This low man seeks a little thing to do, / Sees it and does it; / This high man, with a great thing to pursue, / Dies ere he knows it. Browning.

This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with 5 them. Said of Jesus by the Jews in way of reproach.

This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas, / The past, the future—two eternities. Moore.

This nothing's more than matter. Ham., iv. 5.

This of old is sure, / That change of toil is toil's sufficient cure. Lewis Morris.

This one fact the world hates—that the soul becomes. Emerson.

This present is a ruinous and ruining world. 10 Carlyle.

This she knows in joys and woes, / That saints will aid if men will call; / For the blue sky bends over all. Coleridge.

This so solid-seeming world is, after all, but an air-image, our Me the only reality; and Nature, with its thousand-fold production and destruction, but the reflex of our own inward force, the "Phantasy of our Dream," or, what the earth-spirit in "Faust" names it, "the living visible garment of God." Carlyle.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but knew what to do with it. Emerson.

This was a man. Jul. Cæs., v. 5.

This was the most unkindest cut of all. Jul. 15 Cæs., iii. 2.

This will prove a brave kingdom to me, where I shall have my music for nothing. Tempest, iii. 2.

This world belongs to the energetic. Emerson.

This world is a busy scene, and man a creature destined for a progressive struggle. Burns.

This world is all a fleeting show, / For man's illusion given: / The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, / Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, / There's nothing true but heaven. Moore.

This world is full of fools, and he who would 20 not wish to see one must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass. Boileau.

This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me! (uncle Toby to the fly). Sterne.

This world, where much is to be done and little to be known. Johnson.

Thistles and thorns prick sore, but evil tongues prick more. Dut. Pr.

Tho' men may bicker with the things they love, / They would not make them laughable in all eyes, / Not while they loved them. Tennyson.

Tho' world on world in myriad myriads roll / 25 Round us, each with different powers, / And other form of life than ours, / What know we greater than the soul? Tennyson.

Those are not empty-hearted whose low sound / Reverbs no hollowness. Lear, i. 1.

Those are often raised into the greatest transports of mirth who are subject to the greatest depressions of melancholy. Addison.

Those deserve to be doubly laughed at that are peevish and angry for nothing to no purpose. L'Estrange.

Those faces which have charmed us the most escape us the soonest. Scott.

Those faults conscience has not strength to 30 prevent, it seldom has justice enough to accuse. Goldsmith.

Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, / Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel. Ham., i. 3.

Those holy fields / Over whose acres walked those blessèd feet / Which, fourteen hundred years ago were nailed, / For our advantage, on the bitter cross. 1 Hen. IV., i. 1.

Those of us who are worth anything spend our manhood in unlearning the follies or expiating the mistakes of our youth. Shelley.

Those only are beautiful which, like the planets, have a steady, lambent light—are luminous, not sparkling. Longfellow.

Those only are despicable who fear to be 35 despised. La Roche.

Those only deserve a monument who do not need one. Hazlitt.

Those only obtain love, for the most part, who seek it not. Goethe.

Those only who know little can be said to know anything. The greater the knowledge the greater the doubt. Goethe.

Those people who are always improving never become great. Greatness is an eminence, the ascent to which is steep and lofty, and which a man must seize on at once by natural boldness and vigour, and not by patient, wary steps. Hazlitt.

Those persons who do most good are least 40 conscious of it. Ward Beecher.

Those tender tears that humanise the soul. Thomson.

Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. Colton.

Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable, and should be secured, because they seldom return. Bacon.

Those that dare lose a day are dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, desperate. Bishop Hall.

Those that fly may fight again, / Which he can 45 never do that's slain. Butler.

Those that have loved longest love best. Johnson.

Those that think must govern those that toil. Goldsmith.

Those that with haste will make a mighty fire, / Begin with weak straws. Jul. Cæs., i. 3.

Those who are bent to do wickedly will never want tempters to urge them on. Tillotson.

Those who are elevated enough in life to reason 50 and to reflect, yet low enough to keep clear of the venal contagion of a court—these are a nation's strength! Burns.

Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world. Landor.

Those who attempt to level never equalise; they load the edifice of society by setting up in the air what the solidity of the structure requires to be on the ground. Burke.

Those who attempt to reason us out of our follies, begin at the wrong end, since the attempt naturally presupposes us capable of reason. Goldsmith.

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. J. M. Barrie.

Those who can sit at home and gloat over their thousands in silent satisfaction are generally found to do it in plain clothes. Goldsmith.

Those who carry much upon their clothes 5 are remarked for having but little in their pockets. Goldsmith.

Those who do nothing generally take to shouting. Pr.

Those who dwell in fear dwell next door to hate; and I think it is the cowardice of women that makes them such intense haters. Mrs. Jameson.

Those who educate children well are more to be honoured than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well. Arist.

Those who first study fate, and say, Fate is the only cause of fortune and misfortune, terrify themselves. Hitopadesa.

Those who give the first shock to a state are 10 naturally the first to be overwhelmed in its ruin. The fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by the man who was the first to set it a-going; he only troubles the waters for another's net. Montaigne.

Those who have even studied good books may still be fools. Hitopadesa.

Those who injure one party to benefit another are quite as unjust as if they converted the property of others to their own benefit. Cic.

Those who make the best use of their time have none to spare. Pr.

Those who make the worst use of their time most complain of its shortness. La Bruyère.

Those who only run after little things will not 15 go far. J. M. Barrie.

