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=E multis paleis paulum fructus collegi=--Out of much chaff I have gathered little grain. _Pr._
=Emunctæ naris=--Of nice discernment (_lit._ scent). _Hor._
[Greek: Hena ... alla leonta]--One, but a lion. _Æsop._
=En ami=--As a friend. _Fr._
=En amour comme en amitié, un tiers souvent nous embarrasse=--A third person is often an annoyance to us in love as in friendship. _Fr._
=En arrière=--In the rear. _Fr._ 5
=En attendant=--In the meantime. _Fr._
=En avant=--Forward; on. _Fr._
=En badinant=--In jest. _Fr._
=En beau=--In a favourable light. _Fr._
=En bloc=--In a lump. _Fr._ 10
=En boca cerrada no entra mosca=--Flies don't enter a shut mouth. _Sp. Pr._
=En bon train=--In a fair way. _Fr._
=En buste=--Half-length. _Fr._
=En cada tierra su uso=--Every country has its own custom. _Sp. Pr._
=Encouragement after censure is as the sun= 15 =after a shower.= _Goethe._
=En cuéros=--Naked. _Sp._
=Endeavouring, by logical argument, to prove the existence of God, were like taking out a candle to look for the sun.= _Carlyle, after Kant._
=Endeavour not to settle too many habits at once, lest by variety you confound them, and so perfect none.= _Locke._
=En dernier ressort=--As a last resource. _Fr._
=En déshabille=--In an undress. _Fr._ 20
=En Dieu est ma fiance=--In God is my trust. _M._
=En Dieu est tout=--All depends on God. _M._
=Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.= _Ruskin._
=Endurance is the crowning quality, and patience all the passion, of great hearts.= _Lowell._
=En échelon=--Like steps. _Fr._ 25
=En effet=--In fact; substantially. _Fr._
=Ene i Raad, ene i Sorg=--Alone in counsel, alone in sorrow. _Dan. Pr._
=En el rio do no hay pezes por demas es echar redes=--It is in vain to cast nets in a river where there are no fish. _Sp. Pr._
=En émoi=--In a flutter or ferment. _Fr._
=Energy may be turned to bad uses; but more= 30 =good may always be made of an energetic nature than of an indolent and impassive one.= _J. S. Mill._
=Energy will do anything that can be done in this world; no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged animal a man without it.= _Goethe._
[Greek: En ergmasi de nika tychê, ou sthenos]--In great acts it is not our strength but our good fortune that has triumphed. _Pindar._
=En famille=--In a domestic state. _Fr._
=Enfant gâté du monde qu'il gâtait=--A child spoiled by the world which he spoiled. _Said of Voltaire._
=Enfants de famille=--Children of the family. _Fr._ 35
=Enfants perdus=--The forlorn hope (_lit._ lost children). _Fr._
=Enfants terribles=--Dreadful children; precocious youths who say and do rash things to the annoyance of their more conservative seniors. _Fr._
=Enfant trouvé=--A foundling. _Fr._
=Enfermer le loup dans la bergerie=--To shut up the wolf in the sheepfold; to patch up a wound or a disease. _Fr. Pr._
=En fin les renards se trouvent chez le pelletier=--Foxes 40 come to the furrier's in the end. _Fr. Pr._
=Enflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages.= _Milton._
=En foule=--In a crowd. _Fr._
=England expects this day that every man shall do his duty.= _Nelson, his signal at Trafalgar._
=England is a domestic country: here home is revered and the hearth sacred.= _Disraeli._
=England is a paradise for women and a hell= 45 =for horses; Italy a paradise for horses and a hell for women.= _Burton._
=England is safe if true within itself.= 3 _Hen. VI._, iv. 1.
=English speech, the sea that receives tributaries from every region under heaven.= _Emerson._
=En grace affié=--On grace depend. _Fr._
=En grande tenue=--In full dress. _Fr._
=En habiles gens=--Like able men. _Fr._ 50
=Enjoying things which are pleasant, that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.= _Carlyle._
=Enjoyment soon wearies both itself and us; effort, never.= _Jean Paul._
=Enjoyment stops when indolence begins.= _Pollock._
=Enjoy the blessings of this day, if God sends them, and the evils bear patiently and sweetly. For this day only is ours; we are dead to yesterday and we are not born to to-morrow.= _Jeremy Taylor._
=Enjoy what God has given thee, and willingly= 55 =dispense with what thou hast not. Every condition has its own joys and sorrows.= _Gellert._
=Enjoy what thou hast inherited from thy sires if thou wouldst possess it; what we employ not is an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.= _Goethe._
=Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.= _Goethe._
=Enjoy your little while the fool is seeking for more.= _Sp. Pr._
=Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.= _Condorcet._
=En la cour du roi chacun y est pour soi=--In the 60 court of the king it is every one for himself. _Fr. Pr._
=Enlarge not thy destiny; endeavour not to do more than is given thee in charge.= _Gr. Oracle._
=En la rose je fleuris=--In the rose I flourish. _M._
=En mariage, comme ailleurs, contentement passe richesse=--In marriage, as in other states, contentment is better than riches. _Molière._
=En masse=--In a body. _Fr._
=En mauvaise odeur=--In bad repute. _Fr._ 65
=Ennemi ne s'endort=--An enemy does not go to sleep. _Fr. Pr._
=Ennui has perhaps made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.= _Colton._
=Ennui is a growth of English root, though nameless in our language.= _Byron._
=Ennui is a word which the French invented, though of all nations in Europe they know the least of it.= _Bancroft._
=Ennui is our greatest enemy.= _Justus Möser._
=Ennui is the desire of activity without the fit means of gratifying the desire.= _Bancroft._
=Ennui shortens life and bereaves the day of its= 5 =light.= _Emerson._
=Ennui, the parent of expensive and ruinous vices.= _Ninon de l'Enclos._
=Enough is as good as a feast.= _Pr._
=Enough is better than too much.= _Pr._
=Enough is great riches.= _Dan. Pr._
=Enough is the wild-goose-chase of most men's= 10 =lives.= _Brothers Mayhew._
=Enough--no foreign foe could quell / Thy soul, till from itself it fell; / Yes, self-abasement paved the way / To villain bonds and despot sway.= _Byron._
=Enough requires too much; too much craves more.= _Quarles._
=En papillote.=--In curl-papers. _Fr._
=En parole je vis=--I live by the word. _Fr._
=En passant=--By the way. _Fr._ 15
=En pension=--Board at a pension. _Fr._
=En petit champ croît bien bon blé=--Very good corn grows in a little field. _Fr. Pr._
=En peu d'heure Dieu labeure=--God works in moments, _i.e._, His work is soon done. _Fr._
=En plein jour=--In open day. _Fr._
=En potence=--In the form of a gallows. _Fr._ 20
=En présence=--In sight of each other. _Fr._
=En queue=--Behind.
