DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS. (continued 32)

Well thriveth that well suffereth. Pr.

Well to work and make a fire, / Doth both 30 care and skill require. Pr.

Well, well, is a word of malice. Cheshire Pr.

Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, / And say, there is no sin but to be rich; / And being rich, my virtue then shall be, / To say, there is no vice but beggary. King John, ii. 2.

Well, you may fear too far.—/ Safer than trust too far. King Lear, i. 4.

Wem nicht zu rathen ist, dem ist auch nicht zu helfen—Who will not be advised, cannot be helped. Ger. Pr.

Wen die Natur zum Dichter schuf, den lehrt 35 sie auch zu paaren / Das Schöne mit dem Kräftigen, das Neue mit dem Wahren—Him whom Nature hast created for a poet, she also teaches to combine the beautiful with the powerful, and the new with the true. Platen.

Wen Gott niederschlägt, der richtet sich selbst nicht auf—He raises not himself up again whom God smites down. Goethe.

Wen jemand lobt, dem stellt er sich gleich—Every one puts himself on a level with him whom he praises. Goethe.

Wenn alle untreu werden, / So bleib' ich dir doch treu—Though all deny thee, yet will not I ever. Novalis.

Wenn das Geld im Kasten klingt, / Die Seele aus dem Fegfeuer springt—As soon as the money jingles in the box, the soul leaps out of purgatory. Sallet after Tetzel.

Wenn das Glück anpocht, soll man ihm aufthun—When 40 fortune knocks, open the door. Ger. Pr.

Wenn das Leblose lebendig ist, so kann es auch wohl Lebendiges hervorbringen—When what is lifeless has life, it can also produce what has life. Goethe.

Wenn der Purpur fällt, muss auch der Herzog nach—If the purple goes, the duke must follow. Schiller.

Wenn du eine weise Antwort verlangst, / Musst du vernünftig fragen—If thou desirest a wise answer, thou must ask a reasonable question. Goethe.

Wenn du nicht irrst, kommst du nicht zu Verstand—If thou dost not err, thou doest not come to understand. Goethe.

Wenn ein Edler gegen dich fehlt, / So thu' als 45 hättest du's nicht gezählt; / Er wird es in sein Schuldbuch schreiben / Und dir nicht lange im Debet bleiben—If a noble man has done thee a wrong, act as though thou hadst taken no note of it; he will write it in his ledger, and not remain long in thy debt. Goethe.

Wenn Gott sagt: Heute, sagt der Teufel: Morgen—When God says "To-day," the devil says "To-morrow." Ger. Pr.

Wenn ihr's nicht fühlt, ihr werdet's nicht erjagen—If you do not feel it, you will not get it by hunting for it. Goethe.

Wenn man von den Leuten Pflichten fordert und ihnen keine Rechte zugestehen will, muss man sie gut bezahlen—When we exact duties from people and acknowledge no just claims they may have on us, we ought to pay them well. Goethe.

Wenn man was Böses thut, erschrickt man vor dem Bösen—When people do evil, they are afraid of the Evil One. Goethe.

Wenn mancher Mann wüsste, / Wer mancher Mann wär', / Thät' mancher Mann manchem Mann / Manchmal mehr Ehr'—If many a man knew who many a man was, many a man would do many a time more honour to many a man. Ger. Pr.

Wenn Moses nicht bei Aaron ist, so macht Aaron—Kälber—If Moses is not with Aaron, then Aaron makes him—calves. Frederick the Great.

Wenn sich der Verirrte findet / Freuen alle 5 Götter sich—When the wanderer finds his way again, all the gods rejoice. Goethe.

Wer allen alles traut, dem kann man wenig trauen—Him who trusts everything to every one, we can trust with little. Lessing.

Wer darf das Kind beim rechten Namen nennen?—Who dare name the child by his right name? Goethe.

Wer darf ihn nennen?—Who dare name Him? Goethe.

Wer den Tod fürchtet, hat das Leben verloren—He who fears death is forfeit of life. Seume.

Wer der Dichtkunst Stimme nicht vernimmt, / 10 Ist ein Barbar, er sei auch wer er sei—He who has no ear for the voice of poesy is a barbarian, be he who he may. Goethe.

Wer der Vorderste ist, führt die Herde—The foremost leads the herd. Schiller.

Wer die Leiter hinauf will, muss bei der untersten Sprosse schon beginnen—He who would mount a ladder must begin at the lowest step. Ger. Pr.

Wer die Wahrheit kennet und saget sie nicht, / Der bleibt fürwahr ein erbärmlicher Wicht—Verily, he is a wretched creature who knows the truth and speaks it not. Binzer.

Wer dir als Freund nichts nützen kann / Kann allemal als Feind dir schaden—He who can do you no service as a friend, can always work you harm as an enemy. Gellert.

Wer edel ist, den suchet die Gefahr / Und er 15 sucht sie, sie müssen sich treffen—Whoso is noble, danger courts him, and he courts danger; so the two are sure to meet. Goethe.

Wer erst klug wird nach der That, / Braucht seine Weisheit viel zu spat—He who is wise only after the deed, uses his wisdom much too late. Rollenhagen.

Wer fertig ist, dem ist nichts recht zu machen; / Ein Werdender wird immer dankbar sein—To him who is finished off, nothing you can do is right; a growing man (a learner) will be always thankful. Goethe.

Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eignen—He who knows not foreign languages knows nothing of his own. Goethe.

Wer fröhlich sein will sein Lebenlang / Lasse der Welt ihren tollen Gang—He who will be happy through life must leave the world alone in its own mad career. Rückert.

Wer ist der Weiseste? Der nichts anders 20 weiss und will, als das was begegnet—Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows nor wishes for anything else than what happens. Goethe.

Wer ist ein unbrauchbarer Man? Der nicht befehlen und auch nicht gehorchen kann—Who is a good-for-nothing? He who can neither command nor even obey. Goethe.

Wer ist grösser, Schiller, Goethe? / Wie man nur so mäkeln mag! / Himmlisch ist die Morgenröte, / Himmlisch ist der helle Tag—Which is greater, Schiller or Goethe? One is, or the other is, as you judge of them. Of heaven is the red dawn of morning; of heaven the clear light of day. Bauernfeld.

Wer ist mächtiger als der Tod? / Wer da kann lachen, wenn er droht—Who is mightier than death? He who can smile when death threatens. Rückert.

Wer kann was Dummes, wer was Kluges denken, / Das nicht die Vorwelt schon gedacht?—Who can think anything stupid or sensible that the world has not thought already? Goethe.

Wer lange bedenkt, der wählt nicht immer 25 das Beste—He who is long in making up his mind does not always choose the best. Goethe.

Wer lügt, der stiehlt—He who lies, steals. Ger. Pr.

Wer mit sich selber eins, ist eins mit Gott—He who is one with himself is one with God. Bodenstedt.

Wer nicht Bitteres gekostet hat, weiss nicht was süss ist—He who has not tasted bitter does not know what sweet is. Ger. Pr.

Wer nicht hören will, der muss fühlen—He that will not hear must be made to feel. Ger. Pr.

Wer nicht liebt Wein, Weib und Gesang / 30 Der bleibt ein Narr sein Lebenlang—Who loves not wine, woman, and song, remains a fool all his life long. Luther. (?)

Wer nichts für andre thut, thut nichts für sich—He who does nothing for others does nothing for himself. Goethe.

Wer nichts fürchtet, ist nicht weniger mächtiger, als der, den alles fürchtet—He who fears nothing is not less mighty than he whom everything fears. Schiller.

Wer nie sein Brod mit Thränen ass, / Wer nicht die kummervollen Nächte / Auf seinem Bette weinend sass / Der kennt euch nicht, ihr himmlischen Mächte—He who never ate his bread with tears, who sat not on his bed through sorrowful nights weeping, he knows you not, ye heavenly Powers. Goethe.

Wer oft schiesst, trifft endlich—He who shoots often, hits the mark at last. Ger. Pr.

Wer sein eigener Lehrmeister sein will, hat 35 einen Narren zum Schüler—He who undertakes to be his own teacher has a fool for a pupil. Ger. Pr.

Wer sich behaglich fühlt zu Haus, / Der rennt nicht in die Welt hinaus; / Weltunzufriedenheit beweisen / Die vielen Weltentdeckungsreisen—He who feels at ease at home, runs not out into the world beyond. The many voyages of discovery over the world argue a world-wide discontent. Rückert.

Wer will, der vermag—He is able who is willing. Ger. Pr.

Wer will was Lebendig's erkennen und beschreiben / Sucht erst den Geist herauszutreiben, / Dann hat er die Teile in seiner Hand, / Fehlt leider, nur das geistige Band—He who would know and describe anything living, sets himself to drive out the spirit first; he has then all the parts in his hand, only unhappily the living bond is wanting. Goethe, Mephisto in "Faust."

Wer wohl sitzt, der rücke nicht—Let him who is well seated not stir. Ger. Pr.

Were a man of pleasure to arrive at the full extent of his several wishes, he must immediately feel himself miserable. Shenstone.

Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated with songs of triumph. Carlyle.

Were I a steam-engine, wouldst thou take the trouble to tell lies of me? Carlyle.

