Ruskin.

=Modest demeanour's the jewel of a'!= Burns.

=Modest dogs miss much meat.= Pr.

=Modest doubt is called / The beacon of the= 35 =wise, the tent that searches / To the bottom of the worst.= Troil. and Cres., ii. 2.

=Modest expression is a beautiful setting to the diamond of talent and genius.= Chapin.

=Modest humility is beauty's crown, for the beautiful is a hidden thing, and shrinks from its own power.= Schiller.

=Modeste tamen et circumspecto judicio de tantis viris pronunciandum est, ne, quod plerisque accidit, damnent quæ non intelligunt=--We should, however, pronounce our opinions with modesty and circumspect judgment of such men, lest, as is the case with many, we should be found condemning what we do not understand. Quinct.

=Modesty and presumption are moral things of so spiritual a nature, that they have little to do with the body.= Goethe.

=Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised= 40 =by the women than liked.= Sheridan.

=Modesty is a very good thing, but a man in this country may get on very well without it.= M. on a banner in the Far West.

=Modesty is so pleased with other people's doings that she has no leisure to lament her own.= Ruskin.

=Modesty is the beauty of women.= Gael. Pr.

=Modesty is the colour of virtue.= Diogenes.

=Modesty is the sweet song-bird which no open= 45 =cage-door can tempt to flight.= Hafiz.

=Modesty is to merit what the shadows are to the figures on a picture; it imparts to it force and relief.= La Bruyère.

=Modesty ruins all that bring it to court.= Pr.

=Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.= Goldsmith.

=Modesty when she goes, is gone for ever.= Landor.

=Modo et forma=--In manner and form. 5

=Modo me Thebis, modo ponit Athenis=--He sets me down now at Thebes, now at Athens, i.e., the poet does so by his magic art. Hor.

=Modo vir, modo femina=--Now as a man, now as a woman. Ovid.

=Modus operandi=--The manner of operation.

=Mögt ihr Stück für Stück bewitzeln, / Doch das Ganze zieht euch an=--You may jeer at it bit by bit, yet the whole fascinates you. Goethe.

=Moi, moi, dis je, et c'est assez=--I, I, say I, and 10 that is enough. Corneille.

=Moins on pense plus on parle=--The less people think, the more they talk. Fr.

=Moles and misers live in their graves.= Pr.

=Molesta et importuna salutantium frequentia=--A troublesome and annoying crowd of visitors.

=Molle meum levibus cor est violabile telis=--My tender heart is vulnerable by his (Cupid's) light arrows. Ovid.

=Mollis educatio nervos omnes et mentis et= 15 =corporis frangit=--An effeminate education weakens all the powers both of mind and body. Quinct.

=Mollissima corda / Humano generi dare se natura fatetur, / Quæ lachrymas dedit: hæc nostri pars optima sensus=--Nature confesses that she gives the tenderest of hearts to the human race when she gave them tears. This is the best part of our sensations. Juv.

=Mollissima tempora fandi=--The most fitting moment for speaking, or addressing, one. Hor.

=Molliter austerum studio fallente laborem=--The interest in the pursuit gently beguiling the severity of the toil. Hor.

=Molliter ossa cubent=--Let his bones softly rest. Ovid.

=Momento mare vertitur; / Eodem die ubi= 20 =luserunt, navigia sorbentur=--In a moment the sea is agitated, and on the same day ships are swallowed up where they lately sported gaily along.

=Mon âme a son secret, ma vie a son mystère=--My soul has a secret of its own, my life its mystery. Arvers.

=Mon cœur aux dames, / Ma vie au roi, / A Dieu mon âme, / L'honneur pour moi=--My heart to the ladies, my life to the king, and my soul to God, but my honour is my own. On a shield in the Royal Schloss, Berlin.

=Mon Dieu est ma roche=--My God is my rock. M.

=Mon frère a mis son bonnet de travers=--My brother is cross (lit. has put on his cap the wrong way). Fr. Pr.

=Monarchy is a merchantman, which sails well,= 25 =but will sometimes strike on a rock and go to the bottom; whilst a republic is a raft, which would never sink, but then your feet are always in water.= Fisher Ames.

=Monday is the key of the week.= Gael. Pr.

=Monday religion is better than Sunday profession.= Pr.

=Mone sale=--Advise with salt, i.e., with discretion. M.

=Money answers everything, / Save a guilty conscience sting.= Pr.

=Money begets money.= Pr. 30

=Money borrowed is soon sorrowed.= Pr.

=Money calls, but does not stay: / It is round and rolls away.= Pr.

=Money is a bottomless sea, in which honour, conscience, and truth may be drowned.= Kazlay.

=Money is a good servant, but a dangerous master.= Bouheurs.

=Money is human happiness in the abstract;= 35 =he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete, devotes his heart entirely to money.= Schopenhauer.

=Money is like an icicle, soon found at certain seasons, and soon melted under other circumstances.= Spurgeon.

=Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.= Thoreau.

=Money is the fruit of evil as often as the root of it.= Fielding.

=Money is the god of our time, and Rothschild is his prophet.= Heine.

=Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed;= 40 =health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.= Colton.

=Money is the ruin of many.= Pr.

=Money is the sinew of love as well as of war.= Pr.

=Money, like manure, does no good till it is spread.= (?)

=Money makes the mare to go.= Pr.

=Money masters all things.= Pr. 45

=Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants.= Ben. Franklin.

=Money often costs too much.= Emerson.

=Money often unmakes the men who make it.= Pr.

=Money refused loses its brightness.= Pr.

=Money spent on the brain is never spent in= 50 =vain.= Pr.

=Moniti, meliora sequamur=--Admonished, let us follow better counsels. Virg.

=Monkeys, as soon as they have brought forth their young, keep their eyes fastened on them, and never weary of admiring their beauty; so amorous is Nature of whatever she produces.= Dryden.

=Monstro quod ipse tibi possis dare: semita certe / Tranquillæ per virtutem patet unica vitæ=--I show you what you can do for yourself; the only path to a tranquil life lies through virtue. Juv.

=Monstrum horrendum, informe, ingens, cui lumen ademptum=--A monster horrible, misshapen, huge, and bereft of his one eye. Virgil, of Polyphemus.

=Monstrum nulla virtute redemptum / A vitiis=--A 55 monster whose vices are not redeemed by a single virtue. Juv.

=Mont de piété=--Pawnshop; originally store of money to lend without interest to poor people. Fr.

=Montes auri pollicens=--Promising mountains of gold. Ter.

=Montesquieu, with his cause-and-effect philosophy, is but a clever infant spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic Book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity, in Heaven.= Carlyle.

=Monuments, like men, submit to fate.= Pope.

=Monuments themselves memorials need.= Crabbe.

=Mony an honest man needs that hasna the= 5 =face to seek it.= Sc. Pr.

=Mony ane speirs the gate= (inquires the way) =they ken fu' weel.= Sc. Pr.

=Mony kinsfolk, but few freends.= Sc. Pr.

=Moonlight is sculpture.= Hawthorne.

=Moping melancholy.= Milton.

=Mora omnis odio est, sed facit sapientiam=--All 10 delay is hateful, but it produces wisdom. Pub. Syr.

=Moral culture must begin with a change= (Umwandlung) =in the way of thinking, and with the founding of a character.= Kant.

=Moral education begins in making the creature to be educated clean and obedient; and it is summed up when the creature has been made to do its work with delight, and thoroughly.= Ruskin.

=Moral inability aggravates our guilt.= Scott.

=Moral prejudices are the stopgaps of virtue; and, as is the case with other stopgaps, it is often more difficult to get either out or in through them than through any other part of the fence.= Hare.

=Moral qualities rule the world, but at short= 15 =distances the senses are despotic.= Emerson.

=Morality is a curb, not a spur.= Joubert.

=Morality is but the vestibule of religion.= Chapin.

=Morality sticks faster when presented in brief sayings than when presented in long discourses.= Immermann.

=Morals are generated as the atmosphere is. 'Tis a secret the genesis of either; but the springs of justice and courage do not fail any more than salt or sulphur springs.= Emerson.

=Morceau=--A morsel; a bit. Fr. 20

=Morceau d'ensemble=--Piece of music harmonised for several voices. Fr.

=More are drowned in the beaker than in the sea.= Ger. Pr.

=More are made good by exercitation than by nature.= Democritus.

=More credit may be thrown down in a moment than can be built up in an age.= Pr.

=More hearts pine away in secret anguish for= 25 =unkindness from those who should be their comforters than for any other calamity in life.= Young.

=More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.= George Eliot.

=More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering eye. A cottage flower gives honey to the bee, a king's garden none to the butterfly.= Bulwer Lytton.

=More knave than fool.= Marlowe.

=More light, more life, more love.= Pr.

=More majorum=--After the manner of our ancestors. 30

=More matter with less art.= Ham., ii. 2.

=More meat and less mustard.= Pr.

=More pleased we are to see a river lead / His gentle streams along a flowery mead, / Than from high banks to hear loud torrents roar, / With foamy waters on a muddy shore.= Dryden.

=More potatoes and fewer potations.= Motto for Working-men.

=More servants wait on man / Than he'll take= 35 =notice of.= George Herbert.

=More sinn'd against than sinning.= Lear, iii. 2.

=More springs up in the garden than the gardener sows there.= Pr.

=More suo=--After his usual manner; as is his wont.

=More than all things, avoid fault-finding and a habit of criticism.= Prof. Blackie to young men.

=More than kisses letters mingle souls.= Donne. 40

=More than we use is more than we want.= Pr.

=More things are wrought by prayer / Than this world dreams of.= Tennyson.

=More water glideth by the mill / Than wots the miller of.= Tit. Andron., ii. 1.

=Mores amici noveris, non oderis=--Know well, but take no offence at the manners of a friend. Pr.

=Mores multorum vidit=--He saw the manners of 45 many men. Hor. of Ulysses.

=Morgen können wir's nicht mehr, / Darum lasst uns heute leben!=--To-morrow is no longer in our power, therefore let us live to-day. Schiller.

=Morgen, morgen, nur nicht heute! / Sprechen immer träge Leute=--To-morrow, to-morrow, only not to-day, is the constant song of the idle. C. F. Weisse.

=Morgenstunde hat Gold im Munde=--The morning hour has gold in its mouth. Gr. Pr.

=Moriamur, et in media arma ruamus=--Let us die, and rush into the thick of the fight. Virg.

=Moribus antiquis res stat Romana virisque=--The 50 Roman commonwealth stands by its ancient manners and men. Enn.

=Moribus et forma conciliandus amor=--Pleasing manners and a handsome figure conciliate love. Ovid.

=Morituri morituros salutant=--The dying salute the dying.

=Morose thoughts one should never send to a distance.= Goethe.

=Moroseness is the evening of turbulence.= Landor.

=Mors et fugacem persequitur virum=--Death 55 pursues the man as he flees from it. Hor.

=Mors ipsa refugit sæpe virum!=--Death itself often takes flight at the presence of a man. Lucan.

=Mors janua vitæ=--Death is the gate of life.

=Mors laborum ac miseriarum quies est!=--Death is repose from all our toils and miseries. Cic.

=Mors potius macula=--Death rather than disgrace. M.

=Mors sola fatetur / Quantula sint hominum= 60 =corpuscula=--Death alone discloses how insignificant are the puny bodies of us men. Juv.

=Mors ultima linea rerum est=--Death is the farthest limit of our changing life. Hor.

=Mortales inimicitias, sempiternas amicitias=--Be our enmities for time, our friendships for eternity. Cic.

=Mortalia acta nunquam Deos fallunt=--The deeds of man never can be hid from the gods.

=Mortalia facta peribunt, / Nedum sermonum stet honos et gratia vivax=--All man's works must perish; how much less shall the power and grace of language long survive! Hor.

=Mortality is beset on every side with crosses, and exposed to suffering every moment.= Thomas à Kempis.

=Mortalium rerum misera beatitudo=--The miserable 5 bliss of all moral things. Boëthius.

=Morte carent animæ, semperque priore relicta / Sede novis domibus vivunt habitantque receptæ=--Souls are immortal; and admitted, after quitting their first abode, into new homes, they live and dwell in them for ever. Ovid.

=Mortem effugere nemo potest!=--No one can escape death.

=Mortuo leoni et lepores insultant=--Even hares insult a dead lion. Pr.

=Mos pro lege=--Usage, or custom, for law. L.

=Moses and Mahomet were not men of speculation,= 10 =but men of action; and it is the stress they laid upon the latter that has given them the power they wield over the destinies of mankind.= Renan.

=Most authors steal their works, or buy.= Pope.

=Most dangerous / Is that temptation that doth goad us on / To sin in loving virtue.= Meas. for Meas., ii. 2.

=Most felt, least said.= Pr.

=Most joyful let the poet be; / It is through him that all men see.= W. E. Channing.

=Most men and most women are merely one= 15 =couple more.= Emerson.

=Most men do not know what is in them till they receive the summons from their fellows; their hearts die within them, sleep settles upon them--the lethargy of the world's miasmata; there is nothing for which they are so thankful as for that cry, "Awake, thou that sleepest."= Ruskin.

=Most men forget God all day, and ask Him to remember them at night.= (?)

=Most men I ask little from; I try to render them much, and to expect nothing in return, and I get very well out of the bargain.= Fénelon.

=Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean.= Lowell.

=Most men never reach the glorious epoch, that= 20 =middle stage between despair and deification, in which the comprehensible appears to us common and insipid.= Goethe.

=Most men of action incline to fatalism, and most men of thought believe in Providence.= Balzac.

=Most men take no notice of what is plain, as if that were of no use; but puzzle their thoughts to be themselves in those vast depths and abysses which no human understanding can fathom.= Sherlock.

=Most men think indistinctly, and therefore cannot speak with exactness.= Johnson.

=Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?= Bible.

=Most men write now as if they expected that= 25 =their works should live no more than a month.= Lord Orford.

=Most natures are insolvent; cannot satisfy their own wants, have an ambition out of all proportion to their practical force, and so do lean and beg day and night continually.= Emerson.

=Most of our evils come from our vices.= Pr.

=Most of the appearing mirth in the world is not mirth, but art; the wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.= South.

=Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances, to the elevation of mankind.= Thoreau.

=Most of the mischief in the world would never= 30 =happen if men would only be content to sit still in their parlours.= Pascal.

=Most people think now-a-days the only hopeful way of serving your neighbour is to make a profit out of him; whereas, in my opinion, the hopefulest way of serving him is to let him make a profit out of me.= Ruskin.

=Most people, when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.= Billings.

=Most people who ask advice of others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.= Knigge.

=Most potent, effectual for all work whatsoever, is wise planning, firm combining and commanding among men.= Carlyle.

=Most powerful is he who has himself in his= 35 =power.= Seneca.

=Most religion-mongers have bated their paradises with a bit of toasted cheese. They have tempted the body with large promises of possessions in their transmortal El Dorado.= Lowell.

=Most strange that men should fear, / Seeing that death, a necessary end, / Will come when it will come.= Jul. Cæs., ii. 2.

=Most subject is the fattest soil to weeds.= 2 Hen. IV., iv. 4.

=Most terrors are but spectral illusions.= Helps.

=Most things have two handles, and a wise= 40 =man takes hold of the best.= Pr.

=Most women have no characters at all.= Pope.

=Most wretched men / Are cradled into poetry by wrong; / They learn in suffering what they teach in song.= Shelley.

=Mot à mot=--Word for word.

=Mot à mot on fait les gros livres=--Word by word big books are made. Fr. Pr.

=Mot d'ordre=--Watchword. Fr. 45

=Mot pour rire=--A jest. Fr.

=Mother, a maiden is a tender thing, / And best by her that bore her understood.= Tennyson.

=Mother's darlings are but milksop heroes.= Pr.

=Mother's love is the cream of love.= Pr.

=Mother's truth keeps constant youth.= Pr. 50

=Motives are better than actions.= Bovee.

=Motives are symptoms of weakness, and supplements for the deficient energy of the living principle, the law within us.= Coleridge.

=Motley's the only wear.= As You Like It, ii. 7.

=Mots d'usage=--Phrases in common use. Fr.

=Motu proprio=--Of his own accord. 55

=Mountains interposed / Make enemies of nations, who had else / Like kindred drops been mingled into one.= Cowper.

=Mountains never shake hands. Their roots may touch; they may keep company some way up; but at length they part company, and rise into individual, isolated peaks. So it is with great men.= Hare.

=Mourning only lasts till morning with the children of the morning.= Saying.

=Mourning tendeth to mending.= Pr.

=Movet cornicula risum / Furtivis nudata coloribus=--The 5 crow, stript of its stolen colours, provokes our ridicule. Hor.

=Moving accidents by flood and field.= Othello, i. 3.

=Mrs. Chatterbox is the mother of mischief.= Pr.

=Much bruit, little fruit.= Pr.

=Much corn lies under the straw that is not seen.= Pr.

=Much debating goes on about the good that= 10 =has been done and the harm by the free circulation of the Bible. To me this is clear: it will do harm, as it has done, if used dogmatically and fancifully; and do good, as it has done, if used didactically and feelingly.= Goethe.

=Much exists under our very noses which has no name, and can get none.= Carlyle.

=Much food is in the tillage of the poor.= Bible.

=Much in the world may be done by severity, more by love, but most of all by discernment and impartial justice.= Goethe.

=Much learning is a weariness of the flesh.= Pr.

=Much learning shows how little mortals know;= 15 =much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy.= Young.

=Much lies among us convulsively, nay, desperately, struggling to be born.= Carlyle.

=Much meat, much disease.= Pr.

=Much might be said on both sides.= Addison.

=Much of the good or evil that befalls persons arises from the well or ill managing of their conversation.= Judge Hale.

=Much of the pleasure, and all the benefit of= 20 =conversation, depends upon our own opinion of the speaker's veracity.= Paley.

=Much of this world's wisdom is still acquired by necromancy--by consulting the oracular dead.= Hare.

=Much of what is great, and to all men beneficial, has been wrought by those who neither intended nor knew the good they did; and many mighty harmonies have been discoursed by instruments that had been dumb and discordant but that God knew their stops.= Ruskin.

=Much reading makes one haughty and pedantic; much observation= (Sehen) =makes one wise, sociable, and helpful.= Lichtenberg.

=Much religion, but no goodness.= Pr.

=Much rust needs a rough file.= Pr. 25

=Much there is that appears unequal in our life, yet the balance is soon and unexpectedly restored. In eternal alternation a weal counterbalances the woe, and swift sorrows our joys. Nothing is constant. Many an incongruity= (Missverhältniss) =as the days roll on, is gradually and imperceptibly dissolved in harmony. And ah! love knows how to reconcile the greatest discrepancy and unite earth with heaven.= Goethe.

=Mucho sabe la zorra, pero mas el que la toma=--The fox is cunning, but he is more cunning who takes him. Sp. Pr.

=Mud chokes no eels.= Pr.

=Mudar costumbre a par de muerte=--To change a custom is next to death. Sp. Pr.

=Muddy spring, muddy stream.= Pr. 30

=Mugitus labyrinthi=--The bellowing of the labyrinth (a threadbare theme among weak poets). Juv.

=Mules deliver great discourses because their ancestors were horses.= Pr.

=Mulier cupido quod dicit amanti, / In vento et rapida scribere oportet aqua=--What a woman says to an ardent lover ought to be written on the winds and the swiftly flowing water. Catull.

=Mulier profecto nata est ex ipsa mora=--Woman is surely born of tardiness itself. Plaut.

=Mulier quæ sola cogitat male cogitat=--The 35 thoughts of a woman when alone tend to mischief. Pr.

=Mulier recte olet ubi nihil olet=--A woman smells sweetest when she smells not at all. Plaut.

=Multa cadunt inter calicem supremaque labra=--Many things fall between the cup and the lip. Laber.

=Multa dies, variusque labor mutabilis ævi, / Retulit in melius=--Many a thing has time and the varying sway of changeful years altered for the better. Virg.

=Multa docet fames=--Hunger (i.e., necessity) teaches us many things. Pr.

=Multa fero ut placeam genus irritabile vatum=--Much 40 I endure to appease the irritable race of poets. Hor.

=Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum; / Multa recedentes adimunt=--The coming years bring with them many advantages; as they recede they take many away. Hor.

=Multa gemens=--Groaning deeply. Virg.

=Multa me docuit usus, magister egregius=--Necessity, that excellent master, hath taught me many things. Pliny the younger.

=Multa novit vulpis, sed felis unam magnum=--The fox knows many shifts, the cat only one great one, viz., to run up a tree. Pr.

=Multa paucis=--Much in little. 45

=Multa petentibus / Desunt multa=--Those who crave much want much. Hor.

=Multa quidem scripsi; sed quæ vitiosa putavi, / Emendaturis ignibus ipse dedi=--Much have I written; but what I considered faulty I myself committed to the correcting flames. Ovid.

=Multa renascentur quæ jam cecidere, cadentque / Quæ nunc sunt in honore vocabula, si volet usus, / Quem penes arbitrium est, et jus, et norma loquendi=--Many words now in disuse will revive, and many now in vogue will be forgotten, if usage wills it, in whose hands is the choice and the right to lay down the law of language. Hor.

=Multa rogant utenda dari; data reddere nolunt=--They ask many a sum on loan, but they are loath to repay. Ovid.

=Multa senem circumveniunt incommoda=--Many 50 are the discomforts that gather round old age. Hor.

=Multa tacere loquive paratas=--Ready to suppress much or speak much.

=Multa tulit, fecitque puer, sudavit et alsit=--Much from early years has he suffered and done, sweating and chilled. Hor.

=Multæ manus onus levius faciunt=--Many hands make light work. Pr.

=Multæ regum aures et oculi=--Kings have many ears and eyes.

=Multæ terricolis linguæ, cœlestibus una=--The inhabitants of earth have many tongues, those of heaven have but one.

=Multarum palmarum causidicus=--A pleader who has gained many causes.

=Multas amicitias silentium diremit=--Silence, or 5 neglect, dissolves many friendships. Pr.

=Multi adorantur in ara qui cremantur in igne=--Many are worshipped at the altar who are burning in flames. St. Augustine.

=Multi / Committunt eadem diverso crimina fato, / Ille crucem sceleris pretium tulit, hic diadema=--Many commit the same crimes with a different destiny; one bears a cross as the price of his villany, another wears a crown. Juv.

=Multi mortales, dediti ventri atque somno, indocti incultique vitam sicuti peregrinantes transiere; quibus profecto contra naturam corpus voluptati, anima oneri=--Many men bave passed through life like travellers in a strange land, without spiritual or moral culture, and given up to the lusts of appetite and indolence, whose bodies, contrary to their nature, were enslaved to indulgence, and their souls a burden. Sall.

=Multi multa, nemo omnia novit=--Many know many things, no one everything. Coke.

=Multi nil rectum nisi quod placuit sibi ducunt=--Many 10 deem nothing right but what suits their own conceit. Hor.

=Multi te oderint si teipsum ames=--Many will detest you if you spend all love on yourself.

=Multis ille bonis flebilis occidit / Nulli flebilior quam tibi=--He fell lamented by many good men, by none more lamented than by thee (Virgil). Hor., of Quinctilius.

=Multis minatur, qui uni facit injuriam=--He who wrongs one threatens many. Pub. Syr.

=Multis parasse divitias non finis miseriarum fuit, sed mutatio; non est in rebus vitium sed in animo=--The acquisition of riches has been to many, not the end of their miseries, but a change in them; the fault is not in the riches, but in the disposition. Sen.

=Multis terribilis caveto multos=--If you are a 15 terror to many, then beware of many. Auson.

=Multitudinem decem faciunt=--Ten constitute a crowd. Coke.

=Multo plures satietas quam fames perdidit viros=--Many more die of surfeit than of hunger.

=Multos castra juvant, et lituo tubæ / Permistus sonitus, bellaque matribus / Detestata=--The camp and the clang of the trumpet mingled with the clarion, and wars detested by mothers, have delights for many. Hor.

=Multos in summa pericula misit / Venturi timor ipse mali=--The mere apprehension of coming evil has driven many into positions of great peril. Pr.

=Multos ingratos invenimus, plures facimus=--We 20 find many men ungrateful; we make more. Pr.

=Multos qui conflictari adversis videantur, beatos; ac plerosque, quanquam magnas per opes, miserrimos=--We may see many struggling against adversity who yet are happy; and more, although abounding in wealth, who are most wretched. Tac.

=Multum abludit imago=--The picture is outrageously unlike. Hor.

=Multum demissus homo=--A modest reserved man. Hor.

=Multum in parvo=--Much in little.

=Multum, non multa=--Much, not many. Pliny. 25

=Multum sapit qui non diu desipit=--He is very wise who does not long persist in folly. Pr.

=Mundæque parvo sub lare pauperum / Cœnæ, sine aulæis et ostro, / Sollicitam explicuere frontem=--A neat, simple meal under the humble roof of the poor, without hangings and purple, has smoothed the wrinkles of an anxious brow. Hor.

=Munditiæ, et ornatus, et cultus hæc feminarum insignia sunt, his gaudent et gloriantur=--Neatness, ornament, and dress, are peculiar badges of women; in these they delight and glory. Livy.

=Munditiis capimur=--We are captivated by neatness. Ovid.

=Mundus est Dei viva statua!=--The world is the 30 living image of God. T. Campanella.

=Mundus universus exercet histrionem=--All men practise the actor's art. Petron.

=Mundus vult decipi; ergo decipiatur=--The world wishes to be deceived; therefore let it be deceived.

=Munera accipit frequens, remittit nunquam=--He often receives presents, but never gives any. Plaut.

=Munera, crede mihi, capiunt hominesque deosque; / Placatur donis Jupiter ipse datis!=--Gifts, believe me, captivate both men and gods; Jupiter himself is won over and appeased by gifts. Ovid.

=Munificence is not quantity, but quality.= 35 Pascal.

=Munit hæc, et altera vincit=--This defends, and the other conquers. M.

=Munus Apolline dignum=--A present worthy of Apollo. Hor.

=Munus ornare verbis=--To enhance the value of a present by words. Ter.

=Murder, though it have no tongue, will speak / With most miraculous organ.= Ham., ii. 2.

=Murder will out.= Chaucer. 40

=Muras æneus conscientia sana=--A sound conscience is a wall of brass. M.

=Mus in pice=--A mouse in pitch; "a fly wading through tar."

=Mus non uni fidit antro=--The mouse does not trust to one hole only. Plaut.

=Music fills up the present moment more decisively than anything else, whether it awakens thought or summons to action.= Goethe.

=Music hath charms to soothe the savage= 45 =breast.= Congreve.

=Music in the best sense has little need of novelty= (Neuheit); =on the contrary, the older it is, the more one is accustomed to it, the greater is the effect it produces.= Goethe.

=Music, in the works of its greatest masters, is more marvellous, more mysterious, than poetry.= H. Giles.

=Music is a kind of inarticulate unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the infinite, and lets us for moments gaze that.= Carlyle.

=Music is a language directed to the passions; but the rudest passions put on a new nature and become pleasing in harmony.= James Usher.

=Music is a prophecy of what life is to be, the rainbow of promise translated out of seeing into hearing.= Mrs. Child.

=Music is an invisible dance, as dancing is a silent music.= Jean Paul.

=Music is but wild sounds civilised into time and tune.= Fuller.

=Music is our fourth great material want--first= 5 =food, then raiment, then shelter, then music.= Bovee.

=Music is the art of the prophets, the only art which can calm the agitations of the soul.= Luther.

=Music is the crystallisation of sound.= Thoreau.

=Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.= Beethoven.

=Music is the most immediate means possessed by the will for the manifestation of its inner impulses.= A. R. Parsons.

=Music is the only one of the fine arts in which= 10 =not only man, but all other animals, have a common property.= Jean Paul.

=Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral and religious feelings.= Addison.

=Music is the poor man's Parnassus.= Emerson.

=Music is the true universal speech of mankind.= Weber.

=Music makes people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.= Luther.

=Music, of all the arts, has the greatest influence= 15 =over the passions, and the legislator ought to give it the greatest encouragement.= Napoleon.

=Music of the spheres.= Pericles, v. 1.

=Music oft hath such a charm / To make bad good, and good provoke to harm.= Meas. for Meas., iv. 1.

=Music, once admitted into the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.= Bulwer Lytton.

=Music so softens and disarms the mind, / That not an arrow does resistance find.= Waller.

=Music stands in a much closer connection with= 20 =pure sensation than any of the other arts.= Helmholtz.

=Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.= Auerbach.

=Music, when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order; and also when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.= Ruskin.

=Music will not cure the toothache.= Pr.

=Music wraps us in melancholy, and elevates in joy.= James Usher.

=Musik ist der Schlüssel vom weiblichen Herzen=--Music 25 is the key to the female heart. Seume.

=Musik ist die wahre allgemeine Menschensprache=--Music is the true universal speech of mankind. C. J. Weber.

=Muss ist eine harte Nuss=--Must is a hard nut to crack. Ger. Pr.

=Müsset im Naturbetrachen / Immer eins wie alles achten; / Nichts ist drinnen, nichts ist draussen, / Denn was innen, das ist aussen. / So ergreifet ohne Säumness / Heilig öffentlich Geheimniss=--In the study of Nature you must ever regard one as all; nothing is inner, nothing is outer, for what is within that is without. Without hesitation, therefore, seize ye the holy mystery thus lying open to all. Goethe.

=Müssiggang ist aller Laster Anfang=--Idleness is the beginning of all vices.

=Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet= 30 =kernel.= Spurgeon.

="Must" is hard, but by "must" alone can man show what his inward condition is. Any one can live unrestrainedly.= Goethe.

=Must not a great history be always an epic?= Dr. Walter Smith.

=Mutability is the badge of infirmity.= Charron.

=Mutare vel timere sperno=--I disdain either to change or to fear. M.

=Mutatis mutandis=--After making the necessary 35 changes. L.

=Mutato nomine, de te / Fabula narratur=--Change but the name, the story's told of you. Hor.

=Mutum est pictura poema=--A picture is a poem without words.

=My alms-people are to be the ablest bodied I can find, the ablest minded I can make, and every day will be a duty ... shall stand with tools at work, mattock or flail, axe or hammer.= Ruskin

=My ancient but ignoble blood / Has crept through scoundrels ever since the Flood.= (?)

=My better half.= Sir Philip Sidney. 40

=My bounty is as boundless as the sea, / My love as deep; the more I give to thee, / The more I have, for both are infinite.= Rom. and Jul., ii. 2.

=My dame fed her hens on thanks, but they laid no eggs.= Pr.

=My days are in the yellow leaf; / The flowers and fruits of love are gone; / The worm, the canker, and the grief / Are mine alone.= Byron.

="My family begins with me, yours ends with you."= Iphicrates, when upbraided by a young aristocrat for his low birth.

