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| A man must seek his happiness and inward peace from objects which cannot be taken away from him. W. von Humboldt. | 755 |
| A man must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion. Emerson. | 756 |
| A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents. Emerson. | 757 |
| A man must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into certainty of Yes or No. Carlyle. | 758 |
| A man must wait for the right moment. Schopenhauer. | 759 |
| A man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for. Schopenhauer. | 760 |
| A man never rises so high as when he knows not whither he is going. Oliver Cromwell. | 761 |
| A man of intellect without energy added to it is a failure. Chamfort. | 762 |
| A man of maxims only is like a Cyclops with one eye, and that eye in the back of his head. Coleridge. | 763 |
| A man of pleasure is a man of pains. Young. | 764 |
| A man often pays dear for a small frugality. Emerson. | 765 |
| A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be. La Bruyère. | 766 |
| A man of wit would often be much embarrassed without the company of fools. La Rochefoucauld. | 767 |
| A man only understands what is akin to some things already in his mind. Amiel. | 768 |
| A man places himself on a level with him whom he praises. Goethe. | 769 |
| A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth. Carlyle. | 770 |
| A man so various, that he seem’d to be, / Not one, but all mankind’s epitome. Dryden. | 771 |
| A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he have lost no time. Bacon. | 772 |
| A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected. Johnson. | 773 |
| A man who cannot gird himself into harness will take no weight along these highways. Carlyle. | 774 |
| A man who claps his Pegasus into a harness, and urges on his muse with the whip, will have to pay to Nature the penalty of this trespass. Schopenhauer. | 775 |
| A man who does not know rigour cannot pity either. Carlyle. | 776 |
| A man who feels that his religion is a slavery has not begun to comprehend the real nature of it. J. G. Holland. | 777 |
| A man who has nothing to do is the devil’s playfellow. J. G. Holland. | 778 |
| A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is ignorant of his own. Goethe. | 779 |
| A man who reads much becomes arrogant and pedantic; one who sees much becomes wise, sociable, and helpful. Lichtenberg. | 780 |
| A man will love or hate solitude—that is, his own society—according as he is himself worthy or worthless. Schopenhauer. | 781 |
| A man will not be observed in doing that which he can do best. Emerson. | 782 |
| A man with half a volition goes backwards and forwards, and makes no way on the smoothest road. Carlyle. | 783 |
| A man with knowledge but without energy, is a house furnished but not inhabited; a man with energy but no knowledge, a house dwelt in but unfurnished. John Sterling. | 784 |
| A man’s a man for a’ that. Burns. | 785 |
| A man’s aye crousest in his ain cause. Scotch Proverb. | 786 |
| A man’s best fortune or his worst is his wife. Proverb. | 787 |
| A man’s best things are nearest him, / Lie close about his feet. Monckton Milnes. | 788 |
| A man’s fate is his own temper. Disraeli. | 789 |
| A man’s friends belong no more to him than he to them. Schopenhauer. | 790 |
| A man’s gift makes room for him. Proverb. | 791 |
| A man’s happiness consists infinitely more in admiration of the faculties of others than in confidence in his own. Ruskin. | 792 |
| A man’s house is his castle. Proverb. | 793 |
| A man’s power is hooped in by a necessity, which, by many experiments, he touches on every side until he learns its arc. Emerson. | 794 |
| A man’s task is always light if his heart is light. Lew Wallace. | 795 |
| A man’s virtue is to be measured not by his extraordinary efforts, but his everyday conduct. Pascal. | 796 |
| A man’s walking is a succession of falls. Proverb. | 797 |
| A man’s wife is his blessing or his bane. Gaelic Proverb. | 798 |
| Amantes, amentes—In love, in delirium. Terence. | 799 |
| Amantium iræ amoris redintegratio est—The quarrels of lovers bring about a renewal of love. Terence. | 800 |
| A man who cannot mind his own business is not to be trusted with the king’s. Saville. | 801 |
