DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS. (continued 29)

This century is not ripe for my ideal; I live a citizen of those that are to come. Schiller.

"This comes of walking on the earth." The Spanish swell, as he picked himself up from the ground. Sp. Pr.

This communicating of a man's self to his 30 friend works two contrary effects, for it redoubleth joys and cutteth griefs in halves. Bacon.

This day / Shall change all griefs and quarrels into love. Henry V., v. 2.

This day's propitious to be wise in. Burns.

This even-handed justice / Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice / To our own lips. Macb., i. 7.

This ever-renewing generation of appearances rests on a reality, and a reality that is alive. Emerson.

This fell sergeant, death, / Is strict in his 35 arrest. Ham., v. 2.

This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe, / For freedom only deals the deadly blow: / Then sheathes in calm repose the vengeful blade / For gentle peace in freedom's hallowed shade. John Quincy Adams.

This I think charity—to love God for himself, and our neighbour for God. Sir Thomas Browne.

This is a great—properly the greatest—moment in a man's life, when, reconciling himself to necessity, he is able with clearness of purpose to say, "Let the will of the gods be done." Ed.

"This is a sharp medicine, but it cures all disorders." Raleigh of the axe of his executioner.

This is faith; it is nothing more than obedience. 40 Voltaire.

This is how I define talent; it is a gift God has given us in secret, which we reveal without knowing it. Montesquieu.

This is not a time for purism of style; and style has little to do with the worth or unworth of a book. Carlyle.

This is not the liberty which we can hope, that no grievance should arise in the commonwealth, but when complaints are freely heard, deeply considered, and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for. Milton.

This is the first condition of a living morality as well as of vital religion, that the soul shall find a true centre out from and above itself, round which it shall revolve. J. C. Sharp.

This is the humour of it. Henry V., ii. 1. 45

This is the monstrosity in love—that the will is infinite, and the execution confined; that the desire is boundless, and the act a slave to limit. Troil. and Cress., iii. 2.

This is the state of man: to-day he puts forth / The tender leaves of hopes; to-morrow blossoms, / And bears his blushing honours thick upon him; / The third day comes a frost, a killing frost; / And when he thinks, good easy man, full surely / His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root, / And then he falls, as I do. Hen. VIII., iii. 2.

This is the very coinage of your brain; / This bodiless creation ecstasy / Is very cunning in. Ham., iii. 4.

This is the very curse of an evil deed, that it engenders and must bring forth more evil. Schiller.

This is true philanthropy, that buries not its gold in ostentatious charity, but builds its hospital in the human heart. Harley.

This low man seeks a little thing to do, / Sees it and does it; / This high man, with a great thing to pursue, / Dies ere he knows it. Browning.

This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with 5 them. Said of Jesus by the Jews in way of reproach.

This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas, / The past, the future—two eternities. Moore.

This nothing's more than matter. Ham., iv. 5.

This of old is sure, / That change of toil is toil's sufficient cure. Lewis Morris.

This one fact the world hates—that the soul becomes. Emerson.

This present is a ruinous and ruining world. 10 Carlyle.

This she knows in joys and woes, / That saints will aid if men will call; / For the blue sky bends over all. Coleridge.

This so solid-seeming world is, after all, but an air-image, our Me the only reality; and Nature, with its thousand-fold production and destruction, but the reflex of our own inward force, the "Phantasy of our Dream," or, what the earth-spirit in "Faust" names it, "the living visible garment of God." Carlyle.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but knew what to do with it. Emerson.

This was a man. Jul. Cæs., v. 5.

This was the most unkindest cut of all. Jul. 15 Cæs., iii. 2.

This will prove a brave kingdom to me, where I shall have my music for nothing. Tempest, iii. 2.

This world belongs to the energetic. Emerson.

This world is a busy scene, and man a creature destined for a progressive struggle. Burns.

This world is all a fleeting show, / For man's illusion given: / The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, / Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, / There's nothing true but heaven. Moore.

This world is full of fools, and he who would 20 not wish to see one must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass. Boileau.

This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me! (uncle Toby to the fly). Sterne.

This world, where much is to be done and little to be known. Johnson.

Thistles and thorns prick sore, but evil tongues prick more. Dut. Pr.

Tho' men may bicker with the things they love, / They would not make them laughable in all eyes, / Not while they loved them. Tennyson.

Tho' world on world in myriad myriads roll / 25 Round us, each with different powers, / And other form of life than ours, / What know we greater than the soul? Tennyson.

Those are not empty-hearted whose low sound / Reverbs no hollowness. Lear, i. 1.

Those are often raised into the greatest transports of mirth who are subject to the greatest depressions of melancholy. Addison.

Those deserve to be doubly laughed at that are peevish and angry for nothing to no purpose. L'Estrange.

Those faces which have charmed us the most escape us the soonest. Scott.

Those faults conscience has not strength to 30 prevent, it seldom has justice enough to accuse. Goldsmith.

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

Those holy fields / Over whose acres walked those blessèd feet / Which, fourteen hundred years ago were nailed, / For our advantage, on the bitter cross. 1 Hen. IV., i. 1.

Those of us who are worth anything spend our manhood in unlearning the follies or expiating the mistakes of our youth. Shelley.

Those only are beautiful which, like the planets, have a steady, lambent light—are luminous, not sparkling. Longfellow.

Those only are despicable who fear to be 35 despised. La Roche.

Those only deserve a monument who do not need one. Hazlitt.

Those only obtain love, for the most part, who seek it not. Goethe.

Those only who know little can be said to know anything. The greater the knowledge the greater the doubt. Goethe.

Those people who are always improving never become great. Greatness is an eminence, the ascent to which is steep and lofty, and which a man must seize on at once by natural boldness and vigour, and not by patient, wary steps. Hazlitt.

Those persons who do most good are least 40 conscious of it. Ward Beecher.

Those tender tears that humanise the soul. Thomson.

Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. Colton.

Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable, and should be secured, because they seldom return. Bacon.

Those that dare lose a day are dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, desperate. Bishop Hall.

Those that fly may fight again, / Which he can 45 never do that's slain. Butler.

Those that have loved longest love best. Johnson.

Those that think must govern those that toil. Goldsmith.

Those that with haste will make a mighty fire, / Begin with weak straws. Jul. Cæs., i. 3.

Those who are bent to do wickedly will never want tempters to urge them on. Tillotson.

Those who are elevated enough in life to reason 50 and to reflect, yet low enough to keep clear of the venal contagion of a court—these are a nation's strength! Burns.

Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world. Landor.

Those who attempt to level never equalise; they load the edifice of society by setting up in the air what the solidity of the structure requires to be on the ground. Burke.

Those who attempt to reason us out of our follies, begin at the wrong end, since the attempt naturally presupposes us capable of reason. Goldsmith.

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. J. M. Barrie.

Those who can sit at home and gloat over their thousands in silent satisfaction are generally found to do it in plain clothes. Goldsmith.

Those who carry much upon their clothes 5 are remarked for having but little in their pockets. Goldsmith.

Those who do nothing generally take to shouting. Pr.

Those who dwell in fear dwell next door to hate; and I think it is the cowardice of women that makes them such intense haters. Mrs. Jameson.

Those who educate children well are more to be honoured than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well. Arist.

Those who first study fate, and say, Fate is the only cause of fortune and misfortune, terrify themselves. Hitopadesa.

Those who give the first shock to a state are 10 naturally the first to be overwhelmed in its ruin. The fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by the man who was the first to set it a-going; he only troubles the waters for another's net. Montaigne.

Those who have even studied good books may still be fools. Hitopadesa.

Those who injure one party to benefit another are quite as unjust as if they converted the property of others to their own benefit. Cic.

Those who make the best use of their time have none to spare. Pr.

Those who make the worst use of their time most complain of its shortness. La Bruyère.

Those who only run after little things will not 15 go far. J. M. Barrie.

Those who profess most are ever the least sincere. Sheridan.

Those who regularly undertake to cultivate friendship find ingratitude generally repays their endeavours. Arliss.

Those who seek for something more than happiness in this world must not complain if happiness be not their portion. Froude.

Those who seem to doubt or deny us what is justly ours, let us either pity their prejudice or despise their judgment. Burns.

Those who set their minds to deny things, and 20 are fond of pulling things to pieces, must be treated like deniers-of-motion; one need only keep incessantly walking up and down before them in as composed a manner as possible. Goethe.

Those who trust us educate us. George Eliot.

Those who will not be ruled by the rudder must be ruled by the rock. Cornish Pr.

Those who would make us feel must feel themselves. Churchill.

Thou art Heaven's tasker; and thy God requires / The purest of thy flour, as well as of thy fires. Quarles.

Thou art ignorant of what thou art, and much 25 more ignorant of what is fit for thee. Thomas à Kempis.

Thou art in the end what thou art. Goethe.

Thou art not alone if thou have faith. There is a communion of saints, unseen, yet not unreal, accompanying and brotherlike embracing thee, so thou be worthy. Carlyle.

Thou art the ruin of the noblest man / That ever lived in the tide of times. Jul. Cæs., iii. 1.

Thou art thyself to all eternity. D. G. Rossetti.

