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=Wise, cultivated, genial conversation is the best flower of civilisation, and the best result which life has to offer us--a cup for gods, which has no repentance. Conversation is our account of ourselves. All we have, all we can, all we know is brought into play, and as the reproduction, in finer form, of all our havings.= _Emerson._

=Wise is the man prepared for either end, / Who in due measure can both spare and spend.= _Lucian._

=Wise kings have generally wise councillors, as he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.= _Diogenes._

=Wise men are instructed by reason; men of less understanding, by experience; the most ignorant, by necessity; and beasts, by nature.= _Cic._

=Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will= 35 =speak five times from their taste or their humour to one from their reason.= _Emerson._

=Wise men are wise but not prudent, in that they know nothing of what is for their own advantage, but know surpassing things, marvellous things, difficult things, and divine things.= _Ruskin._

=Wise men argue causes, and fools decide them.= _Anacharsis._

=Wise men, for the most part, are silent at present, and good men powerless; the senseless vociferate, and the heartless govern; while all social law and providence are dissolved by the enraged agitation of a multitude, among whom every villain has a chance of power, every simpleton of praise, and every scoundrel of fortune.= _Ruskin._

=Wise men mingle mirth with their cares, as a help either to forget or overcome them; but to resort to intoxication for the ease of one's mind is to cure melancholy by madness.= _Charron._

=Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, / But= 40 =cheerly seek how to redress their harms.= 3 _Hen. VI._, v. 4.

=Wise men say nothing in dangerous times.= _Selden._

=Wise sayings are as saltpits; you may extract salt out of them, and sprinkle it where you will.= _Cic._

=Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are pierced and discovered.= _Bacon._

=Wise sayings are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.= _John Morley._

=Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.= _Pope._ 45

=Wise, well-calculated breeding of a young soul lies fatally over the horizon in these epochs.= _Carlyle._

=Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.= _Rom. and Jul._, ii. 3.

=Wishing, of all employments, is the worst.= _Young._

=Wissen ist leichter als thun=--To know is easier than to do. _Ger. Pr._

=Wit and judgment often are at strife, / Though= 50 =meant each other's aid, like man and wife.= _Pope._

=Wit and understanding are trifles without integrity.= _Goldsmith._

=Wit and wisdom are born with a man.= _Selden._

=Wit, bright, rapid, and blasting as the lightning, flashes, strikes, and vanishes in an instant; humour, warm and all-embracing as the sunshine, bathes its object in a genial and abiding light.= _Whipple._

=Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.= _Montaigne._

=Wit is a pernicious thing when it is not tempered= 5 =with virtue and humanity.= _Addison._

=Wit is brushwood, judgment timber; the one gives the greatest flame, the other yields the durablest heat; and both meeting make the best fire.= _Sir Thomas Overbury._

=Wit is of the true Pierian spring, that can make anything of anything.= _Chapman._

=Wit marries ideas lying wide apart, by a sudden jerk of the understanding.= _Whipple._

=Wit once bought is worth twice taught.= _Pr._

=Wit strews a single ray= (of the prism) =separated= 10 =from the rest upon an object; never white light, that is the province of wisdom.= _Holmes._

=Wit, when neglected by the great, is generally despised by the vulgar.= _Goldsmith._

=Wit without employment is a disease.= _Burton._

=Wit without wisdom is salt without meat.= _Horne._

=Wit-work is always play, when it is good.= _Ruskin._

=Wit's an unruly engine, wildly striking / Sometimes= 15 =a friend, sometimes the engineer: / Hast thou the knack? pamper it not with liking; / But if thou want it, buy it not too dear.= _George Herbert._

=Witchcraft has been put a stop to by Act of Parliament, but the mysterious relations which it emblemed still continue.= _Carlyle._

=With all appliances and means to boot.= 2 _Hen. IV._, iii. 1.

=With bag and baggage.= _As You Like It_, iii. 2.

=With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, / Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb.= _Milton._

=With consistency a great soul has simply= 20 =nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall.= _Emerson._

=With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, / Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.= _Churchill._

=With devotion's visage / And pious action we do sugar over / The devil himself.= _Ham._, iii. 1.

=With disadvantages enough to call him down to humility, a Scotchman is one of the proudest things alive.= _Goldsmith._

=With every anguish of our earthly part the spirit's sight grows clearer; this was meant when Jesus touched the blind man's lids with clay.= _Lowell._

=With every breath we draw, an ethereal= 25 =stream of Lethe runs through our whole being, so that we have but a partial recollection of our joys, and scarcely any of our sorrows.= _Goethe._

=With faith, martyrs, otherwise weak, can cheerfully endure the shame and the cross: and without it worldlings puke up their sick existence, by suicide, in the midst of luxury.= _Carlyle._

=With fingers weary and worn, / With eyelids heavy and red, / A woman sat in unwomanly rags, / Plying her needle and thread--/ Stitch! stitch! stitch!= _Hood._

="With it, or upon it, my son."= _A Spartan mother, when she handed her son his shield as he set out to fight for his country._

=With just enough of learning to misquote.= _Byron._

=With love come life and hope.= _John Sterling._ 30

=With malice towards none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.= _John Quincy Adams._

=With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.= _Mer. of Ven._, i. 1.

=With moral, political, religious considerations, high and dear as they may otherwise be, the philosopher, as such, has no concern.= _Carlyle._

=With much we surfeit; plenty makes us poor.= _Drayton._

=With narrow-minded persons, and those in a= 35 =state of mental darkness, we find conceit: while with mental clearness and high endowments we never find it. In such cases there is generally a joyful feeling of strength, but since this strength is actual, the feeling is anything else you please, only not conceit.= _Goethe._

=With none who bless us, none whom we can bless--/ This is to be alone; this, this is solitude!= _Byron._

=With necessity, the tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds.= _Milton._

=With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.= _Sir T. F. Buxton._

=With parsimony a little is sufficient, and without it nothing is sufficient, whereas frugality makes a poor man rich.= _Sen._

=With patient mind thy path of duty run; /= 40 =God nothing does, nor suffers to be done, / But thou thyself wouldst do, if thou couldst see / The end of all events as well as he.= (?)

