Chapter I (5)

=It is exactly in the treatment of trifles that a man shows what he is.= _Schopenhauer._

=It is exceedingly difficult for a man to be as narrow as he could have been had he lived a century ago.= _Whipple._

=It is excellent / To have a giant's strength, but tyrannous / To use it like a giant.= _Meas. for Meas._, ii. 2.

=It is falling in with their own mistaken ideas= 35 =that makes fools and beggars of the half of mankind.= _Young._

=It is fancy, not the reason of things, that makes us so uneasy.= _L'Estrange._

=It is far better to give work which is above the men than to educate the men to be above their work.= _Ruskin._

=It is far easier to make a great rush than to plod steadily on through a long life.= _Spurgeon._

=It is far from universally true that to get a thing you must aim at it. There are some things which can only be gained by renouncing them.= _Renan._

=It is far more difficult to be simple than to be= 40 =complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and ease exertion in the proper place, than to expend both indiscriminately.= _Ruskin._

=It is folly to lay out money in the purchase of repentance.= _Ben. Franklin._

=It is folly to live in Rome and strive with the Pope.= _Pr._

=It is folly to pretend that one ever wholly recovers from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.= _Longfellow._

=It is for the sake of him= (the virtuous man) =and of those like him that the earth exists and maintains itself in being.= _Renan._

=It is for truth that God created genius.= _Lamartine._ 45

=It is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail of success.= _La Roche._

=It is force and right that determine everything in the world; force till right is ready.= _Joubert_ (?).

=It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.= _Cic._

=It is from books that wise men derive consolation in the troubles of life.= _Victor Hugo._

=It is from the difference we feel between the= 50 =finitude of fact and the infinitude of fantasy that all the evils spring which torment humanity.= _Rousseau._

=It is fruition, and not possession, that renders us happy.= _Montaigne._

=It is generally a sign of a small mind to think differently from great minds.= _Goethe._

=It is given us to live only once in the world.= _Goethe._

=It is good for a man to be driven, were it by never such harsh methods, into looking at this great universe with his own eyes, for himself and not for another, and trying to adjust himself truly there.= _Carlyle._

=It is good that we sometimes be contradicted,= 5 =and that we always bear it well; for perfect peace cannot be had in this world.= _Jeremy Taylor._

=It is good to do nothing bad, but better to wish nothing bad.= _M. Claudius._

=It is good to fear the worst; the best can save itself.= _Pr._

=It is good to lend to God and the soil; they pay good interest.= _Dan. Pr._

=It is good to rub and polish our brains against that of others.= _Montaigne._

=It is great, it is manly, to disdain disguise.= 10 _Young._

=It is great prudence to gain as many friends as we honestly can, especially when it may be done at so easy a rate as a good word.= _Judge Hale._

=It is hard even to the most miserable to die.= _Pr._

=It is hard for an empty sack to stand upright.= _Pr._

=It is hard to be poor and honest.= _Pr._

=It is hard to carry a full cup.= _Pr._ 15

=It is hard to kick against the pricks.= _Pr._

=It is hard to maintain the truth, but much harder to be maintained by it.= _South._

=It is hard to put old heads on young shoulders.= _Pr._

=It is hard to suffer wrong and pay for it too.= _Pr._

=It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause;= 20 =for this may be done by one great or wise action in an age; but to escape censure, a man must pass his whole life without saying or doing one ill or foolish thing.= (?)

=It is harder to marry a daughter well than to bring her up well.= _Pr._

=It is harder to weave than to gather wool.= _Spurgeon._

=It is harder work to resist vices and passions, than to toil in bodily labours.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=It is his excess of sensibility that distinguishes man from other animals.= _Schopenhauer._

=It is his moral sentences on mankind or the= 25 =state that rank the prose writer among the sages.= _John Morley._

=It is his restraint which is honourable to a man, not his liberty.= _Ruskin._

=It is human nature to hate him whom you have injured.= _Tac._

=It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where men care not to do a thing, they shelter themselves under a persuasion that it cannot be done.= _South._

=It is ill standing in dead men's shoes.= _Pr._

=It is ill to take out of the flesh what is bred in= 30 =the bone.= _Pr._

=It is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.= _Mrs. Jameson._

=It is impossible for any man to form a right judgment of his neighbour's sufferings.= _Addison._

=It is impossible that an ill-natured man can have a public spirit; for how should he love ten thousand men who never loved one?= _Pope._

=It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.= _Swift._

=It is impossible to be a hero in anything unless= 35 =one is first a hero in faith.= _Jacobi._

=It is impossible to be just, if one is not generous.= _Pascal._

=It is in great perils we see great acts of daring.= _Regnard._

=It is in human nature soon to relax when not impelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.= _Goethe._

=It is in the politic as in the human constitution; if the limbs grow too large for the body, their size, instead of improving, will diminish, the vigour of the whole.= _Goldsmith._

=It is in the soul of man, when reverence, love,= 40 =intelligence, magnanimity have been developed there, that the Highest can disclose itself face to face in sun-splendour, independent of all cavils and jargonings;--there, of a surety, and nowhere else.= _Carlyle._

=It is in the world that a man, devout or other, has his life to lead, his work waiting to be done.= _Carlyle._

=It is in trifles that the mind betrays itself.= _Bulwer._

=It is in vain for a man to be born fortunate, if he be unfortunate in his marriage.= _Dacier._

=It is incalculable what by arranging, commanding, and regimenting you can make of men.= _Carlyle._

=It is inconceivable how much wit it requires= 45 =to avoid being ridiculous.= _Chamfort._

=It is incredible how much the mind can do to sustain the body.= _Goethe._

=It is indeed all twilight in this world, a trifle more or less.= _Goethe._

=It is indeed only in old age that intellectual men attain their sublime expression.= _Schopenhauer._

=It is infamy to die and not be missed.= _C. Wilcox._

=It is invariably found that the contented man= 50 =is a weak man.= _John Wagstaffe._

=It is joy to think the best we can of human kind.= _Wordsworth._

=It is just those who grope with the mole and cling with the bat who are vainest of their sight and of their wings.= _Ruskin._

=It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.= _Tac._

=It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, but is ruled by prudence.= _Dryden._

=It is matter of the commonest remark how a= 55 =timid man who is in love will show courage, or an indolent man will show diligence.= _Matthew Arnold._

=It is meet / That noble minds keep ever with their likes; / For who so firm that cannot be seduced?= _Jul. Cæs._, i. 2.

