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Proverbial Wisdom


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PROVERBIAL WISDOM.
PROVERBS, MAXIMS AND ETHICAL
SENTENCES,
OF INTEREST TO ALL CLASSES OF MEN.
COLLECTED AND EDITED
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A. N. COLEMAN.
THIRD EDITION.
REVISED AND ENLARGED.
NEW YORK.
PETER ECKLER, PUBLISHER,
35 FULTON STREET.
1903.


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Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and
a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy
life, than whole volumes that we know not where
to find.-SENECA.
COPYRIGHT, 1897,
BY
A. N. COLEMAN.
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IRRARY
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NOTE.
Encouraged by the success of the former
editions of my “PROVERBIAL WISDOM,”
and at the request of many literary friends
and appreciative readers to republish the
same, I submit to the public the present
edition, carefully revised and largely aug-
mented.
May this work meet with approval, and
inspire the reader to conscientious service,
is the earnest hope of
THE EDITOR.
New York, June, 1903.





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I. CONTENTMENT AND HAPPINESS....
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III. FRIENDSHIP AND ASSOCIATION....
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VI. MARRIAGE....
VII, HOME. ............
VIII. VIRTUE...
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XV. LEARNING AND WISDOM.........................
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XVIII. THE TONGUE....
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INTRODUCTION.
Of the variety of books of this nature
that are published, most of them are filled
with trivial matter, that affords little in-
struction or improvement. In this volume
it is intended that nothing should find a
place that is not fitted to improve the in-
tellect or the heart, or both—nothing that
will not tend to make the reader both wiser
and better.
The proverbs, maxims and ethical sen-
tences contained in this volume are the best
thoughts of the best authors. Many of
them are real pearls of beauty and of worth,
showing how deeply and thoroughly their
authors studied the problem of life, and the
reader will find many a gem of thought,
many a wise saying, spoken by wise men.
The reader will also readily perceive that
they are free from all sectarian bias; and


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may be read with pleasure and profit by all
classes of men, irrespective of creed or
faith.
And, as “Proverbial Wisdom teaches
more in one hour than a large volume of
morality in a season," I cannot but hope
that good result will follow.
May this volume be judged indulgently,
and meet with favorable reception; and
may these gleanings be read with delight
and profit.
A. N. COLEMAN.
NEW YORK, March, 1899.


PROVERBIAL WISDOM.
CHAPTER I.
CONTENTMENT AND HAPPINESS.
Much will always wanting be
To him who much desires. Thrice happy he
To whom the wise indulgence of heaven,
With sparing hand, but just enough has given.
Cowley.
1. For evil there is a remedy, or there is
not; if there is one, I try to find it; and if
there is not, I never mind it.
Miss Mulock.
2. It is a good thing to laugh, at any
rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is
an instrument of happiness. Beasts can
weep when they suffer, but they cannot
laugh.
Dryden.
3. Those who complain most are most to
be complained of. Matthew Henry.
4. The world would be both better and
brighter if we would dwell on the duty of
happiness, as well as on the happiness of
Sir J. Lubbock.
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5. Few things are needful to make the
wise man happy, but nothing satisfies the
fool; and this is the reason why so many
of mankind are miserable.
La Rochefoucauld.
6. If all men were to bring their miseries
together in one place, most would be glad
to take each his own home again rather
than take a portion out of the common
stock.
Solon.
7. There is nothing in the world so much
admired as a man who knows how to bear
unhappiness with courage. Seneca.
8. Think not so much of what thou hast
not as of what thou hast; but of the things
thou hast, select the best, and reflect how
eagerly they would have been sought, if
thou hadst them not. Marcus Aurelius.
9. Do not anticipate trouble, or worry
about what may never happen. Keep in the
sunlight.
Franklin.
10. Demand not that events should hap-
pen as you wish, but wish them to happen
as they do, and you will go on well.
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11. When I see a man with a sour, shriv-
eled face, I cannot forbear pitying his wife;
and when I meet one with an open, ingenu-
ous countenance, I think on the happiness
of his friends, his family, and his relations.
Addison.
12. What's gone and past help, should
be past grief.
Shakespeare.
13. Consider those who are below thee,
and in a far meaner condition, and by that
argue thyself, not only to contentment, but
to thankfulness. Archbishop Leighton.
14. Happiness is a ball after which we
run wherever it rolls, and we push it with
our feet when it stops.
Gethe.
15. “I never complained of my condition
but once,” said an old man—"when my feet
were bare and I had no money to buy shoes;
but I met a man without feet, and became
contented."
Anon.
16. He alone is happy, and he is truly so,
who can say, “Welcome life, whatever it
brings! Welcome death, whatever it is!”
Lord Bolingbroke.
17. If you cannot have the best, make the
best of what you have. Old Proverb.


