DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS. (continued 25)

The absent party is still faulty. Pr.

The accepted and betrothed lover has lost the 30 wildest charms of his maiden in her acceptance of him. She was heaven whilst he pursued her as a star—she cannot be heaven if she stoops to such a one as he. Emerson.

The accusing spirit, which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in; and the recording angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out for ever. Sterne.

The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step towards repairing our loss. Thomas à Kempis.

The actual well seen is the ideal. Carlyle.

The advice that is wanted is commonly unwelcome; that which is not wanted is evidently impertinent. Johnson.

The affection of young ladies is of as rapid 35 growth as Jack's beanstalk, and reaches up to the sky in a night. Thackeray.

The afflictions of earth exalt the spirit and lift the soul to God. Tiedge.

The age made no sign when Shakespeare, its noblest son, passed away. Willmott.

The age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever. Burke.

The age of curiosity, like that of chivalry, is ended, properly speaking, gone. Yet perhaps only gone to sleep. Carlyle.

The age of great men is going; the epoch of 40 the anthill, of life in multiplicity, is beginning. Amiel.

The age of miracles past! The age of miracles is for ever here. Carlyle.

The ages of greatest public spirit are not always eminent for private virtue. Hume.

The agnosticism of doubt is as far from the agnosticism of devotion as blindness for want of vision from blindness through excess of light. James Martineau.

The aim of all morality, truly conceived, is to furnish men with a standard of action and a motive to work by, which shall not intensify each man's selfishness, but raise him ever more and more above it. J. C. Sharpe.

The aim of education should be to teach us 45 rather how to think than what to think. Beattie.

The aim of life is work, or there is no aim at all. Auerbach.

The aim of the legislator should be, not truth, but expediency. Buckle.

The air seems nimble with the glad, / Quaint fancies of our childhood dear. Dr. Walter Smith.

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered other things of greater value. Schopenhauer.

The all in all of faith is that we believe; of 50 knowledge, what we know, as well as how much and how well. Goethe.

The almighty dollar. Washington Irving.

The alpha and omega of Socialism is the transmutation of private competing capital into united collective capital. Schæffle.

The amateur, however weak may be his efforts at imitation, need not be discouraged, ... for one advances to an idea the more surely and steadily the more accurately and precisely he considers individual objects. Only it will not do to measure one's self with artists; every one must go on in his own style. Goethe.

The ambitious are ever followed by adulation, for such alone receive most pleasure from flattery. Goldsmith.

The amount of intellect necessary to please us 5 is a most accurate measure of the amount of intellect we have ourselves. Helvetius.

The ancient Spartan custom of killing weak-bodied children is not much crueller than that of propagating weak-minded ones. Jean Paul.

The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest. Ben. Franklin.

The anger of a strong man can always bide its time. Ruskin.

The animal is capable of enjoyment, only man is capable of serenity of mind and gladness of heart. Jean Paul.

The animals look for man's intentions right 10 into his eyes. Even a rat, when you hunt him and bring him to bay, looks you in the eye. H. Powers.

The apparel oft proclaims the man. Ham., i. 3.

The apprehension and representation of what is individual is the very life of art. Goethe.

The apprehension of the good / Gives but the greater feeling to the worse. Rich. II., i. 3.

The arch-enemy is the arch-stupid. Carlyle.

The archer who overshoots the mark misses, 15 as well as he that falls short of it. Pr.

The argument all bare is of more worth / Than when it hath my added praise beside. Shakespeare.

The army is a good book to open to study human life. Alfred de Vigny.

The army is a school in which the niggardly become generous and the generous prodigal. Cervantes.

The arrows of sarcasm are barbed with contempt.... It is the sneer in the satire or the ridicule that galls or wounds. W. Gladden.

The art of exalting lowliness and giving greatness 20 to little things is one of the noblest functions of genius. Palgrave.

The art of living is like every other art; only the capacity is born with us; it must be learned and practised with incessant care. Goethe.

The art of pleasing is the art of deceiving. Vauvenargues.

The art was his to break vexations with a ready jest. Dr. W. Smith.

The art which is produced hastily will also perish hastily. Ruskin.

The artist belongs to his work, not the work 25 to the artist. Novalis.

The artist is the son of his age; but pity for him if he is its pupil, or even its favourite. Schiller.

The artist must conceive with warmth (mit Feuer) and execute with coolness. Winkelmann.

The artist stands higher than the art, higher than the object: he uses art for his own purposes, and deals with the object after his own fashion. Goethe.

The artist's vocation is to send light into the depths of the human heart. Schumann.

The arts of deceit and cunning do continually 30 grow weaker, and less effectual and serviceable to them that use them. Tillotson.

The astonishing intellect that occupies itself in splitting hairs, and not in twisting some kind of cordage and effectual draught tackle to take the road with, is not to me the most astonishing of intellects. I want twisted cordage, steady pulling, and a peaceable bass tone of voice; not split hairs, hysterical spasmodics, and treble. Carlyle.

The Atlantic Ocean beat Mrs. Partington. She was excellent at a slop or a puddle, but she should not have meddled with a tempest. Sydney Smith.

The atmosphere of moral sentiment is a region of grandeur which reduces all material magnificence to toys, yet opens to every wretch that has reason the doors of the universe. Emerson.

The attainment of a truer and truer aristocracy, or government again by the Best,—all that democracy ever meant lies there. Carlyle.

The attempt, and not the deed, / Confounds us. 35 Macb., ii. 2.

The attraction of love is in an inverse proportion to the attraction of the Newtonian philosophy. Burns.

The author is often obscure to readers because, as has been said, he proceeds from the thought to the expression, whereas they proceed from the expression to the thought. Chamfort.

The awful shadow of some unseen Power / Floats, though unseen, among us. Shelley.

The axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs and left him a withered trunk. Swift.

The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through 40 the centre of each and every town or city. Holmes.

The back of one door is the face of another. Pr.

The back-door robs the house. Pr.

The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways. Bible.

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; and the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth. Saadi.

The bad (böse) man has not only the good, but 45 also the bad against him. Bischer.

The barrenest of mortals is the sentimentalist. Carlyle.

The basest thought about man is that he has no spiritual nature; and the foolishest, that he has, or should have, no animal nature. Ruskin.

The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Emerson.

The battle of belief against unbelief is the never-ending battle. Carlyle.

The beams of joy are made hotter by reflection. Fuller.

The bearers of the thyrsus (the symbol of the Bacchus inspiration) are many, but the Bacchants (the truly inspired) are few. Gr. Pr.

The bearing and the training of a child is 5 woman's wisdom. Tennyson.

The beaten road is the safest. Pr.

The beautiful is a manifestation of secret laws of nature, which, but for its appearance, had been for ever concealed from us. Goethe.

The beautiful is higher than the good; the beautiful includes in it the good. Goethe.

The beautiful is like sunshine to the world; the beautiful lives for ever. Hans Andersen.

The beautiful rests on the foundation of the 10 necessary. Emerson.

The beggar is never out of the fashion, or limpeth awkwardly behind it. Lamb.

The beggar is not expected to become bail or surety for any one. Lamb.

The beggar is not required to put on court mourning. Lamb.

The beggar is the only free man in the universe. Lamb.

The beggar is the only man in the universe 15 who is not obliged to study appearances. Lamb.

The beggar weareth all colours, fearing none. Lamb.

The beggar's costume hath undergone less change than the Quaker's. Lamb.

The beginning, and very nearly the end, of bodily education for a girl, is to make sure that she can stand and sit upright; the ankle vertical, and firm as a marble shaft; the waist elastic as a reed, and as unfatiguable. Ruskin.

The beginning of all good law, and nearly the end of it, is that every man shall do good work for his bread, and that every man shall have good bread for his work. Ruskin.

The beginning of all temptations and wickedness 20 is the fickleness of our own minds and want of trust in God. Thomas à Kempis.

The beginning of creation (in man's soul as in Nature) is light. Till the eye have vision, the whole members are in bonds. Carlyle.

The beginning of inquiry is disease. Carlyle.

The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention before it be meddled with. Bible.

The beginning of wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes (i.e. symbols), till they become transparent. Carlyle.

The being whose strength exceeds its necessities 25 is strong; the being whose necessities exceed its strength is feeble. Rousseau.

The bell strikes one. We take no note of time / But for its loss. Young.

The belly is chains to the hands and fetters to the feet. He who is a slave to his belly seldom worships God. Saadi.

The beloved of the Almighty are the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnanimity of the rich. Saadi.

The benefactors of mankind are those who grumble to the best purpose. Grumbling has raised man from the condition of the gorilla to that of the judge on the bench of justice. John Wagstaffe.

The benevolent heart will not solicit, but command 30 our reverence and applause. Arliss.

The benevolent person is always by preference busy on the essentially bad. Carlyle.

The best advice is, Follow good advice and hold old age in highest honour. Goethe.

