The dissection of a sentence is as bad a way to the understanding of it, as the dissection of a beast to the biography of it. Ruskin.
The distances of nations are measured, not by seas, but by ignorances; and their divisions determined, not by dialects, but by enmities. Ruskin.
The distant landscape draws not nigh / For all our gazing. Keble.
The distant sounds of music, that catch new 50 sweetness as they vibrate through the long-drawn valley, are not more pleasing to the ear than the tidings of a far-distant friend. Goldsmith.
The distinction between man and nature is, that man is a being becoming, and nature a being become. Rückert.
The distinctive character of a child is to live always in the tangible present. Ruskin.
The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price and be bought for it. Ruskin.
The distinguishing trait of people accustomed to good society is a calm, imperturbable quiet, which pervades all their actions and habits. Bulwer Lytton.
The Divine mind is as visible in its full energy 5 of operation on every lowly bank and mouldering stone, as in the lifting of the pillars of heaven, and setting the foundations of the earth. Ruskin.
The divine power of the love, of which we cease not to sing and speak, is this, that it reproduces every moment the grand qualities of the beloved object, perfect in the smallest parts, embraced in the whole; it rests not either by day or by night, is ravished with its own work, wonders at its own stirring activity, finds the well-known always new, because it is every moment begotten anew in the sweetest of all occupations. In fact the image of the beloved one cannot become old, for every moment is the hour of its birth. Goethe.
The divine state, "par excellence," is silence and repose. Amiel.
The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind, the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity. Schopenhauer.
The dog that fetches will carry. Pr.
The dog that starts the hare is as good as the 10 one that catches it. Ger. Pr.
The dog, to gain his private ends, / Went mad, and bit the man. Goldsmith.
The dome of St. Peter's is great, yet is it but a foolish chip of an egg-shell compared with that star-fretted dome where Arcturus and Orion glance for ever, which latter, notwithstanding, no one looks at—because the architect was not a man. Carlyle.
The dome of thought, the palace of the soul. Byron.
The donkey means one thing and the driver another. Pr.
The doom of the old has long been pronounced 15 and irrevocable; the old has passed away; but, alas! the new appears not in its stead; the time is still in pangs of travail with the new. Man has walked by the light of conflagrations, and amid the sound of falling cities; and now there is darkness, and long watching till it be morning. Carlyle in 1831.
The door must either be shut or it must be open. I must either be natural or unnatural. Goldsmith.
The dove found no rest for the sole of her foot. Bible.
The dread of censure is the death of genius. Simms.
The dread of something after death, / The undiscover'd country, from whose bourn / No traveller returns, puzzles the will; / And makes us rather bear those ills we have / Than fly to others that we know not of. Ham., iii. 1.
The dreamer is a madman quiescent, the 20 madman is a dreamer in action. F. H. Hedge.
The dregs may stir themselves as they please; they fall back to the bottom by their own coarseness. Joubert.
The dress of words, / Like to the Roman girl's enticing garb, / Should let the play of limb be seen through it, / And the round rising form. Bailey.
The drunkard forfeits man, and doth divest / All worldly right, save what he hath by beast. George Herbert.
The dry light is ever the best. Heraclitus.
The drying up a single tear has more / Of 25 honest fame than shedding seas of gore. Byron.
The dullest John Bull cannot with perfect complacency adore himself, except under the figure of Britannia or the British Lion. Byron.
The dust of controversy is but the falsehood flying off. Carlyle.
The dwarf behind his steam-engine may remove mountains, but no dwarf will hew them down with the pickaxe; and he must be a Titan that hurls them abroad with his arms. Carlyle.
The eagle suffers little birds to sing. Tit. Andron., iv. 4.
The earth hath bubbles, as the water has, / 30 And these are of them. Macb., i. 3.
The earth is our workshop. We may not curse it; we are bound to sanctify it. Mazzini.
The earth is sown with pleasures, as the heavens are studded with stars, wherever the conditions of existence are unsophisticated. W. R. Greg.
The earth must supply man with the necessaries of life before he has leisure or inclination to pursue more refined enjoyments. Goldsmith.
The earth, that's Nature's mother, is her tomb. Rom. and Jul., ii. 3.
The earthen pot must keep clear of the brass 35 kettle. Pr.
The ebb'd man, ne'er loved till ne'er worth love, / Comes dear'd by being lack'd. Ant. and Cleop., i. 4.
The echo of the nest-life, the voice of our modest, fairer, holier soul, is audible only in a sorrow-darkened bosom, as the nightingales warble when one veils their cage. Jean Paul.
The effect of good music is not caused by its novelty; on the contrary, it strikes us more the more familiar we are with it. Goethe.
The effect of righteousness (shall be) quietness and assurance for ever. Bible.
The effect of violent animosities between 40 parties has always been an indifference to the general welfare and honour of the state. Macaulay.
The efforts of him who contendeth with one stronger than himself are as feeble as the exertions of an insect's wings. Hitopadesa.
The elect are whosoever will, and the non-elect whosoever won't. Ward Beecher.
The electric telegraph will never be a substitute for the face of a man, with his soul in it, encouraging another man to be brave and true. Dickens.
The element of water moistens the earth, but blood flies upwards and bedews the heavens. John Webster.
