DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS. (continued 24)

Some have been thought brave because they 15 were afraid to run away. Pr.

Some men are born anvils, some are born hammers. (?)

Some men are like nails, easily drawn; others are like rivets, not drawable at all. John Burroughs.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise. Pr.

Some men, at the approach of a dispute, neigh like horses. Unless there be an argument going on, they think nothing is doing. Emerson.

Some men demand rough treatment everywhere. 20 S. C. Hall.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood. Pr.

Some men have just imagination enough to spoil their judgment. (?)

Some men, like spaniels, will only fawn the more when repulsed, but will pay little heed to a friendly caress. Abd-el-Kader.

Some men weave their sophistry till their own reason is entangled. Johnson.

Some men will believe nothing but what they 25 can comprehend; and there are but few things that such are able to comprehend. St. Evermond.

Some men's sins are open beforehand, going before to judgement; and some men they follow after. St Paul.

Some modern zealots appear to have no better knowledge of truth, nor better manner of judging it, than by counting noses. Swift.

Some must be great. Cowper.

Some of our weaknesses are born in us, others are the result of education; it is a question which of the two gives us most trouble. Goethe.

Some of the most famous books are least 30 worth reading. Their fame was due to their doing something that needed in their day to be done. The work done, the virtue of the book expires. John Morley.

Some of your griefs you have cured, / And the sharpest you still have survived; / But what torments of pain you endured / From evils that never arrived! Emerson, from the French.

Some old men, by continually praising the time of their youth, would almost persuade us that there were no fools in those days; but unluckily they are left themselves for examples. Pope.

Some people are all quality; you would think they were made up of nothing but title and genealogy. The stamp of dignity defaces in them the very character of humanity, and transports them to such a degree of haughtiness that they reckon it below themselves to exercise either good-nature or good manners. L'Estrange.

Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half way to meet it. D. Jerrold.

Some people carry their hearts in their heads; 35 very many carry their heads in their hearts. The difficulty is to keep them apart, yet both actively working together. Hare.

Some people obtain fame, and others deserve it. Lessing.

Some people pass through life soberly and religiously enough, without knowing why, or reasoning about it, but, from force of habit merely, go to heaven like fools. Sterne.

Some people will never learn anything, because they understand everything too soon. (?)

Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them. B. R. Haydon.

Some persons, instead of making a religion for 40 their God, are content to make a god of their religion. Helps.

Some persons take reproof good-humouredly enough, unless you are so unlucky as to hit a sore place. Then they wince and writhe, and start up and knock you down for your impertinence, or wish you good morning. Hare.

Some philosophers seek to exalt man by display of his greatness, others to debase him by pointing to his miseries. Pascal.

Some prayers, indeed, have a longer voyage than others, but then they return with richer lading at last. Gurnall.

Some read books only with a view to find fault, while others read only to be taught; the former are like venomous spiders, extracting a poisonous quality, where the latter, like the bees, sip out a sweet and profitable juice. L'Estrange.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall; / 45 Some run from brakes of vice and answer none, / And some condemnéd for a fault alone. Meas. for Measure., ii. 1.

Some slaves are scourged to their work by whips, others by restlessness and ambition. Ruskin.

Some straw, a room, water, and in the fourth place, gentle words. These things are never to be refused in good men's houses. Hitopadesa.

Some talkers excel in the precision with which they formulate their thoughts, so that you get from them somewhat to remember; others lay criticism asleep by a charm. Emerson.

Some tears belong to us because we are unfortunate; others, because we are humane; many, because we are mortal. But most are caused by our being unwise. It is these last only that of necessity produce more. Leigh Hunt.

Some that speak no ill of any do no good to 5 any. Pr.

Some there be that shadows kiss, / Such have but a shadow's bliss. Mer. of Venice, ii. 9.

Some to whom Heaven in wit has been profuse, / Want as much more to turn it to its use. Pope.

Some treasures are heavy with human tears, as an ill-stored harvest with untimely rain; and some gold is brighter in sunshine than in substance. Ruskin.

Some troops pursue the bloody-minded queen / That led calm Henry. 3 Hen. VI., ii. 6.

Some village Hampden, that with dauntless 10 breast / The little tyrant of his fields withstood, / Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, / Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Gray.

Some virtues are only seen in affliction, and some in prosperity. Addison.

Some wee short hours ayont the twal. Burns.

Some work in the morning may trimly be done, / That all the day after may hardly be won. Tusser.

Some would be thought to do great things who are but tools and instruments, like the fool who fancied he played upon the organ when he only blew the bellows. (?)

Something attempted, something done, / Has 15 earned a night's repose. Longfellow.

Something between a hindrance and a help. Wordsworth.

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. Ham., i. 4.

Something is wanting to science until it has been humanised. Emerson.

Something of a person's character may be discovered by observing when and how he smiles. Some people never smile. They only grin. Bovee.

Sometimes from her eyes / I did receive fair 20 speechless messages. Mer. of Venice, i. 1.

Sometimes ideas are made flesh; they breathe upon us with warm breath; they touch us with soft responsive hands; they look upon us with sad, sincere eyes, and speak to us in appealing tones. George Eliot.

Sometimes the half is better than the whole, / And sometimes worse than none; the dubious soul / Suspects the secret there in what is hid, / And holds the rest but trash. Dr. Walter Smith.

Sometimes / 'Tis well to be bereft of promised good, / That we may lift the soul, and contemplate / With lively joy the joys we cannot share. Coleridge.

Somnus agrestium / Lenis virorum non humiles domos / Fastidit, umbrosamque ripam—The gentle sleep of rustic men disdains not humble dwellings and the shady bank. Hor.

Somnus est imago mortis—Sleep is the image of 25 death. Cic.

Son genre n'est pas le plus grand, mais elle est la plus grande dans son genre—Its kind is not the greatest, but it is the greatest of its kind. (?).

Sonder Falsch wie die Tauben! und ihr beleidiget keinen; / Aber klug wie die Schlangen und euch beleidiget keiner—Innocent as doves, you will harm no one; but wise as serpents, no one will harm you. Haug.

Song is the heroic of speech. Carlyle,

Song is the tone of feeling. Hare.

Songs may exist unsung, but voices exist 30 only when they sound. Landor.

Soon enough, if well enough. Pr.

Soon hot, soon cold. Pr.

Soon or late the strong need the help of the weak. Fr. Pr.

Soon ripe, soon rotten. Pr.

Sooner earth / Might go round heaven, and 35 the strait girth of Time / Inswathe the fulness of Eternity, / Than language grasp the infinite of Love. Tennyson.

Sooner or later the truth comes to light. Dut. Pr.

Soothed with the sound, the king grew vain, / Fought all his battles o'er again; / And thrice he routed all his foes, / And thrice he slew the slain. Dryden.

[Greek: sophên de misô; mê gar en g' emois domois / Eiê phronousa pleion ê gynaika chrên]—I hate a learned woman. Let no woman in my house know more than a woman should. Eurip.

Sordid and infamous sensuality, the most dreadful of the evils that issued from the box of Pandora, corrupts every heart and eradicates every virtue. Fénelon.

Sorex suo perit indicio—The mouse perishes by 40 betraying himself. Pr.

Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours, / Makes the night morning and the noontide night. Rich. III.

Sorrow concealed, like an oven stopped, / Doth burn the heart to cinders where it is. Titus Andron., ii. 5.

Sorrow has ever produced more melody than mirth. C. Fitzhugh.

Sorrow has not been given us for sorrow's sake, but always as a lesson from which we are to learn somewhat, which once learned, it ceases to be sorrow. Carlyle.

Sorrow is always toward ourselves, not 45 heaven; / Showing, we would not spare heaven, as we love it, / But as we stand in fear. Meas. for Meas., ii. 3.

Sorrow is an enemy, but it carries a friend's message within it too. All life is as death; and the tree Igdrasil, which reaches up to heaven, goes down to the kingdom of hell; and God, the Everlasting Good and Just, is in it all. Carlyle.

Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better. Bible.

Sorrow is good for nothing but sin. Pr.

Sorrow is knowledge; they who know the most must mourn the deepest over the fatal truth, the tree of knowledge is not that of life. Byron.

Sorrow is shadow to life, moving where life doth move. Sir Edwin Arnold.

Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity 5 will cleanse and brighten it. Johnson.

Sorrow, like a heavy-hanging bell, once set on ringing, with his own strength goes; then little strength rings out the doleful knell. Shakespeare.

Sorrow like this / Draws parted lives in one, and knits anew / The rents which time has made. Lewis Morris.

Sorrow of spirit (like Night among the Greeks) is the mother of gods. Jean Paul.

Sorrow seems sent for our instruction, as we darken the cages of birds when we would teach them to sing. Jean Paul.

Sorrow that is couched in seeming gladness / 10 Is like that mirth fate turns to sudden sadness. Troil. and Cress., i. 1.

Sorrow will pay no debt. Pr.

Sorrows are like thunder-clouds—in the distance they look black, over our heads hardly gray. Jean Paul.

Sorrows are often evolved from good fortune. Goethe.

Sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things. Tennyson.

Sorrows remembered sweeten present joy. 15 R. Pollok.

Sors tua mortalis; non est mortale quod optas—Thy lot is mortal, and thou wishest what no mortal may. Ovid.

Sort thy heart to patience; / These few days' wonder will be quickly worn. 2 Henry VI., ii. 4.

Sotto voce—In an undertone. It.

Souffrir est la première chose qu'il doit apprendre, et celle qu'il aura le plus grand besoin de savoir—To be able to endure is the first lesson which a child ought to learn, and the one which it will have the most need to know. Rousseau.

Souls made of fire, and children of the sun, 20 with whom revenge is virtue. Young.

Souls must become expanded by the contemplation of Nature's grandeur before they can first comprehend the greatness of man. Heine.

Sound and sufficient reason falls, after all, to the share of but few men, and those few men exert their influence in silence. Goethe.

Sound maxims are the germs of good; strongly imprinted on the memory, they nourish the will. Joubert.

Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! / To all the sensual world proclaim, / One crowded hour of glorious life / Is worth an age without a name. Scott.

Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea! / 25 Jehovah has triumph'd, His people are free. Moore.

Sound trumpets!—let our bloody colours wave; / And either victory or else a grave. 3 Hen. VI., ii. 2.

