Understanding.
Understanding
1. Each one brings his understanding to market.
Ger.
2. He who understands most is other men's
master.
3. Much understanding has little good luck.
Ger.
4. That which is not understood is always mar-
vellous. Latin.
5. The more understanding the fewer words.
Ger.
6. The understanding is ever the dupe of the
heart. Fr.
7. There is a knack of showing we understand
the matter when we hold our peace.
8. There is a palate of the understanding as well
as of the senses. Ben Jonson.
9. Understanding is the most important matter
in everything. Hans Andersen.
10. Wrath and malice, envy and revenge distort
the understanding. Tillotson,
Undertaking.
1. Undertake no more than you can perform.
2. Who undertakes many things at once, seldom
does anything well. Dutch.
Undertaking^.
I. Small undertakings give great comfort. Ger.
Undoing.
I. We should be undone but for undoing.
Themistocles.
Unfortunate.— Ungained.— Unhappy.— Union.
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Unfortunate.
1. To persecute the unfortunate is like throwing
stones on one fallen into a well. Chinese,
2. Unfortunate and imprudent are but two words
for the same thing. Fr,
Ungained.
I. Men prize a thing ungained more than it is.
Shaks,
Unhappy.
I. The unhappy alone know the value of be-
nevolent minds. Rousseau,
Union.
1. Union gives strength to the humble. Syrus,
2. Union is strength. Dutch,
3. Union of capital is like union of fate. Chinese,
4. United we stand, divided we fall.
5. Even tender creepers when united are strong.
Tamil,
6. Let unity dwell in our tents, and discord
Be banished to our enemies. Massinger,
7. Unity is a precious diamond. Holydays,
Unkindness.
1. He that is unkind to his own, will be unkind
to others. Gallician,
2. No cut like unkindness.
3. 'Tis easier to bear unkindness than affronts.
4. Unkindness has no remedy at law.
5. We can distrain (pound) for debt, but not for
unkindness.
Upbraiding.
I. Upbraiding makes a benefit of an injury. Fr^
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Upright. — Useful. — Useless. — Unlearned.
Upright.
I. The upright never grow rich in a hurry. Dan,
Useful.
1. It was the wisdom of ancient times to con-
sider what is most useful as most illustrious. Seneca.
2. Study to be useful.
3. The useful and beautiful are never apart.
Periander,
Useless.
1. Nothing is useless to a person of sense.
La Fontaine,
2. To be employed in useless things is to be half
idle.
Unlearned.
I. A gem un wrought is a useless thing, so a man
unlearned is a senseless being. Chinese.
Use.
1. A used plough shines; standing water stinks.
Ger.
2. As a thing is used, so it brightens. Ger.
3. He who is of no use to himself, is of no use
to any one. Ger.^ Dan,
4. It is right to put everything to its proper use.
Gaelic,
5. Use can almost change the stamp of nature.
Shaks,
6. Use is the judge, the law, and rule of speech.
Shaks.
7. Use makes perfectness.
8. Use makes the craftsman. .S^., Ger.
9. Use, use, is life, and he most truly lives who
uses best.
Usurer.— Vacuum. — Valor.
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10. Use will make a man live in a lion's den.
11. What's in use wants no excuse. Sp,
Usurer.
1. A usurer, a miller, a banker and a publican
are the four evangelists of Lucifer. Dutch,
2. He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth
his substance, he shall gather it for him that will
pity the poor. Bible,
3. That usury is a sin some hold,
But take for granted they've no gold. Ger,
4. To borrow on usury brings sudden beggary.
5. While with the silent growth of ten per cent.,
In dirt and darkness hundreds stink content.
Pope.
V.
Vacuum.
I. Nature abhors a vacuum, {Galileo said, how-
ever^ only for the first thirty feet, alluding to the ris-
ing of the water in a pump to that height^
Valor.
1. It is war's prize to take all advantages,
And ten to one is no impeach of valor. Shaks.
2. Perfect valor consists in doing without wit-
nesses all we should be capable of doing before the
whole world. Rochefoucauld,
3. That valor which is not founded on prudence
is rashness. Don Quixote,
4. The better part of valor is discretion,
5. There is a great difference between a due re-
gard to valor and a contempt of life. Cato the Elder,
6. There is always safety in valor. Emerson.
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Valued.— Van ity.
7. To make a man valiant abuse him lustily.
8. True valor is fire ; bullying is smoke.
9. True valor knows as well how to suflEer as to
act.
10. Valor can do little without discretion.
11. Valor's a mouse trap, wit a gin, which women
oft are taken in. Butler,
12. Valor that parleys is near yielding.
13. Valor would cease to be a virtue if there
were no injustice. Agesiiaus,
14. Valor would fight, but discretion would run
away.
15. When valor preys on reason it eats the sword
it fights with. Shaks.
Valued.
I. If you wish to be valued make yourself
scarce. Ger.
Vanity.
1. All is sugar to the vain, even the praise of
fools.
2. All is vanity and vexation of spirit. Bible,
3. Every man has just so much vanity as he
wants understanding. Pope,
4. Every man thinks his own copper gold.
Ger.y Dan,
5. Every man thinks his own geese swans.
6. Every man thinks his own owl a falcon. Dutch,
7. Every one thinks he has more than his own
share of brains. Ital,
8. Every one thinks himself able to advise an-
other.
Vanitv.
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9. I see thy vanity through the holes of thy coat,
(Plato speaking to the Cynic Philosopher^
10. Make not thy tail broader than thy wings.
11. Make not your sail too big for your ballast.
13. No man sympathizes with the sorrows of
vanity. Dr. Johnson.
13. She doesn't think small beer of herself.
Maga.
14. She that looks too much at herself looks too
little to herself.
15. The cow rails at the pig for being black,
Chinese.
16. The frying-pan says to the kettle, "Avaunt,
black brows."
17. The kettle calls the sauce-pan smutty. IWrk.
18. The kiln calls the oven burnt brows.
19. The pan says to the pot, " Keep off or you'll
smut me." Jtal.
20. The pot upbraids the kettle that it is black.
Dutch.
21. The raven chides blackness.
22. The shovel scouts the poker. Pr,
23. The sooty oven mocks the black chimnej'.
24. There is no doubt that vanity is our principal
cause of infidelity. Knox.
