Chapter M (8)

=Oftentimes, to win us to our harm, / The instruments of darkness tell us truths; / Win us with honest trifles, to betray us / In deepest consequence.= _Macb._, i. 3.

=Ofttimes nothing profits more / Than self-esteem,= 40 =grounded on just and right.= _Milton._

=Ofttimes the pupil goes beyond his master.= _Lucillius._

=Ogni cosa è d'ogni anno=--Everything is of every year. _It. Pr._

=Ogni debole ha sempre il suo tiranno=--Every weak man has always his tyrant. _It. Pr._

=Ogni medaglio ha il suo riverso=--Every medal has its reverse. _It. Pr._

=Ogni monte ha la sua valle=--Every mountain 45 has its valley. _It. Pr._

=Ogni vero non è buono a dire=--Every truth is not good to be told. _It. Pr._

=Ognuno vede quel che tu pari, pochi sentono quel che tu sei=--Every one sees what you seem, few know what you are. _Machiavelli._

=Oh, be he king or peasant, he is happiest / Who in his home finds peace.= _Goethe._

=Oh, call my brother back to me! / I cannot play alone; / The summer comes with flower and bee,--/ Where is my brother gone?= _Mrs. Hemans._

=Oh, Death! the poor man's dearest friend--/= 50 =The kindest and the best! / Welcome the hour my aged limbs / Are laid with thee at rest! / The great, the wealthy fear thy blow, / From pomp and pleasure torn! But oh! a bless'd relief to those / That weary-laden mourn!= _Burns._

=Oh, for a lodge in some vast wilderness, / Some boundless contiguity of shade, / Where rumour of oppression and deceit, / Of unsuccessful or successful war, / May never reach me more.= _Cowper._

=Oh, ... for a man with heart, head, hand. / ... Whatever they call him, what care I, / Aristocrat, democrat, autocrat--one / Who can rule and dare not lie!= _Tennyson._

=Oh, how sweet it is to hear our own conviction from another's lips!= _Goethe._

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

=Oh! Kritisieren, lieber Herr, ist federleicht, / Doch Bessermachen schwierig=--Oh, criticising, good sir, is as easy as a feather is light; 'tis making better that's the difficulty. _Platen._

=Oh, love for ever lost, / And with it faith gone out! what is't remains / But duty, though the path be rough and trod / By bruised and bleeding feet?= _Lewis Morris._

=Oh, Love, how perfect is thy mystic art, /= 5 =Strengthening the weak, and trampling on the strong!= _Byron._

=Oh, Love! no habitant of earth thou art--/ An unseen seraph, we believe in thee.= _Byron._

=Oh, no! we never mention her; / Her name is never heard; / My lips are now forbid to speak / That once familiar word.= _T. H. Bayly._

=Oh, nostra folle / Mente, ch'ogn aura di fortuna estolle=--How our heart swells if only a breath of happiness breathe through it! _Tasso._

=Oh, that mine adversary had written a book.= _Job._

=Oh, that my lot might lead me in the path of= 10 =holy purity of thought and deed, the path which august laws ordain--laws which in the highest heaven had their birth; ... The power of God is mighty in them, and doth not wax old.= _Sophocles._

=Oh, that this too too solid flesh would melt, / Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! / Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd / His canon 'gainst self-slaughter.= _Ham._, i. 2.

=Oh! the dulness and the hardness of the heart of man, which contemplates only the present, and does not rather provide for the future.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=Oh, the heart is a free and a fetterless thing-- / A wave of the ocean, a bird on the wing.= _J. Pardoe._

=Oh, there is something in marriage like the veil of the temple of old, / That screened the Holy of Holies with blue and purple and gold; / Something that makes a chamber where none but the one may come, / A sacredness too, and a silence, where joy that is deepest is dumb.= _Dr. Walter Smith._

=Oh, were I seated high as my ambition, / I'd= 15 =place this naked foot on necks of monarchs.= _Walpole._

=Oh, what a fall was there, my countrymen! / Then I, and you, and all of us fell down, / Whilst bloody treason flourish'd over us.= _Jul. Cæs._, iii. 2.

=Oh, what damned minutes tells he o'er, / Who dotes, yet doubts; suspects, yet soundly loves.= _Othello_, iii. 3.

=Oh, what is death but parting breath? / On mony a bloody plain / I've dared his face, and in this place / I scorn him yet again.= _Burns, "Macpherson's Lament."_

=Oh, whistle and I'll come to ye, my lad.= _Burns._

=Oh, woman, lovely woman! Heaven designed= 20 =you / To temper man! We had been brutes without you.= _Burns._

=Oh, worse than all! Oh, pang all pangs above, / Is kindness counterfeiting absent love!= _Coleridge._

=Oh, would they stay aback frae courts, / And please themsels wi' country sports, / It wad for every ane be better, / The laird, the tenant, and the cottar.= _Burns._

=Ohe! jam satis est=--Stay! that is enough. _Hor._

=Ohne Begeisterung schlafen die besten Kräfte des Gemüths. Es ist ein Zunder in uns, der Funken will=--Without inspiration the best powers of the mind are dormant. There is a tinder in us which needs to be quickened with sparks. _Herder._

=Ohne die Freiheit, was wärest du, Hellas? /= 25 =Ohne dich, Hellas, was wäre die Welt?=--Without freedom, what wert thou, Greece? Without thee, Greece, what were the world? _W. Müller._

=Ohne eine Gottheit gibt's für den Menschen weder Zweck, noch Ziel, noch Hoffnung, nur eine zitternde Zukunft, ein ewiges Bangen vor jeder Dunkelheit=--Without a deity there is for man neither aim, nor goal, nor hope; only an ever-wavering future, and eternal anxiety in every moment of darkness. _Jean Paul._

=Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast=--Unhasting, yet unresting. _Goethe's motto. Said originally of the sun._

=Ohne Haut=--Without a skin.