Soupçon est d'amitié poison—Suspicion is the poison of friendship. Fr. Pr.

Sour woe delights in fellowship, / And needly will be rank'd with other griefs. Rom. and Jul., iii. 2.

Souvent la perfidie retourne sur son auteur—Treachery often recoils on the head of its author. Fr.

Sow good works and you will reap gladness. Pr. 30

Soyez comme l'oiseau, posé pour un instant / Sur des rameaux trop frêles, / Qui sent ployer la branche et qui chante pourtant, / Sachant qu'il a des ailes—Be as the bird perched for an instant on the too frail branch which she feels bending beneath, but sings away all the same, knowing she has wings. Victor Hugo.

Soyez ferme—Be firm. M.

Soyons doux, si nous voulons être regrettés. La hauteur du génie et les qualités supérieures ne sont pleurées que des anges—Let us be gentle if we would be regretted. The pride of genius and high talents are lamented only by angels. Chateaubriand.

Space is the statue of God. Joubert.

Spare but to spend, and only spend to spare. Pr. 35

Spare the rod and spoil the child. Pr.

Sparen ist grössere Kunst als erwerben—Saving is a greater art than gaining. Ger. Pr.

Sparing or spending, be thy wisdom seen / In keeping ever to the golden mean. Lucian.

Speak every man truth with his neighbour. St. Paul.

Speak gently!—'tis a little thing, / Dropped 40 in the heart's deep well. Anon.

Speak in such a manner between two enemies, that, should they afterwards become friends, you may not be put to the blush. Saadi.

Speak little and to the purpose. Pr.

Speak little, but speak the truth. Pr.

Speak no evil of a man if you know it not of him for certain, and if you do know it, then ask yourself, "Why do I tell it?" Lavater.

Speak not at all till you have somewhat to 45 speak; and care simply and with undivided mind for the truth of your speaking. Carlyle.

Speak not peace to thyself when beset on every side with numerous and restless enemies. Thomas à Kempis.

Speak o' the deil and he'll appear. Sc. Pr.

Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, / Nor set down aught in malice. Then must you speak / Of one who loved not wisely but too well. Othello, v. 2.

Speak that I may see thee. Addison.

Speak the truth, and all nature and all spirits 50 help you with unexpected furtherance; all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there do seem to stir and move to bear you witness. Emerson.

Speak the truth and shame the devil. Pr.

Speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward. Bible.

Speak well of the absent whenever you have a suitable opportunity. Judge Hale.

Speak well of your friend; of your enemy say nothing. Pr.

Speak when you are spoken to, and come 55 when you are called for. Pr.

Speak your sincerest, think your wisest; there is still a great gulf between you and the fact. Carlyle.

Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding. Ger. Pr.

Speaking much is a sign of vanity; for he that is lavish in words is a niggard in deed. Sir W. Raleigh.

Speaking without thinking is shooting without aim. Pr.

Spectatum veniunt, veniunt spectentur ut ipsæ—The 5 ladies come to see, they come also to be seen. Ovid.

Spectemur agendo—Let us be tried by our actions. M.

Spectres exist for those only who wish to see them. Holtei.

Speculation should have free course and look fearlessly towards all the thirty-two points of the compass, whithersoever and howsoever it listeth. Carlyle.

Speech, even the commonest, has something of song in it. Carlyle.

Speech has been given to man to disguise his 10 thought. Talleyrand.

Speech is a laggard and a sloth, but the eyes shoot forth an electric fluid that condenses all the elements of sentiment and passion in one single emanation. Horace Smith.

Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech. Rivarol.

Speech is like tapestry unfolded, where the imagery appears distinct; but thoughts, like tapestry in the bale, where the figures are rolled up together. Themistocles, quoted by Bacon.

Speech is morning to the mind; it spreads the beauteous images abroad, which else lie furled or clouded in the soul. Nathaniel Lee.

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to 15 convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense. Emerson.

Speech is the gift of all, but thought of few. Cato.

Speech is too often, not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling or suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal. Carlyle.

Speech of a man's self ought to be seldom and well chosen. Bacon.

Speech that leads not to action, still more that hinders it, is a nuisance on the earth. Carlyle.

Speedy execution is the mother of good fortune. 20 Pr.

Spem gregis—The hope of the flock. Virg.

Spem pretio non emo—I do not give money for mere hopes. Ter.

Spend not on hopes. George Herbert.

Sperat infestis, metuit secundis / Alteram sortem bene præparatum / Pectus—A heart well prepared in adversity hopes for, and in prosperity fears, a change of fortune. Hor.

Sperate, et vosmet rebus servate secundis—Hope 25 on, and reserve yourselves for prosperous times. Virg.

Speravi—I have hoped. M.

Speravimus ista / Dum fortuna fuit—I hoped that once, while fortune was favourable. Virg.

Spero meliora—I hope for better things. M.

Spes bona dat vires, animum quoque spes bona firmat; / Vivere spe vidi qui moriturus erat—Good hope gives strength, good hope also confirms resolution; him who was on the point of death, I have seen revive by hope.

Spes mea Christus—Christ is my hope. M. 30

Spes mea in Deo—My hope is in God. M.

Spes sibi quisque—Each man must hope in himself alone. Virg.

Spes tutissima cœlis—The safest hope is in heaven. M.

Spesso chi troppo fa, poco fa—Often he who does too much does little. It. Pr.

Spesso d'un gran male nasce un gran bene—Out 35 of a great evil there springs a great good. It. Pr.

Spesso i doni sono danni—Gifts are oftentimes losses. It. Pr.

Spesso la tardità ti toglie l'occasione et la celerità le forze—Tardiness often robs us of opportunity, and too great despatch of our force. Machiavelli.

Spill not the morning (the quintessence of the day) in recreation, for sleep itself is a recreation. Add not, therefore, sauce to sauce. Fuller.

Spinner, spin softly, you disturb me. I am praying. Port. Prov.

Spinoza was a God-intoxicated man (Gott-getrunkener 40 Mensch). Novalis.

Spirit is the creator. Spirit hath life in itself. And man in all ages and countries embodies it in his language as the Father. Emerson.

Spirit of Nature! / The pure diffusion of thy essence throbs / Alike in every human heart. / Thou aye erectest there / Thy throne of power unappealable; / Thou art the judge beneath whose nod / Man's brief and frail authority / Is powerless as the wind / That passeth idly by. / Thine the tribunal which surpasseth / The show of human justice, / As God surpasseth man. Schelling.

Spirit-power begins in directing animal power to other than egoistic ends. Ruskin.

Spirits are not finely touch'd / But to fine issues, nor Nature never lends / The smallest scruple of her excellence / But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines / Herself the glory of a creditor, / Both thanks and use. Meas. for Meas., i. 1.

Spirits, when they please, / Can either sex 45 assume, or both. Milton.

Spiritual music can only spring from discords set in unison; but for evil there were no good, as victory is only possible by battle. Carlyle.

Spite of all the criticising elves, / Those who would make us feel must feel themselves. Burke.

Spite of cormorant devouring Time, / The endeavour of this present breath may buy / That honour which will bate his scythe's keen edge, / And make us heirs of all eternity. Love's L.'s Lost, i. 1.

Splendida vitia—Splendid vices. Tertullian, of Pagan virtues.

Splendide mendax—Nobly false or disloyal. 50 Hor.

Spolia opima—The richest of the spoil.

Sport is the bloom and glow of perfect health. Emerson.

Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden—Speech is silvern, silence golden. Swiss M.

Sprich nicht von Zeit, sprich nicht von Raum, / Denn Raum und Zeit sind nur ein Traum, / Ein schwerer Traum, den nur vergisst, / Wer durch die Liebe glücklich ist—Speak not of time, speak not of space, for space and time are but a dream, a heavy dream, which he who is happy in love only forgets. Bodenstedt.

Sprich vom Geheimniss nicht geheimnissvoll—Speak not mysteriously of what is a mystery. Goethe.

St. Theresa right well defines the devil as an 5 unfortunate who knows not what it is to love. C. J. Weber.

Stab at thee who will, / No stab the soul can kill. Raleigh.

Stabat mater dolorosa / Juxta crucem lacrymosa / Qua pendebat Filius—She stood a sorrow-stricken mother, weeping by the Cross where her son hung dying.

Stabit quocunque jeceris—It will stand, whichever way you throw it. Legend on the three-legged crest of the Isle of Man.

Stagnation is something more than death, it is corruption also. Simms.

Stain (blemish) not thy innocence by too deep 10 resentment, nor take off from the brightness of thy crown by anger and impatience and eagerness to right thyself. Thomas à Kempis.

Stand fast! to stand or fall, / Free in thine own arbitrament it stands. Milton.

Stand not upon the order of your going, / But go at once. Macb., iii. 4.

"Stand out of the sun." Diogenes to Alexander the Great, and which made Alexander remark, "If I were not Alexander I would be Diogenes."

Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord. Bible.

Stand up bravely to afflictions, and quit thyself 15 like a man. Thomas à Kempis.

Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein. Bible.

Standing on what too long we bore / With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, / We may discern—unseen before—/ A path to higher destinies. Longfellow.

Stant cætera tigno—The rest stand on a beam. M.

Stare super vias antiquas—To stand upon the old ways.

Stark est des Menschen Arm, wenn ihn Götter 20 stützen—Strong is the arm of man if the gods uphold it. Schiller.

Stars look down upon me with pity from their serene and silent places, like eyes glistening with tears over the little lot of man. Arcturus and Orion, Sirius and Pleiades, are still shining in their courses, clear and young, as when the shepherd first noted them in the plain of Shinar! Carlyle.

Stat sua cuique dies; breve et irreparabile tempus / Omnibus est vitæ; sed famam extendere factis, / Hoc virtutis opus—Each man has his appointed day; short and irreparable is the brief life of all; but to extend our fame by our deeds, this is manhood's work. Virg.

States are to be called happy and noble in so far as they settle rightly who is slave and who free. Carlyle.

Statesmen that are wise / Shape a necessity, as sculptor clay, / To their own model. Tennyson.

Statio bene fida carinis—A safe harbourage for 25 ships. M.

Status quo ante bellum—The state in which the belligerents stood before war began.

Status quo, or Statu quo, or In statu quo—The state in which a matter was.

