The more of the solid there is in a man, the less does he act the balloon. Spurgeon.
The more powerful the obstacle, the more 20 glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honour which set off virtue. Molière.
The more profound the thought, the more burdensome. Emerson.
The more riches a fool has, the greater fool he is. Anon.
The more sand has escaped from the hour-glass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. Jean Paul.
The more sinful a man feels himself, the more Christian he is. Novalis.
The more the soul admires, the more it is 25 exalted. Mme. de Krudener.
The more thou feelest thyself to be a man, so much the more dost thou resemble the gods. Goethe.
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have. Hazlitt.
The more we have read, the more we have learned, the more we have meditated, the better conditioned we are to affirm that we know nothing. Voltaire.
The more we know, the greater our thirst for knowledge. The water-lily, in the midst of waters, opens its leaves and expands its petals at the first pattering of showers, and rejoices in the raindrops with a quicker sympathy than the parched shrub in a sandy desert. Coleridge.
The more we work, the more we shall be 30 trodden down. Fr. Peasant Pr.
The more weakness, the more falsehood; strength goes straight; every cannon-ball that has in it hollows and holes goes crooked. Weaklings must lie. Jean Paul.
The more you are talked about, the less powerful you are. Disraeli.
The morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy. Bible.
The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most. Emerson.
The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a 35 clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament. Bovee.
The most certain sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness. Montaigne.
The most civilised are as near to barbarism as the most polished steel to rust. Nations, like metals, have only a superficial brilliancy. Rivarol.
The most cursory observation shows that a degree of reserve adds vastly to the latent force of character. Tuckerman.
The most delightful letter does not possess a hundredth part of the charm of a conversation. Goethe.
The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself. 40 Thales.
The most elevated sensation of music arises from a confused perception of ideal or visionary beauty and rapture, which is sufficiently perceivable to fire the imagination, but not clear enough to become an object of knowledge. James Usher.
The most enthusiastic Evangelicals do not preach a gospel, but keep describing how it should and might be preached; to awaken the sacred fire of faith, as by a sacred contagion, is not their endeavour, but, at most, to describe how faith shows and acts, and scientifically distinguish true faith from false. Carlyle in 1831.
The most enthusiastic mystics were women. Jean Paul.
The most essential fact about a man is the constitution of his consciousness. Schopenhauer.
The most finished man of the world is he who 45 is never irresolute and never in a hurry. Schopenhauer.
The most gladsome thing in the world is that few of us fall very low; the saddest that, with such capabilities, we seldom rise high. J. M. Barrie.
The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and the beginning of his life. Goethe.
The most learned are often the most narrow-minded men. Hazlitt.
The most important moment in man's life is certainly not the last. Jean Paul.
The most important part of education is right 50 training in the nursery. Plato.
The most important period in the life of an individual is that of his development. Later on, commences his conflict with the world, and this is of interest only so far as anything grows out of it. Goethe.
The most important thing is to learn to rule one's self. Goethe.
The most original modern authors are not so because they advance what is new, but simply because they know how to put what they have to say as if it had never been said before. Goethe.
The most objectionable people are the quibbling investigators and the crotchety theorists; their endeavours are petty and complicated, their hypotheses abstruse and strange. Goethe.
The most part of all the misery and mischief, 5 of all that is denominated evil, in the world, arises from the face that men are too remiss to get a proper knowledge of their aims, and when they do know them, to work intensely in attaining them. Goethe.
The most significant feature in the history of an epoch is the manner it has of welcoming a great man. Carlyle.
The most sorrowful occurrence often, through the hand of Providence, takes the most favourable turn for our happiness; the succession of fortune and misfortune in life is intertwined like sleep and waking, neither without the other, and one for the sake of the other. Goethe.
The most unhappy and frail of all creatures is man, and yet he is the proudest. Montaigne.
The most universal quality is diversity. Montaigne.
The most virtuous of all men is he that contents 10 himself with being virtuous without seeking to appear so. Plato.
The mother-grace of all the graces is Christian good-will. Ward Beecher.
The mother of the useful arts is necessity; that of the fine arts is luxury. For father, the former has intellect; the latter, genius, which itself is a kind of luxury. Schopenhauer.
The mother's heart is always with her children. Pr.
The mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man. George Eliot.
The motto of chivalry is also the motto of 15 wisdom; to serve all and love but one. Balzac.
The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked. Bible.
The movement of sound, such as will reach the soul for the education of it in virtue, we call Music. Plato.
The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great, that everything must soon be reduced to extracts. Voltaire.
The multiplying villanies of natures / Do swarm upon him. Macb., i. 2.
The multitude have no habit of self-reliance 20 or original action. Emerson.
The multitude is always in the wrong. Earl of Roscommon.
The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise. Cicero.
The multitude unawed is insolent; once seized with fear, contemptible and vain. Mallet.
The multitude which does not reduce itself to unity is confusion; the unity which does not depend upon the multitude is tyranny. Pascal.
The Muses (daughters of Memory) refresh us 25 in our toilsome course with sweet remembrances. Novalis.
The music in my heart I bore / Long after it was heard no more. Wordsworth.