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18. If cheerfulness knocks for admission,
we should open our hearts wide to receive
it, for it never comes inopportunely.
Schopenhauer.
19. Of all days, the one that is most
wasted is that on which he has not laughed.
S. R. N. Chamfort.
20. Philosophical happiness is to want
little ; civil or vulgar happiness is to want
much, and to enjoy much.
Edmund Burke.
21. Contentment will make a cottage look
as fair as a palace. William Secker.
22. Never trouble yourself with trouble
till trouble troubles you. Old Proverb.
23. The world is a looking-glass, and
gives back to every man the reflection of his
own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn
look sourly upon you ; laugh at it and with
it, and it is a jolly kind companion.
Thackeray.
24. False happiness is like false money;
it passes for a time as well as the true, and
serves some ordinary occasions; but when
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28. If time does not go with thee as thou
wishest, go thou with time as he requires.
Arabian Proverb.
29. In prosperity prepare for a change;
in adversity hope for one. James Burgh.
30. The philosopher Bion said pleasantly
of the king, who, by handfuls, pulled his
hair off his head for sorrow: “Does this
man think that baldness is a remedy for
grief?”
31. Contentment consisteth not in adding
more fuel, but in taking away some fire.
Thomas Fuller.
32. The ocean of felicity is so shoreless
and bottomless, that all the saints and angels
cannot exhaust it. Robert Boyle.
33. Sunshine, either in the world or in
mankind, is an invaluable gift of heaven.
E. P. Day.
34. The greatest pleasure of life is love;
the greatest treasure, a true friend; the
greatest possession, health; the greatest
ease, sleep; and the greatest medicine, con-
tentment.
1. R. Aiken. (?)
35. Hath fortune dealt thee ill cards ? Let
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fair gale, every fool may sail, but wise be-
havior in a storm, commends the wisdom of
a pilot; to bear adversity with an equal
mind, is both the sign and glory of a brave
spirit.
Quarles.
36. The creed of the true saint is to make
the best of life, and to make the most of it.
E. H. Chapin.
37. To be free-minded and cheerfully dis-
posed at hours of meat and sleep and of ex-
ercise, is one of the best precepts of long-
lasting.
Lord Bacon.
38. He who has no wish to be happier, is
the happiest of men. W. R. Alger.
39. If you cannot be happy in one way,
be in another; and this facility of disposition
wants but little aid from philosophy,
for health and good humor are almost the
whole affair. Many run about after felicity,
like an absent-minded man hunting for his
hat, while it is in his hand or on his head.
Granville Sharp..
40. Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of day-
light in the mind, filling it with a steady and
perpetual serenity.
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41. To secure a contented spirit, measure
your desires by your fortunes, not your for-
tunes by your desires. Jeremy Taylor.
42. If you live according to what nature
requires, you will never be poor ; if accord-
ing to the notions of men, you will never be
rich.
Seneca.
43. Murmur at nothing; if our ills are
reparable, it is ungrateful; if remediless, it
is vain.
Colton.
44. Blessed is mirthfulness. It is one of
the renovators of the world. Men will let
you abuse them if only you will make them
laugh.
H. W. Beecher.
45. The happiness of your life depends
upon the character of your thoughts.
Marcus Aurelius.
46. We know nothing of to-morrow; our
business is to be good and happy to-day.
S. Smith.
47. He who loseth wealth, loseth much;
he who loseth a friend, loseth more; but he
who loseth his spirits, loseth all.
Cervantes.


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48. It is right to be contented with what
we have, but never with what we are.
Sir James Mackintosh.
49. Contentment gives a crown where
fortune hath denied it. John Ford.
50. The greatest misfortune of all is not
to be able to bear misfortunes. Bias.
51. Contentment is a pearl of great price,
and whoever procures it at the expense of
ten thousand desires, makes a wise and a
happy purchase.
J. Balguy.
52. A contented mind is a continual
feast.
J. G. von Herder.
53. A poor spirit is poorer than a poor
purse.
Dean Swift.
54. Misfortunes that cannot be avoided,
must be sweetened.
Seneca.
55. He is happy whose circumstances
suit his temper; but he is more excellent,
who can suit his temper to any circum-
stances.
David Hume.
56. Happiness consists in the attainment
of our desires, and in our having only right
desires.
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by no prudence we can avoid, we shall, by
calling to memory what has happened to
others, be able to reflect that nothing new
has befallen ourselves.
Anon.
58. If two angels were sent down from
heaven, one to conduct an empire, and the
other to sweep a street, they would feel no
inclination to change employments.
John Newton.
59. To think well of every other man's
condition, and to dislike our own, is one of
the misfortunes of human nature. Pleased
with each other's lot, our own we hate.
Robert Burton.
60. The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr.
Quiet and Dr. Merryman.
German Proverb.
61. Cheerfulness is an excellent quality.
It has been called the bright weather of the
heart.
Sam. Smiles.
62. The most unhappy of all men is he
who believes himself to be so.
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63. To carry care to bed is to sleep with
a pack on your back.
Thomas C. Haliburton.
64. Since we cannot get what we like, let
us like what we can get.
Spanish Proverb.
65. Contentment is natural wealth, lux-
ury, artificial poverty. Socrates.
66. There is this difference between hap-
piness and wisdom; he that thinks himself
the happiest man is really so; but he that
thinks himself the wisest, is generally the
greatest fool.
Colton.
67. Put off thy cares with thy clothes ; so
shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so
thy labor sweeten thy rest. Quarles.
68. Fixed to no place is happiness serene;
it is nowhere to be found, or everywhere.
Pope.
69. There is a German proverb which
says that “Take it easy,” and “Live long,"
are brothers.
C. N. Bovee.
70. He is great who can do what he
wishes ; he is wise who wishes to do what he
can.
A. W. Iffland.


