Chapter IV: Preface (4)

=Beware, my lord, of jealousy; / It is the green-eyed monster that doth mock / The meat it feeds on.= _Othello_, iii. 3.

=Beware of a silent dog and still water.= _Pr._

=Beware of a silent man and a dog that does= 65 =not bark.= _Pr._

=Beware of a talent which you cannot hope to cultivate to perfection.= _Goethe._

=Beware / Of entrance to a quarrel; but, being in, / Bear 't that the opposed may beware of thee.= _Ham._, i. 3.

=Beware of false prophets.= _Jesus._

=Beware of "Had I wist."= _Pr._

=Beware of one who has nothing to lose.= _It._ 70 _Pr._

=Beware of too much good staying in your hand.= _Emerson._

=Beware the fury of a patient man.= _Dryden._

=Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.= _Emerson._

=Be warned by thy good angel and not ensnared by thy bad one.= _Bürger._

=Be wisely worldly; be not worldly wise.= 75 _Quarles._

=Be wise to-day; 'tis madness to defer.= _Young._

=Be wise with speed; / A fool at forty is a fool indeed.= _Young._

=Bewunderung verdient ein Wunder wohl, / Doch scheint ein Weib kein echtes Weib zu sein, / So bald es nur Bewunderung verdient=--What is admirable justly calls forth our admiration, yet a woman seems to be no true woman who calls forth nothing else. _Platen._

=Be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.= _Jesus._

=Bezwingt des Herzens Bitterkeit. Es bringt /= 5 =Nicht gute Frucht, wenn Hass dem Hass begegnet=--Control the heart's bitterness. Nothing good comes of returning hatred for hatred. _Schiller._

=Bibula charta=--Blotting-paper.

=Bien dire fait rire; bien faire fait taire=--Saying well makes us laugh; doing well makes us silent. _Fr. Pr._

=Bien est larron qui larron dérobe=--He is a thief with a witness who robs another. _Fr. Pr._

=Bien nourri et mal appris=--Well fed but ill taught. _Fr. Pr._

=Bien perdu bien connu=--We know the worth of 10 a thing when we have lost it. _Fr._

=Bien predica quien bien vive=--He preaches well who lives well. _Sp. Pr._

=Bien sabe el asno en cuya cara rabozna=--The ass knows well in whose face he brays. _Sp. Pr._

=Bien sabe el sabio que no sabe, el nescio piensa que sabe=--The wise man knows well that he does not know; the ignorant man thinks he knows. _Sp. Pr._

=Bien sabe la vulpeja con quien trebeja=--The fox knows well with whom he plays tricks. _Sp. Pr._

=Bien vengas, mal, si vienes solo=--Welcome, misfortune, 15 if thou comest alone. _Sp. Pr._

=Bien vient à mieux, et mieux à mal=--Good comes to better and better to bad. _Fr. Pr._

=Big destinies of nations or of persons are not founded= _gratis_ =in this world.= _Carlyle._

=Bigotry murders religion, to frighten fools with her ghost.= _Colton._

=Big words seldom accompany good deeds.= _Dan. Pr._

=Billet-doux=--A love-letter. _Fr._ 20

=Biography is the most universally pleasant, the most universally profitable, of all reading.= _Carlyle._

=Biography is the only true history.= _Carlyle._

=Birds of a feather flock together.= _Pr._

=Birds of prey do not flock together.= _Port. Pr._

=Birth is much, but breeding is more.= _Pr._ 25

=Bis dat qui cito dat=--He gives twice who gives quickly. _L. Pr._

=Bis est gratum quod opus est, si ultro offeras=--That help is doubly acceptable which you offer spontaneously when we stand in need. _Pub. Syr._

=Bis interimitur qui suis armis perit=--He dies twice who perishes by his own weapons or devices. _Pub. Syr._

=Bisogna amar l'amico con i suoi difetti=--We must love our friend with all his defects. _It. Pr._

=Bis peccare in bello non licet=--It is not permitted 30 to blunder in war a second time. _Pr._

=Bist du Amboss, sei geduldig; bist du Hammer, schlage hart=--Art thou anvil, be patient; art thou hammer, strike hard. _Ger. Pr._

=Bist du ein Mensch? so fühle meine Noth=--Art thou a man? then feel for my wretchedness. _Margaret in "Faust."_

