To consume your own choler, as some chimneys consume their own smoke; to keep a whole Satanic school spouting, if it must spout, inaudibly, is a negative yet no slight virtue, nor one of the commonest in these times. Carlyle.
To corporeal beings unthought-of troubles 25 arise; so, in like manner, do blessings make their appearance. In this, I think Providence hath extended them farther than usual. Hitopadesa.
To dance attendance on their lordships' pleasures. Hen. VIII., v. 2.
To-day comes only once, and never again returns. Schopenhauer.
To-day is a king in disguise. Emerson.
To-day is ours, we have it here, ... / To the gods belong to-morrow. Cowley.
To-day must not borrow of to-morrow. Ger. Pr. 30
To deny is easy; nothing is sooner learned or more generally practised. As matters go, we need no man of polish to teach it; but rather, if possible, a hundred men of wisdom to show us its limits and teach us its reverse. Carlyle.
To depersonalise man is the dominant drift of our epoch. Amiel.
To despise our own species is the price we must too often pay for a knowledge of it. Colton.
To die for truth is not to die for one's country but to die for the world. Jean Paul.
To die is landing on some silent shore, / Where 35 billows never break nor tempests roar. S. Garth.
To die, to sleep; / No more; and by a sleep to say we end / The heartache and the thousand natural shocks / That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation / Devoutly to be wished. Ham., iii. 1.
To die, to sleep; / No more! perchance to dream; ay, there's the rub; / For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, / When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, / Must give us pause. Ham., iii. 1.
To do as much good and as little evil as we can is the brief and intelligible principle that comprehends all subordinate maxims. R. Sharp.
To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. Amiel.
To do good to the ungrateful is to throw rosewater 40 into the sea. Pr.
To do him any wrong was to beget / A kindness from him, for his heart was rich, / Of such fine mould, that if you sow'd therein / The seed of Hate, it blossom'd Charity. Tennyson.
To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice. Bible.
To do no evil is good; to intend none is better. Claudius.
To do nothing by halves is the way of noble minds. Wieland.
To do, one must be doing. Fr. Pr. 45
To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius. Amiel.
To doubt is to dip love in the mire. J. M. Barrie.
To draw a long bow, i.e., exaggerate. Pr.
To dread no eye, and to suspect no tongue, is the greatest prerogative of innocence; an exemption granted only to invariable virtue. Johnson.
To dwell alone is the fate of all great souls. Schopenhauer.
To each nation its believed history is its Bible. Carlyle.
To eat or drink too much, to play too much, 5 to work too much, or to grumble too much—all these are equally pernicious. John Wagstaffe.
To educate the intelligence is to enlarge the horizon of its desires and wants. Lowell.
To educate the wise man, the State exists; and with the appearance of the wise man, the State expires. The wise man is the State. Emerson.
To elevate above the spirit of the age must be regarded as the end of education. Jean Paul.
To endeavour all one's days to fortify our minds with learning and philosophy is to spend so much in armour that one has nothing left to defend. (?)
To endeavour to work upon the vulgar with 10 fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor. Pope.
To endure is the first and most necessary lesson a child has to learn. Rousseau.
To equal a predecessor, one must have twice his worth. Gracian.
To err is human, to forgive divine. Pope.
To escape from arrangements that tortured me, my heart sought refuge in the world of ideas, when as yet I was unacquainted with the world of realities, from which iron bars excluded me. Schiller at his training-school.
To every deep there is a deeper still. Pr. 15
To everything there is a season. Bible.
To excite a fierce dog to capture a lame rabbit is to attack a contemptible enemy. Chinese Pr.
To expect an author to talk as he writes is ridiculous: or even if he did, you would find fault with him as a pedant. Hazlitt.
To express the most difficult matters clearly, and everything intelligibly, is to strike coins out of pure gold. Geibel.
To fail at all is to fail utterly. Lowell. 20
To fear is easy, but grievous; to reverence is difficult, but satisfactory. Goethe.
To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength, / Gives, in your weakness, strength unto your foe. Rich. II., iii. 2.
To feel and respect a great personality, one must be something one's self. Goethe.
To fight and die is death destroying death; / Where fearing dying, pays death servile breath. Rich. II., iii. 2.
To fight with its neighbours never was, and is 25 now less than ever, the real trade of England. Carlyle.
To fill the hour, that is happiness. Emerson.
To find out your real opinion of any one, observe the impression made upon you by the first sight of a letter from him. Schopenhauer.
To find recreation in amusement is not happiness. Pascal.
To fix a child's attention on what is present, to give him a description of a name, is the best thing we can do for him. Goethe.
To forget a wrong is the best revenge. It. Pr. 30
To forgive and forget is to throw away dearly-bought experience. Schopenhauer.
To form a poet, the heart must be full to overflowing of noble feeling. Goethe.
To free a man from error is to give, and not to take away. Schopenhauer.
To gain what is fit ye're able, / If ye in faith can but excel; / Such are the myths of fable, / If ye have observed them well. Goethe.
To gather riches do not hazard health; / For, 35 truth to say, health is the wealth of wealth. Sir Richard Baker.
To genius irregularity is incident, and the greatest genius is often marked by eccentricity, as if it disdained to move in the vulgar orbit. Brougham.
To genius life never grows commonplace. Lowell.
To get general ideas first and make particular observations last is to invert the process of education. Schopenhauer.
