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=Ille sinistrorsum, hic dextrorsum, abit: unus= 10 =utrique / Error, sed variis illudit partibus=--One wanders to the left, another to the right; both are equally in error, but are seduced by different delusions. _Hor._
=Ille terrarum mihi præter omnes / Angulus ridet=--That nook of the world has charms for me before all else. _Hor._
=Ille vir, haud magna cum re, sed plenus fidei=--He is a man, not of large fortune, but full of good faith.
=Illi inter sese multa vi brachia tollunt / In numerum, versantque tenaci forcipe massam=--They (the Cyclops), keeping time, one by one raise their arms with mighty force, and turn the iron lump with the biting tongs. _Virg._
=Illi robur et æs triplex / Circa pectus erat, qui fragilem truci / Commisit pelago ratem / Primus=--That man had oak and triple brass around his breast who first intrusted his frail bark to the savage sea. _Hor._
=Illic apposito narrabis multa Lyæo=--There, 15 with the wine in front of you, you will tell many a story. _Ovid._
=Illud amicitiæ sanctum ac venerabile nomen / Nunc tibi pro vili sub pedibusque jacet=--The sacred and venerable name of friendship is now despised and trodden under foot. _Ovid._
=Illusion on a ground of truth is the secret of the fine arts.= _Joubert._
=Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, / And every conqueror creates a muse.= _Waller._
=Ils chantent, ils payeront=--Let them sing; they will have the piper to pay. _Mazarin._
=Ils n'ont rien appris, ni rien oublié=--They have 30 learned nothing and forgotten nothing. _Talleyrand, of the Bourbons._
=Ils s'amusaient tristement, selon la coutume de leur pays=--They (the English) are heavy-laden in their amusements, according to the custom of their country. _Froissart._
=Ils se ne servent de la pensée que pour autoriser leurs injustices, et emploient les paroles que pour déguiser leurs pensées=--Men use thought only to justify their unjust acts, and employ speech only to disguise their thoughts. _Voltaire._
=Ils sont passés, ces jours de fête=--They are gone, those festive days. _Grétry._
=Ils veulent être libres et ne savent pas être justes=--They wish to be free and understand not how to be just. _Abbé Sieyès._
=Im Alter erstaunt und bereut man nicht mehr=--In 25 old age one is astonished and repents no more. _Goethe._
=Im Becher ersaufen mehr als im Meer=--More are drowned in the wine-cup than in the sea. _Ger. Pr._
=Im Ganzen, Guten, Wahren resolut zu leben=--To live resolutely in the whole, the good, the true. _Goethe._
=Im Gedränge hier auf Erden / Kann nicht jeder, was er will=--In the press of things on earth here, not every one can do what he would. _Goethe._
=Im Grabe ist Ruh!=--In the grave is rest! _Langhaufen, Heine._
=Im Leben ist der Mensch zehn Jahre in Kriege= 30 =und zehn in der Irre, gleich dem Ulysses=--Man, like Ulysses, spends ten years in war and ten in wandering. _Feuerbach._
=Im Leben ist nichts Gegenwart=--In life is the present nothing, or there is no present. _Goethe._
=Im Mangel, nicht im Ueberfluss / Keimt der Genuss=--Enjoyment germinates not in abundance but in want. _Herder._
=Im Schmerze wird die neue Zeit geboren=--In pain is the new time born. _Chamisso._
=Im Unglück halte aus; / Im Glücke halte ein=--In bad fortune hold out; in good, hold in. _Ger. Pr._
=Im Wasser kannst du dein Antlitz sehn, / Im= 35 =Wein des andern Herz erspähn=--In water thou canst see thine own face, in wine thou canst see into the heart of another. _Pr._
=Imaginary evils soon become real ones by indulging our reflections on them.= _Swift._
=Imagination is always the ruling and divine power, and the rest of the man is only the instrument which it sounds, or the tablet on which it writes.= _Ruskin._
=Imagination is a mettled horse that will break the rider's neck when a donkey would have carried him to the end of his journey, slow but sure.= _Southey._
=Imagination is but a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.= _Carlyle._
=Imagination is central; fancy, superficial.= _Emerson._
=Imagination is Eternity.= _Wm. Blake._
=Imagination is the eye of the soul.= _Joubert._
=Imagination is the mightiest despot.= _Auerbach._ 5
=Imagination is too often accompanied with a somewhat irregular logic.= _Disraeli._
=Imagination rules the world.= _Napoleon._
=Imitation is born with us, but what we ought to imitate is not easily found.= _Goethe._
=Imitation is the sincerest flattery.= _Colton._
=Imitation is suicide.= _Emerson._ 10
=Immediate are the acts of God, more swift / Than time or motion.= _Milton._
=Immer etwas Neues, selten etwas Gutes=--Always something new, seldom anything good. _Ger. Pr._
=Immer Neues spriesset / Eh' ein Mensch geniesset / Mit Verstand das Alte=--Not till a new thing sprouts up does a man ever enjoy intelligently that which is old. _Rückert._
=Immer wird, nie ist=--Always a-being, never being. _Schiller._
=Immer zu! Immer zu! / Ohne Rast und Ruh!=--Ever 15 onward! ever onward! without rest and quiet. _Goethe._
=Immer zu misstrauen ist ein Irrthum wie immer zu trauen=--Always to distrust is an error, as well as always to trust. _Goethe._
=Immo id, quod aiunt, auribus teneo lupum / Nam neque quomodo a me amittam, invenio: neque, uti retineam scio=--It is true they say I have caught a wolf by the ears; for I know not either how to get rid of him or keep him in restraint. _Ter._
=Immodest words admit of no defence, / For want of decency is want of sense.= _Roscommon._
=Immoritur studiis, et amore senescit habendi=--He is killing himself with his efforts, and in his greed of gain is becoming an old man. _Hor._
=Immortale odium et nunquam sanabile vulnus=--A 20 deadly hatred, and a wound that can never be healed. _Juv., on the effects of religious contention between neighbours._
=Immortalia ne speres monet annus, et almum / Quæ rapit hora diem=--The year in its course, and the hour that speeds the kindly day, admonishes you not to hope for immortal (_i.e._, permanent) blessings. _Hor._
=Immortality will come to such as are fit for it; and he who would be a great soul in future must be a great soul now.= _Emerson._
=Imo pectore=--From the bottom of the heart.
