The wife can carry more out of the house in her apron than the man can bring in on a harvest-waggon. Rückert.
The wife is the key of the house. Pr. 20
The wife that expects to have a good name / Is always at home as if she were lame; / And the mind that is honest, her chiefest delight, / Is still to be doing from morning till night. Sp. Pr.
The will appears without its mask only in the affections and the passions. Schopenhauer.
The willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it. Scott.
The wind that has its nest in trees. J. M. Barrie.
The winds and the waves are always on the 25 side of the ablest navigators. Gibbon.
The winter of our discontent. Rich. III., i. 1.
The wisdom of life is in preventing all the evil we can, and using what is inevitable to the best purpose. Ruskin.
The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. Collect and learn them; they are notable measures and directions for human life; you have much in little; they save time in speaking; and upon occasion may be the fullest and safest answers. William Penn.
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of ages may be preserved by quotation. Isaac Disraeli.
The wise are instructed by reason, ordinary 30 minds by experience, the stupid by necessity, and brutes by instinct. Cic.
The wise are polite all the world over, but fools are only polite at home. Goldsmith.
The wise are those who travel through error to truth; the foolish are those who persist in their error. Rückert.
The wise grumbler ... is a public benefactor. John Wagstaffe.
The wise have all ever said the same thing, and the fools, who are always in the majority, have always done just the opposite. Schopenhauer.
The wise in heart shall be called the prudent. 35 Bible.
The wise man always looks to the degree of his indulgences. John Wagstaffe.
The wise man can dispense with the favour of the mighty, but the mighty cannot dispense with the teaching of the wise. Bodenstedt.
The wise man does not grasp at what is far off in order to find what is near, and his hand does not grasp at the stars in order to kindle light. Bodenstedt.
The wise man, even destitute of riches, enjoyeth elevated and very honourable stations; whilst the wretch, endowed with wealth, acquireth the post of disgrace. Hitopadesa.
The wise man expects everything from himself; the fool looks to others. Jean Paul.
The wise man had rather be envied for providence than pitied for prodigality. Socrates.
The wise man has long ears and a short tongue. Ger. Pr.
The wise man knows his master; always some 5 creature larger than himself, some law holier than himself. Ruskin.
The wise man knows that he does not know; the ignoramus thinks he knows. Sp. Pr.
The wise man may strive to conquer, but he should never fight; because victory, it is observed, cannot be constant to both combatants. Hitopadesa.
The wise man moveth with one foot, and standeth fast with the other. A man should not quit one place until he hath fixed upon another. Hitopadesa.
The wise man must go to the foolish, else would his wisdom go for nought, since the foolish never come to the wise. Bodenstedt.
The wise man often shuns society for fear of 10 being bored. La Bruyère.
The wise man ought to despise glory, but not honour. Honour is but seldom where glory is, and glory almost more rarely still where honour is. Seume.
The wise man should study the acquisition of science and riches as if he were not subject to sickness and death; but to the duties of religion he should attend as if death had seized him by the hair. Hitopadesa.
The wise man will commit no business of importance to a proxy when he may do it himself. L'Estrange.
The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm or epigram. Whipple.
The wise through excess of wisdom is made a 15 fool. Emerson.
The wise weigh their words in a balance for gold. Ecclus.
The wise will determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high-minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands. Burke.
The wiser mind / Mourns less for what age takes away / Than what it leaves behind. Wordsworth.
The wisest at most observe only how fate leads them, and are content. Foster.
The wisest doctor is gravelled by the inquisitiveness 20 of a child. Emerson.
The wisest, happiest of our kind are they / That ever walk content with Nature's way. Wordsworth.
The wisest is omnipresent, and reveals His secrets universally to the seeing eye and the hearing ear. The revelation in all its fullness is nowhere wanting, only the sense to discern it, and the courage to be true to it. Ed.
The wisest man the warl' e'er saw, / He dearly lo'ed the lasses O. Burns.
The wisest men are wise to the full in death. Ruskin.
The wisest, most melodious voice cannot in 25 these days pass for a divine one; the word "inspiration" still lingers, but only in the shape of a poetic figure, from which the once earnest, awful, and soul-subduing sense has vanished without return. Carlyle.
The wisest of us must, for by far the most part, judge like the simplest; estimate importance by mere magnitude, and expect that which strongly affects our own generation, will strongly affect those that are to follow. Carlyle.
The wisest truly is, in these times, the greatest. Carlyle.
The wisest woman you talk with is ignorant of something that you know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance. Holmes.
The wish was father to the thought. 2 Hen. IV., iv. 4.
The wished-for comes too late. Pr. 30
The wishing-gate opens into nothing. Spurgeon.
The wit of language is so miserably inferior to the wit of ideas that it is deservedly driven out of good company. Sydney Smith.
The wit of one man, and the wisdom of many. Lord John Russell's definition of a proverb.
The wit one wants spoils what one has. Fr. Pr.
The woman and the soldier who do not defend 35 the first pass will never defend the last. Fielding.
The woman that deliberates is lost. Addison.
The woman's cause is man's: they rise or sink / Together. Tennyson.
The womankind will not drill. Carlyle, Father Andreas in "Sartor."
