That suit is best that best fits me. Pr.
That that comes of a hen will scrape. Pr.
That that is, is. As You Like It, iv. 2.
That the voice of the common people is the voice 15 of God, is as full of falsehood as commonness. For who sees not that those black-mouthed hounds, upon the mere scent of opinion, as freely spend their mouths in hunting counter, or, like Actæon's dogs, in chasing an innocent man to death, as if they followed the chase of truth itself, in a fresh scent? A. Warwick.
That thee is sent receive in buxomness: / The wrestling of this world asketh a fall. / Here is no home, here is but wilderness. / Forth, pilgrim, forth—on, best out of thy stall. / Look up on high, and thank the God of all. Chaucer.
That thought I regard as true which is fruitful to myself, which is connected with the rest of my thoughts, and at the same time helps me on. Now it is not only possible, but natural, that such a thought should not connect itself with the mind of another, nor help him on ... consequently he will regard it as false. Once we are thoroughly convinced of this, we shall never enter upon controversies. Goethe.
That ugly treason of mistrust. Mer. of Ven., iii. 2.
That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny. Pascal.
That very law which moulds a tear, / And bids 20 it trickle from its source; / That law preserves the earth a sphere, / And guides the planets in their course. Rogers.
That vice has often proved an emancipator of the mind is one of the most humiliating, but also one of the most unquestionable, facts in history. Lecky.
That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarcely worth the sentinel. Goldsmith.
That voluntary debility, which modern language is content to term indolence, will, if it is not counteracted by resolution, render in time the strongest faculties lifeless, and turn the flame to the smoke of virtue. Johnson.
That warrior on his strong war-horse, fire flashes through his eyes; force dwells in his arm and heart; but warrior and war-horse are a vision; a revealed force, nothing more. Stately they tread the earth, as if it were firm substance. Fool! the earth is but a film; it cracks in twain, and warrior and war-horse sink beyond plummet's sounding. Carlyle.
That we devote ourselves to God is seen / In 25 living just as though no God there were. Browning.
That we shall die, we know; 'tis but the time / And drawing days out, that men stand upon. Julius Cæsar, iii. 1.
That we should find our national existence depend on selling manufactured cotton at a farthing an ell cheaper than any other people, is a most narrow stand for a great nation to base itself on. Carlyle.
That we would do, / We should do when we would; for this "would" changes, / And hath abatements and delays as many / As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents; / And then this "should" is like a spendthrift's sigh, / That hurts by easing. Ham., iv. 7.
That were but a sorry art which could be comprehended all at once; the last point of which could be seen by one just entering its precincts. Goethe.
That which builds is better than that which is 30 built. Emerson.
That which can be done with perfect convenience and without loss, is not always the thing that most needs to be done, or which we are most imperatively required to do. Ruskin.
That which each man can do best, not but his Maker can teach him. Emerson.
That which God writes on thy forehead thou wilt come to. The Koran.
That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been. Bible.
That which I crave may everywhere be had, / 35 With me I bring the one thing needful—love. Goethe.
That which in mean men we entitle patience, / Is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts. Rich. II., i. 2.
That which, intellectually considered, we call Reason, considered in relation to nature we call Spirit. Emerson.
That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered. Bible.
That which is good to take is good to keep. Pr.
That which is in the midst of fools is made 40 known. Bible.
That which is not allotted the hand cannot reach, and what is allotted will find you wherever you may be. Saadi.
That which is past is gone and irrevocable, and wise men have enough to do with things present and to come; therefore they do but trifle with themselves that labour in past matters. Bacon.
That which is possible is ever possible. Hitopadesa.
That which is truly and indeed characteristic of the man is known only to God. Ruskin.
That which makes men happy is activity (die Thätigkeit), which, first producing what is good, soon changes evil itself into good by power working in a god-like manner. Goethe.
That which one least anticipates soonest 5 comes to pass. Pr.
That which produces and maintains cheerfulness is nothing but activity. Jean Paul.
That which proves too much proves nothing. Pr.
That which seems to be wealth may in verity be only the gilded index of far-reaching ruin; a wrecker's handful of coin gleaned from the beach to which he has beguiled an argosy. Ruskin.
That which the droning world, chained to appearances, will not allow the realist to say in his own words, it will suffer him to say in proverbs without contradiction. Emerson.
That which the sun doth not now see will be 10 visible when the sun is out, and the stars are fallen from heaven. Sir Thomas Browne.
That which two will takes effect. Pr.
That which upholdeth him, that thee upholds—His honour. King John, iii. 1.
That which was bitter to endure may be sweet to remember. Pr.
That which we do not believe we cannot adequately say, though we may repeat the words never so often. Emerson.
That which we have we prize not to the 15 worth; / But being lacked and lost, why then we rake its value. Much Ado, iv. 1.
That which we may live without we need not much covet. Pr.
That which will not be butter must be made into cheese. Pr.
That which will not be spun, let it not come between the spindle and the distaff. Pr.
That woman is despicable who, having children, ever feels ennui. Jean Paul.
That wretchedness which fate has rendered 20 voiceless and tuneless is not the least wretched, but the most. Carlyle.
That's a lee wi' a lid on, / And a brass handle to tak ho'd on. Pr.
That's my good that does me good. Pr.
That's the best gown that goes up and down the house. Pr.
