Chapter M (9)

=Only people who possess firmness can possess= 5 =true gentleness.= _La Roche._

=Only regard for law can give us freedom.= _Goethe._

=Only so far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life generally.= _Novalis._

=Only such persons interest us, Spartans, Romans, Saracens, English, Americans, who have stood in the jaws of need, and have by their own wit and might extricated themselves, and made man victorious.= _Emerson._

=Only suffering draws / The inner heart of song, and can elicit / The perfumes of the soul.= _Lewis Morris._

=Only that good profits which we can taste with= 10 =all doors open, and which serves all men.= _Emerson._

=Only that is poetry which purifies and mans me.= _Emerson._

=Only the actions of the just / Smell sweet and blossom in the dust.= _Shirley._

=Only the idle among the poor revolt against their state; the brave workers die passively, and give no sign.= _Ruskin._

=Only the man of worth can recognise worth in men.= _Carlyle._

=Only the person should give advice in a= 15 =matter where he himself will co-operate.= _Goethe._

=Only the word of God and the heart of man can govern.= _Ruskin._

=Only they who have hope live.= _Halm._

=Only those books come down which deserve to last.= _Emerson._

=Only those live who do good.= _Tolstoi._

=Only those who love with the heart can animate= 20 =the love of others.= _Abel Stephens._

=Only to the apt, the pure, and the true does Nature resign herself and reveal her secrets.= _Goethe._

=Only truth can be polished.= _Ruskin._

=Only what of the past was true will come back to us; that is the one asbestos that survives all fire.= _Carlyle._

=Only when man weeps he should be alone, not because tears are weak, but they should be secret.= _Bulwer Lytton._

=Onus probandi=--The burden of proving. 25

=Onus segni impone asello=--Lay the burden on the lazy ass. _Pr._

=Open not your door when the devil knocks.= _Pr._

=Open rebuke is better than secret love.= _Pr._

=Opera illius mea sunt=--His works are mine. _M._

=Operæ pretium est=--'Tis worth while; worth 30 attending to.

=Opere in longo fas est obrepere somnum=--In a long work sleep must steal upon us. _Hor._

=Operosa parvus carmina fingo=--I, a little one, compose laborious songs. _Hor._

=Operose nihil agunt=--They toil at doing nothing. _Sen._

=Opes regum, corda subditorum=--The wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects. _M._

[Greek: opse theôn aleousi myloi, aleousi de lepta]--The 35 mills of the gods grind slow, but they grind small.

=Opiferque per orbem dicor=--I am known over the world as the helper. _M._

=Opinion is a medium between knowledge and ignorance.= _Plato._

=Opinion is, as it were, the queen of the world, but force is its tyrant.= _Pascal._

=Opinion is the main thing which does good or harm in the world. It is our false opinions that ruin us.= _Marcus Antoninus._

=Opinion is the mistress of fools.= _Pr._ 40

=Opinion rules the world.= _Carlyle._

=Opinions concerning acts are not history; acts themselves alone are history.= _Wm. Blake._

=Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones.= _Colton._

=Opinionum enim commenta delet dies, naturæ judicia confirmat=--Time effaces the fabrications of opinion, but confirms the judgments of Nature. _Cic._

=Opportunities, like eggs, come one at a time.= 45 _Amer. Pr._

=Opportunities neglected are irrecoverable.= _Pr._

=Opportunity has hair in front, but is bald behind; if you meet her, seize her by the forelock, for Jove himself cannot catch her again if once let slip.= _Rabelais._

=Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.= _Disraeli._

=Opportunity makes desire.= _Dut. Pr._

=Opportunity makes us known to others, but= 50 =more to ourselves.= _La Roche._

=Oppose not rage while rage is in its force, but give it way awhile and let it waste.= _Shakespeare._

=Opposition always enflames the enthusiast, never converts him.= _Schiller._

=Oppress'd with grief, oppress'd with care, / A burden more than I can bear, / I sit me down and sigh; / O Life, thou art a galling load, / Along a rough and weary road, / To wretches such as I.= _Burns._

=Oppression is more easily borne than insult.= _Junius._

=Opprobrium medicorum=--The disgrace of physicians. 55 _Said of diseases that defy their skill, especially cancer._

=Optat ephippia bos piger; optat arare caballus=--The lazy ox covets the horse's trappings; the horse would fain plough. _Hor._

=Optics sharp it needs, I ween, / To see what is not to be seen.= _J. Trumbull._

=Optima quæque dies miseris mortalibus ævi / Prima fugit; subeunt morbi tristisque senectus, / Et labor; et duræ rapit inclementia mortis=--For wretched mortals each best day of life flies first; diseases soon steal on, and sad old age, and decay; and the cruelty of inexorable death snatches us away. _Virg._

=Optimi consiliarii mortui=--The best counsellors are the dead. _Pr._

=Optimum obsonium labor=--Labour is the best sauce. _Pr._

=Opum furiata cupido=--The frantic passion for wealth. _Ovid._

=Ora et labora=--Pray and work. _M._

=Oracles speak.= _Emerson._

=Oral delivery aims at persuasion, at making= 5 =the listener believe he is convinced. Few persons are capable of being convinced; the majority allow themselves to be persuaded.= _Goethe._

=Orando laborando=--By prayer and labour. _M._

=Orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano=--We should pray for a sound mind in a sound body. _Juv._

=Orate pro anima=--Pray for the soul of.

=Orationis summa virtus est perspicuitas=--The greatest virtue of speech is perspicuity. _Quinct._

=Orator improbus leges subvertit=--An evil-disposed 10 orator subverts the laws.

=Oratory is a warrior's eye flashing from under a philosopher's brow.= _Hare._

=Oratory, like a drama, abhors lengthiness; like the drama, it must be kept doing.= _Bulwer Lytton._

=Order all thy actions, so as readily and meekly to comply with the commands of thy superiors, the desires of thy equals, the requests of thy inferiors; so to do for all what thou lawfully mayest.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=Order and quiet are good things when they can be had without the sacrifice of things that are better.= _Ward Beecher._

=Order is a great man's need, and his true well-being.= 15 _Amiel._

=Order is heaven's first law.= _Pope._

=Order is power.= _Amiel._

=Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. As the beams to a house, as the bones to the microcosm of man, so is order to all things.= _Southey._

=Order is truth, each thing standing on the basis that belongs to it.= _Carlyle._

=Order, thou eye of action.= _Aaron Hill._ 20

=Ordinary people think merely of spending time; a man with any brains, of using it.= _Schopenhauer._

=Ore e sempre=--Now and always. _It._

=Ore tenus=--Merely from the mouth; oral.