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, / To throw a perfume on the violet, / To smooth the ice, or add another hue / Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light / To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, / Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. King John, iii. 1.
To give alms is nothing unless you give 40 thought also, and therefore it is written, not "Blessed is he that feedeth the poor," but "Blessed is he that considereth the poor." Ruskin.
To give should be our pleasure, but to receive our shame. Goldsmith.
To give the world more than it gives us, to love it more than it loves us, and never to make suit for its applause, ensures a peaceful life and a happy departure. Bodenstedt.
To give to the human mind a direction which it shall retain for ages is the rare prerogative of a few imperial spirits. Macaulay.
To go back is easy, if we have missed our way on the road uphill; it is impossible only when the road is downhill. Froude.
To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to 45 outrage humanity. Pascal.
To God belongeth the east and the west; therefore, whithersoever ye turn yourselves to pray, there is the word of God, for God is omnipresent and omniscient. Koran.
To govern men, you must either excel them in their accomplishments or despise them. Disraeli.
To grasp, to seize, is the essence of all mastery. Goethe.
To great evils one must oppose great virtues; and also to small, which is the harder task of the two. Carlyle.
To guard from error is not the instructor's 50 business; but to lead the erring pupil. Goethe.
To guide scoundrels by love is a method that will not hold together; hardly for the flower of men will love do; and for the sediment and scoundrelism of them it has not even a chance to do. Carlyle.
To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; and to have a deference for others governs our manners. Sterne.
To have all one's wants satisfied is something intolerable. Schopenhauer.
To have any chance of lasting, a book must satisfy, not merely some fleeting fancy of the day, but a constant longing and hunger of human nature. Lowell.
To have ascertained what is ascertainable, and calmly to reverence what is not, is the fairest portion that can fall to a thinking man. Goethe.
To have done anything by which you earned 5 money merely is to have been truly idle, or worse. Thoreau.
To have done, is to hang / Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail, / In monumental mockery. Troil. and Cres., iii. 3.
To have gold is to be in fear, and to want it to be in sorrow. Johnson.
To have heard the voice / Of Godhead in the winds and in the seas, / To have known him in the circling of the suns, / And in the changeful fates and lives of men. Lewis Morris.
To have ideas is to gather flowers; to think is to weave them into garlands. Mme. Swetchine.
To have neither superior, nor inferior, nor 10 equal, united manlike to you; without father, without child, without brother,—man knows no sadder destiny. Carlyle.
To have no assistance from other minds in resolving doubts, in appeasing scruples, in balancing deliberations, is a very wretched destitution. Johnson.
To have no pain, and not be bored, is the utmost happiness possible to man on earth. Schopenhauer.
To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter or musician, is a possession added to the best things of life. Swinburne.
To have religion upon authority, and not upon conviction, is like a finger-watch, to be set forwards or backwards, as he pleases that has it in keeping. William Penn.
To have the fear of God before our eyes, and, 15 in our mutual dealings with each other, to govern our actions by the eternal measures of right and wrong; the first of these will comprehend the duties of religion; the second, those of morality. Sterne.
To have the gift of life and bread to sustain it with can never suffice as a substitute for the ministry and service which the life itself is given us that we may fulfil. To find and work out this is man's only satisfaction and true reward. Ed.
To hear complaints is wearisome alike to the wretched and the happy. Johnson.
To Him no high, no low, no great, no small; / He fills, He bounds, connects and equals all. Pope.
To him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin. St. James.
To his (the host's) imagination all things travel 20 save his sign-post and himself. Thoreau.
To hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature. Ham., iii. 2.
To holy tears, / In lonely hours, Christ risen appears; / In social hours, who Christ would see / Must turn all tasks to charity. Keble.
To imitate the style of another is said to be wearing a mask. However beautiful it may be, it is through its lifelessness insipid and intolerable, so that even the most ugly living face is more engaging. Schopenhauer.
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life. Johnson.
To judge by the event is an error all abuse 25 and all commit; for in every instance, courage, if crowned with success, is heroism; if clouded by defeat, temerity. Colton.
To judge is to see clearly, to care for what is just. Amiel.
To keep the wolf from the door. Pr.
To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us,—when we succeed, it betrays us. Colton.
To know by rote is no knowledge; it is only to retain in the memory what is entrusted to it. Montaigne.
To know evil of others and not speak it, is 30 sometimes discretion; to speak evil of others and not know it, is always dishonesty. He may be evil himself who speaks good of others upon knowledge, but he can never be good himself who speaks evil of others upon suspicion. Arthur Warwick.
To know how to dissemble is the knowledge of kings. Richelieu.
To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. Amiel.
To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. Amiel.
To know how to wait is the great secret of success. De Maistre.
To know life we must detach ourselves from 35 life. Feuerbach.
To know my deed, 'twere best not know myself. Macb., ii. 2.
To know of some one here and there with whom we accord, who is living on with us even in silence, this makes our earthly ball a peopled garden. Goethe.
To know one profession only, is enough for one man to know. Goldsmith.
To know / That which before us lies in daily life, / Is the prime wisdom. Milton.
To know the divine laws and inner harmonies 40 of this universe must always be the highest glory for a man; and not to know them always the highest disgrace for a man, however common it be. Carlyle.
To know the true opinions of men, one ought to pay more respect to their actions than their words. Descartes.
To know the world, a modern phrase! a modern phrase / For visits, ombre, balls, and plays. Swift.
To know, to esteem, to love, and then to part, / Makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart. Coleridge.
