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

'Tis not enough to keep the feeble up, / But to support them after. Tim. of Athens, i. 1.

'Tis not enough when swarming faults are 25 writ, / That here and there are scatter'd sparks of wit. Dryden.

'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; / Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do. Pope.

'Tis not in mortals to command success, / But we'll do more, Sempronius—we'll deserve it. Addison.

'Tis not prudent, 'tis not well, to meet / With purposed misconception any man, / Let him be who he may. Goethe.

'Tis not so above: / There is no shuffling; there the action lies / In its true nature. Ham., iii. 3.

'Tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but 30 the excess. Selden.

'Tis not the whole of life to live, / Nor all of death to die. J. Montgomery.

'Tis not want, but rather abundance, that creates avarice. Montaigne.

'Tis not what man does which exalts him, but what man would do. Browning.