=Bist du mit dem Teufel du und du, / Und willst dich vor der Flamme scheuen?=--Art thou on familiar terms with the devil, and wilt thou shy at the flame? _Goethe's "Faust."_

=Bis vincit qui se vincit in victoria=--He conquers twice who, at the moment of victory, conquers (_i.e._, restrains) himself. _Pub. Syr._

=Bitin' and scartin' 's Scotch folk's wooing.= _Sc._ 35 _Pr._

=Black detraction will find faults where they are not.= _Massinger._

=Blame is the lazy man's wages.= _Dan. Pr._

=Blame where you must, be candid where you can, / And be each critic the good-natured man.= _Goldsmith._

=Blanc-bec=--A greenhorn. _Fr._

=Blasen ist nicht flöten; ihr musst die Finger= 40 =bewegen=--To blow on the flute is not to play on it; you must move the fingers as well. _Goethe._

=Blasphemy is wishing ill to anything, and its outcome wishing ill to God; while Euphemy is wishing well to everything, and its outcome wishing well to--"Ah, wad ye tak' a thocht, and men'."= _Ruskin._

=Blasted with excess of light.= _Gray._

=Bleib nicht allein, denn in der Wüste trat / Der Satansengel selbst dem Herrn des Himmels=--Remain not alone, for it was in the desert that Satan came to the Lord of Heaven himself. _Schiller._

=Bless, and curse not.= _St. Paul._

=Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet= 45 =have believed.= _Jesus._

=Blessed are they that hear the Word of God, and keep it.= _Bible._

=Blessed be he who first invented sleep; it covers a man all over like a cloak.= _Cervantes._

=Blessed be nothing.= _Pr._

=Blessed is he that considereth the poor.= _Bible._

=Blessed is he that continueth where he is; here= 50 =let us rest and lay out seed-fields; here let us learn to dwell.= _Carlyle._

=Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.= _Swift._

=Blessed is he who is made happy by the sound of a rat-tat.= _Thackeray._

=Blessed is the man that endureth temptation.= _St. James._

=Blessed is the voice that, amid dispiritment, stupidity, and contradiction, proclaims to us, Euge!= (_i.e._, Excellent! Bravo!). _Carlyle._

=Blessedness is a whole eternity older than= 55 =damnation.= _Jean Paul._

=Blessings are upon the head of the just.= _Bible._

=Blinder Eifer schadet nur=--Blind zeal only does harm. _M. G. Lichtwer._

=Blinder Gaul geht geradezu=--A blind horse goes right on. _Ger. Pr._

=Blindfold zeal can do nothing but harm--harm everywhere, and harm always.= _Lichtner._

=Bloemen zijn geen vruchten=--Blossoms are not 60 fruits. _Dut. Pr._

=Blood is thicker than water.= _Pr._

=Blosse Intelligenz ohne correspondirende Energie des Wollens ist ein blankes Schwert in der Scheide, verächtlich, wenn es nie und nimmer gezückt wird=--Mere intelligence without corresponding energy of the will is a polished sword in its scabbard, contemptible, if it is never drawn forth. _Lindner._

=Blow, blow, thou winter wind, / Thou art not so unkind / As man's ingratitude.= _As You Like It_, ii. 7.

=Blow, wind! come, wrack! / At least we'll die with harness on our back.= _Macb._, v. 5.

=Blue are the hills that are far from us.= _Gael. Pr._

=Blunt edges rive hard knots.= _Troil. and Cress._, 5 i. 3.

=Blushes are badges of imperfection.= _Wycherley._

=Blut ist ein ganz besondrer Saft=--Blood is a quite peculiar fluid. _Mephisto, in Faust._

=Boca de mel, coraçaõ de fel=--A tongue of honey, a heart of gall. _Port. Pr._

=Boca que diz sim, diz naõ=--The mouth that can say "Yea," can say "Nay." _Port. Pr._

=Bodily exercise profiteth little.= _St. Paul._ 10

=Bœotum in crasso jurares aëre natum=--You would swear he was born in the foggy atmosphere of the Bœotians. _Hor._

=Bois ont oreilles et champs œillets=--Woods have ears and fields eyes. _Fr. Pr._

=Bole com o rabo o caõ, naõ por ti, senaõ pelo paõ=--The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for your bread. _Port. Pr._

=Bon accord=--Good harmony. _M._

=Bonæ leges malis ex moribus procreantur=--Good 15 laws grow out of evil acts. _Macrob._

=Bona fide=--In good faith; in reality.

