What we have we prize not to the worth, / 30 Whiles we enjoy it; but being lack'd and lost, / Why then we rack the value. Much Ado, iv. 1.
What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence. Johnson.
What we like determines what we are, and is the sign of what we are. Ruskin.
What we need most is not so much to realise the ideal as to idealise the real. F. H. Hedge.
What we poor mortals have to do is to endure and keep ourselves upright as well and as long as we can. God disposes as he thinks best. Goethe.
What we pray to ourselves for is always 35 granted. Emerson.
What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realises itself. Mrs. Jameson.
What we want to be pleased with flattery, is to believe that the man is sincere who gives it us. Steele.
What we want to believe, what it suits our convenience, or pleasure, or prejudice to believe, one need not go to sea to learn what slender logic will incline us to believe. Burroughs.
What? wearied out with half a life? / Scared with this smooth unbloody strife? / Think where thy coward hopes had flown / Had Heaven held out the martyr's crown. Keble.
What were mighty Nature's self? / Her 40 features could they win us, / Unhelp'd by the poetic voice / That hourly speaks within us? Wordsworth.
What will not woman, gentle woman, dare, / When strong affection stirs her spirit up? Southey.
What will you have? quoth God; pay for it and take it. Pr.
What you can't get is just what suits you. Fr. Pr.
What you do not risk all to part with (dahingeben), thou hast not loved and possessed entirely. J. G. Fisher.
What you enjoy is yours; what for your heirs / 45 You hoard, already is not yours, but theirs. From the Greek. Anon.
What you see is but the smallest part / And least proportion of humanity; / ... Were the whole frame here, / It is of such a spacious lofty pitch, / Your roof were not sufficient to contain it. 1 Hen. VI., ii. 3.
What your heart thinks great is great. The soul's emphasis is always right. Emerson.
What's aught but as 'tis valued? Troil. and Cress., ii. 2.
What's come to perfection perishes. / Things learned on earth we shall practise in heaven; / Works done least rapidly art most cherishes. Browning.
What's done cannot be undone. Macb., v. 1.
What's done we partly may compute, / But 5 know not what's resisted. Burns.
What's fitting, that is right. Goethe.
What's gone and what's past help / Should be past grief. Winter's Tale, iii. 2.
What's good for the bee is good for the hive. Pr.
What's Hecuba to him or he to Hecuba, / That he should weep for her? Ham., ii. 2.
What's impossible cannot be, / And never, 10 never comes to pass. George Colman the younger.
What's in a name? That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet. Rom. and Jul., ii. 2.
What's more miserable than discontent? 2 Hen. VI., iii. 1.
What's nane o' my profit will be nane o' my peril. Sc. Pr.
What's not set about to-day is never finished on the morrow. Goethe.
What's the good of a sun-dial in the shade? Pr. 15
What's the good of the pipe if it's not played on? Gael. Pr.
What's yours is mine, and what's mine's my ain. Sc. Pr.
Whate'er disturbs his onward course, / Whate'er brings gloom or strife, / It must away, for e'er he sings / The poet must have life. Goethe.
Whate'er he did was done with so much ease, / In him alone 'twas natural to please. Dryden.
Whate'er my future years may be: / Let joy 20 or grief my fate betide; / Be still an Eden bright to me / My own, my own fireside! A. A. Watts.
Whate'er's begun in anger ends in shame. Ben. Franklin.
Whatever a man has to effect must emanate from him as a second self; and how would this be possible were not his first self entirely pervaded by it? Goethe.
Whatever be the cause of happiness, may be made likewise the cause of misery. The medicine which, rightly applied, has power to cure, has, when rashness or ignorance prescribes it, the same power to destroy. Johnson.
Whatever be the motive of insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly scarcely can deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect. Johnson.
Whatever beauty may be, it has for its basis 25 order and for its essence unity. Father André.
Whatever befalls us, though it is wise to be serious, it is useless and foolish, and perhaps sinful, to be gloomy. Johnson.
Whatever bit of a wise man's work is honestly and benevolently done, that bit is his book or his piece of art. Ruskin.
Whatever comes from the brain carries the hue of the place it came from; and whatever comes from the heart carries the heat and colour of its birthplace. Holmes.
Whatever comes out of despair cannot bear the title of valour, which should be lifted up to such a height that, holding all things under itself, it should be able to maintain its greatness even in the midst of miseries. Sir P. Sidney.
Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, 30 by whatever name it may be called. J. S. Mill.
Whatever disunites man from God disunites man from man. Burke.
Whatever does not concern us is concealed from us. Emerson.
Whatever does not possess a true intrinsic vitality cannot live long, and can neither be nor ever become great. Goethe.
Whatever expands the affections or enlarges the sphere of our sympathies, whatever makes us feel our relation to the universe, and all that it inherits, in time and in eternity, to the great and beneficent Cause of all, must unquestionably refine our nature and elevate us in the scale of being. Channing.
Whatever foolish people read, does them 35 harm; and whatever they write, does other people harm. Ruskin.
Whatever government is not a government of law is a despotism, let it be called what it may. D. Webster.
Whatever has exceeded its due bounds is ever in a state of instability. Sen.
Whatever hath been well consulted and well resolved, whether it be to fight well or to run away well, should be carried into execution in due season, without any further examination. Hitopadesa.
Whatever honour we can pay to their memory, is all that is owing to the dead. Tears and sorrow are no duties to them, and make us incapable of those we owe to the living. Lady Montagu.
