Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources. Rev. James Wood
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Genius should be the child of genius, and every 10 child should be inspired. Emerson.
Genius, the Pythian of the beautiful, leaves its large truths a riddle to the dull. Bulwer Lytton.
Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks. Beecher.
Genius will reconcile men to much. Carlyle.
Genius works in sport, and goodness smiles to the last. Emerson.
Gens d'armes—Armed police. Fr. 15
Gens de bureau—Officials in a government office. Fr.
Gens de condition—People of rank. Fr.
Gens d'église—Churchmen. Fr.
Gens de guerre—Soldiers. Fr.
Gens de langues—Linguists. Fr. 20
Gens de lettres—Literary people. Fr.
Gens de lois—Lawyers. Fr.
Gens de même famille—Birds of a feather. Fr.
Gens de peu—The lower classes. Fr.
Gens togata—The nation with the toga, i.e., the 25 Roman.
Gentility is nothing else but ancient riches. Lord Burleigh.
Gentility without ability is waur (worse) than plain begging. Sc. Pr.
Gentle passions brighten the horizon of our existence, move without wearying, warm without consuming, and are the badges of true strength. Feuchtersleben.
Gentle words, quiet words, are, after all, the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing. W. Gladden.
Gentleman, in its primal, literal, and perpetual 30 meaning, is a man of pure race. Ruskin.
Gentleman is a term which does not apply to any station, but to the mind and the feelings in every station. Talfourd.
Gentlemanliness is just another word for intense humanity. Ruskin.
Gentlemen have to learn that it is no part of their duty or privilege to live on other people's toil; that there is no degradation in the hardest manual or the humblest servile labour, when it is honest. Ruskin.
"Gentlemen of the jury, you will now consider your verdict." Lord Tenterden's last words.
Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in 35 our manners. Blair.
Gentleness! more powerful than Hercules. Ninon de l'Enclos.
Gentleness, when it weds with manhood, makes a man. Tennyson.
Gently comes the world to those / That are cast in gentle mould. Tennyson.
Gently didst thou ramble round the little circle of thy pleasures, jostling no creature in thy way: for each one's sorrows thou hadst a tear; for each man's need thou hadst a shilling. Sterne's Uncle Toby.
Gently, gently touch a nettle, / And it stings 40 you for your pains; / Grasp it like a man of mettle, / And it soft as silk remains. Aaron Hill.
Genug ist über einer Sackvoll—Enough excels a sackful. Ger. Pr.
Genuine morality depends on no religion, though every one sanctions it and thereby guarantees to it its support. Schopenhauer.
Genuine religion is matter of feeling rather than matter of opinion. Bovee.
Genuine simplicity of heart is a healing and cementing principle. Burke.
Genus et proavos et quæ non fecimus ipsi, / 45 Vix ea nostra voco—Birth, ancestry, and what we have ourselves not done, I would hardly call our own. Ovid.
Genus humanum superavit—He surpassed the human race in natural ability. Lucret.
Genus immortale manet, multosque per annos / Stat fortuna domus, et avi numerantur avorum—The race continues immortal, and through many years the fortune of the house stands steadfast, and it numbers grandsires of grandsires. Virg.
Genus irritabile vatum—The sensitive tribe of poets.
[Greek: Gêraskô d' aei polla didaskomenos]—Always learning many things the older I grow. Solon.
Gerechtigkeit ist mehr die männliche, Menschenliebe 50 mehr die weibliche Tugend—Justice is properly the virtue of the man, charity of the woman. Schopenhauer.
Geredt ist geredt, man kann es mit keinem Schwamme abwischen—What is said is said; there is no sponge that can wipe it out. Ger. Pr.
Germanicè—In German.
Gescheite Leute sind immer das beste Konversationslexikon—Clever people are always the best Conversations-lexicon. Goethe.
Geschichte ist eigentlich nichts anderes, als eine Satire auf die Menschheit—History is properly nothing else but a satire on humanity. C. J. Weber.
Geschrei macht den Wolf grösser als er ist—Fear 55 makes the wolf bigger than he is. Ger. Pr.
Gesellschaft ist die Grossmutter der Menschheit durch ihre Töchter, die Erfindungen—Society is the grandmother of humanity through her daughters, the inventions. C. J. Weber.
Gesetz ist mächtig, mächtiger ist die Noth—Law is powerful; necessity is more so. Goethe.
Gesetzlose Gewalt ist die furchbarste Schwäche—Lawless power is the most frightful weakness. Herder.
Gespenster sind für solche Leute nur / Die sehn sie wollen—Ghosts visit only those who look for them. Holtei.
Get a good name and go to sleep. Pr.
Get money, honestly if you can, but get money. Pr.
Get once into the secret of any Christian act, and you get practically into the secret of Christianity itself. Ed.
Get on the crupper of a good stout hypothesis, 5 and you may ride round the world. Sterne.
Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace; / If not, by any means get wealth and place. Pope.
Get spindle and distaff ready, and God will send the flax. Pr.
Get thee to a nunnery! Ham., iii. 1.
Get to live; / Then live and use it; else it is not true / That thou hast gotten. Herbert.
Get what ye can and keep what ye hae. Sc. 10 Pr.
Get your enemies to read your works in order to mend them, for your friend is so much your second self that he will judge too like you. Pope.
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