DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS. (continued 19)

Not a vanity is given in vain. Pope.

Not all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay, / Nor florid prose, nor honeyed lines of rhyme, / Can blazon evil deeds or consecrate a crime. Byron.

Not all the water in the rough rude sea / Can wash the balm from an anointed king; / The breath of worldly men cannot depose / The deputy elected by the Lord. Rich. II., iii. 2.

Not alone to know, but to act according to 20 thy knowledge, is thy destination. Fichte.

Not as a vulture, but a dove, / The Holy Ghost came from above. Longfellow, after Fuller.

Not body enough to cover his mind decently with; his intellect is improperly exposed. Sydney Smith.

Not brute force, but only persuasion and faith is the king of this world. Carlyle.

Not by levity of floating, but by stubborn force of swimming, shalt thou make thy way. A grand "vis inertiæ" in thee, Mr. Bull. Carlyle.

Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, 25 saith the Lord. Bible.

Not by the law of force, but by the law of labour, has any man right to the possession of the land. Ruskin.

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, / Is our destined end or way; / But to act that each to-morrow / May find us farther than to-day. Longfellow.

Not every parish priest can wear Dr. Luther's shoes. Pr.

Not fame, but that which it merits, is what a man should esteem. Schopenhauer.

Not for fellowship in hatred, but in love am I 30 here. Sophocles.

Not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth. St. Paul.

Not he who has many ideas, but he who has one conviction may become a great man. Cötvös.

Not heaven itself upon the past has power; / But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour. Dryden.

Not in a man's having no business with men, but in having no unjust business with them, and in having all manner of true and just business, can either his or their blessedness be found possible, and this waste world become, for both parties, a home and peopled garden. Carlyle.

Not in nature, but in man is all the beauty 35 and the worth he sees. The world is very empty, and is indebted to this gilding, exalting soul for its pride. Emerson.

Not in pulling down, but in building up, does man find pure joy. Goethe.

Not in the achievement, but in the endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite God. Chapin.

Not kings alone—the people too have their flatterers. Mirabeau.

Not less in God's sight is the end of the day than the beginning. Gael. Pr.

Not liberty, but duty, is the condition of existence. 40 George Eliot.

Not lost, but gone before. Sen.

Not many words are needed to refuse; by the refused the "no" alone is heard. Goethe.

Not marble, nor the gilded monuments of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme. Cymbeline. (?)

Not misgovernment, nor yet no government; only government will now serve. Carlyle.

Not once or twice in our rough island-story, / 45 The path of duty was the way to glory: / He that walks it, only thirsting / For the right, and learns to deaden / Love of self, before his journey closes / He shall find the stubborn thistle bursting / Into glossy purples, which outredden / All voluptuous garden-roses. Tennyson.

Not one false man but does unaccountable mischief; how much, in a generation or two, will twenty-seven millions, mostly false, manage to accumulate? Carlyle.

Not one of our faculties that it is not a delight to exercise. W. R. Greg.

Not one of our senses that, in its healthy state, is not an avenue to enjoyment. W. R. Greg.

Not one word of any book is readable by you, except so far as your mind is one with its author's; and not merely his words like your words, but his thoughts like your thoughts. Ruskin.

Not only all common speech, but science, poetry itself, is no other, if thou consider it, than right naming. Carlyle.

Not only has the unseen world a reality, but 5 the only reality; the rest being, not metaphorically, but literally and in scientific strictness, "a show." Carlyle.

Not our logical, mensurative faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us; I might say, priest and prophet to lead us heavenward, or magician and wizard to lead us hellward. Carlyle.

Not so easily can a man tear up the roots of his old life, and transplant himself into a new soil and a foreign atmosphere. Ed.

Not that I loved Cæsar less, but that I loved Rome more. Jul. Cæs., iii. 2.

Not the cry, but the flight of a wild duck, rouses the flock to fly and follow. Chinese Pr.

Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but 10 the hero's heart. Serv. Pr.

Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather he who offers faithful service in small matters is most welcome to one who would achieve what is good and lasting. Goethe.

Not this man and that man, but all men make up mankind, and their united tasks the task of mankind. Carlyle.

Not to attempt a gallant deed for which one has the impulse may be braver than the doing of it. J. M. Barrie.

Not to believe in God, but to acknowledge Him when and wheresoever He reveals Himself, is the one sole blessedness of man on earth. Goethe.

Not to desire or admire, if a man could learn 15 it, were more / Than a walk all day like the sultan of old in a garden of spice. Tennyson.

Not to know me argues yourselves unknown. Milton.

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue always a child. Cic.

Not to return one good office for another is inhuman; but to return evil for good is diabolical. Sen.

Not to see the wood for the trees, i.e., the whole for the details. Ger. Pr.

Not to speak your opinion well, but to have a 20 good and just opinion worth speaking; for every Parliament, as for every man, this latter is the point. Carlyle.

Not to talk of thy doing, and become the envy of surrounding flunkeys, but to taste of the fruit of thy doings themselves, is thine. Carlyle.

Not towards the impossibility, self-government of a multitude by a multitude; but towards some possibility, government by the wisest, does bewildered Europe now struggle. Carlyle.

Not what I Have, but what I Do is my Kingdom. Carlyle.

Not what the man knows, but what he wills, determines his worth or unworth, his strength or weakness, his happiness or misery. Lindner.

Not what we wish, but what we want, / Oh, 25 let thy grace supply. Merrick.

Not when I rise above, only when I rise to, something, do I approve myself. Jacobi.

Not where they dash ashore and break and moan are waters deadliest. A. Mary F. Robinson.

Not without a shudder may a human hand clutch into the mysterious urn of destiny. Schiller.

Note bene—Note well.

Notandi sunt tibi mores—The manners of men 30 are to be carefully observed. Hor.

Note how the falcon starts at every sight, / New from his hood, but what a quiet eye / Cometh of freedom. Sir Edwin Arnold.

Noth bricht Eisen--Necessity breaks iron. Ger. Pr.

Noth kennt kein Gebot—Necessity knows no law. Ger. Pr.

Noth lehrt beten—Necessity teaches to pray. Ger. Pr.

Nothing altogether passes away without result. 35 We are here to leave that behind us which will never die. Goethe.

Nothing amuses more harmlessly than computation, and nothing is oftener applicable to real business or speculative inquiries. A thousand stories which the ignorant tell and believe die away at once when the computist takes them in his grip. Johnson.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. Emerson.

Nothing at bottom is interesting to the majority of men but themselves. Schopenhauer.

Nothing becomes him ill that he would well. Love's L. Lost, ii. 1.

Nothing but a handful of dust will fill the eye 40 of man. Arab. Pr.

Nothing but ourselves can finally beat us. Carlyle.

Nothing can atone for the want of modesty, without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable. Steele.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true. Ruskin.

Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently. Publius Syrus.

Nothing can be hostile to religion which is 45 agreeable to justice. Gladstone.

Nothing can be made of nothing; he who has laid up no material can produce no combinations. Sir J. Reynolds.

Nothing can be more fatal in politics than a preponderance of the philosophical, or in philosophy than a preponderance of the political, spirit. Lecky.

Nothing can be preserved but what is good. Emerson.

Nothing can be so injurious to progress as to be altogether blamed or altogether praised. Goethe.

Nothing can be termed mine own but what I 50 make my own by using well. Middleton.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles. Emerson.

Nothing can come out of a sack that is not in it. It. Pr.

Nothing can ferment itself to clearness in a colander. Carlyle.

Nothing can need a lie; / A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby. Herbert.

Nothing can overtake an untruth if it has a 5 minute's start. J. M. Barrie.

Nothing can work me damage except myself. St. Bernard.

Nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal. Tam. of the Shrew, i. 2.

Nothing comes amiss to a hungry man. Pr.

Nothing contributes so much to cheerfulness as health, or so little as riches. Schopenhauer.

Nothing costs less or is cheaper than compliments 10 of civility. Cervantes.

Nothing deepens and intensifies family traits like poverty and toil and suffering. It is the furnace heat that brings out the characters, the pressure that makes the strata perfect. John Burroughs.

Nothing destroyeth authority so much as the unequal and untimely interchange of power pressed too far and relaxed too much. Bacon.

Nothing dies, nothing can die. No idlest word thou speakest but is a seed cast into time, and grows through all eternity. Carlyle.

Nothing does so much honour to a woman as her patience, and nothing does her so little as the patience of her husband. Joubert.

Nothing done by man in the past has any 15 deeper sense than what he is doing now. Emerson.

Nothing doth so fool a man as extreme passion. Bp. Hall.

Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy. Timon of Athens, iii. 5.

Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence. Hume.

Nothing exceeds in ridicule, no doubt, / A fool in fashion, save a fool that's out; / His passion for absurdity's so strong, / He cannot bear a rival in the throng. Young.

Nothing exposes us more to madness than 20 distinguishing ourselves from others, and nothing more contributes to maintain our common-sense than living in community of feeling with other people. Goethe.

Nothing extenuate, / Nor set down aught in malice; then must you speak / Of one, that loved not wisely, but too well ... of one, whose hand / Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away, / Richer than all his tribe. Othello, v. 2.

Nothing for nothing. Pr.

Nothing for nothing, and very little for a halfpenny. Pr.

Nothing gives such a blow to friendship as the detecting another in an untruth. It strikes at the root of our confidence ever after. Hazlitt.

Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The 25 lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him to prepare the world for his coming. Hare.

Nothing great is lightly won, nothing won is lost; / Every good deed nobly done will repay the cost. (?)

Nothing hath got so far / But man hath caught and kept it as his prey; / His eyes dismount the highest star; / He is in little all the sphere. George Herbert.

Nothing hitherto was ever stranded, cast aside; but all, were it only a withered leaf, works together with all; is borne forward on the bottomless, shoreless flood of action, and lives through perpetual metamorphoses. Carlyle.

Nothing in haste save catching fleas. Dut. Pr.

Nothing in his life / Became him like the 30 leaving it; he died / As one that had been studied in his death / To throw away the dearest thing he owed, / As 'twere a careless trifle. Macbeth, i. 4.

Nothing in itself deformed or incongruous can give us any real satisfaction. Cervantes.

Nothing in love can be premeditated; it is as a power divine, that thinks and feels within us, unswathed by our control. Mme. de Staël.

Nothing in Nature, much less conscious being, / Was e'er created solely for itself. Young.

Nothing in the dealings of Heaven with Earth is so wonderful to me as the way in which the evil angels are allowed to spot, pervert, and bring to nothing, or to worse, the powers of the greatest men: so that Greece must be ruined, for all that Plato can say; Geneva, for all that Calvin can say; England, for all that Sir Thomas More and Bacon can say; and only Gounod's "Faust" to be the visible outcome to Europe of the school of Weimar. Ruskin.