Were I so tall to reach the pole / Or grasp 5 the ocean with my span, / I must be measured by my soul: / The mind's the standard of the man. Watts.

Were it no for hope the heart wad break. Sc. Pr.

Were it not miraculous, could I stretch forth my hand and clutch the sun? Dost thou not see that the true inexplicable God-revealing miracle lies in this, that I can stretch forth my hand at all, that I have free force to clutch aught therewith? Carlyle.

Were man / But constant, he were perfect. Two Gent. of Verona, v. 4.

Were man not a poor hungry dastard, and even much of a blockhead withal, he would cease criticising his victuals to such extent, and criticise himself rather, what he does with his victuals. Carlyle.

Were one to preach a sermon on Health, as 10 really were worth doing, Scott ought to be the text. Carlyle.

Were the eye not sun-related (sonnenhaft), it could never see the sun; were there not in us divine affinities, how could the divine so ravish us? Goethe.

"Were there as many devils in Worms as there are roof-tiles, I would on." Luther's answer to his friends who pled with him not to go.

Were there but one man in the world, he would be a terror to himself; and the highest man not less so than the lowest. Carlyle.

Were we as eloquent as angels, we would please some men, some women, and some children much more by listening than by talking. Colton.

Were we to take as much pains to be what we 15 ought to be as we do to disguise what we really are, we might appear like ourselves, without being at the trouble of any disguise at all. La Roche.

Were wisdom given me with this reservation, that I should keep it shut up within myself and not impart it, I would spurn it. Sen.

Were wisdom to be sold, she would give no price; every man is satisfied with the share he has from nature. Henry Home.

Westward the course of empire takes its way. Berkeley.

What a blessed thing it is that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left! Holmes.

What a delight to have a husband beside you, 20 were it only to salute you when you sneeze, and say "God bless you!" Molière.

What a dismal, debasing, and confusing element is that of a sick body on the human soul or thinking part! Carlyle.

What a fool is he who locks his door to keep out spirits, who has in his own bosom a spirit he dares not meet alone; whose voice, smothered far down, and piled over with mountains of earthliness, is yet like the forewarning trumpet of doom! Mrs. Stowe.

What a force of illusion begins life with us, and attends us to the end! Emerson.

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too soon famous! Voltaire.

What a hell of witchcraft lies in the small orb 25 of one particular tear! Shakespeare.

What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life by him who interests his heart in everything. Sterne.

What a man can do is his greatest ornament, and he always consults his dignity by doing it. Carlyle.

What a man does not believe can never at bottom be of any true interest to him. Carlyle.

What a man does, that he has. Emerson.

What a man does, that he is. Hegel. 30

What a man finds good of, and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health. Bacon.

What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how others regard him. Schopenhauer.

What a man is irresistibly urged to say, helps him and us. Emerson.

What a man wills, not what he knows, determines his worth or unworth, his power or impotence, his happiness or unhappiness. Lindner.

What a miserable world!—trouble if we love, 35 and trouble if we do not love. Count de Maistre.

What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an angel! In apprehension how like a God! Ham., ii. 2.

What a poor creature is the woman who, inspiring desire, does not also inspire love and reverence! Goethe.

What a road had human nature to traverse before it reached the point of being mild to the guilty, merciful to the injurious, and humane to the inhuman! Doubtless they were men of godlike souls who first taught this, who spent their lives in rendering the practice of this possible, and recommending it to others. Goethe.

What a sense of security is in an old book which Time has criticised for us! Lowell.

What a strange thing man is! and what a 40 stranger / Is woman! Byron.

What a thin film it is that divides the living from the dead! Carlyle.

What a vanity is painting, which attracts admiration by the resemblance of things that in the original we do not admire! Pascal.

What a view a man must have of this universe who thinks he can swallow it all, who is not doubly and trebly happy that he can keep it from swallowing him! Carlyle.

What a wretched thing is all fame! A renown of the highest sort endures, say for two thousand years. And then? Why then a fathomless eternity swallows it. Carlyle.

What actually constitutes the human element 45 in man is a kindly spirit. Schiller.

What an enormous camera obscura magnifier is Tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory, in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart is there to encourage it! Carlyle.

What an inaccessible stronghold that man possesses who is always in earnest with himself and the things around him! Goethe.

What are all our histories but God manifesting himself, that he hath shaken, and tumbled down, and trampled upon everything that he hath not planted! Oliver Cromwell.

What are all prayers beneath / But cries of babes, that cannot know / Half the deep thought they breathe? Keble.

What are men better than sheep or goats, / 5 That nourish a blind life within the brain, / If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer / Both for themselves and those who call them friend? Tennyson.

What are the outward details of a life, if the inner secret of it, the remorse, temptations, true, often-baffled, never-ended struggle of it, be forgotten? Details by themselves will never teach us what it is. Carlyle.

What are we great ones on the wave of humanity? We think we rule it when it rules us, and drives us up and down, hither and thither, as it listeth. Goethe.

What are words but empty sounds, that break and scatter in the air, and make no real impression? Thomas à Kempis.

What are your axioms, and categories, and systems, and aphorisms? Words, words. High air-castles are cunningly built of words, the words well bedded in good logic-mortar; wherein, however, no knowledge will come to lodge. Carlyle.

What Art had Homer? what Art had Shakespeare? 10 Patient, docile, valiant intelligence, conscious and unconscious, gathered from all winds, of these two things—their own faculty of utterance, and the audience they had to utter to; add only to which, as the soul of the whole, a blazing, radiant insight into the fact, blazing, burning interest about it, and we have the whole Art of Shakespeare and Homer. Carlyle.

What art was to the ancient world, science is to the modern. Disraeli.

What avail the largest gifts of Heaven, / When drooping health and spirits go amiss? / How tasteless then whatever can be given! / Health is the vital principle of bliss, / And exercise of health. Thomson.

What avails a superfluity of freedom which we cannot use? Goethe.

What avails the dram of brandy while it swims chemically united with its barrel of wort? Let the distiller pass it and repass it through his limbecs; for it is the drops of pure alcohol we want, not the gallons of water, which may be had in every ditch. Carlyle.

What belongs to everybody belongs to nobody. 15 Pr.

What better time for driving, riding, walking, moving through the air by any means, than a fresh, frosty morning, when hope runs cheerily through the veins with the brisk blood and tingles in the frame from head to foot? Dickens.

What bitter pills, / Compos'd of real ills, / Men swallow down to purchase one false good. Quarles.

What boots it at one gate to make defence, / And at another to let in the foe? Milton.

What boots the hero-arm without a hero-eye? Jean Paul.

What built St. Paul's Cathedral? Look at 20 the heart of the matter, it was that divine Hebrew Book, the word partly of the man Moses, an outlaw tending his Midianitish herds four thousand years ago in the wildernesses of Sinai! Carlyle.

What by straight path cannot be reached, / By crooked ways is never won. Goethe.

What can be done, you must do for yourself. Johnson.

What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? / Alas! not all the blood of all the Howards. Pope.

What can Fate devise to vanquish Love? Lewis Morris.

What can they see in the longest kingly line 25 in Europe, save that it runs back to a successful soldier? Scott.

What can we reason, but from what we know? Pope.

What cannot be abused is good for nothing. Niebuhr.

What cannot be avoided, / 'Twere childish weakness to lament or fear. 3 Hen. VI., v. 4.

What cannot be eschew'd must be embraced. Merry Wives, v. 4.

What can't be cured must be endured. Burton. 30

What care I for words? yet words do well / When he that speaks them pleases those that hear. As You Like It, iii. 5.

What cares any man for appearances except as signs of what otherwise he cannot see? Ed.

"What cheer? Brother, quickly tell." / "Above"—"Below." "Good-night"—"All's well." Dibdin.

What chiefly distinguishes great artists from feeble artists is first their sensibility and tenderness; secondly, their imagination; and thirdly, their industry. Ruskin.

What comes from God to us, returns from 35 us to God. (?)

What comes from the heart goes to the heart. Pr.

What constitutes a state?... Men who their duties know, / But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain. Sir William Jones.

What devilry soever kings do, the Greeks must pay the piper. Pr.

What dire offence from amorous causes springs! / What mighty contests rise from trivial things! Pope.

What distinguishes Christianity from all monotheistic religions lies in nothing else than in a making-dead to the law, the removal of the Kantian imperative; instead of which Christianity requires a free inclination. Schiller.

What divine, what truly great thing has ever been effected by force of public opinion? Carlyle.

What do I gain from a man into whose eyes I cannot look when he is speaking, and the mirror of whose soul is veiled to me by a pair of glasses which dazzle me? Goethe.

What do you mean by composing tragedies, when Tragedy in person stalks every street? (?)

What does competency in the long-run mean? It means, to all reasonable beings, cleanliness of person, decency of dress, courtesy of manners, opportunities for education, the delights of leisure, and the bliss of giving. Whipple.

Wha' does the utmost that he can, / Will whyles (sometimes) do mair. Burns.

What doth cherish weeds, but gentle air? / And what makes robbers bold, but too much lenity? 3 Hen. VI., ii. 6.

What doth the Lord require of thee, but to do 5 justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Bible.

What exile from himself can flee? Byron.

What fates impose, that men must needs abide; / It boots not to resist both wind and tide. 3 Hen. VI., iv. 3.