=With poetry, as with going to sea, we should push from the shore and reach a certain elevation before we unfurl all our sails.= _Goethe._

=With poetry second-rate in quality, no one ought to be allowed to trouble mankind.= _Ruskin._

=With remembrance of the greater grief to banish the less.= _Howard, Earl of Surrey._

=With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have ever lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor.= _Thoreau._

=With some life is exactly like a sleigh-drive,= 45 =showy and tinkling, but affording just as little for the heart as it offers much to eyes and ears.= _Goethe._

=With stupidity and sound digestion man may front much; but what in these dull, unimaginative days are the terrors of conscience to the diseases of the liver!= _Carlyle._

=With temperance, health, cheerfulness, friends, a chosen task, one pays the cheapest fees for living, and may well dispense with other physicians.= _A. B. Alcott._

=With the dead there is no rivalry. In the dead there is no change. Plato is never sullen. Cervantes is never petulant. Demosthenes never comes unseasonably. Dante never stays too long.= _Macaulay._

=With the Gospels one becomes a heretic.= _It. Pr._

=With the majority of men unbelief in one thing is founded on blind belief in another thing.= _Lichtenberg._

=With the possession or certain expectation of= 5 =good things our demand rises, and increases our capacity for further possession and larger expectations.= _Schopenhauer._

=With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy. Round it all the Muses sing.= _Emerson._

=With too much quickness ever to be taught; / With too much thinking to have common thought.= _Pope._

=With virtue, capacity, and good conduct, one still can be insupportable. The manners, which are neglected as small things, are often those which decide men for or against you. A slight attention to them would have prevented their ill judgments.= _La Bruyère._

=With well-doing ye may put to silence foolish men.= _St. Peter._

=With what a heavy and retarding weight does= 10 =expectation load the wing of time.= _William Mason._

=With what is debateable I am unconcerned; and when I have only opinions about things ... I do not talk about them. I attack only what cannot on any possible ground be defended; and state only what I know to be incontrovertibly true.= _Ruskin._

=With women worth the being won, / The softest lover ever best succeeds.= _Aaron Hill._

=Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour's house; lest he be weary of thee, and so hate thee.= _Bible._

=Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.= _Bible._

=Within man is the soul of the whole; the= 15 =wise silence, the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related--the Eternal One.= _Emerson._

=Within that awful volume lies / The mystery of mysteries.= _Scott._

=Within the hollow crown / That rounds the mortal temples of a king, / Keeps Death his court.= _Rich. II._, iii. 2.

=Within the most starched cravat there passes a windpipe and weasand, and under the thickliest embroidered waistcoat beats a heart.= _Carlyle._

=Within us all a universe doth dwell.= _Goethe._

=Within yourselves deliverance must be= 20 sought; / =Each man his prison makes.= _Sir Edwin Arnold._

=Without a belief in personal immortality religion surely is like an arch resting on one pillar, like a bridge ending in an abyss.= _Max Müller._

=Without a God there is for man neither purpose, nor goal, nor hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.= _Jean Paul._

=Without a rich heart wealth is an ugly beggar.= _Emerson._

=Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, / And asks no omen but his country's cause.= _Pope._

=Without adversity a man hardly knows= 25 =whether he is honest or not.= _Fielding._

=Without affecting stoicism, it may be said that it is our business to exempt ourselves as much as we can from the power of external things.= _Johnson._

=Without cheerfulness no man can be a poet.= _Emerson._

=Without discretion learning is pedantry and wit impertinence; virtue itself looks like weakness. The best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice.= _Addison._

=Without earnestness there is nothing to be done in life; yet among the people we name cultivated, little earnestness is to be found.= _Goethe._

=Without economy none can be rich, and with= 30 =it few can be poor.= _Johnson._

=Without enjoyment, the wealth of the miser is the same to him as if it were another's. But when it is said of a man "he hath so much," it is with difficulty he can be induced to part with it.= _Hitopadesa._

=Without eyes thou shalt want light: profess not the knowledge therefore that thou hast not.= _Ecclus._

=Without friends no one would choose to live, even if he had all other good things.= _Arist._

=Without God in the world.= _St. Paul._

=Without great men, great crowds of people in= 35 =a nation are disgusting; like moving cheese, like hills of ants or of fleas--the more, the worse.= _Emerson._

=Without great men nothing can be done.= _Renan._

=Without justice society is sick, and will continue sick till it dies.= _Froude._

=Without me ye can do nothing.= _Jesus to his disciples._

=Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility.= _Amiel._

=Without passion there is no geniality.= _Mommsen._ 40

=Without philosophy we should be little above the lower animals.= _Voltaire._

=Without poetry our science will appear incomplete, and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry.= _Matthew Arnold._

=Without real masters you cannot have servants.= _Carlyle._

=Without some strong motive to the contrary, men united by the pursuit of a clearly defined common aim of irresistible attractiveness naturally coalesce; and since they coalesce naturally, they are clearly right in coalescing and find their advantage in it.= _Matthew Arnold._

=Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact= 45 =teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always inquiring never learn anything.= _I. Disraeli._

=Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.= _Joubert._

=Without the way there is no going; without the truth, no knowing; without the life, no living.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=Without were fightings, within were fears.= _St. Paul._