=My fate cries out, / And makes each petty= 45 =artery in this body / As hardy as the Nemean lion's nerve.= Ham., i. 4.

=My first and last secret of Art is to get a thorough intelligence of the fact to be painted, represented, or, in whatever way, set forth--the fact deep as Hades, high as heaven, and written so, as to the visual face of it on this poor earth.= Carlyle.

=My grief lies onward, and my joy behind.= Lucrece.

="My hand," said Napoleon, "is immediately connected with my head," but the sacred courage is connected with the heart.= Emerson.

=My heart leaps up when I behold / A rainbow in the sky: / So was it when my life began, / So is it now I am a man; / So be it when I shall grow old, / Or let me die.= Wordsworth.

=My heart is true as steel.= Mid. N. Dream, 50 ii. 2.

=My heart resembles the ocean; has storm, and ebb, and flow; / And many a beautiful pearl / Lies hid in its depths below.= Heine.

=My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here.= Burns.

=My highest wish is to find within the God whom I find everywhere without.= Kepler.

=My house is my castle.= Pr.

=My house, my house, though thou art small, / Thou art to me the Escurial.= Pr.

="My ideal of a society is one in which I would= 5 =be guillotined as a Conservative."= Proudhon, to Prince Napoleon.

=My inheritance how wide and fair! / Time is my seed-field, to Time I'm heir.= Goethe.

=My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation.= Emerson.

=My joy is death;--/ Death, at whose name I oft have been afeared, / Because I wish'd this world's eternity.= 2 Hen. VI., ii. 4.

=My mind can take no hold on the present world, nor rest in it a moment, but my whole nature rushes onward with irresistible force towards a future and better state of being.= Fichte.

=My mind to me a kingdom is, / Such perfect joy= 10 =therein I find.= Byrd.

=My name is Norval; on the Grampian hills my father feeds his flock.= Home.

=My notions of life are much the same as they are about travelling; there is a good deal of amusement on the road, but, after all, one wants to be at rest.= Southey.

=My offence is rank; it smells to heaven.= Ham., iii. 3.

=My only books / Were woman's looks,--/ And folly's all they've taught me.= Moore.

=My opinion, my conviction, gains infinitely in= 15 =strength and sureness the moment a second mind has adopted it.= Novalis.

=My pen was never dipped in gall.= Crébillon.

=My perception of a fact is as much a fact as the sun.= Emerson.

=My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, / And makes as healthful music.= Ham., iii. 4.

=My purposes lie in the churchyard.= _Philip Henry._

=My rigour relents: I pardon something to the= 20 =spirit of liberty.= Burke.

=My son, be not now negligent, for the Lord hath chosen thee to stand before Him.= Apoc.

=My son is my son till he have got him a wife, / But my daughter's my daughter all the days of her life.= Pr.

=My soul, what's lighter than a feather? Wind. / Than wind? The fire. And what than fire? The mind. / What's lighter than the mind? A thought. Than thought? / This bubble world. What than this bubble? Nought.= Quarles.

=My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.= Tennyson.

=My way of life / Is fall'n into the sere, the yellow= 25 =leaf; / And that which should accompany old age, / As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, / I must not look to have; but in their stead, / Curses, not loud, but deep, mouth-honour, breath / Which the poor heart would fain deny, but dare not.= Macb., v. 3.

=My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; /= =Words, without thoughts, never to heaven go.= Ham., iii. 3.

=My yoke is easy and my burden light.= Jesus.

=Myn leeren is spelen, myn spelen is leeren=--My learning is play, and my play is learning. Van Alphen.

=Mysteries are due to secrecy.= Bacon.

=Mysteries which must explain themselves are= 30 =not worth the loss of time which a conjecture about them takes up.= Sterne.

=Mysterious to all thought, / A mother's prime of bliss, / When to her eager lips is brought / Her infant's thrilling kiss.= Keble.

=Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun; the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying influence from the want of a body.= Colton.

=Mystic, deep as the world's centre, are the roots a man has struck into his native soil; no tree that grows is rooted so.= Carlyle.

=Mysticism consists in the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for a universal one.= Emerson.

=Mythology is not religion. It may rather be= 35 =regarded as the ancient substitute, the poetical counterpart, for dogmatic theology.= Hare.

N.

=N'aboyez pas à la lune=--Do not cry out to no purpose (lit. don't bark at the moon). Fr. Pr.

=N'est on jamais tyran qu'avec un diadème?=--Is a man never a tyrant except he wear a crown? Chénier.

=N'importe=--No matter. Fr.

=N'oubliez=--Do not forget. M.

=Naboth was right to hold on to his home.= 40 =There were garnered memories that all the wealth of Ahab could not buy.= Ward Beecher.

=Nace en la huerta lo que no siembra el hortelano=--More grows in the garden than the gardener ever sowed there. Sp. Pr.

=Nach Canossa gehen wir nicht=--We are not going to Canossa (where Henry IV. humbled himself before the Pope). Bismarck.

=Nach Ehre geizt die Jugend; / Lass dich den Ehrgeiz nicht verführen=--Youth is covetous of honour; let not this covetousness seduce thee. Schiller.

=Nach Freiheit strebt der Mann, das Weib nach Sitte=--The man strives after freedom, the woman after good manners. Goethe.

=Nach Golde drängt, / Am Golde hängt, / Doch= 45 =alles. Ach, wir Armen!=--Yet after gold every one presses, on gold everything hangs. Alas! we poor ones. Goethe.

=Nach Gottes Wesenheit ist gar nicht dein Beruf zu forschen; forsche du nach Wesen, die er schuf=--Thou art not required to search into the nature of God, but into the nature of the beings which he has created. Rückert.

=Nacheifern ist beneiden=--To emulate is to envy. Lessing.

=Nachgeben stillt allen Krieg=--Yielding stills all war. Ger. Pr.

=Nacht muss es sein, wo Friedlands Sterne strahlen=--It must be night where Friedland's stars shine. Schiller.

=Næ amicum castigare ob meritam noxiam / Immune est facinus=--Verily, it is a thankless office to censure a friend for a fault when he deserves it. Plaut.

=Nae butter 'll stick to my bread,= i.e., no good fortune ever comes my way. Sc. Pr.

=Nae freen' like the penny.= Sc. Pr.

=Nae fules like auld fules.= Sc. Pr.

=Nae man can be happy without a friend, nor= 5 =be sure of him till he's unhappy.= Sc. Pr.

=Nae man can live at peace unless his neighbours let him.= Sc. Pr.

=Nae man can mak' his ain hap= (destiny). _Sc. Pr._

=Nae man can tether time or tide.= Burns.

=Nae man can thrive unless his wife will let him.= Sc. Pr.

=Nae man has a tack= (lease) =o' his life.= Sc. 10 Pr.

=Nae man is wise at a' times, nor wise on a' things.= Sc. Pr.

=Nae treasures nor pleasures / Could mak' us happy lang, / The heart aye's the part aye / That mak's us right or wrang.= Burns.

=Nae wonder ye're auld like; ilka thing fashes= (bothers) =ye.= Sc. Pr.

=Naething is a man's truly but what he cometh by duly.= Sc. Pr.

=Naething is got without pains but an ill name.= 15 Sc. Pr.

=Naething is got without pains except dirt and long nails.= Sc. Pr.

=Naething is ill said if it's no ill ta'en.= Sc. Pr.

=Nager entre deux eaux=--To waver between two parties. Fr.

=Naiv muss jedes wahre Genie sein, oder es ist keines=--Every true genius must be natural, or it is none. Schiller.

=Naked truth is out of place before the eyes of= 20 =the profane vulgar; it can only make its appearance thickly veiled.= Schopenhauer.

=Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body; and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open.= Bacon.

=Nam de mille fabæ modiis dum surripis unum, / Damnum est, non facinus mihi pacto lenius isto=--If from a thousand bushels of beans you steal one, my loss, it is true, is in this case less, but not your villany. Hor.

=Nam dives qui fieri vult, / Et cito vult fieri=--He who wishes to become rich wishes to become so quickly too. Juv.

=Nam ego illum periisse duco, cui quidem periit pudor=--I regard that man as lost who has lost his sense of shame. Plaut.

=Nam et majorum instituta tueri, sacris cerimoniisque= 25 =retinendis, sapientis est=--For it is the part of a wise man to protect the institutions of his forefathers by retaining the sacred rites and ceremonies.

=Nam neque divitibus contingunt gaudia solis, / Nec vixit male qui natus moriensque fefellit=--Joys do not fall to the rich alone; nor has he lived ill of whose birth and death no one took note. Hor.

=Nam nunc mores nihil faciunt quod licet, nisi quod lubet=--Nowadays it is the fashion to make nothing of what is proper, but only what is pleasant. Plaut.

=Nam pro jucundis aptissima quæque dabunt Di. / Carior est illis homo quam sibi=--The gods will give what is most suitable rather than what is most pleasing; man is dearer to them than he is to himself. Juv.

=Nam quæ inscitia est adversum stimulum calces=--It is the height of folly to kick against the pricks (lit. the goad). Ter.

=Nam quum magna malæ superest audacia= 30 =causæ, / Creditur a multis fiducia=--When great impudence comes to the help of a bad cause, it is taken by many for honest confidence. Juv.

=Nam scelus intra se tacitum qui cogitat ullum / Facti crimen habet=--He who secretly meditates a crime has all the guilt of the deed. Juv.

=Nam tua res agitur, paries cum proximus ardet!=--Your property is in peril surely if your neighbour's house is on fire! Hor.

=Nam vitiis nemo sine nascitur; optimus ille est, / Qui minimis urgetur=--No man is born without faults; he is the best who is influenced by the fewest. Hor.

=Namen nennen dich nicht! Dich bilden Griffel und Pinsel sterblicher Künstler nicht nach!=--Names do not name thee! Graver and pencil of mortal artist can give no idea of thee! Ueltzen.

=Names alter, things never alter.= Wm. Blake. 35

=Nane are so weel but they hope to be better.= Sc. Pr.

=Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the Absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.= Goethe.

=Napoleon, for the sake of a great name, broke in pieces almost half a world.= Goethe.

=Narrative is linear, but Action, having breadth and depth as well as length, is solid.= Carlyle.

=Narratur et prisci Catonis / Sæpe mero caluisse= 40 =virtus=--It is said that the virtue even of the elder Cato was often warmed by wine. Hor.

=Nascentes morimur, finisque ab origine pendet=--We are born but to die (lit. die in being born), and our end hangs on to our beginning. Manilius.

=Nascimur poetæ, fimus oratores=--We are born poets, we become orators. Cic.

=Natales grate numeras? ignoscis amicis? / Lenior et melior fis accedente senecta?=--Do you count your birthdays thankfully? forgive your friends? grow gentler and better with advancing age? Hor.

=Natio comœda est=--The nation is composed of actors. Juv.

=National character varies as it fades under invasion= 45 =or corruption; but if ever it glows again into a new life, that life must be tempered by the earth and sky of the country itself.= Ruskin. (?)

=National enthusiasm is the great nursery of genius.= Tuckermann.

=National suffering is, if thou wilt understand the words, verily a judgment of God; it has ever been preceded by national crime.= Carlyle.

=Nations and empires flourish and decay, / By turns command, and in their turn obey.= Dryden, after Ovid.

=Nations and men are only the best when they are the gladdest, and deserve heaven when they enjoy it.= Jean Paul.

=Nations are only transitional forms of humanity; they must undergo obliteration, as do the transitional forms offered by the animal series. There is no more an immortality for them than there is an immobility for an embryo or any one of the manifold forms passed through in its progress of development.= Draper.

=Nations, like individuals, are born, proceed through a predestined growth, and die. One comes to its end at an early period and in an untimely way; another, not until it has gained maturity. One is cut off by feebleness in its infancy, another is destroyed by civil disease, another commits political suicide, another lingers in old age. But for every one there is an orderly way of progress to its final term, whatever that term may be.= Draper.

=Natur und Kunst, sie scheinen sich zu fliehen, / Und haben sich, eh' man es denkt, gefunden=--Nature and art seem to shun each other, and have met (lit. found each other) ere one is aware. Goethe.

=Natura beatis / Omnibus esse dedit, si quis cognoverit uti=--Nature has granted to all to be happy, if we but knew how to use her gifts. Claud.

=Natura il fece, e poi roppe la stampa=--Nature 5 fashioned him, and then broke the mould. Ariost.

=Natura ipsa valere, et mentis viribus excitari, et quasi quodam divino spiritu afflari=--To be strong by nature, to be urged on by the native powers of the mind, and to be inspired by a divine spirit, as it were. Cic.

=Natura naturans=--Nature formative.

=Natura naturata=--Nature passive; nature formed.

=Natura nihil agit frustra=--Nature does nothing in vain.

=Natura non facit saltus=--Nature makes no 10 leaps.

=Natura, quam te colimus inviti quoque=--O Nature, how we bow to thee even against our will. Sen.

=Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.= Bacon.

=Natural abilities can almost make up for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation for want of natural abilities.= Schopenhauer.

=Natural knowledge is come at by the continuance and progress of learning and of liberty, and by particular persons attending to, comparing, and pursuing intimations scattered up and down it, which are overlooked and disregarded by the generality of the world.= Bishop Butler.

=Natural objects always did and do weaken,= 15 =deaden, and obliterate imagination in me.= Wm. Blake.

=Natural selection is the principle by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved.= Darwin.

=Naturalia non sunt turpia=--Natural things are without shame.

=Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret=--Drive Nature out with a pitchfork, she will every time come rushing back. Hor.

=Nature abhors a vacuum.= Pr.

=Nature admits no lie.= Carlyle. 20

=Nature acts towards us like an Oriental potentate with Mamelukes under him, whom he employs for some mysterious purpose, but to whom he never shows himself in person.= Renan.

=Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.= Carlyle.

=Nature alone is permanent.= Longfellow.

=Nature alone knows what she means.= Goethe.

=Nature always leaps to the surface, and manages= 25 =to show what she is.= Boileau.

=Nature always speaks of spirit.= Emerson.

=Nature always wears the colours of the spirit. To a man labouring under calamity the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it.= Emerson.

=Nature and art are too grand to go forth in pursuit of aims; nor is it necessary that they should, for there are relations everywhere, and relations constitute life.= Goethe.

=Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. It depends on the mood of the man whether he shall see the sunset or the fine poem.= Emerson.

=Nature and Heaven command you, at your= 30 =peril, to discern worth from unworth in everything, and most of all in man.= Ruskin.

=Nature and love cannot be concealed.= _Ger. Pr._

=Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night; / God said, "Let Newton be!" and all was light.= Pope.

=Nature and truth, though never so low or vulgar, are yet pleasing when openly and artlessly represented.= Pope.

=Nature builds upon a false bottom, seeks herself what she values in others, and is oftentimes deceived and disappointed. Grace reposes her whole hope and love in God, and is never mistaken, never deluded by false expectations.= Thomas à Kempis.

=Nature cannot be surprised in undress. Beauty= 35 =breaks in everywhere.= Emerson.

=Nature cannot but always act rightly, quite unconcerned as to what may be the consequences.= Goethe.

=Nature counts nothing that she meets with base, / But lives and loves in every place.= Tennyson.

=Nature, crescent, does not grow alone / In thews and bulk; but, as this temple waxes, / The inward service of the mind and soul / Grows wide withal.= Ham., i. 3.

=Nature does more than supply materials; she also supplies powers.= J. S. Mill.

=Nature does not cocker us; we are children,= 40 =not pets; she is not fond; everything is dealt to us without fear or favour, after severe, universal laws.= Emerson.

=Nature does not like to be observed, and likes that we should be her fools and playmates.= Emerson.

=Nature does not make all great men, more than all other men, in the self-same mould.= Carlyle.

=Nature draws with greater force than seven oxen.= Ger. Pr.

=Nature ever provides for her own exigencies.= Sen.

=Nature fashions no creature without implanting in it the strength needful for its action and duration.= Carlyle.

=Nature forces on our heart a Creator; history, a Providence.= Jean Paul.

=Nature gives healthy children much; how much! Wise education is a wise unfolding of this; often it unfolds itself better of its own accord.= Goethe.

=Nature gives you the impression as if there were nothing contradictory in the world; and yet, when you return back to the dwelling-place of man, be it lofty or low, wide or narrow, there is ever somewhat to contend with, to battle with, to smooth and put to rights.= Goethe.

=Nature glories in death more than in life. The= 5 =month of departure is more beautiful than the month of coming.... Every green thing loves to die in bright colours.= Ward Beecher.

=Nature goes her own way; and all that to us seems an exception, is really according to order.= Goethe.

=Nature had made occupation a necessity; society makes it a duty; habit may make it a pleasure.= Capelle.

=Nature has directly formed woman to be a mother, only indirectly to be a wife; man, on the contrary, is rather made to be a husband than a father.= Jean Paul.

=Nature has given to each one all that as a man he needs, which it is the business of education to develop, if, as most frequently happens, it does not develop better of itself.= Goethe.

=Nature has lent us tears--the cry of suffering= 10 =when the man at last can bear it no longer.= Goethe.

=Nature has made man's breast no windows / To publish what he does within doors, / Nor what dark secrets there inhabit, / Unless his own rash folly blab it.= Butler.

=Nature has made provision for all her children; the meanest is not hindered in its existence even by that of the most excellent.= Goethe.

=Nature has no feeling; the sun gives his light to good and bad alike, and moon and stars shine out for the worst of men as for the best.= Goethe.

=Nature has no moods; they belong to man alone.= Auerbach.

=Nature has planted passions in the heart of= 15 =man for the wisest purposes both of religion and life.= Fox.

=Nature has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of man's own making.= Addison.

=Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time. / Some that will evermore peep through their eyes / And laugh like parrots at a bagpiper; / And other of such vinegar aspect / That they'll not show their teeth in way of smile, / Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable.= Mer. of Venice, i. 1.

=Nature hath made nothing so base but can / Read some instruction to the wisest man.= Aleyn.

=Nature here shows art, / That through thy bosom makes me see thy heart.= Mid. N. Dream, ii. 8.

=Nature holds an immense uncollected debt= 20 =over every man's head.= Ward Beecher.

=Nature in women is so nearly allied to art.= Goethe.

=Nature in you stands on the very verge / Of her confine.= King Lear, ii. 4.

=Nature is a friend to truth.= Young.

=Nature is a frugal mother, and never gives without measure.= Emerson.

=Nature is a mutable cloud, which is always= 25 =and never the same.= Emerson.

=Nature is a Sibyl, who testifies beforehand to what has been determined from all eternity, and was not to be realised till late in time.= Goethe.

=Nature is a vast trope, and all particular natures are tropes.= Emerson.

=Nature is always kind enough to give even her clouds a humorous lining.= Lowell.

=Nature is always lavish, even prodigal.= Goethe.

=Nature is always like herself.= Linnæus. 30

=Nature is always mysterious.= Ward.

=Nature is always right, and most profoundly so= (am gründlichsten) =just there where we least comprehend her.= Goethe.

=Nature is an Æolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.= Novalis.

=Nature is avariciously frugal; in matter it allows no atom to elude her grasp; in mind no thought or feeling to perish. It gathers up the fragments that nothing be lost.= Dr. Thomas.

=Nature is beyond all teaching.= Pr. 35

=Nature is but a name for an effect whose cause is God.= Cowper.

=Nature is commanded by obeying her.= Bacon.

=Nature is content with little, grace with less, but lust with nothing.= Matthew Henry.

=Nature is despotic, and will not be fooled or abated of any jot of her authority by the pertest of her sons.= Emerson.

=Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old= 40 =head on young shoulders, and then a young heart beating under fourscore winters.= Emerson.

=Nature is good, but intellect is better, as the lawgiver is before the law-receiver.= Emerson.

=Nature is good, but she is not the best.= Carlyle.

=Nature is indeed adequate to Fear, but to Reverence not adequate.= Goethe.

=Nature is just towards men. It recompenses them for their sufferings; it renders them laborious, because to the greatest toils it attaches the greatest rewards.= Montesquieu.

=Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest= 45 =way to her ends.= Emerson.

=Nature is not an Aggregate but a Whole.= Carlyle.

=Nature is not fixed, but fluid; spirit alters, moulds, makes it.= Emerson.

=Nature is rich; those two eggs you ate to breakfast this morning might, if hatched, have peopled the world with poultry.= Carlyle.

=Nature is sometimes subdued, but seldom extinguished.= Bacon.

=Nature is still the grand agent in making= 50 =poets.= Carlyle.

=Nature is the art of God.= Sir Thomas Browne.

=Nature is the best posture-master.= Emerson.

=Nature is the immense shadow of man.= Emerson.

=Nature is the living, visible garment of God.= Goethe.

=Nature is the only book that teems with meaning on every page.= Goethe.

=Nature knows how to convert evil to good; Nature utilises misers, fanatics, showmen, egotists to accomplish her ends; but we must not think better of the foible for that.= Emerson.

=Nature knows no equality; her sovereign= 5 =law is subordination and dependence.= Vauvenargues.

=Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.= Goethe.

=Nature listening stood whilst Shakespeare play'd, / And wonder'd at the work herself had made.= Churchill.

=Nature made every fop to plague his brother, / Just as one beauty mortifies another.= Pope.

=Nature makes us vagabonds, the world makes us respectable.= Alexander Smith.

=Nature meant to make woman her masterpiece,= 10 =but committed a mistake in the choice of the clay; she took it too fine.= Lessing.

=Nature must obey necessity.= Jul. Cæs., iv. 3.

=Nature, mysterious even under the light of day, is not to be robbed of her veil; and what she does not choose to reveal you will not extort from her with levers and screws.= Goethe.

=Nature needs little, fancy= (Wahn) =much.= _Gr. Pr._

=Nature never did betray / The heart that loved her.= Wordsworth.

=Nature never hurries; atom by atom, little= 15 =by little, she achieves her work.= Emerson.

=Nature never made an unkind creature; ill-usage and bad habits have deformed a fair and lovely creation.= Sterne.

=Nature never sends a great man into the planet without confiding the secret to another soul.= Emerson.

=Nature owns no man who is not a martyr withal.= Carlyle.

=Nature passes nurture.= Pr.

=Nature respects race and not hybrids.= Knox. 20

=Nature sent women into the world that they might be mothers and love children, to whom sacrifices must ever be offered, and from whom none can be obtained.= Jean Paul.

=Nature smiles as sweet, I ween, / To shepherds as to kings.= Burns.

=Nature stretches out her arms to embrace man; only let his thoughts be of equal greatness.= Emerson.

=Nature, study, and practice must combine to ensure proficiency in any art.= Arist.

=Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdom= 25 =which cannot help itself.= Emerson.

=Nature takes as much pains in the forming of a beggar as an emperor.= Pr.

=Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.= Cor.

=Nature transcends all our moods of thought, and its secret we do not yet find.= Emerson.

=Nature trips us up when we strut.= Emerson.

=Nature understands no jesting; she is always= 30 =true, always serious, always severe; she is always right, and the errors and faults are always those of man. Him who is incapable of appreciating her she despises, and only to the apt, the pure, and the true, does she resign herself and reveal her secrets.= Goethe.

="Nature veils God," but what I see of Him in nature is not veiled.= Goethe.

=Nature, which is the Time-vesture of God, and reveals Him to the wise, hides Him from the foolish.= Carlyle.

=Nature will not be Buddhist; she resents generalising, and insults the philosopher in every moment with a million of fresh particulars.= Emerson.

=Nature without discipline is of small force, and discipline without nature more feeble.= John Lily.

=Nature without learning is like a blind man;= 35 =learning without Nature, like a maimed one; practice without both, incomplete.= Plutarch.

=Nature works after such eternal, necessary, divine laws, that the Deity himself could alter nothing in them.= Goethe, after Spinoza.

=Nature works on the method of all for each and each for all.= Emerson.

=Nature works very hard, and only hits the white once in a million throws. In mankind, she is contented if she yields one master in a century.= Emerson.

=Nature's above art.= Lear, iv. 6.

=Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.= 40 Duke of Buckingham.

=Nature's shadows are ever varying.= _Wm. Blake._

=Nature's tears are Reason's merriment.= Rom. and Jul., iv. 5.

=Natures that have much heat, and great and violent desires and perturbations, are not ripe for action till they have passed the meridian of their years.= Bacon.

=Natürlicher Verstand kann fast jeden Grad von Bildung ersetzen, aber keine Bildung den natürlichen Verstand=--Natural intelligence may make up almost every step in culture, but no culture make up for natural intelligence. Schopenhauer.

=Natus nemo=--Not a born soul. Plaut. 45

=Natus sum; esuriebam, quærebam; nunc repletas requiesco=--I was born; I felt hungry, and sought for food; now that I am satiated, I lay me down to rest.

=Naufragium in portu facere=--To make shipwreck in port. Quinct.

=Nay! evermore, / All things and thoughts, both new and old, are writ / Upon the unchanging human heart and soul.= Lewis Morris.

=Nay, let us seek at home to find / Fit harvest for the brooding mind, / And find, since thus the world grows fair, / Duty and pleasure everywhere.= Lewis Morris.

=Nay, that's past praying for.= 1 Henry IV., 50 ii. 4.

=Nay, then, farewell! / I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness, / And, from that full meridian of my glory, / I haste now to my setting: I shall fall / Like a bright exhalation in the evening, / And no man see me more.= Wolsey, in Hen. VIII., iii. 2.

=Ne Æsopum quidem trivit=--He is a backward pupil (lit. he has not yet thumbed Æsop).

=Ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito=--Yield not to misfortunes, but rather go more boldly to meet them. Virg.

=Ne depugnes in alieno negotio=--Do not take up the cudgels in another man's affairs. Pr.

=Ne exeat regno=--Let him not go out of the kingdom. (A writ to prevent a person leaving the country). L.

=Ne faut-il que délibérer? / La cour en conseillers= 5 =foisonne: / Est-il besoin d'exécuter? / L'on ne rencontre personne=--Is a matter to be discussed? the council chamber is full of advisers. Is there something to be done? the chamber is empty. La Font.

=Ne forçons point notre talent; / Nous ne ferions rien avec grâce=--Let us not force our faculty; we shall in that case do nothing to good effect. La Font.

=Ne fronti crede=--Trust not to appearances.

=Ne Hercules quidem contra duos=--Not even Hercules could contend against two at once.

=Ne Jupiter quidem omnibus placet=--Not even Jupiter can please everybody. Pr.

=Ne nimium=--Not too much. M. 10

=Ne obliviscaris=--Do not forget. M.

=Ne plus ultra=--What cannot be surpassed; perfection (lit. no more beyond).

=Né pour la digestion=--Born merely to consume good things. La Bruyère.

=Ne quid detrimenti respublica capiat=--See that the commonwealth suffer no detriment.

=Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non= 15 =audeat=--Let him not dare to say anything that is false, nor let him dare to say what is not true. Cic.

=Ne quid nimis=--Let there be no excess. M.

=Ne sutor supra crepidam=--Let the cobbler stick to his last. Pliny.

=Ne te longis ambagibus ultra / Quam satis est morer=--To make a long story short (lit. not to detain you by long digressions more than enough). Hor.

=Ne te quæsiveris extra=--Seek not thyself outside of thyself.

=Ne tempora perde precando=--Lose not the time 20 that offers itself by praying. Ovid.

=Ne tentes, aut perfice=--Either attempt not, or go through with it. M.

=Ne vile fano=--Bring nothing base to the temple. M.

=Ne vile velis=--Incline to nothing vile. M.

=Near and far do not belong to the eternal world, which is not of space and time.= Carlyle.

=Near is my shirt, but nearer is my skin.= 25 Pr.

=Nearer the kirk the farther frae grace.= _Sc. Pr._

=Nearly all our powerful men in this age of the world are unbelievers; the best of them in doubt and misery; the plurality in plodding hesitation, doing, as well as they can, what practical work lies ready to their hands.= Ruskin.

=Neat, not gaudy.= Charles Lamb.

=Nec aspera terrent=--Not even hardships deter us. M.

=Nec caput nec pedes=--In confusion; neither 30 head nor tail. Pr.

=Nec cui de te plusquam tibi credas=--Do not believe any man more than yourself about yourself. Pr.

=Nec cupias, nec metuas=--Neither desire nor fear. M.

=Nec deus intersit, nisi dignus vindice nodus=--Never let a god interfere unless a difficulty arise worthy of a god's interposition. Hor.

=Nec domo dominus, sed domino domus honestanda est=--The master should not be graced by the mansion, but the mansion by the master. Cic.

=Nec est ad astra mollis e terris via=--The 35 way from the earth to the stars is no soft one. Sen.

=Nec habeo, nec careo, nec curo=--I neither have, nor want, nor care. M.

=Nec lusisse pudet, sed non incidere ludum=--There is no shame in having led a wild life, but in not breaking it off. Hor.

=Nec male notus eques=--A knight of good repute. M.

=Nec meus audet / Rem tentare pudor, quam vires ferre recusent=--My modesty does not permit me to essay a thing which my powers are not equal to accomplish. Virg.

=Nec minor est virtus, quam quærere, parta= 40 =tueri: / Casus inest illic; hic erit artis opus=--It is no less merit to keep what you have got than to gain it. In the one there is chance; the other will be a work of art. Ovid.

=Nec mora, nec requies=--Neither delay nor cessation. Virg.

=Nec morti esse locum=--There is no room for death. Ovid.

=Nec obolum habet unde restim emat=--He hasn't a penny left to buy a halter. Pr.

=Nec omnia, nec semper, nec ab omnibus=--Neither all, nor always, nor by all.

=Nec placida contentus quiete est=--Nor is he 45 contented with quiet repose. M.

=Nec pluribus impar=--Not an unequal match for numbers. M.

=Nec prece nec pretio=--Neither by entreaty nor by a bribe. M.

=Nec, quæ præteriit, iterum revocabitur unda; / Nec, quæ præteriit, hora redire potest=--Neither can the wave which has passed by be again recalled, nor can the hour which has passed ever return. Ovid.

=Nec quærere nec spernere honorem=--Neither to seek nor to despise honours. M.

=Nec regi nec populo, sed utrique=--Neither for 50 king nor for people, but for both. M.

=Nec scire fas est omnia=--It is not permitted us to know all things. Hor.

=Nec si non obstatur propterea etiam permittitur=--That an act is not prohibited, it does not follow that it is permitted. Cic.

=Nec sibi, sed toti genitum se credere mundo=--To think that he was born not for himself alone, but for the whole world. Lucan.

=Nec soli cedit=--He yields not even to the sun. M.

=Nec temere nec timide=--Neither rashly nor 55 timidly. M.

=Nec tibi quid liceat, sed quid fecisse decebit / Occurrat=--And let it not concern you what you may do, but what you ought to do. Claud.

=Nec timeo, nec sperno=--I neither fear nor despise. M.

