DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS. (continued 31)

Virtue is free-will to choose the good, not 5 tool-usefulness to forge at the expedient. Carlyle.

Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasures; but they who cultivate it for the pleasure's sake are selfish, not religions, and will never have the pleasure, because they never can have the virtue. Newman.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. Bacon.

Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed. Bacon.

Virtue is necessary to a republic. Montesquieu.

Virtue is not a knowing, but a willing. Zachariä. 10

Virtue is safe only when it is inspired. C. H. Parkhurst.

Virtue is the adherence in action to the nature of things, and the nature of things makes it prevalent. It consists in a perpetual substitution of being for seeming, and with sublime propriety God is described as saying, I AM. Emerson.

Virtue is the fount whence honour springs. Marlowe.

Virtue is the health of the soul; it gives a flavour to the smallest leaves of life. Joubert.

Virtue is the queen of labourers. Pr. 15

Virtue itself offends when coupled with forbidding manners. Bp. Middleton.

Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, / And vice sometime's by action dignified. Rom. and Jul., ii. 3.

Virtue, like a plant, will not grow unless its root be hidden, buried from the eye of the sun. Let the sun shine on it, nay, do but look at it privily thyself, the root withers, and no flower will glad thee. Carlyle.

Virtue, like a strong and hardy plant, will root when it can find an ingenuous nature and a mind not averse to labour. Plutarch.

Virtue, like health, is the harmony of the whole 20 man. Carlyle.

Virtue may be stern, but never cruel, never inhuman. Schiller.

Virtue, not misery, is the appointed road to heaven. W. R. Greg.

Virtue often trips and falls on the sharp-edged rocks of poverty. Eugene Sue.

Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it. Saadi.

Virtue repulsed, yet knows not to repine, / 25 But shall with unattainted honour shine. Swift.

Virtue should be considered as a part of taste, and we should as much avoid deceit or sinister meanings in discourse as we would puns, bad language, or false grammar. (?)

Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen. Dickens.

Virtue that goes unrewarded is doubly beautiful. Seume.

Virtue that wavers is not virtue. Milton.

Virtue, though clothed in a beggar's garb, 30 commands respect. Schiller.

Virtue, though in rags, will keep one warm. Dryden, after Horace.

Virtue, which breaks through all opposition / And all temptations can remove, / Most shines and most is acceptable above. Milton.

Virtue which is according to the precepts of reason, appears equally great in avoiding as in overcoming dangers. Spinoza.

Virtuous and vicious every man must be; / Few in the extreme, but all in a degree. Pope.

Virtus ariete fortior—Virtue is stronger than a 35 battering-ram. M.

Virtus est medium vitiorum, et utrinque reductum—Virtue is the mean between two vices, and equally removed from either. Hor.

Virtus est militis decus—Valour is the soldier's honour. Livy.

Virtus est vitium fugere, et sapientia prima / Stultitia caruisse—It is virtue to shun vice, and the first step of wisdom is to be free from folly. Hor.

Virtus hominem jungit Deo—Virtue unites man with God. Cic.

Virtus in actione consistit—Virtue consists in 40 action. M.

Virtus in arduis—Valour in difficulties.

Virtus laudatur et alget—Virtue is praised and is left to freeze in the cold. Juv.

Virtus mille scuta—Virtue is as good as a thousand shields. M.

Virtus post nummos—After money virtue. Hor.

Virtus probata florebit—Approved virtue will 45 flourish. M.

Virtus, recludens immeritis mori / Cœlum, negata tentat iter via; / Cœtusque vulgares, et udam / Spernit humum fugiente penna—Virtue, opening heaven to those who deserve not to die, explores her way by a path to others denied, and spurns with soaring wing the vulgar crowds and the foggy earth. Hor.

Virtus repulsæ nescia sordidæ / Intaminatis fulget honoribus; / Nec sumit aut ponit secures / Arbitrio popularis auræ—Virtue, which knows no base repulse, shines with unsullied honours, neither receives nor resigns the fasces (i.e., badges of office) at the will of popular caprice. Hor.

Virtus requiei nescia sordidæ—Virtue which knows no mean repose. M.

Virtus semper viridis—Virtue is always flourishing (lit. green). M.

Virtus sola nobilitat—Virtue alone confers nobility. 50 M.

Virtus vincit invidiam—Virtue subdues envy. M.

Virtute et opera—By virtue and industry. M.

Virtute, non astutia—By virtue, not by cunning. M.

Virtute, non verbis—By virtue, not by word. M.

Virtute quies—In virtue there is tranquillity. M.

Virtutem doctrina paret, naturane donet?—Does training produce virtue, or does nature bestow it? Hor.

Virtutem incolumem odimus, / Sublatam ex oculis quærimus invidi—We in our envy hate virtue when present, but seek after her when she is removed out of our sight. Hor.

Virtuti nihil obstat et armis—Nothing can withstand valour and arms. M.

Virtuti non armis fido—I trust to virtue, not to 5 arms. M.

Virtutibus obstat / Res angusta domi—Straitened domestic means obstruct the path to virtue. Juv.

Virtutis avorum præmium—The reward of the valour of my forefathers. M.

Virtutis expers verbis jactans gloriam / Ignotos fallit, notis est derisui—A fellow who brags of his prowess and is devoid of courage, imposes on strangers but is the jest of those who know him. Phædrus.

Virtutis fortuna comes—Fortune is the companion of valour. M.

Vis comica—Comic power, or a talent for 10 comedy.

Vis consili expers mole ruit sua / Vim temperatam Di quoque provehunt / In majus; idem odere vires / Omne nefas animo moventes—Force, without judgment, falls by its own weight; moreover, the gods promote well-regulated force to further advantage; but they detest force that meditates every crime. Hor.

Vis inertiæ—The inert property or resisting power of matter.

Vis unita fortior—Power is strengthened by union. M.

Vis viva—The power residing in a body in virtue of its motion.

Visage fardé—A painted, or dissembling, countenance. 15 Fr.

Visible ploughmen and hammermen there have been, ever from Cain and Tubal Cain downwards; but where does your accumulated agricultural, metallurgic, and other manufacturing skill lie warehoused? Carlyle.

Vita brevis, ars longa—Life is short, art is long.

Vita dum superest, bene est—If only life remain, I am content. Mæcenas.

Vita hominis sine literis mors est—Life without letters is death. M.

Vita est hominum quasi quum ludas tesseris—The 20 life of man is like a game with dice. Ter.

Vita sine proposito vaga est—A life without a purpose is a rambling one. Sen.

Vitæ est avidus, quisquis non vult / Mundo secum pereunte mori—He is greedy of life who is unwilling to die when the world around him is perishing. Sen.

Vitæ philosophia dux, virtutis indagatrix—O philosophy, thou guide of life and discoverer of virtue. Cic.

Vitæ post-scenia celant—They conceal the secret actions of their lives (lit. what goes on behind the scenes). Lucret.

Vitæ summa brevis spem nos vetat inchoare 25 longam—The short span of life forbids us to spin out hope to any length. Hor.

Vitæ via virtus—Virtue is the way of life. M.

Vital truth is in its very nature self-evident; carries its witness within itself, and needs only to be understood to be at once accepted as true. Ed.

Vitam impendere vero—To devote one's life to the truth. Juv.

Vitam regit fortuna, non sapientia—Fortune rules this life, and not wisdom. Cic.

Vitanda est improba Siren / Desidia—You must 30 avoid sloth, that wicked Syren. Hor.

Vitavi denique culpam, / Non laudem merui—I have, in brief, avoided what is censurable, not merited what is commendable. Hor.

Vitia nobis sub virtutum nomine obrepunt—Vices steal upon us under the name of virtues. Sen.

Vitia otii negotio discutienda sunt—The vice of doing nothing is only to be shaken off by doing something. Sen.

Vitiis nemo sine nascitur; optimos ille / Qui minimis urgetur—No man is born without faults; he is the best who is oppressed with fewest. Hor.

Vitiosum est ubique, quod nimium est—Too 35 much of anything is in every case a defect. Sen.

Vitium commune omnium est, / Quod nimium ad rem in senecta attenti sumus—It is a fault common to us all, that in old age we become too much attached to worldly interests. Ter.

Viva voce—By the living voice.

Vivat Rex or Regina—Long live the king or queen.

Vive la bagatelle!—Success to trifling! Fr.

Vive la nation!—Long live the nation! Fr. 40

Vive ut vivas—Live that you may live. M.

Vive, valeque—Long life to you and farewell. M.

Vivent les gueux!—Long live the beggars! Fr.

Vivere est cogitare—Living is thinking. Cic.

Vivere militare est—To live is to fight. Sen. 45

Vivere sat vincere—To conquer is to live enough. M.

Vivere si recte nescis, decede peritis—If you know not how to live aright, quit the company of those who do. Hor.

Vivida vis animi—The strong force of genius. Lucret.

Vivimus aliena fiducia—We live by trusting one another. Pliny the elder.

Vivit post funera virtus—Virtue survives the 50 grave. M.

Vivite fortes, / Fortiaque adversis opponite pectora rebus—Live as brave men, and breast adversity with stout hearts. Hor.

Vivitur exiguo melius: natura beatis / Omnibus esse dedit, si quis cognoverit uti—Men live best upon a little: nature has ordained all to be happy, if they would but learn how to use her gifts. Claud.

Vivitur parvo bene, cui paternum / Splendet in mensa tenui salinum; / Nec leves somnos timor aut cupido / Sordidus aufert—He lives well on little on whose frugal board the paternal salt-cellar shines, and whose soft slumbers are not disturbed by fear or the sordid passion for gain. Hor.