That's the humour of it. Henry V., ii. 1.
That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly: 25 he wants to make sure o' one fool as'll tell him he's wise. But there's some men can do wi'out that—they think so much o' themselves a'ready—an' that's how it is there's old bachelors. George Eliot.
The abandoning of some lower end in obedience to a higher aim is often made the very condition of securing the lower one. J. C. Sharp.
The abiding city and post at which we can live and die is still ahead of us, it would appear. Carlyle.
The absent one is an ideal person; those who are present seem to one another to be quite commonplace. It is a silly thing that the ideal is, as it were, ousted by the real; that may be the reason why to the moderns their ideal only manifests itself in longing. Goethe.
The absent party is still faulty. Pr.
The accepted and betrothed lover has lost the 30 wildest charms of his maiden in her acceptance of him. She was heaven whilst he pursued her as a star—she cannot be heaven if she stoops to such a one as he. Emerson.
The accusing spirit, which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in; and the recording angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out for ever. Sterne.
The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step towards repairing our loss. Thomas à Kempis.
The actual well seen is the ideal. Carlyle.
The advice that is wanted is commonly unwelcome; that which is not wanted is evidently impertinent. Johnson.
The affection of young ladies is of as rapid 35 growth as Jack's beanstalk, and reaches up to the sky in a night. Thackeray.
The afflictions of earth exalt the spirit and lift the soul to God. Tiedge.
The age made no sign when Shakespeare, its noblest son, passed away. Willmott.
The age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever. Burke.
The age of curiosity, like that of chivalry, is ended, properly speaking, gone. Yet perhaps only gone to sleep. Carlyle.
The age of great men is going; the epoch of 40 the anthill, of life in multiplicity, is beginning. Amiel.
The age of miracles past! The age of miracles is for ever here. Carlyle.
The ages of greatest public spirit are not always eminent for private virtue. Hume.
The agnosticism of doubt is as far from the agnosticism of devotion as blindness for want of vision from blindness through excess of light. James Martineau.
The aim of all morality, truly conceived, is to furnish men with a standard of action and a motive to work by, which shall not intensify each man's selfishness, but raise him ever more and more above it. J. C. Sharpe.
The aim of education should be to teach us 45 rather how to think than what to think. Beattie.
The aim of life is work, or there is no aim at all. Auerbach.
The aim of the legislator should be, not truth, but expediency. Buckle.
The air seems nimble with the glad, / Quaint fancies of our childhood dear. Dr. Walter Smith.
The alchemists in their search for gold discovered other things of greater value. Schopenhauer.
The all in all of faith is that we believe; of 50 knowledge, what we know, as well as how much and how well. Goethe.
The almighty dollar. Washington Irving.
The alpha and omega of Socialism is the transmutation of private competing capital into united collective capital. Schæffle.
The amateur, however weak may be his efforts at imitation, need not be discouraged, ... for one advances to an idea the more surely and steadily the more accurately and precisely he considers individual objects. Only it will not do to measure one's self with artists; every one must go on in his own style. Goethe.
The ambitious are ever followed by adulation, for such alone receive most pleasure from flattery. Goldsmith.
The amount of intellect necessary to please us 5 is a most accurate measure of the amount of intellect we have ourselves. Helvetius.
The ancient Spartan custom of killing weak-bodied children is not much crueller than that of propagating weak-minded ones. Jean Paul.
The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest. Ben. Franklin.
The anger of a strong man can always bide its time. Ruskin.
The animal is capable of enjoyment, only man is capable of serenity of mind and gladness of heart. Jean Paul.
The animals look for man's intentions right 10 into his eyes. Even a rat, when you hunt him and bring him to bay, looks you in the eye. H. Powers.
The apparel oft proclaims the man. Ham., i. 3.
The apprehension and representation of what is individual is the very life of art. Goethe.
The apprehension of the good / Gives but the greater feeling to the worse. Rich. II., i. 3.
The arch-enemy is the arch-stupid. Carlyle.
The archer who overshoots the mark misses, 15 as well as he that falls short of it. Pr.
The argument all bare is of more worth / Than when it hath my added praise beside. Shakespeare.
The army is a good book to open to study human life. Alfred de Vigny.
The army is a school in which the niggardly become generous and the generous prodigal. Cervantes.
The arrows of sarcasm are barbed with contempt.... It is the sneer in the satire or the ridicule that galls or wounds. W. Gladden.
The art of exalting lowliness and giving greatness 20 to little things is one of the noblest functions of genius. Palgrave.
The art of living is like every other art; only the capacity is born with us; it must be learned and practised with incessant care. Goethe.
The art of pleasing is the art of deceiving. Vauvenargues.
The art was his to break vexations with a ready jest. Dr. W. Smith.
The art which is produced hastily will also perish hastily. Ruskin.
The artist belongs to his work, not the work 25 to the artist. Novalis.
The artist is the son of his age; but pity for him if he is its pupil, or even its favourite. Schiller.
The artist must conceive with warmth (mit Feuer) and execute with coolness. Winkelmann.
The artist stands higher than the art, higher than the object: he uses art for his own purposes, and deals with the object after his own fashion. Goethe.
The artist's vocation is to send light into the depths of the human heart. Schumann.
The arts of deceit and cunning do continually 30 grow weaker, and less effectual and serviceable to them that use them. Tillotson.