=Nec Veneris pharetris macer est, aut lampade fervet: / Inde faces ardent, veniunt a dote sagittæ=--He is not made thin by Venus' quiver, nor does he burn with her torch; it is from this that his fires are fed, from her dowry the arrows come. Juv.

=Nec verbum verbo curabis reddere fidus / Interpres=--Nor, as a faithful translator, should you be careful to render the original word for word. Hor.

=Nec vidisse semel satis est, juvat usque morari, / Et conferre gradum, et veniendi discere causas=--Nor is it enough to have once seen him; they are delighted to linger near him, and to keep step with him, and to learn the reason of his coming. Virg.

=Nec vultu destrue dicta tuo=--Do not discredit your words by your looks. Ovid.

=Necessary patience in seeking the Lord is= 5 =better than he that leadeth his life without a guide.= Ecclus.

=Necesse est cum insanientibus furere, nisi solus relinqueris=--You must be mad with the insane unless you wish to be left quite alone. Petronius.

=Necesse est ut multos timeat, quem multi timent=--He whom many fear must necessarily fear many. Syr.

=Necessità 'l c' induce, e non diletto=--Necessity, not pleasure, brings him here. Dante.

=Necessitas non habet legem=--Necessity has no law.

=Necessity does everything well.= Emerson. 10

=Necessity is cruel, but it is the only test of inward strength. Every fool may live according to his own likings.= Goethe.

=Necessity is the mistress of the arts.= Pr.

=Necessity is the mother of invention.= Pr.

=Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants, it is the creed of slaves.= William Pitt.

=Necessity makes even cowards brave.= Pr. 15

=Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety the rich.= Tac.

=Necessity unites hearts.= Ger. Pr.

=Necessity urges desperate measures.= Cervantes.

=Necio es quien piensa que otros no piensan=--He is a fool who thinks that others don't think. Sp. Pr.

=Need mak's an auld wife trot.= Sc. Pr. 20

=Needles and pins, needles and pins! / When a man marries his trouble begins.= Pr.

=Needs must when the devil drives.= Sc. Pr.

=Ne'er grudge and carp, / Though fortune use you hard and sharp.= Burns.

=Ne'er let your gear owergang ye=, i.e., never let your wealth get the better of you. Sc. Pr.

=Ne'er linger, ne'er o'erhasty be, / For time= 25 =moves on with measured foot.= Goethe.

=Ne'er put a sword in a wud man's= (a madman's) =hand.= Sc. Pr.

=Ne'er tak' a wife till ye ken what to do wi' her.= Sc. Pr.

=Ne'er the rose without the thorn.= Herrick.

=Ne'er trust muckle to an auld enemy or a new freend.= Sc. Pr.

=Neglecta solent incendia sumere vires=--A fire, 30 if neglected, always gathers in strength. Hor.

=Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves.= Feltham.

=Negligere quid de se quisque sentiat, non solum arrogantis est, sed omnino dissoluti=--To be careless of what others think of us, not only indicates an arrogant, but an utterly abandoned character. Cic.

=Nehmt die Gottheit auf in euren Willen, / Und sie steigt von ihrem Weltenthron=--Take the divine up into your will, and she descends from her world-throne. Schiller.

=Nehmt die Stimmung wahr, / Denn sie kommt so selten=--Take advantage of the right mood, for it comes so seldom. Goethe.

=Neid zu fühlen, ist menschlich; Schadenfreude= 35 =zu geniessen, teuflisch=--To feel envy is human; to joy in mischief is devilish. Schopenhauer.

=Neither a borrower nor a lender be; / For loan oft loses both itself and friend.= Ham., i. 3.

=Neither borrow money of a neighbour nor a friend, but of a stranger, where, paying for it, thou shalt hear no more of it.= Lord Burleigh.

=Neither crow nor croak.= Pr.

=Neither exalt your pleasures, nor aggravate your vexations, beyond their real and natural state.= Johnson.

=Neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder / Shall= 40 =wholly do away, I ween, / The marks of that which once hath been.= Coleridge.

=Neither hew down the whole forest, nor come home without wood.= Serv. Pr.

=Neither lead nor drive.= Pr.

=Neither our virtues nor vices are all our own.= Johnson.

=Neither painting nor fighting feed men; nor can capital, in the form of money or machinery, feed them.= Ruskin.

=Neither praise nor blame is the object of true= 45 =criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award--these are the true aims and duties of criticism.= Simms.

=Neither rhyme nor reason.= Shakespeare.

=Neither seek nor shun the fight.= Gael. Pr.

=Neither sign a paper without reading it, nor drink water without seeing it.= Sp. Pr.

=Neither wise men nor fools / Can work without tools.= Pr.

=Neither woman nor man, nor any kind of creature= 50 =in the universe, was born for the exclusive, or even the chief, purpose of falling in love or being fallen in love with.... Except the zoophytes and coral insects of the Pacific Ocean, I am acquainted with no creature with whom it is the one or grand object.= Carlyle.

=Neither women nor linen by candlelight.= Pr.

[Greek: Nekros ou daknei]--A dead man doesn't bite. Plutarch.

=Nem. con.=, abbrev. for =Nemine contradicente=--Nobody opposing.

=Nem. diss.=, abbrev. for =Nemine dissentiente=--Same as above.

=Nemesis checks, with cubit-rule and bridle, /= 55 =Immoderate deeds, and boastings rash and idle.= Anon.

=Nemesis is lame, but she is of colossal stature, like the gods.= George Eliot.

=Nemo allegans suam turpitudinem audiendus est=--No one testifying to his own baseness ought to be heard. L.

=Nemo dat quod non habet=--Nobody can give what he does not legally possess. L.

=Nemo debet bis puniri pro uno delicto=--No man shall be twice punished for the same offence. L.

=Nemo debet bis vexari pro una et eadem causa=--No one shall be molested twice for one and the same cause. L.

=Nemo debet esse judex in propria causa=--No 5 one ought to be judge in his own cause. L.

=Nemo doctus mutationem consilii inconstantiam dixit esse=--No sensible man ever charged one with inconstancy who had merely changed his opinion. Cic.

=Nemo est tam senex qui se annum non putat posse vivere=--There is no man so old as not to think he may live a year longer. Cic.

=Nemo ex proprio dolo consequitur actionem=--No man can sue at law upon his own fraud. L.

=Nemo impetrare potest a papa bullam nunquam moriendi=--No man can ever obtain from the Pope a dispensation from death. Thomas à Kempis.

=Nemo ita pauper vivit, quam pauper natus est=--No 10 one is so poor in life as he was when he was at birth.

=Nemo læditur nisi a seipso=--No man is harmed but by himself. Pr.

=Nemo malus felix, minime corruptor=--No bad man is happy, least of all a seducer. Juv.

=Nemo mathematicus genium indemnatus habebit=--No astronomer will be held a genius until he is condemned. Juv.

=Nemo me impune lacessit=--No one provokes me with impunity. M. of Scotland.

=Nemo mortalium omnibus horis sapit=--No man 15 is wise at all moments.

=Nemo patriam in qua natus est exuere nec ligeantiæ debitum ejurare possit=--No one can cast off his native country or abjure his allegiance to his sovereign. L.

=Nemo potest mutare consilium suum in alterius injuriam=--No one can change what he proposes to enact to the damage of another. L.

=Nemo potest nudo vestimenta detrahere=--You cannot strip a garment off a naked man. Pr.

=Nemo potest personam diu ferre fictam=--No one can play a feigned part long. Sen.

=Nemo præsumitur alienam posteritatem suæ= 20 =prætulisse=--No one is presumed to have preferred another's offspring to his own. L.

=Nemo punitur pro alieno delicto=--No one must be punished for the fault of another. L.

=Nemo quam bene vivat, sed quamdiu, curat: quum omnibus possit contingere ut bene vivat, ut diu nulli=--No one concerns himself with how well he should live, only how long: while none can count upon living long, all have the chance of living well. Sen.

=Nemo repente fuit turpissimus=--No man ever became extremely wicked all at once. Juv.

=Nemo sibi nascitur=--No one is born for himself. Pr.

=Nemo solus sapit=--No man is wise by himself. 25 Plaut.

=Nemo tenetur se ipsum accusare=--No one is held bound to criminate himself. L.

=Nemo vir magnus sine aliquo afflatu divino unquam fuit=--There never was a great man who had not some divine inspiration. Cic.

[Greek: Nêpioi, oud' isasin hosô pleon hêmisy pantos]--Fools, they don't even know how much half is more than the whole. Hesiod, from Pittacus.

=Nequaquam satis in re una consumere curam=--It is by no means enough to spend all our care on a single object. Hor.

=Neque culpa neque lauda teipsum=--Neither 30 blame nor praise yourself.

=Neque fœmina, amissa pudicitia, alia abnuerit=--When a woman has once lost her chastity, she will shrink from nothing. Tac.

=Neque mala vel bona quæ vulgus putet=--Things are not to be judged either good or bad merely because the public think so. Tac.

=Neque opinione sed natura constitutum est jus=--Not in opinion, but in nature is law founded. Cic.

=Neque quies gentium sine armis neque arma sine stipendiis neque stipendia sine tributis haberi queunt=--The quiet of nations cannot be maintained without arms, nor can arms be maintained without pay, nor pay without taxation. Tac.

=Neque semper arcum / Tendit Apollo=--Apollo does not always keep his bow bent. Hor.

=Nequicquam sapit qui sibi non sapit=--He is wise to no purpose who is not wise for himself. Pr.

=Nervus rerum=--The sinews of things.

=Nescia mens hominum fati sortisque futuræ, / Et servare modum, rebus sublata secundis=--Man knows not the lot appointed him, and he cannot keep within bounds when elated by prosperity. Virg.

=Nescio qua natale solum dulcedine captos / Ducit, et immemores non sinit esse sui=--I know not by what sweet charm our native soil attracts us to it, and does not suffer us ever to forget it. Ovid.

=Nescio qua præter solitum dulcedine læti=--Elated 40 beyond usual by some unaccountable delight. Virg.

=Nescire autem quid antea quam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum. Quid enim est ætas hominis, nisi memoria rerum veterum cum superioribus contexitur?=--To be unacquainted with events which took place before you were born, is to be always a child; for where is human life if the memory fails to connect past events with others before? Cic.

=Nescis tu quam meticulosa res sit ire ad judicem=--You little know what a frightful thing it is to go to law. Plaut.

=Nescit vox missa reverti=--A word once uttered can never be recalled. Hor.

=Nessun maggior dolore / Che ricordarsi del tempo felice / Nella miseria=--There is no greater woe than the recollection in the midst of misery of happy days bygone. Dante.

=Nessuno nasce maestro=--No one is born a 45 master. It. Pr.

=Neu Regiment bringt neue Menschen auf, / Und früheres Verdienst veraltet schnell=--A new administration of affairs raises up new men, and qualifications formerly of service become soon antiquated. Schiller.

=Neutral men are the devil's allies.= Chapin.

=Never a tear bedims the eye / That time and patience will not dry; / Never a lip is curved in pain / That can't be kissed into smiles again.= Bret Harte.

=Never anger / Made good guard for itself.= Ant. and Cleo., iv. 1.

=Never anything can be amiss / When simpleness and duty tender it.= Mid. N.'s Dream, v. 1.

=Never ask a favour of a man until he has had his dinner.= Punch.

=Never be afraid to doubt, if only you have the disposition to believe.= Leighton.

=Never bray at an ass.= Pr. 5

=Never burn your fingers to snuff another man's candle.= Pr.

=Never buy a pig in a poke.= Pr.

=Never by reflection, only by doing what it lies on him to do, is self-knowledge possible to any man.= Goethe.

=Never cackle till your egg is laid.= Pr.

=Never confuse a myth with a lie.... The= 10 =thoughts of all the greatest and wisest men hitherto have been expressed through mythology.= Ruskin.

=Never deal in mistakes; they aye bring mischances.= Scott.

=Never deceive a friend.= Hipparchus.

=Never desire to appear clever and make a show of your talents before men. Be honest, loving, kindly, and sympathetic in all you say and do. Cleverness will flow from you naturally if you have it, and applause will come to you unsought from those who know what to applaud; but the applause of fools is to be shunned.= Prof. Blackie to young men.

=Never despise the day of small things.= Pr.

=Never disregard what your enemies say.= B. 15 R. Haydon.

=Never do anything of the rectitude of which you have a doubt.= Pliny.

=Never do that by proxy which you can do yourself.= It. Pr.

=Never do things by halves.= Pr.

=Never durst poet touch a pen to write / Until his ink were temper'd with love's sighs; / O, then his lines would ravish savage ears, / And plant in tyrants mild humility.= _Love's L. Lost_, iv. 3.

=Never elated when one man's oppress'd; /= 20 =Never dejected while anothers bless'd.= Pope.

=Never fall out with your bread and butter.= Pr.

=Never find fault with the absent.= Pr.

=Never fish in troubled waters.= Pr.

=Never forget St. Paul's sentence, "Love is the fulfilling of the law." This is the steam of the social machine; but the steam requires regulation; it is regulated by intelligence and moderation.= Prof. Blackie to young men.

=Never fry a fish till it's caught.= Pr. 25

=Never give up the ship.= Pr.

=Never grudge a penny for a pennyworth.= Pr.

=Never grumble nor mumble.= Pr.

=Never hang a man twice for one offence.= Pr.

=Never have an idle hour, or an idle pound.= Pr. 30

=Never hold a candle to the devil.= Pr.

=Never indulge the notion that you have any absolute right to choose the sphere or the circumstances in which you are to put forth your powers of social action.= Prof. Blackie to young men.

=Never is a lang term.= Sc. Pr.

=Never is a long day.= Pr.

=Never king dropped out of the clouds.= Power. 35

=Never lean on a broken staff.= Pr.

=Never leave a certainty for an uncertainty.= Pr.

=Never leave that till to-morrow which you can do to-day.= Ben. Franklin.

=Never let any one see the bottom of your purse or your mind.= It. Pr.

=Never let Fortune be thy mistress, nor Misfortune= 40 =thy maid.= Bodenstedt.

=Never let us be discouraged with ourselves. It is not when we are conscious of our faults that we are the most wicked; on the contrary, we are less so.= Fénelon.

=Never let your zeal outrun your charity; the former is but human, the latter is divine.= Ballou.

=Never look a gift-horse in the mouth.= Pr.

=Never look for a knot in a bulrush.= Pr.

=Never look for birds of this year in the nests= 45 =of the last.= Cervantes.

=Never make a jest of any Scripture expressions.= Judge Hale.

=Never meet trouble half way.= Pr.

=Never mind the future: be what you ought to be; the rest is God's affair.= Amiel.

=Never mind who was your grandfather. What are you?= Pr.

=Never morning wore / To evening, but some= 50 =heart did break.= Tennyson.

=Never neglect small matters and expenses.= It. Pr.

=Never offer to teach fish to swim.= Pr.

=Never preach beyond your experience.= Pr.

=Never put your arm out farther than you can draw it back again.= Scott.

=Never put your hand into a wasp's nest.= Pr. 55

=Never read borrowed books. To be without books of your own is the abyss of penury. Don't endure it. And when you have to buy them, you'll think whether they're worth reading; which you had better, on all accounts.= Ruskin to a young boy.

=Never repeat old grievances.= Pr.

=Never risk a joke, even the least offensive in its nature and the most common, with a person who is not well-bred, and possessed of sense to comprehend it.= La Bruyère.

=Never say die! / Up, man, and try!= Pr.

=Never say of another what you would not have= 60 =him hear.= Pr.

=Never seek to tell thy love, / Love that never told can be, / For the gentle wind doth move / Silently, invisibly.= Wm. Blake.

=Never shirk the hardest work.= Pr.

=Never sigh, but send.= Pr.

=Never since Aaron's rod went out of practice, or even before it, was there such a wonder-working tool as a pen; greater than all recorded miracles have been performed by pens.= Carlyle.

=Never speak ill of those whose bread you eat.= 65 Pr.

=Never speak of love with scorn; / Such were direst treason; / Love was made for eve and morn, / And for every season.= C. Kent.

=Never spur a willing horse.= Pr.

=Never stint soap and water.= Pr.

=Never swap horses while crossing a stream.= Pr.

=Never talk half a minute without pausing and giving others an opportunity to strike in.= Sydney Smith.

=Never tell in the parlour what you heard in the kitchen.= Pr.

=Never tell your resolution before-hand.= Wisdom. 5

=Never that I could in searching find out, has man been, by time which devours much, deprived of any faculty whatsoever that he in any era was possessed of.= Carlyle.

=Never throw a hen's egg at a sparrow.= Pr.

=Never till now did young men, and almost children, take such a command in human affairs.= Carlyle.

=Never title yet so mean could prove, / But there was eke a mind which did that title love.= Shenstone.

=Never too old to turn; never too late to learn.= 10 Pr.

=Never trouble yourself with trouble till trouble troubles you.= Pr.

=Never trust a wolf with the care of lambs.= Pr.

=Never try to prove what nobody doubts.= Pr.

=Never venture all in one bottom.= Pr.

=Never was scraper= (miser) =brave man.= Herbert. 15

=Never waste pains on bad ground; let it remain rough. Though properly looked after and cared for, it will be of best service so.= Ruskin.

=Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure; emotion is easily propagated from the writer to the reader.= Joubert.

=Never write on a subject without having first read yourself full on it; and never read on a subject till you have thought yourself hungry on it.= Richter.

=Never write what you dare not sign.= Pr.

=Never yet created eye / Could see across eternity.= 20 Keble.

=Never yet has it been our fortune to fall in with any man of genius whose conclusions did not correspond better with his premises, and not worse, than those of other men; whose genius, once understood, did not manifest itself in a deeper, fuller, truer view of all things human and divine, than the clearest of your so-called laudable "practical men" had claim to.= Carlyle.

=Never yet, since the proud selfish race / Of men began to jar, did passion give, / Nor can it ever give, a right decision.= Thomson.

=Never yet / Was noble man but made ignoble talk.= Tennyson.

=New acquests are more burden than strength.= Bacon.

=New brooms sweep clean.= Pr. 25

=New, daring, and inspiring ideas are engendered only in a clear head over a glowing heart, as the richest wines grow over the volcanoes.= F. Jacobs.

=New laws, new frauds.= Pr.

=New lords, new laws.= Pr.

=New-made honour doth forget men's names; / 'Tis too respective and too sociable, / For your conversion.= King John, i. 1.

=New presbyter is but old priest writ large.= 30 Milton.

=New religion! We already, in our dim heads, know truths (of religion) by the thousand; and, yet in our dead hearts, we will not perform them by the ten, by the unit.= Carlyle.

=New scenes impress new ideas, enrich the imagination, and enlarge the power of reason.= Johnson.

=Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment.= Charles Lamb.

=Next in importance to the matter of books are their titles.= Davies.

="Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as= 35 =a battle that has been won."= Wellington, after Waterloo.

=Next to Christmas Day the most pleasant annual epoch in existence is the advent of the New Year.= Dickens.

=Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.= Thackeray.

=Next to nae wife, a gude wife is the best.= Sc. Pr.

=Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.= Bacon.

=Next to the assumption of power is the responsibility= 40 =of relinquishing it.= Disraeli.

=Next to the consciousness of doing a good action, that of doing a civil one is the most pleasing.= Chesterfield.

=Next to the gods, of all man's possessions his soul is the mightiest, being the most his own.= Plato.

=Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.= Emerson.

=Next to the satisfaction I receive in the prosperity of an honest man, I am best pleased with the confusion of a rascal.= (?)

=Next to theology I give to music the highest= 45 =place and honour; and we see how David and all the saints have wrought their godly thoughts into verse, rhyme, and song.= Luther.

=Ni l'or ni la grandeur ne nous rendent heureux=--Neither wealth nor greatness render us happy. La Font.

=Ni l'un ni l'autre=--Neither the one nor the other. Fr.

=Ni trop haut, ni trop bas; c'est le souverain style=--Neither too high nor too low, that is the sovereign rule.

=Nice distinctions are out of the question upon occasions like those of speech, which return every hour.= Paley, upon lying.

=Nicht alle sind Diebe, die der Hund anbellt=--All 50 are not thieves whom the dog barks at. Ger. Pr.

=Nicht alles Wünschenswerte ist erreichbar; nicht alles Erkennenswerte ist erkennbar=--Not everything that is desirable is attainable, and not everything that is worth knowing is knowable. Goethe.

=Nicht an die Güter hänge dein Herz, / Die das Leben vergänglich zieren! / Wer besitzt, der lerne verlieren; / Wer im Glück ist, der lerne den Schmerz!=--Let not thy heart cling to the things which for so short a time deck out thy life. Let him who has, learn to lose, and him who is happy, familiarise himself with what may give pain. Schiller.

=Nicht der Besitz, nur das Enthüllen, / Das leise Finden nur ist süss=--Not the possession, only the unveiling and quietly finding out is sweet. Tiedge.

=Nicht der ist auf der Welt verwaist, / Dessen Vater und Mutter gestorben, / Sondern der für Herz und Geist / Keine Lieb' und kein Wissen erworben=--Not he whose father and mother are dead is orphaned in the world, but he who has won for heart and mind no love and no knowledge. Rückert.

=Nicht die Kinder bloss speist man / Mit Märchen ab=--It is not children merely that are put off with stories. Lessing.

=Nicht draussen im Strudel verrauschender Lust / Erwarte, das Glück dir zu finden: / Die Seligkeit wohnt in der eigenen Brust, / Hier musst du sie ewig begründen!=--Think not to find thy happiness out there in the whirl of riotous pleasure. Thy blessedness dwells in thy own breast; here must thou for ever establish it. Heine.

=Nicht grösseren Vortheil wüsst' ich zu nennen /= 5 =Als des Feindes Verdienst erkennen=--I know not a greater advantage than a due appreciation of the worth of an enemy. Goethe.

=Nicht immer am besten erfahren ist, / Wer am ältesten an Jahren ist, / Und wer am meisten gelitten hat, / Nicht immer die besten Sitten hat!=--He who is oldest in years is not always the best experienced, and he who has suffered most has not always the best morals. Bodenstedt.

=Nicht immer macht das Kleid den Mann=--Clothes do not always make the man. Zachariæ.

=Nicht in die ferne Zeit verliere dich! / Den Augenblick ergreife, der ist dein=--Lose not thyself in a far-off time. Seize thou the moment that is thine. Schiller.

=Nicht in kalten Marmorsteinen, / Nicht in Tempeln dumpf und tot, / In den frischen Eichenhainen / Webt und rauscht der deutsche Gott=--Not in cold marble stones, not in temples damp and dead, but in fresh oak-groves weaves and rustles the German God. Uhland.

=Nicht jede Besserung ist Tugend=--Not every 10 improvement is virtue. Gellert.

=Nicht Kunst and Wissenschaft allein, / Geduld will bei dem Werke sein=--Not art and science only, but patience will be required for the work. Goethe.

=Nicht Rosen bloss, auch Dornen hat der Himmel=--Heaven has not only its roses, but also its thorns. Schiller.

=Nicht so redlich wäre redlicher=--Not so honest were more honest. Lessing.

=Nichts Abgeschmackters find' ich auf der Welt / Als einen Teufel, der verzweifelt=--I know nothing more mawkish than a devil who despairs. Goethe.

=Nichts Böses thun ist gut; / Nichts Böses= 15 =wollen ist besser=--To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better. Claudius.

=Nichts führt zum Guten, was nicht natürlich ist=--Nothing leads to good that is not natural. Schiller.

=Nichts halb zu thun ist edler Geister Art=--It is the manner of noble souls to do nothing by halves. Wieland.

=Nichts ist dem Menschen so schwer zu tragen, / Als eine Reihe von guten Tagen=--No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days. Müller.

=Nichts ist göttlich, als was vernünftig ist=--Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason. Kant.

=Nichts ist höher zu schätzen, als der Wert des= 20 =Tages=--Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day. Goethe.

=Nichts ist so elend als ein Mann, / Der alles will, und der nichts kann=--Nothing is so miserable as a man who wills everything and can do nothing. Claudius.

=Nichts stirbt, was wirklich gut und göttlich war=--Nothing that was really good and godlike dies. Arndt.

=Nichts thun lehrt Uebel thun=--Doing nothing is a lesson in doing ill. Ger. Pr.

=Nichtswürdig ist die Nation, die nicht / Ihr Alles freudig setzt an ihre Ehre=--Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honour. Schiller.

=Nick does not pretend to be a gentleman.= 25 Arbuthnot.

=Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.= Haliburton.

=Nie kommt das Unglück ohne sein Gefolge=--Misfortune never comes without his retinue. Heine.

=Niemand ist frei, der nicht über sich selbst Herr ist=--No man is free who is not lord over himself. Claudius.

=Niemand ist mehr Sklave, als der sich für frei hält ohne es zu sein=--No one is more a slave than he who considers himself free without being so. Goethe.

=Niemand weiss, wie weit seine Kräfte gehen,= 30 =bis er sie versucht hat=--No one knows how far his powers go till he has tried them. Goethe.

=Niggardliness is not good husbandry.= Addison.

=Night is a good herdsman; she brings all creatures home.= Gael. Pr.

=Night is the mither= (mother) =o' thoughts.= _Sc. Pr._

=Night is the Sabbath of mankind, / To rest the body and the mind.= Butler.

=Night! that great shadow and profile of the= 35 =day.= Jean Paul.

=Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day / Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain-tops.= Rom. and Jul., iii. 5.

=Night's deepest gloom is but a calm, / That soothes the wearied mind; / The labour'd day's restoring balm, / The comfort of mankind.= Leigh Hunt.

=Nightingales will not sing in a cage.= Pr.

=Nihil a Deo vacat; opus suum ipse implet=--Nothing is void of God; His work everywhere is full of Himself. Sen.

=Nihil ad rem= or =versum=--Not to the purpose, or 40 point.

=Nihil agit qui diffidentem verbis solatur suis; / Is est amicus qui in re dubia re juvat, ubi re est opus=--He does nothing who seeks to console a desponding man with words; a friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for. Plaut.

=Nihil aliud necessarium ut sis miser, quam ut te miserum credas=--Nothing else is necessary to make you wretched than to fancy you are so.

=Nihil cum fidibus graculo=--Jackdaws have nothing to do with a lute. Gell.

=Nihil enim legit, quod non excerperet. Dicere etiam solebat, nullum esse librum tam malum, ut non aliqua parte prodesset=--He read no book which he did not make extracts from. He also used to say, "No book was so bad but good of some kind might be got out of it." Pliny the Elder.

=Nihil eripit fortuna nisi quod et dedit=--Fortune takes nothing away but what she also gave. Pub. Syr.

=Nihil est ab omni / Parte beatum=--There is nothing that is blessed in every respect. Hor.

=Nihil est annis velocius!=--Nothing is swifter than our years. Ovid.

=Nihil est aptius ad delectationem lectoris,= 5 =quam temporum varietates, fortunæque vicissitudines=--Nothing contributes more to the entertainment of a reader than the changes of times and the vicissitudes of fortune. Cic.

=Nihil est quod credere de se / Non possit=--There is nothing that it (i.e., power, potestas) cannot believe itself capable of. Juv.

=Nihil est quod Deus efficere non possit.=--There is nothing which the Deity cannot effect. Cic.

=Nihil est tam utile, quod in transitu prosit=--Nothing is so useful as to be of profit after only a hasty study of it. Sen.

=Nihil est tam volucre quam maledictum, nihil facilius emittitur, nihil citius excipitur, nihil latius dissipatur=--Nothing is no swift as calumny, nothing more easily uttered, nothing more readily received, nothing more widely disseminated. Cic.

=Nihil hic nisi carmina desunt=--Nothing is wanting 10 here except a song. Virg.

=Nihil honestum esse potest, quod justitia vacat=--Nothing can be honourable where justice is absent. Cic.

=Nihil largiundo gloriam adeptus est=--He acquired glory without bribery. Sall.

=Nihil morosius hominum judiciis=--Nothing so peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another. Erasmus.

=Nihil potest rex nisi quod de jure potest=--The king can do nothing but what the law allows. L.

=Nihil quod est inconveniens est licitum=--Nothing 15 which is inconvenient is lawful. L.

=Nihil scire est vita jucundissima=--To know nothing at all is the happiest life. Pr.

=Nihil scriptum miraculi causa=--Nothing is written here to excite wonder, or for effect. Tac.

=Nihil simul inventum est et perfectum=--Nothing is invented and brought to perfection all at once. Coke.

=Nihil tam absurdum dici potest ut non dicatur a philosopho=--There is nothing so absurd but it may be said by a philosopher. Cic.

=Nihil tam firmum est, cui periculum non sit= 20 =etiam ab invalido=--Nothing is so steadfast as to be free of danger from even the weakest. Quint. Curt.

=Nihil tam munitum est, quod non expugnari pecunia possit=--Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money. Cic.

=Nihil turpius est quam gravis ætate senex, qui nullum aliud habet argumentum, quo se probet diu vixisse, præter ætatem=--There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world. Sen.

=Nihil unquam peccavit, nisi quod mortua est=--She never once sinned but when she died. Inscription on a wife's tomb in Rome.

=Nil actum credens, dum quid superesset agendum=--He considered nothing done so long as anything remained to be done. Lucan, of Julius Cæsar.

="Nil admirari" is the motto which men of the= 25 =world always affect, thinking it vulgar to wonder or be enthusiastic.= Sir Egerton Brydges.

=Nil admirari prope est res una, Numici, / Solaque, quæ possit facere et servare beatum=--To wonder at nothing, Numicius, is almost the one and only thing which can make and keep men happy. Hor.

=Nil æquale homini fuit illi=--There was no consistency in that man. Hor.

=Nil agit exemplum litem quod lite resolvit=--An illustration which solves one difficulty by involving us in another settles nothing. Hor.

=Nil consuetudine majus=--Nothing is more powerful than custom, or habit. Ovid.

=Nil cupientium / Nudus castra peto=--Naked 30 myself, I make for the camp of those who desire nothing. Hor.

=Nil debet=--He owes nothing. L.

=Nil desperandum=--There is no ground for despair.

=Nil desperandum Teucro duce et auspice Teucro=--Let us despair of nothing while Teucer is our leader and we under his auspices. Hor.

=Nil dicit=--He says nothing, i.e., he has no defence to make. L.

=Nil dictu fœdum visuque hæc limina tangat, /= 35 =Intra quæ puer est=--Let nothing filthy to be said or seen touch this threshold, within which there is a boy. Juv.

=Nil dictum quod non dictum prius=--There can be nothing said now which has not been said before. L.

=Nil ego contulerim jucundo sanus amico=--As long as I have my senses, there is nothing I would prefer to an agreeable friend. Hor.

