DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS. (continued 27)
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The population of the world is a conditional population; not the best, but the best that could live now. Emerson.
The post of honour is the post of difficulty, 35 the post of danger,—of death, if difficulty be not overcome. Carlyle.
The power of every great people, as of every living tree, depends on its not effacing, but confirming and concluding the labours of its ancestors. Ruskin.
The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak. Hare.
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence and merit. (?)
The power of observing life is rare, that of drawing lessons from it rarer, and that of condensing the lesson in a pointed sentence is rarest of all. John Morley.
The power, whether of painter or poet, to describe 40 rightly what he calls an ideal thing depends upon its being to him not an ideal but a real thing. No man ever did or ever will work well, but either from actual sight or sight of faith. Ruskin.
The practice of faith and obedience to some of our fellow-creatures is the alphabet by which we learn the higher obedience to heaven; and it is not only needful to the prosperity of all noble united action, but essential to the happiness of all noble living spirits. Ruskin.
The practice of submission to the authority of one whom one recognises as greater than one's self outweighs the chance of occasional mistake. Froude.
The praise that comes of love does not make us vain, but humble rather. J. M. Barrie.
The praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer. Gurnall.
The precepts of philosophy effect not the least 5 benefit to one confirmed in fear. Hitopadesa.
The preparations of the heart in man and the answer of the tongue is from the Lord. Bible.
The presence of the Eternal is a presence that articulates and imparts itself in time. Ed.
The presence of the wretched is a burden to the happy; and alas! the happy still more so to the wretched. Goethe.
The present holds in it both the whole past and the whole future. Carlyle.
The present is the only reality and the only 10 certainty. Schopenhauer.
The present moment is a potent divinity. Goethe.
The present moment is our ain, / The neist we never saw. Burns.
The present time is not priest-ridden, but press-ridden. Longfellow.
The present time, youngest born of eternity, child and heir of all the past times with their good and evil, and parent of all the future, is ever a new era to the thinking man. Carlyle.
The press beginneth to be an oppression of the 15 land. Fuller.
The press is a mill which grinds all that is put into its hopper. Bryant.
The press is the foe of rhetoric, but the friend of reason. Colton.
The price of wisdom is above rubies. Bible.
The priest loves his flock, but the lambs more than the wethers. Ger. Pr.
The primal condition of virtue is that it shall 20 not know of, or believe in, any blessed islands till it find them, it may be, in due time. Ruskin.
The primal duties shine aloft, like stars; / The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, / Are scattered at the feet of man, like flowers. Wordsworth.
The primary vocation of man is a life of activity. Goethe.
The prince as actual ruler is always limited (beschränkt) by public opinion; but what is there to limit public opinion if it holds sovereign sway? Stahl.
The principal part of faith is patience. George Macdonald.
The principal point of greatness in any state 25 is to have a race of military men. Bacon.
The prisoner is troubled that he cannot go whither he would, and he that is at large is troubled that he does not know whither to go. L'Estrange.
The prisoner's allowance is bread and water, but I had only the latter. Jean Paul, in his days of poverty.
The privilege of the country is to be alone, when we like. Marmontel.
The problem of life is to make the ideal real, and convert the divine at the summit of the mountain into the human at its base. C. H. Parkhurst.
The problem of philosophy is, for all that exists 30 conditionally, to find a ground unconditioned and absolute. Plato.
The prodigal robs his heir, the miser robs himself. La Bruyère.
The production of something, where nothing was before, is an act of greater energy than the expansion or decoration of the thing produced. Johnson.
The profession of riches without their possession leads to the worst form of poverty. Spurgeon.
The promise given was a necessity of the past; the word broken is a necessity of the present. Macchiavelli.
The Promised Land is the land where one is 35 not. Amiel.
The promises of God are yea and amen. Hammond.
The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value, is the best and safest course. Michael Angelo.
The promissory lies of great men are known by shouldering, hugging, squeezing, smiling, and bowing. Arbuthnott.
The proper confidant of a girl is her father. What she is not inclined to tell her father should be told to no one, and, in nine cases out of ten, not thought of by herself. Ruskin.
The proper Epic of this world is no longer 40 "Arms and the man," much less "Shirt frills and the man;" no, it is now "Tools and the man;" that, henceforth to all time is now our Epic. Carlyle.
The proper power of faith is to trust without evidence, not with evidence. Ruskin.
The proper reward of the good workman is to be "chosen." Ruskin.
The proper study of mankind is man. Pope.
The proper task of literature lies in the domain of belief. Carlyle.
The property of a man consists in (a) good 45 things, (b) goods which he has honestly got, and (c) goods he can skilfully use. Ruskin.
The prophet is the revealer of what we are to do; the poet, of what we are to love. The former too has an eye on what we are to love; how else shall he know what we are to do? Carlyle.
The prosperity of our neighbours in the end is our own, and the poverty of our neighbours becomes also in the end our own. Ruskin.
The protection of God cannot without sacrilege be invoked but in behalf of justice and right. Kossuth.
The proud man often is the mean. Tennyson.
The proudest boast of the most aspiring philosopher 50 is no more than that he provides his little playfellows the greatest pastime with the greatest innocence. Goldsmith.
The proverb says of the Genoese, that they have a sea without fish, lands without trees, and men without faith. Addison.
The proverbs of a nation furnish the index to its spirit and the results of its civilisation. J. G. Holland.
The providence of God has established such an order in the world, that of all which belongs to us, the least valuable parts can alone fall under the will of others. Bolingbroke.
The prudence of the best of hearts is often defeated by the tenderness of the best of hearts. Fielding.
The prudent man may direct a state, but it 5 is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it. Bulwer Lytton.
The prudent part is to propose remedies for the present evils, and provisions against future events. (?)
The public have neither shame nor gratitude. Hazlitt.
The public highways ought not to be occupied by people demonstrating that motion is impossible. Carlyle.
The public is a personality that knows everything and can do nothing. (?)
The public is the majority of a society. Johnson. 10
The public sense is in advance of private practice. Chapin.
The public? The public is just a great baby. Dr. Chalmers.
The pulpit only "teaches" to be honest; the market-place "trains" to over-reaching and fraud; and teaching has not a tithe of the efficiency of training. Horace Mann.
The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing. Voltaire.
The punishment which the wise suffer, who 15 refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men. Emerson.
The pure in heart shall see God. Jesus.
The purer the golden vessel the more readily is it bent; the higher worth of women is sooner lost than that of men. Jean Paul.
The purest treasure mortal times afford / Is spotless reputation; that away, / Men are but gilded loam or painted clay. Rich. II., i. 1.
The purse is the master-organ, soul's seat, and true pineal gland of the body social. Carlyle.
The pyramids, doting with age, have forgotten 20 the names of their founders. Fuller.
The quality of mercy is not strain'd; / It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven / Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest; / It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. / 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes / The throned monarch better than his crown. Mer. of Venice, iv. 1.
The quantity of books in a library is often a cloud of witnesses of the ignorance of the owner. Oxenstiern.
The quantity of sorrow a man has, does it not mean withal the quantity of sympathy he has, the quantity of faculty and victory he shall have? Our sorrow is the inverted image of our nobleness. Carlyle.
The quarrel toucheth none but us alone, / Betwixt ourselves let us decide it then. 1 Hen. VI., iv. 1.
The question is not at what door of fortune's 25 palace shall we enter in, but what doors does she open to us? Burns.
The question is not who is the most learned, but who is the best. Montaigne.
The question is this: is man an ape or angel? I, my lord, I am on the side of the angels. Disraeli at a Church Conference in Oxford, Bp. Wilberforce in the chair.
The question of education is for the modern world a question of life or death, a question on which depends the future. Renan.
The question of questions (for men and nations) is—not how far they are from heaven, but whether they are going to it. (So in art) it is not the wisdom or the barbarism that you have to estimate, not the skill or the rudeness, but the tendency. Ruskin.
The question of the purpose of things is completely 30 unscientific. Goethe.
The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong. Bible.
The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. Scott.
The rainbow in the morning / Is the shepherd's warning; / The rainbow at night / Is the shepherd's delight. Pr.
The rank is but the guinea's stamp, / The man's the gowd for a' that. Burns.
The ransom of a man's life are his riches. 35 Bible.
The ray of light passes invisible through space, and only when it falls on an object is it seen. Emerson.
The readiness is all. Ham., v. 2.
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself. Ward Beecher.
The real men of genius were resolute workers, not idle dreamers. G. H. Lewes.
The real Nimrod of this era, who alone does 40 any good to the era, is the rat-catcher. Carlyle.
The real object of education is to give children resources that will endure as long as life endures; habits that time will ameliorate, not destroy; occupation that will render sickness tolerable, solitude pleasant, age venerable, life more dignified and useful, and death less terrible. Sydney Smith.
The real object of the drama is the exhibition of human character. Macaulay.
The real science of political economy is that which teaches nations to desire and labour for the things that lead to life; and which teaches them to scorn and destroy the things that lead to destruction. Ruskin.