=Organic laws can only be serviceable to, and, in general, will only be written by, a public of honourable citizens, loyal to their state and faithful to each other.= _Ruskin._

[Greek: orgê philountôn oligon ischyei chronon]--The 25 anger of lovers does not last long. _Menander._

=Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for and constantly quarrel with, as if any, observes Jean Paul, but our own could be expected to content us.= _Carlyle._

=Originality is simply a fresh pair of eyes.= _T. W. Higginson._

=Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.= _J. S. Mill._

=Originality provokes originality.= _Goethe._

=Ornament is but the guilèd shore / To a most= 30 =dangerous sea; the beauteous scarf / Veiling an Indian beauty; in a word, / The seeming truth which cunning times put on / To entrap the wisest.= _Mer. of Ven._, iii. 2.

=Ornaments were invented by modesty.= _Joubert._

=Oro è che oro vale=--What is worth gold is gold. _It. Pr._

=Orthodoxy is my doxy; heterodoxy another man's doxy.= _Warburton._

=Orthodoxy is the Bourbon of the world of thought; it learns not, neither can it forget.= _Huxley._

=Os, orare, vale, communio, mensa negatur=--Speech, 35 prayer, greeting, intercourse, and food are forbidden. _The sentence of excommunication._

=Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.= _Chapin._

=Otez un vilain du gibet, il vous y mettra=--Save a thief from the gallows, and he will cut your throat. _Fr. Pr._

=Othello's occupation's gone!= _Othello_, iii. 3.

=Other exercises develop single powers and muscles, but dancing, like a corporeal poesy, embellishes, exercises, and equalises all the muscles at once.= _Jean Paul._

=Other heights in other lives, God willing.= 40 _Browning._

=Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds.= _Emerson._

=Other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours.= _Jesus._

=Others apart sat on a hill retired, / In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high / Of Providence, fore-knowledge, will, and fate, / Fix'd fate, free-will, fore-knowledge absolute; / And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost.= _Milton._

=Others, more aspiring than achieving, / Achieve all in suggestion, ... / More helpful by their infinite reaching forth / Than all completed thinking.= _Dr. Walter Smith._

=Otia si tollas, periere Cupidinis arcus=--Remove 45 the temptations of idleness, and Cupid's bow is useless. _Ovid._

=Otiosis nullus adsistit Deus=--No deity assists the idle. _Pr._

=Otium cum dignitate=--Leisure with dignity.

=Otium sine literis mors est, et hominis vivi sepultura=--Leisure without literature is death and burial alive. _Sen._

[Greek: ou chrê pannychion heudein boulêphoron andra]--It will not do for a counsellor to sleep all night. _Hom._

[Greek: Ou legein deinos, alla sigan adynatos]--Not 50 formidable as a speaker, but unable to hold his tongue. _Gr._ (?)

=Où peut-on être mieux qu'au sein de sa famille?=--Where can a man be better than in the bosom of his family? _Marmontel Grétry._

=Où sont les neiges d'antan?=--Where is the snow of last year? _F. Villons._

[Greek: ou toi synechthein alla symphilein ephyn]--I am here not for mutual hatred, but for mutual affection. _Soph._

=Oublier d'éclairer sa lanterne=--To express one's self obscurely (_lit._ to forget to light one's lantern). _Fr._

=Oublier ne puis=--I can never forget. _M._ 55

[Greek: ouden ginetai ek tou mê ontos]--Nothing comes to be out of what is not. _Epicurus._

[Greek: ouden rhêma syn kerdei kakon]--No word that is profitable is bad. _Soph._

=Oui et Non sont bien courts à dire, mais avant que de les dire, il y faut penser long-temps=--"Yes" and "no" are very short words to say, but we should think for some length of time before saying them.

[Greek: ouk agathon polykoiraniê; heis koiranos estô, / Heis basileus]--That there should be a multitude of rulers is not good; let one be lord, one be king. _Hom._

[Greek: ouk aischron ouden tôn anankaiôn brotois]--What is natural is never shameful. _Eurip._

[Greek: ouk estin meizôn basanos chronou oudenos ergou, / hos kai hypo sternois andros edeixe noon]--There is no better test of a man's work than time, which also reveals the thought which lay hidden in his breast. _Simonides._

=Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, / Our= 5 =fatal shadows that walk by us still.= _Fletcher._

=Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.= _Emerson._

=Our affections are but tents of a night.= _Emerson._

=Our affections, as well as our bodies, are in perpetual flux.= _Rousseau._

=Our age is really up to nothing better than sweeping out the gutters--a scavenger age. Might it but do that well! It is the indispensable beginning of all.= _Carlyle._

=Our age knows nothing but reactions, and= 10 =leaps from one extreme to another.= _Niebuhr._

=Our ambiguous dissipating education awakens wishes when it should be animating tendencies; instead of forwarding our real capacities, it turns our efforts towards objects which are frequently discordant with the mind that aims at them.= _Goethe._

=Our ancestors are very good kind o' folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.= _Sheridan._

=Our attachment to every object around us increases, in general, from the length of our acquaintance with it.= _Goldsmith._

=Our best history is still poetry.= _Emerson._

=Our best resolutions are frail when opposed= 15 =to our predominant inclinations.= _Scott._

=Our best thoughts come from others.= _Emerson._

=Our better mind / Is as a Sunday's garment, then put on / When we have nought to do; but at our work / We wear a worse for thrift.= _Crowe._

=Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting.= _Wordsworth._

=Our books are false by being fragmentary; the sentences are "bon mots," and not parts of natural discourse; childish expressions of surprise or pleasure in nature--or worse.= _Emerson._

=Our bounty, like a drop of water, disappears= 20 =when diffused too widely.= _Goldsmith._

=Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The angel of life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hands of the angel of the resurrection.= _Holmes._

=Our charity indeed should be universal, and extend to all mankind; but it is by no means convenient that our friendships and familiarities should do so too.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and an increase of our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes.= _Goldsmith._

=Our chief experiences have been casual.= _Emerson._

=Our chief want in life is somebody who shall= 25 =make us do what we can.= _Emerson._

=Our clock strikes when there is a change from hour to hour; but no hammer in the Horologe of Time peals through the universe when there is a change from era to era.= _Carlyle._

=Our compell'd sins / Stand more for number than accompt.= _Meas. for Meas._, ii. 4.