The mustard-seed of thought is a pregnant treasury of vast results. Like the germ in the Egyptian tombs, its vitality never perishes; and its fruit will spring up after it has been buried for long ages. Chapin.
The mystery of a person is ever divine to him that has a sense for the godlike. Carlyle.
The nation is governed by all that has tongue in the nation: democracy is virtually there. Carlyle.
The nation is worth nothing which does not 30 joyfully stake its all on its honour. Schiller.
The native land of the poet's poetic powers and poetic action is the good, noble, and beautiful, which is confined to no particular province or country, and which he seizes upon and forms wherever he finds it. Therein is he like the eagle. Goethe.
The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind. Washington Irving.
The natural qualities pass over all others and mount upon the head. Hitopadesa.
The near explains the far. Emerson.
The nearer the church the farther from God. Pr. 35
The nearer we approach the goal of life, the better we begin to understand the true value of our existence, and the real weight of our opinions. Burke.
The necessities of my heart always give the cold philosophisings the lie. Burns.
The necessities of things are sterner stuff than the hopes of men. Disraeli.
The neck on which diamonds might have worthily sparkled will look less tempting when the biting winter has hung icicles there for gems. S. Lover.
The negation of will and desire is the only 40 road to deliverance. Schopenhauer.
The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blenches, the thought that never wanders—these are the masters of victory. Burke.
The nerves, they are the man. Cabanis.
The never-absent mop in one hand, and yet no effects of it visible anywhere. Thoreau.
The new man is always in a new time, under new conditions; his course is the fac-simile of no prior one, but is by its nature original. Carlyle.
The next dreadful thing to a battle lost is a 45 battle won. Wellington.
The night cometh, when no man can work. Jesus.
The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. St. Paul.
The night is for the day, but the day is not for the night. Emerson.
The night is long that never finds the day. Macb., iv. 2.
The night shows stars and women in a better light. Byron.
The nobility of life is work. We live in a working world. The lazy and idle man does not count in the plan of campaign. "My Father worketh hitherto, and I work." Let that text be enough. Prof. Blackie, to young men.
The noble character at certain moments may resign himself to his emotions; the well-bred, never. Goethe.
The noble ones who have lived among us have not left us; they only truly came to us when they departed, and they were then first kissed by us into immortality. Ed.
The nobler and more perfect a thing is, the 5 slower it is in attaining maturity. Schopenhauer.
The nobler the virtue is, the more eager and generous resolution do thou express of attaining to it. Thomas à Kempis.
The noblest charms of music, though real and affecting, seem too confused and fluid to be collected into a distinct idea. Harmony is always understood by the crowd, and almost always mistaken by musicians. James Usher.
The noblest mind the best contentment hath. Spenser.
The noblest vengeance is to forgive. Pr.
The noblest works and foundations have proceeded 10 from childless men, which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed. Bacon.
The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue. Bible.
The Now is an atom of sand, / And the Near is a perishing clod; / But Afar is as Fairy Land, / And beyond is the bosom of God. Lord Lytton.
The nurse's bread is sweeter than the mother's cake. Fris. Pr.
The oak first announces itself when, with far-sounding crash, it falls. Carlyle.
The object of all true policy and true economy 15 is, the utmost multitude of good men on every given space of ground. Ruskin.
The object of art is to crystallise emotion into thought and then to fix it in form. Delsarte.
The object of preaching is constantly to remind mankind of what mankind are constantly forgetting; not to supply the defects of human intelligence, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions. Sydney Smith.
The object of reading is not to dip into everything that even wise men have ever written. John Morley.
The object of the poet is, and must be, to "instruct by pleasing," yet not by pleasing this man and that man; only by pleasing man, by speaking to the pure nature of man, can any real "instruction," in this sense, be conveyed. Carlyle.
The object of the politician is expediency, 20 and his duty is to adapt his measures to the often crude, undeveloped, and vacillating conception of the nation. The object, on the other hand, of the philosopher is truth, and his duty is to push every principle which he believes to be true to its legitimate consequences, regardless of the results that may follow. H. Lecky.
The object of true religion should be to impress the principles of morality deeply in the soul. Leibnitz.
The obligation of veracity may be made out from the direct ill consequences of lying to social happiness. Paley.
The obscure is what transcends us, and what imposes itself upon us by transcending us. Renan.
The ocean beats against the stern dumb shore, / The stormy passion of its mighty heart. L. C. Moulton.
The ocean may have bounds. Hitopadesa. 25
The offender never pardons. George Herbert.
The old fox is caught at last. Pr.
The old gloomy cathedrals were good, but the great blue dome that hangs over all is better than any Cologne one. Carlyle.
The old never dies till this happen, till all the soul of good that was in it get itself transfused into the practical new. Carlyle.
The old order changeth, yielding place to 30 new, / And God fulfils himself in many ways, / Lest one good custom should corrupt the world. Tennyson.
The old prose writers wrote as if they were speaking to an audience; while among us prose is invariably written for the eye alone. Niebuhr.
The older we get the more we must limit ourselves, if we wish to be active. Goethe.
The oldest, and indeed only true, order of nobility known under the stars, is that of just men and sons of God, in opposition to unjust men and sons of Belial, which latter indeed are second oldest, and yet a very unvenerable order. Carlyle.
