Wherever there is a sky above him and a 20 world around him, the poet is in his place; for here too is man's existence, with its infinite longings and small acquirings; its ever-thwarted, ever-renewed endeavours; its unspeakable aspirations, its fears and hopes that wander through eternity; and all the mystery of brightness and of gloom that it was ever made of, in any age or climate, since man first began to live. Carlyle.
Wherever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience. Judge Haliburton.
Wherever there is cupidity, there the blessing of the Gospel cannot rest. The actual poor, therefore, may altogether fail to be objects of that blessing, the actual rich may be the objects of it in the highest degree. Matthew Arnold.
Wherever there is power there is age. Emerson.
Wherever there is war, there must be injustice on one side or the other, or on both. Ruskin.
Wherever women are honoured, the gods are 25 satisfied. Manu.
Wherever work is done, victory is obtained. Emerson.
Wherever you see a gaming-table, be very sure Fortune is not there.... She is ever seen accompanying industry, and as often trundling a wheelbarrow as lolling in a coach and six. Goldsmith.
Wherever your lot is cast, duty to yourself and others suggests the propriety of adapting your conduct to the circumstances in which you are placed. Samuel Lover.
Wherefore ever ramble on? / For the good is lying near. / Fortune learn to seize alone, / For that Fortune's ever here. Goethe.
Wherefore waste I time to counsel thee / That 30 art a votary to fond desire? Two Gent. of Verona, i. 1.
Wherein does barbarism consist, unless in not appreciating what is excellent? Goethe.
Wheresoever a man seeketh his own, there he falleth from love. Thomas à Kempis.
Wheresoever the carcass is, there will the eagles be gathered together. Jesus.
Wheresoever the search after truth begins, there life begins; wheresoever the search ceases, there life ceases. Ruskin.
Wheresoever two or three living men are 35 gathered together, there is society; or there it will be, with its mechanisms and structures, over-spreading this little globe, and reaching upwards to Heaven and downwards to Gehenna. Carlyle.
Whereto serves mercy, / But to confront the visage of offence? / And what's in prayer, but this twofold force,—to be forestalled ere we come to fall, / Or pardon'd, being down? Then I'll look up. Ham., iii. 3.
Whether a child, or an old man, or a youth, be come to thy house, he is to be treated with respect; for of all men, thy guest is the superior. Hitopadesa.
Whether a revolution succeeds or fails, men of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it. Heine.
Whether he be rich or whether he be poor, if he (a man), have a good heart, he shall at all times rejoice in a cheerful countenance; his mind shall tell him more than seven watchmen that sit above upon a tower on high. Ecclus.
Whether it be for life or death, do your own 40 work well. Ruskin.
Whether one show one's self a man of genius in science or compose a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, the deed, is living and can live on. Goethe.
Whether religion be true or false, it must be necessarily granted to be the only wise principle and safe hypothesis for a man to live and die by. Tillotson.
Whether the pitcher strike the stone or the stone the pitcher, it is bad for the pitcher. Pr.
Whether you boil snow or pound it, you can have but water of it. Pr.
Which death is preferable to every other? "The unexpected." Cæsar.
Which highest mortal, in this inane existence, had I not found a shadow-hunter or shadow-hunted; and, when I looked through his brave garnitures, miserable enough? Carlyle.
Which is the great secret? The open secret 5 (open, that is, to all, seen by almost none). Goethe.
Which is the lightest in the scale of Fate? / That where fond Cupid still is adding weight. Quarles.
Which of all the philosophies think you will stand? / I know not, but philosophy itself, I hope will continue with us for ever. Schiller.
Which of your philosophical systems is other than a dream-theorem; a net quotient, confidently given out, where divisor and dividend are both unknown? Carlyle.
Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell; / And in the lowest deep a lower deep, / Still threat'ning to devour me, opens wide, / To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven. Milton.
Whichever you do, you will regret it. Socrates, 10 to one who asked him whether he should marry or not.
While a man gets he never can lose. Sp. Pr.
While conscience is our friend, all is peace; but if once offended, farewell the tranquil mind. Mary Wortley Montagu.
While craving justice for ourselves, it is never wise to be unjust to others. Lew Wallace.
While digestion lasts, life cannot, in philosophical language, be said to be extinct. Carlyle.
While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert 15 only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it. Johnson.
While manufacture is the work of hands only, art is the work of the whole spirit of man; and as that spirit is, so is the deed of it. Ruskin.
While men sleep, / Sad-hearted mothers heave, that wakeful lie, / To muse upon some darling child / Roaming in youth's uncertain wild. Keble.
While mistakes are increasing, like population, at the rate of twelve hundred a-day, the benefit of seizing one and throttling it would be perfectly inconsiderable. Carlyle.
While others tippled, Sam from drinking shrunk, / Which made the rest think Sam alone was drunk. Lucian.
While the serpent sheds its old skin, the new 20 is already formed beneath. Carlyle.
While there is hope left, let not the weakness of sorrow make the strength of resolution languish. Sir P. Sidney.
While thy shoe is on thy foot, tread upon the thorns. Pr.
While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look upon them as virtues. Heine.
While we are reasoning concerning life, life is gone. Hume.
While we think to revenge an injury, we many 25 times begin one, and after that repent our misconceptions. Feltham.
While you live, tell truth and shame the devil. 1 Hen. IV., iii. 1.
Whilst a man confideth in Providence, he should not slacken his own exertions; for without labour he is unworthy to obtain the oil from the seed. Hitopadesa.
Whilst lions war and battle for their dens, / Poor harmless lambs abide their enmity. 3 Hen. VI., ii. 5.