=Our complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives, and the sincerest part of our devotion.= _Swift._

=Our content / Is our best having.= _Hen. VIII._, ii. 3.

=Our corn's to reap, for yet our tilth's to sow.= 30 _Meas. for Meas._, iv. 1.

=Our country is wherever we are well off.= _Milton._

=Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them.= _George Eliot._

=Our decrees / Dead to infliction, to themselves are dead; / And liberty plucks justice by the nose, / The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart / Goes all decorum.= _Meas. for Meas._, i. 4.

=Our deeds are fetters that we forge ourselves.= _George Eliot._

=Our deeds are like children born to us; they= 35 =live and act apart from our own will. Children may be strangled, but deeds never.= _George Eliot._

=Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds.= _George Eliot._

=Our delight in reason degenerates into idolatry of the herald.= _Emerson._

=Our dissatisfaction with any other solution is the blazing evidence of immortality.= _Emerson._

=Our domestic service is usually a foolish fracas of unreasonable demand on the one side and striking on the other.= _Emerson._

=Our doubts are traitors, / And make us lose the= 40 =good we oft might win / By fearing to attempt.= _Meas. for Meas._, i. 5.

=Our dreams drench us in sense, and sense steeps us again in dreams.= _A. B. Alcott._

=Our echoes roll from soul to soul, / And grow for ever and for ever.= _Tennyson._

=Our energies are actually cramped by over-anxiety for success, and by straining our mental faculties beyond due bounds.= _Montaigne._

=Our esteem of great powers, or amiable qualities newly discovered, may embroider a day or a week, but a friendship of twenty years is interwoven with the texture of life.= _Johnson._

=Our expense is almost all for conformity.= _Emerson._ 45

=Our experiences of life sway and bow us either with joy or sorrow. They plant everything about us with heart-seeds. Thus a house becomes sacred. Every room has a thousand memories.= _Ward Beecher._

=Our eyes see all around in gloom or glow--/ Hues of their own, fresh borrowed from the heart.= _Keble._

=Our fear commonly meets us at the door by which we think to run from it.= _Pr._

=Our feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell; like the glaciers, which are transparent and rosy-hued only at sunrise and sunset.= _Jean Paul._

=Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.= _Schopenhauer._

=Our flatterers are our worst enemies.= _Pr._

=Our friends see not our faults, or conceal them, or soften them.= _Addison._

=Our God is a household God, as well as a= 5 =heavenly one. He has an altar in every man's dwelling; let men look to it when they rend it lightly, and pour out its ashes.= _Ruskin._

=Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.= _Carlyle._

=Our greatest, being also by nature our quietest, are perhaps those that remain unknown.= _Carlyle._

=Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.= _Goldsmith._

=Our greatest misfortunes come to us from ourselves.= _Rousseau._

=Our hand we open of our own free will, and the= 10 =good flies which we can never recall.= _Goethe._

=Our hap is lost, our hope but sad despair.= 3 _Hen._, ii. 3.

=Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.= _Duchess de Praslin._

=Our happiness should not be laid on a too broad foundation.= _Schopenhauer._

=Our hearts, frequently warmed by the contact of those whom we wish to resemble, will undoubtedly catch something of their way of thinking; and we shall receive in our own bosoms some radiation at least of their fire and splendour.= _Joshua Reynolds._

=Our heavenward progress is something like= 15 =that of the Jerusalem pilgrims of old, who for three steps forward took one backward.= _Jean Paul._

=Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough of literature.= _Emerson._

=Our hoard is little, but our hearts are great.= _Tennyson._

=Our hopes are but our memories reversed.= (?)

=Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws so far as we can read them.= _Froude._

=Our humanity were a poor thing but for the= 20 =divinity that stirs within us.= _Bacon._

=Our ideals are our better selves.= _A. B. Alcott._

=Our ideas, like pictures, are made out of lights and shadows.= _Joubert._

=Our life contains a thousand springs, / And dies if one be gone; / Strange that a harp of thousand strings / Should keep in tune so long.= _Watts._

=Our life is compassed round with necessity; yet is the meaning of life itself no other than freedom, than voluntary force.= _Carlyle._

=Our life is no dream, but it may and will perhaps= 25 =become one.= _Novalis._

=Our life is not a mutual helpfulness; but rather, cloaked under due laws of war, named "fair competition," and so forth, it is a mutual hostility.= _Carlyle._

=Our life might be much easier and simpler than we make it.= _Emerson._

=Our life should feed the springs of fame / With a perennial wave, / As ocean feeds the bubbling founts / Which find in it their grave.= _Thoreau._

=Our Lord God commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom He gives nothing else.= _Luther._

=Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection,= 30 =not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.= _Luther._

=Our love is inwrought in our enthusiasm, as electricity is inwrought in the air, exalting its power by a subtle presence.= _George Eliot._

=Our love of truth is evinced by our ability to discover and appropriate what is good wherever we come upon it.= _Goethe._

=Our memories are independent of our wills.= _Sheridan._

=Our minds cannot be empty; and evil will break in upon them if they are not pre-occupied by good.= _Johnson._

=Our minds should be habituated to the contemplation= 35 =of excellence.= _Joshua Reynolds._

=Our moral impressions invariably prove strongest in those moments when we are most driven back upon ourselves.= _Goethe._

=Our most exalted feelings are not meant to be the common food of daily life. Contentment is more satisfying than exhilaration; and contentment means simply the sum of small and quiet pleasures.= _Ward Beecher._

=Our narrow ken / Reaches too far, when all that we behold / Is but the havoc of wide-wasting Time, / Or what he soon shall spoil.= _Crowe._

=Our nature is inseparable from desires, and the very word "desire" (the craving for something not possessed) implies that our present felicity is not complete.= _Hobbes._

=Our natures are like oil; compound us with= 40 =anything, yet still we strive to swim upon the top.= _Beaumont and Fletcher._

=Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its centre and ornament. Nor is there a paradise planted till the children appear in the foreground to animate and complete the picture.= _A. B. Alcott._

=Our own heart, and not other men's opinions, forms our true honour.= _Coleridge._

=Our passions and principles are steady in frenzy; but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.= _Sterne._

=Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us weaker ever after.= _Pope._