25. Vanity has no greater foe than vanity. Fr.
26. Vanity is the food of fools. Swift,
27. Vanity is the vice of low minds; a man of
spirit is too proud to be vain. Svi/t.
28. Vanity will pre
3q8 Vanquished. — Variety. — Varnishing.
29. " We hounds killed the hare," quoth the dog.
30. " What a dust have I raised," quoth the fly
upon the coach.
31. " What a dust we kicked up," said the fly to
the car-wheel.
32. " Your feet are crooked, your hair is good for
nothing," said the pig to the horse. Russian,
Vanquished.
1. It is noble to grant life to the vanquished.
Statius,
2. The more famous the vanquished the more
famous the victor. Don Quixote.
3. There should be no strife with the vanquished
or the dead. Virgil,
4. With the arni that won the victory he protects
the vanquished. Ovid,
Variety.
1. Variety alone gives joy, the sweetest meats
the soonest cloy. Prior,
2. Variety is the mother of enjoyment. Bea,
3. Variety's the very spice of life
That gives it all its flavor. Cowfer.
4. Variety, that divine gift that makes a woman
charming. Bea,
Varnishing^.
I. Varnishing hides a crack.
Vengeance.
1. Vengeance Ijas no foresight. Napoleon,
2. Vengeance is wild justice.
3. Vengeance ought always to pursue crimes, and
the guilty are not proper objects of mercy. Arabian,
Venom.— Venture. '^gg
4. Vengeance should be left to women.
Petrarch,
5. Vile is the vengeance on the ashes cold,
And envy base to bark at sleeping fame.
Spenser,
Venom.
1. In the tail lies the venom. Fr.
2. No viper so little but hath its venom.
3. The venom is in the tail.
4. The venom of a viper's tongue may be con-
verted into treacle.
Venture.
1. Boldly ventured is half won. Ger,
2. First weigh, then venture.
3. He has put all his eggs in one basket : /. e,y
ventured all in one enterprise,
4. He that dare not venture must not complain
of ill luck.
5. He that ventures not, fails not. Fr,
6. I will either win the horse or lose the sad-
dle.
7. Many ventures make a full freight.
8. My ventures are not in one bottom trusted.
Shaks,
9. Nothing venture nothing have. Fr,
10. Take your venture as many a good ship hath
done.
11. Throw a brick to allure a gem. Chinese,
12. Venture a small fish to catch a great one.
13. Venture not all in one bottom.
14. Ventures make men and ventures break men.
^OO Venus.— Vice.
15. Venture thy opinion but not thyself for thy
opinion.
16. Who does not venture gets neither horse nor
mule,
And who ventures too much loses horse and
mule. Fr,
17. Who ventures nothing has no luck. Sp,
Venus.
1. Venus smiles not in a house of tears.
2. Venus, thy eternal sway, all the race of men
obey. Euripides.
Vice.
1. A man must either imitate the vicious or hate
them. Montaigne,
2. A vicious man has a good title to vice.
3. After one vice a greater follows. .5^.
4. All vice infatuates and corrupts the judg-
ment.
5. Concealed goodness is a sort of vice.
6. Every vice fights against nature.
7. Great parts produce great vices as well as
virtues. Plato,
8. Great vices as well as great virtues make men
famous.
9. He who is free from vice himself is the slower
to suspect it in others. Greek,
10. He who plunges into vice resembles a man
who rolls from the top of a precipice. Chinese,
11. He who suffers himself to hate vice will hate
mankind. Thrasea,
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12. If you swallow vice 'twill rise badly in your
stomach.
13. Lordly vices require lordly estates.
14. Most of our evils come from our vices.
15. Never open the door to. a little vice lest a
great one enter with it.
16. No vice but hath its patron.
17. No vice goes alone.
18. One vice begets another.
19. Our pleasant vices are made the whip to
scourge us. Shaks,
20. Private vices are public benefits. {Mande-
vine's celebrated paradox,)
21. The maintaining of one vice costeth more than
ten virtues.
22. The proudest vice is ashamed to wear its own
face long.
23. The vicious man should date his destruction
from his first temptation. Lapland,
24. The vicious obey their passions as slaves do
their masters. . Diogenes,
25. Through tattered clothes small vices do ap-
pear,
Robes and furred gowns hide all. Shaks.
26. 'Tis the most dangerous vice looks like vir-
tue.
27. To blush at vice shows the world you are
ashamed of it.
28. Vice always produces contempt. Dr, Johnson.
29. Vice begins in mistake and ends in ignominy.
Rambler.
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Vice. 401
12. If you swallow vice 'twill rise badly in your
stomach.
13. Lordly vices require lordly estates.
14. Most of our evils come from our vices.
15. Never open the door to. a little vice lest a
great one enter with it.
16. No vice but hath its patron.
17. No vice goes alone.
18. One vice begets another.
19. Our- pleasant vices are made the whip to
scourge us. Shaks,
20. Private vices are public benefits. {Mande-
villus celebrated paradox^
21. The maintaining of one vice costeth more than
ten virtues.
22. The proudest vice is ashamed to wear its own
face long.
23. The vicious man should date his destruction
from his first temptation. Lapland,
24. The vicious obey their passions as slaves do
their masters. . Diogenes,
25. Through tattered clothes small vices do ap-
pear,
Robes and furred gowns hide all. Shaks.
26. 'Tis the most dangerous vice looks like vir-
tue.
27. To blush at vice shows the world you are
ashamed of it.
28. Vice always produces contempt. Dr, Johnson,
29. Vice begins in mistake and ends in ignominy.
Rambler,
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30. Vice can never be too great to be lashed, nor
virtue too poor to be commended. Fielding,
31. Vice gets more in this vicious world than
piety. Beaumont and Fletcher,
32. Vice hath not a more abject slave than the
slanderer. Fielding,
33. Vice is a monster of such frightful mien,
As to be hated needs but to be seen ;
Yet seen, too oft familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Fope,
34. Vice is cherished and thrives by concealment.
Latin,
35. Vice is its own punishment and sometimes its
own cure.
36. Vice is learnt without a school-master. Dan,
37. Vice is the most dangerous when it puts on
the garb of virtue. Syrus,
38. Vice loses half its evil by losing its gross-
ness. Burke,
39. Vice makes virtue shine.
40. Vice often rides triumphant in virtue's chariot.
41. Vice ruleth where God reigneth.
42. Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but
virtue consoles us even in our pains.
