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Chapter D: =Daggers=, I will speak, 241, 28 (2)

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=Eye=, a commanding, 15, 5;
a daring, 551, 28;
a steady good, 79, 9;
as an interpreter, 538, 4;
as an organ of speech, 534, 42;
by which one sees God, 426, 25;
first overcome, 186, 23;
importance of vision in, 417, 21;
interpreter of heart, 214, 11;
man's, not microscopic, 555, 7;
one, better than two, 269, 40;
only in forehead, 488, 38;
seeing, of the first times, 434, 30;
single, to be venerated, 18, 48;
soul in the, 416, 10;
the power of, 57, 26;
the, sayings about, 426, 26-42;
the, under distraction, 43, 16;
to be single, 439, 12;
to negotiate for itself, 240, 34;
versus ear, as vehicle of knowledge, 385, 21;
where love, 72, 34

=Eyes=, affected by our heart, 337, 47;
and the belly, 63, 52;
and ears, as witnesses, 63, 51;
and what they indicate, 7, 13;
effect of shutting, 205, 47;
homes of silent prayer, 154, 48;
how guarded from error, 300, 1;
importance of using, 202, 4;
more trusted than ears, 276, 43;
more trustworthy than ears, 324, 2;
never satisfied, 154, 36;
one man's, spectacles to another, 332, 57;
our, exorbitant, 524, 44;
our, misuse of, 521, 24;
posted as sentinels, 324, 1;
rather than ears, 158, 43;
speaking and betraying power of, 541, 12;
the feast of, 264, 35;
to be cared for, 409, 33;
to see withal, 520, 23;
to look right on, 243, 9;
weak, weakness of, 530, 12;
weakness of most, 325, 13;
without looking, 126, 5

=Eye-witness=, and hearsay, 350, 13;
one, value of, 332, 14

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=Fable=, Love's world, 64, 13

=Face=, a handsome, 112, 36;
and the mind, 426, 43, 44;
as revealing the heart, 190, 33;
expression of, contrasted with tongue, 458, 10;
full impression of, 205, 11;
God hath given you one, 126, 11;
like a benediction, 142, 36;
not deceptive, 204, 21;
the index of age, 98, 42;
the, of labour, Carlyle on, 512, 10;
two sides of, 302, 33

=Faces=, expressive, 466, 38;
that most charm us, 482, 29;
variety in, 206, 3

=Facility=, how to acquire, 539, 31

=Fact=, and speech, gulf between, 401, 1;
goodman, plain-spoken, 130, 39;
not law, 5, 27;
significance of a, 5, 25, 26; 287, 46;
stranger than fiction, 99, 9;
the question for jury, 4, 50;
the importance of, 457, 21

=Faction=, effect of, 381, 31

=Factor=, rule of, and minister compared, 140, 31

=Facts=, all enfolded in first man, 264, 22;
and the truth of reason, 421, 32;
beadrolls of, insignificance of, 556, 33;
dissipated by time, 486, 35;
downright, our need of, 529, 36;
modelled by the man, 51, 48;
plainest, men blind to, 161, 8;
stubborn things, 33, 7;
the emphasis of, 425, 4;
the great, 431, 19

=Faculties=, a delight to exercise, 313, 1;
man's, no inventory of, 475, 8;
our, and their exercise, 521, 16;
our, their last perfection, 438, 7;
the soul's, a misnomer, 413, 5

=Faculty=, indispensability of, 105, 51;
not to be forced, 293, 6;
the logical, 313, 6;
the imaginative, 313, 6

=Fail=, no such word as, to youth, 190, 48

=Failing= at all, 492, 20

=Failings=, how regarded by heaven, 474, 5;
lean'd to virtue's side, 156, 51

=Failure=, a chief cause of, 105, 22;
as a teacher, 525, 15;
bright side of, 252, 48;
fruit of, 104, 14;
in a great object, 472, 38;
sure road to, 456, 29;
the only, to fear, 446, 1;
the parents of, 193, 9

=Failures=, a cause of, 386, 2;
a lesson to us, 329, 17;
how to regard, 373, 8;
no, where no efforts, 144, 50;
not to daunt us, 206, 20;
often successes, 526, 21

=Fair= day's wages, a, Carlyle on, 5, 28

=Faith=, a great, 285, 27;
a lively, wages of, 506, 33;
all in all of, 415, 50;
alternation of periods of,
with denial, 187, 49; 447, 28;
an audacious, 530, 6;
and doubt contrasted as to their origin, 233, 25;
and hope, differences about, 186, 49;
and knowledge, difference between, 186, 50;
approved, reward of, 105, 58;
as fashion, 149, 29;
commended, 243, 32, 33;
demand of love, 353, 53;
desire of, faith enough, 176, 34;
disowned when questioned, 242, 8;
essence of, 425, 38;
essence of all, 427, 6;
fanatic, and falsehood, 99, 62;
in an omnipresent God, denial or mere lip-assertion of, 427, 6;
in days of sorrow, 523, 43;
in whom alone, 104, 3;
knowledge in, 383, 10;
lesson of, 462, 6;
loss of, 146, 33;
narrow, power of, 14, 26;
necessary to faithful doing, 152, 41;
once lost irreparable, 172, 8;
only, that wears well, 446, 2;
orthodox, defined, 60, 4;
our slavery from want of, 485, 39;
plain and simple, 467, 37;
power of, 111, 26; 114, 3; 185, 52; 279, 32; 448, 37; 492, 34; 558, 26;
principal part of, 449, 24;
proper power of, 449, 41;
resting on authority, 427, 8;
right, if life right, 110, 23;
right, defined, 474, 15;
sister of justice, 216, 39;
steps of, 455, 12;
strengthened by knowledge, 504, 23;
the great trial to, 384, 26;
the one thing needful, 110, 17;
the only sure foundation, 9, 1;
the power of, 200, 44; 312, 23; 319, 11;
the proper object of, 240, 14;
the root of, 340, 15;
want of, 110, 17; 507, 11; 558, 26;
want, at present, 423, 44;
wilful, confirmed by absurdity, 544, 37;
with centre everywhere, 554, 4;
wonder essential to, 560, 4;
Voltaire's definition of, 481, 40

=Faithful=, in little, 147, 8;
sure of reward, 105, 46

=Faithfulness=, commended, 28, 48

=Faithless= among the faithful, 100, 27

=Faiths=, in all, something true, 184, 31

=Fallen=, the, succouring, 371, 14

=Falls=, some, means to rise, 398, 7

=False=, in one thing, 101, 2;
knowledge of, a truth, 221, 18;
men, mischief done by, 312, 46;
the, evil influence of, 2, 49

=Falsehood=, a salve, 181, 9;
after falsehood, 100, 30;
adhesiveness of, 226, 12;
as weakness, 443, 31;
at touch of celestial temper, 301, 49;
evil of, 502, 6;
goodly outside of, 322, 31;
how regarded, 223, 21;
in kings, 494, 3;
man fire to, 92, 30;
obstacle to happiness, 56, 27;
path of, 447, 8;
soothing, 181, 9;
the success of, 512, 5;
to be renounced, 501, 40

