DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS. (continued 20)

Omnis pœna corporalis, quamvis minima, major est omni pœna pecuniaria, quamvis maxima—The slightest corporal punishment falls more heavily than the largest pecuniary penalty. L.

Omnis stultitia laborat fastidio sui—All folly is 5 afflicted with a disdain of itself. Sen.

Omnium consensu capax imperii, nisi imperasset—He would have been universally deemed fit for empire, if he had never reigned. Said of Galba by Tacitus.

Omnium horarum homo—A man ready for whatever may chance. Quinct.

Omnium rerum, ex quibus aliquid acquiritur, nihil est agricultura melius, nihil uberius, nihil dulcius, nihil homine libero dignius—Of all pursuits from which profit accrues, nothing is superior to agriculture, nothing more productive, nothing more enjoyable, nothing more worthy of a free man. Cic.

Omnium rerum, heus, vicissitudo est—There are changes, mark ye, in all things. Ter.

On a beau prêcher à qui n'a cure de bien faire—It 10 is no use preaching to him who has no wish to do well. Fr. Pr.

On a long journey even a straw is heavy. Pr.

On a souvent besoin d'un plus petit que soi—One has often need of one inferior to one's self. La Fontaine.

On a winged word hath hung the destiny of nations. Landor.

On affaiblit toujours tout ce qu'on exagère—We always weaken everything which we exaggerate. La Harpe.

On aime bien à deviner les autres, mais l'on 15 aime pas à être deviné—We like well to see through other people, but we do not like to be seen through ourselves. La Roche.

On aime sans raison, et sans raison l'on hait—We love without reason, and without reason we hate. Regnard.

On apprend en faillant—One learns by failing. Fr. Pr.

On attrape plus de mouches avec du miel qu'avec du vinaigre—More flies are caught with honey than vinegar. Fr. Pr.

On avale à pleine gorgée le mensonge qui nous flatte, et l'on boit goute à goute une vérité qui nous est amère—We swallow at one draught the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us. Diderot.

On commence par être dupe, / On finit par être 20 fripon—People begin by being dupes, and end by being knaves. Mme. Deshoulières, on gambling.

On connaît les amis au besoin—Friends are known in time of need. Fr. Pr.

On devient innocent quand on est malheureux—We become innocent when we are unfortunate. La Fontaine.

On dit—They say; a flying rumour or current report. Fr.

On dit de gueux qu'ils ne sont jamais dans leur chemins, parce qu'ils n'ont point de demeure fixe. Il en est de même de cause qui disputent, sans avoir des notions déterminées—It is said of beggars that they are never on their way, for they have no fixed dwelling-place; it is the same with people who dispute without having definite ideas. Fr.

On dit, est souvent un grand menteur—"They 25 say" is often a great liar. Fr. Pr.

On dit, et sans horreur je ne puis le redire—It has been said, and I cannot without horror repeat it. Racine.

On dit que Dieu est toujours pour les gros bataillons—They say God is always with the heaviest battalions. Voltaire.

On doit être heureux sans trop penser à l'être—One ought to be happy without thinking too much of being so. Fr. Pr.

On doit des égards aux vivants; on ne doit aux morts que la vérité—Respect is due to the living; to the dead nothing but truth. Motte.

On donne des conseils, mais on ne donne point 30 la sagesse d'en profiter—We may give advice, but not the sense to profit by it. La Roche.

On eagles' wings immortal scandals fly, / While virtuous actions are but born to die. Pope.

On entre et on crie, / Et voilà la vie! / On crie et on sort, / Et voilà la mort!—We come and cry, and that is life; we cry and go, and that is death. Fr.

On est aisément dupé par ce qu'on aime—We are easily duped by those we love. Molière.

On est, quand on le veut, le maître de son sort—A man, when he wishes, is the master of his fate. Ferrier.

On every stage the foes of peace attend / 35 Hate dogs their flight, and insult mocks their end. Johnson.

On every thorn delightful wisdom grows; / In every rill a sweet instruction flows. Young.

On fait souvent tort à la vérité par la manière dont on se sert pour la défendre—We often injure the truth by our manner of defending it. Fr.

On fait toujours le loup plus gros qu'il n'est—People always make the wolf more formidable than he is. Fr. Pr.

On gagne peu de choses par habileté—It is little that one gains by cleverness. (?)

On God and godlike men we build our trust. 40 Tennyson.

On his own saddle one rides safest. Pr.

On jette enfin de la terre sur la tête, et en voilà pour jamais—Little earth is cast in the end upon the head, and there is no more of it for ever. Pascal.

On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, / Reason the card, but passion is the gale. Pope.

On Monday morning don't be looking for Saturday night. Pr.

On n'a jamais bon marché de mauvaise marchandise—Bad 45 ware is never cheap. Fr. Pr.

On n'a rien pour rien—Nothing can be had for nothing. Fr. Pr.

On n'aime plus comme on aimait jadis—People no longer love as they used to do long ago. Fr.

On n'auroit guère de plaisir, si l'on ne se flattoit point—A man should have little pleasure if he did not sometimes flatter himself. Fr.

On n'est jamais si bien servi que par soi-même—A man is never so well served as by himself. Etienne.

On n'est jamais si heureux, ni si malheureux 5 qu'on se l'imagine—People are never either so happy or so miserable as they imagine. La Roche.

On n'est jamais si riche que quand on déménage—People are never so rich as when they are moving their stuff. Fr. Pr.

On n'est jamais si ridicule par les qualités que l'on a que par celles que l'on affecte d'avoir—We are never so ridiculous by the qualities we have as by those we affect to have. La Roche.

On n'est jamais trahi que par ses siens—A man is never betrayed except by his friends. Fr.

On n'est souvent mécontent des autres que parce qu'on l'est de soi-même—We are often dissatisfied with others because we are so with ourselves. Fr. Pr.

On ne considère pas assez les paroles comme 10 des faits—We don't sufficiently consider that words are deeds. Fr.

On ne cherche point à prouver la lumière—There is no need to prove the existence of light. Fr. Pr.

On ne doit pas juger du mérite d'un homme par ses grandes qualités, mais par l'usage qu'il en sait faire—We should not judge of the merit of a man by his great gifts, but by the use he makes of them. La Roche.

On ne donne rien si libéralement que ses conseils—People are not so liberal with anything as with advice. La Roche.

On ne gouverne les hommes que en les servant; la règle est sans exception—Men are governed only by serving them; the rule is without exception. V. Cousin.

On ne jette des pierres qu'à l'arbre chargé de 15 fruits—People throw stones only at the tree which is loaded with fruit. Fr. Pr.

On ne loue d'ordinaire que pour être loué—Praise is generally given only that it may be returned. La Roche.

On ne lui fait pas prendre des vessies pour des lanternes—You won't get him to take bladders for lanterns. Fr. Pr.

On ne méprise pas tous ceux qui ont des vices, mais on méprise tous ceux qui n'ont aucune vertu—We do not despise all those who have vices, but we despise all those who have no virtue. La Roche.

On ne perd les états que par timidité—It is only through timidity that states are lost. Voltaire.

On ne peut contenter tout le monde et son 20 père—There is no pleasing everybody and one's father. La Fontaine.

On ne peut faire qu'en faisant—One can do only by doing. Fr. Pr.

On ne peut sonner les cloches et aller à la procession—One cannot ring the bells and join the procession. Fr. Pr.

On ne prête qu'aux riches—People lend only to the rich. Fr. Pr.

On ne ramène guère un traître par l'impunité, au lieu que par la punition l'on en rend mille autres sages—No one ever reclaimed a traitor by letting him off, whereas punishment may keep thousands in the right way. (?)

On ne réussit dans ce monde qu'à la pointe de 25 l'épée, et on meurt les armes à la main—Success in life is won at the point of the sword, and we die with the weapon in our hands. (?)

On ne sait pour qui on amasse—We know not for whom we gather. Fr. Pr.

On ne se blame que pour être loué—Persons only blame themselves in order to obtain praise. La Roche.

On ne sent bien que ses propres maux—We feel only the evils that affect ourselves. Fr. Pr.

On ne trouve jamais l'expression d'un sentiment que l'on n'a pas; l'esprit grimace et le style aussi—It is ever impossible to express a sentiment which we do not feel; the mind grimaces, and the style too. Lamennais.

On ne va jamais si loin que lorsqu'on ne sait 30 pas où l'on va—One never goes so far as when he does not know where he is going. Fr. Pr.

On ne vaut dans ce monde que ce qu'on veut valoir—A man's worth in this world is estimated according to the value he puts upon himself. La Bruyère.

On ne vit dans la mémoire du monde que par des travaux pour le monde—One lives in the world's memory only by what he has done in the world's behalf. Fr.

[Greek: hon hoi theoi philousin apothnêskei neos]—He whom the gods love dies young. Menander.

On pardonne aisément un tort que l'on partage—We easily pardon an offence which we had part in. Jouy.

On parle peu quand la vanité ne fait pas parler—People 35 speak little when vanity does not prompt them. La Roche.

On perd tout le temps qu'on peut mieux employer—All the time is lost which might be better employed. (?)

On peut attirer les cœurs par les qualités qu'on montre, mais on ne les fixe que par celles qu'on a—People's affections may be attracted by the qualities which we affect, but they can only be won by those which we really possess. Fr.

On peut dire que son esprit brille aux dépens de sa mémoire—We may say his wit shines at the expense of his memory. Le Sage.

On peut dominer par la force, mais jamais par la seule adresse—We may lord it by force, but never by adroitness alone. Vauvenargues.

On peut être plus fin qu'un autre, mais non 40 pas plus fin que tous les autres—A man may be sharper than another, but not than all others. La Roche.

On peut mépriser le monde, mais on ne peut pas s'en passer—We may despise the world, but we cannot do without it. Fr. Pr.

On prend le peuple par les oreilles, comme on fait un pot par les anses—The public are to be caught by the ears, as one takes a pot by the handles. Pr.

On prend son bien où on le trouve—One takes what is his own wherever he finds it. Fr. Pr.

On prend souvent l'indolence pour la patience—Indolence is often taken for patience. Fr. Pr.