=Enquire not what is in another man's pot.= _Pr._
=En rapport=--In relation; in connection. _Fr._
=En règle=--According to rules. _Fr._ 25
=En resumé=--Upon the whole. _Fr._
=En revanche=--In revenge; to return; to make amends. _Fr._
=En route=--On the way. _Fr._
=En salvo está el que repica=--He is in safe quarters who sounds the alarm. _Sp. Pr._
=Ense et aratro=--With sword and plough. _M._ 30
=En suite=--In company. _Fr._
=En suivant la vérité=--In following the truth. _Fr._
=Entente cordiale=--A good or cordial understanding. _Fr._
=Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm.= _Longfellow._
=Enthusiasm flourishes in adversity, kindles in= 35 =the hour of danger, and awakens to deeds of renown.= _Dr. Chalmers._
=Enthusiasm gives life to what is invisible, and interest to what has no immediate action on our comfort in this world.= _Mme. de Staël._
=Enthusiasm imparts itself magnetically, and fuses all into one happy and harmonious unity of feeling and sentiment.= _A. B. Alcott._
=Enthusiasm is grave, inward, self-controlled; mere excitement, outward, fantastical, hysterical, and passing in a moment from tears to laughter.= _John Sterling._
=Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the= 40 =passing from the human to the divine.= _Emerson._
=Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding.= _Emerson._
=Entienda primero, y habla postrero=--Hear first and speak afterwards. _Sp. Pr._
=Entire affection hateth nicer hands.= _Spenser._
=Entire love is a worship and cannot be angry.= _Leigh Hunt._
[Greek: En tô phronein gar mêden hêdistos bios]--The 45 happiest life consists in knowing nothing. _Soph._
=Entourage=--Surroundings. _Fr._
=En toute chose il faut considérer la fin=--In everything we must consider the end. _Fr._
=Entre chien et loup=--In the dusk (_lit._ between dog and wolf). _Fr._
=Entre deux vins=--To be half-seas over; to be mellow. _Fr._
=Entre esprit et talent il y a la proportion du= 50 =tout à sa partie=--Wit is to talent as a whole to a part. _La Bruyère._
=Entre le bon sens et le bon goût il y a la différence de la cause à son effet=--Between good sense and good taste, there is the same difference as that between cause and effect. _La Bruyère._
=Entre nos ennemis les plus à craindre sont souvent les plus petits=--Of our enemies, the smallest are often the most to be dreaded. _La Fontaine._
=Entre nous=--Between ourselves. _Fr._
=Entzwei und gebiete=--Divide and rule. _Ger. Pr._
=Entzwei und gebiete! Tüchtig Wort: Verein'= 55 =und leite, Bessrer Hort=--Divide and rule, an excellent motto: unite and lead, a better.
=En vérité=--In truth.
=En vérité l'amour ne saurait être profond, s'il n'est pas pur=--Love, in fact, can never be deep unless it is pure.
=En vieillissant on devient plus fou et plus sage=--As men grow old they become both foolisher and wiser. _Fr. Pr._
=En villig Hielper töver ei til man beder=--One who is willing to help does not wait till he is asked. _Dan. Pr._
=Envy, among other ingredients, has a mixture= 60 =of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good fortune.= _Hazlitt._
=Envy does not enter an empty house.= _Dan. Pr._
=Envy feels not its own happiness but by comparison with the misery of others.= _Johnson._
=Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another's prosperity, like the scorpion confined with a circle of fire, will sting itself to death.= _Colton._
=Envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame, that nobody ever had the confidence to own it.= _Rochester._
=Envy is ignorance.= _Emerson._ 65
=Envy is littleness of soul.= _Hazlitt._
=Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred.= _La Roche._
=Envy is the antagonist of the fortunate.= _Epictetus._
=Envy is the deformed and distorted offspring of egotism.= _Hazlitt._
=Envy is the most acid fruit that grows on the stock of sin, a fluid so subtle that nothing but the fire of divine love can purge it from the soul.= _H. Ballou._
=Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.= _J. Beaumont._
=Envy ne'er does a gude turn but when it means an ill ane.= _Sc. Pr._
=Envy will merit as its shade pursue, / But, like a shadow, proves the substance true.= _Pope._
=Eodem collyrio mederi omnibus=--To cure all 5 by the same ointment.
=Eo instanti=--At that instant.
=Eo magis præfulgebat quod non videbatur=--He shone the brighter that he was not seen. _Tac._
[Greek: Epea pteroenta]--Winged words. _Hom._
=Epicuri de grege porcus=--A pig of the flock of Epicurus.
[Greek: Epi to poly adikousin hoi anthrôpoi, hotan 10 dynôntai]--In general men do wrong whenever circumstances enable them. _Arist._
=E pluribus unum=--One of many.
