All men would be masters of others, and no man is lord of himself. Goethe. All men who know not where to look for truth, save in the narrow well of self, will find their own image at the bottom and mistake it for what they are seeking. Lowell. All minds quote. Old and new make up the warp and woof of every moment. Emerson. All mischief comes from our inability to be alone. La Bruyère. 5 All money is but a divisible title-deed. Ruskin. All my possessions for a moment of time! Queen Elizabeth's last words. All nature is but art unknown to thee. / All chance, direction which thou canst not see. All discord, harmony not understood; / All partial evil, universal good. Pope. All nobility in its beginnings was somebody's natural superiority. Emerson, All objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude. Carlyle. 10 All orators are dumb when beauty pleadeth. Sh. ἀλλ ̓ οὐ Ζεὺς ἄνδρεσσι νοήματα πάντα τελευτά -Zeus, however, does not give effect to all the schemes of man. Hom. "AXλos éy-Alter ego. Zeno's definition of a friend. All our evils are imaginary, except pain of body and remorse of conscience. Rousseau. All our most honest striving prospers only in unconscious moments. Goethe. 15 All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate. Chamfort. All pleasure must be bought at the price of pain. John Foster. All power appears only in transition. Novalis. power, even the most despotic, rests ultimately on opinion. Hume. All All power of fancy over reason is a degree of insanity. Johnson. 20 All promise outruns performance. Emerson. All public disorder proceeds from want of work. Courier. All speech, even the commonest, has something of song in it. Carlyle. All strength lies within, not without. Jean Paul. All strong men love life. Heine. 25 All strong souls are related. Schiller. All's well that ends well. Pr. All talent, all intellect, is in the first place moral. Carlyle. All that a man has he will give for right relations with his mates. Emerson. All that glisters is not gold: / Gilded tombs do worms infold. Mer of Ven., ii. 7. 30 All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them, but what is universal. Longfellow. All that is human must retrograde, if it do not All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, All that man does and brings to pass is the vesture of a thought. Sartor Resartus. All that mankind has done, thought, gained, 35 or been, it is all lying in magic preservation in the pages of books. Carlyle. All that tread the globe are but a handful to the tribes that slumber in its bosom. Bryant. All the armed prophets have conquered, all the unarmed have perished. Machiavelli. All the arts affecting culture (i.e., the fine arts) have a certain common bond, and are connected by a certain blood relationship with each other. Cic. All the difference between the wise man and the fool is, that the wise man keeps his counsel, and the fool reveals it. Gael. Pr. All the diseases of mind, leading to fatalest 40 ruin, are due to the concentration of man upon himself, whether his heavenly interests or his worldly interests, matters not. Ruskin. All the faults of the man I can pardon in the player; no fault of the player can I pardon in the man. Goethe. All the good of which humanity is capable is All the great ages have been ages of belief. comprised in obedience. J. S. Mill. Emerson. All the keys don't hang at one man's girdle. Pr. All the makers of dictionaries, all the com- 45 pilers of opinions already printed, we may term plagiarists, but honest plagiarists, who arrogate not the merit of invention. Vol taire. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. Mach, v. 1. All the pursuits of men are the pursuits of women also, and in all of them a woman is only a weaker man. Plato. All the thinking in the world does not bring us to thought; we must be right by nature, so that good thoughts may come. Goethe. All the wit in the world is not in one head. Pr. All the wit in the world is thrown away upon 50 the man who has none. Bruyère. All the world's a stage / And all the men and women merely players. As You Like It, ii. 7. All things are double, one against another. All things are for the sake of the good, and it All things are symbolical, and what we call 55 results are beginnings. Plato. All things happen by necessity; in Nature there is neither good nor bad. Spinoza. All things that are Are with more spirit chased than enjoyed. Mer. of Ven., ii. 6. All things that love the sun are out of doors. Wordsworth. All this (in the daily press) does not concern one in the least; one is neither the wiser nor the better for knowing what the day brings forth. Goethe. All true men are soldiers in the same army, 60 to do battle against the same enemy-the empire of darkness and wrong. Carlyle, All truth is not to be told at all times. Pr. All virtue is most rewarded, and all wickedness most punished, in itself. Bacon. All went as merry as a marriage-bell. Byron. All, were it only a withered leaf, works to gether with all. Carlyle. All will be as God wills. Gael. Pr. 5 All wise men are of the same religion, and keep it to themselves. Lord Shaftesbury. All women are good, viz., for something or nothing. Pr. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Pr. Allzustraff gespannt, zerspringt der BogenIf the bow is overstrained, it breaks. Schiller. 10 Allzuviel ist nicht genug - Too much is not enough. Ger. Pr. Alma mater-A benign mother; applied to one's university, also to the "all-nourishing" earth. Al molino, ed alla sposa / Sempre manca qualche cosa-A mill and a woman are always in want of something. It. Pr. Almost all our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. Schopenhauer. Almsgiving never made any man poor. 15 A loan should come laughing home. Pr. A l'œuvre on connait l'artisan-By the work one knows the workman. La Font. A loisir-At leisure. Fr. Pr. Alomban és szerelemben nincs lehetetlenséej- Along the cool sequester'd vale of life / They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Gray. 20 A los bobos se les aperece la Madre de DiosThe mother of God appears to fools. Sp. Pr. A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind. Love's L. Lost, iv. 3. Alte fert aquila-The eagle bears me on high. M. Altera manu fert lapidem, altera panem ostentat He carries a stone in one hand, and shows bread in the other, Pr Altera manu scabunt, altera feriunt-They tickle with one hand and smite with the other. Pr. 25 Alter ego-Another or second self. Alter idem-Another exactly the same. Alter ipse amicus--A friend is a second self. Pr. Alterius non sit qui suus esse potest-Let no man be slave of another who can be his own master. M. of Paracelsus. Alter remus aquas, alter mihi radat arenasLet me skim the water with one oar, and with the other touch the sands, i.e., so as not to go out of my depth. 30 Alterum tantum-As much more. Although men are accused of not knowing their weakness, yet perhaps as few know their strength. Swift. Although the last, not least. King Lear, i. 1. Altissima quæque flumina minimo sono labuntur-The deepest rivers flow with the least noise. Curt. Alt ist das Wort, doch bleibet hoch und wahr der Sinn-Old is the Word, yet does the meaning abide as high and true as ever. Faust. Altro diletto che mparar, non provo-Learning 35 is my sole delight. Petrarch. Always filling, never full. Cowper. Always have two strings to your bow. Pr. Always strive for the whole; and if thou canst not become a whole thyself, connect thyself with a whole as a ministering member. Schiller. Always there is a black spot in our sunshine, the shadow of ourselves. Carlyle. Always to distrust is an error, as well as always 40 to trust. Goethe. Always win fools first; they talk much, and what they have once uttered they will stick to. Helps. Amabilis insania--A fine frenzy. Hor. I'm. A man, be the heavens praised, is sufficient 50 for himself; yet were ten men, united in love, capable of being and doing what ten thousand singly would fail in. Carlyle, A man can be so changed by love as to be unrecognisable as the same person. Ter. A man can do no more than he can. Pr. A man can keep another's secret better than his own; a woman, her own better than another's. La Bruyère. A man canna wive and thrive the same year. Sc. Pr. A man can never be too much on his guard 55 when he writes to the public, and never too easy towards those with whom he converses. D'Alembert. A man can receive nothing except it be given him from heaven. John Baptist. A man cannot be in the seventeenth century and the nineteenth at one and the same moment. Carlyle's experience while editing Cromwell's Letters. A man cannot spin and reel at the same time. Pr. A man cannot whistle and drink at the same time. Pr. A man dishonoured is worse than dead. Cer- 60 vantes. A man in the right, with God on his side, is in A man is a golden impossibility. Emerson. 5 A man is king in his own house. Gael, Pr. A man is not born the second time, any more than the first, without travail. Carlyle. A man is not as God, / But then most godlike being most a man. Tennyson. A man is not strong who takes convulsion fits, though six men cannot hold him; only he that can walk under the heaviest weight without staggering. Carlyle. 10 A man is only a relative and a representative nature. Emerson. A man is the façade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide. Emerson. A man is the prisoner of his power. Emerson. A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things. Carlyle. A man may be proud of his house, and not ride on the rigging (ridge) of it. Sc. Pr. 15 A man may do what he likes with his own. Pr. A man may smile, and smile, and be a villain. Ham., i. 5. A man may spit in his nieve and do little. Sc. Pr. A man may survive distress, but not disgrace. Gael. Pr. A man More sinn'd against than sinning. King Lear, iii. 2. 20 A man must ask his wife's leave to thrive. Pr. A man must become wise at his own expense. Montaigne. A man must be healthy before he can be holy. Mme. Swetchine. A man must be well off who is irritated by trifles, for in misfortune trifles are not felt. Schopenhauer. A man must carry knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge. Johnson. 