Chapter M (3)

=Mental prayer= (_mentale Gebet_), =which includes and excludes all religions, and only in a few God-favoured men permeates the whole course of life, develops itself in most men as only a blazing, beatific feeling of the moment, immediately after the vanishing of which the man, thrown in upon himself unsatisfied and unoccupied, lapses back into the most utter and absolute weariness.= _Goethe._

=Mentally and bodily endowed men are the= 5 =most modest, while, on the other hand, all who have some peculiar mental defect think a great deal more of themselves.= _Goethe._

=Mentis gratissimus error=--A most delightful reverie of the mind. _Hor._

=Mentis penetralia=--The inmost recesses of the mind; the secrets of the heart.

=Menu=--Bill of fare. _Fr._

=Menus plaisirs=--Pocket-money. _Fr._

=Meo sum pauper in ære=--I am poor, but I am 10 not in debt. _Hor._

=Merces virtutis laus est=--Applause is the reward of virtue. _Pr._

=Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.= _Bible._

=Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.= _Rom. and Jul._, iii. 1.

=Mercy is above this sceptred sway, / It is enthronéd in the hearts of kings, / It is an attribute to God himself; / And earthly power doth then show likest God's / When mercy seasons justice.= _Mer. of Ven._, iv. 1.

=Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so; / Pardon= 15 =is still the nurse of second woe.= _Meas. for Meas._, ii. 1.

=Mercy, misericordia, does not in the least mean forgiveness of sins, but pity of sorrows.= _Ruskin._

=Mercy to him that shows it is the rule.= _Cowper._

=Mercy turns her back to the unmerciful.= _Quarles._

=Mercy's gate opens to those who knock.= _Saying._

=Mere bashfulness without merit is awkward,= 20 =and merit without modesty insolent; but modest merit has a double claim to acceptance.= _T. Hughes._

=Mere family never made a man great. Thought and deed, not pedigree, are the passports to enduring fame.= _Skobeleff._

=Mere madness, to live like a wretch and die rich.= _Burton._

=Mere pleasure ought not to be the prime motive of action.= _Johnson._

=Mere sensibility is not true taste, but sensibility to real excellence is.= _Hazlitt._

=Mere wishes are bony fishes.= _Pr._ 25

=Merit and good works is the end of man's motion, and conscience of the same is the accomplishment of man's rest.= _Bacon._

=Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded.= _Napoleon._

=Merit in appearance is oftener rewarded than merit itself.= _La Roche._

=Merit is never so conspicuous as when coupled with an obscure origin, just as the moon never appears so lustrous as when it emerges from a cloud.= _Bovee._

=Merit lives from man to man.= _Tennyson._ 30

=Merry be the first, / And merry be the last, / And merry be the first of August.= _Pr._

=Merry larks are ploughmen's clocks.= _Love's L. Lost_, v. 2.

=Merx ultronea putret=--Proffered service stinks (_i.e._ is despised). _Pr._

=Mésalliance=--A marriage with one of inferior rank. _Pr._

=Messe tenus propria vive=--Live within your 35 means (_lit._ harvest).

[Greek: Metabolê pantôn glyky]--There is always a pleasure in variety. _Euripides._

=Metaphysicians and philosophers are, on the whole, the greatest troubles the world has got to deal with.... Busy metaphysicians are always entangling good and active people, and weaving cobwebs among the finest wheels of the world's business, and are, as much as possible, by all prudent persons, to be brushed out of their way.= _Ruskin._

=Metaphysics, with which physics cannot dispense, is that wisdom of thought which was before all physics, lives with it, and will endure after it.= _Goethe._

[Greek: Mête dikên dikasês, prin amphoin mythou akousês]--Don't pronounce sentence till you have heard the story of both parties. _Pr._

=Method is the very hinge of business.= _Hannah_ 40 _More._

=Method will teach you to win time.= _Goethe._

=Methods are the masters of masters.= _Talleyrand._

=Methought I heard a voice cry, Sleep no more!= _Macb._, ii. 2.

=Métier d'auteur, métier d'oseur=--The profession of author is a daring profession. _Fr._

=Metiri se quemque suo modulo ac pede verum= 45 =est=--It is meet that every man should measure himself by his own rule and standard. _Hor._

=Mettre les pieds dans le plat=--To put one's foot in it. _Fr. Pr._

=Metuenda corolla draconis=--The dragon's crest is to be feared.

=Meum et tuum=--Mine and thine.

=Meus mihi, suus cuique est carus=--Mine is dear to me, and dear is his own to every man. _Plaut._

=Mezzo termine=--A middle course. _It._ 50

=Micat inter omnes=--It shines amongst all, _i.e._, it outshines all. _Hor._

=Mich dräng'st den Grundtext aufzuschlagen, / Mit redlichem Gefühl einmal / Das heilige Original / In mein geliebtes Deutsch zu übertragen=--I must turn up the primitive text just to translate the sacred original with honest feeling into my dear German tongue. _Faust, in Goethe._

=Mich hat mein Glaube nicht betrogen!=--My faith has not betrayed me. _Schiller._

=Mich plagen keine Scrupel noch Zweifel, / Fürchte mich weder vor Hölle noch Teufel=--I am troubled by no scruples or doubts; I fear neither hell nor devil. _Faust, in Goethe._

=Mich schuf aus gröberm Stoffe die Natur, / Und zu der Erde zieht mich die Begierde=--Out of coarser clay has Nature created me, and I am drawn by lust to the dust. _Schiller._

=Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, / Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home; / A charm from the skies seems to hallow us there, / Which, sought through the world, is ne'er met with elsewhere.= _J. H. Payne._

=Midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, / To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, / And roam along, the world's tired denizen, / With none who bless us, none whom we can bless; / ... This is to be alone; this, this is solitude!= _Byron._

=Mieux nourri qu'instruit=--Better fed than taught. _Fr. Pr._

=Mieux serra=--Better times are coming. _M._ 5

=Mieux vaut glisser du pied que de la langue=--Better slip with the foot than the tongue. _Fr. Pr._

=Mieux vaut perdre la laine que la brebis=--Better lose the wool than the sheep. _Fr. Pr._

=Mieux vaut un bon renom, que du bien plein la maison=--Better a good name than a house full of riches. _Fr. Pr._

=Mieux vaut un "Tiens" que deux "Tu l'auras"=--One "Take this" is better than two "You shall have it." _Fr. Pr._

=Mieux vaut une once de fortune qu'une livre= 10 =de sagesse=--An ounce of fortune is better than a pound of wisdom. _Fr. Pr._

=Mieux vaut voir un chien enragé, qu'un soleil chaud en Janvier=--Better see a mad dog than a hot sun in January.