Whilst we converse with what is above us, we do not grow old, but grow young. Emerson.
Whining lover may as well request / A scornful 30 breast / To melt in gentle tears, as woo the world for rest. Quarles.
Whistle, and I'll come to ye, my lad. Burns.
Whistling aloud to bear his courage up. Blair.
White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion. Paley.
Who are wise in love, love most, say least. Tennyson.
Who ascends to mountain-tops, shall find / 35 The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow. Byron.
Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, / And to party gave up what was meant for mankind; / Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat / To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him a vote. Goldsmith.
Who bravely dares most sometimes risk a fall. Smollett.
Who breaks his own bond, forfeiteth himself. George Herbert.
Who breathes must suffer, and who thinks must mourn; / And he alone is bless'd who ne'er was born. Prior.
Who builds a church to God and not to fame, / 40 Will never mark the marble with his name. Pope.
Who but the poet was it that first formed gods for us; that exalted us to them, and brought them down to us? Goethe.
Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? / Or sells eternity to get a toy? Shakespeare.
Who by repentance is not satisfied / Is not of heaven, nor earth. Two Gent. of Verona, v. 4.
Who can be patient in extremes? 3 Hen. VI., i. 1.
Who can compute what the world loses in the 45 multitude of promising intellects combined with timid characters, who dare not follow out any bold, vigorous, independent train of thought, lest it should land them in something which would admit of being considered irreligious or immoral? J. S. Mill.
Who can direct when all pretend to know? Goldsmith.
Who can do nothing of sovran worth / Which men shall praise, a higher task may find, / Plodding his dull round on the common earth, / But conquering envies rising in the mind. Dr. W. Smith.
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. She will do him good and not evil, all the days of her life. She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. Her children arise up, and call her blessed. Bible.
Who can heal the woes of him to whom balm has become poison, who has imbibed hatred of mankind from the fulness of love? Goethe.
Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin? Bible.
Who cannot rest till he good fellows find, / He breaks up house, turns out of doors his mind. George Herbert.
Who chatters to you, will chatter of you. 5 Pr.
Who coldly lives to himself and his own will may gratify many a wish; but he who strives to guide others well must be able to dispense with much. Goethe.
Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, / He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave; / Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,—/ His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies. Pope.
Who could pin down a shadow to the ground, / And take its measure? Dr. W. Smith.
Who digs a pit for others falls into it himself. Ger. Pr.
Who does not act is dead; absorpt entire / In 10 miry sloth, no pride, no joy he hath: / O leaden-hearted men, to be in love with death! Thomson.
Who does not help us at the needful moment never helps; who does not counsel at the needful moment never counsels. Goethe.
Who does not in his friends behold the world, / Deserves not that the world should hear of him. Goethe.
Who does the best his circumstance allows, / Does well, does nobly; angels could no more. Young.
Who doth not work shall not eat. Pr.
Who ever loved that loved not at first sight? 15 Marlowe.
Who fastest walks, but walks astray, / Is only farthest from his way. Prior.
Who fears death forfeits life. Seume.
Who fears to do ill sets himself a task; / Who fears to do well sure should wear a mask. Herbert.
Who feels injustice, who shrinks before a slight, who has a sense of wrong so acute, and so glowing a gratitude for kindness, as a generous boy? Thackeray.
Who firmly can resolve, he conquers grief. 20 Goethe.
Who follows all things forfeiteth his will. George Herbert.
Who forces himself on others is to himself a load. Impetuous curiosity is empty and inconstant. Prying intrusion may be suspected of whatever is little. Lavater.
Who gets by play proves loser in the end. Heath.
Who gives a trifle meanly is meaner than the trifle. Lavater.
Who gives the lilies clothing, / Will clothe his 25 people too. Cowper.
Who goes a-borrowing, goes a-sorrowing. Pr.
Who had hoped for triumph, but who was prepared for sacrifice. I. Disraeli.
Who has a daring eye tells downright truths and downright lies. Lavater.
Who has a head will not want a hat. It. Pr.
Who has not felt how sadly sweet / The dream 30 of home, the dream of home, / Steals o'er the heart, too soon to fleet, / When far o'er sea or land we roam? / Sunlight more soft may o'er us fall, / To greener shores our bark may come; / But far more bright, more dear than all, / That dream of home, that dream of home. Moore.
Who hath a greater combat than he that laboureth to overcome himself? Thomas à Kempis.
Who hath not known ill fortune never knew himself or his own virtue. Mallet.
Who here with life would sport, / In life shall prosper never; / And he who ne'er will rule himself, / A slave shall be for ever. Goethe.
Who, in the midst of just provocation to anger, instantly finds the fit word which settles all around him in silence, is more than wise or just; he is, were he a beggar, of more than royal blood—he is of celestial descent. Lavater.
Who in want a hollow friend doth try, / 35 Directly seasons him his enemy. Ham., iii. 2.
Who is a stranger to those who have the habit of speaking kindly. Hitopadesa.
Who is sure he hath a soul, unless / It see and judge, and follow worthiness, / And by deeds praise it? He who doth not this / May lodge an inmate soul, but 'tis not his. Donne.
Who is sure of his own motives can with confidence advance or retreat. Goethe.
Who is the best captain of a ship? The grumbler and the man of discipline, who will have things as they ought to be, even though he lose every sailor serving under him by his severity. John Wagstaffe.
Who is the best general? The grumbler who 40 insists upon having everything in mathematical order, and who has not the smallest drop of the milk of human kindness about him, whenever it is a question of duty or efficiency. John Wagstaffe.
Who is the happiest man? He who is alive to the merit of others, and can rejoice in their enjoyment as if it were his own. Goethe.