43. Vice will stain the noblest race. Horace,
44. What maintains one vice would bring up two
children.
45. When our vices leave us, we flatter our-
selves we leave them..
Victor, Victory.
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46. Where vice goes before, vengeance follows
after.
47. Where vice is, vengeance follows.
Victor, Victory.
1. A victory is twice itself when the achiever
brings home full numbers. Shaks,
2. He conquers twice who conquers himself in
victory. Syrus.
3. He that forgives (the aggressor) gains the
victory. Yoruba {Africa),
4. He that traverses the list without an adver-
sary may receive the reward of victory, but he has
no pretension to the honor. Seneca.
5. He who has victory, has right. Ger,
6. Not the body but the soul strikes the blow in
which lives victory. Maga.
. 7. Oft the victor triumphs but to fall. Homer,
8. One may know how to gain a victory, and
know not how to use it. Barca the Carthagenian,
9. Such another victory and we are undone.
Pyrrhus,
10. The harder matched, the greater victory.
Shaks,
11. The more Moors, the better victory.
12. There are none but savage beasts, with whom
carnage succeeds victory. Petrarch,
13. Victories attended with little advantage will
ruin rather than enlarge an empire. Turkish Spy,
14. Victory gives no account of her actions.
Civilis the Batavian,
15. Victory or Westminster Abbey. Nelson,
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Views.— Villain. — Vine, Vineyard. — Vinegar.
Views.
I. Extreme views are never just. Bea,
Villain.
1. Anoint a villain and he will prick you; prick
a villain and he will anoint you. Fr,
2. At an ambuscade of villains a man does
better with his feet than with his hands. Sp,
3. No villain like the conscientious villain.
4. The villain's censure is extorted praise. Pope.
5. The stains that villany leaves behind no time
will wash away. Fielding,
6. Where villany goes before, vengeance follows
after.
Vine, Vineyard.
1. Make your vine poor, and it will make you
rich.
2. He who has many vineyards has many cares.
Turk,
Vinegar.
1. Beware of vinegar made of sweet wine. Ital,
2. He cries wine, and sells vinegar.
3. More flies are caught with a spoonful of syrup
(or drop of honey) than with a cask of vinegar.
Dutch^ Dan.
Violent.
1. Nothing that is violent is permanent.
2. Violent fires soon burn out.
Small showers last long, but sudden storms
are short. Shaks.
Virtue.
.1. A happy life consists in virtue. Latin,
Virtue.
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2. A man that hath no virtue in himself ever
envieth virtue in others. Bacon,
3. A man who is wise and learned, but without
virtue, shall be despised. Cingalese,
4. All human virtue to its latest breath.
Finds envy never conquered but by death.
Pope.
5. All the praise of inward virtue consists in
outward action.
6. All the virtues are in peril when filial piety
is attacked. Chinese,
7. All virtue lies in a power of denying our own
desires when reason does not authorize them. Locke,
8. An exterior grave and majestic announces a
palace where virtue resides. Chinese,
9. As virtue is its own reward, so vice is its own
punishment.
10. Be a father to virtue, but a father-in-law to
vice.
11. Courage and resolution are the spirit and
soul of virtue.
12. Each must in virtue strive to excel,
That man lives twice who lives the first life
well. HerHck,
13. Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a
handsome person. Virgil,
14. Every virtue is but half way between two
vices. Latin,
15. Few are virtuous when the reward^s away.
Dr. Johnson.
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Virtue.
1 6. From our ancestors come our names, but
from our virtues our honors.
17. He cannot go wrong when virtue guides.
18. He has no mean portion of virtue that loveth
it in another.
19. He that thinks too much of his virtues, bids
others think of his vices.
20. He who aspires to be virtuous resembles a
man who climbs up a steep mountain. Chinese,
21. He who dies for virtue does not perish.
Plautus,
22. He whose mind is virtuous is alone of noble
kind. Dryden,
23. I have seen many men not adapted to the
sciences ; not one incapable of a virtue.
24. If virtue keep court within, honor will attend
without.
25. If you can be well without health, you may be
happy without virtue.
26. It is difficult to persuade mankind that the
love of virtue is the love of themselves. Cicero,
27. It is easier to run from virtue to vice than
from vice to virtue.
28. It is impossible for fortune to conquer vir-
tue. Plutarch.
29. It is in hating vice that we strengthen our-
selves in the love of virtue. Fr.
30. It is the will of heaven that virtue be proved
by trials. Arabian,
31. It is virtue to fly vice. Horace,
Virtue.
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32. It needs great virtues to be known and ad-
mired, or perhaps great vices. La Bruyhre,
33. Kindred without friends, friends without
power, power without will, will without effect, effect
without profit, profit without virtue, are not worth a
rush. Fr.
34. Let them call it mischief,
When it is past and prospered 'twill be virtue.
Ben Jonson,
35. Make a virtue of necessity.
36. Mankind are all stamped equal at their birth,
Virtue alone the difference makes on earth.
37. Men's evil manners live in brass.
Their virtues we write in water. Shaks,
38. Most men are more willing to indulge in easy
vices, than to practise laborious virtues. Dr, Johnson,
39. Nobody hath too much prudence or virtue.
40. Not to go forward in the way of virtue is to
go backwards.
41. O' need make virtue.
42. Our virtues will be often discredited with the
appearance of evil. Rogers.
43. Our virtues would be proud if our vices
whipped them not.
44. Poverty does not destroy virtue nor wealth
bestow it. Sp,
45. Room can never be wanting for virtue. Senua,
46. Some riRfi by wn and ^;mc by virtue fall.
S/iaks,
47. ^\f7tf\\Tir^% \% ihf foundation of all virtue.
Afotfo nf Viwount If erf ford.
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Virtue.
48. Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.
Addison.
49. The first step to virtue is to love virtue in an-
other.
50. The first step to virtue is to abstain from vice.
51. The man who is always fortunate cannot
easily have a great reverence for virtue. Cicero.
52. The virtue that was received from heaven was
as great as a mountain. Chinese.
53. The virtues and vices are put in motion by
interest. Rochefoucauld.
54. The virtuous nothing fear but life with shame,
And death^s a pleasant road that leads to
fame. Geo, Granville.
55. There is some virtue or other to be exercised
whatever happens.
