Chapter M (7)

=Nothing pleaseth but rare accidents.= 1 _Hen. IV._, i. 2.

=Nothing preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing.= _Ben. Franklin._

=Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect indifference to it.= _Hazlitt._

=Nothing really pleasant or unpleasant subsists= 25 =by nature, but all things become so by habit.= _Epictetus._

=Nothing recommends a man more to the female mind than courage.= _Spectator._

=Nothing remains to man, nothing is possible to him of true joy, but in the righteous love of his fellows, in the knowledge of the laws and the glory of God, and in the daily use of the faculties of soul and body with which God has endowed him.= _Ruskin._

=Nothing resembles pride so much as discouragement.= _Amiel._

=Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.= _Schumann._

=Nothing seems important to me but so far as= 30 =it is connected with morals.= _Cecil._

=Nothing so difficult as a beginning / In poesy, except perhaps the end; / For oftentimes when Pegasus seems winning / The race, he sprains a wing, and down we tend, / Like Lucifer, when hurl'd from heaven for sinning.= _Byron._

=Nothing so effectively disconcerts the schemes of sinister people as the tranquillity of great souls.= _Mirabeau._

=Nothing so endures as a truly spoken word.= _Carlyle._

=Nothing so lifts a man from all his mean imprisonments, were it but for moments, as true admiration.= _Carlyle._

=Nothing so much contents us as that which= 35 =confounds us.= _Goldsmith._

=Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire of appearing so.= _La Roche._

=Nothing stands in need of lying but a lie.= _Pr._

=Nothing stings so bitterly as loss of money.= _Pr._

=Nothing succeeds like success.= _Talleyrand._

=Nothing that has ever lived is lost; nothing is= 40 =useless; not a sigh, a joy, or a sorrow which has not served its purpose.= _Mme. Gasparin._

=Nothing that is violent is permanent.= _Pr._

=Nothing that lives is or can be rigidly perfect; part of it is decaying, part nascent. The foxglove blossom--a third part bud, a third part past, a third part in full bloom--is a type of the life of this world.= _Ruskin._

=Nothing truly can be made mine own but what I make mine own by using well.= _Middleton._

=Nothing venture, nothing win.= _Pr._

=Nothing weighs lighter than a promise.= _Ger. Pr._ 45

=Nothing which is unjust can hope to continue in this world.= _Carlyle._

=Nothing will be mended by complaints.= _Johnson._

=Nothing's more dull and negligent / Than an old lazy government, / That knows no interest of state, / But such as serves a present strait, / And, to patch up or shift, will close, / Or break alike, with friends or foes.= _Butler._

=Notre défiance justifie la tromperie d'autrui=--Our distrust justifies the deceit of others. _La Roche._

=Notre vie est du vent tissu=--Our life is a web 50 woven of wind. (?)

=Notwithstanding this great proximity of man to himself, we still remain ignorant of many things concerning ourselves.= _Hale._

=Nought can be gained by a Sabbath profaned.= _Saying._

=Nought else there is / But that weird beat of Time, which doth disjoin / To-day from Hellas.= _Lewis Morris._

=Nought is so vile that on the earth doth live, / But to the earth some special good doth give; / Nor aught so good, but, strain'd from that fair use, / Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse.= _Rom. and Jul._, ii. 3.

=Nought so stockish, hard, and full of rage, / But music for the time doth change its nature.= _Mer. of Venice_, v. 1.

=Nought treads so silent as the foot of time.= _Young._

=Nourri dans le sérail, j'en connais les détours=--Brought up in the seraglio, I know all its sinuosities. _Racine._

=Nous avons changé tout cela=--We have changed 5 all that. _Molière._

=Nous avons tous assez de force pour supporter les maux d'autrui=--We all have strength enough to bear the misfortunes of others. _La Roche._

=Nous dansons sur un volcan=--We are dancing on a volcano. _M. de Salvandy, just prior to the July Revolution of 1830._

=Nous désirerions peu de choses avec ardeur, si nous connaissions parfaitement ce que nous désirons=--We should desire few things with eagerness if we well knew the worth of what we are striving for. _La Roche._

=Nous maintiendrons=--We will maintain. _M._

=Nous n'écoutons d'instincts que ceux qui sont= 10 =les nôtres, / Et ne croyons le mal que quand il est venu=--We listen to no instincts but such as are our own, and we believe in no misfortune till it comes. _La Fontaine._

=Nous ne savons ce que c'est que le bonheur ou le malheur absolu=--We do not know what absolute good or evil is. _Rousseau._

=Nous ne sommes hommes, et nous tenons les uns aux autres, que par la parole=--We are men, and associate together, solely in virtue of speech. (?)

=Nous ne trouvons guère de gens de bon sens que ceux qui sont de notre avis=--We seldom find any persons of good sense except those who are of our opinion. _La Roche._

=Nous ne vivons jamais, mais nous esperons de vivre=--We never live, but we hope to live. _Pascal._

=Nous sommes assemblés par la volonté nationale,= 15 =nous ne sortirons que par la force=--We are here by the will of the people, and nothing but the force of bayonets shall send us hence. _Mirabeau to the Marquis de Brézé._

=Nous sommes mieux seul qu'avec un sot=--One had better be alone than with a fool. _Fr. Pr._

=Nous verrons, dit l'aveugle=--We shall see, as the blind man said. _Fr._

=Novacula in cotem=--He has met his match (_lit._ the razor against the whetstone). _Pr._

=Novels are tales of adventures which did not occur in God's creation, but only in the waste chambers (to be let unfurnished) of certain human heads, and which are part and parcel only of the sum of nothings; which, nevertheless, obtain some temporary remembrance, and lodge extensively at this epoch of the world in similar, still more unfurnished, chambers.= _Carlyle._

=Novels are the journal or record of manners;= 20 =and the new importance of these books derives from the fact that the novelist begins to penetrate the surface, and treat this part of life more worthily.= _Emerson._

=Novels for most part instil into young minds false views of life.= _Schopenhauer._

=Novelty has something in it that inebriates the fancy, and not unfrequently dissipates and fumes away like other intoxication, and leaves the poor patient, as usual, with an aching heart.= _Burns._

=Novelty is only in request; and it is as dangerous to be aged in any kind of course, as it is virtuous to be constant in any undertaking.= _Meas. for Meas._, iii. 2.

=Novi ego hoc sæculum, moribus quibus siet=--I know this age, what its character is. _Plaut._

=Novi ingenium mulierum, / Nolunt ubi velis,= 25 =ubi nolis cupiunt ultro=--I know the nature of women: when you will, they won't; when you won't, they will. _Ter._

=Novos amicos dum paras, veteres cole=--While you seek new friendships, take care to cultivate the old.