CHAPTER II.
CHARITY AND BENEVOLENCE.
The lessons of prudence have charms,
And slighted may lead to distress;
But the man whom benevolence warms
Is an angel who lives but to bless.
Bloomfield.
1. Live for something. - Do good, and
leave behind you a monument of virtue that
the storm of time can never destroy. Write
your name in kindness, love and mercy on
the hearts of thousands you come in contact
with year by year; you will never be forgot-
ten. No, your name, your deeds, will be as
legible on the hearts you leave behind as
the stars on the brow of evening. Good
deeds will shine as the stars of heaven.
Thomas Chalmers.
2. Money spent on ourselves may be a
millstone about our neck; spent on others, it
may give us wings like angels.
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10. Let charity be warm if the weather
is cold.
Old Proverb.
II. Munificence is not quantity, but qual-
ity.
Pascal.
12. Whenever you behold a fellow-
creature in distress, remember that he is a
man.
Seneca.
13. The man may last, but never lives,
who much receives, but nothing gives.
Edward Gibbon.
14. You must live for another if you wish
to live for yourself.
Seneca.
15. When the purse is emptied the heart
is filled.
Victor Hugo.
16. Some men are so charitable that if
they meet a beggar on one wooden leg, they
will reserve their alms until they meet
another with two, as the most worthy.
J. R. Aiken. (?)
17. The word "alms” has no singular, as
if to teach us that a solitary act of charity
scarcely deserves the name. Anon.
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itself.
wealth, power, friends, and servants do but
help to make our lives more unhappy.
Sir W. Temple.
19. Rest satisfied with doing well, and
leave others to talk of you as they please.
Pythagoras.
20. There is wisdom in generosity, as in
everything else. A friend to everybody is
often a friend to nobody. Spurgeon.
21. The manner of giving shows the
character of the giver more than the gift
Lavater.
22. Liberality consists not so much in
giving a great deal as in giving seasonably.
La Bruyère.
23. It is not what we take up, but what
we give up, that makes us rich.
H. W. Beecher.
24. He is truly great who is great in
charity.
Thomas à Kempis.
25. Alms is the best wealth for the rich.
Tiberius.
26. There is a consanguinity between
benevolence and humility. They are virtues
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27. What I gave, I have; what I spent, I
had; what I kept, I lost. Old Epitaph.
28. When a person is down in the world,
an ounce of help is better than a pound of
preaching.
Bulwer.
29. Men do less than they ought, unless
they do all they can.
Carlyle.
30. Never respect men merely for their
riches, but rather for their philanthrophy;
we do not value the sun for its height, but
for its use.
Samuel Bailey.
31. One gift well given is as good as a
thousand; a thousand gifts ill given are
hardly better than none. Dean Stanley.
32. Be not honey altogether, else people
will lick thee up; be not bitterness alto-
gether, else they will spit thee out.
Arabian Proverb.
33. If a good face is a letter of recom-
mendation, a good heart is a letter of credit.
Bulwer.
34. Be always at leisure to do good;
never make business an excuse to decline
the offices of humanity.
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42. No character is more glorious, none
more attractive of universal admiration and
respect, than that of helping those who are
in no condition of helping themselves.
R. de Charron.
43. Money, like dung, does no good till
it is spread. There is no real use of riches
except it be in distribution; the rest is but
conceit.
Lord Bacon.
44. That which is given with pride and
ostentation is rather an ambition than a
bounty. Let a benefit be ever so consider-
able, the manner of conferring it is yet the
noblest part.
Seneca.
45. No object is more pleasing to the eye
than the sight of a man whom you have
obliged; nor any music so agreeable to the
ear as the voice of one that owns you for
his benefactor.
Spectator.
46. It is a good rule for every one who
has a competency of fortune to lay aside a
certain proportion of his income for pious
and charitable uses; he will then always
give easily and cheerfully. Spectator.
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actions, we make them, in some measure,
our own.
Talmud.
48. We may be as good as we please, if
we please to be good. Isaac Barrow.
49. Charity is the salt of riches.
Talmud.
50. Charity, like the sun, brightens every
object on which it shines.
Ancient Proverb.
51. He that does good to another man
does also good to himself; not only in the
consequence, but in the very act of doing it;
for the consciousness of well-doing is an
ample reward.
Seneca.
52. Consider thy property nothing else
than a trust in thy hands.
Arabian Proverb.
53. In judging of others let us always
think the best, and employ the spirit of char-
ity and candor. But in judging of our-
selves we ought to be exact and severe.
Joseph Joubert.
54. In doing what we ought, we deserve
no praise, because it is our duty.
St. Augustine.


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55. Rich people who are covetous are like
the cypress tree; they appear well but are
fruitless; so many rich persons have the
means to be generous, yet some are not so;
but they should consider that they are only
trustees for what they possess, and should
show their wealth to be more in doing good
than merely in having it. They should not
reserve their benevolence for purposes after
they are dead, for those who give not till
they die, show that they would not even then
if they could keep it any longer.
Bishop Hall.
56. Life is made up, not of great sacri-
fices or duties, but of little things, in which
smiles and kindness, and small obligations,
given habitually, are what win and preserve
the heart and secure comfort.
Sir H. Davy.
57. We should give as we would receive,
cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation;
for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks
to the fingers.
Seneca.
58. The pity of tears only is too waterish
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59. He confers a twofold benefit on the
needy man who confers it speedily.
Publius Syrus.
60. There is little pleasure in the world
that is true and sincere, besides the pleasure
of doing our duty and doing good.
Archbishop Tillotson.
61. The manner of saying or doing any-
thing goes a great way in the value of the
thing itself. It was well said of him that
called a good office that was done harshly
and with ill will a stony piece of bread: “It
was necessary for him that is hungry to re-
ceive it, but it almost chokes a man in the
going down.”
Seneca.
62. The highest exercise of charity is
charity toward the uncharitable.
John S. Buckminster.
63. That charity which longs to publish
itself ceases to be charity, and is only pride
and ostentation.
J. Hutton.
64. A beneficent person is like a fountain
watering the earth, and spreading fertility;
it is therefore more delightful and more
honorable to give than to receive.
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65. A woman who wants a charitable
heart, wants a pure mind.
Thomas C. Haliburton.
66. It is an old saying that charity begins
at home, but this is no reason it should not
go abroad; a man should live with the world
as a citizen of the world; he may have a
preference for the particular quarter or
square, or even alley, in which he lives, but
he should have a generous feeling for the
welfare of the whole.
Richard Cumberland.
67. Kindness is the golden chain by
which society is bound together. Gæthe.
68. We are rich only through what we
give; and poor only through what we refuse
and keep.
Mme. Swetchine.
69. Loving kindness is greater than laws;
and the charities of life are more than all
ceremonies.
Talmud.
70. Gold should never be made the god of
our idolatry, but the agent of our benevo-
lence.
Nathan Appleton.
71. A vain man's motto is: Win gold and
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share it; a miser's: Win gold and spare it;
a profligate's: Win gold and spend it; a
broker's: Win gold and lend it; a fool's :
Win gold and end it; a gambler's: Win
gold and lose it; a wise man's: Win gold
and use it.
W. Wotton.
72. Kindness is a language the dumb
can speak, and the deaf can hear and un-
derstand.
C. N. Bovee.
73. He who gives what he would readily
throw away, gives without generosity; for
the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice.
H. Taylor.
74. The best thing you can give to your
enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, toler-
ance; to a friend, your heart; to your child,
a good example; to a father, deference; to
your mother, conduct that will make her
proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all
men, charity.
James Balfour.
75. Do all the good you can, in all the
ways you can, to all the souls you can, in
every place you can, at all times you can,
with all the zeal you can, as long as you can.
J. Wesley.