="Eppur si muove"=--Yet it moves. _Galileo, after he had been forced to swear that the earth stood still._
=Equality= (Gleichheit) =is always the firmest bond of love.= _Lessing._
=Equality= (_i.e._, in essential nature) =is the sacred law of humanity.= _Schiller._
=Eques ipso melior Bellerophonte=--A better 15 horseman than Bellerophon himself. _Hor._
=Equi et poetæ alendi, non saginandi=--Horses and poets should be fed, not pampered. _Charles IX. of France._
=Equity is a roguish thing; for law we have a measure ... (but) equity is according to the conscience of him who is chancellor, and, as that is larger or narrower, so is equity.= _Selden._
=Equity judges with lenity, laws with severity.= _Scott._
=Equivocation is half way to lying, and lying is the whole way to hell.= _W. Penn._
=Equo frænato est auris in ore=--The ear of the 20 bridled horse is in the mouth. _Hor._
=Equo ne credite, Teucri=--Trust not the horse, Trojans. _Virg._
=Erant in officio, sed tamen qui mallent imperantium mandata interpretari, quam exsequi=--They attended to their regulations, but still as if they would rather debate about the commands of their superiors than obey them. _Tacit._
=Erase que se era=--What has been has been. _Sp. Pr._
=Erasmus laid the egg= (_i.e._, of the Reformation), =and Luther hatched it.=
=Er, der einzige Gerechte / Will für Jedermann= 25 =das Rechte / Sei, von seinen hundert Namen, / Dieser hochgelobet!--Amen!=--He, the only Just, wills for each one what is right. Be of His hundred names this one the most exalted. Amen. _Goethe._
=Ere sin could blight or sorrow fade, / Death came with friendly care, / The opening bud to heaven conveyed, / And bade it blossom there.= _Coleridge._
=Ere we censure a man for seeming what he is not, we should be sure that we know what he is.= _Carlyle._
=Er geht herum, wie die Katze um den heissen Brei=--He goes round it like a cat round hot broth. _Ger. Pr._
[Greek: Ergon d' ouden oneidos]--Labour is no disgrace. _Hesiod._
=Erfahrung bleibt des Lebens Meisterin=--Experience 30 is ever life's mistress. _Goethe._
=Erfüllte Pflicht empfindet sich immer noch als Schuld, weil man sich nie ganz genug gethan=--Duty fulfilled ever entails a sense of further obligation, because one feels he has never done enough to satisfy himself. _Goethe._
=Er hat noch nie die Stimme der Natur gehört=--He has not yet heard the voice of Nature. _Schiller._
=Eripe te moræ=--Tear thyself from all that detains thee. _Hor._
=Eripe turpi / Colla jugo. Liber, liber sum, dic age=--Tear away thy neck from the base yoke. Come, say, I am free; I am free. _Hor._
=Eripit interdum, modo dat medicina salutem=--Medicine 35 sometimes destroys health, sometimes restores it. _Ovid._
="Eripuit cœlo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis"=--He snatched the lightning from heaven and the sceptre from tyrants. (_On the bust of Franklin._)
=Eris mihi magnus Apollo=--You shall be my great Apollo. _Virg._
=Erlaubt ist was gefällt; erlaubt ist was sich ziemt=--What pleases us is permitted us; what is seemly is permitted us. _Goethe._
=Ernste Thätigkeit söhnt suletzt immer mit dem Leben aus=--Earnest activity always reconciles us with life in the end. _Jean Paul._
=Ernst ist der Anblick der Nothwendigkeit. /= 40 =Nicht ohne Schauder greift des Menschen Hand / In des Geschicks geheimnissvolle Urne=--Earnest is the aspect of necessity. Not without a shudder is the hand of man thrust into the mysterious urn of fate. _Schiller._
=Ernst ist das Leben; heiter ist die Kunst=--Life is earnest; art is serene. _Schiller._
=Erquickung hast du nicht gewonnen, / Wenn sie dir nicht aus eigner Seele quillt=--Thou hast gained no fresh life unless it flows to thee direct out of thine own soul. _Goethe._
=Errantem in viam reducito=--Lead back the wanderer into the right way.
=Errare humanum est=--It is human to err.
=Errare malo cum Platone, quam cum istis vera= 45 =sentire=--I had rather be wrong with Plato than think right with those men. _Cic._
=Errata=--Errors in print.
=Erringen will der Mensch, er will nicht sicher sein=--Man will ever wrestle; he will never trust. _Goethe._
=Erring is not cheating.= _Ger. Pr._
=Error cannot be defended but by error.= _Bp. Jewel._
=Error is always more busy than ignorance.= 50 =Ignorance is a blank sheet on which we may write, but error is a scribbled one from which we must first erase.= _Colton._
=Error is always talkative.= _Goldsmith._
=Error is but opinion in the making.= _Milton._
=Error is but the shadow of truth.= _Stillingfleet._
=Error is created; truth is eternal.= _Wm. Blake._
=Error is on the surface; truth is hid in great depths.= _Goethe._
=Error is sometimes so nearly allied to truth that it blends with it as imperceptibly as the colours of the rainbow fade into each other.= _W. B. Clulow._
=Error is worse than ignorance.= _Bailey._
=Error never leaves us, yet a higher need= 5 =always draws the striving spirit gently on to truth.= _Goethe._
=Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.= _Jefferson._
=Errors like straws upon the surface flow; / He who would search for pearls must dive below.= _Dryden._
=Error, sterile in itself, produces only by means of the portion of truth which it contains.= _Mme. Swetchine._
=Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them; ... from pure extravagance, and genuine, unmingled falsehood, the world never has sustained, and never can sustain, any mischief.= _Sydney Smith._
=Error, when she retraces her steps, has farther= 10 =to go before she can arrive at truth than ignorance.= _Colton._
=Erröten macht die Hässlichen so schön: / Und sollte Schöne nicht noch schöner machen?=--Blushing makes even the ugly beautiful, and should it not make beauty still more beautiful? _Lessing._
=Ersparte Wahl ist auch ersparte Mühe=--Selection saved is trouble saved. _Platin._
=Er steckt seine Nase in Alles=--He thrusts his nose into everything. _Ger. Pr._
=Erst seit ich liebe ist das Leben schön, / Erst seit ich liebe, weiss ich, dass ich lebe=--Only since I loved is life lovely; only since I loved knew I that I lived. _Körner._
=Erst wägen, dann wagen=--First weigh, then 15 venture. _M. von Moltke._
=Ertragen muss man was der Himmel sendet. / Unbilliges erträgt kein edles Herz=--We must bear what Heaven sends. No noble heart will bear injustice. _Schiller._
=Erudition is not like a lark, which flies high and delights in nothing but singing; 'tis rather like a hawk, which soars aloft indeed, but can stoop when she finds it convenient, and seize her prey.= _Bacon._
=Er wünscht sich einen grossen Kreis / Um ihn gewisser zu erschüttern=--He desires a large circle in order with greater certainty to move it deeply. _Goethe._
=Es bedarf nur einer Kleinigkeit, um zwei Liebende zu unterhalten=--Any trifle is enough to entertain two lovers. _Goethe._
=Es bildet ein Talent sich in der Stille, / Sich ein= 20 =Character in dem Strom der Welt=--A talent is formed in retirement, a character in the current of the world. _Goethe._
=Es bildet / Nur das Leben den Mann, und wenig bedeuten die Worte=--Only life forms the man, and words signify little. _Goethe._
=Eschew fine words as you would rouge; love simple ones as you would native roses on your cheek.= _Hare._
=Escuchas al agujero; oirás de tû mal y del ageno=--Listen at the keyhole; you will hear evil of yourself as well as your neighbour. _Sp. Pr._
=E se finxit velut araneus=--He spun from himself like a spider.