=Falsehoods=, that are not lies, 466, 39

=Falsities=, all, to be alike treated, 71, 34

=Falsity= of things, more seeming than real, 480, 33

=Fame=, a thin web, 174, 7;
common, rarely wrong, 45, 13;
complacency in, 312, 29;
course of, 514, 39;
exceptional, 323, 24;
how one earns, 330, 32;
in no hurry for, 172, 14;
insignificance of, 155, 31; 533, 44;
lessened by acquaintanceship, 280, 2;
law of, 439, 31;
lust of, and wise men, 440, 10;
modestly enjoyed, 28, 20;
obtained and deserved, 398, 36;
Pope on, 311, 49;
posthumous, a vain desire, 555, 3;
rage for, 538, 23;
the price of, 443, 32;
the struggle for, 97, 48;
thirst for, 260, 7;
true, like our shade, 499, 48

=Familiar=, by proxy, 311, 7

=Familiarity=, lowering effect of, 181, 28

=Families=, and their best members, 176, 4;
only two, 72, 3

=Family=, a happy, 140, 14;
bargaining in, over the pottage, 442, 43;
home of peace, 190, 35;
heroism in the, 432, 32;
in the bosom of one's, 336, 51;
Burns' prayer for a, 545, 17;
virtue, importance of, 427, 13

=Famine=, effect of, on heart, 530, 18;
evil of, 101, 31

=Fanaticism=, contempt of, 90, 9;
defined, 90, 9;
effect of, on a man, 407, 5

=Fancy=, charm of, 442, 7;
compared with reason, 369, 34; 526, 20;
contrasted with imagination, 183, 2;
exacting, 292, 13;
fantastical, 395, 1;
giving way to understanding, 431, 5;
how bred, 411, 40;
over reason, what, 10, 19;
sugar of life, 69, 9;
the tyranny of, 201, 36;
turned necessity, 539, 18;
_versus_ fancy, 522, 33;
without taste, 315, 41

=Fancying= in harmony with the fact, 369, 20

=Fantasies=, lightest, two meanings of, 503, 44

=Fantasy=, compared with understanding, 459, 33;
exorbitant demands of, 386, 46;
function of, 66, 5;
the age of, gone, 53, 25;
the power of, 266, 11;
the ripened fruit of, 387, 3

=Far-away= things, attractiveness of, 76, 11

=Farces=, seeming, tragedies, 268, 31

=Farewell=, hard to say, 555, 10;
Macpherson's, 317, 30

=Farewells= should be sudden, 244, 17

=Farthing=, a good, 31, 28

=Farthings=, valued, 480, 20

=Fashion=, a bad rule, 170, 23;
a maxim of, 88, 31;
a tyrant, 226, 13;
dominancy of, 526, 22;
effect of, 427, 14;
fool in, and one out of, 314, 19;
glass of, 322, 32;
imperious, 567, 1;
old and new, how regarded, 91, 1;
out of the, 19, 15;
power of, 385, 19; 440, 15;
tyranny of, 21, 16

=Fashions=, change of, a tax, 39, 45;
following the, 477, 10;
invented by fools, 108, 53

=Fastidious=, the, unfortunate, 238, 11

=Fastidiousness= to be avoided, 526, 27

=Fatalism,= faith of men of action in, 284, 10

=Fate=, all thralls of, 212, 21;
a mystery, 218, 12;
action of, on willing and unwilling, 73, 41;
and dreams of the past, 240, 47;
and the heart, 370, 24;
and the willing, 102, 47; 103, 3;
and the unwilling, 102, 47; 103, 3;
a pedagogue, 54, 25;
a, to be evaded, 217, 4;
best use of, 205, 50;
Cæsar's belief in, 34, 34;
certainty of, 111, 46;
cuffs of, on good and resolute man, 422, 22;
how to conquer, 491, 5;
in drawing of heart, 62, 3;
irresistible, 478, 11;
master of his, cannot complain, 60, 25;
most wretched, 415, 20;
not to be interrogated, 503, 1;
no evading, 308, 32;
no striving against, 264, 33;
our, what we make it,231, 8;
ordinations of, 517, 17;
our, how to overcome, 366, 12;
overloading of, 440, 16;
quarrelling with one's, 554, 37;
responsibility of, 33, 34;
scale of, lightest in, 550, 6;
shunned, embraced, 74, 8;
stars of, in the breast, 191, 44;
the book of, hidden all but a page, 154, 2;
the sorrowfulest, 454, 17;
to be submitted to, 535, 7;
under temptation, 412, 8;
undue respect to, 483, 9;
what we may make of, 523, 18

=Fated=, the, and the feared, 54, 37

=Fates=, our, like rivers in their rise, 33, 19;
the, work of, 427, 22

=Father=, banker provided by nature, 505, 31;
a, deceiving, 363, 43;
affection of, for daughter, 38, 29;
a, function of, in a family, 174, 27;
and his house, scorning, 494, 19;
and son, respect of, mutual, 148, 50;
and mother, indebtedness to, 65, 34; 66, 1;
a priest, 252, 46;
duty of, in training son, 158, 10;
when old and daughter, 489, 21;
words of, to his children, 463, 47

=Fatherland=, before life, 86, 6

=Fathers=, our, objects of pity, 186, 30;
our, to be as good as, 490, 8

=Fatigue=, most wearisome, 472, 36;
the best nightcap, 138, 10

=Fault=, a, denied, 506, 37;
a, virtue out of, 332, 2;
avoiding one, and rushing into another, 117, 8;
condemned ere committed, 46, 10;
every, at first monstrous, 93, 13;
excusing of a, 14, 49;
in every, folly, 186, 33;
man's grand, 266, 32;
which needs a lie, 314, 4

=Fault-finders=, nothing safe from, 315, 39

=Fault-finding=, not always safe, 508, 36;
of fools, 409, 2, 3;
our, 521, 11;
to be avoided, 283, 38;
without mending, 268, 58

=Faultless=, nothing, 553, 29

=Faults=, advantage from, 204, 17;
allied to excellences, 468, 13;
as taints of liberty, 32, 26;
committing and permitting, 428, 17;
confessed, half mended, 46, 16;
deception as regards our, 550, 23;
difficult to weed out, 398, 8;
effect of a call to give up, 344, 55;
Goethe on, 205, 20;
greatest of, 432, 30;
hard to cure, 523, 25;
how corrected, 34, 9;
in honest and dishonest, 69, 21;
lie gently on him, 395, 15;
men moulded out of, 28, 36;
mended, not to be referred to, 276, 30;
nature of, 9, 27;
none exempt from, 92, 2;
of bad and of good men, 25, 43;
of others and our own, 8, 21, 22;
of others, instructiveness of, 98, 16;
often corrected by chance, 39, 38;
of the player and the man, 10, 41;
one's own, best known, 169, 9;
one's own, easily pardoned, 101, 32;
others' zeal in amending, 315, 15;
our, not to discourage, 296, 41;
our own, and our neighbour's, 91, 53;
our relation to, as our own or others, 529, 16;
pleasure in others', 390, 26;
seeing only others', 50, 12;
seeking only for, 480, 17;
that kill us, 206, 22;
that look handsome, 322, 35;
to be thankful for, 93, 10