Whatever in literature, art, or religion is done 40 for money is poisonous itself, and doubly deadly in preventing the hearing or seeing of the noble literature and art which have been done for love and truth. Ruskin.
Whatever is beautiful is also profitable. Willmott.
Whatever is best is safest, lies most out of the reach of human power, can neither be given nor taken away. Bolingbroke.
Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful. Cic.
Whatever is great in human art is the expression of man's delight in God's work. Ruskin.
Whatever is great promotes cultivation as 45 soon as we are aware of it. Goethe.
Whatever is highest and holiest is tinged with melancholy. The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos. A prophet is sadder than other men; and He who was greater than all prophets was "a man of sorrow and acquainted with grief." Mrs. Child.
Whatever is, is right. Pope.
Whatever is known to thyself alone has always very great value. Emerson.
Whatever is natural admits of variety. Mme. de Stäel.
Whatever is new is unlooked for, and ever it mends some and impairs others; and he that is holpen takes it for a fortune, and he that is hurt for a wrong. Bacon.
Whatever is not made of asbestos will have to be burnt in this world. Carlyle.
Whatever is pure is also simple. It does not keep the eye on itself. The observer forgets the window in the landscape it displays. A fine style gives the view of fancy—its figures, its trees, or its palaces—without a spot. Willmott.
Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing 5 well. Lord Chesterfield.
Whatever lifts a man out of the common herd always redounds to his advantage, even if it sink him into a new crowd, in the midst of which his powers of swimming and wading must be put to the test again. Goethe.
Whatever makes religion its second object, makes it no object. Ruskin.
Whatever may be the natural propensity of any one, it is very hard to overcome. If a dog were made king, would he not gnaw his shoe-straps? Hitopadesa.
Whatever may happen, every kind of fortune is to be overcome by bearing it. Virg.
Whatever may happen to thee, it was prepared 10 for thee from all eternity; and the complication of causes was from eternity spinning the thread not only of thy being, but of that which is incident to it. Marcus Aurelius.
Whatever mitigates the woes or increases the happiness of others, this is my criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, this is my measure of iniquity. Burns.
Whatever of goodness emanates from the soul, gathers its soft halo from the eyes; and if the heart be the lurking-place of crime, the eyes are sure to betray the secret. F. Saunders.
Whatever our wanderings, our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and amidst the objects more immediately within our reach. Bulwer Lytton.
Whatever outward thing offers itself to the eye, is merely the garment or body of a thing which already existed invisibly within. Carlyle.
Whatever purifies the heart, fortifies it. 15 Blair.
Whatever sceptic could inquire for, / For every why he had a wherefore. Buller.
Whatever that be which thinks, which understands, which wills, which acts, it is something celestial and divine; and upon that account must necessarily be eternal. Cic.
Whatever the benefits of fortune are, they yet require a palate fit to relish and taste them; it is fruition, and not possession, that renders us happy. Montaigne.
Whatever the place allotted to us by Providence, that for us is the post of honour and duty. T. Edwards.
Whatever the skill of any country may be in 20 the sciences, it is from its excellence in polite learning alone that it must expect a character from posterity. Goldsmith.
Whatever theologians may choose to assert, it is certain that mankind at large has far more virtue than vice. Buckle.
Whatever these two men (the Carlyles, father and son) touched with their hands in honest toil became sacred to them, a page out of their own lives. A silent, inarticulate kind of religion they put into their work. John Burroughs.
Whatever we think out, whatever we take in hand to do, should be perfectly and finally finished, that a word, if it must alter, will only tend to spoil it; we have then nothing to do but to unite the severed, to recollect and restore the dismembered. Goethe.
Whatever you are, be a man. Pr.
Whatever you may think now, they (the deeds 25 of each day) are only biding their time; and when you are weak and at their mercy, when the world you fancied you were beyond, has leisure to hear their story and scoff at you, they will come forward and tell all the bitter tale. Disraeli to young men.
Whatso we have done is done, and for us annihilated, and ever must we go and do anew. Carlyle.
Whatsoever a man ought to obey, he cannot but obey. Carlyle.
Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. St. Paul.
Whatsoever God doeth, nothing can be put to it, nor anything taken from it. Ecclus.
Whatsoever sensibly exists, whatsoever represents 30 spirit to spirit, is properly a suit of raiment put on for a season and to be laid off. Carlyle.
Whatsoever thine ill, / It must be borne, and these wild starts are useless. Byron.
Whatsoever thou takest in hand, remember the end, and thou shalt never do amiss. Ecclus.
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might. Bible.
When a base man means to be your enemy, he always begins with being your friend. Wm. Blake.
When a bold man is out of countenance, he 35 makes a very wooden figure on it. Collier.
When a child can be brought to tears, not from fear of punishment, but from repentance for his offence, he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from grief at one's own conduct, be sure there is an angel nestling in the bosom. Horace Mann.
When a gentleman is cudgelling his brain to find any rhyme for sorrow besides "borrow" or "to-morrow," his woes are nearer at an end than he thinks. Thackeray.
When a good man has talent, he always works morally for the salvation of the world. Goethe.
When a great man strikes out into a sudden irregularity, he needs not question the respect of a retinue. Collier.
When a head and a book come into collision, 40 and one sounds empty, is it always the book? Lichtenberg.
When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it. Hitopadesa.