The best architecture is the expression of the mind of manhood by the hands of childhood. Ruskin.

The best courages are but beams of the Almighty. Mrs. Hutchinson.

The best effect of any book is that it excites 35 the reader to self-activity. Carlyle.

The best fish swim near the bottom. Pr.

The best friends in the world may differ sometimes. Sterne.

The best gifts find the fewest admirers, and most men mistake the bad for the good. Gellert.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves. Goethe.

The best independence is to have something to 40 do, and something that can be done, and done most perfectly in solitude. P. G. Hamerton.

The best is best cheap. Pr.

The best is but in season best. Allan Ramsay.

The best is not to be explained by words. Goethe.

The best laid schemes o' mice an' men / Gang aft a-gley, / And lea'e us naught but grief and pain / For promised joy. Burns.

The best loneliness is when no human eye has 45 rested on our face for a whole day. Auerbach.

The best may slip, and the most cautious fall;/ He's more than mortal that ne'er err'd at all. Pomfret.

The best mirror is an old friend. Pr.

The best of angels do not live in community, but by themselves. Swedenborg.

The best of lessons, for a good many people, would be to listen at a keyhole. It is a pity for such that the practice is dishonourable. Mme. Swetchine.

The best of men/ That e'er wore earth about 50 him was a sufferer; / A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit; / The first true gentleman that ever breathed. Decker.

The best of the sport is to do the deed and say nothing. Pr.

The best part of our knowledge is that which teaches us where knowledge leaves off and ignorance begins. Holmes.

The best path through life is the highway. Amiel.

The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature. Macaulay.

The best preservative to keep the mind in 55 health is the faithful admonition of a friend. Bacon.

The best remedy against an ill man is much ground between both. Pr.

The best rules to form a young man are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others' that deserve it. Sir W. Temple.

The best self-forgetfulness is to look at the things of the world with attention and love. Auerbach.

The best son is not enough a son. Emerson.

The best, the only correct actions are those which demand no explanation and no apology. Auerbach.

The best thing I know between France and England is the sea. Douglas Jerrold.

The best thing which we derive from history 5 is the enthusiasm which it raises in us. Goethe.

The best things are worst to come by. Walker.

The best use of money is to pay debts. Pr.

The best way to come to truth is to examine things as they really are, and not to conclude they are, as we have been taught by others to imagine. Locke.

The best way to make the audience laugh is by first laughing yourself. Goldsmith.

The best way to please one half of the world is 10 not to mind what the other half says. Goldsmith.

The best work in the world is done on the quiet. Pr.

The best work never was, nor ever will be, done for money at all. Ruskin.

The best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from unmarried or childless men, which, both in affection and means, have married and endowed the public. Bacon.

The betrayer is the murderer. Gael. Pr.

The better a man is morally, the less conscious 15 he is of his virtues. The greater the artist, the more aware he must be of his shortcomings. Froude.

The better day the better deed. Walker.

The better I know men the more I admire dogs. (?)

The better part of valour is discretion. 1 Hen. IV., v. 4.

The better you understand yourself, the less cause you will find to love yourself. Thomas à Kempis.

The Bible contains many truths as yet undiscovered. 20 Butler.

The Bible contains more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure morality, more important history, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence than can be collected from all other books, in whatever age or language they have been written. Sir William Jones.

(The Bible) contains plain teaching for men of every rank of soul and state of life, which so far as they honestly and implicitly obey, they will be happy and innocent to the utmost powers of their nature, and capable of victory over all adversities, whether of temptation or pain. Ruskin.

The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews. Heine.

The Bible of a nation, the practically credited God's message to a nation, is, beyond all else, the authentic biography of its heroic souls. This is the real record of the appearances of God in the history of a nation; this, which all men to the marrow of their bones can believe, and which teaches all men what the nature of this universe, when you go to work in it, really is. Carlyle.

The Bible tells us what Christian graces are; 25 but it is in the struggle of life that we are to find them. Beecher.

The biography of a nation embraces all its works. No trifle is to be neglected. A mouldering medal is a letter of twenty centuries. Willmott.

The bird of wisdom flies low, and seeks her food under hedges; the eagle himself would be starved if he always soared aloft and against the sun. Landor.

The birds without barn or storehouse are fed: / From them let us learn to trust for our bread. Newton.

The birth of a child is the imprisonment of a soul. Simons.

The birth of a golden deer is impossible. Hitopadesa. 30

The bishop has set his foot in it, i.e., the broth is singed. Pr. (The explanation of which, according to Grose, is: Whenever a bishop passed through a town or a village, all the inhabitants ran out to receive his blessing; this frequently caused the milk on the fire to be left till burnt.)

The biter is often bit. Pr.

The blanks as well as the prizes must be drawn in the cheating lottery of life. Le Sage.

The blast that blows loudest is soon overblown. Smollett.

The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, 35 but it often dies in the socket. Johnson.

The blessed work of helping the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men. George Eliot.

The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it. Bible.

The blind man bears the lame, and onward hies, / Made right by lending feet and borrowing eyes. Plato the Younger.

The block of granite, which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. Carlyle.

The blood more stirs / To rouse a lion than to 40 start a hare. Hen. IV., i. 3.

The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity, the rest is crime. Burke.

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church. Tertullian.

The blue-bird carries the sky on his back. Thoreau.

The blue of heaven is larger than the cloud. Mrs. Browning.

The blush is Nature's alarm at the approach of 45 sin, and her testimony to the dignity of virtue. Fuller.

The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul. Bovee.

The body of Christ is wherever human bodies are, and he who has any bitterness against his brother is always committing sacrilege. Ward Beecher.

The book of Nature is the book of Fate. Emerson.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, / With loads of learned lumber in his head. Pope.

The books which help you most are those which make you think the most. Theodore Parker.

The borrower runs in his own debt. Emerson.

The bough that is dead shall be cut away for the sake of the tree itself. Let the Conservatism that would preserve the tree, cut it away. Carlyle.

The bounds of a man's knowledge are easily concealed if he has but prudence. Goldsmith.

The boy stands astonished; his impressions 5 guide him; he learns sportfully; seriousness steals on him by surprise. Goethe.

The boy's story is the best that is ever told. Dickens.

The boy's will is the wind's will, / And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts. Lapland Pr.

The brain may devise laws for the blood; but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree. Mer. of Ven., i. 2.

The brain-women never interest us like the heart-women; white roses please less than red. Holmes.

The brave man thinks of himself last of all. 10 Schiller.

The bravest are the tenderest, / The loving are the daring. Bayard Taylor.

The breach of custom / Is breach of all. Cymbeline, iv. 2.

The breeding of a man makes him courageous by instinct, true by instinct, loving by instinct, as a dog is; and therefore, felicitously above, or below (whichever you like to call it), all questions of philosophy and divinity. Ruskin.

The British nation—and I include in it the Scottish nation—has produced a finer set of men than you will find it possible to get anywhere else in this world. Carlyle.

The bud may have a bitter taste, / But sweet 15 will be the flower. Cowper.

The buke o' May-bees is very braid. Sc. Pr.

The burden one likes is cheerfully borne. Pr.

The burning of a little straw may hide the stars of the sky; but the stars are there, and will reappear. Carlyle.

The burst of new light, by its suddenness, always appears inimical to the unprepared heart. Jean Paul.

The busiest of living agents are certain dead 20 men's thoughts. Bovee.

The calling of a man's self to a strict account is a medicine sometimes too piercing and corrosive; reading good books of morality is a little flat and dead ... but the best receipt (best to work, and best to take) is the admonition of a friend. Bacon.

The camomile, the more it is trodden on, the faster it grows; yet youth, the more it is wasted, the sooner it wears. 1 Hen. IV., ii. 4.

The canary-bird sings the sweeter the longer it has been trained in a darkened cage. Jean Paul.

The cancer of jealousy on the breast can never wholly be cut out, if I am to believe great masters of the healing art. Jean Paul.

The canker galls the infants of the spring / 25 Too oft before their buttons are disclosed, / And in the morn and liquid dew of youth / Contagious blastments are most imminent. Ham., i. 3.

The capacity of apprehending what is high is very rare; and therefore, in common life a man does well to keep such things for himself, and only to give out so much as is needful to have some advantage against others. Goethe.

The captive bands may chain the hands, / But love enslaves the man. Burns.

The Carlyles were men who lavished their heart and conscience upon their work; they builded themselves, their days, their thoughts and sorrows, into their houses; they leavened the soil with the sweat of their rugged brows. John Burroughs.

The casting away things profitable for the maintenance of man's life is an unthankful abuse of the fruits of God's good providence towards mankind. Hooker.

The castle which Conservatism is set to defend 30 is the actual state of things, good and bad. Emerson.

The cat shuts its eyes when stealing the cream. Pr.

The cause which pleased the gods has in the end to please Cato also. (?)

