DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS. (continued 15)

Let us be silent, for so are the gods. Emerson.

Let us beware that our rest become not the rest of stones, which, so long as they are torrent-tossed and thunder-stricken, maintain their majesty; but when the stream is silent and the storm passed, suffer the grass to cover them and the lichen to feed upon them, and are ploughed down into dust. Ruskin.

Let us do the work of men while we bear the form of them. Ruskin

Let us endeavour to see things as they are, 30 and then inquire whether we ought to complain. Johnson.

Let us enjoy the cloven flame whilst it glows on our walls. Emerson.

Let us fear the worst, but work with faith; the best will always take care of itself. Victor Hugo.

Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us dare to do our duty as we understand it. Lincoln.

Let us have the crisis; we shall either have death or the cure. Carlyle.

Let us know what to love, and we shall know 35 also what to reject; what to affirm, and we shall know also what to deny; but it is dangerous to begin with denial and fatal to end with it. Carlyle.

Let us learn upon earth those things that can call us to heaven. St. Jerome.

Let us leave the question of origins to those who busy themselves with insoluble problems, and have nothing better to do. Goethe.

Let us make haste to live, since every day to a wise man is a new life. Sen.

Let us march intrepidly wherever we are led by the course of human accidents. Where-ever they lead us, on what coasts soever we are thrown by them, we shall not find ourselves absolutely strangers. Bolingbroke.

Let us not burden our remembrances with / 40 A heaviness that's gone. The Tempest, v. 1.

Let us not make imaginary evils when we have so many real ones to encounter. Goldsmith.

Let us not strive to rise too high, that we may not fall too low. Schiller.

Let us not throw away any of our days upon useless resentment, or contend who shall hold out longest in stubborn malignity. Johnson.

Let us th' important "now" employ, / And live as those who never die. Burns.

Let us, then, be up and doing, / With a heart 45 for every fate; / Still achieving, still pursuing, / Learn to labour and to wait. Longfellow.

Let us, then, be what we are, and speak what we think, and in all things / Keep ourselves loyal to truth and the sacred professions of friendship. Longfellow.

Let us try what esteem and kindness can effect. Johnson.

Let vain men pursue vanity; leave them to their own methods. Thomas à Kempis.

Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die, / But leave us still our old nobility. Lord J. Manners.

Let wealth shelter and cherish unprotected merit, and the gratitude and celebrity of that merit will richly repay it. Burns.

Let whatever you are and whatever you do, grow out of a firm root of truth and a strong soil of reality. Prof. Blackie.

Let Whig and Tory stir their blood; / There must be stormy weather; / But for some true result of good, / All parties work together. Tennyson.

Let woman learn betimes to serve according 5 to her destination, for only by serving will she at last learn to rule, and attain the influence that belongs to her in the household. Goethe.

Let women spin, not preach. Pr.

Let your daily wisdom of life be in making a good use of the opportunities given you. Prof. Blackie.

Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but let them feel, at the same time, the steadiness of your just resentment. Chesterfield.

Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least. Hor.

Let your pen fail, begin to trifle with blotting-paper, 10 look at the ceiling, bite your nails, and otherwise dally with your purpose, and you waste your time, scatter your thoughts, and repress the nervous energy necessary for your task. G. H. Lewes.

Let your purse be your master. Pr.

Let your reason with your choler question.... To climb steep hills / Requires slow pace at first. Hen. VIII., i. 1.

Let your rule in reference to your social sentiments be simply this; pray for the bad, pity the weak, enjoy the good, and reverence both the great and the small, as playing each his part aptly in the divine symphony of the universe. Prof. Blackie.

Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how to answer every man. St. Paul.

Let your trouble tarry till its own day comes. 15 Pr.

Let's live with that small pittance which we have; / Who covets more is evermore a slave. Herrick.

Let's not unman each other—part at once; / All farewells should be sudden when for ever, / Else they make an eternity of moments, / And clog the last sad sands of life with tears. Byron.

Let's take the instant by the forward top; / For we are old, and on our quick'st decrees / Th' inaudible and noiseless foot of time / Steals ere we can effect them. All's Well, v. 3.

Let's teach ourselves that honourable stop, not to out-sport discretion. Othello, ii. 3.

Letters may be always made out of the books 20 of the morning or talk of the evening. Johnson.

Letters of mere compliment, congratulation, or affected condolence, which have cost the authors most labour in composing, never fail of being the most disagreeable and insipid to the readers. Blair.

Letters that are warmly sealed are often coldly opened. Jean Paul.

Letters without virtue are like pearls in a dunghill. Cervantes.

Letting down buckets into empty wells, and growing old with drawing nothing up. Cowper.

Lettres de cachet—Warrants of imprisonment 25 under royal seal, liberally issued in France before the Revolution.

Leuk twice or ye loup ance, i.e., look twice before you leap once. Sc. Pr.

Leve æs alienum debitorem facit, grave inimicum—A small debt makes a man your debtor, a large one your enemy. Sen.

Leve fit quod bene fertur onus—The burden which is cheerfully borne becomes light. Ovid.

Leve incommodum tolerandum est—A slight inconvenience must be endured. M.

Leve (trust) none better than thyself. Hazlitt's 30 Poems.

Level roads run out from music to every side. Goethe.

Leves homines futuri sunt improvidi—Light-minded men are improvident of the future. Tac.

Levia perpessi sumus, / Si flenda patimur—Our sufferings are light, if they are merely such as we should weep for.

Leviores sunt injuriæ, quæ repentino aliquo motu accidunt, quam eæ quæ meditate præparata inferuntur—The injuries which befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which we are deliberately anticipating. Cic.

Levis est dolor qui capere consilium potest—Grief 35 is light which can take advice. Sen.

Levis sit tibi terra—May the earth lie light on thee.

Levity is a prettiness in a child, a disgraceful defect in men, and a monstrous folly in old age. La Roche.

Levity is often less foolish, and gravity less wise, than each of them appears. Colton.

Levity of behaviour is the bane of all that is good and virtuous. Sen.

Levius fit patientia / Quicquid corrigere est 40 nefas—Whatever cannot be amended becomes easier to bear if we exercise patience. Hor.

Levius solet timere qui propius timet—A man's fears are lighter when the danger is near at hand. Sen.

Lex aliquando sequitur æquitatem—Law is sometimes according to equity. L.

Lex citius tolerare vult privatum damnum quam publicum malum—The law will sooner tolerate a private loss than a public evil. Coke.

Lex neminem cogit ad impossibilia—The law compels no one to do what is impossible. L.

Lex non scripta—The common law. 45

Lex prospicit non respicit—The law is prospective, not retrospective. L.

Lex scripta—The statute law.

Lex talionis—The law of retaliation.

Lex terræ—The law of the land.

Lex universa est quæ jubet nasci et mori—There 50 is a universal law which commands that we shall be born and shall die. Pub. Syr.

Liars act like the salt-miners; they undermine the truth, but leave just so much standing as is necessary to support the edifice. Jean Paul.

Liars are always ready to take oath. Alfieri.

Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world. Epictetus.

Liars ought to have good memories. Sidney.

Libenter homines id, quod volunt, credunt—Men are fain to believe what they wish. Cæsar.

Libera chiesa in libero stato—A free church in 5 a free state. Cavour.

Libera Fortunæ mors est: capit omnia tellus / Quæ genuit—Death is not subject to fortune; the earth contains everything which she ever brought forth. Luc.

Libera me ab homine malo, a meipso—Deliver me from the evil man, from myself. St. Augustine.

Libera te metu mortis—Deliver thyself from the fear of death. Sen.

Liberality consists less in giving profusely than in giving judiciously. La Bruyère.

Liberality is not giving largely but wisely. Pr. 10

Libertas—Liberty. M.

Libertas est potestas faciendi id quod jure licet—Liberty consists in the power of doing what the law permits. L.

Libertas in legibus—Liberty under the laws. M.

Libertas, quæ sera, tamen respexit inertem—Liberty, which, though late, regarded me in my helpless state. Virg.

Libertas sub rege pio—Liberty under a pious 15 king. M.