The women are quick enough—they're quick enough. They know the rights of a story before they hear it, and can tell a man what his thoughts are before he knows 'em himself. George Eliot.
The word is always bolder than the deed. 40 Schiller.
The Word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it. Bible.
The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond—sometimes better. Dickens.
The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters, and the well-spring of wisdom as a flowing brook. Bible.
The words of a tale-bearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly. Bible.
The words of men are like the leaves of trees; 45 when they are too many they hinder the growth of the fruit. Steiger.
The words of the wise are as goads. Pr.
The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering-galleries, they are clearly heard at the end and by posterity. Jean Paul.
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden under ground, secretly making the ground green; it flows and flows, it joins itself with other veins and veinlets; one day it will start forth as a visible perennial well. Carlyle.
The work of righteousness shall be peace. Bible.
The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions. Ruskin.
The works of the great poets have only been read for most part as the multitude read the stars, at most, astrologically, not astronomically. Thoreau.
The world can never give / The bliss for which we sigh; / 'Tis not the whole of life to live, / Nor all of death to die. Montgomery.
The world cannot be governed without juggling. 5 Selden.
The world cannot do without great men, but great men are very troublesome to the world. Goethe.
The world considers eccentricity in great things genius: in small things, folly. Bulwer Lytton.
The world does not progress so quickly as a man grows old. J. M. Barrie.
The world exists by change, and but for that / All matter would to chaos back / To form a pillar for a sleeping god. Anon.
The world exists for the education of each 10 man. Emerson.
The world exists only by the strength of its silent virtue. Ruskin.
The world goes up, and the world goes down, / And the sunshine follows the rain; / And yesterday's sneer, and yesterday's frown, / Can never come over again. C. Kingsley.
The world grows more majestic, but man grows less. Amiel.
The world has no business with my life; the world will never know my life, if it should write and read a hundred biographies of me. Carlyle.
The world has to obey him who thinks and 15 sees in the world. Carlyle.
The world is a carcase, and they who gather round it are dogs. Eastern Pr.
The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel. Horace Walpole.
The world is a grand book from which to become wiser. Goethe.
The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion. Thackeray.
The world is a prison. Goethe. 20
The world is a thing that man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it. Carlyle.
The world is a wheel, and it will all come round right. Disraeli.
The world is all barren to him who will not cultivate the fruit it offers. Sterne.
The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius. Talent is a docile creature. It bows its head meekly while the world slips the collar over it. It backs into the shafts like a lamb. Holmes.
The world is an excellent judge in general, 25 but a very bad one in particular. Lord Greville.
The world is an old woman, that mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin; whereby, being often cheated, she will henceforth trust nothing but the common copper. Carlyle.
The world is as you take it. Pr.
The world is but an allegory; the idea is more real than the fact. Amiel.
The world is content with words; few think of searching into the nature of things. Pascal.
The world is everywhere perfect except where 30 man comes with his pain. Schiller.
The world is fain to sully what is resplendent, and to drag down to the dust what is exalted. Schiller.
The world is for him who has patience. It. Pr.
The world is glorious to look at, but dreadful in reality; it is one thing as a drama to a spectator, quite another thing to the actors in the plot, for in it the will is thwarted at every turn. Schopenhauer.
The world is governed much more by opinion than by laws. Channing.
The world is governed too much. (?) 35
The world is not our peers, so we challenge the jury. Burns.
The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law. Rom. and Jul., v. 1.
The world is not to be despised but as it is compared with something better. Company is in itself better than solitude, and pleasure better than indolence. Johnson.
The world is nothing but a wheel; in its whole periphery it is everywhere similar, but, nevertheless, it appears to us so strange, because we ourselves are carried round with it. Goethe.
The world is nothing; the man is all. Emerson. 40
The world is only governed by self-interest. Schiller.
The world is so busied with selfish pursuits, ambition, vanity, interest, or pleasure, that very few think it worth their while to make any observation on what passes around them, except where that observation is a sucker, or branch of the darling plant they are rearing in their fancy. Burns.
The world is still deceived with ornament. / In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, / But, being seasoned with a gracious voice, / Obscures the show of evil? In religion, / What damnéd error but some sober brow / Will bless it and approve it with a text, / Hiding the grossness with fair ornament? Mer. of Ven., iii. 2.
The world is too much with us; late and soon, / Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers; / Little we see in Nature that is ours. Wordsworth.
The world is undone by looking at things at a 45 distance. Sir Thomas More.
The world is upheld by the veracity of good men; they make the earth wholesome. Emerson.
The world is wide enough for all to live and let live, and every one has an enemy in his own talent, who gives him quite enough to do. But no! one gifted man and one talented persecutes another ... and each seeks to make the other hateful. Goethe.
The world is wider than any of us think. Carlyle.
The world knows nothing of its greatest men. Sir Henry Taylor.
The world looks at ministers out of the pulpit to know what they mean when in it. Cecil.
The world ... may overlook most of us; but "reverence thyself." Burns.
The world never let a man bless it but it first 5 fought him. Ward Beecher.
The world of Nature for every man is the fantasy of himself; this world is the multiplex "image of his own dream." Carlyle.