=Might and right do differ frightfully from hour to hour; but give them centuries to try it in, they are found to be identical.= _Carlyle._

=Mightier far / Than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway / Of magic, potent over sun and star, / Is Love, though oft to agony distrest, / And though his favourite seat be feeble woman's breast.= _Wordsworth._

=Mightiest powers by deepest calms are fed, / And sleep, how oft, on things that gentlest be.= _B. M. Procter._

=Mighty events turn on a straw; the crossing= 15 =of a brook decides the conquest of the world.= _Carlyle._

=Migravit ab aure voluptas / Omnis=--All pleasure has fled from the ear, (dumb show having taken the place of dialogue on the stage). _Hor._

=Mihi est propositum in taberna mori=--I purpose to end my days in an inn.

=Mihi forsan, tibi quod negarit, / Porriget hora=--The hour will perhaps extend to me what it has denied to you. _Hor._

=Mihi istic nec seritur nec metitur=--There is neither sowing nor reaping in that affair for my benefit. _Plaut._

=Mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor=--My 20 aim is to subject circumstances to me, and not myself to them. _Hor._

=Mihi tarda fluunt ingrataque tempora=--For me the time passes slowly and joyously away. _Hor._

=Mildness governs more than anger.= _Pr._

=Militat omnis amans=--Every lover is engaged in a war. _Ovid._

=Militiæ species amor est=--Love is a kind of warfare. _Ovid._

=Mille hominum species et rerum discolor usus; /= 25 =Velle suum cuique est, nec voto vivitur uno=--There are a thousand kinds of men, and different hues they give to things; each one follows his own inclination, nor do they all agree in their wishes. _Pers._

=Mille verisimili non fanno un vero=--A thousand probabilities do not make one truth. _It. Pr._

=Millia frumenti tua triverit area centum, / Non tuus hinc capiet venter plus ac meus=--Though your threshing-floor should yield a hundred thousand bushels of corn, will your stomach therefore hold more than mine? _Hor._

=Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth / Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep.= _Milton._

=Minatur innocentibus qui parcit nocentibus=--He threatens the innocent who spares the guilty. _Coke._

=Mind and body are intimately related; if the= 30 =former is joyful, the latter feels free and well; and many an evil flies before cheerfulness.= _Goethe._

=Mind and body--that beauteous couple--exercise much and variously, but at home, at home, indoors, and about things indoors; for God is there too.= _Landor._

=Mind is stronger than matter; mind is the creator and shaper of matter; not brute force, but only persuasion and faith is the king of this world.= _Carlyle._

=Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered.= _Webster._

=Mind is the partial side of men; the heart is everything.= _Rivarol._

=Mind not high things, but condescend to men= 35 =of low estate.= _St. Paul._

=Mind unemployed is mind unenjoyed.= _Bovee._

=Mind your P's and Q's.= _Pr._

=Mind your work, and God will find your wages.= _Pr._

=Minds are of celestial birth; / Make we then a heaven of earth.= _Montgomery._

=Minds that have nothing to confer / Find little= 40 =to perceive.= _Wordsworth._

=Minds that never rest are subject to many digressions.= _Joubert._

=Mind the corner where life's road turns.= _Pr._

=Mine honour my life is; both grow in one; / Take honour from me, and my life is done.= _Richard II._, i. 1.

=Minimæ vires frangere quassa valent=--Very little avails to break a bruised thing. _Ov._

=Minima de malis=--Of two evils choose the least. 45 _Pr._

=Minister flicken am Staate, / Die Richter flicken am Rate, / Die Pfarrer an dem Gewissen, / Die Aerzte an Händen und Füszen! O Jobsen! was flickest denn du? / Weit besser! Gerissene Schuh!=--Ministers cobble away at the state, judges at the law, parsons at the conscience, doctors at our hands and feet; what cobblest thou at, friend Jobson? Far better--shoes that have been torn. _Weisse._

=Minor est quam servus, dominus qui servos timet=--A master who fears his servants is lower than a servant.

=Minorities lead and save the world, and the world knows them not till long afterwards.= _John Burroughs._

=Minuentur atræ / Carmine curæ=--Black care will be soothed by song. _Hor._

=Minuit præsentia famam=--Acquaintanceship lessens fame. _Claud._

=Minus afficit sensus fatigatio quam cogitatio=--Bodily fatigue affects the mind less than intense thought. _Quinct._

=Minuti / Semper et infirmi est animi exiguique voluptas / Ultio=--Revenge is ever the delight of a stinted and weak and petty mind. _Juv._

=Minutiæ=--Trifles; minute details. 5

=Mir gäb' es keine gröss're Pein, / Wär' ich im Paradies allein=--There were for me no greater torment than to be in Paradise alone. _Goethe._

=Mir wird bei meinem kritischen Bestreben / Doch oft um Kopf und Busen bang=--Often during my critical studies I fear as if I would lose both head and heart. _Wagner in Goethe's "Faust."_

=Mira quædam in cognoscendo suavitas et delectatio=--There is a certain wonderful sweetness and delight in gaining knowledge.

=Mirabile dictu!=--Wonderful to be told!

=Mirabile visu!=--Wonderful to behold! 10

=Miracles are ceased, and therefore we must needs admit the means, how things are perfected.= _Hen. V._, i. 1.

=Miracles do not serve to convert, but condemn.= _Pascal._

=Miramur ex intervallo fallentia=--We admire at a distance things which deceive us. _Pr._

=Miremur te non tua=--Let me have something to admire in yourself, not in what belongs to you. _Juv._

=Mirth is God's medicine.= _Ward Beecher._ 15

=Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.= _Addison._

=Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent.= _Addison._

=Misce stultitiam consiliis brevem=--Mix a little folly with your serious thoughts. _Hor._

=Miscellaneous reading avoid.= _Prof. Blackie to young men._

=Mischief, thou art afoot; / Take thou what= 20 =course thou wilt.= _Jul. Cæs._, iii. 2.

=Mise en scène=--The getting up or putting in preparation for the stage. _Fr._

=Misera contribuens plebs!=--The poor tax-paying people. _Verböczy._

=Misera est magni custodia census=--The custody of a large fortune is a wretched business. _Juv._

=Misera est servitus ubi jus est aut vagum aut incognitum=--Obedience to the law is a hardship where the law is either unsettled or unknown. _L._

=Miserable beyond all names of wretchedness= 25 =is that unhappy pair who are doomed to reduce beforehand to the principles of abstract reason all the details of each domestic day.= _Johnson._

=Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari=--An unhappy peace may be profitably exchanged for war. _Tac._

=Misericordia Domini inter pontem et fontem=--Between bridge and stream the Lord's mercy may be found. _St. Augustine._

=Miseros prudentia prima relinquit=--Prudence is the first thing to forsake the wretched. _Ovid._

=Miserrima est fortuna quæ inimico caret=--Most wretched is the lot of him who has not an enemy. _Pub. Syr._

=Miserum est aliorum incumbere famæ / Ne= 30 =collapsa ruant subductis tecta columnis=--It is a wretched thing to lean for support on the reputation of others, lest the roof should fall in ruins when the pillars are withdrawn. _Juv._

=Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.= _Tempest_, ii. 2.