Libertas ultima mundi / Quo steterit ferienda loco—In the spot where liberty has made her last stand she was fated to be smitten. Lucan.

Liberté toute entière—Liberty perfectly entire. M.

Liberty, and not theology, is the enthusiasm of the nineteenth century. The very men who would once have been conspicuous saints are now conspicuous revolutionists, for while their heroism and disinterestedness are their own, the direction which these qualities take is determined by the pressure of the age. H. W. Lecky.

Liberty comes with Christianity, because Christianity develops and strengthens the mass of men. Ward Beecher.

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome 20 restraint. Webster.

Liberty has no actual rights which are not grafted upon justice. Mme. Swetchine.

Liberty has no crueller enemy than license. Fr. Pr.

Liberty is a principle; its community is its security; exclusiveness is its doom. Kossuth.

Liberty is a slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man. Emerson.

Liberty is an old fact; it has had its heroes 25 and its martyrs in almost every age. Chapin.

Liberty is God's gift; liberties are the devil's. Ger. Pr.

Liberty is not idleness; it is an unconstrained use of time. To be free is not to be doing nothing; it is to be one's own master as to what one ought to do or not to do. La Bruyère.

Liberty is of more value than any gifts; and to receive gifts is to lose it. Be assured that men most commonly seek to oblige thee only that they may engage thee to serve them. Saadi.

Liberty is one of the most precious gifts that Heaven has bestowed on man, and captivity is the greatest evil that can befall him. Cervantes.

Liberty is quite as much a moral as a political 30 growth, the result of free individual action, energy, and independence. S. Smiles.

Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit. Montesquieu.

Liberty is to the collective body what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty no happiness can be enjoyed by society. Bolingbroke.

Liberty is to the lowest rank of every nation little more than the choice of working or starving. Johnson.

Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty as well as by the abuse of power. Madison.

Liberty must be a mighty thing, for by it 35 God punishes and rewards nations. Mme. Swetchine.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed. Burke.

Liberty of thinking and expressing our thoughts is always fatal to priestly power, and to those pious frauds on which it is commonly founded. Hume.

Liberty raises us to the gods; holiness prostrates us on the ground. Amiel.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. Washington.

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people 40 must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed. Colton.

Liberty, with all its drawbacks, is everywhere vastly more attractive to a noble soul than good social order without it, than society like a flock of sheep, or a machine working like a watch. This mechanism makes of man only a product; liberty makes him the citizen of a better world. Schiller.

Liberum arbitrium—Free will.

Libidinosa et intemperans adolescentia effœtum corpus tradit senectuti—A sensual and intemperate youth transmits to old age a worn-out body. Cic.

Libido effrenata effrenatam appetentiam efficit—Unbridled gratification produces unbridled desire. Pr.

Libito fè licito—What pleased her she made law. 45 Dante.

Libra justa justitiam servat—A just balance preserves justice.

Libraries are as the shrines where all the relics of saints full of true virtue, and that without delusion and imposture, are preserved and reposed. Bacon.

Libraries are the wardrobes of literature, whence men, properly informed, might bring forth something for ornament, much for curiosity, and more for use. J. Dyer.

License they mean when they cry liberty. Milton.

Liceat concedere veris—We are free to yield to 50 truth. Hor.

Licet superbus ambules pecunia, / Fortuna non mutat genus—Although you strut insolent in your wealth, your fortune does not change your low birth. Hor.

Licht und Geist, jenes im Phyischen, dieses im Sittlichen herrschend, sind die höchsten denkbaren untheilbaren Energien—Light and spirit, the one sovereign in the physical, the other in the moral, are the highest conceivable indivisible potences at work in the universe. Goethe.

Licuit, semperque licebit / Parcere personis, dicere de vitiis—It has ever been, and ever will be, lawful to spare the individual but to censure the vice.

Lie not in the mire, and say, "God help!" Pr.

Lie not, neither to thyself, nor man, nor God. Let mouth and heart be one; beat and speak together, and make both felt in action. It is for cowards to lie. George Herbert.

Liebe bleibt die goldne Leiter / Darauf das 5 Herz zum Himmel steigt—Love is ever the golden ladder whereby the heart ascends to heaven. Geibel.

Liebe ist die ältest-neuste / Einz'ge Weltbegebenheit—Love is the oldest-newest sole world-event. Rückert.

Liebe kann nicht untergehen; / Was verwest, muss auferstehen—Love cannot perish; what decays must come to life again. J. G. Jacobi.

Liebe kann viel, Geld kann alles—Love cannot do much; money everything. Ger. Pr.

Liebe kennt der allein, der ohne Hoffnung liebt—He alone knows what love is who loves without hope. Schiller.

Liebe ohne Gegenliebe ist wie eine Frage 10 ohne Antwort—Love unreciprocated is like a question without an answer. Ger. Pr.

Liebe schwärmet auf allen Wegen; / Treue wohnt für sich allein; / Liebe kommt euch rasch entgegen; / Aufgesucht will Treue sein—Love ranges about in all thoroughfares; fidelity dwells by herself alone. Love comes to meet you with quick footstep; fidelity will be sought out. Goethe.

Liebe ward der Welt von Gott verliehen, / Um zu Gott die Seele zu erziehen—Love was bestowed on the world by God, in order to train the soul for God. Rückert.

Lieber Neid denn Mitleid—Better envy than pity. Ger. Pr.

Lies are like nitro-glycerine—the best of judges can't tell where they are going to burst and scatter confusion. Billings.

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion 15 brings on substance. Bacon.

Lies are the ghosts of truths, the masks of faces. J. Sterling.

Lies have short legs. It. and Ger. Pr.

Lies hunt in packs. Pr.

Lies may be acted as well as spoken. Pr.

Lies, mere show and sham, and hollow superficiality 20 of all kinds, which is at the best a painted lie, avoid. Prof. Blackie to young men.

Lies need a great deal of killing. Pr.

Lies that are half true are the worst of lies. Pr.

Life abounds in cares, in thorns, and woes; many tears flow visibly, although many more are unseen. Antoni Malazeski.

Life admits not of delays. Johnson.

Life alone can rekindle life. Amiel. 25

Life, as we call it, is nothing but the edge of the boundless ocean of existence where it comes upon soundings. Holmes.

Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humoured and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over. Goldsmith.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for vicissitudes. Goethe.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions. Johnson.

Life every man holds dear; but the brave 30 man / Holds honour far more precious dear than life. Troil. and Cress., v. 3.

Life everywhere will swallow a man, unless he rise and try vigorously to swallow it. Carlyle.

Life expresses. A statue has no tongue, and needs none. (?)

Life, full life, / Full-flowered, full-fruited, reared from homely earth, / Rooted in duty, ... this is the prize / I hold most dear, more precious than the fruit / Of knowledge or of love. Lewis Morris.

Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion still improves, by observing that the most swift are ever the least manageable, the most apt to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones. Goldsmith.

Life has no memory. Emerson. 35

Life has no pleasure nobler than that of friendship. Johnson.

Life, however short, is made shorter by waste of time; and its progress towards happiness, though naturally slow, is made still slower by unnecessary labour. Johnson.

Life I leave, as I would leave an inn, rather than a home; nature having given it us more as a sort of hostelry to stop at, than as an abiding dwelling-place. Cato in Cicero.

Life in itself is neither good nor evil, but the scene of good or evil, as you make it; and if you have lived one day, you have lived all days. Montaigne.

Life is a campaign, not a battle, and has 40 its defeats as well as its victories. Donn Piatt.

Life is a casket, not precious in itself, but valuable in proportion to what fortune, or industry, or virtue has placed within it. Landor.

Life is a comedy to him who thinks, and a tragedy to him who feels. Horace Walpole.

Life is a crucible, into which we are thrown and tried. The actual weight and value of a man are expressed in the spiritual substance of the man; all else is dross. Chapin.

Life is a disease of the spirit; a working incited by passion. Rest is peculiar to the spirit. Novalis.

Life is a disease (Krankheit), sleep a palliative, 45 death the radical cure. C. J. Weber.

Life is a dream and death an awakening. Beaumelle.

