Every man without passions has within him no principle of action nor motive to act. Helvetius.
Every man's blind in his ain cause. Sc. Pr.
Every man's destiny is in his own hands. Sydney Smith.
Every man's follies are the caricature resemblances of his wisdom. J. Sterling.
Every man's life lies within the present. Marcus 40 Antoninus.
Every man's man has a man, and that gar'd the Tarve (a Douglas Castle) fa'. Sc. Pr.
Every man's own reason is his best Œdipus. Sir Thomas Browne.
Every man's powers have relation to some kind of work, and wherever he finds that kind of work which he can do best, he finds that by which he can best build up or make his manhood. J. G. Holland.
Every man's reason is every man's oracle. Bolingbroke.
Every moment, as it passes, is of infinite 45 value, for it is the representative of a whole eternity. Goethe.
Every moment instructs, and every object, for wisdom is infused into every form. It has been poured into us as blood; it convulsed us as pain; it slid into us as pleasure. Emerson.
Every morsel to a satisfied hunger is only a new labour to a tired digestion. South.
Every mortal longs for his parade-place; would still wish, at banquets, to be master of some seat or other wherein to overtop this or that plucked goose of the neighbourhood. Carlyle.
Every movement in the skies or upon the earth proclaims to us that the universe is under government. Draper.
Every natural action is graceful. Emerson. 50
Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Emerson.
Every newly discovered truth judges the world, separates the good from the evil, and calls on faithful souls to make sure their election. Julia W. Howe.
Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one. Carlyle.
Every noble crown is, and on earth will ever be, a crown of thorns. Carlyle.
Every noble life leaves the fibre of it interwoven for ever in the work of the world. Ruskin.
Every noble work is at first impossible. Carlyle.
Every novel is a debtor to Homer. Emerson. 5
Every offence is not a hate at first. Mer. of Ven., iv. 1.
Every one believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake. Goethe.
Every one bows to the bush that bields (protects) him, i.e., pays court to him that does so. Sc. Pr.
Every one can master a grief but he that has it. Much Ado, iii. 2.
Every one complains of his memory, no one of 10 his judgment. La Roche.
Every one draws the water to his own mill. Pr.
Every one excels in something in which another fails. Pub. Syr.
Every one fault seeming monstrous till his fellow-fault came to match it. As You Like It, iii. 2.
Every one finds sin sweet and repentance bitter. Dan. Pr.
Every one for himself and God for us all. Pr. 15
Every one has a trial of his own: my wife is mine. Happy is he who has no other. Saying of Pittacus.
Every one is a preacher under the gallows. Dut. Pr.
Every one is as God made him, and often a great deal worse. Cervantes.
Every one is his own worst enemy. Schefer.
Every one is judge of what a man seems, no 20 one of what a man is. Schiller.
Every one is poorer in proportion as he has more wants, and counts not what he has, but wishes only what he has not. Manlius.
Every one is well or ill at ease according as he finds himself. Montaigne.
Every one knows best where his shoe pinches him. Pr.
Every one knows better than he practises, and recognises a better law than he obeys. Froude.
Every one knows good counsel except him who 25 needs it. Ger. Pr.
Every one of us believes in his heart, or would like to have others believe, that he is something which he is not. Thackeray.
Every one of us shall give account of himself to God. Bible.
Every one rakes the fire under his own pot. Dan. Pr.
Every one regards his duty as a troublesome master from whom he would like to be free. La Roche.
Every one should sweep before his own door. 30 Pr.
Every one sings as he has the gift, and marries as he has the luck. Port. Pr.
Every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. Jesus.
Every one that doeth evil hateth the light. St. John.
Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice. Jesus.
Every one thinks his own burden the heaviest. 35 Pr.
Every one who is able to administer what he has, has enough. Goethe.
Every one would be wise; no one will become so. Feuchtersleben.
Every one would rather believe than exercise his own judgment. Sen.
Every opinion reacts on him who utters it. Emerson.
Every other master is known by what he 40 utters; the master of style commends himself to me by what he wisely passes over in silence. Schiller.
Every painter ought to paint what he himself loves. Ruskin.
Every passion gives a particular cast to the countenance, and is apt to discover itself in some feature or other. Addison.
Every people has its prophet. Arab. Pr.
Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices. Whoever saw old age that did not applaud the past and condemn the present? Montaigne.
Every period of life has its peculiar temptations 45 and dangers. J. Hawes.
Every period of life is obliged to borrow its happiness from the time to come. Johnson.
Every person who manages another is a hypocrite. Thackeray.
Every petition to God is a precept to man. Jeremy Taylor.
Every place is safe to him who lives with justice. Epictetus.
Every pleasure pre-supposes some sort of 50 activity. Schopenhauer.
Every poet, be his outward lot what it may, finds himself born in the midst of prose; he has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into the freedom and infinitude of an ideal. Carlyle.
Every power of both heaven and earth is friendly to a noble and courageous activity. J. Burroughs.
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm. Disraeli.
Every race has its own habitat. Knox.
Every reader reads himself out of the book 55 that he reads. Goethe.
Every real master of speaking or writing uses his personality as he would any other serviceable material. Holmes.
Every real need is appeased and every vice stimulated by satisfaction. Amiel.