=It is mere cowardice to take safety in negations.= _George Eliot._

=It is mere Philistinism on the part of private individuals to bestow too much interest on matters that do not concern them.= _Goethe._

=It is more blessed to give than to receive.= _Jesus._

=It is more difficult, and calls for higher energies= 5 =of the soul, to live a martyr than to die one.= _H. Mann._

=It is more honourable to be raised to a throne than be born to one; fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.= _Petrarch._

=It is more important to discover a new source of happiness on earth than a new planet in the sky.= (?)

=It is more kindly to laugh at human life than to grin at it.= _Wieland._

=It is more painful to do nothing than something.= _Pr._

=It is more pleasing to see smoke brightening= 10 =into flame than flame sinking into smoke.= _Johnson._

=It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.= _Disraeli._

=It is much easier to bind on a wreath than to find a head worthy to wear it.= _Goethe._

=It is much easier to recognise error than to find truth; the former lies on the surface, the latter rests in the depths.= _Goethe._

=It is much more easy to inspire a passion than a faith.= _Simms._

=It is much safer to obey than to govern.= 15 _Thomas à Kempis._

=It is natural to a man to believe what he wishes to be true, and to believe it because be wishes it.= _Schopenhauer._

=It is natural to man to regard himself as the final cause of creation.= _Goethe._

=It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer; but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth.= _Bible._

=It is never permitted to any one in heaven to stand behind another and look at the back of his head: for then the influx which is from the Lord is disturbed.= _Swedenborg._

=It is never too late to mend.= _Pr._ 20

=It is never wise to slip the bonds of discipline.= _Lew. Wallace._

=It is no man's business whether he has genius or not: work he must, whatever he is, but quietly and steadily; and the natural and unforced results of such work will always be the things that God meant him to do, and will be his best.= _Ruskin._

=It is no mean happiness to be seated in the mean.= _Mer. of Ven._, i. 2.

=It is no more in our power to love always than it was not to love.= _La Bruyère._

=It is no more possible to prevent thought from= 25 =reverting to an ideal than the sea from returning to the shore.= _Joseph Cook._

=It is no small commendation to manage a little well. He is a good waggoner that can turn in a little room.= _Bp. Hall._

=It is no such heinous matter to fall afflicted, as, being down, to lie dejected.= _S. Chrysostom._

=It is no wonder man's religion has much suffering in it; no wonder he needs a suffering God.= _George Eliot._

=It is nobler to become great than to be born great.= _Pr._

=It is nobler to convert souls than to conquer= 30 =kingdoms.= _Louis le Debonnaire._

=It is not a question how much a man knows, but what use he can make of what he knows.= _J. G. Holland._

=It is not advisable to reward where men have the tenderness not to punish.= _L'Estrange._

=It is not always necessary that the true should embody= (_verkörpere_) =itself; enough if it hovers around spiritually and produce accordance= (_Uebereinstimmung_) =in us; if it hover= (_wogt_) =through the atmosphere in earnest friendly tones like the sound of bells.= _Goethe._

=It is not an unhealthy= (_kränkelnde_) =moral philosophy, but a sturdy morality that is of any profit to us.= _Feuchtersleben._

=It is not because of his toils that I lament for= 35 =the poor; we must all toil, or steal, which is worse; no faithful workman finds his task a pastime.... But what I do mourn over is that the lamp of his soul should go out; that no ray of heavenly, or even earthly, knowledge should visit him; but only in the haggard darkness, like two spectres, Fear and Indignation bear him company.= _Carlyle._

=It is not by shirking difficulties that we can remove them or escape them.= _M. R. Greg._

=It is not enough that a poet possess inspiration; his inspiration must be that of a cultured spirit.= _Schiller._

=It is not enough to aim; you must hit.= _It. Pr._

=It is not enough to know how to steal; one must know also how to conceal.= _It. Pr._

=It is not enough to know, one must also apply;= 40 =it is not enough to will to do, one must also do.= _Goethe._

=It is not enough to speak, but to speak true.= _Mid. Night's Dream_, v. 1.