=Without wonder there is no faith.= _Jean Paul._

=Witticisms please as long as we keep them= 5 =within bounds, but pushed to excess they cause offence.= _Phædr._

=Witty, above all, O be not witty; none of us is bound to be witty, under penalties; to be wise and true we all are, under the terriblest penalties.= _Carlyle._

=Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.= _Bacon._

=Wo der Teufel nicht hin mag; da send er seinen Boten hin=--Where the devil cannot come, he will send his messenger. _Ger. Pr._

=Wo fasse ich dich, unendliche Natur?=--Where can I grasp thee, infinite Nature? _Goethe._

=Wo grosse Höh', ist grosse Tiefe=--Where there 10 is great height there is great depth. _Schiller._

=Wo innen Sklaverei ist, wird sie von aussen bald kommen=--Where there is slavery in the heart, it will soon show itself in the outward conduct. _Seume._

=Wo man singet, lass dich ruhig nieder, / Ohne Furcht, was man am Lande glaubt; / Wo man singet wird kein Mensch beraubt; / Bösewichter haben keine Lieder=--Where people sing, there quietly settle, never fearing what may be the belief of the people of the land. Where people sing, nobody will be robbed. Bad people have no songs. _Seume._

=Wo viel Freiheit, ist viel Irrthum=--Where there is much freedom there is much error. _Schiller._

=Wo viel Licht ist, ist starker Schatten=--The shadow is deeper where the light is strong. _Goethe._

=Wo viel zu wagen ist, ist viel zu wägen=--Where 15 there is much to risk, there is much to consider. _Platen._

=Woe does the heavier sit / Where it perceives it is but faintly borne.= _Rich. II._, i. 3.

=Woe, that too late repents.= _King Lear_, i. 4.

=Woe to every sort of culture which destroys the most effectual means of all true culture, and directs us to the end, instead of rendering us happy on the way.= _Goethe._

=Woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.= _Bible._

=Woe to that land that's govern'd by a child.= 20 _Rich. III._, ii. 3.

=Woe unto him that is never alone, and cannot bear to be alone.= _Hamerton._

=Woe unto you when all men speak well of you.= _Jesus._

=Woe, woe to youth, to life, which idly boasts, / I am the End, and mine the appointed Way.= _Lewis Morris._

=Wohl unglückselig ist der Mann, / Der unterlässt das, was er kann, / Und unterfängt sich, was er nicht versteht; / Kein Wunder, dass er zu Grunde geht=--Unhappy indeed is the man who leaves off doing what he can do, and undertakes to do what he does not understand; no wonder he comes to no good. _Goethe._

=Wohlgethan überlebt den Tod=--Well-done outlives 25 death. _Ger. Pr._

=Wohlthätigheit kennt keinen Unterschied der Nation=--Charity knows no distinction of nation. _Count Moltke._

=Wollt ihr auf Menschen wirken, / Müsst ihr erst Menschen werden=--Would you have an influence over men, you must first become men. _Sallet._

=Wollt ihr immer leben?=--Would you live for ever? _Frederick the Great to his guards, on their complaining of what they thought exposure to unnecessary danger._

=Wolves in sheep's clothing.= _Jesus, of false prophets._

=Woman alone knows true loyalty of affection.= 30 _Schiller._

=Woman, divorced from home, wanders unfriended like a waif upon the wave.= _Goethe._

=Woman endeavours to breed her daughter a fine lady, qualifying her for a station in which she will never appear, and at the same time incapacitating her for that retirement to which she is destined.= _Lady Montagu._

=Woman, in accordance with her unbroken, clear-seeing nature, loses herself, and what she has of heart and happiness, in the object she loves.= _Jean Paul._

=Woman is at once the delight and the terror of man.= _Amiel._

=Woman is like the reed which bends to every= 35 =breeze, but breaks not in the tempest.= _Whately._

=Woman is mistress of the art of completely embittering the life of the person on whom she depends.= _Goethe._

=Woman is not undevelopt man, / But diverse; could we make her as the man, / Sweet love were slain: his dearest bond is this / Not like to like, but like in difference.= _Tennyson._

=Woman is seldom merciful to the man who is timid.= _Bulwer Lytton._

=Woman is the blood-royal of life; let there be slight degrees of precedency among them, but let them be all sacred.= _Burns._

=Woman is the lesser man.= _Tennyson._ 40

=Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family.= _Amiel._

=Woman is too soft to hate permanently; even if a hundred men have been a grief to her, she will still love the hundred and first.= _G. Kinkel._

=Woman, last at the cross and earliest at the grave.= _E. S. Barret._

=Woman, once made equal to man, becometh his superior.= _Soc._

=Woman sees deep; man sees far. To the man= 45 =the world is his heart; to the woman the heart is her world.= _Grabbe._

=Woman's at best a contradiction still.= _Pope._

=Woman's cause is man's; they rise or sink / Together, dwarfed or godlike, bond or free.= _Tennyson._

=Woman's counsel is not worth much, yet he that despises it is no wiser than he should be.= _Cervantes._

=Woman's dignity lies in her being unknown; her glory, in the esteem of her husband; and her pleasure, in the welfare of her family.= _Rousseau._

=Woman's fear and love hold quantity; / In neither aught, or in extremity.= _Ham._, iii. 2.