The elements of poetry lie in natural objects, in the vicissitudes of human life, in the emotions of the human heart, and the relations of man to man. Bryant.
The emphasis of facts and persons has nothing to do with time. Emerson.
The empire of woman is an empire of softness, 5 of address, of complacency. Her commands are caresses, her menaces are tears. Rousseau.
The empty vessel makes the greatest sound. Hen. V., iv. 4.
The end crowns all, / And that old common arbitrator, Time, / Will one day end it. Troil. and Cress., iv. 5.
The end of all opposition is negation, and negation is nothing. Goethe.
The end of all right education of a woman is to make her love her home better than any other place; that she should as seldom leave it as a queen her queendom; nor ever feel entirely at rest but within its threshold. Ruskin.
The end of doubt is the beginning of repose. 10 Petrarch.
The end of labour is to gain leisure. Arist.
The end of man is an action, not a thought, though it were the noblest. Carlyle.
The end of man is at no moment a pleasure, but a performance; and life always and only the continual fulfilment of a worthy purpose with a will. Ed.
The end we aim at must be known before the way. Jean Paul.
The enemy is more easily repulsed if we never 15 suffer him to get within us, but, upon the very first approach, draw up our forces and fight him without the gate. Thomas à Kempis.
"The English," says Bishop Sprat, "have too much bravery to be derided, and too much virtue and honour to mock others." Goldsmith.
The ennobling difference between one man and another—between one animal and another—is precisely this, that one feels more than another. Ruskin.
The entire grace, happiness, and virtue of (a young man's) life depend on his contentment in doing what he can dutifully, and in staying where he is peaceably. Ruskin.
The entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy the right things. Ruskin.
The entire system of things gets represented 20 in every particle. Emerson.
The entire vitality of art depends upon its having for object either to state a true thing or adorn a serviceable one. Ruskin.
The envied have a brilliant fate; / Pity is given where griefs are great. Palladas.
The envious man waxeth lean with the fatness of his neighbours. Socrates.
The envious will die, but envy never. Molière.
The errors of a great mind are more edifying 25 than the truths of a little. Börne.
The errors of a wise man are literally more instructive than the truths of a fool. For the wise man travels in lofty, far-seeing regions; the fool in low-lying, high-fenced lanes; retracing the footsteps of the former, to discover where he deviated, whole provinces of the universe are laid open to us; in the path of the latter, granting even that he have not deviated at all, little is laid open to us but two wheel-ruts and two hedges. Carlyle.
The errors of a wise man make your rule / Rather than the perfections of a fool. Wm. Blake.
The errors of woman spring almost always from her faith in the good or her confidence in the true. Balzac.
The errors of young men are the ruin of business; but the errors of aged men amount to but this, that more might have been done, or sooner. Bacon.
The essence of a lie is in deception, not in 30 words. Ruskin.
The essence of affectation is that it be assumed; the character is, as it were, forcibly crushed into some foreign mould, in the hope of being thereby re-shaped and beautified; and the unhappy man persuades himself he has become a new creature of wonderful symmetry, though every movement betrays not symmetry, but dislocation. Carlyle.
The essence of all government among good men is this, that it is mainly occupied in the production and recognition of human worth, and in the detection and extinction of human unworthiness. Ruskin.
The essence of all immorality, of sin, is the making self the centre to which we subordinate all other beings and interests. J. C. Sharp.
The essence of all religion that was, and that will be, is to make men free. Carlyle.
The essence of all vulgarity lies in want of 35 sensation. Ruskin.
The essence of an aristocracy is to transfer the source of honour from the living to the dead, to make the merits of living men depend not so much upon their own character and actions as upon the actions and position of their ancestors. H. Lecky.
The essence of aphorism is the compression of a mass of thought and observation into a single saying. John Morley.
The essence of faith lies in this, a deep sense and conviction that in what we do, though it were single-handed, with all men standing aloof, and even saying nay to it, we have God and all his universe at our back. Ed.
The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust. Emerson.
The essence of greatness is the perception 40 that virtue is enough. Poverty is its ornament. It does not need plenty, and can very well abide its loss. Emerson.
The essence of humour is sensibility, warm, tender, fellow-feeling with all forms of existence; and unless seasoned and purified by humour, sensibility is apt to run wild, will readily corrupt into disease, falsehood, or, in one word, sentimentality. Carlyle.
The essence of justice is mercy. (?)
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance. Confucius.
The essence of poetry is will and passion. Hazlitt.
The essence of true nobility is neglect of self. Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of a great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower. Froude.
The essence of wealth consists in its authority over men; if (therefore) the apparent or nominal wealth fail in this power, it fails in essence; in fact, ceases to be wealth at all. And since the essence of wealth consists in power over men, will it not follow that the nobler and the more in number the persons are over whom it has power, the greater the wealth. Ruskin.
The essence or peculiarity of man is to comprehend a whole. Emerson.
The essential thing for all creatures is to be 5 made to do right. Ruskin.
The Eternal is no simulacrum; God is not only there, but here or nowhere,—in that life-breath of thine, in that act and thought of thine,—and thou wert wise to look to it. Carlyle.
The eternal stars shine out again, as soon as it is dark enough. Carlyle.
