Part 11

esteem without love is languid and cold.= _Swift._ =A slow fire makes sweet malt.= _Pr._ =A small man, if he stands too near a great, may see single portions well, and, if he will survey the whole, must stand too far off, where his eyes do not reach the details.= _Goethe._ =A small sorrow distracts us, a great one makes= 55 =us collected.= _Jean Paul._ =A small unkindness is a great offence.= _Hannah More._ =As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, / Receives the lurking principle of death; / The young disease, that must subdue at length, / Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.= _Pope._ =As many suffer from too much as too little.= _Bovee._ =A smart coat is a good letter of introduction.= _Dut. Pr._ =As merry as the day is long.= _Much Ado_, ii. 1. 60 =A smile abroad is oft a scowl at home.= _Tennyson._ =A smile re-cures the wounding of a frown.= _Shakespeare._ =As much love, so much mind, or heart.= _Lat. Pr._ =As much virtue as there is, so much appears; as much goodness as there is, so much reverence it commands.= _Emerson._ =A snapper up of unconsidered trifles.= _Winter's Tale_, iv. 2. =A society of people will cursorily represent a certain culture, though there is not a gentleman or a lady in the group.= _Emerson._ =A soldier, / Seeking the bubble reputation / Even in the cannon's mouth.= _As You Like It_, ii. 7. =A solis ortu usque ad occasum=--From where the sun rises to where it sets. =A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.= 5 _Henry Giles._ =A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things.= _Tennyson._ =A sorrow shared is but half a trouble, / But a joy that's shared is a joy made double.= _Pr._ =A' sottili cascano le brache=--The cloak sometimes falls off a cunning man. _It. Pr._ =A soul without reflection, like a pile / Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.= _Young._ =A spark neglected makes a mighty fire.= _Herrick._ 10 =A species is a succession of individuals which perpetuates itself.= _Cuvier._ =Asperæ facetiæ ubi multum ex vero traxere, acrem sui memoriam relinquunt=--Satire, when it comes near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it. _Tac._ =Asperius nihil est humili, cum surgit in altum=--Nothing is more offensive than a low-bred man in a high station. _Claud._ =Aspettare e non venire, / Stare in letto e non dormire, / Ben servire e non gradire, / Son tre cose da morire=--To wait for what never comes, to lie abed and not sleep, to serve and not be advanced, are three things to die of. _It. Pr._ =A spirit may be known from only a single= 15 =thought.= _Swedenborg._ =As poor as Job.= _Merry Wives_, v. 5. =A spot is most seen on the finest cloth.= _Pr._ =As proud go behind as before.= _Pr._ =A spur in the head is worth two in the heels.= _Pr._ =As reason is a rebel unto faith, so is passion= 20 =unto reason.= _Sir T. Browne._ =Assai acqua passa per il molino, che il molinaio non se n'accorge=--A good deal of water passes by the mill which the miller takes no note of. _It. Pr._ =Assai basta, e troppo guasta=--Enough is enough, and too much spoils. _It. Pr._ =Assai ben balla, à chi fortuna suona=--He dances well to whom fortune pipes. _It. Pr._ =Assai è ricco à chi non manca=--He is rich enough who has no wants. _It. Pr._ =Assai guadagna chi vano sperar perde=--He 25 gains a great deal who loses a vain hope. _It. Pr._ =Assai sa, chi non sa, se tacer sa=--He who knows not, knows a good deal if he knows how to hold his tongue. _It. Pr._ =Assez a qui se contente=--He has enough who is content. _Fr. Pr._ =Assez dort qui rien ne fait=--He sleeps enough who does nothing. _Fr. Pr._ =Assez gagne qui malheur perd=--He gains enough who gets rid of a sorrow. _Fr. Pr._ =Assez sait qui sait vivre et se taire=--He knows 30 enough who knows how to live and how to keep his own counsel. _Fr. Pr._ =Assez tôt si assez bien=--Soon enough if well enough. _Fr. Pr._ =Assez y a, si trop n'y a=--There is enough where there is not too much. _Fr. Pr._ =Associate with the good, and you will be esteemed one of them.= _Sp. Pr._ =As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form, / Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm, / Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, / Eternal sunshine settles on its head.= _Goldsmith._ =As soon as a man is born he begins to die.= 35 _Ger. Pr._ =As soon as beauty is sought, not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.= _Emerson._ =As soon as the soul sees any object, it stops before that object.= _Emerson._ =Assume a virtue, if you have it not.= _Ham._, iii. 4. =Assumpsit=--An action on a verbal promise. _L._ =Assurance is two-thirds of success.= _Gael. Pr._ 40 =A state is never greater than when all its superfluous hands are employed in the service of the public.= _Hume._ =A state of violence cannot be perpetual, or disaster and ruin would be universal.= _Bp. Burnet._ =A statesman requires rather a large converse with men, and much intercourse in life, than deep study of books.= _Burke._ =A stern discipline pervades all Nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind.= _Spenser._ =As the births of living creatures at first are= 45 =ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.= _Bacon._ =As the first order of wisdom is to know thyself, so the first order of charity is to be sufficient for thyself.= _Ruskin._ =As the fool thinks, the bell clinks.