Dictionary of quotations from ancient and modern, English and foreign sources : including phrases, mottoes, maxims, proverbs, definitions, aphorisms, and sayings of the wise men, in their bearing on life, literature, speculation, science, art, religion, and morals, especially in the modern aspects of them, / selected and compiled by James Wood.

James Wood

Date:: 1893

Credit: Dictionary of quotations from ancient and modern, English and foreign sources : including phrases, mottoes, maxims, proverbs, definitions, aphorisms, and sayings of the wise men, in their bearing on life, literature, speculation, science, art, religion, and morals, especially in the modern aspects of them, / selected and compiled by James Wood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$Alles wanket, wo der Glaube fehlt — All is unsteady (lit. wavers) where faith fails. Ger. Pr. Alles ware gut, war kein Aber dabei—Every- thing would be right if it were not for the “ Buts.” Ger. Pr. Alles, was ist, ist verniinftig—Everything which is, is agreeable to reason. Hegel. Alles zu retten, muss alles gewagt werden— To save all, we must risk all. Schiller. 5 All advantages are attended with disadvan- tages. Hume. All are but parts of one stupendous whole / Whose body Nature is, and God the soul. Pope. All argument will vanish before one touch of Nature. Colman. All are not hunters that blow the horn. Pr. All are not saints that go to church. Pr. 10 All are not soldiers that go to the wars. Pr. All are not thieves that dogs bark at. Pr. All art is great, and good, and true, only so far as it is distinctively the work of manhood in its entire and highest sense. Ruskin. All balloons give up their gas in the pressure of things, and collapse in a sufficiently wretched manner erelong. Carlyle. All battle is misunderstanding. Goethe. 15 All beginnings are easy; it is the ulterior steps that are of most difficult ascent and most rarely taken. Goethe. All cats are grey in the dark. Pr. All censure of a man’s self is oblique praise ; it is in order to show how much he can spare. Johnson. All cruelty springs from weakness. Sen. All death in nature is birth. Fichte. 20 All deep joy has something of awful in it. Carlyle. All delights are vain; but that most vain / Which, with pain purchas’d, doth inherit pain. Love’s L. Lost, i. i. All destruction, by violent revolution or how- soever it be, is but new creation on a wider scale. Carlyle. All disputation makes the mind deaf, and when people are deaf I am dumb. Joubert. ‘AAA’ %vda 8Lkt] j3\a^r]o (ptpei—Some- times justice does harm. Sophocles. 25 All evil is as a nightmare; the instant you begin to stir under it, the evil is gone. Car- lyle. All evils, when extreme, are the same. Corneille. All faults are properly shortcomings. Goethe. All faiths are to their own believers just / For none believe because they will, but must. Drydcn. All feet tread not in one shoe. Pr. 30 All flesh consorteth according to its kind, and a man will cleave to his like. Ecclus. All forms of government are good, so far as the wise and kind in them govern the unwise and unkind. Ruskin. All good colour is in some degree pensive, and the purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most. Ruskin. All good government must begin at home. H. R. Haweis. All good has an end but the goodness of God. Gael. Pr. All good things / Are ours, nor soul helps 35 flesh more now / Than flesh helps soul. Browning. All good things go in threes. Ger. and Fr. Pr. All governments are to some extent a treaty with the Devil. Jacobi. All great art is the expression of man’s delight in God’s work, not in his own. Ruskin. All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinkings. C. H. Parkhurst. All great peoples are conservative. Car• 40 lyle. All great song has been sincere song. Ruskin. All healthy things are sweet-tempered. Emer- son. All his geese are swans. Pr. All history is an inarticulate Bible. Carlyle. All immortal writers speak out of their hearts. 45 Ruskin. All imposture weakens confidence and chills benevolence. Johnson. All inmost things are melodious, naturally utter themselves in song. Carlyle. All is but toys. Macb., ii. 3. All is good that God sends us. Pr. All is influence except ourselves. Goethe. 50 All is not gold that glitters. Pr. All is not lost that’s in peril. Pr. All live by seeming. Old Play. All living objects do by necessity form to themselves a skin. Carlyle. Allmachtig ist doch das Gold; auch Mohren 55 kann’s bleichen—Gold is omnipotent; it can make even the Moor white. Schiller. All mankind love a lover. Emerson. All man’s miseries go to prove his greatness. Pascal. All martyrdoms looked mean when they were suffered. Emerson. All measures of reformation are effective in proportion to their timeliness. Ruskin. All men are bores except when we want them. 60 Holmes. All men are born sincere and die deceivers. Vauvenargues. All men are fools, and with every effort they differ only in the degree. Boileau. All men commend patience, though few be willing to practise it. Thomas a Kein pis. All men have their price. A non. All men honour love, because it looks up, and 65 not down. Emerson. All men, if they work not as in the great task- master’s eye, will work wrong. Carlyle. All men live by truth, and stand in need of expression. Emerson. All men may dare what has by man been done. Young. All men that are ruined are ruined on the side of their natural propensities. Burke. All men think all men mortal but themselves. 70 Young.$

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