The astonishing intellect that occupies itself in splitting hairs, and not in twisting some kind of cordage and effectual draught tackle to take the road with, is not to me the most astonishing of intellects. I want twisted cordage, steady pulling, and a peaceable bass tone of voice; not split hairs, hysterical spasmodics, and treble. Carlyle.
The Atlantic Ocean beat Mrs. Partington. She was excellent at a slop or a puddle, but she should not have meddled with a tempest. Sydney Smith.
The atmosphere of moral sentiment is a region of grandeur which reduces all material magnificence to toys, yet opens to every wretch that has reason the doors of the universe. Emerson.
The attainment of a truer and truer aristocracy, or government again by the Best,—all that democracy ever meant lies there. Carlyle.
The attempt, and not the deed, / Confounds us. 35 Macb., ii. 2.
The attraction of love is in an inverse proportion to the attraction of the Newtonian philosophy. Burns.
The author is often obscure to readers because, as has been said, he proceeds from the thought to the expression, whereas they proceed from the expression to the thought. Chamfort.
The awful shadow of some unseen Power / Floats, though unseen, among us. Shelley.
The axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs and left him a withered trunk. Swift.
The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through 40 the centre of each and every town or city. Holmes.
The back of one door is the face of another. Pr.
The back-door robs the house. Pr.
The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways. Bible.
The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; and the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth. Saadi.
The bad (böse) man has not only the good, but 45 also the bad against him. Bischer.
The barrenest of mortals is the sentimentalist. Carlyle.
The basest thought about man is that he has no spiritual nature; and the foolishest, that he has, or should have, no animal nature. Ruskin.
The basis of good manners is self-reliance. Emerson.
The battle of belief against unbelief is the never-ending battle. Carlyle.
The beams of joy are made hotter by reflection. Fuller.
The bearers of the thyrsus (the symbol of the Bacchus inspiration) are many, but the Bacchants (the truly inspired) are few. Gr. Pr.
The bearing and the training of a child is 5 woman's wisdom. Tennyson.
The beaten road is the safest. Pr.
The beautiful is a manifestation of secret laws of nature, which, but for its appearance, had been for ever concealed from us. Goethe.
The beautiful is higher than the good; the beautiful includes in it the good. Goethe.
The beautiful is like sunshine to the world; the beautiful lives for ever. Hans Andersen.
The beautiful rests on the foundation of the 10 necessary. Emerson.
The beggar is never out of the fashion, or limpeth awkwardly behind it. Lamb.
The beggar is not expected to become bail or surety for any one. Lamb.
The beggar is not required to put on court mourning. Lamb.
The beggar is the only free man in the universe. Lamb.
The beggar is the only man in the universe 15 who is not obliged to study appearances. Lamb.
The beggar weareth all colours, fearing none. Lamb.
The beggar's costume hath undergone less change than the Quaker's. Lamb.
The beginning, and very nearly the end, of bodily education for a girl, is to make sure that she can stand and sit upright; the ankle vertical, and firm as a marble shaft; the waist elastic as a reed, and as unfatiguable. Ruskin.
The beginning of all good law, and nearly the end of it, is that every man shall do good work for his bread, and that every man shall have good bread for his work. Ruskin.
The beginning of all temptations and wickedness 20 is the fickleness of our own minds and want of trust in God. Thomas à Kempis.
The beginning of creation (in man's soul as in Nature) is light. Till the eye have vision, the whole members are in bonds. Carlyle.
The beginning of inquiry is disease. Carlyle.
The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention before it be meddled with. Bible.
The beginning of wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes (i.e. symbols), till they become transparent. Carlyle.
The being whose strength exceeds its necessities 25 is strong; the being whose necessities exceed its strength is feeble. Rousseau.
The bell strikes one. We take no note of time / But for its loss. Young.
The belly is chains to the hands and fetters to the feet. He who is a slave to his belly seldom worships God. Saadi.
The beloved of the Almighty are the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnanimity of the rich. Saadi.
The benefactors of mankind are those who grumble to the best purpose. Grumbling has raised man from the condition of the gorilla to that of the judge on the bench of justice. John Wagstaffe.
The benevolent heart will not solicit, but command 30 our reverence and applause. Arliss.
The benevolent person is always by preference busy on the essentially bad. Carlyle.
The best advice is, Follow good advice and hold old age in highest honour. Goethe.
The best architecture is the expression of the mind of manhood by the hands of childhood. Ruskin.
The best courages are but beams of the Almighty. Mrs. Hutchinson.
The best effect of any book is that it excites 35 the reader to self-activity. Carlyle.
The best fish swim near the bottom. Pr.
The best friends in the world may differ sometimes. Sterne.
The best gifts find the fewest admirers, and most men mistake the bad for the good. Gellert.
The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves. Goethe.
The best independence is to have something to 40 do, and something that can be done, and done most perfectly in solitude. P. G. Hamerton.
The best is best cheap. Pr.
The best is but in season best. Allan Ramsay.
The best is not to be explained by words. Goethe.
The best laid schemes o' mice an' men / Gang aft a-gley, / And lea'e us naught but grief and pain / For promised joy. Burns.
The best loneliness is when no human eye has 45 rested on our face for a whole day. Auerbach.