Thou awakest us to delight in thy praise; for 30 thou madest us for thyself, and our heart is restless until it repose in thee. St. Augustine.

Thou bear'st thy heavy riches but a journey, / And death unloads thee. Meas. for Meas., iii. 1.

Thou canst not be entirely free till thou hast attained to such a mastery as entirely to subdue and deny thyself. Thomas à Kempis.

Thou dost not strive, O Sun, but, meek and still, / Thou dost the type of Jesus best fulfil, / A noiseless revelation in the sky. F. W. Faber.

Thou hast given me / A world of earthly blessings to my soul, / If sympathy of love unite our thoughts. 2 Hen. VI., i. 1.

Thou hast not what others have, and others 35 have not the gift thou hast. From this imperfection springs sociability. Gellert.

Thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the world. John Selden.

Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating, as wiser by always reading. Fuller.

Thou mayest be more prodigal of praise when thou writest a letter than when thou speakest in presence. Fuller.

Thou must learn to break thine own will in many things if thou wilt have peace and concord with others. Thomas à Kempis.

Thou must live unto another if thou wilt live 40 unto thyself. Sen.

Thou must renounce; thou must abstain! is the eternal song which sounds in the ears of every one, which every hour is singing to us all our life long. Goethe.

Thou, Nature, art my goddess; to thy law / My services are bound. King Lear, i. 2.

Thou of an independent mind, / With soul resolved, with soul resigned; / Prepared Power's proudest frown to brave, / Who wilt not be, nor have a slave; / Virtue alone who dost revere, / Thy own reproach alone dost fear, / Approach this shrine (Independence), and worship here. Burns.

Thou shall hear no more complaints from me; thou shalt hear only what happens to the wanderer. Goethe.

"Thou shalt" is written upon life in characters 45 as legible as "Thou shalt not." Carlyle.

Thou shalt look outward, not inward. Carlyle.

Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. Bible.

Thou, too curious ear, that fain / Wouldst thread the maze of Harmony, / Content thee with one simple strain, / ... Till thou art duly trained, and taught / The concord sweet of Love divine. Keble.

Thou who didst the stars and sunbeams know, / Self-schooled, self-scanned, self-honoured, self-secure, / Didst walk on earth unguessed at. M. Arnold on Shakespeare.

Thou! why, thou wilt quarrel with a man that hath a hair more or a hair less in his beard than thou hast. Thou wilt quarrel with a man for cracking nuts, having no other reason but because thou hast hazel eyes.... Thy head is full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat. Rom. and Jul., iii. 1.

Thou wilt never sell thy life, or any part of thy life, in a satisfactory manner. Give it like a royal heart; let the price of it be nothing; then hast thou in a certain sense got all for it. Carlyle.

Thou would'st as soon go kindle fire with snow, / As seek to quench the fire of love with words. Two Gent. of Verona, ii. 7.

Thou wouldst do little for God if the devil 5 were dead. Sc. Pr.

Though a man may become learned by another's learning, he never can be wise but by his own wisdom. (?)

Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him. Bible.

Though all his works abroad, / The heart benevolent and kind / The most resembles God. Burns.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues. Quinct.

Though an honourable title may be conveyed 10 to posterity, yet the ennobling qualities which are the soul of greatness are a sort of incommunicable perfections, and cannot be transferred. (?)

Though gentle, yet not dull, / Strong without rage, without o'erflowing, full. Denham.

Though great the force of little words, / Sped in an evil hour, / As great the might, and great the good, / Of one in Wisdom's power. M. W. Wood.

Though He comes in many shapes, / His love is throbbing in them all, / And from His love no soul escapes, / And from His mercy none can fall. Dr. W. Smith.

Though he says nothing, he pays it with thinking, like the Welshman's jackdaw. Pr.

Though He slay me, I shall yet trust in Him. 15 Bible.

Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry. John Wesley.

Though justice be thy plea, consider this—/ That in the course of justice none of us / Should see salvation. Mer. of Venice, iv. 1.

Though last, not least. Jul. Cæs., iii. 1.

Though little fire grows great with little wind, / Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire and all. Tam. of Shrew, ii. 1.

Though losses and crosses / Be lessons right 20 severe, / There's wit there ye'll get there, / Ye'll find nae ither where. Burns.

Though lost to sight, to memory dear. Anon.

Though love cannot plant morals in the human breast, it cultivates them when there. Goldsmith.

Though much is taken, much abides. Tennyson.

Though old the thought and oft repress'd, / 'Tis his at last who says it best. Lowell.

Though peace be in every man's wishes, yet 25 the qualifications and predispositions necessary for procuring and preserving it are the care of very few. Thomas à Kempis.

Though scorn's malignant glances / Prove him poorest of his clan, / He's the noble—who advances / Freedom, and the cause of Man! C. Swain.

Though stars in skies may disappear, / And angry tempests gather, / The happy hour may soon be near / That brings us pleasant weather. Burns.

Though the cat winks a while, yet sure she is not blind. Pr.

Though the heavens fall, the orbs of truth and justice fall not. J. Burroughs.

Though the world exists for thought, thought 30 is daunted in presence of the world. Emerson.

Though this be madness, yet there is method in't. Ham., ii. 2.

Though thousands hate physic, because of the cost, / Yet thousands it helpeth, that else should be lost. Thomas Tusser.

Though we lose our fortune, yet we should not lose our patience. Pr.

Though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps / At wisdom's gate; and to simplicity / Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill where no ill seems. Milton.

Though you can fret me, you cannot play upon 35 me. Ham., iii. 2.

Though you had the wisdom of Newton or the wit of Swift, garrulousness would lower you in the eyes of your fellow-creatures. Burns.

Though you stroke the nettle ever so kindly, yet it will sting you. Pr.

Thought and science follow their own law of development; they are slowly elaborated in the growth and forward pressure of humanity, in what Shakespeare calls ... The prophetic soul / Of the wide world dreaming on things to come. Matthew Arnold.

Thought discovered is the more possessed. Young.

Thought disturbs the world, and thought of 40 God / Unsettles most of all; for it is life, / And only life can comprehend its force, / Or guide it. Dr. W. Smith.

Thought expands, but lames; action animates, but narrows. Goethe.

Thought is deeper than all speech; / Feeling deeper than all thought; / Souls to souls can never teach / What unto themselves was taught. C. P. Cranch.

Thought is free. As You Like It, i. 3.

Thought is like opium: it can intoxicate us while it leaves us broad awake. Amiel.

Thought is silence. Sheridan. 45

Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it. Emerson.

Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first. It rises in thought, to the end that it may be uttered and acted. The more profound the thought, the more burdensome. Always in proportion to the depth of its sense does it knock importunately at the gates of the soul, to be spoken, to be done. Emerson.

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel. Hare.

Thought means life, since those who do not think do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man. A. B. Alcott.

Thought once awakened does not again slumber. Carlyle.

Thought takes man out of servitude into freedom. Emerson.

Thought, true labour of any kind, highest 5 virtue itself, is it not the daughter of pain? Born as out of the black whirlwind; true effort in fact, as of a captive struggling to free itself—that is thought. Carlyle.

Thought without reverence is barren, perhaps poisonous; at best dies, like cookery, with the day that called it forth. Carlyle.

Thought works in silence, so does virtue. Carlyle.

Thoughtlessness is precisely the chief public calamity of our day. Ruskin.

Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried. Shakespeare.

Thoughts are not always at our beck; we 10 must wait till they come. Schopenhauer.

Thoughts (are) the slaves of life, and life time's fool; / And time, that takes survey of all the world, / Must have a stop. 1 Hen. IV., v. 4.

Thoughts are your own; your words are so no more. Delaune.

Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntary opened. Emerson.

Thoughts shut up want air, and spoil, like bales unopened to the sun. Young.

Thoughts take up no room. Jeremy Collier. 15

Thoughts that breathe and words that burn. Gray.

Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. Wordsworth.

Thoughts that voluntary move / Harmonious numbers. Milton.

Thoughts we have had and pictures we have seen can be recalled by the mind; but the heart is not so obliging; it does not reproduce our pleasing emotions. Goethe.

Threaten the threatener, and outface the 20 brow / Of bragging horror; so shall inferior eyes, / That borrow their behaviours from the great, / Grow great by your example, and put on / The dauntless spirit of resolution. King John, v. 1.

Threatened folks live long. Pr.

Three may keep a secret—if two of them are dead. Ben. Franklin.

Three poets in three distant ages born, / Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. / The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd; / The next, in majesty; in both, the last. / The force of Nature could no further go; / To make a third, she join'd the former two. Dryden.

Three removes are as bad as a fire. Ben. Franklin.

Three things drive a man out of doors—smoke, 25 a leaking roof, and a scolding wife. Pr.

Three things that enrich genius are contentment of mind, the cherishing of good thoughts, and the exercise of memory. Southey.

Three thousand miles of ocean space are less impressive than three miles bounded by rugged mountain walls. John Burroughs.

Three women and a goose make a market. It., Dut., and Dan. Pr.

Thrice happy he who without rigour saves. Thomson.

Thrice happy life that's from ambition free. 30 Allan Ramsay.

Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just; / And he but naked, though locked up in steel, / Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted. 2 Hen. VI., iii. 2.

Thrift must begin with little savings. Pr.

Thrifty be, but not covetous. George Herbert.

Through certain humours or passions, and from temper merely, a man may be completely miserable, let his outward circumstances be ever so fortunate. Lord Shaftesbury.

Through every star, through every grass 35 blade, and most through every living soul, the glory of a present God still beams. Carlyle.

Through steep ascents, through strait and rugged ways, / Ourselves to glory's lofty seats we raise: / In vain he hopes to reach the bless'd abode / Who leaves the narrow path for the more easy road. Boscan.

Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear; / Robes and furr'd gowns hide all. King Lear, iv. 6.

Through "the ruins of a falling era," not once missing his footing. Carlyle of his father.

Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling, and spending their lives like serfs. Thoreau.

Through wisdom is an house builded; and by 40 understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches. Bible.

Throw no gift again at the giver's head; / Better is half a loaf than no bread. Pr.

Throw physic to the dogs; I'll none of it. Macb., v. 3.

Thu' nur das Rechte in deinen Sachen, / Das Andre wird sich von selber machen—In thy affairs do thou only what is right, the rest will follow of itself. Goethe.

Thursday come, and the week's gone. Pr.

Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure; 45 / Married in haste, we may repent at leisure. Congreve.

Thus the native hue of resolution / Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought. Ham., iii. 1.

Thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges. Twelfth Night, iv. 2.

Thus we play the fools with the time; and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds, and mock us. 2 Hen. IV., ii. 2.

Thus when I shun Scylla, your father, I fall into Charybdis, your mother. Mer. of Venice, iii. 5.

Thus with the year / Seasons return; but not 50 to me returns / Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, / Or sight of vernal bloom or summer's rose, / Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; / But cloud instead, and ever-during dark / Surrounds me. Milton.

Thy actions, and thy actions alone, determine thy worth. Fichte.

Thy friend put in thy bosom; wear his eyes / Still in thy heart, that he may see what's there. / If cause require, thou art his sacrifice.... / But love is lost; the way of friendship's gone. George Herbert.

Thy hand is never the worse for doing thy own work. Pr.

Thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women. Bible.

Thy nature / It is too full of the milk of human 5 kindness / To catch the nearest way. Macb., i. 5.

Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power. Bible.

Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike, / One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike. Ben. Jonson.

Thy secret is thy prisoner. Pr.

Thy soul was like a star and dwelt apart. Wordsworth.

Thy spirit, Independence, let me share; / Lord 10 of the lion-heart and eagle-eye! / Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, / Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky! Smollett.

Thy sum of duty let two words contain; / Be humble and be just. Prior.

Thy true beginning and Father is in heaven, whom with the bodily eye thou shalt never behold, but only with the spiritual. Carlyle.

Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought. 2 Hen. IV., iv. 4.

Tibi nullum periculum esse perspicio, quod quidem sejunctum sit ab omnium interitu—I can see no danger to which you are exposed, other than that which threatens the destruction of us all. Cic.

Tickle me, Bobby, and I'll tickle you. Pr. 15

Tie up thy fears. / He that forbears / To suit and serve his need, / Deserves his load. George Herbert.

Tie your camel up as best you can, and then trust it to Providence. Mahomet.

Tief und ernstlich denkende Menschen haben gegen das Publikum einen bösen Stand—Deeply and earnestly thoughtful men stand on an unfavourable footing with the public. Goethe.

Tief zu denken und schön zu empfinden ist Vielen gegeben; Dichter ist nur, wer schön sagt was er dacht' und empfand—To think deeply and to feel beautifully is given to many; only he who expresses beautifully what he has thought and felt is a poet. Geibel.

Tiens à la vérité—Stick to the truth. M. 20

Tiens à ta foy—Hold to thy faith. M.

Tiers état—The third estate; the commons. Fr.

Till the hand ... from reed or string / Draws out faint echoes of the voice Divine / That bring God nearer to a faithless world. Lewis Morris.

Time and chance can do nothing for those who will do nothing for themselves. Providence itself can scarcely save a people who are not prepared to make a struggle for their safety. Canning.

Time and I against any two. Philip II. 25

Time and space are not God, but creations of God; with God, as it is a universal Here, so is it an everlasting Now. Carlyle.

Time and thinking tame the strongest grief. Pr.

Time antiquates antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all things. Sir Thomas Browne.

Time, as it is, cannot stay; / Nor again, as it was, can it be; / Disappearing and passing away / Are the world, and the ages, and we. Lord Lytton.

Time brings roses. Pr. 30

Time conquers all, and we must time obey. Pope.

Time consecrates; and what is grey with age becomes religion. Schiller.

Time destroys the speculations of man, but it confirms the judgment of nature. Cic.

Time devours all things. Pr.

Time dissipates to shining ether the solid 35 angularity of facts. Emerson.

Time drinketh up the essence of every great and noble action which ought to be performed, and is delayed in the execution. Hitopadesa.

Time elaborately thrown away. Young.

Time gives prudence; the lord of time, inspiration; the one is a reward, the other a gift. Börne.

Time has a strange contracting influence on many a wide-spread fame. Carlyle.

Time has only a relative existence. Carlyle. 40

Time incessantly hasteneth on; he seeks for perfection; if thou art true, thou canst cast fetters eternal on him. Schiller.

Time is a continual over-dropping of moments, which fall down one upon the other and evaporate. Jean Paul.

Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does. Goethe.

Time is a wonder-working god. In one hour many thousand grains of sand run out, so quickly do thoughts stir in the minds of men. Schiller.

Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I 45 drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom, and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper, fish in the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars. Thoreau.

Time is but the measure of the difficulty of a conception. Pure thought has scarcely any need of time, since it perceives the two ends of an idea almost the same moment. Amiel.

Time is eternity, / Pregnant with all eternity can give. Young.

Time is generally the best doctor. Ovid.

Time is incalculably long, and every day is a vessel into which very much may be poured, if one will really fill it up. Goethe.

Time is like a fashionable host, / That slightly 50 shakes his parting guest by the hand; / And with his arms outstretched, as he would fly, / Grasps in the comer. Troil. and Cress., iii. 3.

Time is like a river, in which metals and solid substances are sunk, while chaff and straws swim upon the surface. Bacon.

Time is money. Pr.

Time is never more misspent than while we declaim against the want of it. Zimmermann.

Time is of more value than type, and the wear and tear of temper than an extra page of index. R. H. Busk.

Time is the chrysalis of eternity. Jean Paul.

Time is the life of the soul. If not this, then tell me what is time? Longfellow.

Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it, and, like the flash of the lightning, at once exists and expires. Colton.

Time is the nurse and breeder of all good. Two 5 Gent. of Ver., iii. 1.

Time is the old Justice that examines all offenders. As You Like It, iv. 1.

Time is the stuff life is made of. Ben. Franklin.

Time is the wheel-track in which we roll on towards eternity. W. v. Humboldt.

Time is trouble and the author of destruction; he seizeth even from afar. Hitopadesa.

Time reposes on eternity; the truly great and 10 transcendental has its basis and substance in eternity; stands revealed to us as eternity in a vesture of time. Carlyle.

Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides: / Who cover faults, at last shame them derides. King Lear, i. 1.

Time, that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities. Colton.

Time the shuttle drives, but you / Give to every thread its hue, / And elect your destiny. W. H. Burleigh.

Time trieth truth. Pr.

Time was when a Christian used to apologise 15 for being happy. But the day has always been when he ought to apologise for being miserable. Prof. Drummond.

Time wasted is existence; used, is life. Young.

Time, when well husbanded, is like a cultivated field, of which a few acres produce more of what is useful to life, than extensive provinces, even of the richest soil, when overrun with weeds and brambles. Hume.

Time, which deadens hatred, secretly strengthens love; and in the hour of threatened separation its growth is manifested at once in radiant brightness. Jean Paul.

Time will discover everything to posterity; it is a babbler, and speaks even when no question is put. Euripides.

Time works great changes. Pr. 20

Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow; / Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. Byron.

Time's best gift to us is serenity. Bovee.

Time's noblest offspring is the last. Berkeley.

Time's the king of men; / He's both their parent and he is their grave, / And gives them what he will, not what they crave. Pericles, ii. 3.

Time's waters will not ebb nor stay; / Power 25 cannot change them, but Love may; / What cannot be, Love counts it done. Keble.

Timely advised, the coming evil shun; / Better not do the deed, than weep it done. Prior.

Timeo Danaos, et dona ferentes—I distrust the Greeks, even when they bring gifts. Virg.

Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. Colton.

Timet pudorem—He fears shame. M.

Timidi mater non flet—The mother of the coward 30 has no occasion to weep. Pr.

Timidus se vocat cautum, parcum sordidus—The coward calls himself cautious, the miser thrifty. Pub. Syr.

Timor Domini fons vitæ—The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life. M.

Tinsel reflects the sun, but warms nothing. Prof. Drummond.

Tired Nature's sweet restorer, balmy Sleep! / He, like the world, his ready visit pays / Where Fortune smiles; the wretched he forsakes: / Swift on his downy pinions flies from woe, / And lights on lids unsullied with a tear. Young.