=Misery and ruin to thousands are in the blast that announces the destructive demon= (war). _Burns._

=Misery doth part / The flux of company.= _As You Like It_, ii. 1.

=Misery is like love; to speak its language truly, the author must have felt it.= _Burns._

=Misery is trodden down by many, / And, being= 35 =low, never relieved by any.= _Shakespeare._

=Misery that I miss is a new mercy.= _Isaac Walton._

=Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.= _Mrs. L. M. Child._

=Misfortune sprinkles ashes on the head of the man, but falls like dew on the head of the woman, and brings forth germs of strength of which she herself had no conscious possession.= _Anna C. Mowatt._

=Misfortune, when we look upon it with our eyes, is smaller than when our imagination sinks the evil down into the recesses of the soul.= _Goethe._

=Misfortunes come on wings and depart on foot.= 40 _Pr._

=Misfortunes have their dignity and their redeeming power.= _G. S. Hillard._

=Misfortunes never come single.= _Pr._

=Misfortunes when asleep are not to be wakened.= _Pr._

=Mislike me not for my complexion, / The shadow'd livery of the burnish'd sun, / To whom I am a neighbour and near bred.= _Mer. of Ven._, ii. 1.

=Misreckoning is no payment.= _Pr._ 45

=Mist of words, / Like halos round the moon, though they enlarge / The seeming size of thoughts, make the light less / Doubly.= _Bailey._

=Mistake not, man; the devil never sleeps.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=Mistrust the man who finds everything good, and the man who finds everything evil, and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.= _Lavater._

=Misunderstanding brings lies to town.= _Pr._

=Misunderstanding goes on like a fallen stitch= 50 =in a stocking, which in the beginning might have been taken up with a needle.= _Goethe._

=Mit deinem Meister zu irren ist dein Gewinn=--To err with thy master is thy gain. _Goethe._

=Mit dem Genius steht die Natur im ewigen Bunde! / Was der eine verspricht, leistet die andre gewiss=--Nature stands in eternal league with genius; what the one promises the other as surely performs. _Schiller._

=Mit dem Wissen wächst der Zweifel=--Doubt ever grows alongside of knowledge. _Goethe._

=Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens=--With stupidity the gods themselves fight in vain. _Schiller._

=Mit Frauen soll man sich nie unterstehn zu scherzen=--One should never venture to joke with ladies. _Mephisto in Goethe's "Faust."_

=Mit fremdem Gut ist leicht ein Prasser sein=--It is easy to live riotously (be a rake) at another's expense. _Platen._

=Mit Kleinen thut man kleine Thaten, / Mit Grossen wird der Kleine gross=--With little people we do little deeds, with great people the little one becomes great. _Goethe._

=Mit seltsamen Geberden / Giebt man sich= 5 =viele Pein; / Kein Mensch will etwas werden, / Ein jeder will schon was sein=--We are easily disconcerted by strange manners; no man is willing to become anything, every one gives himself out as already something. _Goethe._

=Mit vier Strangschlägern zu fahren ist gefährlich, aber ich werde es versuchen=--It is risky to drive with four horses that kick over the traces, but I shall try. _Bismarck._

=Mit Worten lässt sich trefflich streiten / Mit Worten ein System bereiten, / An Worten lässt sich trefflich glauben, / Von einem Wort lässt sich kein Iota rauben=--With words disputes may be effectively carried on; with words a system may be built up; on words one may rest religious belief; from a word must not one iota be taken. _Mephisto in Goethe's "Faust."_

=Mit Worten nicht, mit Thaten lasst mich danken=--Let me thank you with deeds, not with words. _Körner._

=Mitgefühl erweckt Vertrauen; / Und Vertrauen ist der Schlüssel / Der des Herzens Pforte öffnet=--Sympathy awakens confidence, and confidence is the key which unlocks the doors of the heart. _Bodenstedt._

=Mittagsschlaf ist ein brennend Licht am Tage=--Sleep 10 at midday is a candle burning in the daytime. _Hippel._

=Mitte hanc de pectore curam=--Dismiss these anxieties from your breast. _Virg._

=Mittimus=--We send. A writ for transferring records from one court to another; a precept committing an accused person to prison by a justice of the peace. _L._

=Mobilis et varia est ferme natura malorum=--Misfortunes generally are of a variable and changeable nature. _Juv._

=Mobilitate viget, viresque acquirit eundo=--It grows by moving, and gathers strength as it speeds on. _Virg., of Fame._

=Mobilium turba Quiritium=--A crowd of fickle 15 citizens. _Hor._

=Mock me not with the name of free, when you have but knit up my chains into ornamental festoons.= _Carlyle._

=Mockery is the fume of little hearts.= _Tennyson._

=Moderari animo et orationi, cum sis iratus, non mediocris ingenii est=--To be able to temper your indignation and language when you are angry is evidence of a chastened disposition. _Cic._

=Moderata durant=--Things we use in moderation last long. _Sen._

=Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead,= 20 =excessive grief the enemy to the living.= _All's Well_, i. 1.

=Moderate riches will carry you; if you have more, you must carry them.= _Pr._

=Moderation and judgment are, for most purposes, more than the flash and the glitter even of genius.= _J. Morley._

=Moderation is good, but moderation alone is no virtue= (_Tugend_). _Rückert._

=Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with genius it has not even a nodding acquaintance.= _Colton._

=Moderation is the silken string running through= 25 =the pearl chain of all virtues.= _Thomas Fuller._

=Moderation is the virtue best adapted to the dawn of prosperity.= _Pitt._

=Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain we can no more manage our mobs.= _Ruskin._

=Modern education too often covers the fingers with rings, and at the same time cuts the sinews at the wrists.= _J. Sterling._

=Modern poets put a great deal of water in their ink.= _Goethe._

=Modern Protestantism sees in the cross, not a= 30 =furca to which it is to be nailed, but a raft on which it, and all its valuable properties, are to be floated into Paradise.= _Ruskin._

=Modern revolution has nothing grand about it; it is merely the resolution of society into its component atoms.= _Froude._

=Modern science gives lectures on botany, to show there is no such thing as a flower; on humanity, to show there is no such thing as a man; and on theology, to show there is no such thing as a God. No such thing as a man, but only a mechanism. No such thing as a God, but only a series of forces.= _Ruskin._

=Modest demeanour's the jewel of a'!= _Burns._

=Modest dogs miss much meat.= _Pr._

=Modest doubt is called / The beacon of the= 35 =wise, the tent that searches / To the bottom of the worst.= _Troil. and Cres._, ii. 2.

