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=There was never yet philosopher / Who could endure the toothache patiently.= _Much Ado_, v. 1.

=There was sense in the sentences, but the sum-total was nonsense.= _Criticism of a young preacher's discourse._

=There was speech in their dumbness, language in their very gesture.= _Winter's Tale_, v. 2.

=There were no ill language if it were not ill= 40 =taken.= _Pr._

=There where thou art, there where thou remainest, accomplish what thou canst.= _Goethe._

=There will always be a government of force where men are selfish.= _Emerson._

=There's a brave fellow! There's a man of pluck! / A man who is not afraid to say his say, / Though a whole town's against him.= _Longfellow._

=There's a courage which grows out of fear.= _Byron._

=There's a divinity that shapes our ends, /= 45 =Rough-hew them as we will.= _Ham._, v. 2.

=There's a medium in thoughtfulness and gaiety: find it out and keep to it.= _Spurgeon._

=There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow.= _Ham._, v. 2.

=There's a sweeter flower than e'er / Blush'd on the rosy spray, / A brighter star, a richer bloom, / Than e'er did western heaven illume / At close of summer day--/ 'Tis Love, the last best gift of Heaven.= _Keble._

=There's always life for the living.= _Pr._

=There's beggary in the love that can be reckoned.= _Ant. and Cleop._, i. 1.

=There's folks as make bad butter, and trusten to the salt t' hide it.= _George Eliot._

=There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was in their boots.= _George Eliot._

=There's husbandry in heaven; / Their candles are all out.= _Macb._, i. 7.

=There's language in her eye, her cheeks, her= 5 =lip, / Nay, her foot speaks.= _Troil. and Cress._, iv. 5.

=There's many a good bit o' work done with a sad heart.= _George Eliot._

=There's many a slip / 'Twixt the cup and the lip.= _Pr._

=There's mercy in every place, / And mercy, encouraging thought, / Gives even affliction a grace, / And reconciles man to his lot.= _Cowper._

=There's music in the sighing of a reed; / There's music in the gushing of a rill; / There's music in all things, if men had ears.= _Byron._

=There's nae sorrow there, John, / There's= 10 =neither cauld nor care, John, / The day is aye fair, / In the land o' the leal.= _Lady Nairne._

=There's no armour against fate.= _Shirley._

=There's no art / To find the mind's construction in the face.= _Macb._, i. 4.

=There's no folk sic idiots as them that looks like geniuses.= _J. M. Barrie._

=There's no glory like his who saves his country.= _Tennyson._

=There's no grace in a benefit that sticks to the= 15 =fingers.= _Sen._

=There's no great banquet but some fares ill.= _George Herbert._

=There's no pleasure i' living, if you're to be corked up for ever, and only dribble your mind out by the sly, like a leaky barrel.= _George Eliot._

=There's no seeing one's way through tears.= _Pr._

=There's no slipping up-hill again, and no standing still when once you've begun to slip down.= _George Eliot._

=There's no work so tirin' as danglin' about an'= 20 =starin', an' not rightly knowin' what you're goin' to do next; an' keepin' your face i' smilin' order, like a grocer o' market-day.= _George Eliot._

=There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.= _Byron._

=There's not a place where Rest can say, / I'll not have Labour here; / For Rest itself would pine away / If Labour were not near.= _Hall._

=There's not a string attuned to mirth / But has its chord in melancholy.= _Hood._

=There's not one wise man among twenty that will praise himself.= _Much Ado_, v. 2.

=There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st, /= 25 =But in his motion like an angel sings, / Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubims.= _Mer. of Ven._, v. 1.

=There's nothing but what's bearable as long as a man can work.= _George Eliot._

=There's nothing certain but uncertainty.= _Pr._

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

=There's nothing situate under heaven's eye, / But hath its bound in earth, in sea, in sky.= _Comedy of Errors_, ii. 1.

=There's none that can / Read God aright, unless= 30 =he first spell man.= _Quarles._

=There's small choice in rotten apples.= _Tam. of Shrew_, i. 1.

=There's something good in all weathers. If it don't happen to be good for my work to-day, it's good for some other man's to-day, and will come round to me to-morrow.= _Dickens._

=There's such divinity doth hedge a king, / That treason can but peep to what it would.= _Ham._, iv. 5.

=There's things it's best to put off kenning as long as we can.= _J. M. Barrie._

=Thereby hangs a tale.= _As You Like It_, ii. 7. 35

=These / Are but the varied God. The rolling year / Is full of thee.= _Thomson._

="These are my jewels."= _Cornelia, the mother of the Gracchi, when she presented her five sons to a lady who had paraded her ornaments before her._

=These cases, wherein happiness would be sinful, are just as much, but no more, the ordainments of Providence as those more common ones wherein happiness is natural and right.= _W. R. Greg._

=These fair tales, which we know so beautiful, / Show only finer than our lives to-day / Because their voice was clearer, and they found / A sacred bard to sing them.= _Lewis Morris._

=These limbs, whence had we them; this= 40 =stormy force; this life-blood with its burning passion? They are dust and shadow: a shadow-system gathered round our Me; wherein through some moments or years, the divine essence is to be revealed in flesh.= _Carlyle._

=These little things are great to little men.= _Goldsmith._

=These moving things, ca'ed wife and weans, / Wad move the very heart o' stanes.= _Burns._

=These violent delights have violent ends.= _Rom. and Jul._, ii. 6.

=They are as sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing.= _Mer. of Venice_, i. 2.

=They are but beggars that can count their= 45 =worth.= _Rom. and Jul._, ii. 6.

