So long as you live and work, you will not escape being misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once for all. Be silent. Goethe.

So magnificent a thing is Will incarnated in a creature of like fashion with ourselves, that we run to witness all manifestations thereof. Carlyle.

So many servants, so many enemies. Pr.

So many slaves, so many enemies. Pr.

So may he rest; his faults lie gently on him. 15 Hen. VIII., iv. 2.

So much in the world depends upon getting what we want. Prosperity is to the human heart like a sunny south wall to a peach. Holme Lee.

So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the pith of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours. Emerson.

So much to do, / So little done, such things to be. Tennyson.

So nigh is grandeur to our dust, / So near is God to man, / When Duty whispers low, "Thou must," / The youth replies, "I can!" Emerson.

So schaff' ich am sausenden Webstuhl der 20 Zeit / Und wirke der Gottheit lebendiges Kleid—'Tis thus at the roaring loom of Time I ply, / And weave for God the garment thou seest him by (lit. the living garment of the Deity). Goethe.

So soon as one's heart is tender it is weak. When it is beating so warmly against the breast, and the throat is, as it were, tied tightly, and one strives to press the tears from one's eyes and feels an incomprehensible joy as they begin to flow, then we are so weak that we are fettered by chains of flowers, not because they have become strong through any magic chain, but because we tremble lest we should tear them asunder. Goethe.

So soon as people try honestly to see all they can of anything, they come to a point where a noble dimness begins. They see more than others; but the consequence of their seeing more is, that they feel they cannot see at all; and the more intense their perception, the more the crowd of things which they partly see will multiply upon them. Ruskin.

So soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to man, I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him. Renan.

So spiritual (geistig) is our whole daily life; all that we do springs out of mystery, spirit, invisible force; only like a little cloud-image, or Armida's palace, air-built, does the actual body itself forth from the great mystic deep. Carlyle.

So stirbt ein Held, anbetungsvoll—So dies a 25 hero to be worshipped. Schiller.

So study evermore is overshot; / While it doth study to have what it would, / It doth forget to do the thing it should; / And when it hath the thing it hunteth most, / 'Tis won as towns with fire,—so won, so lost. Love's L. Lost, i. 1.

So sweetly she bade me adieu, / I thought that she bade me return. Shenstone.

So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. Bible.

So thou be above it, make the world serve thy purpose, but do not thou serve it. Goethe.

So thou be good, slander doth but approve / 30 Thy worth the greater. Shakespeare.

So to living or dead let the solemn bell call; / Sleeping or waking, time passes with all. Dr. Walter Smith.

So turns the faithful needle to the pole, / Though mountains rise between and oceans roll. Darwin.

So we grew together, / Like to a double cherry, seeming parted, / But yet a union in partition; / Two lovely berries moulded on one stem. / So with two seeming bodies, but one heart. Mid. N.'s. Dream, iii. 2.

So wise, so young, they say, do ne'er live long. Rich. III., iii. 1.

So wonderful is human nature, and its varied 35 ties / Are so involved and complicate, that none / May hope to keep his inward spirit pure, / And walk without perplexity through life. Goethe.

So work the honey bees; / Creatures that, by a rule in Nature, teach / The art of order to a peopled kingdom. Henry V., i. 2.

Soar not too high to fall, but stoop to rise. Fuller.

Sobald du dir vertraust, sobald weisst du zu leben—So soon as you feel confidence in yourself, you know the art of life. Goethe, Mephisto in "Faust."

Sobriety, severity, and self-respect is the foundation of all true sociality. Thoreau.

Social intercourse makes us the more able to bear with ourselves and others. Goethe.

Social order without liberty makes of man only a product; liberty makes him the citizen of a better world. Schiller.

Societatis vinculum est ratio et oratio—Reason and speech are the bond of society. Cic.

Society always consists, in greatest part, of 5 young and foolish persons. Emerson.

Society cannot do without cultivated men. As soon as the first wants are satisfied, the higher wants become imperative. Emerson.

Society develops wit, but contemplation alone forms genius. Mme. de Staël.

Society does not in any age prevent a man from being what he can be. Carlyle.

Society does not like to have any breath of question blown on the existing order. Emerson.

Society does not love its unmaskers. Emerson. 10

Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Emerson.

Society has always a destructive influence upon an artist:—by its sympathy with his meanest powers; secondly, by its chilling want of understanding of his greatest; and, thirdly, by its vain occupation of his time and thoughts. Ruskin.

Society has always under one or the other figure two authentic revelations, of a God and of a devil. Carlyle.

Society has only one law, and that is custom. Hamerton.

Society is a long series of uprising ridges, 15 which from the first to the last offer no valley of repose. Wherever you take your stand, you are looked down upon by those above you, and reviled and pelted by those below you. Bulwer Lytton.

Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding. Emerson.

Society is a republic. When an individual endeavours to lift himself above his fellows, he is dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or calumny. Victor Hugo.

Society is a troop of thinkers, and the best heads among them take the best places. Emerson.

Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.... Its unity is only phenomenal. Emerson.

Society is, and must be, based upon appearances, 20 and not upon the deepest realities. Hamerton.

Society is barbarous, until every industrious man can get his living without dishonest customs. Emerson.

Society is composed of two great classes: those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners. Chamfort.

Society is divisible into two classes: shearers and shorn. Talleyrand.

Society is ever under the imperious necessity of moving onward in legal forms, nor can such forms be evaded without the most serious disasters forthwith ensuing. Draper.

Society is founded upon cloth. Carlyle. 25

Society is full of infirm people, who incessantly summon others to serve them. They contrive everywhere to exhaust for their single comfort the entire means and appliances of that luxury to which our invention has yet attained. Emerson.

Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons, who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into good manners, forms accepted by the sense of all, can reach. Emerson.

Society is like the echoing hills; it gives back to the speaker his words, groan for groan, song for song. Dr. David Thomas.

Society is no comfort to one not sociable. Cymbeline, iv. 2.

Society is servile from want of will, and therefore 30 the world wants saviours and religions. Emerson.

Society is the atmosphere of souls, and we necessarily imbibe from it something which is either infectious or hurtful. Bp. Hall.

Society is the grandmother of humanity through her daughters the inventions. C. J. Weber.

Society is the standing wonder of our existence; a true region of the supernatural; as it were, a second all-embracing life, wherein our first individual life becomes doubly and trebly alive, and whatever of infinitude was in us bodes itself forth, and becomes visible and active. Carlyle.

Society is well governed when the people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates the laws. Solon.

Society lives by faith, and develops by science. 35 Amiel.

Society rests upon conscience, not upon science. Amiel.

Society will pardon much to genius and special gifts; but, being in its nature conventional, it loves what is conventional. Emerson.

Society wishes to be amused. I do not wish to be amused. I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred; the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant. Emerson.

Socius fidelis anchora tuta est—A faithful companion is a sure anchor. M.

Socrates quidem quum rogaretur cujatem se 40 esse diceret, Mundanum, inquit. Totius enim mundi se incolam et civem arbitrabatur—When Socrates was asked of what country he professed to be a citizen, he answered, "Of the world;" for he considered himself an inhabitant and citizen of the whole world. Cic.

Soft-heartedness, in times like these, / Shows softness in the upper storey. Lowell.

Soft is the music that would charm for ever; / The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly. Wordsworth.

Soft, or fair, words butter no parsnips. Pr.

Soft pity enters at an iron gate. Shakespeare.

Soft words win hard hearts. Pr. 45

"Softly! softly!" caught the monkey. Negro Pr.

Sogno d'infermi—A sick man's dream. Petrarch.

Soi-disant—Self-styled. Fr.

Sol crescentes decedens duplicat umbras—The setting sun doubles the increasing shadows. Virg.

Sol occubuit; nox nulla secuta est—The sun is set; no night has followed.

Sola Deo salus—Safety is from God alone. M.

Sola juvat virtus—Virtue alone assists. M.

Sola nobilitas virtus—Virtue is the only nobility. M.

Sola salus servire Deo—The only safety is in 5 serving God.

Sola virtus invicta—Virtue alone is invincible. M.

Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris—It is some comfort to the wretched to have others to share in their woe.

Soldats! si les cornettes vous manquent, vous trouverez toujours mon panache blanc au chemin de l'honneur et de la gloire—Soldiers! if you don't hear the bugle-call, you will always see my white plume in the path of honour and glory! Henry IV. at Ivry.

Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer. Lord Burleigh.

Soldiers (there are) of the ploughshare as well 10 as of the sword. Ruskin.

Soldiers! what I have to offer you is fatigue, danger, struggle, and death; the chill of the cold night in the free air, and heat under the burning sun; no lodgings, no munitions, no provisions, but forced marches, dangerous watchposts, and the continual struggle with the bayonet against batteries. Those who love freedom and their country may follow me! Garibaldi to his Roman soldiers. (That is the most glorious speech I ever heard in my life. Kossuth.)

"Solem præ jaculorum multitudine et sagittarum non videbis." "In umbra igitur pugnabimus"—"You will not see the sun for the clouds of javelins and arrows." "We shall fight in the shade then." Cic. The Persian to Leonidas at Thermopylæ, and Leonidas' answer.

Solem quis dicere falsum audeat?—Who dares call the sun a liar? Virg.

Soli Deo gloria—To God alone be glory. M.

Soli Deo honor et gloria—To God alone be 15 honour and glory. M.

Solicitude about the future never profits; we feel no evil till it comes; and when we feel it, no counsel (Rath) helps us; wisdom is always too early or too late. Rückert.

Solid pudding against empty praise. Pope.

Solitude can be well applied and sit right upon but very few persons. They must have knowledge of the world to see the follies of it, and virtue enough to despise all the vanity. Cowley.

Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones. Sydney Smith.

Solitude dulls the thought, too much company 20 dissipates it. (?)

Solitude is a good school, but the world is the best theatre; the institution is best there, but the practice here; the wilderness hath the advantage of discipline, and society opportunities of perfection. Jeremy Taylor.

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. Lowell.

Solitude is impracticable, and society fatal. Emerson.

Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows. The really diligent student in one of the crowded hives of Cambridge College is as solitary as a dervish in the desert. Thoreau.

Solitude is often the best society. Pr. 25

Solitude is the despair of fools, the torment of the wicked, and the joy of the good. (?)

Solitude is the home of the strong; silence, their prayer. Ravignan.

Solitude sometimes is best society, / And short retirement urges sweet return. Milton.

Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings that will bear it farther than suns and stars. He who would inspire and lead his race must be defended from travelling with the souls of other men, from living, breathing, reading, and writing in the daily time-worn yoke of their opinions. Emerson.

Solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant—They 30 make a solitude, and call it peace.

Sollen dich die Dohlen nicht umschrein, / Musst du nicht Knopf auf dem Kirchthurm sein—If jackdaws are not to scream around you, you must not be a ball on the church spire. Goethe.

Sollicitæ mentes speque metuque pavent—Minds that are ill at ease are agitated both with hope and fear. Ovid.

Sollicitant alii remis freta cæca, ruuntque / In ferrum: penetrant aulas, et limina regum—Some disturb unknown seas with oars, some rush upon the sword; some push their way into courts and the portals of kings. Virg.