Life is a fairy scene: almost all that deserves the name of enjoyment or pleasure is only a charming delusion; and in comes repining age, in all the gravity of hoary wisdom, and wretchedly chases away the bewitching phantom. Burns.

Life is a fortress which neither you nor I know anything about. Why throw obstacles in the way of its defence? Its own means are superior to all the apparatus of your laboratories. Emerson.

Life is a fragment, a moment between two eternities, influenced by all that has preceded, and to influence all that follows. Channing.

Life is a jest, and all things show it; / I thought so once, but now I know it. Gay.

Life is a kind of sleep; old men sleep longest, nor begin to wake until they are to die. La Bruyère.

Life is a little gleam of time between two 5 eternities. Carlyle.

Life is a long lesson in humility. J. M. Barrie.

Life is a moment between two eternities. Channing.

Life is a plant that grows out of death. Ward Beecher.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment. Johnson.

Life is a quarantine for Paradise. C. J. Weber. 10

Life is a rich strain of music suggesting a realm too fair to be. G. W. Curtis.

Life is a scale of degrees. Between rank and rank of our great men are wide intervals. Emerson.

Life is a search after power; and this is an element with which the world is so saturated—there is no chink or crevice in which it is not lodged—that no honest seeking goes unrewarded. Emerson.

Life is a series of surprises, and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not. Emerson.

Life is a short day, but it is a working day. 15 Hannah More.

Life is a shuttle. The Merry Wives, v. 1.

Life is a sincerity. In lucid intervals we say, "Let there be an entrance opened for me into realities; I have worn the fool's cap too long." Emerson.

Life is a sleep, love is a dream, and you have lived if you have loved. A. de Musset.

Life is a stream upon which drift flowers in spring and blocks of ice in winter. Joseph Roux.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be 20 lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle. Emerson.

Life is a voyage. Victor Hugo.

Life is a warfare. Sen.

Life is a wrestle with the devil, and only the frivolous think to throw him without taking off their coats. J. M. Barrie.

Life is act, and not to do is death. Lewis Morris.

Life is all a variorum; / We regard not how 25 it goes; / Let them cant about decorum / Who have characters to lose. / A fig for those by law protected! / Liberty's a glorious feast; / Courts for cowards were erected, / Churches built to please the priest. Burns, "Jolly Beggars."

Life is an earnest business, and no man was ever made great or good by a diet of broad grins. Prof. Blackie.

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, / Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. King John, iii. 4.

Life is as the current spark on the miner's wheel of flints; while it spinneth there is light; stop it, all is darkness. Tupper.

Life is burdensome to us chiefly from the abuse of it. Rousseau.

Life is but a tissue of habits. Amiel. 30

Life is but another name for action; and he who is without opportunity exists, but does not live. G. S. Hillard.

Life is but thought; so think I will that youth and I are housemates still. S. T. Coleridge.

Life is freedom—life in the direct ratio of its amount.... The smallest candle fills a mile with its rays, and the pupillæ of a man run out to every star. Emerson.

Life is girt all round with a zodiac of sciences, the contributions of men who have perished to add their point of light to our sky.... These road-makers on every hand enrich us. We must extend the area of life and multiply our relations. We are as much gainers by finding a property in the old earth as by acquiring a new planet. Emerson.

Life is given us not to enjoy, but to overcome. 35 Schopenhauer.

Life is half spent before we know what life is. Fr. Pr.

Life is immeasurably heightened by the solemnity of death. Alex. Smith.

Life is kindled only by life. Jean Paul.

Life is like wine; he who would drink it pure must not drain it to the dregs. Sir W. Temple.

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or 40 duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what win the heart and secure comfort. Sir H. Davy.

Life is made up, not of knowledge only, but of love also.... The hues of sunset make life great; so the affections make some little web of cottage and fireside populous, important. Emerson.

Life is movement. Arist.

Life is no merrymaking. Dr. W. Smith.

Life is not as idle ore, / But iron dug from central gloom, / And heated hot with burning fears, / And dipt in baths of hissing tears, / And battered with the shocks of doom / To shape and use. Tennyson.

Life is not intellectual or critical, but sturdy. 45 Its chief good is for well-mixed people, who can enjoy what they find without question. Emerson.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent. Johnson.

Life is not long enough for art, not long enough for friendship. Emerson.

Life is not so short but there is always time enough for courtesy. Emerson.

Life is not the supreme good; but of all earthly ills the chief is guilt. Schiller.

Life is not victory, but battle. R. D. Hitchcock. 50

Life is poor when its old faiths are gone, / Poorest when man can trust himself alone. Dr. Walter Smith.

Life is probation, and this earth no goal, / But starting-point of man. Browning.

Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life; a man is not completely born till he has passed through death. Franklin.

Life is ravelled almost ere we wot, / And with our vexing / To disentangle it, we make the knot / But more perplexing, / Embittering our lot. Dr. Walter Smith.

Life is real, life is earnest. Longfellow.

Life is sacred; but there is something more 5 sacred still: woe to him who does not know that withal. Carlyle.

Life is so complicated a game, that the devices of skill are liable to be defeated at every turn by air-blown chances, incalculable as the descent of thistle-down. George Eliot.

Life is so healthful that it even finds nourishment in death. Carlyle.

Life is that which holds matter together. Porphyry.

Life is the art of being well deceived. Hazlitt.

Life is the best thing we can possibly make of 10 it. G. W. Curtis.

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free. Lowell.

Life is the jailer of the soul in this filthy prison, and its only deliverer is death. What we call life is a journey to death, and what we call death is a passport to life. Colton.

Life is the transmigration of a soul / Through various bodies, various states of being; / New manners, passions, new pursuits in each; / In nothing, save in consciousness, the same. Montgomery.

Life is the triumph of our mouldering clay; death, of the spirit infinite, divine! Young.

Life is to be considered happy, not in warding 15 off evil, but in the acquisition of good: and this we should seek for by employment of some kind or by reflection. Cic.

Life is too much for most. So much of age, so little of youth; living, for the most part, in the moment, and dating existence by the memory of its burdens. A. B. Alcott.

Life is too short to waste / In critic peep or cynic bark, / Quarrel or reprimand; / 'Twill soon be dark. Emerson.

Life itself is a bubble and a scepticism, and a sleep within a sleep. Emerson.

Life just the stuff / To try the soul's strength on, educe the man. Browning.

Life lies before us as a huge quarry before 20 the architect; and he deserves not the name of architect except when, out of this fortuitous mass, he can combine, with the greatest economy, fitness and durability, some form the pattern of which originated in his own soul. Goethe.

Life lies most open in a closed eye. Quarles.

Life, like a dome of many coloured glass, / Stains the white radiance of eternity. Shelley.

Life, like some cities, is full of blind alleys, leading nowhere; the great art is to keep out of them. Bovee.

Life, like the water of the seas, freshens only when it ascends towards heaven. Jean Paul.

Life may as properly be called an art as any 25 other, and the great incidents in it are no more to be considered as mere accidents than the severest members of a fine statue or a noble poem. Fielding.

Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend; there the whole aspect of things changes. Emerson.

Life only avails, not the having lived. Emerson.

Life outweighs all things, if love lies within it. Goethe.

Life passes through us; we do not possess it. Amiel.

Life protracted is protracted woe, / Time 30 hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, / And shuts up all the passages of joy. Johnson.

Life sues the young like a new acquaintance.... To us, who are declined in years, life appears like an old friend. Goldsmith.

Life, to be worthy of a rational being, must be always in progression: we must always purpose to do more or better than in time past. Johnson.

Life, upon the whole, is much more pleasurable than painful, otherwise we should not feel pain so impatiently when it comes. Leigh Hunt.

Life was intended to be so adjusted that the body should be the servant of the soul, and always subordinate to the soul. J. G. Holland.

Life was never a May-game for men; not play 35 at all, but hard work, that makes the sinews sore and the heart sore. Carlyle.

Life was spread as a banquet for pure, noble, unperverted natures, and may be such to them, ought to be such to them. W. R. Greg.

Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Emerson.

Life, whether in this world or any other, is the sum of our attainment, our experience, our character. In what other world shall we be more surely than we are here? Chapin.

