The head learns new things, but the heart for evermore practises old experiences. Ward Beecher.
The head only reproduces what the heart 25 creates; and so we give the mocking-bird credit when he imitates the loving murmurs of the dove. G. J. W. Melville.
The health of a state consists simply in this, that in it those who are wisest shall also be strongest. Ruskin.
The healthy know not of their health, but only the sick. Carlyle.
The healthy man is the compliment of the seasons, and in winter summer is in his heart. There is the south! Thoreau.
The healthy understanding is not the logical argumentative, but the intuitive; for the end of understanding is not to prove and find reasons, but to know and believe. Carlyle.
The heart always sees before the head can 30 see. Carlyle.
The heart aye's the part aye / That mak's us right or wrang. Burns.
The heart benevolent and kind / The most resembles God. Burns.
The heart can ne'er a transport know / That never feels a pain. Lyttelton.
The heart has eyes that the brain knows nothing of. C. H. Parkhurst.
The heart has its arguments with which the 35 understanding is not acquainted. (?)
The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it. Hugo de Anima.
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it? Bible.
The heart is like a millstone, which gives meat if you supply it with corn, but frets itself if you don't. C. J. Weber.
The heart is like a musical instrument of many strings, all the chords of which require putting in harmony. Saadi.
The heart is like the sea, is subject to storms, 40 ebb-tide and flood, and in its depths is many a precious pearl. Heine.
The heart is the best logician. Wendell Phillips.
The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy. Bible.
The heart must be beaten or bruised, and then the sweet scent will come out. Bunyan.
The heart must be divorced from its idols. (?)
The heart must glow before the tongue can 45 gild. W. R. Alger.
The heart needs not for its heaven much space, nor many stars therein, if only the star of love has arisen. Jean Paul.
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart. Pr.
The heart of a wise man should resemble a mirror, which reflects every object without being sullied by any. Confucius.
The heart of childhood is all mirth. Keble.
The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of reproof if the archer can but take a proper aim. Goldsmith.
The heart of man is the place the devils dwell 5 in. Sir Thomas Browne.
The heart of the righteous studieth to answer; but the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things. Bible.
The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth. Bible.
The heart sees farther than the head. Pr.
The heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touched by the thorns. Moore.
The heart that once truly loves never forgets. 10 Pr.
The heart, unlike the fancy and the imagination, is not complex, and may be reached by the same weapons of thought in the most luxurious court of Christendom as in the tent of the Arab or the wigwam of the Cherokee. C. Fitzhugh.
The heart which truly loves puts not its love aside ... but grows stronger for that which seeks to thwart it. Lewis Morris.
The heart will break, yet brokenly live on. Byron.
The hearts of men are their books, events are their tutors, great actions are their eloquence. Macaulay.
The heavenly powers never go out of their 15 road. Emerson.
The heavens and the earth, and all that is between them, think ye we have created them in jest? Koran.
The heavens and the earth are but the time-vesture of the Eternal. Carlyle.
The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth his handiwork. Bible.
The heavenward path which a great man opens up for us and traverses generally, like the track of a ship through the water, closes behind him on his decease. Goethe.
The heaviest head of corn hangs its head 20 lowest. Gael. Pr.
The heavy and the weary weight / Of all this unintelligible world. Wordsworth.
The Hebrew Bible, is it not, before all things, true, as no other book ever was or will be? Carlyle.
The height charms us, the steps to it do not; with the summit in our eye, we love to walk along the plain. Goethe.
The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age we live in. La Roche.
The heights by great men reached and kept / 25 Were not attained by sudden flight, / But they, while their companions slept, / Were toiling upward in the night. Longfellow.
The hell of these days is the infinite terror of Not getting on, especially of Not making money. Carlyle.
The hen of our neighbour appears to us as a goose. Eastern Pr.
The herd of people dread sound understanding more than anything; they ought to dread stupidity, if they knew what was really dreadful. Understanding is unpleasant, they must have it pushed aside; stupidity is but pernicious, they can let it stay. Goethe.
The heroes of literary history have been no less remarkable for what they have suffered than for what they have achieved. Johnson.
The heroic heart, the seeing eye, of the first 30 times, still feels and sees in us of the latest. Carlyle.
The higher character a person supports, the more he should regard his minutest actions. Not traceable.
The higher enthusiasm of man's nature is for the while without exponent; yet does it continue indestructible, unweariedly active, and work blindly in the great chaotic deep. Thus sect after sect, and church after church, bodies itself forth, and melts again into new metamorphosis. Carlyle.
The higher the culture, the more honourable the work. Roscher
The higher the wisdom, the closer its neighbourhood and kinship with mere insanity. Carlyle.
The higher we rise, the more isolated we 35 become, and all elevations are cold. De Boufflers.
The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout man. Prof. Blackie.
The highest elevation attainable by man is a heroic life. Schopenhauer.
The highest exercise of invention has nothing to do with fiction; but is an invention of new truth, what we can call a revelation. Carlyle.
The highest genius never flowers in satire, but culminates in sympathy with that which is best in human nature, and appeals to it. Chapin.