=Novum et ad hunc diem non auditum=--New, and unheard of till this day. _Cic._

=Novus homo=--A new man; a man risen from obscurity.

=Now an incredible deal is demanded, and every avenue is barred.= _Goethe._

=Now farewell light, thou sunshine bright, /= 30 =And all beneath the sky! / May coward shame distain his name, / The wretch that dares not die.= _Burns, in "Macpherson's Lament."_

=Now, good digestion wait on appetite, / And health on both.= _Macb._, iii. 4.

=Now is now, and Yule's in winter.= _Sc. Pr._

="Now" is the watchword of the wise.= _Pr._

=Now! it is gone. Our brief hours travel post, / Each with its thought or deed, its Why or How; / But know, each parting hour gives up a ghost / To dwell within thee--an eternal Now!= _Coleridge._

=Now join your hands, and with your hands= 35 =your hearts, / That no dissension hinder government.= 3 _Hen. VI._, iv. 6.

=Now morn her rosy steps in th' eastern clime, / Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl.= _Milton._

=Now our fates from unmomentous things / May rise like rivers out of little springs.= _Campbell._

=Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, / Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune, and harsh; / That unmatch'd form and feature of blown youth / Blasted with ecstacy: O, woe is me, / To have seen what I have seen, see what I see.= _Ham._, iii. 2.

=Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it; / We are happy now, because God wills it.= _Lowell._

=Now 'tis the spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted;= 40 =/ Suffer them now, and they'll o'ergrow the garden, / And choke the herbs for want of husbandry.= 2 _Hen. VI._, iii. 1.

=Now you have feathered your nest.= _Congreve._

=Nowadays compromise and indifference rule supreme, and instead of solid grit we have putty or wax.= _Spurgeon._

=Nowadays truth is news.= _Sc. Pr._

=Nowhere can a man get real root-room, and spread out his branches till they touch the morning and the evening, but in his own house.= _Ward Beecher._

=Nox atra cava circumvolat=--Black night envelopes them with her hollow shade. _Virg._

=Noxiæ pœna par esto=--Let the punishment be proportionate to the offence. _Cic._

=Nuda veritas=--Undisguised truth. _Hor._

=Nudum pactum=--A mere agreement. _L._

=Nugæ canoræ=--Melodious trifles; agreeable nonsense. 5 _Hor._

=Nugis addere pondus=--To add weight to trifles. _Hor._

=Nul n'aura de l'esprit, / Hors nous et nos amis=--No one shall have wit except ourselves and our friends. _Molière._

=Nul n'est content de sa fortune, ni mécontent de son esprit=--No one is content with his lot or discontented with his wit. _Mme. Deshoulières._

=Nulla ætas ad perdiscendum est=--There is no time of life past learning something. _St. Ambrose._

=Nulla dies sine linea=--Let no day pass without its 10 line. _Pr._

=Nulla falsa doctrina est, quæ non permisceat aliquid veritatis=--There is no false doctrine which contains not a mixture of truth.

=Nulla fere causa est, in qua non fœmina litem moverit=--There's hardly a strife in which a woman has not been a prime mover. _Juv._

=Nulla fides regni sociis, omnisque potestas / Impatiens consortis erit=--There is no faith among colleagues in power, and all power will be impatient of a colleague. _Lucan._

=Nulla pallescere culpa=--Not to grow pale at imputation of guilt. _M._

=Nulla placere diu, vel vivere carmina possunt /= 15 =Quæ scribuntur aquæ potoribus=--No poems written by water-drinkers can be long popular or live long. _Hor._

=Nulla res tantum ad discendum profuit quantum scriptio=--Nothing so much assists learning, as writing down what we wish to remember.

=Nulla unquam de vita hominis cunctatio longa est=--No delay is too long when the life of a man is at stake. _Juv._

=Nulli jactantius mœrent, quam qui maxime lætantur=--None mourn so demonstratively as those who are in reality rejoicing most. _Tac._

=Nulli secundus=--Second to none.

=Nulli te facias nimis sodalem, / Gaudebis= 20 =minus et minus dolebis=--Be on too intimate terms with no one; if your joy be less, so will your grief. _Mart._

=Nullius addictus jurare in verba magistri, / Quo me cunque rapit tempestas, deferor hospes=--Bound to swear by the opinions of no master, I present myself a guest wherever the storm drives me. _Hor._

=Nullius boni sine socio jucunda possessio=--Without a friend to share it, no good we possess is truly enjoyable. _Sen._

=Nullius in verba=--At no man's dictation. _M._

=Nullum est jam dictum quod non dictum sit prius=--Nothing is said now that has not been said before. _Ter._

=Nullum est malum majus, quam non posse= 25 =ferre malum=--There is no greater misfortune than not to be able to endure misfortune.

=Nullum est sine nomine saxum=--Not a stone but has a tale to tell. _Lucan._

=Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiæ fuit=--No great genius is ever without some tincture of madness. _Sen._

=Nullum magnum malum quod extremum est=--No evil is great which is the last. _Corn. Nep._

=Nullum numen abest si sit prudentia=--Where there is prudence, a protecting divinity is not far away. _Pr._

=Nullum numen habes si sit prudentia; nos te /= 30 =Nos facimus, Fortuna, deam cœloque locamus=--Thou hast no divine power, O Fortune, where there is prudence; it is we who make a goddess of thee, and place thee in heaven. _Juv._

=Nullum quod tetigit non ornavit=--There was nothing he touched that he did not adorn. _Epitaph by Johnson on Goldsmith._

=Nullum simile quatuor pedibus currit=--No simile runs on all fours, _i.e._, holds in every respect. _Pr._

=Nullum tempus occurrit regi=--No lapse of time bars the rights of the crown. _L._

=Nullus argento color est, / Nisi temperato / Splendeat usu=--Money has no splendour of its own, unless it shines by temperate use. _Hor._

=Nullus commodum capere potest de injuria sua= 35 =propria=--No one can take advantage of wrong committed by himself. _L._

=Nullus dolor est quem non longinquitas temporis minuat ac molliat=--There is no sorrow which length of time will not diminish and soothe. _Cic._

=Nullus est liber tam malus, ut non aliqua parte prosit=--There is no book so bad that it may not be useful in some way or other. _Pliny._

=Numbers err in this: / Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss.= _Pope._

=Numerical inquiries will give you entertainment in solitude by the practice, and reputation in public by the effect.= _Johnson._

=Nunc animis opus, Ænea, nunc pectore firmo=--Now, 40 Æneas, you have need of courage, now a resolute heart. _Virg._

=Nunc aut nunquam=--Now or never. _M._

=Nunc dimittis=--Now let me depart in peace. _See Luke_ i. 29.