Who is the most sensible man? He who finds what is to his own advantage in all that happens to him. Goethe.
Who is there almost, whose mind at some time or other, love or anger, fear or grief, has not so fastened to some clog that it could not turn itself to any other object? Locke.
Who is there that can clutch into the wheel-spokes of destiny, and say to the spirit of the time: Turn back, I command thee? Wiser were it that we yielded to the inevitable and inexorable, and accounted even this the best. Carlyle.
Who is't can say, I'm at the worst? / I'm worse than ere I was, / And worse I may be yet; the worst is not, / So long as we can say, / This is the worst. Lear, iv. 1.
Who judgeth well, well God them send; / Who judgeth evil, God them amend. Sir Thomas Wyatt.
Who keeps no guard upon himself is slack, / And rots to nothing at the next great thaw. George Herbert.
Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, but he who kills a good book kills reason itself. Milton.
Who knows art half, speaks much and is always 5 wrong; who knows it wholly, inclines to act, and speaks seldom or late. Goethe.
Who knows not that truth is strong, next to the Almighty? She needs no politics, nor stratagems, nor licensings to make her victorious; those are the shifts and the defences that error uses against her power; give her but room and do not bind her when she sleeps. Milton.
Who knows the mind has the key to all things else. A. B. Alcott.
Who knows what Love is, may not sup / On that which is not still divine. Dr. W. Smith.
Who leaves all receives more. Emerson.
Who looks not before finds himself behind. 10 Pr.
Who loves his own sweet shadow in the streets / Better than e'er the fairest she he meets. Burns.
Who loves me, loves my dog. L. Pr.
Who loves, raves. Byron.
Who made the heart, 'tis He alone / Decidedly can try us; / He knows each chord, its various tone, / Each spring, its various bias. / Then at the balance let's be mute, / We never can adjust it; / What's done we partly may compute, / But know not what's resisted. Burns.
Who make poor "will do" wait upon "I 15 should;" / We own they're prudent, but who owns they're good? Burns.
Who marks in church-time others' symmetry, / Makes all their beauty his deformity. George Herbert.
Who never climbs will never fa'. Sc. Pr.
Who never doubted never half believed. Bailey.
Who overcomes / By force, hath overcome But half his foe. Milton.
Who pants for glory finds but short repose; / 20 A breath revives him or a breath o'erthrows. Pope.
Who plays for more / Than he can lose with pleasure, stakes his heart. George Herbert.
Who questioneth much, shall learn much, and content much. Bacon.
Who riseth from a feast / With that keen appetite that he sits down? / Where is the horse that doth untread again / His tedious measures with the unabated fire / That he did pace them first? All things that are / Are with more spirit chaséd than enjoy'd. Mer. of Venice, ii. 6.
Who say, I care not, those I give for lost; / And to instruct them, 'twill not quit the cost. George Herbert.
Who seeks Him in the dark and cold, / With 25 heart that elsewhere finds no rest, / Some fringe of the skirts of God shall hold, / Though round his spirit the mists may fold, / With eerie shadows and fears untold. Dr. W. Smith.
Who shall be true to us, / When we are so unsecret to ourselves? Troil. and Cress., iii. 2.
Who shall decide when doctors disagree, / And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me. Pope.
Who shall place / A limit to the giant's unchained strength, / Or curb his swiftness in the forward race? W. C. Bryant.
Who shall say that Fortune grieves him, / While the star of hope she leaves him? Burns.
Who should be trusted when one's right 30 hand / Is perjured to the bosom? Two Gent. of Verona, v. 4.
Who shuts love out shall be shut out from love. Tennyson.
Who so firm that cannot be seduced? Jul. Cæs., i. 2.
Who so unworthy but may proudly deck him / With his fair-weather virtue, that exults / Glad o'er the summer main? The tempest comes, / The rough winds rage aloud; when from the helm / This virtue shrinks, and in a corner lies / Lamenting. Thomson.
Who soars too near the sun with golden wings melts them. Shakespeare.
Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the 35 deepest in man, and finds the readiest response. A. B. Alcott.
Who spouts his message to the wilderness, / Lightens his soul and feels one burden less; / But to the people preach, and you will find / They'll pay you back with thanks ill to your mind. Goethe, Prof. Blackie's translation.
Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; / 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands; / But he that filches from me my good name, / Robs me of that which not enriches him, / And makes me poor indeed. Othello, iii. 3.
Who surpasses or subdues mankind / Must look down on the hate of those below. Byron.
Who the race of men doth love, / Loves also him above. Lewis Morris.
Who to dumb forgetfulness a prey, / This 40 pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd; / Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, / Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind? Gray.
Who track the steps of glory to the grave. Byron.
Who trusts in God fears not his rod. Goethe.
Who values a good night's rest will not lie down with enmity in his heart if he can help it. Sterne.
Who values that anger which is consumed only in empty menaces? Goldsmith.
Who walks through fire will hardly heed the 45 smoke. Tennyson.
Who watches not catches not. Dut. Pr.
"Who will guard the guards?" says a Latin verse,—"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" I answer, "The enemy." It is the enemy who keeps the sentinel watchful. Mme. Swetchine.
Who will not mercy unto others show, / How can he mercy ever hope to have? Spenser.
Who would bear the whips and scorns of time, / The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, / The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, / The insolence of office and the spurns / That patient merit of the unworthy takes, / When he himself might his quietus make / With a bare bodkin? Ham., iii. 1.
Who would check the happy feeling / That inspires the linnet's song? / Who would stop the swallow wheeling / On her pinions swift and strong? Wordsworth.