=Faust=, in a dilemma, 169, 41;
Goethe's, without fruit, 314, 34

=Favour=, a, against one's will, 28, 2;
a, what it consists in, 5, 32;
a, when to ask, 296, 3;
asking for, 149, 31;
how to confer a, 529, 4

=Favours=, injudiciously conferred, 27, 56, 57;
from the great, 116, 5;
refusing, 341, 46, 47

=Fear=, a bad preserver, 261, 39;
a, daily surmounting, value of, 142, 45;
an inventor, 227, 4;
and reverence contrasted, 492, 21;
desponding, effect of, 62, 30;
early and provident, 75, 31;
effect of, 121, 55; 492, 22;
effect of, on speech, 81, 46;
getting rid of, a first duty, 428, 14;
how bred, 387, 54;
incompatible with love, 255, 1;
incompatible with wisdom, 504, 38;
inconsistent with love, 146, 13;
of the Lord, 427, 26-29;
perpetual, evil of, 272, 46;
persuasive power of, 180, 33;
sign of low birth, 57, 15;
slavery to, 302, 18;
stages of, 457, 48;
cold, that freezes, 102, 20;
those who dwell in, 483, 7;
to be suppressed, 160, 22;
unknown to Germans, 14, 21;
unlimited, 70, 47;
unreasonableness of, 537, 15;
who has no, 264, 6

=Feared= by many, fearing many, 294, 7

=Fearless= man, a, 532, 32;
the, 150, 19

=Fears=, our effects of, 545, 1

=Feast=, constituents of a, 394, 19;
what constitutes, 206, 4

=Feasts=, by whom made and by whom eaten, 108, 56

=Feather=, incapable of momentum, 455, 37

=Feeble=, in work unhelpful, 305, 7;
the, to be supported, 488, 24

=Feeling=, an unpleasant, a warning, 95, 5;
and thought, 484, 42;
as opposed to thinking, 8, 58;
by whom induced, 33, 26;
compared with seeing, 384, 41;
delicacy of, 11, 8;
how to awaken, 483, 23; 401, 47;
importance of, 119, 26;
in reality keener than in song, 268, 38;
man of, fate of, 427, 19;
not attained by hunting for it, 531, 47;
not man's end, 266, 18;
one's, to be trusted, 184, 45;
power of, 264, 30;
strong, tendency of, 404, 5;
the analogy of, 44, 30

=Feelings=, at meeting and farewell, 338, 1;
by which we live, 525, 20, 21;
duration of, 497, 32;
fine, without vigour of reason, 106, 27;
fineness of, not given to every one, 217, 7;
great, like instincts, 135, 20;
our most exalted, 338, 37;
the, hid in man, 539, 16

=Feet=, her, beneath her petticoat, 155, 1

=Feigned=, the, never lasting, 315, 7

=Felicity=, from self alone, 162, 30;
greatest, 432, 11;
or infelicity, a man's, how to know, 544, 3;
in the soul, 163, 19

=Fell=, Dr., I do not love thee, 165, 47

=Fellow=, a lucky, 36, 40

=Fellow-feeling=, effect of, 5, 33

=Fellowship=, a, to cultivate, 542, 3;
founded on truth, 150, 24;
the end of existence, 312, 30

=Fetters=, a burden, 304, 29;
when one wishes to be in, 544, 44

=Feud=, an old, easily renewed, 47, 27

=Fibres=, tension of all, 427, 36

=Fiction=, compared with truth, 501, 48;
contrasted with fact, 369, 19, 20;
inferior to fact, 99, 12;
more potent than fact, 338, 2

=Fictions=, to resemble truth, 105, 31

=Fiddlestick=, the power of, 539, 8

=Fidelity=, among rebels, 370, 11;
but a name, 308, 45;
compared with justice, 569, 40;
contrasted with love, 246, 11;
gone, 67, 5;
importance of, 501, 25;
in small things, 3, 25;
to be practised, 504, 15

=Field=, a large, to ear, 166, 43

=Fields=, and cities, 70, 5;
holy, over whose acres, 158, 26;
where joy for ever dwells, 102, 21

=Fiends=, absolute, 2, 18

=Fight=, no, no victory, 174, 43;
to, and die, 492, 24;
to, with stronger, no obligation to, 473, 38

=Fighting=, an affair of the heart, 313, 10;
and being beaten, compared, 173, 10;
does not feed men, 294, 44

=Fights=, that, and runs away, 109, 51; 146, 14

=Figure=, a pleasing, value of, 16, 40

=Finding=, not the possession, sweet, 298, 1

=Fine Art=, as defined by Ruskin, 106, 23

=Fine=, characteristic of everything, 427, 39, 40;
thing, expense of buying, 547, 12

=Finesse=, a great step in, 198, 41;
hovers between virtue and vice, 225, 21;
recourse to, mark of incapacity, 227, 18

=Finger-posts=, authentic, few, 377, 41

=Finished-off=, man, no satisfying, 531, 17;
_versus_ becoming, 281, 5

=Finite=, and infinite, respective conditions of, 205, 26;
let alone infinite, too much for man, 262, 21;
shadows forth infinite, 261, 45

=Fire=, a mighty, to quickly kindle, 482, 48;
a neglected, 294, 30;
a slow, 19, 53;
and wind, 484, 19;
its power, 27, 12;
little, to be trodden out, 8, 42;
matter for the, 541, 3;
no extinguisher, 179, 33;
sayings about, 427, 46, 47; 428, 1, 2;
slumbering in ashes, 233, 27;
the only, worth gauge or measure, 264, 20;
who walks through, 552, 45;
wind-fed and wind-extinguished, 320, 1

=Fires=, violent, 157, 10

=Fireside=, my own, an Eden, 540, 20

=Firm=, legal, advantage of two attorneys in, 476, 34

=Firmament=, unseen support of, 311, 26

=Firmness=, and rashness, 543, 24;
with pliability, 179, 8

=Fitting=, the, right, 540, 6

=Flame= and smoke as passing into each other, 203, 10

=Flash=, not the thunder, 206, 13

=Flatterer=, and tyrant, compared, 465, 35;
at whose expense he lives, 498, 36;
Latin word for, 438, 10;
Steele on, 165, 25;
the greatest, 474, 26;
to be avoided, 324, 44

=Flatterers=, why so obnoxious, 450, 45

=Flattery=, a visor to villany, 307, 39;
and censure, 347, 22;
attractive, 23, 10;
benefit of, 421, 7;
easier than praise, 275, 10;
how harmful, 390, 27;
ill-manners, 315, 49;
inconsistent with love, 303, 35;
to cajole fools, 301, 52;
to fools and wise men, 487, 50;
what is wanting to be pleased with, 539, 37