What! fly from love? vain hope: there's no retreat, / When he has wings and I have only feet. Archias.

What glitters is for the moment; the genuine is for all time. Goethe.

What God does all day is not to sit waiting 10 in churches for people to come and worship him. Prof. Drummond.

What God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. Jesus.

What God makes he never mars. Pr.

What good I see humbly I seek to do, / And live obedient to the law, in trust / That what will come, and must come, shall come well. Sir Edwin Arnold.

What governs men is the fear of truth, except such as is useful to them. Amiel.

What great thing ever happened in this 15 world, a world understood always to be made and governed by wisdom, without meaning somewhat? Carlyle.

What gunpowder did for war, the printing-press has done for the mind; and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel of special education, but every reading man is his judge. Wendell Phillips.

What hands build, hands can pull down. Schiller.

What has been, may be; and what may be, may be supposed to be. Swift.

What has been written, as well as what has been actually done, shrivels up and ceases to be worth anything, until it has again been taken up into life, been again felt, thought, and acted upon. Goethe.

What has never anywhere come to pass, that 20 alone never grows old. Schiller.

What has posterity done for us / That we, lest they their rights should lose, / Should trust our necks to gripe of noose? John Trumbull.

What hath he to do with a soul who doth not keep his passions in subjection? Hitopadesa.

What have I to do, ... either with your amusements or your pleasures, unless it was in my power to increase their measure? Sterne.

What have kings that privates have not too, / Save ceremony, save general ceremony? Hen. V., iv. 1.

What have not you men to answer for who 25 talk of love to a woman when her face is all you know of her, and her passions, her aspirations, are for kissing to sleep, her very soul a plaything? J. M. Barrie.

What he greatly thought, he nobly dared. Pope.

What house more stately hath there been, / Or can be, than is Man? George Herbert.

What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud. Hare.

What I cannot praise I speak not of. Goethe.

What I for many a day wished, life has not 30 granted me, but it has instead taught me this, that my wish was a foolish one. Geibel.

What I gave, that I have; / What I spent, that I had; / What I left, that I lost. Epitaph inscribed on the tomb of Robert of Doncaster.

What I have written, I have written. Pilate of the legend he wrote over the Cross.

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. Emerson.

What I object to is, not the poetry of sadness, but the sadness of poetry. Many of the poets make out the fountain of poetry to be only a fountain of tears. Bovee.

What, indeed, is man's life generally but a 35 kind of beast-godhood; the god in us triumphing more and more over the beast; striving more and more to subdue it under his feet? Carlyle.

What is a foreign country to those who have science? Hitopadesa.

What is a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands? George Eliot.

What is a man, / If his chief good and market of his time, / Be but to sleep, and feed? A beast, no more. Ham., iv. 4.

What is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul? Jesus.

What is against Nature is against God. 40 Hebbel.

What is all working, what is all knowing, but a faint interpreting, and a faint showing forth of the mystery, which ever remains infinite? Carlyle.

What, is any one, simply by birth, to be punished or applauded? Hitopadesa.

What is aught but as 'tis valued? Troil. and Cress., ii. 2.

What is barely necessary cannot be dispensed with. Goldsmith.

What is becoming is honourable, and what is 45 honourable is becoming. Cic.

What is beneath me floors me; what is on a level with me bores me; only what is above me supports and lifts me above myself. Anon.

What is bought is cheaper than a gift. Pr.

What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh. Pr.

What is called the spirit of the times is at bottom but the spirit of the gentlemen in which the times are mirrored. Goethe.

What is cheapest to you now is likely to be 50 dearest in the end. Ruskin.

What is chiefly needed in the England of the present day is to show the quantity of pleasure that may be obtained by a consistent, well-administered competence, modest, confessed, and laborious. Ruskin.

What is difficulty? Only a word indicating the degree of strength requisite for accomplishing particular objects; a mere notice of the necessity for exertion; a bugbear to children and fools; only a mere stimulus to men. Samuel Warren.

What is distance to the indefatigable? Hitopadesa.

What is done by night appears by day. Pr.

What is done for those who have not their 5 passions in subjection, is like washing the elephant (i.e., washing the blackamoor white). Hitopadesa.

What is done in a hurry is never done well. Pr.

What is done is done; has already blended itself with the boundless, ever-living, ever-working universe, and will also work there, for good or evil, openly or secretly, through all time. Carlyle.

What is everybody's business is nobody's business. Izaak Walton.

What is excellent should never be carped at nor discussed, but enjoyed and reverentially thought over in silence. Goethe.

What is extraordinary try to look at with your 10 own eyes. Old maxim.

What is false taste but want of perception to discern propriety and distinguish beauty? Goldsmith.

What is generally accepted as virtue in women is very different from what is thought so in men: a very good woman would make but a paltry man. Pope.

What is generally considered true amounts to much the same as if it were actually true. Cötvös.

What is genius or courage without a heart? Goldsmith.

What is genuine but that which is truly excellent, 15 which stands in harmony with the purest nature or reason, and which even now ministers to our highest development! What is spurious but the absurd and the hollow, which brings no fruit—at least, no good fruit. Goethe.

What is gray with age becomes religion. Schiller.

What is happiness? To animals in this world, health. Hitopadesa.

What is important is to have a soul which loves truth, and receives it wherever it finds it. Goethe.

What is in will out. Emerson.

What is it (thy protest against the devil) properly 20 but an altercation with him before you begin honestly fighting with him? Carlyle.

What is it that keeps men in continual discontent and agitation? It is that they cannot make realities correspond with their conceptions, that enjoyment steals away from among their hands, that the wished-for comes too late, and nothing reached and acquired produces on the heart the effect which their longing for it at a distance led them to anticipate. Goethe.

What is justice but another form of the reality we love—a truth acted out? Carlyle.

What is kindness? A principle in the good. Hitopadesa.

What is known to three is known to everybody. Pr.

What is learned in the cradle is carried to the 25 tomb. Pr.

What is life but the choice of that good which contains the least of evil! B. R. Haydon.

What is life except the knitting up of incoherences into coherence? Carlyle.

What is man but a symbol of God, and all that he does, if not symbolical, a revelation to sense of the mystic God-given force that is in him? Carlyle.

What is man, / If his chief good, and market of his time, / Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no man. Ham., iv. 4.

What is mine, even to my life, is hers I love; 30 but the secret of my friend is not mine! Sir P. Sidney.

What is modesty, if it deserts from truth? Johnson.

What is more at ease, more abstracted from the world, than a true single-hearted honesty? Thomas à Kempis.

What is much desired is not believed when it comes. Sp. Pr.

What is my life if I am no longer to be of use to others? Goethe.

What is nearest is often unattainably far off. 35 Goethe.

What is nearest us touches us most. Johnson.

What is new finds better acceptance than what is good or great. Denham.

What is noble?—That which places / Truth in its enfranchised will, / Leaving steps, like angel-traces, / That mankind may follow still! C. Swain.

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

What is not sung is properly no poem, but a 40 piece of prose cramped into jingling lines,—to the great injury of the grammar, to the great grief of the reader, for the most part! Carlyle.

What is not to be, that is not to be; if it be to come to pass, it cannot be otherwise. This reasoning is an antidote. Why doth not the afflicted one drink of it? Hitopadesa.

What is not true has this advantage that it can be eternally talked about; whereas about truth there is an urgency that cries out for its application, for otherwise it has no right to be there. Goethe.

What is not worth reading more than once is not worth reading at all. C. J. Weber.

What is now called the nature of women is an eminently artificial thing—the result of forced repression in some directions, unnatural stimulation in others. J. S. Mill.

What is obvious is not always known, and what 45 is known is not always present. Johnson.

What is of the earth has no permanence; our hearts yearn after a better land. H. A. Hoffmann.

What is often termed shyness is nothing more than refined sense, and an indifference to common observations. (?)

What is our life but an endless flight of winged facts or events? Emerson.

What is past is past. There is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone. Bulwer Lytton.

What is philosophy? An entire separation from the world. Hitopadesa.

What is reason now was passion formerly. Ovid.

What is religion? Compassion for all things 5 that have life. Hitopadesa.

What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. Pr.

What is specially true of love is, that it is a state of extreme impressionability; the lover has more senses and finer senses than others; his eye and ear are telegraphs; he reads omens in the flower and cloud and face and form and gesture, and reads them aright. Emerson.

What is strength without a double share / Of wisdom? vast, unwieldy, burdensome, / Proudly secure, yet liable to fall / By weakest subtleties; not made to rule, / But to subserve where wisdom bears command. Milton.

What is the adored Supreme Perfection, say?—/ What, but eternal never-resting soul, / Almighty power, and all-directing day; / By whom each atom stirs, the planets roll; / Who fills, surrounds, informs, and agitates the whole. Thomson.

What is the best government? That which 10 teaches us to govern ourselves. Goethe.

What is the best in the world? Healthy blood, sinews of steel, and strong nerves. Auerbach.

What is the body when the head is off? 3 Hen. VI., v. 1.

What is the city but the people? True, the people are the city. Coriolanus, iii. 1.

What is the elevation of the soul? A prompt, delicate, certain feeling for all that is beautiful, all that is grand; a quick resolution to do the greatest good by the smallest means; a great benevolence joined to a great strength and great humility. Lavater.