=Nunc est bibendum, nunc pede libero, / Pulsanda tellus!=--Now let us drink; now let us beat the ground with merry foot. _Hor._

=Nunc patimur longæ pacis mala; sævior armis / Luxuria incubuit, victumque ulciscitur orbem=--Now we suffer the evils of long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world. _Juv._

=Nunc positis novus exuviis nitidusque juventa=--Now, 45 all new, his slough cast off, and shining in youth. _Virg._

=Nunc vino pellite curas!=--Now drive off your cares with wine. _Hor._

=Nunquam aliud natura, aliud sapientia dicit=--Nature never says one thing and wisdom another. _Juv._

=Nunquam erit alienis gravis, qui suis se concinnat levem=--He will never be disagreeable to others who makes himself agreeable to his own relations. _Plaut._

=Nunquam est fidelis cum potente societas=--An alliance with a powerful man is never safe. _Phædr._

=Nunquam libertas gratior extat / Quam sub= 50 =rege pio=--Liberty is never more enjoyable than under a pious king. _Claud._

=Nunquam nimis dicitur, quod nunquam satis discitur=--That is never too often repeated which is never sufficiently learned. _Sen._

=Nunquam non paratus=--Never unprepared. _M._

=Nunquam retrorsum=--Never go back. _M._

=Nunquam se plus agere, quam nihil quum ageret; nunquam minus solum esse, quam quum solus esset=--He said he never had more to do than when he had nothing to do, and never was less alone than when alone. _Cic. quoting Scipio Africanus._

=Nunquam vir æquus dives evasit cito=--No just man ever became quickly rich. _Menander._

=Nuptial love maketh mankind; friendly love perfecteth it; but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it.= _Bacon._

=Nur aus vollendeter Kraft blicket die Anmuth hervor=--Only out of perfected faculty does grace look forth. _Goethe._

=Nur das Gemeine / Verkennt man selten. Und= 5 =das Seltene / Vergisst man schwerlich=--Only what is common we rarely mistake, and what is rare we with difficulty forget. _Lessing._

=Nur das Leben hasst, der Tod versöhnt=--In life alone is hatred; in death is reconciliation. _Tiedge._

=Nur das zu thun, was alle wollen, / Ist das Geheimniss jeder Macht=--The secret of all power is only to do that which all would fain do. _Kinkel._

=Nur dem Fröhlichen blüht der Baum des Lebens, / Dem Unschuldigen rinnt der Born der Jugend / Auch noch im Alter=--Only for the cheerful does the tree of life blossom, for the innocent the well-spring of youth keeps still flowing even in old age. _Arndt._

=Nur dem vertrau' ich völlig, nur der imponirt nachhaltig, der über sich zu lächeln fähig ist=--I trust only him perfectly, only he makes a lasting impression on me, who is capable of laughing at himself. _Feuchtersleben._

=Nur der Freundschaft Harmonie / Mildert die= 10 =Beschwerden; / Ohne ihre Sympathie / Ist kein Glück auf Erden=--Nothing but the harmony of friendship soothes our sorrows; without its sympathy there is no happiness on earth. _Mozart._

=Nur der Glaube aller stärkt den Glauben, / Wo Tausende anbeten und verehren, / Da wird die Glut zur Flamme, und beflügelt / Schwingt sich der Geist in alle Himmel auf=--Only the faith of all strengthens faith; where thousands worship and reverence, there the glow becomes flame, and the spirit soar upwards on wings into all heavens. _Schiller._

=Nur der Irrthum ist das Leben, / Und das Wissen ist der Tod=--Only error is life, and knowledge is death. _Schiller._

=Nur der Irrthum ist unser Teil, und Wahn ist unsre Wissenschaft=--Only error is our portion, and illusion our knowledge. _Lessing._

=Nur der ist wahrhaft arm, der weder Geist noch Kraft hat=--Only he is truly poor who is without soul and without faculty. _Benzel-Sternan._

=Nur der Starke wird das Schicksal zwingen, /= 15 =Wenn der Schwächling untersinkt=--Only the strong man will coerce destiny if the weakling surrenders. _Schiller._

=Nur die Hoffenden leben=--Only the hoping live. _Halm._

=Nur die Lumpe sind bescheiden, / Brave freuen sich der That=--Only low-born fellows are modest; men of spirit rejoice over their feats. _Goethe._

=Nur eine Mutter weiss allein, / Was lieben heisst und glücklich sein=--A mother alone knows what it is to love and be happy. _Chamisso._

=Nur eine Schmach weiss ich auf dieser Erde. / Und die heisst: Unrecht thun=--Only one disgrace know I in this world, and that is doing wrong. _Grillparzer._

=Nur eine Weisheit führt zum Ziele, / Doch= 20 =ihrer Sprüche giebt es viele=--Only one wisdom leads to the goal, though the proverbs of it are many. _Bodenstedt._

=Nur Helios vermag's zu sagen, / Der alles Irdische bescheint=--Only Helios (the sun-god) can tell, he sheds light on every earthly thing. _Schiller._

=Nur immer zu! wir wollen es ergründen, / In deinem Nichts hoff' ich das All zu finden=--Only let us still go on! we will yet fathom it. In thy nothing hope I to find the all. _Goethe._

=Nur in der eignen Kraft ruht das Schicksal jeder Nation=--Only in its own power rests the destiny of every nation. _Count v. Moltke, in_ 1880.

=Nur in der Schule selbst ist die eigentliche Vorschule=--The true preparatory school is only the school itself. _Goethe._

=Nur in schwülen Prüfungsstunden / Sprosst= 25 =die Palme, die den Sieger krönt=--Only in the stifling hours of trial does the palm shoot forth which decks the brow of the victor. _Salis-Seewis._

=Nur in Träumen wohnt das Glück der Erde=--Only in dreams does the happiness of the earth dwell. _Rückert._

=Nur Liebe darf der Liebe Blume brechen=--Only love may break the flower of love. _Schiller._

=Nur stets zu sprechen, ohne was zu sagen, / Das war von je der Redner grösste Gabe=--To but speak on without saying anything has ever been the greatest gift of the orator. _Platen._

=Nur vom Edeln kann das Edle stammen=--Only from the noble soul can what is noble come. _Schiller._

=Nur vom Nutzen wird die Welt regiert=--It is 30 only by show of advantage that the world is governed. _Schiller._

=Nur was wir selber glauben, glaubt man uns=--People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe. _Gutzkow._