=Bona malis paria non sunt, etiam pari numero; nec lætitia ulla minimo mœrore pensanda=--The blessings of life do not equal its ills, even when of equal number; nor can any pleasure, however incense, compensate for even the slightest pain. _Pliny._

=Bona nemini hora est, ut non alicui sit mala=--There is no hour good for one man that is not bad for another. _Pub. Syr._

=Bonarum rerum consuetudo est pessima=--Nothing can be worse than being accustomed to good things. _Pub. Syr._

=Bona vacantia=--Goods that have no owner. _L._ 20

=Bon avocat, mauvais voisin=--A good lawyer is a bad neighbour. _Fr. Pr._

=Bon bourgeois=--A substantial citizen. _Fr._

=Bon chien chasse de race=--A good dog hunts from pure instinct. _Fr. Pr._

=Bon diable=--A good-natured fellow. _Fr._

=Bon droit a besoin d'aide=--A good cause needs 25 help. _Fr. Pr._

=Bon gré, mal gré=--Whether willing or not. _Fr._

=Bon guet chasse maladventure=--A good lookout drives ill-luck away. _Fr. Pr._

=Bonne épée point querelleur=--A good swordsman is not given to quarrel. _Fr. Pr._

=Bonne est la maille que sauve le denier=--Good is the farthing that saves the penny. _Fr. Pr._

=Bonhomie=--Good nature. _Fr._ 30

=Boni pastoris est tondere pecus, non deglubere=--It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to flay them. _Tiberius Cæsar, in reference to taxation._

=Bonis avibus=--Under favourable auspices.

=Bonis nocet quisquis pepercerit malis=--He does injury to the good who spares the bad. _Pub. Syr._

=Bonis omnia bona=--All things are good to the good. _M._

=Bonis quod benefit haud perit=--A kindness done 35 to good men is never thrown away. _Plaut._

=Bonis vel malis avibus=--Under good, or evil, omens.

=Bon jour=--Good day. _Fr._

=Bon jour, bonne œuvre=--The better the day, the better the deed. _Fr. Pr._

=Bon marché tire l'argent hors de la bourse=--A good bargain is a pick-purse. _Fr. Pr._

=Bon mot=--A witticism or jest. _Fr._ 40

=Bon naturel=--Good nature or disposition. _Fr._

=Bonne=--A nurse. _Fr._

=Bonne bouche=--A delicate morsel. _Fr._

=Bonne et belle assez=--Good and handsome enough. _Fr. M._

=Bonne journée fait qui de fol se délivre=--He 45 who rids himself of a fool does a good day's work. _Fr. Pr._

=Bonne renommée vaut mieux que ceinture dorée=--A good name is worth more than a girdle of gold. _Fr. Pr._

=Bonnet rouge=--The cap of liberty. _Fr._

=Bonnie feathers mak' bonnie fowls.= _Sc. Pr._

=Bon poète, mauvais homme=--Good as a poet, bad as a man. _Fr._

=Bon sang ne peut mentir=--Good blood disdains 50 to lie. _Fr. Pr._

=Bons et máos mantem cidade=--Good men and bad make a city. _Port. Pr._

=Bons mots n'épargnent nuls=--Witticisms spare nobody. _Fr. Pr._

=Bon soir=--Good evening. _Fr._

=Bon ton=--The height of fashion. _Fr._

=Bonum ego quam beatum me esse nimio dici= 55 =mavolo=--I would much rather be called good than well off. _Plaut._

=Bonum est fugienda aspicere in alieno malo=--Well if we see in the misfortune of another what we should shun ourselves. _Pub. Syr._

=Bonum est, pauxillum amare sane, insane non bonum est=--It is good to be moderately sane in love; to be madly in love is not good. _Plaut._

=Bonum summum quo tendimus omnes=--That supreme good at which we all aim. _Lucret._

=Bonus animus in mala re dimidium est mali=--Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome. _Plaut._

=Bonus atque fidus / Judex honestum prætulit= 60 =utili=--A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honourable to the expedient. _Hor._

=Bonus dux bonum reddit militem=--The good general makes good soldiers. _L. Pr._

=Bonus vir semper tiro=--A good man is always a learner.