Stay awhile to make an end the sooner. Sir Amyas Paulet.

Steady, durable good cannot be derived from an external cause, by reason all derived from externals must fluctuate as they fluctuate. What then remains but the cause internal; in rectitude of conduct? James Harris.

Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred 30 years ago, but it is put to better use. Emerson.

Steckenpferde sind theurer als arabische Hengste—Hobby-horses are more expensive than Arab ones. Ger. Pr.

Steep and craggy is the path of the gods. Porphyry.

Steep regions cannot be surmounted except by winding paths. Goethe.

Stemmata quid faciunt? Quid prodest, Pontice, longo / Sanguine censeri?—What do pedigrees avail? Of what advantage, Ponticus, is it to be rated by the antiquity of your race? Juv.

Step by step one goes far. Pr. 35

Steps vary as much as the human face. J. M. Barrie.

Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in expounding and filling up, these are the two pinions on which history soars—or flutters and wabbles. Carlyle.

Stern daughter of the voice of God. Wordsworth, of Duty.

Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives elate / Full on thy bloom. Burns.

Stet—Let it stand. 40

Stet fortuna domus—May the fortune of the house stand. M.

Stets ist die Sprache kecker als die That—Speech is always bolder than action. Schiller.

Stets liegt, wo das Banner der Wahrheit wallt, / Der Aberglaube im Hinterhalt—Where the banner of truth waves unfurled, there you will always find superstition lying in ambush. Platen.

Stets zu spät kommt gute Kunde, / Schlechte Kunde zu frühe—Good news comes always too late; bad, always too soon. Bodenstedt.

Steward or deputy may do well: but the lord 45 himself is obliged to stir in the administration of justice. Cervantes.

Stiff (a) and laboured manner is as bad in a letter as it is in conversation.... Sprightliness and wit are graceful in letters, just as they are in conversation. Blair.

Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, / Was everything by starts, and nothing long; / But in the course of one revolving moon / Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon. Dryden.

Still humanity grows dearer; / Being learned the more. Jean Ingelow.

Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, / To silence envious tongues. Henry VIII., iii. 2.

Still people are dangerous. La Fontaine.

Still raise for good the supplicating voice, / But leave to Heaven the measure and the choice. Johnson.

Still seems it strange that thou shouldst live for ever? Is it less strange that thou shouldst live at all? This is a miracle; and that no more. Young.

Still swine eat all the draff. Pr.

Still the sight of too great beauty blinds us, 5 and we lose / The sense of earthly splendours, gaining heaven. Lewis Morris.

Still the skies are opened as of old / To the entrancèd gaze, ay, nearer far / And brighter than of yore. Lewis Morris.

Still they gazed, and still the wonder grew / That one small head could carry all he knew. Goldsmith.

Still to the lowly soul / He doth Himself impart, / And for His cradle and His throne / Chooseth the pure in heart. Keble.

Still und bewegt—Still and yet moved. M. of Rahel.

Still waters run deep. Pr. 10

Stillest streams oft water finest meadows, / And the bird that flutters least is longest on the wing. Cowper.

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. Vulgar persons can't sit still, or at least they must work their limbs or features. Holmes.

Stirb, Götz, du hast dich selbst überlebt—Die, Gotz; thou hast outlived thyself. Goethe.

Stirb und werde! / Denn so lang du das nicht hast, / Bist du nur ein trüber Gast / Auf der dunkeln Erde—Die and learn to live, for so far as thou hast not accomplished this, thou art but a darkened guest in a darkened world. Goethe.

Stirring spirits live alone: / Write on the 15 others, "Here lies such a one." George Herbert.

Sto pro veritate—I stand in the defence of truth. M.

Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. Bible.

Stone masons collected the dome of St. Paul's, but Wren hung it in the air. Willmott.

Stony limits cannot hold love out; / And what love can do, that dares love attempt. Rom. and Jul., ii. 2.

Store of grain, O king! is the best of stores. 20 A gem cast into the mouth will not support life. Hitopadesa.

Store Ord giöre sielden from Gierning—Big words seldom accompany good deeds. Dan. Pr.

Storms make oaks take deeper root. Pr.

Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, that leadeth unto life; and few there be that find it. Jesus.

Strange cozenage! none would live past years again; / Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; / And from the dregs of life think to receive / What the first sprightly running could not give. Dryden.

Strange is the life of man, and fatal or fated 25 are moments, / Whereupon turn, as on hinges, the gates of the wall adamantine! Longfellow.

Strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift, hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale; will either blow out a pestilent scoundrel's brains, or the scoundrel's salutary sheriff's officer's (in a sense), as you please to choose, for your guinea. Carlyle.

Stranger or countryman to me / Welcome alike shall ever be. / To ask of any guest his name, / Or whose he is, or whence he came, / I hold can never be his part / Who owns a hospitable heart. Macedonius.

Straws show which way the wind blows. Pr.

Strength alone knows conflict; weakness is below even defeat, and is born vanquished. Mme. Swetchine.

Strength, instead of being the lusty child of 30 passions, grows by grappling with and throwing them. J. M. Barrie.

Strength needs support far more than weakness. A feather sustains itself long in the air. Mme. Swetchine.

Strength of mind is exercise, not rest. Pope.

Strength of mind rests in sobriety, for this keeps the reason unclouded by passion. Pythagoras.

Strength was the virtue of Paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity. Hare.

Strenua nos exercet inertia; navibus atque / 35 Quadrigis petimus bene vivere; quod petis hic est—Strenuous idleness gives us plenty to do; we seek to live aright by yachting and chariot-driving. What you are seeking for is here. Hor.

Strict laws are like steel bodices, good for growing limbs; but when the joints are knit, they are not helps, but burdens. Sir Francis Fane.

Strict punctuality is perhaps the cheapest virtue which can give force to an otherwise utterly insignificant character. J. F. Boyes.

Strictly speaking, the imagination is never governed; it is always the ruling and divine power, and the rest of the man is to it only as an instrument which it sounds, or a tablet on which it writes; clearly and sublimely if the wax be smooth and the strings true, grotesquely and wildly if they are stained and broken. Ruskin.

Strike, but hear me. Themistocles to Eurybiades before battle of Salamis.

Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world! / 40 Crack Nature's moulds, all germens spill at once, / That make ungrateful man! Lear, iii. 2.

Strike those that hurt, and hurt not those that help. 1 Hen. VI., iii. 3.

Strike while the iron is hot. Pr.

Striking manners are bad manners. Robert Hall.

Strip the bishop of his apron, the counsellor of his gown, and the beadle of his cocked hat, what are they? Men, mere men. Dignity, and even holiness too sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine. Dickens.

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends. 45 Tam. of the Shrew, i. 2.

Strive not against the stream. Ecclus.

Strive to do thy duty; then shalt thou know what is in thee. Goethe.

Striving to better, oft we mar what's well. Pr.

Strong character curdles itself out of the scum into its own place and power or impotence. Ruskin.

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, gentle ones by permanence. Jean Paul.

Strong conceit, like a new principle, carries all easily with it, when yet above commonsense. Locke.

Strong feeling must create poetry. Moses 5 Harvey.

Strong folks have strong maladies. Ger. Pr.

Strong passions are the life of manly virtues. But they need not necessarily be evil because they are passions and because they are strong. The passions may be likened to blood horses, that need training and the curb only to enable them whom they carry to achieve the most glorious triumphs. Simms.

Strong reasons make strong actions. King John, iii. 4.

Strong Son of God, immortal Love, / Whom we that have not seen Thy face, / By faith, and faith alone, embrace, / Believing where we cannot prove. Tennyson.

Stronger than steel / Is the sword of the 10 spirit; / Swifter than arrows / The life of the truth is; / Greater than anger / Is love, and subdueth. Longfellow.

Strongest minds / Are often those of whom the noisy world / Hears least. Wordsworth.

Studies perfect nature, and are perfected by experience. Bacon.

Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Bacon.

Studiis et rebus honestis—By honourable studies and occupations. M.

Studiis florentem ignobilis oti—Indulging in the 15 studies of inglorious leisure. Virg.

Studio minuente laborem—The enthusiasm lessening the fatigue. Ovid.

Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace. Temple.

Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, / That will not be deep-searched with saucy looks. Love's L. Lost, i. 1.

Study is the bane of boyhood, the element of youth, the indulgence of manhood, and the restorative of age. Landor.

Study of the Bible will keep any man from 20 being vulgar in style. Coleridge.

Study the best and highest things that are, / But of thyself an humble thought retain. Sir J. Davis.

Study the past if you would divine the future. Confucius.

Study thyself; what rank or what degree / The wise Creator hath ordained for thee. Dryden.

Study to be quiet; contain yourself within your own business, and let the prying, censorious, the vain and the intriguing world follow their own devices. Thomas à Kempis.

Study to be what you wish to seem. John Bate. 25

Stulta maritali jam porrigit ora capistro—He is now stretching out his foolish head to the matrimonial halter. Juv.

Stultus nisi quod ipse facit, nil rectum putat—The fool thinks nothing well done except what he does himself.

Stulti sunt inumerabiles—Fools are without number. Erasmus.

Stultitiam dissimulare non potes nisi taciturnitate—No concealing folly save by silence.

Stultitiam patiuntur opes—Riches allow one to 30 be foolish. Hor.

Stultitiam simulare loco, sapientia summa est—To affect folly on an occasion is consummate wisdom.

Stultorum incurata malus pudor ulcera celat—It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal uncured wounds. Hor.

Stultum est timere quod vitari non potest—It is foolish to distress ourselves about what cannot be avoided. Syr.

Stultus es, rem actam agis—You are a fool; you do what has been done already. Plaut.

Stultus labor est ineptiarum—The labour is 35 foolish that is bestowed on trifles. Mart.

Stultus, qui, patre occiso, liberos relinquat—He who kills the father and leaves the children is a fool. Pr.

Stultus semper incipit vivere—The fool is always beginning to live. Pr.

Stunden der Noth vergiss, doch was sie dich lehrten, vergiss nie—Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you. Gesser.

Stung by straitness of our life, made strait / On purpose to make sweet the life at large. Browning.

Stupid people and uneducated people do not 40 care for nice discriminations. They always have decided opinions. William Black.

Stupid people move like lay-figures, while every joint of an intelligent man is eloquent. Schopenhauer.