On Reason build Resolve! / That column of 45 true majesty in man. Young.

On respecte un moulin, on vole une province!—They (obliged by law) spare a mill, but steal a province!

On revient toujours à ses premiers amours—We always come back to our first loves. Etienne.

On se heurte toujours où l'on a mal—One always knocks himself on the spot where the sore is. Fr. Pr.

On se persuade mieux pour l'ordinaire par les raisons qu'on a trouvées soi-même, que par celles qui sont venues dans l'esprit des autres—We are ordinarily more easily satisfied with reasons that we have discovered ourselves, than by those which have occurred to others. Pascal.

On some men's bread butter will not stick. Pr. 5

On spécule sur tout, même sur la famine—People speculate on everything, even on famine. Armand Charlemagne.

On termine de longs procès / Par un peu de guerre civile—We end protracted law-suits by a little civil war.

On the beaten road there is tolerable travelling; but it is sore work, and many have to perish, fashioning a way through the impassable. Carlyle.

On the brink of the waters of life and truth we are miserably dying. Emerson.

On the day of the resurrection, those who 10 have indulged in ridicule will be called to the door of Paradise, and have it shut in their faces when they reach it. Mahomet.

On the field of foughten battle still, / Woe knows no limits save the victor's will. The Gaulliad.

On the neck of the young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise. Hafiz.

On the pinnacle of fortune man does not stand long firm. Goethe.

On the sea sail, on the land settle. Pr.

On the soft bed of luxury most kingdoms have 15 expired. Young.

On the stage man should stand a step higher than in life. Börne.

On this account is the Bible a book of eternally effective power, because, as long as the world lasts, no one will step forward and say: I comprehend it in the whole and understand it in the particular; but we modestly say: In the whole it is venerable, and in the particular practicable (anwendbar). Goethe.

On veut avoir ce qu'on n'a pas, / Et ce qu'on a cesse de de plaire—We wish to have what we have not, and what we have ceases to please. Monvel.

On voit mourir et renaître les roses; il n'en est pas ainsi de nos beaux jours—We see roses die and revive again; it is not so with our fine days. Charleval.

On wrong / Swift vengeance waits; and art 20 subdues the strong. Pope.

Once a knave, always a knave. Pr.

Once a man and twice a child. Pr.

Once for all, beauty remains undemonstrable; it appears to us as in a dream, when we behold the works of the great poets and painters, and, in short, of all feeling artists. Goethe.

Once is no custom. Pr.

Once is no rule. Pr. 25

Once resolved, the trouble is over. It. Pr.

Once sufficiently enforce the eighth commandment, the whole "rights of man" are well cared for; I know no better definition of the rights of man: "Thou shalt not steal; thou shalt not be stolen from." What a society were that! Plato's Republic, More's Utopia mere emblems of it. Carlyle.

Once thoroughly our own, knowledge ceases to give us pleasure. Ruskin.

Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, / In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side. Lowell.

Once true, still more twice true, in the life of 30 the spirit is always true. Ed.

Ond Gierning har Vidne i Barmen—There is a witness of the evil deed in one's own bosom. Dan. Pr.

Ondt bliver aldrig godt för halv værre kommer—Bad is never good till worse befall. Dan. Pr.

One abides not long on the summit of fortune. Pr.

One, although not possessed of a mine of gold, may find the offspring of his own nature, that noble ardour, which hath for its object the accomplishment of the whole assemblage of virtues. Hitopadesa.

One always has time enough if one will apply 35 it well. Goethe.

One and God make a majority. Fred. Douglas.

One anecdote is worth a volume of biography. Channing.

One barking dog sets all the street a-barking. Pr.

One beats the bush, and another catches the bird. Pr.

One Bible I know, of whose plenary inspiration 40 doubt is not so much as possible; nay, with my own eyes I saw the God's hand writing it; whereof all other Bibles are but leaves, say, in picture-writing, to assist the weaker faculty. Carlyle.

One born on the glebe comes by habit to belong to it; the two grow together, and the fairest ties are spun from the union. Goethe.

One can be very happy without demanding that others should agree with one. Goethe.

One can bear to be rebuked, but not to be laughed at. Molière.

One can live in true freedom, and yet not be unbound. Goethe.

One can live on little, but not on nothing. 45 Pr.

One can never know at the first moment what may, at a future time, separate itself from the rough experience as true substance. Goethe.

One cannot help doing a good office when it comes in one's way. Le Sage.

One cannot say that the rational is always beautiful; but the beautiful is always rational, or at least ought to be so. Goethe.

One cannot speak the truth with false words. Goethe.

One can't shoe a runaway horse. Dutch Pr. 50

One chick keeps a hen busy. Pr.

One cloud is enough to eclipse all the sun. Pr.

One could not commit a greater crime against public interests than to show indulgence to those who violate them. Richelieu.

One could not wish any man to fall into a fault; yet it is often precisely after a fault, or a crime even, that the morality which is in a man first unfolds itself, and what of strength he as a man possesses, now when all else is gone from him. Goethe.

One could take down a book from a shelf ten times more wise and witty than almost any man's conversation. Campbell.

One crime is everything; two, nothing. Mme. Deluzy.

One crow never pulls out another's eyes. 5 Pr.

One crowded hour of glorious life / Is worth an age without a name. Scott.

One does not love the heaven's lightning (seen in a great man) in the way of caresses altogether. Carlyle.

One dog can drive a flock of sheep. Pr.

One doth not know / How much an ill word may empoison liking. Much Ado, iii. 1.

One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy 10 turns the most blissful draught into poison. Schiller.

One enemy is too many, and a hundred friends too few. Pr.

One enemy may do us more harm than a hundred friends can do us good. Pr.

One eye of the master does more than both his hands. Pr.

One eye-witness is better than ten hearsays. Pr.

One false move may lose the game. Pr. 15

One feels clearly that it is a kindly spirit which actually constitutes the human element in man. Schiller.

One finds human nature everywhere great and little, beautiful and ugly.... Go on bravely working. Goethe.

One fire burns out another's burning; / One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish. Rom. and Jul., i. 1.

One fool makes many. Pr.

One futile person, that maketh it his glory to 20 tell, will do more hurt than many that know it their duty to conceal. Bacon.

One gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves. Auerbach.

One God, one law, one element, / And one far-off divine event, / To which the whole creation moves. Tennyson.

One good deed dying tongueless / Slaughters a thousand, waiting upon that. Winter's Tale, i. 2.

One good head is better than a hundred strong hands. Pr.

One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters. 25 Pr.

One good turn deserves another. Pr.

One good way I know of to find happiness is not by boring a hole to fit the plug. Billings.

One grain fills not a sack, but helps his fellows. Pr.

One hair of a woman draws more than a team of horses.

One half of the world knows not how the 30 other half lives. Rabelais.

One half of the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream. Longfellow.

One half the world laughs at the other. Fr. and Ger. Pr.

One hand full of money is more persuasive than two full of truth. Dan. Pr.

One hand washes another. Pr.

One hard word brings on another. Pr. 35

One head cannot hold all wisdom. Pr.

One hour in the execution of justice is worth seventy years of prayer. Mahometan Pr.

One hour's sleep before midnight is worth two after. Pr.

One impulse from a vernal wood / May teach you more of man, / Of moral evil and of good, / Than all the sages can. Wordsworth.

One is always making good use of one's time 40 when engaged with a subject that daily forces one to make advances in self-culture. Goethe.

One is not a whit the happier when he attains what he has wished for. Goethe.

One is scarcely sensible of fatigue whilst he marches to music. Carlyle.

One jeer seldom goeth forth but it bringeth back its equal. Pr.

One keep-clean is better than ten make-cleans. Pr.

One learns taciturnity best among those people 45 who have none, and loquacity among the taciturn. Jean Paul.

One lie makes many. Pr.

One lie needs seven lies to wait upon it. Pr.

One life—a little gleam of time between two eternities. Carlyle.

One link broken, the whole chain is broken. Pr.

One loss brings another. Pr. 50

One man is born to money, and another to the purse. Dan. Pr.

One man makes a chair, and another man sits in it. Pr.

One man may lead a horse to the water, but twenty cannot make him drink. Pr.

One man may steal a horse more safely than another may look at him over a hedge. Pr.

One man receives crucifixion as the reward of 55 his villainy; another a regal crown. Juv.

One man that has a higher wisdom in him is not stronger than ten men, or than ten thousand, but than all men that have it not. Carlyle.

One man's eyes are spectacles to another to read his heart with. Johnson.

One man's justice is another man's injustice; one man's beauty, another's ugliness; one man's wisdom, another's folly; as one beholds the same objects from a higher point. Emerson.

One man's meat is another man's poison. Pr.

One man's opinion is no man's opinion. Pr. 60

One may forsake a person to save a family; one may desert a whole family for the sake of a village; and sacrifice a village for the safety of the community; but for one's self one may abandon the whole world. Hitopadesa.

One may give him a hundred instances from Holy Writ that he should not dispute; still, it is the character of a fool to make a disturbance without a cause. Hitopadesa.

One may make the house a palace of sham, or he can make it a home—a refuge. Mark Twain.

One may often find as much thought on the reverse of a medal as in a canto of Spenser. Addison.

One may see that with half an eye. Pr.

One may smile, and smile, and be a villain. 5 Ham., i. 5.

One may summon his philosophy when he is beaten in battle, not till then. John Burroughs.

One misfortune is the vigil of another. It. Pr.

One monster there is in this world: the idle man. Carlyle.

One mother is more venerable than a thousand fathers. Manu.

One murder made a villain; / Millions, a hero. 10 Bp. Porteous.

One must be careful in announcing great happiness. Schopenhauer.

One must be somebody in order to have an enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force. Mme. Swetchine.

One must be something in order to do something. Goethe.

One must believe in simplicity, in what is simple, in what is originally productive, if one wants to go the right way. This, however, is not granted to every one; we are born in an artificial state, and it is far easier to make it more artificial still than to return to what is simple. Goethe.

One must have lived greatly whose record 15 would bear the full light of day from its beginning to its close. A. B. Alcott.

One must not look a gift horse in the mouth. Pr.