To know; to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic act, of which the best logics can only babble on the surface. Carlyle.
To know what is useful and what useless, and to be skilful to provide the one and wise to scorn the other, is the first need for all industrious men. Ruskin.
To lament the past is vain; what remains is to look for hope in futurity. Johnson.
To lapse in fulness / Is sorer than to lie for need; and falsehood / Is worse in kings than beggars. Cymbeline, iii. 6.
To learn obeying is the fundamental art of governing. Carlyle.
To live by one man's will became the cause of 5 all men's misery. Hooker.
To live happily only means to live tolerably. Schopenhauer.
To live in hearts we leave behind / Is not to die. Campbell.
To live is not to breathe; it is to act. Rousseau.
To live is to achieve a perpetual triumph. Amiel.
To live long is to outlive much. Goethe. 10
To look at things as well as we can, to inscribe them in our memory, to be observant, and let no day pass without gathering something; then to apply one's self to those branches of knowledge which give the mind a sure direction, to apportion everything its place, to assign to everything its value (in my opinion a genuine philosophy and a fundamental mathesis), this is what we have now to do. Goethe.
To lose one's self in revery, one must be either very happy or very unhappy. Revery is the child of extreme. Rivarol.
To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. Sydney Smith.
To love all mankind, from the greatest to the lowest, a cheerful state of being is required; but in order to see into mankind, into life, and still more into ourselves, suffering is requisite. Jean Paul.
To love early and marry late is to hear a lark 15 singing at dawn, and at night to eat it roasted for supper. Jean Paul.
To love is to be useful to yourself; to cause love is to be useful to others. Béranger.
To maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship, but a pastime, if we would live simply and wisely. Thoreau.
To mak' a happy fireside clime / To weans and wife, / That's the true pathos and sublime / O' human life. Burns.
To make a boy despise his mother's care is the straightest way to make him also despise his Redeemer's voice; and to make him scorn his father and his father's house, the straightest way to make him deny his God and his God's heaven. Ruskin.
To make elaborate preparations for life is one 20 of the greatest and commonest of human follies. Schopenhauer.
To make proselytes is the natural ambition of every one. Goethe.
To make some nook of God's creation a little fruitfuller, better, more worthy of God; to make some human hearts a little wiser, manfuller, happier, more blessed, less accursed! It is work for a God. Carlyle.
To make the common marvellous, as if it were a revelation, is the test of genius. Lowell.
To man, in this his trial state, / The privilege is given, / When tost by tides of human fate, / To anchor fast in heaven. Watts.
To me more dear, congenial to my heart, / One 25 native charm, than all the gloss of art. Goldsmith.
To me the eternal existence of my soul is proved from my idea of activity. If I work incessantly until my death, nature will give me another form of existence when the present can no longer sustain my spirit. Goethe.
To me the meanest flower that blows can give / Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. Wordsworth.
To men we can give no help, and they hinder us from helping ourselves. Jarno, in Goethe's "Wilhelm Meister."
To misconstrue a good thing is a treble wrong—to myself, the action, and the author. Bp. Hall.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, / 30 Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, / To the last syllable of recorded time; / And all our yesterdays have lighted fools / To dusty death. Macb., v. 5.
To-morrow is a satire on to-day, and shows its weakness. Young.
"To-morrow, to-morrow, only not to-day," lazy people always say. C. F. Weisse.
To-morrow will I live, the fool does say: / To-day itself's too late; the wise lived yesterday. Cowley.
To-morrow you will live, you always cry; / In what far country does this morrow lie? Cowley.
To most men experience is like the stern 35 lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed. Coleridge.
To mourn a mischief that is past and gone, / Is the next way to draw new mischief on. Othello, i. 3.
To no man does Fortune throw open all the kingdoms of this world, and say: It is thine; choose where thou wilt dwell! To the most she opens hardly the smallest cranny or dog-hutch, and says, not without asperity: There, that is thine while thou canst keep it; nestle thyself there, and bless Heaven! Carlyle.
To no man, whatever his station in life, or his power to serve me, have I ever paid a compliment at the expense of truth. Burns.
To nurse the flowers, to root up the weeds, is the business of the gardener. Bodenstedt.
To obey is the best grace of woman. Lewis 40 Morris.
To one thing at one time. Chancellor Thurlow.
To open your windows be ever your care. Pr.
To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence. Schopenhauer.
To overcome evil with good is good, to resist evil by evil is evil. Mahomet.
To pass through a bustling crowd with its restless 45 excitement is strange but salutary. All go crossing and recrossing one another, and yet each finds his way and his object. In so great a crowd and bustle one feels himself perfectly calm and solitary. Goethe.
To persevere / In obstinate condolement, is a course / Of impious stubbornness; 'tis unmanly grief: / It shows a will most incorrect to heaven. Ham., i. 2.
To persevere in one's duty and to be silent is the best answer to calumny. Washington.
To place wit before good sense is to place the superfluous before the necessary. M. de Montlosier.
To plough and sow, to reap and mow, my father bred me early, / For one, he said, to labour bred, was a match for fortune fairly. Burns.
To popular religion, the real kingdom of God is the New Jerusalem with its jaspers and emeralds; righteousness and peace and joy are only the kingdom of God figuratively. Matthew Arnold.
To pour oil on the fire is not the way to quench 5 it. Pr.
To prefer one future mode of life to another, upon just reasons, requires faculties which it has not pleased our Creator to give us. Johnson.