Nothing in the world is more haughty than a 35 man of moderate capacity when once raised to power. Baron Wessenberg.

Nothing is a misery, / Unless our weakness apprehend it so; / We cannot be more faithful to ourselves / In anything that's manly, than to make / Ill-fortune as contemptible to us / As it makes us to others. Beaumont and Fletcher.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve yourself to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world. Emerson.

Nothing is but what is not. Macb., i. 3.

Nothing is cheap if you don't want it. Pr.

Nothing is constant but a virtuous mind. 40 Shirley.

Nothing is denied to well-directed labour; nothing is ever to be attained without it. Sir J. Reynolds.

Nothing is difficult; it is only we who are indolent. B. R. Haydon.

Nothing is easier than to clear debts by borrowing. Johnson.

Nothing is endless but inanity. Goethe.

Nothing is fair or good alone. Emerson. 45

Nothing is farther than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth. Hare.

Nothing is given so ungrudgingly as advice. La Roche.

Nothing is good for a nation but that which arises from its core and its own general wants. Goethe.

Nothing is good I see without respect. Mer. of Ven., v. 1.

Nothing is good or bad, but thinking makes it so. Ham., ii. 2.

Nothing is graceful that is not our own. Collier.

Nothing is high because it is in a high place, and nothing low because it is in a low one. Dickens.

Nothing is impossible to the man who can 5 will. Emerson.

Nothing is insipid to the wise; / To thee insipid all but what is mad; / Joy season'd high and tasting strong of guilt. Young.

Nothing is lasting that is feigned. Pr.

Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and, far from commanding it, we are forced to obey it. Rousseau.

Nothing is law that is not reason. Sir Powell.

Nothing is more active than thought, for it 10 flies over the universe; nothing stronger than necessity, for all must submit to it. Thales.

Nothing is more binding than the friendship of companions-in-arms. G. S. Hillard.

Nothing is more certain than that great poets are no sudden prodigies, but slow results. Lowell.

Nothing is more characteristic of a man than his behaviour towards fools. Amiel.

Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected. Johnson.

Nothing is more common than to express exceeding 15 zeal in amending our neighbours, ... while at the same time we neglect the beginning at home. Thomas à Kempis.

Nothing is more deeply punished than the neglect of the affinities by which alone society should be formed, and the insane levity of choosing associates by others' eyes. Emerson.

Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves. Emerson.

Nothing is more easy than to clear debts by borrowing. Johnson.

Nothing is more free than the imagination of man. Hume.

Nothing is more hurtful to a truth than an 20 old error. Goethe.

Nothing is more natural than that we should grow giddy at a great sight which comes unexpectedly before us, to make us feel at once our littleness and our greatness. But there is not in the world any truer enjoyment than at the moment when we are thus made giddy for the first time. Goethe.

Nothing is more ruinous for a man than when he is mighty enough in any part to right himself without right. Jacobi.

Nothing is more significant of the philosophy of a man than the footing on which he stands with his body. The Cynic neglects it, the Sybarite makes profit out of it, the Trappist disowns it, and the Idealist forgets it. Lindner.

Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few. Hume.

Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in 25 action. Goethe.

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion. Hazlitt.

Nothing is more vulgar than haste. Emerson.

Nothing is more offensive to reason (widerwärtiger) than an appeal to the majority; it consists of a few powerful leaders, of rogues who accommodate themselves, of weaklings who assimilate themselves, and of the mass who follow confusedly, without in the least knowing what they would be at. Goethe.

Nothing is new; we walk where others went; / There's no vice now but has its precedent. Herrick.

Nothing is of any value in books excepting the 30 transcendental and extraordinary. Emerson.

Nothing is old but the mind. Emerson.

Nothing is perfect until, in some way, it touches or passes through man. T. T. Munger.

Nothing is permanently helpful to any race or condition of men but the spirit that is in their own hearts, kindled by the love of their native land. Ruskin.

Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety. Bacon.

Nothing is poetry which does not transport; 35 the lyre is a winged instrument. Joubert.

Nothing is profane that serveth to holy things. Raleigh.

Nothing is quite beautiful alone; nothing but is beautiful in the whole. Emerson.

Nothing is rarer than the use of a word in its exact meaning. Whipple.

Nothing is safe from fault-finders. Pr.

Nothing is secret that shall not be made 40 manifest; neither anything hid that shall not be known. Jesus.

Nothing is so atrocious as fancy without taste. Goethe.

Nothing is so beautiful to the eye as truth is to the mind; nothing so deformed and irreconcilable to the understanding as a lie. Locke.

Nothing is so perfectly amusement as a total change of ideas. Sterne.

Nothing is so conceivable (begreiflich) to the child, nothing seems to be so natural to him, as the marvellous or supernatural. Zachariä.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend. 45 La Fontaine.

Nothing is so difficult as to help a friend in matters which do not require the aid of friendship, but only a cheap and trivial service, if your friendship wants the basis of a thorough practical acquaintance. Thoreau.

Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labour alone. Though labour always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labour alone will do little. Haydon.

Nothing is so grand as truth, nothing so forcible, nothing so novel. Landor.

Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; if you flatter only one or two, you affront the rest. Swift.

Nothing is so narrowing, contracting, hardening, 50 as always to be moving in the same groove, with no thought beyond what we immediately see and hear close around us. Dean Stanley.

Nothing is so new as what has been long forgotten. Ger. Pr.

Nothing is so uncertain as the minds of the multitude. Leiz.

Nothing is superficial to a deep observer. It is in trifles that the mind betrays itself. Bulwer Lytton.

Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, / But an eternal now does always last. Cowley.

Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. 5 The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way. Pascal.

Nothing is thought rare / Which is not new and followed; yet we know / That what was worn some twenty years ago / Comes into grace again. Beaumont and Fletcher.

Nothing is to be preferred before justice. Socrates.

Nothing is too high for a man to reach, but he must climb with care and confidence. Hans Andersen.

Nothing is true but what is simple. Goethe.

Nothing is truly elegant but what unites use 10 with beauty. Goldsmith.

Nothing leads to good which is not natural. Schiller.

Nothing lovelier can be found / In woman than to study household good, / And good works in her husband to promote. Milton.

Nothing makes love sweeter and tenderer than a little previous scolding and freezing, just as the grape-clusters acquire by a frost before vintage thinner skins and better flavour. Jean Paul.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes. Thoreau.

Nothing marks the character of a young man 15 more than a failure. Anon.

Nothing more readily pleases a vulgar mind than to find anomalies in conduct or character. Alex. Whitelaw.

Nothing noble or godlike in the world but has in it something of "infinite sadness." Carlyle.

Nothing not a reality ever yet got men to pay bed and board to it for long. Carlyle.

Nothing on earth is without difficulty. Only the inner impulse, the pleasure it gives and love enable us to surmount obstacles; to make smooth our way, and lift ourselves out of the narrow grooves in which other people sorrowfully distress themselves. Goethe.

Nothing on earth is without significance, but 20 the first and most essential in every matter is the place where and the hour when. Schiller.

Nothing, or almost nothing, is certain to me, except the Divine Infernal character of this universe I live in, worthy of horror, worthy of worship. Carlyle.

Nothing pleaseth but rare accidents. 1 Hen. IV., i. 2.

Nothing preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing. Ben. Franklin.

Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect indifference to it. Hazlitt.

Nothing really pleasant or unpleasant subsists 25 by nature, but all things become so by habit. Epictetus.

Nothing recommends a man more to the female mind than courage. Spectator.

Nothing remains to man, nothing is possible to him of true joy, but in the righteous love of his fellows, in the knowledge of the laws and the glory of God, and in the daily use of the faculties of soul and body with which God has endowed him. Ruskin.

Nothing resembles pride so much as discouragement. Amiel.

Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm. Schumann.

Nothing seems important to me but so far as 30 it is connected with morals. Cecil.

Nothing so difficult as a beginning / In poesy, except perhaps the end; / For oftentimes when Pegasus seems winning / The race, he sprains a wing, and down we tend, / Like Lucifer, when hurl'd from heaven for sinning. Byron.

Nothing so effectively disconcerts the schemes of sinister people as the tranquillity of great souls. Mirabeau.

Nothing so endures as a truly spoken word. Carlyle.

Nothing so lifts a man from all his mean imprisonments, were it but for moments, as true admiration. Carlyle.

Nothing so much contents us as that which 35 confounds us. Goldsmith.

Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire of appearing so. La Roche.

Nothing stands in need of lying but a lie. Pr.

Nothing stings so bitterly as loss of money. Pr.

Nothing succeeds like success. Talleyrand.

Nothing that has ever lived is lost; nothing is 40 useless; not a sigh, a joy, or a sorrow which has not served its purpose. Mme. Gasparin.

Nothing that is violent is permanent. Pr.

Nothing that lives is or can be rigidly perfect; part of it is decaying, part nascent. The foxglove blossom—a third part bud, a third part past, a third part in full bloom—is a type of the life of this world. Ruskin.

Nothing truly can be made mine own but what I make mine own by using well. Middleton.

Nothing venture, nothing win. Pr.

Nothing weighs lighter than a promise. Ger. Pr. 45

Nothing which is unjust can hope to continue in this world. Carlyle.

Nothing will be mended by complaints. Johnson.

Nothing's more dull and negligent / Than an old lazy government, / That knows no interest of state, / But such as serves a present strait, / And, to patch up or shift, will close, / Or break alike, with friends or foes. Butler.

Notre défiance justifie la tromperie d'autrui—Our distrust justifies the deceit of others. La Roche.

Notre vie est du vent tissu—Our life is a web 50 woven of wind. (?)

Notwithstanding this great proximity of man to himself, we still remain ignorant of many things concerning ourselves. Hale.

Nought can be gained by a Sabbath profaned. Saying.

Nought else there is / But that weird beat of Time, which doth disjoin / To-day from Hellas. Lewis Morris.

Nought is so vile that on the earth doth live, / But to the earth some special good doth give; / Nor aught so good, but, strain'd from that fair use, / Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse. Rom. and Jul., ii. 3.

Nought so stockish, hard, and full of rage, / But music for the time doth change its nature. Mer. of Venice, v. 1.

Nought treads so silent as the foot of time. Young.

Nourri dans le sérail, j'en connais les détours—Brought up in the seraglio, I know all its sinuosities. Racine.

Nous avons changé tout cela—We have changed 5 all that. Molière.

Nous avons tous assez de force pour supporter les maux d'autrui—We all have strength enough to bear the misfortunes of others. La Roche.