Tirer le diable par la queue—To be in great 35 straits (lit. to pull the devil by the tail).

Tirer les marrons du feu avec la patte du chat—To make a cat's paw of any one (lit. to take the chestnuts from the fire with a cat's paw). La Fontaine.

Tirez le rideau; la farce est jouée—Draw the curtain; the farce is played out. Last words of Rabelais.

'Tis a consummation / Devoutly to be wished. Ham., iii. 1.

'Tis a cruelty / To load a falling man. Henry VIII., v. 2.

'Tis a folly to fret; grief's no comfort. Pr. 40

'Tis a good ill that comes alone. Pr.

'Tis a kind of good deed to say well: / And yet words are no deeds. Henry VIII., iii. 2.

'Tis a lucky day, boy, and we'll do good deeds on't. Winter's Tale, iii. 3.

'Tis a physic that's bitter to sweet end. Meas. for Meas., iv. 6.

'Tis a question whether adversity or prosperity 45 makes the most poets. Farquhar.

'Tis a vile thing to die ... / When men are unprepar'd and look not for it. Rich. III., iii. 2.

'Tis all one to be a witch as to be counted one. The Witch of Edmonton.

'Tis always a delightful thing to see the human understanding following its imprescriptible rights in spite of all hindrances, and hurrying eagerly towards the utmost possible agreement between ideas and objects. Goethe.

'Tis an economy of time to read old and famed books. Emerson.

'Tis an old maxim in the schools / That flattery's 50 the food of fools; / Yet now and then your men of wit / Will condescend to take a bit. Swift.

'Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud; / 'Tis virtue that doth make them most admired; / 'Tis government that makes them seem divine. 3 Hen. VI., i. 4.

'Tis better to be lowly born, / And range with humble livers in content, / Than to be perked up in a glistering grief, / And wear a golden sorrow. Hen. VIII., ii. 2.

'Tis better to cry over your goods than after them. Pr.

'Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all. Tennyson.

'Tis but a base, ignoble mind / That mounts no higher than a bird can soar. 2 Hen. VI., ii. 1.

'Tis but lame kindness that does its work by halves. Blair.

'Tis, by comparison, an easy task / Earth to despise; but to converse with heaven—/ This is not easy. Wordsworth.

'Tis certainly much easier for a man to restrain himself from talking at all, than to enter into discourse without saying more than becomes him. Thomas à Kempis.

'Tis day still while the sun shines. Pr. 5

'Tis death to me to be at enmity; / I hate it, and desire all good men's love. Rich. III., ii. 1.

'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, / And robes the mountain in its azure hue. Campbell.

'Tis education forms the common mind, / Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined. Pope.

'Tis ever common that men are merriest when they are from home. Hen. V., i. 2.

'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear; / 10 Heaven were not heaven if we knew what it were. Suckling.

'Tis God / Diffused through all that doth make all one whole. Coleridge.

'Tis heaven alone that is given away; / 'Tis only God may be had for the asking. Lowell.

'Tis impossible you should take true root, but by the fair weather that you make yourself; it is needful that you frame the season for your own harvest. Much Ado, i. 3.

'Tis, in fact, utter folly to ask whether a person has anything from himself, or whether he has it from others, whether he operates by himself, or operates by means of others. The main point is to have a great will, and skill and perseverance to carry it out. All else is indifferent. Goethe.

'Tis life itself to love. Goethe. 15

'Tis life reveals to each his genuine worth. Goethe.

'Tis little we can do for each other. Emerson.

'Tis long since death had the majority. Blair.

'Tis mad idolatry / To make the service greater than the god. Troil. and Cress., ii. 2.

'Tis my opinion 'tis necessary to be happy, 20 that we think no place more agreeable than that where we are. Lady Montagu.

'Tis my vocation, Hal; 'tis no sin for a man to labour in his vocation. 1 Hen. IV., i. 2.

'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, / But the joint force and full result of all. Pope.

'Tis not always necessary that truth should be embodied; it is sufficient if it hovers about in the spirit, producing harmony; if, like the chime of bells, it vibrates through the air solemnly and kindly. Goethe.

'Tis not enough to keep the feeble up, / But to support them after. Tim. of Athens, i. 1.

'Tis not enough when swarming faults are 25 writ, / That here and there are scatter'd sparks of wit. Dryden.

'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; / Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do. Pope.

'Tis not in mortals to command success, / But we'll do more, Sempronius—we'll deserve it. Addison.

'Tis not prudent, 'tis not well, to meet / With purposed misconception any man, / Let him be who he may. Goethe.

'Tis not so above: / There is no shuffling; there the action lies / In its true nature. Ham., iii. 3.

'Tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but 30 the excess. Selden.

'Tis not the whole of life to live, / Nor all of death to die. J. Montgomery.

'Tis not want, but rather abundance, that creates avarice. Montaigne.

'Tis not what man does which exalts him, but what man would do. Browning.

'Tis not worth while quarrelling with the world, simply to afford it some amusement. Goethe.

'Tis now the very witching time of night, / 35 When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out / Contagion to this world. Ham., iii. 2.

'Tis only humanity as a whole that perceives Nature, only men collectively that live the life of man. Goethe.

'Tis only in Rome one can duly prepare one's self for Rome. Goethe.

'Tis only in the forehead Nature plants the watchful eye; the back, without defence, must find its shield in man's fidelity. Schiller.

'Tis only noble to be good; / Kind hearts are more than coronets, / And simple faith than Norman blood. Tennyson.

'Tis only strict precision of thought that confers 40 facility of expression. Schiller.

'Tis only woman's womanly beauty that makes a true queen; wherever she appears, and by her mere presence, she asserts her sovereignty. Schiller.

'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print; / A book's a book, although there's nothing in't. Byron.

'Tis rashness to conclude affairs in a lost condition because some crosses have baulked your expectations. Thomas à Kempis.

'Tis said fantastic ocean doth unfold the likeness of whate'er on land is seen. Wordsworth.

'Tis said that virtue dwells sublime / On 45 rugged cliffs, full hard to climb; / ... But mortal ne'er her form may see, / Unless his restless energy / Breaks forth in sweat that gains the goal, / The perfect manhood of the soul. Simonides.

'Tis strange; / And oftentimes to win us to our harm, / The instruments of darkness tell us truths; / Win us with honest trifles, to betray 's, / In deepest consequence. Macb., i. 3.

'Tis sweet to hear of heroes dead, / To know them still alive, / But sweeter if we earn their bread, / And in us they survive. Thomson.

'Tis the curse of service; preferment goes by letter and affection, not by the old gradation where each second stood heir to the first. Othello, i. 1.

'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; / 'Tis heaven itself that points out an hereafter, / And intimates eternity to man. Addison.

'Tis the fate of the noblest soul to sigh vainly 50 for a reflection of itself. Goethe.

'Tis the fine souls who serve us, and not what is called fine society. Emerson.

'Tis the fulness of man that runs over into objects, and makes his Bibles and Shakespeares and Homers so great. Emerson.

'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences, or asides, hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear. Emerson.

'Tis the mind that makes the body rich; / And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, / So honour peereth in the meanest habit. Tam. of Shrew, iv. 3.

'Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises. 'Tis the vulgar great who come dizened with gold and jewels. Emerson.

'Tis the part of a poor spirit to undervalue 5 himself and blush. George Herbert.

'Tis the same to him who wears a shoe as if the whole earth were thatched with leather. Persian Pr.

'Tis the sublime of man, / Our noontide majesty, to know ourselves / Parts and proportions of one wondrous whole! / This fraternises man, this constitutes / Our charities and bearings. Coleridge.

'Tis this (religion), my friend, that streaks our morning bright. Thomson. (?)

'Tis too much proved that, with devotion's visage / And pious action, we do sugar o'er / The devil himself. Ham., iii. 1.

'Tis well for once to do everything one can do, 10 in order to have the merit of knowing one's self more intimately. Goethe.

'Tis well to be merry and wise, / 'Tis well to be honest and true; / 'Tis well to be off with the old love / Before you are on with the new. (?)

'Tis when sovereigns build, carters are kept employed. Schiller.

'Tis with our judgments as our watches; none / Go just alike, yet each believes his own. Pope.

Tit for tat is fair play. Pr.

Titles and mottoes to books are like escutcheons 15 and dignities in the hands of a king. The wise sometimes condescend to accept of them; but none but a fool would imagine them of any real importance. We ought to depend upon intrinsic merit, and not the slender helps of the title. Goldsmith.

Titles of honour add not to his worth who is himself an honour to his title. John Ford.

Titles of honour conferred upon such as have no personal merit are at best but the royal stamp set upon base metal. (?)

Titus, amor et deliciæ humani generis—Titus, the delight and darling of the human race. Suetonius.

To a child in confinement its mother's knee is a binding-post. Hitopadesa.

To a dog the choicest thing in the world is a 20 dog: to an ox, an ox; to an ass, an ass; and to a sow, a sow. Schopenhauer.

To a father waxing old nothing is dearer than a daughter. Euripides.