The eternity, before the world and after, is without our reach; but that little spot of ground which lies betwixt those two great oceans, this we are to cultivate. Burnet.
The even and cheerful temper makes us pleasing to ourselves, to those with whom we converse, and to Him whom we were made to please. Addison.
The even-flow of constant cheerfulness 10 strengthens; while great excitements, driving us with fierce speed, both wreck the ship and end often in explosions. Ward Beecher.
The evening brings a' hame. Sc. Pr.
The evil that goeth out of thy mouth flieth into thy bosom. Pr.
The evil that men do lives after them; / The good is oft interréd with their bones. Jul. Cæs., viii. 2.
The evil wound is cured, but not the evil name. Pr.
The ewe that will not hear her lamb when it 15 baes, will never answer a calf when it bleats. Much Ado, iii. 3.
The exacting a grateful acknowledgment is demanding a debt by which the creditor is not advantaged and the debtor pays with reluctance. Goldsmith.
The example of good men is visible philosophy. Pr.
The excellent is rarely found, more rarely valued. Goethe.
The exception proves the rule. Pr.
The excesses of our youth are draughts upon 20 our age, payable with interest about thirty years after date. Colton.
The expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever. Bible.
The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet. Emerson.
The experience of suffering has been declared on the highest authority to be necessary to every poet who would touch the hearts of his fellow-creatures. C. Fitzhugh.
The express schoolmaster is not equal to much at present, while the unexpress, for good or for evil, is so busy with a poor little fellow. Carlyle.
The eye by which I see God is the same eye 25 by which he sees me. Scheffler.
The eye is easily daunted. Emerson.
The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. Bible.
The eye is the best of artists. Emerson.
The eye is the mirror of the soul. Pr.
The eye is the only note-book of the true poet. 30 Lowell.
The eye is the window of the soul; even an animal looks for a man's intentions right into his eyes. H. Powers.
The eye—it cannot choose but see; / We cannot bid the ear be still; / Our bodies feel, where'er they be, / Against or with our will. Wordsworth.
The eye of a critic is often like a microscope, made so very fine and nice, that it discovers the atoms, grains, and minutest particles, without ever comprehending the whole, comparing the parts, or seeing all at once the harmony. (?)
The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands. Ben. Franklin.
The eye repeats every day the first eulogy on 35 things: "He saw that they were very good." Emerson.
The eye sees in all things what it brings with it the faculty of seeing. Goethe.
The eye sees not itself, / But by reflection, by some other things. Jul. Cæs., i. 2.
The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it. Bible.
The eye that sees all things else sees not itself. Pr.
The eyes being in the highest part, hold the 40 post of sentinels. Cic.
The eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I would want neither fine clothes, fine houses, nor fine furniture. Ben. Franklin.
The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good. Bible.
The face is the index of the mind. Pr.
The face of man gives us fuller and more interesting information than his tongue; for his face is the compendium of all he will ever say, as it is the one record of all he has thought and endeavoured. Schopenhauer.
The faculty for remembering is not diminished 45 in proportion to what one has learnt, just as little as the number of moulds in which you cast sand lessens its capacity for being cast in new moulds. Schopenhauer.
The faculty of art is to change events; the faculty of science is to foresee them. The phenomena with which we deal are controlled by art; they are predicted by science. Buckle.
The faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated. Luther.
The failings of good men are commonly more published in the world than their good deeds; and one fault of a deserving man shall meet with more reproaches than all his virtues praise; such is the force of ill-will and ill-nature. (?)
The faint, exquisite music of a dream. Moore.
The fair maid who, the first of May, / Goes to the fields at break of day, / And washes in dew from the hawthorn tree, / Will ever after handsome be. Pr.
The fair point of the line of beauty is the line of love. Strength and weakness stand on either side of it. Love is the point in which they unite. Goethe.
The fairest action of our human life is scorning to avenge an injury. Lady E. Carew.
The fairest tulip's not the sweetest flower. 5 Quarles.
The faith in an Invisible, Unnameable, Godlike, present everywhere in all we see and work and suffer, is the essence of all faith whatsoever; and that once denied, or, still worse, asserted with lips only, and out of bound prayer-books only, what other thing remains credible? Carlyle.
The faith of a hearer must be extremely perplexed who considers the speaker, or believes that the speaker considers himself as under no obligation to adhere to truth, but according to the particular importance of what he relates. Paley.
The faith that stands on authority is not faith. Emerson.
The faithful servant is a humble friend. Pr.
The fall from the (Christian) faith, and all the 10 corruptions of its abortive practice, may be summed up briefly as the habitual contemplation of Christ's death instead of his life, and the substitution of his past suffering for our present duty. Ruskin.
The falling out of faithful friends is the renewing of love. Pr.
The family is the proper province for private women to shine in. Addison.
The family virtues are indispensable to the proper continuance of a society. Renan.
The fashion doth wear out more apparel than the man. Much Ado, iii. 3.
The fashion of this world passeth away. St. 15 Paul.
The fatal man, is he not always the unthinking, the man who cannot think and see? Carlyle.
The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful, is the cause of half their errors. A contemporary author has well spoken of "the deep slumber of a decided opinion." J. S. Mill.