=Nil erit ulterius quod nostris moribus addat / Posteritas; eadem cupient facientque minores: / Omne in præcipiti vitium stetit=--There will be nothing left for posterity to add to our manners; our descendants will wish for and do the same things as we do; every vice has reached its culminating point. Juv.

=Nil feret ad manes divitis umbra suos=--The ghost of the rich man will carry nothing to the shades below. Ovid.

=Nil fuit unquam sic impar sibi=--Never was such 40 an inconsistent creature seen before. Hor.

=Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se, / Quam quod ridiculos homines facit=--Unhappy poverty has nothing in it more galling than this, that it makes men ridiculous. Juv.

=Nil homini certum est=--There is nothing assured to mortals. Ovid.

=Nil me officit unquam, / Ditior hic, aut est quia doctior; est locus uni / Cuique suus=--It never the least annoys me that another is richer or more learned than I; every one has his own place assigned him. Hor.

=Nil mortalibus arduum est=--Nothing is too arduous for mortals. Hor.

=Nil nisi cruce=--No hope but in the cross. M. 45

=Nil oriturum alias, nil ortum tale fatentes=--Confessing that none like you has arisen before, none will ever arise. Hor.

=Nil peccant oculi, si oculis animus imperet=--The eyes don't err if the mind governs them. Pub. Syr.

=Nil proprium ducas quod mutari potest=--Never deem that your own which can be changed. Pub. Syr.

=Nil rectum nisi quod placuit sibi ducunt=--They deem nothing right except what seems good to themselves. Hor.

=Nil sine magno / Vita labore dedit mortalibus=--Life has granted nothing to mankind save through great labour. Hor.

=Nil sine te mei prosunt honores=--The honours 5 I obtain are nothing without thee. _Hor. to the Muse._

=Nil sole et sale utilius=--Nothing so useful as the sun and salt. Pr.

=Nil spernat auris, nec tamen credat statim=--Let the ear despise nothing, nor yet be too ready to believe. Phæd.

=Nil tam difficile est quod non solertia vincat=--There is nothing so difficult but skill will surmount it. Pr.

=Nil tam inæstimable est quam animi multitudinis=--Nothing is so contemptible as the sentiments of the mob. Sen.

=Nil temere novandum=--Make no rash innovations. 10 L.

=Nil unquam longum est, quod sine fine placet=--Nothing is ever long which never ceases to please.

=Nimia cura deterit magis quam emendat=--Too much pains may injure rather than improve your work. Pr.

=Nimia est voluptas, si diu abfueris a domo / Domum si redieris, si tibi nulla est ægritudo animo obviam=--It is a very great pleasure if, on your return home after a long absence, you are not confronted with anything to vex you. Plaut.

=Nimia illæc licentia / Profecto evadet in aliquod magnum malum=--This extreme licentiousness will assuredly develop into some dire disaster. Ter.

=Nimia subtilitas in jure reprobatur, et talis= 15 =certitudo certitudinem confundit=--Too much subtlety in law is condemned, and such certainty destroys certainty. L.

=Nimirum insanus paucis videatur, eo quod / Maxima pars hominum morbo jactatur eodem=--There are few, I say, to whom this fellow should appear insane, since by far the majority of people are infected with the same malady. Hor.

=Nimis uncis / Naribus indulges=--You indulge in swearing (lit. upturned nostrils) too much.

=Nimium altercando veritas amittitur=--In too eager disputation the truth is lost sight of. Pr.

=Nimium ne crede colori=--Trust not too much to appearances. Virg.

=Nimius in veritate, et similitudinis quam pulchritudinis= 20 =amantior=--Too fastidious as regards truth, and with a greater liking for exactness than beauty. Quinct.

=Nimm alles leicht! das Träumen lass und Grübeln! / So bleibst du wohlbewahrt vor tausend Uebeln=--Take everything easily; leave off dreaming and brooding; then wilt thou be safe-shielded from a thousand ills. Uhland.

=Nimm die Welt, wie sie ist, nicht wie sie seyn sollte=--Take the world as it is, not as it should be. Ger. Pr.

=Nimm wahr die Zeit; sie eilet sich, / Und kommt nicht wieder ewiglich=--Take thou good note of time; it hurries past thee, and comes not back again for ever. Claudius.

=Nine tailors cannot make a man.= Pr.

=Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense,= 25 =and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.= Disraeli.

=Nine-tenths of our critics have told us little more of Shakespeare than what honest Franz Horn says his neighbours used to tell of him, "he was a great spirit, and stept majestically along."= Carlyle.

=Nine things to sight required are: / The power to see, the light, the visible thing, / Being not too small, too thin, too nigh, too far; / Clear space, and time, the form distinct to bring.= Sir John Davies.

=Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is usually occupied by an ill-placed or disappointed affection. We recover and we find ourselves a new being. The intellect has become hardened by the fire through which it has passed. The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.= Bulwer Lytton.

=Nine tithes of times / Face-flatterer and back-biter are the same.= Tennyson.

=Nineteen nay-says are half a grant.= Allan 30 Ramsay.

=Nisi caste, saltem caute=--If not chastely, at least cautiously.

=Nisi Dominus, frustra=--Unless the Lord be with us, all is vain. M.

=Nisi prius=--Unless before. A judicial writ.

=Nisi utile est quod facias, stulta est gloria=--Unless what we do is useful, our glorying is vain. Phæd.

=Nitimur in vetitum semper, cupimusque negata=--We 35 are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us. Ovid.

=Nitor in adversum, nec me, qui cætera vincit / Impetus, et rapido contrarius evehor orbi=--I struggle against an opposing current; the torrent which sweeps away others does not overpower me, and I make head against the on-rushing stream. Ovid.

="No," a monosyllable, the easiest learned by the child, but the most difficult to practise by the man, contains within it the import of a life, the weal or woe of an eternity.= Johnson.

=No accidents are so unlucky that the prudent may not draw some advantage from them.= La Roche.

=No affections and a great brain; these are the men to command the world.= Disraeli.

=No age ever seemed the age of Romance to= 40 =itself.= Carlyle.

=No age, sex, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one is vastly beneath the rank of man.= Barton.

=No answer is also an answer.= Pr.

=No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.= Ruskin.

=No artist-work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character in a child.= Charlotte Cushman.

=No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.= Landor.

=No atheist denies a divinity, but only some name of a divinity; the God is still present there, working in that benighted heart, were it only as a god of darkness.= Carlyle.

=No author can be as moral as his works, as no preacher is as pious as his sermons.= Jean Paul.

=No author ever spared a brother; / Wits are= 5 =gamecocks to one another.= Gay.

=No author is a man of genius to his publisher.= Heine.

=No autumn fruit without spring blossoms.= Pr.

=No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity.= Rich. III., i. 2.

=No bees, no honey; / No work, no money.= Pr.

=No belief of ours will change the facts or= 10 =reverse the laws of the spiritual universe; and it is our first business to discover the laws and to learn how the facts stand.= Dr. Dale.

=No belief which is contrary to truth can be really useful.= J. S. Mill.

=No bird ever flew so high but it had to come to the ground for food.= Dut. Pr.

=No blank, no trifle, Nature made or meant.= Young.

=No book is worth anything which is not worth much; nor is it serviceable until it has been read, and re-read, and loved, and loved again.= Ruskin.

=No book that will not improve by repeated= 15 =readings deserves to be read at all.= Carlyle.

=No book was ever written down by any but itself.= Bentley.

=No ceremony that to great one 'longs, / Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, / The marshal's truncheon nor the judge's robe, / Become them with one half so good a grace / As mercy does.= Meas. for Meas., ii. 2.

=No chair is so much wanted (in our colleges) as that of a professor of books.= Emerson.

=No chaos can continue chaotic with a soul in it.= Carlyle.

=No character was ever rightly understood= 20 =until it had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance only, but of sympathy.= Carlyle.

=No cheerfulness can ever be produced by effort which is itself painful.= Goldsmith.

=No cloth is too fine for moth to devour.= Pr.

=No compound of this earthly ball / Is like another all in all.= Tennyson.

=No conflict is so severe as his who labours to subdue himself.= Thomas à Kempis.

=No conquest can ever become permanent= 25 =which does not withal show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.= Carlyle.

=No corn without chaff.= Dut. Pr.

=No; creation, one would think, cannot be easy; your Jove has severe pains, and fire flames, in the head out of which an armed Pallas is struggling.= Carlyle.

=No creature smarts so little as a fool.= Pope.

=No crime is so great as daring to excel.= Churchill.

=No cross, no crown.= Quarles. 30

=No diga la lengua par do pague la cabeza=--The tongue talks at the head's cost. Sp. Pr.

=No distance breaks the tie of blood: / Brothers are brothers evermore; / Nor wrong, nor wrath of deadliest mood, / That magic may o'erpower.= Keble.

=No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.= Job, in Bible.

=No doubt every person is entitled to make and to think as much of himself as possible, only he ought not to worry others about this, for they have enough to do with and in themselves, if they too are to be of some account, both now and hereafter.= Goethe.

=No dynamite will ever be invented that can= 35 =rule; it can but dissolve and destroy. Only the word of God and the heart of man can govern.= Ruskin.

=No earnest man, in any time, ever spoke what was wholly meaningless.= Carlyle.

=No earnest thinker is a plagiarist pure and simple. He will never borrow from others that which he has not already, more or less, thought out for himself.= C. Kingsley.

=No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.= Lady Montagu.

=No errors are so mischievous as those of great men.= Pr.

=No evil can touch him who looks on human= 40 =beauty; he feels himself at one with himself and with the world.= Goethe.

=No evil dies so soon as that which has been patiently sustained.= W. Secker.

=No evil is felt till it comes, and when it comes no counsel helps. Wisdom is always too early and too late.= Rückert.

=No evil is without its compensation.= Sen.

=No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.= Sen.

=No experiment is dangerous the result of which= 45 =we have the courage to meet.= Goethe.

=No expression of politeness but has its root in the moral nature of man.= Goethe.

=No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us, / All earth forgot, and all heaven around us.= Moore.

=No fact in nature but carries the whole sense of nature.= Emerson.

=No falsehood can endure / Touch of celestial temper.= Milton.

=No fathers or mothers think their own children= 50 =ugly.= Cervantes.

=No fishing like fishing in the sea.= Pr.

=No flattery, boy; an honest man can't live by 't; / It is a little sneaking art, which knaves / Use to cajole and soften fools withal.= Otway.

=No fool was ever so foolish, but some one thought him clever.= Pr.

=No fountain so small but that heaven may be imaged in its bosom.= Hawthorne.

=No friend a friend until he shall prove a friend.= 55 Beaumont and Fletcher.

=No frost can freeze Providence.= Pr.

=No gains without pains.= Pr.

=No ghost was ever seen by two pair of eyes.= Carlyle.

=No girl who is well bred, kind, and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want of manners or of heart.= Ruskin.

=No golden age ever called itself golden, but only expected one.= Jean Paul.

=No good book or good thing of any sort shows its best face at first; nay, the commonest quality in a true work of art, if its excellence have any depth and compass, is that at first sight it occasions a certain disappointment.= Carlyle.

=No good doctor ever takes physic.= It. Pr. 5

=No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.= Ruskin.

=No good lawyer ever goes to law himself.= It. Pr.

=No good or lovely thing exists in this world without its correspondent darkness; and the universe presents itself continually to mankind under the stern aspect of warning, or of choice, the good and the evil set on the right hand and the left.= Ruskin.

=No good work whatever can be perfect; and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.= Ruskin.

=No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.= 10 Corn. Nepos.

=No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.= Ward Beecher.

=No grain of sand / But moves a bright and million-peopled land, / And hath its Eden and its Eves, I deem.= Blanchard.

=No grand doer in this world can be a copious speaker about his doings.= Carlyle.

=No great composition was ever produced but with the same heavenly involuntariness in which a bird builds her nest.= Ruskin.

=No great intellectual thing was ever done= 15 =by great effort.= Ruskin.

=No great man was ever other than a genuine man.= Carlyle.

=No great truth is allowed by Nature to be demonstrable to any person who, foreseeing its consequences, desires to refuse it.= Ruskin.

=No greater hell than to be a slave to fear.= Ben Jonson.

=No greater men are now than ever were.= Emerson.

=No greater misfortune can befall a man than= 20 =to be the victim of an idea which has no hold on his life, still more which detaches him from it.= Goethe.

=No greater promisers than those who have nothing to give.= Pr.

=No hand can make the clock strike for me the hours that are past.= Byron.

=No hay dulzura sin sudor=--No sweetness without sweat. Sp. Pr.

=No hay tal razon como la del baston=--There is no argument like that of a stick. Sp. Pr.

=No heart opens to sympathy without letting= 25 =in delicacy.= J. M. Barrie.

=No Hecuba, by aid of rouge and ceruse, is a Helen made.= Cowper.

=No herb will cure love.= Pr.

=No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she may give birth to one.= Jean Paul.

=No honestly exerted force can be utterly lost.= Carlyle.

=No horse so blind as the blind mare.= Pr. 30

=No house without mouse; no throne without thorn.= Pr.

=No human capacity ever yet saw the whole of a thing; but we may see more and more of it the longer we look.= Ruskin.

=No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry.= Ruskin.

=No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifices; no one ever escapes without a stain from the struggle of life.= Renan.

=No intellectual images are without use.= Johnson. 35

=No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a man to believe or to disbelieve.= Carlyle.

="No" is a surly, honest fellow--speaks his mind rough and round at once. "But" is a sneaking, evasive, half-bred, exceptuous sort of conjunction, which comes to pull away the cup just when it is at your lips.= Scott.

=No joy so great but runneth to an end; / No hap so hard but may in time amend.= Robert Southwell.

=No joy without alloy.= Pr.

=No knowledge is lost, but perfected, and= 40 =changed for much nobler, sweeter, greater knowledge.= Baxter.

=No labour is hard, no time is long, wherein the glory of eternity is the mark we level at.= S. Hieron.

=No law can be finally sacred to me but the law of my own nature.= Emerson.

=No leaf moves but as God wills it.= Sp. Pr.

=No legacy is so rich as honesty.= All's Well, iii. 5.

=No lie you can speak or act, but it will come,= 45 =after longer or shorter circulation, like a bill drawn on Nature's reality, and be presented there for payment, with the answer: "No effects."= Carlyle.

=No literature is complete until the language in which it is written is dead.= Longfellow.

=No longer pipe, no longer dance.= Pr.

=No lover should have the insolence to think of being accepted at once, nor should any girl have the cruelty to refuse at once, without severe reasons.= Ruskin.

=No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but certainly not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following openly-declared purposes, and preaching candidly-beloved and trusted creeds.= Ruskin.

=No man at bottom means injustice; it is always= 50 =for some obscure distorted image of a right that he contends.= Carlyle.

=No man at the head of affairs always wishes to be explicit.= Macaulay.

=No man bathes twice in the same river.= Heraclitus.

=No man beholdeth prosperity who doth not encounter danger; but having encountered danger, if he surviveth, he beholdeth it.= Hitopadesa.

=No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.= Johnson.

=No man can antedate his experience.= Emerson. 55

=No man can answer for his courage who has never been in danger.= La Roche.

=No man can be a good poet without first being a good man.= Ben Jonson.

=No man can be a poet / That is not a good cook, to know the palates / And several tastes of the time.= Ben Jonson.

=No man can be a hero in anything who is not first of all a hero in faith.= Jacobi.

=No man can be brave who considers pain to be= 5 =the greatest evil of life; nor temperate, who considers pleasure to be the highest good.= Cic.

=No man can be good, or great, or happy, except through inward efforts of his own.= F. W. Robertson.

=No man can be said to have the spirit who does not walk in it, or to be born of the spirit until the spirit is born of him.= Ed.

=No man can be so entirely a devil as to extinguish in himself the last ray of light.= Th. Körner.

=No man can become largely rich by his personal toil, but only by discovery of some method of taxing the labour of others.= Ruskin.

=No man can buy anything in the market with= 10 =gentility.= Lord Burleigh.

=No man can, for a length of time, be wholly wretched, if there is not a disharmony (a folly and wickedness) within himself; neither can the richest Crœsus, and never so eupeptic, be other than discontented, perplexed, unhappy, if he be a fool.= Carlyle.

=No man can force the harp of his own individuality into the people's heart; but every man may play upon the chords of the people's heart, who draws his inspiration from the people's instinct.= Kossuth.

=No man can gather cherries in Kent at the season of Christmas.= Pr.

=No man can judge another, because no man knows himself; for we censure others but as they disagree with that humour which we fancy laudable in ourselves, and commend others but for that wherein they seem to quadrate and consent with us.= Colton.

=No man can learn what he has not preparation= 15 =for learning, however near to his eyes the object may be.= Emerson.

=No man can live half a life when he has genuinely learned that it is only half a life. The other half, the higher half, must haunt him.= Philips Brooks.

=No man can lose what he never had.= Walton.

=No man can make a good coat with bad cloth.= Pr.

=No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.= Lowell.

=No man can quite emancipate himself from his= 20 =age and country, or produce a model in which the education, the religion, the politics, the usages, and the arts of his times shall have no share.= Emerson.

=No man can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.= Noah Porter.

=No man can say in what degree any other person, besides himself, can be, with strict justice, called wicked.= Burns.

=No man can see over his own height.= Pr.

=No man can serve two masters.= Jesus.

=No man can thoroughly master more than one= 25 =art or science.= Hazlitt.

=No man can transcend his own individuality.= Schopenhauer.

=No man doth safely appear abroad but he who can abide at home.= Thomas à Kempis.

=No man doth safely rule but he that hath learned gladly to obey.= Thomas à Kempis.

=No man doth safely speak but he who is glad to hold his peace.= Thomas à Kempis.

=No man ever became, or can become, largely= 30 =rich merely by labour and economy.= Ruskin.

=No man ever did or ever will become truly eloquent without being a constant reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.= Fisher Ames.

=No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.= Emerson.

=No man ever stated his griefs as lightly as he might.= Emerson.

=No man ever worked his passage anywhere in a dead calm. Let no man wax pale, therefore, because of opposition.= John Neale.

=No man flatters the woman he truly loves.= 35 Tuckermann.

=No man had ever a point of pride but was injurious to him.= Burke.

=No man has a claim to credit upon his own word, when better evidence, if he had it, may be easily produced.= Johnson.

=No man has a prosperity so high and firm but two or three words can dishearten it.= Emerson.

=No man has a right to say to his own generation, turning quite away from it, "Be damned."= Carlyle to Emerson.

=No man has a worse friend than he brings= 40 =with him from home.= Pr.

=No man has any data for estimating, far less right of judging, the results of a life of resolute self-denial, until he has had the courage to try it himself.= Ruskin.

=No man has come to true greatness who has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to his race, and that what God gives him he gives him for mankind.= Phillips Brooks.

=No man has worked, or can work, except religiously.= Carlyle.

=No man hath a thorough taste of prosperity to whom adversity never happened.= (?)

=No man hath a velvet cross.= Pr. 45

=No man hath a virtue that he has not a glimpse of; nor any man an attaint, but he carries some stain of it.= Troil. and Cress., i. 2.

=No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.= Jesus.

=No man is a good physician who has never been sick.= Arab. Pr.

=No man is a hero to his valet-de-chambre.= Prince de Condé, from Plutarch.

=No man is always wise except a fool.= Pr. 50

=No man is born into this world whose work is not born with him; there is always work, and tools to work withal, for those who will; and blessed are the horny hands of toil.= Lowell.

=No man is born wise or learned.= Pr.

=No man is either worthy of a good home here or a heaven hereafter that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.= Capt. John Brown.

=No man is esteemed for gay garments but by fools and women.= Sir W. Raleigh.

=No man is ever good for much who has not been carried off his feet by enthusiasm between twenty and thirty.= Froude.

=No man is ever hurt but by himself.= Diogenes.

=No man is ever paid for his real work, or should= 5 =ever expect or demand angrily to be paid; all work properly so called is an appeal from the seen to the unseen--a devout calling upon higher powers; and unless they stand by us, it will not be a work, but a quackery.= Carlyle.

=No man is free who cannot command himself.= Pythagoras.

=No man is good but as he wishes the good of others.= Johnson.

=No man is justified in resisting by word or deed the authority he lives under for a light cause, be such authority what it may.= Carlyle.

=No man is nobler born than another, unless he is born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition.= Sen.

=No man is poor who does not think himself so.= 10 =But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.= Jeremy Taylor.

=No man is quite sane; each has a slight determination of blood to the head, to make sure of holding him hard to some one point which Nature has taken to heart.= Emerson.

=No man is rich whose expenditures exceed his means; and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.= Haliburton.

=No man is so free as a beggar, and no man more solemnly a servant than an honest land-owner.= Ruskin.

=No man is so happy as never to give offence.= Thomas à Kempis.

=No man is so old but thinks he may live= 15 =another day.= Pythagoras.

=No man is so sufficient as never to need assistance.= Thomas à Kempis.

=No man is so tall that he need never stretch, nor so small that he need never stoop.= Dan. Pr.

=No man is so worthy of envy as he that can be cheerful in want.= Bp. Hall.

=No man is such a conqueror as the man who has defeated himself.= Ward Beecher.

=No man is the wiser for his learning.... Wit= 20 =and wisdom are born with a man.= Selden.

=No man is the worse for knowing the worst of himself.= Pr.

=No man is to be deemed free who has not perfect self-command.= Pythagoras.

=No man is wise enough or good enough to be intrusted with unlimited power.= Colton.

=No man is wise or safe but be that is honest.= Sir W. Raleigh.

=No man is without enemies.= Arab. Pr. 25

=No man is without his load of trouble.= Thomas à Kempis.

=No man lives so poor as he was born.= Pr.

=No man loves to frustrate expectations which have been formed in his favour.= Johnson.

=No man loveth his fetters, be they made of gold.= Pr.

=No man needs money so much as he who= 30 =despises it.= Jean Paul.

=No man needs to study history to find out what is best for his own culture.= Thoreau.

=No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.= Phillips Brooks.

=No man perhaps suspects how large and important the region of unconsciousness in him is; what a vast, unknown territory lies there back of his conscious will and purpose, and which is really the controlling power of his life.= John Burroughs.

=No man praises happiness as he would justice, but calls it blessed, as being something more divine and excellent.= Arist.

=No man regards an eruption upon the surface= 35 =when the noble parts are invaded, and he feels a mortification approaching to his heart.= Junius.

="No man," said Pestalozzi, "in God's wide universe, is either willing or able to help any other man." Help must come from the bosom alone.= Emerson.

=No man sees far; the most see no farther than their noses.= Carlyle.

=No man should be so much taken up in the search of truth, as thereby to neglect the more necessary duties of active life.= Cic.

=No man should enter into alliance with his enemy, even with the tightest bonds of union. Water made ever so hot will still quench fire.= Hitopadesa.

=No man should ever be ashamed to own he= 40 =has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday.= Pope.

=No man should ever display his bravery who is unprepared for battle; nor bear the marks of defiance, until he hath experienced the abilities of his enemy.= Hitopadesa.

=No man should form an acquaintance, nor enter into any amusements, with one of an evil character. A piece of charcoal, if it be hot, burneth; and if it be cold, blackeneth the hand.= Hitopadesa.

=No man should part with his own individuality and become that of another.= Channing.

=No man should strive to precede his fellows; for, should the work succeed, the booty is equal, and if it fail, the leader is punished.= Hitopadesa.

=No man should think so highly of himself as= 45 =to think he can receive but little light from books, nor so meanly as to believe he can discover nothing but what is to be learned from them.= Johnson.

=No man talks of that which he is desirous to conceal, and every man desires to conceal that of which he is ashamed.= Johnson.

=No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.= Goethe.

=No man troubleth the beggar with questioning his religion or politics.= Lamb.

=No man was ever as rich as all men ought to be.= Old saying.

=No man was ever scolded out of his sins.= 50 Cowper.

=No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself.= Lord Greville.

=No man was ever written out of reputation but by himself.= Monk.

=No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had.= Johnson, of Goldsmith.

=No man whatever believes, or can believe, exactly what his grandfather believed.= Carlyle.

=No man who does not choose, enter into and= 5 =walk in some narrow way of life, will ever have any moral character, any clearness of purpose, any wisdom of intelligence, or any tenderness or strength of heart.= Ed.

=No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.= Carlyle.

=No man who is wretched in his own heart and feeble in his own work can rightly help others.= Ruskin.

=No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.= Hawthorne.

=No man's conscience can tell him the rights of another man.= Johnson.

=No man's pie is freed / From his ambitious= 10 =finger.= Hen. VIII., i. 1.

=No man's religion ever survives his morals.= South.

=No mata la carga sino la sobrecarga=--Not the load, but the overload kills. Sp. Pr.

=No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken.= Emerson.

=No matter what his rank or position may be, the lover of books is the richest and happiest of the children of men.= J. A. Langford.

=No might nor greatness in mortality / Can censure= 15 ='scape; back-wounding calumny / The whitest virtue strikes.= Meas. for Meas., iii. 2.

=No mill, no meal.= Pr.

=No more can you distinguish of a man / Than of his outward show; which, God he knows, / Seldom or never jumpeth with the heart.= Rich. III., iii. 1.

=No more dangerous snare is set by the fiends for human frailty than the belief that our enemies are also the enemies of God.= Ruskin.

=No more of your titled acquaintances boast, / And in what lordly circles you've been: / An insect is still but an insect at most, / Though it crawl on the head of a queen.= Burns.

=No more subtle master under heaven / Than= 20 =is the maiden-passion for a maid, / Not only to keep down the base in man, / But teach high thought, and amiable words / And courtliness, and the desire of fame, / And love of truth, and all that makes a man.= Tennyson.

=No morning can restore what we have forfeited.= George Meredith.

=No mortal can both work and do good talking in Parliament or out of it; the feat is impossible as that of serving two hostile masters.= Carlyle.

=No mortal has a right to wag his tongue, much less to wag his pen, without saying something.= Carlyle.

=No mortal's endeavour or attainment will, in the smallest, content the as unendeavouring, unattaining young gentleman; but he could make it all infinitely better, were it worthy of him.= Carlyle.

=No mother worthy of the name ever gave herself= 25 =thoroughly for her child who did not feel that, after all, she reaped what she had sown.= Beecher.

=No nation can be destroyed while it possesses a good home life.= J. G. Holland.

=No nation can bear wealth that is not intelligent first.= Ward Beecher.

=No nation can reform itself, as the English are now trying to do, by what their newspapers call "tremendous cheers." Reform is not joyous, but grievous; no single man can reform himself without stern suffering and stern working; how much less can a nation of men! Medea, when she made men young again, was wont to hew them in pieces with meat-axes; cast them into caldrons, and boil them for a length of time. How much handier could they have but done it by "tremendous cheers" alone!= Carlyle.

=No need to teach your grandames to suck eggs.= Pr.

=No news is good news.= Pr. 30

=No, no! I am but shadow of myself; / You are deceived, my substance is not here.= 1 Hen. VI., ii. 3.

=No noble task was ever easy.= Carlyle.

=No nobler feeling than this of admiration for one higher than himself, dwells in the breast of man.= Carlyle.

=No, not even faith, or hope, or any other virtue, is accepted by God without charity and grace.= Thomas à Kempis.

=No oath that binds to wrong can ever bind.= 35 Dr. Walter Smith.

=No one can bake cakes for the whole world.= Serv. Pr.

=No one can be a great thinker who does not recognise that, as a thinker, it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead.= J. S. Mill.

=No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.= Sen.

=No one can be in perfect accord with any one but himself.= Schopenhauer.

=No one can feel and exercise benevolence towards= 40 =another who is ill at ease with himself.= Goethe.

=No one can find himself in himself or others; in fact, he has himself to spin, from the centre of which he exercises his influence.= Goethe.

=No one can obtain what he does not bring with him.= Goethe.

=No one can teach religion who has it not.= Jean Paul.

=No one can teach you anything worth learning but through manual labour; the very bread of life can only be got out of the chaff of it by rubbing it in your hands.= Ruskin.

=No one claims kindred with the poor.= Pr. 45

=No one easily arrives at the conclusion that reason and a brave will are given us that we may not only hold back from evil, but also from the extreme of good.= Goethe.

=No one eats goldfish.= Pr.

=No one ever impoverished himself by almsgiving.= It. Pr.

=No one ever possessed superior intellectual qualities without knowing them.= Bulwer.

=No one ever teaches well who wants to teach,= 50 =or governs well who wants to govern.= Plato.

=No one falls low unless he attempt to climb high.= Dan. Pr.

=No one gets into trouble without his own help.= Dan. Pr.

=No one has ever learned fully to know himself.= Goethe.

=No one has ever yet succeeded in deceiving the whole world, nor has the world ever combined to deceive any individual.= (?)

=No one has seen to-morrow.= Port. Pr. 5

=No one is a slave whose will is free.= _Tyrius Maximus._

=No one is by nature noble, respected of any one, nor a wretch. His own actions conduct him either to wretchedness or to the reverse.= Hitopadesa.

=No one is free who is not master of himself.= Claudius.

=No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.= Jean Paul.

=No one is qualified to converse in public who is= 10 =not highly contented without such conversation.= Thomas à Kempis.

=No one is qualified to entertain, or receive entertainment from others, who cannot entertain himself alone with satisfaction.= Thomas à Kempis.

=No one is rich enough to do without his neighbour.= Dan. Pr.

=No one is so hardy as to say God is in his debt, that he owed him a nobler being, for existence must be antecedent to merit.= Jeremy Collier.

=No one knows how far his powers go till he has tried.= Goethe.

=No one knows the weight of another's burden.= 15 Pr.

=No one knows what he is doing while he is acting rightly, but of what is wrong we are always conscious.= Goethe.

=No one knows when he is well off.= Punch.

=No one knows where the shoe pinches but him who wears it.= Pr.

=No one knows whether death, which men in their fear apprehend to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.= Plato.

=No one likes to bell the cat.= Pr. 20

=No one shall look for effectual help to another; but each shall rest content with what help he can afford himself.= Carlyle.

=No one will become anything, every one will already be something.= Goethe.

=No one would respect thee in a beggar's coat. What is the respect paid to woollen cloth, not to thee?= Jean Paul.

=No one would talk much in society if he only knew how often he misunderstands others.= Goethe.

=No orator can measure in effect with him who= 25 =can give good nicknames.= Emerson.

=No order or profession of men is so sacred, no place so remote or solitary, but that temptations and troubles will find them out and intrude upon them.= Thomas à Kempis.

=No outward tyranny can reach the mind.= Junius.

=No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden so well as her own reserve.= Cervantes.

=No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.= William Penn.

=No pains, no gains.= Pr. 30

=No passions are without their use, none without their nobleness, when seen in balanced unity with the rest of the spirit which they are charged to defend.= Ruskin.

=No patient will ever recover his health merely from the description of a medicine.= Hitopadesa.