The centuries are all lineal children of one another; and often, in the portrait of early grandfathers, this and the other enigmatic feature of the newest grandson will disclose itself, to mutual elucidation. Carlyle.

The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul. Emerson.

The certain way to be cheated is to fancy one's 35 self more cunning than others. Charron.

The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt till they are too strong to be broken. Johnson.

The champion true / Loves victory more when, dim in view, / He sees her glories gild afar / The dusky edge of stubborn war, / Than if th' untrodden bloodless field / The harvest of her laurels yield. Keble.

The change of a man's self is a very laborious undertaking. Thomas à Kempis.

The character of a nation is not to be learned from its fine folks. Scott.

The character of the person that commends 40 you is to be considered before you set a value on his esteem. The wise man applauds him whom he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world, him who is most wealthy. (?)

The character of the true philosopher is to hope all things not unreasonable. Sir John Herschel.

The characteristic mark of minds (Geister) of the first order is the directness (Unmittelbarkeit) of all their judgments. All that they bring forth (vorbringen) is the result of their own thinking. Schopenhauer.

The characteristic of a philosopher is that he looks to himself for all help or harm. Epictetus.

The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity; of Spencer, remoteness; of Milton, elevation: of Shakespeare, everything. Hazlitt.

The chariest maid is prodigal enough / If she 45 unmask her beauty to the moon. Ham., i. 1.

The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in at the window. Pr.

The charity that thinketh no evil trusts in God and trusts in man. J. G. Holland.

The chaste mind, like a polished plane, may admit foul thoughts, without receiving their tincture. Sterne.

The cheap swearer through his open sluice / Lets his soul run for nought. George Herbert.

The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy. Emerson.

The chief glory of every people arises from its 5 authors. Johnson.

The chief of all the curses of this unhappy age is the universal gabble of its fools, and of the flocks that follow them, rendering the quiet voices of the wise of all past time inaudible. Ruskin.

The chief requisites for a courtier are a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness. Lady Blessington.

The chief value and virtue of money consists in its having power over human beings; a power which is attainable by other means than by money. Ruskin.

The child is father of the man. Wordsworth.

The child is not to be educated for the present, 10 but for the remote future, and often in opposition to the immediate future. Jean Paul.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it, only disgraced. Ruskin.

The child's murmuring is more and is less than words; there are no notes, and yet it is a song; there are no syllables, and yet it is language.... This poor stammering is a compound of what the child said when it was an angel, and of what it will say when it becomes a man. Victor Hugo.

The childhood shows the man / As morning shows the day. Milton.

The children of others we never love so much as our own; error, our own child, is so near our heart. Goethe.

The choicest thing this world has for a man is 15 affection. J. G. Holland.

The Christian doctrine, that doctrine of Humility, in all senses godlike, and the parent of all godlike virtue, is not superior, or inferior, or equal to any doctrine of Socrates or Thales, being of a totally different nature; differing from these as a perfect ideal poem does from a correct computation in arithmetic. Carlyle.

The Christian religion having once appeared, cannot again vanish; having once assumed its divine shape, can be subject to no dissolution. Goethe.

The Christian religion is an inspiration and life—God's life breathed into a man and breathed through a man. J. G. Holland.

The Christian religion is especially remarkable, as it so decidedly lays claim to mere goodwill in man, to his essential temper, and values this independently of all culture and manifestation. It stands in opposition to science and art, and properly to enjoyment. Novalis.

The Christian religion, often enough dismembered 20 and scattered abroad, will ever in the end again gather itself together at the foot of the cross. Goethe.

The Christian religion, once here, cannot again pass away; in one or the other form, it will endure through all time. As in Scripture, so also in the heart of man, it is written, "The gates of hell shall not prevail against it." Carlyle.

The Christianity that cannot get on without a minimum of four thousand five hundred, will give place to something better that can. Carlyle.

The Church is a mere organisation to help a man to fulfil his duties; it is not the source from whence those duties sprung. Ward Beecher.

The Church is the working recognised union of those who by wise teaching guide the souls of men. Carlyle.

The Church! Touching the earth with one 25 small point (the event, viz., at Bethlehem of the year one); springing out of one small seed-grain, rising out therefrom, ever higher, ever broader, high as the heaven itself, broad till it overshadow the whole visible heaven and earth, and no star can be seen but through it. From such a seed-grain so has it grown; planted in the reverences and sacred opulences of the soul of mankind; fed continually by all the noblenesses of forty generations of man. The world-tree of the nations for so long! Carlyle.

The Churchmen fain would kill their Church, / As the Churches have killed their Christ. Tennyson.

The circle of noble-minded people is the most precious of all that I have won. Goethe.

The city does not take away, neither does the country give, solitude: solitude is within us. Joseph Roux.

The city is recruited from the country. Emerson.

The civil guest / Will no more talk all, than 30 eat all the feast. George Herbert.

The civilised man lives not in wheeled houses. He builds stone castles, plants lands, makes life-long marriage contracts; has long-dated, hundred-fold possessions, not to be valued in the money-market; has pedigrees, libraries, law-codes; has memories and hopes, even for this earth, that reach over thousands of years. Carlyle.

The civilised nation consists broadly of mob, money-collecting machine, and capitalist; and when the mob wishes to spend money for any purpose, it sets its money-collecting machine to borrow the money it needs from the capitalist, who lends it on condition of taxing the mob generation after generation. Ruskin.

The civilised savage (Wilde) is the worst of all savages. C. J. Weber.

The Classical is healthy, the Romantic sickly. Goethe.

The clergy are at present divided into three 35 sections: an immense body who are ignorant; a small proportion who know and are silent; and a minute minority who know and speak according to their knowledge. Huxley.

The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, / The solemn temples, the great globe itself, / Yea, all that it inherit, shall dissolve; / And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, / Leave not a rack behind. Tempest, iv. 1.

The cloud incense of the altar hides / The true form of the God who there abides. Dr. W. Smith.

The clouds never pass against the wind. Hitopadesa.

The clouds that gather round the setting sun / Do take a sober colouring from an eye / That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality. Wordsworth.

The clouds that wrap the setting sun / ... Why, as we watch their floating wreath, / Seem they the breath of life to breathe? / To Fancy's eye their motions prove / They mantle round the sun for love. Keble.

The clouds treat the sea as if it were a mill-pond 5 or a spring-run, too insignificant to make any exceptions to. John Burroughs.

The cock, that is the trumpet of the morn, / Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat / Awake the god of day. Ham., i. 1.

The coin that is most current among mankind is flattery; the only benefit of which is that by hearing what we are not we may be instructed what we ought to be. (?)

The combined arts appear to me like a family of sisters, of whom the greater part were inclined to good company, but one was light-headed, and desirous to appropriate and squander the whole goods and chattels of the household—the theatre is this wasteful sister. Goethe.

The comic and the tragic lie close together, inseparable, like light and shadow. Socrates.

The command "thou shalt" is in all circumstances 10 a hard one, unless it is softened down by the adjunct "for that which 'thou shalt' is just the same as that which rationally thou also willest." Lindner.

The commencement of atonement is / The sense of its necessity. Byron.

The common crowd but see the gloom / Of wayward deeds and fitting doom; / The close observer can espy / A noble soul and lineage high. Byron.

The common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words. Swift.

The common "keeping up appearances" of society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain. Ruskin.

The company of fools may at first make us 15 smile, but at last never fails of rendering us melancholy. Goldsmith.

The complete poet must have a heart in his brain or a brain in his heart. George Darley.

The complete spiritualisation of the animal element in nature is the task of our species. Amiel.

The conceived is never food save to the mind that conceives. Schiller.

The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear. Burke.

The condition of the great body of the people in 20 a country is the condition of the country itself. Carlyle.

The condition of the most fascinated (bezaubertsten) enthusiast is to be preferred to him who, from sheer fear of error, dares in the end no longer to affirm or deny. Wieland.

The conditions necessary for the arts of men are the best for their souls and bodies. Ruskin.

The confidant of my vices is my master, though he were my valet. Goethe.

The conflict of the old, the existent, and the persistent, with development, improvement, and transfigurment is always the same. Out of every arrangement arises at last pedantry; to get rid of this latter the former is destroyed, and some time must elapse before we become aware that order must be re-established. Goethe.

The conscience is the inviolable asylum of the 25 liberty of man. Napoleon.

The conscience is the most elastic material in the world. To-day you cannot stretch it over a mole-hill, to-morrow it hides a mountain. Bulwer Lytton.

The conscience of the man who is given over to his passions is like the voice of the shipwrecked mariner overwhelmed by the tempest. Joseph Roux.

The conscious utterance of thought by speech or action, to any end, is art. Emerson.

The conscious water saw its god and blushed. Dryden, on the water into wine at Cana.

The consolation which is derived from truth, 30 if any there be, is solid and durable; that which may be derived from error must be, like its original, fallacious and fugitive. Johnson.

The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Napoleon.