The highest gift which we receive from God 40 and Nature is Life, the revolving movement, which knows neither pause nor rest, of the self-conscious being round itself. The instinct to protect and cherish life is indestructibly innate in every one, but the peculiarity of it ever remains a mystery to us and others. Goethe.
The highest happiness of us mortals is to execute what we consider right and good; to be really masters of the means conducive to our aims. Goethe.
The highest heaven of wisdom is alike near from every point, and thou must find it, if at all, by methods native to thyself alone. Emerson.
The highest in God's esteem are meanest in their own. Thomas à Kempis.
The highest joys spring from those possessions which are common to all, which we can neither alienate ourselves nor be deprived of by others, to which kind Nature has given all an equal right—a right which she herself guards with silent omnipotence. Goethe.
The highest liberty is in harmony with the eternal laws. H. Giles.
The highest man of us is born brother to his contemporaries; struggle as he may, there is no escaping the family likeness. Carlyle.
The highest melody dwells only in silence—the sphere melody, the melody of health. Carlyle.
The Highest not merely has, but is, reason and understanding. Goethe.
The highest political watchword is not Liberty, 5 Equality, Fraternity, nor yet Solidarity, but Service. A. H. Clough.
The highest price a man can pay for a thing is to ask for it. Pr.
The highest problem of every art is, by means of appearances, to produce the illusion of a loftier reality. Goethe.
The highest problem of literature is the writing of a Bible. Novalis.
The highest reach of a news-writer is an empty reasoning on policy, and vain conjectures on the public management. La Bruyère.
The highest thing that art can do is to set 10 before you the true image of the presence of a noble human being. It has never done more than this, and it might not do less. Ruskin.
The highest virtue of the tropics is chastity; of colder regions, temperance. Bovee.
The highest wisdom is not to be always wise. M. Opiz.
The highway of the upright is to depart from evil. Bible.
The hind that would be mated by the lion / Must die for love. All's Well, i. 1.
The historian is a prophet with his face directed 15 to the past. Fr. v. Schlegel.
The history of a man is his character. Goethe.
The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it. We lose the right of complaining sometimes by forbearing it, but we often treble the force. Sterne.
The history of every man should be a Bible. Novalis.
The history of persecution is a history of endeavours to cheat Nature, to make water run uphill, to twist a rope of sand. It makes no difference whether the actors be many or one, a tyrant or a mob. Emerson.
The history of reforms is always identical; it 20 is the comparison of the idea with the fact. Emerson.
The history of the Church is a history of the invisible as well as of the visible Church; which latter, if disjoined from the former, is but a vacant edifice; gilded, it may be, and overhung with old votive gifts, yet useless, nay, pestilentially unclean; to write whose history is less important than to forward its downfall. Carlyle.
The history of the world is nothing but the history of successful or unsuccessful grumbling; operating in great things as in small, ... inculcating through all of them the great moral, that it is not good for a man to be contented with evils that he can remove. John Wagstaffe.
The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness. Bible.
The hollow sea-shell which for years hath stood / On dusty shelves, when held against the ear / Proclaims its stormy parent. Eugene Lee-Hamilton.
The Holy Supper is kept indeed / In whatso 25 we share with another's need; / Not what we give, but what we share, / For the gift without the giver is bare. Lowell.
The honest heart that's free frae a' / Intended fraud or guile, / However Fortune kick the ba', / Has aye some cause to smile. Burns.
The honest man does that from duty which the man of honour does for the sake of character. (?)
The honest man, though e'er so poor, / Is king o' men for a' that. Burns.
The honourablest part of talk is to give the occasion; and again to moderate and pass to somewhat else, for then a man leads the dance. Bacon.
The horse is prepared against the day of battle: 30 but safety is of the Lord. Bible.
The horse thinks one thing, and he that rides him another. Pr.
The host should be indeed a host, and a lord of the land, a self-appointed brother of his race; called to this place, besides, by all the winds of heaven and his good genius, as truly as the preacher is called to preach. Thoreau.
The hottest love has the coldest end. Socrates.
The hour of all windbags does arrive; every windbag is at length ripped and collapses. Carlyle.
The hours should be instructed by the ages, 35 and the ages explained by the hours. Emerson.
The hours that we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with fruition. Goldsmith.
The house of the childless is empty; and so is the heart of him that hath no wife. Hitopadesa.
The house that is a-building looks not as the house that is built. Pr.
The household is the home of the man as well as of the child. Emerson.
The human creature needs first of all to be 40 educated, not that he may speak, but that he may have something weighty and valuable to say. Carlyle.
The human face is my landscape. Sir Joshua Reynolds.
The human heart has a sigh lonelier than the cry of the bittern. W. R. Alger.
The human heart is like a millstone in a mill; when you put wheat under it, it turns, and grinds, and bruises the wheat into flour; if you put no wheat in, it still grinds on; but then it is itself it grinds and slowly wears away. Luther.
The human heart is like heaven; the more angels the more room. Fredrika Bremer.
The human mind cannot go beyond the gift 45 of God. Wm. Blake.
The human mind, in proportion as it is deprived of external resources, sedulously labours to find within itself the means of happiness, learns to rely with confidence on its own exertions, and gains with greater certainty the power of being happy. Zimmermann.
The human mind is to be treated like a skein of ravelled silk, where you must cautiously secure one free end before you can make any progress in disentangling it. Scott.