The best may slip, and the most cautious fall;/ He's more than mortal that ne'er err'd at all. Pomfret.
The best mirror is an old friend. Pr.
The best of angels do not live in community, but by themselves. Swedenborg.
The best of lessons, for a good many people, would be to listen at a keyhole. It is a pity for such that the practice is dishonourable. Mme. Swetchine.
The best of men/ That e'er wore earth about 50 him was a sufferer; / A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit; / The first true gentleman that ever breathed. Decker.
The best of the sport is to do the deed and say nothing. Pr.
The best part of our knowledge is that which teaches us where knowledge leaves off and ignorance begins. Holmes.
The best path through life is the highway. Amiel.
The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature. Macaulay.
The best preservative to keep the mind in 55 health is the faithful admonition of a friend. Bacon.
The best remedy against an ill man is much ground between both. Pr.
The best rules to form a young man are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others' that deserve it. Sir W. Temple.
The best self-forgetfulness is to look at the things of the world with attention and love. Auerbach.
The best son is not enough a son. Emerson.
The best, the only correct actions are those which demand no explanation and no apology. Auerbach.
The best thing I know between France and England is the sea. Douglas Jerrold.
The best thing which we derive from history 5 is the enthusiasm which it raises in us. Goethe.
The best things are worst to come by. Walker.
The best use of money is to pay debts. Pr.
The best way to come to truth is to examine things as they really are, and not to conclude they are, as we have been taught by others to imagine. Locke.
The best way to make the audience laugh is by first laughing yourself. Goldsmith.
The best way to please one half of the world is 10 not to mind what the other half says. Goldsmith.
The best work in the world is done on the quiet. Pr.
The best work never was, nor ever will be, done for money at all. Ruskin.
The best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from unmarried or childless men, which, both in affection and means, have married and endowed the public. Bacon.
The betrayer is the murderer. Gael. Pr.
The better a man is morally, the less conscious 15 he is of his virtues. The greater the artist, the more aware he must be of his shortcomings. Froude.
The better day the better deed. Walker.
The better I know men the more I admire dogs. (?)
The better part of valour is discretion. 1 Hen. IV., v. 4.
The better you understand yourself, the less cause you will find to love yourself. Thomas à Kempis.
The Bible contains many truths as yet undiscovered. 20 Butler.
The Bible contains more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure morality, more important history, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence than can be collected from all other books, in whatever age or language they have been written. Sir William Jones.
(The Bible) contains plain teaching for men of every rank of soul and state of life, which so far as they honestly and implicitly obey, they will be happy and innocent to the utmost powers of their nature, and capable of victory over all adversities, whether of temptation or pain. Ruskin.
The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews. Heine.
The Bible of a nation, the practically credited God's message to a nation, is, beyond all else, the authentic biography of its heroic souls. This is the real record of the appearances of God in the history of a nation; this, which all men to the marrow of their bones can believe, and which teaches all men what the nature of this universe, when you go to work in it, really is. Carlyle.
The Bible tells us what Christian graces are; 25 but it is in the struggle of life that we are to find them. Beecher.
The biography of a nation embraces all its works. No trifle is to be neglected. A mouldering medal is a letter of twenty centuries. Willmott.
The bird of wisdom flies low, and seeks her food under hedges; the eagle himself would be starved if he always soared aloft and against the sun. Landor.
The birds without barn or storehouse are fed: / From them let us learn to trust for our bread. Newton.
The birth of a child is the imprisonment of a soul. Simons.
The birth of a golden deer is impossible. Hitopadesa. 30
The bishop has set his foot in it, i.e., the broth is singed. Pr. (The explanation of which, according to Grose, is: Whenever a bishop passed through a town or a village, all the inhabitants ran out to receive his blessing; this frequently caused the milk on the fire to be left till burnt.)
The biter is often bit. Pr.
The blanks as well as the prizes must be drawn in the cheating lottery of life. Le Sage.
The blast that blows loudest is soon overblown. Smollett.
The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, 35 but it often dies in the socket. Johnson.
The blessed work of helping the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men. George Eliot.
The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it. Bible.
The blind man bears the lame, and onward hies, / Made right by lending feet and borrowing eyes. Plato the Younger.
The block of granite, which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. Carlyle.
The blood more stirs / To rouse a lion than to 40 start a hare. Hen. IV., i. 3.
The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity, the rest is crime. Burke.
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church. Tertullian.
The blue-bird carries the sky on his back. Thoreau.
The blue of heaven is larger than the cloud. Mrs. Browning.
The blush is Nature's alarm at the approach of 45 sin, and her testimony to the dignity of virtue. Fuller.
The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul. Bovee.
The body of Christ is wherever human bodies are, and he who has any bitterness against his brother is always committing sacrilege. Ward Beecher.
The book of Nature is the book of Fate. Emerson.
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, / With loads of learned lumber in his head. Pope.
The books which help you most are those which make you think the most. Theodore Parker.
The borrower runs in his own debt. Emerson.
The bough that is dead shall be cut away for the sake of the tree itself. Let the Conservatism that would preserve the tree, cut it away. Carlyle.
The bounds of a man's knowledge are easily concealed if he has but prudence. Goldsmith.
The boy stands astonished; his impressions 5 guide him; he learns sportfully; seriousness steals on him by surprise. Goethe.
The boy's story is the best that is ever told. Dickens.