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless. Not being able to enlarge the one, let us contract the other; for it is from their difference alone that all the evils arise which render us really unhappy. Rousseau.
The world of thought must remain apart from the world of action, for if they once coincided the problem of life would be solved, and the hope which we call heaven would be realised on earth. And therefore men "Are cradled into poetry by wrong; / They learn in suffering what they teach in song." Lord Houghton.
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. Hawthorne.
The world owes infinitely more to those who 10 have no history than to those who have; and the silent noble ones, who have enriched and exalted it by their mere presence, form a much grander and greater host than those do whose names stand emblazoned in written story, and are the loud boast of all. Ed.
The world remains ever the same. Goethe.
The world seldom offers us any choice between solitude on the one hand and vulgarity on the other. Schopenhauer.
The world-spirit is a good swimmer, and storms and waves cannot drown him. Emerson.
The world still wants its poet-priest, who shall not trifle with Shakespeare, the player, nor shall grope in graves with Swedenborg, the mourner; but who shall see, speak, and act with equal inspiration. Emerson.
The world that surrounds you is the magic 15 glass of the world within you. To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you. Lavater.
The world throws its life into a hero or a shepherd, and puts him where he is wanted. Dante and Columbus were Italians in their time; they would be Russians or Americans to-day. Emerson.
The world truly exists only in the presence of man, acts only in the passion of man. The essence of light is in his eyes—the centre of force in his soul—the pertinence of action in his deeds. Ruskin.
The world, which took but six days to make, is like to take six thousand to make out. Sir Thomas Browne.
The world's a bubble, and the life of man less than a span. Bacon.
The world's a room of sickness, where each 20 heart / Knows its own anguish and unrest! / The truest wisdom there, and noblest art, / Is his who skills of comfort best. Keble.
The world's a sea. Quarles.
The world's a wood, in which all lose their way, / Though by a different path each goes astray. Buckingham.
The world's battle-fields have been in the heart chiefly. More heroism has there been displayed in the household and in the closet, I think, than on the most memorable military battle-fields of history. Ward Beecher.
The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men. Holmes.
The world's wealth is its original men; by 25 these and their works it is a world and not a waste; the memory and record of what Men it loves—this is the sum of its strength, its sacred "property for ever," whereby it upholds itself and steers forward, better or worse, through the yet undiscovered deep of Time. Carlyle.
The worse the man, the better the soldier; if soldiers be not corrupt, they ought to be made so. Napoleon.
The worse things are, the better they are. Pr.
The worship of beauty apart from the soul becomes an idolatry enkindling desire instead of a reverence awakening devotion. Ed.
The worst deluded are the self-deluded. Bovee.
The worst education which teaches self-denial 30 is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that. John Sterling.
The worst of madmen is a saint run mad. Pope.
The worst of many is that their goodness is distributed rather than concentrated. They are like a sheet of water instead of being like a running stream, which can be used to turn a wheel. Spurgeon.
The worst superstition is to consider our own the most tolerable. Lessing.
The worst wheel in the waggon creaks the loudest. Ger. Pr.
The worst wild beast is called "Tyrant," and 35 the "Flatterer" the worst tame one. Lessing.
The worth of a state, in the long-run, is the worth of the individuals composing it. J. S. Mill.
The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish. Pr.
The wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. St. James.
The wretched have no friends. Dryden.
The wretchedness which fate has rendered 40 voiceless and tuneless is not the least wretched, but the most. Carlyle.
The wrinkles of the heart are more indelible than those of the brow. Mme. Deluzy.
The writer of a book, is not he a preacher preaching not to this parish or that, on this day or that, but to all men in all times and places? Carlyle.
The wronged side is always the safest. Sibbes.
The young disease, that must subdue at length, / Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength. Pope.
The young mind is naturally pliable and imitative, 45 but in a more advanced state it grows rigid, and must be warmed and softened before it will receive a deep impression. Joshua Reynolds.
The young talk generously of relieving the old of their burdens, but the anxious heart is to the old when they see a load on the back of the young. J. M. Barrie.
The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or perchance a palace on the earth; at length middle-aged, he concludes to build a woodshed with them. Thoreau.
The youth of the soul is everlasting, and eternity is youth. Jean Paul.
Their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven. Jesus of children.
Their chief pleasure is being displeased. 5 Whipple.
Their only labour was to kill the time, / And labour dire it is, and weary woe. Thomson.
Their own will to all men, all their will to women. Gael. Pr.
Their strength is to sit still. Bible.
Theirs not to make reply, / Theirs not to reason why, / Theirs but to do or die. Tennyson.
Them as ha' never had a cushion don't miss it. 10 George Eliot.
Then draw we nearer day by day, / Each to his brethren, all to God; / Let the world take us as she may, / We must not change our road. Keble.
Then fare-ye-weel, auld Nickle Ben, / Oh wad ye tak' a thought and men', / Ye aiblins (perhaps) might—I dinna ken, / Still hae a stake;/ I'm wae to think upon yon den / E'en for your sake. Burns.
Then gently scan your brother man, / Still gentler sister woman; / Though they may gang a kennin' wrang, / To step aside is human. Burns.
Then in the strife the youth puts forth his powers, / Knows what he is, and feels himself a man. Goethe.