Life with all it yields of joy and woe, / And hope and fear, / Is just our chance o' the prize of learning love, / How love might be, hath been indeed, and is. Browning.

Life without a freend is death wi' a witness. 40 Sc. Pr.

Life without laughing is a dreary blank. Thackeray.

Life would be too smooth if it had no rubs in it. Pr.

Life's a reckoning we cannot make twice over. George Eliot.

Life's a tragedy. Raleigh.

Life's a tumble-about thing of ups and downs. 45 Disraeli.

Life's but a day at most. Burns.

Life's but a means unto an end; that end / Beginning, mean, and end to all things—God. Bailey.

Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player, / That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, / And then is heard no more! It is a tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing. Macb., v. 5.

Life's ebbing stream on either side / Shows at each turn some mould'ring hope or joy, / The man seems following still the funeral of the boy. Keble.

Life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim. Byron.

Life's life ony gate (at any rate). Scott.

Life's no resting, but a moving; / Let thy life be deed on deed. Goethe.

Light another's candle, but don't put out your 5 own. Pr.

Light boats sail swift, though greater hulks draw deep. Troil. and Cress., iii. 3.

Light burdens carried far grow heavy. Fr. and Ger. Pr.

Light cares (or griefs) speak; great ones are dumb. Sen.

Light flashes in the gloomiest sky, / And music in the dullest plain. Keble.

Light gains make heavy purses, because they 10 come thick, whereas the great come but now and then. Bacon.

Light is, as it were, a divine humidity. Joubert.

Light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil. St. John.

Light is coming into the world; men love not darkness; they do love light. Carlyle.

Light is, in reality, more awful than darkness; modesty more majestic than strength; and there is truer sublimity in the sweet joy of a child, or the sweet virtue of a maiden, than in the strength of Antæus or the thunder-clouds of Ætna. Ruskin.

Light is light, though the blind man doesn't 15 see it. Ger. Pr.

Light is no less favourable to merit than unfavourable to imposture. H. Home.

Light is, perhaps, the most wonderful of all visible things. Leigh Hunt.

Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart. Bible.

Light is the burden love lays on; / Content and love brings peace and joy, / What mair hae queens upon a throne? Burns.

Light is the symbol of truth. Lowell. 20

Light not your candle at both ends. Pr.

Light, or, failing that, lightning—the world can take its choice. Carlyle.

Light seeking light doth light of light beguile. Love's L. Lost, i. 1.

Light suppers mak' lang life. Sc. Pr.

Light that a man receiveth by counsel from 25 another is drier and purer than that which cometh from his own understanding and judgment, which is ever in his affections and customs. Bacon.

Light that makes things seen makes some things invisible. Sir Thomas Browne.

Light visits the hearts, as it does the eyes, of all living. Carlyle.

Light without life is a candle in a tomb; / Life without love is a garden without bloom. Pr.

Lightly come, lightly go. Pr.

Lightning and thunder (heaven's artillery) / 30 As harbingers before th' Almighty fly: / Those but proclaim His style, and disappear; / The stiller sounds succeed, and God is there. Dryden.

Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. There are simply a sun, flowers, water, and love. Heine.

Like a large heart overflowing with an impotent and vague love, the universe is ceaselessly in the agony of transformation. Renan.

Like a lusty winter, frosty but kindly. Pr.

Like a man do all things, not sneakingly. George Herbert.

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and 35 more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. Jean Paul.

Like a tailor's needle, say, "I go through." Pr.

Like an old woman at her hearth, we warm our hands at our sorrows and drop in faggots, and each thinks his own fire a sun in presence of which all other fires should go out. J. M. Barrie.

Like angels' visits, few and far between. Campbell, from Blair.

Like angels' visits, short and bright; / Mortality's too weak to bear them long. J. Norris.

Like author, like book. Pr. 40

Like blude, like gude, like age, mak' the happy marriage. Sc. Pr.

Like coalesces in this world with unlike. The strong and the weak, the contemplative and the active, bind themselves together. Fr. Robertson.

Like cures like. Pr.

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labour and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top. Burton.

Like doth quit like, and measure still for 45 measure. Meas. for Meas., v. 1.

Like draws to like, the world over. Pr.

Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming, and it becomes its full self when its sounds and laws are used by intelligent man for the production of harmony, and so made the vehicle of emotion and thought. Theodore T. Munger.

Like father, like son. Pr.

Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, / Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; / Another race the following spring supplies; / They fall successive, and successive rise. Pope's Homer.

Like master, like man. Pr. 50

Like mighty rivers, with resistless force, / The passions rage, obstructed in their course, / Swell to new heights, forbidden paths explore, / And drown those virtues which they fed before. Pope.

Like mistress, like maid. Pr.

Like mother, like daughter. Pr.

Like Niobe, all tears. Ham., i. 2.

Like other plants, virtue will not grow unless 55 its root be hidden, buried from the eye of the sun. Carlyle.

Like our shadows / Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines. Young.

Like patience on a monument, / Smiling at grief. Twelfth Night, ii. 4.

Like priest, like people. Pr.

Like prince, like people. Pr.

Like Scotsmen, aye wise ahint the hand (after the event). Pr.

Like talks best with like, laughs best with like, works best with like, and enjoys best with like; and it cannot help it. J. G. Holland.

Like the air, the water, and everything else in 5 the world, the heart too rises the higher the warmer it becomes. Cötvös.

Like the dog in the manger, he will neither eat himself nor let the horse eat. Pr.

Like the hand which ends a dream, / Death, with the might of his sunbeam, / Touches the flesh and the soul awakes. Browning.

Like two single gentlemen rolled into one. G. Colman.

Likely tumbles in the fire, / When unlikely rises higher. Pr.

Limæ labor et mora—The labour and tediousness 10 of polishing as with a file. Hor.

Limit your wants by your wealth. Pr.

Limitations refine as the soul purifies, but the ring of necessity is always perched at the top. Emerson.

Limiting of one's life always conduces to happiness. Schopenhauer.

Lingua mali loquax malæ mentis est indicium—An evil tongue is the proof of an evil mind. Pub. Syr.

Lingua mali pars pessima servi—His tongue is 15 the worst part of a bad servant. Juv.

Lingua melior, sed frigida bello / Dextera—Excels in speech, but of a right hand slow to war. Virg.

Linguæ centum sunt, oraque centum, / Ferrea vox—It has a hundred tongues, a hundred mouths, a voice of iron. Virg., of Rumour.

Linguam compescere, virtus non minima est—To restrain the tongue is not the least of the virtues.

Linquenda tellus, et domus, et placens / Uxor, neque harum, quas colis, arborum, / Te, præter invisas cupressos, / Ulla brevem dominum sequetur—Your estate, your home, and your pleasing wife must be left, and of these trees which you are rearing, not one shall follow you, their short-lived owner, except the hateful cypresses. Hor.

Lions are not frightened by cats. Pr. 20

Lions' skins are not to be had cheap. Pr.

Lippen to (trust) me, but look to yoursel'. Sc. Pr.

Lips become compressed and drawn with anxious thought, and eyes the brightest are quenched of their fires by many tears. S. Lover.

Lips never err when wisdom keeps the door. Delaune.

Lis litem generat—Strife genders strife. Pr. 25

List geht über Gewalt--Cunning overcomes strength. Ger. Pr.

List his discourse of war, and you shall hear / A fearful battle render'd you in music; / Turn him to any cause of policy, / The Gordian Knot of it he will unloose, / Familiar as his garter. Hen. V., i. 1.

Listen at a hole, and ye'll hear news o' yoursel'. Sc. Pr.

Listeners never hear good of themselves. Sp. Pr.

Lite pendente—During the lawsuit. 30

Litem parit lis, noxa item noxam parit—Strife begets strife, and injury likewise begets injury. Pr.

Litera canina—The canine letter (the letter R).

Litera occidit, spiritus autem vivificat—The letter killeth, but the spirit quickeneth. Vulgate.

Litera scripta manet, verbum ut inane perit—Written testimony remains, but oral perishes.

Literæ Bellerophontis—A Bellerophon's letter, 35 i.e., a letter requesting that the bearer should be dealt with in some summary way for an offence.