Nous dansons sur un volcan—We are dancing on a volcano. M. de Salvandy, just prior to the July Revolution of 1830.

Nous désirerions peu de choses avec ardeur, si nous connaissions parfaitement ce que nous désirons—We should desire few things with eagerness if we well knew the worth of what we are striving for. La Roche.

Nous maintiendrons—We will maintain. M.

Nous n'écoutons d'instincts que ceux qui sont 10 les nôtres, / Et ne croyons le mal que quand il est venu—We listen to no instincts but such as are our own, and we believe in no misfortune till it comes. La Fontaine.

Nous ne savons ce que c'est que le bonheur ou le malheur absolu—We do not know what absolute good or evil is. Rousseau.

Nous ne sommes hommes, et nous tenons les uns aux autres, que par la parole—We are men, and associate together, solely in virtue of speech. (?)

Nous ne trouvons guère de gens de bon sens que ceux qui sont de notre avis—We seldom find any persons of good sense except those who are of our opinion. La Roche.

Nous ne vivons jamais, mais nous esperons de vivre—We never live, but we hope to live. Pascal.

Nous sommes assemblés par la volonté nationale, 15 nous ne sortirons que par la force—We are here by the will of the people, and nothing but the force of bayonets shall send us hence. Mirabeau to the Marquis de Brézé.

Nous sommes mieux seul qu'avec un sot—One had better be alone than with a fool. Fr. Pr.

Nous verrons, dit l'aveugle—We shall see, as the blind man said. Fr.

Novacula in cotem—He has met his match (lit. the razor against the whetstone). Pr.

Novels are tales of adventures which did not occur in God's creation, but only in the waste chambers (to be let unfurnished) of certain human heads, and which are part and parcel only of the sum of nothings; which, nevertheless, obtain some temporary remembrance, and lodge extensively at this epoch of the world in similar, still more unfurnished, chambers. Carlyle.

Novels are the journal or record of manners; 20 and the new importance of these books derives from the fact that the novelist begins to penetrate the surface, and treat this part of life more worthily. Emerson.

Novels for most part instil into young minds false views of life. Schopenhauer.

Novelty has something in it that inebriates the fancy, and not unfrequently dissipates and fumes away like other intoxication, and leaves the poor patient, as usual, with an aching heart. Burns.

Novelty is only in request; and it is as dangerous to be aged in any kind of course, as it is virtuous to be constant in any undertaking. Meas. for Meas., iii. 2.

Novi ego hoc sæculum, moribus quibus siet—I know this age, what its character is. Plaut.

Novi ingenium mulierum, / Nolunt ubi velis, 25 ubi nolis cupiunt ultro—I know the nature of women: when you will, they won't; when you won't, they will. Ter.

Novos amicos dum paras, veteres cole—While you seek new friendships, take care to cultivate the old.

Novum et ad hunc diem non auditum—New, and unheard of till this day. Cic.

Novus homo—A new man; a man risen from obscurity.

Now an incredible deal is demanded, and every avenue is barred. Goethe.

Now farewell light, thou sunshine bright, / 30 And all beneath the sky! / May coward shame distain his name, / The wretch that dares not die. Burns, in "Macpherson's Lament."

Now, good digestion wait on appetite, / And health on both. Macb., iii. 4.

Now is now, and Yule's in winter. Sc. Pr.

"Now" is the watchword of the wise. Pr.

Now! it is gone. Our brief hours travel post, / Each with its thought or deed, its Why or How; / But know, each parting hour gives up a ghost / To dwell within thee—an eternal Now! Coleridge.

Now join your hands, and with your hands 35 your hearts, / That no dissension hinder government. 3 Hen. VI., iv. 6.

Now morn her rosy steps in th' eastern clime, / Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl. Milton.

Now our fates from unmomentous things / May rise like rivers out of little springs. Campbell.

Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, / Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune, and harsh; / That unmatch'd form and feature of blown youth / Blasted with ecstacy: O, woe is me, / To have seen what I have seen, see what I see. Ham., iii. 2.

Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it; / We are happy now, because God wills it. Lowell.

Now 'tis the spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted; 40 / Suffer them now, and they'll o'ergrow the garden, / And choke the herbs for want of husbandry. 2 Hen. VI., iii. 1.

Now you have feathered your nest. Congreve.

Nowadays compromise and indifference rule supreme, and instead of solid grit we have putty or wax. Spurgeon.

Nowadays truth is news. Sc. Pr.

Nowhere can a man get real root-room, and spread out his branches till they touch the morning and the evening, but in his own house. Ward Beecher.

Nox atra cava circumvolat—Black night envelopes them with her hollow shade. Virg.

Noxiæ pœna par esto—Let the punishment be proportionate to the offence. Cic.

Nuda veritas—Undisguised truth. Hor.

Nudum pactum—A mere agreement. L.

Nugæ canoræ—Melodious trifles; agreeable nonsense. 5 Hor.

Nugis addere pondus—To add weight to trifles. Hor.

Nul n'aura de l'esprit, / Hors nous et nos amis—No one shall have wit except ourselves and our friends. Molière.

Nul n'est content de sa fortune, ni mécontent de son esprit—No one is content with his lot or discontented with his wit. Mme. Deshoulières.

Nulla ætas ad perdiscendum est—There is no time of life past learning something. St. Ambrose.

Nulla dies sine linea—Let no day pass without its 10 line. Pr.

Nulla falsa doctrina est, quæ non permisceat aliquid veritatis—There is no false doctrine which contains not a mixture of truth.

Nulla fere causa est, in qua non fœmina litem moverit—There's hardly a strife in which a woman has not been a prime mover. Juv.

Nulla fides regni sociis, omnisque potestas / Impatiens consortis erit—There is no faith among colleagues in power, and all power will be impatient of a colleague. Lucan.

Nulla pallescere culpa—Not to grow pale at imputation of guilt. M.

Nulla placere diu, vel vivere carmina possunt / 15 Quæ scribuntur aquæ potoribus—No poems written by water-drinkers can be long popular or live long. Hor.

Nulla res tantum ad discendum profuit quantum scriptio—Nothing so much assists learning, as writing down what we wish to remember.

Nulla unquam de vita hominis cunctatio longa est—No delay is too long when the life of a man is at stake. Juv.

Nulli jactantius mœrent, quam qui maxime lætantur—None mourn so demonstratively as those who are in reality rejoicing most. Tac.

Nulli secundus—Second to none.

Nulli te facias nimis sodalem, / Gaudebis 20 minus et minus dolebis—Be on too intimate terms with no one; if your joy be less, so will your grief. Mart.

Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri, / Quo me cunque rapit tempestas, deferor hospes—Bound to swear by the opinions of no master, I present myself a guest wherever the storm drives me. Hor.

Nullius boni sine socio jucunda possessio—Without a friend to share it, no good we possess is truly enjoyable. Sen.

Nullius in verba—At no man's dictation. M.

Nullum est jam dictum quod non dictum sit prius—Nothing is said now that has not been said before. Ter.

Nullum est malum majus, quam non posse 25 ferre malum—There is no greater misfortune than not to be able to endure misfortune.

Nullum est sine nomine saxum—Not a stone but has a tale to tell. Lucan.

Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiæ fuit—No great genius is ever without some tincture of madness. Sen.

Nullum magnum malum quod extremum est—No evil is great which is the last. Corn. Nep.

Nullum numen abest si sit prudentia—Where there is prudence, a protecting divinity is not far away. Pr.

Nullum numen habes si sit prudentia; nos te / 30 Nos facimus, Fortuna, deam cœloque locamus—Thou hast no divine power, O Fortune, where there is prudence; it is we who make a goddess of thee, and place thee in heaven. Juv.

Nullum quod tetigit non ornavit—There was nothing he touched that he did not adorn. Epitaph by Johnson on Goldsmith.

Nullum simile quatuor pedibus currit—No simile runs on all fours, i.e., holds in every respect. Pr.

Nullum tempus occurrit regi—No lapse of time bars the rights of the crown. L.

Nullus argento color est, / Nisi temperato / Splendeat usu—Money has no splendour of its own, unless it shines by temperate use. Hor.

Nullus commodum capere potest de injuria sua 35 propria—No one can take advantage of wrong committed by himself. L.

Nullus dolor est quem non longinquitas temporis minuat ac molliat—There is no sorrow which length of time will not diminish and soothe. Cic.

Nullus est liber tam malus, ut non aliqua parte prosit—There is no book so bad that it may not be useful in some way or other. Pliny.

Numbers err in this: / Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss. Pope.

Numerical inquiries will give you entertainment in solitude by the practice, and reputation in public by the effect. Johnson.

Nunc animis opus, Ænea, nunc pectore firmo—Now, 40 Æneas, you have need of courage, now a resolute heart. Virg.

Nunc aut nunquam—Now or never. M.

Nunc dimittis—Now let me depart in peace. See Luke i. 29.

Nunc est bibendum, nunc pede libero, / Pulsanda tellus!—Now let us drink; now let us beat the ground with merry foot. Hor.

Nunc patimur longæ pacis mala; sævior armis / Luxuria incubuit, victumque ulciscitur orbem—Now we suffer the evils of long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world. Juv.

Nunc positis novus exuviis nitidusque juventa—Now, 45 all new, his slough cast off, and shining in youth. Virg.

Nunc vino pellite curas!—Now drive off your cares with wine. Hor.

Nunquam aliud natura, aliud sapientia dicit—Nature never says one thing and wisdom another. Juv.

Nunquam erit alienis gravis, qui suis se concinnat levem—He will never be disagreeable to others who makes himself agreeable to his own relations. Plaut.

Nunquam est fidelis cum potente societas—An alliance with a powerful man is never safe. Phædr.

Nunquam libertas gratior extat / Quam sub 50 rege pio—Liberty is never more enjoyable than under a pious king. Claud.

Nunquam nimis dicitur, quod nunquam satis discitur—That is never too often repeated which is never sufficiently learned. Sen.

Nunquam non paratus—Never unprepared. M.

Nunquam retrorsum—Never go back. M.

Nunquam se plus agere, quam nihil quum ageret; nunquam minus solum esse, quam quum solus esset—He said he never had more to do than when he had nothing to do, and never was less alone than when alone. Cic. quoting Scipio Africanus.

Nunquam vir æquus dives evasit cito—No just man ever became quickly rich. Menander.

Nuptial love maketh mankind; friendly love perfecteth it; but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it. Bacon.

Nur aus vollendeter Kraft blicket die Anmuth hervor—Only out of perfected faculty does grace look forth. Goethe.