The really strong may bend, and be as strong as ever; it is the unsound that has only the seeming of strength, which breaks at last when it resists too long. Lever.
The reason that there is such a general outcry 45 against flatterers is, that there are so very few good ones. Steele.
The reason why borrowed books are so seldom returned to their owners is, that it is much easier to retain the books than what is in them. Montaigne.
The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages. Swift.
The reason why the character of woman is so often misunderstood, is that it is the beautiful nature of woman to veil her soul as her charms. F. Schlegel.
The reason why we sometimes see that men of the greatest capacities are not rich, is either because they despise wealth in comparison of something else, or, at least, are not content to be getting an estate, unless they may do it in their own way, and at the same time enjoy all the pleasures and gratifications of life. Eustace Budgell.
The recording angel, consider it well, is no fable, but the truest of truths; the paper tablets thou canst burn; of the "iron leaf" there is no burning. Carlyle.
The regeneration of society is the regeneration 5 of the individual by education. Laboulaye.
The regions of eternal happiness are provided for those women who love their husbands the same in a wilderness as in a city; be he a saint, or be he sinner. Hitopadesa.
The relation of the taught to their teacher, of the loyal subject to his guiding king, is, under one shape or another, the vital element in human society. Carlyle.
The religion of Christ is peace and goodwill, that of Christendom war and ill-will. Landor.
The religion of Jesus, with all its self-denials, virtues, and devotions, is very practicable. Watts.
The religion of one age is the literary entertainment 10 of the next. Emerson.
The religions of the world are the ejaculations of a few imaginative men. Emerson.
The religions we call false were once true. They also were affirmations of the conscience correcting the evil customs of their times. Emerson.
The religious passion is nearly always vividest where the art is weakest; and the technical skill only reaches its deliberate splendour when the ecstasy which gave it birth has passed away for ever. Ruskin.
The reputation of a man is like his shadow—gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows. Talleyrand.
The reputation of a woman is as a crystal 15 mirror, shining and bright, but liable to be sullied by every breath that comes near it. Cervantes.
The reputation of virtuous actions past, if not kept up with an access and fresh supply of new ones, is lost and soon forgotten. Denham.
The resentment of a poor man is like the efforts of a harmless insect to sting; it may get him crushed, but cannot defend him. Goldsmith.
The rest is silence. Ham., v. 2.
The result (of things) is obvious, but the intention is never clear. Rückert.
The revelation of thought takes man out of 20 servitude into freedom. Emerson.
The reverence of a man's self is, next religion, the chiefest bridle of all vices. Bacon.
The revolutionary outbreaks of the lower classes are the consequence of the injustice of the higher classes. Goethe.
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfil another. George Eliot.
The rich and poor meet together: the Lord is the maker of them all. Bible.
The rich are always advising the poor; but 25 the poor seldom venture to return the compliment. Helps.
The rich are invited to marry by that fortune which they do not want, and the poor have no inducement but that beauty which they do not feel. Goldsmith.
The rich becoming richer and the poor poorer, is the cry throughout the whole civilised world. Sillar.
The rich devour the poor, the devil the rich, and so both are devoured. Dutch Pr.
The rich man does not feel his wealth with any vividness. Goethe.
The rich man is seldom in his own halls, because 30 it bores him to be there, and still he returns thither, because he is no better off outside. Schopenhauer.
The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as an high wall in his own conceit. Bible.
The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender. Bible.
The richest minds need not large libraries. A. B. Alcott.
The riddle of the age has for each a private solution. Emerson.
The ridge once gained, the path so hard of 35 late / Runs easy on, and level with the gate (to virtue). Hesiod.
The right divine of kings to govern wrong. Quoted by Pope.
The right ear, that is fill'd with dust, / Hears little of the false or just. Tennyson.
The right honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts. Sheridan.
The right law of education is that you take the most pains with the best material. Never waste pains on bad ground, but spare no labour on the good, or on what has in it the capacity of good. Ruskin.
The right man in the right place. A. H. 40 Layard in the House of Commons.
The righteous hath hope in his death. Bible.
The righteous man falls oft, / Yet falls but soft; / There may be dirt to mire him, but no stones / To crush his bones. Quarles.
The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them. Bible.
The "rights" of men in any form are not worth discussing; the grand point is the "mights" of men—what portion of their "rights" they have a chance of getting sorted out and realised in this confused world. Carlyle.
The riotous tumult of a laugh is the mob-law 45 of the features, and propriety the magistrate who reads the Riot Act. Holmes.
The risings and sinkings of human affairs are like those of a ball which is thrown by the hand. Hitopadesa.
The river has its cataract, / And yet the waters down below / Soon gather from the foam, compact, / And, just like those above it, flow. Dr. W. Smith.
The river remains troubled that has not gone through a lake; the heart is impure that has not gone through a sorrow. Rückert.
The road's afore you, the sky's aboon you. Pr.
The road to resolution lies by doubt. Quarles.
The road to ruin is always kept in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it. Pr.
The road which runs without a bend / Is that 5 which hath a proper end. Goethe.
The robb'd that smiles, steals something from the thief. Othello, i. 3.
The romantic is the instinctive delight in, and admiration for, sublimity, beauty, and virtue, unusually manifested. Ruskin.
The root of almost every schism and heresy from which the Christian Church has suffered has been the effort of men to earn, rather than to receive, their salvation; and the reason that preaching is so commonly ineffectual is, that it calls on men oftener to work for God than to behold God working for them. Ruskin.
The root of sanctity is sanity. A man must be healthy before he can be holy. We bathe first, and then perfume. Mme. Swetchine.
The rough material of fine writing is certainly 10 the gift of genius; but I as firmly believe that the workmanship is the united effort of pains, attention, and repeated trial. Burns.
The rough seas that spare not any man. Pericles, ii. 1.
The rude man requires only to see something going on. The man of more refinement must be made to feel. The man of complete refinement must be made to reflect. Goethe.
The rule of the footway is clear as the light, / And none can its reason withstand; / On each side of the way you must keep to the right, / And leave those you meet the left hand. Saying.
The ruling passion, be it what it will, / The ruling passion, conquers reason still. Pope.
The running waves of eager life end on the 15 motionless fixed strand of death. Alfred Austin.
The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath. Jesus.
The sacred wrestler, till a blessing given, / Quits not his hold, but, halting, conquers heaven. Waller.
The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination. Bible.
The saddest external condition of affairs among men, is but evidence of a still sadder internal one. Carlyle.
The safest and purest joys of human life rebuke 20 the violence of its passions; they are obtainable without anxiety and memorable without regret. Ruskin.
The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts. C. H. Parkhurst.
The safety-valves of the heart when too much pressure is laid on. Albert Smith, on tears.
The salve of reformation they mightily call for, but where and what the sores are which need it, as they wot full little, so they think not greatly material to search. Hooker.
The same motions and muscles of the face are employed both in laughing and crying. Charron.
The Satanic school. Southey. 25
"The savans and the asses in the middle." Order of Napoleon on the eve of a cavalry charge in Egypt.
The scholar without good-breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic; the soldier, a brute; and every man disagreeable. Chesterfield.
The schoolboy counts the time till the return of the holidays; the minor longs to be of age; the lover is impatient till he is married. Addison.
The schoolmaster is abroad. Brougham.
The sea belongs to eternity, and not time, 30 and of that it sings its monotonous song for ever and ever. Holmes.
The sea complains upon a thousand shores. Alex. Smith.
The sea does not contain all the pearls, the earth does not enclose all the treasures, and the flint-stone does not enclose all the diamonds, since the head of man encloses wisdom. Saadi.
The sea moans over dead men's bones. T. B. Aldrich.
The sea that bares her bosom to the moon. Wordsworth.
The sea tosses and foams to find its way up to 35 the cloud and wind. Emerson.
The seal of truth is simplicity. Boerhaave.
The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong if we do not feel aright. Hazlitt.
The seat of law is the bosom of God; her voice, the harmony of the world. Hooker.
The second fruit of friendship is healthful and sovereign for the understanding, as the first is for the affections; for friendship maketh indeed a fair day in the affections from storm and tempests, but it maketh daylight in the understanding out of darkness and confusion of thoughts. Bacon.
The secret of education lies in respecting the 40 pupil. Emerson.
The secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate. Adam Clarke.
The secret of language is the secret of sympathy, and its full charm is possible only to the gentle. Ruskin.
The secret of making one's self tiresome is not to know when to stop. Voltaire.
The secret of man's being is still like the Sphinx's secret; a riddle that he cannot rede; and for ignorance of which he suffers death, the worst death—a spiritual. Carlyle.
The secret of man's nature lies in his religion, 45 in what he really believes about the world and his own place in it. Froude.
The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the moods of men, and his tact in dealing with them. J. G. Holland.
The secret of our existence is the connection between our sins and our sufferings. (?)
The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy. Emerson.