Literæ humaniores—Polite literature; arts in a university.

Literary history is the great morgue where all seek the dead ones whom they love, and to whom they are related. Heine.

Literary men are ... a perpetual priesthood. Carlyle.

Literature, as a field for glory, is an arena where a tomb may be more easily found than laurels; as a means of support, it is the very chance of chances. H. Giles.

Literature consists of all the books—and they 40 are not many—where moral truth and human passion are touched with a certain largeness, sanity, and attraction of form. John Morley.

Literature draws its sap from the deep soil of human nature's common and everlasting sympathies. Lowell.

Literature happens to be the only occupation in which wages are not given in proportion to the goodness of the work done. Froude.

Literature has her quacks no less than medicine: those who have erudition without genius, and those who have volubility without depth. Colton.

Literature has other aims than that of harmlessly amusing indolent, languid men. Carlyle.

Literature is a fragment of a fragment, and 45 of this but little is extant. Goethe.

Literature is a great staff, but a sorry crutch. Scott.

Literature is fast becoming all in all to us—our church, our senate, our whole social constitution. Carlyle.

Literature is representative of intellect, which is progressive; government is representative of order, which is stationary. Buckle.

Literature is so common a luxury that the age has grown fastidious. Tuckerman.

Literature is the thought of thinking souls. 50 Carlyle.

Literature, like virtue, is its own reward. Chesterfield.

Literature positively has other aims than this of amusing from hour to hour; nay, perhaps this, glorious as it may be, is not its highest or true aim. Carlyle.

Literature, taken in all its bearings, forms the grand line of demarcation between the human and the animal kingdoms. W. Godwin.

Literature, when noble, is not easy; only when ignoble. It too is a quarrel and internecine duel with the whole world of darkness that lies without one and within one;—rather a hard fight at times. Carlyle.

Litteræ non erubescunt—A letter does not blush. Cic.

Little and often fills the purse. Pr.

Little bantams are great at crowing. Pr.

Little boats must keep near shore. Pr.

Little bodies have great souls. Pr. 5

Little by little the little bird builds its nest. Pr.

Little children, little sorrows; big children, great sorrows. Pr.

Little chips light great fires. Pr.

Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, / Make our earth an Eden like the heaven above. F. S. Osgood.

Little dew-drops of celestial melody. Carlyle, 10 of Burns' songs.

Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth; for a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. Bacon.

Little drops of rain pierce the hard marble. Lily.

Little drops of water, little grains of sand, / Make the mighty ocean and the pleasant land. / Thus the little minutes, humble though they be, / Make the mighty ages of eternity. F. S. Osgood.

Little enemies and little wounds must not be despised. Pr.

Little fishes should not spout like whales. Pr. 15

Little flower—if I could understand / What you are, root and all, and all in all, / I should know what God and man is. Tennyson.

Little folks like to talk about great folks. Pr.

Little gear, less care. Sc. Pr.

Little griefs are loud, great sorrows are silent. Pr.

Little is done when every man is master. Pr. 20

Little joys refresh us constantly, like house-bread, and never bring disgust; and great ones, like sugar-bread, briefly, and then with satiety. Jean Paul.

Little kingdom is great household, and great household little kingdom. Bacon.

Little-minded people's thoughts move in such small circles that five minutes' conversation gives you an arc long enough to determine their whole curve. Holmes.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above it. Washington Irving.

Little minds are too much wounded by little 25 things; great minds see all, and are not even hurt. La Roche.

Little minds, like weak liquors, are soonest soured. Pr.

Little odds between a feast and a fu' wame (stomach). Sc. Pr.

Little of this great world can I speak, / More than pertains to feats of broil and battle; / And, therefore, little shall I grace my cause / In speaking for myself. Yet by your gracious patience, / I will a round unvarnish'd tale deliver / Of my whole course of love. Othello, i. 3.

Little ones are taught to be proud of their clothes before they can put them on. Locke.

Little opportunities should be improved. 30 Fenélon.

Little pigeons can carry great messages. Pr.

Little pigs eat great potatoes. Pr.

Little pitchers have long ears, i.e., children have. Pr.

Little pot, / Don't get hot / On the spot. Pr.

Little pots soon boil over. Ger. Pr. 35

Little souls on little shifts rely. Dryden.

Little strokes fell great oaks. Pr.

Little thieves have iron chains and great thieves gold ones. Dut. Pr.

Little things blame not: Grace may on them wait. / Cupid is little; but his godhead's great. Anon.

Little things please little minds. Pr. 40

Little troubles are great to little people. Pr.

Little waves with their soft white hands efface the footprints in the sands. Longfellow.

Little wealth, little sorrow. Pr.

Little wit in the head makes much work for the feet. Pr.

Little wrongs done to others are great wrongs 45 done to ourselves. Pr.

Littore quot conchæ, tot sunt in amore dolores—There are as many pangs in love as shells on the sea-shore. Ovid.

Littus ama, altum alii teneant—Hug thou the shore, let others stand out to sea. Virg.

Live and learn; and indeed it takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning. Ruskin.

Live and let live. Pr.

Live as long as you may, the first twenty 50 years are the longest half of your life. Southey.

Live for to-day! to-morrow's light, / Tomorrow's cares shall bring to sight; / Go sleep, like closing flowers, at night, / And Heaven thy morn will bless. Keble.

Live in to-day, but not for to-day. Pr.

Live, live to-day; to-morrow never yet / On any human being rose or set. Marsden.

Live not for yourself alone. Pr.

Live not to eat, but eat to live. Pr. 55

Live on, brave lives, chained to the narrow round / Of Duty; live, expend yourselves, and make / The orb of Being wheel onward steadfastly / Upon its path—the Lord of Life alone / Knows to what goal of Good; work on, live on. Lewis Morris.

Live on what you have; live if you can on less; do not borrow either for vanity or pleasure—the vanity will end in shame, and the pleasure in regret. Johnson.

Live only a moment at a time. Pr.

Live thou! and of the grain and husk, the grape, / And ivy berry, choose; and still depart / From death to death thro' life and life, and find / Nearer and ever nearer Him, who wrought / Not Matter, nor the finite-infinite, / But this main miracle, that thou art thou, / With power on thine own act and on the world. Tennyson.

Live to learn and learn to live. Pr. 60

Live upon trust, / And pay double you must. Pr.

Live virtuously, and you cannot die too soon nor live too long. Lady R. Russel.

Live we how we can, yet die we must. 3 Hen. VI., v. 2.

Live with a singer if you would learn to sing. Pr.

Live with thy century, but be not its creature; produce for thy contemporaries, however, what they need, not what they applaud. Schiller.

Live with your friend as if he might become your enemy. Pr.

Lively feeling of situations, and power to express them, make the poet. Goethe.

Lives of great men all remind us, / We can 5 make our lives sublime; / And departing leave behind us / Footprints on the sands of time. Longfellow.

Living religion grows not by the doctrines, but by the narratives of the Bible. Jean Paul.

Living well is the best revenge. Pr.

Lo ageno siempre pia por su dueño—What is another's always chirps for its master. Sp. Pr.

Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Jesus to His disciples.

Lo que hace el loco á la derreria, hace el sabio 10 á la primeria—What the fool does at length the wise man does at the beginning. Sp. Pr.

Lo que no acaece en un año, acaece en un rato—A thing that may not happen in a year may happen in two minutes. Sp. Pr.

Lo! the poor Indian, whose untutor'd mind / Sees God in clouds, or hears Him in the wind; / His soul proud science never taught to stray / Far as the solar walk or milky way; / Yet simple nature to his hope has given, / Behind the cloud-topt hills, a humbler heaven. Pope.

Loan oft loses both itself and friend. Ham., i. 3.

Loans and debts make worries and frets. Pr.

Loans should come laughing home. Pr. 15

Loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud. Shakespeare.

Loaves put awry in the oven come out awry. Pr.

Loci communes—Topics.

Lock the stable before you lose the steed. Pr.

Locking the stable door when the steed is 20 stolen. Pr.

Loco citato—In the place quoted.

Locum tenens—A deputy or substitute.