| A ma puissance—To my power. Maxim. | 802 |
| Amare et sapere vix deo conceditur—To be in love and act wisely is scarcely in the power of a god. Faber. | 803 |
| [Greek]—Proneness to sin cleaves fast to mortal men. Theognis. | 804 |
| Ambigendi locus—Reason for questioning or doubt. | 805 |
| Ambiguas in vulgum spargere voces—To scatter ambiguous reports among the people. Virgil. | 806 |
| Ambition is not a vice of little people. Montaigne. | 807 |
| Ambition is the germ from which all growth in nobleness proceeds. T. D. English. | 808 |
| Ambos oder Hammer—One must be either anvil or hammer. German Proverb. | 809 |
| Ame damnée—Mere tool, underling. French. | 810 |
| Ame de boue—Base, mean soul. French. | 811 |
| Amende honorable—Satisfactory apology; reparation. French. | 812 |
| A mensâ et thoro—From bed and board; divorced. | 813 |
| A menteur, menteur à demi—To a liar, a liar and a half, i.e., one be a match for him. French. | 814 |
| Amentium, haud amantium—Of lunatics, not lovers. | 815 |
| A merchant shall hardly keep himself from doing wrong. Ecclesiasticus. | 816 |
| A merciful man is merciful to his beast. Bible. | 817 |
| A mere madness to live like a wretch and die rich. Burton. | 818 |
| A merry heart doeth good like a medicine; but a broken spirit drieth the bones. Bible. | 819 |
| A merveille—To a wonder. French. | 820 |
| Am Golde hängt doch Alles—On gold, after all, hangs everything. Margaret in “Faust.” | 821 |
| Amici, diem perdidi—Friends, I have lost a day. Titus (at the close of a day on which he had done good to no one). | 822 |
| Amici probantur rebus adversis—Friends are proved by adversity. Cicero. | 823 |
| Amici vitium ni feras, prodis tuum—Unless you bear with the faults of a friend, you betray your own. Publius Syrus. | 824 |
| Amico d’ognuno, amico di nessuno—Everybody’s friend is nobody’s friend. Italian Proverb. | 825 |
| Amicorum esse communia omnia—Friends’ goods are all common property. Proverb. | 826 |
| Amicum ita habeas posse ut fieri hunc inimicum scias—Be on such terms with your friend as if you knew he may one day become your enemy. Labertius. | 827 |
| Amicum perdere est damnorum maximum—To lose a friend is the greatest of losses. Publius Syrus. | 828 |
| Amicus animæ dimidium—A friend the half of life. | 829 |
| Amicus certus in re incerta cernitur—A true friend is seen when fortune wavers. Ennius. | 830 |
| Amicus curiæ—A friend to the court, i.e., an uninterested adviser in a case. | 831 |
| Amicus est unus animus in duobus corporibus—A friend is one soul in two bodies. Aristotle. | 832 |
| Amicus humani generis—A friend of the human race. | 833 |
| Amicus Plato, sed magis amica veritas—Plato is my friend, but truth is my divinity (lit. more a friend). | 834 |
| Amicus usque ad aras—A friend to the very altar, i.e., to the death. | 835 |
| A mighty maze! but not without a plan. Pope. | 836 |
| A millstone and a man’s heart are kept constantly revolving; where they have nothing to grind, they grind and fray away their own substance. Logan. | 837 |
| A mirror is better than a whole gallery of ancestral portraits. Menzel. | 838 |
| A miser is as furious about a halfpenny as the man of ambition about the conquest of a kingdom. Adam Smith. | 839 |
| A miss is as good as a mile. Proverb. | 840 |
| “Am I to be saved? or am I to be lost?” Certain to be lost, so long as you put that question. Carlyle. | 841 |
| Amittit famam qui se indignis comparat—He loses repute who compares himself with unworthy people. Phædrus. | 842 |
| 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). Phædrus. | 843 |
| Am meisten Unkraut trägt der fettste Boden—The fattest soil brings forth the most weeds. German Proverb. | 844 |
| A mob is a body voluntarily bereaving itself of reason and traversing its work. Emerson. | 845 |
| A modest confession of ignorance is the ripest and last attainment of philosophy. R. D. Hitchcock. | 846 |
| A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience. Holmes. | 847 |
| A monarchy is apt to fall by tyranny; an aristocracy, by ambition; a democracy, by tumults. Quarles. | 848 |
| Among nations the head has always preceded the heart by centuries. Jean Paul. | 849 |
| Among the blind the one-eyed is a king. Proverb. | 850 |
| Amor al cor gentil ratto s’ apprende.—Love is quickly learned by a noble heart. Dante. | 851 |