To a father, when his child dies, the future dies; to a child when his parents die, the past dies. Auerbach.

To a new truth nothing is more mischievous than an old error. Goethe.

To a poet nothing can be useless. Johnson.

To accuse a man of lying is as much as to say 25 he is brave towards God and a coward towards man. Montaigne.

To achieve great things a man must so live as if he had never to die. Vauvenargues.

To acquire certainty in the appreciation of things exactly as they are, and to know them in their due subordination, and in their proper relation to one another—this is really the highest enjoyment to which we ought to aspire, whether in the sphere of art, of nature, or of life. Goethe.

To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome. Goethe.

To act with a purpose is what raises man above the brutes; to invent with a purpose, to imitate with a purpose, is that which distinguishes genius from the petty artists who only invent to invent, and imitate to imitate. Lessing.

To adhere to what is set down in them, and 30 appropriate to one's self what one can for moral strengthening and culture, is the only edifying purpose to which we can turn the Gospels. Goethe.

To affect a quality is just to confess that you have not got it. Schopenhauer.

To aim at excellence, our reputation, our friends, and our all must be ventured; by aiming only at mediocrity, we run no risk and we do little service. Goldsmith.

To an ill-conditioned being all pleasure is like delicate wine in a mouth embittered with gall. Schopenhauer.

To answer a question so as to admit of no reply, is the test of a man. Emerson.

To appear well-bred, a man must actually be 35 so. Goethe.

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us. Goethe.

To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct, either by the censures of the one or the admonitions of the other. Diogenes.

To attack vices in the abstract without touching persons, may be safe fighting indeed, but it is fighting with shadows. Junius.

To banish care, scare away sorrow, and soothe pain is the business of the poet, or singer (Sänger). Bodenstedt.

To be a good poet and painter genius is required, 40 and this cannot be communicated. Goethe.

To be a man's own fool is bad enough; but the vain man is everybody's. William Penn.

To be a philosopher is but a retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's. Cowley.

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live, according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically. Thoreau.

To be a poet is to have a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge. George Eliot.

To be able simply to say of a man he has character, is not only saying much of him, but extolling him; for this is a rarity which excites respect and wonder. Goethe.

To be able to be silent shows power; to be willing to be silent shows forbearance (Nachsicht); to be compelled to be silent shows the spirit of the time. Weber.

To be acquainted with the merit of a Ministry, we need only observe the condition of the people. Junius.

To be always lamenting and always complaining without raising and nerving one's self to resignation, is to lose at once both earth and heaven, and have nothing over but a watery sentimentalism. Schopenhauer.

To be always thinking about your manners is 5 not the way to make them good; because the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself. Whately.

To be an enthusiast is to be the worthiest of affection, the noblest and the best that a mortal can be. Wieland.

To be angry is to avenge the faults of others upon ourselves. Pope.

To be as good as our fathers, we must be better. Imitation is not discipleship. When some one sent a cracked plate to China to have a set made, every piece in the new set had a crack in it. Wendell Phillips.

To be bodily tranquil, to speak little, and to digest without effort are absolutely necessary to grandeur of mind or of presence, or to proper development of genius. Balzac.

To be born in a duck's nest in a farmyard is of 10 no consequence to a bird if it is hatched from a swan's egg. Hans Andersen.

To be born with a silver spoon in the mouth. Pr.

To be borne seems to many ever more kingly than to bear; and a ship carried with the breeze is, in their eyes, a lordlier spectacle than when it stands against it, victoriously braving it. Ed.

To be disobedient through temptation is human sin; but to be disobedient for the sake of disobedience, fiendish sin. To be obedient for the sake of success in conduct is human virtue; to be obedient for the sake of obedience, angelic virtue. Ruskin.

To be ever beloved, one must be ever agreeable. Lady Montagu.

To be free is not to do nothing, but to be the 15 sole arbiter of what we do and what we leave undone. La Bruyère.

To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue. Hannah More.

To be great is to be misunderstood. Emerson.

To be great one must be positive, and gain strength through foes. Donn Piatt.

To be guided in the right path by those who know better than they is the first "right of man," compared with which all other rights are as nothing. Carlyle.

To be happy is not the purpose of our being, 20 but to deserve happiness. Fichte.

To be happy means to be sufficient for one's self. Arist.

To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand. Ham., ii. 2.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches; and therefore every man endeavours with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself. Johnson.

To be ill thought of is sometimes for thy good, ... if thou seek not thy own glory, but His that sent thee, the affliction will not be very grievous to be borne. Thomas à Kempis.

To be in too great a hurry to discharge an 25 obligation is itself a kind of ingratitude. La Roche.

To be introduced into a decent company, there is need of a dress cut according to the taste of the public to which one wishes to present one's self. Goethe.

To be magnanimous—mighty of heart, mighty of mind—is to be great in life; to become this increasingly is to "advance in life." Ruskin.

To be mindful of an absent friend in the hours of mirth and feasting, when his company is least wanted, shows no slight degree of sincerity. Goldsmith.

To be misunderstood is the cross and bitterness of life. Amiel.

To be obliged to wear black, and buy it into 30 the bargain, is more than my tranquillity of temper can bear. Goldsmith.

To be once in doubt is once to be resolved. Othello, iii. 3.

To be, or not to be, that is the question; / Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer / The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, / Or to take up arms against a sea of troubles, / And, by opposing, end them. Ham., iii. 1.

To be perfectly just, is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities is the glory of man. (?)

To be poor, and to seem poor, is a certain method never to rise. Goldsmith.

To be prepared for war is one of the most 35 effectual means of preserving peace. Washington.

To be provoked with every slanderous word argues a littleness of soul, a want of due regard to God. Thomas à Kempis.

To be rich is to have a ticket of admission to the master-works and chief men of each race. Emerson.

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. Holmes.

To be spiritually minded is life and peace. Paul.

To be thus is nothing; / But to be safely thus. 40 Macb., iii. 1.

To be true in heart and just in act are the first qualities necessary for the elevation of humanity. Froude.

To be vain is rather a mark of humility than pride. Swift.

To be vain of one's rank or place is to disclose that one is below it. Stanislaus.

To be weak is miserable, / Doing or suffering. Milton.

To be wholly loved with the whole heart, one 45 must be suffering. Heine.

To be wise and love exceeds man's might. Troil. and Cress., iii. 2.

To be without a servant in this world is not good; but to be without a master, it appears, is a still fataller predicament for some. Carlyle.

To be without passion is worse than a beast; to be without reason is to be less than a man. A. Warwick.

To be wroth with one we love, / Doth work like madness in the brain. Coleridge.

To be young is to be as one of the immortals. Hazlitt.

To bear is to conquer our fate. Campbell. 5

To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it and disputed against it. Novalis.

To beguile the time, / Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye, / Your hand, your tongue; look like the innocent flower, / But be the serpent under 't. Macb., i. 5.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men—that is genius. Emerson.

To blow is not to play the flute; you must move the fingers as well. Goethe.

To breed a fresh soul, is it not like brooding a 10 fresh (celestial) egg, wherein as yet all is formless, powerless? Yet by degrees organic elements and fibres shoot through the watery albumen; out of vague sensation grows thought, grows fantasy and force, and we have philosophies, dynasties, nay, poetries and religions. Carlyle.

To bring nations to surrender themselves to new ideas is not the affair of a day. Draper.

To bring the generality of admirers on our side, it is sufficient to attempt pleasing a very few. Goldsmith.

To business that we love we rise betime, / And go to 't with delight. Ant. and Cleop., iv. 4.

To call a man ungrateful is to sum up all the evil he can be guilty of. Swift.

To carry on the feelings of childhood into the 15 powers of manhood, to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances which every day, for perhaps forty years, has rendered familiar; this is the character and privilege of genius, and one of the marks which distinguish genius from talent. Coleridge.

To cast away a virtuous friend is as bad as to cast away one's own life, which one loves best. Sophocles.

To catch dame Fortune's golden smile, / Assiduous wait upon her; / And gather gear by ev'ry wile / That's justified by honour; / Not for to hide it in a hedge, / Nor for a train attendant, / But for the glorious privilege / Of being independent. Burns.

To circumstances and custom the law must yield. Dan. Pr.

To climb a tree to catch a fish is talking much and doing nothing. Chinese Pr.

To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first. 20 Hen. VIII., i. 1.

To confess Christ is, first, to believe righteously, truthfully, and continently; and, then, to separate ourselves from those who are manifestly or by profession rogues, liars, and fornicators. Ruskin.

To conquer inclination is difficult, but if habit, taking root, gradually associates itself with it, then it is unconquerable. Goethe.

To conquer without danger would be to conquer without glory. Corneille.

To consume your own choler, as some chimneys consume their own smoke; to keep a whole Satanic school spouting, if it must spout, inaudibly, is a negative yet no slight virtue, nor one of the commonest in these times. Carlyle.

To corporeal beings unthought-of troubles 25 arise; so, in like manner, do blessings make their appearance. In this, I think Providence hath extended them farther than usual. Hitopadesa.

To dance attendance on their lordships' pleasures. Hen. VIII., v. 2.

To-day comes only once, and never again returns. Schopenhauer.