Locus classicus—A classical passage.

Locus est et pluribus umbris—There is room for more introductions. Hor.

Locus in quo—The place in which; the place previously 25 occupied.

Locus penitentiæ—Place for repentance.

Locus sigili—The place for the seal; pointed out in documents by the letters L.S.

Locus standi—Standing in a case; position in an argument.

Lofty mountains are full of springs; great hearts are full of tears. Joseph Roux.

Logic works; metaphysic contemplates. Joubert. 30

Loin de la cour, loin du souci—Far from court, far from care. Fr. Pr.

Long customs are not easily broken; he that attempts to change the course of his own life very often labours in vain. Johnson.

Long experience made him sage. Gay.

Long lent is not given. Pr.

Long talk makes short work. Pr. 35

Long talking begets short hearing, for people go away. Jean Paul.

Longa est injuria, longæ / Ambages—Long is the story of her wrongs, tedious the details. Virg.

Longa mora est, quantum noxæ sit ubique repertum / Enumerare: minor fuit ipsa infamia vero—It would take long to enumerate how great an amount of crime was everywhere perpetrated; even the report itself came short of the truth. Ovid.

Longe aberrat scopo—He is wide of the mark; has gone quite out of his sphere.

Longe absit—Far be it from me; God forbid. 40

Longe mea discrepat istis / Et vox et ratio—Both my language and my sentiments differ widely from theirs. Hor.

Longo sed proximus intervallo—Next, with a long interval between. Virg.

Longum iter est per præcepta, breve et efficax per exempla—The road to learning by precept is long, by example short and effectual. Sen.

Look above you, and then look about you. Pr.

Look, as I blow this feather from my face, / And 45 as the air blows it to me again / ... Commanded always by the greater gust; / Such is the lightness of you common men. 3 Henry VI., iii. 1.

Look at home, father priest, mother priest; your church is a hundredfold heavier responsibility than mine can be. Your priesthood is from God's own hands. Ward Beecher.

Look at paintings and fightings from a distance. Pr.

Look at the bright side of a failure as well as the dark. Anon.

Look at your own corn in May, / And you'll come weeping away. Pr.

Look before you leap. Pr. 50

Look before you, or you'll have to look behind you. Pr.

Look for squalls, but don't make them. Pr.

Look how the floor of heaven / Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold; / There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st / But in his motion like an angel sings, / Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubims. Mer. of Ven., v. 1.

Look how we can, or sad or merrily, / Interpretation will misquote our looks. 1 Hen. IV., v. 2.

Look in the glass when you with anger glow, / 55 And you'll confess you scarce yourself would know. Ovid.

Look in thy heart and write. Sir P. Sidney.

Look not a gift horse in the mouth. Pr.

Look not mournfully into the past—it comes not back again; wisely improve the present—it is thine; go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart. Longfellow.

Look not on pleasures as they come, but go. / Defer not the least virtue; life's poor span / Make not an ell by trifling in thy woe. / If thou do ill, the joy fades, not the pains; / If well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains. George Herbert.

Look not to what is wanting in any one; consider that rather which still remains to him. Goethe.

Look out for a people entirely destitute of religion. If you find them at all, be assured that they are but few degrees removed from brutes. Hume.

Look round the habitable world, how few / Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue. Dryden, after Juvenal.

Look, the morn, in russet mantle clad, / Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastern hill. Ham., i. 1.

Look through a keyhole, and your eye will be 5 sore. Pr.

Look to the players; ... / They are the abstract and brief chroniclers of the times. Ham., ii. 2.

Look to thy mouth; diseases enter there. George Herbert.

Look to thyself; reach not beyond humanity. Sir P. Sidney.

Look unto those they call unfortunate; / And, closer viewed, you'll find they are unwise. Young.

Look upon every day, O youth, as the whole 10 of life, not merely as a section, and enjoy the present without wishing, through haste, to spring on to another. Jean Paul.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig. Marcus Aurelius.

Lookers-on see more than the players. Pr.

Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world, words with little meaning, actions with little worth, one loves to reflect on the great empire of silence. The noble silent men, scattered here and there each in his department, silently thinking, silently working; whom no morning newspaper makes mention of. Carlyle.

Looking where others looked, and conversing with the same things, we catch the charm which lured them. Emerson.

Looks kill love, and love by looks reviveth. 15 Shakespeare.

Loop'd and window'd raggedness. Lear, iii. 4.

Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart. Pr.

Loquendum ut vulgus, sentiendum ut docti—We should speak as the populace, think as the learned. Coke.

Lord, help me through this warld o' care, / I'm weary sick o't late and air; / Not but I hae a richer share / Than mony ithers; / But why should ae man better fare, / And a' men brithers? Burns.

Lord, keep my memory green! Dickens. 20

Lord of himself, that heritage of woe. Byron.

Lord of himself, though not of lands; having nothing yet hath all. Sir Henry Wotton (?).

Lord of the lion heart and eagle eye, / Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, / Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky. Smollett.

Lord of thy presence and no land beside. King John, i. 1.

Lord, we know what we are, but know not 25 what we may be. Ham., iv. 5.

Lorsqu'une pensée est trop faible pour porter une expression simple, c'est la marque pour la rejeter—When a thought is too weak to bear a simple expression, it is a sign that it deserves rejection. Vauvenargues.

Lose the habit of hard labour with its manliness, and then, / Comes the wreck of all you hope for in the wreck of noble men. Dr. Walter Smith.

Lose thy fun rather than thy friend. Pr.

Losing the bundles gathering the wisps. Gael. Pr.

Losses are comparative, only imagination 30 makes them of any moment. Pascal.

Lost time is never found again. Pr.

Lotis manibus—With clean-washen hands.

Loud clamour is always more or less insane. Carlyle.

Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob, who are only pleased with silly things; for true wit or good sense never excited a laugh since the creation of the world. Chesterfield.

Loudness is a foe to melody. Pr. 35

Louer les princes des vertus qu'ils n'ont pas, c'est leur dire impunément des injures—To praise princes for virtues which they do not possess, is to insult them with impunity. La Roche.

Louis ne sut qu'aimer, pardonner et mourir; / Il aurait su régner s'il avait su punir—Louis (XVI.) knew only how to love, pardon, and die; had he known how to punish, he would have known how to reign. Tilly.

Love abounds in honey and poison. Sp. Pr.

Love accomplishes all things. Petrarch.

Love all, trust a few, / Do wrong to none; be 40 able for thine enemy / Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend / Under thy own life's key; be checked for silence, / But never tax'd for speech. All's Well, i. 1.

Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn. B. R. Haydon.

Love and friendship exclude each other. Du Cœur.

Love and gratitude are seldom found in the same breast without impairing each other ... we cannot command both together. Goldsmith.

Love and light winna hide. Sc. Pr.

Love and lordship like not fellowship. Pr. 45

Love and poverty are hard to hide. Pr.

Love and pride stock Bedlam. Pr.

Love and religion are both stronger than friendship. Disraeli.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. Fielding.

Love and the Soul, working together, might 50 go on producing Venuses without end, each different, and all beautiful; but divorced and separated, they may continue producing indeed, yet no longer any being, or even thing, truly godlike. Ed.

Love and trust are the only mother-milk of any man's soul. Ruskin.

Love, and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation. Emerson.

Love asks faith, and faith asks firmness. Pr.

Love at two-and-twenty is a terribly intoxicating draft. Ruffini.

Love betters what is best, / Even here below, but more in heaven above. Wordsworth.

Love breaks in with lightning flash: friendship comes like dawning moonlight. Love will obtain and possess; friendship makes sacrifices but asks nothing. Geibel.

Love can do much, but duty still more. Goethe.

Love can hope where reason would despair. 5 Lyttleton.

Love can neither be bought nor sold; its only price is love. Pr.

Love cannot clasp all it yearns for in its bosom, without first suffering for it. Ward Beecher.

Love concedes in a moment what we can hardly attain by effort after years of toil. Goethe.

Love converts the hut into a palace of gold. Hölty.

Love delights in paradoxes. Saddest when 10 it has most reason to be gay, sighs are the signs of its deepest joy, and silence the expression of its yearning tenderness. Bovee.