The fatal trait (of the times) is the divorce between religion and morality. Emerson.
The fate of a man of feeling is, like that of a tuft of flowers, twofold; he may either mount upon the head of all, or go to decay in the wilderness. Hitopadesa.
The fate of empires depends upon the education 20 of youth. Arist.
The fated will happen. Gael. Pr.
The fates but only spin the coarser clue; / The finest of the wool is left for you. Dryden.
The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge. Bible Pr.
The faults of the superior man are like the eclipses of the sun and moon. He has his faults, and all men see them; he changes, and all men look up to him. Confucius.
The fear o' hell's the hangman's whip, / To 25 haud the wretch in order; / But when ye feel yer honour grip, / Let that be aye yer border. Burns.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding. Bible.
The fear of the Lord is the fountain of life. Bible.
The fear of the Lord is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate. Bible.
The fear of the Lord tendeth to life: and he that hath it shall abide satisfied. Bible.
The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself. 30 Carlyle.
The feast of reason and the flow of soul. Pope.
The feelings, like flowers and butterflies, last longer the later they are delayed. Jean Paul.
The female heart is just like a new india-rubber shoe; you may pull and pull at it till it stretches out a yard long; and then let go, and it will fly right back to its old shape. Judge Haliburton.
The fetters of the slave bind the hands only. Grillparzer.
The fewer our wants, the nearer we resemble 35 the gods. Socrates.
The fibres of all things have their tension, and are strained like the strings of a lyre. Thoreau.
The field cannot be well seen from within the field. The astronomer must have his diameter of the earth's orbit as a base to fix the parallax of any other star. Emerson.
The finding of your able man, and getting him invested with the symbols of ability, is the business, well or ill accomplished, of all social procedure whatsoever in the world. Carlyle.
The finer the nature, the more flaws it will show through the clearness of it; and it is a law of this universe that the best things shall be seldomest seen in their best form. Ruskin.
The finest composition of human nature, as 40 well as the finest china, may have a flaw in it, and this in either case is equally incurable. Fielding.
The finest language is chiefly made up of unimposing words. George Eliot.
The finest lives, in my opinion, are those who rank in the common model and with the human race, but without miracle, without extravagance. Montaigne.
The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest. Pope.
The finest nations in the world—the English and the American—are going all away into wind and tongue. Carlyle.
The finest qualities of our nature, like the 45 bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling; yet we do not treat ourselves or one another thus tenderly. Thoreau.
The fire in the flint shows not till it's struck. Pr.
The fire that all things else consumeth clean / May hurt and heal. Sir Thomas Wyatt.
The fire that does not warm me shall never scorch me. Pr.
The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes. Amiel.
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that. Bailey.
The first approach to riches is security from poverty. Johnson.
The first article that a young trader offers for 5 sale is his honesty. Pr.
The first, as indeed the last, nobility of education is in the rule over our thoughts. Ruskin.
The first breath / Is the beginning of death. Pr.
The first business of the philosopher is to part with self-conceit. Epictetus.
The first condition of education is being put to wholesome and useful work. Ruskin.
The first condition of goodness is something to 10 love; the second, something to reverence. George Eliot.
The first creation of God in the works of the days was the light of the sense; the last was the light of the reason; and his Sabbath-work ever since is the illumination of the spirit. Bacon.
The first day a man is a guest, the second a burden, the third a pest. Laboulaye.
The first days of spring have less grace than the growing virtue of a young man. Vauvenargues.
The first duty of a man is that of subduing fear; he must get rid of fear; he cannot act at all till then; his acts are slavish, not true. Carlyle.
The first duty of every man in the world is to 15 find his true master, and, for his own good, submit to him; and to find his true inferior, and, for that inferior's good, conquer him. Ruskin.
The first evil those suffer who are fain to talk is that they hear nothing. Plutarch.
The first faults are theirs that commit them, / The second are theirs that permit them. Pr.
The first forty years of life furnish the text, the remaining thirty the commentary. Schopenhauer. (?)
The first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good-humour, and the fourth for mine enemies. Sir W. Temple.
The first glass of a wine is the one which gives 20 us its true taste. Schopenhauer.
The first great work / Is that yourself may to yourself be true. Roscommon.
The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day. Ward Beecher.
The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humour, and the fourth wit. Sir W. Temple.
The first lesson of life is one of vicarious suffering. Ward Beecher.
The first lesson of literature, no less than of 25 life, is the learning how to burn one's own smoke. Lowell.
"The first love, which is infinite," can be followed by no second like it. Carlyle.
The first of the nine orders of knaves is he that tells his errand before he goes it. Pr.
The first period of a nation, as of an individual, is the period of unconscious strength. Emerson.
The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true. Lactantius.
The first power of a nation consists in knowing 30 how to guide the plough; its second power consists in knowing how to wear the fetter. Ruskin.
The first principle of all human economy—individual or political—is to live with as few wants as possible, and to waste nothing of what is given us to supply them. Ruskin.
The first problem (in life) is to unite yourself with some one and with somewhat. Carlyle.
The first proof of a man's incapacity for anything is his endeavouring to fix the stigma of failure upon others. B. R. Haydon.
The first requisite, both in conversation and correspondence, is to attend to all the proper decorums which our own character and that of others demand. Blair.