The contingent facts of history can never become the proof of the truths of reason. Lessing.

The conversation of a friend is a powerful alleviator of the fatigue of walking. Dr. Andrew Combe.

The core will come to the surface. Emerson.

The cormorant Oblivion swallows up / The 35 carcases that Time has made his prey. Crowe.

The corpse is not the whole animal; there is still something that appertains to it, still a corner-stone, and in this case, as in every other, a very chief corner-stone—life, the spirit that makes everything beautiful. Goethe.

The counsel thou wouldst have another keep, first keep thyself. Pr.

The country where the entire people is, or even once has been, laid hold of, filled to the heart with an infinite religious idea, has "made a step from which it cannot retrograde." Carlyle.

The courage (Muth) of truth is the first condition of philosophic study. Hegel.

The courage that dares only die is on the 40 whole no sublime affair.... The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully. Carlyle.

The course of nature is the art of God. Young.

The course of Nature's phases, on this our little fraction of a planet, is partially known to us; but who knows what deeper courses these depend on; what infinitely larger cycle (of causes) our little epicycle revolves on? Carlyle.

The course of prayer who knows? Keble.

The course of scoundrelism, any more than that of true love, never did run smooth. Carlyle.

The course of true love never did run smooth. Mid. N.'s Dream, i. 1.

The court does not render a man contented, but it prevents his being so elsewhere. La Bruyère.

The court is like a palace of marble; it is composed of people very hard and very polished. La Bruyère.

The court, nor cart, I like, nor loathe; / Extremes are counted worst of all: / The golden mean betwixt them both / Doth surest sit, and fears no fall. Old ballad.

The court of the past differs from all living 5 aristocracy in this; it is open to labour and to merit, but to nothing else. Ruskin.

The covetous man heaps up riches, not to enjoy them, but to have them. Tillotson.

The covetous man never has money, and the prodigal will have none shortly. Johnson.

The coxcomb is a fool of parts, a flatterer, a knave of parts. Steele.

The craftiest wiles are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart. Lavater.

The crafty man is always in danger; and 10 when he thinks he walks in the dark, all his pretences are so transparent, that he that runs may read them. Tillotson.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn; and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man. Emerson.

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals, never to the age. Goethe.

The creed of the true saint is to make the best of life, and make the most of it. Chapin.

The crickets sing, and man's o'er-laboured sense / Repairs itself by rest. Cymbeline, ii. 2.

The cross is the invincible sanctuary of the 15 humble. Cass.

The cross of Christ is the key of Paradise; the weak man's staff; the convert's convoy; the upright man's perfection; the soul and body's health; the prevention of all evil, and the procurer of all good. Damascen.

The cross was the fitting close of a life of rejection, scorn, and defeat. W. H. Thomson.

The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark / When neither is attended, and I think / The nightingale, if she should sing by day, / when every goose is cackling, would be thought / No better a musician than the wren. Mer. of Venice, v. 1.

The crowd ... if they find / Some stain or blemish in a name of note, / Not grieving that their greatest are so small, / Inflate themselves with some insane delight, / And judge all Nature from her feet of clay, / Without the will to lift their eyes, and see / Her godlike head crown'd with spiritual fire / And touching other worlds. Tennyson.

The cruelty of the affectionate is more dreadful 20 than that of the hardy. Lavater.

The cry of the God-forsaken is from the heart of God himself. Ed.

The cuffs and thumps with which fate, our lady-loves, our friends and foes, put us to the proof, in the mind of a good and resolute man, vanish into air. Goethe.

The cunning workman never doth refuse / The meanest tool that he may chance to use. George Herbert.

The cup of life which God offers to our lips is not always sweet; ... but, sweet or bitter, it is ours to drink it without murmur or demur. W. R. Greg.

The cups that cheer, but not inebriate. Cowper. 25

The cure for false theology is mother wit. Emerson.

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, / The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, / The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, / And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Gray.

The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge. Apocrypha.

The curious unthrift makes his clothes too wide, / And spares himself, but would his tailor chide. George Herbert.

The current that with gentle murmur glides, / 30 Thou know'st, being stopp'd, impatiently doth rage. Two Gent. of Ver., ii. 7.

The curtains of yesterday drop down, the curtains of to-morrow roll up; but yesterday and to-morrow both are. Pierce into the Time-element, glance into the Eternal. Carlyle.

The cut (of the vesture) betokens intellect and talent, so does the colour betoken temper and heart. Carlyle.

The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. Ward Beecher.

The danger of dangers is illusion. Emerson.

The danger past and God forgotten. Pr. 35

The dark in soul see in the universe their own shadow; the shattered spirit can only reflect external beauty, in form as untrue and broken as itself. Binney.

The darkest day, live till to-morrow, will have passed away. Cowper.

The darkest hour is nearest the dawn. Pr.

The day is longer than the brae; we'll be at the top yet. Gael. Pr.

The day of days ... is the day on which the 40 inward eye opens to the unity of things, to the omnipresence of law—sees that what is must be, and ought to be, or is the best. Emerson.

The day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self. Dickens.

The days are too short even for love, how can there ever be time for quarrelling? Mrs. Gatty.

The dead do not need us; but for ever and for evermore we need them. Garfield.

The dead letter of religion must own itself dead, and drop piecemeal into dust, if the living spirit of religion, freed from its charnel-house, is to arise on us, new born of Heaven, and with new healing under its wings. Carlyle.

The decline of literature indicates the decline 45 of the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency. Goethe.

The deeper the sorrow, the less tongue hath it. Talmud.

The deity works in the living, not in the dead; in the becoming and the changing, not in the become and the fixed. Goethe.

The delight of the destroyer and denier is no pure delight, and must soon pass away. Carlyle.

The democrat is a young conservative; the conservative is an old democrat. Emerson.

The demonic in music stands so high that no understanding can reach it, and an influence flows from it which masters all, and for which none can account. Goethe.

The demonic is that which cannot be explained by reason or understanding, which is not in one's nature, yet to which it is subject. Goethe.

The dependant is timid. Gael. Pr. 5

The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope. Carlyle.

The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul. Bible.

The desire of a man is his kindness: and a poor man is better than a liar. Bible.

The desire of perfection is the worst disease that ever afflicted the human mind. Fontanes.

The desire of power in excess caused the 10 angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall; but in charity there is no excess, neither can man or angel come in danger by it. Bacon.

The desire of the moth for the star, / Of the night for the morrow, / The devotion to something afar / From the sphere of our sorrow. Shelley.

The desire of the slothful killeth him; for his hands refuse to labour. Bible.

The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinions of its young men under five-and-twenty. Goethe.

The destruction of the poor is their poverty. Bible.

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose! / 15 An evil soul producing holy witness / Is like a villain with a smiling cheek, / A goodly apple rotten at the heart. Mer. of Ven., i. 3.

The devil has a great advantage against us, inasmuch as he has a strong bastion and bulwark against us in our own flesh and blood. Luther.

The devil has his elect. Carlyle.

The devil hath power / To assume a pleasing shape. Ham., ii. 2.

The devil helps his servants for a season; but when they come once to a pinch, he leaves 'em in the lurch. L'Estrange.

The devil is a busy bishop in his own diocese. 20 Bishop Latimer.

The devil is an ass. Pr.

The devil is an unfortunate who knows not what it is to love. St. Theresa.

The devil is God's ape. Luther.

The devil knew not what he did when he made man politic; he crossed himself by it. Tim. of Athens, iii. 3.

The devil lurks behind the cross. Pr. 25

The devil may get in by the keyhole, but the door won't let him out. Pr.

The devil taketh not lightly unto his working such as he findeth occupied in good works. St. Jerome.

The devil tempts all other men, but idle men tempt the devil. Arab. Pr.

The devil tempts us not—'tis we tempt him, / Beckoning his skill with opportunity. George Eliot.

The devil was sick, the devil a monk would 30 be; / The devil was well, the devil a monk was he. Rabelais.

The dewdrop and the star shine sisterly, / Globing together in the common work. Sir Edwin Arnold.

The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods ... which all experience refutes. History teems with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not suppressed for ever, it may be thrown back for centuries. J. S. Mill.

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great Conscious; the immeasurably great Unconscious. Carlyle.

The difference between the great celebrities and the unknown nobodies is this, the former failed and went at it again, the latter gave up in despair. Anon.

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend as 35 to find a friend worth dying for. Henry Home.

The difficulty is to teach the multitude that something can be both true and untrue at the same time. Schopenhauer.

The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting. Ben Jonson.

The dilettante takes the obscure for the profound, violence for vigour, the indefinite for the infinite, and the senseless for the supersensuous. Schiller.

The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord. Jesus.

The discovery of what is true, and the practice 40 of that which is good, are the two most important objects of philosophy. Voltaire.

The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. Bible.