Love delights to bring her best, / And where love is, that offering evermore is blest. Keble.

Love dies by satiety, and forgetfulness inters it. Du Cœur.

Love divine, all love excelling, / Joy of heaven to earth come down. Toplady.

Love does much, but money does more. Pr.

Love ends with hope: the sinking statesman's 15 door / Pours in the morning worshipper no more. Johnson.

Love ever flows downward. Quoted by Hare.

Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, / Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. Pope.

Love, friendship, charity are subjects all / To envious and calumniating time. Troil. and Cress., iii. 3.

Love furthers knowledge. Pr.

Love gives itself, and is not bought. Longfellow. 20

Love goes toward love, as schoolboys from their books; / But love from love, toward school with heavy looks. Rom. and Jul., ii. 2.

Love has made its best interpreter a sigh. Byron.

Love has no age, as it is always renewing itself. Pascal.

Love has the tendency of pressing together all the lights, all the rays emitted from the beloved object, by the burning-glass of fantasy, into one focus, and making of them one radiant sun without spots. Goethe.

Love hath a large mantle. Pr. 25

Love hides ugliness. Gael. Pr.

Love in the heart is better than honey in the mouth. Pr.

Love is a bottomless pit; it is a cormorant—a harpy that devours everything. Swift.

Love is a boy by poets spoiled. S. Butler.

Love is a debt which inclination always pays, 30 obligation never. Pascal.

Love is a familiar; love is a devil: there is no evil angel but love. Yet was Samson so tempted, and he had an excellent strength; yet was Solomon so seduced, and he had a very good wit. Love's L. Lost, i. 2.

Love is a personal debt. George Herbert.

Love is a reality which is born in the fairy region of romance. Talleyrand.

Love is a secondary passion in those who love most, a primary in those who love least. He who is inspired by it in a high degree is inspired by honour in a higher; it never reaches its plenitude of growth and perfection but in the most exalted minds. Landor.

Love is a secret no man knows / Till it within 35 his bosom glows. Pr.

Love is a sleep; love is a dream; and you have lived if you have loved. Alfred De Musset.

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs; / Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; / Being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears: / What is it else? A madness most discreet, / A choking gall, and a preserving sweet. Rom. and Jul., i. 1.

Love is a spirit all compact of fire; / Not gross to sink, but light and will aspire. Shakespeare.

Love is a superstition that doth fear the idol which itself hath made. Sir T. Overbury.

Love is a sweet idolatry, enslaving all the soul. 40 Tupper.

Love is an exotic of the most delicate constitution. Goldsmith.

Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image; not one painted on paper, but the living essence of the divine nature, which beams full of all goodness. Luther.

Love is as warm among cottars as courtiers. Sc. Pr.

Love is as warm in fustian as in velvet. Pr.

Love is blind, and lovers cannot see the pretty 45 follies that themselves commit. Mer. of Ven., ii. 6.

Love is blind, and the figure of Cupid is drawn with a bandage round his eyes. Blind: yes, because he does not see what he does not like; but the sharpest-sighted hunter in the universe is Love for finding what he seeks, and only that. Emerson.

Love is deemed the tenderest (zärteste) of our affections, as even the blind and the deaf know; but I know, what few believe, that true friendship is more tender still. Platen.

Love is eternally awake, never tired with labour, nor oppressed with affliction, nor discouraged by fear. Thomas à Kempis.

Love is ever busy with his shuttle, is ever wearing into life's dull warp bright gorgeous flowers and scenes Arcadian. Longfellow.

Love is ever the beginning of knowledge, as 50 fire is of light; and works also more in the manner of fire. Carlyle.

Love is ever the gift, the sacrifice of self. Canon Liddon.

Love is full of unbefitting strains; / All wanton as a child, skipping and vain; / Formed by the eye, and therefore, like the eye, / Full of strange shapes, of habits, and of forms, / Varying in subjects as the eye doth roll / To every varied object in his glance. Love's L. Lost, v. 2.

Love is incompatible with fear. Pub. Syr.

Love is indestructible, / Its holy flame for ever burneth; / From heaven it came, to heaven returneth. Southey.

Love is just another name for the inscrutable presence by which the soul is connected with humanity. Simms.

Love is kin to duty. Lewis Morris.

Love is life's end—an end, but never ending.... 5 Love is life's wealth; ne'er spent, but ever spending.... Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding. Spenser.

Love is like the painter, who, being to draw the picture of a friend having a blemish in one eye, would picture only the other side of his face. South.

Love is loveliest when embalmed in tears. Scott.

Love is merely a madness. As You Like It, iii. 2.

Love is mightier than indignation. Ward Beecher.

Love is more pleasing than marriage, because 10 romances are more amusing than history. Chamfort.

Love is neither bought nor sold. Pr.

Love is never lasting which flames before it burns. Feltham.

Love is not a fire which can be confined within the breast; everything betrays it; and its fires imperfectly covered, only burst out the more. Racine.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet has it many points in common therewith ... I call it rather a discerning of the Infinite in the Finite, of the Idea made Real; which discerning again may be either true or false, either seraphic or demonic, Inspiration or Insanity. Carlyle.

Love is not blind; it is an extra eye, which 15 shows us what is most worthy of regard. J. M. Barrie.

Love is not love / Which alters when it alteration finds. Shakespeare.

Love is not to be reason'd down or lost / In high ambition or a thirst of greatness. Addison.

Love is old, old as eternity, but not outworn; with each new being born or to be born. Byron.

Love is omnipresent in nature as motive and reward. Emerson.

Love is sparingly soluble in the words of men, 20 therefore they speak much of it; but one syllable of woman's speech can dissolve more of it than a man's heart can hold. Holmes.

Love is strong as death. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it. Bible.

Love is strongest in pursuit, friendship in possession. Emerson.

Love is swift, sincere, pious, pleasant, gentle, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, manly, and never seeking her own. Thomas à Kempis.

Love is the bond which never corrodes. Dr. Parker.

Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness 25 of the busy. Bulwer Lytton.

Love is the eldest, noblest, and mightiest of the gods, and the chiefest author and giver of virtue in life and happiness after death. Plato.

Love is the greatest thing that God can give us, and it is the greatest we can give God. Jeremy Taylor.

Love is the joining of two souls on their way to God. J. M. Barrie.

Love is the master-key that opens every ward of the heart of man. J. H. Evans.

Love is the most easy and agreeable, and 30 gratitude the most humiliating, affection of the mind. Goldsmith.

Love is the mother of love. Pr.

Love is the occupation of an idle man, the amusement of a busy one, and the shipwreck of a sovereign. Napoleon.

Love is the only ink which does not fade. Dr. Parker.

Love is the only memory which strengthens with time. Dr. Parker.

Love is vanity, / Selfish in its beginning as its 35 end. Byron.

Love knows nothing of labour. It. Pr.

Love labour; for if thou dost not want it for food, thou may'st for physic. Wm. Penn.

Love laughs at locksmiths. Pr.

Love lessens the woman's refinement and strengthens the man's. Jean Paul.

Love lieth deep; Love dwells not in lip-depths; 40 / Love laps his wings on either side the heart / ... Absorbing all the incense of sweet thoughts, / So that they pass not to the shrine of sound. Tennyson.

Love lightens labour and sweetens sorrow. Pr.

Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues; / Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues. Merry Wives, ii. 2.

Love, like fire, cannot subsist without continual motion, and ceases to exist as soon as it ceases to hope or fear. La Roche.

Love, like men, dies oftener of excess than hunger. Jean Paul.

Love likes not shallow mirth. Dr. Walter 45 Smith.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; / And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. Mid. Night's Dream, i. 1.

Love makes labour light. J. G. Holland.

Love makes obedience lighter than liberty. W. R. Alger.

Love makes time pass away, and time makes love pass away. Fr. Pr.

Love me little, love me long, / Is the burden of 50 my song; / Love that is too hot and strong / Burneth soon to waste; / Still I would not have thee cold, / Not too backward or too bold; / Love that lasteth till 'tis old / Fadeth not in haste. Old Ballad.

Love me, love my dog. Pr.

