Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources. Rev. James Wood
Everything unnatural is imperfect. Napoleon.
Everything useful to the life of man arises from the ground, but few things arise in that condition which is requisite to render them useful. Hume.
Every thought that arises in the mind, in its rising aims to pass out of the mind into act; just as every plant, in the moment of generation, struggles up to the light. Emerson.
Every thought was once a poem. Emerson. (?)
Every thought which genius and piety throw 55 into the world alters the world. Emerson.
Every time a man smiles, much more when he laughs, it adds something to his fragment of life. Sterne.
Every time you forgive a man you weaken him and strengthen yourself. Amer. Pr.
Every transition is a crisis, and a crisis presupposes sickness. Goethe.
Every traveller has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering. Dickens.
Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire. Jesus.
Every true man's apparel fits your thief. Meas. for Meas., iv. 2.
Every tub must stand on its own bottom. Pr.
Every unpleasant feeling is a sign that I have 5 become untrue to my resolutions. Jean Paul.
Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life. Dan. Webster.
Every vicious habit and chronic disease communicates itself by descent, and by purity of birth the entire system of the human body and soul may be gradually elevated, or by recklessness of birth degraded, until there shall be as much difference between the well-bred and ill-bred human creature (whatever pains be taken with their education) as between a wolf-hound and the vilest mongrel cur. Ruskin.
Every violation of truth is a stab at the health of society. Emerson.
Every wanton and causeless restraint of the will of the subject, whether practised by a monarch, a nobility, or a popular assembly, is a degree of tyranny. Blackstone.
Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in 10 my brother, because he has shut his own temple doors, and recites fables merely of his brother's or his brother's brother's God. Emerson.
Everywhere in life the true question is, not what we gain, but what we do; so also in intellectual matters it is not what we receive, but what we are made to give, that chiefly contents and profits us. Carlyle.
Everywhere the formed world is the only habitable one. Carlyle.
Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of two everlasting, hostile empires, Necessity and Free Will. Carlyle.
Everywhere the individual seeks to show himself off to advantage, and nowhere honestly endeavours to make himself subservient to the whole. Goethe.
Every white will have its black, / And every 15 sweet its sour. T. Percy.
Every why hath a wherefore. Com. of Errors, ii. 2.
Every wise woman buildeth her house, but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands. Bible.
Every word was once a poem. Emerson.
Every worm beneath the moon / Draws different threads, and late and soon / Spins, toiling out his own cocoon. Tennyson.
Every youth, from the king's son downwards, 20 should learn to do something finely and thoroughly with his hand. Ruskin.
E vestigio—Instantly.
Evil and good are everywhere, like shadow and substance; (for men) inseparable, yet not hostile, only opposed. Carlyle.
Evil, be thou my good. Milton.
Evil comes to us by ells and goes away by inches. Pr.
Evil communications corrupt good manners. 25 Pr.
Evil events from evil causes spring. Aristophanes.
Evil is a far more cunning and persevering propagandist than good, for it has no inward strength, and is driven to seek countenance and sympathy. Lowell.
Evil is generally committed under the hope of some advantage the pursuit of virtue seldom obtains. B. R. Haydon.
Evil is merely privative, not absolute; it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Emerson.
Evil is wrought by want of thought / As well 30 as want of heart. T. Hood.
Evil, like a rolling stone upon a mountain-top, / A child may first impel, a giant cannot stop. Trench.
Evil men understand not judgment, but they that seek the Lord understand all things. Bible.
Evil news rides post, while good news bates. Milton.
Evil often triumphs, but never conquers. J. Roux.
Evil, what we call evil, must ever exist while 35 man exists; evil, in the widest sense we can give it, is precisely the dark, disordered material out of which man's freewill has to create an edifice of order and good. Ever must pain urge us to labour; and only in free effort can any blessedness be imagined for us. Carlyle.
Evils can never pass away; for there must always remain something which is antagonistic to good. Plato.
Evils that take leave, / On their departure most of all show evil. King John, iii. 4.
Evolare rus ex urbe tanquam ex vinculis—To fly from the town into the country, as though from bonds. Cic.
Ewig jung zu bleiben / Ist, wie Dichter schreiben / Hochstes Lebensgut; / Willst du es erwerben / Musst du frühe sterben—To continue eternally young is, as poets write, the highest bliss of life; wouldst thou attain to it, thou must die young. Rückert.
Ewig zu sein in jedem Momente—To be eternal 40 at every moment. Schleiermacher.
Ex abrupto—Without preparation.
Ex abundante cautela—From excessive precaution. L.
Ex abusu non arguitur ad usum—There is no arguing from the abuse of a thing against the use of it. L.
Ex abusu non argumentum ad desuetudinem—The abuse of a thing is no argument for its discontinuance. L.
Exact justice is commonly more merciful in 45 the long run than pity, for it tends to foster in men those stronger qualities which make them good citizens. Lowell.
Ex æquo—By right.
Ex æquo et bono—In justice and equity.
Exaggeration is