56. There must ever be a place for virtue. Seneca.
57. To subdue the proud and spare the suppliant
has ever been a Roman virtue. TcMtus.
58. Virtue alone can procure that independence
which is the end of human wishes. Petrarch.
59. Virtue alone has majesty in death. Young,
60. Virtue alone is happiness below. Crabbe,
61. Virtue alone is invincible. Latin.
62. Virtue alone with lasting grace
Embalms the virtues of the face. Trumbull.
63. Virtue alone outbuilds the pyramids :
Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall.
Young.
64. Virtue and happiness are mother and daugh-
ter.
Virtue.
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65. Virtue and truth are respected everywhere.
Turkish Spy.
66. Virtue and truth are two of heaven's most
beautiful and lovely daughters. Bacon.
67. Virtue and understanding cannot be bought
with gold. Ger,
68. Virtue and vice cannot dwell under the same
roof. Ger.
69. Virtue and vice, wisdom and folly, are not
hereditary. Chinese.
70. Virtue alone is true nobility. Stepney.
71. Virtue brings honor. Ger.
72. Virtue conquers envy.
Motto of Marquis of Comwallis.
73.' Virtue consists in action. Dutch.
74. Virtue consists in avoiding vice and is the
highest wisdom. Horace,
75. Virtue dwells not in the tongue but in the
heart.
76. Virtue even in rags will keep warm. Hora^.
77. Virtue flourishes from a wound.
Motto of Scotch Earl of Galloway.
78. Virtue flourishes in misfortune. Ger.
79. Virtue goes before, nobility follows after. Ger.
80. Virtue hath not a greater enemy than wealth.
• Petrarch.
81. Virtue grows under every weight. Latin.
82. Virtue in poverty is better than sinful wealth.
Ger.
83. Virtue is a friend ever true. Ger.
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Virtue.
84. Virtue is a jewel of great price.
85. Virtue is always amiable. Petrarch.
86. Virtue is always flourishing.
Motto of Irish Viscount Belmore.
87. Virtue is as good as a thousand shields. Latin,
88. Virtue is a sheet anchor. Latin,
89. Virtue is between two extremes ; he who has
passed the middle has not done better than he who
has reached it. Chinese.
90. Virtue is bold and goodness never fearful.
Shaks.
91. Virtue is choked with foul ambition. Shaks.
92. Virtue is the best patrimony for a child to in-
herit.
93. Virtue is the only nobility.
94. Virtue is increased by the smile of approval.
Ovid.
95. Virtue is its own reward.
96. Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
Bacon.
97. Virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant
when they are crushed. Bacon.
98. Virtue is more persecuted by the wicked than
encouraged by the good.
99. Virtue is never aided by a vice. Ben Jonson,
100. Virtue is of noble birth, but riches take the
wall of her.
1 01. Virtue is not allowed to go backward. Seneca.
102. Virtue is praised and starves. Juvenal.
103. Virtue is the base of the prosperity of an em-
pire. Chinese.
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104. Virtue is the most beautiful apparel. Ger,
105. Virtue is the only true nobility. Juvenal,
106. Virtue is the path of praise. Homer,
107. Virtue is the reward of virtue. Ger.
108. Virtue is the safest helmet. Latin,
109. Virtue is tied to no degrees of men.
no. Virtue is without alloy. Ger,
111. Virtue itself offends when coupled with for-
bidden manners. Middleton,
112. Virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes.
113. Virtue itself turns vice being misapplied.
114. Virtue kindles strength.
Motto of the Irish Viscount of Str angf or d,
115. Virtue, like a strong and hardy plant, will root
where it can find an ingenuous nature and a mind
not averse to labor. Plutarch,
116. Virtue maketh men on the earth famous, in
their grave illustrious, in the heavens immortal.
Chile,
117. Virtue maybe overclouded for awhile, but
will shine at last.
118. Virtue, not pedigree, should characterize no-
bility. Latin,
119. Virtue often trips and falls on the sharp-
edged rocks of poverty. Eugene Sue,
120. Virtue only finds eternal fame. Petrarch,
121. Virtue overcomes envy. Latin,
122. Virtue rejoices in temptation.
Motto of the Earl of Dartmouth,
123. Virtue remains when all else has passed away.
Ger.
^ £ 2 Virtuous.
124. Virtue shines grandest in misfortune. Ger.
125. Virtue sometimes starves while vice is fed.
Pope.
126. Virtue subdues power. Ger.
127. Virtue survives the grave.
Motto of the Irish Earl of Shannon,
128. Virtue though momentarily shamed cannot
be extinguished. Syrus,
129. Virtue unites man with God. Latin.
130. Virtue when concealed is a worthless thing.
Claudianus.
131. Virtue which parleys is near surrender.
132. Virtue would not go far, if a little vanity
walked not with her.
133. Virtues all agree, but vices fight one another.
134. Wealth and beauty less than virtue please.
Homer.
135. What can the virtues of our ancestors profit
us if we do not imitate them.
136. What's vice to-day may be virtue to-morrow.
Fielding.
137. Where virtue resides not, liberty can no longer
subsist. Arabian.
138. Wherever virtue is found in an eminent de-
gree, it is sure to be persecuted. Don Quixote.
139. Whether I am praised or blamed, it enables
me to advance in virtue. Chinese Philosopher.
Virtuous.
I. The device of the virtuous man is expressed
by the two words : " to forgive," and " to pardon."
Fr.
Voice.— Vows. — Vulgar.— Vulgarity. — Wager.
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2. The world is ashamed of being virtuous.
StCTit€»
3. To be virtuous is to do good and do it well.
Voice.
1. A voice soft, gentle and low, is an excellent
thing in a woman. Shaks,
2. A loud voice bespeaks a vulgar man.
3. Apples, pears, and nuts spoil the voice.
4. He who has no voice in the valley will have
none in the council. Sp.
5. Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of
sorrow. Bea.
6. The voice of the people is the voice of God.
( Vox populi vox Dei)
7. The voice of the pigeon on the spit is not like
the voice of the pigeon on the tree. Woloffs (Africa),
Vows.
I. Vows made in storms are forgotten in calms.
Vulg^.
I. The vulgar keep no account of your hits but
of your misses.
Vulgarity.
I. Vulgarity in manners defiles fine garments
more than mud.