Love mocks all sorrows but its own, and damps each joy he does not yield. Lady Dacre.

Love moderately; long love doth so; / Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. Rom. and Jul., ii. 6.

Love must be as much a light as a flame. Thoreau.

Love must be taken by stratagem, not by open force. Goldsmith.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives—gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all, and trembles then lest it has done too little. Hannah More.

Love not pleasure; love God. This is the everlasting Yea, wherein all contradiction is solved: wherein whoso walks and works, it is well with him. Carlyle.

Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty. Bible.

Love not thyself, nor give thy humours way; / 5 God gave them to thee under lock and key. George Herbert.

Love of gain never made a painter, but it has marred many. W. Allston.

Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of it creates a great man. Talleyrand.

Love of men cannot be bought by cash payment; and without love men cannot endure to be together. Carlyle.

Love of power, merely to make flunkeys come and go for you, is a love, I should think, which enters only into the minds of persons in a very infantine state. Carlyle.

Love of truth shows itself in being able everywhere 10 to find and value what is good. Goethe.

Love on his lips and hatred in his heart: / His motto—constancy, his creed—to part. Byron.

Love one human being with warmth and purity, and thou wilt love the world. The heart, in that celestial sphere of love, is like the sun in its course. From the drop on the rose to the ocean, all is for him a mirror, which he fills and brightens. Jean Paul.

Love one time layeth burdens, another time giveth wings. Sir P. Sidney.

Love ought to raise a low heart and not humble a high one. Ariosto.

Love ower het (hot) soon cools. Sc. Pr. 15

Love prefers twilight to daylight. Holmes.

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age. Dryden.

Love requires not so much proofs as expressions of love. Jean Paul.

Love rules his kingdom without a sword. Pr.

Love rules the camp, the court, the grove, / 20 And men below and saints above; / For love is heaven, and heaven is love. Scott.

Love rules without a sword and binds without a cord. Pr.

Love rules without law. It. Pr.

Love sees what no eye sees; hears what no ear hears; and what never rose in the heart of man love prepares for its object. Lavater.

Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, / And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise. Pope.

Love should have some rest and pleasure in 25 himself, / Not ever be too curious for a boon, / Too prurient for a proof against the grain / Of him ye say ye love. Tennyson.

Love should not be all on one side. Pr.

Love shows, even to the dullest, the possibilities of the human race. Helps.

Love silence rather than speech in these tragic days, when for very speaking the voice of man has fallen inarticulate to man. Carlyle.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. Twelfth Night, iii. 1.

Love strikes one hour—love. Those never 30 loved / Who dream that they loved once. Elizabeth B. Browning.

Love that can flow, and can admit increase, / Admits as well an ebb, and may grow less. Suckling.

Love the good and forgive the bad. Gael. Pr.

Love, the last relay and ultimate outpost of eternity. D. G. Rossetti.

Love the sense of right and wrong confounds; / Strong love and proud ambition have no bounds. Dryden.

Love thinks nae ill, envy speaks nae gude. 35 Sc. Pr.

Love thyself, and many will hate thee. Anon.

Love to a yielding heart is a king, but to a resisting is a tyrant. Sidney.

Love to make others happy; yes, surely at all times, so far as you can. But at bottom that is not the aim of any life. Do not think that your life means a mere searching in gutters for fallen creatures to wipe and set up.... In our life there is no meaning at all except the work we have done. Carlyle.

Love too late can never glow. Keble.

Love took up the harp of life, and smote on all 40 the chords with might; / Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight. Tennyson.

Love-verses, writ without any real passion, are the most nauseous of all conceits. Shenstone.

Love waits for love, though the sun be set, / And the stars come out, the dews are wet, / And the night-winds moan. Dr. Walter Smith.

Love—what a volume in a word, an ocean in a tear! Tupper.

Love, when founded in the heart, will show itself in a thousand unpremeditated sallies of fondness; but every cool deliberate exhibition of the passion only argues little understanding or great insincerity. Goldsmith.

Love which hath ends will have an end. 45 Dryden.

Love, which is only an episode in the life of a man, is the entire history of a woman's life. Mme. de Staël.

Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man. Emerson.

Love will creep where it cannot go. Pr.

Love will find its way / Through paths where wolves would fear to prey. Byron.

Love will subsist on wonderfully little hope, 50 but not altogether without it. Scott.

Love with men is not a sentiment, but an idea. Mme. de Girardin.

Love without return is like a question without an answer. Ger. Pr.

Love worketh no ill to his neighbour; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. St. Paul.

Love works a different way in different minds, / The fool enlightens and the wise he blinds. Dryden.

Love yet lives, and patience shall find rest. Keble.

Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you, bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you. Jesus.

Love your neighbour, but don't tear down the fence. Ger. Pr.

Love yourself, and in that love / Not unconsidered leave your honour. Hen. VIII., i. 2.

Love's fire, if it once go out, is hard to kindle. 5 Pr.

Love's heralds should be thoughts, / Which ten times faster glide than the sun's beams / Driving back shadows over lowering hills. Rom. and Jul., ii. 5.

Love's not love / When it is mingled with regards that stand / Aloof from the entire point. Lear, i. 1.

Love's of a strangely open simple kind, / And thinks none sees it 'cause itself is blind. Cowley.

Love's of itself too sweet; the best of all / Is when love's honey has a dash of gall. Herrick.

Love's plant must be watered with tears and 10 tended with care. Dan. Pr.

Love's reasons without reason. Cymbeline, iv. 2.

Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words, and resorts to the pantomime of sighs and glances. Bovee.

Love's the noblest frailty of the mind. Dryden.

Love's true function in the world is as the regenerator and restorer of social life, the reconciler and uniter of living men. Ed.

Love's voice doth sing as sweetly in a beggar 15 as a king. Decker.

Lovely, far more lovely, the sturdy gloom of laborious indigence than the fawning simper of thriving adulation. Goldsmith.

Loveliness does more than destroy ugliness; it destroys matter. A mere touch of it in a room, in a street, even on a door-knocker, is a spiritual force. Prof. Drummond.

Loveliness / Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, / But is, when unadorn'd, adorn'd the most. Thomson.

Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, / Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend / More than cool reason ever comprehends. Mid. Night's Dream, v. 1.

Lovers are as punctual as the sun. Goethe. 20

Lovers are never tired of each other; they always speak of themselves. La Roche.

Lovers break not hours, / Unless it be to come before their time; / So much they spur their expedition. Two Gent. of Ver., v. 1.

Lovers' purses are tied with cobwebs. Pr.

Lovers (Verliebte) see only each other in the world, but they forget that the world sees them. Platen.

Lovers' time runs faster than the clock. 25 Pr.

Loving goes by haps; some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. Much Ado, iii. 1.

Lowliness is the base of every virtue, and he who goes the lowest builds the safest. Bailey.

Lowliness is young ambition's ladder, / Whereto the climber-upward turns his face; / But when he once attains the upmost round, / He then unto the ladder turns his back, / Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees / By which he did ascend. Jul. Cæs., ii. 1.

Loyal à la mort—Loyal to death. M.

Loyal en tout—Loyal in all. M. 30

Loyal je serai durant ma vie—I will be loyal during my life. M.

Loyauté m'oblige—Loyalty binds me. M.

Loyauté n'a honte—Loyalty feels no shame. M.

Lubrici sunt fortunæ gressus—The footsteps of fortune are slippery.

Lubricum linguæ non facile in pœnam est 35 trahendum—A slip of the tongue ought not to be rashly punished. L.

[Greek: Lychnou arthentos, gynê pasa hê autê]—When the candle is taken away, every woman is alike. Gr. Pr.

Luck is ever waiting for something to turn up. Labour, with keen eyes and strong will, will turn up something. Luck relies on chance, labour on character. Cobden.

Luck is everything in promotion. Cervantes.

Luck is the idol of the idle. Pr.

Luck, mere luck, may make even madness 40 wisdom. Douglas Jerrold.

Luck seeks those who flee, and flees those who seek it. Ger. Pr.

Lucri bonus est odor ex re / Qualibet—The smell of gain is good, from whatever it proceeds. Juv.

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.