| Amor a nullo amato amar perdona—Love spares no loved one from loving. Dante. | 852 |
| Amor bleibt ein Schalk, und wer ihm vertraut, ist betrogen—Cupid is ever a rogue, and whoever trusts him is deceived. Goethe. | 853 |
| Amore è di sospetti fabro—Love is a forger of suspicions. Italian Proverb. | 854 |
| Amore sitis uniti—Be ye united in love. | 855 |
| Amor et melle et felle est fecundissimus—Love is most fruitful both of honey and gall. Plautus. | 856 |
| Amor et obœdientia—Love and obedience. Motto. | 857 |
| Amor gignit amorem—Love begets love. | 858 |
| Amor omnibus idem—Love is the same in all. Virgil. | 859 |
| Amor patriæ—Love of one’s country. | 860 |
| Amor proximi—Love for one’s neighbour. | 861 |
| Amor tutti eguaglia—Love makes all equal. Italian Proverb. | 862 |
| Amoto quæramus seria ludo—Jesting aside, let us give attention to serious business. Horace. | 863 |
| Amour avec loyaulte—Love with loyalty. Motto. | 864 |
| Amour fait moult, argent fait tout—Love can do much, but money can do everything. French Proverb. | 865 |
| Amour propre—Vanity; self-love. French. | 866 |
| A mouse never trusts its life to one hole only. Plautus. | 867 |
| Amphora cœpit / Institui: currente rota cur urceus exit?—A vase was begun; why from the revolving wheel does it turn out a worthless pitcher? Horace. | 868 |
| 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. Martial. | 869 |
| Am Rhein, am Rhein, da wachsen uns’re Reben—On the Rhine, on the Rhine, there grow our vines! Claudius. | 870 |
| Am sausenden Webstuhl der Zeit—On the noisy loom of Time. Goethe. | 871 |
| Amt ohne Geld macht Diebe—Office without pay makes thieves. German Proverb. | 872 |
| A mucho hablar, mucho errar—Talk much, err much. Spanish Proverb. | 873 |
| A multitude of sparks yields but a sorry light. Amiel. | 874 |
| Anacharsis among the Scythians—A wise man among unwise. | 875 |
| An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia. Macaulay. | 876 |
| An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise. Howell. | 877 |
| Analysis is not the business of the poet. His office is to portray, not to dissect. Macaulay. | 878 |
| Analysis kills spontaneity, just as grain, once it is ground into flour, no longer springs and germinates. Amiel. | 879 |
| An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth. Sir H. Wotten. | 880 |
| An ambitious man is slave to everybody. Feijóo. | 881 |
| A name is no despicable matter. Napoleon, for the sake of a great name, broke in pieces almost half a world. Goethe. | 882 |
| An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts. Bismarck. | 883 |
| An archer is known by his aim, not by his arrows. Proverb. | 884 |
| An arc in the movement of a large intellect does not differ sensibly from a straight line. Holmes. | 885 |
| An Argus at home, a mole abroad. Proverb. | 886 |
| An army, like a serpent, goes on its belly. Frederick the Great. (?) | 887 |
| A narrow faith has much more energy than an enlightened one. Amiel. | 888 |
| 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. | 889 |
| An artist is only then truly praised by us when we forget him in his work. Lessing. | 890 |
| An artist must have his measuring tools, not in the hand, but in the eye. Michael Angelo. | 891 |
| An artist should be fit for the best society, and should keep out of it. Ruskin. | 892 |
| An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down. George Eliot. | 893 |
| 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. | 894 |
| [Greek]—The gods themselves do not fight against necessity. Greek Proverb. | 895 |
| Anche il mar, che è si grande, si pacifica—Even the sea, great though it be, grows calm. Italian Proverb. | 896 |
| Anch’ io sono pittore—I too am a painter. Correggio before a picture of Raphael’s. | 897 |
| Anche la rana morderebbe se avesse denti—Even the frog would bite if it had teeth. Italian Proverb. | 898 |
| Ancient art corporealises the spiritual; modern spiritualises the corporeal. Borne. | 899 |
| Ancient art is plastic; modern, pictorial. Schlegel. | 900 |
| And better had they ne’er been born / Who read to doubt, or read to scorn. Scott. | 901 |
| And can eternity belong to me, / Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour? Young. | 902 |