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76. He that does good for good's sake
seeks neither praise nor reward, but he is
sure of both in the end.
Penn.
77. A good deed is never lost; he who
sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who
plants kindness gathers love. St. Basil.
78. Less of your courtesy and more of
your purse.
Old Proverb.
79. Charity gives itself rich; covetous-
ness hoards itself poor. German Proverb.
80. He gives not best that gives most;
but he gives most who gives best. If I
cannot give bountifully, yet I can give
supply by my heart. A. Warwick.
81. The conquerer is regarded with awe,
the wise man commands our esteem; but it
is the benevolent man who wins our affec-
tions.
French Proverb.
82. Charity that which is given in health,
is gold; in sickness, silver; after death,
lead.
Jewish Proverb.
83. To feed one good man, is infinitely
more meritorious than attending to ques-
tions about heaven and earth, spirits and
demons.
Buddha.


CHAPTER III.
FRIENDSHIP AND ASSOCIATION.
When true friends meet in adverse hour,
'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower;
A watery ray an instant seen,
The darkly closing clouds between.
Sir Walter Scott.
1. A friend in need, as the saying goes, is
rare. Nay, it is just the contrary; no sooner
have you a friend than he is in need, and
asks you for a loan. Schopenhauer.
2. Depend on no man, on no friend but
him who can depend on himself. He only
who acts conscientiously towards himself,
will act so towards others. Lavater.
3. A friend that you have to buy would
not be worth what you pay for him, no mat-
ter what that may be. G. D. Prentice.
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abates misery, by doubling our joy and di-
viding our grief.
Cicero.
5. Purchase not friends by gifts; when
thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.
Thomas Fuller.
- 6. Whoever looks for a friend without
imperfections, will never find what he seeks.
Cyrus.
7. He will find himself in a great mistake
that either seeks for a friend in a palace, or
tries him at a feast.
Seneca.
8. Avoid the friendship of him who, from
mere curiosity, asks three questions running
about a thing that cannot interest him.
Lavater.
9. Would you have others to befriend
you? be friendly; would you have them to
respect you? respect yourself.
W. S. Downey.
10. Be cautious with whom you associate,
and never give your company or your confi-
dence to those of whose good principles you
are not sure.
Bishop Coleridge.
11. You may depend upon it that he is a
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good, and whose enemies are characters de-
cidedly bad.
Lavater.
12. Friendship often ends in love; but
love in friendship-never. Colton.
13. Make not a bosom friend of a melan-
choly, sad soul. He will be sure to aggra-
vate thy adversity and lessen thy prosperity.
He goes always loaded, and thou must bear
half.
Fénelon.
14. Something like home, that is not
home, is to be desired; it is to be found in
the house of a friend. Sir W. Temple.
15. The company in which you will im-
prove most, will be least expensive to you.
Washington.
16. Friendship is composed of a single
soul inhabiting two bodies. Aristotle.
17. Procure not friends in haste, and
when thou hast a friend part not with him
in haste.
Solon.
18. The corpse of friendship is not worth
embalming.
William Hazlitt.
19. Nothing is more dangerous than an
imprudent friend ; better is it to have to deal
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20. Prosperity is no just scale; adversity
is the only balance to weigh friends.
Plutarch.
21. True friends visit us in prosperity
only when invited, but in adversity they
come without invitation. Theophrastus.
22. The difficulty is not so great to die
for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying
for.
Henry Home.
23. He who cannot feel friendship is
alike incapable of love. Let a woman be-
ware of the man who owns that he loves
no one but herself.
P. A. A. de Talleyrand.
24. A friend is another "I.” Zeno.
25. It is better to have one friend of great
value than many friends of little value.
Anacharsis.
26. A friendship will be young at the end
of a century; a passion, old at the end of
three months.
Nigu.
27. Friends are lost by calling often and
calling seldom.
Gælic Proverb.
28. Friends show me what I can do; foes
teach me what I should do. Schiller.


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29. It is poor friendship that needs to be
constantly bought. Gælic Proverb.
30. It is better to have an open enemy
than a doubtful ally. Napoleon I.
31. A crowd is not company, and faces
are but a gallery of pictures, where there is
no love.
Lord Bacon.
32. We have three kinds of friends ; those
who love us, those who are indifferent to us,
and those who hate us.
S. R. N. Chamfort.
33. Beware of him who meets you with a
friendly mien, and, in the midst of a cordial
salutation, seeks to avoid your glance.
Lavater.
34. Evil companions are the devil's
agents, whom he sends abroad into the
world to debauch virtue, and to advance his
kingdom.
Anthony Horneck.
35. The friendship of the noble-minded is
an inestimable treasure; but that of the
worthless is ever attended with regret.
Arabian Proverb.
36. A man may have a thousand intimate
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all. If you have one friend, think yourself
happy.
Johnson.
37. There is some utility in every friend-
ship, save in that of the simple-minded.
Arabian Proverb.
38. Without friends the world is but a
wilderness.
Lord Bacon.
39. One enemy is one too many; a thou-
sand friends are none too many.
Italian Proverb.
40. A man without a fitting companion is
like the left hand without the right.
Arabian Proverb.
41. Be not a neighbor of him who wears
the cloak of a saint to hide the deformities
of a fool.
Talmud.
42. A true friend unbosoms freely, ad-
vises justly, assists readily, adventures
boldly, takes all patiently, defends courage-
ously, and continues to be a friend un-
changeably.
Rule of Life.
43. If a man does not make new ac-
quaintances as he passes through life, he
will soon find himself left alone. A man
should keep his friendship in constant re-
pair.
Johnson.