=Woman's function is a guiding, not a determining one.= _Ruskin._

=Woman's grief is like a summer storm, short as it is violent.= _Joanna Baillie._

=Woman's heart is just like a lithographer's stone--what is once written upon it cannot be rubbed out.= _Thackeray._

=Woman's love, like lichens upon a rock, will= 5 =still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.= _Bovee._

=Woman's power is for rule, not for battle; and her intellect is not for invention or creation, but for sweet ordering, arrangement, and decision.= _Ruskin._

=Woman's power is over the affections. A beautiful dominion is hers, but she risks its forfeiture when she seeks to extend it.= _Bovee._

=Woman's tongue is her sword, which she never lets rust.= _Mme. Necker._

=Woman's virtue is the music of stringed instruments, which sound best in a room; but man's that of wind instruments, which sound best in the open air.= _Jean Paul._

=Woman's work, grave sirs, is never done.= 10 _Eusden._

=Women always show more taste in adorning others than themselves; and the reason is, that their persons are like their hearts--they read another's better than they can their own.= _Jean Paul._

=Women and clergymen have so long been in the habit of using pretty words without troubling themselves to understand them, that they now revolt from the effort, as if it were impiety.= _Ruskin._

=Women and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are endangered.= _Jean Paul._

=Women are as roses, whose fair flower / Being once display'd, doth fall that very hour.= _Twelfth Night_, ii. 4.

=Women are born worshippers.= _Carlyle._ 15

=Women are confined within the narrow limits of domestic assiduity, and when they stray beyond them they move beyond their sphere, and consequently without grace.= _Goldsmith._

=Women are ever in extremes; they are either better or worse than men.= _La Bruyère._

=Women are like limpets, they need something to hold on by.= _Sigma._

=Women are the poetry of the world, in the same sense as the stars are the poetry of heaven. Clear, light-giving, harmonious, they are the terrestrial planets that rule the destinies of mankind.= _Hargrave._

=Women bestow on friendship only what they= 20 =borrow from love.= _Chamfort._

=Women cannot see so far as men can, but what they do see they see quicker.= _Buckle._

=Women exceed the generality of men in love.= _La Bruyère._

=Women famed for their valour, their skill in politics or their learning, leave the duties of their own sex in order to invade the privileges of men's.= _Goldsmith._

=Women forgive injuries, but never forget slights.= _T. C. Haliburton._

=Women have a kind of sturdy sufferance= 25 =which qualifies them to endure beyond, much beyond, the common run of men, but ... they are by no means famous for seeing remote consequences in all their real importance.= _Burns._

=Women, it has been observed, are not naturally formed for great cares themselves, but to soften ours.= _Goldsmith._

=Women judge women hardly; ... they have no shading, / No softening tints, no generous allowance / For circumstance to make the picture human, / And true because so human.= _Dr. Walter Smith._

=Women know by nature how to disguise their emotions far better than the most consummate male courtiers can do.= _Thackeray._

=Women, like princes, find few real friends.= _Lord Lyttleton._

=Women, like the plants in woods, derive their= 30 =softness and tenderness from the shade.= _Landor._

=Women may fall when there's no strength in men.= _Rom. and Jul._, ii. 3.

=Women, priests, and poultry have never enough.= _Pr._

=Women should learn betimes to serve according to station, for by serving alone she at last attains to the mastery, to the due influence which she ought to possess in the household.= _Goethe._

=Women that are the least bashful are not unfrequently the most modest; and we are never more deceived than when we would infer any laxity of principle from that freedom of demeanour which often arises from a total ignorance of vice.= _Colton._

=Women, though they have the warmest hearts,= 35 =are no citizens of the world, scarcely citizens of a town or a village, but only of their own home.= _Jean Paul._

=Women who have lost their faith / Are angels who have lost their wings.= _Dr. Walter Smith._

=Women wish to be loved, not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.= _Amiel._

=Women's hearts are made of stout leather; there's a plaguy sight of wear in them.= _Judge Haliburton._

=Women's jars breed men's wars.= _Pr._

=Women's rage, like shallow water, / Does= 40 =but show their hurtless nature; / When the stream seems rough and frowning, / There is still least fear of drowning.= _Durfey._

=Women's sins are not alone the ills they do, / But those that they provoke you to.= _Dr. Walter Smith._

=Wonder is from surprise, and surprise ceases upon experience.= _South._

=Wonder on till truth make all things plain.= _Mid. N.'s Dream._

="Wonder," says Aristotle, "is the first cause of philosophy." This is quite as true in the progress of the individual as in that of the concrete mind; and the constant aim of philosophy is to destroy its parent.= _Bulwer Lytton._

=Wondrous indeed is the virtue of a true book. Not like a dead city of stones, yearly crumbling, yearly needing repair; more like a tilled field, but then a spiritual field; like a spiritual tree, let me rather say, it stands from year to year, and from age to age (we have books that already number some one hundred and fifty human ages); and yearly comes its new produce of leaves (commentaries, deductions, philosophical, political systems, or were it only sermons, pamphlets, journalistic essays), every one of which is talismanic and thaumaturgic, for it can persuade men.= _Carlyle._

=Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance.= _Carlyle._

=Woodman, spare that tree! / Touch not a single bough! / In youth it sheltered me, / And I'll protect it now.= _G. P. Morris._

=Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.= _Emerson._

=Words are but poor interpreters in the realms= 5 =of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realises; and hence the secret of its strange, ineffable power.= _H. R. Haweis._

=Words are but wind, but seein's believin'.= _Sc. Pr._

=Words are fools' pence.= _Pr._

=Words are good, but they are not the best. The best is not to be explained by words.= _Goethe._

=Words are like leaves, and when they most abound / Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.= _Pope._

=Words are like sea-shells on the shore; they= 10 =show / Where the mind ends, and not how far it has been.= _Bailey._

=Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.= _Izaak Walton._

=Words are rather the drowsy part of poetry; imagination the life of it.= _Owen Feltham._

=Words are the motes of thought, and nothing more.= _Bailey._

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

=Words are wise men's counters, but they are= 15 =the money of fools.= _Hobbes._

=Words are women, deeds are men.= _George Herbert._

=Words become luminous when the finger of the poet touches them with his phosphorus.= _Joubert._

=Words do sometimes fly from the tongue that the heart did neither hatch nor harbour.= _Feltham._

=Words, like Nature, half reveal / And half conceal the soul within.= _Tennyson._

=Words may be counterfeit, false coined, and= 20 =current only from the tongue, without the mind; but passion is in the soul, and always speaks the heart.= _Southern._

=Words of love are works of love.= _W. R. Alger._

=Words pay no debts.= _Troil. and Cress._, iii. 2.