=It is not enough to take steps which may some day lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.= _Goethe._

=It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.= _Colton._

=It is not everybody one would set to choose a horse or a pig; how much less a member of Parliament?= _Ruskin._

=It is not everybody who can bend the bow of= 45 =Ulysses, and most men only do themselves a mischief by trying to bend it.= _John Morley._

=It is not fit to tell others anything but what they can take up. A man understands nothing but what is commensurate with him.= _Goethe._

=It is not from masters, but from their equals, that youths learn a knowledge of the world.= _Goldsmith._

=It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.= _Fielding._

=It is not given to the world to be contented.= _Goethe._

=It is not good for man to be, especially to work,= 50 =alone.= _Goethe._

=It is not good to have an oar in every one's boat.= _Camden._

=It is not good to meddle with divine mysteries.= _Goethe._

=It is not good to pass by that we dislike, even to gain that which we like; for the water of life becometh mortal when mixed with a poison.= _Hitopadesa._

=It is not he who gives abuse or blows who affronts, but the view we take of these things as insulting.= _Epictetus._

=It is not his own individual sins that the hero atones for, but original sin=, _i.e._, the crime of existence. _Schopenhauer._

=It is not history which educates the conscience;= 5 =it is conscience which educates history.= _Amiel._

=It is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.= _Bible._

=It is not juggling that is to be blamed, but much juggling; for the world cannot be governed without it.= _Selden._

=It is not lost that comes at last.= _Pr._

=It is not merely by virtue of the sunlight that falls now, and the rain and dew which it brings, that we continue here, but by virtue of the sunlight of æons of past ages.= _John Burroughs._

=It is not metre, but metre-making agreement= 10 =that makes a poem, a thought so passionate and alive, that, like the spirit of a plant or an animal, it has an architect of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing.= _Emerson._

=It is not poetry, but prose run mad.= _Pope._

=It is not possible to buy obedience with money.= _Carlyle._

=It is not proper to place confidence in one who cometh without any apparent cause.= _Hitopadesa._

=It is not propositions, not new dogmas and a logical exposition of the world, that are our first need; but to watch and tenderly cherish the intellectual and moral sensibilities, those fountains of right thought, and woo them to stay and make their home with us.= _Emerson._

=It is not quite so easy to do good as those may= 15 =imagine who never try.= _Rd. Sharp._

=It is not so much our neighbour's interest as our own that we love him.= _Bp. Wilson._

=It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as the having overcome them, that is an advantage to us.= _Swift._

=It is not strength, but art obtains the prize.= _Pope._

=It is not the beard that makes the philosopher.= _Pr._

=It is not the custom when a prince doth sneeze= 20 =to say, as to other persons, "God help you," but only to make a low reverence.= _Gerbier._

=It is not the face which deceives; it is we who deceive ourselves in reading in it what is not there.= _Schopenhauer._

=It is not the fact that a man has riches which keeps him from the kingdom of heaven, but the fact that riches have him.= _Dr. Caird._

=It is not the fraud, but the cold-heartedness which is chiefly dreadful in treachery.= _Ruskin._

=It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.= _Cobbett._

=It is not the insurrections of ignorance that= 25 =are dangerous, but the revolts of intelligence.= _Lowell._

=It is not the knowledge, but the use which is made of it that is productive of real benefit.= _Scott._

=It is not the loss of heritage / That makes life poor; It is that, stage by stage, / Some leave us with a lessening faith in man, / And less of love than when our life began.= _Dr. Walter Smith._

=It is not the manner of noble minds to leave anything half done.= _Wieland._

=It is not the number of facts he knows, but how much of a fact he is himself, that proves the man.= _Bovee._

=It is not the punishment, but the crime that is= 30 =the disgrace.= _Alfieri._

=It is not the quantity, but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.= _W. E. Channing._

=It is not the reading of many books that is necessary to make a man wise and good, but the well-reading of a few.= _R. Baxter._

=It is not the stamp on the coin that gives it its value, though on the bank-note it is.= _J. Burroughs._

=It is not the victory that constitutes the joy of noble souls, but the combat.= _Montalembert._

=It is not thy works, which are all mortal,= 35 =infinitely little, ... but only the spirit thou workest in, that can have worth or continuance.= _Carlyle._

=It is not titles that reflect honour on men, but men on their titles.= _Machiavelli._

=It is not to taste sweet things, but to do noble and true things, and vindicate himself under God's heaven as a God-made man, that the poorest son of Adam dimly longs.= _Carlyle._

=It is not, truly speaking, the labour that is divided, but the men; divided into mere segments of men, broken into small fragments and crumbs of life; so that all the little piece of intelligence that is left in a man is not enough to make a pin or a nail, but exhausts itself in making the point of a pin or the head of a nail.= _Ruskin._

=It is not want, but rather abundance that creates avarice.= _Montaigne._

=It is not want of good fortune, want of happiness,= 40 =but want of wisdom that man has to dread.= _Carlyle._

=It is not well to make great changes in old age.= _Spurgeon._

=It is not what he has, nor even what he does, which directly expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.= _Amiel._

=It is not wisdom, but ignorance which teaches men presumption.= _Bulwer Lytton._

=It is not with saying, "Honey, honey," that sweetness comes into the mouth.= _Turk. Pr._

=It is not work that kills men, it is worry.= 45 =It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.= _Ward Beecher._

=It is of more importance to teach manners and customs than to establish laws and tribunals.= _Mirabeau._

=It is of no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.= _La Fontaine._

=It is of some consequence for a man to forego his own inclinations, even in matters of no great importance.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=It is often because an author proceeds from the thought to the expression, and the reader from the expression to the thought, that a clear writer is obscure.= _Speroni._

=It is often easier, as well as more advantageous, to conform to the opinions of others than to persuade them into ours.= _La Bruyère._

=It is often even wise to reveal what cannot long remain concealed.= _Schiller._

=It is one of the wretchednesses of the great= 5 =that they have no approved friends.= _Channing._

=It is one soul which animates all men.= _Emerson._

=It is one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.= _Shakespeare._

=It is one thing to see that a line is crooked, and another thing to be able to draw a straight one.= _Rd. Sharp._

=It is one thing to speak much, and another to speak pertinently.= _Pr._

=It is only a part of art that can be taught; the= 10 =artist needs the whole.= _Goethe._

=It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression upon us.= _Schopenhauer._

=It is only because they are not used to taste of what is excellent that the generality of people take delight in silly and insipid things, provided they be new.= _Goethe._