Understanding
1. Each one brings his understanding to market.
Ger.
2. He who understands most is other men's
master.
3. Much understanding has little good luck.
Ger.
4. That which is not understood is always mar-
vellous. Latin.
5. The more understanding the fewer words.
Ger.
6. The understanding is ever the dupe of the
heart. Fr.
7. There is a knack of showing we understand
the matter when we hold our peace.
8. There is a palate of the understanding as well
as of the senses. Ben Jonson.
9. Understanding is the most important matter
in everything. Hans Andersen.
10. Wrath and malice, envy and revenge distort
the understanding. Tillotson,
Undertaking.
1. Undertake no more than you can perform.
2. Who undertakes many things at once, seldom
does anything well. Dutch.
Undertaking^.
I. Small undertakings give great comfort. Ger.
Undoing.
I. We should be undone but for undoing.
Themistocles.
Unfortunate.— Ungained.— Unhappy.— Union.
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Unfortunate.
1. To persecute the unfortunate is like throwing
stones on one fallen into a well. Chinese,
2. Unfortunate and imprudent are but two words
for the same thing. Fr,
Ungained.
I. Men prize a thing ungained more than it is.
Shaks,
Unhappy.
I. The unhappy alone know the value of be-
nevolent minds. Rousseau,
Union.
1. Union gives strength to the humble. Syrus,
2. Union is strength. Dutch,
3. Union of capital is like union of fate. Chinese,
4. United we stand, divided we fall.
5. Even tender creepers when united are strong.
Tamil,
6. Let unity dwell in our tents, and discord
Be banished to our enemies. Massinger,
7. Unity is a precious diamond. Holydays,
Unkindness.
1. He that is unkind to his own, will be unkind
to others. Gallician,
2. No cut like unkindness.
3. 'Tis easier to bear unkindness than affronts.
4. Unkindness has no remedy at law.
5. We can distrain (pound) for debt, but not for
unkindness.
Upbraiding.
I. Upbraiding makes a benefit of an injury. Fr^
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Upright. — Useful. — Useless. — Unlearned.
Upright.
I. The upright never grow rich in a hurry. Dan,
Useful.
1. It was the wisdom of ancient times to con-
sider what is most useful as most illustrious. Seneca.
2. Study to be useful.
3. The useful and beautiful are never apart.
Periander,
Useless.
1. Nothing is useless to a person of sense.
La Fontaine,
2. To be employed in useless things is to be half
idle.
Unlearned.
I. A gem un wrought is a useless thing, so a man
unlearned is a senseless being. Chinese.
Use.
1. A used plough shines; standing water stinks.
Ger.
2. As a thing is used, so it brightens. Ger.
3. He who is of no use to himself, is of no use
to any one. Ger.^ Dan,
4. It is right to put everything to its proper use.
Gaelic,
5. Use can almost change the stamp of nature.
Shaks,
6. Use is the judge, the law, and rule of speech.
Shaks.
7. Use makes perfectness.
8. Use makes the craftsman. .S^., Ger.
9. Use, use, is life, and he most truly lives who
uses best.
Usurer.— Vacuum. — Valor.
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10. Use will make a man live in a lion's den.
11. What's in use wants no excuse. Sp,
Usurer.
1. A usurer, a miller, a banker and a publican
are the four evangelists of Lucifer. Dutch,
2. He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth
his substance, he shall gather it for him that will
pity the poor. Bible,
3. That usury is a sin some hold,
But take for granted they've no gold. Ger,
4. To borrow on usury brings sudden beggary.
5. While with the silent growth of ten per cent.,
In dirt and darkness hundreds stink content.
Pope.
V.
Vacuum.
I. Nature abhors a vacuum, {Galileo said, how-
ever^ only for the first thirty feet, alluding to the ris-
ing of the water in a pump to that height^
Valor.
1. It is war's prize to take all advantages,
And ten to one is no impeach of valor. Shaks.
2. Perfect valor consists in doing without wit-
nesses all we should be capable of doing before the
whole world. Rochefoucauld,
3. That valor which is not founded on prudence
is rashness. Don Quixote,
4. The better part of valor is discretion,
5. There is a great difference between a due re-
gard to valor and a contempt of life. Cato the Elder,
6. There is always safety in valor. Emerson.
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Valued.— Van ity.
7. To make a man valiant abuse him lustily.
8. True valor is fire ; bullying is smoke.
9. True valor knows as well how to suflEer as to
act.
10. Valor can do little without discretion.
11. Valor's a mouse trap, wit a gin, which women
oft are taken in. Butler,
12. Valor that parleys is near yielding.
13. Valor would cease to be a virtue if there
were no injustice. Agesiiaus,
14. Valor would fight, but discretion would run
away.
15. When valor preys on reason it eats the sword
it fights with. Shaks.
Valued.
I. If you wish to be valued make yourself
scarce. Ger.
Vanity.
1. All is sugar to the vain, even the praise of
fools.
2. All is vanity and vexation of spirit. Bible,
3. Every man has just so much vanity as he
wants understanding. Pope,
4. Every man thinks his own copper gold.
Ger.y Dan,
5. Every man thinks his own geese swans.
6. Every man thinks his own owl a falcon. Dutch,
7. Every one thinks he has more than his own
share of brains. Ital,
8. Every one thinks himself able to advise an-
other.
Vanitv.
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9. I see thy vanity through the holes of thy coat,
(Plato speaking to the Cynic Philosopher^
10. Make not thy tail broader than thy wings.
11. Make not your sail too big for your ballast.
13. No man sympathizes with the sorrows of
vanity. Dr. Johnson.
13. She doesn't think small beer of herself.
Maga.
14. She that looks too much at herself looks too
little to herself.
15. The cow rails at the pig for being black,
Chinese.
16. The frying-pan says to the kettle, "Avaunt,
black brows."
17. The kettle calls the sauce-pan smutty. IWrk.
18. The kiln calls the oven burnt brows.
19. The pan says to the pot, " Keep off or you'll
smut me." Jtal.
20. The pot upbraids the kettle that it is black.
Dutch.
21. The raven chides blackness.
22. The shovel scouts the poker. Pr,
23. The sooty oven mocks the black chimnej'.
24. There is no doubt that vanity is our principal
cause of infidelity. Knox.