The boy's will is the wind's will, / And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts. Lapland Pr.
The brain may devise laws for the blood; but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree. Mer. of Ven., i. 2.
The brain-women never interest us like the heart-women; white roses please less than red. Holmes.
The brave man thinks of himself last of all. 10 Schiller.
The bravest are the tenderest, / The loving are the daring. Bayard Taylor.
The breach of custom / Is breach of all. Cymbeline, iv. 2.
The breeding of a man makes him courageous by instinct, true by instinct, loving by instinct, as a dog is; and therefore, felicitously above, or below (whichever you like to call it), all questions of philosophy and divinity. Ruskin.
The British nation—and I include in it the Scottish nation—has produced a finer set of men than you will find it possible to get anywhere else in this world. Carlyle.
The bud may have a bitter taste, / But sweet 15 will be the flower. Cowper.
The buke o' May-bees is very braid. Sc. Pr.
The burden one likes is cheerfully borne. Pr.
The burning of a little straw may hide the stars of the sky; but the stars are there, and will reappear. Carlyle.
The burst of new light, by its suddenness, always appears inimical to the unprepared heart. Jean Paul.
The busiest of living agents are certain dead 20 men's thoughts. Bovee.
The calling of a man's self to a strict account is a medicine sometimes too piercing and corrosive; reading good books of morality is a little flat and dead ... but the best receipt (best to work, and best to take) is the admonition of a friend. Bacon.
The camomile, the more it is trodden on, the faster it grows; yet youth, the more it is wasted, the sooner it wears. 1 Hen. IV., ii. 4.
The canary-bird sings the sweeter the longer it has been trained in a darkened cage. Jean Paul.
The cancer of jealousy on the breast can never wholly be cut out, if I am to believe great masters of the healing art. Jean Paul.
The canker galls the infants of the spring / 25 Too oft before their buttons are disclosed, / And in the morn and liquid dew of youth / Contagious blastments are most imminent. Ham., i. 3.
The capacity of apprehending what is high is very rare; and therefore, in common life a man does well to keep such things for himself, and only to give out so much as is needful to have some advantage against others. Goethe.
The captive bands may chain the hands, / But love enslaves the man. Burns.
The Carlyles were men who lavished their heart and conscience upon their work; they builded themselves, their days, their thoughts and sorrows, into their houses; they leavened the soil with the sweat of their rugged brows. John Burroughs.
The casting away things profitable for the maintenance of man's life is an unthankful abuse of the fruits of God's good providence towards mankind. Hooker.
The castle which Conservatism is set to defend 30 is the actual state of things, good and bad. Emerson.
The cat shuts its eyes when stealing the cream. Pr.
The cause which pleased the gods has in the end to please Cato also. (?)
The centuries are all lineal children of one another; and often, in the portrait of early grandfathers, this and the other enigmatic feature of the newest grandson will disclose itself, to mutual elucidation. Carlyle.
The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul. Emerson.
The certain way to be cheated is to fancy one's 35 self more cunning than others. Charron.
The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt till they are too strong to be broken. Johnson.
The champion true / Loves victory more when, dim in view, / He sees her glories gild afar / The dusky edge of stubborn war, / Than if th' untrodden bloodless field / The harvest of her laurels yield. Keble.
The change of a man's self is a very laborious undertaking. Thomas à Kempis.
The character of a nation is not to be learned from its fine folks. Scott.
The character of the person that commends 40 you is to be considered before you set a value on his esteem. The wise man applauds him whom he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world, him who is most wealthy. (?)
The character of the true philosopher is to hope all things not unreasonable. Sir John Herschel.
The characteristic mark of minds (Geister) of the first order is the directness (Unmittelbarkeit) of all their judgments. All that they bring forth (vorbringen) is the result of their own thinking. Schopenhauer.
The characteristic of a philosopher is that he looks to himself for all help or harm. Epictetus.
The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity; of Spencer, remoteness; of Milton, elevation: of Shakespeare, everything. Hazlitt.
The chariest maid is prodigal enough / If she 45 unmask her beauty to the moon. Ham., i. 1.
The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in at the window. Pr.
The charity that thinketh no evil trusts in God and trusts in man. J. G. Holland.
The chaste mind, like a polished plane, may admit foul thoughts, without receiving their tincture. Sterne.
The cheap swearer through his open sluice / Lets his soul run for nought. George Herbert.
The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy. Emerson.
The chief glory of every people arises from its 5 authors. Johnson.
The chief of all the curses of this unhappy age is the universal gabble of its fools, and of the flocks that follow them, rendering the quiet voices of the wise of all past time inaudible. Ruskin.
The chief requisites for a courtier are a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness. Lady Blessington.
The chief value and virtue of money consists in its having power over human beings; a power which is attainable by other means than by money. Ruskin.
The child is father of the man. Wordsworth.
The child is not to be educated for the present, 10 but for the remote future, and often in opposition to the immediate future. Jean Paul.
The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it, only disgraced. Ruskin.
The child's murmuring is more and is less than words; there are no notes, and yet it is a song; there are no syllables, and yet it is language.... This poor stammering is a compound of what the child said when it was an angel, and of what it will say when it becomes a man. Victor Hugo.
The childhood shows the man / As morning shows the day. Milton.
The children of others we never love so much as our own; error, our own child, is so near our heart. Goethe.