When a man becomes dear to me, I have touched the goal of fortune. Emerson.
When a man dies, they who survive him ask what property he has left behind. The angel who bends over the dying man asks what good deeds he has sent before him. Koran.
When a man gives himself up to the government of a ruling passion—or, in other words, when his hobby-horse grows headstrong—farewell cool reason and fair discretion! Sterne.
When a man gives proof that his heart is sound and that his life is sound, there is no divergence of opinion that should keep us from fellowship with him. Ward Beecher.
When a man has no occasion to borrow, he finds numbers willing to lend him. Goldsmith.
When a man has not a good reason for doing 5 a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone. Scott.
When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is set fast; and nothing will then serve his turn, neither truth nor falsehood. Tillotson.
When a man is base at the heart, he blights his virtues into weaknesses; but when he is true at the heart, he sanctifies his weaknesses into virtues. Ruskin.
When a man is conscious that he does no good himself, the next thing is to cause others to do some. Pope.
When a man is going downhill, everybody gives him a kick. Pr.
When a man is in indigence, picking herbs is 10 his philosophy; the enjoyment of his wife his only commerce, and vassalage his food. Hitopadesa.
When a man is in love with one woman in a family, it is astonishing how fond he becomes of every person connected with it. Thackeray.
When a man is treated with solemnity, he looks upon himself as a higher being, and goes through his solemn feasts devoutly. Jean Paul.
When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry. Haliburton.
When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook and the rustle of the corn. Emerson.
When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons 15 and things, this is madness. Coleridge.
When a man smiles, and much more when he laughs, it adds something to his fragment of life. Sterne.
When a man versed in his subject treats any topic lovingly and thoroughly, he gives us a share in his interest, and forces us to enter into the topic. Goethe.
When a man's dog deserts him on account of his poverty, he can't get any lower down in this world. Amer. Pr.
When a man's pride is subdued, it is like the sides of Mount Ætna. It was terrible during the eruption, but when that is over and the lava is turned into soil, there are vineyards and olive-trees which grow up to the top. Beecher.
When a man's ways please the Lord, he 20 maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him. Bible.
When a mean wretch cannot vie with another in virtue, out of his wretchedness he begins to slander. Saadi.
When a misfortune is impending, I cry, "God forbid!" but when it falls upon me, I say, "God be praised!" Sterne.
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not the decline that it recalls, but the first days of immortality. Mme. de Staël.
When a nobleman writes a book he ought to be encouraged. Johnson.
When a pepin is planted on a pepin-stock, the 25 fruit growing thence is called a renate, a most delicious apple, as both by sire and dame well descended. Thus his blood must needs be well purified who is gentilely born on both sides. Fuller.
When a poor creature (outwardly and visibly such) comes before thee, do not stay to inquire whether the "seven small children," in whose name he implores thy assistance, have a veritable existence. Lamb.
When a Sark-foot wife gets on her broomstick, the dames of Allonby are ready to mount. Pr.
When a secret is revealed, it is the fault of the man who has intrusted it. La Bruyère.
When a thought is too weak to be simply expressed, it is a clear proof that it should be rejected. Vauvenargues.
When a thought of Plato becomes a thought 30 to me,—when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine, time is no more. Emerson.
When a tree is dead it will lie any way; alive, it will have its own growth. Ward Beecher.
When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. Swift.
When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face. Goethe.
When a wise man findeth an occasion, he may bear away his enemy upon his shoulder, as it were. Hitopadesa.
When a woman wears the breeches, she has a 35 good right to them. Amer. Pr.
When a work has a unity, it is as much so in a part as in the whole. Wm. Blake.
When a writer sets to work again after a long pause, his faculties have, as it were, to be caught in the field and brought in and harnessed. Froude.
When a youth is fully in love with a girl, and feels that he is wise in loving her, he should at once tell her so plainly, and take his chance bravely with other suitors. Ruskin.
When Adam dolve and Eve span, / Who was then the gentleman? Pr.
When affliction thunders over our roofs, to 40 hide our heads and run into our graves shows us no men, but makes us fortune's slaves. Ben Jonson.
When all else is lost, the future still remains. Bovee.
When all is done, the help of good counsel is that which setteth business straight. Bacon.
When all is said, the greatest art is to limit and isolate one's self. Goethe.
When all the blandishments of life are gone, / The coward sneaks to death, the brave live on. George Sewell.
When ambitious men find an open passage, they are rather busy than dangerous; and if well watched in their proceedings, they will catch themselves in their own snare, and prepare a way for their own destruction. Quarles.
When an author is too fastidious about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his matter flimsy. Sen.
When any fit of anxiety, or gloominess or perversion of the mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints, but exert your whole care to hide it; by endeavouring to hide it you will drive it away. Johnson.
When any man finds himself disposed to complain with how little care he is regarded, let him reflect how little he contributes to the happiness of others. Johnson.
When any one ceases to care for his home, it 5 is one of the worst possible signs of moral sickness. Spurgeon.
When any one has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offence cannot reach it. Descartes.
When at one with ourselves, we are so with others. Goethe.
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. Burke.
When bairns are young they gar their parents' heads ache; when they are auld they make their hearts break. Sc. Pr.
When baseness is exalted, do not bate / The 10 place its honour for the person's sake. George Herbert.
When beggars die, there are no comets seen: / The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes. Jul. Cæs., ii. 2.