Those who profess most are ever the least sincere. Sheridan.

Those who regularly undertake to cultivate friendship find ingratitude generally repays their endeavours. Arliss.

Those who seek for something more than happiness in this world must not complain if happiness be not their portion. Froude.

Those who seem to doubt or deny us what is justly ours, let us either pity their prejudice or despise their judgment. Burns.

Those who set their minds to deny things, and 20 are fond of pulling things to pieces, must be treated like deniers-of-motion; one need only keep incessantly walking up and down before them in as composed a manner as possible. Goethe.

Those who trust us educate us. George Eliot.

Those who will not be ruled by the rudder must be ruled by the rock. Cornish Pr.

Those who would make us feel must feel themselves. Churchill.

Thou art Heaven's tasker; and thy God requires / The purest of thy flour, as well as of thy fires. Quarles.

Thou art ignorant of what thou art, and much 25 more ignorant of what is fit for thee. Thomas à Kempis.

Thou art in the end what thou art. Goethe.

Thou art not alone if thou have faith. There is a communion of saints, unseen, yet not unreal, accompanying and brotherlike embracing thee, so thou be worthy. Carlyle.

Thou art the ruin of the noblest man / That ever lived in the tide of times. Jul. Cæs., iii. 1.

Thou art thyself to all eternity. D. G. Rossetti.

Thou awakest us to delight in thy praise; for 30 thou madest us for thyself, and our heart is restless until it repose in thee. St. Augustine.

Thou bear'st thy heavy riches but a journey, / And death unloads thee. Meas. for Meas., iii. 1.

Thou canst not be entirely free till thou hast attained to such a mastery as entirely to subdue and deny thyself. Thomas à Kempis.

Thou dost not strive, O Sun, but, meek and still, / Thou dost the type of Jesus best fulfil, / A noiseless revelation in the sky. F. W. Faber.

Thou hast given me / A world of earthly blessings to my soul, / If sympathy of love unite our thoughts. 2 Hen. VI., i. 1.

Thou hast not what others have, and others 35 have not the gift thou hast. From this imperfection springs sociability. Gellert.

Thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the world. John Selden.

Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating, as wiser by always reading. Fuller.

Thou mayest be more prodigal of praise when thou writest a letter than when thou speakest in presence. Fuller.

Thou must learn to break thine own will in many things if thou wilt have peace and concord with others. Thomas à Kempis.

Thou must live unto another if thou wilt live 40 unto thyself. Sen.

Thou must renounce; thou must abstain! is the eternal song which sounds in the ears of every one, which every hour is singing to us all our life long. Goethe.

Thou, Nature, art my goddess; to thy law / My services are bound. King Lear, i. 2.

Thou of an independent mind, / With soul resolved, with soul resigned; / Prepared Power's proudest frown to brave, / Who wilt not be, nor have a slave; / Virtue alone who dost revere, / Thy own reproach alone dost fear, / Approach this shrine (Independence), and worship here. Burns.

Thou shall hear no more complaints from me; thou shalt hear only what happens to the wanderer. Goethe.

"Thou shalt" is written upon life in characters 45 as legible as "Thou shalt not." Carlyle.

Thou shalt look outward, not inward. Carlyle.

Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. Bible.

Thou, too curious ear, that fain / Wouldst thread the maze of Harmony, / Content thee with one simple strain, / ... Till thou art duly trained, and taught / The concord sweet of Love divine. Keble.

Thou who didst the stars and sunbeams know, / Self-schooled, self-scanned, self-honoured, self-secure, / Didst walk on earth unguessed at. M. Arnold on Shakespeare.

Thou! why, thou wilt quarrel with a man that hath a hair more or a hair less in his beard than thou hast. Thou wilt quarrel with a man for cracking nuts, having no other reason but because thou hast hazel eyes.... Thy head is full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat. Rom. and Jul., iii. 1.

Thou wilt never sell thy life, or any part of thy life, in a satisfactory manner. Give it like a royal heart; let the price of it be nothing; then hast thou in a certain sense got all for it. Carlyle.

Thou would'st as soon go kindle fire with snow, / As seek to quench the fire of love with words. Two Gent. of Verona, ii. 7.

Thou wouldst do little for God if the devil 5 were dead. Sc. Pr.

Though a man may become learned by another's learning, he never can be wise but by his own wisdom. (?)

Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him. Bible.

Though all his works abroad, / The heart benevolent and kind / The most resembles God. Burns.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues. Quinct.

Though an honourable title may be conveyed 10 to posterity, yet the ennobling qualities which are the soul of greatness are a sort of incommunicable perfections, and cannot be transferred. (?)

Though gentle, yet not dull, / Strong without rage, without o'erflowing, full. Denham.

Though great the force of little words, / Sped in an evil hour, / As great the might, and great the good, / Of one in Wisdom's power. M. W. Wood.

Though He comes in many shapes, / His love is throbbing in them all, / And from His love no soul escapes, / And from His mercy none can fall. Dr. W. Smith.

Though he says nothing, he pays it with thinking, like the Welshman's jackdaw. Pr.

Though He slay me, I shall yet trust in Him. 15 Bible.

Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry. John Wesley.

Though justice be thy plea, consider this—/ That in the course of justice none of us / Should see salvation. Mer. of Venice, iv. 1.

Though last, not least. Jul. Cæs., iii. 1.

Though little fire grows great with little wind, / Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire and all. Tam. of Shrew, ii. 1.