The secret of success is constancy to purpose. Disraeli.
The secret of tiring is to say everything that can be said on the subject. Voltaire.
The secret things belong unto the Lord. Bible.
The secrets of great folk are just like the wild beasts that are shut up in cages. Keep them hard and fast snecked up, and it's a' very weel or better—but ance let them out, they will turn and rend you. Scott.
The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness. Emerson.
The seed of knowledge ripens but slowly in the 5 mind, but the flowers grow quickly. Bodenstedt.
The seeds of things are very small. George Eliot.
The seers are wholly a greater race than the thinkers; (yet) a true thinker, who has a practical purpose in his thinking, and is sincere, as Plato, or Carlyle, or Helps, becomes in some sort a seer, and must be always of infinite use in his generation. Ruskin.
The self-same sun that shines upon his court / Hides not his visage from our cottage, but / Looks on alike. Winter's Tale, iv. 3.
The sense of beauty never furthered the performance of a single duty. Ruskin.
The sense of death is most in apprehension, / 10 And the poor beetle that we tread upon / In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great / As when a giant dies. Meas. for Meas., iii. 1.
The sense of human dignity was the chief moral agent of antiquity, and the sense of sin of mediævalism. H. Lecky.
The sense of the infinite nature of Duty is the central part of all with us; a ray as of Eternity and Immortality, immured in dusky many-coloured Time, and its births and deaths. Carlyle.
The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does. Goethe.
The sentimental by and by will have to give place to the practical. Carlyle.
The serenity that is not felt, it can be no 15 virtue to feign. Johnson.
The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame each of them by a single sentence consisting of two or three words. South.
The "seventeenth" century is worthless to us except precisely in so far as it can be made the "nineteenth." Carlyle.
The severe and restrictive virtues are almost too costly for humanity. Burke.
The severity of laws impedes their execution. Montesquieu.
The shadowed livery of the burnished sun. 20 Mer. of Venice, ii. 1.
The sheep slips and is up again; the sow lies down and wallows. Saying.
The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks. Johnson.
The ship that carries most sail is most buffeted by the winds and storms. John Burroughs.
The short and simple annals of the poor. Gray.
The shorter life, less count I find, / The less 25 account the sooner made, / The account soon made, the merrier mind, / The merrier mind doth thought evade. Sir T. Wyatt.
The shortest and the surest way to prove a work possible is strenuously to set about it; and no wonder if that proves it possible that for the most part makes it so. South.
The shortest answer is doing. Pr.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once. Samuel Smiles.
The showy lives its little hour; the true / To after times bears rapture ever new. Goethe.
The shrine is that which thou dost venerate, / 30 And not the beast that bears it on his back. George Herbert.
The sight of you is good for sore eyes. Swift.
The sign of health is unconsciousness. Carlyle.
The sign of the poet is that he announces what no man foretold. Emerson.
The significance of life is doing something. Carlyle.
The signs of the times. Jesus. 35
The silence often of pure innocence / Persuades when speaking fails. Winter's Tale, ii. 2.
The silence that is in the starry sky. Wordsworth.
The silent heavens have goings-on; / The stars have tasks. Wordsworth.
The simple believeth every word. Bible.
The sin that practice burns into the blood, / 40 And not the one dark hour which brings remorse, / Will brand us, after, of whose fold we be. Tennyson.
The single snowflake—who cares for it? But a whole day of snowflakes ... who does not care for that? Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent. (?)
The slack sail shifts from side to side, / The boat, untrimm'd, admits the tide, / Borne down, adrift, at random tost, / The oar breaks short, the rudder's lost. Gay.
The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep. Bible.
The sleeping and the dead / Are but as pictures. Macb., ii. 2.
The slender vine twists around the sturdy 45 oak, for no other reason in the world but because it has not strength sufficient to support itself. Goldsmith.
The slight that can be conveyed in a glance, in a gracious smile, in a wave of the hand, is often the "ne plus ultra" of art. What insult is so keen, or so keenly felt, as the polite insult which it is impossible to resent? Julia Kavanagh.
The slow wheel turns, / The cycles round themselves and grow complete, / The world's year whitens to the harvest-tide, / And one word only am I (Psyche) sent to say ... / To all things living, and the word is "Love." Lewis Morris.
The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason. Bible.
The sly shadow steals away upon the dial, and the quickest eye can discover no more but that it is gone. Glanville.
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater 50 ennoble it. Bovee.
The smallest annoyances disturb us most. Montaigne.
The smallest bird cannot light upon the greatest tree without sending a shock to its most distant fibre. Lew Wallace.
The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on; / And doves will peck, in safeguard of their brood. 3 Henry VI., ii. 2.
The smoke of a man's own house is better than the fire of another's. Pr.
The snail sees nothing but his own shell, and thinks it the grandest place in the world. Pr.
The social, friendly, honest man, / Whate'er he be, / 'Tis he fulfils great Nature's plan, / And none but he. Burns.
The society of women is the element of good 5 manners. Goethe.
The soldier's trade, verily and essentially, is not slaying, but being slain ... and the reason the world honours the soldier is because he holds his life at the service of the state. Ruskin.
The soldier's ultimate and perennial office is to punish knaves and make idle persons work; the defence of his country against other countries, which is his office at present, will soon now be extinct. Ruskin.
The sole terms on which the past can become ours are its subordination to the present. Emerson.
The Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many. Jesus.
The song that we hear with our ears is only 10 the song that is sung with our hearts. Ouida.
The sorest tempest has the most sudden calm. Socrates.
The sorrow of Yesterday is as nothing; that of To-day is bearable; but that of To-morrow is gigantic, because indistinct. Euripides.
The sorrowfulest of fates is to have liberty without deserving it. Ruskin.
The soul is like the sun, which, to our eyes, seems to set in night; but it has in reality only gone to diffuse its light elsewhere. Goethe.
The soul is not where it lives, but where it 15 loves. Pr.
The soul knows no persons. Emerson.
The soul may be trusted to the end. Emerson.
The soul moralises the past in order not to be demoralised by it, and finds in the crucible of experience only the gold that she herself has poured into it. Amiel.
The soul of a man can by no agency, of men or of devils, be lost and ruined but by his own only. Carlyle.
The soul of man is a mirror of the mind of God. 20 Ruskin.
The soul reveals itself in the voice only.... It is audible, not visible. Longfellow.
The soul shut up in her dark room, / Viewing so clear abroad, at home sees nothing; / But, like a mole in earth, busy and blind, / Works all her folly up, and casts it outward / To the world's open view. Dryden.
The soul, / The particle of God sent down to man, / Which doth in turn reveal the world and God. Lewis Morris.
The soul, / Though made in time, survives for aye; / And, though it hath beginning, sees no end. Sir J. Davies.
The soul's armour is never well set to the 25 heart unless a woman's hand has braced it. Ruskin.
The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, / Lets in new light through chinks that time has made. Waller.
The soul's emphasis is always right. Emerson.
The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a deal longer. Holmes.
The sphere-harmony of a Shakespeare, of a Goethe, the cathedral music of a Milton, the humble, genuine lark-notes of a Burns. Carlyle.
The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is 30 in kings' palaces. Bible.
The spirit breatheth where it willeth, and thou hearest the voice thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is it with every one that is born of the spirit. Jesus.
The spirit in which we act is the highest matter. Goethe.
The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. Jesus of his disciples.
The spirit is higher than nature. Hegel.
The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; 35 but a wounded spirit who can bear? Bible.
The spirit of moderation should be the spirit of a lawgiver. Montesquieu.
The spirit of poesy is the morning light, which makes the statue of Memnon sound. Novalis.
The spirit only can teach. Emerson.
The spirit was long ago liberated from the blind law of nature, and the task it is called to now is to unfold itself with freedom and clearness in the sunlight, i.e., in its own light now at length conscious of itself. Ed.
The spiritual artist too is born blind, and does 40 not, like certain other creatures, receive sight in nine days, but far later—perhaps never. Carlyle.
The spiritual is ever the inner in a man becoming outer, the invisible becoming visible, the supernatural becoming natural, the infinite becoming finite, and the eternal veiling itself in the guise of time; never an emancipation from the flesh, but ever an incarnation in flesh. Ed.
The spiritual is higher than the external; the spiritual cannot be externally authenticated. Hegel.
The spiritual is the parent and first cause of the practical. Carlyle.
The spiritual man is free to rule his world, not his world to rule him. Ed.
The spiritual problem which Christ resolved 45 was pretty much this—the derivation of that from within man which was conceived to be above man, by the reperception of the forgotten truth that it was in His own image God made man. He first opened up the well within. Ed.
The spiritual universe is no more to be made out of a man's own head than the material universe or the moral universe.... No belief of ours will change the facts or reverse the laws of the spiritual universe. R. W. Dale.
The spiritual will always body itself forth in the temporal history of men; the spiritual is the beginning of the temporal, always determines the material. Carlyle.