=Words that are now dead were once alive.= _A. Coles._

=Words, "those fickle daughters of the earth," are the creation of a being that is finite, and when applied to explain that which is infinite, they fail; for that which is made surpasses not the maker; nor can that which is immeasurable by our thoughts be measured by our tongues.= _Colton._

=Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath= 25 =give.= _Macb._, ii. 1.

=Words which flow fresh and warm from a full heart, and which are instinct with the life and breath of human feeling, pass into household memories, and partake of the immortality of the affections from which they spring.= _Whipple._

=Words without thoughts never to heaven go.= _Ham._, iii. 3.

=Work, according to my feeling, is as much of a necessity to man as eating and sleeping. Even those who do nothing which to a sensible man can be called work, still imagine that they are doing something. The world possesses not a man who is an idler in his own eyes.= _W. v. Humboldt._

=Work alone is noble.= _Carlyle._

="Work and wait," "Work and wait," is what= 30 =God says to us in creation and in providence.= _J. G. Holland._

=Work earnestly at anything, you will by degrees learn to work at almost all things.= _Carlyle._

=Work first, you are God's servants; fee first, you are the fiend's.= _Ruskin._

=Work for eternity: not the meagre rhetorical eternity of the periodical critics, but for the real eternity, wherein dwelleth the Divine.= _Carlyle._

=Work for immortality if you will: then wait for it.= _J. G. Holland._

=Work for some good, be it ever so slowly; /= 35 =Cherish some flower, be it ever so lowly; / Labour! all labour is noble and holy: / Let thy great deeds be thy prayer to thy God.= _Francis S. Osgood._

=Work, go, fall, rise, speak, be silent! In this manner do the rich sport with those needy men, who are held by the grip of dependence.= _Hitopadesa._

=Work is for the living.= _Carlyle._

=Work is not man's punishment; it is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.= _George Sand._

=Work is of a religious nature,--work is of a brave nature, which it is the aim of all religion to be. "All work of man is as the swimmer's." A waste ocean threatens to devour him; if he front it not bravely, it will keep its word. By incessant wise defiance of it, lusty rebuke and buffet of it, behold how it loyally supports him,--bears him as its conqueror along! "It is so," says Goethe, "with all things that man undertakes in this world."= _Carlyle._

=Work is only done well when it is done with= 40 =a will.= _Ruskin._

=Work is our business; its success is God's.= _Ger. Pr._

=Work is the cure for all the maladies and miseries of man--honest work, which you intend getting done.= _Carlyle._

=Work is the inevitable condition of human life, the true source of human welfare.= _Tolstoi._

=Work is the mission of man on this planet.= _Carlyle._

=Work is the only universal currency which God accepts. A nation's welfare will depend on its ability to master the world; that, on power of work; that, on its power of thought.= _Theodore Parker._

=Work, properly so called, is an appeal from the Seen to the Unseen--a devout calling upon Higher Powers; and unless they stand by us, it will not be a work, but a quackery.= _Carlyle._

=Work till the last beam fadeth, / Fadeth to shine no more; / Work while the night is darkening, / When man's work is o'er.= _Walker._

=Work touches the keys of endless activity,= 5 =opens the infinite, and stands awe-struck before the immensity of what there is to do.= _Phillips Brooks._

=Work was made for man, and not man for work.= _J. G. Holland._

=Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, / And hope without an object cannot live.= _Coleridge._

=Work, work, work, / Till the brain begins to swim; / Work, work, work, / Till the eyes are heavy and dim; / Seam, and gusset, and band, / Band, and gusset, and seam, / Till over the buttons I fall asleep, / And sew them on in a dream.= _Hood._

=Works of true merit are seldom very popular in their own day; for knowledge is on the march, and men of genius are the "præstolatores" or "videttes," that are far in advance of their comrades. They are not with them, but before them; not in the camp, but beyond it.= _Colton._

=Worldly affairs, which my friends thought so= 10 =heavy upon me, they are most of them of our own making, and fall away as soon as we know ourselves.= _Law._

=Worldly riches are like nuts; many clothes are torn in getting them, many a tooth broke in cracking them, but never a belly filled with eating them.= _R. Venning._

=Worse than being fool'd / Of others, is to fool one's self.= _Tennyson._

=Worse than despair, / Worse than the bitterness of death, is hope; / It is the only ill which can find place / Upon the giddy, sharp, and narrow hour / Tottering beneath us.= _Shelley._

=Worship is transcendent wonder; wonder for which there is no limit or measure.= _Carlyle._

=Worship that is false will kill the soul as= 15 =quickly as no worship.= _Saying._

=Worship your heroes from afar; contact withers them.= _Mme. Necker._

=Worte sind der Seele Bild=--Words are the soul's magic. _Goethe._

=Worte sind gut, wenn Werke folgen=--Words are good if works follow. _Ger. Pr._

=Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; / The rest is all but leather or prunello.= _Pope._

=Worth many thousand is the first salute; /= 20 =Him that salutes thee, therefore, friendly greet.= _Goethe._

=Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.= _Socrates._

=Would they could sell us experience, though at diamond prices, but then no one would use the article second-hand!= _Balzac._

=Would we but pledge ourselves to truth as heartily as we do to a real or imaginary mistress, and think life too short only because it abridges our time of service, what a new world we should have!= _Lowell._