Though losses and crosses / Be lessons right 20 severe, / There's wit there ye'll get there, / Ye'll find nae ither where. Burns.

Though lost to sight, to memory dear. Anon.

Though love cannot plant morals in the human breast, it cultivates them when there. Goldsmith.

Though much is taken, much abides. Tennyson.

Though old the thought and oft repress'd, / 'Tis his at last who says it best. Lowell.

Though peace be in every man's wishes, yet 25 the qualifications and predispositions necessary for procuring and preserving it are the care of very few. Thomas à Kempis.

Though scorn's malignant glances / Prove him poorest of his clan, / He's the noble—who advances / Freedom, and the cause of Man! C. Swain.

Though stars in skies may disappear, / And angry tempests gather, / The happy hour may soon be near / That brings us pleasant weather. Burns.

Though the cat winks a while, yet sure she is not blind. Pr.

Though the heavens fall, the orbs of truth and justice fall not. J. Burroughs.

Though the world exists for thought, thought 30 is daunted in presence of the world. Emerson.

Though this be madness, yet there is method in't. Ham., ii. 2.

Though thousands hate physic, because of the cost, / Yet thousands it helpeth, that else should be lost. Thomas Tusser.

Though we lose our fortune, yet we should not lose our patience. Pr.

Though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps / At wisdom's gate; and to simplicity / Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill where no ill seems. Milton.

Though you can fret me, you cannot play upon 35 me. Ham., iii. 2.

Though you had the wisdom of Newton or the wit of Swift, garrulousness would lower you in the eyes of your fellow-creatures. Burns.

Though you stroke the nettle ever so kindly, yet it will sting you. Pr.

Thought and science follow their own law of development; they are slowly elaborated in the growth and forward pressure of humanity, in what Shakespeare calls ... The prophetic soul / Of the wide world dreaming on things to come. Matthew Arnold.

Thought discovered is the more possessed. Young.

Thought disturbs the world, and thought of 40 God / Unsettles most of all; for it is life, / And only life can comprehend its force, / Or guide it. Dr. W. Smith.

Thought expands, but lames; action animates, but narrows. Goethe.

Thought is deeper than all speech; / Feeling deeper than all thought; / Souls to souls can never teach / What unto themselves was taught. C. P. Cranch.

Thought is free. As You Like It, i. 3.

Thought is like opium: it can intoxicate us while it leaves us broad awake. Amiel.

Thought is silence. Sheridan. 45

Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it. Emerson.

Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first. It rises in thought, to the end that it may be uttered and acted. The more profound the thought, the more burdensome. Always in proportion to the depth of its sense does it knock importunately at the gates of the soul, to be spoken, to be done. Emerson.

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel. Hare.

Thought means life, since those who do not think do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man. A. B. Alcott.

Thought once awakened does not again slumber. Carlyle.

Thought takes man out of servitude into freedom. Emerson.

Thought, true labour of any kind, highest 5 virtue itself, is it not the daughter of pain? Born as out of the black whirlwind; true effort in fact, as of a captive struggling to free itself—that is thought. Carlyle.

Thought without reverence is barren, perhaps poisonous; at best dies, like cookery, with the day that called it forth. Carlyle.

Thought works in silence, so does virtue. Carlyle.

Thoughtlessness is precisely the chief public calamity of our day. Ruskin.

Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried. Shakespeare.

Thoughts are not always at our beck; we 10 must wait till they come. Schopenhauer.

Thoughts (are) the slaves of life, and life time's fool; / And time, that takes survey of all the world, / Must have a stop. 1 Hen. IV., v. 4.

Thoughts are your own; your words are so no more. Delaune.

Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntary opened. Emerson.

Thoughts shut up want air, and spoil, like bales unopened to the sun. Young.

Thoughts take up no room. Jeremy Collier. 15

Thoughts that breathe and words that burn. Gray.

Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. Wordsworth.

Thoughts that voluntary move / Harmonious numbers. Milton.

Thoughts we have had and pictures we have seen can be recalled by the mind; but the heart is not so obliging; it does not reproduce our pleasing emotions. Goethe.

Threaten the threatener, and outface the 20 brow / Of bragging horror; so shall inferior eyes, / That borrow their behaviours from the great, / Grow great by your example, and put on / The dauntless spirit of resolution. King John, v. 1.

Threatened folks live long. Pr.

Three may keep a secret—if two of them are dead. Ben. Franklin.

Three poets in three distant ages born, / Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. / The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd; / The next, in majesty; in both, the last. / The force of Nature could no further go; / To make a third, she join'd the former two. Dryden.

Three removes are as bad as a fire. Ben. Franklin.

Three things drive a man out of doors—smoke, 25 a leaking roof, and a scolding wife. Pr.

Three things that enrich genius are contentment of mind, the cherishing of good thoughts, and the exercise of memory. Southey.

Three thousand miles of ocean space are less impressive than three miles bounded by rugged mountain walls. John Burroughs.

Three women and a goose make a market. It., Dut., and Dan. Pr.

Thrice happy he who without rigour saves. Thomson.

Thrice happy life that's from ambition free. 30 Allan Ramsay.

Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just; / And he but naked, though locked up in steel, / Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted. 2 Hen. VI., iii. 2.

Thrift must begin with little savings. Pr.

Thrifty be, but not covetous. George Herbert.