Vivo et regno, simul ista reliqui, / Quæ vos ad cœlum fertis rumore secundo—I live and am a king, as soon as I have left those interests of the city, which you exalt to the skies in such laudation. Hor.

Vivre, c'est penser et sentir son âme—To live is to think, and feel one has a soul of his own. Fr.

Vivre n'est pas respirer; c'est agir—Living is not breathing; it is acting. Rousseau.

Vivunt in Venerem frondes, etiam nemus omne per altum / Felix arbor amat; nutant ad mutua palmæ / Fœdera, populeo suspirat populus ictu, / Et platani platanis, alnoque assibilat alnus—The leaves live to love, and over the whole lofty grove each happy tree loves; palm nods to palm in mutual pledge of love; the poplar sighs for the poplar's embrace; plane whispers to plane, and alder to alder. Claud., in anticipation of the sexual system of Linnæus.

Vix a te videor posse tenere manus—I feel hardly able to keep my hands off you. Ovid.

Vix decimus quisque est, qui ipse sese noverit—Hardly 5 one man in ten knows himself. Plaut.

Vix ea nostra voco—I scarcely call these things our own. M.

Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona / Multi; sed omnes illacrymabiles / Urgentur, ignotique longa / Nocte, carent quia vate sacro—Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all of them, unwept and unknown, are o'erwhelmed in endless night, because no sacred bard was there to sing their praises. Hor.

Vixi dubius, anxius morior, nescio quo vado—I have lived in doubt, I die in anxiety, and I know not whither I go. Ascribed to a Pope of Rome.

Voce d'uno, voce di niuno—Voice of one, voice of none. It. Pr.

Vogue la galère!—Come what may! Fr. 10

Voilà le soleil d'Austerlitz—That is the sun of Austerlitz. Napoleon.

Voilà une autre chose—That's quite another matter. Fr.

Voilà une femme qui a des lunes—There is a woman who is full of whims (lit. has moons). Fr. Pr.

Volenti non fit injuria—An injury cannot be done to a consenting party, i.e., if he consents or connives, he cannot complain. L.

Volez de vos propres ailes—Do for yourself (lit. 15 fly with your own wings). Fr. Pr.

Voll, toll—Full, foolish. Ger. Pr.

Voll Weisheit sind des Schicksals Fügungen—Full of wisdom are the ordinations of Fate. Schiller.

Vollkommenheit ist die Norm des Himmels; / Vollkommenes Wollen, die Norm des Menschen—Perfection is the rule of heaven; to will the perfect, that of man. Goethe.

Volo non valeo—I am willing but unable. M.

Volte face—A change of front. Fr. 20

Voluntas non potest cogi—The will cannot be forced.

Voluptates commendat rarior usus—Pleasures are enhanced that are sparingly enjoyed. Juv.

Vom Rechte, das mit uns geboren ist, / Von dem ist, leider! nie die Frage—Of the right that is born with us, of that unhappily there is never a question. Goethe, Mephisto in "Faust."

Vom Sein zum Sein geht alles Leben über—/ Zum Nichtsein ist kein Schritt in der Natur—All life passes over from being to being. There is no step in Nature into non-being. Tiedge.

Vom sichern Port lässt sich's gemächlich 25 rathen—It is easy to give advice from a port of safety. Schiller.

Vom Vater hab' ich die Statur, / Des Lebens ernstes Führen; / Von Mütterchen die Frohnatur, / Und Lust zu fabulieren—From my father inherit I stature and the earnest conduct of life; from motherkin my cheerful disposition and pleasure in fanciful invention. Goethe, of himself.

Von der Gewalt, die alle Wesen bindet, / Befreit der Mensch sich, der sich überwindet—From the power which constrains every creature man frees himself by overcoming himself. Goethe.

Von der Menschheit—du kannst von ihr nie gross genug denken; / Wie du im Busen sie trägst, prägst du in Thaten sie aus—Of humanity thou canst never think greatly enough; as thou bearest it in thy bosom, thou imprintest it in thy deeds. Schiller.

Vor dem Glauben / Gilt keine Stimme der Natur—In matters of faith the voice of nature has no standing (before the Inquisition). Schiller.

Vor dem Tode erschrickst du? Du wünchest 30 unsterblich zu leben! / Leb' im Ganzen! Wenn du lange dahin bist, es bleibt—Art thou afraid of death? Thou wishest for immortality? Live in the whole! When thou art long gone, it remains. Schiller.

Vor Leiden kann nur Gott dich wahren, / Unmuth magst du dir selber sparen—From suffering God alone can guard thee; from ill-humour thou canst guard thyself. Geibel.

Vorwärts—Forward. M. of Blücher.

Vorwärts musst du / Denn rückwärts kannst du nun nicht mehr—Forwards must thou, for backwards canst thou now no more. Schiller.

Vos finesses sont cousues de fil blanc—Your arts are easily seen through (lit. sewed with white thread). Fr. Pr.

Vota vita mea—My life is devoted. M. 35

Vote it as you please; there is a company of poor men that will spend all their blood before they see it settled so. Cromwell.

Votes should be weighed, not counted. Schiller.

Vouloir c'est pouvoir—Where there's a will, there's a way (lit. to will is to be able). Fr. Pr.

Vous bridez le cheval par la queue—You begin at the wrong end (lit. bridle the horse by the tail). Fr. Pr.

Vous êtes orfèvre, Monsieur Josse!—You are a 40 goldsmith, Monsieur Josse! i.e., an interested party. Molière.

Vous ne jouez donc pas le whist, Monsieur? Hélas! quelle triste vieillesse vous vous préparez!—Not play at whist, sir? Alas! what a dreary old age you are preparing for yourself. Talleyrand.

Vous prenez tout ce qu'il dit au pied de la lettre—You take everything he says literally. Fr. Pr.

Vous voulez prendre la lune avec les dents—You attempt impossibilities (lit. wish to take the moon with your teeth). Fr. Pr.

Vows made in storms are forgotten in calms. Pr.

Vox audita perit, litera scripta manet—The 45 word that is heard perishes, the letter that is written remains.

Vox clamantis in deserto—The voice of one crying in the wilderness. Vulgate.

Vox et præterea nihil—A voice and nothing more.

Vox faucibus hæsit—His voice stuck fast in his throat.

Vox is the God of this universe. Carlyle.

Vox populi, vox Dei—The voice of the people is 5 the voice of God.

Vox tantum atque ossa supersunt. / Vox manet—The voice and bones are all that's left; the voice remains. Ovid.

Voyez comme il brûle le pavé—See how fast he drives (lit., burns the pavement). Fr. Pr.

Vulgar opulence fills the street from wall to wall of the houses, and begrudges all but the gutter to everybody whose sleeve is a little worn at the elbows. John Weiss.

Vulgarity consists in a deadness of the heart and body, resulting from prolonged, and especially from inherited conditions of "degeneracy," or literally "unracing;" gentlemanliness being another name for intense humanity. And vulgarity shows itself in dulness of heart, not in rage or cruelty, but in inability to feel or conceive noble character or emotion. Dulness of bodily sense and general stupidity are its material manifestations. Ruskin.

Vulgarity in manners defiles fine garments 10 more than mud. Plautus.

Vulgus ex veritate pauca, ex opinione multa, æstimat—The masses judge of few things by the truth, of most things by opinion. Cic.

Vultus est index animi—The countenance is the index of the mind. Pr.

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Wachsamkeit ist die Tugend des Lasters—Vigilance is the virtue of vice. C. J. Weber.

Waft yourselves, yearning souls, upon the stars; / Sow yourselves on the wandering winds of space; / Watch patient all your days, if your eyes take / Some dim, cold ray of knowledge. The dull world / Hath need of you—the purblind, slothful world! Lewis Morris.

Wage du zu irren und zu träumen: / Hoher 15 Sinn liegt oft im kind'schen Spiel—Dare to err and to dream; a deep meaning often lies in the play of a child. Schiller.

Wages are no index of well-being to the working man; without proper wages there can be no well-being; but with them also there may be none. Carlyle.

Wahres und Gutes wird sich versöhnen, / Wenn sich beide vermählen im Schönen—True and good will be reconciled when both are wedded in the beautiful. Rückert.

Wahrheit gegen Freund und Feind—Truth in spite of friend and foe alike. Schiller.

Wahrheit immer wird, nie ist—Truth always is a-being, never is. Schiller.

Wahrheit wird wohl gedrückt, aber nicht 20 erstickt—Truth may be smothered, but not extinguished. Ger. Pr.

Wait upon him whom thou art to speak to with thine eye; for there be many cunning men that have secret heads and transparent countenances. Burton.

Waiting answers sometimes as well as working. Mrs. Gatty.

Walk not with the world where it is walking wrong. Carlyle.

Walk this world with no friend in it but God and St. Edmund, and you will either fall into the ditch or learn a good many things. Carlyle.

Wann? wie? und wo? das ist die leidige 25 Frage—When? how? and where? That is the vexing question. Goethe.

Want is the mother of industry. Pr.

Want makes wit. Pr.

Want maketh even servitude honourable. Hitopadesa.

Want o' wit is waur than want o' siller. Sc. Pr.

Want of care does us more damage than want 30 of knowledge. Ben. Franklin.

Want of courage upon some occasions assumes the appearance of ignorance, and betrays us when we most want to excel. Goldsmith.

Want of humility or self-denial is simply the want of all religion, of all moral worth. Carlyle.