When brothers part for manhood's race, / What gift may most endearing prove / To keep fond memory in her place, / And certify a brother's love? / ... No fading frail memorial give / To sooth his soul when thou art gone, / But wreathes of hope for aye to live, / And thoughts of good together done. Keble.
When caught by a tempest, wherever it be, / If it lightens and thunders, beware of a tree. Pr.
When children stand quiet, they have done some harm. Pr.
When children, we are sensualists; when in 15 love, idealists. Goethe.
When clouds appear like rocks and towers, / The earth's refreshed with frequent showers. Pr.
When clouds appear, wise men put on their cloaks; / When great leaves fall, the winter is at hand. Rich. III., ii. 3.
When death comes, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. George Eliot.
When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, distrust is cowardice and prudence folly. Johnson.
When did friendship take / A breed for barren 20 metal of his friend? Mer. of Ven., i. 2.
When difficulties are overcome they become blessings. Saying.
When each comes forth from his mother's womb, the gate of gifts closes behind him. Emerson.
When every one minds his own business the work is done. Dan. Pr.
When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary. Napoleon.
When fools fall out for every flaw, / They run 25 horn mad to go to law; / A hedge awry, a wrong plac'd gate, / Will serve to spend a whole estate. Saying.
When Fortune means to men most good, / She looks upon them with a threatening eye. King John, iii. 1.
When found, make a note of. Dickens.
When fresh sorrows have caused us to take some steps in the right way, we may not complain. We have invested in a life annuity, but the income remains. Mme. Swetchine.
When friends meet hearts warm. Sc. Pr.
When friendships are real, they are not glass 30 threads or frost-work, but the solidest things we know. Emerson.
When God gives light he gives it for all. Sp. Pr.
When God will, no wind but brings rain. Pr.
When God would punish a land, he deprives its rulers of wisdom. Ger. and It. Pr.
When Goethe says that in every human condition foes lie in wait for us, "invincible save by cheerfulness and equanimity," he does not mean that we can at all times be really cheerful, or at a moment's notice; but that the endeavour to look at the better side of things will produce the habit, and that this habit is the surest safeguard against the danger of sudden evils. Leigh Hunt.
When Greeks joined Greeks, then was the 35 tug of war. Lee.
When griping grief the heart doth wound, / And doleful dumps the mind oppress, / Then music, with her silver sound, / With speedy help doth lend redress. Rom. and Jul., iv. 5.
When half-gods go, / The gods arrive. Emerson.
When he speaks, / The air, a charter'd libertine, is still. Hen. V., i. 1.
When holy and devout religious men / Are at their beads, 'tis hard to draw them thence. Rich. III., iii. 7.
When I am angry, I can pray well and preach 40 well. Luther.
When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat. / Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit; / Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay. / To-morrow's falser than the former day; / Lies worse, and while it says we shall be blest / With some new joys, cuts off what we possest. Dryden.
When I have told the truth, my part with it is done; and if the world will not listen, the world will just do the other way. Carlyle.
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times and to the latest. H. D. Thoreau.
When I strove after wisdom I appeared foolish to fools, and wise when I lived like them. The fool only esteems himself wise. Bodenstedt.
When I want any good head-work done, I always choose a man, if suitable otherwise, with a long nose. Napoleon.
When I was happy I thought I knew men, but it was fated that I should know them in misfortune only. Napoleon.
When I wish to ascertain the real felicity of any rational man, I always inquire whom he has to love. If I find he has nobody, or does not love those he has, I pronounce him a being deep in adversity. Mrs. Inchbald.
When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thank'd enough; / I've done my duty, and I've done no more. Henry Fielding.
When ilka ane gets his ain, the thief will get 5 the widdie (gallows). Sc. Pr.
When in company, people will rather be entertained than instructed. Knegge.
When, in your last hour (think of this), all faculty in the broken spirit shall fade away and sink into inanity—imagination, thought, effort, enjoyment—then will the flower of belief, which blossoms even in the night, remain to refresh you with its fragrance in the last darkness. Jean Paul.
When industry builds upon nature, we may expect pyramids. Sir T. Browne.
When it goeth well with the righteous, the city rejoiceth: and when the wicked perish, there is shouting. Bible.
When it rains porridge, the beggar has no 10 spoon. Dan. Pr.
When it's dark at Dover, / It is dark all the world over. Pr.
When labour is employed, labour can consume; when it is not employed, it cannot consume. Daniel Webster.
When love begins to sicken and decay / It useth an enforced ceremony. Jul. Cæs., iv. 2.
When love cools our fauts are seen. Sc. Pr.
When love speaks, the voice of all the gods / 15 Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony. Love's L. Lost, iv. 3.
When lovely woman stoops to folly / And finds, too late, that men betray, / What charm can soothe her melancholy? / What art can wash her guilt away? Goldsmith.
When loving hearts are separated, not the one which is exhaled to heaven, but the survivor it is which tastes the sting of death. Duchesse de Praslin.
When maidens sue, / Men give like gods. Meas. for Meas., i. 1.
When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will (as at the creation) be again dumb. Hawthorne.
When man seized the loadstone of science, 20 the loadstar of superstition vanished in the clouds. W. R. Alger.
When matters are desperate, we must put on a desperate face. Burns.
When men add a new wing to their house they do not call the action virtue, but if they give to a fellow-creature for their own gratification, they demand of God a good mark for it. J. M. Barrie.
When men are lonely they stoop to any companionship. Lew Wallace.