=Esel singen schlecht, weil sie zu hoch anstimmen=--Asses 25 sing abominably, because they pitch their notes at too high a key. _Ger. Pr._
=Es erben sich Gesetz' und Rechte / Wie eine ewige Krankheit fort=--Laws and rights descend like an inveterate inherited disease. _Goethe._
=Es findet jeder seinen Meister=--Every one finds his master. _Ger. Pr._
=Es geht an=--It is a beginning. _Ger._
=Es giebt eine Höflichkeit des Herzens; sie ist der Liebe verwandt.=--There is a courtesy of the heart which is allied to love; out of it there springs the most obliging courtesy of external behaviour. _Goethe._
=Es giebt eine Schwelgerei des Geistes wie= 30 =es eine Schwelgerei der Sinne giebt=--There is a debauchery of spirit, as there is of senses. _Börne._
=Es giebt gewisse Dinge, wo ein Frauenzimmer immer schärfer sieht, als hundert Augen der Mannspersonen=--There are certain things in which a woman's vision is sharper than a hundred eyes of the male. _Lessing._
=Es giebt keine andre Offenbarung, als die Gedanken der Weisen=--There is no other revelation than the thoughts of the wise among men. _Schopenhauer._
=Es giebt kein Gesetz was hat nicht ein Loch, wer's finden kann=--There is no law but has in it a hole for him who can find it. _Ger. Pr._
=Es giebt Männer welche die Beredsamkeit weiblicher Zungen übertreffen, aber kein Mann besitzt die Beredsamkeit weiblicher Augen=--There are men the eloquence of whose tongues surpasses that of women, but no man possesses the eloquence of women's eyes. _Weber._
=Es giebt mehr Diebe als Galgen=--There are 35 more thieves than gallows. _Ger. Pr._
=Es giebt Menschen, die auf die Mängel ihrer Freunde sinnen; dabei kommt nichts heraus. Ich habe immer auf die Verdienste meiner Widersacher Acht gehabt und davon Vortheil gezogen=--There are men who brood on the failings of their friends, but nothing comes of it. I have always had respect to the merits of my adversaries, and derived profit from doing so. _Goethe._
=Es giebt Naturen, die gut sind durch das was sie erreichen, andere durch das was sie verschmähen=--There are natures which are good by what they attain, and others that are so by what they disdain. _H. Grimm._
=Es giebt nur eine Religion, aber es kann vielerlei Arten der Glaubens geben=--There is only one religion, but there may be divers forms of belief. _Kant._
=Es hört doch Jeder nur was er versteht=--Every one hears only what he understands. _Goethe._
=Es irrt der Mensch, so lang er strebt=--Man is 40 liable to err as long as he strives. _Goethe._
=Es ist besser, das geringste Ding von der Welt zu thun, als eine halbe Stunde für gering halten=--It is better to do the smallest thing in the world than to regard half an hour as a small thing. _Goethe._
=Es ist bestimmt in Gottes Rath / Dass man vom Liebsten, was man hat, / Muss scheiden=--It is ordained in the counsel of God that we must all part from the dearest we possess. _Feuchtersleben._
=Es ist das Wohl des Ganzen, wovon jedes patriotische, wovon selbst jedes eigennützige Gemüth das seinige hofft=--It is the welfare of the whole from which every patriotic, and even every selfish, soul expects its own. _Gentz._
=Es ist der Geist, der sich den Körper baut=--It is the spirit which builds for itself the body. _Schiller._
=Es ist freundlicher das menschliche Leben anzulachen, als es anzugrinzen=--It is more kindly to laugh at human life than to grin at it. _Wieland._
=Es ist klug und kühn den unvermeidlichen. Uebel entgegenzugehen=--It shows sense and courage to be able to confront unavoidable evil. _Goethe._
=Es ist nicht gut, wenn derjenige der die= 5 =Fackel trägt, zugleich auch den Weg sucht=--It is not good when he who carries the torch has at the same time also the way to seek. _Cölvös._
=Es ist nicht nötig, dass ich lebe, wohl aber, dass ich meine Pflicht thue und für mein Vaterland kämpfe=--It is not a necessity that I should live, but it is that I should do my duty and fight for my fatherland. _Frederick the Great._ (?)
=Es ist öde, nichts ehren können, als sich selbst=--It is dreary for a man to be able to worship nothing but himself. _Hebbel._
=Es ist schwer gegen den Augenblick gerecht sein; der gleichgültige macht uns Langeweile, am Guten hat man zu tragen und am Bösen zu schleppen=--It is difficult to be square with the moment; the indifferent one is a bore to us (_lit._ causes us _ennui_); with the good we have to bear and with the bad to drag. _Goethe._
=Es ist so schwer, den falschen Weg zu meiden=--It is so difficult to avoid the wrong way. _Goethe._
=Es ist unköniglich zu weinen--ach, / Und= 10 =hier nicht weinen ist unväterlich=--To weep is unworthy of a king--alas! and not to weep now is unworthy of a father. _Schiller._
=Es kämpft der Held am liebsten mit dem Held=--Hero likes best to fight with hero. _Körner._
=Es kann der beste Herz in dunkeln Stunden fehlen=--The best heart may go wrong in dark hours. _Goethe._
=Es kann ja nicht immer so bleiben / Hier unter dem wechselnden Mond=--Sure it cannot always be so here under the changing moon. _Kotzebue._
=Es kann nichts helfen ein grosses Schicksal zu haben, wenn man nicht weiss, dass man eines hat=--It is of no avail for a man to have a great destiny if he does not know that he has one. _Rahel._
=Es kommen Fälle vor im Menschenleben, /= 15 =Wo's Weisheit ist, nicht allzu weise sein=--There are situations in life when it is wisdom not to be too wise. _Schiller._
=Es leben Götter, die den Hochmut rächen=--There live gods who take vengeance on pride. _Schiller._
=Es liebt die Welt das Strahlende zu schwärtzen, / Und das Erhabne in den Staub zu ziehn=--The world is fain to obscure what is brilliant, and to drag down to the dust what is exalted. _Schiller._
=Es liesse sich Alles trefflich schlichten, Könnte man die Sachen zweimal verrichten=--Everything could be beautifully adjusted if matters could be a second time arranged. _Goethe._
=Es muss auch solche Käuze geben=--There must needs be such fellows in the world too. _Goethe._
[Greek: hê sophias pêgê dia bibliôn rheei]--The fountain 20 of wisdom flows through books. _Gr. Pr._
=Espérance en Dieu=--Hope in God. _M._
=Espionage=--The spy system. _Fr._
=Esprit borné=--Narrow mind. _Fr._
=Esprit de corps=--Spirit of brotherhood in a corporate body. _Fr._
=Esprit de parti=--Party spirit. _Fr._ 25
=Esprit fort=--A free-thinker. _Fr._
=Esprit juste=--Sound mind. _Fr._
=Esprit vif=--Ready wit. _Fr._
=Es reift keine Seligkeit unter dem Monde=--No happiness ever comes to maturity under the moon. _Schiller._
=Essayez=--Try. _M._ 30
=Esse bonum facile est, ubi quod vetet esse remotum est=--It is easy to be good, when all that prevents it is far removed. _Ovid._
=Esse quam videri=--To be rather than to seem.