The human mind will not be confined to any limits. Goethe.
The human race is in the best condition when it has the greatest degree of liberty. Dante.
The human soul is like a bird that is born in a cage. Nothing can deprive it of its natural longings, or obliterate the mysterious remembrance of its heritage. Epes Sargent.
The human voice has an authority and an 5 insinuating property which writing lacks. Joubert.
The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits. St. Paul.
The hypocrite shows well and says well, and himself is the worst thing he hath. Bishop Hall.
The idea you have once spoken, if even it were an idea, is no longer yours; it is gone from you, so much life and virtue is gone, and the vital circulations of yourself and your destiny and activity are henceforth deprived of it. Carlyle.
The Ideal always has to grow in the Real, and to seek out its bed and board there in a very sorry way. Carlyle.
The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never 10 located. Mme. de Sévigné.
The ideal of beauty is simplicity and repose; from which it follows that no youth can be a master. Goethe.
The ideal of friendship is to feel as one while remaining two. Mme. Swetchine.
The idle always have a mind to do something. Vauvenargues.
The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes. Ward Beecher.
The ignorant peasant without fault is greater 15 than the philosopher with many. Goldsmith.
The Iliad and the Shakespeare are tame to him who hears the rude but homely incidents of the road from every traveller. Thoreau.
The "Iliad" of Homer is no fiction, but a ballad history, the heart of it burning with enthusiastic, ill-informed belief. Carlyle.
The ill that's wisely feared is half withstood, / And fear of bad is the best foil to good. Quarles.
The image of God cut in ebony, i.e., the negro. Fuller.
The imagination, give it the least license, dives 20 deeper and soars higher than Nature does. Thoreau.
The imagination is a fine faculty; yet I like not when she works on what has actually happened; the airy forms she creates are welcome as things of their own kind; but uniting with reality she produces often nothing but monsters, and seems to me, in such cases, to fly into direct variance with reason and common-sense. Goethe.
The imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth. Bible.
The imaginative power always purifies, the want of it therefore essentially defiles. Ruskin.
The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power. Emerson.
The importunities and perplexities of business 25 are softness and luxury, compared with the incessant cravings of vacancy, and the unsatisfactory expedients of idleness. Johnson.
The impressions of our childhood abide with us, even in their minutest traces. Goethe.
The indignation which makes verses is, properly speaking, an inverted love; the love of some right, some worth, some goodness, belonging to ourselves or others, which has been injured, and which this tempestuous feeling issues forth to defend and revenge. Carlyle.
The individual and the race are always moving, and as we drift into new latitudes new lights open in the heaven more immediately over us. Chapin.
The individual loves and hatreds, which sum up existence and life, are the brood of Eros; for hatred is only love in some form, crossed and thwarted, and always in nature so much hostility, so much affection of some kind is there. Ed.
The individual soul should seek for an intimate 30 union with the soul of the universe. Novalis.
The infant / Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms. / And then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel, / And shining morning face, creeping like snail / Unwillingly to school. As You Like It, ii. 7.
The infinite is more sure than any other fact. The infinite of terror, of hope, of pity; did it not at any moment disclose itself to thee, indubitable, unnameable? Came it never, like the gleam of preternatural eternal oceans, like the voice of old eternities, far-sounding through thy heart of hearts? Carlyle.
The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great. Voltaire.
The influence which we exercise over other objects depends on the influence we have over ourselves. Cötvös.
The injuries of life, if rightly improved, will be 35 to us as the strokes of the statuary on his marble, forming us to a more beautiful shape, and making us fitter to adorn the heavenly temple. Mather.
The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public. Junius.
The ingratitude of the world can never deprive us of the conscious happiness of having acted with humanity ourselves. Goldsmith.
The initial virtue of the race consists in the acknowledgment of their own lowly nature, and submission to the laws of higher being. Ruskin.
The ink of the scholar and the blood of the martyr are of equal value in the eye of heaven. The Koran.
The innocent seldom find an uneasy pillow. 40 Cowper.
The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it; the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it; and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature. Bacon.
The insolence of condescension. Burns.
The insolence of office. Ham., iii. 1.
The inspiration of the Almighty giveth man understanding. Bible.
The instinctive feeling of a great people is often wiser than the wisest men. Kossuth.
The instruction merely clever men can give us is like baked bread, savoury and satisfying for a single day; but flour cannot be sown, and seed-corn ought not to be ground. Goethe.
The integrity of the upright shall guide them. Bible.
The intellect has only one failing: it has no conscience. Lowell.
The intellect of the wise is like glass; it 5 admits the light of heaven and reflects it. Hare.
The intellectual power, through words and things / Went sounding on a dim and perilous way. Wordsworth.
The intelligent have a right over the ignorant; namely, the right of instructing them. Emerson.
The intolerant man is the real pedant. Jean Paul.
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. Emerson.
The inventor of a spinning-jenny is pretty sure 10 of his reward in his own day; but the writer of a true poem, like the apostle of a true religion, is nearly as sure of the contrary. Carlyle.
The invisible world is near us; or rather it is here, in us and about us; were the fleshly coil removed from our soul, the glories of the unseen were even now around us; as the ancients fabled of the spheral music. Carlyle.