To promise is already to give, to hope already to enjoy. Delille.
To prove, as to doubt, the existence of God, is to prove or doubt the existence of existence. Jean Paul.
To put the cart before the horse. Pr.
To raise the weaker sex in self-respect, as 10 well as in the esteem of the stronger, is the first step from barbarism to civilisation. Canning.
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. Burke.
To receive a simple primitive phenomenon, to recognise it in its high significance, and to go to work with it, requires a productive spirit, which is able to take a wide survey, and is a rare gift, only to be found in very superior natures. Goethe.
To receive gifts is to lose liberty. Saadi.
To reconcile despotism with freedom is to make your despotism just. Carlyle.
To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise 15 man will undertake; and all but foolish men know that the only solid, though a far slower, reformation, is what each man begins and perfects on himself. Carlyle.
To reign is worth ambition, though in hell; / Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n. Milton.
To rejoice in the prosperity of another is to partake of it. William Austin.
To remember one worthy thing, how many thousand unworthy must a man be able to forget! Carlyle.
To repel one's cross is to make it heavier. Amiel.
To require two things is the way to have them 20 both undone. Johnson.
To rescue, to avenge, to instruct, or protect a woman is all the same as to love her. Jean Paul.
To revenge is no valour, but to bear. Timon of Athens, iii. 5.
To run away / Is but a coward's trick; to run away / From this world's ills, that at the very worst / Will soon blow o'er. Blair.
To say of a man "He means well," is worth nothing except he does well. Plaut.
To say that we have a clear conscience is to 25 utter a solecism; had we never sinned, we would have had no conscience. Carlyle.
To scorn delights and live laborious days. Milton.
To secure and promote the feeling of cheerfulness should be the supreme aim of all our endeavours after happiness. Schopenhauer.
To see a world in a grain of sand / And a heaven in a wild flower, / Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, / And eternity in an hour. Wm. Blake.
To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness. Confucius.
To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion—all 30 in one. Ruskin.
To see her is to love her, / And love but her for ever. Burns.
To see some small soul pirouetting throughout life on a single text, and judging all the world because it cannot find a partner, is not a Christian sight. Prof. Drummond.
To see the best is to see most clearly, and it is the lover's privilege. J. M. Barrie.
To seek to change opinions by laws is worse than futile. Buckle.
To seem and not to be, is throwing the shuttle 35 without weaving. Pr.
To seize a character, even that of one man, in its life and secret mechanism, requires a philosopher; to delineate it with truth and impressiveness, is work for a poet. Carlyle.
To serve from the lowest station upwards (von unten hinauf) is in all things necessary. Goethe.
To serve God and love him is higher and better than happiness, though it be with wounded feet, and bleeding brow, and a heart loaded with sorrow. W. R. Greg.
To shape the whole future is not our problem; but only to shape faithfully a small part of it, according to rules laid down. Carlyle.
To shoot wide of the mark, i.e., guess foolishly 40 when you don't know. Pr.
To show mercy is nothing—thy soul must be full of mercy; to be pure in act is nothing—thou shalt be pure in heart also. Ruskin.
To sigh, yet feel no pain; / To weep, yet scarce know why; / To sport an hour with beauty's charm, / Then throw it idly by. Moore.
To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent. Crabbe.
To simplify complications is, in all branches of knowledge, the first essential of success. Buckle.
To sow is not so difficult as to reap. Goethe. 45
To spend much and gain little is the sure road to ruin. Ger. Pr.
To spend too much time in studies is sloth. Bacon.
To spur a free horse soon makes a jade of him. Sterne.
To step aside is human. Burns.
To strain at a gnat and swallow a camel. Pr. 50
To strive to get rid of an evil is to aim at something definite, but to desire a better fortune than we have is blind folly. Goethe.
To study nature or man, we ought to know things that are in the ordinary course, not the unaccountable things that happen out of it. Fisher Ames.
To succeed in the world it is much more necessary to be able to diagnose a fool than a clever man. Cato.
To talk without effort is, after all, the great charm of talking. Hare.
To taste of human flesh is less criminal in the eyes of God than to stifle human thought. Draper.
To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection; it is plunder, and I disclaim it. Disraeli.
To tell our own secrets is generally folly, but that folly is without guilt; to communicate those with which we are intrusted is always treachery, and treachery for the most part combined with folly. Johnson.
To the capable man this world is not dumb. 5 Goethe.
To the exiled wanderer how godlike / The friendly countenance of man appears. Goethe.
To the Hindu the world is the dream of Brahma. Amiel.
To the innocent, deliverance and reparation; to the misled, compassion; and to the guilty, avenging justice. Goethe.
To the man of firm purpose all men and things are servile. Goethe.
To the minnow every cranny and pebble, and 10 quality and accident, of its little native creek may have become familiar; but does the minnow understand the ocean tides and periodic currents, the trade-winds, and monsoons, and moon's eclipses; by all of which the condition of its little creek is regulated, and may (from time to time, unmiraculously enough) be quite overset and reversed? Such a minnow is man; his creek, this planet earth; his ocean, the immeasurable All; his monsoons and periodic currents, the mysterious course of Providence through æons of æons. Carlyle.
To the noble mind / Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. Ham., iii. 1.
To the persevering mortal the blessed immortals are swift. Zoroaster.
To the strictly just and virtuous person everything is annexed. Hitopadesa.