Stupidity has its sublime as well as genius. Wieland.

Stupidity is without anxiety. Goethe.

Sturm-und Drang-Periode—The storm-and-stress period. A literary period in Germany, the productions of which were inspired by a love of strong passion and violent action.

Style is the dress of thoughts. Chesterfield. 45

Style is the physiognomy of the mind. Schopenhauer.

Style is what gives value and currency to thought. Amiel.

Style may be defined, proper words in proper places. Swift.

Stylo inverso—With the back of the pen.

Stylum vertere—To change or correct the style. 50

Sua cuique Deus fit dira cupido—Each man makes his own dire passion a god. Virg.

Sua cuique quum sit animi cogitatio, / Colorque proprius—Since each man has a way of his own of thinking, and a peculiar temper. Phæd.

Sua cuique vita obscura est—Every man's life is dark to himself.

Sua cuique voluptas—Every man has his own liking.

Sua quisque exempla debet æquo animo pati—Every 55 one ought to bear patiently with what is after his own example. Phæd.

Suave, mari magno turbantibus aequora ventis / E terra magnum alterius spectare laborem!—How fascinating it is when on the great sea the winds have raised its waters into billows, to witness the perils of another from the land! Lucretius.

Suavis est laborum præteritorum memoria—Sweet is the memory of past trouble. Cic.

Suaviter et fortiter—Mildly and firmly. M.

Suaviter in modo, fortiter in re—Gentle in manner, resolute in deed. M.

"Suaviter in modo, fortiter in re,"—I do not know any one rule so unexceptionably useful and necessary in every part of life. Chesterfield.

Sub cruce candida—Under the pure white 5 cross. M.

Sub cruce salus—Salvation under the cross. M.

Sub fine—At the end.

Sub hoc signo vinces—Under this sign (the cross) thou shalt conquer. M.

Sub initio—At the beginning.

Sub Jove—In the open air. 10

Sub judice lis est—The question is undecided.

Sub pœna—Under a penalty. L.

Sub reservatione Jacobæo—With St. James's reservation; viz., if the Lord will.

Sub rosa—Under the rose; confidentially.

Sub silentio—In silence, i.e., without notice being 15 taken.

Sub specie æternitatis—In the form of eternity, i.e., as a particular manifestation of a universal law.

Subdue fate, and exert human strength to the utmost of your power; and if, when pains have been taken, success attend not, in whom is the blame? Hitopadesa.

Sublata causa tollitur effectus—The cause removed, the effect is also. L.

Sublimer in this world know I nothing than a peasant saint, one that must toil outwardly for the lowest of man's wants, also toiling inwardly for the highest. Such a one will carry thee back to Nazareth itself. Carlyle.

Sublimi feriam sidera vertice—I shall strike the 20 stars with my uplifted head. Hor.

Sublimity is Hebrew by birth. Coleridge.

Submitting to one wrong often brings on another. Pr.

Subtilis veterum judex et callidus audis—You are known as a nice and experienced judge of things old. Hor.

Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will. Oliver Cromwell.

Subverting worldly strong and worldly wise, / 25 By simply meek. Milton.

Succedaneum—A substitute.

Success (by laws of competition) signifies always so much victory over your neighbour as to obtain the direction of his work and take the profits of it. This is the real source of all great riches. Ruskin.

Success consecrates the foulest crimes. Sen.

Success? If the thing is unjust, thou hast not succeeded. Carlyle.

Success in the majority of circumstances depends 30 on knowing how long it takes to succeed. Montesquieu.

Success in war, like charity in religion, covers a multitude of sins. Sir C. Napier.

Success is full of promise till men get it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown. Ward Beecher.

Success is sweet; the sweeter if long delayed, and attained through manifold struggles and defeats. A. B. Alcott.

Success is the child of audacity. Disraeli.

Success makes men look larger, if reflection 35 does not measure them. Joubert.

Success makes success, as money makes money. Chamfort.

Success often costs more than it is worth. E. Wigglesworth.

Success tempts many to their ruin. Phædr.

Success throws a veil over the evil deeds of men. Demosthenes.

Success! to thee, as to a god, men bend the 40 knee. Æschylus.

Successful love takes a load off our hearts and puts it on our shoulders. Bovee.

Such a friend as speaketh kindly to a man's face, and behind his back defeateth his designs, is like a pot of poison with a surface of milk. Hitopadesa.

Such a genius as philosophers must of necessity have is wont but seldom, in all its parts, to meet in one man; but its different parts generally spring up in different persons. Plato.

Such a plot must have a woman in it. Richardson.

Such as are careless of themselves can hardly 45 be mindful of others. Thales. (?)

Such as are in the married state wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in. Quoted by Emerson.

Such as every one is inwardly, so he judgeth outwardly. Thomas à Kempis.

Such as we are made of, such we be. Twelfth Night, ii. 2.

Such hath been—shall be—beneath the sun, / That many still must labour for the one. Byron.

Such is hope, Heaven's own gift to struggling 50 mortals; pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things both good and bad. Dickens.

Such is the aspect of this shore; / 'Tis Greece, but living Greece no more! / So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, / We start, for soul is wanting there. Byron.

Such only enjoy the country as are capable of thinking when they are there; then they are prepared for solitude, and in that case solitude is prepared for them. Dryden.

Such tricks hath strong imagination, / That, if it would but apprehend some joy, / It comprehends some bringer of that joy; / Or in the night, imagining some fear, / How easy is a bush supposed a bear. Mid. N.'s Dream, v. 1.

Such war of white and red within her cheeks. Tam. of the Shrew, iv. 5.

Suche die Wissenschaft als würdest ewig du 55 hier sein, / Tugend, als hielte der Tod dich schon am sträubenden Haar—Seek knowledge, as if thou wert to be here for ever; virtue, as if death already held thee by the bristling hair. Herder.

Sucht nur die Menschen zu verwirren, / Sie zu befriedigen ist schwer—Seek only to mystify men; to satisfy them is difficult. Goethe, the theatre-manager in "Faust."

Sudden blaze of kindness may, by a single blast of coldness, be extinguished; but that fondness which length of time has connected with many circumstances and occasions, though it may for a while be suppressed by disgust or resentment, with or without cause, is hourly revived by accidental recollection. Johnson.

Sudden love is the latest cured. La Bruyère.

Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of the mercury in the barometer, indicate little else than the changeableness of the weather. Hare.

Sudden tumultuous popularity comes more from partial delirium on both sides than from clear insight, and is of evil omen to all concerned with it. Carlyle.

Suer sang et eau—To toil and moil (lit. sweat 5 blood and water). Fr. Phr.

Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of heaven. Jesus.

Suffer no hour to slide by without its due improvement. Thomas à Kempis.

Suffer thyself to be led in everything but feeling and thinking. Sallet.

Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe. Mer. of Ven., i. 3.

Suffering in human life is very widely vicarious. 10 Ward Beecher.

Suffering is part of the divine idea. Ward Beecher.

Suffering is the mother of fools, reason of wise men. (?)

Suffering which falls to our lot in the course of nature, or by chance or fate, does not, "ceteris paribus," seem so painful as suffering which is inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another. Schopenhauer.

Suffice unto thy good, though it be small, / For hoard hath hate, and climbing tickleness; (uncertainty) / Praise hath envie, and weal is blent o'er all. Chaucer.

Sufficiency is a compound of vanity and ignorance. 15 Temple.

Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof. Jesus.

Sufficiently provided from within, he has need of little from without. Goethe of the poet.

Sufficit huic tumulus, cui non suffecerit orbis—A tomb now suffices for him for whom the world did not suffice. Apropos of Alexander the Great.

Suffundere malis hominis sanguinem, quam offundere—Seek rather to make a man blush for his guilt than to shed his blood. Ter.

Suggestio falsi—Suggestion of what is false. 20

Sui cuique mores fingunt fortunam—Every man's fortune is shaped for him by his own manners. Corn. Nep.

Sui generis—Of its own kind; of a kind of its own.

Sui juris—Of his own right. L.

Suis stat viribus—He stands by his own strength. M.

Suit the action to the word, the word to the 25 action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature. Ham., iii. 2.

Suivez raison—Follow reason. M.

Sum quod eris, fui quod es—I am what you will be, I was what you are.

Sum up at night what thou hast done by day; / And in the morning what thou hast to do. George Herbert.

Sume superbiam quæsitam meritis—Assume the proud place your merits have won. Hor.

Sumite materiam vestris, qui scribitis, æquam / 30 Viribus, et versate diu, quid ferre recusent, / Quid valeant humeri—Ye who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities, and long ponder what your powers are equal to, and what they are unable to perform. Hor.

Summa bona putas, aliena vivere quadra—You think it the chief good to live on another's crumbs. Juv.

Summa petit livor—Envy aims very high. Ovid.

Summa sequor fastigia rerum—I will trace the principal heads of events. Virg.

Summa summarum—All in all. Plautus.

Summæ opes inopia cupiditatum—He is richest 35 who is poorest in his desires. Sen.

Summam nec metuas diem, nec optes—Neither fear nor wish for your last day. Mart.

Summum bonum—The chief good.

Summum crede nefas animam præferre pudori, / Et propter vitam vivendi perdere causas—Consider it to be the height of impiety to prefer life to honour, and, for the sake of merely living, to sacrifice the objects of living. Juv.

Summum jus sæpe summa injuria est—The strictest justice is often grossest injustice. Cic.

[Greek: syn d' ananka pan kalon]—Whatever is beautiful 40 is beautiful by an inner necessity. Pindar.

Sunbeams pour alike their glorious tide / To light up worlds or wake an insect's mirth. Keble.

Sunday is the core of our civilisation, dedicated to thought and reverence. Emerson.

Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime, / 'Tis angels' music, therefore come not late. George Herbert.

Sunlight is painting. Hawthorne.

Sunrise is often lovelier than noon. Carlyle. 45

Sunt bona mixta malis, sunt mala mixta bonis—Good is mixed with evil, and evil with good.

Sunt bona, sunt quædam mediocria, sunt mala plura / Quæ legis—Of those which you read, some are good, some middling, and more are bad. Mart., of books.

Sunt delicta tamen, quibus ignovisse velimus—There are some faults, however, which we are willing to pardon. Hor.

Sunt Jovis omnia plena—All things are full of the Deity. Virg.