Every rightly constituted mind ought to rejoice, not so much in knowing anything clearly, as in feeling that there is infinitely more which it cannot know. Ruskin.
Every rose has its thorn. Pr.
Every scripture is to be interpreted by the 60 same spirit which gave it forth. Quoted by Emerson.
Every sect, as far as reason will help it, gladly uses it; when it fails them, they cry out it is matter of faith, and above reason. Locke.
Every shadow points to the sun. Emerson.
Every ship is a romantic object except that we sail in. Emerson.
Every shoe fits not every foot. Pr.
Every shot does not bring down a bird. Dut. Pr.
Every soo (sow) to its ain trough. Sc. Pr.
Every species of activity is met by a negation. 5 Goethe.
Every spirit builds itself a house, and beyond its house a world, and beyond its world a heaven. Emerson.
Every spirit makes its house, but afterwards the house confines the spirit. Emerson.
Every step of life shows how much caution is required. Goethe.
Every step of progress which the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold and from stake to stake. Wendell Phillips.
Every Stoic was a Stoic, but in Christendom 10 where is the Christian? Emerson.
Every style formed elaborately on any model must be affected and strait-laced. Whipple.
Every subject's duty is the king's, but every subject's soul is his own. Hen. V., iv. 1.
Every tear of sorrow sown by the righteous springs up a pearl. Matthew Henry.
Everything a man parts with is the cost of something. Everything he receives is the compensation of something. J. G. Holland.
Everything calls for interest, only it must be 15 an interest divested of self-interest and sincere. Desjardins.
Everything comes if a man will only wait. Disraeli.
Everything, even piety, is dangerous in a man without judgment. Stanislaus.
Everything good in a man thrives best when properly recognised. J. G. Holland.
Everything good in man leans on what is higher. Emerson.
Everything good is on the highway. Emerson. 20
Everything great is not always good, but all good things are great. Demosthenes.
Everything holy is before what is unholy; guilt presupposes innocence, not the reverse; angels, but not fallen ones, were created. Jean Paul.
Everything in life, to be of value, must have a sequence. Goethe.
Everything in nature contains all the powers of nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff. Emerson.
Everything in nature goes by law, and not by 25 luck. Emerson.
Everything in nature has a positive and a negative pole. Emerson.
Everything in nature is a puzzle until it finds its solution in man, who solves it in some way with God, and so completes the circle of creation. T. T. Munger.
Everything in the world can be borne except a long succession of beautiful days. Goethe.
Everything in this world depends upon will. Disraeli.
Everything in this world is a tangled yarn; 30 we taste nothing in its purity; we do not remain two moments in the same state. Rousseau.
Everything is as you take it. Pr.
Everything is beautiful, seen from the point of the intellect; but all is sour if seen as experience. Emerson.
Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Creator; everything degenerates in the hands of man. Rousseau.
Everything is mere opinion. M. Aurelius.
Everything is sold to skill and labour. Hume. 35
Everything is sweetened by risk. A. Smith.
Everything is what it is, and not another thing. Bishop Butler.
Everything is worth the money that can be got for it. Pub. Syr.
Everything looks easy that is practised to perfection. Goethe.
Everything rises but to fall, and increases but 40 to decay. Sall.
Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed; and to carry the danger to the edge of ruin, Nature causes each man's peculiarity to superabound. Emerson.
Everything springs into being and passes away according to law, yet how fluctuating is the lot that presides over the life which is to us so priceless. Goethe.
Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation. Sen.
Everything that happens, happens of necessity. Schopenhauer.
Everything that happens in this world is part 45 of a great plan of God running through all time. Ward Beecher.
Everything that happens to us leaves some trace behind it, and everything insensibly contributes to make us what we are. Goethe.
Everything that is exquisite hides itself. J. Roux.
Everything that is popular deserves the attention of the philosopher; although it may not be of any worth in itself, yet it characterises the people. Emerson.
Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for never is life so low as when occupied with the present. Landor.
Everything that tends to emancipate us from 50 external restraint without adding to our own power of self-government is mischievous. Goethe.
Everything unnatural is imperfect. Napoleon.
Everything useful to the life of man arises from the ground, but few things arise in that condition which is requisite to render them useful. Hume.
Every thought that arises in the mind, in its rising aims to pass out of the mind into act; just as every plant, in the moment of generation, struggles up to the light. Emerson.
Every thought was once a poem. Emerson. (?)
Every thought which genius and piety throw 55 into the world alters the world. Emerson.
Every time a man smiles, much more when he laughs, it adds something to his fragment of life. Sterne.
Every time you forgive a man you weaken him and strengthen yourself. Amer. Pr.
Every transition is a crisis, and a crisis presupposes sickness. Goethe.
Every traveller has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering. Dickens.
Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire. Jesus.
Every true man's apparel fits your thief. Meas. for Meas., iv. 2.
Every tub must stand on its own bottom. Pr.
Every unpleasant feeling is a sign that I have 5 become untrue to my resolutions. Jean Paul.
Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life. Dan. Webster.
Every vicious habit and chronic disease communicates itself by descent, and by purity of birth the entire system of the human body and soul may be gradually elevated, or by recklessness of birth degraded, until there shall be as much difference between the well-bred and ill-bred human creature (whatever pains be taken with their education) as between a wolf-hound and the vilest mongrel cur. Ruskin.