Nur das Gemeine / Verkennt man selten. Und 5 das Seltene / Vergisst man schwerlich—Only what is common we rarely mistake, and what is rare we with difficulty forget. Lessing.

Nur das Leben hasst, der Tod versöhnt—In life alone is hatred; in death is reconciliation. Tiedge.

Nur das zu thun, was alle wollen, / Ist das Geheimniss jeder Macht—The secret of all power is only to do that which all would fain do. Kinkel.

Nur dem Fröhlichen blüht der Baum des Lebens, / Dem Unschuldigen rinnt der Born der Jugend / Auch noch im Alter—Only for the cheerful does the tree of life blossom, for the innocent the well-spring of youth keeps still flowing even in old age. Arndt.

Nur dem vertrau' ich völlig, nur der imponirt nachhaltig, der über sich zu lächeln fähig ist—I trust only him perfectly, only he makes a lasting impression on me, who is capable of laughing at himself. Feuchtersleben.

Nur der Freundschaft Harmonie / Mildert die 10 Beschwerden; / Ohne ihre Sympathie / Ist kein Glück auf Erden—Nothing but the harmony of friendship soothes our sorrows; without its sympathy there is no happiness on earth. Mozart.

Nur der Glaube aller stärkt den Glauben, / Wo Tausende anbeten und verehren, / Da wird die Glut zur Flamme, und beflügelt / Schwingt sich der Geist in alle Himmel auf—Only the faith of all strengthens faith; where thousands worship and reverence, there the glow becomes flame, and the spirit soar upwards on wings into all heavens. Schiller.

Nur der Irrthum ist das Leben, / Und das Wissen ist der Tod—Only error is life, and knowledge is death. Schiller.

Nur der Irrthum ist unser Teil, und Wahn ist unsre Wissenschaft—Only error is our portion, and illusion our knowledge. Lessing.

Nur der ist wahrhaft arm, der weder Geist noch Kraft hat—Only he is truly poor who is without soul and without faculty. Benzel-Sternan.

Nur der Starke wird das Schicksal zwingen, / 15 Wenn der Schwächling untersinkt—Only the strong man will coerce destiny if the weakling surrenders. Schiller.

Nur die Hoffenden leben—Only the hoping live. Halm.

Nur die Lumpe sind bescheiden, / Brave freuen sich der That—Only low-born fellows are modest; men of spirit rejoice over their feats. Goethe.

Nur eine Mutter weiss allein, / Was lieben heisst und glücklich sein—A mother alone knows what it is to love and be happy. Chamisso.

Nur eine Schmach weiss ich auf dieser Erde. / Und die heisst: Unrecht thun—Only one disgrace know I in this world, and that is doing wrong. Grillparzer.

Nur eine Weisheit führt zum Ziele, / Doch 20 ihrer Sprüche giebt es viele—Only one wisdom leads to the goal, though the proverbs of it are many. Bodenstedt.

Nur Helios vermag's zu sagen, / Der alles Irdische bescheint—Only Helios (the sun-god) can tell, he sheds light on every earthly thing. Schiller.

Nur immer zu! wir wollen es ergründen, / In deinem Nichts hoff' ich das All zu finden—Only let us still go on! we will yet fathom it. In thy nothing hope I to find the all. Goethe.

Nur in der eignen Kraft ruht das Schicksal jeder Nation—Only in its own power rests the destiny of every nation. Count v. Moltke, in 1880.

Nur in der Schule selbst ist die eigentliche Vorschule—The true preparatory school is only the school itself. Goethe.

Nur in schwülen Prüfungsstunden / Sprosst 25 die Palme, die den Sieger krönt—Only in the stifling hours of trial does the palm shoot forth which decks the brow of the victor. Salis-Seewis.

Nur in Träumen wohnt das Glück der Erde—Only in dreams does the happiness of the earth dwell. Rückert.

Nur Liebe darf der Liebe Blume brechen—Only love may break the flower of love. Schiller.

Nur stets zu sprechen, ohne was zu sagen, / Das war von je der Redner grösste Gabe—To but speak on without saying anything has ever been the greatest gift of the orator. Platen.

Nur vom Edeln kann das Edle stammen—Only from the noble soul can what is noble come. Schiller.

Nur vom Nutzen wird die Welt regiert—It is 30 only by show of advantage that the world is governed. Schiller.

Nur was wir selber glauben, glaubt man uns—People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe. Gutzkow.

Nur wer die Last wirklich selbst trägt, kennt ihr Gewicht—Only he who really bears the burden knows its weight. Klinger.

Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt / Weiss, was ich leide!—Only he who knows what yearning is knows what I suffer. Goethe.

Nur wer sich recht des Lebens freut, / Trägt leichter, was es Schlimmes beut—Only he who enjoys life aright finds it easier to bear the evils of it. Bodenstedt.

Nur wer vor Gott sich fühlet klein / Kann vor 35 den Menschen mächtig sein—He only who feels himself little in the eye of God can hope to be mighty in the eyes of men. Arndt.

Nur zwei Tugenden giebt's. O, wären sie immer vereinigt, / Immer die Güte auch gross, immer die Grösse auch gut!—There are only two virtues, were they but always united: goodness always also great, and greatness always also good. Schiller.

Nursing her wrath to keep it warm. Burns.

Nusquam tuta fides—There is nowhere any true honour. Virg.

Nutrimentum spiritus—Nourishment for the Spirit! Inscription on the Royal Library at Berlin.

Nutritur vento, vento restinguitur ignis: / Lenis alit flammas, grandior aura necat!—Fire is fed by the wind and extinguished by the wind: a gentle current feeds it, too strong a one puts it out! Ovid.

Nuts are given us, but we must crack them ourselves. Pr.

Nymph, in thy orisons / Be all my sins remembered. Ham., iii. 1.

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O banish the tears of children! Continual rains upon the blossoms are hurtful. Jean Paul.

O bitte um Leben noch! du fühlst, mit deinen 5 Mängeln, / Dass du noch wandeln kannst nicht unter Gottes Engeln—O still pray for life; thou feelest that with those faults of thine thou canst not walk among the angels of God. Rückert.

[Greek: ho bios brachys, hê de technê makrê]—Life is short, art is long. Gr.

O blicke nicht nach dem was jedem fehlt; / Betrachte, was noch einem jeden bleibt—O look not at what each comes short in; consider what each still retains. Goethe.

[Greek: ho bouletai, touth' hekastos kai oietai]—What each one wishes that he also thinks. Demosthenes.

O cæca nocentum / Consilia, O semper timidum scelus!—Oh, how infatuated are the counsels of the guilty! Oh, how cowardly wickedness ever is! Statius.

O cives, cives, quærenda pecunia primum est; / 10 Virtus post nummos—O citizens, citizens, you must seek for money first, for virtue after cash. Hor.

O Corydon, Corydon, secretum divitis ullum / Esse putas? Servi ut taceant, jumenta loquentur, / Et canis, et postes, et marmora—O Corydon, Corydon, do you think anything a rich man does can be kept secret? Even if his servants say nothing, his beasts of burden, and dogs, and door-posts, and marble slabs will speak. Juv.

O cunning enemy, that, to catch a saint, / With saints dost bait thy hook. Meas. for Meas., ii. 2.

O curvæ in terris animæ et cœlestium inanes!—Oh ye souls bent down to earth and void of everything heavenly. Pers.

O das Leben hat Reize, die wir nie gekannt—Oh, life has charms which we have never known. Schiller.

O das Leben ist ein langer, langer Seufzer 15 vor dem Ausgehen des Athmens—Oh, life is a long, long sigh before emitting the breath. Jean Paul.

O dass die Weisheit halb so eifrig wäre / Nach Schülern und Bekehrten, als der Spott—Oh, that Wisdom were half as zealous for disciples and converts as Ridicule is. Grillparzer.

O dass es ewig bliebe, / Das Doppelglück der Töne wie der Liebe—Oh, that it would stay for ever, the double bliss of the tones as well as of the love. Goethe.

O dass sie ewig' grünen bliebe / Die schöne Zeit der jungen Liebe—Oh, that it remained for ever green, the fair season of early love. Schiller.

O dearest, dearest boy, my heart / For better love would seldom yearn, / Could I but teach the hundredth part / Of what from thee I learn. Wordsworth.

O der Magnet des Wahns zieht mächtig—Oh, 20 how powerfully the magnet of illusion attracts. Gutzkow.

O ein Fürst hat keinen Freund, kann keinen Freund haben—Oh, a ruler has no friend, and can have none. Lessing.

O faciles dare summa Deos, eademque tueri / Difficiles—How gracious the gods are in bestowing honours, how averse to ensure our tenure of them. Lucan.

O fallacem hominum spem—How deceitful is the hope of men. Cic.

O flesh, flesh, how thou art fishified. Rom. and Jul., ii. 4.

O formose puer, nimium ne crede colori—Oh, 25 beauteous boy, trust not too much to the bloom on thy cheeks. Virg.

O fortunate adolescens, qui tuæ virtutis Homerum præconem inveneris—Oh, happy youth, to have a Homer as the publisher of thy valour. Alexander the Great at the tomb of Achilles.

O fortunatos nimium, sua si bona norint, / Agricolas, quibus ipsa, procul discordibus armis, / Fundit humo facilem victum justissima tellus—Oh, how happy the tillers of the ground are, if they but knew their blessings; for whom, far from the clash of arms, the all-righteous earth pours forth from her soil an easy sustenance. Virg.

O foulest Circæan draught! thou poison of popular applause; madness is in thee, and death; thy end is bedlam and the grave. Carlyle.

O glücklich! wer noch hoffen kann, / Aus diesem Meer des Irrtums aufzutauchen. / Was man nicht weiss, das eben brauchte man, / Und was man weiss, kann man nicht brauchen—Oh, happy he who can still hope to emerge from this sea of error! What one does not know is exactly what one should want to know, and what one knows is what one has no use for. Faust, in Goethe.

O God, that bread should be so dear, / And 30 flesh and blood so cheap! T. Hood.

O Gott! das Leben ist doch schön—O God! life is nevertheless beautiful. Schiller.

O Gott, wie schränkt sich Welt und Himmel ein, / Wenn unser Herz in seinen Schranken banget—O God, how contracted the world and heaven becomes when our heart becomes uneasy within its barriers. Goethe.

O guard thy roving thoughts with jealous care, for speech is but the dial-plate of thought; and every fool reads plainly in thy words what is the hour of thy thought. Tennyson.

O' guid advisement comes nae ill. Burns.

O Heaven! were man / But constant, he were 35 perfect; that one error / Fills him with faults; makes him run through all sins. Two Gent. of Ver., v. 4.

