Chapter M (26)

=To study nature or man, we ought to know things that are in the ordinary course, not the unaccountable things that happen out of it.= _Fisher Ames._

=To succeed in the world it is much more necessary to be able to diagnose a fool than a clever man.= _Cato._

=To talk without effort is, after all, the great charm of talking.= _Hare._

=To taste of human flesh is less criminal in the eyes of God than to stifle human thought.= _Draper._

=To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection; it is plunder, and I disclaim it.= _Disraeli._

=To tell our own secrets is generally folly, but that folly is without guilt; to communicate those with which we are intrusted is always treachery, and treachery for the most part combined with folly.= _Johnson._

=To the capable man this world is not dumb.= 5 _Goethe._

=To the exiled wanderer how godlike / The friendly countenance of man appears.= _Goethe._

=To the Hindu the world is the dream of Brahma.= _Amiel._

=To the innocent, deliverance and reparation; to the misled, compassion; and to the guilty, avenging justice.= _Goethe._

=To the man of firm purpose all men and things are servile.= _Goethe._

=To the minnow every cranny and pebble, and= 10 =quality and accident, of its little native creek may have become familiar; but does the minnow understand the ocean tides and periodic currents, the trade-winds, and monsoons, and moon's eclipses; by all of which the condition of its little creek is regulated, and may (from time to time, unmiraculously enough) be quite overset and reversed? Such a minnow is man; his creek, this planet earth; his ocean, the immeasurable All; his monsoons and periodic currents, the mysterious course of Providence through æons of æons.= _Carlyle._

=To the noble mind / Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.= _Ham._, iii. 1.

=To the persevering mortal the blessed immortals are swift.= _Zoroaster._

=To the strictly just and virtuous person everything is annexed.= _Hitopadesa._

=To the understanding of anything, two conditions are equally required--intelligibility in the thing itself being no whit more indispensable than intelligence in the examiner of it.= _Carlyle._

=To the unregenerate Prometheus Vinctus of= 15 =a man, it is ever the bitterest aggravation of his wretchedness that he is conscious of virtue, that he feels himself the victim not of suffering only, but of injustice.= _Carlyle._

=To the vulgar eye few things are wonderful that are not distant. It is difficult for men to believe that the man, the mere man whom they see, may perhaps painfully feel, toiling at their side through the poor jostlings of existence, can be made of finer clay than themselves.= _Carlyle._

=To the wisest man, wide as is his vision, Nature remains of quite infinite depth, of quite infinite expansion; and all experience thereof limits itself to some few computed centuries and measured square miles.= _Carlyle._

=To the "Worship of sorrow"= (Goethe's definition of Christianity) =ascribe what origin and genesis thou pleasest, has not that worship originated and been generated? Is it not here? Feel it in thy heart, and then say whether it is of God!= _Carlyle._

=To think and to feel constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius--the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.= _I. Disraeli._

=To think aright is the sum of human duty.= 20 _Pascal._

=To think is to act.= _Emerson._

=To this burden women are born; they must obey their husbands, be they never such blockheads.= _Cervantes._

=To those by whom liberality is practised, the whole world is but as one family.= _Hitopadesa._

=To those that have lived long together, everything heard and everything seen recalls some pleasure communicated or some benefit conferred, some petty quarrel or some slight endearment.= _Johnson._

=To those to whom we owe affection, let us be= 25 =dumb until we are strong, though we should never be strong.= _Emerson._

=To those who are fallen into misfortunes, what was a blessing becometh an evil.= _Hitopadesa._

=To those whose god is honour, disgrace alone is sin.= _Hare._

=To threats the stubborn sinner oft is hard, / Wrapp'd in his crimes, against the storm prepared; / But, when the milder beams of mercy play, / He melts, and throws his cumbrous cloak away.= _Dryden._

=To toy with human hearts is more than human hearts will brook.= _Dr. W. Smith._

=To tread upon the brink is safe, but to come a= 30 =step further is destruction.= _Johnson._

=To try things oft, and never to give over, doth wonders.= _Bacon._

=To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.= _Goethe._

=To understand that the sky is blue everywhere, we need not go round the world.= _Goethe._

=To understand the serious side of things requires a matured faculty; the ridiculous is caught more easily.= _Froude._

=To understand things we must once have been= 35 =in them, and then have come out of them.= _Amiel._

=To unpractised eyes, a Peak of Teneriffe, nay, a Strasburg Minster, when we stand on it, may seem higher than a Chimborazo; because the former rise abruptly, without abutement or environment; the latter rises gradually, carrying half a world along with it; and only the deeper azure of the heavens, the widened horizon, the "eternal sunshine," disclose to the geographer that the "region of change" lies far below.= _Carlyle._

=To use books rightly is to go to them for help.= _Ruskin._

=To use studies too much for ornament is affectation.= _Bacon._

=To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.= _Ouida._

=To wail friends lost / Is not by much so wholesome,= 40 =profitable, / As to rejoice at friends but newly found.= _Love's L. Lost_, v. 2.

=To wed unequally is to suffer equally.= _Anon._

=To what base uses we may return, Horatio!= _Ham._, v. 1.

=To what excesses men go for a religion of whose truth they are so little persuaded, and to whose precepts they pay so little regard.= _La Bruyère._

=To what they know best entice all neatly; / For so thou dost thyself and him a pleasure.= _George Herbert._

=To whom is the mere glare of the fire a virtue?= _Hitopadesa._

=To wilful men / The injuries that they themselves procure / Must be their schoolmasters.= _King Lear_, ii. 4.

=To work without money, and be poor; to work without pleasure, and be chaste; to work according to orders, and be obedient.= _Rules of the Order of St. Francis._

=To write a good love-letter, you ought to begin= 5 =without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.= _Rousseau._

=To write down to children's understandings is a mistake; set them on the scent and let them puzzle it out.= _Scott._

=To write prose, one must have something to say, but he who has nothing to say can still make verses.= _Goethe._

=To write well is to think well, to feel well, and to render well; it is to possess at once intellect, soul, and taste.= _Buffon._

=To write what is worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and get sensible men to read it, are the three great difficulties in authorship.= _Colton._

=To yield my breath, / Life's purpose unfulfilled!= 10 =this is thy sting, O Death.= _Sir Noel Paton._

=To yourself be critic most severe.= _Dryden._

=Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.= _Emerson._

=Tocher's nae word in a true lover's parle.= _Burns._

=Todte Hunde beissen nicht=--Dead dogs don't bite. _Ger. Pr._

[Greek: to êthos ethos esti polychronion]--Character is 15 simply prolonged habit. _Plutarch._

=Toga virilis=--The manly robe.