=It is only by labour that thought can be made healthy, and only by thought that labour can be made happy.= _Ruskin._

=It is only by universals, and never by singulars, that we can think.= _Dr. Hutchison Stirling._

=It is only God's business to make laws, and= 15 =the lawyer's to read and enforce them.= _Ruskin._

=It is only in society that a man's powers can have full play.= _Schopenhauer._

=It is only in their misery that we recognise the hand and finger of God leading good men to good.= _Goethe._

=It is only kindred griefs that draw forth our tears, and each weeps really for himself.= _Heine._

=It is only men collectively that live the life of man.= _Goethe._

=It is only necessary to grow old to become= 20 =indulgent. I see no fault committed that I have not committed myself.= _Goethe._

=It is only on reality that any power of action can be based.= _Emerson._

=It is only people who possess firmness that can possess true gentleness.= _La Roche._

=It is only reason that teaches silence. The heart teaches us to speak.= _Jean Paul._

=It is only rogues who feel the restraints of law.= _J. S. Holland._

=It is only strict precision of thought that confers= 25 =facility of expression.= _Schiller._

=It is only the finite that has wrought and suffered; the infinite lies stretched in smiling repose.= _Emerson._

=It is only time that possesses full reality, and our existence lies in it exclusively.= _Schopenhauer._

=It is only when a man is alone that he is really free.= _Schopenhauer._

=It is only when it is bent that the bow shows its strength.= _Grillparzer._

=It is only with renunciation that life, strictly= 30 =speaking, can be said to begin.= _Goethe._

=It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence over us. The same wind that carries one vessel into port may blow another off shore.= _Bovee._

=It is petty expenses that empty the purse.= _It. Pr._

=It is pleasant to die if there be gods, and sad to live if there be none.= _Marcus Antoninus._

=It is possible to sin against charity, when we do not sin against truth.= _Pr._

=It is precisely in accepting death as the end= 35 =of all and in laying down, on that sorrowful condition, his life for his friends, that the hero and patriot of all time has become the glory and safety of his country.= _Ruskin._

=It is profound ignorance that inspires a degenerate tone.= _La Bruyère._

=It is proof of a high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.= _Emerson._

=It is proper and beneficial sometimes to be left to thyself.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=It is prudent to be on the reserve even with your best friend, when he betrays a too eager curiosity to worm out your secret.= _La Bruyère._

=It is rare indeed that there is not ample= 40 =occasion for grumbling.= _John Wagstaffe._

=It is religion that has formed the Bible, not the Bible that has formed religion.= _R. D. C. Levin._

=It is sad to have to live in a place where all our activity must simmer within ourselves.= _Goethe._

=It is sad to see how an extraordinary man so often strangles himself, struggling in vain with himself, his circumstances, and his time, without once coming upon a green branch.= _Goethe._

=It is said no man is a hero to his valet. The reason is that it requires a hero to recognise a hero. The valet, however, will probably know well enough how to estimate his equals.= _Goethe._

=It is so much easier to do what one has done= 45 =before than to do a new thing, that there is a perpetual tendency to a set mode.= _Emerson._

=It is St. Christopher that carries Christ, not Christ St. Christopher=, _i.e._, in this myth, it is not Christ that bears the Church, but the Church that bears Christ. _Ed._

=It is sure to be dark if you shut your eyes.= _Pr._

=It is the ambiguous distracted training which they are subject to that makes men uncertain; it awakens wishes when it should quicken tendencies.= _Goethe._

=It is the best sign of a great nature, that it opens a foreground, and, like the breath of morning landscapes, invites us onward.= _Emerson._

=It is the best use of fate to teach a fatal courage.= 50 _Emerson._

=It is the bright day that brings forth the adder, / And that craves wary walking.= _Jul. Cæs._, ii. 1.

=It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.= _Napoleon._

=It is the common error of builders and parents to follow some plan they think beautiful (and perhaps is so) without considering that nothing is beautiful which is displaced.= _Lady Montagu._

=It is the common wonder of all men how, among so many millions of faces, there should be none alike.= _Sir Thomas Browne._

=It is the company, and not the charge that makes the feast.= _Pr._

=It is the condition of humanity to design what= 5 =never will be done, and to hope what never will be attained.= _Johnson._

=It is the curse of kings to be attended / By slaves, that take their humours for a warrant.= _King John._

=It is the curse of talent, that, though it works more surely and persistently than genius, it reaches no goal; while genius, hovering for long on the summit= (_Spitze_) =of the ideal, looks round, smiling, far above.= _Schumann._

=It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.= _Rivarole._

=It is the fate of a woman / Long to be patient and silent, to wait like a ghost that is speechless, / Till some questioning voice dissolves the spell of its silence.= _Longfellow._

=It is the fate of the great ones of the earth to= 10 =begin to be appreciated by us only after they are gone.= _Old Ger. saying._

=It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.= _Carlyle._

=It is the first principle of economy to make use of available vital power first, then the inexpensive natural forces, and only at last to have recourse to artificial power.= _Ruskin._

=It is the flash that murders; the poor thunder never harm'd head.= _Tennyson._

=It is the frog's own croak that betrays him.= _Pr._

=It is the glistening and softly-spoken lie, ...= 15 =the patriotic lie of the historian, the provident lie of the politician, the zealous lie of the partisan, the merciful lie of the friend, and the careless lie of each man to himself, that cast the black mystery over humanity, through which we thank any man who pierces, as we would thank one who had dug a well in the desert.= _Ruskin._

=It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains.= _Bulwer Lytton._

=It is the great error of reformers and philanthropists in our time to nibble at the consequences of unjust power, instead of redressing the injustice itself.= _J. S. Mill._