=Impatience changeth smoke to flame.= _Erasmus._
=Impatience dries the blood sooner than age or= 25 =sorrow.= _Chapin._
=Impatience is the principal cause of most of our irregularities and extravagances.= _Sterne._
=Impatience waiteth on true sorrow.= 3 _Hen. VI._, iii. 3.
=Impavidum ruinæ ferient=--The wreck of things will strike him unmoved. _Hor._
=Impera parendo=--Command by obeying. _M._
=Imperat aut servit collecta pecunia cuique=--Money 30 amassed is either our slave or our tyrant. _Hor._
=Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life. It is the sign of life in a mortal body, that is, of a state of progress and change.= _Ruskin._
=Imperfection means perfection hid, / Reserved in part to grace the after-time.= _Browning._
=Imperfections cling to a man, which, if he wait till he have brushed off entirely, he will spin for ever on his axis, advancing nowhither.= _Carlyle._
=Imperia dura tolle, quid virtus erit?=--Remove severe restraint, and what will become of virtue? _Sen._
=Imperious Cæsar, dead and turn'd to clay, /= 35 =Might stop a hole to keep the wind away.= _Ham._, v. 1.
=Imperium et libertas=--Empire and liberty. _Cic._
=Imperium facile iis artibus retinetur, quibus initio partum est=--Power is easily retained by those arts by which it was at first acquired. _Sall._
=Imperium in imperio=--A government within a government.
=Impertinent and lavish talking is in itself a very vicious habit.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=Impetrare oportet, quia æquum postulas=--You 40 ought to obtain what you ask, as you only ask what is fair. _Plaut._
=Implacabiles plerumque læsæ mulieres=--Women, when offended, are generally implacable.
="Impossible" est un mot que je ne dis jamais=--"Impossible" is a word which I never utter. _Collin d'Hartevilles._
=Impossible is the precept "Know thyself," till it be translated into this partially possible one, "Know what thou canst work at."= _Carlyle._
=Impossible! Ne me dites jamais ce bête de mot=--Impossible! Never name to me that blockhead of a word. _Mirabeau, to his secretary, Dumont._
="Impossible" n'est pas français=--"Impossible" 45 is not French. _Napoleon._
="Impossible," when Truth and Mercy and the everlasting voice of Nature order, has no place in the brave man's dictionary.= _Carlyle._
="Impossible!" who talks to me of impossibilities?= _Chatham._
=Impotentia excusat legem=--Inability suspends the action of law. _L._
=Impransus=--One who has not dined, or who can't find a dinner.
=Imprimatur=--Let it be printed. 50
=Imprimis=--First of all.
=Imprimis venerare Deos=--Before all things reverence the gods. _Virg._
=Improbæ / Crescunt divitiæ, tamen / Curtæ nescio quid semper abest rei=--Riches increase to an enormous extent, yet something is ever wanting to our still imperfect fortune. _Hor._
=Improbe amor, quid non mortalia pectora cogis?=--Cruel love! what is there to which thou dost not drive mortal hearts? _Virg._
=Improbe Neptunum accusat, qui naufragium= 55 =iterum facit=--He who suffers shipwreck twice is unjust if he throws the blame on Neptune. _Pub. Syr._
=Improbis aliena virtus semper formidolosa est=--To wicked men the virtue of others is always matter of dread. _Sall._
=Impromptu=--Off-hand; without premeditation.
=Improvement is Nature.= _Leigh Hunt._
=Imprudent expression in conversation may be forgotten and pass away; but when we take the pen into our hand, we must remember that= _litera scripta manet_. _Blair._
=Impudence is no virtue, yet able to beggar= 5 =them all.= _Sir T. Osborne._
=Impunitas semper ad deteriora invitat=--Impunity always tempts to still worse crimes. _Coke._
=In a boundless universe / Is boundless better, boundless worse.= _Tennyson._
=In a calm sea, every man is a pilot.= _Pr._
=In a commercial nation impostors are abroad in all professions.= _Wm. Blake._
=In a fair gale every fool may sail, but wise= 10 =behaviour in a storm commends the wisdom of the pilot.= _Quarles._
=In a free country there is much complaining but little suffering; under a despotism, much suffering but little complaining.= _Giles' Proverbs._
=In a good lord there must first be a good animal, at least to the extent of yielding the incomparable advantage of animal spirits.= _Emerson._
=In a great soul everything is great.= _Pascal._
=In a healthy state of the organism all wounds have a tendency to heal.= _Mme. Swetchine._
=In a lawsuit nothing is certain but the expense.= 15 _A. Butler._
=In a leopard the spots are not observed.= _Herbert's Coll._
=In a lottery, where there is (at the lowest computation) ten thousand blanks to one prize, it is the most prudent choice not to venture.= _Lady Montagu._
=In a man's letters his soul lies naked; his letters are only the mirror of his breast.= _Johnson._
=In a matter of life and death don't trust even your mother; she might mistake a black bean= (used in voting) =for a white one.= _Alcibiades._
=In a narrow circle the mind grows narrow; the= 20 =more a man expands, the larger his aims.= _Schiller._
=In a noble race, levity without virtue is seldom found. In a mine of rubies, when shall we find pieces of glass?= _Hitopadesa._
=In a poem there should be not only the poetry of images, but also the poetry of ideas.= _Joubert._
=In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation, silence and speech acting together, some embodiment and revelation of the infinite, made to blend itself with the finite, to stand visible, and, as it were, attainable there.= _Carlyle._
=In a thousand pounds of law there is not an ounce of love.= _Pr._
=In a valiant suffering for others, not in a slothful= 25 =making others suffer for us, did nobleness ever lie.= _Carlyle._
=In acta=--In the very act.
=In action, a great heart is the chief qualification; in work, a great head.= _Schopenhauer._
=In æquali jure melior est conditio possidentis=--Where the right is equal, the claim of the party in possession is the best. _L._
=In æternum=--For ever.