=Nur wer die Last wirklich selbst trägt, kennt ihr Gewicht=--Only he who really bears the burden knows its weight. _Klinger._

=Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt / Weiss, was ich leide!=--Only he who knows what yearning is knows what I suffer. _Goethe._

=Nur wer sich recht des Lebens freut, / Trägt leichter, was es Schlimmes beut=--Only he who enjoys life aright finds it easier to bear the evils of it. _Bodenstedt._

=Nur wer vor Gott sich fühlet klein / Kann vor= 35 =den Menschen mächtig sein=--He only who feels himself little in the eye of God can hope to be mighty in the eyes of men. _Arndt._

=Nur zwei Tugenden giebt's. O, wären sie immer vereinigt, / Immer die Güte auch gross, immer die Grösse auch gut!=--There are only two virtues, were they but always united: goodness always also great, and greatness always also good. _Schiller._

=Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.= _Burns._

=Nusquam tuta fides=--There is nowhere any true honour. _Virg._

=Nutrimentum spiritus=--Nourishment for the Spirit! _Inscription on the Royal Library at Berlin._

=Nutritur vento, vento restinguitur ignis: / Lenis alit flammas, grandior aura necat!=--Fire is fed by the wind and extinguished by the wind: a gentle current feeds it, too strong a one puts it out! _Ovid._

=Nuts are given us, but we must crack them ourselves.= _Pr._

=Nymph, in thy orisons / Be all my sins remembered.= _Ham._, iii. 1.

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=O banish the tears of children! Continual rains upon the blossoms are hurtful.= _Jean Paul._

=O bitte um Leben noch! du fühlst, mit deinen= 5 =Mängeln, / Dass du noch wandeln kannst nicht unter Gottes Engeln=--O still pray for life; thou feelest that with those faults of thine thou canst not walk among the angels of God. _Rückert._

[Greek: ho bios brachys, hê de technê makrê]--Life is short, art is long. _Gr._

=O blicke nicht nach dem was jedem fehlt; / Betrachte, was noch einem jeden bleibt=--O look not at what each comes short in; consider what each still retains. _Goethe._

[Greek: ho bouletai, touth' hekastos kai oietai]--What each one wishes that he also thinks. _Demosthenes._

=O cæca nocentum / Consilia, O semper timidum scelus!=--Oh, how infatuated are the counsels of the guilty! Oh, how cowardly wickedness ever is! _Statius._

=O cives, cives, quærenda pecunia primum est; /= 10 =Virtus post nummos=--O citizens, citizens, you must seek for money first, for virtue after cash. _Hor._

=O Corydon, Corydon, secretum divitis ullum / Esse putas? Servi ut taceant, jumenta loquentur, / Et canis, et postes, et marmora=--O Corydon, Corydon, do you think anything a rich man does can be kept secret? Even if his servants say nothing, his beasts of burden, and dogs, and door-posts, and marble slabs will speak. _Juv._

=O cunning enemy, that, to catch a saint, / With saints dost bait thy hook.= _Meas. for Meas._, ii. 2.

=O curvæ in terris animæ et cœlestium inanes!=--Oh ye souls bent down to earth and void of everything heavenly. _Pers._

=O das Leben hat Reize, die wir nie gekannt=--Oh, life has charms which we have never known. _Schiller._

=O das Leben ist ein langer, langer Seufzer= 15 =vor dem Ausgehen des Athmens=--Oh, life is a long, long sigh before emitting the breath. _Jean Paul._

=O dass die Weisheit halb so eifrig wäre / Nach Schülern und Bekehrten, als der Spott=--Oh, that Wisdom were half as zealous for disciples and converts as Ridicule is. _Grillparzer._

=O dass es ewig bliebe, / Das Doppelglück der Töne wie der Liebe=--Oh, that it would stay for ever, the double bliss of the tones as well as of the love. _Goethe._

=O dass sie ewig' grünen bliebe / Die schöne Zeit der jungen Liebe=--Oh, that it remained for ever green, the fair season of early love. _Schiller._

=O dearest, dearest boy, my heart / For better love would seldom yearn, / Could I but teach the hundredth part / Of what from thee I learn.= _Wordsworth._

=O der Magnet des Wahns zieht mächtig=--Oh, 20 how powerfully the magnet of illusion attracts. _Gutzkow._

=O ein Fürst hat keinen Freund, kann keinen Freund haben=--Oh, a ruler has no friend, and can have none. _Lessing._

=O faciles dare summa Deos, eademque tueri / Difficiles=--How gracious the gods are in bestowing honours, how averse to ensure our tenure of them. _Lucan._

=O fallacem hominum spem=--How deceitful is the hope of men. _Cic._

=O flesh, flesh, how thou art fishified.= _Rom. and Jul._, ii. 4.

=O formose puer, nimium ne crede colori=--Oh, 25 beauteous boy, trust not too much to the bloom on thy cheeks. _Virg._

=O fortunate adolescens, qui tuæ virtutis Homerum præconem inveneris=--Oh, happy youth, to have a Homer as the publisher of thy valour. _Alexander the Great at the tomb of Achilles._

=O fortunatos nimium, sua si bona norint, / Agricolas, quibus ipsa, procul discordibus armis, / Fundit humo facilem victum justissima tellus=--Oh, how happy the tillers of the ground are, if they but knew their blessings; for whom, far from the clash of arms, the all-righteous earth pours forth from her soil an easy sustenance. _Virg._

=O foulest Circæan draught! thou poison of popular applause; madness is in thee, and death; thy end is bedlam and the grave.= _Carlyle._

=O glücklich! wer noch hoffen kann, / Aus diesem Meer des Irrtums aufzutauchen. / Was man nicht weiss, das eben brauchte man, / Und was man weiss, kann man nicht brauchen=--Oh, happy he who can still hope to emerge from this sea of error! What one does not know is exactly what one should want to know, and what one knows is what one has no use for. _Faust, in Goethe._

=O God, that bread should be so dear, / And= 30 =flesh and blood so cheap!= _T. Hood._

=O Gott! das Leben ist doch schön=--O God! life is nevertheless beautiful. _Schiller._

=O Gott, wie schränkt sich Welt und Himmel ein, / Wenn unser Herz in seinen Schranken banget=--O God, how contracted the world and heaven becomes when our heart becomes uneasy within its barriers. _Goethe._

=O guard thy roving thoughts with jealous care, for speech is but the dial-plate of thought; and every fool reads plainly in thy words what is the hour of thy thought.= _Tennyson._

=O' guid advisement comes nae ill.= _Burns._

=O Heaven! were man / But constant, he were= 35 =perfect; that one error / Fills him with faults; makes him run through all sins.= _Two Gent. of Ver._, v. 4.