The spiritual world is not closed; it is thy sense that is: thy heart is dead. Goethe.
The spring can be apprehended only while it is flowing. Goethe.
The springing of a serpent is from the sun; the wisdom of the serpent, whence is that? Ruskin.
The stars do not come to tell us it is night, 5 but to lay beams of light through it, and give the eye a path to walk in. Ward Beecher.
The stars shall fade away, the sun himself / Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years; / But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, / Unhurt amidst the war of elements, / The wrecks of matter and the crash of worlds. Addison.
The stars themselves are only bright by distance; go close, and all is earthy; but vapours illuminate there; from the breath and from the countenance of God comes light on worlds higher than they. Landor.
The "State in danger" is a condition of things which we have witnessed a hundred times; and as for the Church, it has seldom been out of "danger" since we can remember it. Carlyle.
The State must follow, and not lead, the character and progress of the citizen. Emerson.
The statesman wishes to steer, while the politician 10 is satisfied to drift. James Freeman Clarke.
The steps of faith fall on the seeming void, and find the rock beneath. Whittier.
The still, sad music of humanity. Wordsworth.
The Stoic thought by slandering Happiness to woo her; by shunning to win her; and proudly presumed that, by fleeing her, she would turn and follow him. Arliss.
The Stoic was a proud man, and not a humble, and he was content if he could only have his own soul for a prey. He did not see that the salvation of one man is impossible except in the salvation of other men, and that no man can save another unless he descend into that other's case, and be, as it were, in that other's stead. Ed.
The stoical exemption which philosophy affects 15 to give us over the pains and vexations of human life is as imaginary as the state of mystical quietism and perfection aimed at by some crazy enthusiast. Scott.
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes. Swift.
The stomach has no ears. Pr.
The stone that lieth not in your way need not offend you. Pr.
The stone which the builders refused has become the head of the corner. Bible.
The storm of sad mischance will turn into 20 something that is good, if we list to make it so. Taylor.
The stranger who turneth away from a house with disappointed hopes leaveth there his own offences, and departeth, taking with him all the good actions of the owner. Hitopadesa.
The stranger's greeting thou shouldst aye return! Goethe.
The strawberry grows under the nettle, / And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best / Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality. Hen. V., i. 1.
The stream can never rise above the spring-head. Pr.
The street is full of humiliations to the proud. 25 Emerson.
The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it. Ruskin.
The strength of aquatic animals is the waters; of those who dwell in towns, a castle; of footsoldiers, their own ground; of princes, an obedient army. Hitopadesa.
The string o'erstretched breaks, and the music flies; / The string o'erslack is dumb, and music dies; / Tune us the sitar neither low nor high. Sir Edwin Arnold.
The string that jars / When rudely touch'd, ungrateful to the sense, / With pleasure feels the master's flying fingers, / Swells into harmony and charms the hearers. Rowe.
The stroke that comes transmitted through 30 a whole galaxy of elastic balls, is it less a stroke than if the last ball only had been struck and sent flying? Carlyle.
The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as those of the sword need swiftness. Julia W. Howe.
The strong man is the wise man; the man with the gift of method, of faithfulness, of valour; who has insight into what is what, into what will follow out of what, the eye to see and the hand to do. Carlyle.
The strong mind is nowise the mind acquainted with its strength. Carlyle.
The strong must build stout cabins for the weak; / Must plan and stint; must sow and reap and store; / For grain takes root though all seems bare and bleak. Eugene Lee-Hamilton.
The strong thing is the just thing: this thou 35 wilt find throughout in our world;—as indeed was God and Truth the maker of it, or was Satan and Falsehood? Carlyle.
The strong torrents, which in their own gladness fill the hills with hollow thunder and the vales with winding light, have yet their bounden charge of field to feed and barge to bear. Ruskin.
The strongest arm is impotent to impart momentum to a feather. Schopenhauer.
The strongest castle, tower, and town, / The golden bullet beats it down. Shakespeare.
The strongest oaths are straw / To the fire i' the blood. Tempest, iv. 1.
The student is to read history actively and 40 not passively; to esteem his own life the text, and books the commentary. Thus compelled, the muse of history will utter oracles as never to those who do not respect themselves. Emerson.
The study of books is a languishing and feeble motion that hearts not, whereas conversation teaches and exercises at once. Montaigne.
The stumbler stumbles least in rugged way. George Herbert.
The style of an author is a faithful copy of his mind. If you would write a lucid style, let there first be light in your own mind; and if you would write a grand style, you ought to have a grand character. Goethe.
The style of letters should not be too highly polished. It ought to be neat and correct, but no more. Blair.
The style of writing required in the great world is distinguished by a free and daring grace, a careless security, a fine and sharp polish, a delicate and perfect taste; while that fitted for the people is characterised by a vigorous natural fulness, a profound depth of feeling, and an engaging naïveté. Goethe.
The sublime is in a grain of dust. Landor.
The sublime is the temple-step of religion, as 5 the stars are of immeasurable space. When what is mighty appears in nature—a storm, thunder, the starry firmament, death—then utter the word "God" before the child. A great misfortune, a great blessing, a great crime, a noble action, are building-sites for a child's church. Jean Paul.
The sublime produces a beautiful calmness in the soul which, entirely possessed by it, feels as great as it ever can feel. When we compare such a feeling with that we are sensible of when we laboriously harass ourselves with some trifle, and strain every nerve to gain as much as possible for it, as it were, to patch it out, striving to furnish joy and aliment to the mind from its own creation, we then feel sensibly what a poor expedient, after all, the latter is. Goethe.
The sublime, when it is introduced at a seasonable moment, has often carried all before it with the rapidity of lightning, and shown at a glance the mighty power of genius. Longinus.
The sublimest canticle to be heard on earth is the stammering of the human soul on the lips of infancy. Victor Hugo.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living which are to be desired when dying. Jeremy Taylor.
The substance of a diligent man is precious. 10 Bible.
The substance of a man is full good when sin is not in a man's conscience. Chaucer.
The substantial wealth of a man consists in the earth he cultivates with its plants and animals, and in the rightly produced works of his own hands. Ruskin.
The success of many works is found in the relation between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and that of the ideas of the public. Chamfort.
The suffering man ought really "to consume his own smoke;" there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire. Carlyle.
The sufficiency of my merit is to know that my 15 merit is not sufficient. St. Augustine.
The sun can be seen by nothing but its own light. Pr.
The sun flings out impurities, gets balefully incrusted with spots; but it does not quench itself, and become no sun at all, but a mass of darkness. Carlyle.
The sun! God's crest upon his azure shield, the heavens. Bailey.
The sun is God. Turner on his deathbed.
The sun may do its duty, though your grapes 20 are not ripe. Pr.
The sun passeth through pollutions, and itself remains as pure as before. Bacon.
The sun-steeds of time, as if goaded by invisible spirits, bear onward the light car of our destiny, and nothing remains for us but, with calm self-possession, to grasp the reins, and now right, now left, to steer the wheels, here from the precipice, and there from the rock. Whither he is hasting, who knows? Does any one consider whence he came? Goethe.
The sun's power cannot draw a wandering star from its path. How then could a human being fall out of God's love! Rückert.
The sunshine of life is made up of very little beams, that are bright all the time. Aikin.
The superstition in which we have grown up 25 does not lose its hold over us even when we recognise it for such. Those who scoff at their fetters are not all free men. Lessing.
The sure way to miss success is to miss the opportunity. Philarète Chasles.
The surest sign of age is loneliness. A. B. Alcott.
The surest test of a man's critical power is his judgment of contemporaries. La Bruyère.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed. Sheridan.
The surest way to have redress is to be earnest 30 in pursuit of it. Goldsmith.
The surgeon practises on the orphan's head. Arab. Pr.
The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of tenderness, truth, or courage. Emerson.
The sweetest wine makes the sharpest vinegar. Pr.
The sweetness of the lips increaseth learning. Bible.
The sweets of love are washed with tears. 35 George Herbert.
The sword is but a hideous flash in the darkness; right is an eternal ray. Victor Hugo.
The sympathy of sorrow is stronger than the sympathy of prosperity. I. Disraeli.
The system of the world is entirely one; small things and great are alike part of one mighty whole. Ruskin.
The tabernacle of the upright shall flourish. Bible.
The tallest trees are most in the power of the 40 winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune. Wm. Penn.
The tanager flies through the green foliage as if he would ignite the leaves. Thoreau.
The teaching of art is the teaching of all things. Ruskin.
The teachings of Heaven are given—by sad law—in so obscure, nay, often in so ironical a manner, that a blockhead necessarily reads them wrong. Ruskin.
The tear of joy is a pearl of the first water; the mourning tear, only of the second. Jean Paul.
The tears of penitents are the wine of angels. 45 St. Bernard.
The tell-tale out of school is of all wits the greatest fool. Swift.
The temper of the pedagogue suits not with the age; and the world, however it may be taught, will not be tutored. Shaftesbury.