O Herz, versuch' es nur! so leicht ist's gut zu sein: / Und es zu scheinen ist so eine schwere Pein—O heart, only try! To be good is so easy, and to appear so is such a heavy burden. Rückert.

O homines ad servitutem paratos!—Oh, men, how ye prepare yourselves for slavery! Tac.

O how full of briars is this working-day world. As You Like It, i. 3.

O how wretched / Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favours! / There is betwixt that smile he would aspire to, / That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, / More pangs and fears than wars or women have; / And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, / Never to hope again. Henry VIII., iii. 2.

O hush the noise, ye men of strife, / And hear the angels sing! Sears.

O, if this were seen, / The happiest youth—viewing his progress through / What perils past, what crosses to ensue—/ Would shut the book and sit him down and die. 2 Hen. IV., iii. 1.

O ja, dem Herrn ist alles Kinderspiel—Oh, yes, 5 everything is but child's play to the gentleman. Mephisto, in Goethe.

O judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts, / And men have lost their reason! Jul. Cæs., iii. 2.

O kaum bezwingen wir das eigne Herz; / Wie soll die rasche Jugend sich bezähmen!—Oh, we can hardly subdue our own heart; how shall impetuous youth restrain itself! Schiller.

O l'amour d'une mère! amour que nul n'oublie! / Pain merveilleux, que Dieu partage et multiplie! / Table toujours servie au paternel foyer! / Chacun en a sa part, et tous l'ont tout entier—Oh, the love of a mother, love no one forgets; miraculous bread which God distributes and multiplies; board always spread by the paternal hearth, whereat each has his portion, and all have it entire! Victor Hugo.

O Leben, wie bist du so bitter und hart—Oh, Life, how bitter and harsh thou art! Scheffel.

O let my books be then the eloquence / And 10 dumb presagers of my speaking breast. Browning.

O let thy vow, / First made to heaven, first be to heaven perform'd.... It is religion that doth make vows kept. King John, iii. 1.

"O Liberty, what crimes have been committed in thy name!" Madame Roland, as she bowed to the statue of Liberty at the place of execution.

O Life, an age to the miserable, a moment to the happy. Bacon.

O life! how pleasant is thy morning, / Young Fancy's rays the hills adorning! / Cold-pausing Caution's lessons scorning, / We frisk away, / Like schoolboys at th' expected warning, / To joy and play. Burns.

O life! thou art a galling load / Along a rough, 15 a weary road, / To wretches such as I! Burns (Despondency).

[Greek: ho logos enênthrôpêsen, hina hêmeis theopoiêthômen]—The Word became man, that we might become gods. Athanasius.

O Lord, that lend'st me life, / Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness! 2 Hen. VI., i. 1.

O love, be moderate, allay thy ecstasy; / In measure rain thy joy; scant this excess; / I feel too much thy blessing! Make it less, / For fear I surfeit. Mer. of Venice, iii. 2.

O magna vis veritatis, quæ ... facile se per se ipsa defendit—Oh, mighty force of truth that by itself so easily defends itself! Cic.

O major tandem, parcas, insane, minori—Oh, 20 thou who art a greater madman; spare me, I pray, who am not so far gone. Hor.

[Greek: ho mê dareis anthrôpos ou paideuetai]—The man who has not been scourged is not educated. Menander.

O mighty Cæsar! dost thou lie so low? / Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils, / Shrunk to this little measure? Jul. Cæs., iii. 1.

O mihi præteritos referat si Jupiter annos!—Oh, that Jove would but give me back the years that are past! Virg.

O miseras hominum mentes! O pectora cæca!—Oh, how wretched are the minds of men! oh, how blind their hearts! Lucret.

O miseri quorum gaudia crimen habent!—O 25 wretched ye whose joys are tainted with guilt! Pseudo-Gallus.

O most lame and impotent conclusion! Othello, ii. 1.

O munera nondum / Intellecta Deum—Oh, that the gifts of the gods should not yet be understood. Lucan.

O my prophetic soul! mine uncle. Ham., i. 5.

O Nature! Ha! why do I not name thee God? Art thou not the "living garment of God?" O Heavens! is it, in very deed, He then that ever speaks through thee; that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me? Carlyle.

O never / Shall sun that morrow see. Macb., i. 5. 30

O nimium nimiumque oblite tuorum—Too, too forgetful of thy kin. Ovid.

O nimm der Stunde wahr, eh' sie entschlüpft. / So selten kommt der Augenblick im Leben / Der wahrhaft wichtig ist und gross—Take note of the hour ere it slips past; so seldom does the moment come which is truly fateful and great. Schiller.

O noctes cœnæque deum!—Oh, nights and suppers of the gods! Hor.

O passi graviora!—Oh, ye who have suffered greater misfortunes than these! Virg.

[Greek: hô philoi oudeis philos]—He who has many friends 35 has no friends. Diogenes Laertius.

[Greek: ho phronimos to alypon diôkei ou to hêdy]—The aim of the wise man is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. Arist.

O place and greatness, millions of false eyes / Are stuck upon thee! Volumes of report / Run with these false and most contrarious quests / Upon thy doings! thousand scapes of wit / Make thee the father of their idle dreams, / And rack thee in their fancies. Meas. for Meas., iv. 1.

O pudor! O pietas!—O modesty! O piety! Mart.

O purblind race of miserable men! / How many among us at this very hour / Do forge a lifelong trouble for ourselves, / By taking true for false, or false for true; / Here, thro' the feeble twilight of this world / Groping, how many, until we pass and reach / That other, where we see as we are seen! Tennyson.

O qualis facies et quali digna tabella!—Oh, 40 what a face and what a picture it would have been a subject for! Juv.

O quanta species cerebrum non habet!—Oh, that such beauty should be devoid of brains! Phædr.

O quantum in rebus inane!—Oh, what a void there is in things! Persius.

O ruin'd piece of nature! This great world / Shall so wear out to nought. King Lear, iv. 6.

O rus quando te aspiciam? quandoque licebit / Nunc veterum libris, nunc somno et inertibus horis / Ducere sollicitæ jucunda oblivia vitæ?—Oh, country, when shall I see thee, and when shall I be permitted to quaff a sweet oblivion of anxious life, now from the books of the ancients, now from sleep and idle hours? Hor.

O sancta damnatio!—Oh, holy condemnation!

O sancta simplicitas!—Oh, holy simplicity! John Huss at the stake, on seeing an old woman hurrying up with a faggot to throw on the pile.

O si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses—If you had only held your peace, you would have remained a philosopher. Boëthius.

O sleep, / It is a gentle thing, / Beloved from 5 pole to pole! Coleridge.

O sleep, O gentle sleep, / Nature's soft nurse! how have I frighted thee, / That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, / And steep my senses in forgetfulness! 2 Hen. IV., iii. 1.

O sons of earth, attempt ye still to rise, / By mountains piled on mountains, to the skies? / Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, / And buries madmen in the heaps they raise. Pope.

O sprich mir nicht von jener bunten Menge / Bei deren Anblick uns der Geist entflieht—Oh, speak not to me of the motley mob, at the very sight of which our spirit takes flight! Goethe.

O süsse Stimme! Willkommener Ton / Der Muttersprach in einem fremden Lande!—Oh, sweet voice, much-welcome sound of our mother-tongue in a foreign land! Goethe.

O tempora, O mores!—Oh, the times! oh, the 10 manners! Cic.

O that estates, degrees, and offices / Were not derived corruptly, and that clear honour / Were purchased by the merit of the wearer! / How many then would cover that stand bare; / How many be commanded that command; / How much low peasantry would then be glean'd / From the true seed of honour; and how much honour, / Pick'd from the chaff and ruin of the times, / To be new-varnish'd. Mer. of Ven., ii. 9.

O that men's ears should be / To counsel deaf, but not to flattery! Timon of Athens, i. 2.

O that way madness lies. Lear, iii. 4.

O that you could turn your eyes toward the napes of your necks, and make but an interior survey of your good selves! Coriolanus, ii. 1.

O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom 15 and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and His ways past finding out! St. Paul.

O the wound of conscience is no scar, and Time cools it not with his wing, but merely keeps it open with his scythe. Jean Paul.

O these deliberate fools, when they do choose / They have the wisdom by their wit to lose. Mer. of Ven., ii. 9.

O these naughty times / Put bars between the owners and their rights. Mer. of Ven., iii. 2.

O Thor, wer nicht im Augenblick den wahren Augenblick ergreift, / Wer, was er liebt, im Auge, und dennoch nach der Seite schweift—Oh, fool, he seizes not the true moment in the moment who has what he loves before his eye, and still swerves from it. Platen.

O Thou, / Passionless bride, divine Tranquillity, 20 / ... Thou carest not / How roughly men may woo thee, so they win! Tennyson. (?)

O thou who hast still a father and a mother, thank God for it in the day when thy soul is full of joyful tears, and needs a bosom wherein to shed them. Jean Paul.

O thoughts of men accurst! / Past and to come seem best; things present, worst. 2 Hen. IV., i. 3.

O Tugend, Tugend, wie schön bist du! / Welch' göttlich Meisterstück sind Seelen, / Die sich hinauf bis zu dir erheben—O virtue, virtue, how fair art thou! what a divine masterpiece are the souls that raise themselves up to thee! Klopstock.

O wad some pow'r the giftie gie us / To see oursels as others see us! / It wad frae mony a blunder free us, / And foolish notion; / What airs in dress and gait wad lea'e us, / And e'en devotion! Burns.

O Wahrheit, deinen edeln Wein / Musst du 25 mit Wasser mischen; / Denn willst du ihn rein auftischen, / So nimmt er den Kopf den Gästen ein—O Truth, thy noble wine thou must mix with water, for wert thou to serve it out pure, it would get into the heads of the guests and turn them. Rückert.

O was im Traum die innre Stimme spricht / Das wird uns Wahrheit, wenn die Sonne leuchtet—Oh, how that which the inner voice speaks in our dreaming becomes truth to us when the sun shines! Schillerbuch.

O was müssen wir der Kirche Gottes halber leiden, rief der Abt, als ihm das gebratene Huhn die Finger versengte—"What must we suffer for the Church of God's sake!" exclaimed the Abbot when the roast fowl burnt his fingers. Ger. Pr.

O was sind wir Grossen auf der Woge der Menschheit? Wir glauben sie zu beherrschen, und sie treibt uns auf und nieder, hin und her—Ah! what are we great ones on the wave of humanity? We fancy we rule over it, and it sways us up and down, hither and thither. Goethe.

O well for him whose will is strong! / He suffers, but he will not suffer long; / He suffers, but he cannot suffer wrong. Tennyson.