[Greek: Essetai êmar hot' an pot' olôlê Ilios hirê]--A day will come when the sacred Ilium shall be no more. _Hom._
=Es schwinden jedes Kummers Falten / So lang des Liebes Zauber walten=--The wrinkles of every sorrow disappear as long as the spell of love is unbroken. _Schiller._
=Es sind nicht alle frei, die ihrer Ketten spotten=--All 35 are not free who mock their chains. _Ger. Pr._
=Es sind so gute Katzen die Mäuse verjagen, als die sie fangen=--They are as good cats that chase away the mice as those that catch them. _Ger. Pr._
=Es steckt nicht in Spiegel was man im Spiegel sieht=--That is not in the mirror which you see in the mirror. _Ger. Pr._
=Es steht ihm an der Stirn' geschrieben, / Das er nicht mag eine Seele lieben=--It stands written on his forehead that he cannot love a single soul. _Goethe, of Mephistopheles._
=Establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.= _Bible._
=Est aliquid fatale malum per verba levare=--It 40 is some alleviation of an incurable disease to speak of it to others. _Ovid._
=Est animus tibi / Rerumque prudens, et secundis / Temporibus dubiisque rectus=--You possess a mind both sagacious in the management of affairs, and steady at once in prosperous and perilous times. _Hor._
=Est animus tibi, sunt mores et lingua, fidesque=--Thou hast a man's soul, cultured manners and power of expression, and fidelity. _Hor., of a gentleman._
=Est assez riche qui ne doit rien=--He is rich enough who owes nothing. _Fr. Pr._
=Est aviditas dives, et pauper pudor=--Covetousness is rich, while modesty is poor. _Phædr._
=Est bonus, ut melior vir / Non alius quisquam=--He 45 is so good that no man can be better. _Hor._
=Est brevitate opus, ut currat sententia=--There is need of conciseness that the thought may run on. _Hor._
=Est demum vera felicitas, felicitate dignum videri=--True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it. _Pliny._
=Est deus in nobis, agitante calescimus illo=--There is a god in us, who, when he stirs, sets us all aglow. _Ovid._
=Est deus in nobis, et sunt commercia cœli=--There is a god within us, and we hold commerce with the sky. _Ovid._
=Esteem a man of many words and many lies= 5 =much alike.= _Fuller._
=Esteem is the harvest of a whole life spent in usefulness; but reputation is often bestowed upon a chance action, and depends most on success.= _G. A. Sala._
=Est enim lex nihil aliud nisi recta et a numine deorum tracta ratio, imperans honesta, prohibens contraria=--For law is nothing else but right reason supported by the authority of the gods, commanding what is honourable and prohibiting the contrary. _Cic._
=Est egentissimus in sua re=--He is in very straitened circumstances.
=Est etiam miseris pietas, et in hoste probatur=--Regard for the wretched is a duty, and deserving of praise even in an enemy. _Ovid._
=Est etiam, ubi profecto damnnum præstet facere,= 10 =quam lucrum=--There are occasions when it is certainly better to lose than to gain. _Plaut._
=Est genus hominum qui esse primos se omnium rerum volunt, / Nec sunt=--There is a class of men who wish to be first in everything, and are not. _Ter._
=Est hic, / Est ubivis, animus si te non deficit æquus=--It (happiness) is here, it is everywhere, if only a well-regulated mind does not fail you. _Hor._
=Est miserorum, ut malevolentes sint atque invideant bonis=--'Tis the tendency of the wretched to be ill-disposed towards and to envy the fortunate. _Plaut._
=Est modus in rebus; sunt certi denique fines, / Quos ultra citraque nequit consistere rectum=--There is a mean in all things; there are, in fine, certain fixed limits, on either side of which what is right and true cannot exist. _Hor._
=Est multi fabula plena joci=--It is a story full of 15 fun. _Ovid._
=Est natura hominum novitatis avida=--It is the nature of man to hunt after novelty. _Pliny._
=Estne Dei sedes nisi terra, et pontus, et aër, / Et cœlum, et virtus? Superos quid quærimus ultra? / Jupiter est, quodcunque vides, quodcunque moveris=--Has God a dwelling other than earth and sea and air and heaven and virtue? Why seek we the gods beyond? Whatsoever you see, wheresoever you go, there is Jupiter. _Luc._
=Est nobis voluisse satis=--To have willed suffices us. _Tibull._
=Esto perpetua=--Let it be perpetual.
=Esto quod es; quod sunt alii, sine quemlibet= 20 =esse: / Quod non es, nolis; quod potes esse, velis=--Be what you are; let whoso will be what others are. Don't be what you are not, but resolutely be what you can.
=Esto quod esse videris=--Be what you seem to be.
=Esto, ut nunc multi, dives tibi, pauper amicis=--Be, as many now are, rich to yourself, poor to your friends. _Juv._
=Est pater ille quem nuptiæ demonstrant=--He is the father whom the marriage-rites point to as such. _L._
=Est profecto Deus, qui quæ nos gerimus auditque et videt=--There is certainly a God who both hears and sees the things which we do. _Plaut._
=Est proprium stultitiæ aliorum cernere vitia,= 25 =oblivisci suorum=--It is characteristic of folly to discern the faults of others and forget its own. _Cic._
=Est quadam prodire tenus, si non datur ultra=--You may advance to a certain point, if it is not permitted you to go farther. _Hor._
=Est quædam flere voluptas, / Expletur lachrymis egeriturque dolor=--There is a certain pleasure in weeping; grief is soothed and alleviated by tears. _Ovid._
=Est quoque cunctarum novitas carissima rerum=--Novelty is the dearest to us of all things. _Ovid._
=Es trägt Verstand und rechter Sinn / Mit wenig Kunst sich selber vor; und wenn's euch Ernst ist was zu sagen / Ist's nötig Worten nachzujagen?=--Understanding and good sense find utterance with little art; and when you have seriously anything to say, is it necessary to hunt for words? _Goethe._
=Es trinken tausend sich den Tod, ehe einer= 30 =stirbt vor Durstes Noth=--A thousand will drink themselves to death ere one die under stress of thirst. _Ger. Pr._
=Est tempus quando nihil, est tempus quando aliquid, nullum tamen est tempus in quo dicenda sunt omnia=--There is a time when nothing may be said, a time when something may, but no time when all things may. _A Monkish Adage._
=Esurienti ne occurras=--Don't throw yourself in the way of a hungry man.
=Es will einer was er soll, aber er kann's nicht machen; es kann einer was er soll, aber er will's nicht; es will und kann einer, aber er weiss nicht, was er soll=--One would what he should, but he can't; one could what he should, but he won't; one would and could, but he knows not what he should. _Goethe._
=Es wird wohl auch drüben nicht anders seyn als hier=--Even _over there_ it will not be otherwise than it is _here_, I ween. _Goethe._
[Greek: Ê tan ê epi tan]--Either this or upon this. (_The_ 35 _Spartan mother to her son on handing him his shield._)
=E tardegradis asinis equus non prodiit=--The horse is not the progeny of the slow-paced ass.