The temperate man's pleasures are durable, because they are regular; and all his life is calm and serene, because it is innocent. (?)
The tempest never rooteth up the grass, which is feeble, humble, and shooteth not up on high; but exerteth its power even to distress the lofty trees; for the great use not their might but upon the great. Hitopadesa.
The temple of our purest thoughts is—silence! 5 Mrs. Hale.
The tendency of laws should be rather to diminish the amount of evil than to produce an amount of happiness. Goethe.
The tendency of party-spirit has ever been to disguise and propagate and support error. Whately.
The tender flower that lifts its head, elate, / Helpless must fall before the blasts of fate, / Sunk on the earth, defaced its lovely form, / Unless your shelter ward th' impending storm. Burns.
The tender heart o' leesome luve / The gowd and siller canna buy. Burns.
The tender mercies of the wicked are cruel. 10 Bible.
The term of man's life is half wasted before he has done with his mistakes and begins to profit by his lessons. Jane Taylor.
The test of civilisation is the estimate of woman. G. W. Curtis.
The test or measure of poetic genius is to read the poetry of affairs, to fuse the circumstance of to-day. Emerson.
The theatre has often been at variance with the pulpit; they ought not to quarrel. How much is it to be wished that in both the celebration of nature and of God were intrusted to none but men of noble minds! Goethe.
The There is never Here. Schiller. 15
The thin edge of the wedge is to be feared. Pr.
The thing a lie wants, and solicits from all men, is not a correct natural history of it, but the swiftest possible extinction of it, followed by entire silence about it. Carlyle.
The thing done avails, and not what is said about it. Emerson.
The thing men get to believe is the thing they will infallibly do. Carlyle.
The thing that hath been, it is that which 20 shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done. Bible.
The thing that is, what can be so wonderful? what, especially to us that are, can have such significance? Carlyle.
The thing that matters most, both for happiness and for duty, is that we should strive habitually to live with wise thoughts and right feelings. J. Morley.
The thing to be anxious about is not to be right with man, but with mankind. Prof. Drummond.
The thing visible, nay, the thing imagined, the thing in any way conceived of as visible, what is it but a garment, a clothing of the higher, celestial invisible, "unimaginable, formless, dark with excess of bright"? Carlyle.
The thing which is deepest rooted in Nature, 25 what we call truest, that, and not the other, will be found growing at last. Carlyle.
The things that destroy us are injustice, insolence, and foolish thoughts; and the things which save us are justice, self-command, and true thought, which things dwell in the loving powers of the gods. Plato.
The things that threatened me, / Ne'er look'd but on my back; when they shall see / The face of Cæsar, they are vanished. Jul. Cæsar, ii. 2.
The thinker requires exactly the same light as the painter, clear, without direct sunshine, or blinding reflection, and, where possible, from above. Schlegel.
The thinking minds of all nations call for change. There is a deep-lying struggle in the whole fabric of society; a boundless, grinding collision of the new with the old. Carlyle.
The third pays for all. Twelfth Night, v. 1. 30
The thirst for truth still remains with us, even when we have wilfully left the fountains of it. Ruskin.
The thorny point / Of bare distress hath ta'en from me the show / Of smooth civility. As You Like It, ii. 7.
The thought is always prior to the fact; all the facts of history pre-exist in the mind as laws. Emerson.
The thought is parent of the deed. Carlyle.
The thought of foolishness is sin. Bible. 35
The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want. Bible.
The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord. Bible.
The thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts. Lapland Pr.
The thoughts we have had, the pictures we have seen, can be again called back before the mind's eye and before the imagination; but the heart is not so obliging; it does not reproduce its pleasing emotions. Goethe.
The thrall in person may be free in soul. 40 Tennyson.
The throne is established by righteousness. Bible.
The time for words has passed, and deeds alone suffice. Whittier.
The time has been / That when the brains were out the man should die, / And there an end. Macb., iii. 4.
The time is out of joint; O cursèd spite, / That ever I was born to set it right. Ham., i. 5.
The time of breeding is the time of doing 45 children good; and not as many who think they have done fairly if they leave them a good portion after their decease. George Herbert.
The time that bears no fruit deserves no name. Young.
The Times are the masquerade of the Eternities; trivial to the dull, tokens of noble and majestic agents to the wise. Emerson.
The timid are in fear before danger, the cowardly in danger, and the courageous after danger. Jean Paul.
The timing of things is a main point in the dispatch of all affairs. L'Estrange.
The tired ocean crawls along the beach sobbing a wordless sorrow to the moon. William Falconer.
The toil of life alone teaches us to value the blessings of life. Goethe.
The tomb is the pedestal of greatness. Landor.
The tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly 5 evil, full of deadly poison. St. James.
The tongue ever turns to the aching tooth. Pr.
The tongue is not of steel, but it cuts. Pr.
The tongue is the worst part of a bad servant. Juv.
The tongue of the just is as choice silver. Bible.
The tongue tells the thought of one man only, 10 whereas the face expresses a thought of nature itself; so that every one is worth attentive observation, even though every one may not be worth talking to. Schopenhauer.
The tongue's aye quick at saying "Na," / Though a' the while the heart be dumb. Gilfillan.
The tongues of dying men / Enforce attention like deep harmony. Rich. II., ii. 1.
The too good opinion man has of himself is the nursing-mother of all false opinions, both public and private. Montaigne.
The torments of martyrdoms are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders. Emerson.
The total loss of reason is less deplorable than 15 the total depravation of it. Cowley.
The training (Bildung) of the thinking, of the dispositions and the morals, is the only education that deserves the name. Herder.
The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth. Johnson.
The traveller who goes round the world prepares himself to pass through all latitudes and to meet all changes. Ward Beecher.
The traveller without observation is a bird without wings. Saadi.
The treasures of heaven are not negations of 20 passion but realities of intellect, from which all passions emanate, uncurbed in their eternal glory. Wm. Blake.
The tree doth not withdraw its shade, even from the woodcutter. Hitopadesa.
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.
The tree is no sooner down than every one runs for his hatchet. Pr.
The tree of knowledge is grafted upon the tree of life; and that fruit which brought the fear of death into the world, budding on an immortal stock, becomes the fruit of the promise of immortality. Sir H. Davy.
The tree of knowledge is not that of life. 25 Byron.
The tree of liberty only grows when watered by the blood of tyrants. Bertrand Barère.
The tree of silence bears the fruit of peace. Arab. Pr.
The tree which yieldeth both fruit and shade is highly to be esteemed: but if Providence, perchance, may have denied it fruit, by whom is its shade refused? Hitopadesa.
The trenchant blade, Toledo trusty, / For want of fighting was grown rusty, / And ate into itself, for lack / Of somebody to hew and hack. Butler.
The trident of Neptune is the sceptre of the 30 planet. Lemierre.
The triumphs of delusion are but for a day. Macaulay.
The trivial round, the common task, / Will furnish all we ought to ask. / Room to deny ourselves, a road / To bring us daily nearer God. Keble.
The true and the good will be reconciled when the two are wedded to each other in the beautiful. Rückert.
The true art of being agreeable is to appear well pleased with all the company, and rather to seem well entertained with them than to bring entertainment to them. Addison.
The true beginning is oftenest unnoticed and 35 unnoticeable. Carlyle.
The true "compulsory education" now needed is not catechism, but drill. Ruskin.
The true cross of the Redeemer is the sin and sorrow of the world. George Eliot.
The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions. Arist.
The true epic of our times is, not arms and the man, but tools and the man—an infinitely wider kind of epic. Carlyle.
The true eye for talent presupposes the true 40 reverence for it. Carlyle.
The true fire of heaven always comes from heaven direct. Ed.
The true function of intellect is not that of talking, but of understanding and discerning with a view to performing. Carlyle.
The true God's voice, voice of the Eternal, is in the heart of every man. Carlyle.
The true good (all of it) and glory even of this world, not to speak of any that is to come, must be bought still, as it always has been, with our toil and with our tears. That is the final doctrine, the inevitable one, not of Christianity only, but of all heroic faith and heroic being. Ruskin.
The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat 45 as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little stardust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched. Thoreau.
The true historical genius, to our thinking, is that which can see the nobler meaning of the events that are near him. Lowell.
The true labourer is worthy of his hire, but, in the beginning and first choice of industry, his heart must not be the heart of an hireling. Ruskin.
The true ladder of heaven has no steps. Jean Paul.
The true liberty of a man consists in his finding out, or being forced to find out, the right path, and to walk therein. Carlyle.
The true life of man is in society. Simms. 50
The true life of man, like God's, lies in the ungrudging imparting of himself to alike the worthy and unworthy without fear of forfeiture or claim of reward. Ed.
The true literary man is the light of the world; the world's priest guiding it, like a sacred pillar of fire, in its dark pilgrimage through the waste of time. Carlyle.
The true mind of a nation, at any period, is always best ascertainable by examining that of its greatest men. Ruskin.
The true original ground of all disquiet is within. Thomas à Kempis.