Who would fardels bear, / To grunt and sweat under a weary life, / But that the dread of something after death, / The undiscover'd country from whose bourn / No traveller returns, puzzles the will, / And makes us rather bear those ills we have / Than fly to others that we know not of? Ham., iii. 1.
Whoever acquires knowledge but does not 5 practise it, is as one who ploughs but does not sow. Saadi.
Whoever aims at doing or enjoying all and everything with his entire nature, whoever tries to link together all that is without him by such a species of enjoyment will only lose his time in efforts that can never be successful. Goethe.
Whoever can administer what he possesses, has enough, and to be wealthy is a burdensome affair, unless you understand it. Goethe.
Whoever can discern truth has received his commission from a higher source than the chiefest judge in the world, who can discern only law. Thoreau.
Whoever can make two ears of corn or two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, deserves better of mankind, and does more service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together. Swift.
Whoever can turn his weeping eyes to heaven 10 has lost nothing, for there above is everything he can wish for here below. He only is a loser who persists in looking down on the narrow plains of the present time. Jean Paul.
Whoever converses much among old books will be hard to please among new. Temple.
Whoever despises mankind will never get the best out of others or himself. Tocqueville.
Whoever does not respect confidence will never find happiness in his path. Saying.
Whoever fights, whoever falls, / Justice conquers evermore. Emerson.
Whoever gives himself to this (evil-speaking and 15 evil-wishing), soon comes to be indifferent towards God, contemptuous towards the world, spiteful towards his equals; and the true, genuine indispensable sentiment of self-estimation corrupts into self-conceit and presumption. Goethe.
Whoever has lived twenty years ought to know how to order himself without physic. Tiberius, quoted by Montaigne.
Whoever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings. Joubert.
Whoever has seen the masked at a ball dance amicably together, and take hold of hands without knowing each other, leaving the next moment to meet no more, can form an idea of the world. Vauvenargues.
Whoever has sixpence is sovereign over all men—to the extent of the sixpence; commands cooks to feed him, philosophers to teach him, kings to mount guard over him—to the extent of sixpence. Carlyle.
Whoever has so far formed his taste as to be 20 able to relish and feel the beauties of the great masters, has gone a great way in his study. Joshua Reynolds.
Whoever is a genuine follower of truth, keeps his eye steady upon his guide, indifferent whither he is lead, provided that she is the leader. Burke.
Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him. Haste and hurry are very different things. Chesterfield.
Whoever is king, is also the father of his country. Congreve.
Whoever is out of patience is out of possession of his soul. Bacon.
Whoever may / Discern true ends will grow 25 pure enough / To love them, brave enough to strive for them, / And strong enough to reach them, though the road be rough. E. B. Browning.
Whoever perseveres will be crowned. Herder.
Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors. Voltaire.
Whoever sinks his vessel by overloading it, though it be with gold, and silver, and precious stones, will give his owner but an ill account of his voyage. Locke.
Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, / Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be. Pope.
Whoever will thrust Magdalen into the pit 30 will find that he has dropped with her into the flames the key that should have opened heaven for him, and assuredly shall he remain outside until she, her purification completed, shall take pity on him and bring it thence. Celia Burleigh.
Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. Johnson.
Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide from us that he possesses one. Goethe.
Whoever would persuade men to religion both with art and efficacy, must found the persuasion of it upon this, that it interferes not with any rational pleasure, that it bids nobody quit the enjoyment of any one thing that his reason can prove to him ought to be enjoyed. South.
Whole, half, and quarter mistakes are very difficult and troublesome to correct and sift, and it is hard to set what is true in them in its proper place. Goethe.
Wholesome berries thrive and ripen best, / 35 Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality. Hen. V., i. 1.
Wholly a man of action, with speech subservient thereto. Carlyle of his father.
Whom God teaches not, man cannot. Gael.
Whom Heaven has made a slave, no parliament of men, nor power that exists on earth, can render free. Carlyle.
"Whom the gods love die young," was said of yore. Byron.
Whom the grandeur of his office elevates over other men will soon find that the first hour of his new dignity is the last of his independence. Chancellor D'Aguesseau.
Whom the heart of man shuts out, straightway the heart of God takes in. Lowell.
Whom well inspir'd the oracle pronounced / Wisest of men. Milton, of Socrates.
Whose faith has centre everywhere, / Nor cares to fix itself to form. Tennyson.
Whoso believes, let him begin to fulfil. Carlyle. 5
Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain. Bible.
Whoso can look on death will start at no shadows. Greek saying.
Whoso can speak well is a man. Luther.
Whoso cannot obey cannot be free, still less bear rule; he that is the inferior of nothing, can be the superior of nothing, the equal of nothing. Carlyle.
Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his 10 lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness. Bible.
Whoso devours the substance of the poor will at length find in it a bone to choke him. Fr. Pr.
Whoso does not good, does evil enough. Pr.
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord. Bible.
Whoso hath love in his heart hath spurs in his sides. It. Pr.
Whoso findeth me (Wisdom) findeth life, and 15 shall obtain favour of the Lord. Bible.
Whoso hath skill in this art (music) is of a good temperament, fitted for all things. Martin Luther.
Whoso is not a misanthropist at forty can never have loved his kind. Chamfort.
Whoso keepeth the fig-tree shall eat the fruit thereof; so he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured. Bible.
Whoso lives for humanity must be content to lose himself. O. B. Frothingham.
Whoso mocketh the poor reproacheth his 20 Maker; and he that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished. Bible.
Whoso rewardeth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house. Bible.
Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression, the same is the companion of a destroyer. Bible.
Whoso serves the public is a poor creature (ein armes Thier); he worries himself, and no one is grateful to him for his services. Goethe.