25. Vanity has no greater foe than vanity. Fr.
26. Vanity is the food of fools. Swift,
27. Vanity is the vice of low minds; a man of
spirit is too proud to be vain. Svi/t.
28. Vanity will pre
3q8 Vanquished. — Variety. — Varnishing.
29. " We hounds killed the hare," quoth the dog.
30. " What a dust have I raised," quoth the fly
upon the coach.
31. " What a dust we kicked up," said the fly to
the car-wheel.
32. " Your feet are crooked, your hair is good for
nothing," said the pig to the horse. Russian,
Vanquished.
1. It is noble to grant life to the vanquished.
Statius,
2. The more famous the vanquished the more
famous the victor. Don Quixote.
3. There should be no strife with the vanquished
or the dead. Virgil,
4. With the arni that won the victory he protects
the vanquished. Ovid,
Variety.
1. Variety alone gives joy, the sweetest meats
the soonest cloy. Prior,
2. Variety is the mother of enjoyment. Bea,
3. Variety's the very spice of life
That gives it all its flavor. Cowfer.
4. Variety, that divine gift that makes a woman
charming. Bea,
Varnishing^.
I. Varnishing hides a crack.
Vengeance.
1. Vengeance Ijas no foresight. Napoleon,
2. Vengeance is wild justice.
3. Vengeance ought always to pursue crimes, and
the guilty are not proper objects of mercy. Arabian,
Venom.— Venture. '^gg
4. Vengeance should be left to women.
Petrarch,
5. Vile is the vengeance on the ashes cold,
And envy base to bark at sleeping fame.
Spenser,
Venom.
1. In the tail lies the venom. Fr.
2. No viper so little but hath its venom.
3. The venom is in the tail.
4. The venom of a viper's tongue may be con-
verted into treacle.
Venture.
1. Boldly ventured is half won. Ger,
2. First weigh, then venture.
3. He has put all his eggs in one basket : /. e,y
ventured all in one enterprise,
4. He that dare not venture must not complain
of ill luck.
5. He that ventures not, fails not. Fr,
6. I will either win the horse or lose the sad-
dle.
7. Many ventures make a full freight.
8. My ventures are not in one bottom trusted.
Shaks,
9. Nothing venture nothing have. Fr,
10. Take your venture as many a good ship hath
done.
11. Throw a brick to allure a gem. Chinese,
12. Venture a small fish to catch a great one.
13. Venture not all in one bottom.
14. Ventures make men and ventures break men.
^OO Venus.— Vice.
15. Venture thy opinion but not thyself for thy
opinion.
16. Who does not venture gets neither horse nor
mule,
And who ventures too much loses horse and
mule. Fr,
17. Who ventures nothing has no luck. Sp,
Venus.
1. Venus smiles not in a house of tears.
2. Venus, thy eternal sway, all the race of men
obey. Euripides.
Vice.
1. A man must either imitate the vicious or hate
them. Montaigne,
2. A vicious man has a good title to vice.
3. After one vice a greater follows. .5^.
4. All vice infatuates and corrupts the judg-
ment.
5. Concealed goodness is a sort of vice.
6. Every vice fights against nature.
7. Great parts produce great vices as well as
virtues. Plato,
8. Great vices as well as great virtues make men
famous.
9. He who is free from vice himself is the slower
to suspect it in others. Greek,
10. He who plunges into vice resembles a man
who rolls from the top of a precipice. Chinese,
11. He who suffers himself to hate vice will hate
mankind. Thrasea,
Vice.
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12. If you swallow vice 'twill rise badly in your
stomach.
13. Lordly vices require lordly estates.
14. Most of our evils come from our vices.
15. Never open the door to. a little vice lest a
great one enter with it.
16. No vice but hath its patron.
17. No vice goes alone.
18. One vice begets another.
19. Our pleasant vices are made the whip to
scourge us. Shaks,
20. Private vices are public benefits. {Mande-
vine's celebrated paradox,)
21. The maintaining of one vice costeth more than
ten virtues.
22. The proudest vice is ashamed to wear its own
face long.
23. The vicious man should date his destruction
from his first temptation. Lapland,
24. The vicious obey their passions as slaves do
their masters. . Diogenes,
25. Through tattered clothes small vices do ap-
pear,
Robes and furred gowns hide all. Shaks.
26. 'Tis the most dangerous vice looks like vir-
tue.
27. To blush at vice shows the world you are
ashamed of it.
28. Vice always produces contempt. Dr, Johnson.
29. Vice begins in mistake and ends in ignominy.
Rambler.
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Vice. 401
12. If you swallow vice 'twill rise badly in your
stomach.
13. Lordly vices require lordly estates.
14. Most of our evils come from our vices.
15. Never open the door to. a little vice lest a
great one enter with it.
16. No vice but hath its patron.
17. No vice goes alone.
18. One vice begets another.
19. Our- pleasant vices are made the whip to
scourge us. Shaks,
20. Private vices are public benefits. {Mande-
villus celebrated paradox^
21. The maintaining of one vice costeth more than
ten virtues.
22. The proudest vice is ashamed to wear its own
face long.
23. The vicious man should date his destruction
from his first temptation. Lapland,
24. The vicious obey their passions as slaves do
their masters. . Diogenes,
25. Through tattered clothes small vices do ap-
pear,
Robes and furred gowns hide all. Shaks.
26. 'Tis the most dangerous vice looks like vir-
tue.
27. To blush at vice shows the world you are
ashamed of it.
28. Vice always produces contempt. Dr, Johnson,
29. Vice begins in mistake and ends in ignominy.
Rambler,
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402 Vice.
30. Vice can never be too great to be lashed, nor
virtue too poor to be commended. Fielding,
31. Vice gets more in this vicious world than
piety. Beaumont and Fletcher,
32. Vice hath not a more abject slave than the
slanderer. Fielding,
33. Vice is a monster of such frightful mien,
As to be hated needs but to be seen ;
Yet seen, too oft familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Fope,
34. Vice is cherished and thrives by concealment.
Latin,
35. Vice is its own punishment and sometimes its
own cure.
36. Vice is learnt without a school-master. Dan,
37. Vice is the most dangerous when it puts on
the garb of virtue. Syrus,
38. Vice loses half its evil by losing its gross-
ness. Burke,
39. Vice makes virtue shine.
40. Vice often rides triumphant in virtue's chariot.
41. Vice ruleth where God reigneth.
42. Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but
virtue consoles us even in our pains.
