Wie das Auge, hat das Herz / Seine Sprache ohne Worte-The heart, like the eye, has its speech without words. Bodenstedt. Wie das Gestirn, Ohne Hast, / Aber ohne Rast, / Drehe sich jeder / Um die eigne Last -Like a star, without haste, yet without rest, let each one revolve round his own task. Goethe. Wie der alte verbrennt, steigt der neue sogleich wieder aus der Asche hervor (Our passions are true phoenixes ;) when the old one is burnt out, the new one rises straightway out of its ashes. Goethe.

Wie der Sternenhimmel still und bewegt-Like the starry heavens, still and in motion. J. C. F. Hölderlin.

5 Wie die Alten sungen, so zwitschern auch die Jungen-As the old birds sing, so will the young ones twitter.

Wie die Blumen die Erd', und die Sterne den Himmel Zieren, so zieret Athen Hellas und Hellas die Welt-As the flowers adorn the earth and the stars the sky, so Athens adorns Greece, and Greece the world. Herder. Wie ein Pfeil nach seinem Ziele fliegt des braven Mannes Wort-Like an arrow to its aim flies the good man's word. Platen. Wie eng-gebunden des Weibes Glück!-How

straitened is the lot of woman! Goethe. Wie fruchtbar ist der kleinste Kreis, / Wenn man ihn wohl zu pflegen weiss!-How fruitful the smallest space if we but knew how to culti vate it! Goethe.

10 Wie gewonnen, so zerronnen-Easily gained, easily spent.

Wie ist das Menschenherz so klein! / Und doch auch da zieht Gott herein-How small is the human heart, and yet even there God enters in. W. Hey.

Wie schränkt sich Welt und Himmel ein, Wenn unser Herz in seinen Schranken banget!-How earth and heaven contract when our heart frets within its barriers! Goethe. Wie? Wann? und Wo? Die Götter bleiben stumm Du halte dich ans Weil, und frage nicht Warum?-How? when? and where? the gods keep silence. Keep you to the "Because," and ask not "Why?" Goethe.

Wild ambition loves to slide, not stand; / And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land. Dryden. 15 Wilful waste makes woeful want. Pr. Will a courser of the sun work softly in the harness of a dray-horse? His hoofs are of fire, and his path is through the heavens, bringing light to all lands; will he lumber on mud highways, dragging ale for earthly appetites from door to door? Carlyle on the career and sorrowful fate of Burns. Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood! Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will

rather/The multitudinous seas incarnadine,/
Making the green one red. Macb., ii. 2.
Will is deaf, and hears no heedful friends.
Shakespeare.

Will it, and set to work briskly. Schiller. 20 Will localises us; thought universalises us. Amiel.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.
Schopenhauer.

"Will-to-do," which is the spirit of the true
God, is eternally incompatible with "wish-
to-have," which is the proper spirit of the
false. Ed.

Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, / Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike. Pope. Willows are weak, yet they bind other wood. Pr.

Willst du den Dichter verstehen, so lerne wie 25 Dichter empfinden-Wilt thou understand a poet, then learn to feel as a poet. G. Keil. Willst du dich am Ganzen erquicken, So musst du das Ganze im Kleinsten erblicken --Wilt thou strengthen thyself in the whole, then must thou see the whole in the least object. Goethe.

Willst du immer weiter schweifen? / Sieh, das Gute liegt so nah! Lerne nur das Glück ergreifen, Denn das Glück ist immer da Wilt thou for ever roam? See, what is good lies so near thee! Only learn to seize the good fortune that offers, for it is ever there. Goethe. Willst du in's Unendliche schreiten, / Geh' nur im Endliche nach allen Seiten-Wouldst thou step forward into the infinite, keep strictly within the limits of the finite. Goethe. Willst du leben, musst du dienen; willst du frei sein, musst du sterben-Wouldst thou love, thou must serve; would thou be free, thou must die. Hegel.

Willst du mit Kinderhänden In des Schick- 30 sals Speichen greifen? Seines Donnerwagens Lauf / Hält kein sterblich Wesen auf- Wilt thou clutch the spokes of destiny with thy child's hands? The course of its car of thunder no mortal hand can stay. Grillparzer.

Willst lustig leben, geh' mit zwei Säcken, Einen zu geben, einen um einzusteckenWould you live a merry life, go with two wallets, one for giving out and one for putting in. Goethe.