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44. That friendship will not continue to
the end which is begun for an end.
Quarles.
45. To have no faithful friends is worse
than death.
Italian Proverb.
46. Friends must be preserved with good
deeds, and enemies reconciled with fair
words.
Alexander Severus.
47. A broken friendship may be soldered,
but will never be sound.
Spanish Proverb.
48. It is better to sit with a wise man in
prison than with a fool in paradise.
Russian Proverb.
49. Life without a friend, is death with-
out a witness. Spanish Proverb.
50. Make not thy friend too cheap to
thee; nor thyself to thy friend.
Thomas Fuller.
51. He is happy that finds a true friend
in extremity; but he is much more so, who
findeth not extremity whereby to try his
friend.
Aristotle.
52. To be every one's friend is to be every
one's fool.
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53. People will, in a great degree, and
not without reason, form their opinion of
you upon that which they have of your
friends; and there is a Spanish proverb
which says, very justly: “Tell me with
whom thou goest, and I will tell thee what
thou doest.”
Cervantes.
54. Those beings only are fit for solitude,
who like nobody, are like nobody, and are
liked by nobody
Zimmerman.
55. Friendship is the most sacred of all
moral bonds.
L'Estrange.
56. True friendship is like sound health,
the value of it is seldom known until it be
Colton.
57. If men wish to be held in esteem,
they must associate with those only who are
estimable.
La Bruyère.
58. False friends are like our shadow,
keeping close to us while we walk in the
sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross
into the shade.
C. N. Bovee.
59. Never contract friendship with a man
that is not better than thyself. Confucius.
60. No man can be provident of his time
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enough to be under some degree of re-
straint.
Lord Chesterfield.
71. He that chooseth an apple by the
skin, and a man by the face, may be de-
ceived by the one, and overshot by the
other.
N. Lunge.
72. A new friend is sometimes only a
troublesome acquaintance. James Ellis.


CHAPTER IV.
WOMAN.
O woman! whose form and soul
Are the spell and the light of each path we
pursue;
Whether sunn'd in the tropics, or chill'd at the
pole,
If woman be there, there is happiness too.
Moore.
1. Without women, the beginning of our
life would be helpless; the middle, devoid
of pleasure; and the end, of consolation.
V.J. E. de Jouy.
2. Woman is the Sunday of man; not
his repose only, but his joy; the salt of his
life.
Jules Michelet.
3. The brain woman never interests us
like the heart woman; white roses please
less than red.
0. W. Holmes.
4. Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is
as a flower without perfume.
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5. A woman has two smiles that an an-
gel might envy—the smile that accepts a
lover before words are uttered, and the
smile that lights on the first-born babe, and
assures it of a mother's love.
Thomas C. Haliburton.
6. Beauty in woman is the wise man's
bonfire, and the fool's furnace. Quarles.
7. The happiest women, like the happiest
nations, have no history. George Eliot.
8. No woman can be handsome by the
force of features alone, any more than she
can be witty only by the help of speech.
John Hughes.
9. Socrates called beauty a short-lived
tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theo-
phrastus, a silent cheat; Carneades, a soli-
tary kingdom; Domitian said that nothing
was more grateful; Aristotle affirmed that
beauty was better than all the letters of
recommendation in the world ; Homer, that
it was a glorious gift of nature; and Ovid,
alluding to it, calls it a favor bestowed by
the gods.
From the Italian.
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II. A fashionable woman is always in
love—with herself. La Rochefoucauld.
12. The wants of women are an unknown
quantity.
A. Rhodes.
13. A good woman is the loveliest flower
that blooms under heaven. Thackeray.
14. There is on earth no greater treas-
ure or more desirable possession for a man
than a woman who truly loves him.
St. Foix.
15. It is as natural for women to pride
themselves in fine clothes as it is for a pea-
cock to spread his tail.
Anon.
16. Women are afflicted by trifles; but
they are also consoled by trifles.
Victor Hugo.
17. Trust not a woman when she weeps ;
for it is her nature to weep when she wants
her will.
Socrates.
18. Some women have hearts brittle as
glass; he that would engrave his name on
them must use diamonds.
Anon.
19. Woman is most perfect when most
womanly. William E. Gladstone.
20. A woman can keep one secret—the
secret of her age.
Voltaire.