43. Vice will stain the noblest race. Horace,
44. What maintains one vice would bring up two
children.
45. When our vices leave us, we flatter our-
selves we leave them..
Victor, Victory.
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46. Where vice goes before, vengeance follows
after.
47. Where vice is, vengeance follows.
Victor, Victory.
1. A victory is twice itself when the achiever
brings home full numbers. Shaks,
2. He conquers twice who conquers himself in
victory. Syrus.
3. He that forgives (the aggressor) gains the
victory. Yoruba {Africa),
4. He that traverses the list without an adver-
sary may receive the reward of victory, but he has
no pretension to the honor. Seneca.
5. He who has victory, has right. Ger,
6. Not the body but the soul strikes the blow in
which lives victory. Maga.
. 7. Oft the victor triumphs but to fall. Homer,
8. One may know how to gain a victory, and
know not how to use it. Barca the Carthagenian,
9. Such another victory and we are undone.
Pyrrhus,
10. The harder matched, the greater victory.
Shaks,
11. The more Moors, the better victory.
12. There are none but savage beasts, with whom
carnage succeeds victory. Petrarch,
13. Victories attended with little advantage will
ruin rather than enlarge an empire. Turkish Spy,
14. Victory gives no account of her actions.
Civilis the Batavian,
15. Victory or Westminster Abbey. Nelson,
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Views.— Villain. — Vine, Vineyard. — Vinegar.
Views.
I. Extreme views are never just. Bea,
Villain.
1. Anoint a villain and he will prick you; prick
a villain and he will anoint you. Fr,
2. At an ambuscade of villains a man does
better with his feet than with his hands. Sp,
3. No villain like the conscientious villain.
4. The villain's censure is extorted praise. Pope.
5. The stains that villany leaves behind no time
will wash away. Fielding,
6. Where villany goes before, vengeance follows
after.
Vine, Vineyard.
1. Make your vine poor, and it will make you
rich.
2. He who has many vineyards has many cares.
Turk,
Vinegar.
1. Beware of vinegar made of sweet wine. Ital,
2. He cries wine, and sells vinegar.
3. More flies are caught with a spoonful of syrup
(or drop of honey) than with a cask of vinegar.
Dutch^ Dan.
Violent.
1. Nothing that is violent is permanent.
2. Violent fires soon burn out.
Small showers last long, but sudden storms
are short. Shaks.
Virtue.
.1. A happy life consists in virtue. Latin,
Virtue.
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2. A man that hath no virtue in himself ever
envieth virtue in others. Bacon,
3. A man who is wise and learned, but without
virtue, shall be despised. Cingalese,
4. All human virtue to its latest breath.
Finds envy never conquered but by death.
Pope.
5. All the praise of inward virtue consists in
outward action.
6. All the virtues are in peril when filial piety
is attacked. Chinese,
7. All virtue lies in a power of denying our own
desires when reason does not authorize them. Locke,
8. An exterior grave and majestic announces a
palace where virtue resides. Chinese,
9. As virtue is its own reward, so vice is its own
punishment.
10. Be a father to virtue, but a father-in-law to
vice.
11. Courage and resolution are the spirit and
soul of virtue.
12. Each must in virtue strive to excel,
That man lives twice who lives the first life
well. HerHck,
13. Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a
handsome person. Virgil,
14. Every virtue is but half way between two
vices. Latin,
15. Few are virtuous when the reward^s away.
Dr. Johnson.
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Virtue.
1 6. From our ancestors come our names, but
from our virtues our honors.
17. He cannot go wrong when virtue guides.
18. He has no mean portion of virtue that loveth
it in another.
19. He that thinks too much of his virtues, bids
others think of his vices.
20. He who aspires to be virtuous resembles a
man who climbs up a steep mountain. Chinese,
21. He who dies for virtue does not perish.
Plautus,
22. He whose mind is virtuous is alone of noble
kind. Dryden,
23. I have seen many men not adapted to the
sciences ; not one incapable of a virtue.
24. If virtue keep court within, honor will attend
without.
25. If you can be well without health, you may be
happy without virtue.
26. It is difficult to persuade mankind that the
love of virtue is the love of themselves. Cicero,
27. It is easier to run from virtue to vice than
from vice to virtue.
28. It is impossible for fortune to conquer vir-
tue. Plutarch.
29. It is in hating vice that we strengthen our-
selves in the love of virtue. Fr.
30. It is the will of heaven that virtue be proved
by trials. Arabian,
31. It is virtue to fly vice. Horace,
Virtue.
407
32. It needs great virtues to be known and ad-
mired, or perhaps great vices. La Bruyhre,
33. Kindred without friends, friends without
power, power without will, will without effect, effect
without profit, profit without virtue, are not worth a
rush. Fr.
34. Let them call it mischief,
When it is past and prospered 'twill be virtue.
Ben Jonson,
35. Make a virtue of necessity.
36. Mankind are all stamped equal at their birth,
Virtue alone the difference makes on earth.
37. Men's evil manners live in brass.
Their virtues we write in water. Shaks,
38. Most men are more willing to indulge in easy
vices, than to practise laborious virtues. Dr, Johnson,
39. Nobody hath too much prudence or virtue.
40. Not to go forward in the way of virtue is to
go backwards.
41. O' need make virtue.
42. Our virtues will be often discredited with the
appearance of evil. Rogers.
43. Our virtues would be proud if our vices
whipped them not.
44. Poverty does not destroy virtue nor wealth
bestow it. Sp,
45. Room can never be wanting for virtue. Senua,
46. Some riRfi by wn and ^;mc by virtue fall.
S/iaks,
47. ^\f7tf\\Tir^% \% ihf foundation of all virtue.
Afotfo nf Viwount If erf ford.
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Virtue.
48. Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.
Addison.
49. The first step to virtue is to love virtue in an-
other.
50. The first step to virtue is to abstain from vice.
51. The man who is always fortunate cannot
easily have a great reverence for virtue. Cicero.
52. The virtue that was received from heaven was
as great as a mountain. Chinese.
53. The virtues and vices are put in motion by
interest. Rochefoucauld.
54. The virtuous nothing fear but life with shame,
And death^s a pleasant road that leads to
fame. Geo, Granville.
55. There is some virtue or other to be exercised
whatever happens.