=Would we but quit ourselves like men, and resolutely stand our ground, we should not fail of succours from above.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=Would Wisdom for herself be wooed, / And= 25 =wake the foolish from his dream, / She must be glad as well as good, / And must not only be, but seem.= _Coventry Patmore._

=Would you have men think well of you, then do not speak well of yourself.= _Pascal._

=Wouldst thou a maiden make thy prize, / Thyself alone the bribe must be.= _Goethe._

=Wouldst thou both eat thy cake and have it?= _George Herbert._

=Wouldst thou know thyself, then see how others act; wouldst thou understand others, look thou into thine own heart.= _Schiller._

=Wouldst thou plant for eternity? then plant= 30 =into the deep infinite faculties of man, his fantasy and heart. Wouldst thou plant for year and day? then plant into his shallow superficial faculties, his self-love and arithmetical understanding, what will grow there.= _Carlyle._

="Wouldst thou," so the helmsman answered, / "Learn the secret of the sea? / Only those who brave its dangers / Comprehend its mystery!"= _Longfellow._

=Wouldst thou subject all things to thyself? Subject thyself to reason.= _Seneca._

=Wouldst thou the life of souls discern? / Nor human wisdom nor divine / Helps thee by aught beside to learn; / Love is life's only sign.= _Keble._

=Wouldst thou travel the path of truth and goodness? Never deceive either thyself or others.= _Goethe._

=Wounds and hardships provoke our courage,= 35 =and when our fortunes are at the lowest, our wits and minds are commonly at the best.= _Charron._

=Wounds cannot be cured without searching.= _Bacon._

=Wrap thyself up like a woodlouse, and dream revenge.= _Congreve._

=Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.= _Pr._

=Write how you will, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.= _Goldsmith._

=Write, so much given to God; thou shalt be= 40 =heard.= _George Herbert._

=Write thy wrongs in ashes.= _Sir T. Browne._

=Writers of novels and romances in general bring a double loss on their readers--they rob them both of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, nor are likely to be; either confounding or perverting history and truth, inflating the mind, or committing violence upon the understanding.= _Mary Wortley Montagu._

=Writing is not literature unless it gives to the reader a pleasure which arises not only from the things said, but from the way in which they are said; and that pleasure is only given when the words are carefully or curiously or beautifully put together into sentences.= _Stopford Brooke._

=Written all of it= (Christianity) =in us already in sympathetic ink. Bible awakens it, and you can read.= _Dr. Chalmers to Carlyle in conversation._

=Wrong is not only different from right, but it is in strict scientific terms infinitely different.= _Carlyle._

=Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it for ever. It implies a discovery of weaknesses, which we are much more careful to conceal than crimes. Many a man will confess his crimes to a common friend, but I never knew a man who would tell his silly weaknesses to his most intimate one.= _Chesterfield._

=Würf er einen Groschen auf's Dach, fiel ihm= 5 =ein Thaler herunter=--If he threw a penny up, a dollar came down. _Ger. Pr._

Y.

=Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.= _Jesus to his disciples._

=Ye are the light of the world.= _Jesus to his disciples._

=Ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.= _Job._

=Ye are the salt of the earth.= _Jesus to his disciples._

=Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat and= 10 =swallow a camel.= _Jesus._

=Ye cannot serve God and mammon.= _Jesus._

=Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take; / The clouds ye so much dread / Are big with mercy, and shall break / In blessings on your head.= _Cowper._

=Ye gentlemen of England / That live at home at ease, / Ah! little do you think upon / The dangers of the seas.= _Martyn Parker._

=Ye gods, it doth amaze me / A man of such a feeble temper should / So get the start of the majestic world / And bear the palm alone.= _Jul. Cæs._, i. 2.

=Ye good yeomen, whose limbs were made in= 15 =England.= _Hen. V._, iii. 1.

=Ye hae a stalk o' carl-hemp in you.= _Sc. Pr._

=Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you.= _Jesus to his disciples._

=Ye mariners of England, / That guard our native seas, / Whose flag has braved a thousand years / The battle and the breeze.= _Campbell._

=Ye may darken over the blue heavens, ye vapoury masses in the sky. It matters not! Beyond the howling of that wrath, beyond the blackness of those clouds, there shines, unaltered and serene, the moon that shone in Paradise.... The moon that promises a paradise restored.= _Mrs. Gatty._

=Ye men of gloom and austerity, who paint the= 20 =face of Infinite Benevolence with an eternal frown, read in the everlasting book, wide open to your view, the lesson it would teach. Its pictures are not in black and sombre hues, but bright and glowing tints; its music--save when ye drown it--is not in sighs and groans, but songs and cheerful sounds. Listen to the million voices in the summer air, and find one dismal as your own.= _Dickens._

=Ye shall know them by their fruits.= _Jesus._

=Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!... In our aspirations to be great, / Our destinies o'erleap their mortal state, / And claim a kindred with you; for ye are / A beauty and a mystery, and create / In us such love and reverence from afar, / That fortune, fame, power, life, have named themselves a star.= _Byron._

=Ye think the rustic cackle of your bourg / The murmur of the world.= _Tennyson._

=Ye'll find mankind an unco squad, / And muckle they may grieve ye.= _Burns._

=Yea, let all good things await / Him who cares= 25 =not to be great, / But as he saves or serves the state.= _Tennyson._

=Yea, surely the sea like a harper laid hand on the shore as a lyre.= _Swinburne._

=Year chases year, decay pursues decay, / Still drops some joy from withering life away.= _Johnson._

=Years do not make sages; they only make old men.= _Mme. Swetchine._

=Years following years steal something every day; / At last they steal us from ourselves away.= _Pope._

=Years steal / Fire from the mind as vigour= 30 =from the limb, / And life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.= _Byron._

=Yes, there are things we must dream and dare, / And execute ere thought be half aware.= _Byron._

=Yes, you find people ready enough to do the good Samaritan without the oil and twopence.= _Sydney Smith._

=Yet a little while, and we shall all meet there, and our Mother's bosom will screen us all; and Oppression's harness, and Sorrow's fire-whip, and all the Gehenna bailiffs that patrol and inhabit ever-vexed Time, cannot harm us any more.= _Carlyle._

=Yet all that poets sing, and grief hath known, / Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word--Alone.= _Bulwer Lytton._

=Yet better thus, and known to be contemn'd, /= 35 =Than still contemn'd and flatter'd.= _King Lear_, iv. 1.