Want of prudence is too frequently the want of virtue; nor is there on earth a more powerful advocate for vice than poverty. Goldsmith.

Want of tenderness is want of parts, and is no less a proof of stupidity than depravity. Johnson.

Want supplieth itself of what is next. Bacon. 35

Wanton jests make fools laugh and wise men frown. Fuller.

War disorganises, but it is to re-organise. Emerson.

War has its sweets, Hymen its alarms. La Fontaine.

War has no pity. Schiller.

War is a game which, were their subjects 40 wise, kings should not play at. Cowper.

War is a terrible trade; but in the cause that is righteous, / Sweet is the smell of powder. Longfellow.

War its thousands slays, peace its ten thousands. Beilby Porteous.

War ought to be the only study of a prince. Machiavelli.

War suspends the rules of moral obligation, and what is long suspended is in danger of being totally abrogated. Burke.

War—the trade of barbarians, and the art of 45 bringing the greatest physical force to bear on a single point. Napoleon.

War, with all its evils, is better than a peace in which there is nothing to be seen but usurpation and injustice. Pitt.

Wäre der Geist nicht frei, dann wär' es ein grosser Gedanke, / Dass ein Gedankenmonarch über die Seele regiert—Only if the spirit of man were not free, would the thought be a great one that there is a monarch of thought who rules over our souls. Platen.

Warm fortunes are always sure of getting good husbands. Goldsmith.

Warm your body by healthful exercise, not by cowering over a stove. Thoreau.

Warm your spirit by performing independently noble deeds, not by ignobly seeking the sympathy of your fellows, who are no better than yourself. Thoreau.

Warn them that are unruly, support the weak, be patient toward all men. St. Paul.

Wars should be undertaken in order that we may live in peace without suffering wrong. Cic.

Was, and is, and will be, are but "is." Tennyson. 5

Was der Löwe nicht kann, das kann der Fuchs—What the lion cannot manage to do, the fox can. Ger. Pr.

Was der Socialismus will, ist nicht Eigenthum aufheben, sondern im Gegentheile individuelles Eigenthum, auf die Arbeit gegründetes Eigenthum erst einführen—What Socialism means is not to abolish property, but, on the contrary, to establish individual property, property founded on labour. Lassalle.

Was die Fürsten geigen, müssen die Unterthanen tanzen—Subjects must dance as princes fiddle to them. Ger. Pr.

Was die heulende Tiefe da unten verhehle, / Das erzählt keine lebende glückliche Seele—What the howling deep down there conceals, no blessed living soul can tell. Schiller.

Was die innere Stimme spricht / Das läuschet 10 die hoffende Seele nicht—By what the inner voice speaks the trusting soul is never deceived. Schiller.

Was die Natur versteckt, zieht Unsinn an das Licht—What Nature hides from our gaze, want of sense and feeling drags to the light. Lessing.

Was die Sage erzählt / Mit Geschichte vermählt, / Mit Phantasie im Verein, / Das lass dir willkommen sein—Let what legend relates, wedded to history and in union with fantasy, be welcome to thee. (?)

Was du besitzest, kann ein Raub des Schicksals sein; / Was du besassest, bleibt für alle Zeiten dein—What you possess is at the mercy of fortune; what you possessed remains your own for ever. Lorm.

Was du denkest, sei wahr; und wie du denkest, so rede! / Wolle das Gute, so folgt Segen und Freude der That—Be what thou thinkest true; and as thou thinkest, so speak. Will what is good; then will follow blessing and joy from the deed. C. L. Fernow.

Was du ererbt von deinen Vätern hast, / 15 Erwirb es, um es zu besitzen. / Was man nicht nützt, ist eine schwere Last; / Nur was der Augenblick erschafft, das kann er nützen—What thou hast inherited from thy sires, acquire so as to posses it as thy own. What we use not is a heavy burden; only what the moment produces can the moment profit by. Goethe.

Was einmal sein muss, wird nie zu früh gethan—What must be can never be too quickly done. Rückert.

Was ever woman in this humour woo'd? / Was ever woman in this humour won? Rich. III., i. 2.

Was geboren ist auf Erden / Muss zu Erd' und Asche werden—What is born on earth must to earth and ashes return. J. G. Jacobi.

Was gelten soll, muss wirken und muss dienen—To be of any worth a thing must be productive and serviceable. Goethe.

Was glänzt ist für den Augenblick geboren; / 20 Das Echte bleibt der Nachwelt unverloren—What dazzles is produced for the moment; what is genuine remains unlost to posterity. Goethe.

Was Gott thut, das ist wohlgethan—What God does is well done. S. Rodigast.

Was hab' ich mehr als meine Pflicht gethan? / Ein guter Mann wird stets das Bessre wählen—What have I done more than my duty? A good man will always select what is better. Schiller.

Was Hände bauten, können Hände stürzen—What hands have built, hands can pull down. Schiller.

Was Hänschen nicht lernt, lernt Hans nimmermehr—What little Jack does not learn, big John never will. Ger. Pr.

Was hilft es mir, dass ich geniesse? Wie 25 Träume fliehn die wärmsten Küsse, / Und alle Freude wie ein Kuss—What help is there for me in enjoyment? As dreams vanish the warmest kisses, and as such is all joy. Goethe.

Was hilft laufen, wenn man nicht auf dem rechten Weg ist?—What boots running if one is on the wrong road. Ger. Pr.

Was hilft's, wenn ihr ein Ganzes dargebracht? / Das Publikum wird es euch doch zerpflücken—What boots it to present a whole? The public will be sure to pull it to pieces for you. Goethe.

Was ich besitze, mag ich gern bewahren; der Wechsel unterhält, doch nützt er kaum—What I possess I would like to keep; change is entertaining, but is scarcely advantageous. Goethe.

Was ich besitze, seh' ich wie im weiten, / Und was verschwand, wird mir zu Wirklichkeiten—What I possess I see in the distance; and what has vanished becomes for me actuality. Goethe.

Was ich nicht loben kann, davon sprech' ich 30 nicht—I do not speak of what I cannot praise. Goethe.

Was im Leben uns verdriesst / Man im Bilde gern geniesst—What annoys us in life we enjoy in a picture. Goethe.

Was in dem Herzen Anderer von uns lebt, / Ist unser wahrestes und tiefstes Selbst—What of us lives in the heart of others is our truest and deepest self. Herder.

Was ist deine Pflicht? Die Forderung des Tages—What is thy duty? To accept the challenge of the passing day.

Was ist der Tod? Nach einem Fieber / Ein sanfter Schlaf, der uns erquickt! / Der Thor erschreckt darüber, / Der Weise ist entzückt—What is death? A gentle sleep, which refreshes us after a fever. The fool is frightened at it; the wise man overjoyed. Winter.

Was ist ein Held ohne Menschenliebe—What 35 is a hero without love for man? Lessing.

Was ist noch schlimmer als das Uebel? Wenn man es nicht zu ertragen weiss—"What is still worse than evil?" Inability to bear it. C. J. Weber.

Was ist unser höchstes Gesetz? Unser eigener Vortheil—What is our highest good? Our own advantage. Goethe.

Was lehr' ich dich vor allen Dingen? / Könntest mich lehren von meiner Schatte zu springen!—What before all shall I teach you? That you could teach me to jump off my shadow! Goethe.

Was man einmal ist, das muss man ganz sein—What we are at any moment we should be entirely. Bodenstedt.

Was man Gott opfern will, muss man nicht vom Teufel einsegnen lassen—We must not let the devil consecrate what we mean for God. Ger. Pr.

Was man in der Jugend wünscht, hat man im Alter die Fülle—What one wishes in youth one has to the full when old. Goethe, by way of motto to the second part of his "Wahrheit und Dichtung."

Was man nicht versteht, besitzt man nicht—What we don't understand we do not possess. Goethe.

Was man sein will, sei man ganz—What one 5 will be, let him entirely be. W. F. Flotow.

Was man zu heftig fühlt, fühlt man nicht allzulang—Very acute suffering does not last long. Goethe.

Was Menschen säen, werden die Götter eraten; / Gott spricht durch seine Welt, der Mensch durch seine That—What men sow the gods will reap. God speaks through his world, man through his deed. Tiedge.

Was mir ein Augenblick genommen, / Das bringt kein Frühling mir zurück—What a moment has taken from me no spring brings back to me. Hoffmann.

Was never evening yet / But seemed far beautifuller than its day. Browning.

Was nicht von innen keimt hervor, / Ist in 10 der Wurzel schwach—What does not germinate forth from within is weak at its root. Uhland.

Was nicht zusammen kann bestehen, thut am besten sich zu lösen—What cannot exist together had better separate. Schiller.

Was niemals unser war, entbehrt man leicht—We easily dispense with what we never had. Platen.

Was nützt, ist nur ein Theil des Bedeutenden—What is useful forms but a part of the important. Goethe.

Was soll der fürchten, der den Tod nicht fürchtet?—What shall he fear who does not fear death? Schiller.

Was there ever, since the beginning of the 15 world, a universal vote given in favour of the worthiest man or thing? Carlyle.

Was there, is there, or will there be a great intellect ever heard tell of without being first a true and great heart to begin with? Never.... Think it not, suspect it not. Worse blasphemy I could not readily utter. Carlyle to John Sterling.

Was thy life given to thee / For making pretty sentences, and play / Of dainty humour for the mirthful heart / To be more merry, or to serve thy kind, / Redressing wrong? Dr. W. Smith.

Was uns alle bändigt, das Gemeine—What enthrals us all is the common. Goethe.