The oldest in years is not always the most experienced, and he who has suffered most has not always the best manners. Bodenstedt.
The one enemy we have in this universe is 35 stupidity, darkness of mind; of which darkness there are many sources, every sin a source, and probably self-conceit the chief source. Carlyle.
The one essential point (in regard to a wrong) is to know that it is wrong; how to get out of it you can decide afterwards at your leisure. Ruskin.
The one exclusive sign of a thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. Arist.
The one intolerable sort of slavery, over which the very gods weep, is the slavery of the strong to the weak; of the great and noble-minded to the small and mean; the slavery of wisdom to folly. Carlyle.
The one prudence in life is concentration. Emerson.
The one thing of value in the world is the 40 active soul. Emerson.
The one unhappiness of a man is that he cannot work, that he cannot get his destiny as a man fulfilled. Carlyle.
The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself. Mrs. Jamieson.
The only disadvantage of an honest heart is its credulity. Sir P. Sidney.
The only evolution of any really human interest, and worthy of any human regard, is the evolution that springs from resolution and the birth of freedom in the self-conscious soul. Ed.
The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. George Eliot.
The only faith that wears well, and holds its colour in all weathers, is that which is woven of conviction, and set with the sharp mordant of experience. Lowell.
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. Locke.
The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of this, or impede their efforts to obtain it. J. S. Mill.
The only genuine Romance for grown persons 5 is Reality. Carlyle.
The only gift is a portion of thyself. Emerson.
The only happiness a brave man ever troubled himself with asking much about was, happiness enough to get his work done. Carlyle.
The only liberty that is valuable is a liberty connected with order. Burke.
The only means of overcoming adversities is a fresh activity. Goethe.
The only medicine which does women more 10 good than harm is dress. Jean Paul.
The only ornament of old age is virtue. Amyot.
The only poetry is history, could we tell it aright. Carlyle.
The only point now is what a man weighs in the scale of humanity; all the rest is nought. A coat with a star, and a chariot with six horses, at all events, imposes on the rudest multitude only, and scarcely that. Goethe.
The only progress which is really effective depends, not upon the bounty of Nature, but upon the energy of man. Buckle.
The only satisfaction of the will is that it 15 encounters with no resistance. Schopenhauer.
The only school of genuine moral sentiment is society between equals. J. S. Mill.
The only serious and formidable thing in Nature is will. Emerson.
The only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion. Emerson.
The only solid instruction is that which the pupil brings from his own depths; the true instruction is not that which transmits notions wholly formed, but that which renders him capable of forming for himself good opinions. Degerando.
The only substance properly so called is the 20 soul. Amiel.
The only teller of news is the poet. Emerson.
The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is. Emerson.
The only true principle for humanity is justice. Amiel.
The only true source of politeness is consideration. Simms.
The only victory over love is flight. Napoleon. 25
The only way to have a friend is to be one. Emerson.
The only way to understand the difficult parts of the Bible is first to read and obey the easy ones. Ruskin.
The opinions of men are as many and as different as their persons; the greatest diligence and most prudent conduct can never please them all. Thomas à Kempis.
The opportunity to do mischief is found a hundred times a day, and that of doing good once a year. Voltaire.
The ordinary man places life's happiness in 30 things external to him; his centre of gravity is not in himself. Schopenhauer.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. Emerson.
The outer passes away; the inmost is the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever. Carlyle.
The over-curious are not over-wise. Massinger.
The owl of ignorance lays the egg of pride. Pr.
The owl sees the sunshine and winks in its 35 nest. Dr. Walter Smith.
The ox lies still while the geese are hissing. Pr.
The pain of an unfilled wish is small in comparison with that of repentance; for the one stands in presence of the vast open future, whilst the other has the irrevocable past closed behind it. Schopenhauer.
The pain that any one actually feels is still of all others the worst. Locke.
The pain which conscience gives the man who has already done wrong is soon got over. Conscience is a coward; and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent, it seldom has justice enough to accuse. Goldsmith.
The pains of power are real, its pleasures are 40 imaginary. Colton.
The painful warrior famousèd for fight, / After a thousand victories, once foil'd, / Is from the books of honour razèd quite, / And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd. Shakespeare.
The painter should grind his own colours; the architect work in the mason's yard with his men; the master-manufacturer be himself a more skilful operator than any man in his mills; and the distinction between one man and another be only in experience and skill, and the authority and wealth which these must naturally and justly obtain. Ruskin.
The parasite courtier in the palace is the legitimate father of the tyrant. Brougham.
The parcel of books, if they are well chosen, ... awakens within us the diviner mind, and rouses us to a consciousness of what is best in others and ourselves. John Morley.
The pardon of an offence must, as a benefit 45 conferred, put the offender under an obligation; and thus direct advantage at once accrues by heaping coals of fire on the head. Goethe.
The particular is the universal seen under special limitations. Goethe.
The passions are only exaggerated vices or virtues. Goethe.
The passions are the only orators who never fail to persuade. La Roche.
The passions, by grace of the supernal and also of the infernal powers (for both have a hand in it), can never fail us. Carlyle.
The passions may be likened to blood horses, 50 that need training and the curb only to enable them when they carry to achieve most glorious triumphs. Simms.