The true philosophical act is annihilation of self; this is the real beginning of all philosophy; all requisites for being a disciple of philosophy point hither. Novalis.
The true poet is even more than a finder or troubadour; he is a seer, a prophet, and an interpreter between the divine and the human. C. Fitzhugh.
The true poet, who is but the inspired thinker, 5 is still an Orpheus whose lyre tames the savage beasts, and evokes the dead rocks to fashion themselves into palaces and stately inhabited cities. Carlyle.
The true poetic soul needs but to be struck, and the sounds it yields will be music. Carlyle.
The true preacher can be known by this, that he deals out to the people his life—life passed through the fire of thought. Emerson.
The true scholar learns from the known to unfold the unknown, and approaches more and more to being a master. Goethe.
The true Shekinah is man. St. Chrysostom.
The true strength of every human soul is to 10 be dependent on as many nobler as it can discern, and to be depended upon by as many inferior as it can reach. Ruskin.
The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small. Johnson.
The True that is identical with the Divine can never be directly known by us; we behold it only in reflexion (Abglanz), in example, in symbol, in individual and related phenomena; we perceive it as incomprehensible life, which yet we cannot renounce the wish to comprehend. This is true of all the phenomena of the conceivable world. Goethe.
The true university of these days is a collection of books. Carlyle.
The true value of a man's book is determined by what he does not write. Carlyle.
The true veins of wealth are purple—not in 15 rock, but in flesh—(and) the final outcome and consummation of all wealth is in producing as many as possible full-breathed, bright-eyed, and happy-hearted human creatures. Ruskin.
The true way of softening one's troubles is to solace those of others. Mme. de Maintenon.
The truly strong mind, view it as intellect or morality, or under any other aspect, is nowise the mind acquainted with its strength. Carlyle.
The truly sublime is always easy, and always natural. Burke.
The truly wise man should have no keeper of his secrets but himself. Guizot.
The truth shall make you free. Jesus. 20
The truth we need is only lightly veiled, not deeply buried by the wise hand which has designed it for us. Gellert.
The truth works sometimes from without as from within. Dr. W. Smith.
The truths of Nature are one eternal change, one infinite variety. Ruskin.
The two best rules for a system of rhetoric are: first, have something to say; and next, say it. George Emmons.
The two foes of human happiness are pain and 25 ennui. Schopenhauer.
The two great movers of the human mind are the desire of good and the fear of evil. Johnson.
The two most beautiful things in the universe are the starry heavens above us and the feeling of duty within us. An Indian sage.
The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new. Thackeray.
The two sources of all quack-talent are cunning and impudence. Carlyle.
The ultimate rule (in writing) is: Learn so far 30 as possible to be intelligible and transparent—no notice taken of your style, but solely of what you express by it. Carlyle.
The ultimate tendency of civilisation is towards barbarism. Hare.
The unconscious is the alone complete. Goethe.
The Understanding is indeed thy window, too clear thou canst not make it; but Fantasy is thy eye, with its colour-giving retina, healthy or diseased. Carlyle.
The undiscovered country, from whose bourn / No traveller returns. Ham., iii. 1.
The unfortunate are loud and loquacious 35 in their complaints, but real happiness is content with its own silent enjoyment. Gibbon.
The unhappy (malheureux) are always wrong: wrong in being so, wrong in saying so, wrong in needing help of others, wrong in not being able to help them. Mirabeau.
The unimaginative person can neither be reverent nor kind. Ruskin.
The universe has three children, born at one time ... called cause, operation, and effect, or, theologically, the Father, the Spirit, and the Son. These three are equal ... and each has the power of the others latent in him. Emerson.
The universe is a thought of God. Schiller.
The universe is an infinite sphere, the centre 40 of which is everywhere, and the circumference nowhere. Pascal after St. Augustus.
The universe is but one vast symbol of God; nay, if thou wilt have it, what is man himself but a symbol of God; is not all that he does symbolical; a revelation to sense of the mystic god-given force that is in him; a "gospel of freedom," which he, the "Messias of Nature," preaches, as he can, by act and word? Carlyle.
The universe is full of love, but also of inexorable sternness and severity. Carlyle.
The universe is not dead and demoniacal, a charnel-house with spectres, but godlike, and my Father's. Carlyle.
The universe is one great city, full of beloved ones, human and divine, by nature endeared to each other. Epictetus.
The universe is that great egoist that decoys 45 us by the grossest bird-calls. Renan.
The universe is the realised thought of God. Carlyle.
The universe stands by him who stands by himself. Emerson.
The universe would not be rich enough to buy the vote of an honest man. St. Gregory.
The unlearned man knoweth not what it is to descend into himself and call himself to account; nor the pleasure of that most pleasant life which consists in our daily feeling ourselves become better. Sir Walter Raleigh.
The unlettered peasant, whose views are only directed to the narrow sphere around him, beholds Nature with a finer relish, and tastes her blessings with a keener appetite, than the philosopher whose mind attempts to grasp a universal system. Goldsmith.
The unpastured sea hungering for calm. 5 Shelley.
The unworn spirit is strong; life is so healthful that it even finds nourishment in death. Carlyle.
The upper classes and people of wealth suffer most from ennui. Schopenhauer.
The Upper Crust, i.e., the Upper Ten. Amer.
The Upper Ten, i.e., the aristocracy; the upper circles (contracted from Upper Ten Thousand). Amer.
The upper current of society presents no certain 10 criterion by which we can judge of the direction in which the under-current flows. Macaulay.
The upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it. Bible.
The ups and downs of the world concern the beggar no longer. Lamb.
The use of knowledge in our sex, besides the amusement of solitude, is to moderate the passions, and learn to be contented with a small expense, which are the certain effects of a studious life; and it may be preferable to that fame which men have engrossed to themselves, and will not suffer us to share. Lady Montagu.
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. Johnson.
The useful encourages itself, for the multitude 15 produce it, and no one can dispense with it; but the beautiful must be encouraged, for few can set it forth, and many need it. Goethe.
The useless men are those who never change with the years. J. M. Barrie.
The usurer is the greatest Sabbath-breaker, because his plough goeth every Sunday. Bacon.
The utmost point and acme of honour is not merely in doing no evil, but in thinking none. Ruskin.
The uttered part of a man's life bears to the unuttered, unconscious part of it a small unknown proportion; he himself never knows it, much less do others. Carlyle.
The valiant in himself, what can he suffer? / 20 Or what need he regard his single woes? Thomson.
The valour of a just man is to conquer the flesh, to contradict his own will, ... to contemn the flatteries of prosperity, and inwardly to overcome the fears of adversity. S. Greg.
The valour that struggles is better than the weakness that endures. Hegel.
The value of a man, as of a horse, consists in your being able to bridle him, or, what is better, in his being able to bridle himself. Ruskin.
The value of a thing is its life-giving power. Ruskin.
The vanity of loving fine clothes and new 25 fashions, and valuing ourselves by them, is one of the most childish pieces of folly that can be. Sir Matthew Hale.
The veneration we have for many things entirely proceeds from their being carefully concealed. Goldsmith.
The very head and front of my offending / Hath this extent, no more. Othello, i. 3.
The very joy of a true man's heart is to admire, when he can; nothing so lifts him from all his mean imprisonments, were it but for moments, as true admiration. Carlyle.
The very meanest things are made supreme / With innate ecstasy. Blanchard.
The very nature of the dilettanti is that they 30 have no idea of the difficulties which lie in a subject, and always wish to undertake something for which they have no capacity. Goethe.
The very pain of loving is all other joys before. Dr. Walter Smith.
The very society of joy redoubles it, so that, whilst it lights upon my friend, it rebounds upon myself, and the brighter his candle burns the more easily will it light mine. South.
The vessel that will not obey her helm will have to obey the rocks. Breton and Cornish Pr.
The vice of our housekeeping is that it does not hold man sacred. Emerson.
The vices we scoff at in others laugh at us 35 within ourselves. Sir Thomas Browne.
The victories of character are instant, and victories for all. Emerson.
"The victory of Miltiades does not suffer me to sleep." Themistocles, in reference to the battle of Marathon.
The violets and the mayflowers are as the inscriptions or vignettes of spring. It always makes a pleasant impression on us when we open again at these pages of the book of life, its most charming chapter. Goethe.
The virtue of great souls is justice (Gerechtigkeit). Platen.
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, 40 as regulated by wisdom. Arist.
The virtue of man is, in a word, the great proof of God. Renan.
The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude; which in morals is the more heroical virtue. Bacon.
The virtue of sex is the occasion of mutual teaching; the woman preaching love in the ears of justice, and the man justice in the ears of love. Amiel.
The virtue of the man who lives according to the precepts of reason shows itself equally great in avoiding as in overcoming dangers. Spinoza.
The virtuous delight in the virtuous; but he who is destitute of the practice of virtue delighteth not in the virtuous. The bee retireth from the forest to the lotus, whilst the frog is destitute of shelter. Hitopadesa.
