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, driven round and round by an evil spirit, while there extends on all sides of him a beautiful green meadow-pasture.= _Goethe._ ="A few strong instincts and a few plain rules"= 35 =suffice us.= _Emerson, from Wordsworth._ =Affaire d'amour=--A love affair. _Fr._ =Affaire d'honneur=--An affair of honour; a duel. _Fr._ =Affaire du cœur=--An affair of the heart. _Fr._ =Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.= _Guicciardini._ =Affection lights a brighter flame / Than ever= 40 =blazed by art.= _Cowper._ =Affirmatim=--In the affirmative. =Afflavit Deus et dissipantur=--God sent forth his breath, and they are scattered. _Inscription on medal struck to commemorate the destruction of the Spanish Armada._ =Afflictions are blessings in disguise.= _Pr._ =A fiery soul, which, working out its way / Fretted the pigmy body to decay.= _Dryden._ =A fin=--To the end. 45 =A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.= _J. Roux._ =A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism.= _Victor Hugo._ =A flute lay side by side with Frederick the Great's baton of command.= _Jean Paul._ =A fly is as untamable as a hyena.= _Emerson._ =A fog cannot be dispelled with a fan.= _Japan. Pr._ 50 =A fond=--Thoroughly (_lit._ to the bottom). =A fonte puro pura defluit aqua=--From a pure spring pure water flows. _Pr._ =A fortiori=--With stronger reason. =A fool always accuses other people; a partially wise man, himself; a wholly wise man, neither himself nor others.= _Herder._ =A fool always finds a greater fool to admire= 55 =him.= _Boileau._ =A fool and his money are soon parted.= _Pr._ =A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.= _Bulwer._ =A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.= _Colton._ =A fool is wise in his own conceit.= _Pr._ =A fool knows more in his own house than a= 60 =wise man in another's.= _Pr._ =A fool may give a wise man counsel.= _Pr._ =A fool may make money, but it takes a wise man to spend it.= _Pr._ =A fool may sometimes have talent, but he never has judgment.= _La Roche._ =A fool may speer= (ask) =mair questions than a wise man can answer.= _Sc. Pr._ =A fool resents good counsel, but a wise man= 65 =lays it to heart.= _Confucius._ =A fool's bolt is soon shot.= _Hen. V._, iii. 7. =A fool's bolt may sometimes hit the mark.= _Pr._ =A fool when he is silent is counted wise.= _Pr._ =A fool who has a flash of wit creates astonishment and scandal, like a hack-horse setting out to gallop.= _Chamfort._ =A fop is the mercer's friend, the tailor's fool, and his own foe.= _Lavater._ =A force de mal aller tout ira bien=--By dint of going wrong all will go right. _Fr. Pr._ =A force de peindre le diable sur les murs, il finit par apparaître en personne=--If you keep painting the devil on the walls, he will by and by appear to you in person. _Fr. Pr._ =A friend in court makes the process short.= _Pr._ 5 =A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.= _Emerson._ =A friend is never known till needed.= _Pr._ =A friend loveth at all times.= _Bible._ =A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature.= _Emerson._ =A friend's eye is a good looking-glass.= _Gael. Pr._ 10 =A friendship will be young at the end of a century, a passion old at the end of three months.= _Nigu._ =A friend to everybody is a friend to nobody.= _Pr._ =A fronte præcipitium, a tergo lupus=--A precipice before, a wolf behind. _Pr._ =After dinner rest awhile; after supper walk a mile.= _Pr._ =After life's fitful fever he sleeps well.= _Macb._, 15 iii. 2. =After meat mustard=, _i.e._, too late. =After the spirit of discernment, the next rarest things in the world are diamonds and pearls.= _La Bruyère._ =After-wit is everybody's wit.= _Pr._ =A full cup is hard to carry.= _Pr._ =A ganging fit (foot) is aye getting.= _Sc. Pr._ 20 =A gauche=--To the left. _Fr._ =Age does not make us childish, as people say; it only finds us still true children.= _Goethe._ =Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.= _G. W. Curtis._ =Age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.= _Colton._ =A genius is one who is endowed with an excess= 25 =of nervous energy and sensibility.= _Schopenhauer._ =Agent de change=--A stockbroker. _Fr._ =A gentleman makes no noise; a lady is serene.= _Emerson._ =A gentleman's first characteristic is fineness of nature.= _Ruskin._ =A gentleman that will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.= _Rom. and Jul._, ii. 4. =Age quod agis=--Attend to (_lit._ do) what you are 30 doing. =Agere considerate pluris est quam cogitare prudenter=--It is of more consequence to act considerately than to think sagely. _Cic._ =Agiotage=--Stockbroking. _Fr._ =A giving hand, though foul, shall have fair praise.= _Love's L. Lost_, iv. 1. =Agnosco veteris vestigia flammæ=--I own I feel traces of an old passion. _Virg._ =A God all mercy is a God unjust.= _Young._ 35 =A God speaks softly in our breast; softly, yet distinctly, shows us what to hold by and what to shun.= _Goethe._ =A gold key opens every door.= _Pr._ =A good bargain is a pick-purse.= _Pr._ =A good beginning makes a good ending.= _Pr._ =A good book is the precious life-blood of a= 40 =master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.= _Milton._ =A good friend is my nearest relation.= _Pr._ =A good horse should be seldom spurred.