One must not swerve in one's self, not even a hair's breadth from the highest maxims of art and life; but in empiricism, in the movement of the day, I would rather allow what is mediocre to pass than mistake the good, or even find fault with it. Goethe.

One must take a pleasure in the shell till one has the happiness to arrive at the kernel. Goethe.

One must weigh men by avoirdupois weight, and not by the jeweller's scales. Goethe.

One need only take a thing properly in hand 20 for it to be done. Goethe.

One need only utter something that flatters indolence and conceit to be sure of plenty of adherents among commonplace people. Goethe.

One never goes farther than when he does not know whither he is going. Goethe.

One never needs his wit so much as when he argues with a fool. Chinese Pr.

One of the best rules in conversation is, never say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish we had left unsaid. Swift.

One of the chief misfortunes of honest people 25 is that they are cowardly. Voltaire.

One of the most fatal sources of the prevailing misery and crime lies in the generally accepted quiet assumption that because things have long been wrong, it is impossible they should ever be right. Ruskin.

One of the most singular gifts, or, if abused, most singular weaknesses, of the human mind, is its power of persuading itself to see whatever it chooses; a great gift if directed to the discernment of the things needful and pertinent to its own work and being; a great weakness if directed to the discovery of things profitless or discouraging. Ruskin.

One of the noblest qualities in our nature is that we are able so easily to dispense with greater perfection. Vauvenargues.

One of the old man's miseries is that he cannot easily find a companion able to partake with him of the past. Johnson.

One of the sublimest things in the world is 30 plain truth. Bulwer Lytton.

One of the worst diseases to which the human creature is liable is its disease of thinking. If it would only just look at a thing instead of thinking what it must be like, or do a thing instead of thinking it cannot be done, we should all get on far better. Ruskin.

One of these days is none of these days. Pr.

One on God's side is a majority. Wendell Phillips.

One ought not to praise a great man unless he is as great as he. Goethe.

One pair of heels is often worth two pair of 35 hands. (?)

One pirate gets nothing of another but his cask. Pr.

One ploughs, another sows; / Who will reap, no one knows. Pr.

One power rules another, but no power can cultivate another; in each endowment, and not elsewhere, lies the force that must complete it. Goethe.

One precedent creates another. They soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was fact to-day is doctrine. Examples are supposed to justify the most dangerous measures; and where they do not suit exactly, the defect is supplied by analogy. Junius.

One rarely sees how deeply one is in debt till 40 one comes to settle one's accounts. Goethe.

One really gains nothing from such interests (as occupy the newspapers). Goethe.

One religion after another fades away; but the religious sense, which created them all, can never become dead to humanity. Jean Paul.

One says more, and with more heart, in an hour than is written in years. Goethe.

One science only can one genius fit, / So vast is art, so narrow human wit. Pope.

One scream of fear from a mother may resound 45 through the whole life of her daughter. Jean Paul.

One sheep follows another. Pr.

One should abandon that country wherein there is neither respect, nor employment, nor connections, nor the advancement of science. Hitopadesa.

One should never ask anybody if one means to write anything. Goethe.

One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptionable character, except among people of culture and wit. La Bruyère.

One should never think of death. One should think of life: that is real piety. Disraeli.

One should not lift the rod against our enemies upon the private information of another. Hitopadesa.

One should not neglect from time to time to renew friendly relations by personal intercourse. Goethe.

One shriek of hate would jar all the hymns of heaven: / True Devils with no ear, they howl in tune / With nothing but the Devil! Tennyson.

One sickly sheep infects the flock. Pr. 5

One sin opens the door to another. Pr.

One single moment is decisive both of man's life and his whole future. However he may reflect, each resolution he forms is but the work of a moment; the prudent alone seize the right one. Goethe.

One sinner destroyeth much good. Bible.

One solitary philosopher may be great, virtuous, and happy in the depth of poverty, but not a whole people. L. Iselin.

One soul may have a decided influence upon 10 another merely by means of its silent presence. Goethe.

One soweth and another reapeth. Heb. Pr.

One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again. Paine.

One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honourable life. L'Estrange.

One sun by day, by night ten thousand shine. Young.

One swallow does not make a summer. Pr. 15

One sword keeps another in the scabbard. Pr.

One "Take this" is better than two "I will give you." Sp. Pr.

"One thing above all others," says Goethe, "I have never thought about thinking." What a thrift of thinking faculty there; thrift almost of itself equal to a fortune in these days. Carlyle.

One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures. J. G. Holland.

One thing is needful. Jesus. 20

One thing there is which no child brings into the world with him; and yet it is on this one thing that all depends for making man in every point a man;—and that is Reverence (Ehrfurcht). Goethe.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. Lowell.

One thought includes all thought, in the sense that a grain of sand includes the universe. Coleridge.

One tires of a page of which every sentence sparkles with points, of a sentimentalist who is always pumping the tears from his eyes or your own. Thackeray.

One to another cannot be a perfect physician. 25 George Herbert.

One to-day is worth two to-morrows. Ben. Franklin.

One tongue is sufficient for a woman. Milton, in reference to foreign languages.

One touch of Nature makes the whole world kin. Troil. and Cress., iii. 3.

One 'ud think, an' hear some folk talk, as the men war cute enough to count the corns in a bag o' wheat wi' only smelling at it. George Eliot.

One who, either in conversation or in letters, 30 affects to shine and to sparkle always, will not please long. Blair.

One who has nothing to admire, nothing to love, except his own poor self, may be reckoned a completed character; (but) he is in the minimum state of moral perfection—no more can be made of him. Carlyle.

One who is master of ever so little art may be able, on a great occasion, to root up trees with as much ease as the current of a river the reeds and grass. Hitopadesa.

One who is out of his own country is defeated by a very trifling enemy. Hitopadesa.

One woe doth tread upon another's heel, / So fast they follow. Ham., iv. 7.

One word with two meanings is the traitor's 35 shield and shaft. Caucasian Pr.

One wrong step may give you a great fall. Pr.

One's morning indolence is soon gone when one has once persuaded one's self to put a foot out of bed. Goethe.

One's piety is best displayed in his pursuits. A. B. Alcott.

One's too few, three's too many. Pr.

Oneness and otherness. It is impossible to 40 speak or think without embracing both. Emerson.

Only a Christ could have conceived a Christ. Joseph Parker.

Only a great pride, that is, a great and reverential repose in one's own being, renders possible a noble humility. D. A. Wasson.

Only a sweet and virtuous soul, / Like seasoned timber, never gives: / But when the whole world turns to coal, / Then chiefly lives. George Herbert.

Only action gives life strength; only moderation gives it a charm. Jean Paul.

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of 45 life. Novalis.

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is, or should be, an inventor. Emerson.

Only by joy and sorrow does a man know anything about himself and his destiny, learn what he ought to seek and what to shun. Goethe.

Only by pride cometh contention; but with the well-advised is wisdom. Bible.

Only great men have any business with great defects. La Roche.

Only great souls know the grandeur there is 50 in charity. Bossuet.

Only he can be trusted with gifts who can present a face of bronze to expectations. Thoreau.

Only he deserves freedom who has day by day to fight for it. Goethe.

Only he helps who unites with many at the proper hour; a single individual helps not. Goethe.

Only I discern / Infinite passion, and the pain / Of finite hearts that yearn. Browning.

Only in complicated critical cases do men find 55 out what is within them. Goethe.

Only in looking heavenward, take it in what sense you may, not in looking earthward, does what we call union, mutual love, society, begin to be possible. Carlyle.

Only in the world I fill up a place, which may be better supplied when I have made it empty. As You Like It, i. 2.

Only learn to catch happiness, for happiness is ever by you. Goethe.

Only lofty character is worth describing at all. Ruskin.

Only people who possess firmness can possess 5 true gentleness. La Roche.

Only regard for law can give us freedom. Goethe.

Only so far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life generally. Novalis.

Only such persons interest us, Spartans, Romans, Saracens, English, Americans, who have stood in the jaws of need, and have by their own wit and might extricated themselves, and made man victorious. Emerson.

Only suffering draws / The inner heart of song, and can elicit / The perfumes of the soul. Lewis Morris.

Only that good profits which we can taste with 10 all doors open, and which serves all men. Emerson.

Only that is poetry which purifies and mans me. Emerson.

Only the actions of the just / Smell sweet and blossom in the dust. Shirley.

Only the idle among the poor revolt against their state; the brave workers die passively, and give no sign. Ruskin.

Only the man of worth can recognise worth in men. Carlyle.

Only the person should give advice in a 15 matter where he himself will co-operate. Goethe.

Only the word of God and the heart of man can govern. Ruskin.

Only they who have hope live. Halm.

Only those books come down which deserve to last. Emerson.

Only those live who do good. Tolstoi.

Only those who love with the heart can animate 20 the love of others. Abel Stephens.

Only to the apt, the pure, and the true does Nature resign herself and reveal her secrets. Goethe.

Only truth can be polished. Ruskin.

Only what of the past was true will come back to us; that is the one asbestos that survives all fire. Carlyle.

Only when man weeps he should be alone, not because tears are weak, but they should be secret. Bulwer Lytton.

Onus probandi—The burden of proving. 25

Onus segni impone asello—Lay the burden on the lazy ass. Pr.

Open not your door when the devil knocks. Pr.

Open rebuke is better than secret love. Pr.

Opera illius mea sunt—His works are mine. M.

Operæ pretium est—'Tis worth while; worth 30 attending to.

Opere in longo fas est obrepere somnum—In a long work sleep must steal upon us. Hor.

Operosa parvus carmina fingo—I, a little one, compose laborious songs. Hor.

Operose nihil agunt—They toil at doing nothing. Sen.

Opes regum, corda subditorum—The wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects. M.

[Greek: opse theôn aleousi myloi, aleousi de lepta]—The 35 mills of the gods grind slow, but they grind small.

Opiferque per orbem dicor—I am known over the world as the helper. M.

Opinion is a medium between knowledge and ignorance. Plato.

Opinion is, as it were, the queen of the world, but force is its tyrant. Pascal.

Opinion is the main thing which does good or harm in the world. It is our false opinions that ruin us. Marcus Antoninus.