Then let us pray that come it may, / As come 15 it will for a' that, / That sense an' worth, o'er a' the earth, / May bear the gree and a' that. Burns.
Then was I as a tree / Whose boughs did bend with fruit; but, in one night, / A storm, or robbery, call it what you will, / Shook down my mellow hangings, nay, my leaves, / And left me bare to weather. Cymbeline, iii. 3.
Theology is anthropology. Feuerbach.
Theoretical principles must sometimes be suffered to give way for the sake of practical advantages. Pitt.
Theories of genius are the peculiar constructions of our philosophical times; ages of genius have passed away, and they left no other record than their works. I. Disraeli.
Theories are very thin and unsubstantial; experience 20 only is tangible. H. Ballou.
Theories which do not connect measures with men are not theories for this world. Charles Fox.
Theory and practice always act upon one another. It is possible to construe from what we do what we think, and from what we think what we will do. Goethe.
Theory in and by itself is of no use except in so far as it proves to us the connection (Zusammenhang) that subsists among the phenomena. Goethe.
[Greek: theos hê anaideia]—Impudence is a god.
There are a thousand occasions for sorrow, 25 and a hundred for fear that day by day assail the fool; not so the wise man. Hitopadesa.
There are always more tricks in a town than are talked of. Cervantes.
There are at bottom but two possible religions—that which rises in the moral nature of man, and which takes shape in moral commandments, and that which grows out of the observance of the material energies which operate in the external universe. Froude.
There are attractions in modest diffidence above the force of words. A silent address is the genuine eloquence of sincerity. Goldsmith.
There are but three classes of men—the retrograde, the stationary, and the progressive. Lavater.
There are but two ways of paying debt—increase 30 of industry in raising income; increase of thrift in laying it out. Carlyle.
There are cases where little can be said and much must be done. Johnson.
There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking. La Bruyère.
There are certain times in our life when we find ourselves in circumstances, that not only press upon us, but seem to weigh us down altogether. They give us, however, not only the opportunity, but they impose on us the duty of elevating ourselves, and thereby fulfilling the purpose of the Divine Being in our creation. Goethe.
There are charms made only for distant admiration. No spectacle is nobler than a blaze. Johnson.
There are cloudy days for the mind as well as 35 for the world, and the man who has the most genius is twenty times a day in the clouds. Beaumelle.
There are depths in the soul which are deeper than hell. Platen.
There are enough unhappy on this earth. Tennyson.
There are faces so fluid with expression that we can hardly find what the mere features are. Emerson.
There are falsehoods which are not lies ... which is the case in parables, fables, &c.... In such instances no confidence is destroyed, because none was reposed; no promise to speak the truth is violated, because none was given. Paley.
There are few circumstances in which it is not 40 best either to hide all or to tell all. La Bruyère.
There are few faces that can afford to smile. A smile is sometimes bewitching; in general vapid; often a contortion. Disraeli.
There are few men so obstinate in their atheism whom a pressing danger will not reduce to an acknowledgment of the Divine power. Plato.
There are few persons to whom truth is not a sort of insult. Ségur.
There are few things that are worthy of anger, and still fewer that can justify malignity. Johnson.
There are few thoughts likely to come across ordinary men which have not already been expressed by greater men in the best possible way; and it is a wiser, more generous, more noble thing to remember and point out the perfect words than to invent poorer ones, wherewith to encumber temporarily the world. Ruskin.
There are few who, either by extraordinary endowment or favour of fortune, have enjoyed the opportunity of deciding what mode of life in especial they would wish to embrace. Cic.
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate. Bovee.
There are fewer students of man than of geometry. Pascal.
There are forty men of wit for one of sense; 5 and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of ready change. (?)
There are heads sometimes so little that there is no room for wit, sometimes so long that there is no wit for so much room. Fuller.
There are in man, in the beginning / And at the end, two blank book-binder's leaves—childhood and age. Jean Paul.
There are in the history of a man only three epochs, his birth, his life, and his death; he is not conscious of being born; he submits to die; and he forgets to live. La Bruyère.
There are in this day, as in all days, around and in every man, voices from the gods, imperative to all, if obeyed by even none, which say audibly: Arise, thou son of Adam, son of Time, make this thing more divine, and that thing, and thyself of all things, and work, and sleep not; for the Night cometh wherein no man can work. Carlyle.
There are in this loud stunning tide / Of 10 human care and crime, / With whom the melodies abide / Of th' everlasting chime; / Who carry music in their heart, / Through dusty lane and wrangling mart, / Plying their daily task with busier feet, / Because their secret souls a holy strain repeat. Keble.
There are interests by the sacrifice of which peace is too dearly purchased. One should never be at peace to the shame of his own soul, to the violation of his integrity or of his allegiance to God. Chapin.
There are many men who do not believe in evaporation. They get all they can, and keep all they get, and so are not fertilisers, but only stagnant, miasmatic pools. Ward Beecher.
There are many religions, but there is only one morality. Ruskin.
There are many troubles which you cannot cure by the Bible and the hymn-book, but which you can cure by a good perspiration and a breath of fresh air. Ward Beecher.
There are many truths of which the full 15 meaning cannot be realised until personal experience has brought it home. J. S. Mill.