=Our passions are true phœnixes; when the= 45 =old one is burnt out, the new one rises straightway from its ashes.= _Goethe._

=Our path of glory / By many a cloud is darken'd and unblest.= _Keble._

=Our patience will achieve more than our force.= _Burke._

=Our peasant= (Burns) =showed himself among us, "a soul like an Æolian harp, in whose strings the vulgar wind, as it passed through them, changed itself into articulate melody."= _Carlyle._

=Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protracting our greatest pleasure.= _Goldsmith._

=Our pleasures travel by express; our pains by parliamentary.= _F. G. Trafford._

=Our poetry of the eighteenth century was prose; our prose of the seventeenth, poetry.= _Hare._

=Our poets are men of talents who sing, and not the children of music.= _Emerson._

=Our present time is indeed a criticising and a critical time, hovering between the wish and the inability to believe.= _Jean Paul._

=Our purity of taste is best tested by its universality,= 5 =for if we can only admire this thing or that, we may be sure that our cause for liking is of a finite and false nature.= _Ruskin._

=Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor.= _Tam. of the Shrew_, iv. 3.

=Our ravings and complaints are but like arrows shot up into the air at no mark, and so to no purpose, but only to fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves.= _Sir William Temple._

=Our relation to things outside of ourselves forms, and at the same time robs us of, our existence, and yet we have to do our best to adapt ourselves to circumstances; for to isolate one's self is also not advisable.= _Goethe._

=Our relations are far too artificial and complicated, our nutriment and mode of life are without their proper nature, and our social intercourse is without proper love and goodwill. Every one is polished and courteous, but no one has the courage to be hearty and true.= _Goethe._

=Our relations are ours by lot, our friends by= 10 =election.= _Delille._

=Our religion assumes the negative form of rejection. Out of love of the true, we repudiate the false; and the religion is an abolishing criticism.= _Emerson._

=Our religion is meant to root out our vices, but it covers, nourishes, and excites them.= _Montaigne._

=Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, / Which we ascribe to heaven.= _All's Well_, i. 1.

=Our sacrifices are rarely of an active kind; we, as it were, abandon what we give away. It is not from resolution, but despair, that we renounce our property.= _Goethe._

=Our self-made men are the glory of our institutions.= 15 _Wendell Phillips._

=Our senses will not admit of anything extreme: too much noise confuses us, too much light dazzles us.= _Pascal._

=Our social forms are very far from truth and equity.= _Emerson._

=Our sorrows are like thunder-clouds, which seem black in the distance, but grow lighter as they approach.= _Jean Paul._

=Our souls much farther than our eyes can see.= _Drayton._

=Our souls must become expanded by the contemplation= 20 =of Nature's grandeur before we can fully comprehend the greatness of man.= _Heine._

=Our spiritual maladies are but of opinion; we are but fettered by chains of our own forging, and which ourselves also can rend asunder.= _Carlyle._

=Our spontaneous action is always the best.= _Emerson._

=Our stomach for good fortune is bottomless, but the entrance to it is narrow.= _Schopenhauer._

=Our strength lies in our weakness= (_i.e._, limitedness). _Hazlitt._

=Our temperaments differ in capacity of heat,= 25 =or we boil at different degrees.= _Emerson._

=Our thinking is a pious reception.= _Emerson._

=Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.= _George Eliot._

=Our thoughts take wildest flight / Even at the moment when they should array themselves in pensive order.= _Byron._

=Our time is fixed, and all our days are numbered; / How long, how short, we know not: this we know, / Duty requires we calmly wait the summons, / Nor dare to stir till Heaven shall give permission.= _Blair._

=Our torment is unbelief, the uncertainty as to= 30 =what we ought to do, the distrust of the value of what we do, and the distrust that the necessity which we all at last believe in is fair and beneficial.= _Emerson._

=Our valours are our best gods.= _Fletcher._

=Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.= _Mme. Swetchine._

=Our very hopes belied our fears, / Our fears our hopes belied; / We thought her dying when she slept, / And sleeping when she died.= _T. Hood._

=Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection admits a sacrifice.= _Vauvenargues._

=Our virtues depend on our failings as their= 35 =root, and the latter send forth as strong and manifold branches underground as the former do in the open light.= _Goethe._

=Our / Virtues lie in the interpretation of the time.= _Coriolanus_, iv. 7.

=Our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.= _All's Well_, iv. 3.

=Our whole existence is passed into words, and words, by means of tongue and ears, pass so easily into the soul.= _Jean Paul._

=Our whole life is but a chamber which we are frescoing with colours, that do not appear while being laid on wet, but which will shine forth afterwards when finished and dry.= _Ward Beecher._

=Our whole terrestrial being is based on Time= 40 =and built of Time; it is wholly a movement, a Time-impulse; Time is the author of it, the material of it.= _Carlyle._

=Our wills and fates do so contrary run, / That our devices still are overthrown; / Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own.= _Ham._, iii. 2.

=Our work must be done honourably and thoroughly, because we are now men; whether we ever expect to be angels, or ever were slugs, being practically no matter. We are now human creatures, and must, at our peril, do human, that is to say, affectionate, honest, and earnest work.= _Ruskin._

=Our works are presentiments of our capabilities.= _Goethe._

=Our works decay and disappear, / God's frailest works abide, and look / Down on the ruins we toil to rear.= _Dr. Walter Smith._

=Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.= _Balzac._

=Our yesterday's to-morrow now is gone, / And still a new to-morrow does come on. / We by to-morrow draw out all our store, / Till the exhausted well can yield no more.= _Cowley._

=Our young men are terribly alike.= _Alexander Smith._

=Ourselves are easily provided for; it is nothing but the circumstantials of human life that cost so much.= _Pope._

=Out at sea, the universe has dwindled to a= 5 =little circle of crumpled water, that journeys with you day after day, and to which you seem bound by some enchantment.= _Burroughs._

=Out of debt, out of danger.= _Pr._

=Out of difficulties grow miracles.= _La Bruyère._

=Out of Evil comes Good; and no Good that is possible but shall one day be real.= _Carlyle._

=Out of my stony griefs / Bethel I'll raise.= _Adams._

=Out of Plato come all things that are still= 10 =written and debated about among men of thought.= _Emerson._

=Out of sight out of mind.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.= _Jesus._

=Out of the eater cometh forth meat; out of the strong cometh forth sweetness.= _Samson's riddle._

=Out of the frying-pan into the fire.= _Pr._

=Out of the suffering comes the serious mind;= 15 =out of the salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance, faith.= _Ruskin._

=Out of this nettle danger we pluck this flower safety.= 1 _Hen. IV._, ii. 3.