=Et cætera=--And the rest.
=Et c'est être innocent que d'être malheureux=--And misfortune is the badge of innocence. _La Font._
=Et credis cineres curare sepultos?=--And do you think that the ashes of the dead concern themselves with our affairs? _Virg._
=Et daligt hufoud hade han, men hjertat det= 40 =var godt=--He had a stupid head, but his heart was good. _Swed. Pr._
=Et decus et pretium recti=--Both the ornament and the reward of virtue. _M._
=E tenui casa sæpe vir magnus exit=--A great man often steps forth from a humble cottage. _Pr._
=Eternal love made me.= _Dante._
=Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, / As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.= _Pope._
=Eternity, depending on an hour.= _Young._
=Eternity looks grander and kinder if Time grow meaner and more hostile.= _Carlyle._
=Eternity of being and well-being simply for= 5 =being and well-being's sake, is an ideal belonging to appetite alone, and which only the struggle of mere animalism= (_Thierheit_), =longing to be infinite gives rise to.= _Schiller._
=Et facere et pati fortiter Romanum est=--Bravery and endurance make a man a Roman. _Liv._
=Et genus et formam regina pecunia donat=--Money, like a queen, confers both rank and beauty. _Hor._
=Et genus et proavos, et quæ non fecimus ipsi, / Vix ea nostra voco=--We can scarcely call birth and ancestry and what we have not ourselves done, our own. _Ovid._
=Et genus et virtus, nisi cum re, vilior alga est=--Without money both birth and virtue are as worthless as seaweed. _Hor._
=Ethics makes man's soul mannerly and wise,= 10 =but logic is the armoury of reason, furnished with all offensive and defensive weapons.= _Fuller._
=Et hoc genus omne=--And everything of this kind.
=Etiam celeritas in desiderio, mora est=--When we long for a thing, even despatch is delay. _Pub. Syr._
=Etiam fera animalia, si clausa teneas, virtutis obliviscuntur=--Even savage animals, if you keep them in confinement, forget their fierceness.
=Etiam fortes viros subitis terreri=--Even brave men may be alarmed by a sudden event. _Tac._
=Etiam innocentes cogit mentiri dolor=--Pain 15 makes even the innocent forswear themselves. _Pub. Syr._
=Etiam oblivisci quod scis, interdum expedit=--It is sometimes expedient to forget what you know. _Pub. Syr._
=Etiam sanato vulnere cicatrix manet=--Though the wound is healed, a scar remains.
=Etiam sapientibus cupido gloriæ novissima exuitur=--Even by the wise the desire of glory is the last of all passions to be laid aside. _Tac._
=Et jam summa procul villarum culmina fumant, / Majoresque cadunt altis de montibus umbræ=--And now the cottage roofs yonder smoke, and the shadows fall longer from the mountain-tops. _Virg._
=Et je sais, sur ce fait, / Bon nombre d'hommes= 20 =qui sont femmes=--And I know a great many men who in this particular are women. _La Font._
=Et l'avare Achéron ne lâche pas sa proie=--And greedy Acheron lets not go his prey. _Racine._
=Et le combat cessa faute de combattants=--And the battle ceased for want of combatants. _Corneille._
=Et l'on revient toujours / A ses premiers amours=--One returns always to his first love. _Fr. Pr._
=Et mala sunt vicina bonis=--There are bad qualities near akin to good. _Ovid._
=Et male tornatos incudi reddere versus=--And 25 take back ill-polished stanzas to the anvil. _Hor._
=Et mea cymba semel vasta percussa procella, / Illum, quo læsa est, horret adire locum=--My bark, once shaken by the overpowering storm, shrinks from approaching the spot where it has been shattered. _Ovid._
=Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor=--My aim ever is to subject circumstances to myself, not myself to them. _Hor._
=Et minimæ vires frangere quassa valent=--A very small degree of force will suffice to break a vessel that is already cracked. _Ovid._
=Et monere, et moneri, proprium est veræ amicitiæ=--To give counsel as well as take it, is a feature of true friendship. _Cic._
=Et nati natorum, et qui nascentur ab illis=--The 30 children of our children, and those who shall be born of them, _i.e._, our latest posterity.
=Et nova fictaque nuper habebunt verba fidem, si / Græco fonte cadunt parce detorta=--And new and lately invented terms will be well received, if they descend, with slight deviation, from a Grecian source. _Hor._
=Et pudet, et metuo, semperque eademque precari, / Ne subeant animo tædia justa tuo=--I am ashamed to be always begging and begging the same things, and fear lest you should conceive for me the disgust I merit. _Ovid._
=Et quæ sibi quisque timebat, / Unius in miseri exitium conversa tulere=--And what each man dreaded for himself, they bore lightly when diverted to the destruction of one poor wretch. _Virg._
=Et quiescenti agendum est, et agenti quiescendum est=--He who is indolent should work, and he who works should take repose. _Sen._
=Et qui nolunt occidere quenquam / Posse= 35 =volunt=--Even those who have no wish to kill another would like to have the power. _Juv._
=Et quorum pars magna fui=--And in which I played a prominent part. _Virg._
=Etre capable de se laisser servir n'est pas une des moindres qualités que puisse avoir un grand roi=--The ability to enlist the services of others in the conduct of affairs is one of the most distinguishing qualities of a great monarch. _Richelieu._
=Etre pauvre sans être libre, c'est le pire état où l'homme puisse tomber=--To be poor without being free is the worst condition into which man can sink. _Rousseau._
=Etre sur le qui vive=--To be on the alert. _Fr._
=Etre sur un grand pied dans le monde=--To be in 40 high standing (_lit._ on a great foot) in the world. _Fr._
=Et rose elle a vécu ce que vivent les roses / L'espace d'un matin=--As rose she lived the life of a rose for but the space of a morning. _Malherbe._
=Et sanguis et spiritus pecunia mortalibus=--Money is both blood and life to men. _Pr._
=Et semel emissum volat irrevocabile verbum=--And a word once uttered flies abroad never to be recalled. _Hor._
=Et sequentia=, =Et seq.=--And what follows.
=Et sic de ceteris=--And so of the rest. 45
=Et sic de similibus=--And so of the like.