Solo cedit, quicquid solo plantatur—Whatever is planted in the soil goes with it. L.

Solo Deo salus—Salvation from God alone. 35 M.

Solo e pensoso—Alone and pensive. Petrarch.

Solvit ad diem—He paid to the day. L.

Solvitur ambulando—The problem is solved by walking, i.e., the theoretical puzzle by a practical test.

Solvuntur risu tabulæ—The case is dismissed amid laughter. Hor.

[Greek: sômata polla trephein, kai dômata poll' 40 anegeirein / Atrapos eis peniên estin etoimotatê]—To feed many mouths and build many houses is the directest road to poverty. Gr.

Some are atheists only in fair weather. (?)

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. Twelfth Night, ii. 5.

Some are cursed with the fulness of satiety; and how can they bear the ills of life when its very pleasures fatigue them? Colton.

Some are so intent upon acquiring the superfluities of life that they sacrifice its necessaries in this foolish pursuit. Goldsmith.

Some books are drenched sands, on which a 45 great soul's wealth lies in heaps, like a wrecked argosy. Alex. Smith.

Some books are edifices to stand as they are built; some are hewn stones ready to form a part of future edifices; some are quarries from which stones are to be split for shaping and after use. Holmes.

Some books are lees frae end to end, / And some big lees were never penn'd; / E'en ministers they hae been kenn'd, / In holy rapture, / A rousing whid at times to vend, / And nail't wi' Scripture. Burns.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. Bacon.

Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. Much Ado About Nothing, iv. 1.

Some dire misfortune to portend, / No enemy can match a friend. Swift.

Some drink because they're wet, and some 5 because they're dry. Saying.

Some evils are cured by contempt. Pr.

Some falls are means the happier to rise. Shakespeare.

Some faults are so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue. Goldsmith.

Some folk's tongues are like the clocks as run on strikin', not to tell you the time o' the day, but because there's summat wrong i' their inside. George Eliot.

Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, / 10 And think they grow immortal as they quote. Young.

Some friend is a companion at the table, and will not continue in the day of thy affliction. Ecclus.

Some glances of real beauty may be seen in the faces of those who dwell in true meekness. Thoreau.

Some grief shows much of love, / But much of grief shows still more want of wit. Rom. and Jul., iii. 5.

Some hae meat that canna eat, / And some would eat that want it; / But we hae meat and we can eat, / Sae let the Lord be thankit. Burns.

Some have been thought brave because they 15 were afraid to run away. Pr.

Some men are born anvils, some are born hammers. (?)

Some men are like nails, easily drawn; others are like rivets, not drawable at all. John Burroughs.

Some men are wise, and some are otherwise. Pr.

Some men, at the approach of a dispute, neigh like horses. Unless there be an argument going on, they think nothing is doing. Emerson.

Some men demand rough treatment everywhere. 20 S. C. Hall.

Some men go through a forest and see no firewood. Pr.

Some men have just imagination enough to spoil their judgment. (?)

Some men, like spaniels, will only fawn the more when repulsed, but will pay little heed to a friendly caress. Abd-el-Kader.

Some men weave their sophistry till their own reason is entangled. Johnson.

Some men will believe nothing but what they 25 can comprehend; and there are but few things that such are able to comprehend. St. Evermond.

Some men's sins are open beforehand, going before to judgement; and some men they follow after. St Paul.

Some modern zealots appear to have no better knowledge of truth, nor better manner of judging it, than by counting noses. Swift.

Some must be great. Cowper.

Some of our weaknesses are born in us, others are the result of education; it is a question which of the two gives us most trouble. Goethe.

Some of the most famous books are least 30 worth reading. Their fame was due to their doing something that needed in their day to be done. The work done, the virtue of the book expires. John Morley.

Some of your griefs you have cured, / And the sharpest you still have survived; / But what torments of pain you endured / From evils that never arrived! Emerson, from the French.

Some old men, by continually praising the time of their youth, would almost persuade us that there were no fools in those days; but unluckily they are left themselves for examples. Pope.

Some people are all quality; you would think they were made up of nothing but title and genealogy. The stamp of dignity defaces in them the very character of humanity, and transports them to such a degree of haughtiness that they reckon it below themselves to exercise either good-nature or good manners. L'Estrange.

Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half way to meet it. D. Jerrold.

Some people carry their hearts in their heads; 35 very many carry their heads in their hearts. The difficulty is to keep them apart, yet both actively working together. Hare.

Some people obtain fame, and others deserve it. Lessing.

Some people pass through life soberly and religiously enough, without knowing why, or reasoning about it, but, from force of habit merely, go to heaven like fools. Sterne.

Some people will never learn anything, because they understand everything too soon. (?)

Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them. B. R. Haydon.

Some persons, instead of making a religion for 40 their God, are content to make a god of their religion. Helps.

Some persons take reproof good-humouredly enough, unless you are so unlucky as to hit a sore place. Then they wince and writhe, and start up and knock you down for your impertinence, or wish you good morning. Hare.

Some philosophers seek to exalt man by display of his greatness, others to debase him by pointing to his miseries. Pascal.

Some prayers, indeed, have a longer voyage than others, but then they return with richer lading at last. Gurnall.

Some read books only with a view to find fault, while others read only to be taught; the former are like venomous spiders, extracting a poisonous quality, where the latter, like the bees, sip out a sweet and profitable juice. L'Estrange.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall; / 45 Some run from brakes of vice and answer none, / And some condemnéd for a fault alone. Meas. for Measure., ii. 1.

Some slaves are scourged to their work by whips, others by restlessness and ambition. Ruskin.

Some straw, a room, water, and in the fourth place, gentle words. These things are never to be refused in good men's houses. Hitopadesa.