[Greek: to gar trephon me, tout' egô krinô theon]--What maintains me in life, that I regard as God. (?)

[Greek: to gar perissa prassein ouk echei noun oudena]--Doing more than one is able for argues a want of intelligence. (?)

=Toil is polish'd man's vocation; / Praises are the meed of skill; / Kings may vaunt their crown and station, / We will vaunt our labour still.= _Mangan_

=Toil on, faint not, keep watch, and pray.= _Bonar._ 20

=Toils of empires pleasures are.= _Waller._

[Greek: to kalon]--The beautiful.

=Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.= _Burke._

=Tolle jocos; non est jocus esse malignum=--Away with such jokes; there is no joking where there is malignity.

=Tolle periclum, / Jam vaga prosiliet frænis= 25 =natura remotis=--Take away the danger, remove restraint, and vagrant nature bounds forth free. _Hor._

=Tombs are the clothes of the dead--a grave but a plain suit, and a rich monument one embroidered.= _Fuller._

[Greek: ton gar ouk onta hapas eiôthen epainein]--All are wont to praise him who is no more. _Thucydides._

[Greek: ton tethnêkota mê kakologein]--Speak not evil of the dead. _Chilon._

[Greek: to holon]--The whole.

=Too austere a philosophy makes few wise men;= 30 =too rigorous politics, few good subjects; and too hard a religion, few religious persons whose devotion is of long continuance.= _St. Evremond._

=Too early and too thoroughly we cannot be trained to know that Would, in this world of ours, is as mere zero to Should, and, for most part, the smallest of fractions to Shall.= _Carlyle._

=Too elevated qualities often unfit a man for society.= _Chamfort._

=Too fair to worship, too divine to love.= _Milman._

=Too low they build who build beneath the stars.= _Young._

=Too many cooks spoil the broth.= _Pr._ 35

=Too many instances there are of daring men, who by presuming to sound the deep things of religion, have cavilled and argued themselves out of all religion.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=Too much gravity argues a shallow mind.= _Lavater._

=Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man's time much more completely, and leaves him less his own master, than any sort of employment whatsoever.= _Burke._

=Too much is always bad; old proverbs call / Even too much honey nothing else than gall.= _Anon._

=Too much mercy is want of mercy.= _Tennyson._ 40

=Too much of a good thing.= _As You Like It_, iv. 1.

=Too much of one thing is good for nothing.= _Thales and Solon._

=Too much painstaking speaks disease in one's mind, as much as too little.= _Carlyle._

=Too much rest is rust.= _Scott._

=Too much rest itself becomes a pain.= _Homer._ 45

=Too much sensibility creates unhappiness; too much insensibility creates crime.= _Talleyrand._

=Too much wit / Makes the world rotten.= _Tennyson._

=Too surely, every setting day, / Some lost delight we mourn.= _Keble._

=Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.= _Rom. and Jul._, ii. 6.

=Tooth of time.= _Meas. for Meas._, v. 1. 50

=Top and bottom teeth sometimes come into awkward collision.= _Ch. Pr._

[Greek: to prepon]--That which is becoming or decorous.

=Torrens dicendi copia multis / Et sua mortifera est facundia=--To many a torrent flow of speech and their own eloquence is fatal. _Juv._

=Toss'd on a sea of troubles, soul, my soul, / Thyself do thou control; / And to the weapons of advancing foes / A stubborn breast oppose.= _Archilochus._

=Tot capita, tot sensus=--So many heads, so many 55 opinions. _Ter._

=Tot homines, quot sententiæ=--So many men, so many minds.

=Tot rami quot arbores=--So many branches, so many trees. _M._

=Tota in minimis existit natura=--The whole of nature exists in the very smallest things. _Quoted by Emerson._

=Totidem verbis=--In so many words.

=Toties quoties=--As often, so often.

=Toto cœlo=--By the whole heavens; as wide as the poles asunder.

=Totus in toto, et totus in qualibet parte=--Whole 5 in the whole, and whole in every part. _Said of the human mind._

=Totus mundus exercet histrioniam=--All the world acts the player.

[Greek: tou aristeuein heneka]--In order to excel. _M._

=Touched by a loving heart, wakened by kindness, / Chords that were broken will vibrate once more.= _Mrs. van Alstyne._

=Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out.= _Bible._

=Toujours=--Always. _M._ 10

=Toujours en vedette=--Always on the lookout. _M. of Frederick the Great._

=Toujours perdrix=--Always partridges. _Fr._

="Toujours perdrix" is sickening.= _John Wagstaffe._

=Toujours prêt=--Always ready.

=Toujours propice=--Always propitious. _M._ 15

=Toujours tout droit, Dieu t'aidera!=--Always straightforward, and God will help you! _M._

=Tour d'adresse=--A trick of sleight of hand. _Fr._

=Tour de force=--A feat of strength or skill. _Fr._

=Tourner autour du pot=--To beat about the bush. _Fr._

=Tourner casaque=--To change sides; become a 20 turncoat. _Pr._

=Tous frais faits=--All charges paid. _Fr._

=Tous les genres sont bons hors le genre ennuyeux=--All kinds are good except the kind that bores you. _Voltaire._

=Tous les hommes sont foux, et malgré tous leurs soins, / Ne diffèrent entr'eux, que du plus ou du moins=--All men are fools, and notwithstanding all their care, they differ but in degree. _Boileau._

=Tous les méchants sont buveurs d'eau; / C'est bien prouvé par le déluge=--All the wicked are water-drinkers; this the deluge proves.