The virtuous man, from his justice and the affection he hath for mankind, is the dispeller of sorrow and pain. Hitopadesa.
The virtuous soul is pure and unmixed light, springing from the body as a flash of lightning darts from the cloud; the soul that is carnal and immersed in sense, like a heavy and dank vapour, can with difficulty be kindled, and caused to raise its eyes heavenward. Heraclitus.
The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world. Emerson.
The vitality of man is great. Carlyle. 5
The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it. Mme. de Staël.
The voice of prophecies is like that of whispering-places; they who are near hear nothing, those at the first extremity will know all. Sir Thomas Browne.
The voice of the majority is no proof of justice. Schiller.
The voice of the people ought always to meet with attention, though it does not always claim obedience. Fox.
The vulgar estimate themselves by what they 10 do; the noble by what they are. Schiller.
The vulgar great are comprehended and adored, because they are in reality on the same moral plane with those who admire; but he who deserves the higher reverence must himself convert the worshipper. Lord Houghton.
The vulgar keep no account of your hits, but of your misses. Pr.
The wail of grief is more sympathetic than the shout of triumph. C. Fitzhugh.
The walking of man and all animals is a falling forward. Emerson.
The want of belief is a defect which ought to 15 be concealed when it cannot be overcome. Swift.
The want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of solitude. Rousseau.
The want of perception is a defect which all the virtues of the heart cannot supply. Thoreau.
The warl'ly race may riches chase, / And riches still may flee them; / And though at last they catch them fast, / Their hearts can ne'er enjoy them. Burns.
The watchful mother tarries nigh, / Though sleep has clos'd her infant's eye. Keble.
The way in which we form our ideas gives 20 character to our minds. Rousseau.
The way of the superior man is threefold—virtuous, he is free from anxieties; wise, he is free from perplexities; bold, he is free from fear. Confucius.
The way of the wicked is an abomination unto the Lord. Bible.
The way of the world is to make laws, but follow customs. Montaigne.
The way of this world is to praise dead saints and persecute living ones. Rev. N. Howe.
The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our 25 passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigour to our moral nature. Ward Beecher.
The way to avoid the imputation of impudence is not to be ashamed of what we do, but never to do what we ought to be ashamed of. Cic.
The way to be original is to be healthy. Lowell.
The way to get rid of wretchedness is to despise it; to conquer the devil is to defy him; to gain heaven is to turn your back upon it, and be as unflinching as the gods themselves. Satan may be roasted in his own flames; Tophet may be exploded with its own sulphur. John Burroughs upon Carlyle's teaching.
The way to heaven is set with briars and thorns; and they who arrive at the kingdom travel over craggy rocks and comfortless deserts. Thomas à Kempis.
The way to make thy son rich is to fill / His 30 mind with rest, before his trunk with riches. George Herbert.
The way to mend the bad world is to create the right world. Emerson.
The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market; it depends chiefly on two words—industry and frugality. Franklin.
The way to write quickly is to write well. Quinct.
The way, truth, and life have been found in Christianity, and will not now be found outside of it. Matthew Arnold.
The way's not easy where the prize is great. 35 Quarles.
The ways in which most men get their living, that is, live, are mere makeshifts, and a shirking of the real business of life; chiefly because they do not know, but partly because they do not mean better. Thoreau.
The weakest goes to the wall. Rom. and Jul., i. 1.
The weakest spot in every man is where he thinks himself to be the wisest. G. Emmons.
The wealth of a country is in its good men and women, and in nothing else. Ruskin.
The wealth of a man is the number of things 40 which he loves and blesses, which he is loved and blessed by. Carlyle.
The wealth of both Indies seems in great part but an accessory to the command of the seas. Bacon.
The wealth of both the Indies cannot redeem one single opportunity which you have once let slip. Thomas à Kempis.
The wealth of the land / Comes from the forge and the smithy and mine, / From hammer and chisel, and wheel and band, / And the thinking brain and the skilful hand. Dr. Walter Smith.
The wealth we cannot wisely administer is an encumbrance. Goethe.
The weariest and most loathéd worldly life, / 45 That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment / Can lay on nature, is a paradise / To what we fear of death. Meas. for Meas., iii. 1.
The wearisome is in permanence here. Carlyle at Linlathen, in Forfarshire.
The weary night o' care and grief / May hae a joyful morrow. Burns.
The web of this world is woven of necessity and contingency; the reason of man places itself between them, and knows how to rule them both. It treats the necessary as the ground of its existence; the contingent it knows how to direct, lead, and utilise; and it is only while reason stands firm and steadfast that man deserves to be called the god of the earth. Woe to him who has accustomed himself from his youth to incline to find something arbitrary in what is necessary, who would fain ascribe a kind of reason to the contingent, which it were even a religion to follow; what is that but to disown one's own understanding, and to give loose reins to one's inclinations? We imagine it piety to saunter along (hinschlendern) without consideration, and to allow ourselves to be determined by agreeable accidents, and finally give to the results of such a vacillating life the name of Divine guidance. Goethe.
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together; our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not, and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues. All's Well, iv. 3.
The wedge will rend rocks; but its edge must be sharp and single; if it is double, the wedge is bruised in pieces, and will rend nothing. Carlyle.
The wheel is always in motion, and the spoke which is uppermost will soon be under; therefore mix trembling with all your joy. Philip Henry.
The whole art of war consists in getting at 5 what is on the other side of the hill, or, in other words, in learning what we do not know from what we do. Duke of Wellington.
The whole course of things goes to teach us faith. Emerson.
The whole difference between a man of genius and other men ... is that the former remains in great part a child, seeing with the large eyes of children, in perpetual wonder, not conscious of much knowledge—conscious rather of infinite ignorance, and yet infinite power. Ruskin.
The whole economy of nature is bent on expression. Emerson.
The whole interest of history lies in the fortunes of the poor. Emerson.
The whole function of the artist in the world is 10 to be a seeing and a feeling creature; to be an instrument of such tenderness and sensitiveness that no shadow, no hue, no line, no instantaneous and evanescent expression of the visible things around him, nor any of the emotions which they are capable of conveying to the spirit which has been given him, shall either be left unrecorded, or fade from the book of record. Ruskin.
The whole man to one thing at a time. Pr.
The whole of chivalry and of heraldry is in courtesy. Emerson.
The whole past is the possession of the present. Carlyle.
The whole spiritual universe exists only in process—what Hegel calls "Der Process des Geistes"—the process of the spirit, that is to say, not as become, but as becoming; and if it once ceases to become, it ceases as such to be. Ed.
The whole universe is at all moments saying 15 "Nay" to the Spirit of God, and God's Spirit is at all moments saying "Yea" to the stolid "Nay" of the universe, which would fain be let alone; but stubborn as the material looks and is, it has to obey, and does obey, the voice of God. Ed.
The whole world is, properly speaking, a tragic embarras. Rahel.
The whole world of truth and conscience is nothing without I. Jean Paul.
The wide pasture is but separate spears of grass; the sheeted bloom of the prairies but isolated flowers. Ward Beecher.
The wife can carry more out of the house in her apron than the man can bring in on a harvest-waggon. Rückert.
The wife is the key of the house. Pr. 20
The wife that expects to have a good name / Is always at home as if she were lame; / And the mind that is honest, her chiefest delight, / Is still to be doing from morning till night. Sp. Pr.
The will appears without its mask only in the affections and the passions. Schopenhauer.
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it. Scott.
The wind that has its nest in trees. J. M. Barrie.
The winds and the waves are always on the 25 side of the ablest navigators. Gibbon.
The winter of our discontent. Rich. III., i. 1.
The wisdom of life is in preventing all the evil we can, and using what is inevitable to the best purpose. Ruskin.
The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. Collect and learn them; they are notable measures and directions for human life; you have much in little; they save time in speaking; and upon occasion may be the fullest and safest answers. William Penn.
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of ages may be preserved by quotation. Isaac Disraeli.
The wise are instructed by reason, ordinary 30 minds by experience, the stupid by necessity, and brutes by instinct. Cic.
The wise are polite all the world over, but fools are only polite at home. Goldsmith.
The wise are those who travel through error to truth; the foolish are those who persist in their error. Rückert.
The wise grumbler ... is a public benefactor. John Wagstaffe.
The wise have all ever said the same thing, and the fools, who are always in the majority, have always done just the opposite. Schopenhauer.
The wise in heart shall be called the prudent. 35 Bible.
The wise man always looks to the degree of his indulgences. John Wagstaffe.
The wise man can dispense with the favour of the mighty, but the mighty cannot dispense with the teaching of the wise. Bodenstedt.
The wise man does not grasp at what is far off in order to find what is near, and his hand does not grasp at the stars in order to kindle light. Bodenstedt.
The wise man, even destitute of riches, enjoyeth elevated and very honourable stations; whilst the wretch, endowed with wealth, acquireth the post of disgrace. Hitopadesa.
