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ut that question.= _Carlyle._ =Amittit famam qui se indignis comparat=--He loses repute who compares himself with unworthy people. _Phædr._ =Amittit merito proprium, qui alienum appetit=--He who covets what is another's, deservedly loses what is his own. (Moral of the fable of the dog and the shadow.) _Phædr._ =Am meisten Unkraut trägt der fettste Boden=--The fattest soil brings forth the most weeds. _Ger. Pr._ =A mob is a body voluntarily bereaving itself= 50 =of reason and traversing its work.= _Emerson._ =A modest confession of ignorance is the ripest and last attainment of philosophy.= _R. D. Hitchcock._ =A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.= _Holmes._ =A monarchy is apt to fall by tyranny; an aristocracy, by ambition; a democracy, by tumults.= _Quarles._ =Among nations the head has alway preceded the heart by centuries.= _Jean Paul._ =Among the blind the one-eyed is a king.= _Pr._ 55 =Amor al cor gentil ratto s' apprende.=--Love is quickly learned by a noble heart. _Dante._ =Amor a nullo amato amar perdona=--Love spares no loved one from loving. _Dante._ =Amor bleibt ein Schalk, und wer ihm vertraut, ist betrogen=--Cupid is ever a rogue, and whoever trusts him is deceived. _Goethe._ =Amore è di sospetti fabro=--Love is a forger of suspicions. _It. Pr._ =Amore sitis uniti=--Be ye united in love. 60 =Amor et melle et felle est fecundissimus=--Love is most fruitful both of honey and gall. _Plaut._ =Amor et obœdientia=--Love and obedience. _M._ =Amor gignit amorem=--Love begets love. =Amor omnibus idem=--Love is the same in all. _Virg._ =Amor patriæ=--Love of one's country. 65 =Amor proximi=--Love for one's neighbour. =Amor tutti eguaglia=--Love makes all equal. _It. Pr._ =Amoto quæramus seria ludo=--Jesting aside, let us give attention to serious business. _Hor._ =Amour avec loyaulté=--Love with loyalty. _M._ =Amour fait moult, argent fait tout=--Love can do much, but money can do everything. _Fr. Pr._ =Amour propre=--Vanity; self-love. _Fr._ =A mouse never trusts its life to one hole only.= 5 _Plaut._ =Amphora cœpit / Institui: currente rota cur urceus exit?=--A vase was begun; why from the revolving wheel does it turn out a worthless pitcher? _Hor._ =Ampliat ætatis spatium sibi vir bonus; hoc est / Vivere bis vitâ posse priore frui=--The good man extends the term of his life; it is to live twice, to be able to enjoy one's former life. _Mar._ =Am Rhein, am Rhein, da wachsen uns're Reben=--On the Rhine, on the Rhine, there grow our vines! _Claudius._ =Am sausenden Webstuhl der Zeit=--On the noisy loom of Time. _Goethe._ =Amt ohne Geld macht Diebe=--Office without 10 pay makes thieves. _Ger. Pr._ =A mucho hablar, mucho errar=--Talk much, err much. _Sp. Pr._ =A multitude of sparks yields but a sorry light.= _Amiel._ =Anacharsis among the Scythians=--A wise man among unwise. =An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia.= _Macaulay._ =An acre of performance is worth a whole world= 15 =of promise.= _Howell._ =Analysis is not the business of the poet. His office is to portray, not to dissect.= _Macaulay._ =Analysis kills spontaneity, just as grain, once it is ground into flour, no longer springs and germinates.= _Amiel._ =An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth.= _Sir H. Wotten._ =An ambitious man is slave to everybody.= _Feijoó._ =A name is no despicable matter. Napoleon,= 20 =for the sake of a great name, broke in pieces almost half a world.= _Goethe._ =An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.= _Bismarck._ =An archer is known by his aim, not by his arrows.= _Pr._ =An arc in the movement of a large intellect does not differ sensibly from a straight line.= _Holmes._ =An Argus at home, a mole abroad.= _Pr._ =An army, like a serpent, goes on its belly.= 25 _Frederick the Great_ (?). =A narrow faith has much more energy than an enlightened one.= _Amiel._ =An artist is a person who has submitted to a law which it is painful to obey, that he may bestow a delight which it is gracious to bestow.= _Ruskin._ =An artist is only then truly praised by us when we forget him in his work.= _Lessing._ =An artist must have his measuring tools, not in the hand, but in the eye.= _Michael Angelo._ =An artist should be fit for the best society, and= 30 =should keep out of it.= _Ruskin._ =An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.= _George Eliot._ =A nation which labours, and takes care of the fruits of labour, would be rich and happy, though there were no gold in the universe.= _Ruskin._ [Greek: Ananka d' oude theoi machontai]--The gods themselves do not fight against necessity. _Gr. Pr._ =Anche il mar, che è si grande, si pacifica=--Even the sea, great though it be, grows calm. _It. Pr._ =Anch' io sono pittore=--I too am a painter. _Correggio_ 35 _before a picture of Raphael's._ =Anche la rana morderebbe se avesse denti=--Even the frog would bite if it had teeth. _It. Pr._ =Ancient art corporealises the spiritual; modern spiritualises the corporeal.= _Börne._ =Ancient art is plastic; modern, pictorial.= _Schlegel._ =And better had they ne'er been born / Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.= _Scott._ =And can eternity belong to me, / Poor pensioner= 40 =on the bounties of an hour?= _Young._ =And earthly power doth then show likest God's, / When mercy seasons justice.= _Mer. of Ven._, iv. 1. =And e'en his failings lean'd to virtue's side.