=Tout-à-fait=--Quite. _Fr._ 25

=Tout bien ou rien=--All or nothing. _M._

=Tout chemin mène à Rome=--Every road leads to Rome.

=Tout d'en haut=--All from above. _M._

=Tout doit tendre au bon sens: mais pour y parvenir / Le chemin est glissant et pénible a tenir=--Everything ought to lead to good sense; but in order to attain to it, the road is slippery and difficult to walk in. _Boileau._

=Tout éloge imposteur blesse une âme sincère=--Praise 30 undeservedly bestowed wounds an honest heart. _Boileau._

=Tout est contradiction chez nous: la France, à parler sérieusement, est le royaume de l'esprit et de la sottise, de l'industrie et de la paresse, de la philosophie et du fanatisme, de la gaieté et du pédantisme, des loix et des abus, de bon goût et de l'impertinence=--With us all is inconsistency. France, seriously speaking, is the country of wit and folly, of industry and idleness, of philosophy and fanaticism, of gaiety and pedantry, laws and their abuses, good taste and impertinence. _Voltaire._

=Tout est perdu fors l'honneur=--All is lost save our honour. _Francis I., after his defeat at Pavia._

=Tout est pour le mieux dans le meilleur des mondes possibles=--All is for the best in the best possible of worlds. _Voltaire, in mockery of Leibnitz's optimism._

=Tout faiseur de journaux doit tribut au malin=--Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one. _La Fontaine._

=Tout finit par des chansons=--Everything in the 35 end passes into song. _Beaumarchais._

=Tout flatteur vît au dépens de celui qui l'écoute=--Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him. _La Fontaine._

=Tout notre mal vient de ne pouvoir être seul=--All our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone. _La Bruyère._

=Tout par raison=--Everything agreeable to reason. _Richelieu._

=Tout soldat français porte dans sa giberne le bâton de maréchal de France=--Every private in the French army carries a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack. _Napoleon._

=Tout va à qui n'a pas besoin=--Everything goes 40 to him who does not need it. _Fr. Pr._

=Tout vient à point à qui sait attendre=--Everything comes in time to the man who knows how to wait. _Fr. Pr._

=Tout vient de Dieu=--Everything comes from God. _M._

=Toute révélation d'un secret est la faute de celui qui l'a confié=--The disclosure of a secret is always the fault of him who confided it. _Fr._

=Toutes les fois que je donne une place vacante, je fais cent mécontents, et un ingrat=--Every time I appoint to a vacant post, I make a hundred discontented and one ungrateful. _Louis XIV._

=Towards great persons use respective boldness: /= 45 =That temper gives them theirs, and yet doth take / Nothing from thine.= _George Herbert._

=Towers are measured by their shadows.= _Chinese Pr._

=Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay.= _Johnson._

=Traditions make up the reasonings of the simple, and serve to silence every inquiry.= _Goldsmith._

=Traduttori, traditori=--Translators, traitors. _It. Pr._

=Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving= 50 =too much importance to life and death.= _Chamfort._

=Tragedy warms the soul, elevates the heart, can and ought to create heroes. In this sense, perhaps, France owes a part of her great actions to Corneille.= _Napoleon._

=Trahit ipse furoris / Impetus, et visum est lenti quæsisse nocentem=--The very violence of their rage drags them on, and to inquire who is guilty were a waste of time. _Lucan._

=Trahit sua quemque voluptas=--Each man is led by his own liking. _Virg._

=Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old he will not depart from it.= _Bible._

=Tranquil pleasures last the longest. We are= 55 =not fitted to bear long the burden of great joys.= _Bovee._

=Tranquillity is better than jollity, and to appease pain than to invent pleasure.= _Sir T. Browne._

=Transeat in exemplum=--Let it stand as a precedent, or an example.

=Transitory is all human work, small in itself, contemptible; only the worker thereof and the spirit that dwelt in him is significant.= _Carlyle._

=Trau keinem Freunde sonder Mängel, / Und lieb' ein Mädchen, keinen Engel=--Trust no friend without faults, and love a maiden, but no angel. _Lessing._

=Travel gives a character of experience to our= 5 =knowledge, and brings the figures upon the tablet of memory into strong relief.= _Tuckerman._

=Travel in the younger sort is a part of education; in the older, a part of experience.= _Bacon._

=Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.= _Mme. Swetchine._

=Travel teaches toleration.= _Disraeli._

=Travelling is a fool's paradise.= _Emerson._

=Travelling is like gambling; it is ever connected= 10 =with winning and losing, and generally where least expected we receive more or less than we hoped for.= _Goethe._

=Tre lo sanno, tutti lo sanno=--If three know it, all know it. _It. Pr._

=Tre taceranno, se due vi non sono=--Three may keep counsel if two be away. _It. Pr._

=Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth: but trust and pity, love and constancy, they do.= _Dickens._

=Treason doth never prosper; what's the reason? / Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.= _Sir J. Harrington._

=Treason has done his worst; nor steel, nor= 15 =poison, / Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing / Can touch him further.= _Macb._, iii. 2.

=Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but justice delivers from death.= _Bible._

=Trees and fields tell me nothing; men are my teachers.= _Plato._

=Tremblez, tyrans; vous êtes immortels=--Tremble, ye tyrants; ye cannot die. _Delille._

=Tria juncta in uno=--Three joined in one. _M._

=Tribulation will not hurt you unless it does--what,= 20 =alas! it too often does--unless it hardens you, and makes you sour and narrow and sceptical.= _Chapin._

=Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that have not wit enough to be honest.= _Ben. Franklin._

=Trifles light as air / Are to the jealous confirmations strong / As proofs of holy writ.= _Othello_, iii. 3.

=Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle.= _Michael Angelo._

=Trifles make up the happiness or misery of mortal life.= _Alex. Smith._

=Trifles themselves are elegant in him.= _Pope._ 25

=Trifles unconsciously bias us for or against a person from the very beginning.= _Schopenhauer._

=Trifling precautions will often prevent great mischiefs; as a slight turn of the wrist parries a mortal thrust.= _R. Sharp._

=Trinitas in Trinitate=--Trinity in Trinity. _M._

=Tristis eris, si solus eris=--You will be sad if you are alone. _Ovid._

=Triumphs for nothing and lamenting toys, /= 30 =Is jollity for apes and grief for boys.= _Cymbeline_, iv. 2.

