Think nought a trifle, though it small appear; Small sands the mountain, moments make the year; And trifles life.

1956 YOUNG: _Love of Fame,_ Satire vi., Line 193.

=Triumph.=

Why comes temptation, but for man to meet And master, and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?

1957 ROBERT BROWNING: _The Ring and the Book,_ Line 1185.

=Trouble.=

Double, double toil and trouble, Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.

1958 SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ Act iv., Sc. 1.

To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The stings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them.

1959 SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act iii., Sc. 1.

=Truth.=

Truth is the highest thing that man may keep.

1960 CHAUCER: _The Frankeleines Tale,_ Line 11789.

O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the devil.

1961 SHAKS.: _1 Henry IV.,_ Act iii., Sc. 1.

Truth crushed to earth shall rise again: The eternal years of God are hers.

1962 WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT: _The Battle-field._

Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie; A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby.

1963 HERBERT: _Temple, Church Porch,_ St. 13.

Truth has such a face and such a mien, As to be lov'd, needs only to be seen.

1964 DRYDEN: _Hind and Panther,_ Pt. i., Line 33.

He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside.

1965 COWPER: _Task,_ Bk. v., Line 133.

Truth is one; And, in all lands beneath the sun, Whoso hath eyes to see may see The tokens of its unity.

1966 WHITTIER: _Miriam._

Truth is truth howe'er it strike.

1967 ROBERT BROWNING: _La Saisiaz,_ Line 198.

I love truth: truth's no cleaner thing than love.

1968 MRS. BROWNING: _Aurora Leigh,_ Bk. iii., Line 735.

Beauty is truth, truth beauty,--that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

1969 KEATS: _Ode on a Grecian Urn._

Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne.

1970 JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL: _Present Crisis,_ St. 8.

=Tulips.=

Then comes the tulip race, where beauty plays Her idle freaks; from family diffused To family, as flies the father-dust, The varied colors run; and while they break On the charmed eye, the exulting florist marks, With secret pride, the wonders of his hand.

1971 THOMSON: _Seasons, Spring,_ Line 539.

=Tune.=

Strange that a harp of thousand strings Should keep in tune so long!

1972 WATTS: _Hymns and Spiritual Songs,_ Bk. ii., Hymn 19.

=Turf.=

Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days!

1973 FITZ-GREENE HALLECK: _On Joseph Rodman Drake._

=Turk.=

Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.

1974 POPE: _Prologue to the Satires,_ Line 197.

=Twilight.=

Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad.

1975 MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. iv., Line 598.

Peacefully The quiet stars came out, one after one; The holy twilight fell upon the sea, The summer day was done.

1976 CELIA THAXTER: _A Summer Day,_ St. 15

=Tyranny.=

'Tis time to fear, when tyrants seem to kiss.

1977 SHAKS.: _Pericles,_ Act i., Sc. 2.

'Twixt kings and tyrants there's this difference known-- Kings seek their subjects' good, tyrants their own.

1978 HERRICK: _Aph. Kings and Tyrants._

Think'st thou there is no tyranny but that Of blood and chains?

1979 BYRON: _Sardanapalus,_ Act i., Sc. 2.