=Modest expression is a beautiful setting to the diamond of talent and genius.= _Chapin._

=Modest humility is beauty's crown, for the beautiful is a hidden thing, and shrinks from its own power.= _Schiller._

=Modeste tamen et circumspecto judicio de tantis viris pronunciandum est, ne, quod plerisque accidit, damnent quæ non intelligunt=--We should, however, pronounce our opinions with modesty and circumspect judgment of such men, lest, as is the case with many, we should be found condemning what we do not understand. _Quinct._

=Modesty and presumption are moral things of so spiritual a nature, that they have little to do with the body.= _Goethe._

=Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised= 40 =by the women than liked.= _Sheridan._

=Modesty is a very good thing, but a man in this country may get on very well without it.= _M. on a banner in the Far West._

=Modesty is so pleased with other people's doings that she has no leisure to lament her own.= _Ruskin._

=Modesty is the beauty of women.= _Gael. Pr._

=Modesty is the colour of virtue.= _Diogenes._

=Modesty is the sweet song-bird which no open= 45 =cage-door can tempt to flight.= _Hafiz._

=Modesty is to merit what the shadows are to the figures on a picture; it imparts to it force and relief.= _La Bruyère._

=Modesty ruins all that bring it to court.= _Pr._

=Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.= _Goldsmith._

=Modesty when she goes, is gone for ever.= _Landor._

=Modo et forma=--In manner and form. 5

=Modo me Thebis, modo ponit Athenis=--He sets me down now at Thebes, now at Athens, _i.e._, the poet does so by his magic art. _Hor._

=Modo vir, modo femina=--Now as a man, now as a woman. _Ovid._

=Modus operandi=--The manner of operation.

=Mögt ihr Stück für Stück bewitzeln, / Doch das Ganze zieht euch an=--You may jeer at it bit by bit, yet the whole fascinates you. _Goethe._

=Moi, moi, dis je, et c'est assez=--I, I, say I, and 10 that is enough. _Corneille._

=Moins on pense plus on parle=--The less people think, the more they talk. _Fr._

=Moles and misers live in their graves.= _Pr._

=Molesta et importuna salutantium frequentia=--A troublesome and annoying crowd of visitors.

=Molle meum levibus cor est violabile telis=--My tender heart is vulnerable by his (Cupid's) light arrows. _Ovid._

=Mollis educatio nervos omnes et mentis et= 15 =corporis frangit=--An effeminate education weakens all the powers both of mind and body. _Quinct._

=Mollissima corda / Humano generi dare se natura fatetur, / Quæ lachrymas dedit: hæc nostri pars optima sensus=--Nature confesses that she gives the tenderest of hearts to the human race when she gave them tears. This is the best part of our sensations. _Juv._

=Mollissima tempora fandi=--The most fitting moment for speaking, or addressing, one. _Hor._

=Molliter austerum studio fallente laborem=--The interest in the pursuit gently beguiling the severity of the toil. _Hor._

=Molliter ossa cubent=--Let his bones softly rest. _Ovid._

=Momento mare vertitur; / Eodem die ubi= 20 =luserunt, navigia sorbentur=--In a moment the sea is agitated, and on the same day ships are swallowed up where they lately sported gaily along.

=Mon âme a son secret, ma vie a son mystère=--My soul has a secret of its own, my life its mystery. _Arvers._

=Mon cœur aux dames, / Ma vie au roi, / A Dieu mon âme, / L'honneur pour moi=--My heart to the ladies, my life to the king, and my soul to God, but my honour is my own. _On a shield in the Royal Schloss, Berlin._

=Mon Dieu est ma roche=--My God is my rock. _M._

=Mon frère a mis son bonnet de travers=--My brother is cross (_lit._ has put on his cap the wrong way). _Fr. Pr._

=Monarchy is a merchantman, which sails well,= 25 =but will sometimes strike on a rock and go to the bottom; whilst a republic is a raft, which would never sink, but then your feet are always in water.= _Fisher Ames._

=Monday is the key of the week.= _Gael. Pr._

=Monday religion is better than Sunday profession.= _Pr._

=Mone sale=--Advise with salt, _i.e._, with discretion. _M._

=Money answers everything, / Save a guilty conscience sting.= _Pr._

=Money begets money.= _Pr._ 30

=Money borrowed is soon sorrowed.= _Pr._

=Money calls, but does not stay: / It is round and rolls away.= _Pr._

=Money is a bottomless sea, in which honour, conscience, and truth may be drowned.= _Kazlay._

=Money is a good servant, but a dangerous master.= _Bouheurs._

=Money is human happiness in the abstract;= 35 =he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete, devotes his heart entirely to money.= _Schopenhauer._

=Money is like an icicle, soon found at certain seasons, and soon melted under other circumstances.= _Spurgeon._

=Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.= _Thoreau._

=Money is the fruit of evil as often as the root of it.= _Fielding._

=Money is the god of our time, and Rothschild is his prophet.= _Heine._

=Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed;= 40 =health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.= _Colton._

=Money is the ruin of many.= _Pr._

=Money is the sinew of love as well as of war.= _Pr._

=Money, like manure, does no good till it is spread.= (?)

=Money makes the mare to go.= _Pr._

=Money masters all things.= _Pr._ 45

=Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants.= _Ben. Franklin._

=Money often costs too much.= _Emerson._

=Money often unmakes the men who make it.= _Pr._

=Money refused loses its brightness.= _Pr._

=Money spent on the brain is never spent in= 50 =vain.= _Pr._

=Moniti, meliora sequamur=--Admonished, let us follow better counsels. _Virg._

=Monkeys, as soon as they have brought forth their young, keep their eyes fastened on them, and never weary of admiring their beauty; so amorous is Nature of whatever she produces.= _Dryden._

=Monstro quod ipse tibi possis dare: semita certe / Tranquillæ per virtutem patet unica vitæ=--I show you what you can do for yourself; the only path to a tranquil life lies through virtue. _Juv._

=Monstrum horrendum, informe, ingens, cui lumen ademptum=--A monster horrible, misshapen, huge, and bereft of his one eye. _Virgil, of Polyphemus._