=O Herz, versuch' es nur! so leicht ist's gut zu sein: / Und es zu scheinen ist so eine schwere Pein=--O heart, only try! To be good is so easy, and to appear so is such a heavy burden. _Rückert._

=O homines ad servitutem paratos!=--Oh, men, how ye prepare yourselves for slavery! _Tac._

=O how full of briars is this working-day world.= _As You Like It_, i. 3.

=O how wretched / Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favours! / There is betwixt that smile he would aspire to, / That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, / More pangs and fears than wars or women have; / And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, / Never to hope again.= _Henry VIII._, iii. 2.

=O hush the noise, ye men of strife, / And hear the angels sing!= _Sears._

=O, if this were seen, / The happiest youth--viewing his progress through / What perils past, what crosses to ensue--/ Would shut the book and sit him down and die.= 2 _Hen. IV._, iii. 1.

=O ja, dem Herrn ist alles Kinderspiel=--Oh, yes, 5 everything is but child's play to the gentleman. _Mephisto, in Goethe._

=O judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts, / And men have lost their reason!= _Jul. Cæs._, iii. 2.

=O kaum bezwingen wir das eigne Herz; / Wie soll die rasche Jugend sich bezähmen!=--Oh, we can hardly subdue our own heart; how shall impetuous youth restrain itself! _Schiller._

=O l'amour d'une mère! amour que nul n'oublie! / Pain merveilleux, que Dieu partage et multiplie! / Table toujours servie au paternel foyer! / Chacun en a sa part, et tous l'ont tout entier=--Oh, the love of a mother, love no one forgets; miraculous bread which God distributes and multiplies; board always spread by the paternal hearth, whereat each has his portion, and all have it entire! _Victor Hugo._

=O Leben, wie bist du so bitter und hart=--Oh, Life, how bitter and harsh thou art! _Scheffel._

=O let my books be then the eloquence / And= 10 =dumb presagers of my speaking breast.= _Browning._

=O let thy vow, / First made to heaven, first be to heaven perform'd.... It is religion that doth make vows kept.= _King John_, iii. 1.

="O Liberty, what crimes have been committed in thy name!"= _Madame Roland, as she bowed to the statue of Liberty at the place of execution._

=O Life, an age to the miserable, a moment to the happy.= _Bacon._

=O life! how pleasant is thy morning, / Young Fancy's rays the hills adorning! / Cold-pausing Caution's lessons scorning, / We frisk away, / Like schoolboys at th' expected warning, / To joy and play.= _Burns._

=O life! thou art a galling load / Along a rough,= 15 =a weary road, / To wretches such as I!= _Burns_ (_Despondency_).

[Greek: ho logos enênthrôpêsen, hina hêmeis theopoiêthômen]--The Word became man, that we might become gods. _Athanasius._

=O Lord, that lend'st me life, / Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!= 2 _Hen. VI._, i. 1.

=O love, be moderate, allay thy ecstasy; / In measure rain thy joy; scant this excess; / I feel too much thy blessing! Make it less, / For fear I surfeit.= _Mer. of Venice_, iii. 2.

=O magna vis veritatis, quæ ... facile se per se ipsa defendit=--Oh, mighty force of truth that by itself so easily defends itself! _Cic._

=O major tandem, parcas, insane, minori=--Oh, 20 thou who art a greater madman; spare me, I pray, who am not so far gone. _Hor._

[Greek: ho mê dareis anthrôpos ou paideuetai]--The man who has not been scourged is not educated. _Menander._

=O mighty Cæsar! dost thou lie so low? / Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils, / Shrunk to this little measure?= _Jul. Cæs._, iii. 1.

=O mihi præteritos referat si Jupiter annos!=--Oh, that Jove would but give me back the years that are past! _Virg._

=O miseras hominum mentes! O pectora cæca!=--Oh, how wretched are the minds of men! oh, how blind their hearts! _Lucret._

=O miseri quorum gaudia crimen habent!=--O 25 wretched ye whose joys are tainted with guilt! _Pseudo-Gallus._

=O most lame and impotent conclusion!= _Othello_, ii. 1.

=O munera nondum / Intellecta Deum=--Oh, that the gifts of the gods should not yet be understood. _Lucan._

=O my prophetic soul! mine uncle.= _Ham._, i. 5.

=O Nature! Ha! why do I not name thee God? Art thou not the "living garment of God?" O Heavens! is it, in very deed, He then that ever speaks through thee; that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me?= _Carlyle._

=O never / Shall sun that morrow see.= _Macb._, i. 5. 30

=O nimium nimiumque oblite tuorum=--Too, too forgetful of thy kin. _Ovid._

=O nimm der Stunde wahr, eh' sie entschlüpft. / So selten kommt der Augenblick im Leben / Der wahrhaft wichtig ist und gross=--Take note of the hour ere it slips past; so seldom does the moment come which is truly fateful and great. _Schiller._

=O noctes cœnæque deum!=--Oh, nights and suppers of the gods! _Hor._

=O passi graviora!=--Oh, ye who have suffered greater misfortunes than these! _Virg._

[Greek: hô philoi oudeis philos]--He who has many friends 35 has no friends. _Diogenes Laertius._

[Greek: ho phronimos to alypon diôkei ou to hêdy]--The aim of the wise man is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. _Arist._

=O place and greatness, millions of false eyes / Are stuck upon thee! Volumes of report / Run with these false and most contrarious quests / Upon thy doings! thousand scapes of wit / Make thee the father of their idle dreams, / And rack thee in their fancies.= _Meas. for Meas._, iv. 1.

=O pudor! O pietas!=--O modesty! O piety! _Mart._

=O purblind race of miserable men! / How many among us at this very hour / Do forge a lifelong trouble for ourselves, / By taking true for false, or false for true; / Here, thro' the feeble twilight of this world / Groping, how many, until we pass and reach / That other, where we see as we are seen!= _Tennyson._

=O qualis facies et quali digna tabella!=--Oh, 40 what a face and what a picture it would have been a subject for! _Juv._

=O quanta species cerebrum non habet!=--Oh, that such beauty should be devoid of brains! _Phædr._

=O quantum in rebus inane!=--Oh, what a void there is in things! _Persius._

=O ruin'd piece of nature! This great world / Shall so wear out to nought.= _King Lear_, iv. 6.

=O rus quando te aspiciam? quandoque licebit / Nunc veterum libris, nunc somno et inertibus horis / Ducere sollicitæ jucunda oblivia vitæ?=--Oh, country, when shall I see thee, and when shall I be permitted to quaff a sweet oblivion of anxious life, now from the books of the ancients, now from sleep and idle hours? _Hor._

=O sancta damnatio!=--Oh, holy condemnation!