To the understanding of anything, two conditions are equally required—intelligibility in the thing itself being no whit more indispensable than intelligence in the examiner of it. Carlyle.
To the unregenerate Prometheus Vinctus of 15 a man, it is ever the bitterest aggravation of his wretchedness that he is conscious of virtue, that he feels himself the victim not of suffering only, but of injustice. Carlyle.
To the vulgar eye few things are wonderful that are not distant. It is difficult for men to believe that the man, the mere man whom they see, may perhaps painfully feel, toiling at their side through the poor jostlings of existence, can be made of finer clay than themselves. Carlyle.
To the wisest man, wide as is his vision, Nature remains of quite infinite depth, of quite infinite expansion; and all experience thereof limits itself to some few computed centuries and measured square miles. Carlyle.
To the "Worship of sorrow" (Goethe's definition of Christianity) ascribe what origin and genesis thou pleasest, has not that worship originated and been generated? Is it not here? Feel it in thy heart, and then say whether it is of God! Carlyle.
To think and to feel constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius—the men of reasoning and the men of imagination. I. Disraeli.
To think aright is the sum of human duty. 20 Pascal.
To think is to act. Emerson.
To this burden women are born; they must obey their husbands, be they never such blockheads. Cervantes.
To those by whom liberality is practised, the whole world is but as one family. Hitopadesa.
To those that have lived long together, everything heard and everything seen recalls some pleasure communicated or some benefit conferred, some petty quarrel or some slight endearment. Johnson.
To those to whom we owe affection, let us be 25 dumb until we are strong, though we should never be strong. Emerson.
To those who are fallen into misfortunes, what was a blessing becometh an evil. Hitopadesa.
To those whose god is honour, disgrace alone is sin. Hare.
To threats the stubborn sinner oft is hard, / Wrapp'd in his crimes, against the storm prepared; / But, when the milder beams of mercy play, / He melts, and throws his cumbrous cloak away. Dryden.
To toy with human hearts is more than human hearts will brook. Dr. W. Smith.
To tread upon the brink is safe, but to come a 30 step further is destruction. Johnson.
To try things oft, and never to give over, doth wonders. Bacon.
To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves. Goethe.
To understand that the sky is blue everywhere, we need not go round the world. Goethe.
To understand the serious side of things requires a matured faculty; the ridiculous is caught more easily. Froude.
To understand things we must once have been 35 in them, and then have come out of them. Amiel.
To unpractised eyes, a Peak of Teneriffe, nay, a Strasburg Minster, when we stand on it, may seem higher than a Chimborazo; because the former rise abruptly, without abutement or environment; the latter rises gradually, carrying half a world along with it; and only the deeper azure of the heavens, the widened horizon, the "eternal sunshine," disclose to the geographer that the "region of change" lies far below. Carlyle.
To use books rightly is to go to them for help. Ruskin.
To use studies too much for ornament is affectation. Bacon.
To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery. Ouida.
To wail friends lost / Is not by much so wholesome, 40 profitable, / As to rejoice at friends but newly found. Love's L. Lost, v. 2.
To wed unequally is to suffer equally. Anon.
To what base uses we may return, Horatio! Ham., v. 1.
To what excesses men go for a religion of whose truth they are so little persuaded, and to whose precepts they pay so little regard. La Bruyère.
To what they know best entice all neatly; / For so thou dost thyself and him a pleasure. George Herbert.
To whom is the mere glare of the fire a virtue? Hitopadesa.
To wilful men / The injuries that they themselves procure / Must be their schoolmasters. King Lear, ii. 4.
To work without money, and be poor; to work without pleasure, and be chaste; to work according to orders, and be obedient. Rules of the Order of St. Francis.
To write a good love-letter, you ought to begin 5 without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written. Rousseau.
To write down to children's understandings is a mistake; set them on the scent and let them puzzle it out. Scott.
To write prose, one must have something to say, but he who has nothing to say can still make verses. Goethe.
To write well is to think well, to feel well, and to render well; it is to possess at once intellect, soul, and taste. Buffon.
To write what is worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and get sensible men to read it, are the three great difficulties in authorship. Colton.
To yield my breath, / Life's purpose unfulfilled! 10 this is thy sting, O Death. Sir Noel Paton.
To yourself be critic most severe. Dryden.
Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do. Emerson.
Tocher's nae word in a true lover's parle. Burns.
Todte Hunde beissen nicht—Dead dogs don't bite. Ger. Pr.
[Greek: to êthos ethos esti polychronion]—Character is 15 simply prolonged habit. Plutarch.
Toga virilis—The manly robe.
[Greek: to gar trephon me, tout' egô krinô theon]—What maintains me in life, that I regard as God. (?)
[Greek: to gar perissa prassein ouk echei noun oudena]—Doing more than one is able for argues a want of intelligence. (?)
Toil is polish'd man's vocation; / Praises are the meed of skill; / Kings may vaunt their crown and station, / We will vaunt our labour still. Mangan
Toil on, faint not, keep watch, and pray. Bonar. 20
Toils of empires pleasures are. Waller.
[Greek: to kalon]—The beautiful.
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none. Burke.
Tolle jocos; non est jocus esse malignum—Away with such jokes; there is no joking where there is malignity.
Tolle periclum, / Jam vaga prosiliet frænis 25 natura remotis—Take away the danger, remove restraint, and vagrant nature bounds forth free. Hor.
Tombs are the clothes of the dead—a grave but a plain suit, and a rich monument one embroidered. Fuller.