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21. A woman's heart is just like a
lithographer's stone; what is once written
upon it cannot be rubbed out.
Thackeray.
22. A woman requires no tutor to teach
her love and tears. Mme. Necker.
23. For brilliancy no gems compare with
the eyes of a beautiful woman.
J. V. C. Smith.
24. There is in every true woman's heart
a spark of heavenly fire, which beams and
blazes in the dark hours of adversity.
Washington Irving.
25. Woman is a treasure of which the
profligate and the unmarried man can never
appreciate the full value.
Paul Chatfield.
26. A little acidity is not objectionable in
a woman of spirit; we add lemon to make
punch more palatable. Bayard Taylor.
27. Honor women; they strew celestial
roses on the pathway of our terrestrial life.
P. C. B. Boiste.
28. Many women, like roses, retain their
sweetness long after they have lost their
beauty.
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all sights, and the sweetest harmony in the
world is the sound of the voice of her whom
we love.
La Bruyère.
38. Women have more strength in their
looks than we have in our laws, and more
power in their tears than we have in our
arguments.
Sir H. Saville.
39. There are three classes into which all
old women are divided : First, that dear old
soul; second, that old woman; and third,
that old witch.
Coleridge.
40. “Vexation of spirit”—that is the part
that belongs to us; we leave the “vanity" to
the women.
M. W. Oliphant.
41. A good-hearted woman, in the rosy
beauty of her joys, is the loveliest object in
J. H. Leigh Hunt.
42. A woman's heart, like the moon, is
always changing ; but there is always a man
in it.
Punch.
43. Women are all alike. When they are
maids they are mild as milk; once make
them wives, and they lean their backs
against their marriage certificates and defy
you.
Douglas Jerrold.
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resemblance,” they say. Is it true that he
who reads one can read the other?
George Meredith.
45. No woman is too silly not to have a
genius for spite.
Anna C. Steele.
46. A woman has tears in abundance,
ever ready and at her call, only awaiting her
orders which way to flow. Juvenal.
47. There are few women so perfect as to
keep a husband from regretting, at least
once a day, that he has a wife, or from con-
sidering happy the man who has none.
La Bruyère.
48. Women are never stronger than when
they arm themselves with their weakness.
Mme. du Deffand.
49. A woman, the more curious she is
about her face, is commonly the more care-
less about her house. Ben Jonson.
50. A beautiful woman is the hell of the
soul, the purgatory of the purse, and the
paradise of the eyes. Fontènelle.
51. Women always show more taste in
adorning others than themselves; and the
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hearts—they read another's better than they
can read their own.
Richter.
52. Woman is like a reed which bends to
every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest.
Archbishop Whately.
53. A woman's tongue is her sword,
which she never lets rust. Mme. Necker.
54. Woman's grief is like a summer
storm, short as it is violent.
Joanna Baillie.
55. Women bestow on friendship only
what they borrow from love.
S. R. N. Chamfort.
56. Honor to the women! they plait and
weave roses of heaven for the life on earth.
Schiller.
57. Women, money and wine have their
blessings and their bane.
French Proverb.
58. A woman laughs when she can, and
weeps when she likes. French Proverb.
59. Women wish to be loved, not because
they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or
graceful, or intelligent, but because they are
themselves.
H. F. Aniel.
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ignorant of something that you know, but
an elegant woman never forgets her ele.
gance.
O. W. Holmes.
61. The only medicine which does women
more good than harm is dress.
Richter.
62. Woman is not made to be the admira-
tion of everybody, but the happiness of one.
Edmund Burke.
63. There are three things that I have al-
ways loved and have never understood
painting, music and woman.
Fontènelle.
64. Woman is the most precious jewel
taken from nature's casket, for the orna-
mentation and happiness of man.
M. Guyau.
65. A woman's head is always influenced
fluenced by his head. Lady Blessington.
66. A beautiful woman pleases the eye; a
good woman pleases the heart; one is a
jewel, the other a treasure. Napoleon 1.
67. The best part of beauty is that which
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68. If you tell a woman she is beautiful,
whisper it softly; for if the devil hears it,
he will echo it many times.
F. A. Durivage.
69. Maids want nothing but husbands,
and when they have them, they want every-
thing.
Shakespeare.
70. The life of a woman may be divided
into three epochs ; in the first she dreams of
third she regrets it. St. Prosper.
71. All the reasonings of men are not
worth one sentiment of women.
Voltaire.
72. A woman is more considerable in af-
fairs of love than man, because love is more
the study and business of her life.
Washington Irving.
73. Those who are formed to win gen-
eral admiration, are seldom calculated to
bestow individual happiness.
Lady Blessington.
74. If woman did turn man out of Para-
dise, she has done her best ever since to
make it up for him. E. A. Sheldon.
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of a noble man, is the most perfect thing
in nature; we find in her all the merits of
both sexes.
La Bruyère.
76. A woman has this quality in common
with the angels, that those who suffer be-
long to her.
Balzac.
77. The most religious woman will post-
pone an interview with her Maker for an
appointment with her dressmaker.
Max O’Rell.
78. I love and admire the woman of
forty who admits that she is ten years older
than her daughter; the woman of fifty who
is proud to show me her grand-children,
and does not object to being photographed
with them, and the woman of sixty who
does not expect me to admire her shoulders
at a dinner party.
Max O’Rell.