=Monstrum nulla virtute redemptum / A vitiis=--A 55 monster whose vices are not redeemed by a single virtue. _Juv._

=Mont de piété=--Pawnshop; originally store of money to lend without interest to poor people. _Fr._

=Montes auri pollicens=--Promising mountains of gold. _Ter._

=Montesquieu, with his cause-and-effect philosophy, is but a clever infant spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic Book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity, in Heaven.= _Carlyle._

=Monuments, like men, submit to fate.= _Pope._

=Monuments themselves memorials need.= _Crabbe._

=Mony an honest man needs that hasna the= 5 =face to seek it.= _Sc. Pr._

=Mony ane speirs the gate= (inquires the way) =they ken fu' weel.= _Sc. Pr._

=Mony kinsfolk, but few freends.= _Sc. Pr._

=Moonlight is sculpture.= _Hawthorne._

=Moping melancholy.= _Milton._

=Mora omnis odio est, sed facit sapientiam=--All 10 delay is hateful, but it produces wisdom. _Pub. Syr._

=Moral culture must begin with a change= (_Umwandlung_) =in the way of thinking, and with the founding of a character.= _Kant._

=Moral education begins in making the creature to be educated clean and obedient; and it is summed up when the creature has been made to do its work with delight, and thoroughly.= _Ruskin._

=Moral inability aggravates our guilt.= _Scott._

=Moral prejudices are the stopgaps of virtue; and, as is the case with other stopgaps, it is often more difficult to get either out or in through them than through any other part of the fence.= _Hare._

=Moral qualities rule the world, but at short= 15 =distances the senses are despotic.= _Emerson._

=Morality is a curb, not a spur.= _Joubert._

=Morality is but the vestibule of religion.= _Chapin._

=Morality sticks faster when presented in brief sayings than when presented in long discourses.= _Immermann._

=Morals are generated as the atmosphere is. 'Tis a secret the genesis of either; but the springs of justice and courage do not fail any more than salt or sulphur springs.= _Emerson._

=Morceau=--A morsel; a bit. _Fr._ 20

=Morceau d'ensemble=--Piece of music harmonised for several voices. _Fr._

=More are drowned in the beaker than in the sea.= _Ger. Pr._

=More are made good by exercitation than by nature.= _Democritus._

=More credit may be thrown down in a moment than can be built up in an age.= _Pr._

=More hearts pine away in secret anguish for= 25 =unkindness from those who should be their comforters than for any other calamity in life.= _Young._

=More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.= _George Eliot._

=More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering eye. A cottage flower gives honey to the bee, a king's garden none to the butterfly.= _Bulwer Lytton._

=More knave than fool.= _Marlowe._

=More light, more life, more love.= _Pr._

=More majorum=--After the manner of our ancestors. 30

=More matter with less art.= _Ham._, ii. 2.

=More meat and less mustard.= _Pr._

=More pleased we are to see a river lead / His gentle streams along a flowery mead, / Than from high banks to hear loud torrents roar, / With foamy waters on a muddy shore.= _Dryden._

=More potatoes and fewer potations.= _Motto for Working-men._

=More servants wait on man / Than he'll take= 35 =notice of.= _George Herbert._

=More sinn'd against than sinning.= _Lear_, iii. 2.

=More springs up in the garden than the gardener sows there.= _Pr._

=More suo=--After his usual manner; as is his wont.

=More than all things, avoid fault-finding and a habit of criticism.= _Prof. Blackie to young men._

=More than kisses letters mingle souls.= _Donne._ 40

=More than we use is more than we want.= _Pr._

=More things are wrought by prayer / Than this world dreams of.= _Tennyson._

=More water glideth by the mill / Than wots the miller of.= _Tit. Andron._, ii. 1.

=Mores amici noveris, non oderis=--Know well, but take no offence at the manners of a friend. _Pr._

=Mores multorum vidit=--He saw the manners of 45 many men. _Hor. of Ulysses._

=Morgen können wir's nicht mehr, / Darum lasst uns heute leben!=--To-morrow is no longer in our power, therefore let us live to-day. _Schiller._

=Morgen, morgen, nur nicht heute! / Sprechen immer träge Leute=--To-morrow, to-morrow, only not to-day, is the constant song of the idle. _C. F. Weisse._

=Morgenstunde hat Gold im Munde=--The morning hour has gold in its mouth. _Gr. Pr._

=Moriamur, et in media arma ruamus=--Let us die, and rush into the thick of the fight. _Virg._

=Moribus antiquis res stat Romana virisque=--The 50 Roman commonwealth stands by its ancient manners and men. _Enn._

=Moribus et forma conciliandus amor=--Pleasing manners and a handsome figure conciliate love. _Ovid._

=Morituri morituros salutant=--The dying salute the dying.

=Morose thoughts one should never send to a distance.= _Goethe._

=Moroseness is the evening of turbulence.= _Landor._

=Mors et fugacem persequitur virum=--Death 55 pursues the man as he flees from it. _Hor._

=Mors ipsa refugit sæpe virum!=--Death itself often takes flight at the presence of a man. _Lucan._

=Mors janua vitæ=--Death is the gate of life.

=Mors laborum ac miseriarum quies est!=--Death is repose from all our toils and miseries. _Cic._

=Mors potius macula=--Death rather than disgrace. _M._

=Mors sola fatetur / Quantula sint hominum= 60 =corpuscula=--Death alone discloses how insignificant are the puny bodies of us men. _Juv._

=Mors ultima linea rerum est=--Death is the farthest limit of our changing life. _Hor._

=Mortales inimicitias, sempiternas amicitias=--Be our enmities for time, our friendships for eternity. _Cic._

=Mortalia acta nunquam Deos fallunt=--The deeds of man never can be hid from the gods.

=Mortalia facta peribunt, / Nedum sermonum stet honos et gratia vivax=--All man's works must perish; how much less shall the power and grace of language long survive! _Hor._

=Mortality is beset on every side with crosses, and exposed to suffering every moment.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=Mortalium rerum misera beatitudo=--The miserable 5 bliss of all moral things. _Boëthius._

=Morte carent animæ, semperque priore relicta / Sede novis domibus vivunt habitantque receptæ=--Souls are immortal; and admitted, after quitting their first abode, into new homes, they live and dwell in them for ever. _Ovid._

=Mortem effugere nemo potest!=--No one can escape death.

=Mortuo leoni et lepores insultant=--Even hares insult a dead lion. _Pr._

=Mos pro lege=--Usage, or custom, for law. _L._

=Moses and Mahomet were not men of speculation,= 10 =but men of action; and it is the stress they laid upon the latter that has given them the power they wield over the destinies of mankind.= _Renan._

=Most authors steal their works, or buy.= _Pope._

=Most dangerous / Is that temptation that doth goad us on / To sin in loving virtue.= _Meas. for Meas._, ii. 2.