[Greek: ton gar ouk onta hapas eiôthen epainein]—All are wont to praise him who is no more. Thucydides.
[Greek: ton tethnêkota mê kakologein]—Speak not evil of the dead. Chilon.
[Greek: to holon]—The whole.
Too austere a philosophy makes few wise men; 30 too rigorous politics, few good subjects; and too hard a religion, few religious persons whose devotion is of long continuance. St. Evremond.
Too early and too thoroughly we cannot be trained to know that Would, in this world of ours, is as mere zero to Should, and, for most part, the smallest of fractions to Shall. Carlyle.
Too elevated qualities often unfit a man for society. Chamfort.
Too fair to worship, too divine to love. Milman.
Too low they build who build beneath the stars. Young.
Too many cooks spoil the broth. Pr. 35
Too many instances there are of daring men, who by presuming to sound the deep things of religion, have cavilled and argued themselves out of all religion. Thomas à Kempis.
Too much gravity argues a shallow mind. Lavater.
Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man's time much more completely, and leaves him less his own master, than any sort of employment whatsoever. Burke.
Too much is always bad; old proverbs call / Even too much honey nothing else than gall. Anon.
Too much mercy is want of mercy. Tennyson. 40
Too much of a good thing. As You Like It, iv. 1.
Too much of one thing is good for nothing. Thales and Solon.
Too much painstaking speaks disease in one's mind, as much as too little. Carlyle.
Too much rest is rust. Scott.
Too much rest itself becomes a pain. Homer. 45
Too much sensibility creates unhappiness; too much insensibility creates crime. Talleyrand.
Too much wit / Makes the world rotten. Tennyson.
Too surely, every setting day, / Some lost delight we mourn. Keble.
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. Rom. and Jul., ii. 6.
Tooth of time. Meas. for Meas., v. 1. 50
Top and bottom teeth sometimes come into awkward collision. Ch. Pr.
[Greek: to prepon]—That which is becoming or decorous.
Torrens dicendi copia multis / Et sua mortifera est facundia—To many a torrent flow of speech and their own eloquence is fatal. Juv.
Toss'd on a sea of troubles, soul, my soul, / Thyself do thou control; / And to the weapons of advancing foes / A stubborn breast oppose. Archilochus.
Tot capita, tot sensus—So many heads, so many 55 opinions. Ter.
Tot homines, quot sententiæ—So many men, so many minds.
Tot rami quot arbores—So many branches, so many trees. M.
Tota in minimis existit natura—The whole of nature exists in the very smallest things. Quoted by Emerson.
Totidem verbis—In so many words.
Toties quoties—As often, so often.
Toto cœlo—By the whole heavens; as wide as the poles asunder.
Totus in toto, et totus in qualibet parte—Whole 5 in the whole, and whole in every part. Said of the human mind.
Totus mundus exercet histrioniam—All the world acts the player.
[Greek: tou aristeuein heneka]—In order to excel. M.
Touched by a loving heart, wakened by kindness, / Chords that were broken will vibrate once more. Mrs. van Alstyne.
Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out. Bible.
Toujours—Always. M. 10
Toujours en vedette—Always on the lookout. M. of Frederick the Great.
Toujours perdrix—Always partridges. Fr.
"Toujours perdrix" is sickening. John Wagstaffe.
Toujours prêt—Always ready.
Toujours propice—Always propitious. M. 15
Toujours tout droit, Dieu t'aidera!—Always straightforward, and God will help you! M.
Tour d'adresse—A trick of sleight of hand. Fr.
Tour de force—A feat of strength or skill. Fr.
Tourner autour du pot—To beat about the bush. Fr.
Tourner casaque—To change sides; become a 20 turncoat. Pr.
Tous frais faits—All charges paid. Fr.
Tous les genres sont bons hors le genre ennuyeux—All kinds are good except the kind that bores you. Voltaire.
Tous les hommes sont foux, et malgré tous leurs soins, / Ne diffèrent entr'eux, que du plus ou du moins—All men are fools, and notwithstanding all their care, they differ but in degree. Boileau.
Tous les méchants sont buveurs d'eau; / C'est bien prouvé par le déluge—All the wicked are water-drinkers; this the deluge proves.
Tout-à-fait—Quite. Fr. 25
Tout bien ou rien—All or nothing. M.
Tout chemin mène à Rome—Every road leads to Rome.
Tout d'en haut—All from above. M.
Tout doit tendre au bon sens: mais pour y parvenir / Le chemin est glissant et pénible a tenir—Everything ought to lead to good sense; but in order to attain to it, the road is slippery and difficult to walk in. Boileau.
Tout éloge imposteur blesse une âme sincère—Praise 30 undeservedly bestowed wounds an honest heart. Boileau.
Tout est contradiction chez nous: la France, à parler sérieusement, est le royaume de l'esprit et de la sottise, de l'industrie et de la paresse, de la philosophie et du fanatisme, de la gaieté et du pédantisme, des loix et des abus, de bon goût et de l'impertinence—With us all is inconsistency. France, seriously speaking, is the country of wit and folly, of industry and idleness, of philosophy and fanaticism, of gaiety and pedantry, laws and their abuses, good taste and impertinence. Voltaire.
Tout est perdu fors l'honneur—All is lost save our honour. Francis I., after his defeat at Pavia.
Tout est pour le mieux dans le meilleur des mondes possibles—All is for the best in the best possible of worlds. Voltaire, in mockery of Leibnitz's optimism.