Some talkers excel in the precision with which they formulate their thoughts, so that you get from them somewhat to remember; others lay criticism asleep by a charm. Emerson.

Some tears belong to us because we are unfortunate; others, because we are humane; many, because we are mortal. But most are caused by our being unwise. It is these last only that of necessity produce more. Leigh Hunt.

Some that speak no ill of any do no good to 5 any. Pr.

Some there be that shadows kiss, / Such have but a shadow's bliss. Mer. of Venice, ii. 9.

Some to whom Heaven in wit has been profuse, / Want as much more to turn it to its use. Pope.

Some treasures are heavy with human tears, as an ill-stored harvest with untimely rain; and some gold is brighter in sunshine than in substance. Ruskin.

Some troops pursue the bloody-minded queen / That led calm Henry. 3 Hen. VI., ii. 6.

Some village Hampden, that with dauntless 10 breast / The little tyrant of his fields withstood, / Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, / Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Gray.

Some virtues are only seen in affliction, and some in prosperity. Addison.

Some wee short hours ayont the twal. Burns.

Some work in the morning may trimly be done, / That all the day after may hardly be won. Tusser.

Some would be thought to do great things who are but tools and instruments, like the fool who fancied he played upon the organ when he only blew the bellows. (?)

Something attempted, something done, / Has 15 earned a night's repose. Longfellow.

Something between a hindrance and a help. Wordsworth.

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. Ham., i. 4.

Something is wanting to science until it has been humanised. Emerson.

Something of a person's character may be discovered by observing when and how he smiles. Some people never smile. They only grin. Bovee.

Sometimes from her eyes / I did receive fair 20 speechless messages. Mer. of Venice, i. 1.

Sometimes ideas are made flesh; they breathe upon us with warm breath; they touch us with soft responsive hands; they look upon us with sad, sincere eyes, and speak to us in appealing tones. George Eliot.

Sometimes the half is better than the whole, / And sometimes worse than none; the dubious soul / Suspects the secret there in what is hid, / And holds the rest but trash. Dr. Walter Smith.

Sometimes / 'Tis well to be bereft of promised good, / That we may lift the soul, and contemplate / With lively joy the joys we cannot share. Coleridge.

Somnus agrestium / Lenis virorum non humiles domos / Fastidit, umbrosamque ripam—The gentle sleep of rustic men disdains not humble dwellings and the shady bank. Hor.

Somnus est imago mortis—Sleep is the image of 25 death. Cic.

Son genre n'est pas le plus grand, mais elle est la plus grande dans son genre—Its kind is not the greatest, but it is the greatest of its kind. (?).

Sonder Falsch wie die Tauben! und ihr beleidiget keinen; / Aber klug wie die Schlangen und euch beleidiget keiner—Innocent as doves, you will harm no one; but wise as serpents, no one will harm you. Haug.

Song is the heroic of speech. Carlyle,

Song is the tone of feeling. Hare.

Songs may exist unsung, but voices exist 30 only when they sound. Landor.

Soon enough, if well enough. Pr.

Soon hot, soon cold. Pr.

Soon or late the strong need the help of the weak. Fr. Pr.

Soon ripe, soon rotten. Pr.

Sooner earth / Might go round heaven, and 35 the strait girth of Time / Inswathe the fulness of Eternity, / Than language grasp the infinite of Love. Tennyson.

Sooner or later the truth comes to light. Dut. Pr.

Soothed with the sound, the king grew vain, / Fought all his battles o'er again; / And thrice he routed all his foes, / And thrice he slew the slain. Dryden.

[Greek: sophên de misô; mê gar en g' emois domois / Eiê phronousa pleion ê gynaika chrên]—I hate a learned woman. Let no woman in my house know more than a woman should. Eurip.

Sordid and infamous sensuality, the most dreadful of the evils that issued from the box of Pandora, corrupts every heart and eradicates every virtue. Fénelon.

Sorex suo perit indicio—The mouse perishes by 40 betraying himself. Pr.

Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours, / Makes the night morning and the noontide night. Rich. III.

Sorrow concealed, like an oven stopped, / Doth burn the heart to cinders where it is. Titus Andron., ii. 5.

Sorrow has ever produced more melody than mirth. C. Fitzhugh.

Sorrow has not been given us for sorrow's sake, but always as a lesson from which we are to learn somewhat, which once learned, it ceases to be sorrow. Carlyle.

Sorrow is always toward ourselves, not 45 heaven; / Showing, we would not spare heaven, as we love it, / But as we stand in fear. Meas. for Meas., ii. 3.

Sorrow is an enemy, but it carries a friend's message within it too. All life is as death; and the tree Igdrasil, which reaches up to heaven, goes down to the kingdom of hell; and God, the Everlasting Good and Just, is in it all. Carlyle.

Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better. Bible.

Sorrow is good for nothing but sin. Pr.

Sorrow is knowledge; they who know the most must mourn the deepest over the fatal truth, the tree of knowledge is not that of life. Byron.

Sorrow is shadow to life, moving where life doth move. Sir Edwin Arnold.

Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity 5 will cleanse and brighten it. Johnson.

Sorrow, like a heavy-hanging bell, once set on ringing, with his own strength goes; then little strength rings out the doleful knell. Shakespeare.

Sorrow like this / Draws parted lives in one, and knits anew / The rents which time has made. Lewis Morris.

Sorrow of spirit (like Night among the Greeks) is the mother of gods. Jean Paul.

Sorrow seems sent for our instruction, as we darken the cages of birds when we would teach them to sing. Jean Paul.

Sorrow that is couched in seeming gladness / 10 Is like that mirth fate turns to sudden sadness. Troil. and Cress., i. 1.

Sorrow will pay no debt. Pr.