The disease of the mind leading to fatalist ruin is the concentration of man upon himself, whether his heavenly interests or his worldly interests, matters not; it is their being his own interests which makes the regard of them mortal. Ruskin.

The disease which afflicts bureaucratic governments, and which they usually die of, is routine. J. S. Mill.

The disease with which the human mind now labours is want of faith. Emerson.

The dispute about religion and the practice of 45 it seldom go together. Young.

The disputes of two of equal strength and fortune are worthy of attention; but not of two, the one great, the other humble. Hitopadesa.

The dissection of a sentence is as bad a way to the understanding of it, as the dissection of a beast to the biography of it. Ruskin.

The distances of nations are measured, not by seas, but by ignorances; and their divisions determined, not by dialects, but by enmities. Ruskin.

The distant landscape draws not nigh / For all our gazing. Keble.

The distant sounds of music, that catch new 50 sweetness as they vibrate through the long-drawn valley, are not more pleasing to the ear than the tidings of a far-distant friend. Goldsmith.

The distinction between man and nature is, that man is a being becoming, and nature a being become. Rückert.

The distinctive character of a child is to live always in the tangible present. Ruskin.

The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price and be bought for it. Ruskin.

The distinguishing trait of people accustomed to good society is a calm, imperturbable quiet, which pervades all their actions and habits. Bulwer Lytton.

The Divine mind is as visible in its full energy 5 of operation on every lowly bank and mouldering stone, as in the lifting of the pillars of heaven, and setting the foundations of the earth. Ruskin.

The divine power of the love, of which we cease not to sing and speak, is this, that it reproduces every moment the grand qualities of the beloved object, perfect in the smallest parts, embraced in the whole; it rests not either by day or by night, is ravished with its own work, wonders at its own stirring activity, finds the well-known always new, because it is every moment begotten anew in the sweetest of all occupations. In fact the image of the beloved one cannot become old, for every moment is the hour of its birth. Goethe.

The divine state, "par excellence," is silence and repose. Amiel.

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind, the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity. Schopenhauer.

The dog that fetches will carry. Pr.

The dog that starts the hare is as good as the 10 one that catches it. Ger. Pr.

The dog, to gain his private ends, / Went mad, and bit the man. Goldsmith.

The dome of St. Peter's is great, yet is it but a foolish chip of an egg-shell compared with that star-fretted dome where Arcturus and Orion glance for ever, which latter, notwithstanding, no one looks at—because the architect was not a man. Carlyle.

The dome of thought, the palace of the soul. Byron.

The donkey means one thing and the driver another. Pr.

The doom of the old has long been pronounced 15 and irrevocable; the old has passed away; but, alas! the new appears not in its stead; the time is still in pangs of travail with the new. Man has walked by the light of conflagrations, and amid the sound of falling cities; and now there is darkness, and long watching till it be morning. Carlyle in 1831.

The door must either be shut or it must be open. I must either be natural or unnatural. Goldsmith.

The dove found no rest for the sole of her foot. Bible.

The dread of censure is the death of genius. Simms.

The dread of something after death, / The undiscover'd country, from whose bourn / No traveller returns, puzzles the will; / And makes us rather bear those ills we have / Than fly to others that we know not of. Ham., iii. 1.

The dreamer is a madman quiescent, the 20 madman is a dreamer in action. F. H. Hedge.

The dregs may stir themselves as they please; they fall back to the bottom by their own coarseness. Joubert.

The dress of words, / Like to the Roman girl's enticing garb, / Should let the play of limb be seen through it, / And the round rising form. Bailey.

The drunkard forfeits man, and doth divest / All worldly right, save what he hath by beast. George Herbert.

The dry light is ever the best. Heraclitus.

The drying up a single tear has more / Of 25 honest fame than shedding seas of gore. Byron.

The dullest John Bull cannot with perfect complacency adore himself, except under the figure of Britannia or the British Lion. Byron.

The dust of controversy is but the falsehood flying off. Carlyle.

The dwarf behind his steam-engine may remove mountains, but no dwarf will hew them down with the pickaxe; and he must be a Titan that hurls them abroad with his arms. Carlyle.

The eagle suffers little birds to sing. Tit. Andron., iv. 4.

The earth hath bubbles, as the water has, / 30 And these are of them. Macb., i. 3.

The earth is our workshop. We may not curse it; we are bound to sanctify it. Mazzini.

The earth is sown with pleasures, as the heavens are studded with stars, wherever the conditions of existence are unsophisticated. W. R. Greg.

The earth must supply man with the necessaries of life before he has leisure or inclination to pursue more refined enjoyments. Goldsmith.

The earth, that's Nature's mother, is her tomb. Rom. and Jul., ii. 3.

The earthen pot must keep clear of the brass 35 kettle. Pr.

The ebb'd man, ne'er loved till ne'er worth love, / Comes dear'd by being lack'd. Ant. and Cleop., i. 4.

The echo of the nest-life, the voice of our modest, fairer, holier soul, is audible only in a sorrow-darkened bosom, as the nightingales warble when one veils their cage. Jean Paul.

The effect of good music is not caused by its novelty; on the contrary, it strikes us more the more familiar we are with it. Goethe.

The effect of righteousness (shall be) quietness and assurance for ever. Bible.

The effect of violent animosities between 40 parties has always been an indifference to the general welfare and honour of the state. Macaulay.

The efforts of him who contendeth with one stronger than himself are as feeble as the exertions of an insect's wings. Hitopadesa.

The elect are whosoever will, and the non-elect whosoever won't. Ward Beecher.

The electric telegraph will never be a substitute for the face of a man, with his soul in it, encouraging another man to be brave and true. Dickens.

The element of water moistens the earth, but blood flies upwards and bedews the heavens. John Webster.

The elements of poetry lie in natural objects, in the vicissitudes of human life, in the emotions of the human heart, and the relations of man to man. Bryant.

The emphasis of facts and persons has nothing to do with time. Emerson.

The empire of woman is an empire of softness, 5 of address, of complacency. Her commands are caresses, her menaces are tears. Rousseau.

The empty vessel makes the greatest sound. Hen. V., iv. 4.

The end crowns all, / And that old common arbitrator, Time, / Will one day end it. Troil. and Cress., iv. 5.

The end of all opposition is negation, and negation is nothing. Goethe.

The end of all right education of a woman is to make her love her home better than any other place; that she should as seldom leave it as a queen her queendom; nor ever feel entirely at rest but within its threshold. Ruskin.

The end of doubt is the beginning of repose. 10 Petrarch.

The end of labour is to gain leisure. Arist.

The end of man is an action, not a thought, though it were the noblest. Carlyle.

The end of man is at no moment a pleasure, but a performance; and life always and only the continual fulfilment of a worthy purpose with a will. Ed.

The end we aim at must be known before the way. Jean Paul.

The enemy is more easily repulsed if we never 15 suffer him to get within us, but, upon the very first approach, draw up our forces and fight him without the gate. Thomas à Kempis.

"The English," says Bishop Sprat, "have too much bravery to be derided, and too much virtue and honour to mock others." Goldsmith.

The ennobling difference between one man and another—between one animal and another—is precisely this, that one feels more than another. Ruskin.

The entire grace, happiness, and virtue of (a young man's) life depend on his contentment in doing what he can dutifully, and in staying where he is peaceably. Ruskin.

The entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy the right things. Ruskin.

The entire system of things gets represented 20 in every particle. Emerson.

The entire vitality of art depends upon its having for object either to state a true thing or adorn a serviceable one. Ruskin.

The envied have a brilliant fate; / Pity is given where griefs are great. Palladas.

The envious man waxeth lean with the fatness of his neighbours. Socrates.

The envious will die, but envy never. Molière.

The errors of a great mind are more edifying 25 than the truths of a little. Börne.

The errors of a wise man are literally more instructive than the truths of a fool. For the wise man travels in lofty, far-seeing regions; the fool in low-lying, high-fenced lanes; retracing the footsteps of the former, to discover where he deviated, whole provinces of the universe are laid open to us; in the path of the latter, granting even that he have not deviated at all, little is laid open to us but two wheel-ruts and two hedges. Carlyle.

The errors of a wise man make your rule / Rather than the perfections of a fool. Wm. Blake.

The errors of woman spring almost always from her faith in the good or her confidence in the true. Balzac.

The errors of young men are the ruin of business; but the errors of aged men amount to but this, that more might have been done, or sooner. Bacon.

The essence of a lie is in deception, not in 30 words. Ruskin.

The essence of affectation is that it be assumed; the character is, as it were, forcibly crushed into some foreign mould, in the hope of being thereby re-shaped and beautified; and the unhappy man persuades himself he has become a new creature of wonderful symmetry, though every movement betrays not symmetry, but dislocation. Carlyle.

The essence of all government among good men is this, that it is mainly occupied in the production and recognition of human worth, and in the detection and extinction of human unworthiness. Ruskin.