Every violation of truth is a stab at the health of society. Emerson.
Every wanton and causeless restraint of the will of the subject, whether practised by a monarch, a nobility, or a popular assembly, is a degree of tyranny. Blackstone.
Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in 10 my brother, because he has shut his own temple doors, and recites fables merely of his brother's or his brother's brother's God. Emerson.
Everywhere in life the true question is, not what we gain, but what we do; so also in intellectual matters it is not what we receive, but what we are made to give, that chiefly contents and profits us. Carlyle.
Everywhere the formed world is the only habitable one. Carlyle.
Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of two everlasting, hostile empires, Necessity and Free Will. Carlyle.
Everywhere the individual seeks to show himself off to advantage, and nowhere honestly endeavours to make himself subservient to the whole. Goethe.
Every white will have its black, / And every 15 sweet its sour. T. Percy.
Every why hath a wherefore. Com. of Errors, ii. 2.
Every wise woman buildeth her house, but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands. Bible.
Every word was once a poem. Emerson.
Every worm beneath the moon / Draws different threads, and late and soon / Spins, toiling out his own cocoon. Tennyson.
Every youth, from the king's son downwards, 20 should learn to do something finely and thoroughly with his hand. Ruskin.
E vestigio—Instantly.
Evil and good are everywhere, like shadow and substance; (for men) inseparable, yet not hostile, only opposed. Carlyle.
Evil, be thou my good. Milton.
Evil comes to us by ells and goes away by inches. Pr.
Evil communications corrupt good manners. 25 Pr.
Evil events from evil causes spring. Aristophanes.
Evil is a far more cunning and persevering propagandist than good, for it has no inward strength, and is driven to seek countenance and sympathy. Lowell.
Evil is generally committed under the hope of some advantage the pursuit of virtue seldom obtains. B. R. Haydon.
Evil is merely privative, not absolute; it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Emerson.
Evil is wrought by want of thought / As well 30 as want of heart. T. Hood.
Evil, like a rolling stone upon a mountain-top, / A child may first impel, a giant cannot stop. Trench.
Evil men understand not judgment, but they that seek the Lord understand all things. Bible.
Evil news rides post, while good news bates. Milton.
Evil often triumphs, but never conquers. J. Roux.
Evil, what we call evil, must ever exist while 35 man exists; evil, in the widest sense we can give it, is precisely the dark, disordered material out of which man's freewill has to create an edifice of order and good. Ever must pain urge us to labour; and only in free effort can any blessedness be imagined for us. Carlyle.
Evils can never pass away; for there must always remain something which is antagonistic to good. Plato.
Evils that take leave, / On their departure most of all show evil. King John, iii. 4.
Evolare rus ex urbe tanquam ex vinculis—To fly from the town into the country, as though from bonds. Cic.
Ewig jung zu bleiben / Ist, wie Dichter schreiben / Hochstes Lebensgut; / Willst du es erwerben / Musst du frühe sterben—To continue eternally young is, as poets write, the highest bliss of life; wouldst thou attain to it, thou must die young. Rückert.
Ewig zu sein in jedem Momente—To be eternal 40 at every moment. Schleiermacher.
Ex abrupto—Without preparation.
Ex abundante cautela—From excessive precaution. L.
Ex abusu non arguitur ad usum—There is no arguing from the abuse of a thing against the use of it. L.
Ex abusu non argumentum ad desuetudinem—The abuse of a thing is no argument for its discontinuance. L.
Exact justice is commonly more merciful in 45 the long run than pity, for it tends to foster in men those stronger qualities which make them good citizens. Lowell.
Ex æquo—By right.
Ex æquo et bono—In justice and equity.
Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood. H. Ballou.
Exaggeration is to paint a snake and add legs. Chinese Pr.
Examine the religious principles which have, in fact, prevailed in the world. You will scarcely be persuaded that they are anything but sick men's dreams. Hume.
Examine your soul and its emotions, and thoughts will be to you so many glorious revelations of the Godhead. Nourisson.
Example acquires tenfold authority when it speaks from the grave. W. Phillips.
Example has more followers than reason. Bovee.
Example is a hazardous lure: where the wasp 5 gets through, the gnat sticks. La Fontaine.
Example is more efficacious than precept. Johnson.
Example is more forcible than precept. People look at me six days in the week, to see what I mean on the seventh. Cecil.
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. Burke.
Examples of rare intelligence, yet more rarely cultivated, are not lights kindled for a moment; they live on here in their good deeds, and in their venerated memories. Gladstone.
Examples would indeed be excellent things, 10 were not people so modest that none will set them, and so vain that none will follow them. Hare.
Ex animo—From the soul; heartily.
Ex aperto—Openly.
Ex auribus cognoscitur asinus—An ass is known by his ears. Pr.
Ex cathedra—From the chair; with authority.
Excellence is never granted to man but as the 15 reward of labour. Sir Jos. Reynolds.
Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul, / But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, / Chaos is come again. Othello, iii. 3.
Excelsior—Still higher.
Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone; but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. Jesus.
Except by mastership and servantship, there is no conceivable deliverance from tyranny and slavery. Carlyle.
Except I be by Silvia in the night, / There is 20 no music in the nightingale. Two Gent. of Ver., iii. 1.