=Troops of furies march in the drunkard's triumph.= _Zimmermann._

=Trop de zèle gâte tout=--Too much zeal spoils all. _Fr. Pr._

=Tros Tyriusve mihi nullo discrimine agetur=--Trojan or Tyrian, it shall make no difference to me. _Virg._

=Trotz alledem und alledem=--For 'a that and 'a that. _F. Freiligrath._

=Trouble is a thing that will come without our= 35 =call; but true joy will not spring up without ourselves.= _Bp. Patrick._

=Trouble teaches men how much there is in manhood.= _Ward Beecher._

=Truditur dies die, / Novæque pergunt interire lunæ=--Day presses on the heels of day, and new moons hasten to their wane. _Hor._

=True art is like good company; it constrains us in the most charming way to recognise the standard after which and up to which our innermost being is shaped by culture.= _Goethe._

=True art, which requires free and healthy faculties, is opposed to pedantry, which crushes the soul under a burden.= _Hamerton._

=True bravery proposes a just end, measures= 40 =the dangers, and, if necessary, the affront, with coldness.= _Francis la None._

=True blue will never stain.= _Pr._

=True comeliness, which nothing can impair, / Dwells in the mind; all else is vanity and glare.= _Thomson._

=True coral needs no painter's brush.= _Pr._

=True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honours are withdrawn.= _Massinger._

=True ease in writing comes from art, not= 45 =chance, / As those move easiest who have learned to dance.= _Pope._

=True eloquence consists in saying all that is proper, and nothing more.= _La Roche._

=True eloquence scorns eloquence.= _Pascal._

=True fame is ever likened to our shade, / He sooneth misseth her, that most= (haste) =hath made / To overtake her; whoso takes his wing, / Regardless of her, she'll be following; / Her true proprietie she thus discovers, / Loves her contemners, and contemns her lovers.= _Sir T. Browne._

=True fortitude I take to be the quiet possession of a man's self, and an undisturbed doing his duty, whatever evil besets him or danger lies in his way.= _Locke._

=True fortitude of understanding consists in not= 50 =letting what we know be embarrassed by what we do not know.= _Emerson._

=True friends are the whole world to one another; and he that is a friend to himself is also a friend to mankind. Even in my studies the greatest delight I take is of imparting it to others; for there is no relish to me in the possession of anything without a partner.= _Sen._

=True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.= _Thoreau._

=True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.= _Washington._

=True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.= _Colton._

=True friendship often shows itself in refusing at the right time, and love often grants a hurtful good.= _Goethe._

=True greatness is, first of all, a thing of the heart.= _R. D. Hitchcock._

=True heroism consists in being superior to the= 5 =ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge him to combat.= _Napoleon._

=True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings; / Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.= _Richard III._, v. 2.

=True humility is contentment.= _Amiel._

=True humour is as closely allied to pity as it is abhorrent to derision.= _Henry Giles._

=True humour is sensibility in the most catholic and deepest sense; but it is the sport of sensibility; wholesome and perfect therefore; as it were, the playful teasing fondness of a mother to her child.= _Carlyle._

=True humour springs not more from the head= 10 =than from the heart; it is not contempt, its essence is love; it issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper. It is a sort of inverse sublimity, exalting, as it were, into our affections what is below us, while sublimity draws down into our affections what is above us.= _Carlyle._

=True influence is latent influence.= _Renan._

=True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out, that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind that has fortune under its feet.= _Sen._

=True joy is only hope put out of fear.= _Lord Brooke._

=True knowledge is of virtues only.= _Ruskin._

=True knowledge of any thing or any creature= 15 =is only of the good of it.= _Ruskin._

=True liberty is a positive force, regulated by law; false liberty is a negative force, a release from restraint.= _Philip Schaff._

=True love is still the same; the torrid zones, / And those more rigid ones, / It must not know; / For love grown cold or hot / Is lust or friendship, not / The thing we show.= _Suckling._

=True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence.= _Amiel._

=True love is the parent of a noble humility.= _Channing._

=True love will creep, not having strength to= 20 =go.= _Quarles._

=True love works never for the loved one so, / Nor spares skin-surface, smoothing truth away.= _Browning._

=True love's the gift which God has given / To man alone beneath the heaven.= _Scott._

=True mercy is ashamed of itself; hides itself, and does not complain. You may know it by that.= _Varnhagen von Ense._

=True modesty avoids everything that is criminal; false modesty everything that is unfashionable.= _Addison._

=True morality scorns morality; that is, the= 25 =morality of the judgment scorns the morality of the mind, which is without rules.= _Pascal._

=True music is intended for the ear alone; whoever sings it to me must be invisible.= _Goethe._

=True nobility is derived from virtue, not birth.= _Burton._

=True obedience is true liberty.= _Ward Beecher._

=True poetry is truer than science, because it is synthetic, and seizes at once what the combination of all the sciences is able, at most, to attain as a final result.= _Amiel._

=True quietness of heart is gotten by resisting= 30 =our passions, not by obeying them.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=True religion is always mild, propitious, and humble; plays not the tyrant, plants no faith in blood, nor bears destruction on her chariot-wheels; but stoops to polish, succour, and redress, and builds her grandeur on the public good.= _James Miller._

=True religion is the poetry of the heart; it has enchantments useful to our manners; it gives us both happiness and virtue.= _Joubert._

=True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognise humility and poverty, mockery and despite, wretchedness and disgrace, suffering and death, as things divine.= _Goethe, of the Christian religion._

=True repentance consists in the heart being broken for sin, and broken from sin.= _Thornton._

=True repentance is to cease from sin.= _St._ 35 _Ambrose._

=True sense and reason reach their aim / With little help from art or rule. / Be earnest! Then what need to seek / The words that best your meaning speak?= _Goethe._

=True, sharp, precise thought is preferable to a cloudy fancy; and a hundred acres of solid earth are far more valuable than a million acres of cloud and vapour.= _C. Fitzhugh._