The first sigh of love is the last of wisdom. 35 Antoine Bret.
The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's, that of self-conceit. Carlyle.
The first spiritual want of a barbarous man is decoration, as indeed we still see among the barbarous classes in civilised countries. Carlyle.
The first step towards greatness is to be honest. Pr.
The first test of a truly great man is his humility. I do not mean by humility, doubt of his power or hesitation in speaking his opinions; but a right understanding of the relation between what he can say and do, and the rest of the world's sayings and doings. Ruskin.
The first thing for acceptance of truth is to 40 unlearn human doctrines and become as a little child. General Gordon.
The first thing in oratory, Demosthenes used to say, was action; the second, action; and the third, action.
The first use of education is to enable us to consult with the wisest and the greatest men on all points of earnest difficulty. Ruskin.
The first wealth is health. Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve any one; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fulness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighbourhoods and creeks of other men's necessities. Emerson.
The first year let your house to your enemy; the second to your friend; the third, live in it yourself. Pr.
The fittest place where man can die / Is where 45 he dies for man. M. J. Barry.
The flesh-bound volume is the only revelation (of God) that is, that was, or that can be. In that is the image of God painted; in that is the law of God written; in that is the promise of God revealed. Ruskin.
The flighty purpose never is o'ertook, / Unless the deed go with it. Macb., iv. 1.
The floating vapour is just as true an illustration of the law of gravity as the falling avalanche. John Burroughs.
The flower is the proper object of the seed, not the seed of the flower. Ruskin.
The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly. Wordsworth.
The flower of youth never appears more beautiful than when it bends towards the Sun of Righteousness. Matthew Henry.
The flute is sweet / To gods and men, but sweeter the lyre / And voice of a true singer. Lewis Morris.
The follies of modern Liberalism are practically summed up in the denial or neglect of the quality and intrinsic value of things. Ruskin.
The folly of all follies / Is to be love-sick for 5 a shadow. Tennyson.
The folly of others is ever most ridiculous to those who are themselves most foolish. Goldsmith.
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. As You Like It, v. 1.
The fool is always discovered if he stayeth too long; like the ass dressed in a tiger's skin, from his voice. Hitopadesa.
The fool is in himself the object of pity till he is flattered. Steele.
The fool needs company, the wise man solitude. 10 Rückert.
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion. Lowell.
The foot of the owner is the best manure for his land. Pr.
The force of the guinea in your pocket depends on the default of a guinea in your neighbour's. Ruskin.
The form of government can never be a matter of choice; it is almost always a matter of necessity. Joubert.
The formation of his character ought to be 15 the chief aim of every man. Goethe.
The fortitude of a Christian consists in patience. Dryden.
The fortune which nobody sees makes a man happy and unenvied. Bacon.
The foul slime stands for the sloth and vice of man, the decay of humanity; the fragrant flower that springs from it, for the purity and courage which are immortal. Thoreau.
The foundations of man are not in matter, but in spirit. Emerson.
The fountain which from Helicon proceeds, / 20 That sacred stream, should never water weeds. Wall.
The fox puts off all with a jest. L'Estrange.
The fox thrives best when he is most curst. Pr.
The fraction of life can be increased in value not so much by increasing your numerator as by lessening your denominator. Nay, unless my algebra deceives me, unity itself divided by zero will give infinity. Carlyle.
The free man is he who is loyal to the laws of this universe; who in his heart sees and knows that injustice cannot befall him here; that, except by sloth and cowardly falsity, evil is not possible here. Carlyle.
The (French) Revolution was a revolt against lies, and against a betrayal of love. Ruskin. 25
The fresh air of the open country is the proper place to which we belong. It is as if the breath of God were there wafted immediately to men, and a divine power exerted its influence. Goethe.
The fresh gaze of a child is richer in significance than the forecasting of the most indubitable seer. Novalis.
The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, / Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel. Ham., i. 3.
The frost is God's plough, which he drives through every inch of ground, opening each clod and pulverising the whole. Fuller.
The fruit of friendship, in opening the understanding, 30 is not restrained only to such friends as are able to give counsel (they indeed are best), but even without that a man learneth of himself, and bringeth his own thoughts to light, and whetteth his wits as against a stone, which itself cuts not. Bacon.
The fruit of life is experience, not happiness, and its fruition to accustom ourselves, and to be content, to exchange hope for insight. Schopenhauer.
The fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace. St. James.
The fruit that's yellow / Is found not always mellow. Quarles.
The full moon brings fair weather. Pr.
The full soul loatheth a honeycomb; but to 35 the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet. Bible.
The furiously wicked have but a short career. Bad for them, but good for the universe. Spurgeon.
The future comes on slowly, the present flies like an arrow, the past stands for ever still. Schiller.
The future destiny of the child is always the work of the mother. Napoleon.
The future epic of the world rests not with those near dead, but with those that are alive, and those that are coming into life. Carlyle.
The future hides in it / Gladness and sorrow; / 40 We press still thoro'; / Nought that abides in it / Daunting us—onward; / But solemn before us, / Veiled the dark portal, / Goal of all mortal. / Stars silent rest o'er us—/ Graves under us, silent. Goethe.