=Yet do I fear thy nature; / It is too full o' the milk o' human kindness.= _Macb._, i. 5.

=Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, / And the thoughts of men are widen'd by the process of the suns.= _Tennyson._

=Yet I've heard say, by wise men in my day, / That none are outwitted so easy as they / Who reckon with all men as if they suspect them, / And traffic in caution, and watch to detect them.= _Dr. W. Smith._

=Yet one thing secures us, whatever betide, / The Scripture assures us the Lord will provide.= _Newton._

=Yet taught by Time, my heart has learned to glow / For other's good and melt at other's woe.= _Pope._

=Yet there are surely times when there is nought / So needed as unsettling, just to get / Out of old ruts, and seek a nobler life.= _Dr. W. Smith._

=Yet this grief / Is added to the griefs the great must bear, / That howsoever much they may desire / Silence, they cannot weep behind a cloud.= _Tennyson._

=Yield not thy neck / To fortune's yoke, but let thy dauntless mind / Still ride in triumph over all mischance.= 3 _Hen. VI._, iii. 3.

=Yield not to temptation, for yielding is sin; /= 5 =Each victory will help you some other to win.= _H. M. Palmer._

=Yield to God's word and will, and you will escape many a calamity.= _Spurgeon._

=Yielding is sometimes the best way of succeeding.= _Pr._

=Yielding, timid weakness is always abused and insulted by the unjust and unfeeling; but meekness, when sustained by the "fortiter in re," is always respected, commonly successful.= _Chesterfield._

=You accuse woman of wavering affection. Blame her not; she is but seeking a constant man.= _Goethe._

=You always aspire to very little at first, but= 10 =as you mount the ladder, you are sure to look down upon what you formerly looked up to as the height of happiness.= _Brothers Mayhew._

=You always end ere you begin.= _Two Gent. of Verona_, ii. 4.

=You are always willing enough to read lives, but never willing to lead them.= _Ruskin._

=You are my true and honourable wife, / As dear to me as are the ruddy drops / That visit my sad heart.= _Jul. Cæs._, ii. 1.

=You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.= _Lavater._

=You are obliged to your imagination for three-fourths= 15 =of your importance.= _Garrick._

=You are prosperous, you are great, you are "beyond the world," as I have heard people say, meaning the power or the caprice thereof; but you are not beyond the power of events.= _Disraeli to young men._

=You are to come to your study as to the table, with a sharp appetite, whereby that which you read may the better digest. He that has no stomach to his book will very hardly thrive upon it.= _Earl of Bedford._

=You are transported by calamity / Thither where more attends you.= _Coriolanus_, i. 1.

=You arrive at truth through poetry, and I arrive at poetry through truth.= _Joubert._

=You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come; /= 20 =Knock as you please, there's nobody at home.= _Pope._

=You begin in error when you suggest that we should regard the opinion of the many about just and unjust, good and evil, honourable and dishonourable.= _Plato._

=You can easily ascertain= (_verstehen_) =what comes from the heart, for what comes from it in another's must go to your own.= _Körner._

=You can imagine thistle-down so light that when you run after it your running motion would drive it away from you, and that the more you tried to catch it the faster it would fly from your grasp. And it should be with every man, that, when he is chased by troubles, they, chasing, shall raise him higher and higher.= _Ward Beecher._

=You can never be wise unless you love reading.= _Johnson._

=You can never by persistency make wrong= 25 =right.= _Johnson._

=You can speak well, if your tongue deliver the message of your heart.= _John Ford._

=You canna expect to be baith grand and comfortable.= _J. M. Barrie._

=You cannot abolish slavery by Act of Parliament, but can only abolish the name of it, which is very little.= _Carlyle._

=You cannot climb a ladder by pushing others down.= _Pr._

=You cannot fathom your mind. There is a well= 30 =of thought there which has no bottom; the more you draw from it, the more clear and fruitful it will be.= _G. A. Sala._

=You cannot get anything out of Nature or from God by gambling;--only out of your neighbour.= _Ruskin._

=You cannot have the ware and the money both at once; and he who always hankers for the ware without having heart to give the money for it, is no better off than he who repents him of the purchase when the ware is in his hands.= _Goethe._

=You cannot have your work well done if the work be not of a right kind.= _Carlyle._

=You cannot hide any secret.= _Emerson._

=You cannot lead a fighting world without= 35 =having it regimented, chivalried; nor can you any more continue to lead a working world unregimented, anarchic.= _Carlyle._

=You cannot love the real sun, that is to say, physical light and colour, rightly, unless you love the spiritual sun, that is to say, justice and truth, rightly.= _Ruskin._

=You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.= _Pr._

=You cannot push a man far up a tree.= _Pr._

=You cannot put a quartern loaf into a child's head; you must break it up, and give him the crumb in warm milk.= _Spurgeon._

=You cannot rear a temple like a hut of sticks= 40 =and turf.= _Dr. W. Smith._

=You cannot save men from death but by facing it for them, nor from sin but by resisting it for them.= _Ruskin._