Was vergangen, kehrt nicht wieder; Aber ging es leuchtend nieder, / Leuchtet's lange noch zurück!—What has gone by returns not again, but if it went down shining, it reflects its light for long. Karl Förster.

Was vernünftig ist, das ist wirklich; und 20 was wirklich ist, das ist vernünftig—What is rational is actual; and what is actual is rational. Hegel.

Was verschmerze nicht der Mensch?—What can man not put up with? Schiller.

Was wir als Schönheit hier empfunden, / Wird einst als Wahrheit uns entgegengehn—What we have felt here as beauty will one day confront us as truth. Schiller.

Waste not time by trampling upon thistles because they have yielded us no figs. Here are books, and we have brains to read them; here is a whole Earth and a whole Heaven, and we have eyes to look on them. Carlyle.

Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation. Bible.

Watch thy tongue; out of it are the issues of 25 life. Carlyle.

Watched pot never boils. Pr.

Watchman, what of the night? Bible.

Water, air, and cleanliness are the chief articles in my pharmacopœia. Napoleon.

Water cannot rise above the level from which it springs; no more can moral theories. J. C. Sharp.

Water, water everywhere, / And all the boards 30 did shrink, / Water, water everywhere, / Nor any drop to drink. Coleridge.

Waters that are deep do not babble as they flow. Pr.

We acquire the strength we have overcome. Without war, no soldier; without enemies, no hero. The sun were insipid if the universe were not opaque. Emerson.

We all bear the misfortunes of other people with a heroic constancy. La Roche.

We all complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do; we are always complaining our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them. Sen.

We all know a hundred whose coats are well 35 made, and a score who have excellent manners; but of gentlemen how many? Let us take a little scrap of paper and each make out his list. Thackeray.

We all know that the secret of breakdown and wreck is seldom so much an insufficient knowledge of the route, as imperfect discipline of the will. John Morley.

We all live upon the hope of pleasing somebody; and the pleasure of pleasing ought to be greatest, and at last always will be greatest, when our endeavours are exerted in consequence of our duty. Johnson.

We always believe that God is like ourselves: the indulgent affirm him indulgent; the stern, terrible. Joubert.

We always live prospectively, never retrospectively, and there is no abiding moment. Jacobi.

We always take credit for the good, and attribute 40 the bad to fortune. La Fontaine.

We are able easily to dispense with greater perfection. Vauvenargues.

We are all a kind of chameleons, taking our hue, the hue of our moral character, from those who are about us. Locke.

We are all, at times, unconscious prophets. Spurgeon.

We are all best affected to them who are of the same opinion as ourselves. Thomas à Kempis.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end. I. Disraeli.

We are all collective beings, let us place ourselves as we may; for how little have we, and are we, that we can strictly call our own property? Goethe.

We are all frail; but esteem none more frail than thyself. Thomas à Kempis.

We are all richer for the measurement of a 5 degree of latitude on the earth's surface. Emerson.

We are all visionaries, and what we see is our soul in things. Amiel.

We are always complaining our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them. Addison.

We are always looking into the future, but we see only the past. Mme. Swetchine.

We are ancients of the earth / And in the morning of the times. Tennyson.

We are apt to mistake our vocation by looking 10 out of the way for occasions to exercise great and rare virtues, and by stepping over the ordinary ones that lie directly in the road before us. Hannah More.

We are apt to pick quarrels with the world for every little foolery. L'Estrange.

We are as liable to be corrupted by books as by companions. Fielding.

We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates. Emerson.

We are as turkeys driven, with a stick and red clout, to market. Sterne.

We are awkward for want of thought. The 15 inspiration is scanty, and does not arrive at the extremities. Emerson.

We are born with faculties and powers capable almost of anything, such, at least, as might carry us further than can easily be imagined; but it is only the exercise of those powers that gives us ability and skill in anything, and leads us towards perfection. Locke.

We are bound to be honest, but not to be rich. Pr.

We are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow. Bible.

We are children for the second time at twenty-one, and again when we are grey and put all our burden on the Lord. J. M. Barrie.

We are come too late, by several thousand 20 years, to say anything new in morality. The finest and most beautiful thoughts concerning manners have been carried away before our times, and nothing is left for us but to glean after the ancients and the more ingenious of the moderns. La Bruyère.

We are content with personating happiness—to feel it is an art beyond us. Mackenzie.

We are contented because we are happy, and not happy because we are contented. Landor.

We are created to seek truth; to possess it is the prerogative of a higher power. Montaigne.

"We are creatures that look before and after," the more surprising that we do not look round a little, and see what is passing under our eyes. Carlyle.

We are great philosophers to each other, but 25 not to ourselves. Bulwer Lytton.

We are here for the express purpose of stamping on things perishable an imperishable worth. Goethe.

We are in a series of which we do not know the extremes, and believe that it has none. Emerson.

We are in great danger; / The greater therefore should our courage be. Hen. V., iv. 1.

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know, because they have never deceived us. Johnson.

We are incompetent to solve the times.... 30 We can only obey our own polarity. Emerson.

We are instinctively more inclined to hope than to fear; just as our eyes turn of themselves towards light rather than darkness. Schopenhauer.

We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see. Herodotus.

We are members of one great body. Nature planted in us a mutual love, and fitted us for a social life. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole. Sen.

"We are men, my liege."—/ Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men. Macb., iii. 1.

We are near awakening when we dream that 35 we dream. Novalis.

We are ne'er like angels till our passion dies. Denham.

We are never farther from what we wish than when we fancy that we have what we wished for. Goethe.

We are never made so ridiculous by the qualities we have as by those we affect to have. La Roche.

We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves. Amiel.

We are never more like God than when we 40 are doing good. Calvin.

We are never present with, but always beyond ourselves. Fear, desire, and hope are still pushing us on towards the future. Montaigne.

We are never properly ourselves till another thinks entirely as we do. Goethe.

We are never so happy or so unhappy as we imagine. La Roche.

We are not called upon to judge ourselves. / With circumspection to pursue his path, / Is the immediate duty of a man. Goethe.

We are not ignorant of his devices. St. Paul 45 of the Evil One.

We are not indebted to the reason of man for any of the great achievements which are the landmarks of human action and human progress. Disraeli.

We are not, indeed, satisfied with our own opinions, whatever we may pretend, till they are ratified and confirmed by suffrage of the rest of mankind. We dispute and wrangle for ever; we endeavour to get men to come to us when we do not go to them. Sir Joshua Reynolds.

We are not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts. We have certain work to do for our bread, and that is to be done strenuously; other work to do for our delight, and that is to be done heartily; neither is to be done by halves or shifts, but with a will; and what is not worth this effort is not to be done at all. Ruskin.

We are not strong by our power to penetrate, but by our relatedness. Emerson.

We are not to be astonished that the wise walk more slowly in their road to virtue than fools in their passage to vice; since passion drags us along, while wisdom only points out the way. Confucius.

We are not to lead events, but to follow them. Epictetus.

We are not to quarrel with the water for 5 inundations and shipwrecks. L'Estrange.

We are not troubled by the evanescence of time, if the eternal is every moment present. Goethe.

We are often governed by people not only weaker than ourselves, but even by those whom we think so. Lord Greville.

We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians. Mme. Swetchine.

We are only so far worthy of esteem as we know how to appreciate. Goethe.

We are only vulnerable and ridiculous through 10 our pretensions. Mme. de Girardin.

We are ourselves / Our heaven and hell, the joy, the penalty, / The yearning, the fruition. Lewis Morris.

We are pent, / Who sing to-day, by all the garnered wealth / Of ages of past song. Lewis Morris.

We are reformers in spring and summer; in autumn and winter we stand by the old; reformers in the morning, conservers at night. Emerson.

We are rid of the Wicked One, but the wicked are still with us. Goethe.

We are ruined not by what we really want, 15 but by what we think we do. Colton.

We are seldom sure that we sincerely meant what we omitted to do. Johnson.

We are slaves, / The greatest as the meanest—nothing rests / Upon our will.... And when we think we lead, we are most led. Byron.

We are such stuff / As dreams are made on; and our little life / Is rounded with a sleep. Tempest, iii. 3.

We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is a civil war, and in all such contentions, triumphs are defeats. Colton.

We are sure to judge wrong if we do not feel 20 aright. Hazlitt.

We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the Commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing an abatement. Ben. Franklin.

We are the children of our own deeds. Victor Hugo.

We are the miracle of miracles—the great inscrutable mystery of God. We cannot understand it, we know not how to speak of it; but we may feel and know, if we like, that it is verily so. Carlyle.

We are the slaves of objects round us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to expand. Goethe.

We are to earn the joys of a higher existence, 25 not by scorning, but by using, all the gifts of God in this. W. R. Greg.

We are too good for pure instinct. Goethe.

We are very fond of some families because they can be traced beyond the Conquest, whereas indeed the farther back the worse, as being the nearer allied to a race of robbers and thieves. De Foe.

We are wiser than we know. Emerson.

We ask advice, but we mean approbation. Colton.

We barter life for pottage. Keble. 30

We boast our light; but if we look not wisely on the sun itself, it smites us into darkness. Milton.

We build statues of snow, and weep to see them melt. Scott.

We by Fancy may assuage / The festering sore by Fancy made. Keble.

We can conceive or desire nothing more exquisite or perfect than what is round us every hour. W. R. Greg.

We can do more good by being good than in 35 any other way. Rowland Hill.

We can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth. St. Paul.

We can finish nothing in this life, but we can make a beginning, and bequeath a noble example. Smiles.

We can hardly be confident of the state of our own minds, but as it stands attested by some external action. Johnson.