O wer weiss, / Was in der Zeiten Hintergrunde 30 schlummert?—Oh, who knows what slumbers in the background of the times? Schiller.

O what a goodly outside falsehood hath! Mer. of Ven., i. 3.

O what a noble mind is here o'erthrown! / The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's eye, tongue, sword; / The expectancy and rose of the fair state, / The glass of fashion, and the mould of form, / The observed of all observers, quite, quite down! Ham., iii. 1.

O what a tangled web we weave / When first we practise to deceive. Scott.

O what a world is this, when what is comely / Envenoms him that bears it! As You Like It, ii. 3.

O what a world of vile ill-favoured faults / 35 Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a-year! Merry Wives, iii. 4.

O what men dare do! what men may do! / What men daily do, not knowing what they do! Much Ado, iv. 1.

O woman! in our hours of ease / Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, / And variable as the shade / By the light of quivering aspen made; / When pain and anguish wring the brow, / A ministering angel thou. Scott.

O ye loved ones, that already sleep in the noiseless Bed of Rest, whom in life I could only weep for and never help; and ye who, wide-scattered, still toil lonely in the monster-bearing desert, dyeing the flinty ground with your blood,—yet a little while, and we shall all meet There, and our Mother's bosom will screen us all; and Oppression's harness, and Sorrow's fire-whip, and all the Gehenna bailiffs that patrol and inhabit ever-vexed Time, cannot thenceforth harm us any more. Carlyle.

O yet we trust that somehow good / Will be the final goal of ill. Tennyson.

Oaks fall when reeds stand. Pr.

Oars alone can ne'er prevail / To reach the 5 distant coast; / The breath of heav'n must swell the sail, / Or all the toil is lost. Cowper.

Oaths are straws, ... and holdfast is the only dog. Hen. V., ii. 3.

Ob es vom Herzen kommt, das magst du leicht verstehen: / Denn was vom Herzen kommt, muss dir zum Herzen gehen—Easily may'st thou know whether it comes from the heart; for what comes from the heart goes straight to thine. Körner.

Obedience alone gives the right to command. Emerson.

Obedience is better than sacrifice. Pr. from Bible.

Obedience is our universal duty and destiny; 10 wherein whoso will not bend must break. Carlyle.

Obedience is the bond of rule. Tennyson.

Obedience is woman's duty on earth; hard endurance is her heavy lot; by severe service she must be purified; but she who has served here is great up yonder. Schiller.

Obey something, and you will have a chance of finding out what is best to obey. But if you begin by obeying nothing, you will end by obeying Beelzebub and all his seven invited friends. Ruskin.

Obey thy parents; keep thy word justly; swear not; set not thy sweet heart on proud array. King Lear, iii. 4.

Obiter cantare—To sing as one goes along; to 15 sing by the way.

Obiter dicta—Remarks by the way; passing remarks.

Obiter dictum—A thing said in passing.

Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendours born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So a man sometimes covers up the entire disc of eternity with a dollar, and quenches transcendent glories with a little shining dust. Chapin.

Objects imperfectly discerned take forms from the hope or fear of the beholder. Johnson.

Objects in pictures should be so arranged as 20 by their very position to tell their own story. Goethe.

Oblatam occasionem tene—Seize the opportunity that is offered.

Obligation is thraldom, and thraldom is hateful. Hobbes.

Oblivion is the dark page whereon memory writes her light-beam characters and makes them legible; were it all light, nothing could be read there, any more than if it were all darkness. Carlyle.

Oblivion is the rule, and fame the exception, of humanity. Rivarol.

Oblivion is the second death, which great 25 minds dread more than the first. De Boufflers.

Obreros a no ver dineros a perder—Not to watch your workmen is to lose your money. Sp. Pr.

Obruat illud male partum, male retentum, male gestum imperium—Let that power fall which has been wrongfully acquired, wrongfully retained, and wrongfully administered. Cic.

Obscuris vera involvens—Shrouding, or concealing, truth in obscurity or darkness. Virg.

Obscurity and affectation are the two great faults of style. Macaulay.

Obscurity and Innocence, twin-sisters, escape 30 temptations which would pierce their gossamer armour in contact with the world. Chamfort.

Obscurum per obscurius—Explaining something obscure by what is more obscure.

Obsequium amicos, veritas odium parit—Obsequiousness procures us friends; speaking the truth, enemies. Ter.

Observe this short but certain aphorism, "Forsake all, and thou shalt find all." Thomas à Kempis.

Observe thyself as thy greatest enemy would do; so shalt thou be thy greatest friend. Jeremy Taylor.

Observation is an old man's memory. Swift. 35

Observation may trip now and then without throwing you, for her gait is a walk; but inference always gallops, and if she stumbles, you are gone. Holmes.

Observation more than books, experience rather than persons, are the prime educators. A. B. Alcott.

Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Montaigne.

Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong. Mme. Necker.

Obstinacy is the result of the will's forcing 40 itself into the place of the intellect. Schopenhauer.

Obstinacy is the strength of the weak. Lavater.

Obstupui, steteruntque comæ, et vox faucibus hæsit—I was astounded; my hair stood on end, and my voice stuck fast in my throat. Virg.

Obtuseness is sometimes a virtue. Rivarol.

Occasio facit furem—Opportunity makes the thief. Pr.

Occasion reins the motions of the stirring 45 mind. Owen Feltham.

Occasionem cognosce—Know your opportunity.

Occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what he is. Thomas à Kempis.

Occidit miseros crambe repetita magistros—Cabbage repeated is the death of the wretched masters. Juv.

Occupation is the scythe of Time. Napoleon.

Occupet extremum scabies!—Murrain take the 50 hindmost! Hor.

Ocean is a mighty harmonist. Wordsworth.

Oculi tanquam speculatores altissimum locum obtinent—The eyes, like sentinels, occupy the highest place in the body. Cic.

Oculis magis habenda fides quam auribus—It is better to trust to our eyes than our ears.

Oculus domini saginat equum—The master's eye makes the horse fat. Pr.

Oderint dum metuant—Let them show hate, provided they fear. Cic.

Oderunt hilarem tristes, tristemque jocosi, / 5 Sedatum celeres, agilem gnavumque remissi—Sad men dislike a gay spirit, and the jocular a sad; the quick-witted dislike the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious. Hor.

Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore—Good men shrink from wrong out of love for virtue. Hor.

Odi profanum vulgus et arceo—I hate the profane rabble, and keep them far from me. Hor.

Odi puerulos præcoci ingenio—I hate boys of precocious talent. Cic.

Odi, vedi, e taci, se vuoi viver in pace—Listen, see, and say nothing, if you wish to live in peace. It. Pr.

Odia qui nimium timet, regnare nescit—He who 10 dreads hostility too much is unfit to bear rule. Sen.

Odimus accipitrem quia semper vivit in armis—I hate the hawk because he always lives in arms. Ovid.

Odium theologicum—Theological hatred; the animosity engendered by differences of theological opinion.

Odora canum vis—The sharp scent of the hounds. Virg.

O'ercome thyself, and thou may'st share / With Christ His Father's throne, and wear / The world's imperial wreath. Keble.

Of a life of luxury the fruit is luxury. Thoreau. 15

Of a thoroughly crazy and defective artist we may indeed say he has everything from himself; but of an excellent one, never. Goethe.

Of all actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people; yet of all actions of our life, 'tis most meddled with by other people. John Selden.

Of all attainable liberties, be sure first to strive for leave to be useful. Ruskin. (?)

Of all blinds that shut up men's vision the worst is self. (?)

Of all days, the one that is most wasted is that 20 on which one has not laughed. Chamfort.

Of all earthly music, that which reaches the farthest into heaven is the beating of a loving heart. Ward Beecher.

Of all evils in story-telling, the humour of telling tales one after another in great numbers is the least supportable. Steele.

Of all God's gifts to the sight of man, colour is the holiest, the most divine, the most solemn. Ruskin.

Of all great poems Love is the absolute and the essential foundation. C. Fitzhugh.

Of all man's work of art, a cathedral is greatest. 25 A vast and majestic tree is greater than that. Ward Beecher.

Of all men, a philosopher should be no swearer; for an oath, which is the end of controversies in law, cannot determine any here, where reason only must induce. Sir Thomas Browne.

Of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, / Save, save, O save me from the candid friend! Canning.

Of all pleasures, the fruit of labour is the sweetest. Vauvenargues.

Of all points of faith the being of a God is encompassed with most difficulty, and yet borne in upon our minds with most power. John Newman.

Of all rights of man, the right of the ignorant 30 man to be guided by the wiser, to be gently or forcibly held in the true course by him, is the indisputablest. Carlyle.

Of all studies, study your present condition. Pr.

Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world,—though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst,—the cant of criticism is the most tormenting! Sterne.

Of all the characters of cruelty, I consider that as the most odious which assumes the garb of mercy. Fox.

Of all the great masters, there is not one who did not paint his own present world, plainly and truly. Ruskin.

Of all the marvellous works of the Deity, perhaps 35 there is nothing that angels behold with such supreme astonishment as a proud man. Colton.

Of all the passions that possess mankind, / The love of novelty rules most the mind; / In search of this, from realm to realm we roam, / Our fleets come fraught with every folly home. Foote.

Of all the possessions of a man, next to the gods, his soul is the mightiest, being the most his own. Plato.

Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave. Ruskin.

Of all the superstitions which infest the brains of weak mortals, the belief in prophecies, presentiments, and dreams, seems to me amongst the most pitiful and pernicious. Goethe.

Of all the tyrants that the world affords, / Our 40 own affections are the fiercest lords. E. Stirling.

Of all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper. Goethe.

Of all things, knowledge is esteemed the most precious treasure; because of its incapacity to be stolen, to be given away, or even to be consumed. Hitopadesa.

Of all those arts in which the wise excel, / Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well. Duke of Buckingham.

Of all wild beasts, preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame, a flatterer. Ben Jonson.

Of big words and feathers many go to the 45 pound. Ger. Pr.

Of error we can talk for ever, but truth demands that we should lay it to heart and apply it. Goethe.

Of four things every man has more than he knows—of sins, and debts, and years, and foes. Persian Pr.

Of God's light I was not utterly bereft, if my as yet sealed eyes, with their unspeakable longing, could nowhere see Him; nevertheless in my heart He was present and His heaven-written law still stood legible and sacred there. Carlyle.

Of great men no one should speak but one who is as great as they, so as to be able to see all round them. Goethe.

Of great riches there is no real use, except it be in the distribution; the rest is but conceit. Bacon.

Of hasty counsel take good heed, for very rarely haste is speed. Dut. Pr.