The passions of mankind are partly protective, partly beneficent, like the chaff and grain of the corn; but none without their use, none without nobleness when seen in balanced unity with the rest of the spirit which they are charged to defend. Ruskin.
The passions rise higher at domestic than at imperial tragedies. Johnson.
The past alone is eternal and unchangeable like death, and yet at the same time warm and joy-giving like life. W. von Humboldt.
The past and future are veiled; but the past wears the widow's veil, the future the virgin's. Jean Paul.
The past at least is secure. Daniel Webster.
The past is all holy to us; the dead are all 5 holy; even they that were base and wicked when alive. Carlyle.
The past is an unfathomable depth, / Beyond the span of thought; 'tis an elapse / Which hath no mensuration, but hath been / For ever and for ever. H. Kirke White.
The past is to us a book sealed with seven seals, i.e., which no one need hope fully to open. Goethe.
The path of falsehood is a perplexing maze. Blair.
The path of nature is indeed a narrow one, and it is only the immortals that seek it, and, when they find it, they do not find themselves cramped therein. Lowell.
The path of sorrow, and that path alone, / 10 Leads to the land where sorrow is unknown. Cowper.
The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day. Bible.
The path of things is silent. Emerson.
The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Gray.
The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little circumstances. Gibbon.
The peace of heaven is theirs who lift their 15 swords / In such a just and charitable war. King John, ii. 1.
The peacemakers shall be called the children of God. Jesus.
The peevish, the niggard, the dissatisfied, the passionate, the suspicious, and those who live upon others' means, are for ever unhappy. Hitopadesa.
The pen is mightier than the sword. Bulwer Lytton.
The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Bacon.
The people have the right to murmur, but they 20 have also the right to be violent, and their silence is the lesson of kings. Jean de Beauvais.
The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world. Disraeli.
The people of this world having been once deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself. Hitopadesa.
The people once belonged to the kings; now the kings belong to the people. Heine.
The perfect flower of religion opens in the soul only when all self-seeking is abandoned. John Burroughs.
The perfection of art is to conceal art. Quinct. 25
The perfection of conversation is not to play a regular sonata, but, like the Æolian harp, to await the inspiration of the passing breeze. Burke.
The perfection of spiritual virtue lies in being always all there, a whole man present in every movement and moment. Ed.
The period of faith must alternate with the period of denial; the vernal growth, the summer luxuriance of all opinions, spiritual representations and creations must be followed by, and again follow, the autumnal decay, the winter dissolution. Carlyle.
The persistent aspirations of the human race are to society what the compass is to the ship. It sees not the shore, but it guides to it. Lamartine.
The person who in company should pretend 30 to be wiser than others, I am apt to regard as illiterate and ill-bred. Goldsmith.
The person who is contented to be often obliged ought not to be obliged at all. Goldsmith.
The person whose clothes are extremely fine I am too apt to consider as not being possessed of any superiority of fortune, but resembling those Indians who were found to wear all the gold they have in the world in a bob at the nose. Goldsmith.
The pest of society is egotists. There are dull and bright, sacred and profane, coarse and fine egotists. It is a disease that, like influenza, falls on all constitutions. Emerson.
The philosopher is he to whom the highest has descended, and the lowest has mounted up; who is the equal and kindly brother of all. Carlyle.
The philosopher must station himself in the 35 middle. Goethe.
The philosophy of grumbling is great, but not intricate ... the proof that there is something wrong, and that a sentient human being is aware of it. John Wagstaffe.
The philosophy of one century is the common-sense of the next. Ward Beecher.
The philosophy of six thousand years has not searched the chambers and magazines of the soul. Emerson.
The phœnix, Hope, can wing her flight / Through the vast deserts of the skies, / And still defying fortune's spite, / Revive and from her ashes rise. Cervantes.
The pillow is a dumb sibyl. Gracian. 40
The pilot of the Galilean lake; / Two massy keys he bore, of metals twain, / The golden opes, the iron shuts amain. Milton.
The pious and just honouring of ourselves may be thought the radical moisture and fountain-head from whence every laudable and worthy enterprise issues forth. Milton.
The pious have always a more intimate connection with each other than the wicked, though externally the relationship may not always prosper as well. Goethe.
The pious-hearted are cared for by the gods; and by men honoured and worshipped as divinities, when once they have by death stripped off for ever their week-day garments. Ed. after Ovid.
The pitcher goes so often to the water that it 45 comes home broken at last. Pr.
The place once trodden by a good man is hallowed. After a hundred years his word and actions ring in the ears of his descendants. Goethe.
The plainer the dress, with greater lustre does beauty appear. Lord Halifax.
The plainest man that can convince a woman that he is really in love with her, has done more to make her in love with him than the handsomest man, if he can produce no such conviction. For the love of woman is a shoot, not a seed, and flourishes most vigorously only when ingrafted on that love which is rooted in the breast of another. Colton.
The plea of ignorance will never take away our responsibilities. Ruskin.
The pleasure of despising, at all times and in itself a dangerous luxury, is much safer after the toil of examining than before it. Carlyle.
The pleasure of talking is the inextinguishable passion of woman, coeval with the act of breathing. Le Sage.