=True singing is of the nature of worship; as indeed all true working may be said to be; whereof such singing is but the record, and fit melodious representation, to us.= _Carlyle._

=True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be.= _W. R. Alger._

=True taste is for ever growing, learning, reading,= 40 =worshipping, laying its hand upon its mouth because it is astonished, casting its shoes from off its feet because it finds all ground holy.= _Ruskin._

=True valour lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness.= _Cervantes._

=True virtue, being united to heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection.= _Milton._

=True virtue's soul's always in all deeds all.= _Donne._

=True wit never made us laugh.= _Emerson._

=Truly great men are always simple-hearted.= 45 _Klinger._

=Truly great men are ever most heroic to those most intimate with them.= _Ruskin._

=Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting for ever in one direction.= _Lowell._

=Truly unhappy is the man who leaves undone what he can do, and undertakes what he does not understand; no wonder he comes to grief.= _Goethe._

=Trusse up thy packe, and trudge from me, to every little boy, / And tell them thus from me, their time most happy is, / If to theyr time they reason had, to know the truth of this.= _Chaucer._

=Trust as little as you can to report, and examine all you can by your own senses.= _Johnson._

=Trust begets truth.= _Pr._

=Trust, but not too much.= _Pr._ 5

=Trust dies because bad pay poisons him.= _Pr._

=Trust him little who praises all, him less who censures all, and him least who is indifferent about all.= _Lavater._

=Trust in that man's promise who dares to refuse that which he fears he cannot perform.= _Spurgeon._

=Trust in the Lord, and do good, so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.= _Bible._

=Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and= 10 =lean not onto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.= _Bible._

=Trust instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.= _Emerson._

=Trust me not at all or all in all.= _Tennyson._

=Trust me, that for the instructed, time will come / When they shall meet no object but may teach / Some acceptable lesson to their minds / Of human suffering or human joy. / For them shall all things speak of man.= _Wordsworth._

=Trust men, and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.= _Emerson._

=Trust no future, howe'er pleasant; / Let the= 15 =dead past bury its dead. / Act, act in the living present; / Heart within, and God o'erhead!= _Longfellow._

=Trust no man who pledges you with his hand on his heart.= _Lichtenberg._

=Trust not him that hath once broken faith.= 3 _Hen. VI._, iv. 4.

=Trust not in him that seems a saint.= _Fuller._

=Trust not the heart of that man for whom old clothes are not venerable.= _ Carlyle._

=Trust not this hollow world; she's empty;= 20 =hark, she sounds.= _Quarles._

=Trust not those cunning waters of his eyes, for villany is not without such rheum.= _King John_, iv. 3.

=Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.= _Sterne._

=Trust thyself; every heart vibrates to that iron string.= _Emerson._

=Truth alone wounds.= _Napoleon._

=Truth and fidelity are the pillars of the temple= 25 =of the world; when these are broken, the fabric falls, and crushes all to pieces.= _Feltham._

=Truth and oil are ever above.= _Pr._

=Truth being weighed against a thousand Aswamedha sacrifices, was found to be of more consequence than the whole thousand offerings.= _Hitopadesa._

=Truth contradicts our nature, error does not, and for a very simple reason: truth requires us to regard ourselves as limited, error flatters us to think of ourselves as in one or other way unlimited.= _Goethe._

=Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again, / The eternal years of God are hers; / But error, wounded, writhes with pain, / And dies among his worshippers.= _W. C. Bryant._

=Truth does not conform itself to us, but we= 30 =most conform ourselves to it.= _M. Claudius._

=Truth does not consist in minute accuracy of detail, but in conveying a right impression; and there are vague ways of speaking that are truer than strict facts would be. When the Psalmist said, "Rivers of water run down mine eyes, because men keep not thy law," he did not state the fact but he stated a truth deeper than fact and truer.= _Dean Alford._

=Truth does not do as much good in the world as the shows of it do of evil.= _La Roche._

=Truth dwells not in the clouds; the bow that's there / Doth often aim at, never hit the sphere.= _George Herbert._

=Truth for ever on the scaffold, wrong for ever on the throne.= _Lowell._

=Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, /= 35 =And fools who came to scoff remain'd to pray.= _Goldsmith._

=Truth has a quiet breast.= _Rich. II._, i. 3.

=Truth has no gradations; nothing which admits of increase can be so much what it is as truth is truth. There may be a strange thing, and a thing more strange; but if a proposition be true, there can be none more true.= _Johnson._

=Truth hath always a fast bottom.= _Pr._

=Truth hath better deeds than words to grace it.= _Two Gent. of Verona_, ii. 2.

="Truth," I cried, "though the heavens crush= 40 =me for following her; no falsehood, though a whole celestial Lubberland were the price of apostasy!"= _Carlyle._

=Truth in its own essence cannot be / But good.= _Byron._

=Truth, in the great practical concerns of life, is so much a question of the reconciling and combining of opposites, that very few have minds sufficiently capacious and impartial to make the adjustment with an approach to correctness.= _J. S. Mill._

=Truth irritates only those whom it enlightens, but does not convert.= _Pasquier Quesnel._

=Truth is a good dog; but beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.= _Coleridge._

=Truth is a queen who has her eternal throne= 45 =in heaven, and her seat of empire in the heart of God.= _Bossuet._

=Truth is a stronghold, and diligence is laying siege to it; so that it must observe all the avenues and passes to it.= _South._

=Truth is always consistent with itself and needs nothing to help it out; it is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware.= _Tillotson._

=Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.= _Byron._

=Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam.= _Milton._

=Truth is born with us; and we must do violence to nature, to shake off our veracity.= _St. Evremond._

=Truth is God's daughter.= _Pr._

=Truth is never learned, in any department of industry, by arguing, but by working and observing.= _Ruskin._

=Truth is one, for ever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the dispositions of the spectator.= _Wendell Phillips._

=Truth is quite beyond the reach of satire.= 5 _Lowell._

=Truth is simple and gives little trouble, but falsehood gives occasion for the frittering away of time and strength.= _Goethe._

=Truth is simple indeed, but we have generally no small trouble in learning to apply it to any practical purpose.= _Goethe._

=Truth is the body of God, and light his shadow.= _Plato._

=Truth is the daughter of Time.= _Pr._

=Truth is the easiest part of all to play= (_das_ 10 _leichteste Spiel von allen_). =Present thyself as thou art= (_stelle dich selber dar_), =and thou runnest no risk of falling out of thy rôle.= _Rückert._

=Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.= _Chaucer._

=Truth is the root, but human sympathy is the flower of practical life.= _Chapin._

=Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line.= _Tillotson._

=Truth is to be costly to you--of labour and patience; and you are never to sell it, but to guard and to give.= _Ruskin._

=Truth is to be loved purely and solely because= 15 =it is true.= _Carlyle._

=Truth is too simple for us; we do not like those who unmask our illusions.= _Emerson._

=Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. Does not Mr. Bryant say that Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while Error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger?= _Holmes._

=Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.= _Meas. for Meas._, v. 1.