The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve. Mid. N. Dream, v. 1.
The irreligious poet is a monster. Burns.
The is of this moment is not the explanation of the is of the next. Except in the idea of God there is no nexus between the two. Ed.
The Israelitish people never was good for 15 much, as its own leaders, judges, rulers, prophets have a thousand times reproachfully declared; it possesses few virtues, and most of the faults of other nations; but in cohesion, steadfastness, valour, and when all this would not serve, in obstinate toughness, it has no match. Goethe.
The jealous is possessed by a "fine mad devil" and a dull spirit at once. Lavater.
The jealous man's disease is of so malignant a nature, that it converts all it takes into its own nourishment. Addison.
The jest which is expected is already destroyed. Johnson.
The joy of a peaceful conscience is sown in tears. Thomas à Kempis.
The joys of parents are secret, and so are 20 their griefs and fears. Bacon.
The judgment is like a pair of scales, and evidences like the weights; but the will holds the balance in its hand; and even a slight jerk will be sufficient, in many cases, to make the lighter scale appear the heavier. Whately.
The judgment of the world stands upon matter of fortune. Sir P. Sidney.
The judgments of the understanding are properly of force but once, and that in the strictest cases, and become inaccurate in some degree when applied to any other. Goethe.
The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him. Bible.
The justice, / In fair round belly with good 25 capon lined, / With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, / Full of wise saws and modern instances; / And so he plays his part. As You Like It, ii. 7.
The keeping of bees is like the directing of sunbeams. Thoreau.
The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys. Emerson.
The kind fool, of all kinds of fools, is worst. Sir Richard Baker.
The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him. Carlyle.
The king goes as far as he may, not as far as 30 he would. Sp. Pr.
The king, like other people, has now and then shabby errands, and must have shabby fellows to do them. Scott.
The king may gang the cadger's gate, i.e., may one day need his help. Sc. Pr.
The king protecteth the people, and they support the greatness of their sovereign. But protection is better than greatness; for the one cannot exist without the other. Hitopadesa.
The king's errand may come in at the cadger's gate. Pr.
The king's favour is toward a wise servant. 35 Bible.
The king's honour is that of his people. Their real honour and real interest are the same. Junius.
The kings of modern thought are dumb. Matthew Arnold.
The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass. Bible.
The kingdom of God does not lie in elegance of speech or fineness of parts, but in innocence of life and good works. Thomas à Kempis.
The knowledge of man is an evening knowledge, 40 "vespertina cognitio," but that of God is a morning knowledge, "matutina cognitio." Emerson, from the Schoolmen.
The knowledge of thyself will preserve thee from vanity. Cervantes.
The labour we delight in physics pain. Macb., ii. 3.
The labourer is worthy of his hire. Jesus.
The lake's silver dulls with driving clouds. Sir Edwin Arnold.
The lamp of genius burns quicker than the 45 lamp of life. Schiller.
The lamp of the wicked shall be put out. Bible.
The land is mother of us all; nourishes, shelters, gladdens, lovingly enriches us all; in how many ways, from our first wakening to our last sleep on her blessed mother-bosom, does she, as with blessed mother's arms, enfold us all! Carlyle.
The land, properly speaking, belongs to these two: to the Almighty God; and to all his children of men that have ever worked well on it, or that shall ever work well on it. Carlyle.
The language of truth is simple. Euripides.
The largest soul of any country is altogether its own. Ruskin.
The last act crowns the play. Quarles.
The last, best fruit which comes to late perfection, even in the kindliest soul, is tenderness toward the hard, forbearance toward the unforbearing, warmth of heart toward the cold, philanthropy toward the misanthropic. Jean Paul.
The last drop makes the cup run over. Pr.
The last ounce breaks the camel's back. Pr. 5
The last pale rim or sickle of the moon, which had once been full, now sinking in the dark seas. Carlyle by the bedside of his dying mother.
The last perfection of our faculties is that their activity, without ceasing to be sure and earnest, become sport. Schiller.
The last stage of human perversion is when sympathy corrupts itself into envy; and the indestructible interest we take in men's doings has become a joy over their faults and misfortunes. Carlyle.
The last thing that we discover in writing a book is to know what to put at the beginning. Pascal.
The Latin word for a flatterer (assentator) implies 10 no more than a person that barely consents; and indeed such a one, if a man were able to purchase or maintain him, cannot be bought too dear. Steele.
The latter part of a wise man's life is taken up in curing the follies, prejudices, and false opinions he had contracted in the former. Swift.
The law always limits every power which it bestows. Hume.
The law cannot equalise men in spite of nature. Vauvenargues.
The law has no eyes, the law has no hands, the law is nothing—nothing but a piece of paper, till public opinion breathes the breath of life into the dead letter. Macaulay.
The law is good if a man use it lawfully. St. 15 Paul.
The law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life. Bible.
The law is past depth to those that, without heed, do plunge into it. Timon of Athens, iii. 5.
The law is the friend of the weak. Schiller.
The law is what we must do; the gospel what God will give. Luther.
The law of nature is the strictest expression 20 of necessity. Moleschott.