Opinion is the mistress of fools. Pr. 40

Opinion rules the world. Carlyle.

Opinions concerning acts are not history; acts themselves alone are history. Wm. Blake.

Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones. Colton.

Opinionum enim commenta delet dies, naturæ judicia confirmat—Time effaces the fabrications of opinion, but confirms the judgments of Nature. Cic.

Opportunities, like eggs, come one at a time. 45 Amer. Pr.

Opportunities neglected are irrecoverable. Pr.

Opportunity has hair in front, but is bald behind; if you meet her, seize her by the forelock, for Jove himself cannot catch her again if once let slip. Rabelais.

Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets. Disraeli.

Opportunity makes desire. Dut. Pr.

Opportunity makes us known to others, but 50 more to ourselves. La Roche.

Oppose not rage while rage is in its force, but give it way awhile and let it waste. Shakespeare.

Opposition always enflames the enthusiast, never converts him. Schiller.

Oppress'd with grief, oppress'd with care, / A burden more than I can bear, / I sit me down and sigh; / O Life, thou art a galling load, / Along a rough and weary road, / To wretches such as I. Burns.

Oppression is more easily borne than insult. Junius.

Opprobrium medicorum—The disgrace of physicians. 55 Said of diseases that defy their skill, especially cancer.

Optat ephippia bos piger; optat arare caballus—The lazy ox covets the horse's trappings; the horse would fain plough. Hor.

Optics sharp it needs, I ween, / To see what is not to be seen. J. Trumbull.

Optima quæque dies miseris mortalibus ævi / Prima fugit; subeunt morbi tristisque senectus, / Et labor; et duræ rapit inclementia mortis—For wretched mortals each best day of life flies first; diseases soon steal on, and sad old age, and decay; and the cruelty of inexorable death snatches us away. Virg.

Optimi consiliarii mortui—The best counsellors are the dead. Pr.

Optimum obsonium labor—Labour is the best sauce. Pr.

Opum furiata cupido—The frantic passion for wealth. Ovid.

Ora et labora—Pray and work. M.

Oracles speak. Emerson.

Oral delivery aims at persuasion, at making 5 the listener believe he is convinced. Few persons are capable of being convinced; the majority allow themselves to be persuaded. Goethe.

Orando laborando—By prayer and labour. M.

Orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano—We should pray for a sound mind in a sound body. Juv.

Orate pro anima—Pray for the soul of.

Orationis summa virtus est perspicuitas—The greatest virtue of speech is perspicuity. Quinct.

Orator improbus leges subvertit—An evil-disposed 10 orator subverts the laws.

Oratory is a warrior's eye flashing from under a philosopher's brow. Hare.

Oratory, like a drama, abhors lengthiness; like the drama, it must be kept doing. Bulwer Lytton.

Order all thy actions, so as readily and meekly to comply with the commands of thy superiors, the desires of thy equals, the requests of thy inferiors; so to do for all what thou lawfully mayest. Thomas à Kempis.

Order and quiet are good things when they can be had without the sacrifice of things that are better. Ward Beecher.

Order is a great man's need, and his true well-being. 15 Amiel.

Order is heaven's first law. Pope.

Order is power. Amiel.

Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. As the beams to a house, as the bones to the microcosm of man, so is order to all things. Southey.

Order is truth, each thing standing on the basis that belongs to it. Carlyle.

Order, thou eye of action. Aaron Hill. 20

Ordinary people think merely of spending time; a man with any brains, of using it. Schopenhauer.

Ore e sempre—Now and always. It.

Ore tenus—Merely from the mouth; oral.

Organic laws can only be serviceable to, and, in general, will only be written by, a public of honourable citizens, loyal to their state and faithful to each other. Ruskin.

[Greek: orgê philountôn oligon ischyei chronon]—The 25 anger of lovers does not last long. Menander.

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for and constantly quarrel with, as if any, observes Jean Paul, but our own could be expected to content us. Carlyle.

Originality is simply a fresh pair of eyes. T. W. Higginson.

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of. J. S. Mill.

Originality provokes originality. Goethe.

Ornament is but the guilèd shore / To a most 30 dangerous sea; the beauteous scarf / Veiling an Indian beauty; in a word, / The seeming truth which cunning times put on / To entrap the wisest. Mer. of Ven., iii. 2.

Ornaments were invented by modesty. Joubert.

Oro è che oro vale—What is worth gold is gold. It. Pr.

Orthodoxy is my doxy; heterodoxy another man's doxy. Warburton.

Orthodoxy is the Bourbon of the world of thought; it learns not, neither can it forget. Huxley.

Os, orare, vale, communio, mensa negatur—Speech, 35 prayer, greeting, intercourse, and food are forbidden. The sentence of excommunication.

Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy. Chapin.

Otez un vilain du gibet, il vous y mettra—Save a thief from the gallows, and he will cut your throat. Fr. Pr.

Othello's occupation's gone! Othello, iii. 3.

Other exercises develop single powers and muscles, but dancing, like a corporeal poesy, embellishes, exercises, and equalises all the muscles at once. Jean Paul.

Other heights in other lives, God willing. 40 Browning.

Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Emerson.

Other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours. Jesus.

Others apart sat on a hill retired, / In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high / Of Providence, fore-knowledge, will, and fate, / Fix'd fate, free-will, fore-knowledge absolute; / And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost. Milton.

Others, more aspiring than achieving, / Achieve all in suggestion, ... / More helpful by their infinite reaching forth / Than all completed thinking. Dr. Walter Smith.

Otia si tollas, periere Cupidinis arcus—Remove 45 the temptations of idleness, and Cupid's bow is useless. Ovid.

Otiosis nullus adsistit Deus—No deity assists the idle. Pr.

Otium cum dignitate—Leisure with dignity.

Otium sine literis mors est, et hominis vivi sepultura—Leisure without literature is death and burial alive. Sen.

[Greek: ou chrê pannychion heudein boulêphoron andra]—It will not do for a counsellor to sleep all night. Hom.

[Greek: Ou legein deinos, alla sigan adynatos]—Not 50 formidable as a speaker, but unable to hold his tongue. Gr. (?)

Où peut-on être mieux qu'au sein de sa famille?—Where can a man be better than in the bosom of his family? Marmontel Grétry.

Où sont les neiges d'antan?—Where is the snow of last year? F. Villons.

[Greek: ou toi synechthein alla symphilein ephyn]—I am here not for mutual hatred, but for mutual affection. Soph.

Oublier d'éclairer sa lanterne—To express one's self obscurely (lit. to forget to light one's lantern). Fr.

Oublier ne puis—I can never forget. M. 55

[Greek: ouden ginetai ek tou mê ontos]—Nothing comes to be out of what is not. Epicurus.

[Greek: ouden rhêma syn kerdei kakon]—No word that is profitable is bad. Soph.

Oui et Non sont bien courts à dire, mais avant que de les dire, il y faut penser long-temps—"Yes" and "no" are very short words to say, but we should think for some length of time before saying them.

[Greek: ouk agathon polykoiraniê; heis koiranos estô, / Heis basileus]—That there should be a multitude of rulers is not good; let one be lord, one be king. Hom.

[Greek: ouk aischron ouden tôn anankaiôn brotois]—What is natural is never shameful. Eurip.

[Greek: ouk estin meizôn basanos chronou oudenos ergou, / hos kai hypo sternois andros edeixe noon]—There is no better test of a man's work than time, which also reveals the thought which lay hidden in his breast. Simonides.

Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, / Our 5 fatal shadows that walk by us still. Fletcher.

Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural. Emerson.

Our affections are but tents of a night. Emerson.

Our affections, as well as our bodies, are in perpetual flux. Rousseau.

Our age is really up to nothing better than sweeping out the gutters—a scavenger age. Might it but do that well! It is the indispensable beginning of all. Carlyle.

Our age knows nothing but reactions, and 10 leaps from one extreme to another. Niebuhr.

Our ambiguous dissipating education awakens wishes when it should be animating tendencies; instead of forwarding our real capacities, it turns our efforts towards objects which are frequently discordant with the mind that aims at them. Goethe.

Our ancestors are very good kind o' folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with. Sheridan.

Our attachment to every object around us increases, in general, from the length of our acquaintance with it. Goldsmith.

Our best history is still poetry. Emerson.

Our best resolutions are frail when opposed 15 to our predominant inclinations. Scott.

Our best thoughts come from others. Emerson.

Our better mind / Is as a Sunday's garment, then put on / When we have nought to do; but at our work / We wear a worse for thrift. Crowe.

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Wordsworth.

Our books are false by being fragmentary; the sentences are "bon mots," and not parts of natural discourse; childish expressions of surprise or pleasure in nature—or worse. Emerson.

Our bounty, like a drop of water, disappears 20 when diffused too widely. Goldsmith.

Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The angel of life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hands of the angel of the resurrection. Holmes.

Our charity indeed should be universal, and extend to all mankind; but it is by no means convenient that our friendships and familiarities should do so too. Thomas à Kempis.

Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and an increase of our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes. Goldsmith.

Our chief experiences have been casual. Emerson.

Our chief want in life is somebody who shall 25 make us do what we can. Emerson.

Our clock strikes when there is a change from hour to hour; but no hammer in the Horologe of Time peals through the universe when there is a change from era to era. Carlyle.

Our compell'd sins / Stand more for number than accompt. Meas. for Meas., ii. 4.

Our complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives, and the sincerest part of our devotion. Swift.

Our content / Is our best having. Hen. VIII., ii. 3.

Our corn's to reap, for yet our tilth's to sow. 30 Meas. for Meas., iv. 1.

Our country is wherever we are well off. Milton.

Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them. George Eliot.

Our decrees / Dead to infliction, to themselves are dead; / And liberty plucks justice by the nose, / The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart / Goes all decorum. Meas. for Meas., i. 4.

Our deeds are fetters that we forge ourselves. George Eliot.

Our deeds are like children born to us; they 35 live and act apart from our own will. Children may be strangled, but deeds never. George Eliot.

Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds. George Eliot.

Our delight in reason degenerates into idolatry of the herald. Emerson.