=Most felt, least said.= _Pr._

=Most joyful let the poet be; / It is through him that all men see.= _W. E. Channing._

=Most men and most women are merely one= 15 =couple more.= _Emerson._

=Most men do not know what is in them till they receive the summons from their fellows; their hearts die within them, sleep settles upon them--the lethargy of the world's miasmata; there is nothing for which they are so thankful as for that cry, "Awake, thou that sleepest."= _Ruskin._

=Most men forget God all day, and ask Him to remember them at night.= (?)

=Most men I ask little from; I try to render them much, and to expect nothing in return, and I get very well out of the bargain.= _Fénelon._

=Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean.= _Lowell._

=Most men never reach the glorious epoch, that= 20 =middle stage between despair and deification, in which the comprehensible appears to us common and insipid.= _Goethe._

=Most men of action incline to fatalism, and most men of thought believe in Providence.= _Balzac._

=Most men take no notice of what is plain, as if that were of no use; but puzzle their thoughts to be themselves in those vast depths and abysses which no human understanding can fathom.= _Sherlock._

=Most men think indistinctly, and therefore cannot speak with exactness.= _Johnson._

=Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?= _Bible._

=Most men write now as if they expected that= 25 =their works should live no more than a month.= _Lord Orford._

=Most natures are insolvent; cannot satisfy their own wants, have an ambition out of all proportion to their practical force, and so do lean and beg day and night continually.= _Emerson._

=Most of our evils come from our vices.= _Pr._

=Most of the appearing mirth in the world is not mirth, but art; the wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.= _South._

=Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances, to the elevation of mankind.= _Thoreau._

=Most of the mischief in the world would never= 30 =happen if men would only be content to sit still in their parlours.= _Pascal._

=Most people think now-a-days the only hopeful way of serving your neighbour is to make a profit out of him; whereas, in my opinion, the hopefulest way of serving him is to let him make a profit out of me.= _Ruskin._

=Most people, when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.= _Billings._

=Most people who ask advice of others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.= _Knigge._

=Most potent, effectual for all work whatsoever, is wise planning, firm combining and commanding among men.= _Carlyle._

=Most powerful is he who has himself in his= 35 =power.= _Seneca._

=Most religion-mongers have bated their paradises with a bit of toasted cheese. They have tempted the body with large promises of possessions in their transmortal El Dorado.= _Lowell._

=Most strange that men should fear, / Seeing that death, a necessary end, / Will come when it will come.= _Jul. Cæs._, ii. 2.

=Most subject is the fattest soil to weeds.= 2 _Hen. IV._, iv. 4.

=Most terrors are but spectral illusions.= _Helps._

=Most things have two handles, and a wise= 40 =man takes hold of the best.= _Pr._

=Most women have no characters at all.= _Pope._

=Most wretched men / Are cradled into poetry by wrong; / They learn in suffering what they teach in song.= _Shelley._

=Mot à mot=--Word for word.

=Mot à mot on fait les gros livres=--Word by word big books are made. _Fr. Pr._

=Mot d'ordre=--Watchword. _Fr._ 45

=Mot pour rire=--A jest. _Fr._

=Mother, a maiden is a tender thing, / And best by her that bore her understood.= _Tennyson._

=Mother's darlings are but milksop heroes.= _Pr._

=Mother's love is the cream of love.= _Pr._

=Mother's truth keeps constant youth.= _Pr._ 50

=Motives are better than actions.= _Bovee._

=Motives are symptoms of weakness, and supplements for the deficient energy of the living principle, the law within us.= _Coleridge._

=Motley's the only wear.= _As You Like It_, ii. 7.

=Mots d'usage=--Phrases in common use. _Fr._

=Motu proprio=--Of his own accord. 55

=Mountains interposed / Make enemies of nations, who had else / Like kindred drops been mingled into one.= _Cowper._

=Mountains never shake hands. Their roots may touch; they may keep company some way up; but at length they part company, and rise into individual, isolated peaks. So it is with great men.= _Hare._

=Mourning only lasts till morning with the children of the morning.= _Saying._

=Mourning tendeth to mending.= _Pr._

=Movet cornicula risum / Furtivis nudata coloribus=--The 5 crow, stript of its stolen colours, provokes our ridicule. _Hor._

=Moving accidents by flood and field.= _Othello_, i. 3.

=Mrs. Chatterbox is the mother of mischief.= _Pr._

=Much bruit, little fruit.= _Pr._

=Much corn lies under the straw that is not seen.= _Pr._

=Much debating goes on about the good that= 10 =has been done and the harm by the free circulation of the Bible. To me this is clear: it will do harm, as it has done, if used dogmatically and fancifully; and do good, as it has done, if used didactically and feelingly.= _Goethe._

=Much exists under our very noses which has no name, and can get none.= _Carlyle._

=Much food is in the tillage of the poor.= _Bible._

=Much in the world may be done by severity, more by love, but most of all by discernment and impartial justice.= _Goethe._

=Much learning is a weariness of the flesh.= _Pr._

=Much learning shows how little mortals know;= 15 =much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy.= _Young._

=Much lies among us convulsively, nay, desperately, struggling to be born.= _Carlyle._

=Much meat, much disease.= _Pr._

=Much might be said on both sides.= _Addison._

=Much of the good or evil that befalls persons arises from the well or ill managing of their conversation.= _Judge Hale._

=Much of the pleasure, and all the benefit of= 20 =conversation, depends upon our own opinion of the speaker's veracity.= _Paley._

=Much of this world's wisdom is still acquired by necromancy--by consulting the oracular dead.= _Hare._

=Much of what is great, and to all men beneficial, has been wrought by those who neither intended nor knew the good they did; and many mighty harmonies have been discoursed by instruments that had been dumb and discordant but that God knew their stops.= _Ruskin._

=Much reading makes one haughty and pedantic; much observation= (_Sehen_) =makes one wise, sociable, and helpful.= _Lichtenberg._

=Much religion, but no goodness.= _Pr._

=Much rust needs a rough file.= _Pr._ 25

=Much there is that appears unequal in our life, yet the balance is soon and unexpectedly restored. In eternal alternation a weal counterbalances the woe, and swift sorrows our joys. Nothing is constant. Many an incongruity= (_Missverhältniss_) =as the days roll on, is gradually and imperceptibly dissolved in harmony. And ah! love knows how to reconcile the greatest discrepancy and unite earth with heaven.= _Goethe._