=Bon vivant=--A good liver. _Fr._

=Bon voyage=--A pleasant journey or voyage. _Fr._

=Books are divisible into two classes, the books= 65 =of the hour and the books of all time.= _Ruskin._

=Books are embalmed minds.= _Bovee._

=Books are made from books.= _Voltaire._

=Books cannot always please, however good; / Minds are not ever craving for their food.= _Crabbe._

=Books generally do little else than give our errors names.= _Goethe._

=Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.= _Joineriana._

=Books still accomplish miracles; they persuade men.= _Carlyle._

=Books, we know, / Are a substantial world, pure and good.= _Wordsworth._

=Boomen die men veel verplant gedijen zelden=--Trees 5 you transplant often, seldom thrive. _Dut. Pr._

=Borgen thut nur einmal wohl=--Borrowing does well only once. _Ger. Pr._

=Born to excel and to command!= _Congreve._

=Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul.= _Cic._

=Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending on interest is not much better than stealing.= _Lessing._

=Bos alienus subinde prospectat foras=--A strange 10 ox every now and then turns its eyes wistfully to the door. _Pr._

=Böser Brunnen, da man Wasser muss eintragen=--It is a bad well into which you must pour water. _Ger. Pr._

=Böser Pfennig kommt immer wieder=--A bad penny always comes back again. _Ger. Pr._

=Bos in lingua=--He has an ox on his tongue, _i.e._, a bribe to keep silent, certain coins in Athens being stamped with an ox. _Pr._

=Bos lassus fortius figit pedem=--The tired ox plants his foot more firmly. _Pr._

=Botschaft hör' ich wohl, allein mir fehlt der= 15 =Glaube=--I hear the message indeed, but I want the faith. _Goethe's "Faust."_

[Greek: bouleuou pro ergôn, hopôs mê môra pelêtai]--Before the act consider, so that nothing foolish may arise out of it. _Gr. Pr._

=Bought wit is best=, _i.e._, bought by experience. _Pr._

=Boutez en avant=--Push forward. _Fr._

=Bowels of compassion.= _St. John._

=Brag is a good dog, but Holdfast is better.= 20 _Pr._

=Brain is always to be bought, but passion never comes to market.= _Lowell._

=Brave men are brave from the very first.= _Corneille._

=Bread at pleasure, / Drink by measure.= _Pr._

=Bread is the staff of life.= _Swift._

=Breathes there the man with soul so dead, /= 25 =Who never to himself hath said, / "This is my own, my native land?"= _Scott._

=Breathe his faults so quaintly, / That they may seem the taints of liberty; / The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind.= _Ham._, ii. 1.

=Breed is stronger than pasture.= _George Eliot._

=Brevet d'invention=--A patent. _Fr._

=Breveté=--Patented. _Fr._

=Breve tempus ætatis satis est longum ad bene= 30 =honesteque vivendum=--A short term on earth is long enough for a good and honourable life. _Cic._

=Brevi manu=--Offhand; summarily (_lit._ with a short hand).

=Brevis a natura nobis vita data est: at memoria bene redditæ vitæ est sempiterna=--A short life has been given us by Nature, but the memory of a well-spent one is eternal. _Cic._

=Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio=--When labouring to be concise, I become obscure. _Hor._

=Brevis ipsa vita est, sed longior malis=--Life itself is short, but lasts longer than misfortunes. _Pub. Syr._

=Brevis voluptas mox doloris est parens=--Short-lived 35 pleasure is the parent of pain. _Pr._

=Brevity is the body and soul of wit.= _Jean Paul._

=Brevity is the soul of wit.= _Ham._, iii. 2.

=Bric-à-brac=--Articles of vertu or curiosity. _Fr._

=Bricht ein Ring, so bricht die ganze Katte=--A link broken, the whole chain broken. _Ger. Pr._

=Brief as the lightning in the collied night, /= 40 =That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, / And ere a man hath power to say, "Behold!" / The jaws of darkness do devour it up.= _Mid. N.'s Dream_, i. 1.