=Ohne Mehl und Wasser ist übel backen=--It is ill baking without meal and water. _Ger. Pr._

=Ohne Wahl verteilt die Gaben, / Ohne Billigkeit= 30 =das Glück; / Denn Patroklus liegt begraben, / Und Thersites kommt zurück=--Gifts are dispensed without election, fortune without fairness; Patroclus lies buried, and Thersites comes back. _Schiller._

=Ohne Wissen, ohne Sünde=--Where there's no knowledge there's no sin. _Ger. Pr._

[Greek: hoi arourês karpon edousin]--They who eat the fruit of the field. _Hom._

[Greek: hoi dystychountes ex heterôn cheirona paschontôn paramythountai]--The unhappy derive comfort from the worse misfortunes of others. _Æsop._

[Greek: hoi kyboi Dios aei eupiptousi]--The dice of Zeus always fall luckily. _Sophocles._

[Greek: hoi pleiones kakoi]--The majority of mankind are 35 bad. _Bias, one of the seven sages._

[Greek: hoi polloi]--The multitude; the masses.

[Greek: hoiê per phyllôn geneê, toiêde kai andrôn]--As is the generation of leaves, such is that of men. _Hom._

=Oil, wine, and friends improve by age.= _It. Pr._

[Greek: oimoi; ti d' oimoi? thnêta gar peponthamen]--Alas! but why alas? We only suffer what other mortals do.

[Greek: oinou de mêket' ontos, ouk estin Kypris]--Where 40 there is no longer any wine there is no love. _Euripides._

[Greek: hokosa pharmaka ouk iêtai sidêros iêtai, hosa sidêros ouk iêtai pyr iêtai]--What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will. _Hippocrates._

=Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually, as is thought.= _Rahel._

=Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that it is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.= _Cic._

=Old age is a heavy burden.= _Pr._

=Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.= _La Roche._

=Old age is honourable.= _Pr._

=Old age is not in itself matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.= _Carlyle to his mother._

=Old age is sad= (_trübe_), =not because our joys, but because our hopes are cut short.= _Jean Paul._

=Old age is the repose of life, the rest which precedes= 5 =the rest that remains.= _R. Collyer._

=Old age is wise for itself, but not wise for the community.= _Bryant._

=Old age--the words are comparative, not positive.= _Anon._

=Old age, though despised, is coveted by all.= _Pr._

=Old age was naturally more honoured in times when people could not know much more than they had seen.= _Joubert._

=Old birds are hard to pluck.= _Pr._ 10

=Old birds are not caught with chaff.= _Pr._

=Old books, as you well know, are books of the world's youth, and new books are fruits of its age.= _Holmes._

=Old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good.= _Izaak Walton._

=Old friends are best.= _King James I., as he slipt on his old shoes._

=Old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome= 15 =air; / Love them for what they are; nor love them less; / Because to thee they are not what they were.= _Coleridge._

=Old head and young hand.= _Pr._

=Old head upon young shoulders.= _Pr._

=Old heads will not suit young shoulders.= _Pr._

=Old houses mended / Cost little less than new before they're ended.= _C. Cibber._

=Old long-vexed questions, not yet solved in= 20 =logical words or parliamentary laws, are fast solving themselves in facts, somewhat unblessed to behold.= _Carlyle._

=Old men are twice children.= _Pr._

=Old men lose one of the most precious rights of man, that of being judged by their peers.= _Goethe._

=Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.= _Capt. John Brown._

=Old men's lives are lengthened shadows; their evening sun falls coldly on the earth, but the shadows all point to the morning.= _Jean Paul._

=Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise= 25 =them if you wish to keep them in working order.= _John Adams._

=Old ovens are soon heated.= _Pr._

=Old oxen have stiff horns.= _Pr._

=Old shoes are easiest.= _Pr._

=Old signs do not deceive.= _Dan. Pr._

=Old wood to burn, old books to read, old wine= 30 =to drink, and old friends to converse with.= _Alphonso of Castile._

=Old wounds soon bleed.= _Pr._

=Olet lucernam=--It smells of the lamp, or midnight study.

=Oleum adde camino=--Add fuel to the fire. _Hor._

=Oleum et operam perdidi=--I have lost both the oil and my pains. _Plaut._

=Olla male fervet=--It does not look hopeful; the 35 pot boils poorly. _Pr._

=Olim meminisse juvabit=--It will delight us to recall these things some day hereafter. _Virg._

=Oliver Cromwell, dead two hundred years ago, does yet speak; nay, perhaps, now first begins to speak.= _Carlyle._

=Omina sunt aliquid=--There is something in omens. _Ovid._

[Greek: omma gar domôn nomizô despotou parousian]--The presence of the master is, meseems, the eye of a house. _Æschylus._

=Omne actum ab agentis intentione judicandum=--Every 40 act is to be judged of by the intention of the agent. _L._

=Omne ævum curæ: cunctis sua displicet ætas=--Every age has its own care: each one thinks his own time of life disagreeable. _Auson._

=Omne animal seipsum diligit=--Every animal loves itself. _Cic._

=Omne animi vitium tanto conspectius in se / Crimen habet, quanto major qui peccat habetur=--Every vice of the mind involves a condemnation the more glaring, the higher the rank of the person who is guilty. _Juv._

=Omne capax movet urna nomen=--In the capacious urn of death every name is shaken. _Hor._

=Omne corpus mutabile est; ita efficitur ut= 45 =omne corpus mortale sit=--Every body is subject to change; hence it comes to pass that every body is subject to death. _Cic._

=Omne epigramma sit instar apis, aculeus illi, / Sint sua mella, sit et corporis exigui=--Every epigram should be like a bee: have a sting like it, honey, and a small body. _Mart._

=Omne in præcipiti vitium stetit=--Every vice ever stands on the brink of a precipice. _Juv._

=Omne malum nascens facile opprimitur: inveteratum fit plerumque robustius=--Every evil is easily crushed at its birth; when grown old, it generally becomes more obstinate. _Cic._

=Omne nimium vertitur in vitium=--Every excess develops into a vice. _Pr._

=Omne scibile=--Everything knowable. 50

=Omne solum forti patria est=--To the brave man every land is his native land. _Ovid._

=Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit utile dulci / Lectorem delectando, pariterque monendo=--He gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader. _Hor._

=Omnem crede diem tibi diluxisse supremum=--Believe that each day which shines on you is your last. _Hor._

=Omnem movere lapidem=--To leave no stone unturned. _Pr._

=Omnes amicos habere operosum est; satis est= 55 =inimicos non habere=--It is an arduous task to make all men your friends; it is enough to have no enemies. _Sen._