The law of perseverance is among the deepest in man; by nature he hates change; seldom will he quit his old house till it has actually fallen about his ears. Carlyle.
The law of the wise is a fountain of life. Bible.
The law often permits what honour prohibits. Saurin.
The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free. Thoreau.
The law's made to take care o' raskils. George 25 Eliot.
The laws of morality are also those of art. Schumann.
The laws of nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Longfellow.
The laws of nature never vary; in their application they never hesitate, nor are wanting. Draper.
The laws undertake to punish only overt acts. Montesquieu.
The lawyer is a gentleman who rescues your 30 estate from your enemies, and keeps it to himself. Brougham.
The leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable. Carlyle.
The lean and slippered pantaloon, / With spectacles on nose and pouch on side; / His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide / For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice / Turning again towards childish treble, pipes / And whistles in his sound. As You Like It, ii. 7.
The learned understand the reason of the art, the unlearned feel the pleasure. Quinct.
The legacy of heroes—the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example. Disraeli.
The legal and proper mercy of a king of 35 England may remit the punishment, but ought not to stop the trial. Junius.
The lenient hand of time is daily and hourly either lightening the burden or making us insensible to the weight. Burns.
The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues the better we like him. Emerson.
The less men think the more they talk. Montesquieu.
The less routine the more of life. A. B. Alcott.
The less the wise man pleases himself, the 40 more the world esteems him. Gellert.
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it. Molière.
The less we have to do with our sins the better. Emerson.
The lessons of adversity are not always salutary; sometimes they soften and amend, but as often they indurate and pervert. Bulwer Lytton.
The letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. St. Paul.
The liberal deviseth liberal things; and by 45 liberal things shall he stand. Bible.
The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself. Bible.
The liberty of writing letters with too careless a hand is apt to betray persons into imprudence in what they write. Blair.
The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment. Jesus.
The life of a fool is worse than death. Apocrypha.
The life of a man is tormented not by things, 50 but by opinions of things. Immermann.
The life of a nation is usually, like the flow of a lava stream, first bright and fierce, then languid and covered, at last advancing by the tumbling over and over of its frozen blocks. Ruskin.
The life of all gods figures itself to us as a sublime sadness,—earnestness of infinite battle against infinite labour. Carlyle.
The life of an animal, until the hour of his death, passeth away in disciplines, in elevations and depressions, in unions and separations. Hitopadesa.
The life of an egoist is a tissue of inconsistencies, of actions that, from his own point of view, are absurd and foolish. Renan.
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another. J. M. Barrie.
The life of every man is as the well-spring of a stream, whose small beginnings are indeed plain to all, but whose ulterior course and destination, as it winds through the expanses of infinite years, only the omniscient can discern. Carlyle.
The life of man is a journey; a journey that 5 must be travelled, however bad the roads or the accommodation. Goldsmith.
The life of the Divine Man stands in no connection with the general history of the world in his time. It was a private life; his teaching was a teaching for individuals. Goethe.
The life of the lowest mortal, if faithfully recorded, would be interesting to the highest. Quoted by Carlyle.
The life which renews a man springs ever from within. Goethe.
The light by which we see in this world comes out from the soul of the observer. Emerson.
The light can be a curtain as well as the darkness. 10 George Eliot.
The light of friendship is like the light of phosphorus—seen plainest when all around is dark. Crowell.
The light of the body is the eye; if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. Jesus.
The light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. St. John.
The light that a man receiveth by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which cometh from his own understanding and judgment, which is ever infused and drenched in his affections and customs. Bacon.
The light (which you refuse to take in) returns 15 on you, condensed into lightning, which there is not any skin whatever too thick for taking in. Carlyle.
The lightning is the shorthand of the storm, / That tells of chaos. Eric Mackay.
The limbs of my buried ones touched cold on my soul and drove away its blots, as dead hands heal eruptions of the skin. Jean Paul.
The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire. W. R. Alger.
The lion is not so fierce as painted. Fuller.
The lips of the righteous feed many; but fools 20 die for want of wisdom. Bible.
The litigant, unlike the goose, never gets trust (trussed), although he may be roasted and dished. John Willock.
The little done vanishes from the sight of man who looks forward to what is still to do. Goethe.
The little foolery that wise men have makes a great show. As You Like It, i. 2.
The little man is still a man. Goethe.
The little mind will not by daily intercourse 25 with great minds become one inch greater; but the noble man ... will, by a knowledge of, and familiar intercourse with, elevated natures, everyday make a visible approximation to similar greatness. Goethe.
The little that a just man hath is better than the riches of many wicked. Bible.
The lives of the best of us are spent in choosing between evils. Junius.
The loftier the building the deeper must the foundation be laid. Thomas à Kempis.
The loftiest mortal loves and seeks the same sort of things with the meanest, only from higher grounds and by higher paths. Jean Paul.
The loftiest of our race are those who have 30 had the profoundest grief, because they have had the profoundest sympathies. Henry Giles.
The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the later it will be in coming. Schopenhauer.
The longer life the more offence, / The more offence the greater pain, / The greater pain the less defence, / The less defence the lesser gain. Sir T. Wyatt.
The longer we live and the more we think, the higher value we learn to put on the friendship and tenderness of parents and of friends. Johnson.