What is the good of fear? The whole solar 15 system were it to fall together about our ears could kill us only once. Carlyle.

What is the highest secret of victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny. W. R. Alger.

What is the majority? Majority is nonsense (Unsinn). Understanding has always been only with the minority. Schiller.

What is the true test of character, unless it be its progressive development in the bustle and turmoil, in the action and reaction, of daily life? Goethe.

What is the use of a lamp to a blind man, although it be burning in his hand? Hitopadesa.

What is the use of health or of life, if not to 20 do some work therewith? Carlyle.

What is the voice of song, when the world lacks the ear of taste? Hawthorne.

What is there good in us if it is not the power and inclination to appropriate to ourselves the resources of the outward world, and to make them subservient to our higher ends? Goethe.

What! is there no bribing death? Last words of Cardinal Beaufort.

What is this day's strong suggestion? / "The passing moment's all we rest on!" Burns.

What is this life of ours? Gone in a moment, 25 burnt up like a scroll, into the blank eternity. Carlyle interpreting young Luther's reflexion on the sudden death by his side of his friend Alexis.

What is too great a load for those who have strength? Hitopadesa.

What is truth? Pilate scoffingly to Jesus.

What is twice read is commonly better remembered than what is transcribed. Johnson.

What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable. D. Webster.

"What is wanting," said Napoleon one day to 30 Madame Campan, "in order that the youth of France be well educated?" "Good mothers," was the reply. The Emperor was most forcibly struck with this answer. "Here," said he, "is a system in one word." Abbott.

What is writ is writ. Byron.

What joy a self-sufficing fortune yields, / Such modest livelihood is dear to me. The wise old maxim, "Not too much," / Too much has power my heart to touch. Alpheus of Mitylene.

What life only half imparts to man, posterity shall give entirely. Goethe.

What love can do, that dares love attempt. Rom. and Jul., ii. 2.

What love hides is raised as from the dead / 35 Some day, and kills the love which covered it, / And frankest truth is more than subtle wit. Dr. Walter Smith.

What makes all doctrines plain and clear? / About two hundred pounds a year. / And that which was prov'd true before / Prove false again, two hundred more. Butler.

What makes life dreary is the want of motive. George Eliot.

What makes lovers never tire of each others' society is that they talk always about themselves. La Roche.

What makes many so discontented with their own condition is the absurd estimate they form of the happiness of others. Fr. (?)

What makes old age so sad is, not that our 40 joys, but that our hopes then cease. Jean Paul.

What makes people discontented with their condition is the chimerical idea they conceive of the happiness of others. Thomson.

What makes vanity so insufferable to us is that it wounds our own. La Roche.

What man dare do, in circumstances of danger, an Englishman will. His virtues seem to sleep in the calm, and are called out only to combat the kindred storm. Goldsmith.

What man dare, I dare. Macb., iii. 4.

What man didst thou ever know unthrift, that 45 was beloved after his means? Timon of Athens, iv. 3.

What man has done, man can do. Emerson.

What man wants is always that the highest in his nature be set at the top and actively reign there. Carlyle.

What matter though I doubt at every pore ... / If finally I have a life to show, / The thing I did, brought out in evidence / Against the thing done to me underground / By hell and all its brood, for aught I know? Browning.

What matters it though the Gospels contradict each other if the Gospel does not contradict itself? Goethe.

What matters it whether the alphabet (by which you are to spell out the meaning of life) be in large gilt letters or in small ungilt ones, so you have an eye to read it? Carlyle.

What may be dune at ony time will be dune at 5 nae time. Sc. Pr.

What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral. (?)

What men usually say of misfortunes, that they never come alone, may with equal truth be said of good fortune; nay, of other circumstances which gather round us in a harmonious way, whether it arise from a kind of fatality, or that man has the power of attracting to himself things that are mutually related. Goethe.

What men want is not talent; it is purpose. Bulwer Lytton.

What millions died that Cæsar might be great! Campbell.

What must be, shall be. Rom. and Jul., iv. 1. 10

What Nature does not reveal to thy spirit, thou wilt not wrench from her with levers and screws. Goethe.

What need the bridge much broader than the flood? The fairest grant is the necessity; look, what will serve is fit. Much Ado, i. 1.

What need we have any friends, if we should never have need of them? Timon of Athens, i. 2.

What needs my Shakespeare for his honour'd bones? Milton.

What of books? Hast thou not already a Bible 15 to write and publish in print that is eternal, namely, a Life to lead? Carlyle.

What once were vices are now the manners of the day. Sen.

What people call her (England's) history is not hers at all; but that of her kings (though the history of them is worth reading), or the tax-gatherers employed by them, which is as if people were to call Mr. Gladstone's history or Mr. Lowe's, yours or mine. Ruskin.

What perils on a woman's life may throng, / Sitting lonely with her thoughts, that chafe and murmur like the surf! Dr. Walter Smith.

What persons are by starts, they are by nature. You see them at such times off their guard. Habit may restrain vice, and virtue may be obscured by passion, but intervals best discover the man. Sterne.

What profit is it for men now to live in heaviness, 20 and after death to look for punishment? Apocrypha.

What proves the hero truly great, / Is never, never to despair. Thomson.

What quite infinite worth lies in Truth! how all-pervading, omnipotent, in man's mind is the thing we name Belief! Carlyle.

What rage for fame attends both great and small! / Better be damned than mentioned not at all. John Wolcot.

What rein can hold licentious wickedness / When down the hill he holds his fierce career? Hen. V., iii. 3.

What religion do I profess! None of all you 25 name to me. Why none? Out of respect to religion. Schiller.

What right have you, O passer-by-the-way, to call any flower a weed? Do you know its merits, its virtues, its healing qualities? Because a thing is common, shall you despise it? If so, you might despise the sunshine for the same reason. Anon.

What rights are his that dare not strike for them? Tennyson.

"What says Lord Warwick? Shall we after them?" "After them! Nay, before them if we can." 2 Hen. VI., v. 3.

What shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue! Burke.

What shall be, shall be—that is all; / To one 30 great Will we stand and fall, / "The Scheme hath need"—we ask not why, / And in this faith we live or die. Lewis Morris.

What shapest thou here at the world; 'Tis shapen long ago; / The Maker shaped it, He thought it best even so. / Thy lot is appointed, go follow its hest; / Thy journey's begun, thou must move and not rest; / For sorrow and care cannot alter thy case, / And running, not raging, will win thee the race. Goethe.

What signifies the life o' man / An' twerna for the lasses, O? Burns.

What signifies the loss of a Hercules even to the loss of an idea? Ed.

What signifies your gear? / A mind that's scrimpit never wants some care. Allan Ramsay.

What should a wise man do if he is given a 35 blow? What Cato did when some one struck him on the mouth;—not fire up or revenge the insult, or even return the blow, but simply ignore it. Sen.

What skills it if a bag of stones or gold / About thy neck do drown thee? Raise thy head; / Take stars for money; stars not to be told / By any art, yet to be purchased. George Herbert.

What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted! 2 Hen. VI., iii. 2.

What the eye does not admire, / The heart does not desire. Pr.

What the eye don't see, the heart don't grieve. Pr.

What the fool does in the end, the wise man 40 does at the beginning. It. Pr.

What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose. Ward Beecher.

What the heart or the imagination dictates always flows readily; but where there is no subject to warm or interest these, constraint appears. Blair.

What the light of your mind pronounces incredible, that, in God's name, leave uncredited. Carlyle.

What the Maker sends us remains mysteriously with us after the bearer of it is dead and gone; and we, as we "mourn over, long for, and love distant and departed" goodness, are more embraced and possessed by it than we were when it was present with us only in the flesh, and we could look upon it and handle it. Ed.

What the poet has to cultivate above all things is love and truth;—what he has to avoid, like poison, is the fleeting and the false. Leigh Hunt.

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action. Wendell Phillips.

What the universe was thought to be in Judea and other places, this may be very interesting to know; what it is in England here where we live and have our work to do, that is the interesting point. Carlyle.

What thou seest is not there on its own 5 account, strictly taken, is not there at all. Carlyle.

What though care killed a cat: thou hast mettle enough in thee to kill care. Much Ado, v. 1.

What though on hamely fare we dine, / Wear hodden gray, and a' that? / Gie fools their silk, and knaves their wine, / A man's a man for a' that. Burns.

What though our songs to wit have no pretence, / The fiddlestick shall scrape them into sense. (?)

What though success will not attend on all! / Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall. Smollett.

What though the field be lost? / All is not 10 lost; th' unconquerable will, / And study of revenge, immortal hate, / And courage never to submit or yield. Milton.

What though the foot be shackled; the heart is free. Goethe.

What, though thou wert rich and of high esteem, dost thou yield to sorrow because of thy loss of fortune? Hitopadesa.

What tragic wastes of gloom / Curtain the soul that strives and sins below! R. Garnet.

What trifling silliness is the childish fondness of the every-day children of the world! 'Tis the unmeaning toying of the younglings of the fields and forests. Burns.

What 'twas weak to do, / 'Tis weaker to 15 lament, once being done. Shelley.

What unknown seas of feeling lie in man, and will from time to time break through! Carlyle.