The essence of all immorality, of sin, is the making self the centre to which we subordinate all other beings and interests. J. C. Sharp.

The essence of all religion that was, and that will be, is to make men free. Carlyle.

The essence of all vulgarity lies in want of 35 sensation. Ruskin.

The essence of an aristocracy is to transfer the source of honour from the living to the dead, to make the merits of living men depend not so much upon their own character and actions as upon the actions and position of their ancestors. H. Lecky.

The essence of aphorism is the compression of a mass of thought and observation into a single saying. John Morley.

The essence of faith lies in this, a deep sense and conviction that in what we do, though it were single-handed, with all men standing aloof, and even saying nay to it, we have God and all his universe at our back. Ed.

The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust. Emerson.

The essence of greatness is the perception 40 that virtue is enough. Poverty is its ornament. It does not need plenty, and can very well abide its loss. Emerson.

The essence of humour is sensibility, warm, tender, fellow-feeling with all forms of existence; and unless seasoned and purified by humour, sensibility is apt to run wild, will readily corrupt into disease, falsehood, or, in one word, sentimentality. Carlyle.

The essence of justice is mercy. (?)

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance. Confucius.

The essence of poetry is will and passion. Hazlitt.

The essence of true nobility is neglect of self. Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of a great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower. Froude.

The essence of wealth consists in its authority over men; if (therefore) the apparent or nominal wealth fail in this power, it fails in essence; in fact, ceases to be wealth at all. And since the essence of wealth consists in power over men, will it not follow that the nobler and the more in number the persons are over whom it has power, the greater the wealth. Ruskin.

The essence or peculiarity of man is to comprehend a whole. Emerson.

The essential thing for all creatures is to be 5 made to do right. Ruskin.

The Eternal is no simulacrum; God is not only there, but here or nowhere,—in that life-breath of thine, in that act and thought of thine,—and thou wert wise to look to it. Carlyle.

The eternal stars shine out again, as soon as it is dark enough. Carlyle.

The eternity, before the world and after, is without our reach; but that little spot of ground which lies betwixt those two great oceans, this we are to cultivate. Burnet.

The even and cheerful temper makes us pleasing to ourselves, to those with whom we converse, and to Him whom we were made to please. Addison.

The even-flow of constant cheerfulness 10 strengthens; while great excitements, driving us with fierce speed, both wreck the ship and end often in explosions. Ward Beecher.

The evening brings a' hame. Sc. Pr.

The evil that goeth out of thy mouth flieth into thy bosom. Pr.

The evil that men do lives after them; / The good is oft interréd with their bones. Jul. Cæs., viii. 2.

The evil wound is cured, but not the evil name. Pr.

The ewe that will not hear her lamb when it 15 baes, will never answer a calf when it bleats. Much Ado, iii. 3.

The exacting a grateful acknowledgment is demanding a debt by which the creditor is not advantaged and the debtor pays with reluctance. Goldsmith.

The example of good men is visible philosophy. Pr.

The excellent is rarely found, more rarely valued. Goethe.

The exception proves the rule. Pr.

The excesses of our youth are draughts upon 20 our age, payable with interest about thirty years after date. Colton.

The expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever. Bible.

The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet. Emerson.

The experience of suffering has been declared on the highest authority to be necessary to every poet who would touch the hearts of his fellow-creatures. C. Fitzhugh.

The express schoolmaster is not equal to much at present, while the unexpress, for good or for evil, is so busy with a poor little fellow. Carlyle.

The eye by which I see God is the same eye 25 by which he sees me. Scheffler.

The eye is easily daunted. Emerson.

The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. Bible.

The eye is the best of artists. Emerson.

The eye is the mirror of the soul. Pr.

The eye is the only note-book of the true poet. 30 Lowell.

The eye is the window of the soul; even an animal looks for a man's intentions right into his eyes. H. Powers.

The eye—it cannot choose but see; / We cannot bid the ear be still; / Our bodies feel, where'er they be, / Against or with our will. Wordsworth.

The eye of a critic is often like a microscope, made so very fine and nice, that it discovers the atoms, grains, and minutest particles, without ever comprehending the whole, comparing the parts, or seeing all at once the harmony. (?)

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands. Ben. Franklin.

The eye repeats every day the first eulogy on 35 things: "He saw that they were very good." Emerson.

The eye sees in all things what it brings with it the faculty of seeing. Goethe.

The eye sees not itself, / But by reflection, by some other things. Jul. Cæs., i. 2.

The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it. Bible.

The eye that sees all things else sees not itself. Pr.

The eyes being in the highest part, hold the 40 post of sentinels. Cic.

The eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I would want neither fine clothes, fine houses, nor fine furniture. Ben. Franklin.

The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good. Bible.

The face is the index of the mind. Pr.

The face of man gives us fuller and more interesting information than his tongue; for his face is the compendium of all he will ever say, as it is the one record of all he has thought and endeavoured. Schopenhauer.

The faculty for remembering is not diminished 45 in proportion to what one has learnt, just as little as the number of moulds in which you cast sand lessens its capacity for being cast in new moulds. Schopenhauer.

The faculty of art is to change events; the faculty of science is to foresee them. The phenomena with which we deal are controlled by art; they are predicted by science. Buckle.

The faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated. Luther.

The failings of good men are commonly more published in the world than their good deeds; and one fault of a deserving man shall meet with more reproaches than all his virtues praise; such is the force of ill-will and ill-nature. (?)

The faint, exquisite music of a dream. Moore.

The fair maid who, the first of May, / Goes to the fields at break of day, / And washes in dew from the hawthorn tree, / Will ever after handsome be. Pr.

The fair point of the line of beauty is the line of love. Strength and weakness stand on either side of it. Love is the point in which they unite. Goethe.

The fairest action of our human life is scorning to avenge an injury. Lady E. Carew.

The fairest tulip's not the sweetest flower. 5 Quarles.

The faith in an Invisible, Unnameable, Godlike, present everywhere in all we see and work and suffer, is the essence of all faith whatsoever; and that once denied, or, still worse, asserted with lips only, and out of bound prayer-books only, what other thing remains credible? Carlyle.

The faith of a hearer must be extremely perplexed who considers the speaker, or believes that the speaker considers himself as under no obligation to adhere to truth, but according to the particular importance of what he relates. Paley.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith. Emerson.

The faithful servant is a humble friend. Pr.

The fall from the (Christian) faith, and all the 10 corruptions of its abortive practice, may be summed up briefly as the habitual contemplation of Christ's death instead of his life, and the substitution of his past suffering for our present duty. Ruskin.

The falling out of faithful friends is the renewing of love. Pr.

The family is the proper province for private women to shine in. Addison.

The family virtues are indispensable to the proper continuance of a society. Renan.

The fashion doth wear out more apparel than the man. Much Ado, iii. 3.

The fashion of this world passeth away. St. 15 Paul.

The fatal man, is he not always the unthinking, the man who cannot think and see? Carlyle.

The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful, is the cause of half their errors. A contemporary author has well spoken of "the deep slumber of a decided opinion." J. S. Mill.

The fatal trait (of the times) is the divorce between religion and morality. Emerson.

The fate of a man of feeling is, like that of a tuft of flowers, twofold; he may either mount upon the head of all, or go to decay in the wilderness. Hitopadesa.

The fate of empires depends upon the education 20 of youth. Arist.

The fated will happen. Gael. Pr.

The fates but only spin the coarser clue; / The finest of the wool is left for you. Dryden.

The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge. Bible Pr.

The faults of the superior man are like the eclipses of the sun and moon. He has his faults, and all men see them; he changes, and all men look up to him. Confucius.

The fear o' hell's the hangman's whip, / To 25 haud the wretch in order; / But when ye feel yer honour grip, / Let that be aye yer border. Burns.

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding. Bible.

The fear of the Lord is the fountain of life. Bible.

The fear of the Lord is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate. Bible.

The fear of the Lord tendeth to life: and he that hath it shall abide satisfied. Bible.

The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself. 30 Carlyle.

The feast of reason and the flow of soul. Pope.

The feelings, like flowers and butterflies, last longer the later they are delayed. Jean Paul.

The female heart is just like a new india-rubber shoe; you may pull and pull at it till it stretches out a yard long; and then let go, and it will fly right back to its old shape. Judge Haliburton.

The fetters of the slave bind the hands only. Grillparzer.

The fewer our wants, the nearer we resemble 35 the gods. Socrates.

The fibres of all things have their tension, and are strained like the strings of a lyre. Thoreau.

The field cannot be well seen from within the field. The astronomer must have his diameter of the earth's orbit as a base to fix the parallax of any other star. Emerson.

The finding of your able man, and getting him invested with the symbols of ability, is the business, well or ill accomplished, of all social procedure whatsoever in the world. Carlyle.

The finer the nature, the more flaws it will show through the clearness of it; and it is a law of this universe that the best things shall be seldomest seen in their best form. Ruskin.