The longer you read the Bible the more you will like it. Romaine.
The longest day soon comes to an end. Pr. 35
The longest life is scarcely longer than the shortest, if we think of the eternity that encircles both. Carlyle.
The longest wave is quickly lost in the sea. Emerson.
The look of a king is itself a deed. Jean Paul.
The loom of Fortune weaves the fine and coarsest web. R. Southwell.
The loom of life never stops; and the pattern 40 which was weaving when the sun went down in the evening is weaving when it comes up to-morrow. Ward Beecher.
The Lord bestoweth his blessings where he findeth the vessels empty. Thomas à Kempis.
The Lord gave, and the Lord taketh away: blessed be the name of the Lord. Bible.
The Lord is a buckler to all that trust in him. Bible.
The Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed. Bible.
The Lord will not suffer the soul of the 45 righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked. Bible.
The loss of territory, or of a wise and virtuous servant, is a great loss, ... for servants are not easily to be found. Hitopadesa.
The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord. Bible.
The love of country produces good manners, and good manners also love of country. The less we satisfy our particular passions, the more we leave to our general. Montesquieu.
The love of gain never made a painter; but it has marred many. Washington Allston.
The love of God is broader than the measure 50 of man's mind. F. W. Faber.
The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. Hazlitt.
The love of money is the root of all evil. St. Paul.
The love season is the carnival of egoism, and it brings the touchstone to our natures. George Meredith.
The lover has more senses and finer senses than others. Emerson.
The lover, / Sighing like a furnace, with a 5 woeful ballad / Made to his mistress' eyebrow. As You Like It, ii. 7.
The lower a man descends in his love, the higher he lifts his life. W. R. Alger.
The lower has oftentimes to be with sorrow sacrificed to the higher duties of the soul. Ed.
The lower nature must always be denied when you are trying to rise to a higher sphere. Ward Beecher.
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, / Are of imagination all compact. Mid. N.'s Dream, v. 1.
The lust of fame is the last that a wise man 10 shakes off. Tac.
The lyric poet may drink wine and live generously, but the epic poet, who shall sing of the gods and their descent unto men, must drink water out of a wooden bowl. Emerson.
The magic of the pen lies in the concentration of your thoughts upon one object. G. H. Lewes.
The magic power of love consists in its ennobling whatever its breath touches, like the sun whose golden ray transmutes even thunderclouds into gold. Grillparzer.
The main enterprise of the world for splendour, for extent, is the upbuilding of a man. Emerson.
The majority have no other reason for their 15 opinions than that they are the fashion. Johnson.
The make-weight! The make-weight! which fate throws into the balance for us at every happiness! It requires much courage not to be down-hearted in this world. Goethe.
The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter. Goldsmith.
The man at the head of the house can mar the pleasure of the household; but he cannot make it. That must rest with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege. Helps.
The man comes before the citizen, and our future is greater than both. Jean Paul.
The man is only half himself, the other half 20 is his expression. Emerson.
The man makes the circumstances, and is spiritually as well as economically the artificer of his own fortune, but the man's circumstances are the element he is appointed to live and work in; so that in a no less genuine sense it can be said circumstances make the man. Carlyle.
The man of consequence and fashion shall richly repay a deed of kindness with a nod and a smile, or a hearty shake of the hand; while a poor fellow labours under a sense of gratitude, which, like copper coin, though it loads the bearer, is yet of small account in the currency and commerce of the world. Burns.
The man of genius can be more easily misinstructed (verbildet) and driven far more violently into false courses than a man of ordinary capability. Goethe.
The man of genius, like a dog with a bone, sits afar and retired off the road, hangs out no sign of refreshment for man and beast, but says, by all possible hints and signs, "I wish to be alone—good-bye—farewell!" Thoreau.
The man of good common-sense may, if he 25 pleases, in his particular station of life, most certainly be rich. Eustace Budgell.
The man of intellect at the top of affairs; this is the aim of all institutions and revolutions, if they have any. Carlyle.
The man of intellect is lost unless he unites energy of character to intellect. When we have the lantern of Diogenes we must have his staff. Chamfort.
The man of wisdom is the man of years. Young.
The man should make the hour, not this the man. Tennyson.
The man that blushes is not quite a brute. 30 Young.
The man that hath no music in himself, / Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, / Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; / The motions of his spirit are dull as night, / And his affections dark as Erebus: / Let no such man be trusted. Mer. of Ven., v. 1.
The man that makes a character makes foes. Young.
The man that stands by himself, the universe stands also. Emerson.
The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead. Bible.
The man to whom the universe does not reveal 35 directly what relation it has to him, whose heart does not tell him what he owes to himself and others—that man will scarcely learn it out of books; which generally do little more than give our errors names. Goethe.
The man truly proud thinks honours below his merit, and scorns to boast. Swift.
The man (Napoleon) was a divine missionary, though unconscious of it; and preached, through the cannon's throat, that great doctrine, "La carrière ouverte aux talens," "The tools to him that can handle them," which is our ultimate political evangel, wherein alone can liberty lie. Carlyle.
The man who can be nothing but serious or nothing but merry is but half a man. Leigh Hunt.
The man who can thank himself alone for the happiness he enjoys is truly blest. Goldsmith.