=Flaws=, where they abound, 427, 39, 40

=Flesh= to be sacrificed to spirit, 440, 8

=Flock=, no, without one dead lamb, 472, 39

=Flogging= before better than afterwards, 200, 9

=Flower=, a, despising, as a weed, 538, 26;
and seed, relation of, 428, 49;
born to blush unseen, 117, 23;
of humanity, and the slime it springs from, 429, 18;
of sweetest smell, 429, 1;
petal of, and granite boulder, 191, 12;
mystery included in a, 251, 16;
tender, with head elate, 457, 8;
thoughts from a, 494, 27

=Flowers=, as symbols of nature, 44, 33;
as preachers, 568, 32;
contrasted with weeds, 408, 22;
fair, by the wayside, 382, 15;
the sweetest, our treatment of, 529, 39;
Wordsworth on, 127, 18

=Fluency=, often scarcity, 421, 13;
secret of, 538, 42

=Flunkeyism=, 271, 19

=Flush= of health and of death, 469, 33

=Flute=, a beginner on, 192, 31;
and lyre, with voice compared, 429, 3;
blowing on, not playing, 30, 40

=Fly=, not without spleen, 89, 15;
those that, 482, 45;
Uncle Toby to the, 125, 1; 482, 21

=Foe=, no, no friend, 144, 27;
service of, 412, 52

=Foes=, our greatest, within, 187, 14;
what they teach, 115, 13

=Folk=, old and young, compared, 213, 15

=Folks= that stand on their heads, 478, 3

=Follies=, in relation to wisdom, 92, 39;
committed out of complaisance, 165, 12;
greatest of, 432, 31;
our own and others, differently regarded, 529, 9;
reasoning us out of our, 483, 2

=Folly=, a characteristic of, 87, 25; 195, 31;
compared with wisdom, 557, 5;
disdainful of itself, 329, 5;
greatest and commonest, 494, 20;
how alone to conceal, 404, 29;
in every one, 212, 10;
learned at college, 211, 43;
sayings about, 429, 5, 6;
shoot, as it flies, 98, 20;
the short, best, 227, 12;
universal, 172, 15;
without remedy, 80, 34

=Fondness=, fostered by time, &c., sure, 406, 1

=Fontaine=, La, epitaph of, 211, 44

=Food=, though given, to be wrought for, 125, 39

=Fool=, a great, 179, 7;
a, how to win, 45, 1;
a learned, 505, 36;
a, mark of, 404, 34;
a, when silent, 89, 16;
a witty, and a foolish wit, 29, 7;
a thorough, 144, 34;
according to Wm. Blake, 153, 19;
and his hobby, 2, 60;
and his opinions, 359, 29;
and learning, 236, 34;
and wise, 10, 39;
and wise contrasted, 252, 10;
and wise, diverse conduct of, 538, 40;
as he grows richer, 443, 22;
as regards reason, 148, 53;
at forty, 30, 2;
conscious of his folly, 151, 4;
effect of praising, 355, 13, 14;
familiarity with a, 32, 59;
getting rid of a, 31, 45;
hard arguing with, 333, 23;
hard to discover, 208, 23;
his sorrows and fears, 466, 25;
in his devotions, 504, 8;
in his own house, knowledge of, 349, 7;
kind, the worst, 437, 28;
let me play the, 241, 34;
mark of, 333, 1;
may be knave, 164, 31;
never changes his mind, 180, 41;
no, without admirer, 505, 37;
of virtue, be, not of vice, 108, 36;
old and young, 239, 35;
once a, always, 363, 18;
rather than saddening experience, 166, 26;
the conceit of, 404, 27;
the, sayings about, 429, 7-11;
to self worse than being fooled, 563, 12;
truths of a, 425, 26;
without the stuff of success, 505, 35

=Foolish=, man, aversion of, to the wise, 108, 38;
ever, never wise, 151, 48;
once very, never wise, 150, 30

=Foolishest= man, no, without a knowledge all his own, 472, 40

=Foolishness=, the thought of, 457, 35

=Fools=, all, 9, 62; 482, 20; 498, 23;
behaviour to, characteristic of a man, 315, 13;
deliberate, the wisdom of, 322, 17;
favoured by fortune, 113, 19;
favourites of women and fortune, 124, 36;
gabble of, evil of, 420, 6;
dependence of knaves on, 174, 47;
in majority, 89, 49; 239, 27;
indispensable to wise men, 118, 14;
intelligible only to God, 66, 48;
learn by experience, 89, 40;
learned, 236, 10;
many, 404, 28;
necessary to wise men, 127, 38;
old, 398, 32;
our feelings towards, 343, 54;
rush in where angels fear to tread, 109, 39;
safety in number of, 444, 23;
sayings about, 5, 54-68; 6, 1, 2; 90, 50-52;
talk of, 238, 39;
taught by experience, 97, 34;
that boast, 399, 14;
their company saddening, 421, 15;
to be first won, 11, 41;
trade by the eye, 219, 50;
unpitied by heaven, 154, 14;
with wit insufferable, 108, 17

=Foot=, had music in't, 157, 17;
slip of, and of tongue, 81, 18

=Footway=, rule of, 452, 13

=Fop=, described, 6, 2;
Diogenes on a, 186, 18;
one, plague to another, 292, 8

=Forbidden=, the, man's hunger for, 506, 17;
the, striven after, 300, 35

=Force=, affects action, not will, 225, 23;
and right, power of, 201, 47;
brute, as social bond, 32, 49;
contrasted with opinion, 335, 38;
even in a righteous cause, 89, 25;
giant for weak, 212, 42;
man of, virtue in, 471, 3;
no honestly exerted, lost, 302, 29;
personal, 347, 1;
when legitimate, 228, 18;
with and without judgment, 516, 11

=Forebodings= of evil, 114, 36

=Foreign=, rule insecure, 8, 25;
the, not to be shunned, 264, 32

=Foresight= of what is to come paralysing, 421, 4

=Forest=, planting and uprooting, 509, 26

=Forethought=, value of, 221, 34;
favours brave, 113, 39;
manly, 216, 48

=Forfeited=, the, irrecoverable, 305, 21

=Forgetfulness= contrasted with memory, 273, 14, 25

=Forgetting=, expediency of, 88, 16

=Forgiven=, the, duty of, 5, 18

=Forgiveness=, a source of weakness and strength, 94, 57;
natural, 163, 41;
rule of, 513, 30;
too ready, 364, 23;
with God and Christ, 471, 28

=Forgiving=, and forgetting, Schopenhauer on, 492, 31;
Schiller on, 513, 31

=Forgotten= things insignificant, 325, 23

=Form=, mathematical, _versus_ living, 271, 2

=Forms=, our social, 339, 17;
their tendency to corrupt, 21, 17

=Formulas=, essential, 262, 4;
value to man of, 473, 31

=Forsaking= all, the profit of, 552, 9

=Fortitude=, as a virtue, 460, 42;
commended, 122, 45;
defined, 432, 27;
the root of, 340, 15;
true, defined, 499, 49;
value of, 471, 17