Wilt thou draw near the nature of the gods? Draw near them, then, in being merciful. Sh.

Wilt thou know a man, above all a mankind, by stringing together beadrolls of what thou namest facts? The man is the spirit he worked in; not what he did, but what he became. Carlyle.

Wilt thou know thyself, see how others do; wilt thou understand others, look into thine own heart. Schiller.

"Win hearts," said Burleigh to Queen Eliza - 35 beth, "and you have all men's hearts and purses." Smiles.

Wine and youth are fire upon fire. Fielding. Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. Bible.

Wine is a turncoat: first a friend and then an Wine neither keeps secrets nor fulfils promises. enemy. Fielding.

Pr.

Wisdom and Fortune combating together, If that the former dare but what he can,/ No chance may shake it. Ant. and Cleo., iii. 11. Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times. Bible.

Wisdom becomes nonsense (Unsinn) in the mouth of a fanatic (Schwärmer). Otto Ludwig. Wisdom begins at the end. Webster. 5 Wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness. Bible. Wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.

Bible.

Wisdom is a pearl; with most success/Sought in still water and beneath clear skies. Cowper. Wisdom is intrinsically of a silent nature; it cannot at once, or completely at all, be read off in words, and is only legible in whole when its work is done. Carlyle.

Wisdom is justified of her children. Jesus. 10 Wisdom is not found with those who dwell at their ease; rather Nature, when she adds brain, adds difficulty. Emerson.

Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. Wordsworth.

Wisdom is only in truth. Goethe. Wisdom is that attribute through which every action of a man receives its ideal value or import (Gehalt). Schleiermacher. Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom and with all thy getting get understanding. Bible.

15 Wisdom is too high for a fool. Bible.

Wisdom makes a slow defence against trouble, though at last a sure one. Goldsmith. Wisdom may be the ultimate arbiter, but is seldom the immediate agent in human affairs. Sir J. Stephen.

Wisdom may sometimes wear a look austere, / But smiles and jests are oft her helpmates

here. De Bosch.

Wisdom not only gets, but, got, retains. Quarles.

20 Wisdom picks friends; civility plays the rest. / A toy shunn'd cleanly passeth with the best. George Herbert.

Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath understanding. Bible.

Wisdom sends us to childhood; "unless ye become as little children." Pascal.

Wisdom sits with children round her knees. Wordsworth.

Wisdom sometimes walks in clouted shoes. Pr. 25 Wisdom that is hid, and treasure that is hoarded up, what profit is in them both? Ecclus.

Wisdom, which represents the marriage of truth and virtue, is by no means synonymous with gravity. She is L'Allegro as well as Il Penseroso, and jests as well as preaches. Whipple.

Wisdom will out; it is the one thing in this world that cannot be suppressed or annulled. John Burroughs.

Wisdom's a trimmer thing than shop e'er gave. George Herbert.

Wisdom's path is steep; but, gained the height,/ The Muse's gifts will fill you with delight. Onestes.

Wise above that which is written. St. Paul. 30 Wise, cultivated, genial conversation is the best flower of civilisation, and the best result which life has to offer us-a cup for gods, which has no repentance. Conversation is our account of ourselves. All we have, all we can, all we know is brought into play, and as the reproduction, in finer form, of all Wise is the man prepared for either end, our havings. Emerson. Who in due measure can both spare and spend. Lucian.

Cic.

Wise kings have generally wise councillors, as he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one. Diogenes. Wise men are instructed by reason; men of less understanding, by experience; the most ignorant, by necessity; and beasts, by nature. Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will 35 speak five times from their taste or their humour to one from their reason. Emerson. Wise men are wise but not prudent, in that they know nothing of what is for their own advantage, but know surpassing things, marvellous things, difficult things, and divine things. Ruskin.

Wise men argue causes, and fools decide them. Anacharsis.

Wise men, for the most part, are silent at present, and good men powerless; the senseless vociferate, and the heartless govern; while all social law and providence are dissolved by the enraged agitation of a multitude, among whom every villain has a chance of power, every simpleton of praise, and every scoundrel of fortune. Ruskin. Wise men mingle mirth with their cares, as a help either to forget or overcome them; but to resort to intoxication for the ease of one's mind is to cure melancholy by madness. Charron.

Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, / But 40
cheerly seek how to redress their harms.
3 Hen. VI., v. 4.

Wise men say nothing in dangerous times.
Selden.

Wise sayings are as saltpits; you may extract
salt out of them, and sprinkle it where you
will. Cic.

Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are pierced and discovered. Bacon.

Wise sayings are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart. John Morley.

Wise to resolve, and patient to perform. Pope. 45 Wise, well-calculated breeding of a young

soul lies fatally over the horizon in these
epochs. Carlyle.

Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.
Rom. and Jul., ii. 3.

Wishing, of all employments, is the worst.
Young.

Wissen ist leichter als thun-To know is easier
than to do. Ger. Pr.

Wit and judgment often are at strife, / Though 50 meant each other's aid, like man and wife. Pope.

Wit and wisdom are born with a man. Selden. Wit, bright, rapid, and blasting as the lightning, flashes, strikes, and vanishes in an instant; humour, warm and all-embracing as the sunshine, bathes its object in a genial and abiding light. Whipple.

Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly. Montaigne.

5 Wit is a pernicious thing when it is not tempered with virtue and humanity. Addison. Wit is brushwood, judgment timber; the one gives the greatest flame, the other yields the durablest heat; and both meeting make the best fire. Sir Thomas Overbury.

Wit is of the true Pierian spring, that can make anything of anything. Chapman. Wit marries ideas lying wide apart, by a sudden jerk of the understanding. Whipple. Wit once bought is worth twice taught. Pr.

10 Wit strews a single ray (of the prism) separated from the rest upon an object; never white light, that is the province of wisdom. Holmes.

cheerfully endure the shame and the cross; and without it wordlings puke up their sick existence, by suicide, in the midst of luxury. Carlyle.

With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, / A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread--/ Stitch! stitch! stitch! Hood.

With it, or upon it, my son." A Spartan mother, when she handed her son his shield as he set out to fight for his country.

With just enough of learning to misquote. Byron.

With love come life and hope. John Ster-30 ling.

With malice towards none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right. John Quincy Adams.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. Mer. of V'en., i. 1.

With moral, political, religious considerations, high and dear as they may otherwise be, the philosopher, as such, has no concern. lyle.

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With much we surfeit; plenty makes us poor. Drayton.

Wit-work is always play, when it is good. Ruskin.

15 Wit's an unruly engine, wildly striking / Sometimes a friend, sometimes the engineer: Hast thou the knack? pamper it not with liking;/ But if thou want it, buy it not too dear. George Herbert.

Witchcraft has been put a stop to by Act of Parliament, but the mysterious relations which it emblemed still continue. lyle.

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With all appliances and means to boot. 2 Hen. IV., iii. 1.

With bag and baggage. As You Like It,

111. 2.

With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, / Cycle and epicyle, orb in orb. Milton. 20 With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Emer.

son.

With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, / Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought. Churchill.

With devotion's visage / And pious action we do sugar over The devil himself. Ham.,

iii. I.

With disadvantages enough to call him down to humility, a Scotchman is one of the proudest things alive. Goldsmith.

With every anguish of our earthly part the spirit's sight grows clearer; this was meant when Jesus touched the blind man's lids with clay. Lowell.

25 With every breath we draw, an ethereal stream of Lethe runs through our whole being, so that we have but a partial recollection of our joys, and scarcely any of our sorrows. Goethe.

state of mental darkness, we find conceit; while with mental clearness and high endowments we never find it. In such cases there is generally a joyful feeling of strength, but since this strength is actual, the feeling is anything else you please, only not conceit. Goethe.

With none who bless us, none whom we can bless- This is to be alone; this, this is solitude! Byron.

With necessity, the tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds. Milton.

With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable. “Sir T. F. Buxton.

With parsimony a little is sufficient, and with out it nothing is sufficient, whereas frugality makes a poor man rich. Sen.

With patient mind thy path of duty run; /40 God nothing does, nor suffers to be done, But thou thyself wouldst do, if thou couldst see The end of all events as well as he. (?)

With poetry, as with going to sea, we should push from the shore and reach a certain elevation before we unfurl all our sails. Goethe.

With poetry second-rate in quality, no one ought to be allowed to trouble mankind. Ruskin.

With remembrance of the greater grief to banish the less. Howard, Earl of Surrey. With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have ever lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor. Thoreau.

With some life is exactly like a sleigh-drive, 45 showy and tinkling, but affording just as little for the heart as it offers much to eyes and ears. Goethe.

With stupidity and sound digestion man may front much; but what in these dull, unimaginative days are the terrors of conscience to the diseases of the liver! Carlyle.