Through certain humours or passions, and from temper merely, a man may be completely miserable, let his outward circumstances be ever so fortunate. Lord Shaftesbury.

Through every star, through every grass 35 blade, and most through every living soul, the glory of a present God still beams. Carlyle.

Through steep ascents, through strait and rugged ways, / Ourselves to glory's lofty seats we raise: / In vain he hopes to reach the bless'd abode / Who leaves the narrow path for the more easy road. Boscan.

Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear; / Robes and furr'd gowns hide all. King Lear, iv. 6.

Through "the ruins of a falling era," not once missing his footing. Carlyle of his father.

Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling, and spending their lives like serfs. Thoreau.

Through wisdom is an house builded; and by 40 understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches. Bible.

Throw no gift again at the giver's head; / Better is half a loaf than no bread. Pr.

Throw physic to the dogs; I'll none of it. Macb., v. 3.

Thu' nur das Rechte in deinen Sachen, / Das Andre wird sich von selber machen—In thy affairs do thou only what is right, the rest will follow of itself. Goethe.

Thursday come, and the week's gone. Pr.

Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure; 45 / Married in haste, we may repent at leisure. Congreve.

Thus the native hue of resolution / Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought. Ham., iii. 1.

Thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges. Twelfth Night, iv. 2.

Thus we play the fools with the time; and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds, and mock us. 2 Hen. IV., ii. 2.

Thus when I shun Scylla, your father, I fall into Charybdis, your mother. Mer. of Venice, iii. 5.

Thus with the year / Seasons return; but not 50 to me returns / Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, / Or sight of vernal bloom or summer's rose, / Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; / But cloud instead, and ever-during dark / Surrounds me. Milton.

Thy actions, and thy actions alone, determine thy worth. Fichte.

Thy friend put in thy bosom; wear his eyes / Still in thy heart, that he may see what's there. / If cause require, thou art his sacrifice.... / But love is lost; the way of friendship's gone. George Herbert.

Thy hand is never the worse for doing thy own work. Pr.

Thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women. Bible.

Thy nature / It is too full of the milk of human 5 kindness / To catch the nearest way. Macb., i. 5.

Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power. Bible.

Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike, / One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike. Ben. Jonson.

Thy secret is thy prisoner. Pr.

Thy soul was like a star and dwelt apart. Wordsworth.

Thy spirit, Independence, let me share; / Lord 10 of the lion-heart and eagle-eye! / Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, / Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky! Smollett.

Thy sum of duty let two words contain; / Be humble and be just. Prior.

Thy true beginning and Father is in heaven, whom with the bodily eye thou shalt never behold, but only with the spiritual. Carlyle.

Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought. 2 Hen. IV., iv. 4.

Tibi nullum periculum esse perspicio, quod quidem sejunctum sit ab omnium interitu—I can see no danger to which you are exposed, other than that which threatens the destruction of us all. Cic.

Tickle me, Bobby, and I'll tickle you. Pr. 15

Tie up thy fears. / He that forbears / To suit and serve his need, / Deserves his load. George Herbert.

Tie your camel up as best you can, and then trust it to Providence. Mahomet.

Tief und ernstlich denkende Menschen haben gegen das Publikum einen bösen Stand—Deeply and earnestly thoughtful men stand on an unfavourable footing with the public. Goethe.

Tief zu denken und schön zu empfinden ist Vielen gegeben; Dichter ist nur, wer schön sagt was er dacht' und empfand—To think deeply and to feel beautifully is given to many; only he who expresses beautifully what he has thought and felt is a poet. Geibel.

Tiens à la vérité—Stick to the truth. M. 20

Tiens à ta foy—Hold to thy faith. M.

Tiers état—The third estate; the commons. Fr.

Till the hand ... from reed or string / Draws out faint echoes of the voice Divine / That bring God nearer to a faithless world. Lewis Morris.

Time and chance can do nothing for those who will do nothing for themselves. Providence itself can scarcely save a people who are not prepared to make a struggle for their safety. Canning.

Time and I against any two. Philip II. 25

Time and space are not God, but creations of God; with God, as it is a universal Here, so is it an everlasting Now. Carlyle.

Time and thinking tame the strongest grief. Pr.

Time antiquates antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all things. Sir Thomas Browne.

Time, as it is, cannot stay; / Nor again, as it was, can it be; / Disappearing and passing away / Are the world, and the ages, and we. Lord Lytton.

Time brings roses. Pr. 30

Time conquers all, and we must time obey. Pope.

Time consecrates; and what is grey with age becomes religion. Schiller.

Time destroys the speculations of man, but it confirms the judgment of nature. Cic.

Time devours all things. Pr.

Time dissipates to shining ether the solid 35 angularity of facts. Emerson.

Time drinketh up the essence of every great and noble action which ought to be performed, and is delayed in the execution. Hitopadesa.

Time elaborately thrown away. Young.

Time gives prudence; the lord of time, inspiration; the one is a reward, the other a gift. Börne.

Time has a strange contracting influence on many a wide-spread fame. Carlyle.

Time has only a relative existence. Carlyle. 40

Time incessantly hasteneth on; he seeks for perfection; if thou art true, thou canst cast fetters eternal on him. Schiller.

Time is a continual over-dropping of moments, which fall down one upon the other and evaporate. Jean Paul.

Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does. Goethe.

Time is a wonder-working god. In one hour many thousand grains of sand run out, so quickly do thoughts stir in the minds of men. Schiller.

Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I 45 drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom, and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper, fish in the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars. Thoreau.

Time is but the measure of the difficulty of a conception. Pure thought has scarcely any need of time, since it perceives the two ends of an idea almost the same moment. Amiel.

Time is eternity, / Pregnant with all eternity can give. Young.

Time is generally the best doctor. Ovid.

Time is incalculably long, and every day is a vessel into which very much may be poured, if one will really fill it up. Goethe.

Time is like a fashionable host, / That slightly 50 shakes his parting guest by the hand; / And with his arms outstretched, as he would fly, / Grasps in the comer. Troil. and Cress., iii. 3.

Time is like a river, in which metals and solid substances are sunk, while chaff and straws swim upon the surface. Bacon.

Time is money. Pr.

Time is never more misspent than while we declaim against the want of it. Zimmermann.

Time is of more value than type, and the wear and tear of temper than an extra page of index. R. H. Busk.

Time is the chrysalis of eternity. Jean Paul.

Time is the life of the soul. If not this, then tell me what is time? Longfellow.

Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it, and, like the flash of the lightning, at once exists and expires. Colton.

Time is the nurse and breeder of all good. Two 5 Gent. of Ver., iii. 1.

Time is the old Justice that examines all offenders. As You Like It, iv. 1.

Time is the stuff life is made of. Ben. Franklin.

Time is the wheel-track in which we roll on towards eternity. W. v. Humboldt.

Time is trouble and the author of destruction; he seizeth even from afar. Hitopadesa.

Time reposes on eternity; the truly great and 10 transcendental has its basis and substance in eternity; stands revealed to us as eternity in a vesture of time. Carlyle.

Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides: / Who cover faults, at last shame them derides. King Lear, i. 1.

Time, that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities. Colton.

Time the shuttle drives, but you / Give to every thread its hue, / And elect your destiny. W. H. Burleigh.

Time trieth truth. Pr.

Time was when a Christian used to apologise 15 for being happy. But the day has always been when he ought to apologise for being miserable. Prof. Drummond.

Time wasted is existence; used, is life. Young.

Time, when well husbanded, is like a cultivated field, of which a few acres produce more of what is useful to life, than extensive provinces, even of the richest soil, when overrun with weeds and brambles. Hume.

Time, which deadens hatred, secretly strengthens love; and in the hour of threatened separation its growth is manifested at once in radiant brightness. Jean Paul.

Time will discover everything to posterity; it is a babbler, and speaks even when no question is put. Euripides.

Time works great changes. Pr. 20

Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow; / Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. Byron.

Time's best gift to us is serenity. Bovee.

Time's noblest offspring is the last. Berkeley.

Time's the king of men; / He's both their parent and he is their grave, / And gives them what he will, not what they crave. Pericles, ii. 3.

Time's waters will not ebb nor stay; / Power 25 cannot change them, but Love may; / What cannot be, Love counts it done. Keble.

Timely advised, the coming evil shun; / Better not do the deed, than weep it done. Prior.

Timeo Danaos, et dona ferentes—I distrust the Greeks, even when they bring gifts. Virg.

Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. Colton.

Timet pudorem—He fears shame. M.

Timidi mater non flet—The mother of the coward 30 has no occasion to weep. Pr.

Timidus se vocat cautum, parcum sordidus—The coward calls himself cautious, the miser thrifty. Pub. Syr.

Timor Domini fons vitæ—The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life. M.

Tinsel reflects the sun, but warms nothing. Prof. Drummond.

Tired Nature's sweet restorer, balmy Sleep! / He, like the world, his ready visit pays / Where Fortune smiles; the wretched he forsakes: / Swift on his downy pinions flies from woe, / And lights on lids unsullied with a tear. Young.

Tirer le diable par la queue—To be in great 35 straits (lit. to pull the devil by the tail).

Tirer les marrons du feu avec la patte du chat—To make a cat's paw of any one (lit. to take the chestnuts from the fire with a cat's paw). La Fontaine.

Tirez le rideau; la farce est jouée—Draw the curtain; the farce is played out. Last words of Rabelais.

'Tis a consummation / Devoutly to be wished. Ham., iii. 1.

'Tis a cruelty / To load a falling man. Henry VIII., v. 2.

'Tis a folly to fret; grief's no comfort. Pr. 40

'Tis a good ill that comes alone. Pr.

'Tis a kind of good deed to say well: / And yet words are no deeds. Henry VIII., iii. 2.

'Tis a lucky day, boy, and we'll do good deeds on't. Winter's Tale, iii. 3.

'Tis a physic that's bitter to sweet end. Meas. for Meas., iv. 6.

'Tis a question whether adversity or prosperity 45 makes the most poets. Farquhar.

'Tis a vile thing to die ... / When men are unprepar'd and look not for it. Rich. III., iii. 2.

'Tis all one to be a witch as to be counted one. The Witch of Edmonton.

'Tis always a delightful thing to see the human understanding following its imprescriptible rights in spite of all hindrances, and hurrying eagerly towards the utmost possible agreement between ideas and objects. Goethe.

'Tis an economy of time to read old and famed books. Emerson.

'Tis an old maxim in the schools / That flattery's 50 the food of fools; / Yet now and then your men of wit / Will condescend to take a bit. Swift.

'Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud; / 'Tis virtue that doth make them most admired; / 'Tis government that makes them seem divine. 3 Hen. VI., i. 4.