Tout faiseur de journaux doit tribut au malin—Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one. La Fontaine.
Tout finit par des chansons—Everything in the 35 end passes into song. Beaumarchais.
Tout flatteur vît au dépens de celui qui l'écoute—Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him. La Fontaine.
Tout notre mal vient de ne pouvoir être seul—All our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone. La Bruyère.
Tout par raison—Everything agreeable to reason. Richelieu.
Tout soldat français porte dans sa giberne le bâton de maréchal de France—Every private in the French army carries a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack. Napoleon.
Tout va à qui n'a pas besoin—Everything goes 40 to him who does not need it. Fr. Pr.
Tout vient à point à qui sait attendre—Everything comes in time to the man who knows how to wait. Fr. Pr.
Tout vient de Dieu—Everything comes from God. M.
Toute révélation d'un secret est la faute de celui qui l'a confié—The disclosure of a secret is always the fault of him who confided it. Fr.
Toutes les fois que je donne une place vacante, je fais cent mécontents, et un ingrat—Every time I appoint to a vacant post, I make a hundred discontented and one ungrateful. Louis XIV.
Towards great persons use respective boldness: / 45 That temper gives them theirs, and yet doth take / Nothing from thine. George Herbert.
Towers are measured by their shadows. Chinese Pr.
Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay. Johnson.
Traditions make up the reasonings of the simple, and serve to silence every inquiry. Goldsmith.
Traduttori, traditori—Translators, traitors. It. Pr.
Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving 50 too much importance to life and death. Chamfort.
Tragedy warms the soul, elevates the heart, can and ought to create heroes. In this sense, perhaps, France owes a part of her great actions to Corneille. Napoleon.
Trahit ipse furoris / Impetus, et visum est lenti quæsisse nocentem—The very violence of their rage drags them on, and to inquire who is guilty were a waste of time. Lucan.
Trahit sua quemque voluptas—Each man is led by his own liking. Virg.
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old he will not depart from it. Bible.
Tranquil pleasures last the longest. We are 55 not fitted to bear long the burden of great joys. Bovee.
Tranquillity is better than jollity, and to appease pain than to invent pleasure. Sir T. Browne.
Transeat in exemplum—Let it stand as a precedent, or an example.
Transitory is all human work, small in itself, contemptible; only the worker thereof and the spirit that dwelt in him is significant. Carlyle.
Trau keinem Freunde sonder Mängel, / Und lieb' ein Mädchen, keinen Engel—Trust no friend without faults, and love a maiden, but no angel. Lessing.
Travel gives a character of experience to our 5 knowledge, and brings the figures upon the tablet of memory into strong relief. Tuckerman.
Travel in the younger sort is a part of education; in the older, a part of experience. Bacon.
Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones. Mme. Swetchine.
Travel teaches toleration. Disraeli.
Travelling is a fool's paradise. Emerson.
Travelling is like gambling; it is ever connected 10 with winning and losing, and generally where least expected we receive more or less than we hoped for. Goethe.
Tre lo sanno, tutti lo sanno—If three know it, all know it. It. Pr.
Tre taceranno, se due vi non sono—Three may keep counsel if two be away. It. Pr.
Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth: but trust and pity, love and constancy, they do. Dickens.
Treason doth never prosper; what's the reason? / Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason. Sir J. Harrington.
Treason has done his worst; nor steel, nor 15 poison, / Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing / Can touch him further. Macb., iii. 2.
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but justice delivers from death. Bible.
Trees and fields tell me nothing; men are my teachers. Plato.
Tremblez, tyrans; vous êtes immortels—Tremble, ye tyrants; ye cannot die. Delille.
Tria juncta in uno—Three joined in one. M.
Tribulation will not hurt you unless it does—what, 20 alas! it too often does—unless it hardens you, and makes you sour and narrow and sceptical. Chapin.
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that have not wit enough to be honest. Ben. Franklin.
Trifles light as air / Are to the jealous confirmations strong / As proofs of holy writ. Othello, iii. 3.
Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle. Michael Angelo.
Trifles make up the happiness or misery of mortal life. Alex. Smith.
Trifles themselves are elegant in him. Pope. 25
Trifles unconsciously bias us for or against a person from the very beginning. Schopenhauer.
Trifling precautions will often prevent great mischiefs; as a slight turn of the wrist parries a mortal thrust. R. Sharp.
Trinitas in Trinitate—Trinity in Trinity. M.
Tristis eris, si solus eris—You will be sad if you are alone. Ovid.
Triumphs for nothing and lamenting toys, / 30 Is jollity for apes and grief for boys. Cymbeline, iv. 2.
Troops of furies march in the drunkard's triumph. Zimmermann.
Trop de zèle gâte tout—Too much zeal spoils all. Fr. Pr.
Tros Tyriusve mihi nullo discrimine agetur—Trojan or Tyrian, it shall make no difference to me. Virg.
Trotz alledem und alledem—For 'a that and 'a that. F. Freiligrath.
Trouble is a thing that will come without our 35 call; but true joy will not spring up without ourselves. Bp. Patrick.
Trouble teaches men how much there is in manhood. Ward Beecher.
Truditur dies die, / Novæque pergunt interire lunæ—Day presses on the heels of day, and new moons hasten to their wane. Hor.
True art is like good company; it constrains us in the most charming way to recognise the standard after which and up to which our innermost being is shaped by culture. Goethe.