The wise man expects everything from himself; the fool looks to others. Jean Paul.
The wise man had rather be envied for providence than pitied for prodigality. Socrates.
The wise man has long ears and a short tongue. Ger. Pr.
The wise man knows his master; always some 5 creature larger than himself, some law holier than himself. Ruskin.
The wise man knows that he does not know; the ignoramus thinks he knows. Sp. Pr.
The wise man may strive to conquer, but he should never fight; because victory, it is observed, cannot be constant to both combatants. Hitopadesa.
The wise man moveth with one foot, and standeth fast with the other. A man should not quit one place until he hath fixed upon another. Hitopadesa.
The wise man must go to the foolish, else would his wisdom go for nought, since the foolish never come to the wise. Bodenstedt.
The wise man often shuns society for fear of 10 being bored. La Bruyère.
The wise man ought to despise glory, but not honour. Honour is but seldom where glory is, and glory almost more rarely still where honour is. Seume.
The wise man should study the acquisition of science and riches as if he were not subject to sickness and death; but to the duties of religion he should attend as if death had seized him by the hair. Hitopadesa.
The wise man will commit no business of importance to a proxy when he may do it himself. L'Estrange.
The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm or epigram. Whipple.
The wise through excess of wisdom is made a 15 fool. Emerson.
The wise weigh their words in a balance for gold. Ecclus.
The wise will determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high-minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands. Burke.
The wiser mind / Mourns less for what age takes away / Than what it leaves behind. Wordsworth.
The wisest at most observe only how fate leads them, and are content. Foster.
The wisest doctor is gravelled by the inquisitiveness 20 of a child. Emerson.
The wisest, happiest of our kind are they / That ever walk content with Nature's way. Wordsworth.
The wisest is omnipresent, and reveals His secrets universally to the seeing eye and the hearing ear. The revelation in all its fullness is nowhere wanting, only the sense to discern it, and the courage to be true to it. Ed.
The wisest man the warl' e'er saw, / He dearly lo'ed the lasses O. Burns.
The wisest men are wise to the full in death. Ruskin.
The wisest, most melodious voice cannot in 25 these days pass for a divine one; the word "inspiration" still lingers, but only in the shape of a poetic figure, from which the once earnest, awful, and soul-subduing sense has vanished without return. Carlyle.
The wisest of us must, for by far the most part, judge like the simplest; estimate importance by mere magnitude, and expect that which strongly affects our own generation, will strongly affect those that are to follow. Carlyle.
The wisest truly is, in these times, the greatest. Carlyle.
The wisest woman you talk with is ignorant of something that you know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance. Holmes.
The wish was father to the thought. 2 Hen. IV., iv. 4.
The wished-for comes too late. Pr. 30
The wishing-gate opens into nothing. Spurgeon.
The wit of language is so miserably inferior to the wit of ideas that it is deservedly driven out of good company. Sydney Smith.
The wit of one man, and the wisdom of many. Lord John Russell's definition of a proverb.
The wit one wants spoils what one has. Fr. Pr.
The woman and the soldier who do not defend 35 the first pass will never defend the last. Fielding.
The woman that deliberates is lost. Addison.
The woman's cause is man's: they rise or sink / Together. Tennyson.
The womankind will not drill. Carlyle, Father Andreas in "Sartor."
The women are quick enough—they're quick enough. They know the rights of a story before they hear it, and can tell a man what his thoughts are before he knows 'em himself. George Eliot.
The word is always bolder than the deed. 40 Schiller.
The Word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it. Bible.
The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond—sometimes better. Dickens.
The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters, and the well-spring of wisdom as a flowing brook. Bible.
The words of a tale-bearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly. Bible.
The words of men are like the leaves of trees; 45 when they are too many they hinder the growth of the fruit. Steiger.
The words of the wise are as goads. Pr.
The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering-galleries, they are clearly heard at the end and by posterity. Jean Paul.
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden under ground, secretly making the ground green; it flows and flows, it joins itself with other veins and veinlets; one day it will start forth as a visible perennial well. Carlyle.
The work of righteousness shall be peace. Bible.
The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions. Ruskin.
The works of the great poets have only been read for most part as the multitude read the stars, at most, astrologically, not astronomically. Thoreau.
The world can never give / The bliss for which we sigh; / 'Tis not the whole of life to live, / Nor all of death to die. Montgomery.
The world cannot be governed without juggling. 5 Selden.
The world cannot do without great men, but great men are very troublesome to the world. Goethe.
The world considers eccentricity in great things genius: in small things, folly. Bulwer Lytton.
The world does not progress so quickly as a man grows old. J. M. Barrie.
The world exists by change, and but for that / All matter would to chaos back / To form a pillar for a sleeping god. Anon.
The world exists for the education of each 10 man. Emerson.
The world exists only by the strength of its silent virtue. Ruskin.
The world goes up, and the world goes down, / And the sunshine follows the rain; / And yesterday's sneer, and yesterday's frown, / Can never come over again. C. Kingsley.
The world grows more majestic, but man grows less. Amiel.
The world has no business with my life; the world will never know my life, if it should write and read a hundred biographies of me. Carlyle.
The world has to obey him who thinks and 15 sees in the world. Carlyle.
The world is a carcase, and they who gather round it are dogs. Eastern Pr.
The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel. Horace Walpole.
The world is a grand book from which to become wiser. Goethe.
The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion. Thackeray.
The world is a prison. Goethe. 20
The world is a thing that man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it. Carlyle.
The world is a wheel, and it will all come round right. Disraeli.
The world is all barren to him who will not cultivate the fruit it offers. Sterne.
The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius. Talent is a docile creature. It bows its head meekly while the world slips the collar over it. It backs into the shafts like a lamb. Holmes.
The world is an excellent judge in general, 25 but a very bad one in particular. Lord Greville.
The world is an old woman, that mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin; whereby, being often cheated, she will henceforth trust nothing but the common copper. Carlyle.
The world is as you take it. Pr.
The world is but an allegory; the idea is more real than the fact. Amiel.
The world is content with words; few think of searching into the nature of things. Pascal.
The world is everywhere perfect except where 30 man comes with his pain. Schiller.
The world is fain to sully what is resplendent, and to drag down to the dust what is exalted. Schiller.
The world is for him who has patience. It. Pr.
The world is glorious to look at, but dreadful in reality; it is one thing as a drama to a spectator, quite another thing to the actors in the plot, for in it the will is thwarted at every turn. Schopenhauer.
The world is governed much more by opinion than by laws. Channing.
The world is governed too much. (?) 35
The world is not our peers, so we challenge the jury. Burns.
The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law. Rom. and Jul., v. 1.
The world is not to be despised but as it is compared with something better. Company is in itself better than solitude, and pleasure better than indolence. Johnson.
The world is nothing but a wheel; in its whole periphery it is everywhere similar, but, nevertheless, it appears to us so strange, because we ourselves are carried round with it. Goethe.
The world is nothing; the man is all. Emerson. 40
The world is only governed by self-interest. Schiller.
The world is so busied with selfish pursuits, ambition, vanity, interest, or pleasure, that very few think it worth their while to make any observation on what passes around them, except where that observation is a sucker, or branch of the darling plant they are rearing in their fancy. Burns.
The world is still deceived with ornament. / In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, / But, being seasoned with a gracious voice, / Obscures the show of evil? In religion, / What damnéd error but some sober brow / Will bless it and approve it with a text, / Hiding the grossness with fair ornament? Mer. of Ven., iii. 2.
The world is too much with us; late and soon, / Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers; / Little we see in Nature that is ours. Wordsworth.
The world is undone by looking at things at a 45 distance. Sir Thomas More.
The world is upheld by the veracity of good men; they make the earth wholesome. Emerson.
The world is wide enough for all to live and let live, and every one has an enemy in his own talent, who gives him quite enough to do. But no! one gifted man and one talented persecutes another ... and each seeks to make the other hateful. Goethe.
The world is wider than any of us think. Carlyle.
The world knows nothing of its greatest men. Sir Henry Taylor.
The world looks at ministers out of the pulpit to know what they mean when in it. Cecil.
The world ... may overlook most of us; but "reverence thyself." Burns.
The world never let a man bless it but it first 5 fought him. Ward Beecher.
The world of Nature for every man is the fantasy of himself; this world is the multiplex "image of his own dream." Carlyle.
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless. Not being able to enlarge the one, let us contract the other; for it is from their difference alone that all the evils arise which render us really unhappy. Rousseau.
The world of thought must remain apart from the world of action, for if they once coincided the problem of life would be solved, and the hope which we call heaven would be realised on earth. And therefore men "Are cradled into poetry by wrong; / They learn in suffering what they teach in song." Lord Houghton.
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. Hawthorne.
The world owes infinitely more to those who 10 have no history than to those who have; and the silent noble ones, who have enriched and exalted it by their mere presence, form a much grander and greater host than those do whose names stand emblazoned in written story, and are the loud boast of all. Ed.