The pleasure-seeker is not the pleasure-finder; 5 those are the happiest men who think least about happiness. J. C. Sharp.
The pleasure we feel in criticising robs us of that of being deeply moved by very beautiful things. La Bruyère.
The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it, and it is full only as the obedience is entire. Theodore T. Murger.
The pleasure which strikes the soul must be derived from the beauty and congruity it sees or conceives in those things which the sight or imagination lay before it. Cervantes.
The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them, and they make us despair in losing them. Mme. de Lambert.
The plenty of the poorest place is too great; 10 the harvest cannot be gathered. Emerson.
The poet bestrides the clouds, the wise man looks up at them. Arliss.
The poet can never have far to seek for a subject; for him the ideal world is not remote from the actual, but under it and within it; and he is a poet precisely because he can discern it there. Carlyle.
The poet must believe in his poetry. The fault of our popular poetry is that it is not sincere. Emerson.
The poet must find all within himself while he is left in the lurch by all without. Goethe.
The poet must live wholly for himself, wholly 15 in the objects that delight him. Goethe.
The poet should seize the particular, and he should, if there is anything sound in it, thus represent the universal. Goethe.
The poet's delicate ear hears the far-off whispers of eternity, which coarser souls must travel towards for scores of years before their dull sense is touched by them. Holmes.
The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, / Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven, / And, as imagination bodies forth / The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen / Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing / A local habitation and a name. Mid. N.'s Dream, v. 1.
The poet's heart is an unlighted torch, which gives no help to his footsteps till love has touched it with flame. Lowell.
The poetry of the ancients was that of possession, 20 ours is that of aspiration; the former stands fast on the soil of the present, the latter hovers between memory and anticipation. Schlegel.
The point is not that men should have a great many books, but that they should have the right ones, and that they should use those that they have. John Morley.
The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself. Nathaniel Lee.
The poor are only they who feel poor. Emerson.
The poor is hated even of his own neighbour. Bible.
The poor man's budget is full of schemes. 25 Pr.
The poor wren, / The most diminutive of birds, will fight, / Her young ones in her nest, against the owl. Macb., iv. 2.
The poor ye have always with you, but me ye have not always. Jesus.
The poorer life or the rich one are but the larger or smaller (very little smaller) letters in which we write the apophthegms and golden sayings of life. Carlyle.
The poorest day that passes over us is the conflux of two eternities; it is made-up of currents that issue from the remotest part, and flow onwards into the remotest future. Carlyle.
The poorest human soul is infinite in wishes, 30 and the infinite universe was not made for one, but for all. Carlyle.
The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the crown. It may be frail, the wind may blow through it, the storm may enter, the rain may enter, but the king of England cannot enter! all his force dares not cross the threshold of that ruined tenement. Chatham.
The popular ear weighs what you are, not what you were. Quarles.
The popular man stands on our own level, or a hairsbreadth higher; and shows us a truth we can see without shifting our present intellectual position. The original man stands above us, and wishes to wrench us from our old fixtures, and elevate us to a higher and clearer level. Carlyle.
The population of the world is a conditional population; not the best, but the best that could live now. Emerson.
The post of honour is the post of difficulty, 35 the post of danger,—of death, if difficulty be not overcome. Carlyle.
The power of every great people, as of every living tree, depends on its not effacing, but confirming and concluding the labours of its ancestors. Ruskin.
The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak. Hare.
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence and merit. (?)
The power of observing life is rare, that of drawing lessons from it rarer, and that of condensing the lesson in a pointed sentence is rarest of all. John Morley.
The power, whether of painter or poet, to describe 40 rightly what he calls an ideal thing depends upon its being to him not an ideal but a real thing. No man ever did or ever will work well, but either from actual sight or sight of faith. Ruskin.
The practice of faith and obedience to some of our fellow-creatures is the alphabet by which we learn the higher obedience to heaven; and it is not only needful to the prosperity of all noble united action, but essential to the happiness of all noble living spirits. Ruskin.
The practice of submission to the authority of one whom one recognises as greater than one's self outweighs the chance of occasional mistake. Froude.
The praise that comes of love does not make us vain, but humble rather. J. M. Barrie.
The praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer. Gurnall.
The precepts of philosophy effect not the least 5 benefit to one confirmed in fear. Hitopadesa.
The preparations of the heart in man and the answer of the tongue is from the Lord. Bible.
The presence of the Eternal is a presence that articulates and imparts itself in time. Ed.
The presence of the wretched is a burden to the happy; and alas! the happy still more so to the wretched. Goethe.
The present holds in it both the whole past and the whole future. Carlyle.
The present is the only reality and the only 10 certainty. Schopenhauer.
The present moment is a potent divinity. Goethe.
The present moment is our ain, / The neist we never saw. Burns.
The present time is not priest-ridden, but press-ridden. Longfellow.
The present time, youngest born of eternity, child and heir of all the past times with their good and evil, and parent of all the future, is ever a new era to the thinking man. Carlyle.
The press beginneth to be an oppression of the 15 land. Fuller.
The press is a mill which grinds all that is put into its hopper. Bryant.
The press is the foe of rhetoric, but the friend of reason. Colton.
The price of wisdom is above rubies. Bible.