'Tis better to be lowly born, / And range with humble livers in content, / Than to be perked up in a glistering grief, / And wear a golden sorrow. Hen. VIII., ii. 2.

'Tis better to cry over your goods than after them. Pr.

'Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all. Tennyson.

'Tis but a base, ignoble mind / That mounts no higher than a bird can soar. 2 Hen. VI., ii. 1.

'Tis but lame kindness that does its work by halves. Blair.

'Tis, by comparison, an easy task / Earth to despise; but to converse with heaven—/ This is not easy. Wordsworth.

'Tis certainly much easier for a man to restrain himself from talking at all, than to enter into discourse without saying more than becomes him. Thomas à Kempis.

'Tis day still while the sun shines. Pr. 5

'Tis death to me to be at enmity; / I hate it, and desire all good men's love. Rich. III., ii. 1.

'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, / And robes the mountain in its azure hue. Campbell.

'Tis education forms the common mind, / Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined. Pope.

'Tis ever common that men are merriest when they are from home. Hen. V., i. 2.

'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear; / 10 Heaven were not heaven if we knew what it were. Suckling.

'Tis God / Diffused through all that doth make all one whole. Coleridge.

'Tis heaven alone that is given away; / 'Tis only God may be had for the asking. Lowell.

'Tis impossible you should take true root, but by the fair weather that you make yourself; it is needful that you frame the season for your own harvest. Much Ado, i. 3.

'Tis, in fact, utter folly to ask whether a person has anything from himself, or whether he has it from others, whether he operates by himself, or operates by means of others. The main point is to have a great will, and skill and perseverance to carry it out. All else is indifferent. Goethe.

'Tis life itself to love. Goethe. 15

'Tis life reveals to each his genuine worth. Goethe.

'Tis little we can do for each other. Emerson.

'Tis long since death had the majority. Blair.

'Tis mad idolatry / To make the service greater than the god. Troil. and Cress., ii. 2.

'Tis my opinion 'tis necessary to be happy, 20 that we think no place more agreeable than that where we are. Lady Montagu.

'Tis my vocation, Hal; 'tis no sin for a man to labour in his vocation. 1 Hen. IV., i. 2.

'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, / But the joint force and full result of all. Pope.

'Tis not always necessary that truth should be embodied; it is sufficient if it hovers about in the spirit, producing harmony; if, like the chime of bells, it vibrates through the air solemnly and kindly. Goethe.

'Tis not enough to keep the feeble up, / But to support them after. Tim. of Athens, i. 1.

'Tis not enough when swarming faults are 25 writ, / That here and there are scatter'd sparks of wit. Dryden.

'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; / Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do. Pope.

'Tis not in mortals to command success, / But we'll do more, Sempronius—we'll deserve it. Addison.

'Tis not prudent, 'tis not well, to meet / With purposed misconception any man, / Let him be who he may. Goethe.

'Tis not so above: / There is no shuffling; there the action lies / In its true nature. Ham., iii. 3.

'Tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but 30 the excess. Selden.

'Tis not the whole of life to live, / Nor all of death to die. J. Montgomery.

'Tis not want, but rather abundance, that creates avarice. Montaigne.

'Tis not what man does which exalts him, but what man would do. Browning.

'Tis not worth while quarrelling with the world, simply to afford it some amusement. Goethe.

'Tis now the very witching time of night, / 35 When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out / Contagion to this world. Ham., iii. 2.

'Tis only humanity as a whole that perceives Nature, only men collectively that live the life of man. Goethe.

'Tis only in Rome one can duly prepare one's self for Rome. Goethe.

'Tis only in the forehead Nature plants the watchful eye; the back, without defence, must find its shield in man's fidelity. Schiller.

'Tis only noble to be good; / Kind hearts are more than coronets, / And simple faith than Norman blood. Tennyson.

'Tis only strict precision of thought that confers 40 facility of expression. Schiller.

'Tis only woman's womanly beauty that makes a true queen; wherever she appears, and by her mere presence, she asserts her sovereignty. Schiller.

'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print; / A book's a book, although there's nothing in't. Byron.

'Tis rashness to conclude affairs in a lost condition because some crosses have baulked your expectations. Thomas à Kempis.

'Tis said fantastic ocean doth unfold the likeness of whate'er on land is seen. Wordsworth.

'Tis said that virtue dwells sublime / On 45 rugged cliffs, full hard to climb; / ... But mortal ne'er her form may see, / Unless his restless energy / Breaks forth in sweat that gains the goal, / The perfect manhood of the soul. Simonides.

'Tis strange; / And oftentimes to win us to our harm, / The instruments of darkness tell us truths; / Win us with honest trifles, to betray 's, / In deepest consequence. Macb., i. 3.

'Tis sweet to hear of heroes dead, / To know them still alive, / But sweeter if we earn their bread, / And in us they survive. Thomson.

'Tis the curse of service; preferment goes by letter and affection, not by the old gradation where each second stood heir to the first. Othello, i. 1.

'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; / 'Tis heaven itself that points out an hereafter, / And intimates eternity to man. Addison.

'Tis the fate of the noblest soul to sigh vainly 50 for a reflection of itself. Goethe.

'Tis the fine souls who serve us, and not what is called fine society. Emerson.

'Tis the fulness of man that runs over into objects, and makes his Bibles and Shakespeares and Homers so great. Emerson.

'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences, or asides, hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear. Emerson.