CHAPTER V.
LOVE.
Mysterious Love! uncertain treasure,
Hast thou more of pain or pleasure?
Endless torments dwell about thee,
Yet who would live, and live without thee?
Addison.
1. Solid love, whose root is virtue, can no
more die than virtue itself. Erasmus.
Shakespeare.
3. Love is like the measles; all the worse
when it comes late in life.
Douglas Jerrold.
4. No cord or cable can draw so forcibly,
or bind so fast, as love can do with only a
single thread.
Robert Burton.
5. He only is blest in true love who loves
for years, and loves but one.
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days for years; and every little absence is
an age.
Dryden.
7. Love that has nothing but beauty to
keep it in good health is short-lived, and apt
to have ague fits.
Erasmus.
8. Life is a flower of which love is the
honey.
Victor Hugo.
9. As soon go kindle a fire with snow, as
seek to quench the fire of love with words.
Shakespeare.
10. Love is a canvas furnished by Nature,
and embroidered by imagination.
Voltaire.
11. Love feels no burden, thinks nothing
of trouble, attempts what is above its
strength, and pleads no excuse of impossi-
bility.
Thos. à Kempis.
12. To love and to be loved is the great-
est happiness of existence.
Sydney Smith.
13. To love is to place our happiness in
the happiness of another.
Baron von Leibnitz.
14. Love is to the moral nature what the
sun is to the earth.
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reaches farthest into heaven, is the beating
of a truly loving heart. H. W. Beecher.
16. Love looks not with the eyes, but
with the mind.
Shakespeare.
17. To love one who loves you, to admire
one who admires you, in a word, to be the
idol of one's idol, is exceeding the limit of
human joy; it is stealing fire from heaven.
Mme. de Girardin.
18. As love increases, prudence dimin-
ishes.
La Rouchefoucauld.
19. Love with old men is as the sun upon
the snow ; it dazzles more than it warms
them.
J. P. Senn.
20. The accents of love are all that is left
of the language of paradise. Bulwer.
21. Love is like the moon; when it does
not increase, it decreases. J. A. Segur.
22. Nothing is harder for a lover than
the heartlessness of the beloved.
Arabian Proverb.
23. Gold does not satisfy love; it must
be paid in its own coin. Mme. Deluzy.
24. Love is the master-key that opens
every ward of the heart of man.
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25. Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell
together; at the door the latter enters, the
former makes its exit.
Alexander Dumas.
26. To love in order to be loved in re-
turn, is man; but to love for the pure sake
of loving, is almost the characteristic of an
angel.
A. de Lamartine.
27. Mutual love is the crown of all bliss.
Milton.
28. Love is an alliance of friendship and
animalism; if the former predominate, it is
a passion exalted and refined; but if the lat-
ter, gross and sensual. Colton.
29. Love is old, old as eternity, but not
outworn; with each new being born or to
be born.
Lord Byron.
30. Love can hope where reason would
despair.
Lord Lyttleton.
31. The maid that loves goes out to sea
upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust
in miracle for safety. Edward Young.
32. The silent note which Cupid strikes,
is far sweeter than the sound of an instru-
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33. The comparison of love to fire holds
good in one respect, that the fiercer it burns
the sooner it is extinguished.
Henry Home.
34. The poets, the moralists, the paint-
ers, in all their descriptions, allegories, and
pictures, have represented love as a soft tor-
ment, a bitter sweet, a pleasing pain, or an
agreeable distress.
Addison.
35. No disguise can long conceal love
where it is, nor feign it where it is not.
La Rochefoucauld.
36. Successful love takes a load off our
hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
C. N. Bovee.
37. When there is love in the heart, there
are rainbows in the eyes, which cover every
black cloud with gorgeous hues.
H. W. Beecher.
38. The schoolboy counts the time till the
return of the holidays; the minor longs to
be of age; the lover is impatient till he is
married.
Addison.
39. Love is blind, and lovers cannot see
the pretty follies that they themselves com-
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40. Love gives itself, but is not bought.
Longfellow.
41. If fun is good, truth is still better,
and love best of all.
Thackeray.
42. It is very natural for a young friend
and a lover to think the persons they love
have nothing to do but to please them.
Pope.
43. It is possible that a man can be so
changed by love, that one could not recog-
nize him to be the same person.
Terence.
44. Love is of the nature of a burning-
glass, which, kept still in one place, fireth;
changeth often, it doeth nothing.
Sir John Suckling.
45. I have enjoyed the happiness of the
world; I have lived and loved. Schiller.
46. Love can neither be bought nor sold;
its only price is love. Jean Veneroni.
47. Love reads without letters, and
counts without arithmetic. Ruskin.
48. An incensed lover shuts his eyes, and
tells himself many lies. Publius Syrus.
49. In the smallest cottage there is room
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50. It is a beautiful trait in the lover's
character that he thinks no evil of the ob-
ject loved.
Longfellow.
51. Love is a mystery, the greatest of all
mysteries, and the key to all mysteries, hav-
ing itself no key.
M. Martin.
52. Love has made its best interpreter a
sigh.
Lord Byron.
53. Love is ever the golden ladder where-
by the heart ascends to heaven. Geibel.
54. Love makes time pass away, and
time makes love pass away.
French Proverb.
55. Love is the salt of life; a higher taste
it gives to pleasure, and then makes it last.
Duke of Buckingham.
56. To be estranged from one whom we
have tenderly and constantly loved, is one
of the bitterest trials the heart can ever
know.
William Prynne.
57. Nothing makes love sweeter and ten-
derer than a little previous scolding and
freezing, just as the grape clusters acquire
by frost before vintage thinner skins and
better flavor.
Richter.
58. Young love is a flame; very pretty,
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often very hot and fierce, but still only light
and flickering. The love of the older and
disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning,
unquenched.
H. W. Beecher.
59. The heart of a young woman in love
is a golden sanctuary, which often enshrines
an idol of clay. Paulin Limayrac.
60. Love keeps the cold out better than a
cloak. It serves for food and raiment.
Longfellow.
61. Love is better than spectacles to make
everything seem great. Sir P. Sidney.
62. A lover is a man who, in his anxiety
to possess another, has lost possession of
himself.
Bulwer.
63. Love is the life of the soul. It is the
harmony of the universe.
W. E. Channing.
64. When a man is in love with a woman
in a family, it is astonishing how fond he
becomes of every person connected with it.
Thackeray.
65. Love is like a painter, who in draw-
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in one eye, would picture only the other
side of the face.
Robert South.
66. True love can no more be diminished
by showers of evil-hap, than flowers are
marred by timely rains. Sir P. Sidney.
67. To be in love, and at the same time to
act wisely, is scarcely within the power of
a god.
Laberius.
68. Love sees what no eye sees; love
hears what no ear hears; and what never
rose in the heart of man, love prepares for
its object.
Lavater.
69. There is in the heart of woman such
deep well of love that no age can freeze it.
Bulwer.
70. The science of love is the philosophy
of the heart.
Cicero.
71. Love is a superstititon that doth fear
the idol which itself has made.
Sir T. Overbury.