=In all battles, if you await the issue, each= 30 =fighter has prospered according to his right. His right and his might, at the close of the account, were the same.= _Carlyle._
=In all faiths there is something true / ... Something that keeps the Unseen in view, / ... And notes His gifts with the worship due.= _Dr. Walter Smith._
=In all human action, those faculties will be strong which are used.= _Emerson._
=In all human narrative, it is the battle only, and not the victory, that can be dwelt on with advantage.= _Carlyle._
=In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas, such sublime irrecognition of the unessential.= _Lowell._
=In all matters prefer the less evil to the= 35 =greater, and solace yourself under any ill with the reflection that it might be worse.= _Spurgeon._
=In all provinces there are artists and artisans; men who labour mechanically in a department, without eye for the whole, not feeling that there is a whole; and men who inform and ennoble the humblest department with an idea of the whole, and habitually know that only in the whole is the partial to be truly discerned.= _Carlyle._
=In all science error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.= _Horace Walpole._
=In all situations= (out of Tophet) =there is a duty, and our highest blessedness lies in doing it.= _Carlyle._
=In all straits the good behave themselves with meekness and patience.= _Thomas à Kempis._
=In all things that live there are certain irregularities= 40 =and deficiencies, which are not only signs of life, but sources of beauty.= _Ruskin._
=In all things, to serve from the lowest station upwards is necessary.= _Goethe._
=In all times it is only individuals that have advanced science, not the age.= _Goethe._
=In all true work, were it but true hand-labour, there is something of divineness.= _Carlyle._
=In all vital action the manifest purpose and effort of Nature is, that we should be unconscious of it.... Nature so meant it with us; it is so we are made.= _Carlyle._
=In allem andern lass dich lenken / Nur nicht= 45 =im Fühlen und im Denken=--In everything else let thyself be led, only not in feeling and in thinking. _v. Sallet._
=In alms regard thy means and others' merit. / Think Heaven a better bargain than to give / Only thy single market-money for it.= _George Herbert._
=In ambiguo=--In doubt.
=In America you can get tea, and coffee, and meat every day. But the only true America is that country where you are at liberty to pursue such a mode of life as may enable you to do without these.= _Thoreau._
=In an aristocratical institution like England, not trial by jury, but the dinner is the capital institution. It is the mode of doing honour to a stranger to invite him to eat, and has been for many a hundred years.= _Emerson._
=In anima vili=--On a subject of little worth.
=In annulo Dei figuram ne gestato=--Wear not the image of the Deity in a ring, _i.e._, do not use the name of God on frivolous occasions, or in vain. _Pr._
=In any controversy, the instant we feel angry we have already ceased striving for truth and begun striving for ourselves.= _Goethe._
=In aqua scribis=--You are writing on water. _Pr._ 5
=In arena ædificas=--You are building on sand. _Pr._
=In arguing, be calm; for fierceness makes / Error a fault, and truth discourtesy.= _George Herbert._
=In argument with men, a woman ever / Goes by the worse, whatever be her cause.= _Milton._
=In art and in deeds, only that is properly achieved which, like Minerva, springs full-grown and armed from the head of the inventor.= _Goethe._
=In art, to express the infinite one should suggest= 10 =infinitely more than is expressed.= _Goethe._
=In articulo mortis=--At the point of death.
=In audaces non est audacia tuta=--Daring is not safe against daring men. _Ovid._
=In beato omnia beata=--With the fortunate everything is fortunate. _Hor._
=In bocca chiusa, non c' entran mosche=--Flies can't enter into a mouth that is shut. _It. Pr._
=In books lies the soul of the whole past time;= 15 =the articulate audible voice of the past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.= _Carlyle._
=In breathing there are two kinds of blessings= (_Gnaden_): =inhaling the air and exhaling= (_lit._ discharging) =it; the former is oppressive, the latter refreshing; so strangely is life mingled. Thank God when He lays a burden on thee, and thank Him when He takes it off.= _Goethe._
=In bunten Bildern wenig Klarheit, / Viel Irrtum und ein Fünkchen Wahrheit, / So wird der beste Trank gebraut, / Der alle Welt erquickt und auferbaut=--With little clearness (light) in motley metaphors, much falsehood and a spark of truth, is the genuine draught prepared with which every one is refreshed and edified. _Goethe._
=In buying horses and taking a wife, shut your eyes and commend yourself to God.= _It. Pr._
=In caducum parietem inclinare=--To lean against a falling wall. _Pr._
=In calamitoso risus etiam injuria est=--Even to 20 smile at the unfortunate is to do them an injury. _Pub. Syr._
=In capite=--In chief.
=In casu extremæ necessitatis omnia sunt communia=--In a case of extreme emergency all things are common. _L._
=In Catholic countries religion and liberty exclude each other; in Protestant ones they accept each other.= _Amiel._
=In cauda venenum=--Poison lurks in the tail; or, there is a sting in the tail. _Pr._
=In causa facili, cuivis licet esse diserto=--In an 25 easy matter any man may be eloquent. _Ovid._
=In character, in manner, in style, in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.= _Longfellow._
=In cheerful souls there is no evil; wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.= _Novalis._
=In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in manhood just, and in old age prudent.= _Socrates._
=In choosing friends, we should choose those whose qualities are innate, and their virtues virtues of the temperament.= _Amiel._
=In Christ the infinite itself has come down to= 30 =the level of the finite, and the finite has been raised to the level of the infinite, and in His single person the spirit of the universe stands revealed.= _Ed._
=In civil broils the worst of men may rise to honour.= _Plutarch._
=In clothes, cheap handsomeness doth bear the bell.= _George Herbert._
=In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself.= _Joubert._
=In cœlo nunquam spectatum impune cometam=--A comet is never seen in the sky without indicating disaster. _Claud._
=In cœlo quies=--There is rest in heaven. 35
=In cœlum jacularis=--You are aiming at the heavens; your anger is bootless.
=In commendam=--In trust or recommendation.
=In common things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.= _Froude._
=In communism, inequality springs from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.= _Proudhon._
=In composing a book, the last thing that one= 40 =learns is to know what to put first.= _Pascal._
=In constitutional states, liberty is a compensation for heaviness of taxation; in despotic ones, lightness of taxation is a compensation for liberty.= _Montesquieu._
=In contemplation, if a man begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.= _Bacon._
=In conversation, boldness now bears sway.= _George Herbert._
=In conversation, humour is more than wit, easiness more than knowledge.= _Sir Wm. Temple._
=In courtesy rather pay a penny too much than= 45 =too little.= _Pr._
=In crucifixo gloria mea=--I glory in the Crucified.