'Tis the mind that makes the body rich; / And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, / So honour peereth in the meanest habit. Tam. of Shrew, iv. 3.

'Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises. 'Tis the vulgar great who come dizened with gold and jewels. Emerson.

'Tis the part of a poor spirit to undervalue 5 himself and blush. George Herbert.

'Tis the same to him who wears a shoe as if the whole earth were thatched with leather. Persian Pr.

'Tis the sublime of man, / Our noontide majesty, to know ourselves / Parts and proportions of one wondrous whole! / This fraternises man, this constitutes / Our charities and bearings. Coleridge.

'Tis this (religion), my friend, that streaks our morning bright. Thomson. (?)

'Tis too much proved that, with devotion's visage / And pious action, we do sugar o'er / The devil himself. Ham., iii. 1.

'Tis well for once to do everything one can do, 10 in order to have the merit of knowing one's self more intimately. Goethe.

'Tis well to be merry and wise, / 'Tis well to be honest and true; / 'Tis well to be off with the old love / Before you are on with the new. (?)

'Tis when sovereigns build, carters are kept employed. Schiller.

'Tis with our judgments as our watches; none / Go just alike, yet each believes his own. Pope.

Tit for tat is fair play. Pr.

Titles and mottoes to books are like escutcheons 15 and dignities in the hands of a king. The wise sometimes condescend to accept of them; but none but a fool would imagine them of any real importance. We ought to depend upon intrinsic merit, and not the slender helps of the title. Goldsmith.

Titles of honour add not to his worth who is himself an honour to his title. John Ford.

Titles of honour conferred upon such as have no personal merit are at best but the royal stamp set upon base metal. (?)

Titus, amor et deliciæ humani generis—Titus, the delight and darling of the human race. Suetonius.

To a child in confinement its mother's knee is a binding-post. Hitopadesa.

To a dog the choicest thing in the world is a 20 dog: to an ox, an ox; to an ass, an ass; and to a sow, a sow. Schopenhauer.

To a father waxing old nothing is dearer than a daughter. Euripides.

To a father, when his child dies, the future dies; to a child when his parents die, the past dies. Auerbach.

To a new truth nothing is more mischievous than an old error. Goethe.

To a poet nothing can be useless. Johnson.

To accuse a man of lying is as much as to say 25 he is brave towards God and a coward towards man. Montaigne.

To achieve great things a man must so live as if he had never to die. Vauvenargues.

To acquire certainty in the appreciation of things exactly as they are, and to know them in their due subordination, and in their proper relation to one another—this is really the highest enjoyment to which we ought to aspire, whether in the sphere of art, of nature, or of life. Goethe.

To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome. Goethe.

To act with a purpose is what raises man above the brutes; to invent with a purpose, to imitate with a purpose, is that which distinguishes genius from the petty artists who only invent to invent, and imitate to imitate. Lessing.

To adhere to what is set down in them, and 30 appropriate to one's self what one can for moral strengthening and culture, is the only edifying purpose to which we can turn the Gospels. Goethe.

To affect a quality is just to confess that you have not got it. Schopenhauer.

To aim at excellence, our reputation, our friends, and our all must be ventured; by aiming only at mediocrity, we run no risk and we do little service. Goldsmith.

To an ill-conditioned being all pleasure is like delicate wine in a mouth embittered with gall. Schopenhauer.

To answer a question so as to admit of no reply, is the test of a man. Emerson.

To appear well-bred, a man must actually be 35 so. Goethe.

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us. Goethe.

To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct, either by the censures of the one or the admonitions of the other. Diogenes.

To attack vices in the abstract without touching persons, may be safe fighting indeed, but it is fighting with shadows. Junius.

To banish care, scare away sorrow, and soothe pain is the business of the poet, or singer (Sänger). Bodenstedt.

To be a good poet and painter genius is required, 40 and this cannot be communicated. Goethe.

To be a man's own fool is bad enough; but the vain man is everybody's. William Penn.

To be a philosopher is but a retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's. Cowley.

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live, according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically. Thoreau.

To be a poet is to have a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge. George Eliot.

To be able simply to say of a man he has character, is not only saying much of him, but extolling him; for this is a rarity which excites respect and wonder. Goethe.

To be able to be silent shows power; to be willing to be silent shows forbearance (Nachsicht); to be compelled to be silent shows the spirit of the time. Weber.

To be acquainted with the merit of a Ministry, we need only observe the condition of the people. Junius.

To be always lamenting and always complaining without raising and nerving one's self to resignation, is to lose at once both earth and heaven, and have nothing over but a watery sentimentalism. Schopenhauer.

To be always thinking about your manners is 5 not the way to make them good; because the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself. Whately.

To be an enthusiast is to be the worthiest of affection, the noblest and the best that a mortal can be. Wieland.

To be angry is to avenge the faults of others upon ourselves. Pope.

To be as good as our fathers, we must be better. Imitation is not discipleship. When some one sent a cracked plate to China to have a set made, every piece in the new set had a crack in it. Wendell Phillips.

To be bodily tranquil, to speak little, and to digest without effort are absolutely necessary to grandeur of mind or of presence, or to proper development of genius. Balzac.

To be born in a duck's nest in a farmyard is of 10 no consequence to a bird if it is hatched from a swan's egg. Hans Andersen.

To be born with a silver spoon in the mouth. Pr.