=Out upon the tempest of anger, the acrimonious gall of fretful impatience, the sullen frost of lowring resentment, or the corroding poison of withered envy! They eat up the immortal part of a man!... like traitor Iscariot, betray their lord and master.= _Burns._

[Greek: oute ti tôn anthrôpinôn axion on megalês spoudês]--Nothing in the affairs of mankind is worth serious anxiety. _Plato._

=Outward judgment often fails, inward justice never.= _Theo. Parker._

=Outward religion originates by society; society= 20 =becomes possible by religion.= _Carlyle._

=Ouvrage de longue haleine=--A long-winded or tedious business. _Fr._

=Over the events of life we may have a control, but none whatever over the law of its progress.= _Draper._

=Over the Time thou hast no power; solely over one man therein hast thou a quite absolute, uncontrollable power; him redeem, him make honest.= _Carlyle._

=Over there it will not be otherwise than it is here.= _Goethe._

=Overcome evil with good.= _St. Paul._ 25

=Overdone is worse than underdone.= _Pr._

=Ovid finely compares a man of broken fortune to a falling column; the lower it sinks, the greater weight it is obliged to sustain.= _Goldsmith._

=Owe no man anything, but to love one another; for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.= _St. Paul._

=Oysters are not good in a month that hath not an R in it.= _Pr._

P.

=Pabulum Acherontis=--Food for Acheron, _i.e._, on 30 the verge of the grave. _Plaut._

=Pace tanti viri=--If so great a man will forgive me.

=Pacem hominibus habe, bellum cum vitiis=--Maintain peace with men, war with their vices.

=Pacta conventa=--Conditions agreed upon.

=Pacte de famille=--A family compact. _Fr._

=Pactum non pactum est; non pactum pactum= 35 =est; quod vobis lubet=--A bargain is not a bargain, no bargain is a bargain, as it pleases you. _Plaut._

=Paga lo que debes, sabrás lo que tienes=--Pay what you owe, and what you have you'll know. _It. Pr._

="Pagan self-assertion" is one of the elements of human worth as well as "Christian self-denial."= _J. S. Mill._

=Pain has its own noble joy, when it kindles a strong consciousness of life, before stagnant and torpid.= _J. Sterling._

=Pain is less subject than pleasure to capricious expression.= _Johnson._

=Pain is so uneasy a sentiment that very little= 40 =of it is enough to corrupt every enjoyment.= _Rogers._

=Pain is the deepest thing we have in our nature, and union through pain has always seemed more real and holy than any other.= _Hallam._

=Pain is the positive element in life, and pleasure its negation.= _Schopenhauer._

=Pain past is pleasure.= _Pr._

=Pain pays the income of each precious thing.= _Shakespeare._

=Painful for man is rebellious independence= 45 =when it has become inevitable; only in loving companionship with his fellows does he feel safe; only in reverently bowing down before the Higher does he feel himself exalted.= _Carlyle._

=Pains of love be sweeter far / Than all other pleasures are.= _Dryden._

=Paint costs nothing.= _Dut. Pr._

="Paint me as I am."= (?)

=Painters draw their nymphs in thin and airy habits, but the weight of gold and of embroideries is reserved for queens and goddesses.= _Dryden._

=Painting does not proceed so much by intelligence= 50 =as by sight and feeling and invention.= _Hamerton._

=Painting is silent poetry, and poetry speaking painting.= _Simonides._

=Painting is the intermediate between a thought and a thing.= _Coleridge._

=Palabra de boca, piedra de honda=--A word from the mouth is as a stone from a sling. _Sp. Pr._

=Palabra y piedra suelta no tiene vuelta=--A word and a stone once launched cannot be recalled. _Sp. Pr._

=Palam mutire plebeio piaculum est=--For a common man to mutter what he thinks is a risky venture.

=Palinodiam canere=--To recant.

=Pallida mors æquo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas, / Regumque turres=--Pale Death with impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of kings. _Hor._

=Palma non sine pulvere=--The palm, but not 5 without a struggle. _M._

=Palma virtuti=--The palm to virtue. _M._

=Palmam qui meruit ferat=--Let him bear the palm that deserves it. _M._

=Panem et circenses=--Bread and the games of the circus (what the Roman plebs took sole interest in). _Juv._

=Paper and leather and ink, / All are but trash / If I find not the thought / Which the writer can think.= _Dr. Walter Smith._

=Par bene comparatum=--A pair well matched. 10

=Par droit de conquète et par droit de naissance=--By right of conquest and by right of birth. _Henry IV. of France._

=Par excellence=--Pre-eminently. _Fr._

=Par l'écoulement du temps=--By the lapse of time. _Fr._

=Par le droit du plus fort=--By the right of the strongest. _Pr._

=Par les mêmes voies on ne va pas toujours aux= 15 =mêmes fins=--The same means do not always lead to the same ends. _La Roche._

=Par ma foi! l'âge ne sert de guère / Quand on n'a pas cela=--By my faith, age serves but little if one has not that (brains). _Molière._

=Par manière d'acquit=--For form's sake. _Fr._

=Par negotiis, neque supra=--Equal to, and not above, his business. _Tac._

=Par nobile fratrum=--A precious pair of brothers. _Hor._

=Par pari referto=--Give him back tit for tat. _Ter._ 20

=Par signe de mépris=--In token of contempt. _Fr._

=Par ternis suppar=--The two are equal to the three. _M._

=Par trop débattre la vérité se perd=--The truth is sacrificed by too much disputation. _Fr. Pr._

=Par un prompt désespoir souvent on se marie, / Qu'on s'en repent après tout le temps de sa vie=--We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after. _Molière._

=Paradise is always where love dwells.= _Jean_ 25 _Paul._

=Paradise is for those who control their anger.= _Koran._

=Paradise is under the shadow of our swords.= _Mahomet._

=Parasiticam cœnam quærit=--He seeks the meal of a parasite or hanger-on.