=In cumulo=--In a heap.
=In curia=--In the court.
=In cute curanda plus æquo operata juventus=--Youth unduly busy with pampering the outer man. _Hor._
=In days of yore nothing was holy but the= 50 =beautiful.= _Schiller._
=In deep waters men find great pearls.= _Pr._
=In deinem Glauben ist dein Himmel, / In deinem Herzen ist dein Glück=--In thy faith is thy heaven, in thy heart thy happiness. _Arndt._
=In deinem Nichts hoff' ich das All zu finden=--In thy nothing hope I to find the all. _Goethe._
=In delay / We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day.= _Rom. and Jul._, i. 4.
=In Deo spero=--In God I hope. _M._ 55
=In der jetzigen Zeit soll Niemand schweigen oder nachgeben; man muss reden und sich rühren, nicht um zu überwinden, sondern sich auf seinem Posten zu erhalten; ob bei der Majorität oder Minorität, ist ganz gleichgültig=--At the present time no one should yield or keep silence; every one must speak and bestir himself, not in order to gain the upper hand, but to keep his own position--whether with the majority or the minority is quite indifferent. _Goethe._
=In der Kunst ist das Beste gut genug=--In art the best is good enough. _Goethe._
=In der Noth allein / Bewähret sich der Adel grosser Seele=--In difficulty alone does the nobility of great souls prove itself. _Schiller._
=In dictione=--In the expression, or the form.
=In die Hölle kommt man mit grösserer Mühe,= 5 =als in den Himmel=--It's harder work getting to hell than heaven. _Ger. Pr._
=In diem=--To some future day.
=In diem vivere=--To live from hand to mouth.
=In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds / On half the nations, and with fear of change perplexes monarchs.= _Milton._
=In diving to the bottom of pleasures we bring up more gravel than pearls.= _Balzac._
=In doubtful matters courage may do much; in= 10 =desperate, patience.= _Pr._
=In dubiis=--In matters of doubt.
=In dubiis benigniora semper sunt præferenda=--In cases of doubt we should always lean to the side of mercy. _L._
=In dulci jubilo=--Now sing and be joyful. _Peter of Dresden._
=In duty prompt, at every call, / He watch'd, and wept, and felt, and prayed for all.= _Goldsmith._
=In dyeing the spiritual nature there are two= 15 =processes--first, the cleansing and wringing out, which is the baptism with water; and then the infusing of the blue and scarlet colours, gentleness and justice, which is the baptism with fire.= _Ruskin._
=In eadem re utilitas et turpitudo esse non potest=--In the same thing usefulness and baseness cannot coexist. _Cic._
=In eating, after nature is once satisfied, every additional morsel brings stupidity and distempers with it.= _Goldsmith._
=In eburna vagina, plumbeus gladius=--A leaden sword in an ivory sheath. _Diogenes, of an empty fop._
=In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself; when consciously he makes himself the mere tongue of the occasion and the hour, and says what cannot but be said.= _Emerson._
=In equilibrio=--In equilibrium. 20
=In esse=--In actual being.
=In every age and clime we see / Two of a trade can never agree.= _Gay._
=In every battle the eye is first conquered.= _Tac._
=In every beginning think of the end.= _Pr._
=In every bone there is marrow, and within= 25 =every jacket there is a man.= _Saadi._
=In every change there will be many that suffer real or imaginary grievances, and therefore many will be dissatisfied.= _Johnson._
=In every child there lies a wonderful deep.= _Schumann._
=In every country the sun rises in the morning.= _Pr._
=In every creed there are two elements--the Divine substance and the human form. The form must change with the changing thoughts of men; and even the substance may come to shine with clearer light, and to reveal unexpected glories, as God and man come nearer together.= _R. W. Dale._
=In every department of life we thank God that= 30 =we are not like our fathers.= _Froude._
=In every department one must begin as a child; throw a passionate interest over the subject; take pleasure in the shell till one has the happiness to arrive at the kernel.= _Goethe._
=In every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all others, is it not the arrival of a thinker in the world?= _Carlyle._
=In every fault there is folly.= _Pr._
=In every great epoch there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.= _Buckle._
=In every heart are sown the sparks that kindle= 35 =fiery war; occasion needs but fan them, and they blaze.= _Cowper._
=In every landscape the point of astonishment is the meeting of the sky and the earth, and that is seen from the first hillock as well as from the top of the Alleghanies.= _Emerson._
=In every life there is an upward and a downward tendency= (_Trieb_); =he is to be praised who remains steadfast in the mean between.= _Rückert._
=In every man there is a certain feeling that he has been what he is from all eternity, and by no means became such in time.= _Schelling._
=In every parting there is an image of death.= _George Eliot._
=In every phenomenon the beginning remains= 40 =always the most notable moment.= _Carlyle._
=In every rank, or great or small, / 'Tis industry supports us all.= _Gray._
=In every ship there must be a seeing pilot, not a mere hearing one.= _Carlyle._
=In even the wisest soul lies a whole world of internal madness, an authentic demon-empire; out of which, indeed, his world of wisdom has been creatively built together, and now rests there, as on its dark foundation does a habitable flowery earth-rind.= _Carlyle._
=In every village there will arise a miscreant to establish the most grinding tyranny by calling himself the people.= _Sir R. Peel._
=In exalting the faculties of the soul we annihilate,= 45 =in a great degree, the delusion of the senses.= _Aimé-Martin._
=In extenso=--In full.
=In extremis=--At the point of death.
=In failing circumstances no man can be relied on to keep his integrity.= _Emerson._
=In Faith and Hope the world will disagree, / But all mankind's concern is Charity.= _Pope._
=In faith everything depends on "that" you believe;= 50 =in knowledge everything depends on "what" you know, as well as how much and how well.= _Goethe._
=In fashionable circles general satire, which attacks the fault rather than the person, is unwelcome; while that which attacks the person and spares the fault is always acceptable.= _Jean Paul._
=In ferrum pro libertate ruebant=--They rushed upon the sword in defence of their liberty. _M._
=In flagranti delicto=--In the act.