="Et tu, Brute fili"=--And thou, son Brutus. _Cæsar, at sight of Brutus among the conspirators._
=Et vaincre sans péril serait vaincre sans gloire=--To conquer without peril would be to conquer without glory. _Corneille._
=Et vitam impendere vero=--Stake even life for truth. _M._
=Et voilà justement comme on écrit l'histoire=--And that is exactly how history is written. _Voltaire._
=Etwas ist besser als gar nichts=--Something is better than nothing at all. _Ger. Pr._
=Euch zu gefallen war mein höchster Wunsch; / Euch zu ergötzen war mein letzter Zweck=--To please you was my highest wish; to delight you was my last aim. _Goethe._
[Greek: Heudonti kyrtos hairei]--While the fisher sleeps the 5 net takes. _Gr. Pr._
=Euge, poeta!=--Well done, poet! _Pers._
=Eum ausculta, cui quatuor sunt aures=--Listen to him who has four ears, _i.e._, who is readier to hear than to speak. _Pr._
[Greek: Eurêka]--I have found it. _Archimedes when he found out the way to test the purity of Hiero's golden crown._
=Europe's eye is fixed on mighty things, / The fall of empires and the fate of kings.= _Burns._
[Greek: Eutychia polyphilos]--Success is befriended by 10 many people. _Gr. Pr._
[Greek: Eutychôn mê isthi hyperêphanos, aporêsas mê tapeinou]--Be not uplifted in prosperity nor downcast in adversity. _Cleobulus._
=E' va più d'un asino al mercato=--There is more than one ass goes to the market. _It. Pr._
=Evasion is unworthy of us, and is always the intimate of equivocation.= _Balzac._
=Evasions are the common subterfuge of the hard-hearted, the false, and impotent, when called upon to assist.= _Lavater._
=Even a fly has its spleen.= _It. Pr._ 15
=Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise.= _Bible._
=Even a frog would bite if it had teeth.= _It. Pr._
=Even a haggis could charge down-hill.= _Scott._
=Even a hair casts a shadow.= _Pr._
=Even a horse, though he has four feet, will= 20 =stumble.= _Pr._
=Even among the apostles there was a Judas.= _It. Pr._
=Even beauty cannot palliate eccentricity.= _Balzac._
=Even by means of our sorrows we belong to the eternal plan.= _W. v. Humboldt._
=Even foxes are outwitted and caught.= _It. Pr._
=Even in a righteous cause force is a fearful= 25 =thing; God only helps when men can help no more.= _Schiller._
=Evening is the delight of virtuous age; it seems an emblem of the tranquil close of busy life.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=Even in social life, it is persistency which attracts confidence, more than talents and accomplishments.= _Whipple._
=Even perfect examples lead astray by tempting us to overleap the necessary steps in their development, whereby we are for the most part led past the goal into boundless error.= _Goethe._
=Even so my sun one early morn did shine, / With all triumphant splendour on my brow; / But out, alack! it was but one hour mine.= _Sh._
=Even success needs its consolations.= _George_ 30 _Eliot._
=Even that fish may be caught which resists most stoutly against it.= _Dan. Pr._
=Even the just man has need of help.= _It. Pr._
=Even the lowest book of chronicles partakes of the spirit of the age in which it was written.= _Goethe._
=Even then a wish (I mind its power), / A wish that to my latest hour / Shall strongly heave my breast, / That I, for puir auld Scotland's sake, / Some usefu' plan or beuk could make, / Or sing a sang at least.= _Burns at the plough._
=Even though the cloud veils it, the sun is ever= 35 =in the canopy of heaven= (_Himmelszelt_). =A holy will rules there; the world does not serve blind chance.= _F. K. Weber._
=Even though vanquished, he could argue still.= _Goldsmith._
=Even thou who mourn'st the daisy's fate, / That fate is thine--no distant date; / Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives elate / Full on thy bloom, / Till crush'd beneath the farrow's weight / Shall be thy doom.= _Burns._
=Events are only the shells of ideas; and often it is the fluent thought of ages that is crystallised in a moment by the stroke of a pen or the point of a bayonet.= _Chapin._
=Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.= _Cowper._
=Eventus stultorum magister est=--Only the event 40 teaches fools. _Liv._
=Even weak men when united are powerful.= _Schiller._
=Evêque d'or, crosse de bois; crosse d'or, évêque de bois=--Bishop of gold, staff of wood; bishop of wood, staff of gold. _Fr. Pr._
=Ever, as of old, the thing a man will do is the thing he feels commanded to do.= _Carlyle._
=Ever charming, ever new, / When will the landscape tire the view?= _John Dyer._
=Ever learning, and never able to come to the= 45 =knowledge of the truth.= _St. Paul._
=Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor.= _Rich. II._, ii. 3.
=Ever must pain urge us to labour, and only in free effort can any blessedness be imagined for us.= _Carlyle._
=Ever must the sovereign of mankind be fitly entitled king=, _i.e._, =the man who= _kens_ =and= _can_. _Carlyle._
=Ever since Adam's time fools have been in the majority.= _Casimir Delavigne._
=Ever take it for granted that man collectively= 50 =wishes that which is right; but take care never to think so of one!= _Schiller._
=Every absurdity has a champion to defend it; for error is talkative.= _Goldsmith._
=Every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds.= _Emerson._
=Every advantage has its tax, but there is none on the good of virtue; that is the incoming of God himself, or absolute existence.= _Emerson._
=Every age regards the dawning of new light as the destroying fire of morality; while that very age itself, with heart uninjured, finds itself raised one degree of light above the preceding.= _Jean Paul._
=Every attempt to crush an insurrection with means inadequate to the end foments instead of suppressing it.= _C. Fox._
=Every author, in some degree, portrays himself in his works, be it even against his will.= _Goethe._
=Every base occupation makes one sharp in its practice and dull in every other.= _Sir P. Sidney._
=Every bean has its black.= _Pr._
=Every beginning is cheerful; the threshold is= 5 =the place of expectation.= _Goethe._
=Every beloved object is the centre of a paradise.= _Novalis._
=Every being is a moving temple of the Infinite.= _Jean Paul._
=Everybody is wise after the event.= _Pr._
=Everybody knows that fanaticism is religion caricatured; yet with many, contempt of fanaticism is received as a sure sign of hostility to religion.= _Whipple._
=Everybody knows that government never began= 10 =anything. It is the whole world that thinks and governs.= _W. Phillips._
=Everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is a great deal better to be made in that way than not to be made at all.= _Holmes._
=Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.= _J. F. Cooper._
=Everybody's business in the social system is to be agreeable.= _Dickens._
=Everybody's business is nobody's.= _Pr._
=Everybody's friend is nobody's.= _Pr._ 15
=Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.= _Emerson._
=Every book is written with a constant secret reference to the few intelligent persons whom the writer believes to exist in the million.= _Emerson._
=Every brave life out of the past does not appear to us so brave as it really was, for the forms of terror with which it wrestled are now overthrown.= _Jean Paul._
=Every brave man is a man of his word.= _Corneille._
=Every brave youth is in training to ride and= 20 =rule his dragon.= _Emerson._
=Every bullet has its billet.= _Pr._
=Every Calvary has its Olivet.= _H. Giles._
=Every capability, however slight, is born with us; there is no vague general capability in man.= _Goethe._
=Every child is to a certain extent a genius, and every genius is to a certain extent a child.= _Schopenhauer._
=Every cloud engenders not a storm.= 3 _Hen._ 25 _VI._, v. 3.