=Briefe gehören unter die wichtigsten Denkmäler die der einzelne Mensch hinterlassen kann=--Letters are among the most significant memorials a man can leave behind him. _Goethe._

=Briller par son absence=--To be conspicuous by its absence. _Fr._

=Bring down my grey hairs with sorrow to the grave.= _Bible._

=Bring forth men-children only! / For thy undaunted mettle should compose / Nothing but males.= _Macb._, i. 7.

=Broad thongs may be cut from other people's= 45 =leather.= _It. Pr._

=Broken friendships may be sowthered (soldered), but never sound.= _Sc. Pr._

=Brouille sera à la maison si la quenouille est maîtresse=--There will be disagreement in the house if the distaff holds the reins. _Fr. Pr._

=Brûler la chandelle par les deux bouts=--To burn the candle at both ends. _Fr._

=Brute force holds communities together as an iron nail, if a little rusted with age, binds pieces of wood; but intelligence binds like a screw, which must be gently turned, not driven.= _Draper._

=Brutum fulmen=--A harmless thunderbolt. _L._ 50

=Brutus, thou sleep'st; awake, and see thyself.= _Jul. Cæs._, ii. 1.

=Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Cæsar.= _Jul. Cæs._, i. 2.

=Bûche tortue fait bon feu=--A crooked log makes a good fire. _Fr. Pr._

=Buen siglo haya quien dijó bolta=--Blessings on him that said, Right about face! _Sp. Pr._

=Buey viejo sulco derecho=--An old ox makes a 55 straight furrow. _Sp. Pr._

=Buffoonery is often want of wit.= _Bruyère._

=Bullies are generally cowards.= _Pr._

=Buon cavallo non ha bisogno di sproni=--Don't spur a willing horse. _It. Pr._

=Burlaos con el loco en casa, burlará con vos en la plaza=--Play with the fool in the house and he will play with you in the street. _Sp. Pr._

=Burnt bairns dread the fire.= _Sc. Pr._ 60

=Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done.= _Bulwer Lytton._

=Busy readers are seldom good readers.= _Wieland._

=But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, / When once destroyed, can never be supplied.= _Goldsmith._

=But all was false and hollow; though his tongue / Dropp'd manna, and could make the worse appear / The better reason, to perplex and dash / Maturest counsels.= _Milton._

=But by bad courses may be understood, / That their events can never fall out good.= _Rich. II._, ii. 1.

=But Cristes lore, and his apostles twelve, / He taught, but first he folwed it himselve.= _Chaucer._

=But earthlier happy is the rose distilled, / Than= 5 =that which, withering on the virgin thorn, / Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.= _Mid. N's. Dream_, i. 1.

=But evil is wrought by want of thought / As well as want of heart.= _Hood._

=But facts are chiels that winna ding, / An' douna be disputed.= _Burns._

=But far more numerous was the herd of such / Who think too little and who talk too much.= _Dryden._

=But for women, our life would be without help at the outset, without pleasure in its course, and without consolation at the end.= _Jouy._

=But from the heart of Nature rolled / The burdens= 10 =of the Bible old.= _Emerson._

=But human bodies are sic fools, / For a' their colleges and schools, / That, when nae real ills perplex them, / They make enow themsels to vex them.= _Burns._

=But hushed be every thought that springs / From out the bitterness of things.= _Wordsworth._

=But I am constant as the northern star, / Of whose true-fixed and resting quality, / There is no fellow in the firmament.= _Jul. Cæs._, iii. 1.

=But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve / For daws to peck at.= _Othello_, i. 1.

=But man, proud man, / Drest in a little brief= 15 =authority, / Most ignorant of what he's most assured, / His glassy essence,--like an angry ape, / Plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven / As make the angels weep.= _Meas. for Meas._, ii. 2.

=But men may construe things after their fashion, clean from the purpose of the things themselves.= _Jul. Cæs._, i. 3.

=But men must work, and women must weep, / Though storms be sudden and waters deep, / And the harbour bar be moaning.= _C. Kingsley._

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

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

=But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand, / And= 20 =the sound of a voice that is still.= _Tennyson._

=But O what damned minutes tells he o'er, / Who dotes, yet doubts; suspects, yet strongly loves?= _Othello_, iii. 3.