When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken. Disraeli.
When men grow virtuous in their old age, 25 they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings. Pope.
When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes. Dryden.
When money's taken, / Freedom's forsaken. Pr.
When musing on companions gone, / We doubly feel ourselves alone. Scott.
When nations are to perish in their sins, / 'Tis in the Church the leprosy begins; / The priest, whose office is, with zeal sincere, / To watch the fountain and preserve it clear, / Carelessly nods and sleeps upon the brink, / While others poison what the flock must drink. Cowper.
When Nature fills the sails, the vessel goes 30 smoothly on; and when judgment is the pilot, the insurance need not be high. Sir T. Browne.
When Nature is sovereign there is no need of austerity or self-denial. Froude.
When Nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. Emerson.
When need is highest, help is nighest. Ger. Pr.
When neither he to whom we speak nor he who speaks to us understands, that is metaphysics. Voltaire.
When nothing is enjoyed, can there be greater 35 waste? Thomson.
When on life we're tempest driven, / A conscience but a canker, / A correspondence fixed wi' heaven / Is sure a noble anchor. Burns.
When once a man is determined to believe, the very absurdity of the doctrine confirms him in his faith. Junius.
When once infidelity can persuade men that they shall die like beasts, they will soon be brought to live like beasts also. South.
When once our grace we have forgot, / Nothing goes right; we would, and we would not. Meas. for Meas., iv. 4.
When once the young heart of a maiden is 40 stolen, / The maiden herself will steal after it soon. Moore.
When once you profess yourself a friend, endeavour to be always such. He can never have any true friends that will be often changing them. (?)
When one does nothing else but while time away, it must of necessity often be a burden. Goethe.
When one encourages the beautiful alone, and another encourages the useful alone, it takes them both to form a man. Goethe.
When one is in love, one wishes to be in fetters. Goethe.
When one is not received as one comes, this 45 is a nether-fire pain. Goethe.
When one is truly in love, one not only says it, but shows it. Longfellow.
When one is young, one is nothing completely. Goethe.
When one thinks of the real agony one has gone through in consequence of false teaching, it makes human nature angry with the teachers who have added to the bitterness of life. General Gordon.
When our actions do not, / Our fears do make us traitors. Macb., iv. 1.
When our hatred is too keen, it places us beneath those we hate. La Roche.
When our names are blotted out, and our place knows us no more, the energy of each social service will remain. J. Morley.
When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things from it. Renan.
When people laugh at their own jokes, their 5 wit is very small beer, and is lost in its own froth. Spurgeon.
When people once are in the wrong, / Each line they add is much too long. Prior.
When Peter's cock begins to crow, 'tis day. Quarles.
When pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Johnson.
When pleasure is arrived, it is worthy of attention; when trouble presenteth itself, the same. Pain and pleasures have their revolutions like a wheel. Hitopadesa.
When poverty comes in at the door, love flies 10 out at the window. Pr.
When pride cometh, then cometh shame; but with the lowly is wisdom. Bible.
When remedies are past, the griefs are ended / By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended. Othello, i. 3.
When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will. Much Ado, iii. 3.
When rogues fall out, honest men get their own. Pr.
When shall we three meet again, in thunder, 15 lightning, or in rain? Macb., i. 1.
When soldiers have been baptised in the fire of a battlefield, they have all one rank in my eyes. Napoleon.
When soon or late they reach that coast, / O'er life's rough ocean driven, / May they rejoice, no wanderer lost, / A family in heaven. Burns.
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, / But in battalions. Ham., iv. 5.
When speech is given to a soul holy and true, time and its dome of ages becomes as a mighty whispering-gallery, round which the imprisoned utterance runs, and reverberates forever. James Martineau.
When sun is set the little stars will shine. R. 20 Southwell.
When that the poor have cried, Cæsar hath wept; / Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. Jul. Cæs., iii. 2.
When the affections are moved there is no place for the imagination. Hume.
When the artist forgets himself in admiration of his work, there is a fatal inversion and subversion of all art whatsoever; and for Love to worship Venus, his own creation, except as an index and light to himself, is in reality Love's apostasy, not his apotheosis. Ed.
When the ass is given thee, run and take him by the halter; and when good luck knocks at the door, let him in, and keep him there. Sp. Pr.
When the belly is empty, the body becomes 25 spirit; when it is full, the spirit becomes body. Saadi.
When the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch; wherefore, in such circumstances, may it not sometimes be safer if both leader and led simply sit still? Carlyle.
When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul / Lends the tongue vows. Ham., i. 3.
When the cat's away, / The mice will play. Pr.
When the devil dies, he never lacks a chief mourner. Pr.
When the fight begins within himself, / A 30 man's worth something. Browning.
When the fox preaches, take care of your geese. Pr.
When the glede's in the blue cloud, / The laverock lies still; / When the hound's in the green wood, / The hind keeps the hill. Old ballad.
When the gods come among men, they are not known. Emerson.
When the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet, then all things are at risk. There is not a piece of science, but its flank may be turned to-morrow; there is not any literary reputation, nor the so-called eternal names of fame, that may not be revised and condemned. Emerson.
When the heart is afire, some sparks will fly 35 out at the mouth. Pr.
When the heart is heavy and low, / The beauty that on earth we find, / Or strain of music on the wind, / Shall touch it like an utter woe! Dr. W. Smith.
When the heart is still agitated by the remains of a passion, we are more ready to receive a new one than when we are entirely cured. La Roche.