What was my morning's thought, at night's the same; / The poor and rich but differ in the name. / Content's the greatest bliss we can procure / Frae 'boon the lift; without it kings are poor. Allan Ramsay.

What was once to me / Mere matter of the fancy, now has grown / The vast necessity of heart and life. Tennyson.

What we are going to, is abundantly obscure; but what all men are going from, is very plain. John Sterling.

What we are, that only can we see. Emerson. 20

What we call conscience, in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the constable. Bovee.

What we call our root-and-branch reforms of slavery, war, gambling, intemperance, is only medicating the symptoms. We must begin higher up, namely, in education. Emerson.

What we do determine oft we break, / Purpose is but the slave to memory. Ham., iii. 2.

What we do not understand we have no business to judge. Amiel.

What we do not use is a heavy burden. 25 Goethe.

What we don't know is just what we need to know; and what we do know we can make no use of. Goethe.

What we foolishly call vastness is not more wonderful or not more impressive than what we insolently call littleness. Ruskin.

What we have been makes us what we are. George Eliot.

What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice. Demosthenes.

What we have we prize not to the worth, / 30 Whiles we enjoy it; but being lack'd and lost, / Why then we rack the value. Much Ado, iv. 1.

What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence. Johnson.

What we like determines what we are, and is the sign of what we are. Ruskin.

What we need most is not so much to realise the ideal as to idealise the real. F. H. Hedge.

What we poor mortals have to do is to endure and keep ourselves upright as well and as long as we can. God disposes as he thinks best. Goethe.

What we pray to ourselves for is always 35 granted. Emerson.

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realises itself. Mrs. Jameson.

What we want to be pleased with flattery, is to believe that the man is sincere who gives it us. Steele.

What we want to believe, what it suits our convenience, or pleasure, or prejudice to believe, one need not go to sea to learn what slender logic will incline us to believe. Burroughs.

What? wearied out with half a life? / Scared with this smooth unbloody strife? / Think where thy coward hopes had flown / Had Heaven held out the martyr's crown. Keble.

What were mighty Nature's self? / Her 40 features could they win us, / Unhelp'd by the poetic voice / That hourly speaks within us? Wordsworth.

What will not woman, gentle woman, dare, / When strong affection stirs her spirit up? Southey.

What will you have? quoth God; pay for it and take it. Pr.

What you can't get is just what suits you. Fr. Pr.

What you do not risk all to part with (dahingeben), thou hast not loved and possessed entirely. J. G. Fisher.

What you enjoy is yours; what for your heirs / 45 You hoard, already is not yours, but theirs. From the Greek. Anon.

What you see is but the smallest part / And least proportion of humanity; / ... Were the whole frame here, / It is of such a spacious lofty pitch, / Your roof were not sufficient to contain it. 1 Hen. VI., ii. 3.

What your heart thinks great is great. The soul's emphasis is always right. Emerson.

What's aught but as 'tis valued? Troil. and Cress., ii. 2.

What's come to perfection perishes. / Things learned on earth we shall practise in heaven; / Works done least rapidly art most cherishes. Browning.

What's done cannot be undone. Macb., v. 1.

What's done we partly may compute, / But 5 know not what's resisted. Burns.

What's fitting, that is right. Goethe.

What's gone and what's past help / Should be past grief. Winter's Tale, iii. 2.

What's good for the bee is good for the hive. Pr.

What's Hecuba to him or he to Hecuba, / That he should weep for her? Ham., ii. 2.

What's impossible cannot be, / And never, 10 never comes to pass. George Colman the younger.

What's in a name? That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet. Rom. and Jul., ii. 2.

What's more miserable than discontent? 2 Hen. VI., iii. 1.

What's nane o' my profit will be nane o' my peril. Sc. Pr.

What's not set about to-day is never finished on the morrow. Goethe.

What's the good of a sun-dial in the shade? Pr. 15

What's the good of the pipe if it's not played on? Gael. Pr.

What's yours is mine, and what's mine's my ain. Sc. Pr.

Whate'er disturbs his onward course, / Whate'er brings gloom or strife, / It must away, for e'er he sings / The poet must have life. Goethe.

Whate'er he did was done with so much ease, / In him alone 'twas natural to please. Dryden.

Whate'er my future years may be: / Let joy 20 or grief my fate betide; / Be still an Eden bright to me / My own, my own fireside! A. A. Watts.

Whate'er's begun in anger ends in shame. Ben. Franklin.

Whatever a man has to effect must emanate from him as a second self; and how would this be possible were not his first self entirely pervaded by it? Goethe.

Whatever be the cause of happiness, may be made likewise the cause of misery. The medicine which, rightly applied, has power to cure, has, when rashness or ignorance prescribes it, the same power to destroy. Johnson.

Whatever be the motive of insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly scarcely can deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect. Johnson.

Whatever beauty may be, it has for its basis 25 order and for its essence unity. Father André.

Whatever befalls us, though it is wise to be serious, it is useless and foolish, and perhaps sinful, to be gloomy. Johnson.

Whatever bit of a wise man's work is honestly and benevolently done, that bit is his book or his piece of art. Ruskin.

Whatever comes from the brain carries the hue of the place it came from; and whatever comes from the heart carries the heat and colour of its birthplace. Holmes.

Whatever comes out of despair cannot bear the title of valour, which should be lifted up to such a height that, holding all things under itself, it should be able to maintain its greatness even in the midst of miseries. Sir P. Sidney.

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, 30 by whatever name it may be called. J. S. Mill.

Whatever disunites man from God disunites man from man. Burke.

Whatever does not concern us is concealed from us. Emerson.

Whatever does not possess a true intrinsic vitality cannot live long, and can neither be nor ever become great. Goethe.

Whatever expands the affections or enlarges the sphere of our sympathies, whatever makes us feel our relation to the universe, and all that it inherits, in time and in eternity, to the great and beneficent Cause of all, must unquestionably refine our nature and elevate us in the scale of being. Channing.

Whatever foolish people read, does them 35 harm; and whatever they write, does other people harm. Ruskin.

Whatever government is not a government of law is a despotism, let it be called what it may. D. Webster.

Whatever has exceeded its due bounds is ever in a state of instability. Sen.

Whatever hath been well consulted and well resolved, whether it be to fight well or to run away well, should be carried into execution in due season, without any further examination. Hitopadesa.

Whatever honour we can pay to their memory, is all that is owing to the dead. Tears and sorrow are no duties to them, and make us incapable of those we owe to the living. Lady Montagu.

Whatever in literature, art, or religion is done 40 for money is poisonous itself, and doubly deadly in preventing the hearing or seeing of the noble literature and art which have been done for love and truth. Ruskin.

Whatever is beautiful is also profitable. Willmott.

Whatever is best is safest, lies most out of the reach of human power, can neither be given nor taken away. Bolingbroke.

Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful. Cic.

Whatever is great in human art is the expression of man's delight in God's work. Ruskin.

Whatever is great promotes cultivation as 45 soon as we are aware of it. Goethe.

Whatever is highest and holiest is tinged with melancholy. The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos. A prophet is sadder than other men; and He who was greater than all prophets was "a man of sorrow and acquainted with grief." Mrs. Child.

Whatever is, is right. Pope.

Whatever is known to thyself alone has always very great value. Emerson.

Whatever is natural admits of variety. Mme. de Stäel.

Whatever is new is unlooked for, and ever it mends some and impairs others; and he that is holpen takes it for a fortune, and he that is hurt for a wrong. Bacon.

Whatever is not made of asbestos will have to be burnt in this world. Carlyle.

Whatever is pure is also simple. It does not keep the eye on itself. The observer forgets the window in the landscape it displays. A fine style gives the view of fancy—its figures, its trees, or its palaces—without a spot. Willmott.

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing 5 well. Lord Chesterfield.

Whatever lifts a man out of the common herd always redounds to his advantage, even if it sink him into a new crowd, in the midst of which his powers of swimming and wading must be put to the test again. Goethe.

Whatever makes religion its second object, makes it no object. Ruskin.

Whatever may be the natural propensity of any one, it is very hard to overcome. If a dog were made king, would he not gnaw his shoe-straps? Hitopadesa.

Whatever may happen, every kind of fortune is to be overcome by bearing it. Virg.

Whatever may happen to thee, it was prepared 10 for thee from all eternity; and the complication of causes was from eternity spinning the thread not only of thy being, but of that which is incident to it. Marcus Aurelius.

Whatever mitigates the woes or increases the happiness of others, this is my criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, this is my measure of iniquity. Burns.

Whatever of goodness emanates from the soul, gathers its soft halo from the eyes; and if the heart be the lurking-place of crime, the eyes are sure to betray the secret. F. Saunders.

Whatever our wanderings, our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and amidst the objects more immediately within our reach. Bulwer Lytton.

Whatever outward thing offers itself to the eye, is merely the garment or body of a thing which already existed invisibly within. Carlyle.

Whatever purifies the heart, fortifies it. 15 Blair.

Whatever sceptic could inquire for, / For every why he had a wherefore. Buller.

Whatever that be which thinks, which understands, which wills, which acts, it is something celestial and divine; and upon that account must necessarily be eternal. Cic.