=Parce, puer, stimulis et fortius utere loris=--Boy, spare the goad and more firmly grasp the reins. _Ovid._

=Parcere personis, dicere de vitiis=--To spare persons, 30 to condemn crimes. _Mart._

=Parcere subjectis et debellare superbos=--To spare the conquered, to subdue the haughty. _Virg._

=Parcite paucorum diffundere crimen in omnes=--Forbear to lay the guilt of the few upon the many. _Ovid._

=Parcus Deorum cultor, et infrequens, / Insanientis dum sapientiæ / Consultus erro; nunc retrorsum / Vela dare, atque iterare cursus / Cogor relictos=--A niggard and unfrequent worshipper of the gods, as long as I strayed from the way by senseless philosophy; I am now forced to turn my sail back, and to retrace the course I had deserted. _Hor._

=Pardon is the choicest flower of victory.= _Arab. Pr._

=Parents are commonly more careful to bestow= 35 =wit on their children than virtue, the art of speaking well than of doing well; but their manners ought to be the great concern.= _Fuller._

=Parents' blessings can neither be drowned in water nor consumed in fire.= _Pr._

=Parents we can have but once; and he promises himself too much who enters life with the expectation of finding many friends.= _Johnson._

=Pares cum paribus ut est in veteri proverbio facillime congregantur=--As in the old proverb, "Like associates most naturally with like." _Cic._

=Parfois, élus maudits de la fureur suprême, / ... Ces envoyés du ciel sont apparus au monde / Comme s'ils venaient de l'enfer=--Sometimes these ambassadors of heaven, the accursed elect of the wrath of heaven, appear in the world as though they came from hell. _Victor Hugo._

=Pari passu=--With equal steps or pace; neck and 40 neck.

=Pari ratione=--By parity of reason.

=Paritur pax bello=--Peace is produced by war. _Corn. Nep._

=Parlez du loup et vous en verrez la queue=--Speak of the wolf and you will see his tail; speak of the devil and he will appear. _Fr. Pr._

=Parlez peu et bien, si vous voulez qu'on vous regarde comme un homme de mérite=--Speak little and well if you wish to be esteemed a man of merit. _Fr._

=Parliamentary government is government by= 45 =speaking.= _Macaulay._

=Pars beneficii est quod petitur si belle neges=--To refuse graciously is to confer a favour. _Pub. Syr._

=Pars beneficii est quod petitur si cito neges=--To refuse a favour quickly is to grant one. _Pub. Syr._

=Pars hominum vitiis gaudet constanter, et urget / Propositum: pars multa natat, modo recta capessens, / Interdum pravis obnoxia=--A portion of mankind glory consistently in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong. _Hor._

=Pars minima est ipsa puella sui=--The girl herself is the least part of herself. _Ovid._

=Pars minima sui=--The smallest part of himself 50 or itself.

=Pars sanitatis velle sanari fuit=--It is a step to the cure to be willing to be cured. _Sen._

=Parsimonia est magnum vectigal=--Thrift is a great revenue. _Cic._

=Parsimony is enough to make the master of the golden mines as poor as he that has nothing; for a man may be brought to a morsel of bread by parsimony as well as profusion.= _Henry Home._

=Parta tueri=--Defend what you have won. _M._

=Partage de Montgomerie: tout d'un côté, rien de l'autre=--A Montgomery division: everything on one side and nothing on the other. _Fr. Pr._

=Parthis mendacior=--More mendacious than the Parthians. _Hor._

=Partial culture runs to the ornate; extreme culture to simplicity.= _Bovee._

=Particeps criminis=--A partaker in a crime; an accessory either before or after the fact.

=Parties do not consider; they only feel.= _Ranke._ 5

=Parting day / Dies like a dolphin, whom each pang imbues / With a new colour as it gasps away, / The last still loveliest, till--'tis gone, and all is gray.= _Byron._

=Parting is worse than death; it is death of love.= _Dryden._

=Parting with a delusion makes one wiser than falling in with a truth.= _Börne._

=Parturiunt montes, nascetur ridiculus mus=--Mountains are in labour, a ridiculous mouse will be brought forth. _Hor._

=Party honesty is party expediency.= _G. Cleveland._ 10

=Party is the madness of many for the gain of the few.= _Pope._

=Party standards are shadows in which patriotism is buried.= _Bernardine de St. Pierre._

=Parva leves capiunt animos=--Little minds are caught with trifles. _Ovid._

=Parva sunt hæc; sed parva ista non contemnendo majores nostri maximam hanc rem fecerunt=--These are small things; but it was by not despising these small things that our forefathers made the commonwealth so great. _Livy._

=Parvis componere magna=--To compare great 15 things with small. _Virg._

=Parvula (nam exemplo est) magni formica laboris / Ore trahit quodcunque potest atque addit acervo, / Quem struit, haud ignara ac non incauta futuri=--The ant, for instance, is a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth all it can, and adds to the heap it piles up, not ignorant or improvident of the future. _Hor._

=Parvula scintilla sæpe magnum suscitavit incendium=--A very small spark has often kindled a great conflagration.

=Parvum non parvæ amicitiæ pignus=--A slight pledge of no small friendship. _M._

=Parvum parva decent=--Him that is little little things become. _Hor._

=Pas à pas on va bien loin=--Step by step one goes 20 very far. _Fr._

=Pas un pouce de notre territoire, ni une pierre de nos forteresses!=--Not an inch of our territory, not a stone of our fortresses! _Jules Favre in_ 1870, _to the demand of Germany._

=Pascitur in vivis livor, post fata quiescit; / Tunc suus, ex merito, quemque tuetur honos=--Envy feeds upon the living, after death it rests; then the honour a man deserves protects him. _Ovid._

[Greek: Pasin gar eu phronousi symmachei tychê]--Fortune always fights on the side of the prudent. _Critias._

=Pass no rash censure upon other people's words or actions.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=Passato il pericolo gabbato il santo=--When the 25 danger is passed the saint is cheated. _It. Pr._

=Passe avant=--Pass ahead. _M._

=Passe par tout=--A master-key; a pass-key.

=Passez-moi la rhubarbe et je vous passerai le séné=--Pass you me the rhubarb, and I will pass you the senna, _i.e._, shut your eyes to my faults, and I will to yours. _Molière._

=Passion depraves, but also ennobles.= _Lamartine._

=Passion drives the man, passions the woman;= 30 =him a stream, her the winds.= _Jean Paul._

=Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.= _South._

=Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance, art, would be useless.= _Balzac._

=Passion looks not beyond the moment of its existence.= _Bovee._

=Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.= _Jean Paul._

=Passion makes the will lord of the reason.= 35 _Shakespeare._ (?)