=They are dead even for this life who hope for no better.= _Lorenzo de Medici._

=They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.= _Sir P. Sidney._

=They are not a pipe for fortune's finger, / To sound what stop she please.= _Ham._, iii. 2.

=They are not all free who scorn their chains.= _Lessing._

=They are not kings who sit on thrones, but= 50 =they who know how to govern.= _Emerson._

=They are not sages who do not declare men's duty.= _Hitopadesa._

=They are slaves who dare not be / In the right with two or three.= _Lowell._

=They asked Lucman the fabulist, "From whom did you learn manners?" He answered, "From the unmannerly."= _Saadi._

=They can conquer who believe they can.= _Virgil._

=They do most by books who could do much without them; and he that chiefly owes himself unto himself is the substantial man.= _Sir T. Browne._

=They ever do pretend / To have received a wrong who wrong intend.= _Daniel._

=They fool me to the top of my bent.= _Ham._, iii. 2.

=They found no end, in wandering mazes lost.= _Milton._

=They grew in beauty side by side, / They fill'd= 5 =one home with glee; / Their graves are sever'd far and wide, / By mount, and stream, and sea.= _Mrs. Hemans._

=They govern the world, these sweet-lipped women, because beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom.= _Holmes._

=They had the divine right of kings to settle, these unfortunate ancestors of ours; ... and they did, on hest of necessity, manage to settle it.= _Carlyle of the Puritans._

=They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.= _Love's L. Lost_, v. 1.

=They have destroyed the beaten track to heaven; we are now compelled to make for ourselves ladders.= _Joubert._

=They laugh that win.= _Othello_, iv. 2. 10

=They lose it= (the world) =that do buy it with much care.= _Mer. of Ven._, i. 1.

=They love least that let men know their love.= _Two Gent. of Verona_, i. 2.

=They love most who are least valued.= _Pr._

=They love not poison that do poison need.= _Rich. II._, v. 6.

=They love us truly who correct us freely.= _Pr._ 15

=They most assume who know the least.= _Gay._

=They must hunger in winter that will not work in summer.= _Pr._

=They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.= _Confucius._

=They never taste who always drink; / They always talk who never think.= _Prior._

=They only are wise who know that they know= 20 =nothing.= _Carlyle._

=They only babble that practise not reflection.= _Sheridan._

=They only should own who can administer.= _Emerson._

=They only who build on ideas build for eternity.= _Emerson._

=They pass best over the world who trip over it quickly; for it is but bog--if we stop, we sink.= _Queen Elizabeth._

=They said that Love would die when Hope was= 25 =gone, / And Love mourn'd long, and sorrow'd after Hope; / At last she sought out Memory, and they trod / The same old paths where Love had walk'd with Hope, / And Memory fed the soul of Love with tears.= _Tennyson._

=They say best men are moulded out of faults, / And, for the most, become much more the better / For being a little bad.= _Meas. for Meas._, v. 1.

=They say Doubt is weak, but yet, if life be in the doubt, / The living doubt is more than Faith that life did never know.= _Dr. W. Smith._

="They say so" is half a lie.= _Pr._

=They, sweet soul, that most impute a crime / Are pronest to it, and impute themselves, / Wanting the mental range; or low desire / Not to feel lowest makes them level all; / Yea, they would pare the mountain to the plain, / To leave an equal baseness.= _Tennyson._

=They that are above have ends in everything.= 30 _Beaumont and Fletcher._

=They that are against superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I wear all colours but black, then I am superstitious in not wearing black.= _Selden._

=They that are booted are not always ready.= _Pr._

=They that be whole need not a physician; but they that are sick.= _Jesus._

=They that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness, as the stars for ever and ever.= _Bible._

=They that bear a noble mind, / Where they= 35 =want of riches find.= _Wither._

=They that by pleading clothes / Do fortunes seek, when worth and service fail, / Would have their tale believed for their oaths, / And are like empty vessels under sail.= _George Herbert._

=They that deny a God destroy man's nobility. For, certainly, man is of kin to the beasts, by his body; and if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.= _Bacon._

=They that do change old love for new, / Pray gods, they change for worse.= _George Peele._

=They that do nothing are in the readiest way to do that which is worse than nothing.= _Zimmermann._

=They that drive away time spur a free horse.= 40 _Robert Mason._

=They that govern the most make the least noise.= _Selden._

=They that hold by the Divine / Clasp too the Human in their faith.= _Dr. W. Smith._

=They that know one another salute afar off.= _Pr._

=They that marry ancient people merely in expectation to bury them, hang themselves in hope that one will come and cut the halter.= _Fuller._

=They that mean to make no use of friends will= 45 =be at little trouble to gain them: and to be without friendship is to be without one of the first comforts of our present state.= _Johnson._

=They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.= _Bible._

=They that plough iniquity and sow wickedness reap the same.= _Bible._

=They that stand high have many blasts to shake them; and if they fall, they dash themselves to pieces.= _Richard III._, i. 3.

=They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.= _Bible._

=They that sow the wind shall reap the whirlwind.= 50 _Bible._

=They that will crowd about bonfires may, sometimes very fairly, get their beards singed; it is the price they pay for such illumination; natural twilight is safe and free to all.= _Carlyle._

=They told me I was everything; 'tis a lie: I am not ague-proof.= _King Lear_, iv. 6.

=They well deserve to have / That know the strong'st and surest way to get.= _Richard II._, iii. 3.