=It is the greatest invention man has ever made, this of marking down the unseen thought that is in him by written characters.= _Carlyle._

=It is the heart that makes the critic, not the nose.= _Max Muller._

=It is the height of folly to throw up attempting= 20 =because you have failed. Failures are wonderful elements in developing the character.= _Anon._

=It is the inspiration of the Almighty that giveth man understanding.= _Job._

=It is the law of fate that we shall live in part by our own efforts, but in the greater part by the help of others; and that we shall also die in part for our own faults, but in the greater part for the faults of others.= _Ruskin._

=It is the life in literature that acts upon life.= _J. G. Holland._

=It is the little rift within the lute / That by and by will make the music mute, / And, ever widening, slowly silence all.= _Tennyson._

=It is the lot of man to suffer.= _Disraeli._ 25

=It is the mark of a great man to treat trifles as trifles, and important matters as important.= _Lessing._

=It is the master-wheel which makes the mill go round.= _Pr._

=It is the monotony of his own nature that makes solitude intolerable to a man.= _Schiller._

=It is the music in the ear that finds and interprets the music of the orchestra.= _C. H. Parkhurst._

=It is the nature of despair to blind us to all= 30 =means of safety.= _Fielding._

=It is the nature of extreme self-lovers, as they will set an house on fire, an it were but to roast their eggs.= _Bacon._

=It is the nature of parties to retain their original enmities far more firmly than their original principles.= _Macaulay._

=It is the office of the Church to teach, not to train.= _Ward Beecher._

=It is the ordinary way of the world to keep folly at the helm, and wisdom under the hatches.= _Pr._

=It is the part of a good man to do great and= 35 =noble deeds, though he risks everything.= _Plutarch._

=It is the part of a wise man to resist pleasures, but of a foolish one to be a slave to them.= _Epictetus._

=It is the poet's function to keep before the minds of the people not only the underlying truths and beauties of all Nature, but the high and pure ideal of humanity which all should strive to attain.= _C. Fitzhugh._

=It is the possession of a great heart or a great head, and not the mere fame of it, which is of worth and conducive to happiness.= _Schopenhauer._

=It is the power of thought which gives man the mastery over Nature, the thoughts go forth into the world.= _Hans Andersen._

=It is the privilege of every human work which= 40 =is well done, to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness.= _Emerson._

=It is the privilege of genius that to it life never grows common-place, as to the rest of us.= _Lowell._

=It is the property of every hero to come back to reality; to stand upon things, not shows of things.= _Carlyle._

=It is the secret of the world that all things subsist, and do not die, but only retire a little from sight, and afterwards return again.= _Emerson._

=It is the setting up of a claim to happiness that ruins everything in the world.= _Merck to Goethe._

=It is the strange fate of man that even in the= 45 =greatest evils the fear of worse continues to haunt him.= _Goethe._

=It is the temper of the highest hearts, like the palm-tree, to strive most upwards when it is most burdened.= _Sir P. Sidney._

=It is the thought writ down we want, / Not its effect, not likenesses of likenesses; / And such descriptions are not, more than gloves / Instead of hands to shake, enough for us.= _J. Bailey._

=It is the treating of the common-place with the feeling of the sublime that gives to art its true power.= _J. F. Millet._

=It is the unseen and spiritual in man that determines the outward and actual.= _Carlyle._

=It is the vain endeavour to make ourselves= 5 =what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough.= _Lowell._

=It is the wise alone who are capable of discerning that impartial justice is the truest mercy.= _Goldsmith._

=It is the witness still of excellency / To put a strange face on his own perfection.= _Much Ado_, ii. 3.

=It is the work of a philosopher to be every day subduing his passions and laying aside his prejudices.= _Addison._

=It is through the feeling of wonder that men philosophise.= _Arist._

=It is time enough to answer questions when= 10 =they are asked.= _Emerson._

=It is time enough to doff your hat when you see the man.= _Dan. Pr._

=It is time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.= _Pericles_, i. 2.

=It is to be doubted whether he will ever find the way to heaven who desires to go thither alone.= _Feltham._

=It is too late to husband when all is spent.= _Pr._

=It is too late to spare when the bottom is bare.= 15 _Pr._

=It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.= _Sen._

=It is truth that makes a man angry.= _Pr._

=It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.= _Swift._

=It is useless to deny with the tongue that which man gives credence to with the heart.= _Johnson._

=It is very easy to obey a noble ruler who convinces= 20 (_überzeugt_) =while he commands us.= _Goethe._

=It is very good to be left alone with the truth sometimes, to hear with all its sternness what it will say to one.= _Carlyle._

=It is very little that we can ever know of the ways of Providence or the laws of existence; but that little is enough, and exactly enough.= _Ruskin._

=It is war's prize to take all advantages, / And ten to one is no impeach of valour.= 3 _Hen. VI._, i. 4.