| And earthly power doth then show likest God’s, / When mercy seasons justice. Mer. of Ven., iv. 1. | 903 |
| And e’en his failings lean’d to virtue’s side. Goldsmith. | 904 |
| And found no end, in wand’ring mazes lost. Milton. | 905 |
| And he is oft the wisest man / Who is not wise at all. Wordsworth. | 906 |
| “And is this all?” cried Cæsar at his height, disgusted. Young. | 907 |
| An dives sit omnes quærunt, nemo an bonus—Every one inquires if he is rich; no one asks if he is good. | 908 |
| And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair. Byron. | 909 |
| And much it grieved my heart to think / What man has made of man. Wordsworth. | 910 |
| And, often times, excusing of a fault / Doth make the fault worse by the excuse. King John, iv. 2. | 911 |
| And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, / And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot, / And thereby hangs a tale. As You Like it, ii. 7. | 912 |
| And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, / That one small head could carry all he knew. Goldsmith. | 913 |
| 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. | 914 |
| A needle’s eye is wide enough for two friends; the whole world is too narrow for two foes. Persian Proverb. | 915 |
| [Greek]—Bear and forbear. Epictetus. | 916 |
| A nemico che fugge, fa un ponte d’oro—Make a bridge of gold for an enemy who is flying from you. Italian Proverb. | 917 |
| An empty purse fills the face with wrinkles. Proverb. | 918 |
| An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly. Whipple. | 919 |
| [Greek]—The man who runs away will fight again. | 920 |
| An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains. Amiel. | 921 |
| An evening red and morning grey, is a sure sign of a fair day. Proverb. | 922 |
| A new broom sweeps clean. Proverb. | 923 |
| 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. | 924 |
| A new principle is an inexhaustible source of new views. Vauvenargues. | 925 |
| An eye like Mars, to threaten or command. Hamlet, iii. 4. | 926 |
| Anfang heiss, Mittel lau, Ende kalt—The beginning hot, the middle lukewarm, the end cold. German Proverb. | 927 |
| Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell. Macbeth, iv. 3. | 928 |
| Angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. George Eliot. | 929 |
| Anger is like / A full-hot horse; who, being allow’d his way, / Self-mettle tires him. Henry VIII., i. 2. | 930 |
| Anger is one of the sinews of the soul. Fuller. | 931 |
| Anger resteth in the bosom of fools. Bible. | 932 |
| Anger, when it is long in coming, is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Quarles. | 933 |
| Anglicè—In English. | 934 |
| Angling is somewhat like poetry; men are to be born so. Isaak Walton. | 935 |
| Anguis in herbâ—A snake in the grass. | 936 |
| An honest citizen who maintains himself industriously has everywhere as much freedom as he wants. Goethe. | 937 |
| An honest man’s the noblest work of God. Pope. | 938 |
| An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told. Richard III., iv. 4. | 939 |
| An idle brain is the devil’s workshop. Proverb. | 940 |
| An idler is a watch that wants both hands; / As useless if it goes as if it stands. Cowper. | 941 |
| An ill-willie (ill-natured) cow should have short horns. Scotch Proverb. | 942 |
| An ill wind that blows nobody good. Proverb. | 943 |
| An ill workman quarrels with his tools. Proverb. | 944 |
| Animal implume bipes—A two-legged animal without feathers. Plato’s definition of man. | 945 |
| Animals can enjoy, but only men can be cheerful. Jean Paul. | 946 |
| Anima mundi—The soul of the world. | 947 |
| Animo ægrotanti medicus est oratio—Kind words are as a physician to an afflicted spirit. Proverb. | 948 |
| Animo et fide—By courage and faith. Maxim. | 949 |
| Animo, non astutia—By courage, not by craft. Maxim. | 950 |
| Animum pictura pascit inani—He feeds his soul on the unreal picture. Virgil. | 951 |
| Animum rege, qui nisi paret imperat—Rule your spirit well, for if it is not subject to you, it will lord it over you. Horace. | 952 |
| Animus æquus optimum est ærumnæ condimentum—A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble. Plautus. | 953 |
| Animus furandi—The intention of stealing. Law. | 954 |
| Animus homini, quicquid sibi imperat, obtinet—The mind of man can accomplish whatever it resolves on. | 955 |