To be borne seems to many ever more kingly than to bear; and a ship carried with the breeze is, in their eyes, a lordlier spectacle than when it stands against it, victoriously braving it. Ed.

To be disobedient through temptation is human sin; but to be disobedient for the sake of disobedience, fiendish sin. To be obedient for the sake of success in conduct is human virtue; to be obedient for the sake of obedience, angelic virtue. Ruskin.

To be ever beloved, one must be ever agreeable. Lady Montagu.

To be free is not to do nothing, but to be the 15 sole arbiter of what we do and what we leave undone. La Bruyère.

To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue. Hannah More.

To be great is to be misunderstood. Emerson.

To be great one must be positive, and gain strength through foes. Donn Piatt.

To be guided in the right path by those who know better than they is the first "right of man," compared with which all other rights are as nothing. Carlyle.

To be happy is not the purpose of our being, 20 but to deserve happiness. Fichte.

To be happy means to be sufficient for one's self. Arist.

To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand. Ham., ii. 2.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches; and therefore every man endeavours with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself. Johnson.

To be ill thought of is sometimes for thy good, ... if thou seek not thy own glory, but His that sent thee, the affliction will not be very grievous to be borne. Thomas à Kempis.

To be in too great a hurry to discharge an 25 obligation is itself a kind of ingratitude. La Roche.

To be introduced into a decent company, there is need of a dress cut according to the taste of the public to which one wishes to present one's self. Goethe.

To be magnanimous—mighty of heart, mighty of mind—is to be great in life; to become this increasingly is to "advance in life." Ruskin.

To be mindful of an absent friend in the hours of mirth and feasting, when his company is least wanted, shows no slight degree of sincerity. Goldsmith.

To be misunderstood is the cross and bitterness of life. Amiel.

To be obliged to wear black, and buy it into 30 the bargain, is more than my tranquillity of temper can bear. Goldsmith.

To be once in doubt is once to be resolved. Othello, iii. 3.

To be, or not to be, that is the question; / Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer / The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, / Or to take up arms against a sea of troubles, / And, by opposing, end them. Ham., iii. 1.

To be perfectly just, is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities is the glory of man. (?)

To be poor, and to seem poor, is a certain method never to rise. Goldsmith.

To be prepared for war is one of the most 35 effectual means of preserving peace. Washington.

To be provoked with every slanderous word argues a littleness of soul, a want of due regard to God. Thomas à Kempis.

To be rich is to have a ticket of admission to the master-works and chief men of each race. Emerson.

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. Holmes.

To be spiritually minded is life and peace. Paul.

To be thus is nothing; / But to be safely thus. 40 Macb., iii. 1.

To be true in heart and just in act are the first qualities necessary for the elevation of humanity. Froude.

To be vain is rather a mark of humility than pride. Swift.

To be vain of one's rank or place is to disclose that one is below it. Stanislaus.

To be weak is miserable, / Doing or suffering. Milton.

To be wholly loved with the whole heart, one 45 must be suffering. Heine.

To be wise and love exceeds man's might. Troil. and Cress., iii. 2.

To be without a servant in this world is not good; but to be without a master, it appears, is a still fataller predicament for some. Carlyle.

To be without passion is worse than a beast; to be without reason is to be less than a man. A. Warwick.

To be wroth with one we love, / Doth work like madness in the brain. Coleridge.

To be young is to be as one of the immortals. Hazlitt.

To bear is to conquer our fate. Campbell. 5

To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it and disputed against it. Novalis.

To beguile the time, / Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye, / Your hand, your tongue; look like the innocent flower, / But be the serpent under 't. Macb., i. 5.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men—that is genius. Emerson.

To blow is not to play the flute; you must move the fingers as well. Goethe.

To breed a fresh soul, is it not like brooding a 10 fresh (celestial) egg, wherein as yet all is formless, powerless? Yet by degrees organic elements and fibres shoot through the watery albumen; out of vague sensation grows thought, grows fantasy and force, and we have philosophies, dynasties, nay, poetries and religions. Carlyle.

To bring nations to surrender themselves to new ideas is not the affair of a day. Draper.

To bring the generality of admirers on our side, it is sufficient to attempt pleasing a very few. Goldsmith.

To business that we love we rise betime, / And go to 't with delight. Ant. and Cleop., iv. 4.

To call a man ungrateful is to sum up all the evil he can be guilty of. Swift.

To carry on the feelings of childhood into the 15 powers of manhood, to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances which every day, for perhaps forty years, has rendered familiar; this is the character and privilege of genius, and one of the marks which distinguish genius from talent. Coleridge.

To cast away a virtuous friend is as bad as to cast away one's own life, which one loves best. Sophocles.

To catch dame Fortune's golden smile, / Assiduous wait upon her; / And gather gear by ev'ry wile / That's justified by honour; / Not for to hide it in a hedge, / Nor for a train attendant, / But for the glorious privilege / Of being independent. Burns.

To circumstances and custom the law must yield. Dan. Pr.

To climb a tree to catch a fish is talking much and doing nothing. Chinese Pr.

To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first. 20 Hen. VIII., i. 1.

To confess Christ is, first, to believe righteously, truthfully, and continently; and, then, to separate ourselves from those who are manifestly or by profession rogues, liars, and fornicators. Ruskin.

To conquer inclination is difficult, but if habit, taking root, gradually associates itself with it, then it is unconquerable. Goethe.

To conquer without danger would be to conquer without glory. Corneille.