= _Goldsmith._ =And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost.= _Milton._ =And he is oft the wisest man / Who is not wise at all.= _Wordsworth._ ="And is this all?" cried Cæsar at his height,= 45 =disgusted.= _Young._ =An dives sit omnes quærunt, nemo an bonus=--Every one inquires if he is rich; no one asks if he is good. =And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair.= _Byron._ =And much it grieved my heart to think / What man has made of man.= _Wordsworth._ =And, often times, excusing of a fault / Doth make the fault worse by the excuse.= _King John_, iv. 2. =And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, /= 50 =And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot, / And thereby hangs a tale.= _As You Like It_, ii. 7. =And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, / That one small head could carry all he knew.= _Goldsmith._ =And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.= _As You Like It_, ii. 1. =A needle's eye is wide enough for two friends; the whole world is too narrow for two foes.= _Pers. Pr._ [Greek: Anechou kai apechou]--Bear and forbear. _Epictetus._ =A nemico che fugge, fa un ponte d'oro=--Make 55 a bridge of gold for an enemy who is flying from you. _It. Pr._ =An empty purse fills the face with wrinkles.= _Pr._ =An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.= _Whipple._ [Greek: Anêr ho pheugôn kai palin machêsetai]--The man who runs away will fight again. =An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.= _Amiel._ =An evening red and morning grey, is a sure sign of a fair day.= _Pr._ =A new broom sweeps clean.= _Pr._ =A new life begins when a man once sees with his own eyes all that before he has but partially read or heard of.= _Goethe._ =A new principle is an inexhaustible source of new views.= _Vauvenargues._ =An eye like Mars, to threaten or command.= 5 _Ham._, iii. 4. =Anfang heiss, Mittel lau, Ende kalt=--The beginning hot, the middle lukewarm, the end cold. _Ger. Pr._ =Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.= _Macb._, iv. 3. =Angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.= _George Eliot._ =Anger is like / A full-hot horse; who, being allow'd his way, / Self-mettle tires him.= _Hen. VIII._, i. 2. =Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.= _Fuller._ 10 =Anger resteth in the bosom of fools.= _Bible._ =Anger, when it is long in coming, is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept.= _Quarles._ =Anglicè=--In English. =Angling is somewhat like poetry; men are to be born so.= _Isaak Walton._ =Anguis in herbâ=--A snake in the grass. 15 =An honest citizen who maintains himself industriously has everywhere as much freedom as he wants.= _Goethe._ =An honest man's the noblest work of God.= _Pope._ =An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told.= _Rich. III._, iv. 4. =An idle brain is the devil's workshop.= _Pr._ =An idler is a watch that wants both hands; /= 20 =As useless if it goes as if it stands.= _Cowper._ =An ill-willie (ill-natured) cow should have short horns.= _Sc. Pr._ =An ill wind that blows nobody good.= _Pr._ =An ill workman quarrels with his tools.= _Pr._ =Animal implume bipes=--A two-legged animal without feathers. _Plato's definition of man._ =Animals can enjoy, but only men can be cheerful.= 25 _Jean Paul._ =Anima mundi=--The soul of the world. =Animo ægrotanti medicus est oratio=--Kind words are as a physician to an afflicted spirit. _Pr._ =Animo et fide=--By courage and faith. _M._ =Animo, non astutia=--By courage, not by craft. _M._ =Animum pictura pascit inani=--He feeds his soul 30 on the unreal picture. _Virg._ =Animum rege, qui nisi paret imperat=--Rule your spirit well, for if it is not subject to you, it will lord it over you. _Hor._ =Animus æquus optimum est ærumnæ condimentum=--A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble. _Plaut._ =Animus furandi=--The intention of stealing. _L._ =Animus homini, quicquid sibi imperat, obtinet=--The mind of man can accomplish whatever it resolves on. =Animus hominis semper appetit agere aliquid=--The 35 mind of man is always longing to do something. _Cic._ =Animus non deficit æquus=--Equanimity does not fail us. _M._ =Animus quod perdidit optat / Atque in præterita se totus imagine versat=--The mind yearns after what is gone, and loses itself in dreaming of the past. _Petron._ =An indifferent agreement is better than a good verdict.= _Pr._ =An individual helps not; only he who unites with many at the proper time.= _Goethe._ =An individual man is a fruit which it cost all= 40 =the foregoing ages to form and ripen.= _Emerson._ =An infant crying in the night, / An infant crying for the light; / And with no language but a cry.= _Tennyson._ =An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.= _Ruskin._ =An innocent man needs no eloquence; his innocence is instead of it.= _Ben Jonson._ =An iron hand in a velvet glove.= _Charles V., said of a gentle compulsion._ =An irreverent knowledge is no knowledge;= 45 =it may be a development of the logical or other handicraft faculty, but is no culture of the soul of a man.= _Carlyle._ =An nescis longas regibus esse manus?=--Do you not know that kings have long, _i.e._, far-grasping, hands? _Ovid._ =An nescis, quantilla prudentia mundus regatur= (_or_ =regatur orbis=)?--Do you not know with how very little wisdom the world is governed? _Axel Oxenstjerna to his son._ =An nic