Except in knowing what it has to do and how to do it, the soul cannot resolve the riddle of its destiny. Ed.
Except in obedience to the heaven-chosen is freedom not so much as conceivable. Carlyle.
Except pain of body and remorse of conscience, all our evils are imaginary. Rousseau.
Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it; except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh in vain. Bible.
Except ye be converted and become as little 25 children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Jesus.
Exceptio probat regulam—The exception proves the rule.
Exceptis excipiendis—The requisite exceptions being made.
Excepto quod non simul esses, cætera lætus—Except that you were not with me, in other respects I was happy.
Excerpta—Extracts. L.
Excess generally causes reaction, and produces 30 a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments. Plato.
Excess in apparel is costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones. Wm. Penn.
Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness. Marlowe.
Excessit ex ephebis—He has come to the age of manhood. Ter.
Excessive distrust is not less hurtful than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived. Vauvenargues.
Excitari, non hebescere—To be spirited, not 35 sluggish. M.
Exclusa opes omnes—All hope is gone. Plaut.
Ex commodo—Leisurely.
Ex concesso—Admittedly.
Ex confesso—Confessedly.
Ex curia—Out of court. 40
Excusing of a fault / Doth make the fault worse by the excuse. King John, iv. 2.
Ex debito justitiæ—From what is due to justice; from a regard to justice.
Ex delicto—From the crime.
Ex desuetudine amittuntur privilegia—Rights are forfeited by disuse. L.
Ex diuturnitate temporis omnia præsumuntur 45 esse solemniter acta—Everything established for a length of time is presumed to have been done in due form. L.
Exeat—Let him depart.
Exegi monumentum ære perennius—I have reared a memorial of myself more durable than brass. Hor.
Exempli gratia—By way of example.
Exemplo plus quam ratione vivimus—We live more by example than reason.
Exemplumque Dei quisque est in imagine 50 parva—Each man is the copy of his God in small. Manil.
Exercise is labour without weariness. Johnson.
Exercise the muscles well, but spare the nerves always. Schopenhauer.
Exercitatio optimus est magister—Practice is the best master. Pr.
Exercitatio potest omnia—Perseverance conquers all difficulties.
Exeunt omnes—All retire. 55
Ex facie—Evidently.
Ex factis non ex dictis amici pensandi—Friends are to be estimated from deeds, not words. Liv.
Ex facto jus oritur—The law arisen out of the fact, i.e., it cannot till then be put in force. L.
Ex fide fortis—Strong from faith. M.
Ex fumo dare lucem—To give light from smoke. 60 M.
Ex humili magna ad fastigia rerum / Extollit, quoties voluit fortuna jocari—As oft as Fortune is in a freakish mood, she raises men from a humble station to the imposing summit of things. Juv.
Exigite ut mores teneros ceu pollice ducat, / Ut si quis cera vultum facit—Require him as with his thumb to mould their youthful morals, just as one fashions a face with plastic wax. Juv.
Exigui numero, sed bello vivida virtus—Few in number, yet their valour ardent for war. Virg.
Exiguum est ad legem bonum esse—It is but a small matter to be good in the eye of the law only. Sen.
Exile is terrible to those who have, as it were, a circumscribed habitation; but not to those who look upon the whole globe as one city. Cic.
Exilioque domos et dulcia limina mutant / 5 Atque alio patriam quærunt sub sole jacentem—They exchange their home and sweet thresholds for exile, and seek under another sun another home. Virg.
Ex improviso—Unexpectedly.
Ex industria—Purposely.
Ex inimico cogita posse fieri amicum—Think that you may make a friend of an enemy. Sen.
Ex integro—Anew; afresh.
Ex intervallo—At some distance. 10
Existence is not to be measured by mere duration. Caird.
Exitio est avidium mare nautis—The greedy sea is destruction to the sailors. Hor.
Ex malis eligere minima—Of evils to choose the least. Cic.
Ex malis moribus bonæ leges natæ sunt—From bad manners good laws have sprung. Coke.
Ex mero motu—Of one's own free will. 15
Ex nihilo nihil fit—Nothing produces nothing.
Ex officio—By virtue of his office.
Ex opere operato—By the external act.
Exoriare aliquis nostris ex ossibus ultor—An avenger shall arise out of my bones. Virg.
Ex otio plus negotii quam ex negotio habemus—Our 20 leisure gives us more to do than our business.
Ex parte—One-sided.
Ex pede Herculem—We judge of the size of the statue of Hercules by the foot.
Expect injuries; for men are weak, and thou thyself doest such too often. Jean Paul.
Expediency is the science of exigencies. Kossuth.
Expense of time is the most costly of all expenses. 25 Theophrastus.
Experience, a jewel that I have purchased at an infinite rate. Merry Wives, ii. 2.
Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us. A. B. Alcott.
Experience is a text to which reflection and knowledge supply the commentary. Schopenhauer.
Experience is by industry achieved, / And perfected by swift course of time. Two Gent. of Ver., i. 3.
"Experience is the best teacher," only the 30 school-fees are heavy. Hegel. (?)
Experience is the grand spiritual doctor. Carlyle.
Experience is the mistress of fools. Pr.
Experience is the only genuine knowledge. Goethe.
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct. Ben. Franklin.
Experience makes even fools wise. Pr. 35
Experience makes us see a wonderful difference between devotion and goodness. Pascal.