True art, which requires free and healthy faculties, is opposed to pedantry, which crushes the soul under a burden. Hamerton.
True bravery proposes a just end, measures 40 the dangers, and, if necessary, the affront, with coldness. Francis la None.
True blue will never stain. Pr.
True comeliness, which nothing can impair, / Dwells in the mind; all else is vanity and glare. Thomson.
True coral needs no painter's brush. Pr.
True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honours are withdrawn. Massinger.
True ease in writing comes from art, not 45 chance, / As those move easiest who have learned to dance. Pope.
True eloquence consists in saying all that is proper, and nothing more. La Roche.
True eloquence scorns eloquence. Pascal.
True fame is ever likened to our shade, / He sooneth misseth her, that most (haste) hath made / To overtake her; whoso takes his wing, / Regardless of her, she'll be following; / Her true proprietie she thus discovers, / Loves her contemners, and contemns her lovers. Sir T. Browne.
True fortitude I take to be the quiet possession of a man's self, and an undisturbed doing his duty, whatever evil besets him or danger lies in his way. Locke.
True fortitude of understanding consists in not 50 letting what we know be embarrassed by what we do not know. Emerson.
True friends are the whole world to one another; and he that is a friend to himself is also a friend to mankind. Even in my studies the greatest delight I take is of imparting it to others; for there is no relish to me in the possession of anything without a partner. Sen.
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. Thoreau.
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. Washington.
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. Colton.
True friendship often shows itself in refusing at the right time, and love often grants a hurtful good. Goethe.
True greatness is, first of all, a thing of the heart. R. D. Hitchcock.
True heroism consists in being superior to the 5 ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge him to combat. Napoleon.
True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings; / Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings. Richard III., v. 2.
True humility is contentment. Amiel.
True humour is as closely allied to pity as it is abhorrent to derision. Henry Giles.
True humour is sensibility in the most catholic and deepest sense; but it is the sport of sensibility; wholesome and perfect therefore; as it were, the playful teasing fondness of a mother to her child. Carlyle.
True humour springs not more from the head 10 than from the heart; it is not contempt, its essence is love; it issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper. It is a sort of inverse sublimity, exalting, as it were, into our affections what is below us, while sublimity draws down into our affections what is above us. Carlyle.
True influence is latent influence. Renan.
True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out, that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind that has fortune under its feet. Sen.
True joy is only hope put out of fear. Lord Brooke.
True knowledge is of virtues only. Ruskin.
True knowledge of any thing or any creature 15 is only of the good of it. Ruskin.
True liberty is a positive force, regulated by law; false liberty is a negative force, a release from restraint. Philip Schaff.
True love is still the same; the torrid zones, / And those more rigid ones, / It must not know; / For love grown cold or hot / Is lust or friendship, not / The thing we show. Suckling.
True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence. Amiel.
True love is the parent of a noble humility. Channing.
True love will creep, not having strength to 20 go. Quarles.
True love works never for the loved one so, / Nor spares skin-surface, smoothing truth away. Browning.
True love's the gift which God has given / To man alone beneath the heaven. Scott.
True mercy is ashamed of itself; hides itself, and does not complain. You may know it by that. Varnhagen von Ense.
True modesty avoids everything that is criminal; false modesty everything that is unfashionable. Addison.
True morality scorns morality; that is, the 25 morality of the judgment scorns the morality of the mind, which is without rules. Pascal.
True music is intended for the ear alone; whoever sings it to me must be invisible. Goethe.
True nobility is derived from virtue, not birth. Burton.
True obedience is true liberty. Ward Beecher.
True poetry is truer than science, because it is synthetic, and seizes at once what the combination of all the sciences is able, at most, to attain as a final result. Amiel.
True quietness of heart is gotten by resisting 30 our passions, not by obeying them. Thomas à Kempis.
True religion is always mild, propitious, and humble; plays not the tyrant, plants no faith in blood, nor bears destruction on her chariot-wheels; but stoops to polish, succour, and redress, and builds her grandeur on the public good. James Miller.
True religion is the poetry of the heart; it has enchantments useful to our manners; it gives us both happiness and virtue. Joubert.
True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognise humility and poverty, mockery and despite, wretchedness and disgrace, suffering and death, as things divine. Goethe, of the Christian religion.
True repentance consists in the heart being broken for sin, and broken from sin. Thornton.
True repentance is to cease from sin. St. 35 Ambrose.
True sense and reason reach their aim / With little help from art or rule. / Be earnest! Then what need to seek / The words that best your meaning speak? Goethe.
True, sharp, precise thought is preferable to a cloudy fancy; and a hundred acres of solid earth are far more valuable than a million acres of cloud and vapour. C. Fitzhugh.
True singing is of the nature of worship; as indeed all true working may be said to be; whereof such singing is but the record, and fit melodious representation, to us. Carlyle.
True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be. W. R. Alger.
True taste is for ever growing, learning, reading, 40 worshipping, laying its hand upon its mouth because it is astonished, casting its shoes from off its feet because it finds all ground holy. Ruskin.
True valour lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness. Cervantes.
True virtue, being united to heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection. Milton.
True virtue's soul's always in all deeds all. Donne.
True wit never made us laugh. Emerson.
Truly great men are always simple-hearted. 45 Klinger.
Truly great men are ever most heroic to those most intimate with them. Ruskin.
Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting for ever in one direction. Lowell.