Whoso should combine the intrepid candour and decisive scientific clearness of Hume with the reverence, the love, and devout humility of Johnson, were the whole man of a new time. Carlyle.
Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the 25 poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard. Bible.
Whoso trusteth in the Lord, happy is he. Bible.
Whoso, without poetic frenzy, knocks at the doors of the Muses, presuming that his art alone will suffice to make him a poet, both he and his poetry are hopelessly thrown away. Plato.
Whoso would find God must bring him with him; thou seest him in things outside of thee, only when he is within thee. Rückert.
Whoso would work aright must not concern himself about what is ill done, but only do well himself. Goethe.
Whoso would write clearly must think clearly, 30 and if he would write in a noble style, he must first possess a noble soul. Goethe.
Whosoever and whatsoever introduces itself and appears, in the firm earth of human business, or, as we well say, comes into existence, must proceed from the world of the supernatural; whatsoever of a material sort deceases and disappears might be expected to go thither. Carlyle.
Whosoever forsaketh not all that he hath, cannot be my disciple. Jesus.
Whosoever has not seized the whole cannot yet speak truly (much less musically, concordantly) of any part. Carlyle.
Whosoever hath not patience, neither doth be possess philosophy. Saadi.
Whosoever hath his mind fraught with many 35 thoughts, his wits and understanding do clarify and break up, in the communicating and discoursing with another. He tosseth his thoughts more easily, he marshalleth them more orderly, he seeth how they look when they are turned into words; finally, he waxeth wiser than himself. Bacon.
Whosoever, in the frame of his nature and affections, is unfit for friendship, he taketh it of the beast, and not from humanity. Bacon.
"Whosoever quarrels with his fate, does not understand it," says Bettine; and among all her inspired sayings, she spoke none wiser. Mrs. Child.
Whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother. Jesus.
Whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted. Jesus.
Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of 40 God as a little child, he shall not enter therein. Jesus.
Whosoever will be great among you, let him be your servant. Jesus to his disciples.
Whosoever will save his life shall lose it; and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it. Jesus.
Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; / And He that might the vantage best have took / Found out the remedy. How would you be / If He, which is the top of judgment, should / But judge you as you are? Meas. for Meas., ii. 2.
Why am I loth to leave this earthly scene? / Have I so found it full of pleasing charms? / Some drops of joy with draughts of ill between; / Some gleams of sunshine 'mid renewing storms. Burns.
Why are taste (Geschmack) and genius so 45 seldom willing to unite? The former is shy of power, the latter scorns restraint. Schiller.
Why complain of wanting light? It is courage, energy, perseverance that I want. Carlyle.
Why do we discover faults so much more readily than perfections? Mme. de Sévigné.
Why do we pray to Heaven without setting our own shoulder to the wheel? Carlyle.
Why does it signify to us what they think of us after death, when our being has become only an empty sound? Auerbach.
Why does that hyssop grow there in the chink of the wall? Because the whole universe, sufficiently occupied otherwise, could not hitherto prevent its growing. It has the might and the right. Carlyle.
Why don't the men propose, mamma? / Why 5 don't the men propose? T. H. Bayly.
Why dost thou try to find / Where charity doth flow? / Upon the waters cast thy bread, / Who eats it, who may know? Goethe.
Why has not man a microscopic eye? / For this plain reason—man is not a fly. Pope.
Why insist, ye heroes, against the will of Jupiter, in pressing a Hercules into your enterprise? Know ye not that for him there is quite other work appointed, which he must do all alone, and not another with him? Ed.
Why is it that Love must so often sigh in vain for an object, and Hate never? Jean Paul.
Why is it that we can better bear to part in 10 spirit than in body, and, while we have the fortitude to act farewell, have not the nerve to say it? Dickens.
Why is there no man who confesses his vices? It is because he has not yet laid them aside. It is a waking man only who can tell his dreams. Sen.
Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world / Like a Colossus, and we petty men / Walk under his huge legs and peep about / To find ourselves dishonourable graves. Jul. Cæs., i. 2.
Why, nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal. Tam. the Shrew, i. 2.
Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, / Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, / And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, / Than in the perfumed chambers of the great, / Under the canopies of costly state, / And lull'd with sounds of sweetest melody? 2 Hen. IV., iii. 1.
Why seek at once to dive into / The depth of 15 all that meets your view? / Wait for the melting of the snow, / And then you'll see what lies below. Prof. Blackie from Goethe.
Why should a man, whose blood is warm within, / Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster? Mer. of Venice, i. 1.
"Why should calamity be full of words?" / "Let them have scope; though what they do impart / Help not at all, yet do they ease the heart." Rich. III., iv. 4.
Why should honour outlive honesty? Othello, v. 2.
Why should I make a shadow where God makes all so bright? Dr. Walter Smith.
Why should not conscience have vacation / 20 As well as other courts o' th' nation? Butler.
Why should the Garment of Praise destroy the Spirit of Heaviness? Because an old woman cannot sing and cry at the same moment ... one emotion destroys another. Prof. Drummond.
Why should the poor be flatter'd? / No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, / And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee, / Where thrift may follow fawning. Ham., iii. 2.
Why should thy satisfaction be placed upon a thing which makes thee not one whit the better or the worse? Thomas à Kempis.
Why should we crave a hallow'd spot? / An altar is in each man's cot, / A church in every grove that spreads / Its living roof above our heads. Wordsworth.
Why should we faint and fear to live alone, / 25 Since all alone, so Heaven has willed, we die, / Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own, / Knows half the reasons why we smile or sigh? Keble.
Why should we go a-jaunting when the heart wants to repose. Dr. Walter Smith.