=No pay is receivable by any true man; but power is receivable by him in the love and faith you give him.= Ruskin.

=No peace was ever won from fate by subterfuge or agreement; no peace is ever in store for any of us but that which we shall win by victory over shame or sin--victory over the sin that oppresses, as well as over that which corrupts.= Ruskin.

=No penny, no paternoster.= Pr. 35

=No people at the present day can be explained by their national religion. They do not feel responsible for it; it lies far outside of them.= Emerson.

=No person is either so happy or so unhappy as he imagines.= La Roche.

=No pillow so soft as God's promise.= Saying.

=No pin's point can you mark within the wide circle of the All where God's laws are not.= Carlyle.

=No place, no company, no age, no person is= 40 =temptation-free; let no man boast that he was never tempted; let him not be high-minded, but fear, for he may be surprised in that very instant wherein he boasteth that he was never tempted at all.= Spencer.

=No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in explaining existence.= Emerson.

=No power of good can be obtained by doing nothing and by knowing nothing.= Johnson.

=No prayer, no religion, or at least only a dumb and lame one.= Carlyle.

=No principle is more noble, as there is none more holy, than that of a true obedience.= Henry Giles.

=No productiveness of the highest kind, no remarkable= 45 =discovery, no great thought which bears fruit and has results, is in the power of any one; such things are exalted above all earthly control. Man must consider them as an unexpected gift from above, as pure children of God, which he must receive and venerate with joyful thanks, ... as a vessel found worthy for the reception of such divine influence.= Goethe.

=No profit canst thou gain / By self-consuming care.= Wesley.

=No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en: / In brief, sir, study what you most affect.= Tam. the Shrew, i. 1.

=No property is eternal but God the Maker's: Whom Heaven permits to take possession, his is the right; Heaven's sanction is such permission--while it lasts.= Carlyle.

=No real happiness is found / In trailing purple o'er the ground.= Parnell.

=No really great man ever thought himself so.= 50 Hazlitt.

=No receiver, no thief.= Pr.

=No reckoning made, but sent to my account / With all my imperfections on my head.= Ham., i. 5.

=No reports are more readily believed than those which disparage genius and soothe envy of conscious mediocrity.= Macaulay.

=No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned.= Jean Paul.

=No revenge is more heroic than that which torments envy by doing good.= (?)

=No road is long with good company.= Turk. Pr.

=No sadder proof can be given by man of his= 5 =own littleness than disbelief in great men.= Carlyle.

=No safe wading in an unknown water.= Pr.

=No sensible person ever made an apology.= Emerson.

=No si puo volar senza ale=--He would fain fly, but he wants wings. It. Pr.

=No single action creates, however it may exhibit, a man's character.= Jeremy Taylor.

=No slave, to lazy ease resign'd, / E'er triumphed= 10 =over noble foes; / The monarch, Fortune, most is kind / To him who bravely dares oppose.= Cervantes.

=No slave's vote is other than a nuisance, whensoever, or wheresoever, or in what manner soever, it is given.= Carlyle.

=No smaller spirit can vanquish a greater.= Goethe.

=No smoke, in any sense, but can become flame and radiance.= Carlyle.

=No society can be upheld in happiness and honour without the sentiment of religion.= Laplace.

=No sooner is a temple built to God, but the= 15 =devil builds a chapel close by.= _George Herbert._

=No soul to strong endeavour yoked for ever, / Works against the tide in vain.= H. Kendall.

=No sound is dissonant which tells of life.= Coleridge.

=No speculation in those eyes / Which thou dost glare with!= Macb., iii. 4.

=No statesman e'er will find it worth his pains / To tax our labours and excise our brains.= Churchill.

=No stronger castle than a poor man's.= Serv. Pr. 20

=No surer does the Auldgarth bridge, that his father helped to build, carry the traveller over the turbulent water beneath it, than Carlyle's books convey the reader over chasms and confusions, where before there was no way, or only an inadequate one.= John Burroughs.

=No sword bites so fiercely as an evil tongue.= Sir P. Sydney.

=No tale so good but may be spoiled in the telling.= Pr.

=No teaching is spiritually profitable, that is of true vital avail, translateable into flesh and blood, unless with the teaching we imbibe the spirit that dictates it.= Ed.

=No theatre for virtue is equal to the consciousness= 25 =of it.= Cic.

=No theological absurdities so glaring that they have not sometimes been embraced by men of the greatest and most cultivated understanding. No religious precepts so rigorous that they have not been adopted by the most voluptuous and most abandoned of men.= Hume.

=No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.= Landor.

=No thought is beautiful which is not just, and no thought can be just which is not founded on truth.= Addison.

=No thought is contented. The better sort, / As thoughts of things divine, are intermixed / With scruples, and do set the word itself / Against the word.= Rich. II., v. 5.

=No trial is dangerous which there is courage= 30 =to meet.= Goethe.

=No trouble, cross, or death / E'er shall silence faith and praise.= Winkworth.

=No truly great man ever founded, wilfully intended founding, a sect.= Carlyle.

=No two on earth in all things can agree; / All have some darling singularity.= Churchill.

=No two virtues, whatever relation they claim, / Nor even two different shades of the same, / Though like as was ever twin-brother to brother, / Possessing the one shall imply you've the other.= Burns.

=No useless coffin enclosed his breast, / Not in= 35 =sheet nor in shroud we wound him; / But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, / With his martial cloak around him.= _Rev. C. Wolfe._

=No vice goes alone.= Pr.

=No victory worth having was ever won without cost.= Ruskin.

=No violent extreme endures.= Carlyle.

=No visor does become black villany / So well as soft and tender flattery.= Pericles, iv. 4.

=No weather's ill when the wind's still.= Pr. 40

=No weeping for shed milk.= Pr.

=No whip cuts so sharply as the lash of conscience.= Pr.

=No wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.= Swift.

=No wild enthusiast ever yet could rest / Till half mankind were like himself possess'd.= Cowper.

=No wind is of service to him who is bound for= 45 =nowhere.= Fr. Pr.

=No wise combatant underrates his antagonist.= Goethe.

=No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.= Hazlitt.

=No wise man ever wished to be younger.= (?)

=No wise man should make known the loss of fortune, any malpractices in his house, his being cheated, or his having been disgraced.= Hitopadesa.

=No woman can be handsome by the force of= 50 =features alone, any more than she can be witty only by the help of speech.= Hughes.

=No woman is educated who is not equal to the successful management of a family.= Burnap.

=No woman is so bad but we may rejoice when her heart thrills to love, for then God has her by the hand.= J. M. Barrie.

=No woman shall succeed in Salique land.= Hen. V., i. 2.

=No wonder is greater than any other wonder, and if once explained, it ceases to be a wonder.= Leigh Hunt.

=No wonder lasts over three days.= Pr. 55

=No wonder we are all more or less pleased with mediocrity, since it leaves us at rest, and gives the same comfortable feeling as when one associates with his equals.= Goethe.

=No word is ill spoken if it be not ill taken.= Pr.

=No words suffice the secret soul to show, / For truth denies all eloquence to woe.= Byron.

=No work, no recompense.= Pr.

=No working world, any more than a fighting= 5 =world, can be led on without a noble chivalry of work, and laws and fixed rules which follow out of that--far nobler than any chivalry of fighting war.= Carlyle.

=No worth, known or unknown, can die even on this earth.= Carlyle.

=Nobilitatis virtus non stemma character=--Virtue, not pedigree, should characterise nobility. M.

=Nobility is a river that sets with a constant and undeviating current directly into the great Pacific Ocean of Time; but, unlike all other rivers, it is more grand at its source than at its termination.= Colton.

=Nobility of nature consists in doing good for the good's sake.= Wm. v. Humboldt.

=Nobility without virtue is a fine setting without= 10 =a gem.= Jane Porter.

=Nobis non licet esse tam disertis, / Qui Musas colimus severiores=--We who cultivate the graver Muse are not allowed to be diffuse. Mart.

=Noble art is nothing less than the expression of a great soul; and great souls are not common things.= Ruskin.

=Noble housekeepers need no doors.= Pr.

=Noble spirits war not with the dead.= Byron.

=Nobler is a limited command, / Given by the= 15 =love of all your native land, / Than a successive title, long and dark, / Drawn from the mouldy rolls of Noah's ark.= Dryden.

=Noblesse oblige=--Rank imposes obligation. M.

=Nobody calls himself rogue.= Pr.

=Nobody can continue easy in his own mind who does not endeavour to become least of all and servant of all.= Thomas à Kempis.

=Nobody can find work easy if much work do lie in him.= Carlyle.

=Nobody can live by teaching any more than= 20 =by learning; both teaching and learning are proper duties of human life, or pleasures of it, but have nothing whatever to do with the support of it.= Ruskin.

=Nobody contents himself with rough diamonds, or wears them so. When polished and set, then they give a lustre.= Locke.

=Nobody has a right to have opinions, but only knowledge.= Ruskin.

=Nobody knows who may be listening; say nothing which you would not wish put in the daily paper.= Spurgeon.

=Nobody should be rich but those who understand it.= Goethe.

=Nobody will persist long in helping those who= 25 =will not help themselves.= Johnson.

=Nobody will use other people's experience, nor has any of his own till it is too late to use it.= Hawthorne.

=Nobody would be afraid if he could help it.= Smollett.

=Noces de Gamache=--A very sumptuous repast. Fr.

=Nocet empta dolore voluptas=--Pleasure purchased by pain is injurious. Hor.

=Noch ist es Tag, da rühre sich der Mann, /= 30 =Die Nacht tritt ein, wo niemand wirken kann=--It is still day, in which to be up and doing; the night is setting in wherein no man can work. Goethe.

=Noch lebt ein Gott, der meines Elends denkt!=--A God still lives who thinks of my misery. Chamisso.

=Noch niemand entfloh dem verhängten Geschick=--No one has yet evaded the fate allotted to him. Schiller.

=Noctemque diemque fatigat=--He wears out both night and day at his work. Virg.

=Nocturna versate manu, versate diurna=--Let these be your studies by night and by day.

=Nodum in scirpo quæris=--You look for a knot in 35 a bulrush, i.e., are too scrupulous. Pr.

=Noisome weeds that without profit suck / The soil's fertility from wholesome flowers.= Rich. II., iii. 4.

=Nolens volens=--Whether one will or no.

=Noli irritare leones=--Don't irritate lions. M.

=Noli me tangere=--Touch me not.

=Nolle prosequi=--To be unwilling to prosecute. L. 40

=Nolo barbam vellere mortuo leoni=--I won't pluck the beard of a dead lion. Mart.

=Nolo episcopari=--I have no wish to be made a bishop. Applied to an affected indifference to obtaining what one really desires.

=Nom de guerre=--An assumed name. Fr.

=Nom de plume=--Assumed name of an author. Fr.

=Nomen amicitia est; nomen inane fides=--Friendship 45 is but a name; fidelity but an empty name. Ovid.

=Nomen atque omen=--A name and at the same time an omen. Plaut.

[Greek: Nomiz' adelphous tous alêthinous philous]--Count true friends as brothers.

=Non adeo cecidi, quamvis abjectus, ut infra / Te quoque sim; inferius quo nihil esse potest=--Though cast off, I have not fallen so low as to be beneath thee, than which nothing can be lower. Ovid.

=Non ætate verum ingenio adipiscitur sapientia=--Wisdom is not attained with years, but by ability. Plaut.

=Non agitur de vectigalibus, non de sociorum= 50 =injuriis; libertas et anima nostra in dubio est=--It is not a question of our revenues, nor of the wrongs of our allies; our liberty and very lives are in peril. Cic. in Sall.

=Non amo te, Sabidi, nec possum dicere quare; / Hoc tantum possum dicere, non amo te=--I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; this only I can say, I do not love thee. Mart.

=Non Angli, sed angeli=--Not Angles, but angels. Gregory the Great, on seeing some captive British youths for sale in the slave-market at Rome.

=Non aqua, sed ruina=--Not with water, but with ruin.

=Non assumpsit=--He did not assume. L.

=Non bene conveniunt, nec in una sede morantur= 55 =/ Majestas et amor=--Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place. Ovid.

=Non bene imperat, nisi qui paruerit imperio=--No one makes a good commander except he who has been trained to obey commands.

=Non bene junctarum discordia semina rerum=--The discordant seeds of things ill joined. Ovid.

=Non c' è il peggior frutto di quello che non matura mai=--There is no crop worse than fruit that never ripens. It. Pr.

=Non ci è fumo senza fuoco=--There is no smoke without fire. It. Pr.

=Non compos mentis=--Not sound in mind.

=Non constat=--This does not appear. L. 5

=Non convivere, nec videre saltem, / Non audire licet; nec Urbe tota / Quisquam est tam prope, tam proculque nobis=--I may not live with him, nor even see him or hear him; in all the city there is no one so near me and so far away. Mart.

=Non credo tempori=--I trust not to time. M.

=Non cuicunque datum est habere nasum=--Not every man is gifted with a nose, i.e., has the power of keen discernment. Mart.

=Non cuivis homini contingit adire Corinthum=--It is not every man that can get to Corinth, i.e., rise in the world. Hor.

=Non decipitur qui scit se decipi=--He is not 10 deceived who is knowingly deceived. L.

=Non deerat voluntas, sed facultas=--Not the will, but the ability was wanting.

=Non deficit alter=--Another is not wanting. Virg.

=Non destare il can che dorme=--Do not wake a sleeping dog. It. Pr.

=Non è in alcun luogo chi è per tutto=--He is nowhere who is everywhere. It. Pr.

=Non è si tristo cane che non meni la coda=--No 15 dog is so bad but he will wag his tail. It. Pr.

=Non è uomo chi non sa dir di nò=--He's no man who can't say "No." It. Pr.

=Non è ver che sia la morte / Il peggior di tutti i mali; / E un sollievo pei mortali / Che non stanchi di soffrir=--Death is not, in fact, the worst of all evils; when it comes, it is a relief to those who are worn out with suffering. Metastasio.

=Non eadem est ætas, non mens=--My age is no longer the same, nor my inclination. Hor.

=Non eadem ratio est, sentire et demere morbos: / Sensus inest cunctis; tollitur arte malum=--To be sensible of disease and remove it is not the same thing. The sense of it exists in all; by skill alone is disease removed. Ovid.

=Non ebur neque aureum / Mea renidet in domo= 20 =lacunar=--In my dwelling no ivory gleams, nor fretted roof covered with gold. Hor.

=Non ego avarum / Cum te veto fieri, vappam jubeo ac nebulonem=--When I say, Be not a miser, I do not bid you become a worthless prodigal. Hor.

=Non ego illam mihi dotem esse puto, quæ dos dicitur, / Sed pudicitiam, et pudorem, et sedatam cupidinem=--I do not deem that a dowry which is called a dowry, but chastity, modesty, and subdued desire. Plaut.

=Non ego mordaci distrinxi carmine quenquam; / Nec meus ullius crimina versus habet=--I have not wounded any one with stinging satire, nor does my poetry contain a charge against any man. Ovid.

=Non ego omnino lucrum omne esse utile homini existimo=--I do not at all reckon that every kind of gain is serviceable to a man. Plaut.

=Non ego ventosæ venor suffragia plebis=--I do 25 not hunt after the suffrages of the fickle multitude. Hor.

=Non enim gazæ neque consularis / Summovet lictor miseros tumultus / Mentis et curas laqueata circum / Tecta volantes=--For neither regal treasure, nor the consul's lictor, nor the cares that hover about fretted ceilings, can remove the unhappy tumults of the mind. Hor.

=Non equidem invideo, miror magis=--In sooth I feel no envy, I am surprised rather. Virg.

=Non equidem studeo, bullatis ut mihi nugis / Pagina turgescat, dare pondus idonea fumo=--I do not study to swell my page with pompous trifles, suited only to give weight to smoke. Pers.

=Non erat his locus=--This was out of place here. Hor.

=Non esse cupidum pecunia est: non esse= 30 =emacem vectigal est=--Not to be covetous is money: not to be extravagant is an estate. Cic.

=Non est ad astra mollis a terris via=--The road from the earth to the stars is not a soft one. Sen.

=Non est bonum ludere cum Diis=--It is not good to trifle with the gods. Pr.

=Non est de pastu omnium quæstio, sed de lana=--It is a matter not of feeding the sheep, but fleecing them (lit. of wool). Pius II.

=Non est de sacco tanta farina tuo=--So much meal cannot have come from your own sack. Pr.

=Non est ejusdem et multa et opportuna dicere=--The 35 same person will not both talk much and to the purpose. Pr.

=Non est jocus esse malignum=--There is no joking where there is spite. Hor.

=Non est nostri ingenii=--It is not within my range of ability. Cic.

=Non est vivere, sed valere, vita=--Not to live, but to be healthy is life. Mart.

=Non exercitus, neque thesauri, præsidia regni sunt, verum amici=--Neither armies nor treasures are the safeguards of a state, but friends. Sall.

=Non fa buon mangiar cireggie con signori=--It 40 is not good to eat cherries with great persons. It. Pr.

=Non fumum ex fulgore, sed ex fumo dare lucem=--Not to educe smoke from splendour, but light from smoke. M.

=Non generant aquilæ columbas=--Eagles do not beget doves. M.

=Non giudicar la nave stando in terra=--Don't judge of the ship from the shore. It. Pr.

=Non hæc sine numine=--These things are not without sanction of the Deity. M.

=Non han speranza di morte=--They have not 45 hope to die. Dante.

=Non hoc ista sibi tempus spectacula poscit=--The present moment is not one to indulge in spectacles of this kind. Virg.

=Non hominis culpa, sed ista loci=--It is not the fault of the man, but of the place. Ovid.

=Non id quod magnum est pulchrum est, sed id quod pulchrum magnum=--Not that which is great is noble (lit. beautiful), but that which is noble is great.

=Non ignara mali miseris succurrere disco.= See "Haud ignara."

=Non illa colo calathisve Minervæ / Femineas= 50 =assueta manus=--Her woman's hands were not trained to the distaff or basket of (distaff-loving) Minerva. Virg.

=Non immemor beneficii=--Not unmindful of kindness. M.

=Non in caro nidore voluptas / Summa, sed in teipso est, tu pulmentaria quære / Sudando=--The pleasure (in eating) does not lie in the costly flavour, but in yourself. Seek the relish, therefore, from hard exercise. Hor.

=Non intelligitur quando obrepit senectus=--We do not perceive old age, seeing it creeps on apace. Cic.

=Non intelligunt homines quam magnum vectigal sit parsimonia=--Men do not understand what a great revenue economy is. Cic.

=Non la philosophie, mais le philosophisme causera des maux à la France=--Not the philosophy, but the philosophy of the philosophe will bring evils on France. Voltaire in 1735.

=Non liquet=--It is not clear. L. 5

=Non magni pendis, quia contigit=--You do not value it highly because it has been your lot. Hor.

=Non me pudet fateri nescire quod nesciam=--I am not ashamed to confess myself ignorant of what I do not know. Cic.

=Non mihi sapit qui sermone, sed qui factis sapit=--Not he who is wise in speech, but he who is wise in deeds is wise for me. Greg. Agrigent.

=Non mihi si linguæ centum sint oraque centum, / Ferrea vox, omnes scelerum comprendere formas / Omnia pœnarum percurrere nomina possim=--Not if I had a hundred tongues, a hundred mouths, and a voice of iron, could I retail all the types of wickedness, and run over all the names of penal woe. Virg.

=Non missura cutem, nisi plena cruoris hirudo=--A 10 leech that will not leave the skin until it is gorged with blood. Hor.

=Non multa, sed multum=--Not many things, but much.

=Non nobis, Domine=--Not unto us, O Lord.

=Non nobis solum nati sumus=--We are born not for ourselves alone. Cic.

=Non nostrum inter vos tantas componere lites=--It is not for me to settle such a dispute. Virg.

=Non obstante veredicto=--The verdict notwithstanding. 15 L.

=Non olet=--It has not a bad smell, i.e., money. Suetonius.

=Non omnes eadem mirantur amantque=--All men do not admire and love the same objects. Hor.

=Non omnia possumus omnes=--We cannot all of us do everything. Virg.

=Non omnibus dormio=--Not for all do I sleep. Cic.

=Non omnis error stultitia est dicendus=--Not 20 every error is to be called folly.

=Non omnis moriar; multaque pars mei / Vitabit Libitinam=--I shall not wholly die; and a great part of me shall escape the grave. Hor.

=Non opus est magnis placido lectore poetis; / Quamlibet invitum difficilemque tenent=--Great poets have no need of an indulgent reader; they hold captive every one however unwilling and hard to please he may be. Ovid.

=Non placet quem scurræ laudant, manipulares mussitant=--I do not like the man whom the town gentry belaud, but of whom the people of his own class say nothing. Plaut.

=Non posse bene geri rempublicam multorum imperiis=--Under the command of many, a commonwealth cannot be well conducted. Corn. Nep.

=Non possidentem multa vocaveris / Recte= 25 =beatum. Rectius occupat / Nomen beati, qui Deorum / Muneribus sapienter uti, / Duramque callet pauperiem pati, / Pejusque leto flagitium timet=--You would not justly call him blessed who has great possessions; more justly does he claim the title who knows how to use wisely the gifts of the gods and to bear the hardships of poverty, and who fears disgrace worse than death. Hor.

=Non possum ferre, Quirites, / Græcam urbem=--I cannot, Romans, endure a Grecian city, i.e., Greek or effeminate manners in stern old Rome. Juv.

=Non potest severus esse in judicando, qui alios in se severos esse judices non vult=--He cannot be strict in judging who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself. Cic.

=Non progredi est regredi=--Not to advance is to go back. Pr.

=Non pronuba Juno, / Non Hymenæus adest, non illi Gratia lecto; / Eumenides stravere torum=--No Juno, guardian of the marriage rites, no Hymenæus, no one of the Graces, stood by that nuptial couch. Ovid.

=Non purgat peccata qui negat=--He who denies 30 his sins does not atone for them. Pr.

=Non quam diu, sed quam bene vixeris refert=--Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing. Sen.

=Non qui soletur, non qui labentia tarde / Tempora narrando fallat, amicus adest=--There is no friend near to console me, none to beguile the weary hours with his talk. Ovid.

=Non ragioniam di lor; ma guarda, e passa=--Talk not of them; one look, and then pass on. Dante.

=Non revertar inultus=--I will not return unavenged. M.

=Non satis est pulchra esse poëmata; dulcia= 35 =sunto, / Et quocumque volent animum auditoris agunto=--It is not enough that poems be beautiful; they must also be affecting, and move at will the hearer's soul. Hor.

=Non scholæ, sed vitæ discimus=--We learn not at school, but in life. Sen.

=Non scribit, cujus carmina nemo legit=--That man does not write whose verses no man reads. Mart.

=Non semper erit æstas=--It will not always be summer. Hesiod.

=Non semper erunt Saturnalia=--The carnival will not last for ever.

=Non sequitur=--It does not follow; an unwarranted 40 inference.

=Non si male nunc, et olim sic erit=--If it is ill now, it will not also be so hereafter. Hor.

=Non sibi sed patriæ=--Not for himself, but for his country. M.

=Non sine numine=--Not without the Divine approval M.

=Non sum qualis eram=--I am not what I once was. Hor.

=Non tali auxilio, nec defensoribus istis / Tempus= 45 =eget=--The times require other aid and other defenders than those you bring. Virg.

=Non tu corpus eras sine pectore. Di tibi formam, / Di tibi divitias dederant, artemque fruendi=--You were at no time ever a body without a soul. The gods have given you beauty, the gods have given you wealth, and the skill to enjoy it. Horace to Tibullus.

=Non usitata, nec tenui ferar penna=--I shall be borne on no common, no feeble, wing. Hor.

=Non uti libet, sed uti licet, sic vivamus=--We must live not as we like, but as we can. Pr.

=Non v'è peggior ladro d'un cattivo libro=--There is no robber worse than a bad book. It. Pr.

=Non vixit male, qui natus moriensque fefellit=--He has not lived ill whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world. Hor.

=Nonchalance=--Coolness; indifference. Fr. 5

=Nondum omnium dierum sol occidit=--The sun of all days has not yet set. Pr.

=None acts a friend by a deputy, or can be familiar by proxy.= South.

=None are all evil; quickening round his heart, / One softer feeling would not yet depart.= Byron.

=None are fair but who are kind.= Stanley.

=None are more unjust in their judgments of= 10 =others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.= Spurgeon.

=None are rash when they are not seen by anybody.= Stanislaus.

=None are so desolate but something dear, / Dearer than self, possesses or possess'd / A thought, and claims the homage of a tear.= Byron.

=None are so fond of secrets as those who don't mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money--for the purpose of circulation.= (?)

=None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free.= Goethe.

=None are so seldom found alone, and are so= 15 =soon tired of their own company, as those coxcombs who are on the best terms with themselves.= Colton.

=None are so well shod but they may slip.= Pr.

=None but a fool is always right.= Hare.

=None but a fool would measure his satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.= Goldsmith.

=None but a Goethe, at the sun of earthly happiness, can keep his Phœnix wings unsinged.= Carlyle.

=None but an author knows an author's cares, /= 20 =Or Fancy's fondness for the child she bears.= Cowper.

=None but himself can be his parallel.= _L. Theobald._

=None but men of strong passions are capable of rising to greatness.= Mirabeau.

=None but the brave deserve the fair.= Dryden.

=None can cure their harms by wailing them.= Rich. III., ii. 2.

=None can pray well but he who lives well.= Pr. 25

=None ever saw the pillars of the firmament; yet it is supported.= Luther.

=None ever was a great poet that applied himself much to anything else.= Sir W. Temple.

=None is so deaf as he who will not hear.= Pr.

=None is so wasteful as the scraping dame; / She loseth three for one--her soul, rest, fame.= George Herbert.

=None is so wretched as the poor man who maintains= 30 =the semblance of wealth.= Spurgeon.

=None lie that would not steal.= Gael. Pr.

=None more impatiently suffer injuries than those that are most forward in doing them.= (?)

=None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.= Bacon.

=None of those who own the land own the landscape; only he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet.= Emerson.

=None of us can wrong the universe.= Emerson. 35

=None of you can tell where the shoe pinches me.= Plutarch.

=None shun the light but criminals and evil spirits.= Schiller.

=None so blind as they who will not see.= Pr.

=None so miserable as a man who wills everything and can do nothing.= Claudius.

=None so wise but the advice of others may, at= 40 =some time or other, be useful and necessary for him.= Thomas à Kempis.

=None think the great unhappy but the great.= Pr.

=None without hope e'er loved the brightest fair; / But love can hope where reason would despair.= Lyttelton.

=Nor are those empty-hearted whose low sound / Reverbs no hollowness.= King Lear, i. 1.

=Nor by the wayside ruins let us mourn / Who have th' eternal towers for our appointed bourne.= Keble.

=Nor can either thy own resentment of misfortunes= 45 =within, or the violence of any calamity without, give thee sufficient grounds, from the terrible face thy present circumstances wear, to pronounce that all hope of escape and better days are past.= Thomas à Kempis.

=Nor deem the irrevocable past / As wholly wasted, wholly vain, / If, rising on its wrecks, at last / To something nobler we attain.= Longfellow.

=Nor e'en the tenderest heart, and next our own, / Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh!= Keble.

=Nor e'er was to the bowers of bliss conveyed / A fairer spirit or more welcome shade.= _T. Tickell._

=Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favours call; / She comes unlook'd for, if she comes at all.= Pope.

=Nor grieve to die when far from home; you'll= 50 =find / To Hades everywhere a favouring wind.= Anon.

=Nor is it possible to thought / A greater than itself to know.= Wm. Blake.

=Nor less I deem that there are powers / Which of themselves our minds impress; / That we can feel this mind of ours / In a wide passiveness.= Wordsworth.

=Nor love thy life, nor hate, but what thou liv'st / Live well, how long or short permit to heaven.= Milton.

=Nor sequent centuries could hit / Orbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit.= Landor.

=Nor sink those stars in empty night; / They= 55 =hide themselves in heaven's own light.= Montgomery.

=Noris quam elegans formarum spectator fiem=--You shall see how nice a judge of beauty I am. Ter.

=Nos duo turba sumus=--We two are a multitude (lit. a crowd). Deucalion to Pyrrha after the deluge, in Ovid.

=Nos hæc novimus esse nihil=--We know that these things are nothing--mere trifles. Mart.

=Nos nostraque Deo=--Both we and ours are God's. M.

=Nos numerus sumus et fruges consumere nati=--We are a mere number (but ciphers), and born to consume the fruits of the earth. Hor.

=Nos patriæ fines et dulcia linquimus arva=--We leave the confines of our native country and our delightful plains. Virg.

=Nos te, / Nos facimus, Fortuna, deam=--It is we, O Fortune, we that make thee a goddess. Juv.

=Nosce tempus=--Know your time; make hay 5 while the sun shines. Pr.

=Noscenda est mensura sui spectandaque rebus / In summis minimisque=--A man should know his own measure, and have regard to it in the smallest matters as well as the greatest. Juv.

=Noscitur a sociis=--A man is known by the company he keeps; a word, by the context.

=Nosse omnia hæc salus est adolescentulis=--It is salutary for young men to know all these things. Ter.

=Nosse volunt omnes, mercedem solvere nemo=--All wish to know, but no one to pay the fee. Juv.

=Nostra nos sine comparatione delectant; nunquam= 10 =erit felix quem torquebit felicior=--What we have pleases us if we do not compare it with what others have; he never will be happy to whom a happier is a torture. Sen.

=Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, / As his corse to the rampart we hurried: / Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot, / O'er the grave where our hero we buried.= Rev. C. Wolfe.

=Not a flower, not a flower sweet, / On my black coffin let there be strewn; / Not a friend, not a friend greet / My poor corpse, where my bones shall be thrown; / A thousand, thousand sighs to save, / Lay me (what you will) O where / Sad lover ne'er find my grave, / To weep there.= (?)

=Not a man, for being simply man, / Hath any honour, but honour for those honours / That are without him, as place, riches, favour, / Prizes of accident, as oft as merit.= Troil. and Cress., iii. 3.

=Not a man of iron, but of live oak.= Garfield.

=Not a Red Indian, hunting by Lake Winnipeg,= 15 =can quarrel with his squaw, but the whole world must smart for it. Will not the price of beaver rise?= Carlyle.

=Not a single shaft can hit / Till the God of love sees fit.= Ryland.

=Not a vanity is given in vain.= Pope.

=Not all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay, / Nor florid prose, nor honeyed lines of rhyme, / Can blazon evil deeds or consecrate a crime.= Byron.

=Not all the water in the rough rude sea / Can wash the balm from an anointed king; / The breath of worldly men cannot depose / The deputy elected by the Lord.= Rich. II., iii. 2.

=Not alone to know, but to act according to= 20 =thy knowledge, is thy destination.= Fichte.