Experience takes dreadfully high school-wages, but teaches as no other. Carlyle.
Experience teaches us again and again that there is nothing men have less command over than their tongues. Spinoza.
Experience teacheth that resolution is a sole help in need. (?)
Experience that is bought is good, if not too 40 dear. Pr.
Experience to most men is like the stern-lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed. Coleridge.
Experientia docet—Experience teaches. Pr.
Experimentum crucis—A decisive experiment.
Expert men can execute, but learned men are more fit to judge and censure. Bacon.
Experto credite—Believe one who has had experience. 45 Virg.
Expertus metuit—He who has had experience is afraid. Hor.
Expetuntur divitiæ ad perficiendas voluptates—Riches are coveted to minister to our pleasures.
Explorant adversa viros; perque aspera duro / Nititur ad laudem virtus interrita clivo—Adversity tries men, and virtue struggles after fame, regardless of the adverse heights. Sil. Ital.
Ex post facto—After the event. L.
Expression alone can invest beauty with 50 supreme and lasting command over the eye. Fuseli.
Expressio unius est exclusio alterius—The naming of one man is the exclusion of another. L.
Ex professo—As one who knows; professedly.
Ex quovis ligno non fit Mercurius—A Mercury is not to be made out of any log. Pr.
Ex scintilla incendium—From a spark a conflagration. Pr.
Ex tempore—Off-hand; unpremeditated. 55
Extended empire, like expanded gold, exchanges solid strength for feeble splendour. Johnson.
External manners of lament / Are merely shadows to the unseen grief / That swells with silence in the tortured soul. Rich. II., iv. 1.
Extinctus amabilis idem—He will be beloved when he is dead (who was envied when he was living). Hor.
Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science, as the strangled snakes beside that of Hercules. Huxley.
Extra ecclesiam nulla salus—Outside the Church 60 there is no safety.
Extra lutum pedes habes—You have got your feet out of the mud. Pr.
Extra muros—Beyond the walls.
Extra telorum jactum—Beyond bow-shot.
Extrema gaudii luctus occupat—Grief treads on the confines of gladness. Pr.
Extrema manus nondum operibus ejus imposita est—The finishing hand has not yet been put to his works.
Extreme justice is often extreme injustice.
Extremes beget extremes. Pr.
Extreme in all things! hadst thou been betwixt, 5 / Thy throne had still been thine, or never been. Byron.
Extremes in nature equal ends produce; / In man they join to some mysterious use. Pope.
Extremes meet. Pr.
Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects; extreme heat mortifies, like extreme cold; extreme love breeds satiety as well as extreme hatred; and too violent rigour tempts chastity as much as too much license. Chapman.
Extremis malis extrema remedia—Extreme remedies for extreme evils. Pr.
Extremity is the trier of spirits. Coriol. iv. 1. 10
Exuerint sylvestrem animum, cultuque frequenti, / In quascunque voces artes, haud tarda sequentur—They lay aside their rustic ideas, and by repeated instruction will advance apace into whatever arts you may initiate them. Virg.
Ex umbra in solem—Out of the shade into the sunshine. Pr.
Ex ungue leonem—The lion may be known by his claw.
Ex uno disce omnes—From one judge of all.
Ex vita discedo, tanquam ex hospitio, non 15 tanquam ex domo—I depart from life as from an inn, not as from a home. Cic.
Ex vitio alterius sapiens emendat suum—From the faults of another a wise man will correct his own. Laber.
Ex vitulo bos fit—From a calf an ox grows up.
Ex vultibus hominum mores colligere—To construe men's characters by their looks.
Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. St. Paul.
Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, / 20 And catch the manners living as they rise. Pope.
Eyes are better, on the whole, than telescopes or microscopes. Emerson.
Eyes bright, with many tears behind them. Carlyle, on his Wife.
Eyes not down-dropp'd nor over-bright, but fed with the clear-pointed flame of chastity. Tennyson.
Eyes / Of microscopic power, that could discern / The population of a dewdrop. J. Montgomery.
Eyes raised towards heaven are always beautiful, 25 whatever they be. Joubert.
Eyes speak all languages; wait for no letter of introduction; they ask no leave of age or rank; they respect neither poverty nor riches, neither learning, nor power, nor virtue, nor sex, but intrude and come again, and go through and through you in a moment of time. Emerson.
Eyes will not see when the heart wishes them to be blind; desire conceals truth as darkness does the earth. Sen.
Ez for war, I call it murder; / There you hev it plain and flat; / I don't want to go no furder / Than my Testyment for that. Lowell.
Fa bene, e non guardare a chi—Do good, no matter to whom. It. Pr.
Faber suæ fortunæ—The maker of his own fortune. 30 Sall.
Fabricando fabri fimus—We become workmen by working. Pr.
Fabula, nec sentis, tota jactaris in urbe—You are the talk, though you don't know it, of the whole town. Ovid.
Faces are as legible as books, only they are read in much less time, and are much less likely to deceive us. Lavater.
Faces are as paper money, for which, on demand, there frequently proves to be no gold in the coffer. F. G. Trafford.
Faces are but a gallery of portraits. Bacon. 35
Faces which have charmed us the most escape us the soonest. Scott.
Fac et excusa—Do it and so justify yourself. Pr.