=Omnes composui=--I have laid them all at rest (in the grave). _Hor._

=Omnes eodem cogimur; omnium / Versatur urna serius, ocius, / Sors exitura, et nos in æternum / exsilium impositura cymbæ=--We are all driven to the same ferry; the lot of each is shaken in the urn, destined sooner or later to come forth, and place us in Charon's wherry for eternal exile. _Hor._

=Omnes homines, qui de rebus dubiis consultant, ab odio, amicitia, ira, atque misericordia vacuos esse decet=--All men, who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity. _Sall._

=Omnes omnium caritates patria una complectitur=--Our country alone comprehends all our affections for all. _Cic._

=Omnes, quibus res sunt minus secundæ, magis sunt, nescio quomodo / Suspiciosi: ad contumeliam omnia accipiunt magis; / Propter suam impotentiam se credunt negligi=--All those whose affairs are unprosperous are, somehow or other, extremely suspicious; they take every hint as an affront, and think the neglect with which they are treated is due to their humble position. _Ter._

=Omnes sapientes decet conferre et fabulari=--All wise people ought to confer and hold converse with each other. _Plaut._

=Omnes una manet nox, / Et calcanda semel via lethi=--One night awaits us all, and the path of death must once be trodden by us. _Hor._

=Omni ætati mors est communis=--Death is common 5 to every age. _Cic._

=Omnia bonos viros decent=--All things are becoming in good men. _Pr._

=Omnia conando docilis solertia vincit=--By application a docile shrewdness surmounts every difficulty. _Manilius._

=Omnia cum amico delibera, sed de te ipso prius=--Consult your friend on everything, but particularly on what affects yourself. _Sen._

=Omnia desuper=--All things come from above. _M._

=Omnia ejusdem farinæ=--All things are of the 10 same stuff, _lit._ grain. _Pr._

=Omnia fert ætas, animum quoque=--Age carries all away, and the powers of the mind too. _Virg._

=Omnia Græce! / Cum sit turpe magis nostris nescire Latine=--All things must be in Greek! when it is more shameful for our Romans to be ignorant of Latin. _Juv._

=Omnia inconsulti impetus cœpta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt=--All enterprises which are entered on with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigour at first, but are sure to collapse in the end. _Tac._

=Omnia jam fient, fieri quæ posse negabam: / Et nihil est de quo non sit habenda fides=--All things will now come to pass which I used to think impossible; and there is nothing which we may not hope to see take place. _Ovid._

=Omnia mala exempla bonis principiis orta sunt=--All 15 bad precedents have had their rise in good beginnings.

=Omnia mea mecum porto=--All that belongs to me I carry with me. _Bias._

=Omnia mutantur, nihil interit=--All things but change, nothing perishes. _Ovid._

=Omnia mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis=--All things change, and we ourselves change along with them. _Borbonius._

=Omnia non pariter rerum sunt omnibus apta=--All things are not alike fit for all men. _Propert._

=Omnia orta occident=--All things that rise also 20 set. _Sall._

=Omnia perdidimus, tantummodo vita relicta est=--We have lost everything, only life is left. _Ovid._

=Omnia perversas possunt corrumpere mentes=--All things tend to corrupt perverted minds. _Ovid._

=Omnia præclara rara=--All excellent things are rare. _Cic._

=Omnia præsumuntur rite et solenniter esse acta=--All things are presumed to have been done duly and in the usual manner. _L._

=Omnia prius experiri, quam armis, sapientem= 25 =decet=--It becomes a wise man to try all methods before having recourse to arms. _Ter._

=Omnia profecto, cum se a cœlestibus rebus referet ad humanas, excelsius magnificentiusque et dicet et sentiet=--When a man descends from heavenly things to human, he will certainly both speak and feel more loftily and nobly on every theme. _Cic._

=Omnia quæ nunc vetustissima creduntur, nova fuere ... et quod hodie exemplis tuemur, inter exempla erit=--Everything which is now regarded as very ancient was once new, and what we are defending to-day by precedent, will by and by be a precedent itself. _Tac._

=Omnia rerum principia parva sunt=--All beginnings are small. _Cic._

=Omnia Romæ / Cum pretio=--All things may be bought at Rome with money. _Juv._

=Omnia serviliter pro dominatione=--Servile in 30 all his actions for the sake of power. _Tac., of Otho._

=Omnia subjecisti sub pedibus, oves et boves=--Thou hast placed all things beneath our feet, both sheep and oxen. _Motto of the Butchers' Company._

=Omnia sunt hominum tenui pendentia filo; / Et subito casu, quæ valuere, ruunt=--All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong of a sudden falls and sinks in ruins. _Ovid._

=Omnia tuta timens=--Distrusting everything that is perfectly safe. _Virg._

=Omnia venalia Romæ=--All things can be bought at Rome. _Pr._

=Omnia vincit amor, nos et cedamus amori=--Love 35 conquers all the world, let us too yield to love. _Virg._

=Omnibus bonis expedit rempublicam esse salvam=--It is for the interest of every good man that the commonwealth shall be safe. _Cic._

=Omnibus hoc vitium est cantoribus, inter amicos / Ut nunquam inducant animum cantare rogati, / Injussi nunquam desistant=--This is a general fault of all singers, that among their friends they never make up their minds to sing, however pressed; but when no one asks them, they will never leave off. _Hor._

=Omnibus hostes / Reddite nos populis, civile avertite bellum=--Commit us to hostility with every other nation, but avert from us civil war. _Lucan._

=Omnibus in terris, quæ sunt a Gadibus usque / Auroram et Gangem, pauci dignoscere possunt / Vera bona, atque illis multum diversa, remota / Erroris nebula=--In all the lands which stretch from Gades even to the region of the dawn and the Ganges, there are few who are able by removing the mist of error to distinguish between what is really good and what is widely diverse. _Juv._

=Omnibus modis, qui pauperes sunt homines,= 40 =miseri vivunt; / Præsertim quibus nec quæstus est, nec didicere artem ullam=--The poor live wretchedly in every way; especially those who have no means of livelihood and have learned no craft. _Plaut._

=Omnis ars imitatio est naturæ=--All art is an imitation of nature. _Sen._

=Omnis commoditas sua fert incommoda secum=--Every convenience brings its own inconveniences along with it. _Pr._