=O sancta simplicitas!=--Oh, holy simplicity! _John Huss at the stake, on seeing an old woman hurrying up with a faggot to throw on the pile._

=O si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses=--If you had only held your peace, you would have remained a philosopher. _Boëthius._

=O sleep, / It is a gentle thing, / Beloved from= 5 =pole to pole!= _Coleridge._

=O sleep, O gentle sleep, / Nature's soft nurse! how have I frighted thee, / That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, / And steep my senses in forgetfulness!= 2 _Hen. IV._, iii. 1.

=O sons of earth, attempt ye still to rise, / By mountains piled on mountains, to the skies? / Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, / And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.= _Pope._

=O sprich mir nicht von jener bunten Menge / Bei deren Anblick uns der Geist entflieht=--Oh, speak not to me of the motley mob, at the very sight of which our spirit takes flight! _Goethe._

=O süsse Stimme! Willkommener Ton / Der Muttersprach in einem fremden Lande!=--Oh, sweet voice, much-welcome sound of our mother-tongue in a foreign land! _Goethe._

=O tempora, O mores!=--Oh, the times! oh, the 10 manners! _Cic._

=O that estates, degrees, and offices / Were not derived corruptly, and that clear honour / Were purchased by the merit of the wearer! / How many then would cover that stand bare; / How many be commanded that command; / How much low peasantry would then be glean'd / From the true seed of honour; and how much honour, / Pick'd from the chaff and ruin of the times, / To be new-varnish'd.= _Mer. of Ven._, ii. 9.

=O that men's ears should be / To counsel deaf, but not to flattery!= _Timon of Athens_, i. 2.

=O that way madness lies.= _Lear_, iii. 4.

=O that you could turn your eyes toward the napes of your necks, and make but an interior survey of your good selves!= _Coriolanus_, ii. 1.

=O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom= 15 =and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments, and His ways past finding out!= _St. Paul._

=O the wound of conscience is no scar, and Time cools it not with his wing, but merely keeps it open with his scythe.= _Jean Paul._

=O these deliberate fools, when they do choose / They have the wisdom by their wit to lose.= _Mer. of Ven._, ii. 9.

=O these naughty times / Put bars between the owners and their rights.= _Mer. of Ven._, iii. 2.

=O Thor, wer nicht im Augenblick den wahren Augenblick ergreift, / Wer, was er liebt, im Auge, und dennoch nach der Seite schweift=--Oh, fool, he seizes not the true moment in the moment who has what he loves before his eye, and still swerves from it. _Platen._

=O Thou, / Passionless bride, divine Tranquillity,= 20 =/ ... Thou carest not / How roughly men may woo thee, so they win!= _Tennyson._ (?)

=O thou who hast still a father and a mother, thank God for it in the day when thy soul is full of joyful tears, and needs a bosom wherein to shed them.= _Jean Paul._

=O thoughts of men accurst! / Past and to come seem best; things present, worst.= 2 _Hen. IV._, i. 3.

=O Tugend, Tugend, wie schön bist du! / Welch' göttlich Meisterstück sind Seelen, / Die sich hinauf bis zu dir erheben=--O virtue, virtue, how fair art thou! what a divine masterpiece are the souls that raise themselves up to thee! _Klopstock._

=O wad some pow'r the giftie gie us / To see oursels as others see us! / It wad frae mony a blunder free us, / And foolish notion; / What airs in dress and gait wad lea'e us, / And e'en devotion!= _Burns._

=O Wahrheit, deinen edeln Wein / Musst du= 25 =mit Wasser mischen; / Denn willst du ihn rein auftischen, / So nimmt er den Kopf den Gästen ein=--O Truth, thy noble wine thou must mix with water, for wert thou to serve it out pure, it would get into the heads of the guests and turn them. _Rückert._

=O was im Traum die innre Stimme spricht / Das wird uns Wahrheit, wenn die Sonne leuchtet=--Oh, how that which the inner voice speaks in our dreaming becomes truth to us when the sun shines! _Schillerbuch._

=O was müssen wir der Kirche Gottes halber leiden, rief der Abt, als ihm das gebratene Huhn die Finger versengte=--"What must we suffer for the Church of God's sake!" exclaimed the Abbot when the roast fowl burnt his fingers. _Ger. Pr._

=O was sind wir Grossen auf der Woge der Menschheit? Wir glauben sie zu beherrschen, und sie treibt uns auf und nieder, hin und her=--Ah! what are we great ones on the wave of humanity? We fancy we rule over it, and it sways us up and down, hither and thither. _Goethe._

=O well for him whose will is strong! / He suffers, but he will not suffer long; / He suffers, but he cannot suffer wrong.= _Tennyson._

=O wer weiss, / Was in der Zeiten Hintergrunde= 30 =schlummert?=--Oh, who knows what slumbers in the background of the times? _Schiller._

=O what a goodly outside falsehood hath!= _Mer. of Ven._, i. 3.

=O what a noble mind is here o'erthrown! / The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's eye, tongue, sword; / The expectancy and rose of the fair state, / The glass of fashion, and the mould of form, / The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!= _Ham._, iii. 1.

=O what a tangled web we weave / When first we practise to deceive.= _Scott._

=O what a world is this, when what is comely / Envenoms him that bears it!= _As You Like It_, ii. 3.

=O what a world of vile ill-favoured faults /= 35 =Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a-year!= _Merry Wives_, iii. 4.

=O what men dare do! what men may do! / What men daily do, not knowing what they do!= _Much Ado_, iv. 1.

=O woman! in our hours of ease / Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, / And variable as the shade / By the light of quivering aspen made; / When pain and anguish wring the brow, / A ministering angel thou.= _Scott._

=O ye loved ones, that already sleep in the noiseless Bed of Rest, whom in life I could only weep for and never help; and ye who, wide-scattered, still toil lonely in the monster-bearing desert, dyeing the flinty ground with your blood,--yet a little while, and we shall all meet There, and our Mother's bosom will screen us all; and Oppression's harness, and Sorrow's fire-whip, and all the Gehenna bailiffs that patrol and inhabit ever-vexed Time, cannot thenceforth harm us any more.= _Carlyle._

=O yet we trust that somehow good / Will be the final goal of ill.= _Tennyson._

=Oaks fall when reeds stand.= _Pr._

=Oars alone can ne'er prevail / To reach the= 5 =distant coast; / The breath of heav'n must swell the sail, / Or all the toil is lost.= _Cowper._

=Oaths are straws, ... and holdfast is the only dog.= _Hen. V._, ii. 3.