The man who cannot be a Christian in the 40 place where he is, cannot be a Christian anywhere. Ward Beecher.
The man who cannot blush, and who has no feelings of fear, has reached the acme of impudence. Menander.
The man who cannot enjoy his natural gifts in silence, and find his reward in the exercise of them, but must wait and hope for their recognition by others, must expect to reap only disappointment and vexation. Goethe.
The man who cannot laugh is not only fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; but his own whole life is already a treason and a stratagem. Carlyle.
The man who cannot sometimes endure his own company must have a bad heart or a deficient intellect. (?)
The man who cannot wonder, who does not habitually wonder (and worship), were he president of innumerable royal societies, and carried the whole "Méchanique Céleste" and Hegel's Philosophy, and the epitome of all laboratories and observatories with their results, in his single head, is but a pair of spectacles behind which there is no eye. Carlyle.
The man who does not know when to die, does not know how to live. Ruskin.
The man who does not learn to live while he is 5 getting a living is a poorer man after his wealth is won than he was before. J. G. Holland.
The man who fears not death will start at no shadows. Gr. Pr.
The man who has imagination without learning has wings without feet. Pr.
The man who has no enemies has no following. Donn Piatt.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like a potato,—the only good belonging to him is underground. Sir Thomas Overbury.
The man who in this world can keep the whiteness 10 of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other. Alex. Smith.
The man who in wavering times is inclined to be wavering only increases the evil, and spreads it wider and wider; but the man of firm decision fashions the universe. Goethe.
The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Amiel.
The man who invented "Ifs" and "Buts" must have first made gold out of straw choppings. G. A. Bürger.
The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue. Cic.
The man who is born with a talent which he 15 is meant to use, finds his greatest happiness in using it. Goethe.
The man who is in a hurry to see the full effects of his own tillage must cultivate annuals, and not forest trees. Whately.
The man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is only a vagabond. Goldsmith.
The man who lives by hope will die by despair. It. Pr.
The man who pauses in his honesty wants little of a villain. H. Martyn.
The man who small things scorns will next, / 20 By things still smaller be perplexed. Goethe.
The man who will live above his present circumstances is in great danger of living in a little time much beneath them, or, as the Italian proverb says, "The man who lives by hope will die by despair." Addison.
The man who works at home helps society at large with somewhat more of certainty than he who devotes himself to charities. Emerson.
The man who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience. Schopenhauer.
The man whom grown-up people love, children love still more. Jean Paul.
The manifestation of one's own superiority 25 may render the purchase too dear, by being bought at the terrible price of our neighbour's dislike. Lover.
The manners of the ill-mannered are never so odious, unbearable, exasperating, as they are to their own nearest kindred. P. G. Hamerton.
The many still must labour for the one! It is Nature's doom. Byron.
The march of intellect is proceeding at quick time; and if its progress be not accompanied by a corresponding improvement in morals and religion, the faster it proceeds, with the more violence will you be hurried down the road to ruin. Southey.
The march of intellect, which licks all the world into shape, has reached even the devil. Goethe.
The march of the human mind is slow. Burke. 30
The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does not make a speech; he takes a low business-tone, avoids all brag, is nobody, dresses plainly, promises not at all, performs much, speaks in monosyllables, hugs his fact. He calls his employment by its lowest name, and so takes from evil tongues their sharpest weapon. Emerson.
The marks of attachment, even to a fault, are an accumulation of virtues. Hitopadesa.
The mass of men consulted at hustings, upon any high matter whatsoever, is as ugly an exhibition of human study as the world sees. Carlyle.
The master of slaves has seldom the soul of a man. Henry Mackenzie.
The master-spirit who can rule the storm is 35 great; but he is much greater who can both raise and rule it. E. L. Magoon.
The mastiff is quiet while curs are yelping. Pr.
The material wealth of a country is the portion of its possessions which feeds and educates good men and women in it. Ruskin.
The May of our life blooms once, and not again. Schiller.
The mean of true valour lies between the extremes of cowardice and rashness. Cervantes.
The means that Heaven yields must be embraced, 40 / And not neglected. Rich. II., iii. 2.
The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to his opinion twenty years later. Emerson.
The mechanical occupations of man, the watching any object, as it were, coming into existence by manual labour, is a very pleasant way of passing one's time, but our own activity is at the moment nil. It is almost the same as with smoking tobacco. Goethe.
The meditative heart / Attends the warning of each day and hour, / And practises in secret every virtue. Goethe.
The meek shall inherit the earth. Jesus.
The memory of absent friends becomes dimmed, although not effaced by time. The distractions of our life, acquaintance with fresh objects, in short, every change in our condition, works upon our hearts as dust and smoke upon a painting, making the finely drawn lines quite imperceptible, whilst one does not know how it happens. Goethe.
The memory of the just is blessed. Bible.
The men I am afraid of are the men who believe everything, subscribe to everything, and vote for everything. Bp. Shipley.
The merchant who was at first busy in acquiring money ceases to grow richer from the time when he makes it his business only to count it. Johnson.
The merciful shall obtain mercy. Jesus. 5
The mere existence and necessity of a philosophy is an evil. Carlyle.