=Omnis dolor aut est vehemens, aut levis; si levis, facile fertur, si vehemens, certe brevis futurus est=--All pain is either severe or slight; if slight, it is easily borne; if severe, it will without doubt be brief. _Cic._

=Omnis enim res / Virtus, fama, decus, divina humanaque pulchris / Divitiis parent; quas qui construxerit, ille / Clarus erit, fortis, justus=--All things divine and human, as virtue, fame, and honour, defer to fair wealth, and he who has amassed it will be illustrious, brave, and just. _Hor._

=Omnis pœna corporalis, quamvis minima, major est omni pœna pecuniaria, quamvis maxima=--The slightest corporal punishment falls more heavily than the largest pecuniary penalty. _L._

=Omnis stultitia laborat fastidio sui=--All folly is 5 afflicted with a disdain of itself. _Sen._

=Omnium consensu capax imperii, nisi imperasset=--He would have been universally deemed fit for empire, if he had never reigned. _Said of Galba by Tacitus._

=Omnium horarum homo=--A man ready for whatever may chance. _Quinct._

=Omnium rerum, ex quibus aliquid acquiritur, nihil est agricultura melius, nihil uberius, nihil dulcius, nihil homine libero dignius=--Of all pursuits from which profit accrues, nothing is superior to agriculture, nothing more productive, nothing more enjoyable, nothing more worthy of a free man. _Cic._

=Omnium rerum, heus, vicissitudo est=--There are changes, mark ye, in all things. _Ter._

=On a beau prêcher à qui n'a cure de bien faire=--It 10 is no use preaching to him who has no wish to do well. _Fr. Pr._

=On a long journey even a straw is heavy.= _Pr._

=On a souvent besoin d'un plus petit que soi=--One has often need of one inferior to one's self. _La Fontaine._

=On a winged word hath hung the destiny of nations.= _Landor._

=On affaiblit toujours tout ce qu'on exagère=--We always weaken everything which we exaggerate. _La Harpe._

=On aime bien à deviner les autres, mais l'on= 15 =aime pas à être deviné=--We like well to see through other people, but we do not like to be seen through ourselves. _La Roche._

=On aime sans raison, et sans raison l'on hait=--We love without reason, and without reason we hate. _Regnard._

=On apprend en faillant=--One learns by failing. _Fr. Pr._

=On attrape plus de mouches avec du miel qu'avec du vinaigre=--More flies are caught with honey than vinegar. _Fr. Pr._

=On avale à pleine gorgée le mensonge qui nous flatte, et l'on boit goute à goute une vérité qui nous est amère=--We swallow at one draught the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us. _Diderot._

=On commence par être dupe, / On finit par être= 20 =fripon=--People begin by being dupes, and end by being knaves. _Mme. Deshoulières, on gambling._

=On connaît les amis au besoin=--Friends are known in time of need. _Fr. Pr._

=On devient innocent quand on est malheureux=--We become innocent when we are unfortunate. _La Fontaine._

=On dit=--They say; a flying rumour or current report. _Fr._

=On dit de gueux qu'ils ne sont jamais dans leur chemins, parce qu'ils n'ont point de demeure fixe. Il en est de même de cause qui disputent, sans avoir des notions déterminées=--It is said of beggars that they are never on their way, for they have no fixed dwelling-place; it is the same with people who dispute without having definite ideas. _Fr._

=On dit, est souvent un grand menteur=--"They 25 say" is often a great liar. _Fr. Pr._

=On dit, et sans horreur je ne puis le redire=--It has been said, and I cannot without horror repeat it. _Racine._

=On dit que Dieu est toujours pour les gros bataillons=--They say God is always with the heaviest battalions. _Voltaire._

=On doit être heureux sans trop penser à l'être=--One ought to be happy without thinking too much of being so. _Fr. Pr._

=On doit des égards aux vivants; on ne doit aux morts que la vérité=--Respect is due to the living; to the dead nothing but truth. _Motte._

=On donne des conseils, mais on ne donne point= 30 =la sagesse d'en profiter=--We may give advice, but not the sense to profit by it. _La Roche._

=On eagles' wings immortal scandals fly, / While virtuous actions are but born to die.= _Pope._

=On entre et on crie, / Et voilà la vie! / On crie et on sort, / Et voilà la mort!=--We come and cry, and that is life; we cry and go, and that is death. _Fr._

=On est aisément dupé par ce qu'on aime=--We are easily duped by those we love. _Molière._

=On est, quand on le veut, le maître de son sort=--A man, when he wishes, is the master of his fate. _Ferrier._

=On every stage the foes of peace attend /= 35 =Hate dogs their flight, and insult mocks their end.= _Johnson._

=On every thorn delightful wisdom grows; / In every rill a sweet instruction flows.= _Young._

=On fait souvent tort à la vérité par la manière dont on se sert pour la défendre=--We often injure the truth by our manner of defending it. _Fr._

=On fait toujours le loup plus gros qu'il n'est=--People always make the wolf more formidable than he is. _Fr. Pr._

=On gagne peu de choses par habileté=--It is little that one gains by cleverness. (?)

=On God and godlike men we build our trust.= 40 _Tennyson._

=On his own saddle one rides safest.= _Pr._

=On jette enfin de la terre sur la tête, et en voilà pour jamais=--Little earth is cast in the end upon the head, and there is no more of it for ever. _Pascal._

=On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, / Reason the card, but passion is the gale.= _Pope._

=On Monday morning don't be looking for Saturday night.= _Pr._

=On n'a jamais bon marché de mauvaise marchandise=--Bad 45 ware is never cheap. _Fr. Pr._

=On n'a rien pour rien=--Nothing can be had for nothing. _Fr. Pr._

=On n'aime plus comme on aimait jadis=--People no longer love as they used to do long ago. _Fr._

=On n'auroit guère de plaisir, si l'on ne se flattoit point=--A man should have little pleasure if he did not sometimes flatter himself. _Fr._

=On n'est jamais si bien servi que par soi-même=--A man is never so well served as by himself. _Etienne._

=On n'est jamais si heureux, ni si malheureux= 5 =qu'on se l'imagine=--People are never either so happy or so miserable as they imagine. _La Roche._

