Falsum in uno, falsum in omni-False in one thing, false in everything.

Falsus honor juvat, et mendax infamia terret / Quem nisi mendosum et medicandum-Undeserved honour delights, and lying calumny alarms no one but him who is full of falsehood and needs to be reformed. Hor. Fama clamosa-A current scandal.

5 Fama crescit eundo-Rumour grows as it goes. Virg.

Fama nihil est celerius-Nothing circulates more swiftly than scandal. Livy.

Famæ damna majora sunt, quam quæ æstimari possint-The loss of reputation is greater than can be possibly estimated. Livy. Famæ laboranti non facile succurritur-It is not easy to repair a damaged character. Pr. Famam extendere factis. To extend one's fame by valiant feats. Virg.

10 Fame and censure with a tether / By fate are always linked together. Swift.

Fame at its best is but a poor compensation for all the ills of existence. Oliphant.

Mrs.

Milton.

Fame may be compared to a scold; the best way to silence her is to let her alone, and she will at last be out of breath in blowing her own trumpet. Fuller.

25 Fame only reflects the estimate in which a man is held in comparison with others. Schopenhauer.

Fame sometimes hath created something of nothing. Fuller.

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else; very rarely to those who say to themselves, "Go to now, let us be a celebrated individual." Holmes.

merit, but only a probability of such it is an accident, not a property, of a man; like light, it can give little or nothing, but at most may show what is given; often it is but a false glare, dazzling the eyes of the vulgar, lending, by casual extrinsic splendour, the brightness and manifold glance of the diamond to pebbles of no value. Carlyle.

Fame with men, / Being but ampler means to serve mankind, Should have small rest or pleasure in herself, / But work as vassal to the larger love, / That dwarfs the petty love of one to one. Tennyson.

Fames et mora bilem in nasum conciunt - 30 Hunger and delay stir up one's bile (lit. in the nostrils). Pr.

Fames, pestis, et bellum, populi sunt pernicies -Famine, pestilence, and war are the destruction of a people.

Familiare est hominibus omnia sibi ignoscereIt is common to man to pardon all his own faults.

Familiarity breeds contempt. Pr. Familiarity is a suspension of almost all the laws of civility which libertinism has introduced into society under the notion of ease. La Roche.

Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. 35 George Eliot.

Famine hath a sharp and meagre face. Dryden.

Fammi indovino, e ti farò ricco-Make me a prophet, and I will make you rich.

It. Pr.

Fanaticism is a fire which heats the mind indeed, but heats without purifying. Warburton.

Fancy restrained may be compared to a fountain, which plays highest by diminishing the aperture. Goldsmith.

Fancy rules over two-thirds of the universe, the past and the future, while reality is confined to the present. Jean Paul. Fancy runs most furiously when a guilty con

science drives it. Fuller. Fancy surpasses beauty. Pr.

Fancy, when once brought into religion, knows not where to stop. Whately. Fanfaronnade-Boasting. Fr.

Fanned fires and forced love ne'er did weel. Sc. Pr.

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Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart,/ How hard thy yoke! how cruel is thy dart! / Those 'scape thy anger who refuse thy sway, And those are punished most who most obey. Prior.

Fantasy is of royal blood; the senses, of noble descent; and reason, of civic (bürgerlichen) origin. Feuerbach.

Fantasy is the true heaven-gate and hell-gate of man. Carlyle.

Far ahint maun follow the faster. Sc. Pr. 5 Far-awa fowls hae aye fair feathers. Pr.

Sc.

Far better it is to know everything of a little than a little of everything. Pickering.

Far frae court, far frae care. Sc. Pr.

Farewell to Lochaber, farewell to my Jean, / Where heartsome wi' thee I hae mony days been; / For Lochaber no more, Lochaber no more, / We'll maybe return to Lochaber no more. Allan Ramsay.

Fari quæ sentiat-To speak what he thinks. M. Farmers are the founders of civilisation. 25 Daniel Webster.

Farrago libelli--The medley of that book of mine. Juv.

Fas est et ab hoste doceri-It is right to derive instruction even from an enemy. Ovid. Fashionability is a kind of elevated vulgarity. G. Darley.