The choicest thing this world has for a man is 15 affection. J. G. Holland.
The Christian doctrine, that doctrine of Humility, in all senses godlike, and the parent of all godlike virtue, is not superior, or inferior, or equal to any doctrine of Socrates or Thales, being of a totally different nature; differing from these as a perfect ideal poem does from a correct computation in arithmetic. Carlyle.
The Christian religion having once appeared, cannot again vanish; having once assumed its divine shape, can be subject to no dissolution. Goethe.
The Christian religion is an inspiration and life—God's life breathed into a man and breathed through a man. J. G. Holland.
The Christian religion is especially remarkable, as it so decidedly lays claim to mere goodwill in man, to his essential temper, and values this independently of all culture and manifestation. It stands in opposition to science and art, and properly to enjoyment. Novalis.
The Christian religion, often enough dismembered 20 and scattered abroad, will ever in the end again gather itself together at the foot of the cross. Goethe.
The Christian religion, once here, cannot again pass away; in one or the other form, it will endure through all time. As in Scripture, so also in the heart of man, it is written, "The gates of hell shall not prevail against it." Carlyle.
The Christianity that cannot get on without a minimum of four thousand five hundred, will give place to something better that can. Carlyle.
The Church is a mere organisation to help a man to fulfil his duties; it is not the source from whence those duties sprung. Ward Beecher.
The Church is the working recognised union of those who by wise teaching guide the souls of men. Carlyle.
The Church! Touching the earth with one 25 small point (the event, viz., at Bethlehem of the year one); springing out of one small seed-grain, rising out therefrom, ever higher, ever broader, high as the heaven itself, broad till it overshadow the whole visible heaven and earth, and no star can be seen but through it. From such a seed-grain so has it grown; planted in the reverences and sacred opulences of the soul of mankind; fed continually by all the noblenesses of forty generations of man. The world-tree of the nations for so long! Carlyle.
The Churchmen fain would kill their Church, / As the Churches have killed their Christ. Tennyson.
The circle of noble-minded people is the most precious of all that I have won. Goethe.
The city does not take away, neither does the country give, solitude: solitude is within us. Joseph Roux.
The city is recruited from the country. Emerson.
The civil guest / Will no more talk all, than 30 eat all the feast. George Herbert.
The civilised man lives not in wheeled houses. He builds stone castles, plants lands, makes life-long marriage contracts; has long-dated, hundred-fold possessions, not to be valued in the money-market; has pedigrees, libraries, law-codes; has memories and hopes, even for this earth, that reach over thousands of years. Carlyle.
The civilised nation consists broadly of mob, money-collecting machine, and capitalist; and when the mob wishes to spend money for any purpose, it sets its money-collecting machine to borrow the money it needs from the capitalist, who lends it on condition of taxing the mob generation after generation. Ruskin.
The civilised savage (Wilde) is the worst of all savages. C. J. Weber.
The Classical is healthy, the Romantic sickly. Goethe.
The clergy are at present divided into three 35 sections: an immense body who are ignorant; a small proportion who know and are silent; and a minute minority who know and speak according to their knowledge. Huxley.
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, / The solemn temples, the great globe itself, / Yea, all that it inherit, shall dissolve; / And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, / Leave not a rack behind. Tempest, iv. 1.
The cloud incense of the altar hides / The true form of the God who there abides. Dr. W. Smith.
The clouds never pass against the wind. Hitopadesa.
The clouds that gather round the setting sun / Do take a sober colouring from an eye / That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality. Wordsworth.
The clouds that wrap the setting sun / ... Why, as we watch their floating wreath, / Seem they the breath of life to breathe? / To Fancy's eye their motions prove / They mantle round the sun for love. Keble.
The clouds treat the sea as if it were a mill-pond 5 or a spring-run, too insignificant to make any exceptions to. John Burroughs.
The cock, that is the trumpet of the morn, / Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat / Awake the god of day. Ham., i. 1.
The coin that is most current among mankind is flattery; the only benefit of which is that by hearing what we are not we may be instructed what we ought to be. (?)
The combined arts appear to me like a family of sisters, of whom the greater part were inclined to good company, but one was light-headed, and desirous to appropriate and squander the whole goods and chattels of the household—the theatre is this wasteful sister. Goethe.
The comic and the tragic lie close together, inseparable, like light and shadow. Socrates.
The command "thou shalt" is in all circumstances 10 a hard one, unless it is softened down by the adjunct "for that which 'thou shalt' is just the same as that which rationally thou also willest." Lindner.
The commencement of atonement is / The sense of its necessity. Byron.
The common crowd but see the gloom / Of wayward deeds and fitting doom; / The close observer can espy / A noble soul and lineage high. Byron.
The common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words. Swift.
The common "keeping up appearances" of society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain. Ruskin.
The company of fools may at first make us 15 smile, but at last never fails of rendering us melancholy. Goldsmith.
The complete poet must have a heart in his brain or a brain in his heart. George Darley.
The complete spiritualisation of the animal element in nature is the task of our species. Amiel.
The conceived is never food save to the mind that conceives. Schiller.
The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear. Burke.
The condition of the great body of the people in 20 a country is the condition of the country itself. Carlyle.
The condition of the most fascinated (bezaubertsten) enthusiast is to be preferred to him who, from sheer fear of error, dares in the end no longer to affirm or deny. Wieland.