There are men who, by long consulting their own inclination, have forgotten that others have a claim to the same deference. (?)
There are men who dwell on the defects of their enemies. I always have regard to the merits of mine, and derive profit therefrom. Goethe.
There are men whose tongues are more eloquent than those of women, but no man possesses the eloquence of a woman's eye. C. Weber.
There are moments in life when the heart is so full of emotion, / That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble / Drops some careless word, it overflows; and its secret, / Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together. Longfellow.
There are more fools than wise men, and even 20 in the wise men more folly than wisdom. Chamfort.
There are more men ennobled by study than by nature. Cic.
There are more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in. Ham., iii. 1.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, / Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. Ham., i. 5.
There are more ways to the wood than one. Pr.
There are nae fules like auld fules. Sc. Pr. 25
There are natures that are great by what they attain, and others by what they disdain. H. Grimm.
There are no better masters than poverty and want. Dut. Pr.
There are no chagrins so venomous as the chagrins of the idle; no pangs so sickening as the satieties of pleasure. Ruskin.
There are no English lives worth reading except those of players, who by the nature of the case have bidden Respectability good-day. Carlyle.
There are no fixtures in Nature. The universe 30 is fluid and volatile. Emerson.
There are no grotesques in Nature. Sir Thomas Browne.
There are no laws by which we can write Iliads. Ruskin.
There are no obstructions more fatal to fortune than pride and resentment. Goldsmith.
There are no persons more solicitous about the preservation of rank than those who have no rank at all. Shenstone.
There are no proverbial sayings which are not 35 true. Cervantes.
There are no real pleasures without real needs. Voltaire.
There are no tricks in plain and simple faith. Jul. Cæs., iv. 2.
There are no troubles which have such a wasting and disastrous effect upon the mind as those which must not be told, but which cause the mind to be continually rolling and turning over upon itself in ceaseless convolutions and unrest. Ward Beecher.
There are no twin souls in God's universe. J. G. Holland.
There are none but men of strong passions 40 capable of going to greatness; none but such capable of meriting the public gratitude. Mirabeau.
There are none of the charges brought against Socialism which might not have been brought against Christianity itself. Cötvös.
There are omens in the air, / And voices whispering Beware!—/ But never victor in the fight / Heeded the portents of fear and care. Dr. Walter Smith.
There are only three classes of people—those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him; and those who live without either seeking or finding him—the first, rational and happy; the second, unhappy and rational; the third, foolish and unhappy. Pascal.
There are only two ways of rising in the world, either by one's own industry or by the weakness of others. La Bruyère.
There are people who will help you to get your 5 basket on your head, because they want to see what's in it. Negro Pr.
There are people who would never have been in love if they had never heard love spoken of. La Roche.
There are proselytes from atheism, but none from superstition. Junius.
There are several who would, or at least pretend they would, bear much in their own business who will bear nothing at all. Kettlewell.
There are shades in all good pictures, but there are lights too, if we choose to contemplate them. Dickens.
There are single thoughts that contain the 10 essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work. Joubert.
There are soldiers of the ploughshare as well as soldiers of the sword. Ruskin.
There are some cases in which human nature and its deep wrongs will be ever stronger than the world and its philosophy. Bulwer Lytton.
There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue. Goldsmith.
There are some men who are witty when they are in a bad humour, and others only when they are sad. Joubert.
There are some people who give with the air 15 of refusal. Queen Christiana.
There are some sorrows cannot be subjected / To man's construction, howsoe'er suspected. Dr. Walter Smith.
There are some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed. Chamfort.
There are sorrows / Where of necessity the soul must be / Its own support. Schiller.
There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers; but ere the pure and fresh buds can open, they are trodden in the dust of the earth, and lie soiled and crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof. Jean Paul.
There are things in this world to be laughed 20 at, as well as things to be admired; and his is no complete mind that cannot give to each sort his due. Carlyle.
There are things that should be done, not spoken; that, till the doing of them is begun, cannot be spoken. Carlyle.
There are those who never reason on what they should do, but what they have done; as if Reason had her eyes behind, and could only see backwards. Fielding.
There are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. Thoreau.
There are three classes of authors—those who write without thinking, those who think while writing, and those who think before writing. Schopenhauer.
There are three difficulties in authorship—to 25 write anything worth the publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to get sensible men to read it. Colton.
There are three material things, not only useful, but essential, to life—pure air, water, and earth; and three immaterial that are equally essential—admiration, hope, and love. Ruskin.
There are three means of believing—by inspiration, by reason, and by custom. Christianity, which is the only rational institution, does yet admit none for its sons who do not believe by inspiration. Pascal.
There are three religions—the religion which depends on reverence for what is above us, denominated the ethnic; the religion which founds itself on reverence for what is around us, denominated the philosophical; the religion grounded on reverence for what is beneath us, which we name the Christian. Goethe.
There are three things in this world which deserve no quarter—hypocrisy, pharisaism, and tyranny. F. Robertson.
There are three things which cause perfection 30 in a man—nature, reason, use. Reason I call discipline; use, exercise. If any one of these branches want, certainly the tree of virtue must needs wither. John Lily.