=Not as a vulture, but a dove, / The Holy Ghost came from above.= _Longfellow, after Fuller._

=Not body enough to cover his mind decently with; his intellect is improperly exposed.= Sydney Smith.

=Not brute force, but only persuasion and faith is the king of this world.= Carlyle.

=Not by levity of floating, but by stubborn force of swimming, shalt thou make thy way. A grand "vis inertiæ" in thee, Mr. Bull.= Carlyle.

=Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit,= 25 =saith the Lord.= Bible.

=Not by the law of force, but by the law of labour, has any man right to the possession of the land.= Ruskin.

=Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, / Is our destined end or way; / But to act that each to-morrow / May find us farther than to-day.= Longfellow.

=Not every parish priest can wear Dr. Luther's shoes.= Pr.

=Not fame, but that which it merits, is what a man should esteem.= Schopenhauer.

=Not for fellowship in hatred, but in love am I= 30 =here.= Sophocles.

=Not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth.= St. Paul.

=Not he who has many ideas, but he who has one conviction may become a great man.= Cötvös.

=Not heaven itself upon the past has power; / But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.= Dryden.

=Not in a man's having no business with men, but in having no unjust business with them, and in having all manner of true and just business, can either his or their blessedness be found possible, and this waste world become, for both parties, a home and peopled garden.= Carlyle.

=Not in nature, but in man is all the beauty= 35 =and the worth he sees. The world is very empty, and is indebted to this gilding, exalting soul for its pride.= Emerson.

=Not in pulling down, but in building up, does man find pure joy.= Goethe.

=Not in the achievement, but in the endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite God.= Chapin.

=Not kings alone--the people too have their flatterers.= Mirabeau.

=Not less in God's sight is the end of the day than the beginning.= Gael. Pr.

=Not liberty, but duty, is the condition of existence.= 40 George Eliot.

=Not lost, but gone before.= Sen.

=Not many words are needed to refuse; by the refused the "no" alone is heard.= Goethe.

=Not marble, nor the gilded monuments of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme.= Cymbeline. (?)

=Not misgovernment, nor yet no government; only government will now serve.= Carlyle.

=Not once or twice in our rough island-story, /= 45 =The path of duty was the way to glory: / He that walks it, only thirsting / For the right, and learns to deaden / Love of self, before his journey closes / He shall find the stubborn thistle bursting / Into glossy purples, which outredden / All voluptuous garden-roses.= Tennyson.

=Not one false man but does unaccountable mischief; how much, in a generation or two, will twenty-seven millions, mostly false, manage to accumulate?= Carlyle.

=Not one of our faculties that it is not a delight to exercise.= W. R. Greg.

=Not one of our senses that, in its healthy state, is not an avenue to enjoyment.= W. R. Greg.

=Not one word of any book is readable by you, except so far as your mind is one with its author's; and not merely his words like your words, but his thoughts like your thoughts.= Ruskin.

=Not only all common speech, but science, poetry itself, is no other, if thou consider it, than right naming.= Carlyle.

=Not only has the unseen world a reality, but= 5 =the only reality; the rest being, not metaphorically, but literally and in scientific strictness, "a show."= Carlyle.

=Not our logical, mensurative faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us; I might say, priest and prophet to lead us heavenward, or magician and wizard to lead us hellward.= Carlyle.

=Not so easily can a man tear up the roots of his old life, and transplant himself into a new soil and a foreign atmosphere.= Ed.

=Not that I loved Cæsar less, but that I loved Rome more.= Jul. Cæs., iii. 2.

=Not the cry, but the flight of a wild duck, rouses the flock to fly and follow.= Chinese Pr.

=Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but= 10 =the hero's heart.= Serv. Pr.

=Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather he who offers faithful service in small matters is most welcome to one who would achieve what is good and lasting.= Goethe.

=Not this man and that man, but all men make up mankind, and their united tasks the task of mankind.= Carlyle.

=Not to attempt a gallant deed for which one has the impulse may be braver than the doing of it.= J. M. Barrie.

=Not to believe in God, but to acknowledge Him when and wheresoever He reveals Himself, is the one sole blessedness of man on earth.= Goethe.

=Not to desire or admire, if a man could learn= 15 =it, were more / Than a walk all day like the sultan of old in a garden of spice.= Tennyson.

=Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.= Milton.

=Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue always a child.= Cic.

=Not to return one good office for another is inhuman; but to return evil for good is diabolical.= Sen.

=Not to see the wood for the trees=, i.e., the whole for the details. Ger. Pr.

=Not to speak your opinion well, but to have a= 20 =good and just opinion worth speaking; for every Parliament, as for every man, this latter is the point.= Carlyle.

=Not to talk of thy doing, and become the envy of surrounding flunkeys, but to taste of the fruit of thy doings themselves, is thine.= Carlyle.

=Not towards the impossibility, self-government of a multitude by a multitude; but towards some possibility, government by the wisest, does bewildered Europe now struggle.= Carlyle.

=Not what I Have, but what I Do is my Kingdom.= Carlyle.

=Not what the man knows, but what he wills, determines his worth or unworth, his strength or weakness, his happiness or misery.= Lindner.

=Not what we wish, but what we want, / Oh,= 25 =let thy grace supply.= Merrick.

=Not when I rise above, only when I rise to, something, do I approve myself.= Jacobi.

=Not where they dash ashore and break and moan are waters deadliest.= A. Mary F. Robinson.

=Not without a shudder may a human hand clutch into the mysterious urn of destiny.= Schiller.

=Note bene=--Note well.

=Notandi sunt tibi mores=--The manners of men 30 are to be carefully observed. Hor.

=Note how the falcon starts at every sight, / New from his hood, but what a quiet eye / Cometh of freedom.= Sir Edwin Arnold.

=Noth bricht Eisen-=-Necessity breaks iron. _Ger. Pr._

=Noth kennt kein Gebot=--Necessity knows no law. Ger. Pr.

=Noth lehrt beten=--Necessity teaches to pray. Ger. Pr.

=Nothing altogether passes away without result.= 35 =We are here to leave that behind us which will never die.= Goethe.

=Nothing amuses more harmlessly than computation, and nothing is oftener applicable to real business or speculative inquiries. A thousand stories which the ignorant tell and believe die away at once when the computist takes them in his grip.= Johnson.

=Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.= Emerson.

=Nothing at bottom is interesting to the majority of men but themselves.= Schopenhauer.

=Nothing becomes him ill that he would well.= Love's L. Lost, ii. 1.

=Nothing but a handful of dust will fill the eye= 40 =of man.= Arab. Pr.

=Nothing but ourselves can finally beat us.= Carlyle.

=Nothing can atone for the want of modesty, without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.= Steele.

=Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.= Ruskin.

=Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently.= Publius Syrus.

=Nothing can be hostile to religion which is= 45 =agreeable to justice.= Gladstone.

=Nothing can be made of nothing; he who has laid up no material can produce no combinations.= Sir J. Reynolds.

=Nothing can be more fatal in politics than a preponderance of the philosophical, or in philosophy than a preponderance of the political, spirit.= Lecky.

=Nothing can be preserved but what is good.= Emerson.

=Nothing can be so injurious to progress as to be altogether blamed or altogether praised.= Goethe.

=Nothing can be termed mine own but what I= 50 =make my own by using well.= Middleton.

=Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles.= Emerson.

=Nothing can come out of a sack that is not in it.= It. Pr.

=Nothing can ferment itself to clearness in a colander.= Carlyle.

=Nothing can need a lie; / A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby.= Herbert.

=Nothing can overtake an untruth if it has a= 5 =minute's start.= J. M. Barrie.

=Nothing can work me damage except myself.= St. Bernard.

=Nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal.= Tam. of the Shrew, i. 2.

=Nothing comes amiss to a hungry man.= Pr.

=Nothing contributes so much to cheerfulness as health, or so little as riches.= Schopenhauer.

=Nothing costs less or is cheaper than compliments= 10 =of civility.= Cervantes.

=Nothing deepens and intensifies family traits like poverty and toil and suffering. It is the furnace heat that brings out the characters, the pressure that makes the strata perfect.= John Burroughs.

=Nothing destroyeth authority so much as the unequal and untimely interchange of power pressed too far and relaxed too much.= Bacon.

=Nothing dies, nothing can die. No idlest word thou speakest but is a seed cast into time, and grows through all eternity.= Carlyle.

=Nothing does so much honour to a woman as her patience, and nothing does her so little as the patience of her husband.= Joubert.

=Nothing done by man in the past has any= 15 =deeper sense than what he is doing now.= Emerson.

=Nothing doth so fool a man as extreme passion.= Bp. Hall.

=Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.= Timon of Athens, iii. 5.

=Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.= Hume.

=Nothing exceeds in ridicule, no doubt, / A fool in fashion, save a fool that's out; / His passion for absurdity's so strong, / He cannot bear a rival in the throng.= Young.

=Nothing exposes us more to madness than= 20 =distinguishing ourselves from others, and nothing more contributes to maintain our common-sense than living in community of feeling with other people.= Goethe.

=Nothing extenuate, / Nor set down aught in malice; then must you speak / Of one, that loved not wisely, but too well ... of one, whose hand / Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away, / Richer than all his tribe.= Othello, v. 2.

=Nothing for nothing.= Pr.

=Nothing for nothing, and very little for a halfpenny.= Pr.

=Nothing gives such a blow to friendship as the detecting another in an untruth. It strikes at the root of our confidence ever after.= Hazlitt.

=Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The= 25 =lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him to prepare the world for his coming.= Hare.

=Nothing great is lightly won, nothing won is lost; / Every good deed nobly done will repay the cost.= (?)

=Nothing hath got so far / But man hath caught and kept it as his prey; / His eyes dismount the highest star; / He is in little all the sphere.= George Herbert.

=Nothing hitherto was ever stranded, cast aside; but all, were it only a withered leaf, works together with all; is borne forward on the bottomless, shoreless flood of action, and lives through perpetual metamorphoses.= Carlyle.

=Nothing in haste save catching fleas.= Dut. Pr.

=Nothing in his life / Became him like the= 30 =leaving it; he died / As one that had been studied in his death / To throw away the dearest thing he owed, / As 'twere a careless trifle.= Macbeth, i. 4.

=Nothing in itself deformed or incongruous can give us any real satisfaction.= Cervantes.

=Nothing in love can be premeditated; it is as a power divine, that thinks and feels within us, unswathed by our control.= Mme. de Staël.

=Nothing in Nature, much less conscious being, / Was e'er created solely for itself.= Young.

=Nothing in the dealings of Heaven with Earth is so wonderful to me as the way in which the evil angels are allowed to spot, pervert, and bring to nothing, or to worse, the powers of the greatest men: so that Greece must be ruined, for all that Plato can say; Geneva, for all that Calvin can say; England, for all that Sir Thomas More and Bacon can say; and only Gounod's "Faust" to be the visible outcome to Europe of the school of Weimar.= Ruskin.

=Nothing in the world is more haughty than a= 35 =man of moderate capacity when once raised to power.= Baron Wessenberg.

=Nothing is a misery, / Unless our weakness apprehend it so; / We cannot be more faithful to ourselves / In anything that's manly, than to make / Ill-fortune as contemptible to us / As it makes us to others.= Beaumont and Fletcher.

=Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve yourself to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.= Emerson.

=Nothing is but what is not.= Macb., i. 3.

=Nothing is cheap if you don't want it.= Pr.

=Nothing is constant but a virtuous mind.= 40 Shirley.

=Nothing is denied to well-directed labour; nothing is ever to be attained without it.= Sir J. Reynolds.

=Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent.= B. R. Haydon.

=Nothing is easier than to clear debts by borrowing.= Johnson.

=Nothing is endless but inanity.= Goethe.

=Nothing is fair or good alone.= Emerson. 45

=Nothing is farther than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.= Hare.

=Nothing is given so ungrudgingly as advice.= La Roche.

=Nothing is good for a nation but that which arises from its core and its own general wants.= Goethe.

=Nothing is good I see without respect.= Mer. of Ven., v. 1.

=Nothing is good or bad, but thinking makes it so.= Ham., ii. 2.

=Nothing is graceful that is not our own.= Collier.

=Nothing is high because it is in a high place, and nothing low because it is in a low one.= Dickens.

=Nothing is impossible to the man who can= 5 =will.= Emerson.

=Nothing is insipid to the wise; / To thee insipid all but what is mad; / Joy season'd high and tasting strong of guilt.= Young.

=Nothing is lasting that is feigned.= Pr.

=Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and, far from commanding it, we are forced to obey it.= Rousseau.

=Nothing is law that is not reason.= Sir Powell.

=Nothing is more active than thought, for it= 10 =flies over the universe; nothing stronger than necessity, for all must submit to it.= Thales.

=Nothing is more binding than the friendship of companions-in-arms.= G. S. Hillard.

=Nothing is more certain than that great poets are no sudden prodigies, but slow results.= Lowell.

=Nothing is more characteristic of a man than his behaviour towards fools.= Amiel.

=Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.= Johnson.

=Nothing is more common than to express exceeding= 15 =zeal in amending our neighbours, ... while at the same time we neglect the beginning at home.= Thomas à Kempis.

=Nothing is more deeply punished than the neglect of the affinities by which alone society should be formed, and the insane levity of choosing associates by others' eyes.= Emerson.

=Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves.= Emerson.

=Nothing is more easy than to clear debts by borrowing.= Johnson.

=Nothing is more free than the imagination of man.= Hume.

=Nothing is more hurtful to a truth than an= 20 =old error.= Goethe.

=Nothing is more natural than that we should grow giddy at a great sight which comes unexpectedly before us, to make us feel at once our littleness and our greatness. But there is not in the world any truer enjoyment than at the moment when we are thus made giddy for the first time.= Goethe.

=Nothing is more ruinous for a man than when he is mighty enough in any part to right himself without right.= Jacobi.

=Nothing is more significant of the philosophy of a man than the footing on which he stands with his body. The Cynic neglects it, the Sybarite makes profit out of it, the Trappist disowns it, and the Idealist forgets it.= Lindner.

=Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.= Hume.

=Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in= 25 =action.= Goethe.

=Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.= Hazlitt.

=Nothing is more vulgar than haste.= Emerson.

=Nothing is more offensive to reason= (widerwärtiger) =than an appeal to the majority; it consists of a few powerful leaders, of rogues who accommodate themselves, of weaklings who assimilate themselves, and of the mass who follow confusedly, without in the least knowing what they would be at.= Goethe.

=Nothing is new; we walk where others went; / There's no vice now but has its precedent.= Herrick.

=Nothing is of any value in books excepting the= 30 =transcendental and extraordinary.= Emerson.

=Nothing is old but the mind.= Emerson.

=Nothing is perfect until, in some way, it touches or passes through man.= T. T. Munger.

=Nothing is permanently helpful to any race or condition of men but the spirit that is in their own hearts, kindled by the love of their native land.= Ruskin.

=Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.= Bacon.

=Nothing is poetry which does not transport;= 35 =the lyre is a winged instrument.= Joubert.

=Nothing is profane that serveth to holy things.= Raleigh.

=Nothing is quite beautiful alone; nothing but is beautiful in the whole.= Emerson.

=Nothing is rarer than the use of a word in its exact meaning.= Whipple.

=Nothing is safe from fault-finders.= Pr.

=Nothing is secret that shall not be made= 40 =manifest; neither anything hid that shall not be known.= Jesus.

=Nothing is so atrocious as fancy without taste.= Goethe.

=Nothing is so beautiful to the eye as truth is to the mind; nothing so deformed and irreconcilable to the understanding as a lie.= Locke.

=Nothing is so perfectly amusement as a total change of ideas.= Sterne.

=Nothing is so conceivable= (begreiflich) =to the child, nothing seems to be so natural to him, as the marvellous or supernatural.= Zachariä.

=Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.= 45 La Fontaine.

=Nothing is so difficult as to help a friend in matters which do not require the aid of friendship, but only a cheap and trivial service, if your friendship wants the basis of a thorough practical acquaintance.= Thoreau.

=Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labour alone. Though labour always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labour alone will do little.= Haydon.

=Nothing is so grand as truth, nothing so forcible, nothing so novel.= Landor.

=Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; if you flatter only one or two, you affront the rest.= Swift.

=Nothing is so narrowing, contracting, hardening,= 50 =as always to be moving in the same groove, with no thought beyond what we immediately see and hear close around us.= Dean Stanley.

=Nothing is so new as what has been long forgotten.= Ger. Pr.

=Nothing is so uncertain as the minds of the multitude.= Leiz.

=Nothing is superficial to a deep observer. It is in trifles that the mind betrays itself.= Bulwer Lytton.

=Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, / But an eternal now does always last.= Cowley.

=Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity.= 5 =The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.= Pascal.

=Nothing is thought rare / Which is not new and followed; yet we know / That what was worn some twenty years ago / Comes into grace again.= Beaumont and Fletcher.

=Nothing is to be preferred before justice.= Socrates.

=Nothing is too high for a man to reach, but he must climb with care and confidence.= Hans Andersen.

=Nothing is true but what is simple.= Goethe.

=Nothing is truly elegant but what unites use= 10 =with beauty.= Goldsmith.

=Nothing leads to good which is not natural.= Schiller.

=Nothing lovelier can be found / In woman than to study household good, / And good works in her husband to promote.= Milton.

=Nothing makes love sweeter and tenderer than a little previous scolding and freezing, just as the grape-clusters acquire by a frost before vintage thinner skins and better flavour.= Jean Paul.

=Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.= Thoreau.

=Nothing marks the character of a young man= 15 =more than a failure.= Anon.

=Nothing more readily pleases a vulgar mind than to find anomalies in conduct or character.= Alex. Whitelaw.

=Nothing noble or godlike in the world but has in it something of "infinite sadness."= Carlyle.

=Nothing not a reality ever yet got men to pay bed and board to it for long.= Carlyle.

=Nothing on earth is without difficulty. Only the inner impulse, the pleasure it gives and love enable us to surmount obstacles; to make smooth our way, and lift ourselves out of the narrow grooves in which other people sorrowfully distress themselves.= Goethe.

=Nothing on earth is without significance, but= 20 =the first and most essential in every matter is the place where and the hour when.= Schiller.

=Nothing, or almost nothing, is certain to me, except the Divine Infernal character of this universe I live in, worthy of horror, worthy of worship.= Carlyle.

=Nothing pleaseth but rare accidents.= 1 _Hen. IV._, i. 2.

=Nothing preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing.= Ben. Franklin.

=Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect indifference to it.= Hazlitt.

=Nothing really pleasant or unpleasant subsists= 25 =by nature, but all things become so by habit.= Epictetus.

=Nothing recommends a man more to the female mind than courage.= Spectator.

=Nothing remains to man, nothing is possible to him of true joy, but in the righteous love of his fellows, in the knowledge of the laws and the glory of God, and in the daily use of the faculties of soul and body with which God has endowed him.= Ruskin.

=Nothing resembles pride so much as discouragement.= Amiel.

=Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.= Schumann.

=Nothing seems important to me but so far as= 30 =it is connected with morals.= Cecil.

=Nothing so difficult as a beginning / In poesy, except perhaps the end; / For oftentimes when Pegasus seems winning / The race, he sprains a wing, and down we tend, / Like Lucifer, when hurl'd from heaven for sinning.= Byron.

=Nothing so effectively disconcerts the schemes of sinister people as the tranquillity of great souls.= Mirabeau.

=Nothing so endures as a truly spoken word.= Carlyle.

=Nothing so lifts a man from all his mean imprisonments, were it but for moments, as true admiration.= Carlyle.

=Nothing so much contents us as that which= 35 =confounds us.= Goldsmith.

=Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire of appearing so.= La Roche.

=Nothing stands in need of lying but a lie.= Pr.

=Nothing stings so bitterly as loss of money.= Pr.

=Nothing succeeds like success.= Talleyrand.

=Nothing that has ever lived is lost; nothing is= 40 =useless; not a sigh, a joy, or a sorrow which has not served its purpose.= Mme. Gasparin.

=Nothing that is violent is permanent.= Pr.

=Nothing that lives is or can be rigidly perfect; part of it is decaying, part nascent. The foxglove blossom--a third part bud, a third part past, a third part in full bloom--is a type of the life of this world.= Ruskin.

=Nothing truly can be made mine own but what I make mine own by using well.= Middleton.

=Nothing venture, nothing win.= Pr.

=Nothing weighs lighter than a promise.= Ger. Pr. 45

=Nothing which is unjust can hope to continue in this world.= Carlyle.

=Nothing will be mended by complaints.= Johnson.

=Nothing's more dull and negligent / Than an old lazy government, / That knows no interest of state, / But such as serves a present strait, / And, to patch up or shift, will close, / Or break alike, with friends or foes.= Butler.

=Notre défiance justifie la tromperie d'autrui=--Our distrust justifies the deceit of others. La Roche.

=Notre vie est du vent tissu=--Our life is a web 50 woven of wind. (?)

=Notwithstanding this great proximity of man to himself, we still remain ignorant of many things concerning ourselves.= Hale.

=Nought can be gained by a Sabbath profaned.= Saying.

=Nought else there is / But that weird beat of Time, which doth disjoin / To-day from Hellas.= Lewis Morris.

=Nought is so vile that on the earth doth live, / But to the earth some special good doth give; / Nor aught so good, but, strain'd from that fair use, / Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse.= Rom. and Jul., ii. 3.

=Nought so stockish, hard, and full of rage, / But music for the time doth change its nature.= Mer. of Venice, v. 1.

=Nought treads so silent as the foot of time.= Young.

=Nourri dans le sérail, j'en connais les détours=--Brought up in the seraglio, I know all its sinuosities. Racine.

=Nous avons changé tout cela=--We have changed 5 all that. Molière.

=Nous avons tous assez de force pour supporter les maux d'autrui=--We all have strength enough to bear the misfortunes of others. La Roche.

=Nous dansons sur un volcan=--We are dancing on a volcano. M. de Salvandy, just prior to the July Revolution of 1830.

=Nous désirerions peu de choses avec ardeur, si nous connaissions parfaitement ce que nous désirons=--We should desire few things with eagerness if we well knew the worth of what we are striving for. La Roche.

=Nous maintiendrons=--We will maintain. M.

=Nous n'écoutons d'instincts que ceux qui sont= 10 =les nôtres, / Et ne croyons le mal que quand il est venu=--We listen to no instincts but such as are our own, and we believe in no misfortune till it comes. La Fontaine.

=Nous ne savons ce que c'est que le bonheur ou le malheur absolu=--We do not know what absolute good or evil is. Rousseau.

=Nous ne sommes hommes, et nous tenons les uns aux autres, que par la parole=--We are men, and associate together, solely in virtue of speech. (?)

=Nous ne trouvons guère de gens de bon sens que ceux qui sont de notre avis=--We seldom find any persons of good sense except those who are of our opinion. La Roche.

=Nous ne vivons jamais, mais nous esperons de vivre=--We never live, but we hope to live. Pascal.

=Nous sommes assemblés par la volonté nationale,= 15 =nous ne sortirons que par la force=--We are here by the will of the people, and nothing but the force of bayonets shall send us hence. Mirabeau to the Marquis de Brézé.

=Nous sommes mieux seul qu'avec un sot=--One had better be alone than with a fool. Fr. Pr.

=Nous verrons, dit l'aveugle=--We shall see, as the blind man said. Fr.

=Novacula in cotem=--He has met his match (lit. the razor against the whetstone). Pr.

=Novels are tales of adventures which did not occur in God's creation, but only in the waste chambers (to be let unfurnished) of certain human heads, and which are part and parcel only of the sum of nothings; which, nevertheless, obtain some temporary remembrance, and lodge extensively at this epoch of the world in similar, still more unfurnished, chambers.= Carlyle.

=Novels are the journal or record of manners;= 20 =and the new importance of these books derives from the fact that the novelist begins to penetrate the surface, and treat this part of life more worthily.= Emerson.

=Novels for most part instil into young minds false views of life.= Schopenhauer.

=Novelty has something in it that inebriates the fancy, and not unfrequently dissipates and fumes away like other intoxication, and leaves the poor patient, as usual, with an aching heart.= Burns.

=Novelty is only in request; and it is as dangerous to be aged in any kind of course, as it is virtuous to be constant in any undertaking.= Meas. for Meas., iii. 2.

=Novi ego hoc sæculum, moribus quibus siet=--I know this age, what its character is. Plaut.

=Novi ingenium mulierum, / Nolunt ubi velis,= 25 =ubi nolis cupiunt ultro=--I know the nature of women: when you will, they won't; when you won't, they will. Ter.

=Novos amicos dum paras, veteres cole=--While you seek new friendships, take care to cultivate the old.

=Novum et ad hunc diem non auditum=--New, and unheard of till this day. Cic.

=Novus homo=--A new man; a man risen from obscurity.

=Now an incredible deal is demanded, and every avenue is barred.= Goethe.

=Now farewell light, thou sunshine bright, /= 30 =And all beneath the sky! / May coward shame distain his name, / The wretch that dares not die.= Burns, in "Macpherson's Lament."

=Now, good digestion wait on appetite, / And health on both.= Macb., iii. 4.

=Now is now, and Yule's in winter.= Sc. Pr.

="Now" is the watchword of the wise.= Pr.

=Now! it is gone. Our brief hours travel post, / Each with its thought or deed, its Why or How; / But know, each parting hour gives up a ghost / To dwell within thee--an eternal Now!= Coleridge.

=Now join your hands, and with your hands= 35 =your hearts, / That no dissension hinder government.= 3 Hen. VI., iv. 6.

=Now morn her rosy steps in th' eastern clime, / Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl.= Milton.

=Now our fates from unmomentous things / May rise like rivers out of little springs.= Campbell.

=Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, / Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune, and harsh; / That unmatch'd form and feature of blown youth / Blasted with ecstacy: O, woe is me, / To have seen what I have seen, see what I see.= Ham., iii. 2.

=Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it; / We are happy now, because God wills it.= Lowell.

=Now 'tis the spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted;= 40 =/ Suffer them now, and they'll o'ergrow the garden, / And choke the herbs for want of husbandry.= 2 Hen. VI., iii. 1.

=Now you have feathered your nest.= Congreve.

=Nowadays compromise and indifference rule supreme, and instead of solid grit we have putty or wax.= Spurgeon.

=Nowadays truth is news.= Sc. Pr.

=Nowhere can a man get real root-room, and spread out his branches till they touch the morning and the evening, but in his own house.= Ward Beecher.

=Nox atra cava circumvolat=--Black night envelopes them with her hollow shade. Virg.

=Noxiæ pœna par esto=--Let the punishment be proportionate to the offence. Cic.

=Nuda veritas=--Undisguised truth. Hor.

=Nudum pactum=--A mere agreement. L.

=Nugæ canoræ=--Melodious trifles; agreeable nonsense. 5 Hor.

=Nugis addere pondus=--To add weight to trifles. Hor.

=Nul n'aura de l'esprit, / Hors nous et nos amis=--No one shall have wit except ourselves and our friends. Molière.

=Nul n'est content de sa fortune, ni mécontent de son esprit=--No one is content with his lot or discontented with his wit. Mme. Deshoulières.

=Nulla ætas ad perdiscendum est=--There is no time of life past learning something. St. Ambrose.

=Nulla dies sine linea=--Let no day pass without its 10 line. Pr.

=Nulla falsa doctrina est, quæ non permisceat aliquid veritatis=--There is no false doctrine which contains not a mixture of truth.

=Nulla fere causa est, in qua non fœmina litem moverit=--There's hardly a strife in which a woman has not been a prime mover. Juv.

=Nulla fides regni sociis, omnisque potestas / Impatiens consortis erit=--There is no faith among colleagues in power, and all power will be impatient of a colleague. Lucan.

=Nulla pallescere culpa=--Not to grow pale at imputation of guilt. M.

=Nulla placere diu, vel vivere carmina possunt /= 15 =Quæ scribuntur aquæ potoribus=--No poems written by water-drinkers can be long popular or live long. Hor.

=Nulla res tantum ad discendum profuit quantum scriptio=--Nothing so much assists learning, as writing down what we wish to remember.

=Nulla unquam de vita hominis cunctatio longa est=--No delay is too long when the life of a man is at stake. Juv.

=Nulli jactantius mœrent, quam qui maxime lætantur=--None mourn so demonstratively as those who are in reality rejoicing most. Tac.

=Nulli secundus=--Second to none.

=Nulli te facias nimis sodalem, / Gaudebis= 20 =minus et minus dolebis=--Be on too intimate terms with no one; if your joy be less, so will your grief. Mart.

=Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri, / Quo me cunque rapit tempestas, deferor hospes=--Bound to swear by the opinions of no master, I present myself a guest wherever the storm drives me. Hor.

=Nullius boni sine socio jucunda possessio=--Without a friend to share it, no good we possess is truly enjoyable. Sen.

=Nullius in verba=--At no man's dictation. M.

=Nullum est jam dictum quod non dictum sit prius=--Nothing is said now that has not been said before. Ter.

=Nullum est malum majus, quam non posse= 25 =ferre malum=--There is no greater misfortune than not to be able to endure misfortune.

=Nullum est sine nomine saxum=--Not a stone but has a tale to tell. Lucan.

=Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiæ fuit=--No great genius is ever without some tincture of madness. Sen.

=Nullum magnum malum quod extremum est=--No evil is great which is the last. Corn. Nep.

=Nullum numen abest si sit prudentia=--Where there is prudence, a protecting divinity is not far away. Pr.

=Nullum numen habes si sit prudentia; nos te /= 30 =Nos facimus, Fortuna, deam cœloque locamus=--Thou hast no divine power, O Fortune, where there is prudence; it is we who make a goddess of thee, and place thee in heaven. Juv.

=Nullum quod tetigit non ornavit=--There was nothing he touched that he did not adorn. Epitaph by Johnson on Goldsmith.

=Nullum simile quatuor pedibus currit=--No simile runs on all fours, i.e., holds in every respect. Pr.

=Nullum tempus occurrit regi=--No lapse of time bars the rights of the crown. L.

=Nullus argento color est, / Nisi temperato / Splendeat usu=--Money has no splendour of its own, unless it shines by temperate use. Hor.

=Nullus commodum capere potest de injuria sua= 35 =propria=--No one can take advantage of wrong committed by himself. L.

=Nullus dolor est quem non longinquitas temporis minuat ac molliat=--There is no sorrow which length of time will not diminish and soothe. Cic.

=Nullus est liber tam malus, ut non aliqua parte prosit=--There is no book so bad that it may not be useful in some way or other. Pliny.

=Numbers err in this: / Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss.= Pope.

=Numerical inquiries will give you entertainment in solitude by the practice, and reputation in public by the effect.= Johnson.

=Nunc animis opus, Ænea, nunc pectore firmo=--Now, 40 Æneas, you have need of courage, now a resolute heart. Virg.