=Truth itself shall lose its credit, if delivered by a person that has none.= _South._

=Truth lies at the bottom of a well, the depth= 20 =of which, alas! gives but little hope of release.= _Democritus._

=Truth, like gold, is not the less so for being newly brought out of the mine.= _Locke._

=Truth, like roses, often blossoms upon a thorny stem.= _Hafiz._

=Truth, like the juice of a poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in its excess.= _Landor._

=Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.= _Bovee._

=Truth, like the Venus de Medici, will pass= 25 =down in thirty fragments to posterity; but posterity will collect and recompose them into a goddess.= _Richter._

=Truth loves open dealing.= _Henry VIII._, iii. 1.

=Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.= _Cervantes._

=Truth may languish, but can never perish.= _Pr._

=Truth may lie in laughter, and wisdom in a jest.= _Dr. W. Smith._

=Truth may perhaps come to the price of a= 30 =pearl, that showeth best by day, but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights.= _Bacon._

=Truth, or clothed or naked let it be.= _Tennyson._

=Truth provokes those whom it does not convert.= _Bp. Wilson._

=Truth reaches her full action by degrees, and not at once.= _Draper._

=Truth, says Horne Tooke, means simply the thing trowed, the thing believed; and now, from this to the thing itself, what a new fatal deduction have we to suffer.= _Carlyle._

=Truth scarce ever yet carried it by vote anywhere= 35 =at its first appearance.= _Locke._

=Truth seeks no corners.= _Pr._

=Truth shines with its own light; it is not by the flames of funeral piles that the minds of men are illuminated.= _Belisarius._

=Truth should be strenuous and bold; but the strongest things are not always the noisiest, as any one may see who compares scolding with logic.= _Chapin._

=Truth will be uppermost one time or another like cork, though kept down in the water.= _Sir W. Temple._

=Truth will bear / Neither rude handling, nor= 40 =unfair / Evasion of its wards, and mocks / Whoever would falsely enter there.= _Dr. Walter Smith._

=Truth's a dog that must to kennel. He must be whipped out, when the lady brach may stand by the fire and stink.= _Lear_, i. 4.

=Truths are first clouds, then rain, then harvests and food.= _Ward Beecher._

=Truths that wake, / To perish never.= _Wordsworth._

=Try and Trust will move mountains.= _Pr._

=Try for yourselves what you can read in half-an-hour, ...= 45 =and consider what treasures you might have laid by at the end of the year; and what happiness, fortitude and wisdom they would have given you during all the days of your life.= _John Morley._

=Try it, ye who think there is nothing in it; try what it is to speak with God behind you.= _Ward Beecher._

=Try to do your duty, and you at once know what is in you.= _Goethe._

=Try to forget our cares and our maladies, and contribute, as we can, to the cheerfulness of each other.= _Johnson._

=Try what repentance can; what can it not? Yet what can it, when one cannot repent?= _Ham._, iii. 2.

=Tu, Domine, gloria mea=--Thou, O Lord, art my 50 glory. _M._

=Tu dors, Brutus, et Rome est dans les fers!=--Sleepest thou, Brutus, and Rome in bonds! _Voltaire._

=Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito / Quam tua te fortuna sinet=--Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune shall permit you. _Virg._

=Tu ne quæsieris, scire nefas, quem mihi quem tibi / Finem di dederint, Leuconoë=--Forbear to inquire, thou mayst not know, Leuconoë, for you may not know what the gods have appointed either for you or for me. _Hor._

=Tu nihil invita dices faciesve Minerva=--You must say and do nothing against the bent of your genius, _i.e._, in default of the necessary inspiration. _Hor._

=Tu pol si sapis, quod scis nescis=--You, if you are wise, will not know what you do know. _Ter._

=Tu quamcunque Deus tibi fortunaverit horam, / Grata sume manu; nec dulcia differ in annum, / Ut quocunque loco fueris, vixisse libenter / Te dicas=--Receive with a thankful hand every hour that God may have granted you, and defer not the comforts of life to another year; that in whatever place you are, you may say you have lived agreeably. _Hor._

=Tu quoque=--You too; you're another. 5

=Tu quoque, Brute!=--You too, Brutus!

=Tu recte vivis, si curas esse quod audis=--You live a true life if you make it your care to be what you seem. _Hor._

=Tu si animum vicisti, potius quam animus te, est quod gaudeas=--If you have conquered your inclination, rather than your inclination you, you have something to rejoice at. _Plaut._

=Tu si hic sis, aliter sentias=--If you were in my place, you would think differently. _Terence._

=Tu vincula frange=--Break thy chains. _M._ 10

=Tua camicia non sappia il secreto=--Let not your shirt know your secret. _It. Pr._

=Tua res agitur=--It is a matter that concerns you.

=Tuebor=--I will protect. _M._

=Tui me miseret, mei piget=--I pity you and vex myself. _Ennius._

=Tunica propior pallio est=--My tunic is nearer 15 than my cloak. _Plaut._

=Turba Remi sequitur fortunam, ut semper, et odit / Damnatos=--The Roman mob follows the lead of fortune, as it always does, and hates those that are condemned. _Juv._

=Turn, Fortune, turn thy wheel with smile or frown; / With that wild wheel we go not up or down; / Our hoard is little, but our hearts are great.= _Tennyson._

=Turn him to any cause of policy, / The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, / Familiar as his garter.= _Henry V._, i. 1.