We can have no dependence upon morality without religion; so, on the other hand, there is nothing better to be expected from religion without morality. Sterne.

We can live without our friends, but not without 40 our neighbours. Pr.

We can more easily avenge an injury than requite a kindness; on this account, because there is less difficulty in getting the better of the wicked than in making one's self equal with the good. Cic.

We can never soon enough convince ourselves how easily we can be dispensed with in the world. Goethe.

We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to. Goethe.

We can only know a little, and the question is merely whether or not we know this well. Goethe.

We can only possess wealth according to our 45 capacity. Ruskin.

We can receive anything from love, for that is a way of receiving it from ourselves; but not from any one who assumes to bestow. Emerson.

We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love. Mrs. Jameson.

We can take up no scheme, however wild and impracticable, but it will strike off some flower or fruit from the tree of knowledge. Ward Beecher.

We cannot abolish fate, but we can in a measure utilise it. The projectile force of the bullet does not annul or suspend gravity; it uses it. John Burroughs.

We cannot all be masters, nor all masters / Cannot be truly follow'd. King Lear, v. 3.

We cannot all serve our country in the same way, but each may do his best, according as God has endowed him. Goethe.

We cannot approach beauty. Its nature is like opaline dove's-neck lustres, hovering and evanescent. Herein it resembles the most excellent things, which have all this rainbow character, defying all attempts at appropriation and use. Emerson.

We cannot be just if we are not humane. 5 Vauvenargues.

We cannot be kind to each other here for an hour; / We whisper, and hint, and chuckle, and grin at a brother's shame; / However we brave it out, we men are a little breed. Tennyson.

We cannot but speak the things we have seen and heard. St. Peter and St. John.

We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could. Landor.

We cannot fashion our children after our fancy. We must have them and love them as God has given them to us. Goethe.

We cannot fight for love, as men may do; / 10 We should be wooed, and were not made to woo. Mid. N.'s Dream, ii. 2.

We cannot make our exodus from Houndsditch (i.e., the now dead religion of the past) till we have got our own (i.e., out of it) along with us. Carlyle.

We cannot overstate our debt to the past, but the moment has the supreme claim. Emerson.

We cannot part with our friends. We cannot let our angels go. We do not see that they only go out that archangels may come in. We are idolaters of the old. We do not believe in the richness of the soul, in its proper eternity and omnipresence. Emerson.

We cannot pass our guardian angel's bound, / Resign'd or sullen, he will hear our sighs. Keble.

We cannot speak a loyal word and be meanly 15 silent; we cannot kill and not kill at the same moment; but a moment is room enough for the loyal and mean desire, for the outflash of a murderous thought, and the sharp backward stroke of repentance. George Eliot.

We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves. Colton.

We conceive, I think, more nobly of the weak presence of Paul than of the fair and ruddy countenance of David. Ruskin.

We consecrate a great deal of nonsense, because it was allowed by great men. Emerson.

We could not endure solitude, were it not for the powerful companionship of hope, or of some unseen one. Jean Paul.

We crave a world unreal as the shell-heard 20 sea. E. L. Hamilton.

We cultivate literature on a little oatmeal. Sydney Smith.

We darken the cages of birds when we would teach them to sing. Jean Paul.

We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artifices as we do ourselves. Schopenhauer.

We deem those happy who, from their experience of life, have learned to bear its ills without descanting on the burden. Juv.

We derive from nature no fault that may not 25 become a virtue, no virtue that may not degenerate into a fault. Faults of the latter kind are most difficult to cure. Goethe.

We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast of our Freethinking as we may, are oftenest simply such beliefs as we have never heard questioned. Carlyle.

We do not believe immortality because we have proved it, but we for ever try to prove it because we believe it. James Martineau.

We do not commonly find men of superior sense amongst those of the highest fortune. Juv.

We do not correct the man we hang; we correct others by him. Montaigne.

We do not count a man's years until he has 30 nothing else to count. Emerson.

We do not determine what we will think.... We have little control over our thoughts. Emerson.

We do not die wholly at our deaths; we have mouldered away gradually long before. Hazlitt.

We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us. Mme. Swetchine.

We do not know what is really good or bad fortune. Rousseau.

We do not teach one another the lessons of 35 honesty and sincerity that the brutes do, or of steadiness and solitude that the rocks do. The fault is commonly mutual, for we do not habitually demand any more of each other. Thoreau.

We don't always care most for those flat-pattern flowers that press best in the herbarium. Holmes.

We draw the foam from the great river of humanity with our quills, and imagine to ourselves that we have caught floating islands at least. Goethe.

We eagerly lay hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passion. Goethe.

We easily dispense with what was never our own. Platen.

We enjoy ourselves only in our work, our 40 doing; and our best doing is our best enjoyment. Jacobi.

We estimate (lit. measure) great men by their virtue, not by their success. Corn. Nep.

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are. Balzac.

We expect a bright to-morrow; / All will be well. / Faith can sing through days of sorrow, / All, all is well. Peters.

We expect everything, and are prepared for nothing. Mme. Swetchine.

We expect in letters to discover somewhat 45 of a person's real character. It is childish indeed to expect that we are to find the whole heart of the author unveiled.... Still as letters from one friend to another make the nearest approaches to conversation, we may expect to see more of a character displayed in these than in other productions which are studied for public view. Blair.

We expect old men to be conservative, but when a nation's young men are so, its funeral-bell is already rung. Ward Beecher.

We fail? / But screw your courage to the sticking-place, / And we'll not fail. Macb., i. 7.

We fancy we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love. Landor.

(We) feel that life is large, and the world small, / So wait till life have passed from out the world. Browning.

We find God twice—once within, once without 5 us; within us as an eye, without us as a light. Jean Paul.

We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people. Schopenhauer.

We furnish our minds as we furnish our houses—with the fancies of others, and according to the mode and age of our country; we pick up our ideas and notions in common conversation as in schools. Bolingbroke.

We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself. Lamb.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist. Emerson.

We gape, we grasp, we gripe, add store to 10 store; / Enough requires too much; too much craves more. Quarles.

We gild our medicines with sweets; why not clothe truth and morals in pleasant garments as well? Chamfort.

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it. La Roche.

We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain. W. R. Alger.

We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital. As Satan said, "Evil, be thou my good," so they say, "Darkness, be thou my light." Horace Mann.

We hang little thieves, and take off our hats 15 to great ones. Ger. Pr.

We happiness pursue; we fly from pain; / Yet the pursuit, and yet the flight is vain. Prior.

We hate delay, yet it makes us wise. Pr.

We hate some persons because we do not know them, and we will not know them because we hate them. Colton.

We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. Maugre all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether. Emerson.

We have all a cure of souls, and every man is 20 a priest. Amiel.

We have all a speck of the motley. Lamb.

We have all of us one human heart. Wordsworth.

We have all of us our ferries (to cross over) in this world, and must know the river and its ways, or get drowned some day. Carlyle.

We have all strength enough to endure the troubles of others. La Roche.

We have always considered taxes to be the 25 sinews of the state. Cic.

We have, and this is an interesting fact, a plant which may serve as a symbol of the most advanced age, since, having passed the period of flowers and fruit, it still thrives cheerfully without further foundation. Goethe.

We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back. Simms.

We have done deeds of charity, / Made peace of enmity, fair love of hate. Rich. III., ii. 1.

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love, one another. Swift.

We have less charity for those who believe the 30 half of our creed than for those who deny the whole of it. Colton.

We have little control over our thoughts. We are the prisoners of our ideas. Emerson.

We have met the enemy, and they are ours. Oliver H. Perry.

We have more indolence in the mind than in the body. La Roche.

We have more mathematics than ever, but less mathesis. Archimedes and Plato could not have read the "Méchanique Céleste;" but neither would the whole French Institute see aught in that saying, "God geometrises," but sentimental rhodomontade. Carlyle.

We have no more / The world to choose from, 35 who, where'er we turn, / Tread through old thoughts and fair. Yet must we sing—/ We have no choice. Lewis Morris.

We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal. Rush.

We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it. Carlyle.

We have not the innocence of Eden; but by God's help and Christ's example, we may have the victory of Gethsemane. Chapin.

We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness. Carlyle.

We have not wings, we cannot soar; / But 40 we have feet to scale and climb / By slow degrees, by more and more, / The cloudy summits of our time. Longfellow.

We have nothing to do with what is happening in space (or possibly may happen in time); we have only to attend to what is happening here—and now. Ruskin.

We have raised Pain and Sorrow into heaven, and in our temples, on our altars. Grief stands symbol of our faith, and it shall last as long as man is mortal and unhappy. Wm. Smith.

We have scotch'd the snake, but not killed it. Macb., iii. 2.

We have such exorbitant eyes, that, on seeing the smallest arc, we complete the curve, and when the curtain is lifted from the diagram which it served to veil, we are vexed to find that no more was drawn than just that fragment of an arc which we first beheld. Emerson.

We hear constantly of what Nature is doing, 45 but we rarely hear of what man is thinking. We want ideas, and we get more facts. Buckle.

We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent. Auerbach.

We, ignorant of ourselves, / Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers / Deny us for our good; so find we profit / By losing of our prayers. Ant. and Cleo., ii. 1.

We in turn / Shall one day be Time's ancients, and inspire / The wiser, higher race, which yet shall sing; / Because to sing is human, and high thought / Grows rhythmic ere its close. Lewis Morris.

We inherit, not life only, but all the garniture and form of life; and work, and speak, and even think and feel, as our fathers, and primeval grandfathers, from the beginning, have given it us. Carlyle.