=Nunc aut nunquam=--Now or never. M.

=Nunc dimittis=--Now let me depart in peace. _See Luke_ i. 29.

=Nunc est bibendum, nunc pede libero, / Pulsanda tellus!=--Now let us drink; now let us beat the ground with merry foot. Hor.

=Nunc patimur longæ pacis mala; sævior armis / Luxuria incubuit, victumque ulciscitur orbem=--Now we suffer the evils of long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world. Juv.

=Nunc positis novus exuviis nitidusque juventa=--Now, 45 all new, his slough cast off, and shining in youth. Virg.

=Nunc vino pellite curas!=--Now drive off your cares with wine. Hor.

=Nunquam aliud natura, aliud sapientia dicit=--Nature never says one thing and wisdom another. Juv.

=Nunquam erit alienis gravis, qui suis se concinnat levem=--He will never be disagreeable to others who makes himself agreeable to his own relations. Plaut.

=Nunquam est fidelis cum potente societas=--An alliance with a powerful man is never safe. Phædr.

=Nunquam libertas gratior extat / Quam sub= 50 =rege pio=--Liberty is never more enjoyable than under a pious king. Claud.

=Nunquam nimis dicitur, quod nunquam satis discitur=--That is never too often repeated which is never sufficiently learned. Sen.

=Nunquam non paratus=--Never unprepared. M.

=Nunquam retrorsum=--Never go back. M.

=Nunquam se plus agere, quam nihil quum ageret; nunquam minus solum esse, quam quum solus esset=--He said he never had more to do than when he had nothing to do, and never was less alone than when alone. Cic. quoting Scipio Africanus.

=Nunquam vir æquus dives evasit cito=--No just man ever became quickly rich. Menander.

=Nuptial love maketh mankind; friendly love perfecteth it; but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it.= Bacon.

=Nur aus vollendeter Kraft blicket die Anmuth hervor=--Only out of perfected faculty does grace look forth. Goethe.

=Nur das Gemeine / Verkennt man selten. Und= 5 =das Seltene / Vergisst man schwerlich=--Only what is common we rarely mistake, and what is rare we with difficulty forget. Lessing.

=Nur das Leben hasst, der Tod versöhnt=--In life alone is hatred; in death is reconciliation. Tiedge.

=Nur das zu thun, was alle wollen, / Ist das Geheimniss jeder Macht=--The secret of all power is only to do that which all would fain do. Kinkel.

=Nur dem Fröhlichen blüht der Baum des Lebens, / Dem Unschuldigen rinnt der Born der Jugend / Auch noch im Alter=--Only for the cheerful does the tree of life blossom, for the innocent the well-spring of youth keeps still flowing even in old age. Arndt.

=Nur dem vertrau' ich völlig, nur der imponirt nachhaltig, der über sich zu lächeln fähig ist=--I trust only him perfectly, only he makes a lasting impression on me, who is capable of laughing at himself. Feuchtersleben.

=Nur der Freundschaft Harmonie / Mildert die= 10 =Beschwerden; / Ohne ihre Sympathie / Ist kein Glück auf Erden=--Nothing but the harmony of friendship soothes our sorrows; without its sympathy there is no happiness on earth. Mozart.

=Nur der Glaube aller stärkt den Glauben, / Wo Tausende anbeten und verehren, / Da wird die Glut zur Flamme, und beflügelt / Schwingt sich der Geist in alle Himmel auf=--Only the faith of all strengthens faith; where thousands worship and reverence, there the glow becomes flame, and the spirit soar upwards on wings into all heavens. Schiller.

=Nur der Irrthum ist das Leben, / Und das Wissen ist der Tod=--Only error is life, and knowledge is death. Schiller.

=Nur der Irrthum ist unser Teil, und Wahn ist unsre Wissenschaft=--Only error is our portion, and illusion our knowledge. Lessing.

=Nur der ist wahrhaft arm, der weder Geist noch Kraft hat=--Only he is truly poor who is without soul and without faculty. Benzel-Sternan.

=Nur der Starke wird das Schicksal zwingen, /= 15 =Wenn der Schwächling untersinkt=--Only the strong man will coerce destiny if the weakling surrenders. Schiller.

=Nur die Hoffenden leben=--Only the hoping live. Halm.

=Nur die Lumpe sind bescheiden, / Brave freuen sich der That=--Only low-born fellows are modest; men of spirit rejoice over their feats. Goethe.

=Nur eine Mutter weiss allein, / Was lieben heisst und glücklich sein=--A mother alone knows what it is to love and be happy. Chamisso.

=Nur eine Schmach weiss ich auf dieser Erde. / Und die heisst: Unrecht thun=--Only one disgrace know I in this world, and that is doing wrong. Grillparzer.

=Nur eine Weisheit führt zum Ziele, / Doch= 20 =ihrer Sprüche giebt es viele=--Only one wisdom leads to the goal, though the proverbs of it are many. Bodenstedt.

=Nur Helios vermag's zu sagen, / Der alles Irdische bescheint=--Only Helios (the sun-god) can tell, he sheds light on every earthly thing. Schiller.

=Nur immer zu! wir wollen es ergründen, / In deinem Nichts hoff' ich das All zu finden=--Only let us still go on! we will yet fathom it. In thy nothing hope I to find the all. Goethe.

=Nur in der eignen Kraft ruht das Schicksal jeder Nation=--Only in its own power rests the destiny of every nation. Count v. Moltke, in 1880.

=Nur in der Schule selbst ist die eigentliche Vorschule=--The true preparatory school is only the school itself. Goethe.

=Nur in schwülen Prüfungsstunden / Sprosst= 25 =die Palme, die den Sieger krönt=--Only in the stifling hours of trial does the palm shoot forth which decks the brow of the victor. Salis-Seewis.

=Nur in Träumen wohnt das Glück der Erde=--Only in dreams does the happiness of the earth dwell. Rückert.

=Nur Liebe darf der Liebe Blume brechen=--Only love may break the flower of love. Schiller.

=Nur stets zu sprechen, ohne was zu sagen, / Das war von je der Redner grösste Gabe=--To but speak on without saying anything has ever been the greatest gift of the orator. Platen.

=Nur vom Edeln kann das Edle stammen=--Only from the noble soul can what is noble come. Schiller.

=Nur vom Nutzen wird die Welt regiert=--It is 30 only by show of advantage that the world is governed. Schiller.

=Nur was wir selber glauben, glaubt man uns=--People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe. Gutzkow.

=Nur wer die Last wirklich selbst trägt, kennt ihr Gewicht=--Only he who really bears the burden knows its weight. Klinger.

=Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt / Weiss, was ich leide!=--Only he who knows what yearning is knows what I suffer. Goethe.

=Nur wer sich recht des Lebens freut, / Trägt leichter, was es Schlimmes beut=--Only he who enjoys life aright finds it easier to bear the evils of it. Bodenstedt.

=Nur wer vor Gott sich fühlet klein / Kann vor= 35 =den Menschen mächtig sein=--He only who feels himself little in the eye of God can hope to be mighty in the eyes of men. Arndt.

=Nur zwei Tugenden giebt's. O, wären sie immer vereinigt, / Immer die Güte auch gross, immer die Grösse auch gut!=--There are only two virtues, were they but always united: goodness always also great, and greatness always also good. Schiller.

=Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.= Burns.

=Nusquam tuta fides=--There is nowhere any true honour. Virg.

=Nutrimentum spiritus=--Nourishment for the Spirit! _Inscription on the Royal Library at Berlin._

=Nutritur vento, vento restinguitur ignis: / Lenis alit flammas, grandior aura necat!=--Fire is fed by the wind and extinguished by the wind: a gentle current feeds it, too strong a one puts it out! Ovid.

=Nuts are given us, but we must crack them ourselves.= Pr.

=Nymph, in thy orisons / Be all my sins remembered.= Ham., iii. 1.

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=O banish the tears of children! Continual rains upon the blossoms are hurtful.= Jean Paul.

=O bitte um Leben noch! du fühlst, mit deinen= 5 =Mängeln, / Dass du noch wandeln kannst nicht unter Gottes Engeln=--O still pray for life; thou feelest that with those faults of thine thou canst not walk among the angels of God. Rückert.

[Greek: ho bios brachys, hê de technê makrê]--Life is short, art is long. Gr.

=O blicke nicht nach dem was jedem fehlt; / Betrachte, was noch einem jeden bleibt=--O look not at what each comes short in; consider what each still retains. Goethe.

[Greek: ho bouletai, touth' hekastos kai oietai]--What each one wishes that he also thinks. Demosthenes.

=O cæca nocentum / Consilia, O semper timidum scelus!=--Oh, how infatuated are the counsels of the guilty! Oh, how cowardly wickedness ever is! Statius.

=O cives, cives, quærenda pecunia primum est; /= 10 =Virtus post nummos=--O citizens, citizens, you must seek for money first, for virtue after cash. Hor.

=O Corydon, Corydon, secretum divitis ullum / Esse putas? Servi ut taceant, jumenta loquentur, / Et canis, et postes, et marmora=--O Corydon, Corydon, do you think anything a rich man does can be kept secret? Even if his servants say nothing, his beasts of burden, and dogs, and door-posts, and marble slabs will speak. Juv.

=O cunning enemy, that, to catch a saint, / With saints dost bait thy hook.= _Meas. for Meas._, ii. 2.

=O curvæ in terris animæ et cœlestium inanes!=--Oh ye souls bent down to earth and void of everything heavenly. Pers.

=O das Leben hat Reize, die wir nie gekannt=--Oh, life has charms which we have never known. Schiller.

=O das Leben ist ein langer, langer Seufzer= 15 =vor dem Ausgehen des Athmens=--Oh, life is a long, long sigh before emitting the breath. Jean Paul.

=O dass die Weisheit halb so eifrig wäre / Nach Schülern und Bekehrten, als der Spott=--Oh, that Wisdom were half as zealous for disciples and converts as Ridicule is. Grillparzer.

=O dass es ewig bliebe, / Das Doppelglück der Töne wie der Liebe=--Oh, that it would stay for ever, the double bliss of the tones as well as of the love. Goethe.

=O dass sie ewig' grünen bliebe / Die schöne Zeit der jungen Liebe=--Oh, that it remained for ever green, the fair season of early love. Schiller.

=O dearest, dearest boy, my heart / For better love would seldom yearn, / Could I but teach the hundredth part / Of what from thee I learn.= Wordsworth.

=O der Magnet des Wahns zieht mächtig=--Oh, 20 how powerfully the magnet of illusion attracts. Gutzkow.

=O ein Fürst hat keinen Freund, kann keinen Freund haben=--Oh, a ruler has no friend, and can have none. Lessing.

=O faciles dare summa Deos, eademque tueri / Difficiles=--How gracious the gods are in bestowing honours, how averse to ensure our tenure of them. Lucan.

=O fallacem hominum spem=--How deceitful is the hope of men. Cic.

=O flesh, flesh, how thou art fishified.= Rom. and Jul., ii. 4.

=O formose puer, nimium ne crede colori=--Oh, 25 beauteous boy, trust not too much to the bloom on thy cheeks. Virg.

=O fortunate adolescens, qui tuæ virtutis Homerum præconem inveneris=--Oh, happy youth, to have a Homer as the publisher of thy valour. Alexander the Great at the tomb of Achilles.

=O fortunatos nimium, sua si bona norint, / Agricolas, quibus ipsa, procul discordibus armis, / Fundit humo facilem victum justissima tellus=--Oh, how happy the tillers of the ground are, if they but knew their blessings; for whom, far from the clash of arms, the all-righteous earth pours forth from her soil an easy sustenance. Virg.

=O foulest Circæan draught! thou poison of popular applause; madness is in thee, and death; thy end is bedlam and the grave.= Carlyle.

=O glücklich! wer noch hoffen kann, / Aus diesem Meer des Irrtums aufzutauchen. / Was man nicht weiss, das eben brauchte man, / Und was man weiss, kann man nicht brauchen=--Oh, happy he who can still hope to emerge from this sea of error! What one does not know is exactly what one should want to know, and what one knows is what one has no use for. Faust, in Goethe.

=O God, that bread should be so dear, / And= 30 =flesh and blood so cheap!= T. Hood.

=O Gott! das Leben ist doch schön=--O God! life is nevertheless beautiful. Schiller.

=O Gott, wie schränkt sich Welt und Himmel ein, / Wenn unser Herz in seinen Schranken banget=--O God, how contracted the world and heaven becomes when our heart becomes uneasy within its barriers. Goethe.

=O guard thy roving thoughts with jealous care, for speech is but the dial-plate of thought; and every fool reads plainly in thy words what is the hour of thy thought.= Tennyson.

=O' guid advisement comes nae ill.= Burns.

=O Heaven! were man / But constant, he were= 35 =perfect; that one error / Fills him with faults; makes him run through all sins.= Two Gent. of Ver., v. 4.

=O Herz, versuch' es nur! so leicht ist's gut zu sein: / Und es zu scheinen ist so eine schwere Pein=--O heart, only try! To be good is so easy, and to appear so is such a heavy burden. Rückert.

=O homines ad servitutem paratos!=--Oh, men, how ye prepare yourselves for slavery! Tac.

=O how full of briars is this working-day world.= As You Like It, i. 3.

=O how wretched / Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favours! / There is betwixt that smile he would aspire to, / That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, / More pangs and fears than wars or women have; / And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, / Never to hope again.= Henry VIII., iii. 2.

=O hush the noise, ye men of strife, / And hear the angels sing!= Sears.

=O, if this were seen, / The happiest youth--viewing his progress through / What perils past, what crosses to ensue--/ Would shut the book and sit him down and die.= 2 Hen. IV., iii. 1.

=O ja, dem Herrn ist alles Kinderspiel=--Oh, yes, 5 everything is but child's play to the gentleman. Mephisto, in Goethe.

=O judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts, / And men have lost their reason!= Jul. Cæs., iii. 2.

=O kaum bezwingen wir das eigne Herz; / Wie soll die rasche Jugend sich bezähmen!=--Oh, we can hardly subdue our own heart; how shall impetuous youth restrain itself! Schiller.

=O l'amour d'une mère! amour que nul n'oublie! / Pain merveilleux, que Dieu partage et multiplie! / Table toujours servie au paternel foyer! / Chacun en a sa part, et tous l'ont tout entier=--Oh, the love of a mother, love no one forgets; miraculous bread which God distributes and multiplies; board always spread by the paternal hearth, whereat each has his portion, and all have it entire! Victor Hugo.

=O Leben, wie bist du so bitter und hart=--Oh, Life, how bitter and harsh thou art! Scheffel.

=O let my books be then the eloquence / And= 10 =dumb presagers of my speaking breast.= Browning.

=O let thy vow, / First made to heaven, first be to heaven perform'd.... It is religion that doth make vows kept.= King John, iii. 1.

="O Liberty, what crimes have been committed in thy name!"= Madame Roland, as she bowed to the statue of Liberty at the place of execution.

=O Life, an age to the miserable, a moment to the happy.= Bacon.

=O life! how pleasant is thy morning, / Young Fancy's rays the hills adorning! / Cold-pausing Caution's lessons scorning, / We frisk away, / Like schoolboys at th' expected warning, / To joy and play.= Burns.

=O life! thou art a galling load / Along a rough,= 15 =a weary road, / To wretches such as I!= Burns (Despondency).

[Greek: ho logos enênthrôpêsen, hina hêmeis theopoiêthômen]--The Word became man, that we might become gods. Athanasius.

=O Lord, that lend'st me life, / Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!= 2 Hen. VI., i. 1.

=O love, be moderate, allay thy ecstasy; / In measure rain thy joy; scant this excess; / I feel too much thy blessing! Make it less, / For fear I surfeit.= Mer. of Venice, iii. 2.

=O magna vis veritatis, quæ ... facile se per se ipsa defendit=--Oh, mighty force of truth that by itself so easily defends itself! Cic.

=O major tandem, parcas, insane, minori=--Oh, 20 thou who art a greater madman; spare me, I pray, who am not so far gone. Hor.

[Greek: ho mê dareis anthrôpos ou paideuetai]--The man who has not been scourged is not educated. Menander.

=O mighty Cæsar! dost thou lie so low? / Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils, / Shrunk to this little measure?= Jul. Cæs., iii. 1.

=O mihi præteritos referat si Jupiter annos!=--Oh, that Jove would but give me back the years that are past! Virg.

=O miseras hominum mentes! O pectora cæca!=--Oh, how wretched are the minds of men! oh, how blind their hearts! Lucret.

=O miseri quorum gaudia crimen habent!=--O 25 wretched ye whose joys are tainted with guilt! Pseudo-Gallus.

=O most lame and impotent conclusion!= Othello, ii. 1.

=O munera nondum / Intellecta Deum=--Oh, that the gifts of the gods should not yet be understood. Lucan.

=O my prophetic soul! mine uncle.= Ham., i. 5.

=O Nature! Ha! why do I not name thee God? Art thou not the "living garment of God?" O Heavens! is it, in very deed, He then that ever speaks through thee; that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me?= Carlyle.

=O never / Shall sun that morrow see.= Macb., i. 5. 30

=O nimium nimiumque oblite tuorum=--Too, too forgetful of thy kin. Ovid.

=O nimm der Stunde wahr, eh' sie entschlüpft. / So selten kommt der Augenblick im Leben / Der wahrhaft wichtig ist und gross=--Take note of the hour ere it slips past; so seldom does the moment come which is truly fateful and great. Schiller.

=O noctes cœnæque deum!=--Oh, nights and suppers of the gods! Hor.

=O passi graviora!=--Oh, ye who have suffered greater misfortunes than these! Virg.

[Greek: hô philoi oudeis philos]--He who has many friends 35 has no friends. Diogenes Laertius.

[Greek: ho phronimos to alypon diôkei ou to hêdy]--The aim of the wise man is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. Arist.

=O place and greatness, millions of false eyes / Are stuck upon thee! Volumes of report / Run with these false and most contrarious quests / Upon thy doings! thousand scapes of wit / Make thee the father of their idle dreams, / And rack thee in their fancies.= Meas. for Meas., iv. 1.

=O pudor! O pietas!=--O modesty! O piety! Mart.

=O purblind race of miserable men! / How many among us at this very hour / Do forge a lifelong trouble for ourselves, / By taking true for false, or false for true; / Here, thro' the feeble twilight of this world / Groping, how many, until we pass and reach / That other, where we see as we are seen!= Tennyson.

=O qualis facies et quali digna tabella!=--Oh, 40 what a face and what a picture it would have been a subject for! Juv.

=O quanta species cerebrum non habet!=--Oh, that such beauty should be devoid of brains! Phædr.

=O quantum in rebus inane!=--Oh, what a void there is in things! Persius.

=O ruin'd piece of nature! This great world / Shall so wear out to nought.= King Lear, iv. 6.

=O rus quando te aspiciam? quandoque licebit / Nunc veterum libris, nunc somno et inertibus horis / Ducere sollicitæ jucunda oblivia vitæ?=--Oh, country, when shall I see thee, and when shall I be permitted to quaff a sweet oblivion of anxious life, now from the books of the ancients, now from sleep and idle hours? Hor.

=O sancta damnatio!=--Oh, holy condemnation!

=O sancta simplicitas!=--Oh, holy simplicity! John Huss at the stake, on seeing an old woman hurrying up with a faggot to throw on the pile.

=O si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses=--If you had only held your peace, you would have remained a philosopher. Boëthius.

=O sleep, / It is a gentle thing, / Beloved from= 5 =pole to pole!= Coleridge.

=O sleep, O gentle sleep, / Nature's soft nurse! how have I frighted thee, / That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, / And steep my senses in forgetfulness!= 2 Hen. IV., iii. 1.

=O sons of earth, attempt ye still to rise, / By mountains piled on mountains, to the skies? / Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, / And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.= Pope.

=O sprich mir nicht von jener bunten Menge / Bei deren Anblick uns der Geist entflieht=--Oh, speak not to me of the motley mob, at the very sight of which our spirit takes flight! Goethe.

=O süsse Stimme! Willkommener Ton / Der Muttersprach in einem fremden Lande!=--Oh, sweet voice, much-welcome sound of our mother-tongue in a foreign land! Goethe.

=O tempora, O mores!=--Oh, the times! oh, the 10 manners! Cic.

=O that estates, degrees, and offices / Were not derived corruptly, and that clear honour / Were purchased by the merit of the wearer! / How many then would cover that stand bare; / How many be commanded that command; / How much low peasantry would then be glean'd / From the true seed of honour; and how much honour, / Pick'd from the chaff and ruin of the times, / To be new-varnish'd.= Mer. of Ven., ii. 9.

=O that men's ears should be / To counsel deaf, but not to flattery!= Timon of Athens, i. 2.

=O that way madness lies.= Lear, iii. 4.

=O that you could turn your eyes toward the napes of your necks, and make but an interior survey of your good selves!= Coriolanus, ii. 1.

=O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom= 15 =and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and His ways past finding out!= St. Paul.

=O the wound of conscience is no scar, and Time cools it not with his wing, but merely keeps it open with his scythe.= Jean Paul.

=O these deliberate fools, when they do choose / They have the wisdom by their wit to lose.= Mer. of Ven., ii. 9.

=O these naughty times / Put bars between the owners and their rights.= Mer. of Ven., iii. 2.

=O Thor, wer nicht im Augenblick den wahren Augenblick ergreift, / Wer, was er liebt, im Auge, und dennoch nach der Seite schweift=--Oh, fool, he seizes not the true moment in the moment who has what he loves before his eye, and still swerves from it. Platen.

=O Thou, / Passionless bride, divine Tranquillity,= 20 =/ ... Thou carest not / How roughly men may woo thee, so they win!= Tennyson. (?)

=O thou who hast still a father and a mother, thank God for it in the day when thy soul is full of joyful tears, and needs a bosom wherein to shed them.= Jean Paul.

=O thoughts of men accurst! / Past and to come seem best; things present, worst.= 2 Hen. IV., i. 3.

=O Tugend, Tugend, wie schön bist du! / Welch' göttlich Meisterstück sind Seelen, / Die sich hinauf bis zu dir erheben=--O virtue, virtue, how fair art thou! what a divine masterpiece are the souls that raise themselves up to thee! Klopstock.

=O wad some pow'r the giftie gie us / To see oursels as others see us! / It wad frae mony a blunder free us, / And foolish notion; / What airs in dress and gait wad lea'e us, / And e'en devotion!= Burns.

=O Wahrheit, deinen edeln Wein / Musst du= 25 =mit Wasser mischen; / Denn willst du ihn rein auftischen, / So nimmt er den Kopf den Gästen ein=--O Truth, thy noble wine thou must mix with water, for wert thou to serve it out pure, it would get into the heads of the guests and turn them. Rückert.

=O was im Traum die innre Stimme spricht / Das wird uns Wahrheit, wenn die Sonne leuchtet=--Oh, how that which the inner voice speaks in our dreaming becomes truth to us when the sun shines! Schillerbuch.

=O was müssen wir der Kirche Gottes halber leiden, rief der Abt, als ihm das gebratene Huhn die Finger versengte=--"What must we suffer for the Church of God's sake!" exclaimed the Abbot when the roast fowl burnt his fingers. Ger. Pr.

=O was sind wir Grossen auf der Woge der Menschheit? Wir glauben sie zu beherrschen, und sie treibt uns auf und nieder, hin und her=--Ah! what are we great ones on the wave of humanity? We fancy we rule over it, and it sways us up and down, hither and thither. Goethe.

=O well for him whose will is strong! / He suffers, but he will not suffer long; / He suffers, but he cannot suffer wrong.= Tennyson.

=O wer weiss, / Was in der Zeiten Hintergrunde= 30 =schlummert?=--Oh, who knows what slumbers in the background of the times? Schiller.

=O what a goodly outside falsehood hath!= Mer. of Ven., i. 3.

=O what a noble mind is here o'erthrown! / The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's eye, tongue, sword; / The expectancy and rose of the fair state, / The glass of fashion, and the mould of form, / The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!= Ham., iii. 1.

=O what a tangled web we weave / When first we practise to deceive.= Scott.

=O what a world is this, when what is comely / Envenoms him that bears it!= _As You Like It_, ii. 3.

=O what a world of vile ill-favoured faults /= 35 =Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a-year!= Merry Wives, iii. 4.

=O what men dare do! what men may do! / What men daily do, not knowing what they do!= Much Ado, iv. 1.

=O woman! in our hours of ease / Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, / And variable as the shade / By the light of quivering aspen made; / When pain and anguish wring the brow, / A ministering angel thou.= Scott.

=O ye loved ones, that already sleep in the noiseless Bed of Rest, whom in life I could only weep for and never help; and ye who, wide-scattered, still toil lonely in the monster-bearing desert, dyeing the flinty ground with your blood,--yet a little while, and we shall all meet There, and our Mother's bosom will screen us all; and Oppression's harness, and Sorrow's fire-whip, and all the Gehenna bailiffs that patrol and inhabit ever-vexed Time, cannot thenceforth harm us any more.= Carlyle.

=O yet we trust that somehow good / Will be the final goal of ill.= Tennyson.

=Oaks fall when reeds stand.= Pr.

=Oars alone can ne'er prevail / To reach the= 5 =distant coast; / The breath of heav'n must swell the sail, / Or all the toil is lost.= Cowper.

=Oaths are straws, ... and holdfast is the only dog.= Hen. V., ii. 3.

=Ob es vom Herzen kommt, das magst du leicht verstehen: / Denn was vom Herzen kommt, muss dir zum Herzen gehen=--Easily may'st thou know whether it comes from the heart; for what comes from the heart goes straight to thine. Körner.

=Obedience alone gives the right to command.= Emerson.

=Obedience is better than sacrifice.= _Pr. from Bible._

=Obedience is our universal duty and destiny;= 10 =wherein whoso will not bend must break.= Carlyle.

=Obedience is the bond of rule.= Tennyson.

=Obedience is woman's duty on earth; hard endurance is her heavy lot; by severe service she must be purified; but she who has served here is great up yonder.= Schiller.

=Obey something, and you will have a chance of finding out what is best to obey. But if you begin by obeying nothing, you will end by obeying Beelzebub and all his seven invited friends.= Ruskin.

=Obey thy parents; keep thy word justly; swear not; set not thy sweet heart on proud array.= King Lear, iii. 4.

=Obiter cantare=--To sing as one goes along; to 15 sing by the way.

=Obiter dicta=--Remarks by the way; passing remarks.

=Obiter dictum=--A thing said in passing.

=Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendours born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So a man sometimes covers up the entire disc of eternity with a dollar, and quenches transcendent glories with a little shining dust.= Chapin.

=Objects imperfectly discerned take forms from the hope or fear of the beholder.= Johnson.

=Objects in pictures should be so arranged as= 20 =by their very position to tell their own story.= Goethe.

=Oblatam occasionem tene=--Seize the opportunity that is offered.

=Obligation is thraldom, and thraldom is hateful.= Hobbes.

=Oblivion is the dark page whereon memory writes her light-beam characters and makes them legible; were it all light, nothing could be read there, any more than if it were all darkness.= Carlyle.

=Oblivion is the rule, and fame the exception, of humanity.= Rivarol.

=Oblivion is the second death, which great= 25 =minds dread more than the first.= De Boufflers.

=Obreros a no ver dineros a perder=--Not to watch your workmen is to lose your money. Sp. Pr.

=Obruat illud male partum, male retentum, male gestum imperium=--Let that power fall which has been wrongfully acquired, wrongfully retained, and wrongfully administered. Cic.

=Obscuris vera involvens=--Shrouding, or concealing, truth in obscurity or darkness. Virg.

=Obscurity and affectation are the two great faults of style.= Macaulay.

=Obscurity and Innocence, twin-sisters, escape= 30 =temptations which would pierce their gossamer armour in contact with the world.= Chamfort.

=Obscurum per obscurius=--Explaining something obscure by what is more obscure.

=Obsequium amicos, veritas odium parit=--Obsequiousness procures us friends; speaking the truth, enemies. Ter.

=Observe this short but certain aphorism, "Forsake all, and thou shalt find all."= Thomas à Kempis.

=Observe thyself as thy greatest enemy would do; so shalt thou be thy greatest friend.= Jeremy Taylor.

=Observation is an old man's memory.= Swift. 35

=Observation may trip now and then without throwing you, for her gait is a walk; but inference always gallops, and if she stumbles, you are gone.= Holmes.

=Observation more than books, experience rather than persons, are the prime educators.= A. B. Alcott.

=Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly.= Montaigne.

=Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.= Mme. Necker.

=Obstinacy is the result of the will's forcing= 40 =itself into the place of the intellect.= Schopenhauer.

=Obstinacy is the strength of the weak.= Lavater.

=Obstupui, steteruntque comæ, et vox faucibus hæsit=--I was astounded; my hair stood on end, and my voice stuck fast in my throat. Virg.

=Obtuseness is sometimes a virtue.= Rivarol.

=Occasio facit furem=--Opportunity makes the thief. Pr.

=Occasion reins the motions of the stirring= 45 =mind.= Owen Feltham.

=Occasionem cognosce=--Know your opportunity.

=Occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what he is.= Thomas à Kempis.

=Occidit miseros crambe repetita magistros=--Cabbage repeated is the death of the wretched masters. Juv.

=Occupation is the scythe of Time.= Napoleon.

=Occupet extremum scabies!=--Murrain take the 50 hindmost! Hor.

=Ocean is a mighty harmonist.= Wordsworth.

=Oculi tanquam speculatores altissimum locum obtinent=--The eyes, like sentinels, occupy the highest place in the body. Cic.

=Oculis magis habenda fides quam auribus=--It is better to trust to our eyes than our ears.

=Oculus domini saginat equum=--The master's eye makes the horse fat. Pr.

=Oderint dum metuant=--Let them show hate, provided they fear. Cic.

=Oderunt hilarem tristes, tristemque jocosi, /= 5 =Sedatum celeres, agilem gnavumque remissi=--Sad men dislike a gay spirit, and the jocular a sad; the quick-witted dislike the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious. Hor.

=Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore=--Good men shrink from wrong out of love for virtue. Hor.

=Odi profanum vulgus et arceo=--I hate the profane rabble, and keep them far from me. Hor.

=Odi puerulos præcoci ingenio=--I hate boys of precocious talent. Cic.

=Odi, vedi, e taci, se vuoi viver in pace=--Listen, see, and say nothing, if you wish to live in peace. It. Pr.

=Odia qui nimium timet, regnare nescit=--He who 10 dreads hostility too much is unfit to bear rule. Sen.

=Odimus accipitrem quia semper vivit in armis=--I hate the hawk because he always lives in arms. Ovid.

=Odium theologicum=--Theological hatred; the animosity engendered by differences of theological opinion.

=Odora canum vis=--The sharp scent of the hounds. Virg.