Sunt lacrymæ rerum, et mentem mortalia tangunt—Tears 50 are due to misfortune, and mortal woes touch the heart. Virg.

Sunt pueri pueri, pueri puerilia tractant—Boys are boys, and boys occupy themselves with boyish things.

Sunt superis sua jura—Even the gods above are subject to law. Ovid.

Suo Marte—By his own prowess. Cic.

Super subjectam materiam—Upon the matter submitted. L.

Superbo è quel cavallo che non si vuol portar 55 la biada—Proud is the horse that won't carry its own oats. It. Pr.

Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer. Mer. of Venice, i. 2.

Superior powers of mind and profound study are of no use if they do not sometimes lead a person to different conclusions from those which are formed by ordinary powers of mind without study. J. S. Mill.

Superior strength is found in the long-run to lie with those who had the right on their side. Froude.

Supersedeas—You may supersede. L.

Superstition changes a man to a beast, 5 fanaticism makes him a wild beast, and despotism a beast of burden. La Harpe.

Superstition is a misdirection of religious feeling. Whately.

Superstition is an unreasoning fear of God; religion consists in the pious worship of the gods. Cic.

Superstition is but the fear of belief; religion is the confidence. Lady Blessington.

Superstition is certainly not the characteristic of this age. Yet some men are bigoted in politics who are infidels in religion. Junius.

Superstition is in its death-lair; the last 10 agonies may endure for decades or for centuries; but it carries the iron in its heart, and will not vex the earth any more. Carlyle.

Superstition is inherent in man's nature; and when we think it is wholly eradicated, it takes refuge in the strangest holes and corners, whence it peeps out all at once, as soon as it can do so with safety. Goethe.

Superstition is passing away without return. Religion cannot pass away. The burning of a little straw may hide the stars in the sky; but the stars are there, and will re-appear. Carlyle.

Superstition is related to this life, religion to the next; superstition allies itself to fatality, religion to virtue; it is by the vitality of earthly desires we become superstitious, and by the sacrifice of these desires that we become religious. Mme. de Staël.

Superstition is the fear of a spirit whose passions and acts are those of a man, who is present in some places, and not in others; who makes some places holy, and not others; who is kind to one person, and unkind to another; who is pleased or angry according to the degree of attention you pay him, or praise you refuse him; who is hostile generally to human pleasure, but may be bribed by sacrificing a part of that pleasure into permitting the rest. Ruskin.

Superstition is the only religion of which base 15 souls are capable. Joubert.

Superstition is the poesy of life, so that it does not injure the poet to be superstitious. Goethe.

Superstition! that horrid incubus which dwelt in darkness, shunning the light, with all its racks, and poison chalices, and foul sleeping draughts, is passing away without return. Carlyle.

Superstition without a veil is a deformed thing. Bacon.

Superstitions would soon die out if so many old women would not act as nurses to keep them alive. Punch.

Supple knees feed arrogance. Pr. 20

Suppose a neighbour should desire / To light a candle at your fire, / Would it deprive your flame of light / Because another profits by't. Lloyd.

Suppressing love is but opposing the natural dictates of the heart. Goldsmith.

Suppressio veri—Suppression of what is true.

Supra vires—Beyond one's powers. Hor.

Supremum vale—A last farewell. Ovid. 25

Sur esperance—In hope. M.

Surdo fabulam narras—You tell your story to a deaf man.

Sure as night follows day, / Death treads in pleasure's footsteps round the world, / When pleasure treads the path which reason shuns. Young.

Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, / Looking before and after, gave us not / That capability and godlike reason / To fust in us unused. Ham., iv. 4.

Sure, of qualities demanding praise, / More go 30 to ruin fortunes, than to raise. Pope.

Sure those who have neither strength nor weapons to fight at least should be civil. Goldsmith.

Surely half the world must be blind; they can see nothing unless it glitters. Hare.

Surely it is better to enclose the gulf and hinder all access, than by encouraging us to advance a little, to entice us afterwards a little further, and let us perceive our folly only by our destruction. Johnson.

Surely life, if it be not long, is tedious, since we are forced to call in the assistance of so many trifles to rid us of our time, of that time which can never return. Johnson.

Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men 35 of high degree are a lie; to be laid in the balance they are altogether lighter than vanity. Bible.

Surely nobody would be a charlatan who could afford to be sincere. Emerson.

Surely the best way is to meet the enemy in the field, and not wait till he plunders us in our very bed-chamber. Goldsmith.

Surely use alone / Makes money not a contemptible stone. George Herbert.

Surement va qui n'a rien—He who has nothing goes securely. Fr. Pr.

Surfeit has killed more than hunger. Pr. 40

Surfeit of the sweetest things / The deepest loathing to the stomach brings. Mid. N.'s Dream, ii. 3.

Surfeits destroy more than the sword. J. Fletcher.

Surgit post nubila Phœbus—The sun rises after the clouds. M.

Sursum corda—Lift up your hearts. L.

Surtout, messieurs, pas de zèle—Above all, 45 gentlemen, no zeal. Talleyrand.

Sus Minervam—A pig teaching Minerva.

Susceptibility to one class of influences, the selection of what is fit for him, the rejection of what is unfit, determines for a man the character of the universe. Emerson.

Suspectum semper invisumque dominantibus, qui proximus destinaretur—Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir. Tac.

Suspendens omnia naso—Sneering at everything. Hor.

Suspense is worse than disappointment. Burns.

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; / The thief doth fear each bush an officer. 3 Hen. VI., v. 6.

Suspicion is a heavy armour, and with its own weight impedes more than protects. Byron.

Suspicion is no less an enemy to virtue than to 5 happiness. Johnson.

Suspicion is the bane of friendship. Petrarch.

Suspicion is very often a useless pain. Dr. Johnson.

Suspicion shall be all stuck full of eyes. 1 Hen. IV., v. 1.

Suspicions amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds; they ever fly by twilight; they are to be repressed, or at the least well guarded, for they cloud the mind. Bacon.

Suspicions are nothing when a man is really 10 true, and every one should persevere in acting honestly, for all will be made right in time. Hans Andersen.

Süsser Wein giebt sauern Essig—Sweet wine yields sour vinegar. Ger. Pr.

Sustine et abstine—Bear and forbear. M.

Suum cuique—To every man his due. M.

Suum cuique decus posteritas rependit—Posterity will pay every one his due. Tac.

Suus cuique est mos—Every one has his own 15 way of it. Hor.

Suus cuique mos—Every man has his way. Ter.

Suum cuique tribuere, ea demum summa justitia est—To give to every man his due, that is supreme justice. Cic.

Swearing is invoking the witness of a spirit to an assertion you wish to make, but cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit in a mischief you wish to inflict. Ruskin.

Sweep before your own door. Pr.

Sweet are the uses of adversity, / Which like 20 the toad, ugly and venomous, / Wears yet a precious jewel in his head; / And this our life, exempt from public haunt, / Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, / Sermons in stones, and good in everything. As You Like It.

Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, / Most musical, most melancholy. Milton.

Sweet flowers are slow, and weeds make haste. Rich. III., ii. 4.

Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, / With charm of earliest birds. Milton.

Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; / Our meddling intellect / Misshapes the beauteous form of things: / We murder to dissect. Wordsworth.

Sweet is true love though given in vain, / And 25 sweet is death that puts an end to pain. Tennyson.

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge. Tit. Andron., i. 2.

Sweet pliability of man's spirit, that can at once surrender itself to illusions which cheat expectation and sorrow of their weary moments! Sterne.

Sweet reader, do you know what a toady is? That agreeable animal which you meet every day in civilised society. Disraeli.

Sweet Swan of Avon. Ben Jonson of Shakespeare.

Sweetest melodies are those that are by distance 30 made more sweet. Wordsworth.

Swift kindnesses are best: a long delay / In kindness takes the kindness all away. Anon.

Swift to its close ebbs out life's little day. Lyte.

Sworn to no master, of no sect am I; / As drives the storm, at any door I knock, / And house with Montaigne now, and now with Locke. Pope.

Syllables govern the world. Coke.

Sympathetic people are often uncommunicative 35 about themselves; they give back reflected images which hide their own depths. George Eliot.

Sympathising and selfish people are alike given to tears. Leigh Hunt.

Sympathy can create the boldness which no other means can evoke. Dr. Parker.

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism; reason and justice presuppose, at their origin, emotion. Amiel.

Sympathy is the first great lesson which man should learn.... Unless he learns to feel for things in which he has no personal interest, he can achieve nothing generous or noble. Talfourd.

Sympathy is the solace of the poor, but for the 40 rich there is consolation. Disraeli.

Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load. C. H. Parkhurst.

Sympathy wanting, all is wanting; its personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that lights our atoms, puts us in human communion, and gives us to company, conversation, and ourselves. A. B. Alcott.

Sympathy with Nature is a part of the good man's religion. F. H. Hedge.

Syne as ye brew, ... / Keep mind that ye maun drink the yill. Burns.

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Tabesne cadavera solvat, / An rogus, haud 45 refert—It makes no difference whether corruption dissolve the carcase or the funeral pile. Lucan.

Tabula ex or in naufragio—A plank in a shipwreck; a last shift.

Table d'hôte—A common table for guests. Fr.

Tableau vivant—A group in which statues or pictures are represented by living persons. Fr.

Tabula rasa—A smooth or blank tablet; a blank surface.

Tacent, satis laudant—Their silence is praise 50 enough. Ter.

Tâche sans tache—A task, or work, without a blemish. M.

Tacitæ magis et occultæ inimicitiæ sunt, quam indictæ et opertæ—Enmities unavowed and concealed are more to be feared than when open and declared. Cic.

Tacitum vivit sub pectore vulnus—The secret wound still lives in her heart. Virg.

Tact is one of the first of mental virtues, the absence of which is often fatal to the best talents. It supplies the place of many talents. Simms.

Tadeln kann ein jeder Bauer; besser machen wird ihm sauer—Every boor can find fault; it would baffle him to do better. Ger. Pr.

Tadeln können zwar die Thoren, / Aber klüger handeln nicht—Fools can find fault indeed, but they cannot act more wisely. Langbein.

Tædium vitæ—Weariness of life; disgust with existence. Gell.