The priest loves his flock, but the lambs more than the wethers. Ger. Pr.
The primal condition of virtue is that it shall 20 not know of, or believe in, any blessed islands till it find them, it may be, in due time. Ruskin.
The primal duties shine aloft, like stars; / The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, / Are scattered at the feet of man, like flowers. Wordsworth.
The primary vocation of man is a life of activity. Goethe.
The prince as actual ruler is always limited (beschränkt) by public opinion; but what is there to limit public opinion if it holds sovereign sway? Stahl.
The principal part of faith is patience. George Macdonald.
The principal point of greatness in any state 25 is to have a race of military men. Bacon.
The prisoner is troubled that he cannot go whither he would, and he that is at large is troubled that he does not know whither to go. L'Estrange.
The prisoner's allowance is bread and water, but I had only the latter. Jean Paul, in his days of poverty.
The privilege of the country is to be alone, when we like. Marmontel.
The problem of life is to make the ideal real, and convert the divine at the summit of the mountain into the human at its base. C. H. Parkhurst.
The problem of philosophy is, for all that exists 30 conditionally, to find a ground unconditioned and absolute. Plato.
The prodigal robs his heir, the miser robs himself. La Bruyère.
The production of something, where nothing was before, is an act of greater energy than the expansion or decoration of the thing produced. Johnson.
The profession of riches without their possession leads to the worst form of poverty. Spurgeon.
The promise given was a necessity of the past; the word broken is a necessity of the present. Macchiavelli.
The Promised Land is the land where one is 35 not. Amiel.
The promises of God are yea and amen. Hammond.
The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value, is the best and safest course. Michael Angelo.
The promissory lies of great men are known by shouldering, hugging, squeezing, smiling, and bowing. Arbuthnott.
The proper confidant of a girl is her father. What she is not inclined to tell her father should be told to no one, and, in nine cases out of ten, not thought of by herself. Ruskin.
The proper Epic of this world is no longer 40 "Arms and the man," much less "Shirt frills and the man;" no, it is now "Tools and the man;" that, henceforth to all time is now our Epic. Carlyle.
The proper power of faith is to trust without evidence, not with evidence. Ruskin.
The proper reward of the good workman is to be "chosen." Ruskin.
The proper study of mankind is man. Pope.
The proper task of literature lies in the domain of belief. Carlyle.
The property of a man consists in (a) good 45 things, (b) goods which he has honestly got, and (c) goods he can skilfully use. Ruskin.
The prophet is the revealer of what we are to do; the poet, of what we are to love. The former too has an eye on what we are to love; how else shall he know what we are to do? Carlyle.
The prosperity of our neighbours in the end is our own, and the poverty of our neighbours becomes also in the end our own. Ruskin.
The protection of God cannot without sacrilege be invoked but in behalf of justice and right. Kossuth.
The proud man often is the mean. Tennyson.
The proudest boast of the most aspiring philosopher 50 is no more than that he provides his little playfellows the greatest pastime with the greatest innocence. Goldsmith.
The proverb says of the Genoese, that they have a sea without fish, lands without trees, and men without faith. Addison.
The proverbs of a nation furnish the index to its spirit and the results of its civilisation. J. G. Holland.
The providence of God has established such an order in the world, that of all which belongs to us, the least valuable parts can alone fall under the will of others. Bolingbroke.
The prudence of the best of hearts is often defeated by the tenderness of the best of hearts. Fielding.
The prudent man may direct a state, but it 5 is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it. Bulwer Lytton.
The prudent part is to propose remedies for the present evils, and provisions against future events. (?)
The public have neither shame nor gratitude. Hazlitt.
The public highways ought not to be occupied by people demonstrating that motion is impossible. Carlyle.
The public is a personality that knows everything and can do nothing. (?)
The public is the majority of a society. Johnson. 10
The public sense is in advance of private practice. Chapin.
The public? The public is just a great baby. Dr. Chalmers.
The pulpit only "teaches" to be honest; the market-place "trains" to over-reaching and fraud; and teaching has not a tithe of the efficiency of training. Horace Mann.
The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing. Voltaire.
The punishment which the wise suffer, who 15 refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men. Emerson.
The pure in heart shall see God. Jesus.
The purer the golden vessel the more readily is it bent; the higher worth of women is sooner lost than that of men. Jean Paul.
The purest treasure mortal times afford / Is spotless reputation; that away, / Men are but gilded loam or painted clay. Rich. II., i. 1.
The purse is the master-organ, soul's seat, and true pineal gland of the body social. Carlyle.
The pyramids, doting with age, have forgotten 20 the names of their founders. Fuller.
The quality of mercy is not strain'd; / It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven / Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest; / It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. / 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes / The throned monarch better than his crown. Mer. of Venice, iv. 1.
The quantity of books in a library is often a cloud of witnesses of the ignorance of the owner. Oxenstiern.
The quantity of sorrow a man has, does it not mean withal the quantity of sympathy he has, the quantity of faculty and victory he shall have? Our sorrow is the inverted image of our nobleness. Carlyle.
The quarrel toucheth none but us alone, / Betwixt ourselves let us decide it then. 1 Hen. VI., iv. 1.
The question is not at what door of fortune's 25 palace shall we enter in, but what doors does she open to us? Burns.