=Ob es vom Herzen kommt, das magst du leicht verstehen: / Denn was vom Herzen kommt, muss dir zum Herzen gehen=--Easily may'st thou know whether it comes from the heart; for what comes from the heart goes straight to thine. _Körner._

=Obedience alone gives the right to command.= _Emerson._

=Obedience is better than sacrifice.= _Pr. from Bible._

=Obedience is our universal duty and destiny;= 10 =wherein whoso will not bend must break.= _Carlyle._

=Obedience is the bond of rule.= _Tennyson._

=Obedience is woman's duty on earth; hard endurance is her heavy lot; by severe service she must be purified; but she who has served here is great up yonder.= _Schiller._

=Obey something, and you will have a chance of finding out what is best to obey. But if you begin by obeying nothing, you will end by obeying Beelzebub and all his seven invited friends.= _Ruskin._

=Obey thy parents; keep thy word justly; swear not; set not thy sweet heart on proud array.= _King Lear_, iii. 4.

=Obiter cantare=--To sing as one goes along; to 15 sing by the way.

=Obiter dicta=--Remarks by the way; passing remarks.

=Obiter dictum=--A thing said in passing.

=Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendours born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So a man sometimes covers up the entire disc of eternity with a dollar, and quenches transcendent glories with a little shining dust.= _Chapin._

=Objects imperfectly discerned take forms from the hope or fear of the beholder.= _Johnson._

=Objects in pictures should be so arranged as= 20 =by their very position to tell their own story.= _Goethe._

=Oblatam occasionem tene=--Seize the opportunity that is offered.

=Obligation is thraldom, and thraldom is hateful.= _Hobbes._

=Oblivion is the dark page whereon memory writes her light-beam characters and makes them legible; were it all light, nothing could be read there, any more than if it were all darkness.= _Carlyle._

=Oblivion is the rule, and fame the exception, of humanity.= _Rivarol._

=Oblivion is the second death, which great= 25 =minds dread more than the first.= _De Boufflers._

=Obreros a no ver dineros a perder=--Not to watch your workmen is to lose your money. _Sp. Pr._

=Obruat illud male partum, male retentum, male gestum imperium=--Let that power fall which has been wrongfully acquired, wrongfully retained, and wrongfully administered. _Cic._

=Obscuris vera involvens=--Shrouding, or concealing, truth in obscurity or darkness. _Virg._

=Obscurity and affectation are the two great faults of style.= _Macaulay._

=Obscurity and Innocence, twin-sisters, escape= 30 =temptations which would pierce their gossamer armour in contact with the world.= _Chamfort._

=Obscurum per obscurius=--Explaining something obscure by what is more obscure.

=Obsequium amicos, veritas odium parit=--Obsequiousness procures us friends; speaking the truth, enemies. _Ter._

=Observe this short but certain aphorism, "Forsake all, and thou shalt find all."= _Thomas à Kempis._

=Observe thyself as thy greatest enemy would do; so shalt thou be thy greatest friend.= _Jeremy Taylor._

=Observation is an old man's memory.= _Swift._ 35

=Observation may trip now and then without throwing you, for her gait is a walk; but inference always gallops, and if she stumbles, you are gone.= _Holmes._

=Observation more than books, experience rather than persons, are the prime educators.= _A. B. Alcott._

=Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly.= _Montaigne._

=Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.= _Mme. Necker._

=Obstinacy is the result of the will's forcing= 40 =itself into the place of the intellect.= _Schopenhauer._

=Obstinacy is the strength of the weak.= _Lavater._

=Obstupui, steteruntque comæ, et vox faucibus hæsit=--I was astounded; my hair stood on end, and my voice stuck fast in my throat. _Virg._

=Obtuseness is sometimes a virtue.= _Rivarol._

=Occasio facit furem=--Opportunity makes the thief. _Pr._

=Occasion reins the motions of the stirring= 45 =mind.= _Owen Feltham._

=Occasionem cognosce=--Know your opportunity.

=Occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what he is.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=Occidit miseros crambe repetita magistros=--Cabbage repeated is the death of the wretched masters. _Juv._

=Occupation is the scythe of Time.= _Napoleon._

=Occupet extremum scabies!=--Murrain take the 50 hindmost! _Hor._

=Ocean is a mighty harmonist.= _Wordsworth._

=Oculi tanquam speculatores altissimum locum obtinent=--The eyes, like sentinels, occupy the highest place in the body. _Cic._

=Oculis magis habenda fides quam auribus=--It is better to trust to our eyes than our ears.

=Oculus domini saginat equum=--The master's eye makes the horse fat. _Pr._

=Oderint dum metuant=--Let them show hate, provided they fear. _Cic._

=Oderunt hilarem tristes, tristemque jocosi, /= 5 =Sedatum celeres, agilem gnavumque remissi=--Sad men dislike a gay spirit, and the jocular a sad; the quick-witted dislike the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious. _Hor._

=Oderunt peccare boni virtutis amore=--Good men shrink from wrong out of love for virtue. _Hor._

=Odi profanum vulgus et arceo=--I hate the profane rabble, and keep them far from me. _Hor._

=Odi puerulos præcoci ingenio=--I hate boys of precocious talent. _Cic._

=Odi, vedi, e taci, se vuoi viver in pace=--Listen, see, and say nothing, if you wish to live in peace. _It. Pr._

=Odia qui nimium timet, regnare nescit=--He who 10 dreads hostility too much is unfit to bear rule. _Sen._

=Odimus accipitrem quia semper vivit in armis=--I hate the hawk because he always lives in arms. _Ovid._

=Odium theologicum=--Theological hatred; the animosity engendered by differences of theological opinion.

=Odora canum vis=--The sharp scent of the hounds. _Virg._

=O'ercome thyself, and thou may'st share / With Christ His Father's throne, and wear / The world's imperial wreath.= _Keble._

=Of a life of luxury the fruit is luxury.= _Thoreau._ 15

=Of a thoroughly crazy and defective artist we may indeed say he has everything from himself; but of an excellent one, never.= _Goethe._

=Of all actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people; yet of all actions of our life, 'tis most meddled with by other people.= _John Selden._

=Of all attainable liberties, be sure first to strive for leave to be useful.= _Ruskin._ (?)

=Of all blinds that shut up men's vision the worst is self.= (?)