=On n'est jamais si riche que quand on déménage=--People are never so rich as when they are moving their stuff. _Fr. Pr._

=On n'est jamais si ridicule par les qualités que l'on a que par celles que l'on affecte d'avoir=--We are never so ridiculous by the qualities we have as by those we affect to have. _La Roche._

=On n'est jamais trahi que par ses siens=--A man is never betrayed except by his friends. _Fr._

=On n'est souvent mécontent des autres que parce qu'on l'est de soi-même=--We are often dissatisfied with others because we are so with ourselves. _Fr. Pr._

=On ne considère pas assez les paroles comme= 10 =des faits=--We don't sufficiently consider that words are deeds. _Fr._

=On ne cherche point à prouver la lumière=--There is no need to prove the existence of light. _Fr. Pr._

=On ne doit pas juger du mérite d'un homme par ses grandes qualités, mais par l'usage qu'il en sait faire=--We should not judge of the merit of a man by his great gifts, but by the use he makes of them. _La Roche._

=On ne donne rien si libéralement que ses conseils=--People are not so liberal with anything as with advice. _La Roche._

=On ne gouverne les hommes que en les servant; la règle est sans exception=--Men are governed only by serving them; the rule is without exception. _V. Cousin._

=On ne jette des pierres qu'à l'arbre chargé de= 15 =fruits=--People throw stones only at the tree which is loaded with fruit. _Fr. Pr._

=On ne loue d'ordinaire que pour être loué=--Praise is generally given only that it may be returned. _La Roche._

=On ne lui fait pas prendre des vessies pour des lanternes=--You won't get him to take bladders for lanterns. _Fr. Pr._

=On ne méprise pas tous ceux qui ont des vices, mais on méprise tous ceux qui n'ont aucune vertu=--We do not despise all those who have vices, but we despise all those who have no virtue. _La Roche._

=On ne perd les états que par timidité=--It is only through timidity that states are lost. _Voltaire._

=On ne peut contenter tout le monde et son= 20 =père=--There is no pleasing everybody and one's father. _La Fontaine._

=On ne peut faire qu'en faisant=--One can do only by doing. _Fr. Pr._

=On ne peut sonner les cloches et aller à la procession=--One cannot ring the bells and join the procession. _Fr. Pr._

=On ne prête qu'aux riches=--People lend only to the rich. _Fr. Pr._

=On ne ramène guère un traître par l'impunité, au lieu que par la punition l'on en rend mille autres sages=--No one ever reclaimed a traitor by letting him off, whereas punishment may keep thousands in the right way. (?)

=On ne réussit dans ce monde qu'à la pointe de= 25 =l'épée, et on meurt les armes à la main=--Success in life is won at the point of the sword, and we die with the weapon in our hands. (?)

=On ne sait pour qui on amasse=--We know not for whom we gather. _Fr. Pr._

=On ne se blame que pour être loué=--Persons only blame themselves in order to obtain praise. _La Roche._

=On ne sent bien que ses propres maux=--We feel only the evils that affect ourselves. _Fr. Pr._

=On ne trouve jamais l'expression d'un sentiment que l'on n'a pas; l'esprit grimace et le style aussi=--It is ever impossible to express a sentiment which we do not feel; the mind grimaces, and the style too. _Lamennais._

=On ne va jamais si loin que lorsqu'on ne sait= 30 =pas où l'on va=--One never goes so far as when he does not know where he is going. _Fr. Pr._

=On ne vaut dans ce monde que ce qu'on veut valoir=--A man's worth in this world is estimated according to the value he puts upon himself. _La Bruyère._

=On ne vit dans la mémoire du monde que par des travaux pour le monde=--One lives in the world's memory only by what he has done in the world's behalf. _Fr._

[Greek: hon hoi theoi philousin apothnêskei neos]--He whom the gods love dies young. _Menander._

=On pardonne aisément un tort que l'on partage=--We easily pardon an offence which we had part in. _Jouy._

=On parle peu quand la vanité ne fait pas parler=--People 35 speak little when vanity does not prompt them. _La Roche._

=On perd tout le temps qu'on peut mieux employer=--All the time is lost which might be better employed. (?)

=On peut attirer les cœurs par les qualités qu'on montre, mais on ne les fixe que par celles qu'on a=--People's affections may be attracted by the qualities which we affect, but they can only be won by those which we really possess. _Fr._

=On peut dire que son esprit brille aux dépens de sa mémoire=--We may say his wit shines at the expense of his memory. _Le Sage._

=On peut dominer par la force, mais jamais par la seule adresse=--We may lord it by force, but never by adroitness alone. _Vauvenargues._

=On peut être plus fin qu'un autre, mais non= 40 =pas plus fin que tous les autres=--A man may be sharper than another, but not than all others. _La Roche._

=On peut mépriser le monde, mais on ne peut pas s'en passer=--We may despise the world, but we cannot do without it. _Fr. Pr._

=On prend le peuple par les oreilles, comme on fait un pot par les anses=--The public are to be caught by the ears, as one takes a pot by the handles. _Pr._

=On prend son bien où on le trouve=--One takes what is his own wherever he finds it. _Fr. Pr._

=On prend souvent l'indolence pour la patience=--Indolence is often taken for patience. _Fr. Pr._

=On Reason build Resolve! / That column of= 45 =true majesty in man.= _Young._

=On respecte un moulin, on vole une province!=--They (obliged by law) spare a mill, but steal a province!

=On revient toujours à ses premiers amours=--We always come back to our first loves. _Etienne._

=On se heurte toujours où l'on a mal=--One always knocks himself on the spot where the sore is. _Fr. Pr._

=On se persuade mieux pour l'ordinaire par les raisons qu'on a trouvées soi-même, que par celles qui sont venues dans l'esprit des autres=--We are ordinarily more easily satisfied with reasons that we have discovered ourselves, than by those which have occurred to others. _Pascal._

=On some men's bread butter will not stick.= _Pr._ 5

=On spécule sur tout, même sur la famine=--People speculate on everything, even on famine. _Armand Charlemagne._

=On termine de longs procès / Par un peu de guerre civile=--We end protracted law-suits by a little civil war.