There are times when silence, if the preacher did but know, / Shall preach to better purpose than a sermon stale and flat. Dr. Walter Smith.
There are times when we are diverted out of errors, but could not be preached out of them. Stephen Montague.
There are truths that shield themselves behind veils, and are best spoken by implication. Even the sun veils himself in his own rays to blind the gaze of the too curious starer. A. B. Alcott.
There are two, and only two, forms of possible gospel or "good message"—one, that men are saved by themselves doing what is right; and the other, that they are saved by believing that somebody also did right instead of them. The first of these gospels is eternally true and holy; the other eternally false, damnable, and damning. Ruskin.
There are two kinds of genius. The first and 35 highest may be said to speak out of the eternal into the present, and must compel its age to understand it; the second understands its age, and tells it what it wishes to be told. Lowell.
There are two levers for moving men—interest and fear. Napoleon.
There are two modes of establishing our reputation—to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will be invariably accompanied by the latter. Colton.
There are two sides to every question. Pr.
There are two things that can reach the top of a pyramid, the eagle and the reptile. D'Alembert.
There are two ways of attaining an important end—force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time. Mme. Swetchine.
There are unhappy times in the world's history, when he that is the least educated will chiefly have to say that he is the least perverted; and with the multitude of false eye-glasses, convex, concave, green, even yellow, has not lost the natural use of his eyes. Carlyle.
There are very few moments in a man's existence 5 when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or meets with so little charitable commiseration, as when he is in pursuit of his own hat. Dickens.
There are very few people in this world who get any good by either writing or reading. Ruskin.
There are, whom heaven has blessed with store of wit, / Yet want as much again to manage it; / For wit and judgment ever are at strife, / Tho' meant each other's aid, like man and wife. Pope.
There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all. Mme. Swetchine.
There be some that think their wits have been asleep, except they dart out somewhat that is piquant, and to the quick; that is a vein which would be bridled. Bacon.
There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, 10 none to beauty, when these attributes are considered in the purest sense. Emerson.
There can be no kernel in this light nut; the soul of this man is in his clothes. All's Well, ii. 5.
There can be no profanity where there is no fane behind. Thoreau.
There can be no shame in accepting orders from those who have themselves learned to obey. W. E. Forster.
There can be no true aristocracy but must possess the land. Carlyle.
There can come no harm of supposing every 15 other man better than yourself; but the supposing any man worse than yourself may be attended with very ill consequences. Thomas à Kempis.
There coils a fear beneath the loveliest dream. T. Watts.
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man. St. Paul.
There have been in all ages children of God and of man; the one born of the Spirit, and obeying it; the other born of the flesh, and obeying it. Ruskin.
There in others' looks discover / What thy own life's course has been, / And thy deeds of years past over, / In thy fellow-men be seen. Goethe.
There is a better thing than the great man 20 who is always speaking, and that is the great man who only speaks when he has a great word to say. W. Winter.
There is a black speck, say the Arabs, were it no bigger than a bean's eye, in every soul; which, once set a-working, will overcloud the whole man into darkness and quasi-madness, and hurry him balefully into night. Carlyle.
There is a book, who runs may read, / Which heavenly truth imparts, / And all the love its scholars need, / Pure eyes and Christian hearts. / The works of God above, below, / Within us, and around, / Are pages in that book, to show / How God Himself is found. Keble.
There is a budding morrow in midnight. Keats.
There is a care for trifles which proceeds from love and conscience, and is most holy; and a care for trifles which comes of idleness and frivolity, and is most base. And so, also, there is a gravity proceeding from thought, which is most noble; and a gravity proceeding from dulness and mere incapability of enjoyment, which is most base. Ruskin.
There is a Cato in every man; a severe censor 25 of his manners. And he that reverences this judge will seldom do anything he need repent of. Burton.
There is a certain artificial polish, a commonplace vivacity, acquired by perpetually mingling in the beau monde, which, in the commerce of the world, supplies the place of natural suavity and good-humour; but it is purchased at the expense of all original and sterling traits of character. Washington Irving.
There is a certain mien and motion of the body and all its parts, both in acting and speaking, which argues a man well within. Sterne.
There is a certain noble pride through which merits shine brighter than through modesty. Jean Paul.
There is a country accent, not in speech only, but in thought, conduct, character, and manner of existing, which never forsakes a man. La Roche.
There is a crack in everything God has made. 30 Emerson.
There is a devil dwells in man as well as a divinity. Carlyle.
There is a different kind of knowledge good for every different creature, and the glory of the higher creatures is in ignorance of what is known to the lower. Ruskin.
There is a flush of the body which is full of warmth and life, and another which will pass into putrefaction. Ruskin.
There is a foolish corner even in the brain of the sage. Arist.
There is a frightful interval between the seed 35 and the timber. Johnson.
There is a glare about worldly success, which is very apt to dazzle men's eyes. Hare.
There is a God within us who breathes that divine fire by which we are animated. Ovid.
There is a great deal of folly in talking unnecessarily of one's private affairs. Burns.
There is a great difference between bearing malice, which is always ungenerous, and a resolute self-defence, which is always prudent and justifiable. Chesterfield.
There is a great discovery still to be made in 40 literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write. Carlyle.
There is a heroic innocence, as well as a heroic courage. St. Evremond.