=Fortunate=, better than wise, 81, 13;
the always, 441, 14

=Fortune=, a better, to desire, 495, 51;
a broken, man of, 340, 27;
a fickle jade, 257, 45;
a goddess, man-made, 312, 4; 318, 30;
a great, 259, 13;
a great, making and keeping, 208, 10;
alternation of, with misfortune, 444, 7;
a man's best, 54, 5;
a man's, on his forehead, 414, 33;
a match for, 495, 3;
an expensive mistress, 353, 49;
and her gifts, 225, 26;
and her arrows, Dryden on, 240, 48;
and ruin, 269, 8;
and the prudent, 342, 23;
and wisdom, 557, 1;
a self-sufficing, 537, 32;
an unsuitable, 50, 49;
bad, may be changed to good, 455, 20;
bad, virtue for, 187, 15;
boast of, 473, 2;
choice of, 494, 37;
companion of valour, 516, 9;
dependent on the character, 39, 46;
diminished, how to behave under, 172, 17;
does not change nature, 245, 51;
effect of good and bad, 416, 44;
everywhere, 549, 29;
fatal lures of, 22, 34;
fatal obstructions to, 467, 33;
favoured of, at home, everywhere, 113, 32;
favourite of, 22, 48;
footsteps of, 257, 34;
frowns of, not to daunt, 242, 16;
frustrating power of, 38, 8;
Goethe on effect on him of good and bad, 154, 26;
good, 564, 5;
good, a cloak, 530, 8;
good, accompanied by good, 538, 7;
good and bad, a necessity, 224, 22;
good and bad, as elements of virtue, 136, 45;
good and bad, how to act in, 182, 34;
good, and good sense, 523, 28;
good, folly of not embracing, 143, 6;
good, from our endeavours, 129, 29;
good, hard to sustain, 527, 15;
good, mother of, 401, 20;
good or bad, to whom it falls, 232, 49;
good or bad, ill to determine, 523, 34;
good or bad, to what we ascribe, 520, 40;
good, our stomach for, 339, 23;
good, preferred to wisdom, 137, 42;
good, to the soldier, 350, 16;
good, to be seized, 158, 21;
good, virtue for, 187, 15;
her aim in her gifts, 172, 18;
how to behave under change of, 172, 16;
how to manage, 528, 36;
how to make, a friend, 177, 40;
how to overcome, 541, 9;
indifference to, 503, 17;
inequalities of, Burns' lament over, 253, 19;
large, misery of keeping, 280, 23;
loom of, and the webs, 439, 39;
making, mistress, 202, 54;
maligned, 207, 24;
man maker of his, 92, 17;
neither to elate nor depress, 390, 10;
not to be mistress, 296, 40;
not to be yielded to, 565, 4;
one's, in one's self, 75, 13;
one's, no fleeing from, 107, 37;
ounce of, value of, 279, 10;
ever with industry, 549, 27;
partiality of, 53, 42;
power of, 163, 25;
power of, by whom alone confessed, 448, 38;
power of, limited, 299, 2;
present and past compared, 240, 25;
question about, 450, 25;
reverse of, Horace in, 231, 6;
ruler of life, 201, 48;
smiling or frowning, 394, 36;
surest passports to, 115, 3;
the arbiter of, 157, 9;
the favoured of, 68, 29; 307, 10;
the goal of, attained, 541, 42;
unstable, 331, 13, 33;
vanity of seeking, 480, 9;
vicissitudes of, 225, 25; 514, 2;
visit of, 473, 25;
the, which nobody sees, 429, 17;
what the benefits of, require, 541, 18;
when she means most good, 543, 26;
with the fortunate, 185, 13;
without an enemy, 413, 18;
without fairness, 326, 30;
without prudence, 318, 30.
See =Fortuna=.

=Fortune's= fool, 164, 42

=Fortunes=, and husbands, 518, 48;
how made formerly and now, 112, 34;
large, sayings about, 230, 15, 16

=Forwards=, the great thing, 431, 41;
the word, 517, 33

=Fought= all his battles o'er again, 399, 37

=Fountain=, smallest, heaven in, 301, 54

=Fowls=, far-off, Burns on, 102, 14

=Fox=, and hedgehog, tricks of, 18, 31;
and his captor, 285, 27;
and his knavery, 59, 55;
and lion compared, 519, 6;
cunning of, 30, 14;
once caught, 505, 34;
one, more than enough, 79, 8;
sayings about, 429, 21, 22;
skin of, sewed to the lion's, 52, 14;
taken in by a fowl, 160, 4

=France=, in, nation not corporate, 226, 25;
in the van, 225, 28;
inconsistencies in, 498, 31;
indebtedness of, to Corneille, 498, 51;
monarchy in, 225, 27

=Francis I.= after his defeat at Pavia, 498, 32

=Franklin=, motto on bust of, 84, 36

=Frankness=, entire, permitted only to a few, 105, 10

=Fraud=, defined, 70, 48;
detected in a, distrusted, 365, 24;
first and worst, 428, 3;
in generalities, 70, 52;
to conceal, 114, 15

=Frederick the Great=, a king, 179, 25;
his indifference to criticism, 166, 14;
last words of, 226, 17;
social ideal of, 188, 7;
tired of ruling slaves, 169, 40;
two sides of his character, 5, 48

=Frederick William I.= of Prussia's boast, 170, 9;
in reference to his son, 156, 27

=Free=, country, life in, 184, 11;
creature, a perfectly, 472, 11;
man, according to Klopstock, 152, 29;
man, the, defined, 429, 24;
man, the only, 143, 48;
no man, not lord of himself, 298, 28;
not all, who mock their chains, 86, 35;
settled in heaven, 393, 30;
the, man, 366, 32;
to be, what it is, 490, 15;
who thinks himself, without being free, 298, 29;
who to be deemed, 304, 22;
who would be, 155, 21; 220, 7

=Freedom=, 265, 17;
abroad _versus_ slavery at home, 28, 29;
absolute, 2, 19;
and cultivation, 48, 45;
and peace, 481, 36;
but a name, 281, 16;
civil, home of, 549, 14;
conceded, 167, 36;
condition of, 554, 9; 556, 29;
dependence of, on knowledge, 220, 36;
dependent on law, 53, 38;
enough, 171, 17;
essential to existence, 114, 35;
from woman's bonds, 84, 34;
her quiet eye, 313, 31;
human, 61, 1, 2, 5;
in chains, 264, 31;
in bonds, 331, 44;
native to man, 172, 42;
no barriers to, 154, 30;
no, without justice, 182, 24;
often imaginary, 267, 14;
only in obedience, 96, 22;
on the mountains, 23, 9;
perfect, the condition of, 483, 32;
popular, Mephisto on, 54, 38;
real, condition of, 205, 28;
sayings about, 64, 16, 17;
spiritual, attainable by all, 245, 50;
the basis of, 335, 6;
the condition of, 267, 20; 306, 8;
the height of, 304, 13;
the measure of, 394, 51;
the only possible, 193, 11;
the only, worth the name, 446, 4;
the seat of, 67, 12;
the secret of, 190, 39;
true, in self-command, 90, 54;
when abused, 344, 46;
which we cannot use, 534, 13;
who deserves, 334, 52;
who has sufficient, 15, 16;
with despotism, 495, 14;
without self-command, 304, 6; 306, 8