=They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us.= _St. John._

=They who accuse and blacken thee wrongfully are much the greatest sufferers by their own malice and injustice.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=They who but slowly pacèd are / By plodding on may travel far.= _Wither._

=They who contract absurd habits are such as have no fear.= _Johnson._

=They who crouch to those who are above them, always trample on those who are below them.= _Buckle._

=They who do not feel the darkness will never= 5 =look for the light.= _Buckle._

=They who embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing but their narrow selves.= _Herder._

=They who gratefully the gods adore, / Still find their joys increasing more and more.= _Theocritus._

=They who have lost an infant are never, as it were, without an infant child.= _Leigh Hunt._

=They who have no other trade but seeking their fortune, need never hope to find her; coquette-like, she flies from her close pursuers, and at last fixes on the plodding mechanic who stays at home and minds his business.= _Goldsmith._

=They who lie soft and warm in a rich estate= 10 =seldom come to heat themselves at the altar.= _South._

=They who oppose a Ministry have always a better field for ridicule and reproof than they who defend it.= _Goldsmith._

=They who place their affections on trifles at first for amusement, will find those trifles at last become their serious concern.= _Goldsmith._

=They who play with the devil's rattles will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.= _Fuller._

=They who pretend most to universal benevolence are either deceivers or dupes--men who desire to cover their private ill-nature by a pretended regard for all.= _Goldsmith._

=They who resign life rather than part with= 15 =liberty do only a prudent action; but those who lay it down for friends and country do a heroic one.= _Steele._

=They who resist indiscriminately all improvement as innovation, may find themselves compelled at last to submit to innovations although they are not improvements.= _Canning._

=They who seek only for faults see nothing else.= _Pr._

=They who sustain their cross shall likewise be sustained by it in return.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=They who travel in pursuit of wisdom walk only in a circle, and, after all their labour, at last return to their pristine ignorance.= _Goldsmith._

=They who want a farthing, and have no friend= 20 =that will lend them it, think farthings very good things.= _Goldsmith._

=They who want money when they come to borrow, will always want money when they should come to pay.= _Goldsmith._

=They who will watch Providence will never want a Providence to watch.= (?)

=They whom truth and wisdom lead / Can gather honey from a weed.= _Cowper._

=Thick as autumnal leaves that strew the brooks / In Vallombrosa.= _Milton._

=Thine ears shall hear a word behind thee,= 25 =saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.= _Bible._

=Thine is the right, for thine the might.= _Tennyson._

=Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother's house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.= _Bible._

=Thine own worm be not: yet such jealousy, As hurts not others, but may make thee better, / Is a good spur.= _George Herbert._

=Things all are big with jest; nothing that's plain / But may be witty, if thou hast the vein ... / Many affecting wit beyond their power, / Have got to be a dear fool for an hour.= _George Herbert._

=Things are graceful in a friend's mouth which= 30 =are blushing in a man's own.= _Bacon._

=Things are his property alone who knows how to use them.= _Xenophon._

=Things are long-lived, and God above appoints their term; yet when the brains of a thing have been out for three centuries and odd, one does wish it would be kind enough and die.= _Carlyle._

=Things are not so false always as they seem.= _Carlyle._

=Things are sullen, and will be as they are, whatever we think them or wish them to be.= _Cudworth._

=Things are what they are by nature, not by= 35 =will.= _Cudworth._

=Things at the worst will cease, or else climb upward / To what they were before.= _Macb._, iv. 2.

=Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.= _Macb._, iii. 2.

=Things base and vile, holding no quantity, / Love can transpose to form and dignity.= _Mid. N.'s Dream_, i. 1.

=Things fasten upon thee only according as the degree of thy own love and inclination for them gives opportunity and advantage.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=Things good, great Jove, asked or unasked,= 40 =supply: / Things evil, though we ask for them, deny.= _Anon._

=Things have their laws as well as men; and things refuse to be trifled with.= _Emerson._

=Things ill got had ever bad success.... I'll leave my son my virtuous deeds behind.= 3 _Hen. VI._, ii. 2.

=Things may serve long, but not serve ever.= _All's Well_, ii. 2.

=Things more excellent than every image are expressed through images.= _Jamblichus._

=Things must turn when they can go no farther.= 45 _Spurgeon._

=Things refuse to be mismanaged long.= _Carlyle._

=Things seen are mightier than things heard.= _Tennyson._

=Things will always right themselves in time, if only those who know what they want to do, and can do, persevere unremittingly in work and action.= _Goethe._

=Things will never be bettered by an excess of haste.= _Pr._

=Things without remedy should be without regard; what is done, is done.= _Macb._, iii. 2.

=Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.= _Troil. and Cress._, i. 2.

=Think all you speak, but speak not all you think.= _Delaune._

=Think and thank God.= _Pr._ 5

=Think naught a trifle, though it small appear; / Small sands the mountain, moments make the year, / And trifles life.= _Young._

=Think not, dream not that thou livest, / If thy hand doth idly lie, / If thy soul for ever longing, / Yearn but for the by and bye.= _M. W. Wood._

=Think not I came to send peace on the earth; I came not to send peace but a sword.= _Jesus._

=Think not thy fame at every twitch will break; / By great deeds show that thou canst little do; / And do them not; that shall thy wisdom be; / And change thy temperance into bravery.= _George Herbert._

=Think not thy own shadow longer than that of= 10 =others.= _Sir Thomas Browne._

=Think not your estate your own, while any man can call upon you for money which you cannot pay.= _Johnson._

=Think of ease, but work on.= _George Herbert._

=Think of "living!" Thy life, wert thou the "pitifullest of all the sons of earth," is no idle dream, but a solemn reality. It is thy own; it is all thou hast to front eternity with.= _Carlyle._

=Think of the hosts of worlds, and of the plagues in this world-mote--death puts an end to the whole.= _Carlyle._

=Think with awe on the slow, the quiet power= 15 =of time.= _Schiller._

=Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.= _Lessing._

=Think ye that God made the universe, and then let it run round his finger?= (_am Finger laufen liesse_). _Goethe._