=It is we that are blind, not Fortune.= _Sir T. Browne._

=It is well that there is no one without a fault,= 25 =for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem to belong to a different species.= _Hazlitt._

=It is well to go for a light to another man's fire, but by no means to tarry by it.= _Plutarch._

=It is when the hour of conflict is over, that history comes to a right understanding of the strife, and is ready to exclaim: "Lo! God is here, and we knew it not."= _Bancroft._

=It is wholesomer for the moral nature to be restrained, even by arbitrary power, than to be allowed to exercise arbitrary power.= _J. S. Mill._

=It is wisdom alone that can recognise wisdom.= _Carlyle._

=It is wise not to know a secret, and honest= 30 =not to reveal it.= _Pr._

=It is with a fine genius as with a fine fashion; all those are displeased at it who are not able to follow it.= _Warton._

=It is with diseases of the mind as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorders, and half cured when we do.= _Colton._

=It is with history as it is with nature, as it is with everything profound, past, present, or future; the deeper we earnestly search into them, the more difficult are the problems that arise. He who does not fear these, but boldly confronts them, will, with every step or advance, feel himself both more at his ease and more highly educated.= _Goethe._

=It is with ideas as with pieces of money; those of least value generally circulate the best.= _Punch._

=It is with narrow-soul'd people as with narrow-neck'd= 35 =bottles; the less they have in them the more noise they make in pouring it out.= _Swift._

=It is with our thoughts as with flowers. Those whose expression is simple carry their seed with them; those that are double, by their richness and pomp charm the mind, but produce nothing.= _Joubert._

=It is with words as with sunbeams; the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.= _Southey._

=It makes a great difference to the force of any sentence whether there be a man behind it or no. In the learned journal, in the influential newspaper, I discern no form; only some irresponsible shadow; oftener some moneyed corporation, or some dangler, who hopes, in the mask and robes of his paragraph, to pass for somebody.= _Emerson._

=It matters less to a man where he is born than where he can live.= _Turk. Pr._

=It matters little whether a man be mathematically,= 40 =or philologically, or artistically cultivated, so he be cultivated.= _Goethe._

=It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.= _Johnson._

=It matters not that a woman is well dressed if her manners be bad; ill-breeding mars a fine dress more than dirt.= _Plaut._

=It matters not whether our good-humour be construed by others into insensibility, or even idiotism; it is happiness to ourselves.= _Goldsmith._

=It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, / And see the great Achilles whom we knew.= _Tennyson._

=It may indeed be that man is frightfully threshed at times by public and domestic ill-fortune, but the ruthless destiny, if it smites the rich sheaves, only crumples the straw; the grains feel nothing of it, and bound merrily hither and thither on the threshing-floor, unconcerned whether they wander into the mill or the cornfield.= _Goethe._

=It must be bad indeed if a book has a more demoralising effect than life itself.= _Goethe._

=It needs a man to perceive a man.= _A. B. Alcott._

=It ne'er was wealth, it ne'er was wealth, / That coft contentment, peace, or pleasure; / The bands and bliss o' mutual love, / O that's the chiefest warld's treasure!= _Burns._

=It never occurs to fools that merit and good= 5 =fortune are closely united.= _Goethe._

=It never rains but it pours.= _Pr._

=It never smokes but there's fire.= _Pr._

=It offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb show and noise.= _Ham._, ii. 2.

=It oft falls out to have what we would have; we speak not what we mean.= _Meas. for Meas._, ii. 4.

=It requires a great deal of boldness and a= 10 =great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have got it, it requires ten times as much wit to keep it.= _Emerson._

=It requires a great deal of poetry to gild the pill of poverty.= _Mme. Deluzy._

=It requires a long time to know any one.= _Cervantes._

=It requires more than mere genius to be an author.= _La Bruyère._

=It requires much courage not to be down-hearted in the world.= _Goethe._

=It requires no preterhuman force of will in any= 15 =young man or woman ... to get at least half an hour out of a solid busy day for good and disinterested reading.= _John Morley._

=It seems a law of society to despise a man who looks discontented because its requirements have compelled him to part with all he values in his life.= _Goethe._

=It seems as if them as aren't wanted here are th' only ones as aren't wanted i' the other world.= _George Eliot._

=It should not be suspected of a man, whose life hath been spent in noble deeds, that his reason is lost, when he is only involved in trouble. A fire may be overturned, but its flames will never descend.= _Hitopadesa._

=It so falls out, / That what we have we prize not to the worth / Whiles we enjoy it; but being lack'd and lost, / Why then we rack the value.= _Much Ado_, iv. 1.

=It takes a good many spadefuls of earth to= 20 =bury the truth.= _Ger. Pr._

=It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.= _Ruskin._

=It takes a great man to make a good listener.= _Helps._

=It takes much more penetration to discover a fool than a clever man.= _Cato._

=It takes ten pounds of common-sense to carry one pound of learning.= _Persian Pr._

=It was a stroke / Brought the stream from the= 25 =flinty rock.= _Dr. W. Smith._

=It was alway yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too common.= 2 _Hen. IV._, i. 2.

=It was always the aim of the artists as well as the wise men of antiquity, to mean much though they might say little.= _Winkelmann._

=It was for beauty that the world was made.= _Quoted by Emerson._

=It was the nightingale, and not the lark / That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear.= _Rom. and Jul._, iii. 5.

=It was the wisdom of the ancients to regard= 30 =the most useful as the most illustrious.= _Sen._

=It were better to be of no church than bitter for any.= _W. Penn._

=It were easier to stop Euphrates at its source than one tear of a true and tender heart.= _Byron._

=It were good for a man to have some anchorage deeper than the quicksands of this world; for these drift to and fro so as to baffle all conjecture.= _Carlyle._

=It were no virtue to bear calamities if we did not feel them.= _Mme. Necker._

=It will be all the same a hundred years hence.= 35 _Pr._

=It will be an ill web to bleach.= _Pr._

=It will have blood; they say, blood will have blood; / Stones have been known to move, and trees to speak.= _Macb._, iii. 4.