=O'ercome thyself, and thou may'st share / With Christ His Father's throne, and wear / The world's imperial wreath.= Keble.

=Of a life of luxury the fruit is luxury.= Thoreau. 15

=Of a thoroughly crazy and defective artist we may indeed say he has everything from himself; but of an excellent one, never.= Goethe.

=Of all actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people; yet of all actions of our life, 'tis most meddled with by other people.= John Selden.

=Of all attainable liberties, be sure first to strive for leave to be useful.= Ruskin. (?)

=Of all blinds that shut up men's vision the worst is self.= (?)

=Of all days, the one that is most wasted is that= 20 =on which one has not laughed.= Chamfort.

=Of all earthly music, that which reaches the farthest into heaven is the beating of a loving heart.= Ward Beecher.

=Of all evils in story-telling, the humour of telling tales one after another in great numbers is the least supportable.= Steele.

=Of all God's gifts to the sight of man, colour is the holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.= Ruskin.

=Of all great poems Love is the absolute and the essential foundation.= C. Fitzhugh.

=Of all man's work of art, a cathedral is greatest.= 25 =A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.= Ward Beecher.

=Of all men, a philosopher should be no swearer; for an oath, which is the end of controversies in law, cannot determine any here, where reason only must induce.= Sir Thomas Browne.

=Of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, / Save, save, O save me from the candid friend!= Canning.

=Of all pleasures, the fruit of labour is the sweetest.= Vauvenargues.

=Of all points of faith the being of a God is encompassed with most difficulty, and yet borne in upon our minds with most power.= John Newman.

=Of all rights of man, the right of the ignorant= 30 =man to be guided by the wiser, to be gently or forcibly held in the true course by him, is the indisputablest.= Carlyle.

=Of all studies, study your present condition.= Pr.

=Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world,--though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst,--the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!= Sterne.

=Of all the characters of cruelty, I consider that as the most odious which assumes the garb of mercy.= Fox.

=Of all the great masters, there is not one who did not paint his own present world, plainly and truly.= Ruskin.

=Of all the marvellous works of the Deity, perhaps= 35 =there is nothing that angels behold with such supreme astonishment as a proud man.= Colton.

=Of all the passions that possess mankind, / The love of novelty rules most the mind; / In search of this, from realm to realm we roam, / Our fleets come fraught with every folly home.= Foote.

=Of all the possessions of a man, next to the gods, his soul is the mightiest, being the most his own.= Plato.

=Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.= Ruskin.

=Of all the superstitions which infest the brains of weak mortals, the belief in prophecies, presentiments, and dreams, seems to me amongst the most pitiful and pernicious.= Goethe.

=Of all the tyrants that the world affords, / Our= 40 =own affections are the fiercest lords.= _E. Stirling._

=Of all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper.= Goethe.

=Of all things, knowledge is esteemed the most precious treasure; because of its incapacity to be stolen, to be given away, or even to be consumed.= Hitopadesa.

=Of all those arts in which the wise excel, / Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.= Duke of Buckingham.

=Of all wild beasts, preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame, a flatterer.= Ben Jonson.

=Of big words and feathers many go to the= 45 =pound.= Ger. Pr.

=Of error we can talk for ever, but truth demands that we should lay it to heart and apply it.= Goethe.

=Of four things every man has more than he knows--of sins, and debts, and years, and foes.= Persian Pr.

=Of God's light I was not utterly bereft, if my as yet sealed eyes, with their unspeakable longing, could nowhere see Him; nevertheless in my heart He was present and His heaven-written law still stood legible and sacred there.= Carlyle.

=Of great men no one should speak but one who is as great as they, so as to be able to see all round them.= Goethe.

=Of great riches there is no real use, except it be in the distribution; the rest is but conceit.= Bacon.

=Of hasty counsel take good heed, for very rarely haste is speed.= Dut. Pr.

=Of how few lives does not stated duty claim the greater part?= Johnson.

=Of illustrious men all the earth is the sepulchre,= 5 =and it is not the inscribed column in their own land which is the record of their virtues, but the unwritten memory of them in the hearts and minds of all mankind.= Thucydides.

=Of its own unity, the soul gives unity to whatso it looks on with love.= Carlyle.

=Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.= Bible.

=Of more than earth can earth make none possesst; / And he that least / Regards this restless world, shall in this world find rest.= Quarles.

=Of other tyrants short the strife, / But Indolence is king for life: / The despot twists, with soft control, / Eternal fetters round the soul.= Hannah More.

=Of pleasures, those which occur most rarely= 10 =give the greatest delight.= Epictetus.

=Of real evils the number is great; of possible evils there is no end.= Johnson.

=Of the Beautiful we are seldom capable, oftener of the Good; and how highly should we value those who endeavour, with great sacrifices, to forward that good among their fellows!= Goethe.

=Of the eyes that men do glare withal, so few can see.= Carlyle.

=Of the soul, the body form doth take, / For soul is form, and doth the body make.= Spenser.

=Of the three requisitions of genius, the first= 15 =is soul; the second, soul; and the third, soul.= Whipple.

=Of the wealth of the world each has as much as he takes.= It. Pr.

=Of the Wrong we are always conscious, of the Right never.= Goethe.

=Of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes.= Jesus.

=Of thy word unspoken thou art master; thy spoken word is master of thee.= Eastern Pr.

=Of two evils choose the least.= Pr. 20

=Of unwise admiration much may be hoped, for much good is really in it; but unwise contempt is itself a negation; nothing comes of it, for it is nothing.= Carlyle.

=Of what does not concern you say nothing, good or bad.= It. Pr.

=Of what significance are the things you can forget?= Thoreau.

=Of wild creatures, a tyrant; and of tame ones, a flatterer.= Bias.

=Off with his head! so much for Buckingham.= 25 Rich. III., iv. 3.

=Offenders never pardon.= Pr.

=Offerir molto è spezie di negare=--Offering extravagantly is a kind of denial. It. Pr.

=Oft have I heard, and now believe it true, / Whom man delights in, God delights in too.= An old Minnesinger.

=Oft kommt ein nützlich Wort aus schlechtem Munde=--A serviceable word often issues from worthless lips. Schiller.

=Oft leiden kranke Seelen durch selbstgeschaffnen= 30 =Wahn=--Sick souls often suffer through conceits of their own creation. G. Rossini.

=Oft schiessen trifft das Ziel=--Shooting often hits the mark. Ger. Pr.

=Oft sogar es ist weise, zu entdecken, / Was nicht verschwiegen bleiben kann=--It is often wise to disclose what cannot be concealed. Schiller.

=Oft when blind mortals think themselves secure, in height of bliss, they touch the brink of ruin.= Thomson.

=Oft zum Dichter macht die Liebe; / Selbst ein Wunder, zeugt sie Wunder=--Love often makes a poet; herself a wonder, she works wonders. Bodenstedt.

=Ofte er Skarlagens Hierte under reven Kaabe=--There 35 is often a royal heart under a tattered coat. Dan. Pr.

=Often a man's own angry pride / Is cap-and-bells for a fool.= Tennyson.

=Often the cock-loft is empty in those whom Nature hath built many storeys high.= Fuller.

=Oftentimes the gods send strong delusions to ensnare too credulous hearts.= Lewis Morris.

=Oftentimes, to win us to our harm, / The instruments of darkness tell us truths; / Win us with honest trifles, to betray us / In deepest consequence.= Macb., i. 3.

=Ofttimes nothing profits more / Than self-esteem,= 40 =grounded on just and right.= Milton.

=Ofttimes the pupil goes beyond his master.= Lucillius.

=Ogni cosa è d'ogni anno=--Everything is of every year. It. Pr.

=Ogni debole ha sempre il suo tiranno=--Every weak man has always his tyrant. It. Pr.

=Ogni medaglio ha il suo riverso=--Every medal has its reverse. It. Pr.

=Ogni monte ha la sua valle=--Every mountain 45 has its valley. It. Pr.

=Ogni vero non è buono a dire=--Every truth is not good to be told. It. Pr.

=Ognuno vede quel che tu pari, pochi sentono quel che tu sei=--Every one sees what you seem, few know what you are. Machiavelli.

=Oh, be he king or peasant, he is happiest / Who in his home finds peace.= Goethe.

=Oh, call my brother back to me! / I cannot play alone; / The summer comes with flower and bee,--/ Where is my brother gone?= Mrs. Hemans.

=Oh, Death! the poor man's dearest friend--/= 50 =The kindest and the best! / Welcome the hour my aged limbs / Are laid with thee at rest! / The great, the wealthy fear thy blow, / From pomp and pleasure torn! But oh! a bless'd relief to those / That weary-laden mourn!= Burns.

=Oh, for a lodge in some vast wilderness, / Some boundless contiguity of shade, / Where rumour of oppression and deceit, / Of unsuccessful or successful war, / May never reach me more.= Cowper.

=Oh, ... for a man with heart, head, hand. / ... Whatever they call him, what care I, / Aristocrat, democrat, autocrat--one / Who can rule and dare not lie!= Tennyson.

=Oh, how sweet it is to hear our own conviction from another's lips!= Goethe.

=Oh, it is excellent / To have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous / To use it like a giant.= Meas. for Meas., ii. 2.

=Oh! Kritisieren, lieber Herr, ist federleicht, / Doch Bessermachen schwierig=--Oh, criticising, good sir, is as easy as a feather is light; 'tis making better that's the difficulty. Platen.

=Oh, love for ever lost, / And with it faith gone out! what is't remains / But duty, though the path be rough and trod / By bruised and bleeding feet?= Lewis Morris.

=Oh, Love, how perfect is thy mystic art, /= 5 =Strengthening the weak, and trampling on the strong!= Byron.

=Oh, Love! no habitant of earth thou art--/ An unseen seraph, we believe in thee.= Byron.

=Oh, no! we never mention her; / Her name is never heard; / My lips are now forbid to speak / That once familiar word.= T. H. Bayly.

=Oh, nostra folle / Mente, ch'ogn aura di fortuna estolle=--How our heart swells if only a breath of happiness breathe through it! Tasso.

=Oh, that mine adversary had written a book.= Job.

=Oh, that my lot might lead me in the path of= 10 =holy purity of thought and deed, the path which august laws ordain--laws which in the highest heaven had their birth; ... The power of God is mighty in them, and doth not wax old.= Sophocles.

=Oh, that this too too solid flesh would melt, / Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! / Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd / His canon 'gainst self-slaughter.= Ham., i. 2.

=Oh! the dulness and the hardness of the heart of man, which contemplates only the present, and does not rather provide for the future.= Thomas à Kempis.

=Oh, the heart is a free and a fetterless thing-- / A wave of the ocean, a bird on the wing.= J. Pardoe.

=Oh, there is something in marriage like the veil of the temple of old, / That screened the Holy of Holies with blue and purple and gold; / Something that makes a chamber where none but the one may come, / A sacredness too, and a silence, where joy that is deepest is dumb.= Dr. Walter Smith.

=Oh, were I seated high as my ambition, / I'd= 15 =place this naked foot on necks of monarchs.= Walpole.

=Oh, what a fall was there, my countrymen! / Then I, and you, and all of us fell down, / Whilst bloody treason flourish'd over us.= Jul. Cæs., iii. 2.

=Oh, what damned minutes tells he o'er, / Who dotes, yet doubts; suspects, yet soundly loves.= Othello, iii. 3.

=Oh, what is death but parting breath? / On mony a bloody plain / I've dared his face, and in this place / I scorn him yet again.= Burns, "Macpherson's Lament."

=Oh, whistle and I'll come to ye, my lad.= Burns.

=Oh, woman, lovely woman! Heaven designed= 20 =you / To temper man! We had been brutes without you.= Burns.

=Oh, worse than all! Oh, pang all pangs above, / Is kindness counterfeiting absent love!= Coleridge.

=Oh, would they stay aback frae courts, / And please themsels wi' country sports, / It wad for every ane be better, / The laird, the tenant, and the cottar.= Burns.

=Ohe! jam satis est=--Stay! that is enough. Hor.

=Ohne Begeisterung schlafen die besten Kräfte des Gemüths. Es ist ein Zunder in uns, der Funken will=--Without inspiration the best powers of the mind are dormant. There is a tinder in us which needs to be quickened with sparks. Herder.

=Ohne die Freiheit, was wärest du, Hellas? /= 25 =Ohne dich, Hellas, was wäre die Welt?=--Without freedom, what wert thou, Greece? Without thee, Greece, what were the world? W. Müller.

=Ohne eine Gottheit gibt's für den Menschen weder Zweck, noch Ziel, noch Hoffnung, nur eine zitternde Zukunft, ein ewiges Bangen vor jeder Dunkelheit=--Without a deity there is for man neither aim, nor goal, nor hope; only an ever-wavering future, and eternal anxiety in every moment of darkness. Jean Paul.

=Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast=--Unhasting, yet unresting. Goethe's motto. Said originally of the sun.

=Ohne Haut=--Without a skin.

=Ohne Mehl und Wasser ist übel backen=--It is ill baking without meal and water. Ger. Pr.

=Ohne Wahl verteilt die Gaben, / Ohne Billigkeit= 30 =das Glück; / Denn Patroklus liegt begraben, / Und Thersites kommt zurück=--Gifts are dispensed without election, fortune without fairness; Patroclus lies buried, and Thersites comes back. Schiller.

=Ohne Wissen, ohne Sünde=--Where there's no knowledge there's no sin. Ger. Pr.

[Greek: hoi arourês karpon edousin]--They who eat the fruit of the field. Hom.

[Greek: hoi dystychountes ex heterôn cheirona paschontôn paramythountai]--The unhappy derive comfort from the worse misfortunes of others. Æsop.

[Greek: hoi kyboi Dios aei eupiptousi]--The dice of Zeus always fall luckily. Sophocles.

[Greek: hoi pleiones kakoi]--The majority of mankind are 35 bad. Bias, one of the seven sages.

[Greek: hoi polloi]--The multitude; the masses.

[Greek: hoiê per phyllôn geneê, toiêde kai andrôn]--As is the generation of leaves, such is that of men. Hom.

=Oil, wine, and friends improve by age.= _It. Pr._

[Greek: oimoi; ti d' oimoi? thnêta gar peponthamen]--Alas! but why alas? We only suffer what other mortals do.

[Greek: oinou de mêket' ontos, ouk estin Kypris]--Where 40 there is no longer any wine there is no love. Euripides.

[Greek: hokosa pharmaka ouk iêtai sidêros iêtai, hosa sidêros ouk iêtai pyr iêtai]--What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will. Hippocrates.

=Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually, as is thought.= Rahel.

=Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that it is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.= Cic.

=Old age is a heavy burden.= Pr.

=Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.= La Roche.

=Old age is honourable.= Pr.

=Old age is not in itself matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.= Carlyle to his mother.

=Old age is sad= (trübe), =not because our joys, but because our hopes are cut short.= Jean Paul.

=Old age is the repose of life, the rest which precedes= 5 =the rest that remains.= R. Collyer.

=Old age is wise for itself, but not wise for the community.= Bryant.

=Old age--the words are comparative, not positive.= Anon.

=Old age, though despised, is coveted by all.= Pr.

=Old age was naturally more honoured in times when people could not know much more than they had seen.= Joubert.

=Old birds are hard to pluck.= Pr. 10

=Old birds are not caught with chaff.= Pr.

=Old books, as you well know, are books of the world's youth, and new books are fruits of its age.= Holmes.

=Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good.= _Izaak Walton._

=Old friends are best.= King James I., as he slipt on his old shoes.

=Old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome= 15 =air; / Love them for what they are; nor love them less; / Because to thee they are not what they were.= Coleridge.

=Old head and young hand.= Pr.

=Old head upon young shoulders.= Pr.

=Old heads will not suit young shoulders.= Pr.

=Old houses mended / Cost little less than new before they're ended.= C. Cibber.

=Old long-vexed questions, not yet solved in= 20 =logical words or parliamentary laws, are fast solving themselves in facts, somewhat unblessed to behold.= Carlyle.

=Old men are twice children.= Pr.

=Old men lose one of the most precious rights of man, that of being judged by their peers.= Goethe.

=Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.= Capt. John Brown.

=Old men's lives are lengthened shadows; their evening sun falls coldly on the earth, but the shadows all point to the morning.= Jean Paul.

=Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise= 25 =them if you wish to keep them in working order.= John Adams.

=Old ovens are soon heated.= Pr.

=Old oxen have stiff horns.= Pr.

=Old shoes are easiest.= Pr.

=Old signs do not deceive.= Dan. Pr.

=Old wood to burn, old books to read, old wine= 30 =to drink, and old friends to converse with.= Alphonso of Castile.

=Old wounds soon bleed.= Pr.

=Olet lucernam=--It smells of the lamp, or midnight study.

=Oleum adde camino=--Add fuel to the fire. Hor.

=Oleum et operam perdidi=--I have lost both the oil and my pains. Plaut.

=Olla male fervet=--It does not look hopeful; the 35 pot boils poorly. Pr.

=Olim meminisse juvabit=--It will delight us to recall these things some day hereafter. Virg.

=Oliver Cromwell, dead two hundred years ago, does yet speak; nay, perhaps, now first begins to speak.= Carlyle.

=Omina sunt aliquid=--There is something in omens. Ovid.

[Greek: omma gar domôn nomizô despotou parousian]--The presence of the master is, meseems, the eye of a house. Æschylus.

=Omne actum ab agentis intentione judicandum=--Every 40 act is to be judged of by the intention of the agent. L.

=Omne ævum curæ: cunctis sua displicet ætas=--Every age has its own care: each one thinks his own time of life disagreeable. Auson.

=Omne animal seipsum diligit=--Every animal loves itself. Cic.

=Omne animi vitium tanto conspectius in se / Crimen habet, quanto major qui peccat habetur=--Every vice of the mind involves a condemnation the more glaring, the higher the rank of the person who is guilty. Juv.

=Omne capax movet urna nomen=--In the capacious urn of death every name is shaken. Hor.

=Omne corpus mutabile est; ita efficitur ut= 45 =omne corpus mortale sit=--Every body is subject to change; hence it comes to pass that every body is subject to death. Cic.

=Omne epigramma sit instar apis, aculeus illi, / Sint sua mella, sit et corporis exigui=--Every epigram should be like a bee: have a sting like it, honey, and a small body. Mart.

=Omne in præcipiti vitium stetit=--Every vice ever stands on the brink of a precipice. Juv.

=Omne malum nascens facile opprimitur: inveteratum fit plerumque robustius=--Every evil is easily crushed at its birth; when grown old, it generally becomes more obstinate. Cic.

=Omne nimium vertitur in vitium=--Every excess develops into a vice. Pr.

=Omne scibile=--Everything knowable. 50

=Omne solum forti patria est=--To the brave man every land is his native land. Ovid.

=Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit utile dulci / Lectorem delectando, pariterque monendo=--He gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader. Hor.

=Omnem crede diem tibi diluxisse supremum=--Believe that each day which shines on you is your last. Hor.

=Omnem movere lapidem=--To leave no stone unturned. Pr.

=Omnes amicos habere operosum est; satis est= 55 =inimicos non habere=--It is an arduous task to make all men your friends; it is enough to have no enemies. Sen.

=Omnes composui=--I have laid them all at rest (in the grave). Hor.

=Omnes eodem cogimur; omnium / Versatur urna serius, ocius, / Sors exitura, et nos in æternum / exsilium impositura cymbæ=--We are all driven to the same ferry; the lot of each is shaken in the urn, destined sooner or later to come forth, and place us in Charon's wherry for eternal exile. Hor.

=Omnes homines, qui de rebus dubiis consultant, ab odio, amicitia, ira, atque misericordia vacuos esse decet=--All men, who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity. Sall.

=Omnes omnium caritates patria una complectitur=--Our country alone comprehends all our affections for all. Cic.

=Omnes, quibus res sunt minus secundæ, magis sunt, nescio quomodo / Suspiciosi: ad contumeliam omnia accipiunt magis; / Propter suam impotentiam se credunt negligi=--All those whose affairs are unprosperous are, somehow or other, extremely suspicious; they take every hint as an affront, and think the neglect with which they are treated is due to their humble position. Ter.

=Omnes sapientes decet conferre et fabulari=--All wise people ought to confer and hold converse with each other. Plaut.

=Omnes una manet nox, / Et calcanda semel via lethi=--One night awaits us all, and the path of death must once be trodden by us. Hor.

=Omni ætati mors est communis=--Death is common 5 to every age. Cic.

=Omnia bonos viros decent=--All things are becoming in good men. Pr.

=Omnia conando docilis solertia vincit=--By application a docile shrewdness surmounts every difficulty. Manilius.

=Omnia cum amico delibera, sed de te ipso prius=--Consult your friend on everything, but particularly on what affects yourself. Sen.

=Omnia desuper=--All things come from above. M.

=Omnia ejusdem farinæ=--All things are of the 10 same stuff, lit. grain. Pr.

=Omnia fert ætas, animum quoque=--Age carries all away, and the powers of the mind too. Virg.

=Omnia Græce! / Cum sit turpe magis nostris nescire Latine=--All things must be in Greek! when it is more shameful for our Romans to be ignorant of Latin. Juv.

=Omnia inconsulti impetus cœpta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt=--All enterprises which are entered on with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigour at first, but are sure to collapse in the end. Tac.

=Omnia jam fient, fieri quæ posse negabam: / Et nihil est de quo non sit habenda fides=--All things will now come to pass which I used to think impossible; and there is nothing which we may not hope to see take place. Ovid.

=Omnia mala exempla bonis principiis orta sunt=--All 15 bad precedents have had their rise in good beginnings.

=Omnia mea mecum porto=--All that belongs to me I carry with me. Bias.

=Omnia mutantur, nihil interit=--All things but change, nothing perishes. Ovid.

=Omnia mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis=--All things change, and we ourselves change along with them. Borbonius.

=Omnia non pariter rerum sunt omnibus apta=--All things are not alike fit for all men. Propert.

=Omnia orta occident=--All things that rise also 20 set. Sall.

=Omnia perdidimus, tantummodo vita relicta est=--We have lost everything, only life is left. Ovid.

=Omnia perversas possunt corrumpere mentes=--All things tend to corrupt perverted minds. Ovid.

=Omnia præclara rara=--All excellent things are rare. Cic.

=Omnia præsumuntur rite et solenniter esse acta=--All things are presumed to have been done duly and in the usual manner. L.

=Omnia prius experiri, quam armis, sapientem= 25 =decet=--It becomes a wise man to try all methods before having recourse to arms. Ter.

=Omnia profecto, cum se a cœlestibus rebus referet ad humanas, excelsius magnificentiusque et dicet et sentiet=--When a man descends from heavenly things to human, he will certainly both speak and feel more loftily and nobly on every theme. Cic.

=Omnia quæ nunc vetustissima creduntur, nova fuere ... et quod hodie exemplis tuemur, inter exempla erit=--Everything which is now regarded as very ancient was once new, and what we are defending to-day by precedent, will by and by be a precedent itself. Tac.

=Omnia rerum principia parva sunt=--All beginnings are small. Cic.

=Omnia Romæ / Cum pretio=--All things may be bought at Rome with money. Juv.

=Omnia serviliter pro dominatione=--Servile in 30 all his actions for the sake of power. Tac., of Otho.

=Omnia subjecisti sub pedibus, oves et boves=--Thou hast placed all things beneath our feet, both sheep and oxen. Motto of the Butchers' Company.

=Omnia sunt hominum tenui pendentia filo; / Et subito casu, quæ valuere, ruunt=--All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong of a sudden falls and sinks in ruins. Ovid.

=Omnia tuta timens=--Distrusting everything that is perfectly safe. Virg.

=Omnia venalia Romæ=--All things can be bought at Rome. Pr.

=Omnia vincit amor, nos et cedamus amori=--Love 35 conquers all the world, let us too yield to love. Virg.

=Omnibus bonis expedit rempublicam esse salvam=--It is for the interest of every good man that the commonwealth shall be safe. Cic.

=Omnibus hoc vitium est cantoribus, inter amicos / Ut nunquam inducant animum cantare rogati, / Injussi nunquam desistant=--This is a general fault of all singers, that among their friends they never make up their minds to sing, however pressed; but when no one asks them, they will never leave off. Hor.

=Omnibus hostes / Reddite nos populis, civile avertite bellum=--Commit us to hostility with every other nation, but avert from us civil war. Lucan.

=Omnibus in terris, quæ sunt a Gadibus usque / Auroram et Gangem, pauci dignoscere possunt / Vera bona, atque illis multum diversa, remota / Erroris nebula=--In all the lands which stretch from Gades even to the region of the dawn and the Ganges, there are few who are able by removing the mist of error to distinguish between what is really good and what is widely diverse. Juv.

=Omnibus modis, qui pauperes sunt homines,= 40 =miseri vivunt; / Præsertim quibus nec quæstus est, nec didicere artem ullam=--The poor live wretchedly in every way; especially those who have no means of livelihood and have learned no craft. Plaut.

=Omnis ars imitatio est naturæ=--All art is an imitation of nature. Sen.

=Omnis commoditas sua fert incommoda secum=--Every convenience brings its own inconveniences along with it. Pr.

=Omnis dolor aut est vehemens, aut levis; si levis, facile fertur, si vehemens, certe brevis futurus est=--All pain is either severe or slight; if slight, it is easily borne; if severe, it will without doubt be brief. Cic.

=Omnis enim res / Virtus, fama, decus, divina humanaque pulchris / Divitiis parent; quas qui construxerit, ille / Clarus erit, fortis, justus=--All things divine and human, as virtue, fame, and honour, defer to fair wealth, and he who has amassed it will be illustrious, brave, and just. Hor.

=Omnis pœna corporalis, quamvis minima, major est omni pœna pecuniaria, quamvis maxima=--The slightest corporal punishment falls more heavily than the largest pecuniary penalty. L.

=Omnis stultitia laborat fastidio sui=--All folly is 5 afflicted with a disdain of itself. Sen.

=Omnium consensu capax imperii, nisi imperasset=--He would have been universally deemed fit for empire, if he had never reigned. Said of Galba by Tacitus.

=Omnium horarum homo=--A man ready for whatever may chance. Quinct.

=Omnium rerum, ex quibus aliquid acquiritur, nihil est agricultura melius, nihil uberius, nihil dulcius, nihil homine libero dignius=--Of all pursuits from which profit accrues, nothing is superior to agriculture, nothing more productive, nothing more enjoyable, nothing more worthy of a free man. Cic.

=Omnium rerum, heus, vicissitudo est=--There are changes, mark ye, in all things. Ter.

=On a beau prêcher à qui n'a cure de bien faire=--It 10 is no use preaching to him who has no wish to do well. Fr. Pr.

=On a long journey even a straw is heavy.= Pr.

=On a souvent besoin d'un plus petit que soi=--One has often need of one inferior to one's self. La Fontaine.

=On a winged word hath hung the destiny of nations.= Landor.

=On affaiblit toujours tout ce qu'on exagère=--We always weaken everything which we exaggerate. La Harpe.

=On aime bien à deviner les autres, mais l'on= 15 =aime pas à être deviné=--We like well to see through other people, but we do not like to be seen through ourselves. La Roche.

=On aime sans raison, et sans raison l'on hait=--We love without reason, and without reason we hate. Regnard.

=On apprend en faillant=--One learns by failing. Fr. Pr.

=On attrape plus de mouches avec du miel qu'avec du vinaigre=--More flies are caught with honey than vinegar. Fr. Pr.

=On avale à pleine gorgée le mensonge qui nous flatte, et l'on boit goute à goute une vérité qui nous est amère=--We swallow at one draught the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us. Diderot.

=On commence par être dupe, / On finit par être= 20 =fripon=--People begin by being dupes, and end by being knaves. Mme. Deshoulières, on gambling.

=On connaît les amis au besoin=--Friends are known in time of need. Fr. Pr.

=On devient innocent quand on est malheureux=--We become innocent when we are unfortunate. La Fontaine.

=On dit=--They say; a flying rumour or current report. Fr.

=On dit de gueux qu'ils ne sont jamais dans leur chemins, parce qu'ils n'ont point de demeure fixe. Il en est de même de cause qui disputent, sans avoir des notions déterminées=--It is said of beggars that they are never on their way, for they have no fixed dwelling-place; it is the same with people who dispute without having definite ideas. Fr.

=On dit, est souvent un grand menteur=--"They 25 say" is often a great liar. Fr. Pr.

=On dit, et sans horreur je ne puis le redire=--It has been said, and I cannot without horror repeat it. Racine.

=On dit que Dieu est toujours pour les gros bataillons=--They say God is always with the heaviest battalions. Voltaire.

=On doit être heureux sans trop penser à l'être=--One ought to be happy without thinking too much of being so. Fr. Pr.

=On doit des égards aux vivants; on ne doit aux morts que la vérité=--Respect is due to the living; to the dead nothing but truth. Motte.

=On donne des conseils, mais on ne donne point= 30 =la sagesse d'en profiter=--We may give advice, but not the sense to profit by it. La Roche.

=On eagles' wings immortal scandals fly, / While virtuous actions are but born to die.= Pope.

=On entre et on crie, / Et voilà la vie! / On crie et on sort, / Et voilà la mort!=--We come and cry, and that is life; we cry and go, and that is death. Fr.

=On est aisément dupé par ce qu'on aime=--We are easily duped by those we love. Molière.

=On est, quand on le veut, le maître de son sort=--A man, when he wishes, is the master of his fate. Ferrier.

=On every stage the foes of peace attend /= 35 =Hate dogs their flight, and insult mocks their end.= Johnson.

=On every thorn delightful wisdom grows; / In every rill a sweet instruction flows.= Young.

=On fait souvent tort à la vérité par la manière dont on se sert pour la défendre=--We often injure the truth by our manner of defending it. Fr.

=On fait toujours le loup plus gros qu'il n'est=--People always make the wolf more formidable than he is. Fr. Pr.

=On gagne peu de choses par habileté=--It is little that one gains by cleverness. (?)

=On God and godlike men we build our trust.= 40 Tennyson.

=On his own saddle one rides safest.= Pr.

=On jette enfin de la terre sur la tête, et en voilà pour jamais=--Little earth is cast in the end upon the head, and there is no more of it for ever. Pascal.

=On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, / Reason the card, but passion is the gale.= Pope.

=On Monday morning don't be looking for Saturday night.= Pr.

=On n'a jamais bon marché de mauvaise marchandise=--Bad 45 ware is never cheap. Fr. Pr.

=On n'a rien pour rien=--Nothing can be had for nothing. Fr. Pr.

=On n'aime plus comme on aimait jadis=--People no longer love as they used to do long ago. Fr.

=On n'auroit guère de plaisir, si l'on ne se flattoit point=--A man should have little pleasure if he did not sometimes flatter himself. Fr.