=Think you, 'mid all this mighty sum / Of things for ever speaking, / That nothing of itself will come, / But we must still be seeking.= _Wordsworth._

=Thinkers are scarce as gold; but he whose thoughts embrace all his subject, pursues it uninterruptedly and fearless of consequences, is a diamond of enormous size.= _Lavater._

=Think'st thou existence doth depend on time? /= 20 =It doth; but actions are our epochs.= _Byron._

=Thinking about sin, beyond what is indispensable for the firm effort to get rid of it, is waste of energy and waste of time.= _Matthew Arnold._

=Thinking is but an idle waste of thought; / For nought is everything, and everything is nought.= _Smith, "Rejected Addresses."_

=Thinking is the function; living is the functionary.= _Emerson._

=Thinking leads man to knowledge. He may see and hear, and read and learn, whatever he pleases, and as much as he pleases; he will never know anything of it, except that which he has thought over, that which by thinking he has made the property of his mind.= _Pestalozzi._

=Thinking nurseth thinking.= _Sir P. Sidney._ 25

=This above all; to thine own self be true, / And it must follow as the night the day, / Thou canst not then be false to any man.= _Ham._, i. 3.

=This bodes some strange eruption to our state.= _Ham._, i. 1.

=This century is not ripe for my ideal; I live a citizen of those that are to come.= _Schiller._

="This comes of walking on the earth."= _The Spanish swell, as he picked himself up from the ground. Sp. Pr._

=This communicating of a man's self to his= 30 =friend works two contrary effects, for it redoubleth joys and cutteth griefs in halves.= _Bacon._

=This day / Shall change all griefs and quarrels into love.= _Henry V._, v. 2.

=This day's propitious to be wise in.= _Burns._

=This even-handed justice / Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice / To our own lips.= _Macb._, i. 7.

=This ever-renewing generation of appearances rests on a reality, and a reality that is alive.= _Emerson._

=This fell sergeant, death, / Is strict in his= 35 =arrest.= _Ham._, v. 2.

=This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe, / For freedom only deals the deadly blow: / Then sheathes in calm repose the vengeful blade / For gentle peace in freedom's hallowed shade.= _John Quincy Adams._

=This I think charity--to love God for himself, and our neighbour for God.= _Sir Thomas Browne._

=This is a great--properly the greatest--moment in a man's life, when, reconciling himself to necessity, he is able with clearness of purpose to say, "Let the will of the gods be done."= _Ed._

="This is a sharp medicine, but it cures all disorders."= _Raleigh of the axe of his executioner._

=This is faith; it is nothing more than obedience.= 40 _Voltaire._

=This is how I define talent; it is a gift God has given us in secret, which we reveal without knowing it.= _Montesquieu._

=This is not a time for purism of style; and style has little to do with the worth or unworth of a book.= _Carlyle._

=This is not the liberty which we can hope, that no grievance should arise in the commonwealth, but when complaints are freely heard, deeply considered, and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.= _Milton._

=This is the first condition of a living morality as well as of vital religion, that the soul shall find a true centre out from and above itself, round which it shall revolve.= _J. C. Sharp._

=This is the humour of it.= _Henry V._, ii. 1. 45

=This is the monstrosity in love--that the will is infinite, and the execution confined; that the desire is boundless, and the act a slave to limit.= _Troil. and Cress._, iii. 2.

=This is the state of man: to-day he puts forth / The tender leaves of hopes; to-morrow blossoms, / And bears his blushing honours thick upon him; / The third day comes a frost, a killing frost; / And when he thinks, good easy man, full surely / His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root, / And then he falls, as I do.= _Hen. VIII._, iii. 2.

=This is the very coinage of your brain; / This bodiless creation ecstasy / Is very cunning in.= _Ham._, iii. 4.

=This is the very curse of an evil deed, that it engenders and must bring forth more evil.= _Schiller._

=This is true philanthropy, that buries not its gold in ostentatious charity, but builds its hospital in the human heart.= _Harley._

=This low man seeks a little thing to do, / Sees it and does it; / This high man, with a great thing to pursue, / Dies ere he knows it.= _Browning._

=This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with= 5 =them.= _Said of Jesus by the Jews in way of reproach._

=This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas, / The past, the future--two eternities.= _Moore._

=This nothing's more than matter.= _Ham._, iv. 5.

=This of old is sure, / That change of toil is toil's sufficient cure.= _Lewis Morris._

=This one fact the world hates--that the soul becomes.= _Emerson._

=This present is a ruinous and ruining world.= 10 _Carlyle._

=This she knows in joys and woes, / That saints will aid if men will call; / For the blue sky bends over all.= _Coleridge._

=This so solid-seeming world is, after all, but an air-image, our Me the only reality; and Nature, with its thousand-fold production and destruction, but the reflex of our own inward force, the "Phantasy of our Dream," or, what the earth-spirit in "Faust" names it, "the living visible garment of God."= _Carlyle._

=This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but knew what to do with it.= _Emerson._

=This was a man.= _Jul. Cæs._, v. 5.

=This was the most unkindest cut of all.= _Jul._ 15 _Cæs._, iii. 2.

=This will prove a brave kingdom to me, where I shall have my music for nothing.= _Tempest_, iii. 2.