Tages Arbeit, Abends Gäste, / Saure Wochen, 5 frohe Feste, / Sei dein künftig Zauberwort—Be work by day, guests at eve, weeks of toil, festive days of joy, the magic spell for thy future. Goethe.

Take a bird from a clean nest. Gael. Pr.

Take a farthing from a thousand pounds, it will be a thousand pounds no longer. Goldsmith.

Take a hair of the same dog that bit you, and it will heal the wound. Pr.

Take a stick to a Highland laddie, and it's no him you hurt, but his ancestors. J. M. Barrie.

Take all that is given, whether wealth, / Or 10 love, or language; nothing comes amiss; / A good digestion turneth all to health. George Herbert.

Take any subject of sorrowful regret, and see with how much pleasure it is associated. Dickens.

Take away desire from the heart, and you take away the air from the earth. Bulwer Lytton.

Take care of the pence; the pounds will take care of themselves. Pr.

Take care to be an economist in prosperity; there is no fear of your not being one in adversity. Zimmermann.

Take each man's censure, but reserve thy 15 judgment. Ham., i. 3.

Take everything easy (leicht); leave off dreaming and brooding (Grübeln), and you will be ever well guarded from a thousand evils. Uhland.

Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her, for she is thy life. Bible.

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard, and his desire for knowledge ceases. Rousseau.

Take heed, and beware of covetousness; for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth. Jesus.

Take heed of the vinegar of sweet wine. Pr. 20

Take heed you find not that you do not seek. Pr.

Take-it-easy and Live-long are brothers. Ger. Pr.

Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest unto your souls. Jesus.

Take no thought for the morrow; for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Jesus.

Take no thought for your life, what ye shall 25 eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Jesus.

Take not His name who made thy mouth in vain: / It gets thee nothing, and has no excuse. George Herbert.

Take note, take note, O world, / To be direct and honest is not safe. Othello, iii. 3.

Take physic, pomp; / Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel; / That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, / And show the heavens more just. Lear, iii. 4.

Take the Muses' servants by the hand; / ... And where ye justly can commend, commend them; / And aiblins when they winna stand the test, / Wink hard, and say the folks hae done their best. Burns.

Take the showers as they fall, / ... Enough 30 if at the end of all / A little garden blossom. Tennyson.

Take this rule, ... The best-bred child hath the best portion. Pr. Herbert.

Take thou the beam out of thine own eye; then shalt thou see clearly to take the mote out of thy brother's. Jesus.

Take thought for thy body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone; and if they are dim, the whole world is beclouded. Goethe.

Take time by the forelock. Thales.

Take time in time, ere time be tint (lost). Sc. Pr. 35

Take time in turning a corner. Pr.

Take up the torch and wave it wide, / The torch that lights Time's thickest gloom. Bonar.

Take your thirst to the stream, as the dog does. Gael. Pr.

Taking, therefore, my opinion of the English from the virtues and vices practised among the vulgar, they at once present to a stranger all their faults, and keep their virtues up only for the inquiring of a philosopher. Goldsmith.

Tale tuum carmen nobis, divine poeta, / Quale 40 sopor fessis—Thy song is to us, O heavenly bard, as sleep to wearied men. Virg.

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book. Emerson.

Talent for literature, thou hast such a talent? Believe it not, be slow to believe it! To speak or to write, Nature did not peremptorily order thee; but to work she did. Carlyle.

Talent forms itself in secret; character, in the great current of the world. Goethe.

Talent has almost always this advantage (Vorsprung) over genius—that the former endures, the latter often explodes, or runs to waste (verpufft). Gutzkow.

Talent is a cistern; genius, a fountain. Whipple. 45

Talent is a gift which God has imparted in secret, and which we reveal without knowing it. Montesquieu.

Talent is some one faculty unusually developed; genius commands all the faculties. F. H. Hedge.

Talent is something, but tact is everything. It is not a seventh sense, but is the life of all the five. It is the open eye, the quick ear, the judging taste, the keen smell, and the lively touch; it is the interpreter of all riddles, the surmounter of all difficulties, the remover of all obstacles. W. P. Scargill.

Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is. Lowell.

Talent ist Form, Genie Stoff—Talent is form, 50 genius is substance. Gutzkow.

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason and imagination, rarely or never. Coleridge.

Talents angel-bright, if wanting worth, are shining instruments in false ambition's hand, to finish faults illustrious, and give infamy renown. Young.

Talents give a man a superiority far more agreeable than that which proceeds from riches, birth, or employments, which are all external. Talents constitute our very essence. Rollin.

Taliter qualiter—Such as it is.

Talk, except as the preparation for work, is 5 worth almost nothing; sometimes it is worth infinitely less than nothing; and becomes, little conscious of playing such a fatal part, the general summary of pretentious nothingnesses, and the chief of all the curses the posterity of Adam are liable to in this sublunary world. Carlyle.

Talk of the devil and he'll appear. Pr.

Talk that does not end in action is better suppressed altogether. Carlyle.

Talk to him of Jacob's ladder, and he would ask the number of the steps. Douglas Jerrold.

Talkers are no good doers. Rich. III., i. 3.

Talking is one of the fine arts. Holmes. 10

Talking is the disease of age. Ben Jonson.

Talking of love is making it. Pr.

Talking with a host is next best to talking with one's self.... He is wiser than to contradict his guest in any case; he lets him go on, he lets him travel. Thoreau.

Tam deest avaro quod habet, quam quod non habet—The miser is as much in want of that which he has as of that which he has not. Pub. Syr.

Tam diu discendum est, quum diu nescias, et, 15 si proverbio credimus, quam diu vivas—You must continue learning as long as you do not know, and, if the proverb is to be believed, as long as you live. Sen.

Tam Marte quam Minerva—As much by Mars as by Minerva; as much by courage as by wisdom. Pr.

Tam Marti quam Mercurio—As much for Mars as for Mercury; as well qualified for war as for business.

Tam felix utinam, quam pectore candidus, essem—Oh, that I were as happy as I am clear in conscience. Ovid.

Tam lo'ed him like a vera brither; / They had been fou for weeks thegither. Burns.

Tamen me / Cum magnis vixisse invita fatebitur 20 usque / Invidia—Nevertheless, even envy, however unwilling, will have to admit that I have lived among great men. Hor.

Tandem fit surculus arbor—A twig in time becomes a tree. M.

Tandem poculum mœroris exhausit—He has exhausted at last the cup of grief. Cic.

[Greek: ta neura tou polemou]—The sinews of war. Pr.

Tangere ulcus—To touch a sore; to renew one's grief. Ter.

Tanquam in speculo—As in a mirror. 25

Tanquam nobilis—Noble by courtesy.

Tanquam ungues digitosque suos—As well as his nails and fingers; at his fingers' ends. Pr.

Tant de fiel entre-t-il dans l'âme des dévots?—Can so much gall find access in devout souls? Boileau.

Tant mieux—So much the better. Fr.

Tant pis—So much the worse. Fr. 30

Tant va la cruche à l'eau qu'à la fin elle se brise—The pitcher goes so often to the well that it is broken at last. Fr.

Tantæ molis erat Romanam condere gentem—Such a task it was to found the Roman race. Virg.

Tantæne animis cœlestibus iræ?—Can heavenly minds cherish such dire resentment? Virg.

Tanti eris aliis, quanti tibi fueris—You will be of as much value to others as you have been to yourself. Cic.

Tanto brevius omne tempus, quanto felicius—The 35 happier the moments the shorter. Pliny.

Tanto buon, che val niente—So good as to be good for nothing. It. Pr.

Tanto fortior, tanto felicior!—The more pluck, the better luck!

Tanto più di pregio reca all' opera l'umiltà dell' artista, quanto più aggiunge di valori al numero la nullità del zero—The modesty of the artist adds as much to the merit of his work as does a cipher (of no value in itself) to the number to which it is joined. Bernini.

Tanto vale la Messa detta quanto la cantata—A mass is as good said as sung. It. Pr.

Tantum quantum—Just as much as. 40

Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum—Could such cruelties have been perpetrated in the name of religion? Lucret. in reference to the sacrifice of Iphigenia.

Tantum series juncturaque / Tantum de medio sumptis accedit honoris—Such is the power of order and arrangement: so much grace may be imparted to subjects from common life. Hor.

Tantum vertice in auras / Aetherias quantum radice in Tartara tendit—Its summit stretches as far into the upper ether as its root into the nether deep.

Tantus amor laudum, tantæ est victoria curæ—Such is the love of praise, so great the anxiety for victory. Virg.

Tapfer ist der Löwesieger, / Tapfer ist der 45 Weltbezwinger, / Tapfer wer sich selbst bezwang—Brave is the lion-vanquisher, brave is the world-subduer, but braver he who has subdued himself. J. G. Herder.

Tarda sit illa dies, et nostro serior ævo—Slow may that day approach, and long after our time. Ovid.

Tarda solet magnis rebus inesse fides—Men are slow to repose confidence in undertakings of magnitude. Ovid.

Tarde, quæ credita lædunt, credimus—We are slow to believe that which, if believed, would work us harm. Ovid.

Tarde sed tute—Slow but sure. M.

Tarde venientibus ossa—To those who come late 50 the bones. Pr.

Tardiora sunt remedia quam mala—Remedies are slower in their operation than diseases. Tac.

Tasks in hours of insight willed, / In hours of gloom must be fulfilled. Matthew Arnold.

Taste can only be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good, but of the truly excellent. Goethe.

Taste depends upon those finer emotions which make the organisation of the soul. Sir J. Reynolds.

Taste, if it mean anything but a paltry connoisseurship, must mean a general susceptibility to truth and nobleness; a sense to discern and a heart to love and reverence all beauty, order, goodness, wheresoever found and in whatsoever form and accompaniment. Carlyle.

Taste is the very maker of judgment. Leigh Hunt.

Taste may change, but inclination never. La Roche.

[Greek: ta syka syka, tên skaphên de skaphên onomazôn]—Calling 5 a fig a fig, and a spade a spade. Plut.

Taurum tollet qui vitulum sustulerit—He who has carried the calf will be able by and by to carry the ox. Pr.

Te Deum laudamus—We praise Thee, O God.

Te digna sequere—Follow what is worthy of thee. M.