Sorrows are like thunder-clouds—in the distance they look black, over our heads hardly gray. Jean Paul.

Sorrows are often evolved from good fortune. Goethe.

Sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things. Tennyson.

Sorrows remembered sweeten present joy. 15 R. Pollok.

Sors tua mortalis; non est mortale quod optas—Thy lot is mortal, and thou wishest what no mortal may. Ovid.

Sort thy heart to patience; / These few days' wonder will be quickly worn. 2 Henry VI., ii. 4.

Sotto voce—In an undertone. It.

Souffrir est la première chose qu'il doit apprendre, et celle qu'il aura le plus grand besoin de savoir—To be able to endure is the first lesson which a child ought to learn, and the one which it will have the most need to know. Rousseau.

Souls made of fire, and children of the sun, 20 with whom revenge is virtue. Young.

Souls must become expanded by the contemplation of Nature's grandeur before they can first comprehend the greatness of man. Heine.

Sound and sufficient reason falls, after all, to the share of but few men, and those few men exert their influence in silence. Goethe.

Sound maxims are the germs of good; strongly imprinted on the memory, they nourish the will. Joubert.

Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! / To all the sensual world proclaim, / One crowded hour of glorious life / Is worth an age without a name. Scott.

Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea! / 25 Jehovah has triumph'd, His people are free. Moore.

Sound trumpets!—let our bloody colours wave; / And either victory or else a grave. 3 Hen. VI., ii. 2.

Soupçon est d'amitié poison—Suspicion is the poison of friendship. Fr. Pr.

Sour woe delights in fellowship, / And needly will be rank'd with other griefs. Rom. and Jul., iii. 2.

Souvent la perfidie retourne sur son auteur—Treachery often recoils on the head of its author. Fr.

Sow good works and you will reap gladness. Pr. 30

Soyez comme l'oiseau, posé pour un instant / Sur des rameaux trop frêles, / Qui sent ployer la branche et qui chante pourtant, / Sachant qu'il a des ailes—Be as the bird perched for an instant on the too frail branch which she feels bending beneath, but sings away all the same, knowing she has wings. Victor Hugo.

Soyez ferme—Be firm. M.

Soyons doux, si nous voulons être regrettés. La hauteur du génie et les qualités supérieures ne sont pleurées que des anges—Let us be gentle if we would be regretted. The pride of genius and high talents are lamented only by angels. Chateaubriand.

Space is the statue of God. Joubert.

Spare but to spend, and only spend to spare. Pr. 35

Spare the rod and spoil the child. Pr.

Sparen ist grössere Kunst als erwerben—Saving is a greater art than gaining. Ger. Pr.

Sparing or spending, be thy wisdom seen / In keeping ever to the golden mean. Lucian.

Speak every man truth with his neighbour. St. Paul.

Speak gently!—'tis a little thing, / Dropped 40 in the heart's deep well. Anon.

Speak in such a manner between two enemies, that, should they afterwards become friends, you may not be put to the blush. Saadi.

Speak little and to the purpose. Pr.

Speak little, but speak the truth. Pr.

Speak no evil of a man if you know it not of him for certain, and if you do know it, then ask yourself, "Why do I tell it?" Lavater.

Speak not at all till you have somewhat to 45 speak; and care simply and with undivided mind for the truth of your speaking. Carlyle.

Speak not peace to thyself when beset on every side with numerous and restless enemies. Thomas à Kempis.

Speak o' the deil and he'll appear. Sc. Pr.

Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, / Nor set down aught in malice. Then must you speak / Of one who loved not wisely but too well. Othello, v. 2.

Speak that I may see thee. Addison.

Speak the truth, and all nature and all spirits 50 help you with unexpected furtherance; all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there do seem to stir and move to bear you witness. Emerson.

Speak the truth and shame the devil. Pr.

Speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward. Bible.

Speak well of the absent whenever you have a suitable opportunity. Judge Hale.

Speak well of your friend; of your enemy say nothing. Pr.

Speak when you are spoken to, and come 55 when you are called for. Pr.

Speak your sincerest, think your wisest; there is still a great gulf between you and the fact. Carlyle.

Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding. Ger. Pr.

Speaking much is a sign of vanity; for he that is lavish in words is a niggard in deed. Sir W. Raleigh.

Speaking without thinking is shooting without aim. Pr.

Spectatum veniunt, veniunt spectentur ut ipsæ—The 5 ladies come to see, they come also to be seen. Ovid.

Spectemur agendo—Let us be tried by our actions. M.

Spectres exist for those only who wish to see them. Holtei.

Speculation should have free course and look fearlessly towards all the thirty-two points of the compass, whithersoever and howsoever it listeth. Carlyle.

Speech, even the commonest, has something of song in it. Carlyle.

Speech has been given to man to disguise his 10 thought. Talleyrand.

Speech is a laggard and a sloth, but the eyes shoot forth an electric fluid that condenses all the elements of sentiment and passion in one single emanation. Horace Smith.

Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech. Rivarol.

Speech is like tapestry unfolded, where the imagery appears distinct; but thoughts, like tapestry in the bale, where the figures are rolled up together. Themistocles, quoted by Bacon.

Speech is morning to the mind; it spreads the beauteous images abroad, which else lie furled or clouded in the soul. Nathaniel Lee.

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to 15 convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense. Emerson.

Speech is the gift of all, but thought of few. Cato.

Speech is too often, not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling or suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal. Carlyle.

Speech of a man's self ought to be seldom and well chosen. Bacon.

Speech that leads not to action, still more that hinders it, is a nuisance on the earth. Carlyle.

Speedy execution is the mother of good fortune. 20 Pr.

Spem gregis—The hope of the flock. Virg.