=Turpe est aliud loqui, aliud sentire; quanto turpius aliud scribere, aliud sentire!=--It is base to say one thing and to think another; how much more base to write one thing and think another! _Sen._

=Turpe est in patria peregrinari, et in eis rebus= 20 =quæ ad patriam pertinent hospitem esse=--It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in those matters which affect our welfare. _Manutius._

=Turpius ejicitur quam non admittitur hospes=--It is more disgraceful to turn a guest out than not to admit him. _Ovid._

=Turris fortissima est nomen Jehovah=--A most strong tower is the name of Jehovah. _M._

=Tuta petant alii. Fortuna miserrima tuta est; / Nam timor eventus deterioris abest=--Let others seek security. My most wretched fortune is secure; for there is no fear of worse to follow. _Ovid._

=Tuta scelera esse possunt, non secura=--Wickedness may be safe, but not secure. _Sen._

=Tuta timens=--Fearing even safety. _Virg._ 25

=Tutte quanti=--Et cetera. _It._

=Tuum est=--It is thine. _M._

='Twas doing nothing was his curse--/ Is there a vice can plague us worse?= _Hannah More._

='Twas strange, 'twas passing strange, / 'Twas pitiful; 'twas wondrous pitiful.= _Othello_, i. 3.

=Twenty people can gain money for one who= 30 =can use it; and the vital question for individuals and for nations, is never "how much do they make," but "to what purpose do they spend."= _Ruskin._

='Twere all as good to ease one beast of grief, / As sit and watch the sorrows of the world / In yonder caverns with the priests who pray.= _Sir Edwin Arnold._

=Twist ye, twine ye! even so, / Mingle shades of joy and woe, / Hope, and fear, and peace, and strife, / In the thread of human life.= _Scott._

=Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labour.= _Bible._

=Two dogs over one bone seldom agree.= _Pr._

=Two dogs strive for a bone, and a third runs= 35 =away with it.= _Pr._

=Two gifts are indispensable to the dramatic poet; one is the power of forgetting himself, the other is the power of remembering his characters.= _Stoddart._

=Two grand tasks have been assigned to the English people--the grand Industrial task of conquering some half, or more, of the terraqueous planet for the use of man; then, secondly, the grand Constitutional task of sharing, in some pacific endurable manner, the fruit of said conquest, and showing all people how it might be done.= _Carlyle._

=Two heads are better than one, or why do folks marry?= _Pr._

=Two in distress make sorrow less.= _Pr._

=Two is company, but three is none.= _Pr._ 40

=Two kitchen fires burn not on one hearth.= _Pr._

=Two may keep counsel, putting one away.= _Pr._

=Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.= _Emerson._

=Two meanings have our lightest fantasies, / One of the flesh, and of the spirit one.= _Lowell._

=Two men I honour, and no third. First, the= 45 =toilworn craftsman that with earth-made implement laboriously conquers the earth, and makes her man's.... A second man I honour, and still more highly--him who is seen toiling for the spiritually indispensable; not daily bread, but the bread of life.... These two in all their degrees I honour; all else is chaff and dust, which let the wind blow whither it listeth.= _Carlyle._

=Two misfortunes are twice as many at least as are needful to be talked over at one time.= _Sterne._

=Two of a trade seldom agree.= _Pr._

=Two orders of poets I admit, but no third; the creative (Shakespeare, Homer, Dante), and reflective or perceptive (Wordsworth, Keats, Tennyson); and both these must be first-rate in their range.= _Ruskin._

=Two pots stood by a river, one of brass, the other of clay; the water carried them away; the earthen vessel kept aloof from the other.= _L'Estrange._

=Two principles in human nature reign--/ Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain.= _Pope._

=Two qualities are demanded of a statesman who would direct any great movement of opinion in which he himself takes a part; he must have a complete understanding of the movement itself, and he must be animated by the same motives as those which inspire the movement.= _Lamartine._

=Two removals are as bad as a fire.= _Pr._

=Two sorts of writers possess genius; those= 5 =who think, and those who cause others to think.= _J. Roux._

=Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere.= _Hen. IV._, v. 4.

=Two things a man should never be angry at; what he can help, and what he cannot.= _Pr._

=Two things I abhor: the learned in his infidelities, and the fool in his devotions.= _Mahomet._

=Two things strike me dumb: the infinite starry heavens, and the sense of right and wrong in man.= _Kant._

=Two things, well considered, would prevent= 10 =many quarrels: first, to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms rather than things; and, secondly, to examine whether that on which we differ is worth contending about.= _Colton._

=Type of the wise who soar, but never roam, / True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home.= _Wordsworth._

=Tyran, descends du trône, et fais place à ton maître=--Tyrant, come down from the throne, and give place to your master! _Corn._

=Tyranny and anarchy are never far asunder.= _Bentham._

=Tyranny is irresponsible power ... whether the power be lodged in one or many.= _Canning._

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=Üb' immer Treu und Redlichkeit / Bis an dein= 15 =kühles Grab=--Be sure thou always practise fidelity and honesty till thou lie in thy cold grave. _L. H. Hölty._

=Über allen Gipfeln / Ist Ruh=--Over all heights is rest. _Goethe._

=Über die Berge mit Ungestüm=--Over the mountains by storm. _Kotzebue._

=Über vieles kann / Der Mensch zum Herrn sich machen, seinen Sinn / Bezwinget kaum die Not und lange Zeit=--Man can make himself master over much, hardly can necessity and length of time subdue his spirit. _Goethe._

=Überall bin ich zu Hause, / Überall bin ich bekannt=--Everywhere am I at home, everywhere am I known. _F. Hückstädt._

=Übereilung thut nicht gut; / Bedachtsamkeit= 20 =macht alle Dinge besser=--Precipitation spoils everything; consideration improves everything. _Schiller._

=Uberibus semper lacrymis, semperque paratis / In statione sua, atque expectantibus illam / Quo jubeat manare modo=--With tears always in abundance, and always ready at their station, and awaiting her signal to flow as she bids them. _Juv., of a pettish woman._

=Uberrima fides=--The fullest confidence; implicit faith.