=But pleasures are like poppies spread, / You seize the flower, its bloom is shed; / Or, like the snowfall on the river, / A moment white--then melts for ever.= _Burns._

=But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be; / Within that circle none durst walk but he.= _Dryden._

=But shapes that come not at an earthly call, / Will not depart when mortal voices bid.= _Wordsworth._

=But souls that of His own good life partake, /= 25 =He loves as His own self; dear as His eye / They are to Him; He'll never them forsake; / When they shall die, then God Himself shall die: / They live, they live in blest eternity.= _H. More._

=But spite of all the criticising elves, / Those that would make us feel, must feel themselves.= _Churchill._

=But there are wanderers o'er eternity, / Whose bark drives on and on, and anchor'd ne'er shall be.= _Byron._

=But there's nothing half so sweet in life / As love's young dream.= _Moore._

=But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool; / And time, that takes survey of all the world, / Must have a stop.= 1 _Henry IV._, v. 4.

=But to see her was to love her--love but her,= 30 =and love for ever.= _Burns._

=But truths on which depend our main concern, / That 'tis our shame and misery not to learn, / Shine by the side of every path we tread, / With such a lustre, he that runs may read.= _Cowper._

=But war's a game which, were their subjects wise, / Kings would not play at.= _Cowper._

=But were I Brutus, / And Brutus Antony, there were an Antony / Would ruffle up your spirits, and put a tongue / In every wound of Cæsar, that should move / The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny.= _Jul. Cæs._, iii. 2.

=But what fate does, let fate answer for.= _Sheridan._

=But whether on the scaffold high, / Or in the= 35 =battle's van, / The fittest place where man can die / Is where he dies for man.= _M. J. Barry._

=But who would force the soul, tilts with a straw / Against a champion cased in adamant.= _Wordsworth._

=But winter lingering chills the lap of May.= _Goldsmith._

=But words are things, and a small drop of ink, / Falling, like dew, upon a thought, produces / That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.= _Byron._

=But wouldst thou know what's heaven? I'll tell thee what: / Think what thou canst not think, and heaven is that.= _Quarles._

=But yesterday the word of Cæsar might /= 40 =Have stood against the world; now lies he there, / And none so poor to do him reverence.= _Jul. Cæs._, iii. 2.

=Buying is cheaper than asking.= _Ger. Pr._

=Buy the truth, and sell it not.= _Bible._

=Buy what ye dinna want, an' ye'll sell what ye canna spare.= _Sc. Pr._

=By-and-by is easily said.= _Ham._, iii. 2.

=By any ballot-box, Jesus Christ goes just as= 45 =far as Judas Iscariot.= _Carlyle._

=By blood a king, in heart a clown.= _Tennyson._

=By bravely enduring it, an evil which cannot be avoided is overcome.= _Pr._

=By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.= _Democritus._

=By dint of dining out, I run the risk of dying by starvation at home.= _Rousseau._

=By doing nothing we learn to do ill.= _Pr._

=By education most have been misled.= _Dryden._

=By experience we find out a short way by a= 5 =long wandering.= _Roger Ascham._

=By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen about his ears.= _Carlyle._

=By night an atheist half believes a God.= _Young._

=By nothing do men more show what they are than by their appreciation of what is and what is not ridiculous.= _Goethe._

=By others' faults wise men correct their own.= _Pr._

=By persisting in your path, though you forfeit= 10 =the little, you gain the great.= _Emerson._

=By pious heroic climbing of our own, not by arguing with our poor neighbours, wandering to right and left, do we at length reach the sanctuary--the victorious summit, and see with our own eyes.= _Carlyle._

=By pride cometh contention.= _Bible._

=By robbing Peter he paid Paul ... and hoped to catch larks if ever the heavens should fall.= _Rabelais._

=By seeking and blundering we learn.= _Goethe._

=By shallow rivers to whose falls / Melodious= 15 =birds sing madrigals.= _Marlowe._

=By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd, / The sports of children satisfy the child.= _Goldsmith._

=By strength of heart the sailor fights with roaring seas.= _Wordsworth._

=By the long practice of caricature I have lost the enjoyment of beauty: I never see a face but distorted.= _Hogarth to a lady who wished to learn caricature._

=By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is the noblest; second, by imitation, which is the easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.= _Confucius._

=By time and counsel do the best we can: /= 20 =Th' event is never in the power of man.= _Herrick._