The conditions necessary for the arts of men are the best for their souls and bodies. Ruskin.
The confidant of my vices is my master, though he were my valet. Goethe.
The conflict of the old, the existent, and the persistent, with development, improvement, and transfigurment is always the same. Out of every arrangement arises at last pedantry; to get rid of this latter the former is destroyed, and some time must elapse before we become aware that order must be re-established. Goethe.
The conscience is the inviolable asylum of the 25 liberty of man. Napoleon.
The conscience is the most elastic material in the world. To-day you cannot stretch it over a mole-hill, to-morrow it hides a mountain. Bulwer Lytton.
The conscience of the man who is given over to his passions is like the voice of the shipwrecked mariner overwhelmed by the tempest. Joseph Roux.
The conscious utterance of thought by speech or action, to any end, is art. Emerson.
The conscious water saw its god and blushed. Dryden, on the water into wine at Cana.
The consolation which is derived from truth, 30 if any there be, is solid and durable; that which may be derived from error must be, like its original, fallacious and fugitive. Johnson.
The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Napoleon.
The contingent facts of history can never become the proof of the truths of reason. Lessing.
The conversation of a friend is a powerful alleviator of the fatigue of walking. Dr. Andrew Combe.
The core will come to the surface. Emerson.
The cormorant Oblivion swallows up / The 35 carcases that Time has made his prey. Crowe.
The corpse is not the whole animal; there is still something that appertains to it, still a corner-stone, and in this case, as in every other, a very chief corner-stone—life, the spirit that makes everything beautiful. Goethe.
The counsel thou wouldst have another keep, first keep thyself. Pr.
The country where the entire people is, or even once has been, laid hold of, filled to the heart with an infinite religious idea, has "made a step from which it cannot retrograde." Carlyle.
The courage (Muth) of truth is the first condition of philosophic study. Hegel.
The courage that dares only die is on the 40 whole no sublime affair.... The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully. Carlyle.
The course of nature is the art of God. Young.
The course of Nature's phases, on this our little fraction of a planet, is partially known to us; but who knows what deeper courses these depend on; what infinitely larger cycle (of causes) our little epicycle revolves on? Carlyle.
The course of prayer who knows? Keble.
The course of scoundrelism, any more than that of true love, never did run smooth. Carlyle.
The course of true love never did run smooth. Mid. N.'s Dream, i. 1.
The court does not render a man contented, but it prevents his being so elsewhere. La Bruyère.
The court is like a palace of marble; it is composed of people very hard and very polished. La Bruyère.
The court, nor cart, I like, nor loathe; / Extremes are counted worst of all: / The golden mean betwixt them both / Doth surest sit, and fears no fall. Old ballad.
The court of the past differs from all living 5 aristocracy in this; it is open to labour and to merit, but to nothing else. Ruskin.
The covetous man heaps up riches, not to enjoy them, but to have them. Tillotson.
The covetous man never has money, and the prodigal will have none shortly. Johnson.
The coxcomb is a fool of parts, a flatterer, a knave of parts. Steele.
The craftiest wiles are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart. Lavater.
The crafty man is always in danger; and 10 when he thinks he walks in the dark, all his pretences are so transparent, that he that runs may read them. Tillotson.
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn; and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man. Emerson.
The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals, never to the age. Goethe.
The creed of the true saint is to make the best of life, and make the most of it. Chapin.
The crickets sing, and man's o'er-laboured sense / Repairs itself by rest. Cymbeline, ii. 2.
The cross is the invincible sanctuary of the 15 humble. Cass.
The cross of Christ is the key of Paradise; the weak man's staff; the convert's convoy; the upright man's perfection; the soul and body's health; the prevention of all evil, and the procurer of all good. Damascen.
The cross was the fitting close of a life of rejection, scorn, and defeat. W. H. Thomson.
The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark / When neither is attended, and I think / The nightingale, if she should sing by day, / when every goose is cackling, would be thought / No better a musician than the wren. Mer. of Venice, v. 1.
The crowd ... if they find / Some stain or blemish in a name of note, / Not grieving that their greatest are so small, / Inflate themselves with some insane delight, / And judge all Nature from her feet of clay, / Without the will to lift their eyes, and see / Her godlike head crown'd with spiritual fire / And touching other worlds. Tennyson.
The cruelty of the affectionate is more dreadful 20 than that of the hardy. Lavater.
The cry of the God-forsaken is from the heart of God himself. Ed.
The cuffs and thumps with which fate, our lady-loves, our friends and foes, put us to the proof, in the mind of a good and resolute man, vanish into air. Goethe.
The cunning workman never doth refuse / The meanest tool that he may chance to use. George Herbert.
The cup of life which God offers to our lips is not always sweet; ... but, sweet or bitter, it is ours to drink it without murmur or demur. W. R. Greg.
The cups that cheer, but not inebriate. Cowper. 25
The cure for false theology is mother wit. Emerson.
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, / The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, / The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, / And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Gray.
The curiosity of knowing things has been given to man for a scourge. Apocrypha.
The curious unthrift makes his clothes too wide, / And spares himself, but would his tailor chide. George Herbert.
The current that with gentle murmur glides, / 30 Thou know'st, being stopp'd, impatiently doth rage. Two Gent. of Ver., ii. 7.