Facetiarum apud præpotentes in longum memoria est—It is long before men in power forget the jest they have been the subject of. Tac.
Fach—Department. Ger.
Facienda—Things to be done. 40
Facies non omnibus una, / Nec diversa tamen; qualem decet esse sororum—The features were not the same in them all, nor yet are they quite different, but such as we would expect in sisters. Ovid.
Facies tua computat annos—Your face records your age. Juv.
Facile est imperium in bonis—It is easy to rule over the good. Plaut.
Facile est inventis addere—It is easy to add to or improve on what has been already invented. Pr.
Facile largiri de alieno—It is easy to be generous 45 with what is another's. Pr.
Facile omnes cum valemus recta consilia / Ægrotis damus—We can all, when we are well, easily give good advice to the sick. Ter.
Facile princeps—The admitted chief; with ease at the top.
Facilis descensus Averno est, / Noctes atque dies patet atri janua Ditis; / Sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras, / Hoc opus, hic labor est—The descent to hell is easy; night and day the gate of gloomy Dis stands open; but to retrace your steps and escape to the upper air, this is a work, this is a toil. Virg.
Facilius crescit quam inchoatur dignitas—It is more easy to obtain an accession of dignity than to acquire it in the first instance. Laber.
Facilius sit Nili caput invenire—It would be 50 easier to discover the source of the Nile. Old Pr.
Facinus audax incipit, / Qui cum opulento pauper homine cœpit rem habere aut negotium—The poor man who enters into partnership with a rich makes a risky venture. Plaut.
Facinus majoris abollæ—A crime of a very deep dye (lit. one committed by a man who wears the garb of a philosopher). Juv.
Facinus quos inquinat æquat—Those whom guilt stains it equals, i.e., it puts on even terms. Lucan.
Facit indignatio versum—Indignation gives inspiration to verse.
Facito aliquid operis, ut semper te diabolus 5 inveniat occupatum—Keep doing something, so that the devil may always find you occupied. St. Jerome.
Faciunt næ intelligendo, ut nihil intelligant—They are so knowing that they know nothing. Ter.
Façon de parler—A manner of speaking. Fr.
Facsimile—An engraved resemblance of a man's handwriting; an exact copy of anything (lit. do the like).
Facta canam; sed erunt qui me finxisse loquantur—I am about to sing of facts; but some will say I have invented them. Ovid.
Facta ejus cum dictis discrepant—His actions 10 do not harmonise with his words. Cic.
Facta, non verba—Deeds, not words.
Fact is better than fiction, if only we could get it pure. Emerson.
Facts are apt to alarm us more than the most dangerous principles. Junius.
Facts are chiels that winna ding, / And downa be disputed. Burns.
Facts are stubborn things. Le Sage. 15
Facts are to the mind the same thing as food to the body. Burke.
Facts—historical facts, still more biographical—are sacred hierograms, for which the fewest have the key. Carlyle.
Factis ignoscite nostris / Si scelus ingenio scitis abesse meo—Forgive what I have done, since you know all evil intention was far from me. Ovid.
Factotum—A man of all work (lit. do everything).
Factum abiit; monumenta manent—The event 20 is an affair of the past; the memorial of it is still with us. Ovid.
Factum est—It is done. M.
Factum est illud; fieri infectum non potest—It is done and cannot be undone. Plaut.
Fader og Moder ere gode, end er Gud bedre—Father and mother are kind, but God is kinder. Dan. Pr.
Fæx populi—The dregs of the people.
Fagerhed uden Tugt, Rose uden Hugt—Beauty 25 without virtue is a rose without scent. Dan. Pr.
Fähigkeiten werden vorausgesetzt; sie sollen zu Fertigkeiten werden—Capacities are presupposed: they are meant to develop into capabilities, or skilled dexterities. Goethe.
Failures are with heroic minds the stepping-stones to success. Haliburton.
Fain would I, but I dare not; I dare, and yet I may not; / I may, although I care not, for pleasure when I play not. Raleigh.
"Fain would I climb, but that I fear a fall." Raleigh on a pane of glass, to which Queen Elizabeth added, "If thy heart fail thee, then why climb at all?"
Fainéant—Do nothing. Fr. 30
Faint heart never won fair lady. Pr.
Faint not; the miles to heaven are but few and short. S. Rutherford.
Fair and softly goes far in a day. Pr.
Fair enough, if good enough. Pr.
Fair fa' guid drink, for it gars (makes) folk 35 speak as they think. Sc. Pr.
Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face, / Great chieftain o' the puddin' race! / Abune them a' ye tak' your place, / Paunch, tripe, or thairm; / Weel are ye wordy o' a grace / As lang's my airm. Burns to a Haggis.
Fair flowers don't remain lying by the highway. Ger. Pr.
Fair folk are aye fusionless (pithless). Sc. Pr.
Fair is not fair, but that which pleaseth. Pr.
Fair maidens wear nae purses (the lads always 40 paying their share). Sc. Pr.
Fair play's a jewel. Pr.
Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare, / And beauty draws us with a single hair. Pope.
Fair words butter no parsnips. Pr.
Faire bonne mine à mauvaise jeu—To put a good face on the matter. Fr.
Faire le chien couchant—To play the spaniel; to 45 cringe. Fr.