When the heart of a man is sincere and tranquil, he is fain to enjoy nothing but himself; every movement, even corporeal movement, shakes the brimming nectar cup too rudely. Jean Paul.
When the hungry curate licks the knife, there is not much for the clerk. Pr.
When the man's fire and the wife's tow, in comes 40 the dell and blaws it in a lowe (flame). Sc. Pr.
When the master passeth over all alike without distinction, then the endeavours of those who are capable of exertion are entirely lost. Hitopadesa.
When the million applaud you, seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; when they censure you, what good. Colton.
When the mind's free, the body's delicate. Lear, iii. 4.
When the new light which we beg for shines in upon us, there be who envy and oppose, if it come not in first at their casements. Milton.
When the oak-tree is felled, the whole forest 45 echoes with it; but a hundred acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze. Carlyle.
When the Phœnix is fanning her funeral pyre, will there not be sparks flying? Carlyle.
When the power of imparting joy / Is equal to the will, the human soul / Requires no other heaven. Shelley.
When the quality of bravery is near, a great man's terrors are at a distance. In the hour of misfortune such a great man overcometh bravery. Hitopadesa.
When the reason of old establishments is gone, it is absurd to keep nothing but the burden of them. This is superstitiously to embalm a carcase not worth an ounce of the gums that are used to embalm it. Burke.
When the sheep is too meek, all the lambs suck it. Spurgeon.
When the shore is won at last, / Who will count the billows past? Keble.
When the soul breathes through a man's intellect, it is genius; when it breaks through his will, it is virtue; when it flows through his affection, it is love. Emerson.
When the strong box contains no more, ... / 5 Both friends and flatterers shun the door. Plutarch.
When the sun is highest, he casts the least shadow. Pr.
When the tale of bricks is doubled, then comes Moses. Heb. Pr.
When the weather been maist fair, the dust flies highest in the air. Sir David Lindsay.
When the will's ready the feet's licht. Sc. Pr.
When the wind (civic tumult) arises, worship 10 the echo (retire into the country). Pythagoras.
When the world has once got hold of a lie, it is astonishing how hard it is to get it out of the world. You beat it about the head, till it seems to have given up the ghost, and lo! the next day it is as healthy as ever. Bulwer Lytton.
When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian. Tempest, ii. 2.
When things are at their worst, they will mend. Pr.
When things are once come to the execution, there is no secrecy comparable to celerity, like the motion of a bullet in the air, which flieth so swift as it outruns the eye. Bacon.
When thou dost purpose ought within thy 15 power, / Be sure to do it, though it be but small. George Herbert.
When thou hast thanked thy God for every blessing sent, / What time will then remain for murmurs or lament? French.
When thou makest presents, let them be of such things as will last long; to the end they may be in some sort immortal, and may frequently refresh the memory of the receiver. Fuller.
When thou wishest to give thyself delight, think of the excellencies of those who live with thee; the energy of one, the modesty of another, the liberal kindness of a third. Marcus Aurelius.
When three know it, all know it. Pr.
When thy judgments are in the earth the inhabitants 20 of the world will learn righteousness. Bible.
When Time, who steals our years away, / Shall steal our pleasures too, / The mem'ry of the past will stay, / And half our joys renew. T. Moore.
When timorous knowledge stands considering, / Audacious ignorance hath done the deed. Daniel.
When, to gratify a private appetite, it is once resolved upon that an innocent and a helpless creature shall be sacrificed, 'tis an easy matter to pick up sticks enough from any thicket where it has strayed to make a fire to offer it up with. Sterne.
When two brethren strings are set alike, / To move them both but one of them we strike. Cowley.
When two friends have a common purse, one 25 sings and the other weeps. Pr.
When two friends part, they should lock up one another's secrets and exchange their keys. Owen Feltham.
When two loving hearts are torn asunder, it is a shade better to be the one that is driven away into action, than the bereaved twin that petrifies at home. Charles Reade.
When unadorn'd, adorn'd the most. Thomson.
When was a god found agreeable to everybody? Carlyle.
When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe 30 this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor. Emerson.
When we build (public edifices), let us think that we build for ever. Ruskin.
When we cannot get at the very thing we wish, never to take up with the next best in degree to it, that's pitiful beyond description. Sterne.
When we can't do as we would, we must do as we can. Pr.
When we destroy an old prejudice, we have need of a new virtue. Mme. de Staël.
When we discern justice, when we discern 35 truth, we do nothing of ourselves; we allow a passage to its beams. Emerson.
When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with his presence. Emerson.
When we have not what we love, we must love what we have. Bussy-Rabutin.
When we meet with a natural style, we are surprised and delighted, for we expected to find an author, and we have found a man. Pascal.
When we our betters see bearing our woes, / We scarcely think our miseries our foes. King Lear, iii. 6.
When we rise in knowledge, as the prospect 40 widens, the objects of our regard become more obscure, and the unlettered peasant, whose views are only directed to the narrow sphere around him, beholds nature with a finer relish, and tastes her blessings with a keener appetite, than the philosopher whose mind attempts to grasp a universal system. Goldsmith.
When we take people merely as they are, we make them worse; when we treat them as if they were what they should be, we improve them as far as they can be improved. Goethe.
When whins are out of bloom, kissing is out of fashion. Pr.
When wine is in, nature comes out. George Meredith.