=It will never out of the flesh that's bred in the bone.= _Ben Jonson._

=It would be better that we should not exist, than that we should guiltily disappoint the purposes of existence.= _Ruskin._

=It would be some advantage to live a primitive= 40 =and frontier life, though in the midst of an outward civilisation, if only to learn what are the gross necessaries of life, and what methods have been taken to obtain them.= _Thoreau._

=It's a gude heart that says nae ill, but a better that thinks nane.= _Sc. Pr._

=It's a poor man that always counts his sheep.= _Pr._

=It's a poor sport that's not worth the candle.= _George Herbert._

=It's a sair field where a's slain.= _Sc. Pr._

=It's a small joke sets men laughing when they= 45 =sit a-staring at one another wi' a pipe i' their mouths.= _George Eliot._

=It's a weary warld, and naebody bides in't.= _J. M. Barrie._

=It's all very well having a ready-made rich man, but it may happen he'll be a ready-made fool.= _George Eliot._

=It's an ill wind that blaws naebody gude.= _Sc. Pr._

=It's aye the cheapest lawyer's fee / To taste the barrel.= _Burns._

=It's bad flesh that won't take salt; worse is= 50 =the body that won't take warning.= _Gael. Pr._

=It's difficult to give sense to a fool.= _Gael. Pr._

=It's dogged as does it.= _Pr._

=It's good sheltering under an old hedge.= _Pr._

=It's hard sailing when there is no wind.= _Pr._

=It's hard to take the twist out of an oak that grew in the sapling.= _Gael._

=It's hard to tell which is Old Harry when everybody's got boots on.= _George Eliot._

=It's harder work getting to hell than to heaven.= 5 _Ger. Pr._

=It's hardly in a body's power / To keep, at times, frae being sour, / To see how things are shared.= _Burns._

=It's height makes Grantham steeple stand awry.= _Pr._

=It's ill livin' in a hen-roost for them as doesn't like fleas.= _George Eliot._

=It's ill living where everybody knows everybody.= _Pr._

=It's ill talking between a full man and a fasting.= 10 _Sc. Pr._

=It's ill wool that will take no dye.= _Pr._

=It's lang ere the devil dee by the dyke-side.= _Sc. Pr._

=It's never too late to learn.= _Pr._

=It's no in titles nor in rank; / It's no in wealth like London bank, / To purchase peace and rest: / It's no in makin' muckle mair, / It's no in books, it's no in lear, / To mak' us truly blest.= _Burns._

=It's no tint= (lost) =that a friend gets.= _Sc._ 15 _Pr._

=It's no use filling your pocket full of money if you have got a hole in the corner.= _George Eliot._

=It's no use killing nettles to grow docks.= _Pr._

=It's no use pumping a dry well.= _Pr._

=It's not "What has she?" but "What is she?"= _Pr._

=It's poor eating where the flavour of the meat= 20 =lies in the cruets.= _George Eliot._

=It's poor friendship that needs to be constantly bought.= _Gael. Pr._

=It's pride that puts this country down; / Man, take thine old cloak about thee.= _Old ballad._

=It's sin, and no poverty, that maks a man miserable.= _Sc. Pr._

=It's them as take advantage that get advantage i' this world, I think; folks have to wait long enough before it's brought to 'em.= _George Eliot._

=It's too late to cast anchor when the ship is= 25 =on the rocks.= _Pr._

=It's wiser being good than bad; / It's safer being meek than fierce; / It's fitter being sane than mad. / My own hope is, a sun will pierce / The thickest cloud earth ever stretch'd; / That after last returns the first, / Though a wide compass round be fetch'd; / That what began best can't end worst, / Nor what God blessèd once prove accurst.= _Browning._

=It's your dead chicks take the longest hatchin'.= _George Eliot._

=Ita lex scripta=--Thus the law is written.

=Ivory does not come from a rat's mouth.= _Chinese Pr._

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=J'ai bonne cause=--I have good cause or reason. 30 _M._

=J'ai en toujours pour principe de ne faire jamais par autrui ce que je pouvais faire par moi-même=--I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was possible for me to do myself. _Montesquieu._

=J'ai failli attendre=--I was all but kept waiting. _Louis XIV., as his carriage drove up just at the last moment._

=J'ai graissé la patte au concierge=--I have tipped the door-keeper (_lit._ greased his paw). _Fr. Pr._

=J'ai ris, me voilà désarmé=--I was set a-laughing, and lo! I was at once disarmed. _Piron._

=J'ai toujours vu que, pour réussir dans le= 35 =monde, il fallait avoir l'air fou et être sage=--I have always observed that to succeed in the world a man must seem simple but be wise. _Montesquieu._

=J'ai trouvé chaussure à mon pied=--I have found a good berth (_lit._ shoes for my feet). _Fr. Pr._

=J'ai vécu=--I existed through it all (the Reign of Terror). _Siéyès._

=J'ai voulu voir, j'ai vu=--I wish to see, and have seen. _Racine._

=J'aime mieux ma mie=--I love my lass better. _A French Old Song._

=J'appelle un chat un chat, et Rolet un fripon=--I 40 call a cat a cat, and Rolet a knave. _Boileau._

=J'embrasse mon rival, mais c'est pour l'étouffer=--I press my rival to my heart, but it is to smother him. _Corneille._

=J'en passe et des meilleurs=--I pass by them, and better than they. _Victor Hugo._

=J'étais poète, historien, / Et maintenant je ne suis rien=--I was once a poet and a historian, and now I am nothing. _Boudier, for his epitaph._

=J'étais pour Ovide à quinze ans, / Mais je suis pour Horace à trente=--I was for Ovid at fifteen, but I am for Horace at thirty. _Ducerceau._

=J'évite d'être long, et je deviens obscur=--In 45 avoiding to be diffuse, I become obscure. _Boileau, after Horace._

=J'y suis, et j'y reste=--Here I am, and here I remain. _MacMahon in the trenches before the Malakoff._