=On the beaten road there is tolerable travelling; but it is sore work, and many have to perish, fashioning a way through the impassable.= _Carlyle._

=On the brink of the waters of life and truth we are miserably dying.= _Emerson._

=On the day of the resurrection, those who= 10 =have indulged in ridicule will be called to the door of Paradise, and have it shut in their faces when they reach it.= _Mahomet._

=On the field of foughten battle still, / Woe knows no limits save the victor's will.= _The Gaulliad._

=On the neck of the young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise.= _Hafiz._

=On the pinnacle of fortune man does not stand long firm.= _Goethe._

=On the sea sail, on the land settle.= _Pr._

=On the soft bed of luxury most kingdoms have= 15 =expired.= Young.

=On the stage man should stand a step higher than in life.= _Börne._

=On this account is the Bible a book of eternally effective power, because, as long as the world lasts, no one will step forward and say: I comprehend it in the whole and understand it in the particular; but we modestly say: In the whole it is venerable, and in the particular practicable= (_anwendbar_). _Goethe._

=On veut avoir ce qu'on n'a pas, / Et ce qu'on a cesse de de plaire=--We wish to have what we have not, and what we have ceases to please. _Monvel._

=On voit mourir et renaître les roses; il n'en est pas ainsi de nos beaux jours=--We see roses die and revive again; it is not so with our fine days. _Charleval._

=On wrong / Swift vengeance waits; and art= 20 =subdues the strong.= _Pope._

=Once a knave, always a knave.= _Pr._

=Once a man and twice a child.= _Pr._

=Once for all, beauty remains undemonstrable; it appears to us as in a dream, when we behold the works of the great poets and painters, and, in short, of all feeling artists.= _Goethe._

=Once is no custom.= _Pr._

=Once is no rule.= _Pr._ 25

=Once resolved, the trouble is over.= _It. Pr._

=Once sufficiently enforce the eighth commandment, the whole "rights of man" are well cared for; I know no better definition of the rights of man: "Thou shalt not steal; thou shalt not be stolen from." What a society were that! Plato's Republic, More's Utopia mere emblems of it.= _Carlyle._

=Once thoroughly our own, knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.= _Ruskin._

=Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, / In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.= _Lowell._

=Once true, still more twice true, in the life of= 30 =the spirit is always true.= _Ed._

=Ond Gierning har Vidne i Barmen=--There is a witness of the evil deed in one's own bosom. _Dan. Pr._

=Ondt bliver aldrig godt för halv værre kommer=--Bad is never good till worse befall. _Dan. Pr._

=One abides not long on the summit of fortune.= _Pr._

=One, although not possessed of a mine of gold, may find the offspring of his own nature, that noble ardour, which hath for its object the accomplishment of the whole assemblage of virtues.= _Hitopadesa._

=One always has time enough if one will apply= 35 =it well.= _Goethe._

=One and God make a majority.= _Fred. Douglas._

=One anecdote is worth a volume of biography.= _Channing._

=One barking dog sets all the street a-barking.= _Pr._

=One beats the bush, and another catches the bird.= _Pr._

=One Bible I know, of whose plenary inspiration= 40 =doubt is not so much as possible; nay, with my own eyes I saw the God's hand writing it; whereof all other Bibles are but leaves, say, in picture-writing, to assist the weaker faculty.= _Carlyle._

=One born on the glebe comes by habit to belong to it; the two grow together, and the fairest ties are spun from the union.= _Goethe._

=One can be very happy without demanding that others should agree with one.= _Goethe._

=One can bear to be rebuked, but not to be laughed at.= _Molière._

=One can live in true freedom, and yet not be unbound.= _Goethe._

=One can live on little, but not on nothing.= 45 _Pr._

=One can never know at the first moment what may, at a future time, separate itself from the rough experience as true substance.= _Goethe._

=One cannot help doing a good office when it comes in one's way.= _Le Sage._

=One cannot say that the rational is always beautiful; but the beautiful is always rational, or at least ought to be so.= _Goethe._

=One cannot speak the truth with false words.= _Goethe._

=One can't shoe a runaway horse.= _Dutch Pr._ 50

=One chick keeps a hen busy.= _Pr._

=One cloud is enough to eclipse all the sun.= _Pr._

=One could not commit a greater crime against public interests than to show indulgence to those who violate them.= _Richelieu._

=One could not wish any man to fall into a fault; yet it is often precisely after a fault, or a crime even, that the morality which is in a man first unfolds itself, and what of strength he as a man possesses, now when all else is gone from him.= _Goethe._

=One could take down a book from a shelf ten times more wise and witty than almost any man's conversation.= _Campbell._

=One crime is everything; two, nothing.= _Mme. Deluzy._

=One crow never pulls out another's eyes.= 5 _Pr._

=One crowded hour of glorious life / Is worth an age without a name.= _Scott._

=One does not love the heaven's lightning= (seen in a great man) =in the way of caresses altogether.= _Carlyle._

=One dog can drive a flock of sheep.= _Pr._

=One doth not know / How much an ill word may empoison liking.= _Much Ado_, iii. 1.

=One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy= 10 =turns the most blissful draught into poison.= _Schiller._

=One enemy is too many, and a hundred friends too few.= Pr.

=One enemy may do us more harm than a hundred friends can do us good.= _Pr._

=One eye of the master does more than both his hands.= _Pr._

=One eye-witness is better than ten hearsays.= _Pr._

=One false move may lose the game.= _Pr._ 15

=One feels clearly that it is a kindly spirit which actually constitutes the human element in man.= _Schiller._

=One finds human nature everywhere great and little, beautiful and ugly.... Go on bravely working.= _Goethe._

=One fire burns out another's burning; / One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish.= _Rom. and Jul._, i. 1.

=One fool makes many.= _Pr._

=One futile person, that maketh it his glory to= 20 =tell, will do more hurt than many that know it their duty to conceal.= _Bacon._

=One gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.= _Auerbach._

=One God, one law, one element, / And one far-off divine event, / To which the whole creation moves.= _Tennyson._

=One good deed dying tongueless / Slaughters a thousand, waiting upon that.= _Winter's Tale_, i. 2.