=Passion often makes a fool of the most ingenious man, and often makes the greatest blockhead ingenious.= _Thomson._

=Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.= _Emerson._

=Passionate people are like men who stand upon their heads; they see all things in the wrong way.= _Plato._

=Passions are likened best to floods and streams; / The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.= _Sir W. Raleigh._

=Passions are the gales of life.= _Pope._ 40

=Passions are the vices or virtues in their highest powers.= _Goethe._

=Passions existed before principles; they came into the world with us.= _Mrs. Jameson._

=Passions may not unfitly be termed the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.= _Wm. Penn._

=Passions spin the plot; we are betrayed by what is false within.= _George Meredith._

=Past and to come seem best, things present= 45 =worst.= 2 _Hen. IV._, i. 2.

=Pastime, like wine, is poison in the morning.= _Thomas Fuller._

=Patch and long sit, / Build and soon flit.= _Pr._

=Patch grief with proverbs.= _Much Ado_, v. 1.

=Pater familias=--The father of a family.

=Pater noster=--Our father; the Lord's prayer. 50

=Pater patriæ=--The father of his country.

[Greek: pathêmata--mathêmata]--We learn from the things we suffer. _Æsop._

=Patience and perseverance overcome the greatest difficulties.= _Clarissa._

=Patience, and shuffle the cards.= _Cervantes._

=Patience et longueur de temps / Font plus= 55 =que force ni que rage=--Patience and length of time accomplish more than violence and rage. _La Fontaine._

=Patience had no sooner placed herself by the mount of sorrows, but the whole heap sunk to such a degree, that it did not appear a third part so big as it was before.= _Addison._

=Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.= _Disraeli._

=Patience is a plaister for all sores.= _Pr._

=Patience is a remedy for every sorrow.= _Pub. Syr._

=Patience is a stout horse, but it will tire at the last.= _Pr._

=Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.= _Rousseau._

=Patience is even more rarely manifested in the intellect than in the temper.= _Helps._

=Patience is genius.= _Buffon._

=Patience is good for poltroons.= 3 _Hen. VI._, 5 i. 1.

=Patience is sister to meekness, and humility is its mother.= _Saying._

=Patience is the art of hoping.= _Vauvenargues._

=Patience is the ballast of the soul, that will keep it from rolling and tumbling in the greatest storms.= _Bp. Hopkins._

=Patience is the key of content.= _Mahomet._

=Patience is the key of Paradise.= _Turk. Pr._ 10

=Patience is the support of weakness; impatience, the ruin of strength.= _Colton._

=Patience, money, and time bring all things to pass.= _Pr._

=Patience of obscurity is a duty which we owe not more to our happiness than to the quiet of the world at large.= _Sydney Smith._

=Patience passe science=--Patience surpasses knowledge. _M._

=Patience, unmoved, no marvel though she= 15 =pause; / They can be meek that have no other cause.= _Com. of Errors_, ii. 1.

=Patience wears out stones.= _Gael. Pr._

=Patience, when it is a divine thing, is active, not passive.= _Lowell._

=Patience wi' poverty is a man's best remedy.= _Sc. Pr._

=Patient waiters are no losers.= _Pr._

=Patientia læsa fit furor=--Patience abused becomes 20 fury.

=Patientia vinces=--You will conquer by patience. _M._

=Patiently add farthing to farthing.= _Goldsmith._

=Patitur qui vincit=--He suffers who conquers. _M._

=Patria cara, carior libertas=--Dear is my country, but liberty is dearer. _M._

=Patria quis exul / Se quoque fugit?=--What 25 fugitive from his country can also fly from himself? _Hor._

=Patriæ fumus igne alieno luculentior=--The smoke of our own country is brighter than fire in a foreign one. _Pr._

=Patriæ infelici fidelis=--Faithful to my unhappy country. _M._

=Patriæ pietatis imago=--The image of his filial affection. _Virg._

=Patriæ solum omnibus carum est=--The soil of their native land is dear to the hearts of all men. _Cic._

=Patriotism depends as much on mutual suffering= 30 =as on mutual success.= _Disraeli._

=Patriotism has its roots deep in the instincts and the affections. Love of country is the expansion of filial love.= _D. D. Field._

=Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.= _Johnson._

=Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.= _G. W. Curtis._

=Patriotism must be founded on great principles and supported by great virtue.= _Bolingbroke._

[Greek: patris gar esti pas', hin' an prattê tis eu]--One's 35 country is wherever things go well with him. _Aristophanes._

=Patroclus is dead, who was better by far than thou.= _Hom._

=Patronage, that is, pecuniary or other economic furtherance, has been pronounced to be twice cursed, cursing him that gives and him that takes.= _Carlyle._

=Pauca Catonis verba, sed a pleno venientia pectore veri=--The words of Cato were few, but they came from a heart full of truth. _Lucan._

=Pauca verba=--Few words.

=Pauci dignoscere possunt / Vera bona, atque= 40 =illis multum diversa=--Few men can distinguish the genuinely good from the reverse. _Juv._

=Paucis carior est fides quam pecunia=--To few is good faith more than valuable money. _Sall., of his own times._

=Paul Pry is on the spy.= _Pr._

=Paullatim=--By degrees. _M._

=Paulum sepultæ distat inertiæ / Celata virtus=--Worth that is hidden differs little from buried sloth. _Hor._

=Pauper enim non est cui rerum suppetit usus. /= 45 =Si ventri bene, si lateri pedibusque tuis, nil / Divitiæ poterunt regales addere majus=--That man is not poor who has a sufficiency for all his wants. If it is well with your stomach, your lungs, and your feet, the wealth of kings can add no more. _Hor._

=Pauper sum, fateor, patior; quod Di dant fero=--I am poor, I admit; I put up with it. What the gods give I bear with. _Plaut._

=Pauper ubique jacet=--Everywhere the poor man is despised. _Ovid._

=Pauperism is our social sin grown manifest.= _Carlyle._

=Pauperism is the general leakage through every joint of the ship that is rotten.= _Carlyle._

=Paupertas est, non quæ pauca possidet, sed= 50 =quæ multa non possidet=--Poverty is not possessing few things, but lacking many things. _Sen._

=Paupertas fugitur, totoque arcessitur orbe=--Poverty is shunned and treated as criminal throughout the world. _Lucan._

=Paupertatis pudor et fuga=--The shame and the bugbear of poverty. _Hor._

=Pauperum solatio=--For the solace of the poor. _M._

=Pauvres gens, je les plains; car on a pour les fous / Plus de pitié que de courroux=--Poor people, I pity them; for one always entertains for fools more pity than anger. _Boileau, on disappointed authors._

=Pavore carent qui nihil commiserunt; at= 55 =pœnam semper ob oculos versari putant qui peccarunt=--The innocent are free from fear; but the guilty have always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

=Pax Cererem nutrit, pacis alumna Ceres=--Peace is the nurse of Ceres; Ceres is the nursling of Peace. _Ovid._

=Pax in bello=--Peace in war. _M._

=Pax paritur bello=--Peace is produced by war. _Corn. Nep._

=Pax vobiscum=--Peace be with you.