Te, Fortuna, sequor: procul hinc jam fœdera sunto: / Credidimus fatis, utendum est judice bello—Thee, Fortune, I follow; hence far all treaties past; to fate I commit myself, and the arbitrament of war. Lucan on the crossing of the Rubicon by Cæsar.

Te hominem esse memento—Remember thou 10 art a man.

Te sine nil altum mens inchoat—Without thee my mind originates nothing lofty. Virg. to Mæcenas.

Teach me to feel another's woe, / To hide the fault I see; / That mercy I to others show, / That mercy show to me. Pope.

Teach self-denial, and make its practice pleasurable, and you create for the world a destiny more sublime than ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer. Scott.

Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom, and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. Mahomet.

Teaching has not a tithe of the efficacy of 15 training. Horace Mann.

Teaching is of more importance than exhortation. Luther.

Teaching others teacheth yourself. Pr.

Tearless grief bleeds inwardly. Bovee.

Tears are due to human misery. Virg.

Tears are often to be found where there is 20 little sorrow, and the deepest sorrow without tears. Johnson.

Tears are the deluge of sin and the world's sacrifice. Gregory Nazianzen.

Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self-command. Amiel.

Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, / Tears from the depth of some divine despair / Rise in the heart and gather in the eyes, / In looking on the happy autumn fields, / And thinking of the days that are no more. Tennyson.

Tears of joy are the dew in which the sun of righteousness is mirrored. Jean Paul.

Tears of joy, like summer rain-drops, are 25 pierced by sunbeams. H. Ballou.

Tears such as angels weep. Milton.

Tecum habita—Live with yourself; keep within your means.

Teeth, hair, nails, and the human species, prosper not when separated from their place. A wise man, being informed of this, should not totally forsake his native home. Hitopadesa.

Tel brille au second rang, qui s'éclipse au premier—Some who are eclipsed in the first rank may shine in the second. Voltaire.

Tel coup de langue est pire qu'un coup de 30 lance—Such a stroke with the tongue is worse than one with a lance. Fr. Pr.

Tel, en vous lisant, admire chaque trait, / Qui dans le fond de l'âme vous craint et vous hait—Such a one, in reading your work, admires every line, but, at the bottom of his soul, he fears and hates you. Boileau.

Tel excelle à rimer qui juge sottement—Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly. Boileau.

Tel maître, tel valet—Like master, like man. Fr. Pr.

Tel père, tel fils—Like father, like son. Fr. Pr.

Tel vous semble applaudir, qui vous raille et 35 vous joue; / Aimez qu'on vous conseille, et non pas qu'on vous loue—Such a one seems to applaud, while he is really ridiculing you; attach yourself to those who advise you rather than to those who praise. Boileau.

Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon. Bible.

"Tell me how you bear so blandly the assuming ways of wild young people?" Truly they would be unbearable if I had not also been unbearable myself as well. Goethe.

Tell me not, in mournful numbers, / "Life is but an empty dream," / For the soul is dead that slumbers, / And things are not what they seem. Longfellow.

Tell me what you like, and I will tell you what you are. Ruskin.

Tell me where is fancy bred, / Or in the heart, 40 or in the head? / How begot, how nourishéd? / It is engender'd in the eyes, / With gazing fed. Mer. of Venice, iii. 2.

Tell me with whom you associate, and I will tell you who you are; if I know what it is with which you occupy yourself, I know what you may become. Goethe.

Tell the truth and shame the devil. 1 Henry IV., iii. 1.

Telum imbelle sine ictu—A feeble dart thrown without effect. Virg.

Temeritas est florentis ætatis, prudentia senescentis—Rashness belongs to youth, prudence to old age. Cic.

Temper—a weapon that we hold by the blade. 45 J. M. Barrie.

Temper is so good a thing that we should never lose it. (?)

Temperament lies behind mood; back of the caprice of will lies the fate of character; back of both is the bias of family; back of that, the tyranny of race; still deeper, the power of climate, of soil, of geology, the whole physical and moral environment. Still we are free men only so far as we rise above these. John Burroughs.

Temperance and labour are the two best physicians of man. Rousseau.

Temperance is a bridle of gold. Burton.

Temperance is a tree which has for its root very little contentment, and for its fruit calm and peace. Buddha.

Temperance is the nurse of chastity. Wycherley.

Tempi passati!—Bygone times! Joseph II. at sight of a picture representing a predecessor doing penance to the Pope.

Templa quam dilecta!—How lovely are thy temples! M. of the Duke of Buckingham, whose family name is Temple.

Tempora labuntur, tacitisque senescimus annis; 5 / Et fugiunt fræno non remorante dies—Time glides away, and we grow older through the noiseless years; the days flee away, and are restrained by no rein. Ovid.

Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis—Times change, and we change with them. Kaiser Lothar I.

Tempore ducetur longo fortasse cicatrix; / Horrent admotas vulnera cruda manus—A wound may, perhaps, through time be closed, but, when fresh, it shrinks from the touch. Ovid.

Tempted Fate will leave the loftiest star. Byron.

Tempus anima rei—Time is the soul of business.

Tempus edax rerum—Time, the devourer of all 10 things. Ovid.

Tempus erit quo vos speculum vidisse pigebit—The time will come when it will disgust you to look in a mirror. Ovid.

Tempus est quædam pars æternitatis—Time is a certain fraction of eternity. Cic.

Tempus ferax, tempus edax rerum—Time the producer, time the devourer of things.

Tempus fugit—Time flies.

Tempus in agrorum cultu consumere dulce 15 est—It is delightful to spend one's time in the tillage of the fields. Ovid.

Tempus omnia revelat—Time reveals all things.

Tempus rerum imperator—Time is sovereign over all things. M.

Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss. Pope.

[Greek: tên de malista gamein, hêtis sethen engythi naiei]—Be sure you take for wife a woman of your own neighbourhood. Hesiod.

Tenax et fidelis—Steadfast and faithful. M. 20

Tenax propositi—Tenacious of his purpose. M.

Tendency to sentimental whining or fierce intolerance may be ranked among the surest symptoms of little souls and inferior intellects. Jeffrey.

Tenderness is a virtue. Goldsmith.

Tenderness is the repose of passion. Joubert.

Tenebo—I will hold. M. 25

Teneros animos aliena opprobria sæpe / Absterrent vitiis—The disgrace of others often deters tender minds from vice. Hor.

Tenet insanabile multos / Scribendi cacoëthes—An incurable itch for writing possesses many. Juv.

Tenez la bride haute à votre fils—Keep a tight hand over your son (lit. hold the bridle high). Fr. Pr.

Tenir le haut du pavé—To keep the best place (lit. the highest side of the pavement). Fr. Pr.

Tentanda via est qua me quoque possim / 30 Tollere humo, victorque virûm volitare per ora—I too must attempt a way by which I may raise myself above the ground, and soar triumphant through the lips of men. Virg.

Tenterden steeple was the cause of Goodwin Sands. Pr.

Ter conatus ibi collo dare brachia circum, / Ter frustra comprensa manus effugit imago—Thrice I attempted to throw my arms round her neck there, and her ghost, thrice clutched in vain, eluded my grasp. Virg.

Teres atque rotundum—Smooth-polished and rounded. Hor.

Terminus a quo—The point from which anything starts.

Terminus ad quem—The point of destination. 35

Terra antiqua, potens armis atque ubere glebæ—An ancient land, powerful in arms and in the fertility of its soil. Virg., of Italy.

Terra firma—Dry land, in contradistinction to sea.

Terra incognita—An unknown land or domain of things.

Terra innanzi, e terra poi—Earth originally, and earth finally. It. Pr.

Terra malos homines nunc educat, atque 40 pusillos—The earth now supports many bad and weak men. Juv.

Terræ filius—A son of the earth; a man of obscure or low origin. Pers.

Terram cœlo miscent—They mingle heaven and earth.

Terrible penalty, with the ass-ears or without them, inevitable as death, written for ever in heaven, against all who, like Midas, misjudge the inner and the upper melodies, and prefer gold to goodness, desire to duty, falsehood to fact, wild nature to God, and a sensual piping Pan to a high-souled, wise-hearted, and spirit-breathing Apollo. Ed., apropos to the fable of Midas.

Tertium quid—A third something, produced by the union or interaction of two opposites.

Tertium sal—A third salt; a neutral salt; the 45 union of an acid and an alkali.

Tertius e cœlo cecidit Cato—A third Cato has come down from heaven. Juv., in mockery.

[Greek: tês aretês hidrôta theoi proparoithen ethêkan]—The gods have placed sweat in front of virtue. Hesiod.

Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow; the force of it depends upon the strength of the hand that draws it. Argument is like an arrow from a cross-bow, which has equal force though shot by a child. Johnson.

Tête-à-tête—Face to face; a private conversation. Fr.

Tête d'armée!—Head of the army! Last words 50 of Napoleon.

Tête de fou ne blanchit jamais—A fool's head never grows grey. Pr.

Teuer ist mir der Freund, doch auch den Feind kann ich nützen; / Zeigt mir der Freund, was ich kann, lehrt mich der Feind, was ich soll—Dear is to me the friend, yet can I make even my very foe do me a friend's part. My friend shows me what I can do; my foe teaches me what I should do. Schiller.

That action is not warrantable which either blushes to beg a blessing, or, having succeeded, dares not present a thanksgiving. Quarles.

That but this blow / Might be the be-all and the end-all here, / But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, / We'd jump the life to come. Macb., i. 7.

That carries anger as the flint bears fire; / Who, much enforcèd, shows a hasty spark, / And straight is cold again. Jul. Cæs., iv. 3.

That cause is strong which has not a multitude, but one strong man behind it. Lowell.

That circle of beings, which dependence gathers round us, is almost ever unfriendly. Arliss.

That civility is best which excludes all superfluous formality. (?)

That cutting up, and parcelling, and labelling, 5 of the indivisible human soul into what are called "faculties," I have from of old eschewed, and even hated. Carlyle.

That death's unnatural that kills for loving. Othello, v. 2.

That elevation of mind which we see in moments of peril, if it is uncontrolled by justice, and strives only for its own advantage, becomes a crime. Cic.

That friendship only is, indeed, genuine when two friends, without speaking a word to each other, can, nevertheless, find happiness in being together. Georg Ebers.

That friendship, which is exerted in too wide a sphere, becomes totally useless. Goldsmith.