=Of all days, the one that is most wasted is that= 20 =on which one has not laughed.= _Chamfort._

=Of all earthly music, that which reaches the farthest into heaven is the beating of a loving heart.= _Ward Beecher._

=Of all evils in story-telling, the humour of telling tales one after another in great numbers is the least supportable.= _Steele._

=Of all God's gifts to the sight of man, colour is the holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.= _Ruskin._

=Of all great poems Love is the absolute and the essential foundation.= _C. Fitzhugh._

=Of all man's work of art, a cathedral is greatest.= 25 =A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.= _Ward Beecher._

=Of all men, a philosopher should be no swearer; for an oath, which is the end of controversies in law, cannot determine any here, where reason only must induce.= _Sir Thomas Browne._

=Of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, / Save, save, O save me from the candid friend!= _Canning._

=Of all pleasures, the fruit of labour is the sweetest.= _Vauvenargues._

=Of all points of faith the being of a God is encompassed with most difficulty, and yet borne in upon our minds with most power.= _John Newman._

=Of all rights of man, the right of the ignorant= 30 =man to be guided by the wiser, to be gently or forcibly held in the true course by him, is the indisputablest.= _Carlyle._

=Of all studies, study your present condition.= _Pr._

=Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world,--though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst,--the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!= _Sterne._

=Of all the characters of cruelty, I consider that as the most odious which assumes the garb of mercy.= _Fox._

=Of all the great masters, there is not one who did not paint his own present world, plainly and truly.= _Ruskin._

=Of all the marvellous works of the Deity, perhaps= 35 =there is nothing that angels behold with such supreme astonishment as a proud man.= _Colton._

=Of all the passions that possess mankind, / The love of novelty rules most the mind; / In search of this, from realm to realm we roam, / Our fleets come fraught with every folly home.= _Foote._

=Of all the possessions of a man, next to the gods, his soul is the mightiest, being the most his own.= _Plato._

=Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.= _Ruskin._

=Of all the superstitions which infest the brains of weak mortals, the belief in prophecies, presentiments, and dreams, seems to me amongst the most pitiful and pernicious.= _Goethe._

=Of all the tyrants that the world affords, / Our= 40 =own affections are the fiercest lords.= _E. Stirling._

=Of all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper.= _Goethe._

=Of all things, knowledge is esteemed the most precious treasure; because of its incapacity to be stolen, to be given away, or even to be consumed.= _Hitopadesa._

=Of all those arts in which the wise excel, / Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.= _Duke of Buckingham._

=Of all wild beasts, preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame, a flatterer.= _Ben Jonson._

=Of big words and feathers many go to the= 45 =pound.= _Ger. Pr._

=Of error we can talk for ever, but truth demands that we should lay it to heart and apply it.= _Goethe._

=Of four things every man has more than he knows--of sins, and debts, and years, and foes.= _Persian Pr._

=Of God's light I was not utterly bereft, if my as yet sealed eyes, with their unspeakable longing, could nowhere see Him; nevertheless in my heart He was present and His heaven-written law still stood legible and sacred there.= _Carlyle._

=Of great men no one should speak but one who is as great as they, so as to be able to see all round them.= _Goethe._

=Of great riches there is no real use, except it be in the distribution; the rest is but conceit.= _Bacon._

=Of hasty counsel take good heed, for very rarely haste is speed.= _Dut. Pr._

=Of how few lives does not stated duty claim the greater part?= _Johnson._

=Of illustrious men all the earth is the sepulchre,= 5 =and it is not the inscribed column in their own land which is the record of their virtues, but the unwritten memory of them in the hearts and minds of all mankind.= _Thucydides._

=Of its own unity, the soul gives unity to whatso it looks on with love.= _Carlyle._

=Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.= _Bible._

=Of more than earth can earth make none possesst; / And he that least / Regards this restless world, shall in this world find rest.= _Quarles._

=Of other tyrants short the strife, / But Indolence is king for life: / The despot twists, with soft control, / Eternal fetters round the soul.= _Hannah More._

=Of pleasures, those which occur most rarely= 10 =give the greatest delight.= _Epictetus._

=Of real evils the number is great; of possible evils there is no end.= _Johnson._

=Of the Beautiful we are seldom capable, oftener of the Good; and how highly should we value those who endeavour, with great sacrifices, to forward that good among their fellows!= _Goethe._

=Of the eyes that men do glare withal, so few can see.= _Carlyle._

=Of the soul, the body form doth take, / For soul is form, and doth the body make.= _Spenser._

=Of the three requisitions of genius, the first= 15 =is soul; the second, soul; and the third, soul.= _Whipple._

=Of the wealth of the world each has as much as he takes.= _It. Pr._

=Of the Wrong we are always conscious, of the Right never.= _Goethe._

=Of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes.= _Jesus._

=Of thy word unspoken thou art master; thy spoken word is master of thee.= _Eastern Pr._

=Of two evils choose the least.= _Pr._ 20

=Of unwise admiration much may be hoped, for much good is really in it; but unwise contempt is itself a negation; nothing comes of it, for it is nothing.= _Carlyle._

=Of what does not concern you say nothing, good or bad.= _It. Pr._

=Of what significance are the things you can forget?= _Thoreau._

=Of wild creatures, a tyrant; and of tame ones, a flatterer.= _Bias._

=Off with his head! so much for Buckingham.= 25 _Rich. III._, iv. 3.

=Offenders never pardon.= _Pr._

=Offerir molto è spezie di negare=--Offering extravagantly is a kind of denial. _It. Pr._

=Oft have I heard, and now believe it true, / Whom man delights in, God delights in too.= _An old Minnesinger._

=Oft kommt ein nützlich Wort aus schlechtem Munde=--A serviceable word often issues from worthless lips. _Schiller._

=Oft leiden kranke Seelen durch selbstgeschaffnen= 30 =Wahn=--Sick souls often suffer through conceits of their own creation. _G. Rossini._

=Oft schiessen trifft das Ziel=--Shooting often hits the mark. _Ger. Pr._

=Oft sogar es ist weise, zu entdecken, / Was nicht verschwiegen bleiben kann=--It is often wise to disclose what cannot be concealed. _Schiller._

=Oft when blind mortals think themselves secure, in height of bliss, they touch the brink of ruin.= _Thomson._

=Oft zum Dichter macht die Liebe; / Selbst ein Wunder, zeugt sie Wunder=--Love often makes a poet; herself a wonder, she works wonders. _Bodenstedt._

=Ofte er Skarlagens Hierte under reven Kaabe=--There 35 is often a royal heart under a tattered coat. _Dan. Pr._

=Often a man's own angry pride / Is cap-and-bells for a fool.= _Tennyson._

=Often the cock-loft is empty in those whom Nature hath built many storeys high.= _Fuller._

=Oftentimes the gods send strong delusions to ensnare too credulous hearts.= _Lewis Morris._