=This world belongs to the energetic.= _Emerson._

=This world is a busy scene, and man a creature destined for a progressive struggle.= _Burns._

=This world is all a fleeting show, / For man's illusion given: / The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, / Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, / There's nothing true but heaven.= _Moore._

=This world is full of fools, and he who would= 20 =not wish to see one must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.= _Boileau._

=This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me!= (uncle Toby to the fly). _Sterne._

=This world, where much is to be done and little to be known.= _Johnson._

=Thistles and thorns prick sore, but evil tongues prick more.= _Dut. Pr._

=Tho' men may bicker with the things they love, / They would not make them laughable in all eyes, / Not while they loved them.= _Tennyson._

=Tho' world on world in myriad myriads roll /= 25 =Round us, each with different powers, / And other form of life than ours, / What know we greater than the soul?= _Tennyson._

=Those are not empty-hearted whose low sound / Reverbs no hollowness.= _Lear_, i. 1.

=Those are often raised into the greatest transports of mirth who are subject to the greatest depressions of melancholy.= _Addison._

=Those deserve to be doubly laughed at that are peevish and angry for nothing to no purpose.= _L'Estrange._

=Those faces which have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.= _Scott._

=Those faults conscience has not strength to= 30 =prevent, it seldom has justice enough to accuse.= _Goldsmith._

=Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, / Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.= _Ham._, i. 3.

=Those holy fields / Over whose acres walked those blessèd feet / Which, fourteen hundred years ago were nailed, / For our advantage, on the bitter cross.= 1 _Hen. IV._, i. 1.

=Those of us who are worth anything spend our manhood in unlearning the follies or expiating the mistakes of our youth.= _Shelley._

=Those only are beautiful which, like the planets, have a steady, lambent light--are luminous, not sparkling.= _Longfellow._

=Those only are despicable who fear to be= 35 =despised.= _La Roche._

=Those only deserve a monument who do not need one.= _Hazlitt._

=Those only obtain love, for the most part, who seek it not.= _Goethe._

=Those only who know little can be said to know anything. The greater the knowledge the greater the doubt.= _Goethe._

=Those people who are always improving never become great. Greatness is an eminence, the ascent to which is steep and lofty, and which a man must seize on at once by natural boldness and vigour, and not by patient, wary steps.= _Hazlitt._

=Those persons who do most good are least= 40 =conscious of it.= _Ward Beecher._

=Those tender tears that humanise the soul.= _Thomson._

=Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them.= _Colton._

=Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable, and should be secured, because they seldom return.= _Bacon._

=Those that dare lose a day are dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, desperate.= _Bishop Hall._

=Those that fly may fight again, / Which he can= 45 =never do that's slain.= _Butler._

=Those that have loved longest love best.= _Johnson._

=Those that think must govern those that toil.= _Goldsmith._

=Those that with haste will make a mighty fire, / Begin with weak straws.= _Jul. Cæs._, i. 3.

=Those who are bent to do wickedly will never want tempters to urge them on.= _Tillotson._

=Those who are elevated enough in life to reason= 50 =and to reflect, yet low enough to keep clear of the venal contagion of a court--these are a nation's strength!= _Burns._

=Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world.= _Landor._

=Those who attempt to level never equalise; they load the edifice of society by setting up in the air what the solidity of the structure requires to be on the ground.= _Burke._

=Those who attempt to reason us out of our follies, begin at the wrong end, since the attempt naturally presupposes us capable of reason.= _Goldsmith._

=Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.= _J. M. Barrie._

=Those who can sit at home and gloat over their thousands in silent satisfaction are generally found to do it in plain clothes.= _Goldsmith._

=Those who carry much upon their clothes= 5 =are remarked for having but little in their pockets.= _Goldsmith._

=Those who do nothing generally take to shouting.= _Pr._

=Those who dwell in fear dwell next door to hate; and I think it is the cowardice of women that makes them such intense haters.= _Mrs. Jameson._

=Those who educate children well are more to be honoured than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.= _Arist._

=Those who first study fate, and say, Fate is the only cause of fortune and misfortune, terrify themselves.= _Hitopadesa._

=Those who give the first shock to a state are= 10 =naturally the first to be overwhelmed in its ruin. The fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by the man who was the first to set it a-going; he only troubles the waters for another's net.= _Montaigne._

=Those who have even studied good books may still be fools.= _Hitopadesa._

=Those who injure one party to benefit another are quite as unjust as if they converted the property of others to their own benefit.= _Cic._

=Those who make the best use of their time have none to spare.= _Pr._

=Those who make the worst use of their time most complain of its shortness.= _La Bruyère._

=Those who only run after little things will not= 15 =go far.= _J. M. Barrie._

=Those who profess most are ever the least sincere.= _Sheridan._

=Those who regularly undertake to cultivate friendship find ingratitude generally repays their endeavours.= _Arliss._

=Those who seek for something more than happiness in this world must not complain if happiness be not their portion.= _Froude._

=Those who seem to doubt or deny us what is justly ours, let us either pity their prejudice or despise their judgment.= _Burns._

=Those who set their minds to deny things, and= 20 =are fond of pulling things to pieces, must be treated like deniers-of-motion; one need only keep incessantly walking up and down before them in as composed a manner as possible.= _Goethe._

=Those who trust us educate us.= _George Eliot._

=Those who will not be ruled by the rudder must be ruled by the rock.= _Cornish Pr._

=Those who would make us feel must feel themselves.= _Churchill._

=Thou art Heaven's tasker; and thy God requires / The purest of thy flour, as well as of thy fires.= _Quarles._

=Thou art ignorant of what thou art, and much= 25 =more ignorant of what is fit for thee.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=Thou art in the end what thou art.= _Goethe._

=Thou art not alone if thou have faith. There is a communion of saints, unseen, yet not unreal, accompanying and brotherlike embracing thee, so thou be worthy.= _Carlyle._

=Thou art the ruin of the noblest man / That ever lived in the tide of times.= _Jul. Cæs._, iii. 1.