Fashion, a word which fools use, Their knavery and folly to excuse. Churchill.

Far from home is near to harm. Fris. Pr. 10 Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife,

Their sober wishes never learned to stray;
Along the cool sequester'd vale of life/
They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.
Gray.

Far greater numbers have been lost by hopes /
Than all the magazines of daggers, ropes, /
And other ammunitions of despair, / Were
ever able to despatch by fear. Butler.
Far niente-A do-nothing.
Far-off cows have long horns. Gael. Pr.
Far-off fowls hae feathers fair, / And aye until
ye try them;/ Though they seem fair, still
have a care, They may prove waur' than
I am. Burns.

15 Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; / The vanished gods to me appear; / And one to me are shame and fear. Emerson.

Fare, fac-Speak, do.

Fare thee well! and if for ever, / Still for ever fare thee well! E'en though unforgiving, never 'Gainst thee shall my heart rebel. Byron.

Fare you weel, auld Nickie-ben!/O wad ye tak a thocht and men'!/ Ye aiblins michtI dinna ken- / Still hae a stake :/ I'm wae to think upo' yon den, / E'en for your sake. Burns.

Farewell, a long farewell to all my greatness!/ This is the state of man: to-day he puts forth/The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him: The third day comes a frost, a killing frost: / And when he thinks, good easy man, full surely / His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root, / And then he falls, as I do. Hen. VIII., iii. 2.

20 Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again. I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins, / That almost freezes up the heat of life. Rom. and Jul., iv. 3. Farewell, happy fields, / Where joy for ever dwells; hail, horror, hail! Milton. Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content!/ Farewell the plumed troop and the big wars That make ambition virtue! oh, farewell! Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the earpiercing fife, The royal banner, and all quality, Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war! Othello, iii. 3.

abhors most singularity and vulgarity. Hazlitt.

Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the. lasting. Stedman.

Fashion is aristocratic-autocratic. J. G. Hol

land.

Fashion is, for the most part, nothing but the

ostentation of riches. Lecke.

Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity, and afraid to be overtaken by it. It is a sign that the two things are not far asunder. Hazlitt.

Fashion is the great governor of the world. 35 Fielding.

Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be. Locke.

Fashion seldom interferes with Nature without diminishing her grace and efficiency. Tucker

man.

Fasti et nefasti dies-Lucky and unlucky days. Fat hens are aye ill layers. Sc. Pr. Fat paunches make lean pates, and dainty 45 bits Make rich the ribs, but bankrupt quite the wits. Love's L. Lost, i. 1. Fata obstant-The fates oppose it. Fata volentem ducunt, nolentem trahunt-Fate leads the willing, and drags the unwilling. Fate follows and limits power; power attends and antagonises fate; we must respect fate as natural history, but there is more than natural history. Emerson.

Fate hath no voice but the heart's impulses. Schiller.

Fate is a distinguished but an expensive tutor. 50 Goethe.

Fate is character. W. Winter.

Fate is ever better than design. Thos. Doubleday.

Fate is known to us as limitations. Emerson. Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a former state of existence. Hindu saying.

Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad. IV. R. Alger.

Fate is unpenetrated causes. Emerson.
Fate leads the willing, but drives the stubborn.
Pr.

Fate made me what I am, may make me nothing;/ But either that or nothing must I be;/I will not live degraded. Byron. 5 Fate steals along with silent tread, / Found oftenest in what least we dread;/ Frowns in the storm with angry brow,/ But in the sunshine strikes the blow. Cowper. Fatetur facinus is qui judicium fugit-He who shuns a trial confesses his guilt. L. Father of all! in every age, / In every clime adored, / By saint, by savage, and by sage, / Jehovah, Jove, or Lord. Pope.

Fathers alone a father's heart can know, /
What secret tides of sweet enjoyment flow/
When brothers love! But if their hate suc-
ceeds, They wage the war, but 'tis the
father bleeds. Young.

Fathers first enter bonds to Nature's ends; /
And are her sureties ere they are a friend's.
George Herbert.

10 Fathers that wear rags / Do make their children blind;/ But fathers that wear bags/ Do make their children kind. King Lear,

ii. 4.

Fathers their children and themselves abuse/ That wealth a husband for their daughters choose. Shirley.