The gain of lying is nothing else but not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we say the truth. Sir Walter Raleigh.
The game is not worth the candle. Corn.
The gardener's business is to tend the flowers and root out the weeds. Bodenstedt.
The general and perpetual voice of men is as the sentence of God himself. Hooker.
The general tendency of things throughout 45 the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind. J. S. Mill.
The generality never suspect the devil even when he has them by the throat. Goethe.
The generous, who is always just, and the just who is always generous, may, unannounced, approach the throne of Heaven. Lavater.
The genius of light is friendly to the noble, and, in the dark, brings them friends from afar. Emerson.
The genius, wit, and spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs. Bacon.
The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known. 50 Spenser.
The genuine use of gunpowder I hold to be that it makes all men alike tall. Carlyle.
The germs of all things are in every heart. Amiel.
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death. Bible.
The gift blindeth the wise and perverteth the words of the righteous. Bible.
The gift of prayer is not always in our power, 5 but in the eye of Heaven the very wish to pray is prayer. Lessing.
The gift which is to be given should be given gratuitously. Hitopadesa.
The gifted man is he who sees the essential point and leaves aside all the rest as surplusage. Carlyle.
The glass of fashion and the mould of form, / The observed of all observers. Ham., iii. 1.
The glory dies not, and the grief is past. Sir Egerton Brydges.
The glory is not in never falling, but in rising 10 every time you fall. Bovee.
The glory of a people and of an age is always the work of a small number of great men, and disappears with them. Baron de Grimm.
The glory of children are their fathers. Bible.
The glory of philosophy lies not in solving the problem, but in putting it. Renan.
The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the grey head. Bible.
The God of merely traditional believers is 15 the great Absentee of the universe. W. R. Alger.
The god of this world is riches, pleasure, and pride. Luther.
The God who dwells in my bosom can stir my heart to its depths. Goethe.
The goddess Athene is armed with the Gorgon's head. Ed.
The gods approve the depth, and not the tumult, of the soul. Wordsworth.
The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices / 20 Make instruments to scourge us. King Lear, v. 3.
The gods are long-suffering; but the law from the beginning was, He that will not work shall perish from the earth; and the patience of the gods has limits. Carlyle.
The gods are on the side of the strongest. Emerson.
The gods are wont to save by human means. Goethe.
The gods do not avenge on the son the misdeeds of the father. Each or good or bad reaps the due reward of his own actions. Parents' blessing, not their curse, is inherited. Goethe.
The gods hearken to him who hearkens to 25 them. Homer.
The gods in charity oft lend their strength to man. Schiller.
The gods invariably make us pay dear for the great benefits they confer on us. Corn.
The gods of fable are the shining moments of great men. Emerson.
The gods sell all things at a fair price. Ancient Pr.
The gods sell to us all the goods which they 30 give us. Epicharmus.
The gods, when they appear to man, are commonly unrecognised by them. Goethe.
The golden age hath passed away, / Only the good have power to bring it back. Goethe.
The golden age, that lovely prime, / Existed in the past no more than now. / And did it e'er exist, believe me, / As then it was, it now may be restored. Still meet congenial spirits, and enhance / Each other's pleasures in this beauteous world. Goethe.
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. George Eliot.
The good are always ready to be the upholders 35 of the good in their misfortunes. Elephants even are wont to bear the burthens of elephants who have sunk in the mire. Hitopadesa.
The good are better made by ill, / As odours crushed are sweeter still. Rogers.
The good die first, / And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust / Burn to the socket. Wordsworth.
The good-for-nothing is he who cannot command and cannot even obey. Goethe.
The good is always beautiful, the beautiful is good. Whittier.
The good mother saith not, "Will you?" but 40 gives. Pr.
The good nature of the dog is not discouraged, although it often brings upon him only rebuffs; the abusive treatment of man never offends him, because he loves man. Renan.
The good need little water, but the base / Free from their guilt not ocean's self can lave. Pythian oracle.
The good of other times let others state; / I think it lucky I was born so late. Sydney Smith.
The good old rule / Sufficeth them, the simple plan, / That they should take who have the power, / And they should keep who can. Wordsworth.
The good that passes by without returning, 45 leaves behind it an impression that may be compared to a void, and is felt like a want. Goethe.
The good, the new, comes exactly from that quarter whence it is not looked for, and is always something different from what is expected. Feuerbach.
The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired. Bacon, from Seneca.
The good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing. (?)
The goods of this world cannot be divided without being lessened; but why be a niggard of that which bestows bliss on a fellow-creature, yet takes nothing from our own means of enjoyment? Burns.
The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to 50 lay where there are eggs already. Spurgeon.
The gospel is at once the assigner of our tasks and the magazine of our strength. Decay of Piety.
The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man. Emerson.
The governing class, who should be working at an ark of deliverance for themselves and us while the hours still are, do nothing but complain, "We cannot get our hands kept rightly warm," and sit obstinately burning the planks. Carlyle.
The government must always be a step in advance of the popular movement. Count Arnim-Boytzenburg.
The government of England is a government of law. Junius.
The gown is hers that wears it, and the world is his who enjoys it. Pr.