The question is not who is the most learned, but who is the best. Montaigne.
The question is this: is man an ape or angel? I, my lord, I am on the side of the angels. Disraeli at a Church Conference in Oxford, Bp. Wilberforce in the chair.
The question of education is for the modern world a question of life or death, a question on which depends the future. Renan.
The question of questions (for men and nations) is—not how far they are from heaven, but whether they are going to it. (So in art) it is not the wisdom or the barbarism that you have to estimate, not the skill or the rudeness, but the tendency. Ruskin.
The question of the purpose of things is completely 30 unscientific. Goethe.
The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong. Bible.
The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. Scott.
The rainbow in the morning / Is the shepherd's warning; / The rainbow at night / Is the shepherd's delight. Pr.
The rank is but the guinea's stamp, / The man's the gowd for a' that. Burns.
The ransom of a man's life are his riches. 35 Bible.
The ray of light passes invisible through space, and only when it falls on an object is it seen. Emerson.
The readiness is all. Ham., v. 2.
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself. Ward Beecher.
The real men of genius were resolute workers, not idle dreamers. G. H. Lewes.
The real Nimrod of this era, who alone does 40 any good to the era, is the rat-catcher. Carlyle.
The real object of education is to give children resources that will endure as long as life endures; habits that time will ameliorate, not destroy; occupation that will render sickness tolerable, solitude pleasant, age venerable, life more dignified and useful, and death less terrible. Sydney Smith.
The real object of the drama is the exhibition of human character. Macaulay.
The real science of political economy is that which teaches nations to desire and labour for the things that lead to life; and which teaches them to scorn and destroy the things that lead to destruction. Ruskin.
The really strong may bend, and be as strong as ever; it is the unsound that has only the seeming of strength, which breaks at last when it resists too long. Lever.
The reason that there is such a general outcry 45 against flatterers is, that there are so very few good ones. Steele.
The reason why borrowed books are so seldom returned to their owners is, that it is much easier to retain the books than what is in them. Montaigne.
The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages. Swift.
The reason why the character of woman is so often misunderstood, is that it is the beautiful nature of woman to veil her soul as her charms. F. Schlegel.
The reason why we sometimes see that men of the greatest capacities are not rich, is either because they despise wealth in comparison of something else, or, at least, are not content to be getting an estate, unless they may do it in their own way, and at the same time enjoy all the pleasures and gratifications of life. Eustace Budgell.
The recording angel, consider it well, is no fable, but the truest of truths; the paper tablets thou canst burn; of the "iron leaf" there is no burning. Carlyle.
The regeneration of society is the regeneration 5 of the individual by education. Laboulaye.
The regions of eternal happiness are provided for those women who love their husbands the same in a wilderness as in a city; be he a saint, or be he sinner. Hitopadesa.
The relation of the taught to their teacher, of the loyal subject to his guiding king, is, under one shape or another, the vital element in human society. Carlyle.
The religion of Christ is peace and goodwill, that of Christendom war and ill-will. Landor.
The religion of Jesus, with all its self-denials, virtues, and devotions, is very practicable. Watts.
The religion of one age is the literary entertainment 10 of the next. Emerson.
The religions of the world are the ejaculations of a few imaginative men. Emerson.
The religions we call false were once true. They also were affirmations of the conscience correcting the evil customs of their times. Emerson.
The religious passion is nearly always vividest where the art is weakest; and the technical skill only reaches its deliberate splendour when the ecstasy which gave it birth has passed away for ever. Ruskin.
The reputation of a man is like his shadow—gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows. Talleyrand.
The reputation of a woman is as a crystal 15 mirror, shining and bright, but liable to be sullied by every breath that comes near it. Cervantes.
The reputation of virtuous actions past, if not kept up with an access and fresh supply of new ones, is lost and soon forgotten. Denham.
The resentment of a poor man is like the efforts of a harmless insect to sting; it may get him crushed, but cannot defend him. Goldsmith.
The rest is silence. Ham., v. 2.
The result (of things) is obvious, but the intention is never clear. Rückert.
The revelation of thought takes man out of 20 servitude into freedom. Emerson.
The reverence of a man's self is, next religion, the chiefest bridle of all vices. Bacon.
The revolutionary outbreaks of the lower classes are the consequence of the injustice of the higher classes. Goethe.
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfil another. George Eliot.
The rich and poor meet together: the Lord is the maker of them all. Bible.
The rich are always advising the poor; but 25 the poor seldom venture to return the compliment. Helps.
The rich are invited to marry by that fortune which they do not want, and the poor have no inducement but that beauty which they do not feel. Goldsmith.
The rich becoming richer and the poor poorer, is the cry throughout the whole civilised world. Sillar.
The rich devour the poor, the devil the rich, and so both are devoured. Dutch Pr.
The rich man does not feel his wealth with any vividness. Goethe.
The rich man is seldom in his own halls, because 30 it bores him to be there, and still he returns thither, because he is no better off outside. Schopenhauer.
The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as an high wall in his own conceit. Bible.
The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender. Bible.
The richest minds need not large libraries. A. B. Alcott.
The riddle of the age has for each a private solution. Emerson.