25 A man must seek his happiness and inward peace from objects which cannot be taken away from him. W. von Humboldt. A man must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion. Emerson. A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents. Emerson. A man must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into certainty of Yes or No. Carlyle. A man must wait for the right moment. Schopenhauer. 30 A man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for. Schopenhauer. A man never rises so high as when he knows not whither he is going. Oliver Cromwell. A man of intellect without energy added to it is a failure. Chamfort. A man of maxims only is like a Cyclops with one eye, and that eye in the back of his head. Coleridge. A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be. La Bruyère. A man of wit would often be much embarrassed without the company of fools. La Roche. A man only understands what is akin to some things already in his mind. Amiel. A man places himself on a level with him whom he praises. Goethe. A man protesting against error is on the way 40 towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth. Carlyle. A man so various, that he seem'd to be, / Not one, but all mankind's epitome. Dryden. A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he have lost no time. Bacon. A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected. Johnson. A man who cannot gird himself into harness will take no weight along these highways. Carlyle. A man who claps his Pegasus into a harness, 45 and urges on his muse with the whip, will have to pay to Nature the penalty of this trespass. Schopenhauer. A man who does not know rigour cannot pity either. Carlyle. A man who feels that his religion is a slavery has not began to comprehend the real nature of it. J. G. Holland. A man who has nothing to do is the devil's playfellow. J. G. Holland. A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is ignorant of his own. Goethe. A man who reads much becomes arrogant and 50 pedantic; one who sees much becomes wise, sociable, and helpful. Lichtenberg. A man will love or hate solitude that is, his own society-according as he is himse'f worthy or worthless. Schopenhauer. A man will not be observed in doing that which he can do best. Emerson. A man with half a volition goes backwards and forwards, and makes no way on the smoothest road. Carlyle. A man with knowledge but without energy, is a house furnished but not inhabited; a man with energy but no knowledge, a house dwelt in but unfurnished. John Sterling. A man's a man for a' that. Burns. A man's aye crousest in his ain cause. Sc. Pr. A man's best fortune or his worst is his wife. Pr. A man's best things are nearest him, / Lie close about his feet. Monckton Milnes. 55 A man's fate is his own temper. Disraeli. A man's friends belong no more to him than 60 he to them. Schopenhauer. A man's gift makes room for him. Pr. A man's happiness consists infinitely more in admiration of the faculties of others than in Ruskin. confidence in his own. A man's house is his castle. Pr. A man's power is hooped in by a necessity, which, by many experiments, he touches on every side until he learns its arc. Emerson. A man's task is always light if his heart is 65 light. Lew Wallace. A man who cannot mind his own business is not to be trusted with the king's. Saville. A ma puissance-To my power. M. Amare et sapere vix deo conceditur-To be in love and act wisely is scarcely in the power of a god. Faber. Αμαρτωλαὶ . . . ἐν ἀνθρώποισιν ἕπονται Ovnrois-Proneness to sin cleaves fast to mortal men. Theognis. 10 Ambigendi locus-Reason for questioning or doubt. Ambiguas in vulgum spargere voces-To scatter ambiguous reports among the people. Virg. Ambition is not a vice of little people. Montaigne. Ambition is the germ from which all growth in nobleness proceeds. T. D. English. Ambos oder Hammer-One must be either anvil or hammer. Ger. Pr. 15 Ame damnée-Mere tool, underling. Fr. Ame de boue-Base, mean soul. Fr. Amende honorable-Satisfactory apology; reparation. Fr. A mensâ et thoro-From bed and board; divorced. A menteur, menteur à demi-To a liar, a liar and a half, i.e., one be a match for him. Fr. 20 Amentium, haud amantium-Of lunatics, not lovers. A merchant shall hardly keep himself from doing wrong. Ecclus. A merciful man is merciful to his beast. Bible. A mere madness to live like a wretch and die rich. Burton. A merry heart doeth good like a medicine; but a broken spirit drieth the bones. Bible. 25 A merveille-To a wonder. Fr. Am Golde hängt doch Alles-On gold, after all, hangs everything. Margaret in "Faust." Amici, diem perdidi-Friends, I have lost a day. Titus (at the close of a day on which he had done good to no one). Amici probantur rebus adversis-Friends are proved by adversity. Cic. Amici vitium ni feras, prodis tuum-Unless you bear with the faults of a friend, you betray your own. Pub. Syr. 30 Amico d'ognuno, amico di nessuno-Everybody's friend is nobody's friend. It. Pr. Amicorum esse communia omnia - Friends' goods are all common property. Pr. Amicum ita habeas posse ut fieri hunc inimicum scias- Be on such terms with your friend as if you knew he may one day become your enemy. Laber. Amicum perdere est damnorum maximum-To lose a friend is the greatest of losses. Syr. Amicus animæ dimidium-A friend the half of life. 