The graceful minuet-dance of fancy must give 5 place to the toilsome, thorny pilgrimage of understanding. Carlyle on the transition from the age of romance to that of science.
The grand encourager of Delphic and other noises is the echo. Carlyle.
"The grapes are sour," said the fox when he could not reach them. Pr.
The gravest events dawn with no more noise than the morning star makes in rising. All great developments complete themselves in the world, and modestly wait in silence, praising themselves never, and announcing themselves not at all. We must be sensitive and sensible if we would see the beginnings and endings of great things. That is our part. Ward Beecher.
The great agent of the march of the world is pain, the unsatisfied being that craves for development and is ill at ease in the process. Renan.
The great and rich depend on those whom 10 their power or their wealth attaches to them. Rogers.
The great art of ruling consists for most part in persuading the people to believe that whatever happens happens through us. Cötvös.
The great artist is the slave of his ideal. Bovee.
The great cause of revolutions is this: that, while nations move onward, constitutions stand still. Macaulay.
The great distinction between mediæval art and modern is, that the former was brought into the service of religion and the latter is not. Ruskin.
The great doers in history have always been 15 men of faith. Chapin.
The great duty of life is not to give pain; and the most acute reasoner cannot find an excuse for one who voluntarily wounds the heart of a fellow-creature. Fredrika Bremer.
The great error of our nature is, not to know where to stop, not to be satisfied with any reasonable acquirement, not to compound with our condition; but to lose all we have gained by an insatiable pursuit after more. Burke.
The great event for the world is, now as always, the arrival in it of a new wise man. Carlyle.
The great facts are the near ones. Emerson.
The great felicity of life is to be without perturbation. 20 Sen.
The great hope of society is individual character. Channing.
The great make us feel, first of all, the indifference of circumstances. Emerson.
The great man does, in good truth, belong to his own age; nay, more so than any other man; being properly the synopsis and epitome of such age with its interests and influences; but belongs likewise to all ages, otherwise he is not great. Carlyle.
The great man goes ahead of his time, the prudent (kluge) man goes with it, the crafty man makes his own out of it, and the blockhead sets himself against it. Bauernfeld.
The great man has more of human nature than 25 other men organised in him. Theodore Parker.
The great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. Emerson.
The great mass of people have eyes and ears, but not much more, especially little power of judgment, and even memory. Schopenhauer.
The great modern recipe is to work, still to work, and always to work. Gambetta.
The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes, a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lips, though they cannot speak. Thackeray.
The great point is not to pull down, but to 30 build up, and in this humanity finds pure joy. Goethe.
The great portion of labour is not skilled; the millions are and must be skilless, where strength alone is wanted. Carlyle.
The great principle of all effort is to endeavour to do, not what is absolutely best, but what is easily within our power, and adapted to our temper and condition. Ruskin.
The great river-courses which have shaped the lives of men have hardly changed. George Eliot.
The great role of moral conduct is, next to God, to respect time. Lavater.
The great school for learning is the brain itself 35 of the learner. Carlyle.
The great soul of the world is just. There is justice here below; at bottom there is nothing else but justice. Carlyle.
The great soul that sits on the throne of the universe is not, never was, and never will be, in a hurry. J. G. Holland.
The great source of calamity lies in regret or anticipation; he therefore is most wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or the future. Goldsmith.
The great spirits that have gone before us can survive only as disembodied voices. Carlyle.
The great successes of the world have been 40 affairs of a second, a third, nay, a fiftieth trial. John Morley.
The great thieves punish the little ones. Pr.
The great thing, after all, is only Forwards. Goethe.
The great world-revolutions send in their disturbing billows to the remotest creek, and the overthrow of thrones more slowly overturns also the households of the lowly. Carlyle.
The greater and more various any one's knowledge, the longer he takes to find out anything that may suddenly be asked him; because he is like a shopkeeper who has to get the article wanted from a large and multifarious store. Schopenhauer.
The greater height sends down the deeper fall: / And good declin'd turns bad, turns worst of all. Quarles.
The greater man the greater courtesy. Tennyson.
The greater proportion of mankind are more sensitive to contemptuous language than unjust acts; for they can less easily bear insult than wrong. Plutarch.
The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received at first with distrust. Schopenhauer.
The greatest benefit which one friend can 5 confer upon another, is to guard, and excite, and elevate his virtues. Johnson.
The greatest braggards are generally the greatest cowards. Rousseau.
The greatest clerkes (scholars) ben not the wisest men. Chaucer.
The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them. Goethe.
The greatest events of an age are its best thoughts. It is the nature of thought to find its way into action. Bovee.
The greatest expense we can be at is that of 10 our time. Pr.
The greatest felicity that felicity hath is to spread. Hooker.
The greatest flood hath the soonest ebb; the sorest tempest the most sudden calm; the hottest love the coldest end; and from the deepest desire oftentimes ensues the deadliest hate. Socrates.
The greatest genius is the most indebted man. Emerson.
The greatest happiness of the greatest number. Priestley.
The greatest hatred, like the greatest virtue 15 and the worst dogs, is quiet. Jean Paul.
The greatest man in history was the poorest. Emerson.
The greatest man is ever a son of man (Menschenkind). Goethe.
The greatest man living may stand in need of the meanest as much as the meanest does of him. Fuller.