=In flammam flammas, in mare fundis aquas=--You add fire to fire, and water to the sea.
=In for a penny, in for a pound.= _Pr._ 5
=In forma pauperis=--As a pauper or poor man.
=In foro conscientiæ=--Before the tribunal of conscience.
=In frosty weather a nail is worth a horse.= _Sp. Pr._
=In furias ignemque ruunt; amor omnibus idem=--They rush into the flames of passion; love is the same in all. _Virg._
=In futuro=--In future; at a future time. 10
=In general, indulgence for those we know is rarer than pity for those we know not.= _Rivarol._
=In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.= _Ruskin._
=In generalibus latet dolus=--In general assertions some deception lurks.
=In giants we must kill pride and arrogance; but our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.= _Cervantes._
=In Glück Vorsichtigkeit, in Unglück Geduld=--In 15 good fortune, prudence; in bad, patience. _Ger. Pr._
=In good bearing beginneth worship.= _Hazlitt's Coll._
=In good years, corn is hay; in ill years, straw is corn.= _Hazlitt's Coll._
=In granting and in refusing, in joy and in sorrow, in liking and in disliking, good men, because of their own likeness, show mercy unto all things which have life.= _Hitopadesa._
=In great states, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents wanting to make men and women of them. In vile states, the children are always wanting to be men and women, and the parents to keep them children.= _Ruskin._
=In health, to be stirring shall profit thee best; /= 20 =in sickness, hate trouble, seek quiet and rest.= _Thomas Tusser._
=In heaven ambition cannot dwell, / Nor avarice in the vaults of hell.= _Southey._
=In heaven the angels are advancing continually to the spring-time of their youth, so that the oldest angel appears the youngest.= _Swedenborg._
=In Heaven's sight the mere wish to pray is prayer.= (?)
=In her eyes that never weep, lightnings are laid asleep.= _A. Mary F. Robinson._
=In her first passion, woman loves her lover, /= 25 =In all the others, all she loves is love.= _Byron._
=In high life every one is polished and courteous, but no one has the courage to be hearty and true.= _Goethe._
=In Him we live and move and have our being.= _St. Paul._
=In hoc signo spes mea=--In this sign is my hope. _M._
=In hoc signo vinces=--By this sign (the cross) thou shalt conquer. _M._
=In hoc statu=--In this state or condition. 30
=In hope to merit heaven by making earth a hell.= _Byron._
=In idleness alone is there perpetual despair.= _Carlyle._
=In illo viro, tantum robur corporis et animi fuit, ut quocunque loco natus esset, fortunam sibi facturus videretur=--In that man there was such oaken strength of body and mind, that whatever his rank by birth might have been, he gave promise of attaining the highest place in the lists of fortune. _Livy, of Cato the elder._
=In intercourse with people of superior station, all that is required is not to be perfectly natural, but always to keep within the line of a certain conventional propriety.= _Goethe._
=In jedem Menschen ist etwas von allen Menschen=--In 35 every man there is something of all men. _Lichtenberg._
=In judicando criminosa est celeritas=--In pronouncing judgment, haste is criminal. _L._
=In just and equal measure all is weighed; / One scale contains the sum of human weal, / And one, the good man's heart.= _Shelley._
=In King Cambyses' vein.= 1 _Hen. IV._, ii. 4.
=In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.= _Johnson._
=In learning anything, its first principles alone= 40 =should be taught by constraint.= _Goethe._
=In letters, if anywhere, we look for the man, not for the author.= _Blair._
=In life a friend may be often found and lost; but an old friend never can be found, and Nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost.= _Johnson._
=In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=In life every situation may bring its own peculiar pleasures.= _Goldsmith._
=In life there is no present.= _Byron._ 45
=In limine=--At the threshold or outset.
=In literature to-day there are plenty good masons, but few good architects.= _Joubert._
=In loco parentis=--In the place of a parent.
=In long-drawn systole and long-drawn diastole must the period of faith alternate with the period of denial; must the vernal growth, the summer luxuriance of all opinions, spiritual representations and creations, be followed by and again follow the autumnal decay, the winter dissolution.= _Carlyle._
=In love all is risk.= _Goethe._ 50
=In love we are all fools alike.= _Gay._
=In love we never think of moral qualities, and scarcely of intellectual ones. Temperament and manner alone, with beauty, excite love.= _Hazlitt._
=In loving thou dost well, in passion not, / Wherein true love consists not.= _Milton._
=In magnis et voluisse sat est=--In great things it is enough even to have willed. _Propertius._
=In maiden meditation, fancy-free.= _Mid. N.'s_ 55 _Dream_, ii. 1.
=In manners tranquillity is the supreme power.= _Mme. de Maintenon._
=In marriage, as in other things, contentment excels wealth.= _Molière._
=In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best; in matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.= _Robert Hall._
=In mediæval art, thought is the first thing, execution the second; in modern art, execution is the first thing and thought the second.= _Ruskin._
=In mediæval art, truth is first, beauty second; in modern art, beauty is first, truth second.= _Ruskin._
=In medias res=--Into the midst of a thing at once.
=In medio tutissimus ibis=--You will go safest in the middle or in a middle course. _Ovid._
=In medio virtus=--Virtue lies in the mean. _Pr._ 5
=In meinem Revier / Sind Gelehrten gewesen / Ausser ihrem Brevier / Konnten sie keines lesen=--In my domain there have been learned men, but outside their breviary they could read nothing. _Goethe._
=In meinem Staate kann jeder nach seiner Façon selig werden=--In my dominions every one may be happy in his own fashion. _Frederick the Great._
=In melle sunt sitæ linguæ vestræ atque orationes, / Corda felle sunt lita atque aceto=--Your tongues and your words are steeped in honey, but your hearts in gall and vinegar. _Plaut._
=In memoriam=--To the memory of.
=In men we various ruling passions find; / In= 10 =women, two almost divide the mind; / Those, only fix'd, they first or last obey, / The love of pleasure and the love of sway.= _Pope._
=In mercatura facienda multæ fallaciæ et quasi præstigiæ exercentur=--In commerce many deceptions, not to say juggleries, are practised.