We injure mysteries, which are matters of faith, by any attempt at explanation in order to make them matters of reason. Could they be explained, they would cease to be mysteries; and it has been well said that a thing is not necessarily against reason because it happens to be above it. Colton.

We keep but what we give, / And only daily 5 dying may we live. Lewis Morris.

We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases. Goethe.

We know better than we do. Emerson.

We know God easily, provided we do not constrain ourselves to define him. Joubert.

We know not oftentimes what we are able to do, but temptations shows us what we are. Thomas à Kempis.

We know truth when we see it, let sceptic 10 and scoffer say what they choose. Emerson.

We know what we are, but we know not what we may be. Ham., iv. 5.

We learn nothing from mere hearing, and he who does not take an active part in certain subjects knows them but half and superficially. Goethe.

We learn to know a thing best in the place where it is native. Goethe.

We learn to know nothing but what we love; and the deeper we mean to penetrate into any matter with insight, the stronger and more vital must our love and passion be. Goethe.

We learn wisdom from failure much more than 15 from success; we often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. Horne Tooke used to say of his studies in intellectual philosophy, that he had become all the better acquainted with the country through having had the good luck sometimes to lose his way. Smiles.

We lie down and rise up with the skeleton allotted to us for our mortal companion—the phantom of ourselves. Dickens.

We like only such actions as have long already had the praise of men, and do not perceive that anything man can do may be divinely done. Emerson.

We like slipping, but not falling; our real desire is to be tempted enough. Hare.

We like to see through others, but not that others should see through us. La Roche.

We live by admiration, hope, and love; / And 20 even as these are well and wisely fix'd, / In dignity of being we ascend. Wordsworth.

We live by our imaginations, by our admirations, by our sentiments. Emerson.

We live in a real, and a solid, and a truthful world. In such a world only truth, in the long run, can hope to prosper. Prof. Blackie.

We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it was before he entered it. To do this effectually, it is necessary to be fully possessed of only two beliefs: the first, that the order of nature is ascertainable by our faculties to an extent which is practically unlimited; the second, that our volition counts for something as a condition of the course of events. Huxley.

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; / In feelings, not in figures on a dial. Bailey. (?)

We live in the age of systems. Rückert. 25

We loathe what none are left to share; / Even bless 'twere woe alone to bear. Byron.

We long in vain to undo what has been done. Schopenhauer.

We long to use what lies beyond our scope, / Yet cannot use even what within it lies. Goethe.

We look before and after, / And pine for what is not; / E'en our sincerest laughter / With some pain is fraught; / Our sweetest songs are those which tell of saddest thought. Shelley.

We love a girl for very different things than 30 understanding. We love her for her beauty, her youth, her mirth, her confidingness, her character, with its faults, caprices, and God knows what other inexpressible charms; but we do not love her for her understanding. Her mind we esteem (if it is brilliant), and it may greatly elevate her in our opinion; nay, more, it may enchain us when we already love. But her understanding is not that which awakens and inflames our passions. Goethe.

We love in others what we lack ourselves, / And would be everything but what we are. R. H. Stoddart.

We love justice greatly, and just men but little. Joseph Roux.

We love peace, as we abhor pusillanimity; but not peace at any price. There is a peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body. Chains are worse than bayonets. Douglas Jerrold.

We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire. La Roche.

We love to see wisdom in unpretending forms, 35 to recognise her royal features under a week-day vesture. Carlyle.

We make trifles of terrors, ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge, when we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear. All's Well, ii. 3.

We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us. Bovee.

We manufacture everything there (in our manufacturing cities) except men; we blanch cotton, and strengthen steel, and refine sugar, and shape pottery; but to brighten, to strengthen, to refine, or to form a single living spirit, never enters into our estimate of advantages. Ruskin.

We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost. Rousseau.

We may all agree in lamenting that there are so many houses where you will not find a good atlas, a good dictionary, or a good cyclopædia of reference. What is still more lamentable, in a good many more houses where these books are, is that they are never referred to or opened. John Morley.

We may almost say that a new life begins when a man once sees with his own eyes all that before he has but partially read or heard of. Goethe.

We may be as good as we please, if we please to be good. Barrow.

We may be pretty certain that persons whom 5 all the world treats ill deserve entirely the treatment they get. Thackeray.

We may build more splendid habitations, / Fill our rooms with paintings and with sculptures,/ But we cannot / Buy with gold the old associations! Longfellow.

We may daily discover crowds acquire sufficient wealth to buy gentility, but very few that possess the virtues which ennoble human nature, and (in the best sense of the word) constitute a gentleman. Shenstone.

We may despise the world, but we cannot do without it. Baron Wessenberg.

We may fall in with a thousand learned men before we fall in with one wise. Klinger.

We may give more offence by our silence than 10 even by impertinence. Hazlitt.

We may grasp virtue so hard as to convert it into a vice. Montaigne.

We may have a law, or we may have no law, but we cannot have half a law. Johnson.

We may have once been slugs, and may one day be angels, but we are men now; and we must, as men, do our work honourably and thoroughly. Ruskin.

We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age. Colton.

We may, like the ships, by tempests be toss'd / 15 On perilous deeps, but cannot be lost. Newton.

We may not be able to parry evil thoughts, but we may surely guard against their taking root in us and bringing forth evil deeds. Luther.

We may outrun / By violent swiftness that which we run at, / And lose by overrunning. Hen. VIII., i. 1.

We may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, "Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did;" and so, if I might be judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling. Izaak Walton.

We may seek God by our intellect (Verstand), but we can find him only with the heart. Cötvös.

We may take Fancy for a companion, but must 20 follow Reason as our guide. Johnson.

We mount to heaven mostly on the ruins of our cherished schemes, finding our failures were successes. A. B. Alcott.

We move too much in platoons; we march by sections; we do not live in our vital individuality enough; we are slaves to fashion, in mind and in heart, if not to our passions and appetites. Chapin.

We must accept ourselves as we are. Scherer.

We must accept the post to which Heaven appoints us, and do the duty to which Heaven calls us, and think it no shame, but an honour, to hold any office, however lowly, under heaven's King. Ed.

We must all receive and learn both from those 25 who were before us and from those who are with us. Even the greatest genius would not go far if he tried to owe everything to his own internal self. Goethe.

We must all toil—or steal; no faithful workman finds his life a pastime. Carlyle.

We must avoid fastidiousness; neatness, when it is moderate, is a virtue; but when it is carried to an extreme, it narrows the mind. Fénelon.

We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light. Emerson.

We must be free or die who speak the tongue / That Shakespeare spake, the faith and morals hold / Which Milton held. Wordsworth.

We must be our own before we can be 30 another's. Emerson.

We must bear what Heaven sends us; no noble heart will bear injustice. Schiller.

We must carry the beautiful with us, or we find it not. Emerson.

We must first cross a valley before we regain a favourable and cheerful height; meanwhile, let us see how we can stroll through it with our friends pleasantly and profitably. Goethe.

We must first pray, and then labour; first implore the blessing of God, and use those means which he puts into our hands. Johnson.

We must have the real thing before we can 35 have a science of the thing. Froude.

We must hold by what is definite, and not split up our strength in many directions. Hegel.

We must, if we would husband life and not waste it, bravely resolve to dispense with the dispensable, to content ourselves with the minimum of want, to stake our reputation, if such be dear to us, upon intrinsic worth, and show once again, if we can, by our mere life and labour, what are the "roots of honour" and the "veins of wealth." Ed.

We must judge of a form of government by its general tendency, not by happy accidents. Macaulay.

We must labour unceasingly to render our piety reasonable, and our reason pious. Mme. Swetchine.

We must needs die, and are as water spilt on 40 the ground which cannot be gathered up again. Bible.

We must not arrogate to ourselves a spirit of forgiveness, until we have been touched to the quick where we are sensitive and borne it meekly. Ward Beecher.

We must not contradict, but instruct, him that contradicts us. Antisthenes.

We must not judge of despots by the temporary successes which the possession of power enabled them to achieve, but by the state in which they leave their country at their death or at their fall. Mme. de Staël.

We must not make a scarecrow of the law. Meas. for Meas., ii. 1.

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, but strike it till it is made hot. Sharp.

We must not regard what the many say of us; but what he, the one man who has understanding of just and unjust, will say, and what the truth will say. Plato.

We must not stand upon trifles. Cervantes.

We must not stint / Our necessary actions, in 5 the fear / To cope malicious censurers; which ever, / As ravenous fishes, do a vessel follow / That is new trimmed, but benefit no further / Than vainly longing. Hen. VIII., i. 2.

We must not suppose ourselves always to have conquered a temptation when we have fled from it. Thomas à Kempis.

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into our old age, for old age brings with it its own defects. Goethe.

We must put up with our contemporaries, since we can neither live with our ancestors nor posterity. George Eliot.

We must sometimes cease to adhere to our own opinion for the sake of peace. Thomas à Kempis.

We must strive to make of humanity one 10 single family. Mazzini.

We must take the current when it serves, / Or lose our ventures. Jul. Cæs., iv. 3.

We must take the world as we find it. Pr.

We need change of objects. Emerson.

We (in England) need examples of people who, leaving Heaven to decide whether they are to rise in the world, decide for themselves that they will be happy in it, and have resolved to seek—not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity; making the first of possessions self-possession, and honouring themselves in the harmless pride and calm pursuits of peace. Ruskin.

We need greater virtues to sustain good than 15 evil fortune. La Roche.

We need not die while we are living. Ward Beecher.