The greatest men even want much more of the sympathy which every honest fellow can give than that which the great only can impart. Thoreau.
The greatest men of a nation are those whom 20 it puts to death. Renan.
The greatest men of any age, those who become its leaders when there is a great march to be begun, are separated from the average intellects of their day by a distance which is immeasurable in ordinary terms of wonder. Ruskin.
The greatest men, whether poets or historians, live entirely in their own age, and the greatest faults of their works are gathered out of their own age. Ruskin.
The greatest men will be necessarily those who possess the best capacities, cultivated with the best habits. James Harris.
The greatest miracle of love is to eradicate flirtation. La Roche.
The greatest misfortune of all is not to be able 25 to bear misfortune. Bias.
The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is a still greater, which is the good man that comes to relieve it. Goldsmith.
The greatest of all economists are the fortifying virtues, which the wisest men of all time have arranged under the general heads of Prudence, or Discretion, the spirit which discerns and adopts rightly; Justice, the spirit which rules and divides rightly; Fortitude, the spirit which persists and endures rightly; and Temperance, the spirit which stops and refuses rightly. Ruskin.
The greatest of all injustice is that which goes under the name of law. L'Estrange.
The greatest of all perversities is to deny one's own nature and act contrary to its innate moral principle. Sophocles.
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be 30 conscious of none. Carlyle.
The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other advantage. Schopenhauer.
The greatest of heroic deeds are those which are performed within four walls and in domestic privacy. Jean Paul.
The greatest ornament of an illustrious life is modesty and humility, which go a great way in the character even of the most exalted princes. Napoleon.
The greatest part of mankind labour under one delirium or another. Fielding.
The greatest prayer is patience. Buddha. 35
The greatest skill is shown in disguising our skill. La Roche.
The greatest scholars are not always the wisest men. Pr.
The greatest star is that at the little end of the telescope,—the star that is looking, not looked after, nor looked at. Theo. Parker.
The greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between sincere people. Emerson.
The greatest truths are commonly the simplest. 40 Malesherbes.
The greatest truths are the simplest; and so are the greatest men. Hare.
The greatest vessel hath but its measure. Pr.
The greatest virtues of men are only splendid sins. Augustine. (?)
The Greeks and Romans are the only ancients who never become old. Weber.
The Greeks cared for man only, and for the 45 rest of the universe little or not at all; the moderns for the universe only, and man not at all. Ruskin.
The Greeks were the first to exalt spirit to lordship over nature; it was Christ who first taught us what that spirit is in itself. Ed.
The grey mare is the better horse. Pr.
The grief that does not speak / Whispers the o'er-fraught heart, and bids it break. Macb., iv. 3.
The grief which all hearts share grows less for one. Sir Edwin Arnold.
The groundsel speaks not save what it heard 50 at the hinges. Pr.
The guilty mind debases the great image that it wears, and levels us with brutes. (?)
The habit and power of reading with reflection, comprehension, and memory all alert and awake, does not come at once to the natural man any more than many other sovereign virtues. John Morley.
The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand a year. Johnson.
The habit of lying, when once formed, is easily extended to serve the designs of malice or interest; like all habits, it spreads indeed of itself. Paley.
The habit of party in England is not to ask the alliance of a man of genius, but to follow the guidance of a man of character. Lord John Russell.
The hand of little employment hath the daintier 5 sense. Ham., v. 1.
The hand that gives, gathers. Pr.
The Hand that hath made you fair hath made you good; the goodness that is cheap in beauty makes beauty brief in goodness; but grace, being the soul of your complexion, should keep the body of it ever fair. Meas. for Meas., iii. 1.
The happiest of men were he who, understanding his craft and working intelligently with his hands, and earning competence and freedom by the exercise of his wits, found time to live by the heart and by the brain, to understand his own work, and to love the work of God. Mme. George Sand.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions,—the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasant thought and feeling. Coleridge.
The happiness of man depends on no creed 10 and no book; it depends on the dominion of truth, which is the redeemer and saviour, the Messiah and the King of glory. Rabbi Wise.
The happiness of the human race is one of the designs of God, but our own individual happiness must not be made our first or our direct aim. W. R. Greg.
The happiness we owe to ourselves is greater than that which we owe to our surroundings. Metrodorus.
The happy day will come when mind, heart and hands shall be alive together, and shall work in concert; when there shall be a harmony between God's munificence and man's delight in it. Mme. George Sand.
The happy have whole days, and those they choose; / The unhappy have but hours, and those they lose. Colley Cibber.
The happy man is he who distinguishes the 15 boundary between desires and delight, and stands firmly on the higher ground. Landor.
The happy think a lifetime a short stage: / One night to the unhappy seems an age. Lucian.
The hardest step is over the threshold. Pr.
The hardships or misfortunes we lie under are more easy to us than those of any other person would be, should we change conditions with him. Hor.
The hare leaps out of the bush where we least look for her. Sp. Pr.
The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers 20 are few. Jesus.
The hatred which is grafted on extinguished friendship must bring forth the most deadly fruits. Lessing.
The head cannot understand any work of art unless it be in company with the heart. Goethe.
The head is a half, a fraction, until it is enlarged and inspired by the moral sentiments. Emerson.