=Überzeugung soll mir niemand rauben / Wer's besser weiss, der mag es glauben=--No one shall deprive me of this conviction that a man's faith in a thing is not weaker, but stronger, the better he knows it. _Goethe._

=Ubi amici, ibi opes=--Where there are friends there is wealth. _Plaut._

=Ubi amor condimentum inerit cuivis placiturum= 25 =credo=--Where love enters to season a dish, I believe it will please any one. _Plaut._

=Ubi bene, ibi patria=--Where it is well with me, there is my country. _Pr._

=Ubi dolor, ibi digitus=--Where the pain is, there the finger will be. _Pr._

=Ubi homines sunt modi sunt=--Where men are there are manners.

=Ubi idem et maximus et honestissimus amor est, aliquando præstat morte jungi quam vita distrahi=--Where there exists the greatest and most honourable love, it is sometimes better to be joined in death than separated in life. _Valerius Maximus._

=Ubi jus, ibi remedium=--Where there is a right 30 there is a remedy. _L._

=Ubi jus incertum, ibi jus nullum=--Where the law is uncertain there is no law. _L._

=Ubi lapsus? Quid feci?=--Where have I made slip? What have I done? _M._

=Ubi major pars est, ibi est totum=--Where the greater part is, there the whole is. _L._

=Ubi mel, ibi apes=--Where there is honey to be found, there will be bees. _Plaut._

=Ubi sæva indignatio cor ulterius lacerare= 35 =nequit=--Where bitter indignation cannot lacerate my heart any more. _Swift's epitaph._

=Ubi summus imperator non adest ad exercitum, / Citius quod non facto 'st usus fit, quam quod facto 'st opus=--When the commander-in-chief is not with the army, that is sooner done which need not to be done than that which requires to be done. _Plaut._

=Ubi supra=--Where above mentioned.

=Ubi timor adest, sapientia adesse nequit=--Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be. _Lactantius._

=Ubi uber, ibi tuber=--There are no roses without thorns. _Pr._

=Ubicunque ars ostentatur, veritas abesse videtur=--Wherever 40 there is a display of art, truth seems to us to be wanting.

=Ubique=--Everywhere. _M._

=Ubique patriam reminisci=--I remember my country everywhere. _M._

=Übung macht den Meister=--Practice makes perfect (_lit._ the master). _Ger. Pr._

=Ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. If I were a grave-digger, or even a hangman, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.= _Douglas Jerrold._

=Ulcus tangere=--To touch a sore. _Ter._ 45

=Ulterius ne tende odiis=--Press no further with your hate. _Virg._

=Ultima ratio regum=--The last argument of kings. _Inscription on cannon._

=Ultima semper / Expectanda dies homini, dicique beatus / Ante obitum nemo supremaque funera debet=--The last day must always be awaited by man, and no man should be pronounced happy before his death and his final obsequies. _Ovid._

=Ultima Thule=--Remotest Thule. _Virg._

=Ultimatum=--A final proposition or condition.

=Ultimum moriens=--The last to die or disappear. 5

=Ultimus Romanorum=--The last of the Romans.

=Ultra posse nemo obligatur=--Nobody can be bound to do beyond what he is able to do. _L._

=Ultra vires=--Beyond the powers or rights possessed.

=Um das Leben zu erkennen, muss man sich vom Leben absondern=--To know life, a man must separate himself from life. _Feuerbach._

=Um einen Mann zu schätzen, muss man ihn /= 10 =Zu prüfen wissen=--In order to estimate a man, one must know how to test him. _Goethe._

=Um Gut's zu thun, braucht's keiner Ueberlegung; / Der Zweifel ist's, der Gutes böse macht, / Bedenke nicht! gewähre wie du's fühlst=--To do good needs no consideration; it is doubt that makes good evil. Don't reflect; do good as you feel. _Goethe._

=Un ángulo me basta entre mis lares, / Un libro y un amigo, un sueño breve, / Que no perturben deudas ni pesares=--Enough for me a nook by a hearth of my own, a good book, a friend, a short sleep, unburdened by debt and sorrow. _Rioja._

=Un bienfait reproché tint toujours lieu d'offense=--To reproach a man with your kindness to him is tantamount to an affront. _Racine._

=Un bon ami vaut mieux que cent parents=--A good friend is worth more than a hundred relations. _Fr. Pr._

=Un bon ouvrier n'est jamais trop chèrement= 15 =payé=--The wages of a good workman are never too high. _Fr. Pr._

=Un clou chasse l'autre=--One nail drives out another. _Fr. Pr._

=Un corps débile affaiblit l'âme=--A feeble body weakens the mind. _Rousseau._

=Un des plus grands malheurs des honnêtes gens c'est qu'ils sont de lâches=--One of the greatest misfortunes of worthy people is that they are cowards. _Voltaire._

=Un Dieu, un roy=--One God, one king. _M._

=Un dîner réchauffé ne valut jamais rien=--A 20 dinner warmed up again was never worth anything. _Boileau._

=Un enfant en ouvrant les yeux doit voir la patrie, et jusqu'à la mort ne voir qu'elle=--A child, on first opening his eyes, ought to see his country, and till death through life see only it. _Fr._

=Un fat quelquefois ouvre un avis important=--A simpleton often suggests a significant bit of advice. _Boileau._

=Un fou avise bien un sage=--A wise man may learn of a fool. _Fr. Pr._

=Un frère est un ami donné par la nature=--A brother is a friend provided by nature. _Legouvé père._

=Un gentilhomme qui vit mal est un monstre= 25 =dans la nature=--A nobleman who leads a degraded life is a monster in nature. _Molière._

=Un homme d'esprit seroit souvent bien embarrassé sans la compagnie des sots=--A man of wit would often be much embarrassed if it were not for the company of fools. _La Roche._

=Un homme toujours satisfait de lui-même, peu souvent l'est des autres; rarement on l'est de lui=--A man who is always well satisfied with himself seldom is so with others, and others rarely are with him. _La Roche._