Our dissatisfaction with any other solution is the blazing evidence of immortality. Emerson.

Our domestic service is usually a foolish fracas of unreasonable demand on the one side and striking on the other. Emerson.

Our doubts are traitors, / And make us lose the 40 good we oft might win / By fearing to attempt. Meas. for Meas., i. 5.

Our dreams drench us in sense, and sense steeps us again in dreams. A. B. Alcott.

Our echoes roll from soul to soul, / And grow for ever and for ever. Tennyson.

Our energies are actually cramped by over-anxiety for success, and by straining our mental faculties beyond due bounds. Montaigne.

Our esteem of great powers, or amiable qualities newly discovered, may embroider a day or a week, but a friendship of twenty years is interwoven with the texture of life. Johnson.

Our expense is almost all for conformity. Emerson. 45

Our experiences of life sway and bow us either with joy or sorrow. They plant everything about us with heart-seeds. Thus a house becomes sacred. Every room has a thousand memories. Ward Beecher.

Our eyes see all around in gloom or glow—/ Hues of their own, fresh borrowed from the heart. Keble.

Our fear commonly meets us at the door by which we think to run from it. Pr.

Our feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell; like the glaciers, which are transparent and rosy-hued only at sunrise and sunset. Jean Paul.

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact. Schopenhauer.

Our flatterers are our worst enemies. Pr.

Our friends see not our faults, or conceal them, or soften them. Addison.

Our God is a household God, as well as a 5 heavenly one. He has an altar in every man's dwelling; let men look to it when they rend it lightly, and pour out its ashes. Ruskin.

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. Carlyle.

Our greatest, being also by nature our quietest, are perhaps those that remain unknown. Carlyle.

Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. Goldsmith.

Our greatest misfortunes come to us from ourselves. Rousseau.

Our hand we open of our own free will, and the 10 good flies which we can never recall. Goethe.

Our hap is lost, our hope but sad despair. 3 Hen., ii. 3.

Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire. Duchess de Praslin.

Our happiness should not be laid on a too broad foundation. Schopenhauer.

Our hearts, frequently warmed by the contact of those whom we wish to resemble, will undoubtedly catch something of their way of thinking; and we shall receive in our own bosoms some radiation at least of their fire and splendour. Joshua Reynolds.

Our heavenward progress is something like 15 that of the Jerusalem pilgrims of old, who for three steps forward took one backward. Jean Paul.

Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough of literature. Emerson.

Our hoard is little, but our hearts are great. Tennyson.

Our hopes are but our memories reversed. (?)

Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws so far as we can read them. Froude.

Our humanity were a poor thing but for the 20 divinity that stirs within us. Bacon.

Our ideals are our better selves. A. B. Alcott.

Our ideas, like pictures, are made out of lights and shadows. Joubert.

Our life contains a thousand springs, / And dies if one be gone; / Strange that a harp of thousand strings / Should keep in tune so long. Watts.

Our life is compassed round with necessity; yet is the meaning of life itself no other than freedom, than voluntary force. Carlyle.

Our life is no dream, but it may and will perhaps 25 become one. Novalis.

Our life is not a mutual helpfulness; but rather, cloaked under due laws of war, named "fair competition," and so forth, it is a mutual hostility. Carlyle.

Our life might be much easier and simpler than we make it. Emerson.

Our life should feed the springs of fame / With a perennial wave, / As ocean feeds the bubbling founts / Which find in it their grave. Thoreau.

Our Lord God commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom He gives nothing else. Luther.

Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, 30 not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time. Luther.

Our love is inwrought in our enthusiasm, as electricity is inwrought in the air, exalting its power by a subtle presence. George Eliot.

Our love of truth is evinced by our ability to discover and appropriate what is good wherever we come upon it. Goethe.

Our memories are independent of our wills. Sheridan.

Our minds cannot be empty; and evil will break in upon them if they are not pre-occupied by good. Johnson.

Our minds should be habituated to the contemplation 35 of excellence. Joshua Reynolds.

Our moral impressions invariably prove strongest in those moments when we are most driven back upon ourselves. Goethe.

Our most exalted feelings are not meant to be the common food of daily life. Contentment is more satisfying than exhilaration; and contentment means simply the sum of small and quiet pleasures. Ward Beecher.

Our narrow ken / Reaches too far, when all that we behold / Is but the havoc of wide-wasting Time, / Or what he soon shall spoil. Crowe.

Our nature is inseparable from desires, and the very word "desire" (the craving for something not possessed) implies that our present felicity is not complete. Hobbes.

Our natures are like oil; compound us with 40 anything, yet still we strive to swim upon the top. Beaumont and Fletcher.

Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its centre and ornament. Nor is there a paradise planted till the children appear in the foreground to animate and complete the picture. A. B. Alcott.

Our own heart, and not other men's opinions, forms our true honour. Coleridge.

Our passions and principles are steady in frenzy; but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason. Sterne.

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us weaker ever after. Pope.

Our passions are true phœnixes; when the 45 old one is burnt out, the new one rises straightway from its ashes. Goethe.

Our path of glory / By many a cloud is darken'd and unblest. Keble.

Our patience will achieve more than our force. Burke.

Our peasant (Burns) showed himself among us, "a soul like an Æolian harp, in whose strings the vulgar wind, as it passed through them, changed itself into articulate melody." Carlyle.

Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protracting our greatest pleasure. Goldsmith.

Our pleasures travel by express; our pains by parliamentary. F. G. Trafford.

Our poetry of the eighteenth century was prose; our prose of the seventeenth, poetry. Hare.

Our poets are men of talents who sing, and not the children of music. Emerson.

Our present time is indeed a criticising and a critical time, hovering between the wish and the inability to believe. Jean Paul.

Our purity of taste is best tested by its universality, 5 for if we can only admire this thing or that, we may be sure that our cause for liking is of a finite and false nature. Ruskin.

Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor. Tam. of the Shrew, iv. 3.

Our ravings and complaints are but like arrows shot up into the air at no mark, and so to no purpose, but only to fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves. Sir William Temple.

Our relation to things outside of ourselves forms, and at the same time robs us of, our existence, and yet we have to do our best to adapt ourselves to circumstances; for to isolate one's self is also not advisable. Goethe.

Our relations are far too artificial and complicated, our nutriment and mode of life are without their proper nature, and our social intercourse is without proper love and goodwill. Every one is polished and courteous, but no one has the courage to be hearty and true. Goethe.

Our relations are ours by lot, our friends by 10 election. Delille.

Our religion assumes the negative form of rejection. Out of love of the true, we repudiate the false; and the religion is an abolishing criticism. Emerson.

Our religion is meant to root out our vices, but it covers, nourishes, and excites them. Montaigne.

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, / Which we ascribe to heaven. All's Well, i. 1.

Our sacrifices are rarely of an active kind; we, as it were, abandon what we give away. It is not from resolution, but despair, that we renounce our property. Goethe.

Our self-made men are the glory of our institutions. 15 Wendell Phillips.

Our senses will not admit of anything extreme: too much noise confuses us, too much light dazzles us. Pascal.

Our social forms are very far from truth and equity. Emerson.

Our sorrows are like thunder-clouds, which seem black in the distance, but grow lighter as they approach. Jean Paul.

Our souls much farther than our eyes can see. Drayton.

Our souls must become expanded by the contemplation 20 of Nature's grandeur before we can fully comprehend the greatness of man. Heine.

Our spiritual maladies are but of opinion; we are but fettered by chains of our own forging, and which ourselves also can rend asunder. Carlyle.

Our spontaneous action is always the best. Emerson.

Our stomach for good fortune is bottomless, but the entrance to it is narrow. Schopenhauer.

Our strength lies in our weakness (i.e., limitedness). Hazlitt.

Our temperaments differ in capacity of heat, 25 or we boil at different degrees. Emerson.

Our thinking is a pious reception. Emerson.

Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better. George Eliot.

Our thoughts take wildest flight / Even at the moment when they should array themselves in pensive order. Byron.

Our time is fixed, and all our days are numbered; / How long, how short, we know not: this we know, / Duty requires we calmly wait the summons, / Nor dare to stir till Heaven shall give permission. Blair.

Our torment is unbelief, the uncertainty as to 30 what we ought to do, the distrust of the value of what we do, and the distrust that the necessity which we all at last believe in is fair and beneficial. Emerson.

Our valours are our best gods. Fletcher.

Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity. Mme. Swetchine.

Our very hopes belied our fears, / Our fears our hopes belied; / We thought her dying when she slept, / And sleeping when she died. T. Hood.

Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection admits a sacrifice. Vauvenargues.

Our virtues depend on our failings as their 35 root, and the latter send forth as strong and manifold branches underground as the former do in the open light. Goethe.

Our / Virtues lie in the interpretation of the time. Coriolanus, iv. 7.

Our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues. All's Well, iv. 3.

Our whole existence is passed into words, and words, by means of tongue and ears, pass so easily into the soul. Jean Paul.

Our whole life is but a chamber which we are frescoing with colours, that do not appear while being laid on wet, but which will shine forth afterwards when finished and dry. Ward Beecher.

Our whole terrestrial being is based on Time 40 and built of Time; it is wholly a movement, a Time-impulse; Time is the author of it, the material of it. Carlyle.

Our wills and fates do so contrary run, / That our devices still are overthrown; / Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own. Ham., iii. 2.

Our work must be done honourably and thoroughly, because we are now men; whether we ever expect to be angels, or ever were slugs, being practically no matter. We are now human creatures, and must, at our peril, do human, that is to say, affectionate, honest, and earnest work. Ruskin.

Our works are presentiments of our capabilities. Goethe.

Our works decay and disappear, / God's frailest works abide, and look / Down on the ruins we toil to rear. Dr. Walter Smith.

Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation. Balzac.

Our yesterday's to-morrow now is gone, / And still a new to-morrow does come on. / We by to-morrow draw out all our store, / Till the exhausted well can yield no more. Cowley.

Our young men are terribly alike. Alexander Smith.

Ourselves are easily provided for; it is nothing but the circumstantials of human life that cost so much. Pope.

Out at sea, the universe has dwindled to a 5 little circle of crumpled water, that journeys with you day after day, and to which you seem bound by some enchantment. Burroughs.