We needs must love the highest when we see it, / Not Lancelot, nor another. Tennyson.

We never can know the truth of sin; for its nature is to deceive alike on the one side the sinner and on the other the judge. Ruskin.

We never can say why we love, but only that we love. The heart is ready enough at feigning excuses for all that it does or imagines of wrong; but ask it to give a reason for any of its beautiful and divine motions, and it can only look upward and be dumb. Lowell.

We never desire ardently what we desire 20 rationally. La Roche.

We never learn what people are by their coming to us; we must go to them if we wish to know what they are made of, and see how they conduct or misconduct their surroundings. Goethe.

We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging for being happy, it cannot be but that we never are so. Pascal.

We never love truly but once. It is the first time. Succeeding passions are less involuntary. Du Cœur.

We never reflect on the man we love without exulting in our choice; while he who has bound us to him by benefits alone rises to our idea as a person to whom we have, in some measure, forfeited our freedom. Goldsmith.

We never see anything isolated in Nature, 25 but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it, and over it. Goethe.

We never sufficiently consider that a language is properly only symbolical, only figurative, and expresses objects never immediately, but only in reflection; yet how difficult it is not to put the sign in place of the thing, always to keep the thing as it is (das Wesen) before one's mind, and not annihilated by the expression (das Wort). Goethe.

We often quarrel with the unfortunate to get rid of pitying them. Vauvenargues.

We ought certainly to despise malice if we cannot oppose it. Goldsmith.

We ought not, in general, to take the opinions of others upon trust, but to reason and judge for ourselves. Locke.

We ought not to isolate ourselves, for we 30 cannot remain in a state of isolation. Social intercourse makes us the more able to bear with ourselves and with others. Goethe.

We ought not to judge men by their absolute excellence, but by the distance which they have travelled from the point at which they started. Ward Beecher.

We ought not to quit our post without the permission of Him who commands; the post of man is life. Pythagoras.

We ought not to seek too high joys. We may be bright without transfiguration. Ward Beecher.

We ought not to teach children the sciences, but to give them a taste for them. Rousseau.

We ought to attempt no more than what is in 35 the compass of our genius and according to our vein. Dryden.

We ought to be ashamed of our pride, but never proud of our shame. (?)

We ought to obey God rather than man. St. Peter.

We ought to regard our servants as friends in a lower state. Plato.

We our betters see bearing our woes, / We scarcely think our miseries our foes. King Lear, iii. 6.

We owe it to our ancestors to preserve entire 40 those rights which they have delivered to our care; we owe it to our posterity not to suffer their dearest inheritance to be destroyed. Junius.

We owe to man higher succours than food and fire. We owe to man, man. Emerson.

We own whom we love. The universe is God's because He loves. Ward Beecher.

We pain ourselves to please nobody. Emerson.

We pardon as long as we love. La Roche.

We part with true joy almost more lightly 45 than with a beautiful dream. Fr. Grillparzer.

We pass our life in deliberation, and we die upon it. Pasquier Quesnel.

We pity in others only those evils which we have ourselves experienced. Rousseau.

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

We poets in our youth begin in gladness, / But thereof come in the end despondency and madness. Wordsworth.

We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears. La Roche.

We properly learn from those books only which are above our criticism, which we cannot judge. Goethe.

We read far too many things, thus losing time 5 and gaining nothing. We should only read what we admire. Goethe.

We readily believe what we wish to be true. Pr.

We reap what we sow, but Nature has love over and above that justice, and gives us shadow and blossom and fruit that spring from no planting of ours. George Eliot.

We receive but little advantage from repeated protestations of gratitude, but they cost them very much from whom we exact them in return. Goldsmith.

We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly. Mme. Swetchine.

We retain from our studies only that which 10 we practically apply. Goethe.

We sacrifice to dress till household joys and comforts cease. Dress drains our cellar dry and keeps our larder lean. Cowper.

We see but the outside of the rich man's happiness; few consider him to be like the silkworm, that, when she seems to play, is at the very same time spinning her own bowels and consuming herself. Isaac Walton.

We see farthest into the future—and that is not far—when we most carefully consider the facts of the present. Dr. Jowett.

We see so darkly into futurity, we never know when we have real cause to rejoice or lament. The worst appearances have often happy consequences, as the best lead many times into the greatest misfortunes. Lady Montagu.

We see the blossoms wither and the leaves 15 fall, but we likewise see fruits ripen and new buds shoot forth. Goethe.

We seek but half the causes of our deeds, / Seeking them only in the outer life, / And heedless of the encircling spirit-world, / Which, though unseen, is felt, and sows in us / All germs of pure and world-wide purposes. Lowell.

We seldom give our love to what is worthiest in its object. J. M. Barrie.

We seldom speak of the virtue we have, but much more frequently of that which we have not. Lessing.

"We shall fight in the shade." Leonidas, to the threat of the Persians that their forest of arrows would darken the sun.

We shall find no fiend in hell can match the 20 fury of a disappointed woman,—scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang. Cibber.

We should always keep a corner of our heads open and free, that we may make room for the opinions of our friends. Joubert.

We should be slower to think that the man at his worst is the real man, and certain that the better we are ourselves the less likely is he to be at his worst in our company. J. M. Barrie.

We should be sparing in our intimacies; because it so very often happens that the more perfectly men are understood, the less they are esteemed. Thomas à Kempis.

We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character. Thoreau.

We should count time by heart-throbs. / He 25 most lives / Who thinks most, feels the noblest, / Acts the best. Bailey.

We should despise the wretch who has never once thought what it is he is doing (vollbringt). Goethe (?).

We should distinguish between laughter inspired by joy, and that which arises from mockery. Goldsmith.

We should eat to live, and not live to eat. Pr.

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression. Confucius.

We should forgive freely, but forget rarely. 30 I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself. Colton.

We should guard against a talent which we cannot hope to practise in perfection. Improve it as we may, we shall always in the end, when the merit of the master has become apparent to us, painfully lament the loss of time and strength devoted to such botching. Goethe.

We should have all our communications with men as in the presence of God; and with God, as in the presence of men. Colton.

We should hold the immutable mean that lies between insensibility and anguish; our attempts should be, not to extinguish nature, but to repress it; not to stand unmoved at distress, but endeavour to turn every disaster to our own advantage. Confucius.

We should labour to treat with ease of things that are difficult; with familiarity, of things that are novel; and with perspicuity, of things that are profound. Colton.

We should live each day as if it were the full 35 term of our life. (?)

We should manage our fortune like our constitution; enjoy it when good, have patience when bad, and never apply violent remedies but in cases of necessity. La Roche.

We should never risk pleasantry except with well-bred people, and people with brains. La Bruyère.

We should never so entirely avoid danger as to appear irresolute and cowardly; but, at the same time, we should avoid unnecessarily exposing ourselves to danger, than which nothing can be more foolish. Cic.

We should not be too hasty in bestowing either our praise or censure on mankind, since we shall often find such a mixture of good and evil in the same character, that it may require a very accurate judgment and a very elaborate inquiry to determine on which side the balance turns. Fielding.

We should not spur a willing horse. Pr. 40

We should not trust the heart too much. The heart speaks to us very gladly, as our mouth expresses itself. If the mouth were as much inclined to speak the feelings of the heart, it would have been the fashion long ago to put a padlock on the mouth. Lessing.

We should often feel ashamed of our most brilliant actions were the world to see the motives from which they sprung. La Roche.

We should only utter higher maxims so far as they can benefit the world. The rest we should keep within ourselves, and they will diffuse over our actions a lustre like the mild radiance of a hidden sun. Goethe.

We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it. Bovee.

We should seem ignorant that we oblige, and leave the mind at full liberty to give or refuse its affections; for constraint may indeed leave the receiver still grateful but it will certainly produce disgust. Goldsmith.

We should take a prudent care for the future, 5 but so as to enjoy the present. It is no part of wisdom to be miserable to-day, because we may happen to be so to-morrow. (?)

We should, to the last moment of our lives, continue a settled intercourse with all the true examples of grandeur. Sir Joshua Reynolds.

We shut our eyes, and, like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it. Sen.

We sink to rise. Emerson.

We smile at the satire expended upon the follies of others, but we forget to weep at our own. Mme. Necker.

We sometimes meet an original gentleman, 10 who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them. Emerson.

We sometimes see a change of expression in our companion, and say, His father or his mother comes to the windows of his eyes, and sometimes a remote relative. In different hours, a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled up in each man's skin—seven or eight ancestors at least—and they constitute the variety of notes for that new piece of music which his life is. Emerson.

We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen. Jesus.

We still are fain, with wrath and strife, / To seek for gain, to shrink from loss, / Content to scratch our shallow cross / On the rough surface of old life. Dr. W. Smith.

We swallow at one gulp a lie which flatters us, but only drop by drop a truth which is bitter to us. Diderot.

We take a great deal for granted in this world, 15 and expect that everything, as a matter of course, ought to fit into our humours, wishes, and wants; it is often only when danger threatens that we awake to the discovery that the guiding reins are held by one whom we had well-nigh forgotten in our careless ease. Mrs. Gatty.

We take a pleasure in being severe upon others, but cannot endure to hear of our own faults. Thomas à Kempis.

We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavouring to think so ourselves. Confucius.

We take no note of time but from its loss. Young.

We talk little if we do not talk about ourselves. Hazlitt.

We talk on principle, but we act on interest. 20 Landor.

We tell our triumphs to the crowd, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows. Bulwer Lytton.