Whatever the benefits of fortune are, they yet require a palate fit to relish and taste them; it is fruition, and not possession, that renders us happy. Montaigne.

Whatever the place allotted to us by Providence, that for us is the post of honour and duty. T. Edwards.

Whatever the skill of any country may be in 20 the sciences, it is from its excellence in polite learning alone that it must expect a character from posterity. Goldsmith.

Whatever theologians may choose to assert, it is certain that mankind at large has far more virtue than vice. Buckle.

Whatever these two men (the Carlyles, father and son) touched with their hands in honest toil became sacred to them, a page out of their own lives. A silent, inarticulate kind of religion they put into their work. John Burroughs.

Whatever we think out, whatever we take in hand to do, should be perfectly and finally finished, that a word, if it must alter, will only tend to spoil it; we have then nothing to do but to unite the severed, to recollect and restore the dismembered. Goethe.

Whatever you are, be a man. Pr.

Whatever you may think now, they (the deeds 25 of each day) are only biding their time; and when you are weak and at their mercy, when the world you fancied you were beyond, has leisure to hear their story and scoff at you, they will come forward and tell all the bitter tale. Disraeli to young men.

Whatso we have done is done, and for us annihilated, and ever must we go and do anew. Carlyle.

Whatsoever a man ought to obey, he cannot but obey. Carlyle.

Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. St. Paul.

Whatsoever God doeth, nothing can be put to it, nor anything taken from it. Ecclus.

Whatsoever sensibly exists, whatsoever represents 30 spirit to spirit, is properly a suit of raiment put on for a season and to be laid off. Carlyle.

Whatsoever thine ill, / It must be borne, and these wild starts are useless. Byron.

Whatsoever thou takest in hand, remember the end, and thou shalt never do amiss. Ecclus.

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might. Bible.

When a base man means to be your enemy, he always begins with being your friend. Wm. Blake.

When a bold man is out of countenance, he 35 makes a very wooden figure on it. Collier.

When a child can be brought to tears, not from fear of punishment, but from repentance for his offence, he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from grief at one's own conduct, be sure there is an angel nestling in the bosom. Horace Mann.

When a gentleman is cudgelling his brain to find any rhyme for sorrow besides "borrow" or "to-morrow," his woes are nearer at an end than he thinks. Thackeray.

When a good man has talent, he always works morally for the salvation of the world. Goethe.

When a great man strikes out into a sudden irregularity, he needs not question the respect of a retinue. Collier.

When a head and a book come into collision, 40 and one sounds empty, is it always the book? Lichtenberg.

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it. Hitopadesa.

When a man becomes dear to me, I have touched the goal of fortune. Emerson.

When a man dies, they who survive him ask what property he has left behind. The angel who bends over the dying man asks what good deeds he has sent before him. Koran.

When a man gives himself up to the government of a ruling passion—or, in other words, when his hobby-horse grows headstrong—farewell cool reason and fair discretion! Sterne.

When a man gives proof that his heart is sound and that his life is sound, there is no divergence of opinion that should keep us from fellowship with him. Ward Beecher.

When a man has no occasion to borrow, he finds numbers willing to lend him. Goldsmith.

When a man has not a good reason for doing 5 a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone. Scott.

When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is set fast; and nothing will then serve his turn, neither truth nor falsehood. Tillotson.

When a man is base at the heart, he blights his virtues into weaknesses; but when he is true at the heart, he sanctifies his weaknesses into virtues. Ruskin.

When a man is conscious that he does no good himself, the next thing is to cause others to do some. Pope.

When a man is going downhill, everybody gives him a kick. Pr.

When a man is in indigence, picking herbs is 10 his philosophy; the enjoyment of his wife his only commerce, and vassalage his food. Hitopadesa.

When a man is in love with one woman in a family, it is astonishing how fond he becomes of every person connected with it. Thackeray.

When a man is treated with solemnity, he looks upon himself as a higher being, and goes through his solemn feasts devoutly. Jean Paul.

When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry. Haliburton.

When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook and the rustle of the corn. Emerson.

When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons 15 and things, this is madness. Coleridge.

When a man smiles, and much more when he laughs, it adds something to his fragment of life. Sterne.

When a man versed in his subject treats any topic lovingly and thoroughly, he gives us a share in his interest, and forces us to enter into the topic. Goethe.

When a man's dog deserts him on account of his poverty, he can't get any lower down in this world. Amer. Pr.

When a man's pride is subdued, it is like the sides of Mount Ætna. It was terrible during the eruption, but when that is over and the lava is turned into soil, there are vineyards and olive-trees which grow up to the top. Beecher.

When a man's ways please the Lord, he 20 maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him. Bible.

When a mean wretch cannot vie with another in virtue, out of his wretchedness he begins to slander. Saadi.

When a misfortune is impending, I cry, "God forbid!" but when it falls upon me, I say, "God be praised!" Sterne.

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not the decline that it recalls, but the first days of immortality. Mme. de Staël.

When a nobleman writes a book he ought to be encouraged. Johnson.

When a pepin is planted on a pepin-stock, the 25 fruit growing thence is called a renate, a most delicious apple, as both by sire and dame well descended. Thus his blood must needs be well purified who is gentilely born on both sides. Fuller.

When a poor creature (outwardly and visibly such) comes before thee, do not stay to inquire whether the "seven small children," in whose name he implores thy assistance, have a veritable existence. Lamb.

When a Sark-foot wife gets on her broomstick, the dames of Allonby are ready to mount. Pr.

When a secret is revealed, it is the fault of the man who has intrusted it. La Bruyère.

When a thought is too weak to be simply expressed, it is a clear proof that it should be rejected. Vauvenargues.

When a thought of Plato becomes a thought 30 to me,—when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine, time is no more. Emerson.

When a tree is dead it will lie any way; alive, it will have its own growth. Ward Beecher.

When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. Swift.

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face. Goethe.

When a wise man findeth an occasion, he may bear away his enemy upon his shoulder, as it were. Hitopadesa.

When a woman wears the breeches, she has a 35 good right to them. Amer. Pr.

When a work has a unity, it is as much so in a part as in the whole. Wm. Blake.

When a writer sets to work again after a long pause, his faculties have, as it were, to be caught in the field and brought in and harnessed. Froude.

When a youth is fully in love with a girl, and feels that he is wise in loving her, he should at once tell her so plainly, and take his chance bravely with other suitors. Ruskin.

When Adam dolve and Eve span, / Who was then the gentleman? Pr.

When affliction thunders over our roofs, to 40 hide our heads and run into our graves shows us no men, but makes us fortune's slaves. Ben Jonson.

When all else is lost, the future still remains. Bovee.

When all is done, the help of good counsel is that which setteth business straight. Bacon.

When all is said, the greatest art is to limit and isolate one's self. Goethe.

When all the blandishments of life are gone, / The coward sneaks to death, the brave live on. George Sewell.

When ambitious men find an open passage, they are rather busy than dangerous; and if well watched in their proceedings, they will catch themselves in their own snare, and prepare a way for their own destruction. Quarles.

When an author is too fastidious about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his matter flimsy. Sen.

When any fit of anxiety, or gloominess or perversion of the mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints, but exert your whole care to hide it; by endeavouring to hide it you will drive it away. Johnson.

When any man finds himself disposed to complain with how little care he is regarded, let him reflect how little he contributes to the happiness of others. Johnson.

When any one ceases to care for his home, it 5 is one of the worst possible signs of moral sickness. Spurgeon.

When any one has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offence cannot reach it. Descartes.

When at one with ourselves, we are so with others. Goethe.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. Burke.

When bairns are young they gar their parents' heads ache; when they are auld they make their hearts break. Sc. Pr.

When baseness is exalted, do not bate / The 10 place its honour for the person's sake. George Herbert.

When beggars die, there are no comets seen: / The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes. Jul. Cæs., ii. 2.

When brothers part for manhood's race, / What gift may most endearing prove / To keep fond memory in her place, / And certify a brother's love? / ... No fading frail memorial give / To sooth his soul when thou art gone, / But wreathes of hope for aye to live, / And thoughts of good together done. Keble.

When caught by a tempest, wherever it be, / If it lightens and thunders, beware of a tree. Pr.

When children stand quiet, they have done some harm. Pr.

When children, we are sensualists; when in 15 love, idealists. Goethe.

When clouds appear like rocks and towers, / The earth's refreshed with frequent showers. Pr.

When clouds appear, wise men put on their cloaks; / When great leaves fall, the winter is at hand. Rich. III., ii. 3.

When death comes, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. George Eliot.

When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, distrust is cowardice and prudence folly. Johnson.

When did friendship take / A breed for barren 20 metal of his friend? Mer. of Ven., i. 2.

When difficulties are overcome they become blessings. Saying.

When each comes forth from his mother's womb, the gate of gifts closes behind him. Emerson.

When every one minds his own business the work is done. Dan. Pr.

When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary. Napoleon.

When fools fall out for every flaw, / They run 25 horn mad to go to law; / A hedge awry, a wrong plac'd gate, / Will serve to spend a whole estate. Saying.

When Fortune means to men most good, / She looks upon them with a threatening eye. King John, iii. 1.

When found, make a note of. Dickens.

When fresh sorrows have caused us to take some steps in the right way, we may not complain. We have invested in a life annuity, but the income remains. Mme. Swetchine.