=Mucho sabe la zorra, pero mas el que la toma=--The fox is cunning, but he is more cunning who takes him. _Sp. Pr._

=Mud chokes no eels.= _Pr._

=Mudar costumbre a par de muerte=--To change a custom is next to death. _Sp. Pr._

=Muddy spring, muddy stream.= _Pr._ 30

=Mugitus labyrinthi=--The bellowing of the labyrinth (a threadbare theme among weak poets). _Juv._

=Mules deliver great discourses because their ancestors were horses.= _Pr._

=Mulier cupido quod dicit amanti, / In vento et rapida scribere oportet aqua=--What a woman says to an ardent lover ought to be written on the winds and the swiftly flowing water. _Catull._

=Mulier profecto nata est ex ipsa mora=--Woman is surely born of tardiness itself. _Plaut._

=Mulier quæ sola cogitat male cogitat=--The 35 thoughts of a woman when alone tend to mischief. _Pr._

=Mulier recte olet ubi nihil olet=--A woman smells sweetest when she smells not at all. _Plaut._

=Multa cadunt inter calicem supremaque labra=--Many things fall between the cup and the lip. _Laber._

=Multa dies, variusque labor mutabilis ævi, / Retulit in melius=--Many a thing has time and the varying sway of changeful years altered for the better. _Virg._

=Multa docet fames=--Hunger (_i.e._, necessity) teaches us many things. _Pr._

=Multa fero ut placeam genus irritabile vatum=--Much 40 I endure to appease the irritable race of poets. _Hor._

=Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum; / Multa recedentes adimunt=--The coming years bring with them many advantages; as they recede they take many away. _Hor._

=Multa gemens=--Groaning deeply. _Virg._

=Multa me docuit usus, magister egregius=--Necessity, that excellent master, hath taught me many things. _Pliny the younger._

=Multa novit vulpis, sed felis unam magnum=--The fox knows many shifts, the cat only one great one, viz., to run up a tree. _Pr._

=Multa paucis=--Much in little. 45

=Multa petentibus / Desunt multa=--Those who crave much want much. _Hor._

=Multa quidem scripsi; sed quæ vitiosa putavi, / Emendaturis ignibus ipse dedi=--Much have I written; but what I considered faulty I myself committed to the correcting flames. _Ovid._

=Multa renascentur quæ jam cecidere, cadentque / Quæ nunc sunt in honore vocabula, si volet usus, / Quem penes arbitrium est, et jus, et norma loquendi=--Many words now in disuse will revive, and many now in vogue will be forgotten, if usage wills it, in whose hands is the choice and the right to lay down the law of language. _Hor._

=Multa rogant utenda dari; data reddere nolunt=--They ask many a sum on loan, but they are loath to repay. _Ovid._

=Multa senem circumveniunt incommoda=--Many 50 are the discomforts that gather round old age. _Hor._

=Multa tacere loquive paratas=--Ready to suppress much or speak much.

=Multa tulit, fecitque puer, sudavit et alsit=--Much from early years has he suffered and done, sweating and chilled. _Hor._

=Multæ manus onus levius faciunt=--Many hands make light work. _Pr._

=Multæ regum aures et oculi=--Kings have many ears and eyes.

=Multæ terricolis linguæ, cœlestibus una=--The inhabitants of earth have many tongues, those of heaven have but one.

=Multarum palmarum causidicus=--A pleader who has gained many causes.

=Multas amicitias silentium diremit=--Silence, or 5 neglect, dissolves many friendships. _Pr._

=Multi adorantur in ara qui cremantur in igne=--Many are worshipped at the altar who are burning in flames. _St. Augustine._

=Multi / Committunt eadem diverso crimina fato, / Ille crucem sceleris pretium tulit, hic diadema=--Many commit the same crimes with a different destiny; one bears a cross as the price of his villany, another wears a crown. _Juv._

=Multi mortales, dediti ventri atque somno, indocti incultique vitam sicuti peregrinantes transiere; quibus profecto contra naturam corpus voluptati, anima oneri=--Many men bave passed through life like travellers in a strange land, without spiritual or moral culture, and given up to the lusts of appetite and indolence, whose bodies, contrary to their nature, were enslaved to indulgence, and their souls a burden. _Sall._

=Multi multa, nemo omnia novit=--Many know many things, no one everything. _Coke._

=Multi nil rectum nisi quod placuit sibi ducunt=--Many 10 deem nothing right but what suits their own conceit. _Hor._

=Multi te oderint si teipsum ames=--Many will detest you if you spend all love on yourself.

=Multis ille bonis flebilis occidit / Nulli flebilior quam tibi=--He fell lamented by many good men, by none more lamented than by thee (Virgil). _Hor., of Quinctilius._

=Multis minatur, qui uni facit injuriam=--He who wrongs one threatens many. _Pub. Syr._

=Multis parasse divitias non finis miseriarum fuit, sed mutatio; non est in rebus vitium sed in animo=--The acquisition of riches has been to many, not the end of their miseries, but a change in them; the fault is not in the riches, but in the disposition. _Sen._

=Multis terribilis caveto multos=--If you are a 15 terror to many, then beware of many. _Auson._

=Multitudinem decem faciunt=--Ten constitute a crowd. _Coke._

=Multo plures satietas quam fames perdidit viros=--Many more die of surfeit than of hunger.

=Multos castra juvant, et lituo tubæ / Permistus sonitus, bellaque matribus / Detestata=--The camp and the clang of the trumpet mingled with the clarion, and wars detested by mothers, have delights for many. _Hor._

=Multos in summa pericula misit / Venturi timor ipse mali=--The mere apprehension of coming evil has driven many into positions of great peril. _Pr._

=Multos ingratos invenimus, plures facimus=--We 20 find many men ungrateful; we make more. _Pr._

=Multos qui conflictari adversis videantur, beatos; ac plerosque, quanquam magnas per opes, miserrimos=--We may see many struggling against adversity who yet are happy; and more, although abounding in wealth, who are most wretched. _Tac._

=Multum abludit imago=--The picture is outrageously unlike. _Hor._

=Multum demissus homo=--A modest reserved man. _Hor._

=Multum in parvo=--Much in little.

=Multum, non multa=--Much, not many. _Pliny._ 25

=Multum sapit qui non diu desipit=--He is very wise who does not long persist in folly. _Pr._

=Mundæque parvo sub lare pauperum / Cœnæ, sine aulæis et ostro, / Sollicitam explicuere frontem=--A neat, simple meal under the humble roof of the poor, without hangings and purple, has smoothed the wrinkles of an anxious brow. _Hor._

=Munditiæ, et ornatus, et cultus hæc feminarum insignia sunt, his gaudent et gloriantur=--Neatness, ornament, and dress, are peculiar badges of women; in these they delight and glory. _Livy._

=Munditiis capimur=--We are captivated by neatness. _Ovid._

=Mundus est Dei viva statua!=--The world is the 30 living image of God. _T. Campanella._

=Mundus universus exercet histrionem=--All men practise the actor's art. _Petron._

=Mundus vult decipi; ergo decipiatur=--The world wishes to be deceived; therefore let it be deceived.