There is a higher law than the constitution. W. H. Seward.
There is a history in all men's lives, / Figuring the nature of the times deceased; / The which observed, a man may prophesy, / With a near aim of the main chance of things / As yet not come to life: which, in their seeds / And weak beginnings, lie intreasurèd. 2 Hen. IV., iii. 1.
There is a kind of pride in which are included all the commandments of God, and a kind of vanity which contains the seven mortal sins. Chamfort.
There is a life which taketh not its hues / From earth or earthly things; and so grows pure / And higher than the petty cares of men, / And is a blessed life and glorified. Lewis Morris.
There is a living, literal communion of saints, wide as the world itself, and as the history of the world. Carlyle.
There is a long and wearisome step between 5 admiration and imitation. Jean Paul.
There is a lust in man no charm can tame, / Of loudly publishing his neighbour's shame; / On eagle's wings immortal scandals fly, / While virtuous actions are but born and die. Harvey.
There is a magic in a great name. S. Lover.
There is a magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no hearts. Disraeli.
There is a mean in all things. Even virtue itself hath its stated limits; which not being strictly observed, it ceases to be virtue. (?)
There is a measure of self-regard which is 10 right, wherein the individual self is identified with the universal self. J. C. Sharp.
There is a mercy that is weakness, and even treason against the common good. George Eliot.
There is a method in man's wickedness, / It grows by degrees. Beaumont and Fletcher.
There is a nobler ambition than the getting of all California, or the getting of all the suffrages that are on the planet just now. Carlyle.
There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he ever so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works. Carlyle.
There is a period of life when our backward 15 movements are steps in advance. Rousseau.
There is a pleasure in poetic pains which only poets know. Cowper.
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods; / There is a rapture on the lonely shore; / There is society, where none intrudes, / By the deep sea, and music in its roar; / I love not the man the less, / But Nature more. Byron.
There is a pleasure, sure, in being mad, which none but mad men know. Dryden.
There is a power over and behind us, and we are the channels of its communication. Emerson.
There is a probity of manners as well as of 20 conscience, and a true Christian will regard in a degree the conventionalities of society. De Boufflers.
There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts—that is, the poet. Emerson.
There is a rabble amongst the gentry as well as the commonalty; a sort of plebeian heads, whose fancy moves in the same wheel with the others,—men in the same level with mechanics, though their fortunes do somewhat gild their infirmities, and their purses compound for their follies. Sir Thomas Browne.
There is a remedy for everything but death. Cervantes.
There is a remedy for every wrong, and a satisfaction for every soul. Emerson.
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not 25 the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love. Washington Irving.
There is a skeleton in every house. Pr.
Then is a snake in the grass. Pr.
There is a Spanish proverb that a lapidary who would grow rich must buy of those who go to be executed, as not caring how cheap they sell; and sell to those who go to be married, as not caring how dear they buy. Fuller.
There is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. Ham., v. 1.
There is a spirit of resistance implanted by 30 the Deity in the breast of man, proportioned to the size of the wrongs he is destined to endure. C. J. Fox.
There is a Sunday conscience as well as a Sunday coat; and those who make religion a secondary concern put the coat and conscience carefully by to put on only once a week. Dickens.
There is a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, to keep watch for the life of poor Jack. Dibdin.
There is a tendency in things to right themselves. Emerson.
There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the guarantee of the fulfilment of every contract, so that honest service cannot come to loss. Emerson.
There is a tide in the affairs of men, / Which, 35 taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; / Omitted, all the voyage of their life / Is bound in shallows and in miseries; / On such a full sea are we now afloat; / And we must take the current when it serves, / Or lose our ventures. Jul. Cæs., iv. 3.
There is a time for all things. Pr.
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance. Emerson.
There is a time of life beyond which we cannot form a tie worth the name of friendship. Burns.
There is a time there for every purpose and for every work. Bible.
There is a time wherein one man ruleth over 40 another to his own hurt. Bible.
There is a true Church whenever one meets another helpfully, and that is the only holy or Mother Church which ever was or ever shall be. Ruskin.
There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. Bible.
There is a worth in honest ignorance; 'twere almost a pity to exchange for knowledge. Sterne.
There is always life for a living one. Pr.
There is always room for a man of force, and he makes room for many. Emerson.
There is always some levity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise and also to stray. Joubert.
There is always the possibility of beauty 5 where there is an unsealed human eye; of music where there is an unstopped human ear; and of inspiration where there is a receptive human spirit, a spirit standing before. C. H. Parkhurst.
There is an abasement because of glory, and there is that lifteth up his head from a low estate. Ecclus., xx. 11.
There is an anger that is majestic as the frown of Jehovah's brow; it is the anger of truth and love. Ward Beecher.
There is an emanation from the heart in genuine hospitality which cannot be described but is immediately felt, and puts the stranger at once at his ease. Washington Irving.
There is a heroic innocence, as well a heroic courage. (?)
There is an insolence which none but those 10 who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear. Fielding.
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. Bacon.
There is as much ingenuity in making an felicitous application of an passage as in being the author of it. St. Evremond.