The mere reality of life would be inconceivably poor without the charm of fancy, which brings in its bosom, no doubt, as many vain fears as idle hopes, but lends much oftener to the illusions it calls up a gay flattering hue than one which inspires terror. W. v. Humboldt.
The merit of originality is not novelty, it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another. Carlyle.
The meteor flag of England, / Shall yet terrific burn, / Till danger's troubled night depart, / And the star of peace return. Campbell.
The milder virtues subsist only in co-existence 10 with the severer, and the heart which pronounces a blessing on the poor and the merciful utters with the same breath sentence of excommunication against all who are proud-spirited and cruel-hearted. Ed.
The mill will never grind with the water that is past. Pr.
The mind becomes bankrupt under too large obligations. All additional benefits lessen every hope of future returns, and bar up every avenue that leads to tenderness. Goldsmith.
The mind can make / Substance, and people planets of its own / With beings brighter than have been, and give / A breath to forms that can outlive all flesh. Byron.
The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight. Joubert.
The mind content both crown and kingdom is. 15 Robert Greene.
The mind goes antagonising on, and never prospers but by fits. Emerson.
The mind is enlarged and elevated by mere purposes, though they end as they begin by airy contemplation. Johnson.
The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress. Goldsmith.
The mind is its own place, and in itself / Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. Milton.
The mind must not yield to the body. Goethe. 20
The mind of a fool is empty; and everything is empty where there is poverty. Hitopadesa.
The mind of a good man doth not alter, even when he is in distress; the waters of the ocean are not to be heated by a torch of straw. Hitopadesa.
The mind of man is no inert receptacle of knowledge, but absorbs and incorporates into its own constitution the ideas which it receives. H. Lecky.
The mind of the greatest man on earth is not so independent of circumstances as not to feel inconvenienced by the merest buzzing noise about him; it does not need the report of a cannon to disturb his thoughts. The creaking of a vane or a pulley is quite enough. Do not wonder that he reasons ill just now; a fly is buzzing by his ear; it is quite enough to unfit him for giving good counsel. Pascal.
The mind profits by the wrecks of every 25 passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone. Bulwer Lytton.
The mind that made the world is not one mind, but the mind. Emerson.
The minds of some of our statesmen, like the pupil of the human eye, contract themselves the more the stronger light there is shed upon them. Moore.
The mind's the standard of the man. Watts.
The miracles which Christ and His disciples wrought were the scaffolding, not the building. The scaffolding is removed as soon as the building is finished. Lessing.
The miser is as much in want of that which he 30 has as of that which he has not. Pub. Syr.
The miser is niggardly in death; two glances he casts on his coffin and a thousand with dismay on his anxiously-guarded treasures. Gellert.
The miserable have no other medicine, / But only hope. Meas. for Meas., iii. 1.
The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated. Johnson.
The misfortune in the state is that nobody can enjoy life in peace, but that everybody must govern; and in art, that nobody will enjoy what has been produced, but that every one wants to reproduce on his own account. Goethe.
The mixtures of spiritual chemistry refuse to 35 be analysed. Emerson.
The mob has many heads, but no brains. Pr.
The mob is a monster, with the hands of Briareus but the head of Polyphemus,—strong to execute, but blind to perceive. Colton.
The mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is through its nose, it will even dance under your cudgel; but should the ring slip and you lose your hold, the brute will turn and rend you. Jane Porter.
(The mob is) the scum that rises uppermost when the nation boils. Dryden.
The modest virgin, the prudent wife, or the 40 careful matron, are much more serviceable in life than petticoated philosophers, blustering heroines, or virago queens. Goldsmith.
The moment an ill can be patiently borne, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain. Ward Beecher.
The moment must be pregnant and sufficient to itself if it is to become a worthy segment of time and eternity. Goethe.
The moment there is a bargain over the pottage the family relation is dissolved. Ruskin.
The moment which is the cradle of the future is also the grave of the past. Grillparzer.
The moon doth not withhold the light even from the cottage of a Chandala (outcast). Hitopadesa.
The moon that shone in Paradise. Hans Andersen.
The moral difference between a man and a beast is, that the one acts primarily for use, and the other for pleasure. Ruskin.
The morality of a king is not to be measured 5 by vulgar rules. There are faults which do him honour, and virtues that disgrace him. Junius.
The morality of girls is custom, not principle. Jean Paul.
The morality of some people is in remnants—never enough to make a coat. Joubert.
The more a man has in himself the less he will want from other people—the less, indeed, other people can be to him. Schopenhauer.
The more a man lives, the more he suffers. Amiel.
The more angels the more room. Swedenborg. 10
The more business a man has to do, the more he is able to accomplish; for he learns to economise his time. Judge Hale.
The more bustling the streets become, the more quietly one moves. Goethe.
The more fair and crystal is the sky, / The uglier seem the clouds that in it fly. Rich. II., i. 1.
The more generally persons are pleasing, the less profoundly do they please. H. Beyle.
The more haste, the worse speed. Pr. 15
The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint. Lavater.
The more laws you accept, the fewer penalties you will have to endure, and the fewer punishments to enforce. Ruskin.
The more men refine upon pleasure, the less will they indulge in excesses of any kind. Hume.