=Freedom's= battle once begun, 109, 41

=Freemen=, corrupted, 48, 25

=Free-will=, necessity of, 265, 13;
source of slavery, 393, 34;
the function of, 95, 35

=French=, and English, contrasted, 222, 21;
Mme. de Staël on, 359, 5;
Revolution, first watchword of, 114, 12

=Frenzy=, effect of, compared with reason, 258, 44

=Fretting=, vanity of, 69, 2

=Friend=, a constant, 3, 26;
a, defined, 298, 41;
a desirable, 169, 22;
a faithful, Napoleon on, 5, 30;
a far-off, effect of tidings of, 423, 50;
a good, 6, 41;
a good, value of, 270, 48; 505, 16;
a, love for, 30, 29;
a necessity for a man, 171, 18;
a reconciled, 17, 43;
a reserved, danger of, 472, 2;
a stranger, not an estranged, 29, 2;
a, to all, 146, 61;
a true, 513, 20;
a, value of, 384, 30;
a virtuous, casting off, 491, 16;
a, with world shut out, 386, 20;
an agreeable, Horace's preference for, 299, 37;
an imprudent, dangerous, 376, 53;
an old, not easily lost, 187, 42;
and his faults, 13, 29;
as nettle, not echo, 29, 10;
admonition of, value of, 419, 21;
difficulty of helping, in trivial matters, 315, 46;
essential to happiness, 289, 5;
everybody's, nobody's, 222, 9;
faithful and just to me, 149, 24;
from enemy, 97, 8;
great service of, 432, 5;
having no need of, 143, 2;
how to approach, 243, 22;
how to keep a new, 70, 18;
how to live with, 252, 3;
how to treat, 486, 2;
ignorant, danger from, 315, 45;
man to spurn as, 169, 28;
mindfulness of, when happy, 490, 28;
mistaken zeal for, 145, 51;
no, without fault, 207, 25;
only way to have, 446, 26;
only if proved, 301, 55;
only, self, 78, 6;
rule for choice of, 57, 50; 80, 26;
rule in choosing a, 62, 4;
the candid, Canning's aversion to, 123, 17;
the service of a, 412, 52;
the, to trust, 499, 4;
the wounds of, 100, 26;
to be steadfast, 544, 41;
true, value of, 81, 21;
turned enemy, 398, 4;
want of true, misery of, 199, 3;
what most endears a, 314, 18;
who does not befriend, 149, 39;
who cannot bear foes, 149, 38;
who flatters and detracts, 405, 42;
who not needs, 157, 44;
without, no good enjoyable, 318, 22;
worth dying for, hard to find, 423, 35;
wronging, penalty of, 149, 10;
Zeno's definition of, 10, 12

=Friendly= relations, how to keep up, 334, 3

=Friends=, after wine-casks drained, 68, 4;
a hundred, not too many, 79, 8;
a necessity, 529, 35; 538, 13;
a thousand, not too many, 150, 28;
absent, in the memory, 442, 1;
among, or enemies, 381, 7;
and enemies, 242, 15;
and foes, space for, 14, 53;
and their characteristics, 6, 5-12, 41;
and their purses, 124, 12;
being without, 42, 29;
better than grateful dependants, 200, 29;
but a name, 308, 45;
by choice, 235, 16;
choice and change of, 28, 25;
community among, 45, 26;
created by transactions, 473, 36;
dead, a magnet to next world, 75, 6;
Emerson on his, 288, 7;
essential to enjoyment, 318, 22;
failings of, how to treat, 85, 36;
faithful, falling out of, 427, 11;
false, 100, 41, 42; 398, 11;
feeling at misfortune of, 53, 7;
good, man good, 566, 29;
grapple, to thy soul, 429, 28;
hard task to make, of all, 327, 55;
having many, 321, 35;
how to choose, 185, 29;
in adversity, 13, 28; 39, 1;
in distress, 514, 15;
in need, having, 143, 2;
indispensability of, 559, 33;
lightly cast off, 142, 15;
like fiddle-strings, 114, 30;
misfortunes of, not displeasing, 181, 25; 190, 12;
mutual property, 12, 60;
no true, his who fears to make a foe, 153, 14;
not four, in world, 210, 44;
not to be suspected, 179, 13;
old, 327, 14, 15; 361, 39;
old, best, 77, 47;
our, and our faults, 338, 4;
our estimate for, 96, 57;
preferable to wealth, 37, 54;
prudence of gaining, 202, 11;
real, the value of, 369, 12;
reticence with, 71, 33;
sayings about, 237, 46, 47;
test of, 329, 21;
thou hast, 482, 31;
three good, 148, 46;
true, hard to distinguish, 239, 8;
true, to one another, 499, 51;
wealth, 504, 24;
when wealth goes, 160, 29;
with change of fortune, 71, 15

=Friendship=, a selfish, 104, 45;
compared with love, 114, 49;
a, that is binding, 315, 11;
a useless, 413, 9;
after love, 141, 11;
and little gifts, 219, 38;
and love, 254, 3, 18;
and love, incompatible, 253, 42;
and passion, contrasted, 6, 11;
and pity, incompatible, 348, 49;
as a pleasure, 246, 36;
attractive power of, 90, 57;
attributes of, 13, 30-37;
basis of, 350, 19;
being without, 479, 45;
belated, 470, 38;
by proxy, 311, 7;
chastity of, 384, 5;
comfort of, in adversity, 25, 16;
compared with hatred, 141, 21;
contrasted with love, 255, 22;
defined, 222, 10; 377, 11;
despised, 182, 16;
double effect of, 481, 30;
effect of distance and absence in, 69, 39;
essence of, 425, 39;
experience of those who cultivate, 483, 17;
fate of, 568, 40;
faults notwithstanding, 11, 47;
female, growth of, 104, 30;
forgiving, 224, 7;
fruit of, 452, 39;
genuine, a test of, 413, 8;
gifts of, 511, 24;
grass on path of, 242, 20;
greatest blow to, 314, 24;
how kept green, 7, 20;
ideal of, 436, 12;
imperilled through money, 27, 17;
imperilled by pecuniary favours, 103, 25;
in dividing inheritance, 190, 25;
judgment before, 214, 3;
lasting, basis of, 170, 30;
light of, 439, 11;
no, without virtue, 392, 46;
not at too heavy a cost, 172, 20;
not based on feasting, 103, 59;
not to be cheap, 260, 32;
often due to weakness, 219, 7;
our, and charity, 337, 22;
that has to be constantly bought, 209, 21;
the claims of, 247, 47;
the first law in, 138, 49;
to be mutual, 168, 21;
tried in need, 128, 37;
true, 413, 22; 499, 52; 500, 1-3;
true, a feature of, 88, 29;
true, how possible, 163, 1;
true, indissoluble, 145, 39;
true, without ceremony, 38, 24;
unfitness for, 554, 36;
value of, 392, 35;
without weakness of, without strength of, 150, 45