35 Amicus certus in re incerta cernitur-A true friend is seen when fortune wavers. Ennius. Amicus curiæ-A friend to the court, i.e., an uninterested adviser in a case. Amicus est unus animus in duobus corporibus -A friend is one soul in two bodies. Arist. Amicus humani generis-A friend of the human race. Amicus Plato, sed magis amica veritas-Plato is my friend, but truth is my divinity (lit. more a friend). Amicus usque ad aras-A friend to the very altar, ie., to the death. A mighty maze! but not without a plan. Pope. A millstone and a man's heart are kept con stantly revolving; where they have nothing to grind, they grind and fray away their own substance. Logan. Α mirror is better than a whole gallery of A miser is as furious about a halfpenny as the ancestral portraits. Menzel. man of ambition about the conquest of a kingdom. Adam Smith. A miss is as good as a mile. Pr. "Am I to be saved? or am I to be lost?" Certain to be lost, so long as you put that question. Carlyle. Amittit famam qui se indignis comparat-He loses repute who compares himself with unworthy Amittit merito proprium, qui alienum appetit people. Phædr. -He who covets what is another's, deservedly loses what is his own. (Moral of the fable of the dog and the shadow.) Phædr. Am meisten Unkraut trägt der fettste Boden -The fattest soil brings forth the most weeds. Ger. Pr. 40 45 A mob is a body voluntarily bereaving itself 50 of reason and traversing its work. Emer son. A modest confession of ignorance is the ripest and last attainment of philosophy. R. D. Hitchcock. A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. Holmes. A monarchy is apt to fall by tyranny; an aristocracy, by ambition; a democracy, by tumults. Quarles. Among nations the head has alway preceded the heart by centuries. Jean Paul. Among the blind the one-eyed is a king. Pr. 55 Amor al cor gentil ratto s' apprende.-Love is quickly learned by a noble heart. Dante. Amor a nullo amato amar perdona-Love spares Amore sitis uniti-Be ye united in love. Amor patriæ-Love of one's country. 60 65 Amoto quæramus seria ludo-Jesting aside, let us give attention to serious business. Hor. Amour avec loyaulte-Love with loyalty. M. Amour fait moult, argent fait tout-Love can do much, but money can do everything. Fr. Pr. Amour propre-Vanity; self-love. Fr. 5 A mouse never trusts its life to one hole only. Plaut. Amphora cœpit / Institui: currente rota cur Ampliat ætatis spatium sibi vir bonus; hoc est / Am sausenden Webstuhl der Zeit-On the noisy loom of Time. Goethe. 10 Amt ohne Geld macht Diebe-Office without pay makes thieves. Ger. Pr. A mucho hablar, mucho errar-Talk much, err much. Sp. Pr. A nation which labours, and takes care of the 'Aváyką d’ovdè Beoì μáxorraι-The gods them- Ancient art corporealises the spiritual; modern Ancient art is plastic; modern, pictorial. A multitude of sparks yields but a sorry light. And e'en his failings lean'd to virtue's side. Amiel. Anacharsis among the Scythians-A wise man among unwise. Goldsmith. And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost. An acre in Middlesex is better than a princi- And he is oft the wisest man / Who is not pality in Utopia. Macaulay. 15 An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise. Howell. Analysis is not the business of the poet. His office is to portray, not to dissect. Macaulay. Analysis kills spontaneity, just as grain, once it is ground into flour, no longer springs and germinates. Amiel. An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth. Sir H. Wotten. An ambitious man is slave to everybody. Feijos. 20 A name is no despicable matter. Napoleon, for the sake of a great name, broke in pieces An appeal to fear never finds an echo in An archer is known by his aim, not by his arrows. Pr. An arc in the movement of a large intellect does not differ sensibly from a straight line. Holmes. An Argus at home, a mole abroad. Pr. 25 An army, like a serpent, goes on its belly. Frederick the Great ). A narrow faith has much more energy than an enlightened one Amiel. An artist is a person who has submitted to a law which it is painful to obey, that he may bestow a delight which it is gracious to bestow. Ruskin. An artist is only then truly praised by us when 30 An artist should be fit for the best society, and An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down. George Eliot. wise at all. Wordsworth. "And is this all?" cried Cæsar at his height, 45 disgusted. Young. An dives sit omnes quærunt, nemo an bonusEvery one inquires if he is rich; no one asks if he is good. And Mammon wins his way where seraphs And much it grieved my heart to think / And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, / 50 And still they gazed, and still the wonder A needle's eye is wide enough for two friends; ̓Ανέχου καὶ ἀπέχου-Bear and forbear. Epic tetus. A nemico che fugge, fa un ponte d'oro-Make 55 a bridge of gold for an enemy who is flying from you. It. Pr. An empty purse fills the face with wrinkles. Pr. An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly. Whipple. ̓Ανὴρ ὁ φεύγων καὶ πάλιν μαχήσεται–The man who runs away will fight again. An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains. Amicl |