=You cannot secure even enjoyment in stagnation.= _Mrs. Gatty._

=You can't be lost on a straight road.= _Pr._

=You can't "have" your pudding unless you can "eat" it.= _Ruskin._

=You can't order remembrance out of a man's= 45 =mind.= _Thackeray._

=You can't see the wood for the trees.= _Pr._

=You can't tell a nut till you crack it.= _Pr._

=You complain of the difficulty of finding work for your men; the real difficulty rather is to find men for your work.= _Ruskin._

=You do not believe, you only believe that you believe.= _Coleridge._

=You do not educate a man by telling him what he knew not, but by making him what he was not, and what he will remain for ever.= _Ruskin._

=You don't value your peas for their roots or your carrots for their flowers. Now that's the way you should choose women.= _George Eliot._

=You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant; / But yet you draw not iron, for my heart / Is true as steel; leave you your power to draw, / And I shall have no power to follow you.= _Mid. N.'s Dream_, ii. 2.

=You feel yourself an exile in the East; but in the West too it is exile; I know not where under the sun it is not exile.= _Carlyle to a young friend._

=You find faut wi' your meat, and the faut's= 5 =all i' your own stomach.= _George Eliot._

=You find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people. Why not make earnest effort to confer that pleasure on others? You will find half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.= _Mrs. L. M. Child._

=You frighten me out of my seven senses.= _Swift._

=You gazed at the moon and fell in the gutter.= _Pr._

=You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for.= _Martial._

=You have deserved / High commendation, true= 10 =applause and love.= _As You Like It_, i. 2.

=You have many enemies that know not / Why they are so, but, like to village curs, / Bark when their fellows do.= _Hen. VIII._, iv. 2.

=You have no business with consequences; you are to tell the truth.= _Johnson._

=You have no hold on a human being whose affections are without a tap-root!= _Southey._

=You have not outgrown, you cannot outgrow, the need of a great and authoritative teacher.= _Joseph Anderson._

=You have scotched the snake, not killed him.= 15 _Macb._, iii. 2.

=You have too much respect upon the world; / They lose it that do buy it with much care.= _Mer. of Ven._, i. 1.

=You knock a man into the ditch, and then you tell him to remain content in the "position in which Providence has placed him."= _Ruskin._

=You know how slight a line will tow a boat when afloat on the billows, though a cable would hardly move her when pulled up on the beach.= _Scott._

=You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, nor is it my principle to pay the interest.= _Sheridan to a creditor of his._

=You know no rules of charity, / Which renders= 20 =good for bad, blessings for curses.= _Rich. III._, i. 2.

=You know not where a blessing may light.= _Pr._

=You know that in everything women write there are always a thousand faults of grammar, but, with your permission, a harmony which is rare in the writings of men.= _Mme. de Maintenon._

=You lie nearest to the river of life when you bend to it. You cannot drink but as you stoop.= _J. H. Evans._

=You live one half year with deception and art; / With art and deception you live t'other part.= _It. Pr._

=You make but a poor trap to catch luck if you= 25 =go and bait it with wickedness.= _George Eliot._

=You may as soon separate weight from lead, heat from fire, moistness from water, and brightness from the sun, as misery, discontent, calamity, and danger from man.= _Burton._

=You may as well ask a loom which weaves huckaback why it does not make cashmere, as expect poetry from this engineer, or a chemical discovery from that jobber.= _Emerson._

=You may depend upon it, religion is, in its essence, the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It will alone gentilise, if unmixed with cant; and I know nothing else that will, alone; certainly not the army, which is thought to be the grand embellisher of manners.= _Coleridge._

=You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good.= _Lavater._

=(You may) dig the deep foundations of a long-abiding= 30 =fame, / And wist not that they undermine (your) home of love and peace.= _Dr. W. C. Smith._

=You may do anything with bayonets except sit on them.= _Napoleon._

=You may fail to shine, in the opinion of others, both in your conversation and actions, from being superior as well as inferior to them.= _Greville._

=You may grow good corn in a little field.= _Pr._

=You may have to wait a bit--some of you a shorter, some a longer time; but do wait, and everything will fit in and be perfect at last.= _Mrs. Gatty._

=You may imitate, but never counterfeit.= _Balzac._ 35

=You may know a wise man by his election of an aim, and a sagacious by his election of the means.= _Rückert._

=You may overthrow a government in the twinkling of an eye, as you can blow up a ship or upset and sink one; but you can no more create a government with a word than an iron-clad.= _Ruskin._

=You may paint with a very big brush, and yet not be a great painter.= _Carlyle._

=You may rest upon this as an unfailing truth, that there neither is, nor ever was, any person remarkably ungrateful who was not also insufferably proud; nor any one proud who was not equally ungrateful.= _South._

=You may ride 's / With one soft kiss a thousand= 40 =furlongs ere / With spur we heat an acre.= _Winter's Tale_, i. 2.

=You may say, "I wish to send this ball so as to kill the lion crouching yonder ready to spring upon me. My wishes are all right, and I hope Providence will direct the ball." Providence won't. You must do it; and if you do not, you are a dead man.= _Ward Beecher._

=You might as well ask an oyster to make progress, as the people of any country in which grumbling could by any possibility be prohibited.= _John Wagstaffe._

=You must be content sometimes with rough roads.= _Pr._

="You must be in the fashion," is the utterance of weak-headed mortals.= _Spurgeon._

=You must begin at a low round of the ladder if you mean to get on.= _George Eliot._

=You must confine yourself within the modest limits of order.= _Twelfth Night_, i. 3.

=You must educate for education's sake only.= _Ruskin._

=You must empty out the bathing-tub, but not= 5 =the baby along with it.= _Ger. Pr._