=Munera accipit frequens, remittit nunquam=--He often receives presents, but never gives any. _Plaut._

=Munera, crede mihi, capiunt hominesque deosque; / Placatur donis Jupiter ipse datis!=--Gifts, believe me, captivate both men and gods; Jupiter himself is won over and appeased by gifts. _Ovid._

=Munificence is not quantity, but quality.= 35 _Pascal._

=Munit hæc, et altera vincit=--This defends, and the other conquers. _M._

=Munus Apolline dignum=--A present worthy of Apollo. _Hor._

=Munus ornare verbis=--To enhance the value of a present by words. _Ter._

=Murder, though it have no tongue, will speak / With most miraculous organ.= _Ham._, ii. 2.

=Murder will out.= _Chaucer._ 40

=Muras æneus conscientia sana=--A sound conscience is a wall of brass. _M._

=Mus in pice=--A mouse in pitch; "a fly wading through tar."

=Mus non uni fidit antro=--The mouse does not trust to one hole only. _Plaut._

=Music fills up the present moment more decisively than anything else, whether it awakens thought or summons to action.= _Goethe._

=Music hath charms to soothe the savage= 45 =breast.= _Congreve._

=Music in the best sense has little need of novelty= (_Neuheit_); =on the contrary, the older it is, the more one is accustomed to it, the greater is the effect it produces.= _Goethe._

=Music, in the works of its greatest masters, is more marvellous, more mysterious, than poetry.= _H. Giles._

=Music is a kind of inarticulate unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the infinite, and lets us for moments gaze that.= _Carlyle._

=Music is a language directed to the passions; but the rudest passions put on a new nature and become pleasing in harmony.= _James Usher._

=Music is a prophecy of what life is to be, the rainbow of promise translated out of seeing into hearing.= _Mrs. Child._

=Music is an invisible dance, as dancing is a silent music.= _Jean Paul._

=Music is but wild sounds civilised into time and tune.= _Fuller._

=Music is our fourth great material want--first= 5 =food, then raiment, then shelter, then music.= _Bovee._

=Music is the art of the prophets, the only art which can calm the agitations of the soul.= _Luther._

=Music is the crystallisation of sound.= _Thoreau._

=Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.= _Beethoven._

=Music is the most immediate means possessed by the will for the manifestation of its inner impulses.= _A. R. Parsons._

=Music is the only one of the fine arts in which= 10 =not only man, but all other animals, have a common property.= _Jean Paul._

=Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral and religious feelings.= _Addison._

=Music is the poor man's Parnassus.= _Emerson._

=Music is the true universal speech of mankind.= _Weber._

=Music makes people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.= _Luther._

=Music, of all the arts, has the greatest influence= 15 =over the passions, and the legislator ought to give it the greatest encouragement.= _Napoleon._

=Music of the spheres.= _Pericles_, v. 1.

=Music oft hath such a charm / To make bad good, and good provoke to harm.= _Meas. for Meas._, iv. 1.

=Music, once admitted into the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.= _Bulwer Lytton._

=Music so softens and disarms the mind, / That not an arrow does resistance find.= _Waller._

=Music stands in a much closer connection with= 20 =pure sensation than any of the other arts.= _Helmholtz._

=Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.= _Auerbach._

=Music, when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order; and also when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.= _Ruskin._

=Music will not cure the toothache.= _Pr._

=Music wraps us in melancholy, and elevates in joy.= _James Usher._

=Musik ist der Schlüssel vom weiblichen Herzen=--Music 25 is the key to the female heart. _Seume._

=Musik ist die wahre allgemeine Menschensprache=--Music is the true universal speech of mankind. _C. J. Weber._

=Muss ist eine harte Nuss=--Must is a hard nut to crack. _Ger. Pr._

=Müsset im Naturbetrachen / Immer eins wie alles achten; / Nichts ist drinnen, nichts ist draussen, / Denn was innen, das ist aussen. / So ergreifet ohne Säumness / Heilig öffentlich Geheimniss=--In the study of Nature you must ever regard one as all; nothing is inner, nothing is outer, for what is within that is without. Without hesitation, therefore, seize ye the holy mystery thus lying open to all. _Goethe._

=Müssiggang ist aller Laster Anfang=--Idleness is the beginning of all vices.

=Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet= 30 =kernel.= _Spurgeon._

="Must" is hard, but by "must" alone can man show what his inward condition is. Any one can live unrestrainedly.= _Goethe._

=Must not a great history be always an epic?= _Dr. Walter Smith._

=Mutability is the badge of infirmity.= _Charron._

=Mutare vel timere sperno=--I disdain either to change or to fear. _M._

=Mutatis mutandis=--After making the necessary 35 changes. _L._

=Mutato nomine, de te / Fabula narratur=--Change but the name, the story's told of you. _Hor._

=Mutum est pictura poema=--A picture is a poem without words.

=My alms-people are to be the ablest bodied I can find, the ablest minded I can make, and every day will be a duty ... shall stand with tools at work, mattock or flail, axe or hammer.= _Ruskin_

=My ancient but ignoble blood / Has crept through scoundrels ever since the Flood.= (?)

=My better half.= _Sir Philip Sidney._ 40

=My bounty is as boundless as the sea, / My love as deep; the more I give to thee, / The more I have, for both are infinite.= _Rom. and Jul._, ii. 2.

=My dame fed her hens on thanks, but they laid no eggs.= _Pr._

=My days are in the yellow leaf; / The flowers and fruits of love are gone; / The worm, the canker, and the grief / Are mine alone.= _Byron._

="My family begins with me, yours ends with you."= _Iphicrates, when upbraided by a young aristocrat for his low birth._

=My fate cries out, / And makes each petty= 45 =artery in this body / As hardy as the Nemean lion's nerve.= _Ham._, i. 4.

=My first and last secret of Art is to get a thorough intelligence of the fact to be painted, represented, or, in whatever way, set forth--the fact deep as Hades, high as heaven, and written so, as to the visual face of it on this poor earth.= _Carlyle._

=My grief lies onward, and my joy behind.= _Lucrece._

="My hand," said Napoleon, "is immediately connected with my head," but the sacred courage is connected with the heart.= _Emerson._