=In misfortune, in error, and when the time appointed for certain affairs is about to elapse, a servant who hath his master's welfare at heart ought to speak unasked.= _Hitopadesa._
=In moderating, not in satisfying desires, lies peace.= _Bp. Heber._
=In modern England the ordinary habits of life and modes of education produce great plainness of mind in middle-aged women.= _Ruskin._
=In morals, as in art, saying is nothing, doing= 15 =is all.= _Renan._
=In morals good-will is everything, but in art it is ability.= _Schopenhauer._
=In morals, what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion, what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism.= _Mrs. Jameson._
=In much corn is some cockle.= _Pr._
=In much wisdom is much grief, and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.= _Bible._
=In my Father's house are many mansions.= 20 _Jesus._
=In my virtue= (_Tugend_) =I wrap myself and sleep.= _Platen._
=In Nature there's no blemish but the mind; / None can be called deformed but the unkind.= _Twelfth Night_, iii. 4.
=In Nature things move violently to their places, and calmly in their place; so virtue in ambition is violent, in authority settled and calm.= _Bacon._
=In Nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it, and over it.= _Goethe._
=In necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in= 25 =omnibus charitas=--In essential matters, unity, in doubtful, liberty; in all, charity. _Melanthon._
=In nine cases out of ten, the evil tongue belongs to a disappointed man.= _Bancroft._
=In no time or epoch can the Highest be spoken of in words--not in many words, I think, ever.= _Carlyle._
=In nocte consilium=--In the night is counsel; take a night to think over it; sleep upon it.
=In nomine=--In the name of.
=In nomine Domini incipit omne malum=--In the 30 name of the Lord every evil begins. _Mediæval Pr._
=In nubibus=--In the clouds.
=In nuce Ilias=--An Iliad in a nutshell.
=In obscuro=--In obscurity.
=In old age nothing any longer astonishes us.= _Goethe._
=In old times men used their powers of painting= 35 =to show the objects of faith; in later times they used the objects of faith to show their powers of painting.= _Ruskin._
=In omni re vincit imitationem veritas=--In everything truth surpasses its imitation or copy. _Cic._
=In omnia paratus=--Prepared for all emergencies. _M._
=In omnibus quidem, maxime tamen in jure, æquitas est=--In all things, but particularly in law, regard is to be had to equity. _L._
=In one thing men of all ages are alike; they have believed obstinately in themselves.= _Jacobi._
=In oratory the will must predominate.= _Hare._ 40
=In order to do great things, it is necessary to live as if one were never to die.= _Vauvenargues._
=In order to love mankind, we must not expect too much of them.= _Helvetius._
=In order to manage an ungovernable beast, he must be stinted in his provender.= _Queen Elizabeth._
=In our age of down-pulling and disbelief, the very devil has been pulled down; you cannot so much as believe in a devil.= _Carlyle._
=In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation, is= 45 =the aim.= _Emerson._
=In our judgment of human transactions the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us.= _Whately._
=In our own breast, there or nowhere flows the fountain of true pleasure.= _Wieland._
=In pace leones, in prælio cervi=--Brave as lions in peace, timid as deer in war.
=In pain is a new time born.= _Chamisso._
=In pari materia=--In a similar matter. 50
=In partibus infidelium=--In unbelieving countries.
=In peace, there's nothing so becomes a man / As modest stillness and humility; / But when the blast of war blows in our ears, / Then imitate the action of the tiger; / Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, / Disguise fair Nature with hard-favour'd rage, / Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; / Let it pry through the portage of the head / Like the brass cannons.= _Hen. V._, iii. 1.
=In peace, who is not wise?= _Hitopadesa._
=In perfect wedlock, the man, I should say, is the head, but the woman the heart, with which he cannot dispense.= _Rückert._
=In perpetuam rei memoriam=--In everlasting remembrance of a thing.
=In pertusum ingerimus dicta dolium=--We are pouring our words into a perforated cask, _i.e._, are throwing them away. _Plaut._
=In petto=--Within the breast; in reserve. _It._
=In pios usus=--For pious uses. 5
=In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man.= _Macaulay._
=In pleno=--In full.
=In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.= _Heine._
=In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.= _Bovee._
=In politics, what begins in fear usually ends= 10 =in folly.= _Coleridge._
=In pontificalibus=--In full canonicals.
=In portu quies=--Rest in port. _M._
=In posse=--Possibly; in possibility.
=In practical life, the wisest and soundest men avoid speculation.= _Buckle._
=In præsenti=--At present. 15
=In pretio pretium est; dat census honores, / Census amicitias; pauper ubique jacet=--Worth lies in wealth; wealth purchases honours, friendships; the poor man everywhere is neglected. _Ovid._
=In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies; / All quit their sphere and rush into the skies.= _Pope._
=In principatu commutando, civium / Nil præter domini nomen mutant pauperes=--In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name. _Phædr._
=In private grieve, but with a careless scorn; / In public seem to triumph, not to mourn.= _Granville._
=In proportion as one simplifies his life, the= 20 =laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness.= _Thoreau._
=In propria persona=--In person.
=In prosperity caution, in adversity patience.= _Dut. Pr._
=In prosperity no altars smoke.= _It. Pr._
=In puris naturalibus=--Stark naked.
=In quietness and in confidence shall be your= 25 =strength.= _Bible._
=In quite common things much depends on choice and determination, but the highest which falls to our lot comes from no man knows whence.= _Goethe._
=In radiant, all-irradiating insight, a burning interest, and the glorious, melodious, perennial veracity that results from these two, lies the soul of all worth in all speaking men.= _Carlyle._
=In re=--In the matter of.
=In referenda gratia, debemus imitari agros fertiles qui plus multo afferunt quam acceperunt=--In repaying kindness, we ought to imitate fertile lands, which give back much more than they have received. _Cic._
=In regard to a book, the main point is what it= 30 =brings me, what it suggests to me.= _Goethe._
=In regard to virtue, each one finds certainty by consulting his own heart.= _Renan._
=In religion as in friendship, they who profess most are ever the least sincere.= _Sheridan._
=In religion, the sentiment is all; the ritual or ceremony indifferent.= _Emerson._
=In religion / What damnéd error but some sober brow / Will bless it and approve it with a text?= _Mer. of Ven._, iii. 2.