Spem pretio non emo—I do not give money for mere hopes. Ter.

Spend not on hopes. George Herbert.

Sperat infestis, metuit secundis / Alteram sortem bene præparatum / Pectus—A heart well prepared in adversity hopes for, and in prosperity fears, a change of fortune. Hor.

Sperate, et vosmet rebus servate secundis—Hope 25 on, and reserve yourselves for prosperous times. Virg.

Speravi—I have hoped. M.

Speravimus ista / Dum fortuna fuit—I hoped that once, while fortune was favourable. Virg.

Spero meliora—I hope for better things. M.

Spes bona dat vires, animum quoque spes bona firmat; / Vivere spe vidi qui moriturus erat—Good hope gives strength, good hope also confirms resolution; him who was on the point of death, I have seen revive by hope.

Spes mea Christus—Christ is my hope. M. 30

Spes mea in Deo—My hope is in God. M.

Spes sibi quisque—Each man must hope in himself alone. Virg.

Spes tutissima cœlis—The safest hope is in heaven. M.

Spesso chi troppo fa, poco fa—Often he who does too much does little. It. Pr.

Spesso d'un gran male nasce un gran bene—Out 35 of a great evil there springs a great good. It. Pr.

Spesso i doni sono danni—Gifts are oftentimes losses. It. Pr.

Spesso la tardità ti toglie l'occasione et la celerità le forze—Tardiness often robs us of opportunity, and too great despatch of our force. Machiavelli.

Spill not the morning (the quintessence of the day) in recreation, for sleep itself is a recreation. Add not, therefore, sauce to sauce. Fuller.

Spinner, spin softly, you disturb me. I am praying. Port. Prov.

Spinoza was a God-intoxicated man (Gott-getrunkener 40 Mensch). Novalis.

Spirit is the creator. Spirit hath life in itself. And man in all ages and countries embodies it in his language as the Father. Emerson.

Spirit of Nature! / The pure diffusion of thy essence throbs / Alike in every human heart. / Thou aye erectest there / Thy throne of power unappealable; / Thou art the judge beneath whose nod / Man's brief and frail authority / Is powerless as the wind / That passeth idly by. / Thine the tribunal which surpasseth / The show of human justice, / As God surpasseth man. Schelling.

Spirit-power begins in directing animal power to other than egoistic ends. Ruskin.

Spirits are not finely touch'd / But to fine issues, nor Nature never lends / The smallest scruple of her excellence / But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines / Herself the glory of a creditor, / Both thanks and use. Meas. for Meas., i. 1.

Spirits, when they please, / Can either sex 45 assume, or both. Milton.

Spiritual music can only spring from discords set in unison; but for evil there were no good, as victory is only possible by battle. Carlyle.

Spite of all the criticising elves, / Those who would make us feel must feel themselves. Burke.

Spite of cormorant devouring Time, / The endeavour of this present breath may buy / That honour which will bate his scythe's keen edge, / And make us heirs of all eternity. Love's L.'s Lost, i. 1.

Splendida vitia—Splendid vices. Tertullian, of Pagan virtues.

Splendide mendax—Nobly false or disloyal. 50 Hor.

Spolia opima—The richest of the spoil.

Sport is the bloom and glow of perfect health. Emerson.

Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden—Speech is silvern, silence golden. Swiss M.

Sprich nicht von Zeit, sprich nicht von Raum, / Denn Raum und Zeit sind nur ein Traum, / Ein schwerer Traum, den nur vergisst, / Wer durch die Liebe glücklich ist—Speak not of time, speak not of space, for space and time are but a dream, a heavy dream, which he who is happy in love only forgets. Bodenstedt.

Sprich vom Geheimniss nicht geheimnissvoll—Speak not mysteriously of what is a mystery. Goethe.

St. Theresa right well defines the devil as an 5 unfortunate who knows not what it is to love. C. J. Weber.

Stab at thee who will, / No stab the soul can kill. Raleigh.

Stabat mater dolorosa / Juxta crucem lacrymosa / Qua pendebat Filius—She stood a sorrow-stricken mother, weeping by the Cross where her son hung dying.

Stabit quocunque jeceris—It will stand, whichever way you throw it. Legend on the three-legged crest of the Isle of Man.

Stagnation is something more than death, it is corruption also. Simms.

Stain (blemish) not thy innocence by too deep 10 resentment, nor take off from the brightness of thy crown by anger and impatience and eagerness to right thyself. Thomas à Kempis.

Stand fast! to stand or fall, / Free in thine own arbitrament it stands. Milton.

Stand not upon the order of your going, / But go at once. Macb., iii. 4.

"Stand out of the sun." Diogenes to Alexander the Great, and which made Alexander remark, "If I were not Alexander I would be Diogenes."

Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord. Bible.

Stand up bravely to afflictions, and quit thyself 15 like a man. Thomas à Kempis.

Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein. Bible.

Standing on what too long we bore / With shoulders bent and downcast eyes, / We may discern—unseen before—/ A path to higher destinies. Longfellow.

Stant cætera tigno—The rest stand on a beam. M.

Stare super vias antiquas—To stand upon the old ways.

Stark est des Menschen Arm, wenn ihn Götter 20 stützen—Strong is the arm of man if the gods uphold it. Schiller.

Stars look down upon me with pity from their serene and silent places, like eyes glistening with tears over the little lot of man. Arcturus and Orion, Sirius and Pleiades, are still shining in their courses, clear and young, as when the shepherd first noted them in the plain of Shinar! Carlyle.

Stat sua cuique dies; breve et irreparabile tempus / Omnibus est vitæ; sed famam extendere factis, / Hoc virtutis opus—Each man has his appointed day; short and irreparable is the brief life of all; but to extend our fame by our deeds, this is manhood's work. Virg.