Of how few lives does not stated duty claim the greater part? Johnson.

Of illustrious men all the earth is the sepulchre, 5 and it is not the inscribed column in their own land which is the record of their virtues, but the unwritten memory of them in the hearts and minds of all mankind. Thucydides.

Of its own unity, the soul gives unity to whatso it looks on with love. Carlyle.

Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh. Bible.

Of more than earth can earth make none possesst; / And he that least / Regards this restless world, shall in this world find rest. Quarles.

Of other tyrants short the strife, / But Indolence is king for life: / The despot twists, with soft control, / Eternal fetters round the soul. Hannah More.

Of pleasures, those which occur most rarely 10 give the greatest delight. Epictetus.

Of real evils the number is great; of possible evils there is no end. Johnson.

Of the Beautiful we are seldom capable, oftener of the Good; and how highly should we value those who endeavour, with great sacrifices, to forward that good among their fellows! Goethe.

Of the eyes that men do glare withal, so few can see. Carlyle.

Of the soul, the body form doth take, / For soul is form, and doth the body make. Spenser.

Of the three requisitions of genius, the first 15 is soul; the second, soul; and the third, soul. Whipple.

Of the wealth of the world each has as much as he takes. It. Pr.

Of the Wrong we are always conscious, of the Right never. Goethe.

Of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes. Jesus.

Of thy word unspoken thou art master; thy spoken word is master of thee. Eastern Pr.

Of two evils choose the least. Pr. 20

Of unwise admiration much may be hoped, for much good is really in it; but unwise contempt is itself a negation; nothing comes of it, for it is nothing. Carlyle.

Of what does not concern you say nothing, good or bad. It. Pr.

Of what significance are the things you can forget? Thoreau.

Of wild creatures, a tyrant; and of tame ones, a flatterer. Bias.

Off with his head! so much for Buckingham. 25 Rich. III., iv. 3.

Offenders never pardon. Pr.

Offerir molto è spezie di negare—Offering extravagantly is a kind of denial. It. Pr.

Oft have I heard, and now believe it true, / Whom man delights in, God delights in too. An old Minnesinger.

Oft kommt ein nützlich Wort aus schlechtem Munde—A serviceable word often issues from worthless lips. Schiller.

Oft leiden kranke Seelen durch selbstgeschaffnen 30 Wahn—Sick souls often suffer through conceits of their own creation. G. Rossini.

Oft schiessen trifft das Ziel—Shooting often hits the mark. Ger. Pr.

Oft sogar es ist weise, zu entdecken, / Was nicht verschwiegen bleiben kann—It is often wise to disclose what cannot be concealed. Schiller.

Oft when blind mortals think themselves secure, in height of bliss, they touch the brink of ruin. Thomson.

Oft zum Dichter macht die Liebe; / Selbst ein Wunder, zeugt sie Wunder—Love often makes a poet; herself a wonder, she works wonders. Bodenstedt.

Ofte er Skarlagens Hierte under reven Kaabe—There 35 is often a royal heart under a tattered coat. Dan. Pr.

Often a man's own angry pride / Is cap-and-bells for a fool. Tennyson.

Often the cock-loft is empty in those whom Nature hath built many storeys high. Fuller.

Oftentimes the gods send strong delusions to ensnare too credulous hearts. Lewis Morris.

Oftentimes, to win us to our harm, / The instruments of darkness tell us truths; / Win us with honest trifles, to betray us / In deepest consequence. Macb., i. 3.

Ofttimes nothing profits more / Than self-esteem, 40 grounded on just and right. Milton.

Ofttimes the pupil goes beyond his master. Lucillius.

Ogni cosa è d'ogni anno—Everything is of every year. It. Pr.

Ogni debole ha sempre il suo tiranno—Every weak man has always his tyrant. It. Pr.

Ogni medaglio ha il suo riverso—Every medal has its reverse. It. Pr.

Ogni monte ha la sua valle—Every mountain 45 has its valley. It. Pr.

Ogni vero non è buono a dire—Every truth is not good to be told. It. Pr.

Ognuno vede quel che tu pari, pochi sentono quel che tu sei—Every one sees what you seem, few know what you are. Machiavelli.

Oh, be he king or peasant, he is happiest / Who in his home finds peace. Goethe.

Oh, call my brother back to me! / I cannot play alone; / The summer comes with flower and bee,—/ Where is my brother gone? Mrs. Hemans.

Oh, Death! the poor man's dearest friend—/ 50 The kindest and the best! / Welcome the hour my aged limbs / Are laid with thee at rest! / The great, the wealthy fear thy blow, / From pomp and pleasure torn! But oh! a bless'd relief to those / That weary-laden mourn! Burns.

Oh, for a lodge in some vast wilderness, / Some boundless contiguity of shade, / Where rumour of oppression and deceit, / Of unsuccessful or successful war, / May never reach me more. Cowper.

Oh, ... for a man with heart, head, hand. / ... Whatever they call him, what care I, / Aristocrat, democrat, autocrat—one / Who can rule and dare not lie! Tennyson.

Oh, how sweet it is to hear our own conviction from another's lips! Goethe.

Oh, it is excellent / To have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous / To use it like a giant. Meas. for Meas., ii. 2.

Oh! Kritisieren, lieber Herr, ist federleicht, / Doch Bessermachen schwierig—Oh, criticising, good sir, is as easy as a feather is light; 'tis making better that's the difficulty. Platen.

Oh, love for ever lost, / And with it faith gone out! what is't remains / But duty, though the path be rough and trod / By bruised and bleeding feet? Lewis Morris.

Oh, Love, how perfect is thy mystic art, / 5 Strengthening the weak, and trampling on the strong! Byron.

Oh, Love! no habitant of earth thou art—/ An unseen seraph, we believe in thee. Byron.

Oh, no! we never mention her; / Her name is never heard; / My lips are now forbid to speak / That once familiar word. T. H. Bayly.

Oh, nostra folle / Mente, ch'ogn aura di fortuna estolle—How our heart swells if only a breath of happiness breathe through it! Tasso.

Oh, that mine adversary had written a book. Job.

Oh, that my lot might lead me in the path of 10 holy purity of thought and deed, the path which august laws ordain—laws which in the highest heaven had their birth; ... The power of God is mighty in them, and doth not wax old. Sophocles.

Oh, that this too too solid flesh would melt, / Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! / Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd / His canon 'gainst self-slaughter. Ham., i. 2.

Oh! the dulness and the hardness of the heart of man, which contemplates only the present, and does not rather provide for the future. Thomas à Kempis.

Oh, the heart is a free and a fetterless thing— / A wave of the ocean, a bird on the wing. J. Pardoe.

Oh, there is something in marriage like the veil of the temple of old, / That screened the Holy of Holies with blue and purple and gold; / Something that makes a chamber where none but the one may come, / A sacredness too, and a silence, where joy that is deepest is dumb. Dr. Walter Smith.

Oh, were I seated high as my ambition, / I'd 15 place this naked foot on necks of monarchs. Walpole.

Oh, what a fall was there, my countrymen! / Then I, and you, and all of us fell down, / Whilst bloody treason flourish'd over us. Jul. Cæs., iii. 2.

Oh, what damned minutes tells he o'er, / Who dotes, yet doubts; suspects, yet soundly loves. Othello, iii. 3.

Oh, what is death but parting breath? / On mony a bloody plain / I've dared his face, and in this place / I scorn him yet again. Burns, "Macpherson's Lament."

Oh, whistle and I'll come to ye, my lad. Burns.

Oh, woman, lovely woman! Heaven designed 20 you / To temper man! We had been brutes without you. Burns.

Oh, worse than all! Oh, pang all pangs above, / Is kindness counterfeiting absent love! Coleridge.

Oh, would they stay aback frae courts, / And please themsels wi' country sports, / It wad for every ane be better, / The laird, the tenant, and the cottar. Burns.

Ohe! jam satis est—Stay! that is enough. Hor.

Ohne Begeisterung schlafen die besten Kräfte des Gemüths. Es ist ein Zunder in uns, der Funken will—Without inspiration the best powers of the mind are dormant. There is a tinder in us which needs to be quickened with sparks. Herder.

Ohne die Freiheit, was wärest du, Hellas? / 25 Ohne dich, Hellas, was wäre die Welt?—Without freedom, what wert thou, Greece? Without thee, Greece, what were the world? W. Müller.

Ohne eine Gottheit gibt's für den Menschen weder Zweck, noch Ziel, noch Hoffnung, nur eine zitternde Zukunft, ein ewiges Bangen vor jeder Dunkelheit—Without a deity there is for man neither aim, nor goal, nor hope; only an ever-wavering future, and eternal anxiety in every moment of darkness. Jean Paul.

Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast—Unhasting, yet unresting. Goethe's motto. Said originally of the sun.

Ohne Haut—Without a skin.

Ohne Mehl und Wasser ist übel backen—It is ill baking without meal and water. Ger. Pr.

Ohne Wahl verteilt die Gaben, / Ohne Billigkeit 30 das Glück; / Denn Patroklus liegt begraben, / Und Thersites kommt zurück—Gifts are dispensed without election, fortune without fairness; Patroclus lies buried, and Thersites comes back. Schiller.

Ohne Wissen, ohne Sünde—Where there's no knowledge there's no sin. Ger. Pr.

[Greek: hoi arourês karpon edousin]—They who eat the fruit of the field. Hom.

[Greek: hoi dystychountes ex heterôn cheirona paschontôn paramythountai]—The unhappy derive comfort from the worse misfortunes of others. Æsop.

[Greek: hoi kyboi Dios aei eupiptousi]—The dice of Zeus always fall luckily. Sophocles.

[Greek: hoi pleiones kakoi]—The majority of mankind are 35 bad. Bias, one of the seven sages.

[Greek: hoi polloi]—The multitude; the masses.

[Greek: hoiê per phyllôn geneê, toiêde kai andrôn]—As is the generation of leaves, such is that of men. Hom.

Oil, wine, and friends improve by age. It. Pr.

[Greek: oimoi; ti d' oimoi? thnêta gar peponthamen]—Alas! but why alas? We only suffer what other mortals do.

[Greek: oinou de mêket' ontos, ouk estin Kypris]—Where 40 there is no longer any wine there is no love. Euripides.

[Greek: hokosa pharmaka ouk iêtai sidêros iêtai, hosa sidêros ouk iêtai pyr iêtai]—What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will. Hippocrates.

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually, as is thought. Rahel.

Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that it is of more value than all the pleasures of youth. Cic.

Old age is a heavy burden. Pr.

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth. La Roche.

Old age is honourable. Pr.

Old age is not in itself matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us. Carlyle to his mother.