=In rerum natura=--In the nature of things. 35
=In resolving to do our work well, is the only sound foundation of any religion whatsoever; and by that resolution only, and what we have done, and not by our belief, Christ will judge us, as He has plainly told us He will.= _Ruskin._
=In reverence is the chief joy and power of life.= _Ruskin._
=In Rome the Ten Commandments consist of the ten letters, Da pecuniam, Give money.= _C. J. Weber._
=In sæcula sæculorum=--For ages and ages; for ever and ever.
=In sanguine fœdus=--A covenant ratified in blood. 40 _M._
=In saying aye or no, the very safety of our country and the sum of our well-being lies.= _L'Estrange._
=In science read the newest works; in literature, the oldest.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=In science the new is an advance; but in morals, as contradicting our inner ideals and historic idols, it is ever a retrogression.= _Jean Paul._
=In science we have to consider two things: power and circumstance.= _Emerson._
=In se magna ruunt=--Great interests are apt to 45 clash with each other. _Lucan._
=In seipso totus, teres, atque rotundus=--Perfect in himself, polished, and rounded. _Hor._
=In self-trust all the virtues are comprehended.= _Emerson._
=In serum rem trahere=--To protract the discussion, or the sitting, to a late hour. _Livy._
=In service, care or coldness / Doth ratably thy fortunes mar or make.= _George Herbert._
=In situ=--In its original position. 50
=In small proportion we just beauties see, / And in short measures life may perfect be.= _Ben Jonson._
=In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider it hard to find rules without exceptions.= _George Eliot._
=In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.= _Sterne._
=In solo Deo salus=--Salvation in God alone. _M._
=In solo vivendi causa palato est=--To gratify the 55 palate is the sole object of their existence. _Juv._
=In some men a certain mediocrity of mind helps to make them wise.= _La Bruyère._
=In some men there is a malignant passion to destroy the works of genius, literature, and freedom.= _Junius._
=In some sort, love is greater than God.= _Jacob Böhme._
=In some things all, in all things none, are crossed.= _R. Southwell._
=In spite of all his faults, there is no creature= 60 =worthier of affection than man.= _Goethe._
=In spite of all misfortunes, there is still enough to satisfy one.= _Goethe._
=In spite of all the evil that is said of the unfortunates, kings sometimes have their good qualities too.= _The Miller of Sans Souci._
=In spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern.= _Emerson._
=In statu quo=--In the state in which it was.
=In stinting wisdom, greatest wisdom lies.= _Sir_ 5 _Richard Baker._
=In such a world as this a man who is rich in himself is like a bright, warm, happy room at Christmastide, while without are the frost and snow of a December night.= _Schopenhauer._
=In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.= _Not traceable._
=In tale or history your beggar is ever the first antipode to your king.= _Lamb._
=In tenui labor, at tenuis non gloria=--Slight is the subject of my work, but not the glory. _Virg._
=In terrorem=--As a warning. 10
=In that fire-whirlwind= (of the burning of the world-Phoenix), =creation and destruction proceed together; ever as the ashes of the old are blown out, do organic filaments of the new mysteriously spin themselves; and amid the rushing and waving of the whirlwind element come tones of a melodious death-song, which end not but in tones of a more melodious birth-song.= _Carlyle._
=In the adversity of our best friends we always find something that does not altogether displease us.= _La Roche._
=In the balance, hero dust / Is vile as vulgar clay: / Thou, mortality, art just / To all that pass away.= _Byron._
=In the breast of every single man there slumbers a frightful germ= (_Keim_) =of madness= (_Wahnsinn_). _Feuchtersleben._
=In the career of nations no less than of men,= 15 =the error of their intellect and the hardening of their hearts may be accurately measured by their denial of spiritual power.= _Ruskin._
=In the catalogue ye go for men.= _Macb._, iii. 1.
=In the childhood of nations speaking was singing; let this be repeated in the childhood of the individual.= _Jean Paul._
=In the coldest flint there is hot fire.= _Pr._
=In the confidence of youth man imagines that very much is under his control; in the disappointment of old age, very little.= _Draper._
=In the darkest spot on earth / Some love is= 20 =found.= _Procter._
=In the degree in which you delight in the life of any creature, you can see it; not otherwise.= _Ruskin._
=In the denial of self is the beginning of all that is truly generous and noble.= _Carlyle._
=In the destitution of the wild desert does our young Ishmael acquire for himself the highest of all possessions, that of self-help.= _Carlyle._
=In the divine commandment, "Thou shalt not steal," if well understood, is comprised the whole Hebrew decalogue, with Solon's and Lycurgus's constitutions, Justinian's pandects, the Code Napoleon, and all codes, catechisms, divinities, moralities whatsoever that man has devised (and enforced with altar-fire and gallows-ropes) for his social guidance.= _Carlyle._
=In the division of the inheritance, friendship= 25 =standeth still.= _Dut. Pr._
=In the dullest existence there is a sheen of inspiration or of madness (thou partly hast it in thy choice which of the two) that gleams in from the circumambient eternity, and colours with its own hues our little islet of time.= _Carlyle._
=In the dusk the plainest writing is illegible.= _Goethe._
=In the end / Things will mend.= _Pr._
=In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.= _Goethe._
=In the evening one may praise the day.= _Pr._ 30
=In the exact proportion in which men are bred capable of warm affection, common-sense, and self-command, and are educated to love, to think, and to endure, they become noble, live happily, die calmly, are remembered with perpetual honour by their race, and for the perpetual good of it.= _Ruskin._
=In the eye of the Supreme, dispositions hold the place of actions.= _Blair._
=In the face of every human being his history stands plainly written, his innermost nature steps forth to the light; yet they are the fewest who can read and understand.= _Bodenstedt._
=In the fact that hero-worship exists, has existed, and will for ever exist universally among mankind, mayest thou discern the cornerstone of living rock, whereon all politics for the remotest time may stand secure.= _Carlyle._
=In the family where the house-father rules= 35 =secure, there dwells the peace= (_Friede_) =which thou wilt in vain seek for elsewhere in the wide world outside.= _Goethe._
=In the field none other can supply our place, each must stand alone,--on himself must rely.= _Schiller._
=In the fine arts, as in many other things, we know well only what we have not learned.= _Chamfort._
=In the fog of good and evil affections, it is hard for man to walk forward in a straight line.= _Emerson._
=In the godlike only has man strength and freedom.= _Carlyle._
=In the good as well as in the evil of life, less= 40 =depends upon what befalls us than upon the way in which we take it.= _Schopenhauer._
=In the great duel= (of opinion), =Nature herself is umpire, and does no wrong.= _Carlyle._
=In the great hand of God I stand.= _Macb._, ii. 3.