To-day is a king in disguise. Emerson.

To-day is ours, we have it here, ... / To the gods belong to-morrow. Cowley.

To-day must not borrow of to-morrow. Ger. Pr. 30

To deny is easy; nothing is sooner learned or more generally practised. As matters go, we need no man of polish to teach it; but rather, if possible, a hundred men of wisdom to show us its limits and teach us its reverse. Carlyle.

To depersonalise man is the dominant drift of our epoch. Amiel.

To despise our own species is the price we must too often pay for a knowledge of it. Colton.

To die for truth is not to die for one's country but to die for the world. Jean Paul.

To die is landing on some silent shore, / Where 35 billows never break nor tempests roar. S. Garth.

To die, to sleep; / No more; and by a sleep to say we end / The heartache and the thousand natural shocks / That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation / Devoutly to be wished. Ham., iii. 1.

To die, to sleep; / No more! perchance to dream; ay, there's the rub; / For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, / When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, / Must give us pause. Ham., iii. 1.

To do as much good and as little evil as we can is the brief and intelligible principle that comprehends all subordinate maxims. R. Sharp.

To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. Amiel.

To do good to the ungrateful is to throw rosewater 40 into the sea. Pr.

To do him any wrong was to beget / A kindness from him, for his heart was rich, / Of such fine mould, that if you sow'd therein / The seed of Hate, it blossom'd Charity. Tennyson.

To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice. Bible.

To do no evil is good; to intend none is better. Claudius.

To do nothing by halves is the way of noble minds. Wieland.

To do, one must be doing. Fr. Pr. 45

To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius. Amiel.

To doubt is to dip love in the mire. J. M. Barrie.

To draw a long bow, i.e., exaggerate. Pr.

To dread no eye, and to suspect no tongue, is the greatest prerogative of innocence; an exemption granted only to invariable virtue. Johnson.

To dwell alone is the fate of all great souls. Schopenhauer.

To each nation its believed history is its Bible. Carlyle.

To eat or drink too much, to play too much, 5 to work too much, or to grumble too much—all these are equally pernicious. John Wagstaffe.

To educate the intelligence is to enlarge the horizon of its desires and wants. Lowell.

To educate the wise man, the State exists; and with the appearance of the wise man, the State expires. The wise man is the State. Emerson.

To elevate above the spirit of the age must be regarded as the end of education. Jean Paul.

To endeavour all one's days to fortify our minds with learning and philosophy is to spend so much in armour that one has nothing left to defend. (?)

To endeavour to work upon the vulgar with 10 fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor. Pope.

To endure is the first and most necessary lesson a child has to learn. Rousseau.

To equal a predecessor, one must have twice his worth. Gracian.

To err is human, to forgive divine. Pope.

To escape from arrangements that tortured me, my heart sought refuge in the world of ideas, when as yet I was unacquainted with the world of realities, from which iron bars excluded me. Schiller at his training-school.

To every deep there is a deeper still. Pr. 15

To everything there is a season. Bible.

To excite a fierce dog to capture a lame rabbit is to attack a contemptible enemy. Chinese Pr.

To expect an author to talk as he writes is ridiculous: or even if he did, you would find fault with him as a pedant. Hazlitt.

To express the most difficult matters clearly, and everything intelligibly, is to strike coins out of pure gold. Geibel.

To fail at all is to fail utterly. Lowell. 20

To fear is easy, but grievous; to reverence is difficult, but satisfactory. Goethe.

To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength, / Gives, in your weakness, strength unto your foe. Rich. II., iii. 2.

To feel and respect a great personality, one must be something one's self. Goethe.

To fight and die is death destroying death; / Where fearing dying, pays death servile breath. Rich. II., iii. 2.

To fight with its neighbours never was, and is 25 now less than ever, the real trade of England. Carlyle.

To fill the hour, that is happiness. Emerson.

To find out your real opinion of any one, observe the impression made upon you by the first sight of a letter from him. Schopenhauer.

To find recreation in amusement is not happiness. Pascal.

To fix a child's attention on what is present, to give him a description of a name, is the best thing we can do for him. Goethe.

To forget a wrong is the best revenge. It. Pr. 30

To forgive and forget is to throw away dearly-bought experience. Schopenhauer.

To form a poet, the heart must be full to overflowing of noble feeling. Goethe.

To free a man from error is to give, and not to take away. Schopenhauer.

To gain what is fit ye're able, / If ye in faith can but excel; / Such are the myths of fable, / If ye have observed them well. Goethe.

To gather riches do not hazard health; / For, 35 truth to say, health is the wealth of wealth. Sir Richard Baker.

To genius irregularity is incident, and the greatest genius is often marked by eccentricity, as if it disdained to move in the vulgar orbit. Brougham.

To genius life never grows commonplace. Lowell.

To get general ideas first and make particular observations last is to invert the process of education. Schopenhauer.

To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, / To throw a perfume on the violet, / To smooth the ice, or add another hue / Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light / To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, / Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. King John, iii. 1.

To give alms is nothing unless you give 40 thought also, and therefore it is written, not "Blessed is he that feedeth the poor," but "Blessed is he that considereth the poor." Ruskin.

To give should be our pleasure, but to receive our shame. Goldsmith.

To give the world more than it gives us, to love it more than it loves us, and never to make suit for its applause, ensures a peaceful life and a happy departure. Bodenstedt.

To give to the human mind a direction which it shall retain for ages is the rare prerogative of a few imperial spirits. Macaulay.

To go back is easy, if we have missed our way on the road uphill; it is impossible only when the road is downhill. Froude.

To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to 45 outrage humanity. Pascal.

To God belongeth the east and the west; therefore, whithersoever ye turn yourselves to pray, there is the word of God, for God is omnipresent and omniscient. Koran.

To govern men, you must either excel them in their accomplishments or despise them. Disraeli.

To grasp, to seize, is the essence of all mastery. Goethe.

To great evils one must oppose great virtues; and also to small, which is the harder task of the two. Carlyle.

To guard from error is not the instructor's 50 business; but to lead the erring pupil. Goethe.

To guide scoundrels by love is a method that will not hold together; hardly for the flower of men will love do; and for the sediment and scoundrelism of them it has not even a chance to do. Carlyle.

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; and to have a deference for others governs our manners. Sterne.

To have all one's wants satisfied is something intolerable. Schopenhauer.

To have any chance of lasting, a book must satisfy, not merely some fleeting fancy of the day, but a constant longing and hunger of human nature. Lowell.

To have ascertained what is ascertainable, and calmly to reverence what is not, is the fairest portion that can fall to a thinking man. Goethe.

To have done anything by which you earned 5 money merely is to have been truly idle, or worse. Thoreau.

To have done, is to hang / Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail, / In monumental mockery. Troil. and Cres., iii. 3.

To have gold is to be in fear, and to want it to be in sorrow. Johnson.

To have heard the voice / Of Godhead in the winds and in the seas, / To have known him in the circling of the suns, / And in the changeful fates and lives of men. Lewis Morris.

To have ideas is to gather flowers; to think is to weave them into garlands. Mme. Swetchine.

To have neither superior, nor inferior, nor 10 equal, united manlike to you; without father, without child, without brother,—man knows no sadder destiny. Carlyle.

To have no assistance from other minds in resolving doubts, in appeasing scruples, in balancing deliberations, is a very wretched destitution. Johnson.

To have no pain, and not be bored, is the utmost happiness possible to man on earth. Schopenhauer.

To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter or musician, is a possession added to the best things of life. Swinburne.

To have religion upon authority, and not upon conviction, is like a finger-watch, to be set forwards or backwards, as he pleases that has it in keeping. William Penn.

To have the fear of God before our eyes, and, 15 in our mutual dealings with each other, to govern our actions by the eternal measures of right and wrong; the first of these will comprehend the duties of religion; the second, those of morality. Sterne.

To have the gift of life and bread to sustain it with can never suffice as a substitute for the ministry and service which the life itself is given us that we may fulfil. To find and work out this is man's only satisfaction and true reward. Ed.

To hear complaints is wearisome alike to the wretched and the happy. Johnson.

To Him no high, no low, no great, no small; / He fills, He bounds, connects and equals all. Pope.

To him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin. St. James.

To his (the host's) imagination all things travel 20 save his sign-post and himself. Thoreau.

To hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature. Ham., iii. 2.

To holy tears, / In lonely hours, Christ risen appears; / In social hours, who Christ would see / Must turn all tasks to charity. Keble.

To imitate the style of another is said to be wearing a mask. However beautiful it may be, it is through its lifelessness insipid and intolerable, so that even the most ugly living face is more engaging. Schopenhauer.

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life. Johnson.

To judge by the event is an error all abuse 25 and all commit; for in every instance, courage, if crowned with success, is heroism; if clouded by defeat, temerity. Colton.

To judge is to see clearly, to care for what is just. Amiel.

To keep the wolf from the door. Pr.

To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us,—when we succeed, it betrays us. Colton.

To know by rote is no knowledge; it is only to retain in the memory what is entrusted to it. Montaigne.