Out of debt, out of danger. Pr.

Out of difficulties grow miracles. La Bruyère.

Out of Evil comes Good; and no Good that is possible but shall one day be real. Carlyle.

Out of my stony griefs / Bethel I'll raise. Adams.

Out of Plato come all things that are still 10 written and debated about among men of thought. Emerson.

Out of sight out of mind. Thomas à Kempis.

Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. Jesus.

Out of the eater cometh forth meat; out of the strong cometh forth sweetness. Samson's riddle.

Out of the frying-pan into the fire. Pr.

Out of the suffering comes the serious mind; 15 out of the salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance, faith. Ruskin.

Out of this nettle danger we pluck this flower safety. 1 Hen. IV., ii. 3.

Out upon the tempest of anger, the acrimonious gall of fretful impatience, the sullen frost of lowring resentment, or the corroding poison of withered envy! They eat up the immortal part of a man!... like traitor Iscariot, betray their lord and master. Burns.

[Greek: oute ti tôn anthrôpinôn axion on megalês spoudês]—Nothing in the affairs of mankind is worth serious anxiety. Plato.

Outward judgment often fails, inward justice never. Theo. Parker.

Outward religion originates by society; society 20 becomes possible by religion. Carlyle.

Ouvrage de longue haleine—A long-winded or tedious business. Fr.

Over the events of life we may have a control, but none whatever over the law of its progress. Draper.

Over the Time thou hast no power; solely over one man therein hast thou a quite absolute, uncontrollable power; him redeem, him make honest. Carlyle.

Over there it will not be otherwise than it is here. Goethe.

Overcome evil with good. St. Paul. 25

Overdone is worse than underdone. Pr.

Ovid finely compares a man of broken fortune to a falling column; the lower it sinks, the greater weight it is obliged to sustain. Goldsmith.

Owe no man anything, but to love one another; for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. St. Paul.

Oysters are not good in a month that hath not an R in it. Pr.

P.

Pabulum Acherontis—Food for Acheron, i.e., on 30 the verge of the grave. Plaut.

Pace tanti viri—If so great a man will forgive me.

Pacem hominibus habe, bellum cum vitiis—Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

Pacta conventa—Conditions agreed upon.

Pacte de famille—A family compact. Fr.

Pactum non pactum est; non pactum pactum 35 est; quod vobis lubet—A bargain is not a bargain, no bargain is a bargain, as it pleases you. Plaut.

Paga lo que debes, sabrás lo que tienes—Pay what you owe, and what you have you'll know. It. Pr.

"Pagan self-assertion" is one of the elements of human worth as well as "Christian self-denial." J. S. Mill.

Pain has its own noble joy, when it kindles a strong consciousness of life, before stagnant and torpid. J. Sterling.

Pain is less subject than pleasure to capricious expression. Johnson.

Pain is so uneasy a sentiment that very little 40 of it is enough to corrupt every enjoyment. Rogers.

Pain is the deepest thing we have in our nature, and union through pain has always seemed more real and holy than any other. Hallam.

Pain is the positive element in life, and pleasure its negation. Schopenhauer.

Pain past is pleasure. Pr.

Pain pays the income of each precious thing. Shakespeare.

Painful for man is rebellious independence 45 when it has become inevitable; only in loving companionship with his fellows does he feel safe; only in reverently bowing down before the Higher does he feel himself exalted. Carlyle.

Pains of love be sweeter far / Than all other pleasures are. Dryden.

Paint costs nothing. Dut. Pr.

"Paint me as I am." (?)

Painters draw their nymphs in thin and airy habits, but the weight of gold and of embroideries is reserved for queens and goddesses. Dryden.

Painting does not proceed so much by intelligence 50 as by sight and feeling and invention. Hamerton.

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry speaking painting. Simonides.

Painting is the intermediate between a thought and a thing. Coleridge.

Palabra de boca, piedra de honda—A word from the mouth is as a stone from a sling. Sp. Pr.

Palabra y piedra suelta no tiene vuelta—A word and a stone once launched cannot be recalled. Sp. Pr.

Palam mutire plebeio piaculum est—For a common man to mutter what he thinks is a risky venture.

Palinodiam canere—To recant.

Pallida mors æquo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas, / Regumque turres—Pale Death with impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of kings. Hor.

Palma non sine pulvere—The palm, but not 5 without a struggle. M.

Palma virtuti—The palm to virtue. M.

Palmam qui meruit ferat—Let him bear the palm that deserves it. M.

Panem et circenses—Bread and the games of the circus (what the Roman plebs took sole interest in). Juv.

Paper and leather and ink, / All are but trash / If I find not the thought / Which the writer can think. Dr. Walter Smith.

Par bene comparatum—A pair well matched. 10

Par droit de conquète et par droit de naissance—By right of conquest and by right of birth. Henry IV. of France.

Par excellence—Pre-eminently. Fr.

Par l'écoulement du temps—By the lapse of time. Fr.

Par le droit du plus fort—By the right of the strongest. Pr.

Par les mêmes voies on ne va pas toujours aux 15 mêmes fins—The same means do not always lead to the same ends. La Roche.

Par ma foi! l'âge ne sert de guère / Quand on n'a pas cela—By my faith, age serves but little if one has not that (brains). Molière.

Par manière d'acquit—For form's sake. Fr.

Par negotiis, neque supra—Equal to, and not above, his business. Tac.

Par nobile fratrum—A precious pair of brothers. Hor.

Par pari referto—Give him back tit for tat. Ter. 20

Par signe de mépris—In token of contempt. Fr.

Par ternis suppar—The two are equal to the three. M.

Par trop débattre la vérité se perd—The truth is sacrificed by too much disputation. Fr. Pr.

Par un prompt désespoir souvent on se marie, / Qu'on s'en repent après tout le temps de sa vie—We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after. Molière.

Paradise is always where love dwells. Jean 25 Paul.

Paradise is for those who control their anger. Koran.

Paradise is under the shadow of our swords. Mahomet.

Parasiticam cœnam quærit—He seeks the meal of a parasite or hanger-on.

Parce, puer, stimulis et fortius utere loris—Boy, spare the goad and more firmly grasp the reins. Ovid.

Parcere personis, dicere de vitiis—To spare persons, 30 to condemn crimes. Mart.

Parcere subjectis et debellare superbos—To spare the conquered, to subdue the haughty. Virg.

Parcite paucorum diffundere crimen in omnes—Forbear to lay the guilt of the few upon the many. Ovid.

Parcus Deorum cultor, et infrequens, / Insanientis dum sapientiæ / Consultus erro; nunc retrorsum / Vela dare, atque iterare cursus / Cogor relictos—A niggard and unfrequent worshipper of the gods, as long as I strayed from the way by senseless philosophy; I am now forced to turn my sail back, and to retrace the course I had deserted. Hor.

Pardon is the choicest flower of victory. Arab. Pr.

Parents are commonly more careful to bestow 35 wit on their children than virtue, the art of speaking well than of doing well; but their manners ought to be the great concern. Fuller.

Parents' blessings can neither be drowned in water nor consumed in fire. Pr.

Parents we can have but once; and he promises himself too much who enters life with the expectation of finding many friends. Johnson.

Pares cum paribus ut est in veteri proverbio facillime congregantur—As in the old proverb, "Like associates most naturally with like." Cic.

Parfois, élus maudits de la fureur suprême, / ... Ces envoyés du ciel sont apparus au monde / Comme s'ils venaient de l'enfer—Sometimes these ambassadors of heaven, the accursed elect of the wrath of heaven, appear in the world as though they came from hell. Victor Hugo.

Pari passu—With equal steps or pace; neck and 40 neck.

Pari ratione—By parity of reason.

Paritur pax bello—Peace is produced by war. Corn. Nep.

Parlez du loup et vous en verrez la queue—Speak of the wolf and you will see his tail; speak of the devil and he will appear. Fr. Pr.

Parlez peu et bien, si vous voulez qu'on vous regarde comme un homme de mérite—Speak little and well if you wish to be esteemed a man of merit. Fr.

Parliamentary government is government by 45 speaking. Macaulay.

Pars beneficii est quod petitur si belle neges—To refuse graciously is to confer a favour. Pub. Syr.

Pars beneficii est quod petitur si cito neges—To refuse a favour quickly is to grant one. Pub. Syr.

Pars hominum vitiis gaudet constanter, et urget / Propositum: pars multa natat, modo recta capessens, / Interdum pravis obnoxia—A portion of mankind glory consistently in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong. Hor.

Pars minima est ipsa puella sui—The girl herself is the least part of herself. Ovid.

Pars minima sui—The smallest part of himself 50 or itself.

Pars sanitatis velle sanari fuit—It is a step to the cure to be willing to be cured. Sen.

Parsimonia est magnum vectigal—Thrift is a great revenue. Cic.

Parsimony is enough to make the master of the golden mines as poor as he that has nothing; for a man may be brought to a morsel of bread by parsimony as well as profusion. Henry Home.

Parta tueri—Defend what you have won. M.

Partage de Montgomerie: tout d'un côté, rien de l'autre—A Montgomery division: everything on one side and nothing on the other. Fr. Pr.

Parthis mendacior—More mendacious than the Parthians. Hor.

Partial culture runs to the ornate; extreme culture to simplicity. Bovee.

Particeps criminis—A partaker in a crime; an accessory either before or after the fact.

Parties do not consider; they only feel. Ranke. 5

Parting day / Dies like a dolphin, whom each pang imbues / With a new colour as it gasps away, / The last still loveliest, till—'tis gone, and all is gray. Byron.

Parting is worse than death; it is death of love. Dryden.

Parting with a delusion makes one wiser than falling in with a truth. Börne.

Parturiunt montes, nascetur ridiculus mus—Mountains are in labour, a ridiculous mouse will be brought forth. Hor.

Party honesty is party expediency. G. Cleveland. 10

Party is the madness of many for the gain of the few. Pope.

Party standards are shadows in which patriotism is buried. Bernardine de St. Pierre.

Parva leves capiunt animos—Little minds are caught with trifles. Ovid.