=One good head is better than a hundred strong hands.= _Pr._

=One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters.= 25 _Pr._

=One good turn deserves another.= _Pr._

=One good way I know of to find happiness is not by boring a hole to fit the plug.= _Billings._

=One grain fills not a sack, but helps his fellows.= _Pr._

=One hair of a woman draws more than a team of horses.=

=One half of the world knows not how the= 30 =other half lives.= _Rabelais._

=One half of the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream.= _Longfellow._

=One half the world laughs at the other.= _Fr. and Ger. Pr._

=One hand full of money is more persuasive than two full of truth.= _Dan. Pr._

=One hand washes another.= _Pr._

=One hard word brings on another.= _Pr._ 35

=One head cannot hold all wisdom.= _Pr._

=One hour in the execution of justice is worth seventy years of prayer.= _Mahometan Pr._

=One hour's sleep before midnight is worth two after.= _Pr._

=One impulse from a vernal wood / May teach you more of man, / Of moral evil and of good, / Than all the sages can.= _Wordsworth._

=One is always making good use of one's time= 40 =when engaged with a subject that daily forces one to make advances in self-culture.= _Goethe._

=One is not a whit the happier when he attains what he has wished for.= _Goethe._

=One is scarcely sensible of fatigue whilst he marches to music.= _Carlyle._

=One jeer seldom goeth forth but it bringeth back its equal.= _Pr._

=One keep-clean is better than ten make-cleans.= _Pr._

=One learns taciturnity best among those people= 45 =who have none, and loquacity among the taciturn.= _Jean Paul._

=One lie makes many.= _Pr._

=One lie needs seven lies to wait upon it.= _Pr._

=One life--a little gleam of time between two eternities.= _Carlyle._

=One link broken, the whole chain is broken.= _Pr._

=One loss brings another.= _Pr._ 50

=One man is born to money, and another to the purse.= _Dan. Pr._

=One man makes a chair, and another man sits in it.= _Pr._

=One man may lead a horse to the water, but twenty cannot make him drink.= _Pr._

=One man may steal a horse more safely than another may look at him over a hedge.= _Pr._

=One man receives crucifixion as the reward of= 55 =his villainy; another a regal crown.= _Juv._

=One man that has a higher wisdom in him is not stronger than ten men, or than ten thousand, but than all men that have it not.= _Carlyle._

=One man's eyes are spectacles to another to read his heart with.= _Johnson._

=One man's justice is another man's injustice; one man's beauty, another's ugliness; one man's wisdom, another's folly; as one beholds the same objects from a higher point.= _Emerson._

=One man's meat is another man's poison.= _Pr._

=One man's opinion is no man's opinion.= _Pr._ 60

=One may forsake a person to save a family; one may desert a whole family for the sake of a village; and sacrifice a village for the safety of the community; but for one's self one may abandon the whole world.= _Hitopadesa._

=One may give him a hundred instances from Holy Writ that he should not dispute; still, it is the character of a fool to make a disturbance without a cause.= _Hitopadesa._

=One may make the house a palace of sham, or he can make it a home--a refuge.= _Mark Twain._

=One may often find as much thought on the reverse of a medal as in a canto of Spenser.= _Addison._

=One may see that with half an eye.= _Pr._

=One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.= 5 _Ham._, i. 5.

=One may summon his philosophy when he is beaten in battle, not till then.= _John Burroughs._

=One misfortune is the vigil of another.= _It. Pr._

=One monster there is in this world: the idle man.= _Carlyle._

=One mother is more venerable than a thousand fathers.= _Manu._

=One murder made a villain; / Millions, a hero.= 10 _Bp. Porteous._

=One must be careful in announcing great happiness.= _Schopenhauer._

=One must be somebody in order to have an enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force.= _Mme. Swetchine._

=One must be something in order to do something.= _Goethe._

=One must believe in simplicity, in what is simple, in what is originally productive, if one wants to go the right way. This, however, is not granted to every one; we are born in an artificial state, and it is far easier to make it more artificial still than to return to what is simple.= _Goethe._

=One must have lived greatly whose record= 15 =would bear the full light of day from its beginning to its close.= _A. B. Alcott._

=One must not look a gift horse in the mouth.= _Pr._

=One must not swerve in one's self, not even a hair's breadth from the highest maxims of art and life; but in empiricism, in the movement of the day, I would rather allow what is mediocre to pass than mistake the good, or even find fault with it.= _Goethe._

=One must take a pleasure in the shell till one has the happiness to arrive at the kernel.= _Goethe._

=One must weigh men by avoirdupois weight, and not by the jeweller's scales.= _Goethe._

=One need only take a thing properly in hand= 20 =for it to be done.= _Goethe._

=One need only utter something that flatters indolence and conceit to be sure of plenty of adherents among commonplace people.= _Goethe._

=One never goes farther than when he does not know whither he is going.= _Goethe._

=One never needs his wit so much as when he argues with a fool.= _Chinese Pr._

=One of the best rules in conversation is, never say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish we had left unsaid.= _Swift._

=One of the chief misfortunes of honest people= 25 =is that they are cowardly.= _Voltaire._

=One of the most fatal sources of the prevailing misery and crime lies in the generally accepted quiet assumption that because things have long been wrong, it is impossible they should ever be right.= _Ruskin._

=One of the most singular gifts, or, if abused, most singular weaknesses, of the human mind, is its power of persuading itself to see whatever it chooses; a great gift if directed to the discernment of the things needful and pertinent to its own work and being; a great weakness if directed to the discovery of things profitless or discouraging.= _Ruskin._

=One of the noblest qualities in our nature is that we are able so easily to dispense with greater perfection.= _Vauvenargues._

=One of the old man's miseries is that he cannot easily find a companion able to partake with him of the past.= _Johnson._

=One of the sublimest things in the world is= 30 =plain truth.= _Bulwer Lytton._

=One of the worst diseases to which the human creature is liable is its disease of thinking. If it would only just look at a thing instead of thinking what it must be like, or do a thing instead of thinking it cannot be done, we should all get on far better.= _Ruskin._

=One of these days is none of these days.= _Pr._

=One on God's side is a majority.= _Wendell Phillips._

=One ought not to praise a great man unless he is as great as he.= _Goethe._

=One pair of heels is often worth two pair of= 35 =hands.= (?)