=Ja, das Gold ist nur Chimäre=--Yes, gold is but a chimæra. _Scribe-Meyerbeer._

=Ja, der Krieg verschlingt die Besten!=--Yes, war swallows up the best people! _Schiller._

=Ja, grosse Männer werden stets verfolgt, / Und kommen immer in Verlegenheiten=--Yes, great men are always subject to persecution, and always getting into straits. _Schiller._

=Ja, so schätzt der Mensch das Leben, als= 50 =heiliges Kleinod, / Dass er jenen am meisten verehrt, der es trotzig verschmähet=--Yes, man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it. _Platen._

=Jacet ecce Tibullus, / Vix manet e toto parva quod urna capit=--See, here Tibullus lies; of all that he was there hardly remains enough to fill a little urn. _Ovid._

=Jack at a pinch.= _Pr._

=Jack is as good as Jill.= _Pr._

=Jack-o'-both sides is, before long, trusted by nobody, and abused by both parties.= _Pr._

=Jack of all trades and master of none.= _Pr._

=Jack shall pipe and Jill shall dance.= _G._ 5 _Wither._

=Jack will never be a gentleman.= _Pr._

=Jack's as good as his master.= _Pr._

=Jacta alea est=--The die is cast. _Cæsar, when he passed the Rubicon._

=Jactitatio=--A boasting. _Jactitation of marriage is cognizable in the Ecclesiastical Courts. L._

=Jam nunc minaci murmure cornuum / Perstringis= 10 =aures; jam litui strepunt=--Even now you stun our ears with the threatening murmur of horns; already I hear the clarions sound. _Hor._

=Jam pauca aratro jugera regiæ / Moles relinquent=--Soon will regal piles leave but few acres to the plough. _Hor._

=Jam portum inveni, Spes et Fortuna valete! / Nil mihi vobiscum est, ludite nunc alios=--Now I have gained the port, hope and fortune, farewell! I have nothing more to do with you; go now and make sport of others. _A Greek epitaph._

=Jam redit et Virgo, redeunt Saturnia regna=--Now the Virgin goddess of justice returns; now the reign of Saturn and age of gold returns. _Virg._

=Jam seges est ubi Troja fuit, resecandaque falce / Luxuriat Phrygio sanguine pinguis humus=--New fields of corn wave where Troy once stood, and the ground enriched with Trojan blood is luxuriant with grain ready for the sickle. _Ovid._

=Jam summa procul villarum culmina fumant=--Now 15 the high tops of the far-off villas send forth their smoke. _Virg._

=Jamais abattu=--Never cast down. _M._

=Jamais arrière=--Never behind. _M._

=Jamais l'innocence et le mystère n'habitèrent long tems ensemble=--Innocence and mystery never dwelt any length of time together. _Fr._

=Jamais la cornemuse ne dit mot si elle n'a le ventre plein=--The bagpipe never utters a word till its belly is full. _Fr. Pr._

=Jamais long nez n'a gâté beau visage=--A big 20 nose never disfigured a handsome face, _i.e._, it is disfigured already. _Fr. Pr._

=Jamais nous ne goûtons de parfaite allégresse; / Nos plus heureux succès sont mêlés de tristesse=--We never taste happiness in perfection; our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness. _Corneille._

=Jamais on ne vaincra les Romains que dans Rome=--The Romans will never be conquered except in Rome. _Fr._

=Jamque opus exegi, quod nec Jovis ira, nec ignis, / Nec poterit ferrum, nec edax abolere vetustas=--And now I have completed what neither the wrath of Jove, nor fire, nor the sword, nor the corroding tooth of time will be able to destroy. _Ovid._

=Januæ mentis=--Inlets of knowledge (_lit._ gates of the mind).

=Januis clausis=--With closed doors. 25

=Jardin des plantes=--A botanical garden. _Fr._

=Jasper fert myrrham, thus Melchior, Balthazar aurum. / Hæc quicum secum portet tria nomina regum, / Solvitur a morbo, Domini pietate, caduco=--Jasper brings myrrh, Melchior frankincense, and Balthazar gold. Whoever carries with him the names of these three kings (the three kings of Cologne, the Magi) will, by the grace of God, be exempt from the falling sickness. _A Mediæval charm._

=Je allseitiger, je individueller=--The more universal a man is, the greater he is as an individual. _Mme. Varnhagen von Ense._

=Je cognois tout, fors que moy-mesme=--I know everything except myself. _Old Fr._

=Je crains Dieu, cher Abner, et n'ai pas d'autre= 30 =crainte=--I fear God, Abner, and have no other fear. _Racine._

=Je crains l'homme d'un seul livre=--I am afraid of the man of one book. _Thomas Aquinas._

=Je fetter der Floh, je magerer der Hund=--The fatter the flea, the leaner the dog. _Ger. Pr._

=Je jouis des ouvrages qui surpassent les miens=--I enjoy works which surpass my own. _La Harpe._

=Je laisse à penser la vie / Que firent ces deux amis=--I leave you to imagine the festive time these two friends (the town mouse and the country mouse) had of it. _La Fontaine._

=Je le tiens=--I hold it. _M._ 35

=Je m'en vais chercher un grand peut-être; tirez le rideau, la farce est jouée=--I am going in quest of a great perhaps; let the curtain drop, the farce is played out. _Rabelais, on his deathbed._

=Je m'en vais voir le soleil pour la dernière fois!=--I shall see the sun for the last time. _Rousseau's last words._

=Je m'estonne fort pourquoy / La mort osa songer a moy / Qui ne songeais jamais à elle=--I wonder greatly why death should condescend to think of me, who never thought of her. _Regnier._

=Je maintiendrai le droit=--I will maintain the right. _M._

=Je me fie en Dieu=--I put my trust in God. _M._ 40