States are to be called happy and noble in so far as they settle rightly who is slave and who free. Carlyle.

Statesmen that are wise / Shape a necessity, as sculptor clay, / To their own model. Tennyson.

Statio bene fida carinis—A safe harbourage for 25 ships. M.

Status quo ante bellum—The state in which the belligerents stood before war began.

Status quo, or Statu quo, or In statu quo—The state in which a matter was.

Stay awhile to make an end the sooner. Sir Amyas Paulet.

Steady, durable good cannot be derived from an external cause, by reason all derived from externals must fluctuate as they fluctuate. What then remains but the cause internal; in rectitude of conduct? James Harris.

Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred 30 years ago, but it is put to better use. Emerson.

Steckenpferde sind theurer als arabische Hengste—Hobby-horses are more expensive than Arab ones. Ger. Pr.

Steep and craggy is the path of the gods. Porphyry.

Steep regions cannot be surmounted except by winding paths. Goethe.

Stemmata quid faciunt? Quid prodest, Pontice, longo / Sanguine censeri?—What do pedigrees avail? Of what advantage, Ponticus, is it to be rated by the antiquity of your race? Juv.

Step by step one goes far. Pr. 35

Steps vary as much as the human face. J. M. Barrie.

Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in expounding and filling up, these are the two pinions on which history soars—or flutters and wabbles. Carlyle.

Stern daughter of the voice of God. Wordsworth, of Duty.

Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives elate / Full on thy bloom. Burns.

Stet—Let it stand. 40

Stet fortuna domus—May the fortune of the house stand. M.

Stets ist die Sprache kecker als die That—Speech is always bolder than action. Schiller.

Stets liegt, wo das Banner der Wahrheit wallt, / Der Aberglaube im Hinterhalt—Where the banner of truth waves unfurled, there you will always find superstition lying in ambush. Platen.

Stets zu spät kommt gute Kunde, / Schlechte Kunde zu frühe—Good news comes always too late; bad, always too soon. Bodenstedt.

Steward or deputy may do well: but the lord 45 himself is obliged to stir in the administration of justice. Cervantes.

Stiff (a) and laboured manner is as bad in a letter as it is in conversation.... Sprightliness and wit are graceful in letters, just as they are in conversation. Blair.

Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, / Was everything by starts, and nothing long; / But in the course of one revolving moon / Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon. Dryden.

Still humanity grows dearer; / Being learned the more. Jean Ingelow.

Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, / To silence envious tongues. Henry VIII., iii. 2.

Still people are dangerous. La Fontaine.

Still raise for good the supplicating voice, / But leave to Heaven the measure and the choice. Johnson.

Still seems it strange that thou shouldst live for ever? Is it less strange that thou shouldst live at all? This is a miracle; and that no more. Young.

Still swine eat all the draff. Pr.

Still the sight of too great beauty blinds us, 5 and we lose / The sense of earthly splendours, gaining heaven. Lewis Morris.

Still the skies are opened as of old / To the entrancèd gaze, ay, nearer far / And brighter than of yore. Lewis Morris.

Still they gazed, and still the wonder grew / That one small head could carry all he knew. Goldsmith.

Still to the lowly soul / He doth Himself impart, / And for His cradle and His throne / Chooseth the pure in heart. Keble.

Still und bewegt—Still and yet moved. M. of Rahel.

Still waters run deep. Pr. 10

Stillest streams oft water finest meadows, / And the bird that flutters least is longest on the wing. Cowper.

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. Vulgar persons can't sit still, or at least they must work their limbs or features. Holmes.

Stirb, Götz, du hast dich selbst überlebt—Die, Gotz; thou hast outlived thyself. Goethe.

Stirb und werde! / Denn so lang du das nicht hast, / Bist du nur ein trüber Gast / Auf der dunkeln Erde—Die and learn to live, for so far as thou hast not accomplished this, thou art but a darkened guest in a darkened world. Goethe.

Stirring spirits live alone: / Write on the 15 others, "Here lies such a one." George Herbert.

Sto pro veritate—I stand in the defence of truth. M.

Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. Bible.

Stone masons collected the dome of St. Paul's, but Wren hung it in the air. Willmott.

Stony limits cannot hold love out; / And what love can do, that dares love attempt. Rom. and Jul., ii. 2.

Store of grain, O king! is the best of stores. 20 A gem cast into the mouth will not support life. Hitopadesa.

Store Ord giöre sielden from Gierning—Big words seldom accompany good deeds. Dan. Pr.

Storms make oaks take deeper root. Pr.

Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, that leadeth unto life; and few there be that find it. Jesus.

Strange cozenage! none would live past years again; / Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; / And from the dregs of life think to receive / What the first sprightly running could not give. Dryden.

Strange is the life of man, and fatal or fated 25 are moments, / Whereupon turn, as on hinges, the gates of the wall adamantine! Longfellow.

Strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift, hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale; will either blow out a pestilent scoundrel's brains, or the scoundrel's salutary sheriff's officer's (in a sense), as you please to choose, for your guinea. Carlyle.

Stranger or countryman to me / Welcome alike shall ever be. / To ask of any guest his name, / Or whose he is, or whence he came, / I hold can never be his part / Who owns a hospitable heart. Macedonius.

Straws show which way the wind blows. Pr.

Strength alone knows conflict; weakness is below even defeat, and is born vanquished. Mme. Swetchine.

Strength, instead of being the lusty child of 30 passions, grows by grappling with and throwing them. J. M. Barrie.

Strength needs support far more than weakness. A feather sustains itself long in the air. Mme. Swetchine.

Strength of mind is exercise, not rest. Pope.