=One pirate gets nothing of another but his cask.= _Pr._

=One ploughs, another sows; / Who will reap, no one knows.= _Pr._

=One power rules another, but no power can cultivate another; in each endowment, and not elsewhere, lies the force that must complete it.= _Goethe._

=One precedent creates another. They soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was fact to-day is doctrine. Examples are supposed to justify the most dangerous measures; and where they do not suit exactly, the defect is supplied by analogy.= _Junius._

=One rarely sees how deeply one is in debt till= 40 =one comes to settle one's accounts.= _Goethe._

=One really gains nothing from such interests= (as occupy the newspapers). _Goethe._

=One religion after another fades away; but the religious sense, which created them all, can never become dead to humanity.= _Jean Paul._

=One says more, and with more heart, in an hour than is written in years.= _Goethe._

=One science only can one genius fit, / So vast is art, so narrow human wit.= _Pope._

=One scream of fear from a mother may resound= 45 =through the whole life of her daughter.= _Jean Paul._

=One sheep follows another.= _Pr._

=One should abandon that country wherein there is neither respect, nor employment, nor connections, nor the advancement of science.= _Hitopadesa._

=One should never ask anybody if one means to write anything.= _Goethe._

=One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptionable character, except among people of culture and wit.= _La Bruyère._

=One should never think of death. One should think of life: that is real piety.= _Disraeli._

=One should not lift the rod against our enemies upon the private information of another.= _Hitopadesa._

=One should not neglect from time to time to renew friendly relations by personal intercourse.= _Goethe._

=One shriek of hate would jar all the hymns of heaven: / True Devils with no ear, they howl in tune / With nothing but the Devil!= _Tennyson._

=One sickly sheep infects the flock.= _Pr._ 5

=One sin opens the door to another.= _Pr._

=One single moment is decisive both of man's life and his whole future. However he may reflect, each resolution he forms is but the work of a moment; the prudent alone seize the right one.= _Goethe._

=One sinner destroyeth much good.= _Bible._

=One solitary philosopher may be great, virtuous, and happy in the depth of poverty, but not a whole people.= _L. Iselin._

=One soul may have a decided influence upon= 10 =another merely by means of its silent presence.= _Goethe._

=One soweth and another reapeth.= _Heb. Pr._

=One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again.= _Paine._

=One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honourable life.= _L'Estrange._

=One sun by day, by night ten thousand shine.= _Young._

=One swallow does not make a summer.= _Pr._ 15

=One sword keeps another in the scabbard.= _Pr._

=One "Take this" is better than two "I will give you."= _Sp. Pr._

="One thing above all others," says Goethe, "I have never thought about thinking." What a thrift of thinking faculty there; thrift almost of itself equal to a fortune in these days.= _Carlyle._

=One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.= _J. G. Holland._

=One thing is needful.= _Jesus._ 20

=One thing there is which no child brings into the world with him; and yet it is on this one thing that all depends for making man in every point a man;--and that is Reverence= (_Ehrfurcht_). _Goethe._

=One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.= _Lowell._

=One thought includes all thought, in the sense that a grain of sand includes the universe.= _Coleridge._

=One tires of a page of which every sentence sparkles with points, of a sentimentalist who is always pumping the tears from his eyes or your own.= _Thackeray._

=One to another cannot be a perfect physician.= 25 _George Herbert._

=One to-day is worth two to-morrows.= _Ben. Franklin._

=One tongue is sufficient for a woman.= _Milton, in reference to foreign languages._

=One touch of Nature makes the whole world kin.= _Troil. and Cress._, iii. 3.

=One 'ud think, an' hear some folk talk, as the men war cute enough to count the corns in a bag o' wheat wi' only smelling at it.= _George Eliot._

=One who, either in conversation or in letters,= 30 =affects to shine and to sparkle always, will not please long.= _Blair._

=One who has nothing to admire, nothing to love, except his own poor self, may be reckoned a completed character; (but) he is in the minimum state of moral perfection--no more can be made of him.= _Carlyle._

=One who is master of ever so little art may be able, on a great occasion, to root up trees with as much ease as the current of a river the reeds and grass.= _Hitopadesa._

=One who is out of his own country is defeated by a very trifling enemy.= _Hitopadesa._

=One woe doth tread upon another's heel, / So fast they follow.= _Ham._, iv. 7.

=One word with two meanings is the traitor's= 35 =shield and shaft.= _Caucasian Pr._

=One wrong step may give you a great fall.= _Pr._

=One's morning indolence is soon gone when one has once persuaded one's self to put a foot out of bed.= _Goethe._

=One's piety is best displayed in his pursuits.= _A. B. Alcott._

=One's too few, three's too many.= _Pr._

=Oneness and otherness. It is impossible to= 40 =speak or think without embracing both.= _Emerson._

=Only a Christ could have conceived a Christ.= _Joseph Parker._

=Only a great pride, that is, a great and reverential repose in one's own being, renders possible a noble humility.= _D. A. Wasson._

=Only a sweet and virtuous soul, / Like seasoned timber, never gives: / But when the whole world turns to coal, / Then chiefly lives.= _George Herbert._

=Only action gives life strength; only moderation gives it a charm.= _Jean Paul._

=Only an artist can interpret the meaning of= 45 =life.= _Novalis._

=Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is, or should be, an inventor.= _Emerson._

=Only by joy and sorrow does a man know anything about himself and his destiny, learn what he ought to seek and what to shun.= _Goethe._

=Only by pride cometh contention; but with the well-advised is wisdom.= _Bible._

=Only great men have any business with great defects.= _La Roche._

=Only great souls know the grandeur there is= 50 =in charity.= _Bossuet._

=Only he can be trusted with gifts who can present a face of bronze to expectations.= _Thoreau._

=Only he deserves freedom who has day by day to fight for it.= _Goethe._

=Only he helps who unites with many at the proper hour; a single individual helps not.= _Goethe._

=Only I discern / Infinite passion, and the pain / Of finite hearts that yearn.= _Browning._

=Only in complicated critical cases do men find= 55 =out what is within them.= _Goethe._

=Only in looking heavenward, take it in what sense you may, not in looking earthward, does what we call union, mutual love, society, begin to be possible.= _Carlyle._

=Only in the world I fill up a place, which may be better supplied when I have made it empty.= _As You Like It_, i. 2.

=Only learn to catch happiness, for happiness is ever by you.= _Goethe._

=Only lofty character is worth describing at all.= _Ruskin._