When words are scarce they're seldom spent in vain, / For they breathe truth that breathe their words in pain. Rich. II., ii. 1.
When words end, music begins; when they 45 suggest, it realises. Haweis.
When worthy men fall out, only one of them may be faulty at the first; but if strife continue long, commonly both become guilty. Fuller.
When you are all agreed upon the time, quoth the vicar, I'll make it rain. Pr.
When you are compelled to choose between two hated evils, look both full in the face, and choose that which least hampers the spirit and fetters pious deeds. Goethe.
When you are down, poverty, like snowshoes, keeps your feet fast and prevents your rising. Amer. Pr.
When you are in doubt abstain. Zoroaster.
When you are predetermined to take one 5 soul's advice, act without consulting further with any soul living. Sterne.
When you are stung by slanderous tongues (die Lästerzunge), comfort yourself with this thought: it is not the worst fruits that are gnawed by wasps. G. A. Bürger.
When you cannot get dinner ready, put the clock back. Swift.
When you do not know what to do, it is a clear indication that you are to do nothing. Spurgeon.
When you find yourselves tempted, be sure to ask advice; and when you see another so, deal with him gently. Thomas à Kempis.
When you go to Rome, do as Rome does. St. 10 Ambrose of Milan.
When you grind your corn, give not the flour to the devil, and the bran to God. It. Pr.
When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more to be all of a piece. Ben. Franklin.
When you have got so much true knowledge as is worth fighting for, you are bound to fight or to die for it, but not to debate about it any more. Ruskin.
When you have nothing to say, say nothing. Colton.
When you hear that your neighbour has 15 picked up a purse of gold in the street, never run out into the same street, looking about you, in order to pick up such another. Goldsmith.
When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief. Hor.
When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it: this is knowledge. Confucius.
When you leave the unimpaired hereditary freehold to your children, you do but half your duty. Both liberty and property are precarious, unless the possessors have sense and spirit enough to defend them. Junius.
When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your faithful Creator; and when you have done, trust Him with yourself as you must do when you are dying. Jeremy Taylor.
When you organise a strike, it is war you 20 organise; / But to organise our labour were the labour of the wise. Dr. Walter Smith.
When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop-window, you may depend upon it he keeps a very small stock of it within. Spurgeon.
When you see a snake, never mind where he came from. Pr.
When you see a woman paint, your heart needna faint. Sc. Pr.
When your broth's ready-made for you, you mun swallow the thickenin', or else let the broth alone. George Eliot.
When your head did but ache, / I knit my 25 handkerchief about your brows, / The best I had; a princess wrought it me; / And I did never ask it you again. King John, iv. 1.
Whence? O Heavens, whither? Sense knows not; faith knows not; only that it is through mystery to mystery, from God to God. Carlyle on the drama of life.
Whene'er a noble deed is wrought, / Whene'er is spoken a noble thought, / Our hearts, in glad surprise, / To higher levels rise. Longfellow.
Whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but his passions, which have got the better of his creed. A bad life and a good belief are disagreeable and troublesome neighbours; and when they separate, depend upon it, 'tis for no other cause but quietness' sake. Sterne.
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is, in my opinion, safe. Burke.
Whenever I see a new-married couple more 30 than ordinarily fond before faces, I consider them as attempting to impose upon the company or themselves; either hating each other heartily, or consuming that stock of love in the beginning of their course which should serve them throughout their whole journey. Goldsmith.
Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common feelings of mankind. Gibbon.
Whenever the people flock to see a miracle, it is a hundred to one but that they see a miracle. Goldsmith.
Whenever you find humour, you find pathos close by its side. Whipple.
Whensoever a man desireth anything inordinately, he is presently disquieted in himself. Thomas à Kempis.
Where content is there is a feast. Pr. 35
Where do we find ourselves? In a series of which we do not know the extremes, and believe that it has none. Emerson.
Where drink goes in, wit goes out. Pr.
Where else is the God's presence manifested, not to our eyes only, but to our hearts, as in our fellow-men? Carlyle.
Where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. St. James.
Where friends are in earnest, each day brings 40 its own gain, so that at last the year, when summed up, is of incalculable advantage. Details in reality constitute the life; results may be valuable, but they are more surprising than useful. Goethe.
Where God gives, envy harms not; and where he gives not, no labour avails. L. Pr.
Where God has built a church, there the devil would also build a chapel. Luther.
Where God helps, nought harms. Pr.
Where have they who are running here and there in search of riches such happiness as those placid spirits enjoy who are gratified at the immortal fountain of happiness? Hitopadesa.
Where I am, there every one is. Rabbi Hillel.
Where idolatry ends, Christianity begins; and where idolatry begins, Christianity ends. Jacobi.
Where ignorance is bliss, / 'Tis folly to be wise. Gray.
Where is any author in the world / Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye? Love's L. Lost, iv. 3.
Where is the good of having a right to make 5 both yourself and your neighbours miserable?... Mutual accommodation is the law of the world, or its inhabitants would all be wretched together. Mrs. Gatty.
Where is the man who has the power and skill / To stem the torrent of a woman's will? / For if she will she will, you may depend on't; / And if she won't, she won't, and there's an end on't. Dane John Monument at Canterbury.
Where it is weakest, the thread breaketh. Pr.
Where law ends, tyranny begins. Fielding.
Where lies are easily admitted, the father of lies will not easily be excluded. Quarles.
Where love reigns, disturbing jealousy doth 10 call himself affection's sentinel. Shakespeare.