To know evil of others and not speak it, is 30 sometimes discretion; to speak evil of others and not know it, is always dishonesty. He may be evil himself who speaks good of others upon knowledge, but he can never be good himself who speaks evil of others upon suspicion. Arthur Warwick.

To know how to dissemble is the knowledge of kings. Richelieu.

To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. Amiel.

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. Amiel.

To know how to wait is the great secret of success. De Maistre.

To know life we must detach ourselves from 35 life. Feuerbach.

To know my deed, 'twere best not know myself. Macb., ii. 2.

To know of some one here and there with whom we accord, who is living on with us even in silence, this makes our earthly ball a peopled garden. Goethe.

To know one profession only, is enough for one man to know. Goldsmith.

To know / That which before us lies in daily life, / Is the prime wisdom. Milton.

To know the divine laws and inner harmonies 40 of this universe must always be the highest glory for a man; and not to know them always the highest disgrace for a man, however common it be. Carlyle.

To know the true opinions of men, one ought to pay more respect to their actions than their words. Descartes.

To know the world, a modern phrase! a modern phrase / For visits, ombre, balls, and plays. Swift.

To know, to esteem, to love, and then to part, / Makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart. Coleridge.

To know; to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic act, of which the best logics can only babble on the surface. Carlyle.

To know what is useful and what useless, and to be skilful to provide the one and wise to scorn the other, is the first need for all industrious men. Ruskin.

To lament the past is vain; what remains is to look for hope in futurity. Johnson.

To lapse in fulness / Is sorer than to lie for need; and falsehood / Is worse in kings than beggars. Cymbeline, iii. 6.

To learn obeying is the fundamental art of governing. Carlyle.

To live by one man's will became the cause of 5 all men's misery. Hooker.

To live happily only means to live tolerably. Schopenhauer.

To live in hearts we leave behind / Is not to die. Campbell.

To live is not to breathe; it is to act. Rousseau.

To live is to achieve a perpetual triumph. Amiel.

To live long is to outlive much. Goethe. 10

To look at things as well as we can, to inscribe them in our memory, to be observant, and let no day pass without gathering something; then to apply one's self to those branches of knowledge which give the mind a sure direction, to apportion everything its place, to assign to everything its value (in my opinion a genuine philosophy and a fundamental mathesis), this is what we have now to do. Goethe.

To lose one's self in revery, one must be either very happy or very unhappy. Revery is the child of extreme. Rivarol.

To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. Sydney Smith.

To love all mankind, from the greatest to the lowest, a cheerful state of being is required; but in order to see into mankind, into life, and still more into ourselves, suffering is requisite. Jean Paul.

To love early and marry late is to hear a lark 15 singing at dawn, and at night to eat it roasted for supper. Jean Paul.

To love is to be useful to yourself; to cause love is to be useful to others. Béranger.

To maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship, but a pastime, if we would live simply and wisely. Thoreau.

To mak' a happy fireside clime / To weans and wife, / That's the true pathos and sublime / O' human life. Burns.

To make a boy despise his mother's care is the straightest way to make him also despise his Redeemer's voice; and to make him scorn his father and his father's house, the straightest way to make him deny his God and his God's heaven. Ruskin.

To make elaborate preparations for life is one 20 of the greatest and commonest of human follies. Schopenhauer.

To make proselytes is the natural ambition of every one. Goethe.

To make some nook of God's creation a little fruitfuller, better, more worthy of God; to make some human hearts a little wiser, manfuller, happier, more blessed, less accursed! It is work for a God. Carlyle.

To make the common marvellous, as if it were a revelation, is the test of genius. Lowell.

To man, in this his trial state, / The privilege is given, / When tost by tides of human fate, / To anchor fast in heaven. Watts.

To me more dear, congenial to my heart, / One 25 native charm, than all the gloss of art. Goldsmith.

To me the eternal existence of my soul is proved from my idea of activity. If I work incessantly until my death, nature will give me another form of existence when the present can no longer sustain my spirit. Goethe.

To me the meanest flower that blows can give / Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. Wordsworth.

To men we can give no help, and they hinder us from helping ourselves. Jarno, in Goethe's "Wilhelm Meister."

To misconstrue a good thing is a treble wrong—to myself, the action, and the author. Bp. Hall.

To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, / 30 Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, / To the last syllable of recorded time; / And all our yesterdays have lighted fools / To dusty death. Macb., v. 5.

To-morrow is a satire on to-day, and shows its weakness. Young.

"To-morrow, to-morrow, only not to-day," lazy people always say. C. F. Weisse.

To-morrow will I live, the fool does say: / To-day itself's too late; the wise lived yesterday. Cowley.

To-morrow you will live, you always cry; / In what far country does this morrow lie? Cowley.

To most men experience is like the stern 35 lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed. Coleridge.

To mourn a mischief that is past and gone, / Is the next way to draw new mischief on. Othello, i. 3.

To no man does Fortune throw open all the kingdoms of this world, and say: It is thine; choose where thou wilt dwell! To the most she opens hardly the smallest cranny or dog-hutch, and says, not without asperity: There, that is thine while thou canst keep it; nestle thyself there, and bless Heaven! Carlyle.

To no man, whatever his station in life, or his power to serve me, have I ever paid a compliment at the expense of truth. Burns.

To nurse the flowers, to root up the weeds, is the business of the gardener. Bodenstedt.

To obey is the best grace of woman. Lewis 40 Morris.

To one thing at one time. Chancellor Thurlow.

To open your windows be ever your care. Pr.

To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence. Schopenhauer.

To overcome evil with good is good, to resist evil by evil is evil. Mahomet.

To pass through a bustling crowd with its restless 45 excitement is strange but salutary. All go crossing and recrossing one another, and yet each finds his way and his object. In so great a crowd and bustle one feels himself perfectly calm and solitary. Goethe.

To persevere / In obstinate condolement, is a course / Of impious stubbornness; 'tis unmanly grief: / It shows a will most incorrect to heaven. Ham., i. 2.

To persevere in one's duty and to be silent is the best answer to calumny. Washington.

To place wit before good sense is to place the superfluous before the necessary. M. de Montlosier.

To plough and sow, to reap and mow, my father bred me early, / For one, he said, to labour bred, was a match for fortune fairly. Burns.

To popular religion, the real kingdom of God is the New Jerusalem with its jaspers and emeralds; righteousness and peace and joy are only the kingdom of God figuratively. Matthew Arnold.

To pour oil on the fire is not the way to quench 5 it. Pr.

To prefer one future mode of life to another, upon just reasons, requires faculties which it has not pleased our Creator to give us. Johnson.

To promise is already to give, to hope already to enjoy. Delille.

To prove, as to doubt, the existence of God, is to prove or doubt the existence of existence. Jean Paul.

To put the cart before the horse. Pr.

To raise the weaker sex in self-respect, as 10 well as in the esteem of the stronger, is the first step from barbarism to civilisation. Canning.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. Burke.

To receive a simple primitive phenomenon, to recognise it in its high significance, and to go to work with it, requires a productive spirit, which is able to take a wide survey, and is a rare gift, only to be found in very superior natures. Goethe.

To receive gifts is to lose liberty. Saadi.

To reconcile despotism with freedom is to make your despotism just. Carlyle.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise 15 man will undertake; and all but foolish men know that the only solid, though a far slower, reformation, is what each man begins and perfects on himself. Carlyle.

To reign is worth ambition, though in hell; / Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n. Milton.

To rejoice in the prosperity of another is to partake of it. William Austin.

To remember one worthy thing, how many thousand unworthy must a man be able to forget! Carlyle.

To repel one's cross is to make it heavier. Amiel.

To require two things is the way to have them 20 both undone. Johnson.

To rescue, to avenge, to instruct, or protect a woman is all the same as to love her. Jean Paul.

To revenge is no valour, but to bear. Timon of Athens, iii. 5.

To run away / Is but a coward's trick; to run away / From this world's ills, that at the very worst / Will soon blow o'er. Blair.

To say of a man "He means well," is worth nothing except he does well. Plaut.

To say that we have a clear conscience is to 25 utter a solecism; had we never sinned, we would have had no conscience. Carlyle.

To scorn delights and live laborious days. Milton.

To secure and promote the feeling of cheerfulness should be the supreme aim of all our endeavours after happiness. Schopenhauer.

To see a world in a grain of sand / And a heaven in a wild flower, / Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, / And eternity in an hour. Wm. Blake.

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness. Confucius.

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion—all 30 in one. Ruskin.

To see her is to love her, / And love but her for ever. Burns.

To see some small soul pirouetting throughout life on a single text, and judging all the world because it cannot find a partner, is not a Christian sight. Prof. Drummond.

To see the best is to see most clearly, and it is the lover's privilege. J. M. Barrie.

To seek to change opinions by laws is worse than futile. Buckle.

To seem and not to be, is throwing the shuttle 35 without weaving. Pr.

To seize a character, even that of one man, in its life and secret mechanism, requires a philosopher; to delineate it with truth and impressiveness, is work for a poet. Carlyle.

To serve from the lowest station upwards (von unten hinauf) is in all things necessary. Goethe.

To serve God and love him is higher and better than happiness, though it be with wounded feet, and bleeding brow, and a heart loaded with sorrow. W. R. Greg.