= _Pr._ =As the good man saith, so say we: / As the good woman saith, so it must be.= _Pr._ =As the husband is, the wife is: / Thou art mated with a clown, / And the grossness of his nature / Will have weight to drag thee down.= _Tennyson._ =As the man is, so is his strength.= _Bible._ 50 =As the old cock crows, the young one learns.= _Pr._ =As there is no worldly gain without some loss, so there is no worldly loss without some gain.= _Quarles._ =As the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, / So honour peereth in the meanest habit.= _Tam. of Shrew_, iv. 3. =As the youth lives in the future, so the man lives with the past; no one knows rightly how to live in the present.= _Grillparzer._ =As thy days, so shall thy strength be.= _Bible._ 55 =A still, small voice.= _Bible._ =A stitch in time saves nine.= _Pr._ =As to the value of conversions, God alone can judge.= _Goethe._ =Astra castra, numen lumen=--The stars my camp, the deity my light. _M._ =Astræa redux=--Return of the goddess of justice. 60 =A straight line is the shortest in morals as well as in geometry.= _Rahel._ =A strange fish.= _Tempest_, ii. 2. =Astra regunt homines, sed regit astra Deus=--The stars govern men, but God governs the stars. =A strenuous soul hates cheap success.= _Emerson._ =A strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment.= _Montaigne._ =A strong soil that has produced weeds may be made to produce wheat with far less difficulty than it would cost to make it produce nothing.= _Colton._ =Astronomy has revealed the great truth that= 5 =the whole universe is bound together by one all-pervading influence.= _Leitch._ =A' Stuarts are no sib (related) to the king= (the family name of the Scotch kings being Stuart). _Sc. Pr._ =Astutior coccyge=--More crafty than the cuckoo (who deposits her eggs in another bird's nest). _Pr._ =A subject's faults a subject may proclaim, / A monarch's errors are forbidden game.= _Cowper._ =A substitute shines brightly as a king, until a king be by.= _Mer. of Ven._, v. 1. =A sudden thought strikes me, / Let us swear= 10 =an eternal friendship.= _Canning._ =A sunbeam passes through pollution unpolluted.= _Eusebius._ =A surfeit of sweetest things.= _Mid. N.'s Dream_, ii. 3. =As water spilt upon the ground, which cannot be gathered up again.= _Bible._ =As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.= _Froude._ =As we are born to work, so others are born to= 15 =watch over us while working.= _Goldsmith._ =As weel be oot o' the world as oot o' the fashion.= _Sc. Pr._ =As wholesome meat corrupteth to little worms, so good forms and orders corrupt into a number of petty observances.= _Bacon._ =As yet a child, not yet a fool to fame, / I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.= _Pope._ =As you do to others, expect others to do to you.= _Pr._ =As you make your bed you must lie on it.= _Pr._ 20 =As you sow you shall reap.= _Pr._ =A tale never loses in the telling.= _Pr._ =A talisman that shall turn base metal into precious, Nature acknowledges not; but a talisman to turn base souls into noble, Nature has given us; and that is a "philosopher's stone," but it is a stone which the builders refuse.= _Ruskin._ =A tâtons=--Groping. _Fr._ =A tattler is worse than a thief.= _Pr._ 25 =A (man of) teachable mind will hang about a wise man's neck.= _Bp. Patrick._ =At every trifle scorn to take offence; / That always shows great pride or little sense.= _Pope._ =At first one omits writing for a little while; and then one stays a little while to consider of excuses; and at last it grows desperate, and one does not write at all.= _Swift._ [Greek: Athanatous men prôta theous, nomô hôs diakeitai Tima]--Reverence, first of all, the immortal gods, as prescribed by law. _Pythagoras._ =At the gates of the forest the surprised man= 30 =of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and foolish.= _Emerson._ =Atheism is rather in the life than in the heart of man.= _Bacon._ =Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erecteth an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.= _Bacon._ =A thief knows a thief, as a wolf knows a wolf.= _Pr._ =A thing is the bigger of being shared.= _Gael. Pr._ =A thing is what it is, only in and by means of= 35 =its limit.= _Hegel._ =A thing is worth what it= _can_ =do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.= _Ruskin._ =A thing of beauty is a joy for ever; / Its loveliness increases; it will never / Pass into nothingness.= _Keats._ =A thing you don't want is dear at any price.= _Pr._ =A thinking man is the worst enemy the Prince of Darkness can have.= _Carlyle._ =A third interprets motion, looks, and eyes, /= 40 =At every word a reputation dies.= _Pope._ =A thorn is a changed bud.= _T. Lynch._ =A thorough-paced antiquary not only remembers what others have thought proper to forget, but he also forgets what others think proper to remember.= _Colton._ =A thousand years scarce serve to form a state; / An hour may lay it in the dust.= _Byron._ =A thread will tie an honest man better than a rope will do a rogue.= _Sc. Pr._ =A threatened blow is seldom given.= _Pr._ 45 =A threefold cord is not quickly broken.= _Bible._ =A thrill passes through all men at the reception of a new truth, or at the performance of a great action, which comes out of the heart of nature.... By the necessity of our constitution, a certain enthusiasm attends the individual's consciousness of that Divine presence.= _Emer