= _Pr._ =A good inclination is only the first rude draught of virtue, but the finishing strokes are from the will.= _South._ =A good king is a public servant.= _Ben Jonson._ =A good laugh is sunshine in a house.= _Thackeray._ 45 =A good law is one that holds, whether you recognise it or not; a bad law is one that cannot, however much you ordain it.= _Ruskin._ =A good man in his dark striving is, I should say, conscious of the right way.= _Goethe._ =A good man shall be satisfied from himself.= _Bible._ =A good marksman may miss.= _Pr._ =A good name is sooner lost than won.= _Pr._ 50 =A good presence is a letter of recommendation.= _Pr._ =A good reader is nearly as rare as a good writer.= _Willmott._ =A good rider on a good horse is as much above himself and others as the world can make him.= _Lord Herbert of Cherbury._ =A good road and a wise traveller are two different things.= _Pr._ =A good solid bit of work lasts.= _George Eliot._ 55 =A good surgeon must have an eagle's eye, a lion's heart, and a lady's hand.= _Pr._ =A good thought is a great boon.= _Bovee._ =A good wife and health are a man's best wealth.= _Pr._ =A gorge déployée=--With full throat. _Fr._ =A government for protecting business and= 60 =bread only is but a carcase, and soon falls by its own corruption to decay.= _A. B. Alcott._ =A government may not waver; once it has chosen its course, it must, without looking to right or left, thenceforth go forward.= _Bismarck._ =A grands frais=--At great expense. _Fr._ =A grave and a majestic exterior is the palace of the soul.= _Chinese Pr._ =A great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a soul full of new awe and new pity.= _George Eliot._ =A great deal may and must be done which we= 65 =dare not acknowledge in words.= _Goethe._ =A great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but less by assimilation than by friction.= _Heine._ =A great licentiousness treads on the heels of a reformation.= _Emerson._ =A great man is he who can call together the most select company when it pleases him.= _Landor._ =A great man is one who affects the mind of his generation.= _Disraeli._ =A great man living for high ends is the= 70 =divinest thing that can be seen on earth.= _G. S. Hillard._ =A great man quotes bravely, and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good.= _Emerson._ =A great master always appropriates what is good in his predecessors, and it is this which makes him great.= _Goethe._ =A great observer, and he looks / Quite through the deeds of men.= _Jul. Cæs._, i. 2. =A great reputation is a great noise; the more there is made, the farther off it is heard.= _Napoleon._ =A great revolution is never the fault of the= 5 =people, but of the government.= _Goethe._ =A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.= _Goethe._ =A great spirit errs as well as a little one, the former because it knows no bounds, the latter because it confounds its own horizon with that of the universe.= _Goethe._ =A great thing can only be done by a great man, and he does it without effort.= _Ruskin._ =A great thing is a great book, but greater than all is the talk of a great man.= _Disraeli._ =A great writer does not reveal himself here= 10 =and there, but everywhere.= _Lowell._ =Agree, for the law is costly.= _Pr._ =A green winter makes a fat churchyard.= _Pr._ =A grey eye is a sly eye; a brown one indicates a roguish humour; a blue eye expresses fidelity; while the sparkling of a dark eye is, like the ways of Providence, always a riddle.= _Bodenstedt._ =A growing youth has a wolf in his belly.= _Pr._ =Agues come on horseback and go away on= 15 =foot.= _Pr._ =A guilty conscience needs no accuser.= _Pr._ =A hair of the dog that bit him.= _Pr._ =A haute voix=--Loudly; audibly. _Fr._ =A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.= _Gibbon._ =A hedge between, keeps friendship green.= _Pr._ 20 =Ah! il n'y a plus d'enfants=--Ah! there are no children now-a-days! _Mol._ =Ah me! for aught that ever I could read ... / The course of true love never did run smooth.= _Mid. N.'s Dream_, i. 1. =Ah me! how sweet this world is to the dying!= _Schiller._ =A hook's well lost to catch a salmon.= _Pr._ =A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse.= 25 _Rich. III._, v. 4. =Ah! pour être dévot, je n'en suis pas moins homme=--Though I am a religious man, I am not therefore the less a man. _Mol._ =Ah! quam dulce est meminisse=--Ah! how sweet it is to remember! _M._ =Ah! that deceit should steal such gentle shapes / And with a virtuous visor hide deep vice.= _Rich. III._, ii. 2. =A hundred years cannot repair a moment's loss of honour.= _Pr._ =A hungry belly has no ears.= _Pr._ 30 =Ah! vitam perdidi operose nihil agendo=--I have lost my life, alas! in laboriously doing nothing. _Grotius._ =Aide-toi, et le ciel t'aidera=--Help yourself and Heaven will help you. _Fr._ [Greek: Ai symphorai poiousi makrologous]--Misfortunes make men talk loquaciously. _Appian._ [Greek: Aidôs olôlen]--Modesty has died out. _Theognis._ =Ainsi que son esprit, tout peuple a son langage=--Every 35 nation has its own language as well as its own temperament. _Voltaire._ =Air de fête=--Looking festive. _Fr._ =Air distingué=--Distinguished looking. _Fr._ =Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.= _Lavater._ =Aisé à dire est difficile à faire=--Easy to say is hard to do