Why should we have any serious disgust at kitchens? Perhaps they are the holiest recesses of the house. There is the hearth, after all,—and the settle, and the fagots, and the kettle, and the crickets. They are the heart, the left ventricle, the very vital part of the house. Thoreau.
Why so large cost, having so short a lease, / Dost thou upon thy fading mansion spend? Shakespeare.
Why such heat (crushing superstition)? Other nonsense, quite equal to it, will be almost sure to follow. Frederick the Great to Voltaire.
Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker if it 30 is not the truth that he is speaking? If an eloquent speaker is not speaking the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation? Carlyle.
Why, then, the world's mine oyster, / Which I with sword will open. Merry Wives, ii. 2.
Why, universal plodding prisons up / The nimble spirits in the arteries, / As motion and long-during action tires / The sinewy vigour of the traveller. Love's L. Lost, iv. 3.
Why, what should be the fear? / I do not set my life at a pin's fee; / And for my soul, what can it do to that, / Being a thing immortal as itself? Ham., i. 4.
Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark upon the face, especially the eyes. Schopenhauer.
Wickedness is its own punishment. Quarles. 35
Wickedness is voluntary frenzy, and every sinner does more extravagant things than any man that is crazed and out of his wits, only that he knows better what he does. Tillotson.
Wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction. Jesus.
Wide our world displays its worth, man's strife and strife's success, / All the good and beauty, wonder crowning wonder, / Till my heart and soul applaud perfection, nothing less. Browning.
Wide will wear, but tight will tear. Pr.
Wie alles sich zum Ganzen webt / Eins in 40 dem andern wirkt und lebt!—How everything weaves itself into the whole; one works and lives in the other. Goethe.
Wie bitter sind der Trennung Leiden!—How bitter are the pangs of parting! Mozart.
Wie das Auge, hat das Herz / Seine Sprache ohne Worte—The heart, like the eye, has its speech without words. Bodenstedt.
Wie das Gestirn, / Ohne Hast, / Aber ohne Rast, / Drehe sich jeder / Um die eigne Last—Like a star, without haste, yet without rest, let each one revolve round his own task. Goethe.
Wie der alte verbrennt, steigt der neue sogleich wieder aus der Asche hervor—(Our passions are true phœnixes;) when the old one is burnt out, the new one rises straightway out of its ashes. Goethe.
Wie der Sternenhimmel still und bewegt—Like the starry heavens, still and in motion. J. C. F. Hölderlin.
Wie die Alten sungen, so zwitschern auch die 5 Jungen—As the old birds sing, so will the young ones twitter.
Wie die Blumen die Erd', und die Sterne den Himmel / Zieren, so zieret Athen Hellas und Hellas die Welt—As the flowers adorn the earth and the stars the sky, so Athens adorns Greece, and Greece the world. Herder.
Wie ein Pfeil nach seinem Ziele fliegt des braven Mannes Wort—Like an arrow to its aim flies the good man's word. Platen.
Wie eng-gebunden des Weibes Glück!—How straitened is the lot of woman! Goethe.
Wie fruchtbar ist der kleinste Kreis, / Wenn man ihn wohl zu pflegen weiss!—How fruitful the smallest space if we but knew how to cultivate it! Goethe.
Wie gewonnen, so zerronnen—Easily gained, 10 easily spent.
Wie ist das Menschenherz so klein! / Und doch auch da zieht Gott herein—How small is the human heart, and yet even there God enters in. W. Hey.
Wie schränkt sich Welt und Himmel ein, / Wenn unser Herz in seinen Schranken banget!—How earth and heaven contract when our heart frets within its barriers! Goethe.
Wie? Wann? und Wo? Die Götter bleiben stumm. / Du halte dich ans Weil, und frage nicht Warum?—How? when? and where? the gods keep silence. Keep you to the "Because," and ask not "Why?" Goethe.
Wild ambition loves to slide, not stand; / And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land. Dryden.
Wilful waste makes woeful want. Pr. 15
Will a courser of the sun work softly in the harness of a dray-horse? His hoofs are of fire, and his path is through the heavens, bringing light to all lands; will he lumber on mud highways, dragging ale for earthly appetites from door to door? Carlyle on the career and sorrowful fate of Burns.
Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood / Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather / The multitudinous seas incarnadine, / Making the green one red. Macb., ii. 2.
Will is deaf, and hears no heedful friends. Shakespeare.
Will it, and set to work briskly. Schiller.
Will localises us; thought universalises us. 20 Amiel.
Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity. Schopenhauer.
"Will-to-do," which is the spirit of the true God, is eternally incompatible with "wish-to-have," which is the proper spirit of the false. Ed.
Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, / Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike. Pope.
Willows are weak, yet they bind other wood. Pr.
Willst du den Dichter verstehen, so lerne wie 25 Dichter empfinden—Wilt thou understand a poet, then learn to feel as a poet. G. Keil.
Willst du dich am Ganzen erquicken, / So musst du das Ganze im Kleinsten erblicken—Wilt thou strengthen thyself in the whole, then must thou see the whole in the least object. Goethe.
Willst du immer weiter schweifen? / Sieh, das Gute liegt so nah! / Lerne nur das Glück ergreifen, / Denn das Glück ist immer da—Wilt thou for ever roam? See, what is good lies so near thee! Only learn to seize the good fortune that offers, for it is ever there. Goethe.
Willst du in's Unendliche schreiten, / Geh' nur im Endliche nach allen Seiten—Wouldst thou step forward into the infinite, keep strictly within the limits of the finite. Goethe.
Willst du leben, musst du dienen; willst du frei sein, musst du sterben—Wouldst thou love, thou must serve; would thou be free, thou must die. Hegel.