=Friendships=, broken, no repairing, 32, 46;
dissolved by silence or neglect, 286, 5;
for eternity, 284, 1;
new, not at expense of old, 317, 26;
not founded on affinities, 315, 16;
of years, the depth of, 337, 44;
schoolboy, 470, 8;
when real, 543, 30

=Frog=, a, if it had teeth, 89, 17

=Frost=, God's plough, 429, 29

=Froth=, not beer, 382, 18

=Frugality=, a small, often no economy, 12, 35;
an estate, 309, 30;
and fortune, 193, 35;
and parsimony, 558, 39;
with contentment, 70, 13

=Fruit=, forbidden, 112, 9;
from labour, 324, 28;
late, keeps well, 230, 38;
present in the seed, 37, 12;
test of a tree, 116, 42;
the latest, ripens, 55, 24;
the worst, 474, 48

=Fruits=, the test, 564, 21

=Fulness=, all, here, 155, 6;
lapsing in, 494, 3

=Function= defined, 3, 52

=Fury= of a woman scorned, 154, 3

=Future=, a form of, 519, 5;
a happy, predicted by George Sand, 433, 13;
a, open to all, 537, 2;
always to be provided for, 173, 36;
and past compared, 447, 3;
anxiety about, 71, 30;
concern for, bootless, 66, 20;
construed from past, 1, 5;
duty with regard to, 495, 39;
for whom, 234, 38;
greatness of, 440, 19;
how to face, without fear, 220, 11;
how to see farthest into, 528, 13;
how to treat, 501, 15;
ignorance of, 253, 25;
improvidence in regard to, 326, 12;
in the porch of, 429, 40;
judged of by past, 167, 28;
learned from past, 169, 5;
not our concern, 296, 48;
not to be desired, 165, 40;
not to be feared, 103, 47;
solicitude about, 399, 16;
state, effect of uncertainty regarding, 69, 20, 50;
thought of, elevating, 94, 49;
veiled by God, 359, 23;
what it hides, 67, 21;
wisely hidden, 384, 47

=Futurity=, uncertainty regarding, 528, 14

G

=Gaiety=, a medium in, 477, 46

=Gain=, at expense of credit, 52, 47;
effect of greed of, 183, 19;
lust of, 258, 5;
scent of, good, 257, 42;
unjust, 356, 6;
unjustly distributed, 77, 53;
worldly, and loss, 20, 52

=Gains=, evil, losses, 271, 31;
light, profit of, 149, 10;
not all gains, 309, 24;
small, profit of, 219, 34;
unjust, instances of, 399, 8

=Galba=, the emperor, Tacitus on, 260, 9

=Galileo= and his "Yet it moves," 84, 12

=Gall=, a little, effect of, 505, 33

=Gallant=, the, motive of, 386, 18

=Gambler=, a young, 214, 43

=Gambling=, and travelling, compared, 499, 10;
gain by, a loss, 551, 23;
nature of, 565, 31;
pedigree and progeny of, 233, 37

=Gamester=, keep, from dice, 217, 15

=Gaming-table= and fortune, 549, 27

=Garb=, makes not the monk, 223, 17

=Garden=, the first, 127, 50

=Gardener=, business of, 494, 39;
grand old, and his wife, 116, 35

=Garibaldi= to his soldiers, 397, 11

=Garrulousness=, disesteem of, 484, 36

=Gatherer= and disposer of other men's stuff, 164, 38

=Gay=, the, disliked by the sad, 324, 5

=Gear=, gathering, for independence, 491, 17

=Geese= for swans, 9, 53

=Gem=, why so small, 19, 49

=Gems=, valueless as food, 403, 20

=General=, a, in prosperity, 370, 17;
a, the qualities of, 368, 32;
influence of good, on his men, 31, 61;
the best, 551, 40

=Generalising= resented by Nature, 292, 33

=Generality=, how to win over the, 491, 12

=Generalship= in good fortune and bad, 73, 37

=Generation=, cursing one's, 303, 39;
each, a duty laid on, 199, 51

=Generosity=, after justice, 27, 26;
and justice combined, power of, 429, 47;
charm of, 129, 31;
easier than justice, 162, 6;
in train of high birth, 225, 30;
rare, 269, 23;
_versus_ business, 169, 12;
virtue of a man, 163, 40;
with what is another's, 98, 45

=Geniality= defined, 133, 28

=Genius=, a characteristic of, 198, 15;
a common fate of, 510, 27;
ages of, superseded by theories of, 466, 19;
a fine, criticism of, generally false, 176, 33;
after the philosophic ideal, 405, 43;
always melancholy, 540, 46;
a mark of, 491, 8, 15, 46;
a necessity for triumph of, 48, 65;
and education, 77, 11;
and wit, functions respectively of, 53, 36;
and fortune's favours, 113, 40;
and taste, why seldom together, 554, 45;
and the world, 464, 24;
as such, unconscious, 169, 47;
at its rising, 377, 31;
a true, natural, 289, 19;
a truly great, mark of, 22, 6;
by outstripping reason, 239, 6;
capacity for patience, 233, 28, 29;
characteristics of, 492, 36;
connection of, with childhood, 90, 24;
contrasted with mediocrity, 272, 3;
contrasted with talent, 409, 44, 45, 47, 49, 50; 410, 1;
contrasted with wit, 223, 4;
dependent on attention, 22, 13;
defined, 195, 20; 513, 14; 546, 4;
distinctive mark of, 489, 29;
development of, condition of, 490, 9;
effect of adversity on, 194, 10, 11;
effect of prosperity on, 194, 11;
endowments peculiar to, 6, 25;
every great, and his vocation, 91, 15;
every work of, characteristic of, 93, 53;
fine, envy of, 207, 31;
great, how formed, 6, 66;
greatest, most indebted, 432, 13;
greatest works of, acquaintance with, 493, 13;
honour done to, 194, 7;
how often dumb, 269, 10;
human, its limitations, 333, 44;
idleness, the blight of, 5, 20;
in what its greatest power, 91, 3;
its indebtedness, 526, 25;
often without talent, 269, 11;
lamp of, 37, 45;
man of, how ruined, 217, 18;
man of, one consideration for every, 549, 41;
men of, all workers, 450, 39;
men of, as men of business, 276, 5;
men of, generosity of, 276, 4;
men of, in advance, 563, 9;
men of (see =Men of Genius=);
men of, two divisions of, 496, 19;
men of, unregarded, 176, 4;
mistake and regret of, 71, 41;
nature in league with, 280, 52;
no great, quite sane, 318, 27;
no lonely son of, to despair, 241, 46;
no, without madness, 472, 50;
noblest function of, 416, 20;
not attainable by labour alone, 315, 47;
not to be constrained and urged, 12, 45;
of light, 429, 48;
often hid under rude exterior, 21, 48;
often of slow growth, 268, 19;
often without talent, 269, 11;
on the summit of the ideal, 206, 7;
pith of, contracted, 395, 17;
privilege of, 206, 41;
selection a test of, 521, 13;
self-defended, 91, 4;
subject to gloom, 466, 35;
superior to intellect, 137, 38;
test of, 494, 23;
the bestower of, 494, 3;
the death of, 424, 18;
the first qualification of, 53, 33;
the great nursery of, 289, 46;
the highest, characterised, 434, 39;
the patrons of, 28, 22;
the power of, 190, 44;
the pride of, 400, 33;
the purpose of, 201, 45;
the school of, 47, 42;
the stern friend of, 397, 29;
the three requisitions of, 325, 15;
three things that enrich, 485, 26;
tendency of, to eccentricity, 76, 32, 33;
true, sign of, 22, 4; 542, 32;
two kinds of, 468, 35;
unconsciously developed, 92, 31;
under misfortune, 379, 24;
vain sigh of, 488, 50;
_versus_ talent, 54, 32;
warped by education, 77, 21;
what forms, 396, 7;
without a heart, 536, 14;
without moderation, 281, 24;
without power, 548, 25;
without taste, 380, 17;
without training, 78, 7;
works and words of, 474, 47;
work of, a child of solitude, 3, 35