When friends meet hearts warm. Sc. Pr.

When friendships are real, they are not glass 30 threads or frost-work, but the solidest things we know. Emerson.

When God gives light he gives it for all. Sp. Pr.

When God will, no wind but brings rain. Pr.

When God would punish a land, he deprives its rulers of wisdom. Ger. and It. Pr.

When Goethe says that in every human condition foes lie in wait for us, "invincible save by cheerfulness and equanimity," he does not mean that we can at all times be really cheerful, or at a moment's notice; but that the endeavour to look at the better side of things will produce the habit, and that this habit is the surest safeguard against the danger of sudden evils. Leigh Hunt.

When Greeks joined Greeks, then was the 35 tug of war. Lee.

When griping grief the heart doth wound, / And doleful dumps the mind oppress, / Then music, with her silver sound, / With speedy help doth lend redress. Rom. and Jul., iv. 5.

When half-gods go, / The gods arrive. Emerson.

When he speaks, / The air, a charter'd libertine, is still. Hen. V., i. 1.

When holy and devout religious men / Are at their beads, 'tis hard to draw them thence. Rich. III., iii. 7.

When I am angry, I can pray well and preach 40 well. Luther.

When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat. / Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit; / Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay. / To-morrow's falser than the former day; / Lies worse, and while it says we shall be blest / With some new joys, cuts off what we possest. Dryden.

When I have told the truth, my part with it is done; and if the world will not listen, the world will just do the other way. Carlyle.

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times and to the latest. H. D. Thoreau.

When I strove after wisdom I appeared foolish to fools, and wise when I lived like them. The fool only esteems himself wise. Bodenstedt.

When I want any good head-work done, I always choose a man, if suitable otherwise, with a long nose. Napoleon.

When I was happy I thought I knew men, but it was fated that I should know them in misfortune only. Napoleon.

When I wish to ascertain the real felicity of any rational man, I always inquire whom he has to love. If I find he has nobody, or does not love those he has, I pronounce him a being deep in adversity. Mrs. Inchbald.

When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thank'd enough; / I've done my duty, and I've done no more. Henry Fielding.

When ilka ane gets his ain, the thief will get 5 the widdie (gallows). Sc. Pr.

When in company, people will rather be entertained than instructed. Knegge.

When, in your last hour (think of this), all faculty in the broken spirit shall fade away and sink into inanity—imagination, thought, effort, enjoyment—then will the flower of belief, which blossoms even in the night, remain to refresh you with its fragrance in the last darkness. Jean Paul.

When industry builds upon nature, we may expect pyramids. Sir T. Browne.

When it goeth well with the righteous, the city rejoiceth: and when the wicked perish, there is shouting. Bible.

When it rains porridge, the beggar has no 10 spoon. Dan. Pr.

When it's dark at Dover, / It is dark all the world over. Pr.

When labour is employed, labour can consume; when it is not employed, it cannot consume. Daniel Webster.

When love begins to sicken and decay / It useth an enforced ceremony. Jul. Cæs., iv. 2.

When love cools our fauts are seen. Sc. Pr.

When love speaks, the voice of all the gods / 15 Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony. Love's L. Lost, iv. 3.

When lovely woman stoops to folly / And finds, too late, that men betray, / What charm can soothe her melancholy? / What art can wash her guilt away? Goldsmith.

When loving hearts are separated, not the one which is exhaled to heaven, but the survivor it is which tastes the sting of death. Duchesse de Praslin.

When maidens sue, / Men give like gods. Meas. for Meas., i. 1.

When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will (as at the creation) be again dumb. Hawthorne.

When man seized the loadstone of science, 20 the loadstar of superstition vanished in the clouds. W. R. Alger.

When matters are desperate, we must put on a desperate face. Burns.

When men add a new wing to their house they do not call the action virtue, but if they give to a fellow-creature for their own gratification, they demand of God a good mark for it. J. M. Barrie.

When men are lonely they stoop to any companionship. Lew Wallace.

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken. Disraeli.

When men grow virtuous in their old age, 25 they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings. Pope.

When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes. Dryden.

When money's taken, / Freedom's forsaken. Pr.

When musing on companions gone, / We doubly feel ourselves alone. Scott.

When nations are to perish in their sins, / 'Tis in the Church the leprosy begins; / The priest, whose office is, with zeal sincere, / To watch the fountain and preserve it clear, / Carelessly nods and sleeps upon the brink, / While others poison what the flock must drink. Cowper.

When Nature fills the sails, the vessel goes 30 smoothly on; and when judgment is the pilot, the insurance need not be high. Sir T. Browne.

When Nature is sovereign there is no need of austerity or self-denial. Froude.

When Nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. Emerson.

When need is highest, help is nighest. Ger. Pr.

When neither he to whom we speak nor he who speaks to us understands, that is metaphysics. Voltaire.

When nothing is enjoyed, can there be greater 35 waste? Thomson.

When on life we're tempest driven, / A conscience but a canker, / A correspondence fixed wi' heaven / Is sure a noble anchor. Burns.

When once a man is determined to believe, the very absurdity of the doctrine confirms him in his faith. Junius.

When once infidelity can persuade men that they shall die like beasts, they will soon be brought to live like beasts also. South.

When once our grace we have forgot, / Nothing goes right; we would, and we would not. Meas. for Meas., iv. 4.

When once the young heart of a maiden is 40 stolen, / The maiden herself will steal after it soon. Moore.

When once you profess yourself a friend, endeavour to be always such. He can never have any true friends that will be often changing them. (?)

When one does nothing else but while time away, it must of necessity often be a burden. Goethe.

When one encourages the beautiful alone, and another encourages the useful alone, it takes them both to form a man. Goethe.

When one is in love, one wishes to be in fetters. Goethe.

When one is not received as one comes, this 45 is a nether-fire pain. Goethe.

When one is truly in love, one not only says it, but shows it. Longfellow.

When one is young, one is nothing completely. Goethe.

When one thinks of the real agony one has gone through in consequence of false teaching, it makes human nature angry with the teachers who have added to the bitterness of life. General Gordon.

When our actions do not, / Our fears do make us traitors. Macb., iv. 1.

When our hatred is too keen, it places us beneath those we hate. La Roche.

When our names are blotted out, and our place knows us no more, the energy of each social service will remain. J. Morley.

When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things from it. Renan.

When people laugh at their own jokes, their 5 wit is very small beer, and is lost in its own froth. Spurgeon.

When people once are in the wrong, / Each line they add is much too long. Prior.

When Peter's cock begins to crow, 'tis day. Quarles.

When pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Johnson.

When pleasure is arrived, it is worthy of attention; when trouble presenteth itself, the same. Pain and pleasures have their revolutions like a wheel. Hitopadesa.

When poverty comes in at the door, love flies 10 out at the window. Pr.

When pride cometh, then cometh shame; but with the lowly is wisdom. Bible.

When remedies are past, the griefs are ended / By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended. Othello, i. 3.

When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will. Much Ado, iii. 3.

When rogues fall out, honest men get their own. Pr.

When shall we three meet again, in thunder, 15 lightning, or in rain? Macb., i. 1.

When soldiers have been baptised in the fire of a battlefield, they have all one rank in my eyes. Napoleon.

When soon or late they reach that coast, / O'er life's rough ocean driven, / May they rejoice, no wanderer lost, / A family in heaven. Burns.

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, / But in battalions. Ham., iv. 5.

When speech is given to a soul holy and true, time and its dome of ages becomes as a mighty whispering-gallery, round which the imprisoned utterance runs, and reverberates forever. James Martineau.

When sun is set the little stars will shine. R. 20 Southwell.

When that the poor have cried, Cæsar hath wept; / Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. Jul. Cæs., iii. 2.

When the affections are moved there is no place for the imagination. Hume.

When the artist forgets himself in admiration of his work, there is a fatal inversion and subversion of all art whatsoever; and for Love to worship Venus, his own creation, except as an index and light to himself, is in reality Love's apostasy, not his apotheosis. Ed.

When the ass is given thee, run and take him by the halter; and when good luck knocks at the door, let him in, and keep him there. Sp. Pr.

When the belly is empty, the body becomes 25 spirit; when it is full, the spirit becomes body. Saadi.

When the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch; wherefore, in such circumstances, may it not sometimes be safer if both leader and led simply sit still? Carlyle.

When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul / Lends the tongue vows. Ham., i. 3.

When the cat's away, / The mice will play. Pr.

When the devil dies, he never lacks a chief mourner. Pr.

When the fight begins within himself, / A 30 man's worth something. Browning.

When the fox preaches, take care of your geese. Pr.

When the glede's in the blue cloud, / The laverock lies still; / When the hound's in the green wood, / The hind keeps the hill. Old ballad.

When the gods come among men, they are not known. Emerson.

When the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet, then all things are at risk. There is not a piece of science, but its flank may be turned to-morrow; there is not any literary reputation, nor the so-called eternal names of fame, that may not be revised and condemned. Emerson.

When the heart is afire, some sparks will fly 35 out at the mouth. Pr.

When the heart is heavy and low, / The beauty that on earth we find, / Or strain of music on the wind, / Shall touch it like an utter woe! Dr. W. Smith.