The finest composition of human nature, as 40 well as the finest china, may have a flaw in it, and this in either case is equally incurable. Fielding.

The finest language is chiefly made up of unimposing words. George Eliot.

The finest lives, in my opinion, are those who rank in the common model and with the human race, but without miracle, without extravagance. Montaigne.

The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest. Pope.

The finest nations in the world—the English and the American—are going all away into wind and tongue. Carlyle.

The finest qualities of our nature, like the 45 bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling; yet we do not treat ourselves or one another thus tenderly. Thoreau.

The fire in the flint shows not till it's struck. Pr.

The fire that all things else consumeth clean / May hurt and heal. Sir Thomas Wyatt.

The fire that does not warm me shall never scorch me. Pr.

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes. Amiel.

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that. Bailey.

The first approach to riches is security from poverty. Johnson.

The first article that a young trader offers for 5 sale is his honesty. Pr.

The first, as indeed the last, nobility of education is in the rule over our thoughts. Ruskin.

The first breath / Is the beginning of death. Pr.

The first business of the philosopher is to part with self-conceit. Epictetus.

The first condition of education is being put to wholesome and useful work. Ruskin.

The first condition of goodness is something to 10 love; the second, something to reverence. George Eliot.

The first creation of God in the works of the days was the light of the sense; the last was the light of the reason; and his Sabbath-work ever since is the illumination of the spirit. Bacon.

The first day a man is a guest, the second a burden, the third a pest. Laboulaye.

The first days of spring have less grace than the growing virtue of a young man. Vauvenargues.

The first duty of a man is that of subduing fear; he must get rid of fear; he cannot act at all till then; his acts are slavish, not true. Carlyle.

The first duty of every man in the world is to 15 find his true master, and, for his own good, submit to him; and to find his true inferior, and, for that inferior's good, conquer him. Ruskin.

The first evil those suffer who are fain to talk is that they hear nothing. Plutarch.

The first faults are theirs that commit them, / The second are theirs that permit them. Pr.

The first forty years of life furnish the text, the remaining thirty the commentary. Schopenhauer. (?)

The first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good-humour, and the fourth for mine enemies. Sir W. Temple.

The first glass of a wine is the one which gives 20 us its true taste. Schopenhauer.

The first great work / Is that yourself may to yourself be true. Roscommon.

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day. Ward Beecher.

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humour, and the fourth wit. Sir W. Temple.

The first lesson of life is one of vicarious suffering. Ward Beecher.

The first lesson of literature, no less than of 25 life, is the learning how to burn one's own smoke. Lowell.

"The first love, which is infinite," can be followed by no second like it. Carlyle.

The first of the nine orders of knaves is he that tells his errand before he goes it. Pr.

The first period of a nation, as of an individual, is the period of unconscious strength. Emerson.

The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true. Lactantius.

The first power of a nation consists in knowing 30 how to guide the plough; its second power consists in knowing how to wear the fetter. Ruskin.

The first principle of all human economy—individual or political—is to live with as few wants as possible, and to waste nothing of what is given us to supply them. Ruskin.

The first problem (in life) is to unite yourself with some one and with somewhat. Carlyle.

The first proof of a man's incapacity for anything is his endeavouring to fix the stigma of failure upon others. B. R. Haydon.

The first requisite, both in conversation and correspondence, is to attend to all the proper decorums which our own character and that of others demand. Blair.

The first sigh of love is the last of wisdom. 35 Antoine Bret.

The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's, that of self-conceit. Carlyle.

The first spiritual want of a barbarous man is decoration, as indeed we still see among the barbarous classes in civilised countries. Carlyle.

The first step towards greatness is to be honest. Pr.

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. I do not mean by humility, doubt of his power or hesitation in speaking his opinions; but a right understanding of the relation between what he can say and do, and the rest of the world's sayings and doings. Ruskin.

The first thing for acceptance of truth is to 40 unlearn human doctrines and become as a little child. General Gordon.

The first thing in oratory, Demosthenes used to say, was action; the second, action; and the third, action.

The first use of education is to enable us to consult with the wisest and the greatest men on all points of earnest difficulty. Ruskin.

The first wealth is health. Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve any one; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fulness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighbourhoods and creeks of other men's necessities. Emerson.

The first year let your house to your enemy; the second to your friend; the third, live in it yourself. Pr.

The fittest place where man can die / Is where 45 he dies for man. M. J. Barry.

The flesh-bound volume is the only revelation (of God) that is, that was, or that can be. In that is the image of God painted; in that is the law of God written; in that is the promise of God revealed. Ruskin.

The flighty purpose never is o'ertook, / Unless the deed go with it. Macb., iv. 1.

The floating vapour is just as true an illustration of the law of gravity as the falling avalanche. John Burroughs.

The flower is the proper object of the seed, not the seed of the flower. Ruskin.

The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly. Wordsworth.

The flower of youth never appears more beautiful than when it bends towards the Sun of Righteousness. Matthew Henry.

The flute is sweet / To gods and men, but sweeter the lyre / And voice of a true singer. Lewis Morris.

The follies of modern Liberalism are practically summed up in the denial or neglect of the quality and intrinsic value of things. Ruskin.

The folly of all follies / Is to be love-sick for 5 a shadow. Tennyson.

The folly of others is ever most ridiculous to those who are themselves most foolish. Goldsmith.

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. As You Like It, v. 1.

The fool is always discovered if he stayeth too long; like the ass dressed in a tiger's skin, from his voice. Hitopadesa.

The fool is in himself the object of pity till he is flattered. Steele.

The fool needs company, the wise man solitude. 10 Rückert.

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion. Lowell.

The foot of the owner is the best manure for his land. Pr.

The force of the guinea in your pocket depends on the default of a guinea in your neighbour's. Ruskin.

The form of government can never be a matter of choice; it is almost always a matter of necessity. Joubert.

The formation of his character ought to be 15 the chief aim of every man. Goethe.

The fortitude of a Christian consists in patience. Dryden.

The fortune which nobody sees makes a man happy and unenvied. Bacon.

The foul slime stands for the sloth and vice of man, the decay of humanity; the fragrant flower that springs from it, for the purity and courage which are immortal. Thoreau.

The foundations of man are not in matter, but in spirit. Emerson.

The fountain which from Helicon proceeds, / 20 That sacred stream, should never water weeds. Wall.

The fox puts off all with a jest. L'Estrange.

The fox thrives best when he is most curst. Pr.

The fraction of life can be increased in value not so much by increasing your numerator as by lessening your denominator. Nay, unless my algebra deceives me, unity itself divided by zero will give infinity. Carlyle.

The free man is he who is loyal to the laws of this universe; who in his heart sees and knows that injustice cannot befall him here; that, except by sloth and cowardly falsity, evil is not possible here. Carlyle.

The (French) Revolution was a revolt against lies, and against a betrayal of love. Ruskin. 25

The fresh air of the open country is the proper place to which we belong. It is as if the breath of God were there wafted immediately to men, and a divine power exerted its influence. Goethe.

The fresh gaze of a child is richer in significance than the forecasting of the most indubitable seer. Novalis.

The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, / Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel. Ham., i. 3.

The frost is God's plough, which he drives through every inch of ground, opening each clod and pulverising the whole. Fuller.

The fruit of friendship, in opening the understanding, 30 is not restrained only to such friends as are able to give counsel (they indeed are best), but even without that a man learneth of himself, and bringeth his own thoughts to light, and whetteth his wits as against a stone, which itself cuts not. Bacon.

The fruit of life is experience, not happiness, and its fruition to accustom ourselves, and to be content, to exchange hope for insight. Schopenhauer.

The fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace. St. James.

The fruit that's yellow / Is found not always mellow. Quarles.

The full moon brings fair weather. Pr.

The full soul loatheth a honeycomb; but to 35 the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet. Bible.

The furiously wicked have but a short career. Bad for them, but good for the universe. Spurgeon.

The future comes on slowly, the present flies like an arrow, the past stands for ever still. Schiller.

The future destiny of the child is always the work of the mother. Napoleon.

The future epic of the world rests not with those near dead, but with those that are alive, and those that are coming into life. Carlyle.

The future hides in it / Gladness and sorrow; / 40 We press still thoro'; / Nought that abides in it / Daunting us—onward; / But solemn before us, / Veiled the dark portal, / Goal of all mortal. / Stars silent rest o'er us—/ Graves under us, silent. Goethe.

The gain of lying is nothing else but not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we say the truth. Sir Walter Raleigh.

The game is not worth the candle. Corn.

The gardener's business is to tend the flowers and root out the weeds. Bodenstedt.

The general and perpetual voice of men is as the sentence of God himself. Hooker.

The general tendency of things throughout 45 the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind. J. S. Mill.

The generality never suspect the devil even when he has them by the throat. Goethe.

The generous, who is always just, and the just who is always generous, may, unannounced, approach the throne of Heaven. Lavater.