Fatigatis humus cubile est-To the weary the bare ground is a bed. Curt.

Fatta la legge, trovata la malizia-As soon as a law is made its evasion is found out. It. Pr. Faulheit ist der Schlüssel zur Armuth-Sloth is the key to poverty. Ger. Pr.

15 Faulheit ist Dummheit des Körpers, und Dummheit Faulheit des Geistes-Sluggishness is stupidity of body, and stupidity sluggishness of spirit. Seume.

Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null. Tennyson.

Faults are beauties in lover's eyes.

critus.

Theo

Faults are thick when love is thin. Pr.
Faute de grives le diable mange des merles-
For want of thrushes the devil eats blackbirds.
Fr. Pr.

20 Faux pas-A false step. Fr.

Favete linguis-Favour with words of good omen (lit. by your tongues). Ovid.

Favourable chance is the god of all men who follow their own devices instead of obeying a law they believe in. George Eliot. Favour and gifts disturb justice. Dan. Pr. Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised. Bible.

25 Favours, and especially pecuniary ones, are generally fatal to friendship. Hor. Smith. Favours unused are favours abused. Sc. Pr. Fax mentis honestæ gloria-Glory is the torch of an honourable mind. M.

Fax mentis incendium gloriæ The flame of glory is the torch of the mind. M. Fay ce que voudras-Do as your please. M. 30 Fear always springs from ignorance. Emerson.

Fear and sorrow are the true characters and inseparable companions of most melancholy. Burton.

Fear can keep a man out of danger, but
courage only can support him in it. Pr.
Fear God and keep his commandments; for
this is the whole duty of man. Bible.
Fear God; honour the king. St. Peter.
Fear guards the vineyard. It. Pr.
Fear guides more to their duty than gratitude.
Goldsmith.

Fear has many eyes. Cervantes.
Fear hath torment. St. John.
Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and
the herald of all revolutions. It has boded,
and mowed, and gibbered for ages over
government and property. Emerson.

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Fear is described by Spenser to ride in armour, 40 at the clashing whereof he looks afeared of himself. Peacham.

Fear is far more painful to cowardice than
death to true courage. Sir P. Sidney.
Fear is the underminer of all determinations;
and necessity, the victorious rebel of all
laws. Sir P. Sidney.

Fear is the virtue of slaves; but the heart that
loveth is willing. Longfellow.
Fear is worse than fighting. Gael. Pr.
Fear not that tyrants shall rule for ever,/ Or 45
the priests of the bloody faith; / They stand
on the brink of that mighty river / Whose
waves they have tainted with death. Shelley.
Fear not the confusion (Verwirrung) outside
of thee, but that within thee; strive after
unity, but seek it not in uniformity; strive
after repose, but through the equipoise,
not through the stagnation (Stillstand), of
thy activity. Schiller.

Fear not the future; weep not for the past.
Shelley.

Fear not, then, thou child infirm ; / There's no
god dare wrong a worm. Emerson.
Fear not where Heaven bids come; / Heaven's
never deaf but when man's heart is dumb.
Quarles.

Fear of change / Perplexes monarchs. Milton. 50
Fear oftentimes restraineth words, but makes
not thought to cease. Lord Vaux.
Fear sometimes adds wings to the heels, and
sometimes nails them to the ground and
fetters them from moving. Montaigne.
Fear to do base, unworthy things is valour;/
If they be done to us, to suffer them Ís
valour too. Ben Jonson.

Fear's a fine spur. Samuel Lover.
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To that base passion, know not what they
give. Dryden.

Fears of the brave and follies of the wise.
Johnson.

Fearfully and wonderfully made. Bible. Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns. 3 Hen. VI., iv. 7.

Feasting makes no friendship. Pr. Feast-won, fast-lost. Tim. of Athens, ii. 2. Feather by feather the goose is plucked. Pr. Fecisti enim nos ad te, et cor inquietum donec requiescat in te-Thou hast made us for Thee, and the heart knows no rest until it rests in Thee. St. Augustine.

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Feed a cold and starve a fever. Pr.

Feed no man in his sins; for adulation / Doth make thee parcel-devil in damnation. George Herbert.