=Every cloud that spreads above / And veileth love, itself is love.= _Tennyson._
=Every cock is proud on his own dunghill.= _Pr._
=Every conceivable society may well be figured as properly and wholly a Church, in one or other of these three predicaments: an audibly preaching and prophesying Church, which is the best; a Church that struggles to preach and prophesy, but cannot as yet till its Pentecost come; a Church gone dumb with old age, or which only mumbles delirium prior to dissolution.= _Carlyle._
=Every cottage should have its porch, its oven, and its tank.= _Disraeli._
=Every couple is not a pair.= _Pr._ 30
=Every craw thinks her ain bird whitest.= _Sc. Pr._
=Every creature can bear well-being except man.= _Gael. Pr._
=Every crime has in the moment of its perpetration its own avenging angel.= _Schiller._
=Every day hath its night, every weal its woe.= _Pr._
=Every day in thy life is a leaf in thy history.= 35 _Arab. Pr._
=Every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly until he knows that every day is Doomsday.= _Emerson._
=Every day should be spent by us as if it were to be our last.= _Pub. Syr._
=Every department of knowledge passes successively through three stages: the theological, or fictitious; the metaphysical, or abstract; and the scientific, or positive.= _Comte._
=Every desire bears its death in its very gratification.= _W. Irving._
=Every desire is a viper in the bosom, who,= 40 =when he was chill, was harmless, but when warmth gave him strength, exerted it in poison.= _Johnson._
=Every dog must have his day.= _Swift._
=Every door may be shut but death's door.= _Pr._
=Every established religion was once a heresy.= _Buckle._
=Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.= _Holmes._
=Every evil to which we do not succumb is a= 45 =benefactor; we gain the strength of the temptation we resist.= _Emerson._
=Every excess causes a defect; every deficit, an excess. Every sweet has its sour; every evil, its good. Every faculty which is a receiver of pleasure has an equal penalty put on its abuse.= _Emerson._
=Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.= _Emerson._
=Every faculty is conserved and increased by its appropriate exercise.= _Epictetus._
=Every fancy that we would substitute for a reality is, if we saw it aright and saw the whole, not only false, but every way less beautiful and excellent than that which we sacrifice to it.= _J. Sterling._
=Every flood has its ebb.= _Dut. Pr._ 50
=Every fool thinks himself clever enough.= _Dan. Pr._
=Every fool will be meddling.= _Bible._
=Every foot will tread on him who is in the mud.= _Gael. Pr._
=Every form of freedom is hurtful, except that which delivers us over to perfect command of ourselves.= _Goethe._
=Every form of human life is romantic.= _T. W. 55 Higginson._
=Every fresh acquirement is another remedy= =against affliction and time.= _Willmott._
=Every friend is to the other a sun and a sunflower also: he attracts and follows.= _Jean Paul._
=Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the herd.= _Thoreau._
=Every generous action loves the public view, yet no theatre for virtue is equal to a consciousness of it.= _Cic._
=Every genius has most power in his own language, and every heart in its own religion.= _Jean Paul._
=Every genius is defended from approach by quantities of unavailableness.= _Emerson._
=Every genuine work of art has as much reason= 5 =for being as the earth and the sun.= _Emerson._
=Every gift which is given, even though it be small, is in reality great if it be given with affection.= _Pindar._
=Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.= _Mahomet._
=Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above.= _St. James._
=Every good gift comes from God.= _Pr._
=Every good picture is the best of sermons= 10 =and lectures: the sense informs the soul.= _Sydney Smith._
=Every good writer has much idiom; it is the life and spirit of language.= _Landor._
=Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is the triumph of enthusiasm.= _Emerson._
=Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great or original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.= _Wordsworth._
=Every great book is an action, and every great action is a book.= _Luther._
=Every great genius has a special vocation,= 15 =and when he has fulfilled it, he is no longer needed.= _Goethe._
=Every great man is unique.= _Emerson._
=Every great mind seeks to labour for eternity. All men are captivated by immediate advantages; great minds alone are excited by the prospect of distant good.= _Schiller._
=Every great poem is in itself limited by necessity, but in its suggestions unlimited and infinite.= _Longfellow._
=Every great reform which has been effected has consisted, not in doing something new, but in undoing something old.= _Buckle._
=Every great writer is a writer of history, let= 20 =him treat on almost what subject he may. He carries with him for thousands of years a portion of his times; and, indeed, if only his own effigy were there, it would be greatly more than a fragment of his century.= _Landor._
=Every healthy effort is directed from the inward to the outward world.= _Goethe._
=Every heart knows its own bitterness.= _Pr._
=Every hero becomes a bore at last.= _Emerson._
=Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good; but it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol.= _Emerson._
=Every honest miller has a golden thumb.= 25 _Pr._
=Every hour has its end.= _Scott._
=Every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.= _St. Paul._
=Every human being is intended to have a character of his own, to be what no other is, to do what no other can.= _Channing._
=Every human feeling is greater and larger than the exciting cause--a proof, I think, that man is designed for a higher state of existence.= _Coleridge._
=Every idea must have a visible unfolding.= 30 _Victor Hugo._
=Every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.= _Jesus._
=Every inch a king.= _Lear_, iv. 6.
=Every inch of joy has an ell of annoy.= _Sc. Pr._
=Every individual colour makes on men an impression of its own, and thereby reveals its nature to the eye as well as the mind.= _Goethe._
=Every individual nature has its own beauty.= 35 _Emerson._
=Every inordinate cup is unbless'd, and the ingredient is a devil.= _Othello_, ii. 3.
=Every joy that comes to us is only to strengthen us for some greater labour that is to succeed.= _Fichte._
=Every knave is a thorough knave, and a thorough knave is a knave throughout.= _Bp. Berkeley._
=Every light has its shadow.= _Pr._
=Every little fish expects to become a whale.= 40 _Dan. Pr._
=Every little helps.= _Pr._
=Every little helps, as the sow said when she snapt at a gnat.= _Dan. Pr._
=Every loving woman is a priestess of the past.= _Amiel._
=Every man alone is sincere; at the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.= _Emerson._
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