Willst du mit Kinderhänden / In des Schicksals 30 Speichen greifen? / Seines Donnerwagens Lauf / Hält kein sterblich Wesen auf—Wilt thou clutch the spokes of destiny with thy child's hands? The course of its car of thunder no mortal hand can stay. Grillparzer.
Willst lustig leben, geh' mit zwei Säcken, / Einen zu geben, einen um einzustecken—Would you live a merry life, go with two wallets, one for giving out and one for putting in. Goethe.
Wilt thou draw near the nature of the gods? Draw near them, then, in being merciful. Sh.
Wilt thou know a man, above all a mankind, by stringing together beadrolls of what thou namest facts? The man is the spirit he worked in; not what he did, but what he became. Carlyle.
Wilt thou know thyself, see how others do; wilt thou understand others, look into thine own heart. Schiller.
"Win hearts," said Burleigh to Queen Elizabeth, 35 "and you have all men's hearts and purses." Smiles.
Wine and youth are fire upon fire. Fielding.
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. Bible.
Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy. Fielding.
Wine neither keeps secrets nor fulfils promises. Pr.
Wine washes off the daub. Pr. 40
Wings have we—and as far as we can go, / We may find pleasure: wilderness and wood, / Blank ocean and mere sky, support that mood / Which with the lofty, sanctifies the low. Wordsworth.
Wink at small faults. Pr.
Wir Menschen sind ja alle Brüder—We men are for certain all brothers. Zschokke.
Wisdom alone is a science of other sciences and of itself. Plato.
Wisdom and Fortune combating together, / If that the former dare but what he can, / No chance may shake it. Ant. and Cleo., iii. 11.
Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times. Bible.
Wisdom becomes nonsense (Unsinn) in the mouth of a fanatic (Schwärmer). Otto Ludwig.
Wisdom begins at the end. Webster.
Wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth 5 darkness. Bible.
Wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it. Bible.
Wisdom is a pearl; with most success / Sought in still water and beneath clear skies. Cowper.
Wisdom is intrinsically of a silent nature; it cannot at once, or completely at all, be read off in words, and is only legible in whole when its work is done. Carlyle.
Wisdom is justified of her children. Jesus.
Wisdom is not found with those who dwell at 10 their ease; rather Nature, when she adds brain, adds difficulty. Emerson.
Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. Wordsworth.
Wisdom is only in truth. Goethe.
Wisdom is that attribute through which every action of a man receives its ideal value or import (Gehalt). Schleiermacher.
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding. Bible.
Wisdom is too high for a fool. Bible. 15
Wisdom makes a slow defence against trouble, though at last a sure one. Goldsmith.
Wisdom may be the ultimate arbiter, but is seldom the immediate agent in human affairs. Sir J. Stephen.
Wisdom may sometimes wear a look austere, / But smiles and jests are oft her helpmates here. De Bosch.
Wisdom not only gets, but, got, retains. Quarles.
Wisdom picks friends; civility plays the rest. / 20 A toy shunn'd cleanly passeth with the best. George Herbert.
Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath understanding. Bible.
Wisdom sends us to childhood; "unless ye become as little children." Pascal.
Wisdom sits with children round her knees. Wordsworth.
Wisdom sometimes walks in clouted shoes. Pr.
Wisdom that is hid, and treasure that is 25 hoarded up, what profit is in them both? Ecclus.
Wisdom, which represents the marriage of truth and virtue, is by no means synonymous with gravity. She is L'Allegro as well as Il Penseroso, and jests as well as preaches. Whipple.
Wisdom will out; it is the one thing in this world that cannot be suppressed or annulled. John Burroughs.
Wisdom's a trimmer thing than shop e'er gave. George Herbert.
Wisdom's path is steep; but, gained the height, / The Muse's gifts will fill you with delight. Onestes.
Wise above that which is written. St. Paul. 30
Wise, cultivated, genial conversation is the best flower of civilisation, and the best result which life has to offer us—a cup for gods, which has no repentance. Conversation is our account of ourselves. All we have, all we can, all we know is brought into play, and as the reproduction, in finer form, of all our havings. Emerson.
Wise is the man prepared for either end, / Who in due measure can both spare and spend. Lucian.
Wise kings have generally wise councillors, as he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one. Diogenes.
Wise men are instructed by reason; men of less understanding, by experience; the most ignorant, by necessity; and beasts, by nature. Cic.
Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will 35 speak five times from their taste or their humour to one from their reason. Emerson.
Wise men are wise but not prudent, in that they know nothing of what is for their own advantage, but know surpassing things, marvellous things, difficult things, and divine things. Ruskin.
Wise men argue causes, and fools decide them. Anacharsis.
Wise men, for the most part, are silent at present, and good men powerless; the senseless vociferate, and the heartless govern; while all social law and providence are dissolved by the enraged agitation of a multitude, among whom every villain has a chance of power, every simpleton of praise, and every scoundrel of fortune. Ruskin.
Wise men mingle mirth with their cares, as a help either to forget or overcome them; but to resort to intoxication for the ease of one's mind is to cure melancholy by madness. Charron.
Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, / But 40 cheerly seek how to redress their harms. 3 Hen. VI., v. 4.
Wise men say nothing in dangerous times. Selden.
Wise sayings are as saltpits; you may extract salt out of them, and sprinkle it where you will. Cic.
Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are pierced and discovered. Bacon.
Wise sayings are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart. John Morley.
Wise to resolve, and patient to perform. Pope. 45
Wise, well-calculated breeding of a young soul lies fatally over the horizon in these epochs. Carlyle.
Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast. Rom. and Jul., ii. 3.
Wishing, of all employments, is the worst. Young.
Wissen ist leichter als thun—To know is easier than to do. Ger. Pr.