To shape the whole future is not our problem; but only to shape faithfully a small part of it, according to rules laid down. Carlyle.

To shoot wide of the mark, i.e., guess foolishly 40 when you don't know. Pr.

To show mercy is nothing—thy soul must be full of mercy; to be pure in act is nothing—thou shalt be pure in heart also. Ruskin.

To sigh, yet feel no pain; / To weep, yet scarce know why; / To sport an hour with beauty's charm, / Then throw it idly by. Moore.

To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent. Crabbe.

To simplify complications is, in all branches of knowledge, the first essential of success. Buckle.

To sow is not so difficult as to reap. Goethe. 45

To spend much and gain little is the sure road to ruin. Ger. Pr.

To spend too much time in studies is sloth. Bacon.

To spur a free horse soon makes a jade of him. Sterne.

To step aside is human. Burns.

To strain at a gnat and swallow a camel. Pr. 50

To strive to get rid of an evil is to aim at something definite, but to desire a better fortune than we have is blind folly. Goethe.

To study nature or man, we ought to know things that are in the ordinary course, not the unaccountable things that happen out of it. Fisher Ames.

To succeed in the world it is much more necessary to be able to diagnose a fool than a clever man. Cato.

To talk without effort is, after all, the great charm of talking. Hare.

To taste of human flesh is less criminal in the eyes of God than to stifle human thought. Draper.

To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection; it is plunder, and I disclaim it. Disraeli.

To tell our own secrets is generally folly, but that folly is without guilt; to communicate those with which we are intrusted is always treachery, and treachery for the most part combined with folly. Johnson.

To the capable man this world is not dumb. 5 Goethe.

To the exiled wanderer how godlike / The friendly countenance of man appears. Goethe.

To the Hindu the world is the dream of Brahma. Amiel.

To the innocent, deliverance and reparation; to the misled, compassion; and to the guilty, avenging justice. Goethe.

To the man of firm purpose all men and things are servile. Goethe.

To the minnow every cranny and pebble, and 10 quality and accident, of its little native creek may have become familiar; but does the minnow understand the ocean tides and periodic currents, the trade-winds, and monsoons, and moon's eclipses; by all of which the condition of its little creek is regulated, and may (from time to time, unmiraculously enough) be quite overset and reversed? Such a minnow is man; his creek, this planet earth; his ocean, the immeasurable All; his monsoons and periodic currents, the mysterious course of Providence through æons of æons. Carlyle.

To the noble mind / Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. Ham., iii. 1.

To the persevering mortal the blessed immortals are swift. Zoroaster.

To the strictly just and virtuous person everything is annexed. Hitopadesa.

To the understanding of anything, two conditions are equally required—intelligibility in the thing itself being no whit more indispensable than intelligence in the examiner of it. Carlyle.

To the unregenerate Prometheus Vinctus of 15 a man, it is ever the bitterest aggravation of his wretchedness that he is conscious of virtue, that he feels himself the victim not of suffering only, but of injustice. Carlyle.

To the vulgar eye few things are wonderful that are not distant. It is difficult for men to believe that the man, the mere man whom they see, may perhaps painfully feel, toiling at their side through the poor jostlings of existence, can be made of finer clay than themselves. Carlyle.

To the wisest man, wide as is his vision, Nature remains of quite infinite depth, of quite infinite expansion; and all experience thereof limits itself to some few computed centuries and measured square miles. Carlyle.

To the "Worship of sorrow" (Goethe's definition of Christianity) ascribe what origin and genesis thou pleasest, has not that worship originated and been generated? Is it not here? Feel it in thy heart, and then say whether it is of God! Carlyle.

To think and to feel constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius—the men of reasoning and the men of imagination. I. Disraeli.

To think aright is the sum of human duty. 20 Pascal.

To think is to act. Emerson.

To this burden women are born; they must obey their husbands, be they never such blockheads. Cervantes.

To those by whom liberality is practised, the whole world is but as one family. Hitopadesa.

To those that have lived long together, everything heard and everything seen recalls some pleasure communicated or some benefit conferred, some petty quarrel or some slight endearment. Johnson.

To those to whom we owe affection, let us be 25 dumb until we are strong, though we should never be strong. Emerson.

To those who are fallen into misfortunes, what was a blessing becometh an evil. Hitopadesa.

To those whose god is honour, disgrace alone is sin. Hare.

To threats the stubborn sinner oft is hard, / Wrapp'd in his crimes, against the storm prepared; / But, when the milder beams of mercy play, / He melts, and throws his cumbrous cloak away. Dryden.

To toy with human hearts is more than human hearts will brook. Dr. W. Smith.

To tread upon the brink is safe, but to come a 30 step further is destruction. Johnson.

To try things oft, and never to give over, doth wonders. Bacon.

To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves. Goethe.

To understand that the sky is blue everywhere, we need not go round the world. Goethe.

To understand the serious side of things requires a matured faculty; the ridiculous is caught more easily. Froude.

To understand things we must once have been 35 in them, and then have come out of them. Amiel.

To unpractised eyes, a Peak of Teneriffe, nay, a Strasburg Minster, when we stand on it, may seem higher than a Chimborazo; because the former rise abruptly, without abutement or environment; the latter rises gradually, carrying half a world along with it; and only the deeper azure of the heavens, the widened horizon, the "eternal sunshine," disclose to the geographer that the "region of change" lies far below. Carlyle.

To use books rightly is to go to them for help. Ruskin.

To use studies too much for ornament is affectation. Bacon.

To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery. Ouida.

To wail friends lost / Is not by much so wholesome, 40 profitable, / As to rejoice at friends but newly found. Love's L. Lost, v. 2.

To wed unequally is to suffer equally. Anon.

To what base uses we may return, Horatio! Ham., v. 1.

To what excesses men go for a religion of whose truth they are so little persuaded, and to whose precepts they pay so little regard. La Bruyère.

To what they know best entice all neatly; / For so thou dost thyself and him a pleasure. George Herbert.

To whom is the mere glare of the fire a virtue? Hitopadesa.

To wilful men / The injuries that they themselves procure / Must be their schoolmasters. King Lear, ii. 4.

To work without money, and be poor; to work without pleasure, and be chaste; to work according to orders, and be obedient. Rules of the Order of St. Francis.

To write a good love-letter, you ought to begin 5 without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written. Rousseau.

To write down to children's understandings is a mistake; set them on the scent and let them puzzle it out. Scott.

To write prose, one must have something to say, but he who has nothing to say can still make verses. Goethe.

To write well is to think well, to feel well, and to render well; it is to possess at once intellect, soul, and taste. Buffon.

To write what is worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and get sensible men to read it, are the three great difficulties in authorship. Colton.

To yield my breath, / Life's purpose unfulfilled! 10 this is thy sting, O Death. Sir Noel Paton.

To yourself be critic most severe. Dryden.

Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do. Emerson.

Tocher's nae word in a true lover's parle. Burns.

Todte Hunde beissen nicht—Dead dogs don't bite. Ger. Pr.

[Greek: to êthos ethos esti polychronion]—Character is 15 simply prolonged habit. Plutarch.

Toga virilis—The manly robe.

[Greek: to gar trephon me, tout' egô krinô theon]—What maintains me in life, that I regard as God. (?)

[Greek: to gar perissa prassein ouk echei noun oudena]—Doing more than one is able for argues a want of intelligence. (?)

Toil is polish'd man's vocation; / Praises are the meed of skill; / Kings may vaunt their crown and station, / We will vaunt our labour still. Mangan

Toil on, faint not, keep watch, and pray. Bonar. 20

Toils of empires pleasures are. Waller.

[Greek: to kalon]—The beautiful.

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none. Burke.

Tolle jocos; non est jocus esse malignum—Away with such jokes; there is no joking where there is malignity.

Tolle periclum, / Jam vaga prosiliet frænis 25 natura remotis—Take away the danger, remove restraint, and vagrant nature bounds forth free. Hor.

Tombs are the clothes of the dead—a grave but a plain suit, and a rich monument one embroidered. Fuller.

[Greek: ton gar ouk onta hapas eiôthen epainein]—All are wont to praise him who is no more. Thucydides.

[Greek: ton tethnêkota mê kakologein]—Speak not evil of the dead. Chilon.

[Greek: to holon]—The whole.

Too austere a philosophy makes few wise men; 30 too rigorous politics, few good subjects; and too hard a religion, few religious persons whose devotion is of long continuance. St. Evremond.

Too early and too thoroughly we cannot be trained to know that Would, in this world of ours, is as mere zero to Should, and, for most part, the smallest of fractions to Shall. Carlyle.

Too elevated qualities often unfit a man for society. Chamfort.

Too fair to worship, too divine to love. Milman.

Too low they build who build beneath the stars. Young.

Too many cooks spoil the broth. Pr. 35

Too many instances there are of daring men, who by presuming to sound the deep things of religion, have cavilled and argued themselves out of all religion. Thomas à Kempis.

Too much gravity argues a shallow mind. Lavater.

Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man's time much more completely, and leaves him less his own master, than any sort of employment whatsoever. Burke.