56. There must ever be a place for virtue. Seneca.
57. To subdue the proud and spare the suppliant
has ever been a Roman virtue. TcMtus.
58. Virtue alone can procure that independence
which is the end of human wishes. Petrarch.
59. Virtue alone has majesty in death. Young,
60. Virtue alone is happiness below. Crabbe,
61. Virtue alone is invincible. Latin.
62. Virtue alone with lasting grace
Embalms the virtues of the face. Trumbull.
63. Virtue alone outbuilds the pyramids :
Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall.
Young.
64. Virtue and happiness are mother and daugh-
ter.
Virtue.
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65. Virtue and truth are respected everywhere.
Turkish Spy.
66. Virtue and truth are two of heaven's most
beautiful and lovely daughters. Bacon.
67. Virtue and understanding cannot be bought
with gold. Ger,
68. Virtue and vice cannot dwell under the same
roof. Ger.
69. Virtue and vice, wisdom and folly, are not
hereditary. Chinese.
70. Virtue alone is true nobility. Stepney.
71. Virtue brings honor. Ger.
72. Virtue conquers envy.
Motto of Marquis of Comwallis.
73.' Virtue consists in action. Dutch.
74. Virtue consists in avoiding vice and is the
highest wisdom. Horace,
75. Virtue dwells not in the tongue but in the
heart.
76. Virtue even in rags will keep warm. Hora^.
77. Virtue flourishes from a wound.
Motto of Scotch Earl of Galloway.
78. Virtue flourishes in misfortune. Ger.
79. Virtue goes before, nobility follows after. Ger.
80. Virtue hath not a greater enemy than wealth.
• Petrarch.
81. Virtue grows under every weight. Latin.
82. Virtue in poverty is better than sinful wealth.
Ger.
83. Virtue is a friend ever true. Ger.
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Virtue.
84. Virtue is a jewel of great price.
85. Virtue is always amiable. Petrarch.
86. Virtue is always flourishing.
Motto of Irish Viscount Belmore.
87. Virtue is as good as a thousand shields. Latin,
88. Virtue is a sheet anchor. Latin,
89. Virtue is between two extremes ; he who has
passed the middle has not done better than he who
has reached it. Chinese.
90. Virtue is bold and goodness never fearful.
Shaks.
91. Virtue is choked with foul ambition. Shaks.
92. Virtue is the best patrimony for a child to in-
herit.
93. Virtue is the only nobility.
94. Virtue is increased by the smile of approval.
Ovid.
95. Virtue is its own reward.
96. Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
Bacon.
97. Virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant
when they are crushed. Bacon.
98. Virtue is more persecuted by the wicked than
encouraged by the good.
99. Virtue is never aided by a vice. Ben Jonson,
100. Virtue is of noble birth, but riches take the
wall of her.
1 01. Virtue is not allowed to go backward. Seneca.
102. Virtue is praised and starves. Juvenal.
103. Virtue is the base of the prosperity of an em-
pire. Chinese.
Virtue.
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104. Virtue is the most beautiful apparel. Ger,
105. Virtue is the only true nobility. Juvenal,
106. Virtue is the path of praise. Homer,
107. Virtue is the reward of virtue. Ger.
108. Virtue is the safest helmet. Latin,
109. Virtue is tied to no degrees of men.
no. Virtue is without alloy. Ger,
111. Virtue itself offends when coupled with for-
bidden manners. Middleton,
112. Virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes.
113. Virtue itself turns vice being misapplied.
114. Virtue kindles strength.
Motto of the Irish Viscount of Str angf or d,
115. Virtue, like a strong and hardy plant, will root
where it can find an ingenuous nature and a mind
not averse to labor. Plutarch,
116. Virtue maketh men on the earth famous, in
their grave illustrious, in the heavens immortal.
Chile,
117. Virtue maybe overclouded for awhile, but
will shine at last.
118. Virtue, not pedigree, should characterize no-
bility. Latin,
119. Virtue often trips and falls on the sharp-
edged rocks of poverty. Eugene Sue,
120. Virtue only finds eternal fame. Petrarch,
121. Virtue overcomes envy. Latin,
122. Virtue rejoices in temptation.
Motto of the Earl of Dartmouth,
123. Virtue remains when all else has passed away.
Ger.
^ £ 2 Virtuous.
124. Virtue shines grandest in misfortune. Ger.
125. Virtue sometimes starves while vice is fed.
Pope.
126. Virtue subdues power. Ger.
127. Virtue survives the grave.
Motto of the Irish Earl of Shannon,
128. Virtue though momentarily shamed cannot
be extinguished. Syrus,
129. Virtue unites man with God. Latin.
130. Virtue when concealed is a worthless thing.
Claudianus.
131. Virtue which parleys is near surrender.
132. Virtue would not go far, if a little vanity
walked not with her.
133. Virtues all agree, but vices fight one another.
134. Wealth and beauty less than virtue please.
Homer.
135. What can the virtues of our ancestors profit
us if we do not imitate them.
136. What's vice to-day may be virtue to-morrow.
Fielding.
137. Where virtue resides not, liberty can no longer
subsist. Arabian.
138. Wherever virtue is found in an eminent de-
gree, it is sure to be persecuted. Don Quixote.
139. Whether I am praised or blamed, it enables
me to advance in virtue. Chinese Philosopher.
Virtuous.
I. The device of the virtuous man is expressed
by the two words : " to forgive," and " to pardon."
Fr.
Voice.— Vows. — Vulgar.— Vulgarity. — Wager.
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2. The world is ashamed of being virtuous.
StCTit€»
3. To be virtuous is to do good and do it well.
Voice.
1. A voice soft, gentle and low, is an excellent
thing in a woman. Shaks,
2. A loud voice bespeaks a vulgar man.
3. Apples, pears, and nuts spoil the voice.
4. He who has no voice in the valley will have
none in the council. Sp.
5. Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of
sorrow. Bea.
6. The voice of the people is the voice of God.
( Vox populi vox Dei)
7. The voice of the pigeon on the spit is not like
the voice of the pigeon on the tree. Woloffs (Africa),
Vows.
I. Vows made in storms are forgotten in calms.
Vulg^.
I. The vulgar keep no account of your hits but
of your misses.
Vulgarity.
I. Vulgarity in manners defiles fine garments
more than mud.