Faire le diable à quatre—To play the devil or deuce. Fr.
Faire le pendant—To be the fellow. Fr.
Faire mon devoir—To do my duty. Fr.
Faire patte de velours—To coax (lit. make a velvet paw). Fr.
Faire prose sans le savoir—To speak prose 50 without knowing it. Molière.
Faire sans dire—To act without talking. Fr.
Faire un trou pour en boucher un autre—To make one hole in order to stop another. Fr. Pr.
Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, / If better thou belong not to the dawn. Milton.
Fais ce que dois, advienne que pourra—Do your duty, come what may. Fr. Pr.
Fait accompli—A thing already done. Fr. 55
Faith affirms many things respecting which the senses are silent; but nothing that they deny. Pascal.
Faith always implies the disbelief of a lesser fact in favour of a greater. A little mind often sees the unbelief, without seeing the belief, of large ones. Holmes.
Faith and joy are the ascensive forces of song. Stedman.
Faith builds a bridge across the gulf of death, / To break the shock blind Nature cannot shun, / And lands thought smoothly on the farther shore. Young.
Faith builds a bridge from the old world to the 60 next. Young.
Faith doth not lie dead in the breast, but is lovely and fruitful in bringing forth good works. Cranmer.
Faith, fanatic faith, once wedded fast, / To save dear falsehood, hugs it to the last. Moore.
Faith has given man an inward willingness, a world of strength wherewith to front a world of difficulty. Carlyle.
Faith in a better than that which appears is no less required by art than religion. John Sterling.
Faith is generally strongest in those whose character may be called weakest. Mme. de Staël.
Faith is letting down our nets into the untransparent deeps at the Divine command, not knowing what we shall take. Faber.
Faith is like love; it does not admit of being forced. Schopenhauer.
Faith is love taking the form of aspiration. 5 Channing.
Faith is loyalty to some inspired teacher, some spiritual hero. Carlyle.
Faith is necessary to victory. Hazlitt.
Faith is nothing but spiritualised imagination. Ward Beecher.
Faith is nothing more than obedience. Voltaire.
Faith is not reason's labour, but repose. 10 Young.
Faith is not the beginning, but the end of all knowledge. Goethe.
Faith is our largest manufacturer of good works, and wherever her furnaces are blown out, morality suffers. Birrell.
Faith is required at thy hands, and a sincere life, not loftiness of intellect or inquiry into the deep mysteries of God. Thomas à Kempis.
Faith is taking God at His word. Evans.
Faith is that courage in the heart which trusts 15 for all good to God. Luther.
Faith is the creator of the Godhead; not that it creates anything in the Divine Eternal Being, but that it creates that Being in us. Luther.
Faith is the heroism of intellect. C. H. Parkhurst.
Faith is the soul of religion, and works the body. Colton.
Faith loves to lean on Time's destroying arm. Holmes.
Faith makes us, and not we it; and faith makes 20 its own forms. Emerson.
Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, / And looks to that alone; / Laughs at impossibilities, / And cries—"It shall be done." C. Wesley.
Faith opens a way for the understanding; unbelief closes it. St. Augustine.
Faith without works is like a bird without wings. J. Beaumont.
Faith's abode / Is mystery for evermore, / Its life, to worship and adore, / And meekly bow beneath the rod, / When the day is dark and the burden sore. Dr. Walter Smith.
Faiths that are different in their roots, / 25 Where the will is right and the heart is sound, / Are much the same in their fruits. J. B. Selkirk.
Faithful are the wounds of a friend. Bible.
Faithful found / Among the faithless; faithful only he. Milton.
Faithfulness and sincerity are the highest things. Confucius.
Falla pouco, e bem, ter-te-haô por alguem—Speak little and well; they will take you for somebody. Port. Pr.
Fallacia / Alia aliam trudit—One falsehood 30 begets another (lit. thrusts aside another). Ter.
Fallacies we are apt to put upon ourselves by taking words for things. Locke.
Fallentis semita vitæ—The pathway of deceptive or unnoticed life. Hor.
Fallit enim vitium, specie virtutis et umbra, / Cum sit triste habitu, vultuque et veste severum—For vice deceives under an appearance and shadow of virtue when it is subdued in manner and severe in countenance and dress. Juv.
Fallitur, egregio quisquis sub principe credit / Servitium. Nunquam libertas gratior extat / Quam sub rege pio—Whoso thinks it slavery to serve under an eminent prince is mistaken. Liberty is never sweeter than under a pious king. Claud.
Falls have their risings, wanings have their 35 primes, / And desperate sorrows wait for better times. Quarles.
Falsch ist das Geschlecht der Menschen—False is the race of men. Schiller.
False as dicers' oaths. Ham., iii. 4.
False by degrees and exquisitely wrong. Canning.
False face must hide what the false heart doth know. Macb., i. 7.
False folk should hae mony witnesses. Sc. 40 Pr.
False freends are waur than bitter enemies. Sc. Pr.
False friends are like our shadow, close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade. Bovee.
False glory is the rock of vanity. La Bruyère.
False modesty is the masterpiece of vanity. La Bruyère.
False modesty is the most decent of all falsehood. 45 Chamfort.
False shame is the parent of many crimes. Fox.
Falsehood and death are synonymous. Bancroft.