=Geniuses=, great, biographies of, 133, 29;
those that look like, 478, 13

=Genoese=, proverb about, 450, 1

=Gentil man=, according to Chaucer, 143, 25

=Gentility= and vulgarity, 102, 34

=Gentle=, world gentle to, 121, 38;
yet not dull, 484, 11

=Gentleman=, a, characteristics of, 6, 27, 28;
a, outfit of, 137, 11;
a true, rare, 275, 44;
a questionable, 6, 29;
an original, 529, 10;
best dressed, 143, 46;
by nature, 149, 37;
contrasted with clown, 181, 10;
Horace's characteristics of, 86, 42;
how formed, 77, 7;
manners of, defined, 346, 15;
mark of, 49, 4;
sphere of, 81, 3;
the badge of a, 373, 46;
the best, 143, 47;
the first and the last, 199, 13;
the word of, 463, 42

=Gentlemen=, rare, 520, 35

=Gentleness=, antidote for cruelty, 22, 2;
commended, 400, 33;
connection of, with firmness, 205, 22;
more pleasing than strength, 283, 33

=Gentry=, rabble amongst, 470, 22

=Genuine=, hard to eliminate, 331, 46;
the, and the spurious, 536, 15;
the durability of, 519, 20

=Geologist=, an antiquarian, 233, 30

=Geometry=, road to, 474, 17

=German= God, the, the temple of, 298, 9

=Gethsemane=, victory of, attainable, 524, 38

=Getting=, and getting by renouncing, 201, 39; easier than keeping, 122, 14; no, what we don't bring, 305, 42

=Ghost=, a, never visible to two, 63, 15; 302, 1;
raising one, effect of, 177, 9

=Ghosts=, the only genuine, 473, 39;
whom they visit, 122, 1

=Giant=, on the shoulders of, 37, 55;
strength of, tyrannous to use, 201, 34

=Giant's= strength, how excellent, 326, 2

=Gift=, a, dearer than a purchase, 535, 47;
a, in each for all, 57, 17;
a rare, 495, 12;
a, we can receive, 522, 46;
an acceptable, 145, 1;
better than a prayer, 79, 31;
every good, from God, 91, 8, 9;
smallest, how made great, 91, 6;
that destroys liberty, 53, 6;
the only, 446, 6

=Gifted= man, the, defined, 430, 7

=Gifts=, against Nature's law, 377, 13;
an enemy's, 76, 39;
effect of, on freedom, 544, 27;
evil effects of, 430, 4;
gate of, closed at birth, 543, 22;
God's, 125, 38, 39, 42, 44, 45, 46, 48, 54; 126, 1, 2, 4, 10;
of God, how to treat, 522, 25;
of God to man, 262, 7;
often losses, 401, 36;
power of, 52, 30;
receiving, a loss, 245, 28;
the best, least admired, 417, 38;
to receive, 495, 13;
when givers prove unkind, 496, 11;
who can be trusted with, 334, 51;
winning power of, 286, 34;
without election, 326, 30

=Girl=, education of, Ruskin on, 417, 18;
proper confidant of, 449, 39;
qualities we love in a, 525, 30

=Girls=, beauty and deformity in, Ruskin on, 302, 2;
morality of, 443, 6

=Giver=, a cheerful, 127, 12;
and receiver, rules for, 241, 9;
love of, not gift of lover, 151, 41

=Giving=, an honour, 80, 18;
and receiving, 191, 16;
Bismarck's maxim on, 72, 29;
business of rich, 119, 11;
contrasted with receiving, 492, 41;
effect of, 525, 5;
for one's gratification, deemed a merit, 544, 22;
hand, a, 6, 33;
not receiving, our gain, 95, 11;
prompt, 30, 26;
to poor, Diderot on, 71, 21;
without bottom, 230, 18

=Gladiator=, the wounded, 381, 3

=Gladness=, alternates with sadness, 379, 17;
peculiar to man, 416, 9;
sown for the upright, 249, 18

=Gladsome= thing, the most, 443, 46

=Glance=, a, significance of, 150, 15

=Glances=, progeny of, 109, 42

=Glass=, first to fourth, 428, 19

=Glasses=, cracked, easily broken, 118, 50

=Glib= and oily art, 169, 1

=Glitter=, not gold, 10, 29;
the fascination of mere, 407, 32

=Glitters=, what, temporary, 535, 9

=Gloaming=, wooing in, 64, 3

=Globe=, the mad-house of universe, 168, 45

=Gloomy= temper, foolish or worse, 540, 26

=Glory=, a spur, 195, 47;
after death, 43, 19;
ambition for, 552, 20;
bewitching power of, 117, 20;
false, 100, 43;
inveteracy of desire of, 88, 18;
in rising after a fall, 430, 11;
love of, Talleyrand on, 256, 7;
mixt with humbleness, 132, 3;
no, without danger, 88, 48;
our greatest, 338, 8;
paths of, 447, 13;
popular, a coquette, 352, 44;
rejection greater than conquest of, 78, 39;
shadow of virtue, 124, 19;
that is unreal, 124, 18;
the custody of, as a task, 155, 36;
the path to, 22, 40;
the torch of, 103, 27, 28;
to him who despises it, 124, 21

=Gluttony=, effect of, on heart, 530, 18;
effect of, on mind, 186, 17

=Goal=, how to attain, 118, 52;
our, a riddle, 539, 19;
our political, 313, 22;
steps to, 203, 42

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Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign SourcesChapter D: =Daggers=, I will speak, 241, 28 (2)

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