| Animus hominis semper appetit agere aliquid—The mind of man is always longing to do something. Cicero. | 956 |
| Animus non deficit æquus—Equanimity does not fail us. Motto. | 957 |
| Animus quod perdidit optat / Atque in præteritâ se totus imagine versat—The mind yearns after what is gone, and loses itself in dreaming of the past. Petronius. | 958 |
| An indifferent agreement is better than a good verdict. Proverb. | 959 |
| An individual helps not; only he who unites with many at the proper time. Goethe. | 960 |
| An individual man is a fruit which it cost all the foregoing ages to form and ripen. Emerson. | 961 |
| An infant crying in the night, / An infant crying for the light; / And with no language but a cry. Tennyson. | 962 |
| An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men. Ruskin. | 963 |
| An innocent man needs no eloquence; his innocence is instead of it. Ben Jonson. | 964 |
| An iron hand in a velvet glove. Charles V., said of a gentle compulsion. | 965 |
| An irreverent knowledge is no knowledge; it may be a development of the logical or other handicraft faculty, but is no culture of the soul of a man. Carlyle. | 966 |
| An nescis longas regibus esse manus?—Do you not know that kings have long, i.e., far-grasping, hands? Ovid. | 967 |
| 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. | 968 |
| An nichts Geliebtes muszt du dein Gemüt / Also verpfänden, dass dich sein Verlust / Untröstbar machte—Never so set your heart on what you love that its loss may render you inconsolable. Herder. | 969 |
| Anno domini—In the year of our Lord. | 970 |
| Anno mundi—In the year of the world. | 971 |
| Annus mirabilis—The year of wonders. | 972 |
| A noble heart will frankly capitulate to reason. Schiller. | 973 |
| A noble man cannot be indebted for his culture to a narrow circle. The world and his native land must act on him. Goethe. | 974 |
| An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him. Pope. | 975 |
| A nod for a wise man, and a rod for a fool. Hebrew Proverb. | 976 |
| An old bird is not to be caught with chaff. Proverb. | 977 |
| An old knave is no babe. Proverb. | 978 |
| An old man in a house is a good sign in a house. Hebrew Proverb. | 979 |
| An old warrior is never in haste to strike the blow. Metastasio. | 980 |
| An open confession is good for the soul. Proverb. | 981 |
| An open door may tempt a saint. Proverb. | 982 |
| Another such victory and we are done. Pyrrhus after his second victory over the Romans. | 983 |
| An ounce of a man’s own wit is worth a pound of other peoples’. Sterne. | 984 |
| An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with. Fuller. | 985 |
| An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of wit. Proverb. | 986 |
| An ounce o’ mother-wit is worth a pound o’ clergy. Scotch Proverb. | 987 |
| An ounce of practice is worth a pound of preaching. Proverb. | 988 |
| An quidquid stultius, quam quos singulos contemnas, eos aliquid putare esse universos?—Can there be any greater folly than the respect you pay to men collectively when you despise them individually? Cicero. | 989 |
| [Greek]—Being a man, know and remember always that thou art one. Philemon Comicus. | 990 |
| [Greek]—Man is by nature an animal meant for civic life. Aristotle. | 991 |
| Ante lucem—Before daybreak. | 992 |
| Ante meridiem—Before noon. | 993 |
| Ante omnia—Before everything else. | 994 |
| Antequam incipias, consulto; et ubi consulueris, facto opus est—Before you begin, consider well; and when you have considered, act. Sallust. | 995 |
| Ante senectutem curavi, ut bene viverem; in senectute, ut bene moriar—Before old age, it was my chief care to live well; in old age, it is to die well. Seneca. | 996 |
| Ante tubam tremor occupat artus—We tremble all over before the bugle sounds. Virgil. | 997 |
| Ante victoriam ne canas triumphum—Don’t celebrate your triumph before you have conquered. | 998 |
| Anticipation forward points the view. Burns. | 999 |
| Antiquâ homo virtute ac fide—A man of antique valour and fidelity. Maxim. | 1000 |
| Antiquitas sæculi juventus mundi—The ancient time of the world was the youth of the world. Bacon. | 1001 |
| An unimaginative person can neither be reverent nor kind. Ruskin. | 1002 |
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