When the heart is still agitated by the remains of a passion, we are more ready to receive a new one than when we are entirely cured. La Roche.

When the heart of a man is sincere and tranquil, he is fain to enjoy nothing but himself; every movement, even corporeal movement, shakes the brimming nectar cup too rudely. Jean Paul.

When the hungry curate licks the knife, there is not much for the clerk. Pr.

When the man's fire and the wife's tow, in comes 40 the dell and blaws it in a lowe (flame). Sc. Pr.

When the master passeth over all alike without distinction, then the endeavours of those who are capable of exertion are entirely lost. Hitopadesa.

When the million applaud you, seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; when they censure you, what good. Colton.

When the mind's free, the body's delicate. Lear, iii. 4.

When the new light which we beg for shines in upon us, there be who envy and oppose, if it come not in first at their casements. Milton.

When the oak-tree is felled, the whole forest 45 echoes with it; but a hundred acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze. Carlyle.

When the Phœnix is fanning her funeral pyre, will there not be sparks flying? Carlyle.

When the power of imparting joy / Is equal to the will, the human soul / Requires no other heaven. Shelley.

When the quality of bravery is near, a great man's terrors are at a distance. In the hour of misfortune such a great man overcometh bravery. Hitopadesa.

When the reason of old establishments is gone, it is absurd to keep nothing but the burden of them. This is superstitiously to embalm a carcase not worth an ounce of the gums that are used to embalm it. Burke.

When the sheep is too meek, all the lambs suck it. Spurgeon.

When the shore is won at last, / Who will count the billows past? Keble.

When the soul breathes through a man's intellect, it is genius; when it breaks through his will, it is virtue; when it flows through his affection, it is love. Emerson.

When the strong box contains no more, ... / 5 Both friends and flatterers shun the door. Plutarch.

When the sun is highest, he casts the least shadow. Pr.

When the tale of bricks is doubled, then comes Moses. Heb. Pr.

When the weather been maist fair, the dust flies highest in the air. Sir David Lindsay.

When the will's ready the feet's licht. Sc. Pr.

When the wind (civic tumult) arises, worship 10 the echo (retire into the country). Pythagoras.

When the world has once got hold of a lie, it is astonishing how hard it is to get it out of the world. You beat it about the head, till it seems to have given up the ghost, and lo! the next day it is as healthy as ever. Bulwer Lytton.

When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian. Tempest, ii. 2.

When things are at their worst, they will mend. Pr.

When things are once come to the execution, there is no secrecy comparable to celerity, like the motion of a bullet in the air, which flieth so swift as it outruns the eye. Bacon.

When thou dost purpose ought within thy 15 power, / Be sure to do it, though it be but small. George Herbert.

When thou hast thanked thy God for every blessing sent, / What time will then remain for murmurs or lament? French.

When thou makest presents, let them be of such things as will last long; to the end they may be in some sort immortal, and may frequently refresh the memory of the receiver. Fuller.

When thou wishest to give thyself delight, think of the excellencies of those who live with thee; the energy of one, the modesty of another, the liberal kindness of a third. Marcus Aurelius.

When three know it, all know it. Pr.

When thy judgments are in the earth the inhabitants 20 of the world will learn righteousness. Bible.

When Time, who steals our years away, / Shall steal our pleasures too, / The mem'ry of the past will stay, / And half our joys renew. T. Moore.

When timorous knowledge stands considering, / Audacious ignorance hath done the deed. Daniel.

When, to gratify a private appetite, it is once resolved upon that an innocent and a helpless creature shall be sacrificed, 'tis an easy matter to pick up sticks enough from any thicket where it has strayed to make a fire to offer it up with. Sterne.

When two brethren strings are set alike, / To move them both but one of them we strike. Cowley.

When two friends have a common purse, one 25 sings and the other weeps. Pr.

When two friends part, they should lock up one another's secrets and exchange their keys. Owen Feltham.

When two loving hearts are torn asunder, it is a shade better to be the one that is driven away into action, than the bereaved twin that petrifies at home. Charles Reade.

When unadorn'd, adorn'd the most. Thomson.

When was a god found agreeable to everybody? Carlyle.

When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe 30 this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor. Emerson.

When we build (public edifices), let us think that we build for ever. Ruskin.

When we cannot get at the very thing we wish, never to take up with the next best in degree to it, that's pitiful beyond description. Sterne.

When we can't do as we would, we must do as we can. Pr.

When we destroy an old prejudice, we have need of a new virtue. Mme. de Staël.

When we discern justice, when we discern 35 truth, we do nothing of ourselves; we allow a passage to its beams. Emerson.

When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with his presence. Emerson.

When we have not what we love, we must love what we have. Bussy-Rabutin.

When we meet with a natural style, we are surprised and delighted, for we expected to find an author, and we have found a man. Pascal.

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

When we rise in knowledge, as the prospect 40 widens, the objects of our regard become more obscure, and the unlettered peasant, whose views are only directed to the narrow sphere around him, beholds nature with a finer relish, and tastes her blessings with a keener appetite, than the philosopher whose mind attempts to grasp a universal system. Goldsmith.

When we take people merely as they are, we make them worse; when we treat them as if they were what they should be, we improve them as far as they can be improved. Goethe.

When whins are out of bloom, kissing is out of fashion. Pr.

When wine is in, nature comes out. George Meredith.

When words are scarce they're seldom spent in vain, / For they breathe truth that breathe their words in pain. Rich. II., ii. 1.

When words end, music begins; when they 45 suggest, it realises. Haweis.

When worthy men fall out, only one of them may be faulty at the first; but if strife continue long, commonly both become guilty. Fuller.

When you are all agreed upon the time, quoth the vicar, I'll make it rain. Pr.

When you are compelled to choose between two hated evils, look both full in the face, and choose that which least hampers the spirit and fetters pious deeds. Goethe.

When you are down, poverty, like snowshoes, keeps your feet fast and prevents your rising. Amer. Pr.

When you are in doubt abstain. Zoroaster.

When you are predetermined to take one 5 soul's advice, act without consulting further with any soul living. Sterne.

When you are stung by slanderous tongues (die Lästerzunge), comfort yourself with this thought: it is not the worst fruits that are gnawed by wasps. G. A. Bürger.

When you cannot get dinner ready, put the clock back. Swift.

When you do not know what to do, it is a clear indication that you are to do nothing. Spurgeon.

When you find yourselves tempted, be sure to ask advice; and when you see another so, deal with him gently. Thomas à Kempis.

When you go to Rome, do as Rome does. St. 10 Ambrose of Milan.

When you grind your corn, give not the flour to the devil, and the bran to God. It. Pr.

When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more to be all of a piece. Ben. Franklin.

When you have got so much true knowledge as is worth fighting for, you are bound to fight or to die for it, but not to debate about it any more. Ruskin.

When you have nothing to say, say nothing. Colton.

When you hear that your neighbour has 15 picked up a purse of gold in the street, never run out into the same street, looking about you, in order to pick up such another. Goldsmith.

When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief. Hor.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it: this is knowledge. Confucius.

When you leave the unimpaired hereditary freehold to your children, you do but half your duty. Both liberty and property are precarious, unless the possessors have sense and spirit enough to defend them. Junius.

When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your faithful Creator; and when you have done, trust Him with yourself as you must do when you are dying. Jeremy Taylor.

When you organise a strike, it is war you 20 organise; / But to organise our labour were the labour of the wise. Dr. Walter Smith.

When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop-window, you may depend upon it he keeps a very small stock of it within. Spurgeon.

When you see a snake, never mind where he came from. Pr.

When you see a woman paint, your heart needna faint. Sc. Pr.

When your broth's ready-made for you, you mun swallow the thickenin', or else let the broth alone. George Eliot.

When your head did but ache, / I knit my 25 handkerchief about your brows, / The best I had; a princess wrought it me; / And I did never ask it you again. King John, iv. 1.

Whence? O Heavens, whither? Sense knows not; faith knows not; only that it is through mystery to mystery, from God to God. Carlyle on the drama of life.

Whene'er a noble deed is wrought, / Whene'er is spoken a noble thought, / Our hearts, in glad surprise, / To higher levels rise. Longfellow.

Whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but his passions, which have got the better of his creed. A bad life and a good belief are disagreeable and troublesome neighbours; and when they separate, depend upon it, 'tis for no other cause but quietness' sake. Sterne.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is, in my opinion, safe. Burke.

Whenever I see a new-married couple more 30 than ordinarily fond before faces, I consider them as attempting to impose upon the company or themselves; either hating each other heartily, or consuming that stock of love in the beginning of their course which should serve them throughout their whole journey. Goldsmith.

Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common feelings of mankind. Gibbon.

Whenever the people flock to see a miracle, it is a hundred to one but that they see a miracle. Goldsmith.

Whenever you find humour, you find pathos close by its side. Whipple.

Whensoever a man desireth anything inordinately, he is presently disquieted in himself. Thomas à Kempis.

Where content is there is a feast. Pr. 35

Where do we find ourselves? In a series of which we do not know the extremes, and believe that it has none. Emerson.

Where drink goes in, wit goes out. Pr.

Where else is the God's presence manifested, not to our eyes only, but to our hearts, as in our fellow-men? Carlyle.