Old age is sad (trübe), not because our joys, but because our hopes are cut short. Jean Paul.

Old age is the repose of life, the rest which precedes 5 the rest that remains. R. Collyer.

Old age is wise for itself, but not wise for the community. Bryant.

Old age—the words are comparative, not positive. Anon.

Old age, though despised, is coveted by all. Pr.

Old age was naturally more honoured in times when people could not know much more than they had seen. Joubert.

Old birds are hard to pluck. Pr. 10

Old birds are not caught with chaff. Pr.

Old books, as you well know, are books of the world's youth, and new books are fruits of its age. Holmes.

Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good. Izaak Walton.

Old friends are best. King James I., as he slipt on his old shoes.

Old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome 15 air; / Love them for what they are; nor love them less; / Because to thee they are not what they were. Coleridge.

Old head and young hand. Pr.

Old head upon young shoulders. Pr.

Old heads will not suit young shoulders. Pr.

Old houses mended / Cost little less than new before they're ended. C. Cibber.

Old long-vexed questions, not yet solved in 20 logical words or parliamentary laws, are fast solving themselves in facts, somewhat unblessed to behold. Carlyle.

Old men are twice children. Pr.

Old men lose one of the most precious rights of man, that of being judged by their peers. Goethe.

Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long. Capt. John Brown.

Old men's lives are lengthened shadows; their evening sun falls coldly on the earth, but the shadows all point to the morning. Jean Paul.

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise 25 them if you wish to keep them in working order. John Adams.

Old ovens are soon heated. Pr.

Old oxen have stiff horns. Pr.

Old shoes are easiest. Pr.

Old signs do not deceive. Dan. Pr.

Old wood to burn, old books to read, old wine 30 to drink, and old friends to converse with. Alphonso of Castile.

Old wounds soon bleed. Pr.

Olet lucernam—It smells of the lamp, or midnight study.

Oleum adde camino—Add fuel to the fire. Hor.

Oleum et operam perdidi—I have lost both the oil and my pains. Plaut.

Olla male fervet—It does not look hopeful; the 35 pot boils poorly. Pr.

Olim meminisse juvabit—It will delight us to recall these things some day hereafter. Virg.

Oliver Cromwell, dead two hundred years ago, does yet speak; nay, perhaps, now first begins to speak. Carlyle.

Omina sunt aliquid—There is something in omens. Ovid.

[Greek: omma gar domôn nomizô despotou parousian]—The presence of the master is, meseems, the eye of a house. Æschylus.

Omne actum ab agentis intentione judicandum—Every 40 act is to be judged of by the intention of the agent. L.

Omne ævum curæ: cunctis sua displicet ætas—Every age has its own care: each one thinks his own time of life disagreeable. Auson.

Omne animal seipsum diligit—Every animal loves itself. Cic.

Omne animi vitium tanto conspectius in se / Crimen habet, quanto major qui peccat habetur—Every vice of the mind involves a condemnation the more glaring, the higher the rank of the person who is guilty. Juv.

Omne capax movet urna nomen—In the capacious urn of death every name is shaken. Hor.

Omne corpus mutabile est; ita efficitur ut 45 omne corpus mortale sit—Every body is subject to change; hence it comes to pass that every body is subject to death. Cic.

Omne epigramma sit instar apis, aculeus illi, / Sint sua mella, sit et corporis exigui—Every epigram should be like a bee: have a sting like it, honey, and a small body. Mart.

Omne in præcipiti vitium stetit—Every vice ever stands on the brink of a precipice. Juv.

Omne malum nascens facile opprimitur: inveteratum fit plerumque robustius—Every evil is easily crushed at its birth; when grown old, it generally becomes more obstinate. Cic.

Omne nimium vertitur in vitium—Every excess develops into a vice. Pr.

Omne scibile—Everything knowable. 50

Omne solum forti patria est—To the brave man every land is his native land. Ovid.

Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit utile dulci / Lectorem delectando, pariterque monendo—He gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader. Hor.

Omnem crede diem tibi diluxisse supremum—Believe that each day which shines on you is your last. Hor.

Omnem movere lapidem—To leave no stone unturned. Pr.

Omnes amicos habere operosum est; satis est 55 inimicos non habere—It is an arduous task to make all men your friends; it is enough to have no enemies. Sen.

Omnes composui—I have laid them all at rest (in the grave). Hor.

Omnes eodem cogimur; omnium / Versatur urna serius, ocius, / Sors exitura, et nos in æternum / exsilium impositura cymbæ—We are all driven to the same ferry; the lot of each is shaken in the urn, destined sooner or later to come forth, and place us in Charon's wherry for eternal exile. Hor.

Omnes homines, qui de rebus dubiis consultant, ab odio, amicitia, ira, atque misericordia vacuos esse decet—All men, who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity. Sall.

Omnes omnium caritates patria una complectitur—Our country alone comprehends all our affections for all. Cic.

Omnes, quibus res sunt minus secundæ, magis sunt, nescio quomodo / Suspiciosi: ad contumeliam omnia accipiunt magis; / Propter suam impotentiam se credunt negligi—All those whose affairs are unprosperous are, somehow or other, extremely suspicious; they take every hint as an affront, and think the neglect with which they are treated is due to their humble position. Ter.

Omnes sapientes decet conferre et fabulari—All wise people ought to confer and hold converse with each other. Plaut.

Omnes una manet nox, / Et calcanda semel via lethi—One night awaits us all, and the path of death must once be trodden by us. Hor.

Omni ætati mors est communis—Death is common 5 to every age. Cic.

Omnia bonos viros decent—All things are becoming in good men. Pr.

Omnia conando docilis solertia vincit—By application a docile shrewdness surmounts every difficulty. Manilius.

Omnia cum amico delibera, sed de te ipso prius—Consult your friend on everything, but particularly on what affects yourself. Sen.

Omnia desuper—All things come from above. M.

Omnia ejusdem farinæ—All things are of the 10 same stuff, lit. grain. Pr.

Omnia fert ætas, animum quoque—Age carries all away, and the powers of the mind too. Virg.

Omnia Græce! / Cum sit turpe magis nostris nescire Latine—All things must be in Greek! when it is more shameful for our Romans to be ignorant of Latin. Juv.

Omnia inconsulti impetus cœpta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt—All enterprises which are entered on with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigour at first, but are sure to collapse in the end. Tac.

Omnia jam fient, fieri quæ posse negabam: / Et nihil est de quo non sit habenda fides—All things will now come to pass which I used to think impossible; and there is nothing which we may not hope to see take place. Ovid.

Omnia mala exempla bonis principiis orta sunt—All 15 bad precedents have had their rise in good beginnings.

Omnia mea mecum porto—All that belongs to me I carry with me. Bias.

Omnia mutantur, nihil interit—All things but change, nothing perishes. Ovid.

Omnia mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis—All things change, and we ourselves change along with them. Borbonius.

Omnia non pariter rerum sunt omnibus apta—All things are not alike fit for all men. Propert.

Omnia orta occident—All things that rise also 20 set. Sall.

Omnia perdidimus, tantummodo vita relicta est—We have lost everything, only life is left. Ovid.

Omnia perversas possunt corrumpere mentes—All things tend to corrupt perverted minds. Ovid.

Omnia præclara rara—All excellent things are rare. Cic.

Omnia præsumuntur rite et solenniter esse acta—All things are presumed to have been done duly and in the usual manner. L.

Omnia prius experiri, quam armis, sapientem 25 decet—It becomes a wise man to try all methods before having recourse to arms. Ter.

Omnia profecto, cum se a cœlestibus rebus referet ad humanas, excelsius magnificentiusque et dicet et sentiet—When a man descends from heavenly things to human, he will certainly both speak and feel more loftily and nobly on every theme. Cic.

Omnia quæ nunc vetustissima creduntur, nova fuere ... et quod hodie exemplis tuemur, inter exempla erit—Everything which is now regarded as very ancient was once new, and what we are defending to-day by precedent, will by and by be a precedent itself. Tac.

Omnia rerum principia parva sunt—All beginnings are small. Cic.

Omnia Romæ / Cum pretio—All things may be bought at Rome with money. Juv.

Omnia serviliter pro dominatione—Servile in 30 all his actions for the sake of power. Tac., of Otho.

Omnia subjecisti sub pedibus, oves et boves—Thou hast placed all things beneath our feet, both sheep and oxen. Motto of the Butchers' Company.

Omnia sunt hominum tenui pendentia filo; / Et subito casu, quæ valuere, ruunt—All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong of a sudden falls and sinks in ruins. Ovid.

Omnia tuta timens—Distrusting everything that is perfectly safe. Virg.

Omnia venalia Romæ—All things can be bought at Rome. Pr.

Omnia vincit amor, nos et cedamus amori—Love 35 conquers all the world, let us too yield to love. Virg.

Omnibus bonis expedit rempublicam esse salvam—It is for the interest of every good man that the commonwealth shall be safe. Cic.

Omnibus hoc vitium est cantoribus, inter amicos / Ut nunquam inducant animum cantare rogati, / Injussi nunquam desistant—This is a general fault of all singers, that among their friends they never make up their minds to sing, however pressed; but when no one asks them, they will never leave off. Hor.

Omnibus hostes / Reddite nos populis, civile avertite bellum—Commit us to hostility with every other nation, but avert from us civil war. Lucan.

Omnibus in terris, quæ sunt a Gadibus usque / Auroram et Gangem, pauci dignoscere possunt / Vera bona, atque illis multum diversa, remota / Erroris nebula—In all the lands which stretch from Gades even to the region of the dawn and the Ganges, there are few who are able by removing the mist of error to distinguish between what is really good and what is widely diverse. Juv.

Omnibus modis, qui pauperes sunt homines, 40 miseri vivunt; / Præsertim quibus nec quæstus est, nec didicere artem ullam—The poor live wretchedly in every way; especially those who have no means of livelihood and have learned no craft. Plaut.

Omnis ars imitatio est naturæ—All art is an imitation of nature. Sen.

Omnis commoditas sua fert incommoda secum—Every convenience brings its own inconveniences along with it. Pr.

Omnis dolor aut est vehemens, aut levis; si levis, facile fertur, si vehemens, certe brevis futurus est—All pain is either severe or slight; if slight, it is easily borne; if severe, it will without doubt be brief. Cic.

Omnis enim res / Virtus, fama, decus, divina humanaque pulchris / Divitiis parent; quas qui construxerit, ille / Clarus erit, fortis, justus—All things divine and human, as virtue, fame, and honour, defer to fair wealth, and he who has amassed it will be illustrious, brave, and just. Hor.