DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS. (continued 17)

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.