There is, at any given moment, a best path for every man; the thing which, here and now, it were wisest for him to do; whatsoever forwards him in that, were it even in the shape of blows and spurnings, is liberty; whatsoever hinders him, were it tremendous cheers and rivers of heavy wet, is slavery. Carlyle.
There is but one case wherein a man may commend himself with good grace, and that is in commending virtue in another, especially if it be such a virtue whereunto himself pretendeth. Bacon.
There is but one class of men to be trembled 15 at, and that is the stupid class, the class that cannot see; who, alas! are mainly they that will not see. Carlyle.
There is but one misfortune for a man, when some idea lays hold of him which exerts no influence upon his active life, or still more, which withdraws him from it. Goethe.
There is but one philosophy, and its name is Fortitude; to bear is to conquer our fate. Bulwer.
There is but one solid basis of happiness, and that is the reasonable hope of a happy futurity. This may be had everywhere. Johnson.
There is but one temple in the world, and that is the body of man. Nothing is holier than this high form. Bending before men is a reverence done to this revelation in the flesh. We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body. Novalis.
There is but one thing without honour, smitten 20 with eternal barrenness, inability to do or to be—insincerity, unbelief. He who believes nothing, who believes only the shows of things, is not in relation with nature and fact at all. Carlyle.
There is certainly something of exquisite kindness and thoughtful benevolence in that rarest of gifts—fine breeding. Bulwer Lytton.
There is differency between a grub and a butterfly; yet your butterfly was a grub. Coriolanus, v. 4.
There is enjoyment even in sadness, and the same souvenirs which have produced long regrets may also soften them. De Boufflers.
There is ever a certain languor attending the fulness of prosperity. When the heart has no more to wish, it yawns over its possessions, and the energy of the soul goes out, like a flame that has no more to devour. Young.
There is evil in every human heart, which may 25 remain latent, perhaps through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity. Hawthorne.
There is far less pleasure in doing a thing beautifully than in seeing it beautifully done. Ruskin.
There is for the soul a spontaneous culture, on which depends all its real progress in perfection. Degerando.
There is forgiveness with God and Christ for the passing sin of the hot heart, but none for the eternal and inherent sin of the cold. Ruskin.
There is genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the citizen, but which characterises the society. Emerson.
There is great force hidden in a sweet command. 30 George Herbert.
There is in human nature an essential, though somewhat mysterious, connection of love with fear. Henry Taylor.
There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise, and therefore those faculties by which the foolish part of men's minds is taken are most potent. Bacon.
There is in man a Higher than love of happiness; he can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness! Carlyle.
There is in nature an accessible and an inaccessible. Be careful to discriminate between the two. Be circumspect, and proceed with reverence.... It is always difficult to see where the one begins and the other leaves off. He who knows it, and is wise, will confine himself to the accessible. Goethe.
There is in the heart of woman such a deep 35 well of love that no age can freeze it. Bulwer Lytton.
There is in this world infinitely more joy than pain to be shared, if you will only take your share when it is set before you. Ruskin.
There is little hope of equity where rebellion reigns. Sir P. Sidney.
There is little wisdom in knowing that every man must be up and doing, and that all mankind are made dependent on one another. Dickens.
There is more concern nowadays to interpret interpretations than to interpret things, and more books about books than about any other subject. We do nothing but expound one another. (?)
There is more danger in a reserved and silent friend than in a noisy babbling enemy. L'Estrange.
There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved. Pr.
There is more serfdom in England now than at any time since the Conquest. Disraeli.
There is music in all things, if men had ears. 5 Byron.
There is need, bitter need, to bring back, if we may, into men's minds, that to live is nothing unless to live be to know Him by whom we live, and that He is not to be known amidst the hurry of crowds and crash of innovation, but in solitary places, and out of the glowing intelligence which He gave to men of old. Ruskin.
There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of the web of God, but always circular power returning into itself. Emerson.
There is never but one opportunity of a kind. Thoreau.
There is no better counsellor than time. Pr.
There is no better sign of a brave mind than a 10 hard hand. 2 Hen. VI., iv. 2.
There is no better type of a perfectly free creature than the common house-fly. Ruskin.
There is no bridge from one being to another, each is a self, each rests on itself, and wills only itself, knows only itself, understands only itself. Hamerling.
There is no brotherhood possible, at any rate stable, between man and man but a brotherhood of labour. Ed.
There is no cause why one man's nose is longer than another's, but because that God pleases to have it so. Sterne.
There is no class of men so difficult to be 15 managed in a state, as those whose intentions are honest, but whose consciences are bewitched. Napoleon.
There is no communion possible among men who believe only in hearsays. Carlyle.
There is no contingency, and what to us seems only blind chance is an efflux from the depths of being. Schiller.
There is no courage but in innocence; no constancy but in an honest cause. Southern.
There is no creature so lonely as the dweller in the intellect. W. Winter.
There is no darkness but ignorance. Twelfth 20 Night, iv. 2.
There is no darkness unto the conscience, which can see without light. Sir T. Browne.
There is no dearth of charity in the world in giving, but there is comparatively little exercised in thinking and speaking. Sir P. Sidney.
There is no defence against reproach but obscurity. Addison.
There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. Emerson.
There is no despair so absolute as that which 25 comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope. George Eliot.