Parva sunt hæc; sed parva ista non contemnendo majores nostri maximam hanc rem fecerunt—These are small things; but it was by not despising these small things that our forefathers made the commonwealth so great. Livy.

Parvis componere magna—To compare great 15 things with small. Virg.

Parvula (nam exemplo est) magni formica laboris / Ore trahit quodcunque potest atque addit acervo, / Quem struit, haud ignara ac non incauta futuri—The ant, for instance, is a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth all it can, and adds to the heap it piles up, not ignorant or improvident of the future. Hor.

Parvula scintilla sæpe magnum suscitavit incendium—A very small spark has often kindled a great conflagration.

Parvum non parvæ amicitiæ pignus—A slight pledge of no small friendship. M.

Parvum parva decent—Him that is little little things become. Hor.

Pas à pas on va bien loin—Step by step one goes 20 very far. Fr.

Pas un pouce de notre territoire, ni une pierre de nos forteresses!—Not an inch of our territory, not a stone of our fortresses! Jules Favre in 1870, to the demand of Germany.

Pascitur in vivis livor, post fata quiescit; / Tunc suus, ex merito, quemque tuetur honos—Envy feeds upon the living, after death it rests; then the honour a man deserves protects him. Ovid.

[Greek: Pasin gar eu phronousi symmachei tychê]—Fortune always fights on the side of the prudent. Critias.

Pass no rash censure upon other people's words or actions. Thomas à Kempis.

Passato il pericolo gabbato il santo—When the 25 danger is passed the saint is cheated. It. Pr.

Passe avant—Pass ahead. M.

Passe par tout—A master-key; a pass-key.

Passez-moi la rhubarbe et je vous passerai le séné—Pass you me the rhubarb, and I will pass you the senna, i.e., shut your eyes to my faults, and I will to yours. Molière.

Passion depraves, but also ennobles. Lamartine.

Passion drives the man, passions the woman; 30 him a stream, her the winds. Jean Paul.

Passion is the drunkenness of the mind. South.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance, art, would be useless. Balzac.

Passion looks not beyond the moment of its existence. Bovee.

Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions. Jean Paul.

Passion makes the will lord of the reason. 35 Shakespeare. (?)

Passion often makes a fool of the most ingenious man, and often makes the greatest blockhead ingenious. Thomson.

Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring. Emerson.

Passionate people are like men who stand upon their heads; they see all things in the wrong way. Plato.

Passions are likened best to floods and streams; / The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb. Sir W. Raleigh.

Passions are the gales of life. Pope. 40

Passions are the vices or virtues in their highest powers. Goethe.

Passions existed before principles; they came into the world with us. Mrs. Jameson.

Passions may not unfitly be termed the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason. Wm. Penn.

Passions spin the plot; we are betrayed by what is false within. George Meredith.

Past and to come seem best, things present 45 worst. 2 Hen. IV., i. 2.

Pastime, like wine, is poison in the morning. Thomas Fuller.

Patch and long sit, / Build and soon flit. Pr.

Patch grief with proverbs. Much Ado, v. 1.

Pater familias—The father of a family.

Pater noster—Our father; the Lord's prayer. 50

Pater patriæ—The father of his country.

[Greek: pathêmata—mathêmata]—We learn from the things we suffer. Æsop.

Patience and perseverance overcome the greatest difficulties. Clarissa.

Patience, and shuffle the cards. Cervantes.

Patience et longueur de temps / Font plus 55 que force ni que rage—Patience and length of time accomplish more than violence and rage. La Fontaine.

Patience had no sooner placed herself by the mount of sorrows, but the whole heap sunk to such a degree, that it did not appear a third part so big as it was before. Addison.

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius. Disraeli.

Patience is a plaister for all sores. Pr.

Patience is a remedy for every sorrow. Pub. Syr.

Patience is a stout horse, but it will tire at the last. Pr.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. Rousseau.

Patience is even more rarely manifested in the intellect than in the temper. Helps.

Patience is genius. Buffon.

Patience is good for poltroons. 3 Hen. VI., 5 i. 1.

Patience is sister to meekness, and humility is its mother. Saying.

Patience is the art of hoping. Vauvenargues.

Patience is the ballast of the soul, that will keep it from rolling and tumbling in the greatest storms. Bp. Hopkins.

Patience is the key of content. Mahomet.

Patience is the key of Paradise. Turk. Pr. 10

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience, the ruin of strength. Colton.

Patience, money, and time bring all things to pass. Pr.

Patience of obscurity is a duty which we owe not more to our happiness than to the quiet of the world at large. Sydney Smith.

Patience passe science—Patience surpasses knowledge. M.

Patience, unmoved, no marvel though she 15 pause; / They can be meek that have no other cause. Com. of Errors, ii. 1.

Patience wears out stones. Gael. Pr.

Patience, when it is a divine thing, is active, not passive. Lowell.

Patience wi' poverty is a man's best remedy. Sc. Pr.

Patient waiters are no losers. Pr.

Patientia læsa fit furor—Patience abused becomes 20 fury.

Patientia vinces—You will conquer by patience. M.

Patiently add farthing to farthing. Goldsmith.

Patitur qui vincit—He suffers who conquers. M.

Patria cara, carior libertas—Dear is my country, but liberty is dearer. M.

Patria quis exul / Se quoque fugit?—What 25 fugitive from his country can also fly from himself? Hor.

Patriæ fumus igne alieno luculentior—The smoke of our own country is brighter than fire in a foreign one. Pr.

Patriæ infelici fidelis—Faithful to my unhappy country. M.

Patriæ pietatis imago—The image of his filial affection. Virg.

Patriæ solum omnibus carum est—The soil of their native land is dear to the hearts of all men. Cic.

Patriotism depends as much on mutual suffering 30 as on mutual success. Disraeli.

Patriotism has its roots deep in the instincts and the affections. Love of country is the expansion of filial love. D. D. Field.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. Johnson.

Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence. G. W. Curtis.

Patriotism must be founded on great principles and supported by great virtue. Bolingbroke.

[Greek: patris gar esti pas', hin' an prattê tis eu]—One's 35 country is wherever things go well with him. Aristophanes.

Patroclus is dead, who was better by far than thou. Hom.

Patronage, that is, pecuniary or other economic furtherance, has been pronounced to be twice cursed, cursing him that gives and him that takes. Carlyle.

Pauca Catonis verba, sed a pleno venientia pectore veri—The words of Cato were few, but they came from a heart full of truth. Lucan.

Pauca verba—Few words.

Pauci dignoscere possunt / Vera bona, atque 40 illis multum diversa—Few men can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse. Juv.

Paucis carior est fides quam pecunia—To few is good faith more than valuable money. Sall., of his own times.

Paul Pry is on the spy. Pr.

Paullatim—By degrees. M.

Paulum sepultæ distat inertiæ / Celata virtus—Worth that is hidden differs little from buried sloth. Hor.

Pauper enim non est cui rerum suppetit usus. / 45 Si ventri bene, si lateri pedibusque tuis, nil / Divitiæ poterunt regales addere majus—That man is not poor who has a sufficiency for all his wants. If it is well with your stomach, your lungs, and your feet, the wealth of kings can add no more. Hor.

Pauper sum, fateor, patior; quod Di dant fero—I am poor, I admit; I put up with it. What the gods give I bear with. Plaut.

Pauper ubique jacet—Everywhere the poor man is despised. Ovid.

Pauperism is our social sin grown manifest. Carlyle.

Pauperism is the general leakage through every joint of the ship that is rotten. Carlyle.

Paupertas est, non quæ pauca possidet, sed 50 quæ multa non possidet—Poverty is not possessing few things, but lacking many things. Sen.

Paupertas fugitur, totoque arcessitur orbe—Poverty is shunned and treated as criminal throughout the world. Lucan.

Paupertatis pudor et fuga—The shame and the bugbear of poverty. Hor.

Pauperum solatio—For the solace of the poor. M.

Pauvres gens, je les plains; car on a pour les fous / Plus de pitié que de courroux—Poor people, I pity them; for one always entertains for fools more pity than anger. Boileau, on disappointed authors.

Pavore carent qui nihil commiserunt; at 55 pœnam semper ob oculos versari putant qui peccarunt—The innocent are free from fear; but the guilty have always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

Pax Cererem nutrit, pacis alumna Ceres—Peace is the nurse of Ceres; Ceres is the nursling of Peace. Ovid.

Pax in bello—Peace in war. M.

Pax paritur bello—Peace is produced by war. Corn. Nep.

Pax vobiscum—Peace be with you.

Pay as you go is the philosopher's stone. S. 60 Randolph of Roanoke.

Pay beforehand if you would have your work ill done. Pr.

Pay good wages, or your servants will pay themselves. Pr.

Pay not before thy work be done; if thou dost, it will never be well done, and thou wilt have but a pennyworth for twopence. Franklin.

Pay the reckoning over-night, and you won't be troubled in the morning. Pr.

Pay well when you are served well. Pr. 5

Pay what you owe, and what you're worth you'll know. Pr.

Pay without fail, / Down on the nail. Pr.

Pazza è chi non sa da che parte vien il vento—He is a senseless fellow who does not know from what quarter the wind blows. It. Pr.

Peace hath her victories, / No less renown'd than war. Milton.

Peace is liberty in tranquility. Cic. 10

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful. Schiller.

Peace is the happy natural state of man; war his corruption, his disgrace. Thomson.

Peace is the masterpiece of reason. J. Müller.

Peace, justice, and the word of God must be given to the people, not sold. Ruskin.

Peace, of all worldly blessings, is the most 15 valuable. Smallridge.

Peace with a cudgel in hand is war. Port. Pr.

Peacefully and reasonably to contemplate is at no time hurtful, and while we use ourselves to think of the advantages of others, our own mind comes insensibly to imitate them; and every false activity to which our fancy was alluring us is then willingly abandoned. Goethe.

Peccare docentes / Fallax historias movet—He deceitfully relates stories that are merely lessons in vice. Hor.

Peccare licet nemini—No one has leave to sin. Cic.

Peccavi—I have sinned. To cry "peccavi" is to 20 acknowledge one's error.