=In the grimmest rocky wildernesses of existence there are blessed well-springs, there is an everlasting guiding star.= _Carlyle._
=In the hands of genius the driest stick becomes an Aaron's rod, and buds and blossoms out in poetry.= _H. N. Hudson._
=In the husband, wisdom; in the wife, gentleness.= 45 _Pr._
=In the interchange of thought use no coin but gold and silver.= _Joubert._
=In the land of promise a man may die of hunger.= _Dut. Pr._
=In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word as fail.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=In the meanest hut there is a romance, if you knew the hearts there.= _Varnhagen von Ense._
=In the midst of life we are in death.= _Burial Service._
=In the midst of the sun is the light, in the midst of the light is the truth, and in the midst of the truth is the imperishable being.= _The Vedas._
=In the mind, as in a field, though some things may be sown and carefully brought up, yet what springs naturally is the most pleasing.= _Tac._
=In the mirror we see the face; in wine, the= 5 =heart.= _Ger. Pr._
=In the modesty of fearful duty / I read as much as from the rattling tongue / Of saucy and audacious eloquence.= _Mid. Night's Dream_, v. 1.
=In the morning mountains; / In the evening fountains.= _Herbert's Coll._
=In the morning of life, work; in the mid-day, give counsel; in the evening, pray.= _Gr. saying._
=In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.= _Bible._
=In the multitude of words there wanteth not= 10 =sin.= _Bible._
=In the ordinary concerns of life, moral energy is more serviceable than brilliant parts; while in the more important, these latter are of little weight without it, evaporating only in brief and barren flashes.= _Prescott._
=In the perishable petals of the flower there resides more spirit and life than in the lumpish granite boulder that has defied the tear and wear of thousands of years.= _Feuerbach._
=In the place where the tree falleth, there it shall lie.= _Bible._
=In the pursuit of intellectual pleasure lies every virtue; of sensual, every vice.= _Goldsmith._
=In the religion of Christ, as in the philosophy= 15 =of Hegel, the negative principle is the creative, or determinative, principle. Christianity begins in No, subsists in No, and survives in No, to the spirit of the world; this it at first peremptorily spurns, and then calmly disregards as of no account.= _Ed._
=In the same measure in which you wish to receive, you must give. If you wish for a whole heart, give a whole life.= _Rückert._
=In the smallest cottage there is room enough for two lovers.= _Schiller._
=In the spiritual world, as in the astronomical, it is the earth that turns and produces the phenomena of the heavens.= _Carlyle._
=In the spiritual world there is properly no in and no out.= _Jean Paul._
=In the state nobody can enjoy life in peace,= 20 =but everybody must govern; in art, nobody will enjoy what has been produced, but every one wants to reproduce on his own account.= _Goethe._
=In the sweat of thy brow shalt thou eat thy bread.= _Bible._
=In the true Utopia, man will rather harness himself with his oxen to his plough, than leave the devil to drive it.= _Ruskin._
=In the unhappy man forget the foe.= _Addison._
=In the utmost solitudes of Nature, the existence of hell seems to me as legibly declared by a thousand spiritual utterances as that of heaven.= _Ruskin._
=In the way of righteousness is life; and in the= 25 =pathway thereof there is no death.= _Bible._
=In the wilderness of life there are springs and palm-trees.= _S. Lover._
=In the winter, warmth stands for all virtue.= _Thoreau._
=In the works of many celebrated authors men are mere personifications. We have not a jealous man, but jealousy; not a traitor, but perfidy; not a patriot, but patriotism. The mind of Bunyan, on the contrary, was so imaginative that personifications, when he dealt with them, became men.= _Macaulay._
=In the world's opinion marriage, as in a play, winds up everything; whereas it is, in fact, the beginning of everything.= _Mme. Swetchine._
=In the world-strife now waging, the victory= 30 =cannot be by violence; and every conquest under the Prince of War retards the standards of the Prince of Peace.= _Ruskin._
=In the wreck of noble lives / Something immortal still survives.= _Longfellow._
=In theatro ludus=--Like a scene at a play.
=In these days, whether we like it or not, the power is with the tongue.= _Lord Salisbury._
=In these sick days, when the born of heaven first descries himself in a world such as ours, richer than usual in two things, in truths grown obsolete, and trades grown obsolete--what can the fool think but that it is all a den of lies, wherein whoso will not speak lies and act lies must stand idle and despair?= _Carlyle._
=In these times we fight for ideas, and newspapers= 35 =are our fortresses.= _Heine._
=In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.= _A. B. Alcott._
=In things that may have a double sense, it is good to think the better was intended; so shall we still both keep our friends and quietness.= _Feltham._
=In this blunder still you find, / All think their little set mankind.= _Hannah More._
=In this theatre of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to look on.= _Pythagoras._
=In this wild element of a life, man has to= 40 =struggle onwards; now fallen, deep-abased; and ever, with tears, repentance, with bleeding heart, he has to rise again, struggle again, still onwards. That his struggle be a faithful, unconquerable one--that is the question of questions.= _Carlyle._
=In this world, full often our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.= _Ward Beecher._
=In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.= _Ward Beecher._
=In this world there is one godlike thing, the essence from first to last of all of godlike in it--the veneration done to human worth by the hearts of men.= _Carlyle._
=In thy breast are the stars of thy fate.= _Schiller._
=In thy thriving still misdoubt some evil: / Lest= 45 =gaining gain on thee, and make thee dim / To all things else.= _George Herbert._
=In time comes he whom God sends.= _Herbert's Coll._
=In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.= _Much Ado_, i. 1.
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