=Thou art thyself to all eternity.= _D. G. Rossetti._

=Thou awakest us to delight in thy praise; for= 30 =thou madest us for thyself, and our heart is restless until it repose in thee.= _St. Augustine._

=Thou bear'st thy heavy riches but a journey, / And death unloads thee.= _Meas. for Meas._, iii. 1.

=Thou canst not be entirely free till thou hast attained to such a mastery as entirely to subdue and deny thyself.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=Thou dost not strive, O Sun, but, meek and still, / Thou dost the type of Jesus best fulfil, / A noiseless revelation in the sky.= _F. W. Faber._

=Thou hast given me / A world of earthly blessings to my soul, / If sympathy of love unite our thoughts.= 2 _Hen. VI._, i. 1.

=Thou hast not what others have, and others= 35 =have not the gift thou hast. From this imperfection springs sociability.= _Gellert._

=Thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the world.= _John Selden._

=Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating, as wiser by always reading.= _Fuller._

=Thou mayest be more prodigal of praise when thou writest a letter than when thou speakest in presence.= _Fuller._

=Thou must learn to break thine own will in many things if thou wilt have peace and concord with others.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=Thou must live unto another if thou wilt live= 40 =unto thyself.= _Sen._

=Thou must renounce; thou must abstain! is the eternal song which sounds in the ears of every one, which every hour is singing to us all our life long.= _Goethe._

=Thou, Nature, art my goddess; to thy law / My services are bound.= _King Lear_, i. 2.

=Thou of an independent mind, / With soul resolved, with soul resigned; / Prepared Power's proudest frown to brave, / Who wilt not be, nor have a slave; / Virtue alone who dost revere, / Thy own reproach alone dost fear, / Approach this shrine= (Independence), =and worship here.= _Burns._

=Thou shall hear no more complaints from me; thou shalt hear only what happens to the wanderer.= _Goethe._

="Thou shalt" is written upon life in characters= 45 =as legible as "Thou shalt not."= _Carlyle._

=Thou shalt look outward, not inward.= _Carlyle._

=Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn.= _Bible._

=Thou, too curious ear, that fain / Wouldst thread the maze of Harmony, / Content thee with one simple strain, / ... Till thou art duly trained, and taught / The concord sweet of Love divine.= _Keble._

=Thou who didst the stars and sunbeams know, / Self-schooled, self-scanned, self-honoured, self-secure, / Didst walk on earth unguessed at.= _M. Arnold on Shakespeare._

=Thou! why, thou wilt quarrel with a man that hath a hair more or a hair less in his beard than thou hast. Thou wilt quarrel with a man for cracking nuts, having no other reason but because thou hast hazel eyes.... Thy head is full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat.= _Rom. and Jul._, iii. 1.

=Thou wilt never sell thy life, or any part of thy life, in a satisfactory manner. Give it like a royal heart; let the price of it be nothing; then hast thou in a certain sense got all for it.= _Carlyle._

=Thou would'st as soon go kindle fire with snow, / As seek to quench the fire of love with words.= _Two Gent. of Verona_, ii. 7.

=Thou wouldst do little for God if the devil= 5 =were dead.= _Sc. Pr._

=Though a man may become learned by another's learning, he never can be wise but by his own wisdom.= (?)

=Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him.= _Bible._

=Though all his works abroad, / The heart benevolent and kind / The most resembles God.= _Burns._

=Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.= _Quinct._

=Though an honourable title may be conveyed= 10 =to posterity, yet the ennobling qualities which are the soul of greatness are a sort of incommunicable perfections, and cannot be transferred.= (?)

=Though gentle, yet not dull, / Strong without rage, without o'erflowing, full.= _Denham._

=Though great the force of little words, / Sped in an evil hour, / As great the might, and great the good, / Of one in Wisdom's power.= _M. W. Wood._

=Though He comes in many shapes, / His love is throbbing in them all, / And from His love no soul escapes, / And from His mercy none can fall.= _Dr. W. Smith._

=Though he says nothing, he pays it with thinking, like the Welshman's jackdaw.= _Pr._

=Though He slay me, I shall yet trust in Him.= 15 _Bible._

=Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.= _John Wesley._

=Though justice be thy plea, consider this--/ That in the course of justice none of us / Should see salvation.= _Mer. of Venice_, iv. 1.

=Though last, not least.= _Jul. Cæs._, iii. 1.

=Though little fire grows great with little wind, / Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire and all.= _Tam. of Shrew_, ii. 1.

=Though losses and crosses / Be lessons right= 20 =severe, / There's wit there ye'll get there, / Ye'll find nae ither where.= _Burns._

=Though lost to sight, to memory dear.= _Anon._

=Though love cannot plant morals in the human breast, it cultivates them when there.= _Goldsmith._

=Though much is taken, much abides.= _Tennyson._

=Though old the thought and oft repress'd, / 'Tis his at last who says it best.= _Lowell._

=Though peace be in every man's wishes, yet= 25 =the qualifications and predispositions necessary for procuring and preserving it are the care of very few.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=Though scorn's malignant glances / Prove him poorest of his clan, / He's the noble--who advances / Freedom, and the cause of Man!= _C. Swain._

=Though stars in skies may disappear, / And angry tempests gather, / The happy hour may soon be near / That brings us pleasant weather.= _Burns._

=Though the cat winks a while, yet sure she is not blind.= _Pr._

=Though the heavens fall, the orbs of truth and justice fall not.= _J. Burroughs._

=Though the world exists for thought, thought= 30 =is daunted in presence of the world.= _Emerson._

=Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.= _Ham._, ii. 2.