Where man is, are the tropics; where he is not, the ice-world. Ruskin.
Where Nature's end of language is declined, / And men talk only to conceal the mind. (?)
Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellers there is safety. Bible.
Where no fault is, there needs no pardon. Pr.
Where no hope is left, is left no fear. Milton. 15
Where no oxen are, the crib is clean. Pr.
Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no tale-bearer, the strife ceaseth. Bible.
Where none thou canst discern, make for thyself a path. Goethe.
Where once Truth's flame has burnt, I doubt / If ever it go fairly out. Hannah More.
Where one is wise, two are happy. Pr. 20
Where one man shapes his life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have it shaped for them by impulse and by circumstances. Lowell.
Where one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. St. Paul.
Where peace / And rest can never dwell, hope never comes, / That comes to all. Milton.
Where people are tied for life, 'tis their mutual interest not to grow weary of one another. Lady Montagu.
Where power is absent we may find the robe 25 of genius, but we miss the throne. Landor.
Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off. Johnson.
Where shame is, there is fear. Milton.
Where the carcase is, the ravens will gather. Pr.
Where the devil cannot come, he will send. Ger. Pr.
Where the devil has smoothed your road, / 30 Keep to the right like an honest man. Dr. W. Smith.
Where the greater malady is fix'd, / The lesser is scarce felt. King Lear, iii. 4.
Where the heart goes before, like a lamp, and illumines the pathway, many things are made clear that else lie hidden in darkness. Longfellow.
Where the heart is, there the Muses, there the gods sojourn. Emerson.
Where the meekness of self-knowledge veileth the front of self-respect, there look thou for the man whose name none can know but they will honour. Tupper.
Where there is a mother in the home, matters 35 speed well. A. B. Alcott.
Where there is a splashing of dirt, it is good not to meddle and to keep far away. Hitopadesa.
Where there is much light there is a darker shadow. Goethe.
Where there is music, nothing really bad can be. Cervantes.
Where there is mystery, it is generally supposed that there must also be evil. Byron.
Where there is no envy in the case, our propensity 40 to sympathise with joy is much stronger than our propensity to sympathise with sorrow. Adam Smith.
Where there is no hook, to be sure there will hang no bacon. Sp. Pr.
Where there is no hope, there can be no endeavour. Johnson.
Where there is no law, there is no transgression. St. Paul.
Where there is no love, all are faults. Pr.
Where there is no shame, there is no honour. 45 Pr.
Where there is no sympathy with the spirit of man, there can be no sympathy with any higher spirit. Ruskin.
Where there is smoke there is fire. Pr.
Where there is too much light, our senses don't perceive; they are only stunned or dazzled or blinded. Pascal.
Where there's a will there's a way. Pr.
Where there's muckle courtesy there's little 50 kindness. Sc. Pr.
Where truth is not at the bottom, Nature will always be endeavouring to return, and will peep out and betray herself one time or other. Tillotson.
Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them. Jesus.
Where vice is, vengeance follows. Sc. Pr.
Where virtue dwells, the gods have placed before / The dropping sweat that springs from every pore, / And ere the feet can reach her bright abode, / Long, rugged, steep the ascent, and rough the road. Hesiod.
Where we find echoes, we generally find 55 emptiness and hollowness; it is the contrary with the echoes of the heart. J. F. Boyes.
Where wealth and freedom reign, contentment fails, / And honour sinks where commerce long prevails. Goldsmith.
Where wilt thou go that thou wilt not have to plough? Sp. Pr.
Where Wisdom steers, wind cannot make you sink. Delaune.
Where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain. Rich. II., ii. 2.
Where would be what silly people call Progress if not for the grumblers? John Wagstaffe.
Where you see your friend, trust to yourself. Sp. Pr.
Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. Jesus.
Where your will is ready, your feet are light. 5 Pr.
Where's the use of a woman's having brains of her own if she's tackled to a geck as everybody's a-laughing at? George Eliot.
Whereas Johnson only bowed to every clergyman, I would bow to every man, were it not there is a devil dwells in man as well as a divinity, and too often the bow is but pocketed by the former. Carlyle.
Where'er I wander, boast of this I can, / Though banished, yet a true-born Englishman. Rich. II., i. 3.
Where'er we tread, 'tis haunted, holy ground. Byron.
Wherever a man dwells he will be sure to 10 have a thorn-bush near his door. Pr.
Wherever a true woman comes, home is always around her. The stars may be over her head, the glow-worms in the night-cold grass may be the fire at her feet; but home is where she is; and for a noble woman it stretches far around her, better than houses ceiled with cedar or painted with vermilion, shedding its quiet light far for those who else are homeless. Ruskin.
Wherever in the world I am, / In whatsoe'er estate, / I have a fellowship with hearts / To keep and cultivate. A. L. Waring.
Wherever nature does least, man does most. Amer. Pr.
Wherever snow falls, there is usually civil freedom. Emerson.
Wherever the devil makes a purchase, he 15 never fails to set his mark. Goldsmith.
Wherever the health of the citizens is concerned, much more where their souls' health, and as it were their salvation, is concerned, all governments that are not chimerical make haste to interfere. Carlyle.
Wherever the speech is corrupted the mind is also. Sen.
Wherever the tree of beneficence takes root, it sends forth branches beyond the sky. Saadi.
Wherever there is a parliament, there must of necessity be an opposition. John Wagstaffe.