That gentleman who sells an acre of land, 10 sells an ounce of credit. Lord Burleigh.

That golden key that opes the palace of eternity. Milton.

That government is the best which makes government unnecessary. W. von Humboldt.

That great mystery of time, were there no other; the illimitable, silent never-resting thing called "time," rolling, rushing on, swift, silent like an all-embracing oceantide, on which we and all the universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are and then are not—this is for ever very literally a miracle, a thing to strike us dumb; for we have no word to speak about it. Carlyle.

That grief is light which is capable of counsel. Pr.

That he is mad 'tis true; 'tis true, 'tis pity; / 15 And pity 'tis 'tis true. Ham., ii. 2.

That in the captain's but a choleric word, / Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy. Meas. for Meas., ii. 2.

That intention which fixes upon God as its only end will keep men steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the jest and scorn of fortune. Thomas à Kempis.

That is a most wretched fortune which is without an enemy. Pub. Syr.

That is a treacherous friend against whom you must always be on your guard. Such a friend is wine. Bovee.

That is always best which gives me to myself. 20 Emerson.

That is but an empty purse that is full of other men's money. Pr.

That is friendship which is not feigned. Hitopadesa.

That is gold that is worth gold. Pr.

That is indeed a twofold knowledge which profits alike by the folly of the foolish and the wisdom of the wise. It is both a shield and a sword; it borrows its security from the darkness, and its confidence from the light. Colton.

That is not a council wherein there are no 25 sages. Hitopadesa.

That is not a duty in which there is not virtue. Hitopadesa.

That is not possible which is impossible. Hitopadesa.

That is not virtue from which fear approacheth us. Hitopadesa.

That is the best part of beauty which a picture cannot express. Bacon.

That is the best part of each writer which has 30 nothing private in it. Emerson.

That is the briefest and sagest of maxims which bids us "meddle not." Colton.

That is the true light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. St. John.

That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way after us. Goethe.

That is true love which is always the same, whether you give everything or deny everything to it. Goethe.

That is well spoken that is well taken. Pr. 35

That last infirmity of noble minds. Milton.

That learning which thou gettest by thy own observation and experience is far beyond that which thou gettest by precept; as the knowledge of a traveller exceeds that which is got by reading. Thomas à Kempis.

That life is long which answers life's great end. Young.

That low vice curiosity. Byron.

That man has advanced far in the study of 40 morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity. Chamfort.

That man is always happy who is in the presence of something which he cannot know to the full, which he is always going on to know. Ruskin.

That man is an ill husband of his honour that entereth into any action, the failing wherein may disgrace him more than the carrying of it through can honour him. Bacon.

That man is learned who reduceth his learning to practice. Hitopadesa.

That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Iona. Johnson.

That man lives twice that lives the first life 45 well. Herrick.

That man may last, but never lives, / Who much receives but nothing gives; / Whom none can love, whom none can thank—/ Creation's blot, creation's blank. T. Gibbons.

That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man, / If with his tongue he cannot win a woman. Two Gent. of Verona, ii. 1.

That man will never be a perfect gentleman who lives only with gentlemen. To be a man of the world we must view that world in every grade and in every perspective. Bulwer Lytton.

That Mirabeau understood how to act with others, and by others—this was his genius, this was his originality, this was his greatness. Goethe.

That must be true which all men say. Pr. 50

That nation is in the enjoyment of liberty which stands by its own strength, and does not depend on the will of another. Livy.

That net that holds no great, takes little fish. R. Southwell.

That one man should die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call tragedy. Carlyle.

That one will not, another will. Pr.

That philanthropy has surely a flaw in it which 5 cannot sympathise with the oppressor equally as with the oppressed. Lowell.

That rich man is great who thinketh not himself great because he is rich; the proud man (who is the poor man) braggeth outwardly but beggeth inwardly; he is blown up, but not full. S. Hieron.

That single effort by which we stop short in the down-hill path to perdition is of itself a greater exertion of virtue than a hundred acts of justice. Goldsmith.

That souls which are created for one another so seldom find each other and are generally divided, that in the moments of happiest union least recognise each other—that is a sad riddle! Goethe.

That State must sooner or later perish where the majority triumphs and unintelligence (Unverstand) decides. Schiller.

That state of life is alone suitable to a man in 10 which and for which he was born, and he who is not led abroad by great objects is far happier at home. Goethe.

That strain again! It had a dying fall: / Oh, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound / That breathes upon a bank of violets, / Giving and stealing odour! Twelfth Night, i. 1.

That suit is best that best fits me. Pr.

That that comes of a hen will scrape. Pr.

That that is, is. As You Like It, iv. 2.

That the voice of the common people is the voice 15 of God, is as full of falsehood as commonness. For who sees not that those black-mouthed hounds, upon the mere scent of opinion, as freely spend their mouths in hunting counter, or, like Actæon's dogs, in chasing an innocent man to death, as if they followed the chase of truth itself, in a fresh scent? A. Warwick.

That thee is sent receive in buxomness: / The wrestling of this world asketh a fall. / Here is no home, here is but wilderness. / Forth, pilgrim, forth—on, best out of thy stall. / Look up on high, and thank the God of all. Chaucer.

That thought I regard as true which is fruitful to myself, which is connected with the rest of my thoughts, and at the same time helps me on. Now it is not only possible, but natural, that such a thought should not connect itself with the mind of another, nor help him on ... consequently he will regard it as false. Once we are thoroughly convinced of this, we shall never enter upon controversies. Goethe.

That ugly treason of mistrust. Mer. of Ven., iii. 2.

That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny. Pascal.

That very law which moulds a tear, / And bids 20 it trickle from its source; / That law preserves the earth a sphere, / And guides the planets in their course. Rogers.

That vice has often proved an emancipator of the mind is one of the most humiliating, but also one of the most unquestionable, facts in history. Lecky.

That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarcely worth the sentinel. Goldsmith.

That voluntary debility, which modern language is content to term indolence, will, if it is not counteracted by resolution, render in time the strongest faculties lifeless, and turn the flame to the smoke of virtue. Johnson.

That warrior on his strong war-horse, fire flashes through his eyes; force dwells in his arm and heart; but warrior and war-horse are a vision; a revealed force, nothing more. Stately they tread the earth, as if it were firm substance. Fool! the earth is but a film; it cracks in twain, and warrior and war-horse sink beyond plummet's sounding. Carlyle.

That we devote ourselves to God is seen / In 25 living just as though no God there were. Browning.

That we shall die, we know; 'tis but the time / And drawing days out, that men stand upon. Julius Cæsar, iii. 1.

That we should find our national existence depend on selling manufactured cotton at a farthing an ell cheaper than any other people, is a most narrow stand for a great nation to base itself on. Carlyle.

That we would do, / We should do when we would; for this "would" changes, / And hath abatements and delays as many / As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents; / And then this "should" is like a spendthrift's sigh, / That hurts by easing. Ham., iv. 7.

That were but a sorry art which could be comprehended all at once; the last point of which could be seen by one just entering its precincts. Goethe.

That which builds is better than that which is 30 built. Emerson.

That which can be done with perfect convenience and without loss, is not always the thing that most needs to be done, or which we are most imperatively required to do. Ruskin.

That which each man can do best, not but his Maker can teach him. Emerson.

That which God writes on thy forehead thou wilt come to. The Koran.

That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been. Bible.

That which I crave may everywhere be had, / 35 With me I bring the one thing needful—love. Goethe.

That which in mean men we entitle patience, / Is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts. Rich. II., i. 2.

That which, intellectually considered, we call Reason, considered in relation to nature we call Spirit. Emerson.

That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered. Bible.

That which is good to take is good to keep. Pr.

That which is in the midst of fools is made 40 known. Bible.

That which is not allotted the hand cannot reach, and what is allotted will find you wherever you may be. Saadi.

That which is past is gone and irrevocable, and wise men have enough to do with things present and to come; therefore they do but trifle with themselves that labour in past matters. Bacon.

That which is possible is ever possible. Hitopadesa.

That which is truly and indeed characteristic of the man is known only to God. Ruskin.

That which makes men happy is activity (die Thätigkeit), which, first producing what is good, soon changes evil itself into good by power working in a god-like manner. Goethe.

That which one least anticipates soonest 5 comes to pass. Pr.

That which produces and maintains cheerfulness is nothing but activity. Jean Paul.

That which proves too much proves nothing. Pr.

That which seems to be wealth may in verity be only the gilded index of far-reaching ruin; a wrecker's handful of coin gleaned from the beach to which he has beguiled an argosy. Ruskin.

That which the droning world, chained to appearances, will not allow the realist to say in his own words, it will suffer him to say in proverbs without contradiction. Emerson.

That which the sun doth not now see will be 10 visible when the sun is out, and the stars are fallen from heaven. Sir Thomas Browne.

That which two will takes effect. Pr.

That which upholdeth him, that thee upholds—His honour. King John, iii. 1.

That which was bitter to endure may be sweet to remember. Pr.

That which we do not believe we cannot adequately say, though we may repeat the words never so often. Emerson.

That which we have we prize not to the 15 worth; / But being lacked and lost, why then we rake its value. Much Ado, iv. 1.

That which we may live without we need not much covet. Pr.

That which will not be butter must be made into cheese. Pr.

That which will not be spun, let it not come between the spindle and the distaff. Pr.

That woman is despicable who, having children, ever feels ennui. Jean Paul.

That wretchedness which fate has rendered 20 voiceless and tuneless is not the least wretched, but the most. Carlyle.

That's a lee wi' a lid on, / And a brass handle to tak ho'd on. Pr.

That's my good that does me good. Pr.

That's the best gown that goes up and down the house. Pr.

That's the humour of it. Henry V., ii. 1.

That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly: 25 he wants to make sure o' one fool as'll tell him he's wise. But there's some men can do wi'out that—they think so much o' themselves a'ready—an' that's how it is there's old bachelors. George Eliot.

The abandoning of some lower end in obedience to a higher aim is often made the very condition of securing the lower one. J. C. Sharp.

The abiding city and post at which we can live and die is still ahead of us, it would appear. Carlyle.

The absent one is an ideal person; those who are present seem to one another to be quite commonplace. It is a silly thing that the ideal is, as it were, ousted by the real; that may be the reason why to the moderns their ideal only manifests itself in longing. Goethe.