=Pay as you go is the philosopher's stone.= _S._ 60 _Randolph of Roanoke._

=Pay beforehand if you would have your work ill done.= _Pr._

=Pay good wages, or your servants will pay themselves.= _Pr._

=Pay not before thy work be done; if thou dost, it will never be well done, and thou wilt have but a pennyworth for twopence.= _Franklin._

=Pay the reckoning over-night, and you won't be troubled in the morning.= _Pr._

=Pay well when you are served well.= _Pr._ 5

=Pay what you owe, and what you're worth you'll know.= _Pr._

=Pay without fail, / Down on the nail.= _Pr._

=Pazza è chi non sa da che parte vien il vento=--He is a senseless fellow who does not know from what quarter the wind blows. _It. Pr._

=Peace hath her victories, / No less renown'd than war.= _Milton._

=Peace is liberty in tranquility.= _Cic._ 10

=Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.= _Schiller._

=Peace is the happy natural state of man; war his corruption, his disgrace.= _Thomson._

=Peace is the masterpiece of reason.= _J. Müller._

=Peace, justice, and the word of God must be given to the people, not sold.= _Ruskin._

=Peace, of all worldly blessings, is the most= 15 =valuable.= _Smallridge._

=Peace with a cudgel in hand is war.= _Port. Pr._

=Peacefully and reasonably to contemplate is at no time hurtful, and while we use ourselves to think of the advantages of others, our own mind comes insensibly to imitate them; and every false activity to which our fancy was alluring us is then willingly abandoned.= _Goethe._

=Peccare docentes / Fallax historias movet=--He deceitfully relates stories that are merely lessons in vice. _Hor._

=Peccare licet nemini=--No one has leave to sin. _Cic._

=Peccavi=--I have sinned. To cry "peccavi" is to 20 acknowledge one's error.

=Péché avoué est à moitié pardonné=--A sin confessed is half forgiven. _Fr. Pr._

=Pectus est quod disertos facit=--It is the heart which inspires eloquence. _Quinct._

=Pecuniam in loco negligere / Interdum maximum est lucrum=--To despise money on proper occasions is sometimes a very great gain. _Ter._

=Pecuniam perdidisti: fortasse illa te perderet manens=--You have lost your money; perhaps, if you had kept it, it would have lost you.

=Pedanterie setzt ganz nothwendig Leere=--Pedantry 25 quite necessarily presupposes vacancy. _Rahel._

=Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber, and takes out our brains to make room for it.= _Colton._

=Pedantry is properly overrating any kind of knowledge we pretend to.= _Swift._

=Pedibus timor addidit alas=--Fear gave wings to his feet.

=Peevishness covers with its dark fog even the most distant horizon.= _Jean Paul._

=Pegasus im Joche=--Pegasus in harness. _Schiller._ 30

=Peggior della morte è il turpe riposo=--Worse than death is shameful repose. _Niccolo Tommaseo._

=Peine forte et dure=--Heavy and severe punishment (specially that of putting heavy weights on prisoners who refused to plead).

=Pelt all dogs that bark, and you will need many stones.= _Pr._

[Greek: pêm' epi pêmati]--Evil on the top of evil.

=Pence well-spent are better than pence ill-spared.= 35 _Pr._

=Pendente lite=--While the suit is pending.

=Pendre la crémaillère=--To give a house-warming. _Fr._

=Penetration has an air of divination; it pleases our vanity more than any other quality of the mind.= _La Roche._

=Penitus toto divisos orbe Britannos=--The Britons, quite sundered from all the world. _Virg._

=Penny goes after penny, / Till Peter hasn't= 40 =any.= _Pr._

=Penny wise is often pound foolish.= _Pr._

=Pense ce que tu veux, dis ce que tu dois=--Think what you like, say what you ought. _Fr. Pr._

=Pense moult, parle peu, écris moins=--Think much, speak little, write less. _Fr. Pr._

=Penser, vivre, et mourir en roi=--To think, live, and die as a king. _Frederick the Great._

=Pensez à bien=--Think of good. _M._ 45

=People abuse freedom only where they have asserted it, not where it has been given them.= _Börne._

=People are always expecting to get peace in heaven; but you know whatever peace they get there will be ready-made. Whatever of making peace they can be blest for must be on the earth here.= _Ruskin._

=People are only accustomed to revolve around themselves.= _Goethe._

=People are rendered sociable by their inability to endure their own society.= _Schiller._

=People are wise for the past day in the evening,= 50 =but never wise enough for the coming one.= _Rückert._

=People, crushed by laws, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous, more or less.= _Burke._

=People dispute a great deal about the good that is done and the harm by disseminating the Bible= (_Bibelverbreitung_). =To me this is clear: the Bible will do harm if, as hitherto, it is used dogmatically and interpreted fancifully, and it will do good if it is treated feelingly and applied didactically.= _Goethe._

=People do not care to give alms without some security for their money; and a wooden leg or a withered arm is a sort of draft upon heaven for those who choose to have their money placed to account there.= _Mackenzie._

=People do not lack strength; they lack will.= _Victor Hugo._

=People do not mind their faults being spread= 55 =out before them, but they become impatient if called upon to give them up.= _Goethe._

=People in adversity should preserve laudable customs.= _Clarissa._

=People (in authority) are accustomed merely to forbid, to hinder, to refuse, but rarely to bid, to further, and to reward. They let things go along till some mischief happens; then they fly into a rage, and lay about them.= _Goethe._

=People love to have all rash actions done in a hurry.= _Goldsmith._

=People may live as much retired from the world as they like, but sooner or later they find themselves debtor or creditor to some one.= _Goethe._

=People must begin before they attempt to finish or improve.= _Wm. Blake._