Péché avoué est à moitié pardonné—A sin confessed is half forgiven. Fr. Pr.

Pectus est quod disertos facit—It is the heart which inspires eloquence. Quinct.

Pecuniam in loco negligere / Interdum maximum est lucrum—To despise money on proper occasions is sometimes a very great gain. Ter.

Pecuniam perdidisti: fortasse illa te perderet manens—You have lost your money; perhaps, if you had kept it, it would have lost you.

Pedanterie setzt ganz nothwendig Leere—Pedantry 25 quite necessarily presupposes vacancy. Rahel.

Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber, and takes out our brains to make room for it. Colton.

Pedantry is properly overrating any kind of knowledge we pretend to. Swift.

Pedibus timor addidit alas—Fear gave wings to his feet.

Peevishness covers with its dark fog even the most distant horizon. Jean Paul.

Pegasus im Joche—Pegasus in harness. Schiller. 30

Peggior della morte è il turpe riposo—Worse than death is shameful repose. Niccolo Tommaseo.

Peine forte et dure—Heavy and severe punishment (specially that of putting heavy weights on prisoners who refused to plead).

Pelt all dogs that bark, and you will need many stones. Pr.

[Greek: pêm' epi pêmati]—Evil on the top of evil.

Pence well-spent are better than pence ill-spared. 35 Pr.

Pendente lite—While the suit is pending.

Pendre la crémaillère—To give a house-warming. Fr.

Penetration has an air of divination; it pleases our vanity more than any other quality of the mind. La Roche.

Penitus toto divisos orbe Britannos—The Britons, quite sundered from all the world. Virg.

Penny goes after penny, / Till Peter hasn't 40 any. Pr.

Penny wise is often pound foolish. Pr.

Pense ce que tu veux, dis ce que tu dois—Think what you like, say what you ought. Fr. Pr.

Pense moult, parle peu, écris moins—Think much, speak little, write less. Fr. Pr.

Penser, vivre, et mourir en roi—To think, live, and die as a king. Frederick the Great.

Pensez à bien—Think of good. M. 45

People abuse freedom only where they have asserted it, not where it has been given them. Börne.

People are always expecting to get peace in heaven; but you know whatever peace they get there will be ready-made. Whatever of making peace they can be blest for must be on the earth here. Ruskin.

People are only accustomed to revolve around themselves. Goethe.

People are rendered sociable by their inability to endure their own society. Schiller.

People are wise for the past day in the evening, 50 but never wise enough for the coming one. Rückert.

People, crushed by laws, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous, more or less. Burke.

People dispute a great deal about the good that is done and the harm by disseminating the Bible (Bibelverbreitung). To me this is clear: the Bible will do harm if, as hitherto, it is used dogmatically and interpreted fancifully, and it will do good if it is treated feelingly and applied didactically. Goethe.

People do not care to give alms without some security for their money; and a wooden leg or a withered arm is a sort of draft upon heaven for those who choose to have their money placed to account there. Mackenzie.

People do not lack strength; they lack will. Victor Hugo.

People do not mind their faults being spread 55 out before them, but they become impatient if called upon to give them up. Goethe.

People in adversity should preserve laudable customs. Clarissa.

People (in authority) are accustomed merely to forbid, to hinder, to refuse, but rarely to bid, to further, and to reward. They let things go along till some mischief happens; then they fly into a rage, and lay about them. Goethe.

People love to have all rash actions done in a hurry. Goldsmith.

People may live as much retired from the world as they like, but sooner or later they find themselves debtor or creditor to some one. Goethe.

People must begin before they attempt to finish or improve. Wm. Blake.

People seem to think themselves in some 5 ways superior to heaven itself, when they complain of the sorrow and want round about them; and yet it is not the devil for certain who puts pity into their hearts. Anne J. Thackeray.

People should never sit talking till they don't know what to talk about. Saying.

People that are like-minded (Gleichgesinnten) can never for any length be disunited (entzweien); they always come together again; whereas those that are not like-minded (Widergesinnten) try in vain to maintain harmony; the essential discord between them will be sure to break out some day. Goethe.

People that have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company. J. Collier.

People that make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism. Holmes.

People that will crowd about bonfires may, 10 sometimes very fairly, get their beards singed; it is the price they pay for such illumination; natural twilight is safe and free to all. Carlyle.

People throw stones only at trees which have fruit on them. Pr.

People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding up a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy. Sterne.

People who are too sharp cut their own fingers. Pr.

People who can't be witty exert themselves to be pious and affectionate. George Eliot.

People who do not know how to laugh are always 15 pompous and self-conceited. Thackeray.

People who have little to do are great talkers. The less they think the more they talk, and so women talk more than men. A nation where women determine the fashion is always talkative. Montesquieu.

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be consistent. Holmes.

People who live in glass houses should never throw stones. Pr.

People who never have any time are those who do least. Lichtenberg. (?)

People will not look forward to posterity who 20 never look backward to their ancestors. Burke.

People would do well if, tarrying here for years together, they observed a while a Pythagorean silence. Goethe.

People would do well if they would keep piety, which is so essential and lovable in life, distinct from art, where, owing to its very simplicity and dignity, it checks their energy, allowing only the very highest mind freedom to unite with, if not actually to master, it. Goethe.

Per accidens—By accident, i.e., not following from the nature of the thing, but from some accidental circumstance.

Per acuta belli—Through the perils of war. M.

Per angusta ad augusta—Through hardship to 25 triumph. M.

Per annum—By the year; yearly.

Per ardua liberi—Free through difficulty. M.

Per aspera ad astra—over rough paths to the stars. M.

Per contra—On the other hand.

Per Deum et ferrum obtinui—I have obtained 30 it by God and my sword. M.

Per fas et nefas—By right ways and by wrong.

Per il suo contrario—By its opposite. M.

Per incuriam—Through carelessness.

Per mare per terram—By sea and land. M.

Per obitum—Through the death of. 35

Per quod servitium amisit—For loss of his or her services. L.

Per saltam—By a leap; by passing over the intermediate steps.

Per undas et ignes fluctuat nec mergitur—Through water and fire she goes plunging but is not submerged. M. of Paris.

Per varios casus, per tot discrimina rerum—Through manifold misfortunes, and so many perils. Virg.

Per vias rectas—By direct ways. M. 40

Peras imposuit Jupiter nobis duas; / Propriis repletam vitiis post tergum dedit. / Alienis ante pectus suspendit gravem—Jupiter has laid two wallets on us; he has placed one behind our backs filled with our own faults, and has hung another before, heavy with the faults of other people. Phædr.

Percunctatorem fugito, nam garrulus idem est; / Nec retinent patulæ commissa fideliter aures—Avoid an inquisitive person, for he is sure to be a gossip; ears always open to hear will not keep faithfully what is intrusted to them. Hor.

Perdidit arma, locum virtutis deseruit, qui / Semper in augenda festinat et obruitur re—He has lost his arms and deserted the cause of virtue who is ever eager and engrossed in increasing his wealth. Hor.

Perdis, et in damno gratia nulla tuo—You lose, and for your loss get no thanks. Ovid.

Pereant amici, dum una inimici intercidant—Let 45 our friends perish, provided our enemies fall along with them. Gr. and Lat. Pr., quoted by Cicero to condemn it.

Pereunt et imputantur—They (hours) pass, and are placed to our account. Mart.

Perfect existence can only be where spirit and body are one; an embodied spirit, a spiritual body. (?)

Perfect experience must itself embrace theoretical knowledge. Goethe.

Perfect life is ever in one's acts to deal with innocence, which proves itself in doing wrong to no one but itself. Goethe.

Perfect light / Would dazzle, not illuminate, the sight; / From earth it is enough to glimpse at heaven. Lord Houghton.

Perfect love canna be without equality. Sc. Pr.

Perfect love casteth out fear. St. John.

Perfect love holds the secret of the world's perfect liberty. J. G. Holland.

Perfect woman, nobly planned, / To warn, to 5 comfort, and command; / And yet a spirit still, and bright / With something of an angel light. Wordsworth.

Perfect works are rare, because they must be produced at the happy moment when taste and genius unite: and this rare conjunction, like that of certain planets, appears to occur only after the revolution of several cycles, and only lasts for an instant. Chateaubriand.

Perfecting is our destiny, but perfection is never our lot. J. C. Weber.

Perfection is not the affair of the scholar; it is enough if he practises. Goethe.

Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim—Bear and endure; this sorrow will one day prove to be for your good. Ovid.

Perfer et obdura; multo graviora tulisti—Bear 10 and endure; you have borne much heavier misfortunes than these. Ovid.

Perfervidum ingenium Scotorum—The very ardent temper of the Scots.

Perfida, sed quamvis perfida, cara tamen—Faithless, but, though faithless, still dear. Tibull.

Pergis pugnantia secum / Frontibus adversis componere—You are attempting to reconcile things which are opposite in their natures. Hor.

"Perhaps" hinders folks from lying. Pr.

Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to 15 denote the manners of the gentleman. Hazlitt.

Perhaps the early grave / Which men weep over may be meant to save. Byron.

Periculosæ plenum opus aleæ / Tractas, et incedis per ignes / Suppositos cineri doloso—The work you are treating is one full of dangerous hazard, and you are treading over fires lurking beneath treacherous ashes. Hor.

Periculosum est credere et non credere; / Ergo exploranda est veritas, multam prius / Quam stulta prave judicet sententia—It is equally dangerous to believe and to disbelieve; therefore search diligently into the truth rather than suffer an erroneous impression to pervert your judgment. Phædr.

Periculum in mora—There is danger in delay.

Perierunt tempora longi / Servitii—My long 20 period of service has led to no advancement. Juv.

Perimus licitis—We come to ruin by permitted things. Pr.

Perish discretion when it interferes with duty. Hannah More.

Périsse l'univers pourvu que je me venge!—Let the universe perish, provided I have my revenge! Cyrano.

Périssons en résistant!—Let us die resisting! Fr.

Perituræ parcite chartæ—Spare the paper which 25 is fated to perish. Adapted from Juvenal.

Perjuria ridet amantum Jupiter—Jupiter laughs at the perjuries of lovers. Ovid.