Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

[Greek: ta syka syka, tên skaphên de skaphên onomazôn]—Calling 5 a fig a fig, and a spade a spade. Plut.

Taurum tollet qui vitulum sustulerit—He who has carried the calf will be able by and by to carry the ox. Pr.

Te Deum laudamus—We praise Thee, O God.

Te digna sequere—Follow what is worthy of thee. M.

Te, Fortuna, sequor: procul hinc jam fœdera sunto: / Credidimus fatis, utendum est judice bello—Thee, Fortune, I follow; hence far all treaties past; to fate I commit myself, and the arbitrament of war. Lucan on the crossing of the Rubicon by Cæsar.

Te hominem esse memento—Remember thou 10 art a man.

Te sine nil altum mens inchoat—Without thee my mind originates nothing lofty. Virg. to Mæcenas.

Teach me to feel another's woe, / To hide the fault I see; / That mercy I to others show, / That mercy show to me. Pope.

Teach self-denial, and make its practice pleasurable, and you create for the world a destiny more sublime than ever issued from the brain of the wildest dreamer. Scott.

Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom, and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. Mahomet.