Falsehood borders so closely upon truth, that a wise man should not trust himself too near the precipice. (?)
Falsehood is cowardice; truth is courage. H. Ballou.
Falsehood is easy, truth is difficult. George 50 Eliot.
Falsehood is folly. Hom.
Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth. Colton.
Falsehood is our one enemy in this world. Carlyle.
Falsehood is so much the more commendable, by how much more it resembles truth, and is the more pleasing the more it is doubtful and possible. Cervantes.
Falsehood is the devil's daughter, and speaks 55 her father's tongue. Dan. Pr.
Falsehood is the essence of all sin. Carlyle.
Falsehood, like poison, will generally be rejected when administered alone; but when blended with wholesome ingredients may be swallowed unperceived. Whately.
Falsehood, like the dry rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded. Whately.
Falso damnati crimine mortis—Condemned to die on a false charge. Virg.
Falsum in uno, falsum in omni—False in one thing, false in everything.
Falsus honor juvat, et mendax infamia terret / Quem nisi mendosum et medicandum—Undeserved honour delights, and lying calumny alarms no one but him who is full of falsehood and needs to be reformed. Hor.
Fama clamosa—A current scandal.
Fama crescit eundo—Rumour grows as it goes. 5 Virg.
Fama nihil est celerius—Nothing circulates more swiftly than scandal. Livy.
Famæ damna majora sunt, quam quæ æstimari possint—The loss of reputation is greater than can be possibly estimated. Livy.
Famæ laboranti non facile succurritur—It is not easy to repair a damaged character. Pr.
Famam extendere factis.—To extend one's fame by valiant feats. Virg.
Fame and censure with a tether / By fate are 10 always linked together. Swift.
Fame at its best is but a poor compensation for all the ills of existence. Mrs. Oliphant.
Fame comes only when deserved, and then it is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny. Longfellow.
Fame is a fancied life in others' breath. Pope.
Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave. Colton.
Fame is a revenue payable only to our ghosts. 15 Mackenzie.
Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck only at one end of a room, it will soon fall to the floor. To keep it up, it must be struck at both ends. Johnson.
Fame is but the breath of the people, and that often unwholesome. Pr.
Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil. Milton.
Fame is not won on downy plumes nor under canopies. Dante.
Fame is the advantage of being known by 20 people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little. Stanislaus.
Fame is the breath of popular applause. Herrick.
Fame is the perfume of noble deeds. Socrates.
Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, / (That last infirmity of noble minds,) / To scorn delights and live laborious days. Milton.
Fame may be compared to a scold; the best way to silence her is to let her alone, and she will at last be out of breath in blowing her own trumpet. Fuller.
Fame only reflects the estimate in which a 25 man is held in comparison with others. Schopenhauer.
Fame sometimes hath created something of nothing. Fuller.
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else; very rarely to those who say to themselves, "Go to now, let us be a celebrated individual." Holmes.
Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of a man; like light, it can give little or nothing, but at most may show what is given; often it is but a false glare, dazzling the eyes of the vulgar, lending, by casual extrinsic splendour, the brightness and manifold glance of the diamond to pebbles of no value. Carlyle.
Fame with men, / Being but ampler means to serve mankind, / Should have small rest or pleasure in herself, / But work as vassal to the larger love, / That dwarfs the petty love of one to one. Tennyson.
Fames et mora bilem in nasum conciunt—Hunger 30 and delay stir up one's bile (lit. in the nostrils). Pr.
Fames, pestis, et bellum, populi sunt pernicies—Famine, pestilence, and war are the destruction of a people.
Familiare est hominibus omnia sibi ignoscere—It is common to man to pardon all his own faults.
Familiarity breeds contempt. Pr.
Familiarity is a suspension of almost all the laws of civility which libertinism has introduced into society under the notion of ease. La Roche.
Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. 35 George Eliot.
Famine hath a sharp and meagre face. Dryden.
Fammi indovino, e ti farò ricco—Make me a prophet, and I will make you rich. It. Pr.
Fanaticism is a fire which heats the mind indeed, but heats without purifying. Warburton.
Fanaticism is such an overwhelming impression of the ideas relating to the future world as disqualifies for the duties of this. R. Hall.
Fanaticism is to superstition what delirium is 40 to fever and rage to anger. Voltaire.
Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity. Gibbon.
Fanaticism, soberly defined, / Is the false fire of an o'erheated mind. Cowper.
Fancy is capricious; wit must not be searched for, and pleasantry will not come in at a call. Sterne.
Fancy is imagination in her youth and adolescence. Landor.
Fancy kills and fancy cures. Sc. Pr. 45
Fancy requires much, necessity but little. Ger. Pr.
Fancy restrained may be compared to a fountain, which plays highest by diminishing the aperture. Goldsmith.
Fancy rules over two-thirds of the universe, the past and the future, while reality is confined to the present. Jean Paul.
Fancy runs most furiously when a guilty conscience drives it. Fuller.
Fancy surpasses beauty. Pr. 50
Fancy, when once brought into religion, knows not where to stop. Whately.
Fanfaronnade—Boasting. Fr.
Fanned fires and forced love ne'er did weel. Sc. Pr.
Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart, / How hard thy yoke! how cruel is thy dart! / Those 'scape thy anger who refuse thy sway, / And those are punished most who most obey. Prior.