Wit and judgment often are at strife, / Though 50 meant each other's aid, like man and wife. Pope.
Wit and understanding are trifles without integrity. Goldsmith.
Wit and wisdom are born with a man. Selden.
Wit, bright, rapid, and blasting as the lightning, flashes, strikes, and vanishes in an instant; humour, warm and all-embracing as the sunshine, bathes its object in a genial and abiding light. Whipple.
Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly. Montaigne.
Wit is a pernicious thing when it is not tempered 5 with virtue and humanity. Addison.
Wit is brushwood, judgment timber; the one gives the greatest flame, the other yields the durablest heat; and both meeting make the best fire. Sir Thomas Overbury.
Wit is of the true Pierian spring, that can make anything of anything. Chapman.
Wit marries ideas lying wide apart, by a sudden jerk of the understanding. Whipple.
Wit once bought is worth twice taught. Pr.
Wit strews a single ray (of the prism) separated 10 from the rest upon an object; never white light, that is the province of wisdom. Holmes.
Wit, when neglected by the great, is generally despised by the vulgar. Goldsmith.
Wit without employment is a disease. Burton.
Wit without wisdom is salt without meat. Horne.
Wit-work is always play, when it is good. Ruskin.
Wit's an unruly engine, wildly striking / Sometimes 15 a friend, sometimes the engineer: / Hast thou the knack? pamper it not with liking; / But if thou want it, buy it not too dear. George Herbert.
Witchcraft has been put a stop to by Act of Parliament, but the mysterious relations which it emblemed still continue. Carlyle.
With all appliances and means to boot. 2 Hen. IV., iii. 1.
With bag and baggage. As You Like It, iii. 2.
With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, / Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb. Milton.
With consistency a great soul has simply 20 nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Emerson.
With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, / Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought. Churchill.
With devotion's visage / And pious action we do sugar over / The devil himself. Ham., iii. 1.
With disadvantages enough to call him down to humility, a Scotchman is one of the proudest things alive. Goldsmith.
With every anguish of our earthly part the spirit's sight grows clearer; this was meant when Jesus touched the blind man's lids with clay. Lowell.
With every breath we draw, an ethereal 25 stream of Lethe runs through our whole being, so that we have but a partial recollection of our joys, and scarcely any of our sorrows. Goethe.
With faith, martyrs, otherwise weak, can cheerfully endure the shame and the cross: and without it worldlings puke up their sick existence, by suicide, in the midst of luxury. Carlyle.
With fingers weary and worn, / With eyelids heavy and red, / A woman sat in unwomanly rags, / Plying her needle and thread—/ Stitch! stitch! stitch! Hood.
"With it, or upon it, my son." A Spartan mother, when she handed her son his shield as he set out to fight for his country.
With just enough of learning to misquote. Byron.
With love come life and hope. John Sterling. 30
With malice towards none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right. John Quincy Adams.
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. Mer. of Ven., i. 1.
With moral, political, religious considerations, high and dear as they may otherwise be, the philosopher, as such, has no concern. Carlyle.
With much we surfeit; plenty makes us poor. Drayton.
With narrow-minded persons, and those in a 35 state of mental darkness, we find conceit: while with mental clearness and high endowments we never find it. In such cases there is generally a joyful feeling of strength, but since this strength is actual, the feeling is anything else you please, only not conceit. Goethe.
With none who bless us, none whom we can bless—/ This is to be alone; this, this is solitude! Byron.
With necessity, the tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds. Milton.
With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable. Sir T. F. Buxton.
With parsimony a little is sufficient, and without it nothing is sufficient, whereas frugality makes a poor man rich. Sen.
With patient mind thy path of duty run; / 40 God nothing does, nor suffers to be done, / But thou thyself wouldst do, if thou couldst see / The end of all events as well as he. (?)
With poetry, as with going to sea, we should push from the shore and reach a certain elevation before we unfurl all our sails. Goethe.
With poetry second-rate in quality, no one ought to be allowed to trouble mankind. Ruskin.
With remembrance of the greater grief to banish the less. Howard, Earl of Surrey.
With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have ever lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor. Thoreau.
With some life is exactly like a sleigh-drive, 45 showy and tinkling, but affording just as little for the heart as it offers much to eyes and ears. Goethe.
With stupidity and sound digestion man may front much; but what in these dull, unimaginative days are the terrors of conscience to the diseases of the liver! Carlyle.
With temperance, health, cheerfulness, friends, a chosen task, one pays the cheapest fees for living, and may well dispense with other physicians. A. B. Alcott.
With the dead there is no rivalry. In the dead there is no change. Plato is never sullen. Cervantes is never petulant. Demosthenes never comes unseasonably. Dante never stays too long. Macaulay.
With the Gospels one becomes a heretic. It. Pr.
With the majority of men unbelief in one thing is founded on blind belief in another thing. Lichtenberg.
With the possession or certain expectation of 5 good things our demand rises, and increases our capacity for further possession and larger expectations. Schopenhauer.
With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy. Round it all the Muses sing. Emerson.
With too much quickness ever to be taught; / With too much thinking to have common thought. Pope.
With virtue, capacity, and good conduct, one still can be insupportable. The manners, which are neglected as small things, are often those which decide men for or against you. A slight attention to them would have prevented their ill judgments. La Bruyère.
With well-doing ye may put to silence foolish men. St. Peter.
With what a heavy and retarding weight does 10 expectation load the wing of time. William Mason.
With what is debateable I am unconcerned; and when I have only opinions about things ... I do not talk about them. I attack only what cannot on any possible ground be defended; and state only what I know to be incontrovertibly true. Ruskin.