The genius of light is friendly to the noble, and, in the dark, brings them friends from afar. Emerson.

The genius, wit, and spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs. Bacon.

The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known. 50 Spenser.

The genuine use of gunpowder I hold to be that it makes all men alike tall. Carlyle.

The germs of all things are in every heart. Amiel.

The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death. Bible.

The gift blindeth the wise and perverteth the words of the righteous. Bible.

The gift of prayer is not always in our power, 5 but in the eye of Heaven the very wish to pray is prayer. Lessing.

The gift which is to be given should be given gratuitously. Hitopadesa.

The gifted man is he who sees the essential point and leaves aside all the rest as surplusage. Carlyle.

The glass of fashion and the mould of form, / The observed of all observers. Ham., iii. 1.

The glory dies not, and the grief is past. Sir Egerton Brydges.

The glory is not in never falling, but in rising 10 every time you fall. Bovee.

The glory of a people and of an age is always the work of a small number of great men, and disappears with them. Baron de Grimm.

The glory of children are their fathers. Bible.

The glory of philosophy lies not in solving the problem, but in putting it. Renan.

The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the grey head. Bible.

The God of merely traditional believers is 15 the great Absentee of the universe. W. R. Alger.

The god of this world is riches, pleasure, and pride. Luther.

The God who dwells in my bosom can stir my heart to its depths. Goethe.

The goddess Athene is armed with the Gorgon's head. Ed.

The gods approve the depth, and not the tumult, of the soul. Wordsworth.

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices / 20 Make instruments to scourge us. King Lear, v. 3.

The gods are long-suffering; but the law from the beginning was, He that will not work shall perish from the earth; and the patience of the gods has limits. Carlyle.

The gods are on the side of the strongest. Emerson.

The gods are wont to save by human means. Goethe.

The gods do not avenge on the son the misdeeds of the father. Each or good or bad reaps the due reward of his own actions. Parents' blessing, not their curse, is inherited. Goethe.

The gods hearken to him who hearkens to 25 them. Homer.

The gods in charity oft lend their strength to man. Schiller.

The gods invariably make us pay dear for the great benefits they confer on us. Corn.

The gods of fable are the shining moments of great men. Emerson.

The gods sell all things at a fair price. Ancient Pr.

The gods sell to us all the goods which they 30 give us. Epicharmus.

The gods, when they appear to man, are commonly unrecognised by them. Goethe.

The golden age hath passed away, / Only the good have power to bring it back. Goethe.

The golden age, that lovely prime, / Existed in the past no more than now. / And did it e'er exist, believe me, / As then it was, it now may be restored. Still meet congenial spirits, and enhance / Each other's pleasures in this beauteous world. Goethe.

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. George Eliot.

The good are always ready to be the upholders 35 of the good in their misfortunes. Elephants even are wont to bear the burthens of elephants who have sunk in the mire. Hitopadesa.

The good are better made by ill, / As odours crushed are sweeter still. Rogers.

The good die first, / And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust / Burn to the socket. Wordsworth.

The good-for-nothing is he who cannot command and cannot even obey. Goethe.

The good is always beautiful, the beautiful is good. Whittier.

The good mother saith not, "Will you?" but 40 gives. Pr.

The good nature of the dog is not discouraged, although it often brings upon him only rebuffs; the abusive treatment of man never offends him, because he loves man. Renan.

The good need little water, but the base / Free from their guilt not ocean's self can lave. Pythian oracle.

The good of other times let others state; / I think it lucky I was born so late. Sydney Smith.

The good old rule / Sufficeth them, the simple plan, / That they should take who have the power, / And they should keep who can. Wordsworth.

The good that passes by without returning, 45 leaves behind it an impression that may be compared to a void, and is felt like a want. Goethe.

The good, the new, comes exactly from that quarter whence it is not looked for, and is always something different from what is expected. Feuerbach.

The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired. Bacon, from Seneca.

The good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing. (?)

The goods of this world cannot be divided without being lessened; but why be a niggard of that which bestows bliss on a fellow-creature, yet takes nothing from our own means of enjoyment? Burns.

The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to 50 lay where there are eggs already. Spurgeon.

The gospel is at once the assigner of our tasks and the magazine of our strength. Decay of Piety.

The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man. Emerson.

The governing class, who should be working at an ark of deliverance for themselves and us while the hours still are, do nothing but complain, "We cannot get our hands kept rightly warm," and sit obstinately burning the planks. Carlyle.

The government must always be a step in advance of the popular movement. Count Arnim-Boytzenburg.

The government of England is a government of law. Junius.

The gown is hers that wears it, and the world is his who enjoys it. Pr.

The graceful minuet-dance of fancy must give 5 place to the toilsome, thorny pilgrimage of understanding. Carlyle on the transition from the age of romance to that of science.

The grand encourager of Delphic and other noises is the echo. Carlyle.

"The grapes are sour," said the fox when he could not reach them. Pr.

The gravest events dawn with no more noise than the morning star makes in rising. All great developments complete themselves in the world, and modestly wait in silence, praising themselves never, and announcing themselves not at all. We must be sensitive and sensible if we would see the beginnings and endings of great things. That is our part. Ward Beecher.

The great agent of the march of the world is pain, the unsatisfied being that craves for development and is ill at ease in the process. Renan.

The great and rich depend on those whom 10 their power or their wealth attaches to them. Rogers.

The great art of ruling consists for most part in persuading the people to believe that whatever happens happens through us. Cötvös.

The great artist is the slave of his ideal. Bovee.

The great cause of revolutions is this: that, while nations move onward, constitutions stand still. Macaulay.

The great distinction between mediæval art and modern is, that the former was brought into the service of religion and the latter is not. Ruskin.

The great doers in history have always been 15 men of faith. Chapin.

The great duty of life is not to give pain; and the most acute reasoner cannot find an excuse for one who voluntarily wounds the heart of a fellow-creature. Fredrika Bremer.

The great error of our nature is, not to know where to stop, not to be satisfied with any reasonable acquirement, not to compound with our condition; but to lose all we have gained by an insatiable pursuit after more. Burke.

The great event for the world is, now as always, the arrival in it of a new wise man. Carlyle.

The great facts are the near ones. Emerson.

The great felicity of life is to be without perturbation. 20 Sen.

The great hope of society is individual character. Channing.

The great make us feel, first of all, the indifference of circumstances. Emerson.

The great man does, in good truth, belong to his own age; nay, more so than any other man; being properly the synopsis and epitome of such age with its interests and influences; but belongs likewise to all ages, otherwise he is not great. Carlyle.

The great man goes ahead of his time, the prudent (kluge) man goes with it, the crafty man makes his own out of it, and the blockhead sets himself against it. Bauernfeld.

The great man has more of human nature than 25 other men organised in him. Theodore Parker.

The great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. Emerson.

The great mass of people have eyes and ears, but not much more, especially little power of judgment, and even memory. Schopenhauer.

The great modern recipe is to work, still to work, and always to work. Gambetta.

The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes, a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lips, though they cannot speak. Thackeray.

The great point is not to pull down, but to 30 build up, and in this humanity finds pure joy. Goethe.

The great portion of labour is not skilled; the millions are and must be skilless, where strength alone is wanted. Carlyle.

The great principle of all effort is to endeavour to do, not what is absolutely best, but what is easily within our power, and adapted to our temper and condition. Ruskin.

The great river-courses which have shaped the lives of men have hardly changed. George Eliot.

The great role of moral conduct is, next to God, to respect time. Lavater.

The great school for learning is the brain itself 35 of the learner. Carlyle.

The great soul of the world is just. There is justice here below; at bottom there is nothing else but justice. Carlyle.

The great soul that sits on the throne of the universe is not, never was, and never will be, in a hurry. J. G. Holland.

The great source of calamity lies in regret or anticipation; he therefore is most wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or the future. Goldsmith.

The great spirits that have gone before us can survive only as disembodied voices. Carlyle.

The great successes of the world have been 40 affairs of a second, a third, nay, a fiftieth trial. John Morley.

The great thieves punish the little ones. Pr.

The great thing, after all, is only Forwards. Goethe.

The great world-revolutions send in their disturbing billows to the remotest creek, and the overthrow of thrones more slowly overturns also the households of the lowly. Carlyle.

The greater and more various any one's knowledge, the longer he takes to find out anything that may suddenly be asked him; because he is like a shopkeeper who has to get the article wanted from a large and multifarious store. Schopenhauer.

The greater height sends down the deeper fall: / And good declin'd turns bad, turns worst of all. Quarles.

The greater man the greater courtesy. Tennyson.

The greater proportion of mankind are more sensitive to contemptuous language than unjust acts; for they can less easily bear insult than wrong. Plutarch.

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received at first with distrust. Schopenhauer.

The greatest benefit which one friend can 5 confer upon another, is to guard, and excite, and elevate his virtues. Johnson.