We tell the ladies that good wives make good husbands; I believe it is a more certain position that good brothers make good sisters. Johnson.

We that acquaint ourselves with every zone, / And pass the tropics, and behold each pole; / When we come home, are to ourselves unknown, / And unacquainted still with our own soul. Davies.

We think our civilisation near its meridian; but we are yet only at the cock-crowing and the morning star. Emerson.

We tolerate everybody, because we doubt 25 everything; or else we tolerate nobody, because we believe something. Mrs. E. B. Browning.

We trample grass, and prize the flowers of May; / Yet grass is green when flowers do fade away. R. Southwell.

We treat God with irreverence by banishing him from our thoughts, not by referring to his will on slight occasions. Ruskin.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger. Corn.

We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and insensibly approximate to the characters we most admire. In this way, a generous habit of thought and of action carries with it an incalculable influence. Bovee.

We underpin our houses with granite; what 30 of our habits and our lives? Thoreau.

We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness. Joubert.

We usually lose the to-day, because there has been a yesterday, and to-morrow is coming. Goethe.

We very often have to do things during our lives of which we do not understand the reasons, but the more clearly we understand the work we have to do, depend upon it, the better the work will be done. W. E. Forster.

We wander there, we wander here, / We eye the rose upon the brier, / Unmindful that the thorn is near, / Amang the leaves. Burns.

We want but two or three friends, but these 35 we cannot do without, and they serve us in every thought we think. Emerson.

We want downright facts at present more than anything else. Ruskin.

We want foolishly to think the creed a man professes a more significant fact than the man he is. Thoreau.

We want one man to be always thinking, and another to be always working, and we call the one a gentleman, and the other an operative; whereas the workman ought often to be thinking, and the thinker often to be working, and both should be gentlemen in the best sense. Ruskin.

We waste our best years in distilling the sweetest flowers of life into potions which, after all, do not immortalise, but only intoxicate. Longfellow.

We wear a face of joy because / We have been 40 glad of yore. Wordsworth.

We, who name ourselves its (the world) sovereigns, we, / Half dust, half deity, alike unfit / To sink or soar. Byron.

We will have others severely corrected, and will not be corrected ourselves. Thomas à Kempis.

We will not estimate the sun by the quantity of gaslight it saves us. Carlyle.

We will not from the helm, to sit and weep; / But keep our course, though the rough wind say no. (?)

We will obey the voice of the Lord our God, that it may be well with us. Bible.

We wish to be happier than other people; and 5 this is almost always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. Montesquieu.

We would commend a faith that even seems audacious, like that of the sturdy Covenanter Robert Bruce, who requested, as he was dying, that his finger might be placed on one of God's strong promises, as though to challenge the Judge of all with it as he should enter his presence. Dr. Gordon.

We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings when of ourselves we publish them. All's Well, i. 3.

We wrap ourselves up in the cloak of our own better fortune, and turn away our eyes, lest the wants and woes of our brother-mortals should disturb the selfish apathy of our souls. Burns.

We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not possess. Emerson.

We'd jump the life to come. But, in these 10 cases, / We still have judgment here; that we but teach / Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return / To plague the inventor. This even-handed justice / Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice / To our own lips. Macb., i. 7.

We'll stand up for our properties, was the beggar's song, that lived upon the alms-basket. L'Estrange.

Weak eyes are precisely the fondest of glittering objects. Carlyle.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as under adversity; strong and deep ones have two highest tides—when the moon is at the full, and when there is no moon. Hare.

Weak persons cannot be sincere. La Roche.

Weak Virtue that amid the shade / Lamenting 15 lies, with future schemes amused, / While Wickedness and Folly, kindred powers, / Confound the world! Thomson.

Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended. La Roche.

Weaknesses, so called, are neither more nor less than vice in disguise. Lavater.

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, as frost and fire are both alien to the human flesh. Famine and gluttony alike drive nature away from the heart of man. Theodore Parker.

Wealth consists of the good, and therefore useful, things in the possession of the nation; money is only the written or coined sign of the relative quantities of wealth in each person's possession. Ruskin.

Wealth cannot purchase any great private 20 solace or convenience. Riches are only the means of sociality. Thoreau.

Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished; but he that gathereth by labour shall increase. Bible.

Wealth heaped on wealth, nor truth nor safety buys; / The dangers gather as the treasures rise. Johnson.

Wealth imparts a birdlime quality to the possessor, at which the man in his native poverty would have revolted. Burns.

Wealth implies the possession of what is of intrinsic value and of a capacity to use it. Ruskin.

Wealth is a shift. The wise man angles with 25 himself only, and with no meaner bait. Emerson.

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it. Ben. Franklin.

Wealth is the application of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot. Emerson.

Wealth is the conjuror's devil; / Whom when he thinks he hath, the devil hath him. Herbert.

Wealth is the possession of useful articles which we can use, (so that) instead of depending merely on a "have," it is thus seen to depend on a "can." Ruskin.

Wealth leaves us at death; kinsmen at the 30 grave; but virtues of the mind unto the heavens with us we have. Lord Vaux.

Wealth makes wit waver. Sc. Pr.

Wealth maketh many friends, but the poor is separated from his neighbour. Bible.

Wealth of every species necessarily flows to the hands of him who exerteth himself. Hitopadesa.

Wealth only by its use we know. Anon.

Wealth, power, and even the advantages of 35 youth, have little to do with that which gives repose to the mind and firmness to the frame. Scott.

Wealth richer than both the Indies lies for every man, if he will endure. Not his oaks only and his fruit-trees, his very heart roots itself wherever he may abide—roots itself, draws nourishment from the deep fountains of universal being. Carlyle.

Wealth which breeds idleness, of which the English peerage is an example, and of which we are beginning to abound in specimens in this country (America), is only a sort of human oyster-bed, where heirs and heiresses are planted, to spend a contemptible life of slothfulness in growing plump and succulent for the grave-worm's banquet. Horace Mann.

Wealth without contentment climbs a hill, / To feel those tempests which fly over ditches. George Herbert.

Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one. If you are asked what o'clock it is, tell it, but do not proclaim it hourly and unasked, like the watchmen. Chesterfield.

Wearers of rings and chains! / Pray do not 40 take the pains / To set me right. / In vain my faults ye quote; / I write as others wrote / On Sunium's height. Landor.

Weariness / Can snore upon the flint, when resty sloth / Finds the down pillow hard. Cymbeline, iii. 6.

Weary the path that does not challenge reason. Doubt is an incentive to truth, and patient inquiry leadeth the way. H. Ballou.

Weave in faith and God will find thread. Pr.

Weder sicher noch gerathen ist, etwas wider Gewissen zu thun. Hier stehe ich, ich kann nicht anders. Gott helfe mir—It is neither safe nor prudent to do aught against conscience. Here stand I, I cannot do otherwise. God be helping me. Luther at the Diet of Worms.

Wedlock, indeed, hath oft compared been / To publick feasts, where meet a publick rout: / When they that are without would fain go in, / And they that are within would fain go out. Sir J. Davis.

Wedlock is like a besieged fortress: those who are outside wish to get in, and those who are inside wish to get out. Arab. Pr.

Wee modest crimson-tipped flower, / Thou's 5 met me in an evil hour; / For I maun crush amang the stour / Thy slender stem; / To spare thee now is past my power, / Thou bonny gem. Burns.

Wee Willie Winkie rins through the toun, / Upstairs and dounstairs, in his nicht-goun, / Tirlin' at the window, cryin' at the lock, / "Are the weans in their bed? for it's noo ten o'clock." William Miller.

Weed your better judgments / Of all opinion that grows rank in them. As You Like It, ii. 7.

Weeds make dunghills gracious. Tennyson.

Weel is that weel does. Sc. Pr.

Weep no more, lady, weep no more. / For 10 sorrow is in vain; / For violets pluck'd, the sweetest showers / Will ne'er revive again. Anon.

Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. Bible.

Weh dem Lande, wo man nicht mehr singt—Woe to the land where the voice of song has gone dumb. Seume.

Weigh not so much what men say, as what they prove: remembering that truth is simple and naked, and needs not invective to apparel her comeliness. Sir P. Sidney.

Weighty things are done in solitude, that is, without society. The means of improvement consist not in projects, or in any violent designs, for these cool, and cool very soon, but in patient practising for whole long days, by which I make the thing clear to my highest reason. Jean Paul.

Weighty work must be done with few words. 15 Dan. Pr.

Weise Hut, / Behält ihr Gut—Wise care keeps what it has gained. Ger. Pr.

Weise sein ist nicht allzeit gut—It is not always good to be wise. Ger. Pr.

Weiser Mann, starker Mann—A wise man is a strong man. Ger. Pr.

Weisheit, du wirst Unsinn / Im Mund des Schwärmers—Wisdom, thou changest into folly in the mouth of the fanatic. Otto Ludwig.

Welch Glück geliebt zu werden: / Und lieben, 20 Götter, welch ein Glück!—What a happiness to be loved! and to love, ye gods, what bliss! Goethe.

Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. Emerson.

Welcome is the best cheer. Pr.

Welcome, Misfortune, if thou comest alone. Pr.

Well at ease are the sleepers for whom existence is a shallow dream. Carlyle.

Well for the drones of the social hive that there 25 are bees of an industrious turn, willing, for an infinitesimal share of the honey, to undertake the labour of its fabrication. Hood.

Well has Ennius said, "Kindnesses misplaced are nothing but a curse and disservice." Cic.

Well-married, a man is winged; ill-matched, he is shackled. Ward Beecher.

Well roared, lion. Mid. N.'s Dream, v. 1.