Strength of mind rests in sobriety, for this keeps the reason unclouded by passion. Pythagoras.

Strength was the virtue of Paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity. Hare.

Strenua nos exercet inertia; navibus atque / 35 Quadrigis petimus bene vivere; quod petis hic est—Strenuous idleness gives us plenty to do; we seek to live aright by yachting and chariot-driving. What you are seeking for is here. Hor.

Strict laws are like steel bodices, good for growing limbs; but when the joints are knit, they are not helps, but burdens. Sir Francis Fane.

Strict punctuality is perhaps the cheapest virtue which can give force to an otherwise utterly insignificant character. J. F. Boyes.

Strictly speaking, the imagination is never governed; it is always the ruling and divine power, and the rest of the man is to it only as an instrument which it sounds, or a tablet on which it writes; clearly and sublimely if the wax be smooth and the strings true, grotesquely and wildly if they are stained and broken. Ruskin.

Strike, but hear me. Themistocles to Eurybiades before battle of Salamis.

Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world! / 40 Crack Nature's moulds, all germens spill at once, / That make ungrateful man! Lear, iii. 2.

Strike those that hurt, and hurt not those that help. 1 Hen. VI., iii. 3.

Strike while the iron is hot. Pr.

Striking manners are bad manners. Robert Hall.

Strip the bishop of his apron, the counsellor of his gown, and the beadle of his cocked hat, what are they? Men, mere men. Dignity, and even holiness too sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine. Dickens.

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends. 45 Tam. of the Shrew, i. 2.

Strive not against the stream. Ecclus.

Strive to do thy duty; then shalt thou know what is in thee. Goethe.

Striving to better, oft we mar what's well. Pr.

Strong character curdles itself out of the scum into its own place and power or impotence. Ruskin.

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, gentle ones by permanence. Jean Paul.

Strong conceit, like a new principle, carries all easily with it, when yet above commonsense. Locke.

Strong feeling must create poetry. Moses 5 Harvey.

Strong folks have strong maladies. Ger. Pr.

Strong passions are the life of manly virtues. But they need not necessarily be evil because they are passions and because they are strong. The passions may be likened to blood horses, that need training and the curb only to enable them whom they carry to achieve the most glorious triumphs. Simms.

Strong reasons make strong actions. King John, iii. 4.

Strong Son of God, immortal Love, / Whom we that have not seen Thy face, / By faith, and faith alone, embrace, / Believing where we cannot prove. Tennyson.

Stronger than steel / Is the sword of the 10 spirit; / Swifter than arrows / The life of the truth is; / Greater than anger / Is love, and subdueth. Longfellow.

Strongest minds / Are often those of whom the noisy world / Hears least. Wordsworth.

Studies perfect nature, and are perfected by experience. Bacon.

Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Bacon.

Studiis et rebus honestis—By honourable studies and occupations. M.

Studiis florentem ignobilis oti—Indulging in the 15 studies of inglorious leisure. Virg.

Studio minuente laborem—The enthusiasm lessening the fatigue. Ovid.

Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace. Temple.

Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, / That will not be deep-searched with saucy looks. Love's L. Lost, i. 1.

Study is the bane of boyhood, the element of youth, the indulgence of manhood, and the restorative of age. Landor.

Study of the Bible will keep any man from 20 being vulgar in style. Coleridge.

Study the best and highest things that are, / But of thyself an humble thought retain. Sir J. Davis.

Study the past if you would divine the future. Confucius.

Study thyself; what rank or what degree / The wise Creator hath ordained for thee. Dryden.

Study to be quiet; contain yourself within your own business, and let the prying, censorious, the vain and the intriguing world follow their own devices. Thomas à Kempis.

Study to be what you wish to seem. John Bate. 25

Stulta maritali jam porrigit ora capistro—He is now stretching out his foolish head to the matrimonial halter. Juv.

Stultus nisi quod ipse facit, nil rectum putat—The fool thinks nothing well done except what he does himself.

Stulti sunt inumerabiles—Fools are without number. Erasmus.

Stultitiam dissimulare non potes nisi taciturnitate—No concealing folly save by silence.

Stultitiam patiuntur opes—Riches allow one to 30 be foolish. Hor.

Stultitiam simulare loco, sapientia summa est—To affect folly on an occasion is consummate wisdom.

Stultorum incurata malus pudor ulcera celat—It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal uncured wounds. Hor.

Stultum est timere quod vitari non potest—It is foolish to distress ourselves about what cannot be avoided. Syr.

Stultus es, rem actam agis—You are a fool; you do what has been done already. Plaut.

Stultus labor est ineptiarum—The labour is 35 foolish that is bestowed on trifles. Mart.

Stultus, qui, patre occiso, liberos relinquat—He who kills the father and leaves the children is a fool. Pr.

Stultus semper incipit vivere—The fool is always beginning to live. Pr.

Stunden der Noth vergiss, doch was sie dich lehrten, vergiss nie—Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you. Gesser.

Stung by straitness of our life, made strait / On purpose to make sweet the life at large. Browning.

Stupid people and uneducated people do not 40 care for nice discriminations. They always have decided opinions. William Black.

Stupid people move like lay-figures, while every joint of an intelligent man is eloquent. Schopenhauer.

Stupidity has its sublime as well as genius. Wieland.

Stupidity is without anxiety. Goethe.

Sturm-und Drang-Periode—The storm-and-stress period. A literary period in Germany, the productions of which were inspired by a love of strong passion and violent action.

Style is the dress of thoughts. Chesterfield. 45

Style is the physiognomy of the mind. Schopenhauer.

Style is what gives value and currency to thought. Amiel.

Style may be defined, proper words in proper places. Swift.

Stylo inverso—With the back of the pen.