Feeling comes before reflection. H. R. Haweis. Feeling should be stirred only when it can be sent to labour for worthy ends. Brooke. 10 Feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and farewell; like the glaciers, which are transparent and rose-hued only at sunrise and sunset, but throughout the day grey and cold. Jean

Paul.

Feelings are like chemicals; the more you analyse them, the worse they smell. Kingsley. Feelings come and go like light troops following the victory of the present; but principles, like troops of the line, are undisturbed, and stand fast. Jean Paul.

Paul.

Feelings, like flowers and butterflies, last longer the later they are delayed. Jean Fehlst du, lass dich's nicht betrüben; Denn der Mangel führt zum Lieben; / Kannst dich nicht vom Fehl befrein, / Wirst du Andern gern verzeihn-Shouldst thou fail, let it not trouble thee, for failure (lit. defect) leads to love. If thou canst not free thyself from failure, thou wilt never forgive others. Goethe.

15 Feindlich ist die Welt / Und falsch gesinnt; Es liebt ein jeder nur / Sich selbst-Hostile is the world, and falsely disposed. In it each one loves himself alone. Schiller. Felices errore

Lucan.

suo - Happy in their error.

Felices ter et amplius Quos irrupta tenet copula, nec, malis / Divulsus quærimoniis, / Suprema citius solvet amor die-Thrice happy they, and more than thrice, whom an unbroken link binds together, and whom love, unimpaired by evil rancour, will not sunder before their last day. Hor.

Felicitas nutrix est iracundiæ-Prosperity is the nurse of hasty temper. Pr.

Feliciter is sapit, qui periculo alieno sapitHe is happily wise who is wise at the expense of another. M.

20 Felicity lies much in fancy. Pr.

Felicity, not fluency, of language is a merit. Whipple.

Felix, heu nimium felix-Happy, alas! too happy! Virg.

Felix qui nihil debet-Happy is he who owes nothing.

Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causasHappy he who has succeeded in learning the causes of things. Virg.

25 Felix, qui quod amat, defendere fortiter andet -Happy he who dares courageously to defend what he loves. Ovid.

L.

L.

Feme covert-A married woman. Feme sole-An unmarried woman. Femme, argent et vin ont leur bien et leur venin - Women, money, and wine have their blessing and their bane. Fr. Pr. Femme de chambre-A chambermaid. Fr. Femme de charge-A housekeeper. Fr. Femme rit quand elle peut, et pleure quand elle veut-A woman laughs when she can, and Feræ naturæ-Of a wild nature. weeps when she likes. Fr. Pr. Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt

-Men in general are fain to believe that which they wish to be true. Cæs.

Feriis caret necessitas - Necessity knows no holiday.

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Ferme fugiendo in media fata ruitur-How 40 often it happens that men fall into the very evils they are striving to avoid. Liv.

Ferme modèle-A model farm. Fr.

Fern von Menschen wachsen Grundsätze; unter ihnen Handlungen-Principles develop themselves far from men; conduct develops among them. Jean Paul.

Ferreus assiduo consumitur annulus usu-By constant use an iron ring is consumed. Ovid. Ferro, non gladio-By iron, not by my sword.

M.

Fervet olla, vivit amicitia-As long as the pot 45 boils, friendship lasts. Pr.

Fervet opus-The work goes on with spirit. Virg.
Festina lente-Hasten slowly. Pr.
Festinare nocet, nocet et cunctatio sæpe; /
Tempore quæque suo qui facit, ille sapit-
It is bad to hurry, and delay is often as bad; he
is wise who does everything in its proper time.
Ovid.

Festinatione nil tutius in discordiis civilibus-
Nothing is safer than despatch in civil quarrels.
Tac.

Festinatio tarda est-Haste is tardy. Pr. Fetch a spray from the wood and place it on your mantel-shelf, and your household ornaments will seem plebeian beside its nobler fashion and bearing. It will wave superior there, as if used to a more refined and polished circle. It has a salute and response to all your enthusiasm and heroism. Thoreau. Fête champêtre-A rural feast. Fr. Fêtes des mœurs-Feasts of morals. Fette Küche, magere Erbschaft-A fat kitchen, a lean legacy. Ger. Pr.

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