=Though thousands hate physic, because of the cost, / Yet thousands it helpeth, that else should be lost.= _Thomas Tusser._

=Though we lose our fortune, yet we should not lose our patience.= _Pr._

=Though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps / At wisdom's gate; and to simplicity / Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill where no ill seems.= _Milton._

=Though you can fret me, you cannot play upon= 35 =me.= _Ham._, iii. 2.

=Though you had the wisdom of Newton or the wit of Swift, garrulousness would lower you in the eyes of your fellow-creatures.= _Burns._

=Though you stroke the nettle ever so kindly, yet it will sting you.= _Pr._

=Thought and science follow their own law of development; they are slowly elaborated in the growth and forward pressure of humanity, in what Shakespeare calls ... The prophetic soul / Of the wide world dreaming on things to come.= _Matthew Arnold._

=Thought discovered is the more possessed.= _Young._

=Thought disturbs the world, and thought of= 40 =God / Unsettles most of all; for it is life, / And only life can comprehend its force, / Or guide it.= _Dr. W. Smith._

=Thought expands, but lames; action animates, but narrows.= _Goethe._

=Thought is deeper than all speech; / Feeling deeper than all thought; / Souls to souls can never teach / What unto themselves was taught.= _C. P. Cranch._

=Thought is free.= _As You Like It_, i. 3.

=Thought is like opium: it can intoxicate us while it leaves us broad awake.= _Amiel._

=Thought is silence.= _Sheridan._ 45

=Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it.= _Emerson._

=Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first. It rises in thought, to the end that it may be uttered and acted. The more profound the thought, the more burdensome. Always in proportion to the depth of its sense does it knock importunately at the gates of the soul, to be spoken, to be done.= _Emerson._

=Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.= _Hare._

=Thought means life, since those who do not think do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.= _A. B. Alcott._

=Thought once awakened does not again slumber.= _Carlyle._

=Thought takes man out of servitude into freedom.= _Emerson._

=Thought, true labour of any kind, highest= 5 =virtue itself, is it not the daughter of pain? Born as out of the black whirlwind; true effort in fact, as of a captive struggling to free itself--that is thought.= _Carlyle._

=Thought without reverence is barren, perhaps poisonous; at best dies, like cookery, with the day that called it forth.= _Carlyle._

=Thought works in silence, so does virtue.= _Carlyle._

=Thoughtlessness is precisely the chief public calamity of our day.= _Ruskin._

=Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried.= _Shakespeare._

=Thoughts are not always at our beck; we= 10 =must wait till they come.= _Schopenhauer._

=Thoughts= (are) =the slaves of life, and life time's fool; / And time, that takes survey of all the world, / Must have a stop.= 1 _Hen. IV._, v. 4.

=Thoughts are your own; your words are so no more.= _Delaune._

=Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntary opened.= _Emerson._

=Thoughts shut up want air, and spoil, like bales unopened to the sun.= _Young._

=Thoughts take up no room.= _Jeremy Collier._ 15

=Thoughts that breathe and words that burn.= _Gray._

=Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.= _Wordsworth._

=Thoughts that voluntary move / Harmonious numbers.= _Milton._

=Thoughts we have had and pictures we have seen can be recalled by the mind; but the heart is not so obliging; it does not reproduce our pleasing emotions.= _Goethe._

=Threaten the threatener, and outface the= 20 =brow / Of bragging horror; so shall inferior eyes, / That borrow their behaviours from the great, / Grow great by your example, and put on / The dauntless spirit of resolution.= _King John_, v. 1.

=Threatened folks live long.= _Pr._

=Three may keep a secret--if two of them are dead.= _Ben. Franklin._

=Three poets in three distant ages born, / Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. / The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd; / The next, in majesty; in both, the last. / The force of Nature could no further go; / To make a third, she join'd the former two.= _Dryden._

=Three removes are as bad as a fire.= _Ben. Franklin._

=Three things drive a man out of doors--smoke,= 25 =a leaking roof, and a scolding wife.= _Pr._

=Three things that enrich genius are contentment of mind, the cherishing of good thoughts, and the exercise of memory.= _Southey._

=Three thousand miles of ocean space are less impressive than three miles bounded by rugged mountain walls.= _John Burroughs._

=Three women and a goose make a market.= _It., Dut., and Dan. Pr._

=Thrice happy he who without rigour saves.= _Thomson._

=Thrice happy life that's from ambition free.= 30 _Allan Ramsay._

=Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just; / And he but naked, though locked up in steel, / Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.= 2 _Hen. VI._, iii. 2.

=Thrift must begin with little savings.= _Pr._

=Thrifty be, but not covetous.= _George Herbert._

=Through certain humours or passions, and from temper merely, a man may be completely miserable, let his outward circumstances be ever so fortunate.= _Lord Shaftesbury._

=Through every star, through every grass= 35 =blade, and most through every living soul, the glory of a present God still beams.= _Carlyle._

=Through steep ascents, through strait and rugged ways, / Ourselves to glory's lofty seats we raise: / In vain he hopes to reach the bless'd abode / Who leaves the narrow path for the more easy road.= _Boscan._

=Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear; / Robes and furr'd gowns hide all.= _King Lear_, iv. 6.

=Through "the ruins of a falling era," not once missing his footing.= _Carlyle of his father._

=Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling, and spending their lives like serfs.= _Thoreau._

=Through wisdom is an house builded; and by= 40 =understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches.= _Bible._

=Throw no gift again at the giver's head; / Better is half a loaf than no bread.= _Pr._

=Throw physic to the dogs; I'll none of it.= _Macb._, v. 3.

=Thu' nur das Rechte in deinen Sachen, / Das Andre wird sich von selber machen=--In thy affairs do thou only what is right, the rest will follow of itself. _Goethe._

=Thursday come, and the week's gone.= _Pr._

=Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure;= 45 =/ Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.= _Congreve._

=Thus the native hue of resolution / Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought.= _Ham._, iii. 1.

=Thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.= _Twelfth Night_, iv. 2.

=Thus we play the fools with the time; and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds, and mock us.= 2 _Hen. IV._, ii. 2.

=Thus when I shun Scylla, your father, I fall into Charybdis, your mother.= _Mer. of Venice_, iii. 5.

=Thus with the year / Seasons return; but not= 50 =to me returns / Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, / Or sight of vernal bloom or summer's rose, / Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; / But cloud instead, and ever-during dark / Surrounds me.= _Milton._

=Thy actions, and thy actions alone, determine thy worth.= _Fichte._

=Thy friend put in thy bosom; wear his eyes / Still in thy heart, that he may see what's there. / If cause require, thou art his sacrifice.... / But love is lost; the way of friendship's gone.= _George Herbert._

=Thy hand is never the worse for doing thy own work.= _Pr._

=Thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.= _Bible._

=Thy nature / It is too full of the milk of human= 5 =kindness / To catch the nearest way.= _Macb._, i. 5.

=Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power.= _Bible._

=Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike, / One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.= _Ben. Jonson._

=Thy secret is thy prisoner.= _Pr._

=Thy soul was like a star and dwelt apart.= _Wordsworth._

=Thy spirit, Independence, let me share; / Lord= 10 =of the lion-heart and eagle-eye! / Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, / Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky!= _Smollett._

=Thy sum of duty let two words contain; / Be humble and be just.= _Prior._

=Thy true beginning and Father is in heaven, whom with the bodily eye thou shalt never behold, but only with the spiritual.= _Carlyle._

=Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought.= 2 _Hen. IV._, iv. 4.

=Tibi nullum periculum esse perspicio, quod quidem sejunctum sit ab omnium interitu=--I can see no danger to which you are exposed, other than that which threatens the destruction of us all. _Cic._

=Tickle me, Bobby, and I'll tickle you.= _Pr._ 15

=Tie up thy fears. / He that forbears / To suit and serve his need, / Deserves his load.= _George Herbert._

=Tie your camel up as best you can, and then trust it to Providence.= _Mahomet._

=Tief und ernstlich denkende Menschen haben gegen das Publikum einen bösen Stand=--Deeply and earnestly thoughtful men stand on an unfavourable footing with the public. _Goethe._

=Tief zu denken und schön zu empfinden ist Vielen gegeben; Dichter ist nur, wer schön sagt was er dacht' und empfand=--To think deeply and to feel beautifully is given to many; only he who expresses beautifully what he has thought and felt is a poet. _Geibel._

=Tiens à la vérité=--Stick to the truth. _M._ 20

=Tiens à ta foy=--Hold to thy faith. _M._

=Tiers état=--The third estate; the commons. _Fr._

=Till the hand ... from reed or string / Draws out faint echoes of the voice Divine / That bring God nearer to a faithless world.= _Lewis Morris._

=Time and chance can do nothing for those who will do nothing for themselves. Providence itself can scarcely save a people who are not prepared to make a struggle for their safety.= _Canning._

=Time and I against any two.= _Philip II._ 25

=Time and space are not God, but creations of God; with God, as it is a universal Here, so is it an everlasting Now.= _Carlyle._

=Time and thinking tame the strongest grief.= _Pr._

=Time antiquates antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all things.= _Sir Thomas Browne._

=Time, as it is, cannot stay; / Nor again, as it was, can it be; / Disappearing and passing away / Are the world, and the ages, and we.= _Lord Lytton._

=Time brings roses.= _Pr._ 30

=Time conquers all, and we must time obey.= _Pope._

=Time consecrates; and what is grey with age becomes religion.= _Schiller._

=Time destroys the speculations of man, but it confirms the judgment of nature.= _Cic._

=Time devours all things.= _Pr._

=Time dissipates to shining ether the solid= 35 =angularity of facts.= _Emerson._

=Time drinketh up the essence of every great and noble action which ought to be performed, and is delayed in the execution.= _Hitopadesa._

=Time elaborately thrown away.= _Young._

=Time gives prudence; the lord of time, inspiration; the one is a reward, the other a gift.= _Börne._

=Time has a strange contracting influence on many a wide-spread fame.= _Carlyle._

=Time has only a relative existence.= _Carlyle._ 40

=Time incessantly hasteneth on; he seeks for perfection; if thou art true, thou canst cast fetters eternal on him.= _Schiller._

=Time is a continual over-dropping of moments, which fall down one upon the other and evaporate.= _Jean Paul._

=Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.= _Goethe._

=Time is a wonder-working god. In one hour many thousand grains of sand run out, so quickly do thoughts stir in the minds of men.= _Schiller._

=Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I= 45 =drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom, and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper, fish in the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars.= _Thoreau._

=Time is but the measure of the difficulty of a conception. Pure thought has scarcely any need of time, since it perceives the two ends of an idea almost the same moment.= _Amiel._

=Time is eternity, / Pregnant with all eternity can give.= _Young._

=Time is generally the best doctor.= _Ovid._

=Time is incalculably long, and every day is a vessel into which very much may be poured, if one will really fill it up.= _Goethe._

=Time is like a fashionable host, / That slightly= 50 =shakes his parting guest by the hand; / And with his arms outstretched, as he would fly, / Grasps in the comer.= _Troil. and Cress._, iii. 3.

=Time is like a river, in which metals and solid substances are sunk, while chaff and straws swim upon the surface.= _Bacon._

=Time is money.= _Pr._

=Time is never more misspent than while we declaim against the want of it.= _Zimmermann._

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