The curtains of yesterday drop down, the curtains of to-morrow roll up; but yesterday and to-morrow both are. Pierce into the Time-element, glance into the Eternal. Carlyle.
The cut (of the vesture) betokens intellect and talent, so does the colour betoken temper and heart. Carlyle.
The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. Ward Beecher.
The danger of dangers is illusion. Emerson.
The danger past and God forgotten. Pr. 35
The dark in soul see in the universe their own shadow; the shattered spirit can only reflect external beauty, in form as untrue and broken as itself. Binney.
The darkest day, live till to-morrow, will have passed away. Cowper.
The darkest hour is nearest the dawn. Pr.
The day is longer than the brae; we'll be at the top yet. Gael. Pr.
The day of days ... is the day on which the 40 inward eye opens to the unity of things, to the omnipresence of law—sees that what is must be, and ought to be, or is the best. Emerson.
The day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self. Dickens.
The days are too short even for love, how can there ever be time for quarrelling? Mrs. Gatty.
The dead do not need us; but for ever and for evermore we need them. Garfield.
The dead letter of religion must own itself dead, and drop piecemeal into dust, if the living spirit of religion, freed from its charnel-house, is to arise on us, new born of Heaven, and with new healing under its wings. Carlyle.
The decline of literature indicates the decline 45 of the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency. Goethe.
The deeper the sorrow, the less tongue hath it. Talmud.
The deity works in the living, not in the dead; in the becoming and the changing, not in the become and the fixed. Goethe.
The delight of the destroyer and denier is no pure delight, and must soon pass away. Carlyle.
The democrat is a young conservative; the conservative is an old democrat. Emerson.
The demonic in music stands so high that no understanding can reach it, and an influence flows from it which masters all, and for which none can account. Goethe.
The demonic is that which cannot be explained by reason or understanding, which is not in one's nature, yet to which it is subject. Goethe.
The dependant is timid. Gael. Pr. 5
The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope. Carlyle.
The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul. Bible.
The desire of a man is his kindness: and a poor man is better than a liar. Bible.
The desire of perfection is the worst disease that ever afflicted the human mind. Fontanes.
The desire of power in excess caused the 10 angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall; but in charity there is no excess, neither can man or angel come in danger by it. Bacon.
The desire of the moth for the star, / Of the night for the morrow, / The devotion to something afar / From the sphere of our sorrow. Shelley.
The desire of the slothful killeth him; for his hands refuse to labour. Bible.
The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinions of its young men under five-and-twenty. Goethe.
The destruction of the poor is their poverty. Bible.
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose! / 15 An evil soul producing holy witness / Is like a villain with a smiling cheek, / A goodly apple rotten at the heart. Mer. of Ven., i. 3.
The devil has a great advantage against us, inasmuch as he has a strong bastion and bulwark against us in our own flesh and blood. Luther.
The devil has his elect. Carlyle.
The devil hath power / To assume a pleasing shape. Ham., ii. 2.
The devil helps his servants for a season; but when they come once to a pinch, he leaves 'em in the lurch. L'Estrange.
The devil is a busy bishop in his own diocese. 20 Bishop Latimer.
The devil is an ass. Pr.
The devil is an unfortunate who knows not what it is to love. St. Theresa.
The devil is God's ape. Luther.
The devil knew not what he did when he made man politic; he crossed himself by it. Tim. of Athens, iii. 3.
The devil lurks behind the cross. Pr. 25
The devil may get in by the keyhole, but the door won't let him out. Pr.
The devil taketh not lightly unto his working such as he findeth occupied in good works. St. Jerome.
The devil tempts all other men, but idle men tempt the devil. Arab. Pr.
The devil tempts us not—'tis we tempt him, / Beckoning his skill with opportunity. George Eliot.
The devil was sick, the devil a monk would 30 be; / The devil was well, the devil a monk was he. Rabelais.
The dewdrop and the star shine sisterly, / Globing together in the common work. Sir Edwin Arnold.
The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods ... which all experience refutes. History teems with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not suppressed for ever, it may be thrown back for centuries. J. S. Mill.
The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great Conscious; the immeasurably great Unconscious. Carlyle.
The difference between the great celebrities and the unknown nobodies is this, the former failed and went at it again, the latter gave up in despair. Anon.
The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend as 35 to find a friend worth dying for. Henry Home.
The difficulty is to teach the multitude that something can be both true and untrue at the same time. Schopenhauer.
The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting. Ben Jonson.
The dilettante takes the obscure for the profound, violence for vigour, the indefinite for the infinite, and the senseless for the supersensuous. Schiller.
The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord. Jesus.
The discovery of what is true, and the practice 40 of that which is good, are the two most important objects of philosophy. Voltaire.
The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. Bible.
The disease of the mind leading to fatalist ruin is the concentration of man upon himself, whether his heavenly interests or his worldly interests, matters not; it is their being his own interests which makes the regard of them mortal. Ruskin.
The disease which afflicts bureaucratic governments, and which they usually die of, is routine. J. S. Mill.
The disease with which the human mind now labours is want of faith. Emerson.
The dispute about religion and the practice of 45 it seldom go together. Young.
The disputes of two of equal strength and fortune are worthy of attention; but not of two, the one great, the other humble. Hitopadesa.