The ridge once gained, the path so hard of 35 late / Runs easy on, and level with the gate (to virtue). Hesiod.
The right divine of kings to govern wrong. Quoted by Pope.
The right ear, that is fill'd with dust, / Hears little of the false or just. Tennyson.
The right honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts. Sheridan.
The right law of education is that you take the most pains with the best material. Never waste pains on bad ground, but spare no labour on the good, or on what has in it the capacity of good. Ruskin.
The right man in the right place. A. H. 40 Layard in the House of Commons.
The righteous hath hope in his death. Bible.
The righteous man falls oft, / Yet falls but soft; / There may be dirt to mire him, but no stones / To crush his bones. Quarles.
The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them. Bible.
The "rights" of men in any form are not worth discussing; the grand point is the "mights" of men—what portion of their "rights" they have a chance of getting sorted out and realised in this confused world. Carlyle.
The riotous tumult of a laugh is the mob-law 45 of the features, and propriety the magistrate who reads the Riot Act. Holmes.
The risings and sinkings of human affairs are like those of a ball which is thrown by the hand. Hitopadesa.
The river has its cataract, / And yet the waters down below / Soon gather from the foam, compact, / And, just like those above it, flow. Dr. W. Smith.
The river remains troubled that has not gone through a lake; the heart is impure that has not gone through a sorrow. Rückert.
The road's afore you, the sky's aboon you. Pr.
The road to resolution lies by doubt. Quarles.
The road to ruin is always kept in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it. Pr.
The road which runs without a bend / Is that 5 which hath a proper end. Goethe.
The robb'd that smiles, steals something from the thief. Othello, i. 3.
The romantic is the instinctive delight in, and admiration for, sublimity, beauty, and virtue, unusually manifested. Ruskin.
The root of almost every schism and heresy from which the Christian Church has suffered has been the effort of men to earn, rather than to receive, their salvation; and the reason that preaching is so commonly ineffectual is, that it calls on men oftener to work for God than to behold God working for them. Ruskin.
The root of sanctity is sanity. A man must be healthy before he can be holy. We bathe first, and then perfume. Mme. Swetchine.
The rough material of fine writing is certainly 10 the gift of genius; but I as firmly believe that the workmanship is the united effort of pains, attention, and repeated trial. Burns.
The rough seas that spare not any man. Pericles, ii. 1.
The rude man requires only to see something going on. The man of more refinement must be made to feel. The man of complete refinement must be made to reflect. Goethe.
The rule of the footway is clear as the light, / And none can its reason withstand; / On each side of the way you must keep to the right, / And leave those you meet the left hand. Saying.
The ruling passion, be it what it will, / The ruling passion, conquers reason still. Pope.
The running waves of eager life end on the 15 motionless fixed strand of death. Alfred Austin.
The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath. Jesus.
The sacred wrestler, till a blessing given, / Quits not his hold, but, halting, conquers heaven. Waller.
The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination. Bible.
The saddest external condition of affairs among men, is but evidence of a still sadder internal one. Carlyle.
The safest and purest joys of human life rebuke 20 the violence of its passions; they are obtainable without anxiety and memorable without regret. Ruskin.
The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts. C. H. Parkhurst.
The safety-valves of the heart when too much pressure is laid on. Albert Smith, on tears.
The salve of reformation they mightily call for, but where and what the sores are which need it, as they wot full little, so they think not greatly material to search. Hooker.
The same motions and muscles of the face are employed both in laughing and crying. Charron.
The Satanic school. Southey. 25
"The savans and the asses in the middle." Order of Napoleon on the eve of a cavalry charge in Egypt.
The scholar without good-breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic; the soldier, a brute; and every man disagreeable. Chesterfield.
The schoolboy counts the time till the return of the holidays; the minor longs to be of age; the lover is impatient till he is married. Addison.
The schoolmaster is abroad. Brougham.
The sea belongs to eternity, and not time, 30 and of that it sings its monotonous song for ever and ever. Holmes.
The sea complains upon a thousand shores. Alex. Smith.
The sea does not contain all the pearls, the earth does not enclose all the treasures, and the flint-stone does not enclose all the diamonds, since the head of man encloses wisdom. Saadi.
The sea moans over dead men's bones. T. B. Aldrich.
The sea that bares her bosom to the moon. Wordsworth.
The sea tosses and foams to find its way up to 35 the cloud and wind. Emerson.
The seal of truth is simplicity. Boerhaave.
The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong if we do not feel aright. Hazlitt.
The seat of law is the bosom of God; her voice, the harmony of the world. Hooker.
The second fruit of friendship is healthful and sovereign for the understanding, as the first is for the affections; for friendship maketh indeed a fair day in the affections from storm and tempests, but it maketh daylight in the understanding out of darkness and confusion of thoughts. Bacon.
The secret of education lies in respecting the 40 pupil. Emerson.
The secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate. Adam Clarke.
The secret of language is the secret of sympathy, and its full charm is possible only to the gentle. Ruskin.
The secret of making one's self tiresome is not to know when to stop. Voltaire.
The secret of man's being is still like the Sphinx's secret; a riddle that he cannot rede; and for ignorance of which he suffers death, the worst death—a spiritual. Carlyle.