CHAPTER VI.
MARRIAGE. I
What is there in the vale of life
Half so delightful as a wife;
When friendship, love and peace combine
To stamp the marriage-bond divine?
Cowper.
1. A light wife doth make a heavy hus-
band.
Shakespeare.
2. Woman was made out of the rib, taken
from the side of man; not out of his head to
rule him, but out of his side to be his equal,
under his arm to be protected, and near his
heart to be beloved. Matthew Henry.
3. The happiness of married life depends
upon making small sacrifices with readiness
and cheerfulness.
John Seldon.
4. Marriage is a medicine which acts dif-
ferently on good men and on good women.
She does not love him quite enough—cure,
marriage. He loves her a little too much-
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5. For any man to match above his rank
is but to sell his liberty.
Philip Massinger.
6. A good wife is heaven's last, best gift
to man—his gem of many virtues, his cas-
ket of jewels; her voice is sweet music, her
smiles his brightest day, her kiss the guard-
ian of his innocence, her arms the pale of
his safety, her industry his surest wealth,
her economy his safest steward, her lips his
faithful counsellors, her bosom the safest
pillow of his cares. Jeremy Taylor.
7. Men are April when they woo; De-
cember when they wed. Shakespeare.
8. Marriage is the best state for man in
general; and every man is a worse man in
proportion as he is unfit for the marriage
state.
Johnson.
9. A person's character is but half formed
till after wedlock. C. Simmons.
10. In the opinion of the world, marriage
ends all, as it does in comedy. The truth is
precisely the reverse; it begins all.
Mme. Swetchine.
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but the sky changes when they are wives.
Shakespeare.
12. If idleness be the root of all evil, then
matrimony is good for something, for it
sets many a poor woman to work.
Sir John Vanbrugh.
13. It is to be feared that they who marry
where they do not love, will love where they
do not marry.
Thomas Fuller.
14. Marriage is a feast where the grace
is sometimes better than the dinner.
Colton.
15. Many an enamored pair have courted
in poetry, and after marriage lived in prose.
John Foster.
16. Of earthly goods, the best is a good
wife; a bad, the bitterest curse of human
life.
Simonides.
17. Marriages are styled matches; yet
amongst those many that are married, how
few are there that are matched !
Thomas Secker.
18. A marriage of love is pleasant; a
marriage of interest, easy; and a marriage
where both meet, happy. Addison.
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picture; he that loves for dowry, makes a
purchase; and he that leaps for dignity,
matches with a multitude at once.
Thomas Secker.
20. Thy wife is a constellation of virtues ;
she is the moon, and thou art the man in
the moon.
William Congreve.
21. Well married, a man is winged; ill
married, he is shackled. H. W. Beecher.
22. What a delight to have a husband
beside you, were it only to salute you when
you sneeze and say "God bless you.”
Molière.
23. Wedlock is like a beseiged fortress;
those who are outside wish to get in, and
those who are inside wish to get out.
Arabian Proverb.
24. The first wife is matrimony, the sec-
ond company, the third heresy.
Italian Proverb.
25. The matrimonial knot is sometimes
tied so tightly that it wounds those whom it
unites.
De Varennes.
26. Marriage is a lottery in which men
stake their liberty, and women their happi-
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happy is because young ladies spend their
time in making nets, not in making cages.
Dean Swift.
34. Marriage, with peace, is the world's
paradise; with strife, this life's purgatory.
Old Proverb.
35. Of all the actions of a man's life, his
marriage does least concern other people;
yet of all actions of our life, it is most med-
dled with by other people.
John Seldon.
36. Marry your sons when you will, your
daughters when you can.
French Proverb.
37. Be not jealous over the wife of thy
bosom, and teach her not an evil lesson
against thyself. Mrs. Browning.
38. Marry but for love; but see that thou
lovest what is lovely.
Penn.
39. When a man and a woman are mar-
ried, their romance ceases, and their history
commences.
Rochebrune.
40. There is more of good nature than of
good sense at the bottom of most mar-
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41. If you would have the nuptial union
last, let virtue be the bond that ties it fast.
Nicholas Rowe.
42. If a man is happily married, his
"rib” is worth all the other bones of his
body.
G. D. Prentice.
43. Ride not post for your marriage; if
you do, you may, in the period of your jour-
ney, take sorrow for your inn, and make
repentance your host. G. Whetstone.
44. It is in vain for a man to be born for-
tunate, if he be unfortunate in his mar-
riage.
Daciano.
45. In choosing a wife, a nurse, or a
school teacher, look to the breed. There is
as much in blood in men as in horses.
C. Simmons.
46. Wedlock is like wine, not properly
judged of till the second glass.
Douglas Jerrold.
47. For a young man to marry a young
woman is of heaven; for an old man to
marry a young woman is of man; for a
young man to marry an old woman is of
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open before marriage, and half shut after-
ward.
Mme. Scuderi.
49. Marriage with a good woman is a
harbor in the tempest of life; with a bad
woman it is a tempest in the harbor.
J. P. Senn.
50. Rather have a man without an estate,
than have an estate without a man.
Themistocles.
51. Mothers who force their daughters
into interested marriage, are worse than the
Ammonites who sacrificed their children to
Moloch—the latter undergoing a speedy
death, the former suffering years of torture,
but too frequently leading to the same re-
sult.
Lord Rochester.
52. I pity from my heart the unhappy
man who has a bad wife. She is shackles to
his feet, a palsy to his hands, a burden to
his shoulders, smoke in his eyes, vinegar to
his teeth, a thorn to his side, and a dagger
to his heart. Sir Thomas Osborne.
53. Be sure you like the parents of the
girl you are about to wed; it is almost as es-
sential to future happiness, as to truly love
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54. They that marry old people, merely
in expectation to bury them, hang them-
selves in hope that some one will come and
cut the halter.
Thomas Fuller.
55. Marriage hath something in it of
nature, something of civility, something of
divinity.
Bishop Hall.
56. A married man has many cares, but
a bachelor no pleasures. Johnson.
57. Marriage is a desperate thing; the
frogs in Æsops were extremely wise; they
had a great mind to some water, but they
would not leap into the well, because they
could not get out again. John Seldon.
58. Fathers their children and themselves
abuse, that wealth a husband for their
daughters choose. E. G. Shirley.


CHAPTER VII.
HOME.
This fond attachment of the well-known place
Whence we started into life's long race,
Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway,
We feel it e'en in age, and at our latest day..
Cowper.
1. Six things are requisite to create a
happy home. Integrity must be the archi-
tect, and tidiness the upholsterer. It must
be warmed by affection, lighted up with
cheerfulness, and industry must be the ven-
tilator, renewing the atmosphere, and bring-
ing in fresh salubrity day by day.
James Hamilton.
2. To Adam, Paradise was home; and to
the good among his descendants home is a
paradise.
J. C. Hare.
3. He is the happiest, be he king or pea-
sant, who finds peace in his home.
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4. Home is the seminary of all other in-
stitutions.
E. H. Chapin.
5. The last word is the most dangerous
of infernal machines, and the husband and
wife should no more fight to get it than
they should struggle for the possession of a
lighted bombshell. Douglas Jerrold.
6. Without hearts there is no home.
Lord Byron.
7. A hundred men may make an encamp-
ment, but it takes a woman to make a home.
Chinese Proverb.
8. At evening, home is the best place for
man.
Gamthe.
9. Cautiously avoid speaking of the do-
mestic affairs either of yourself or of other
people. Yours is nothing to them but tedi-
ous gossip, and theirs are nothing to you.
Lord Chesterfield.
10. The mother's heart is the child's
school room.
H. W. Beecher.
II. “Home," says the proverb, "is where
the heart is,” but if so, no man seems to
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a woman to help him. A woman can do it
for herself. There lies her advantage.
T. W. Higginson.
12. A family without government is like
a house without a roof, exposed to every
wind that blows. Matthew Henry.
13. The prudent and discreet wife will,
very properly, regard the behavior of her
husband as the pattern which she ought to
follow and the law of her life, invested with
a divine sanction from the marriage tie, for
if she can induce herself to submit patiently
to her husband's mode of life, she will have
no difficulty in managing her household af-
fairs.
Aristotle.
14. The first indication of domestic hap-
piness is the love of one's home.
F. D. Montlosier.
15. No money is better spent than what
is laid out for domestic satisfaction. A man
is pleased that his wife is dressed as well as
other people, and the wife is pleased that
she is dressed.
Johnson.
16. A man that loves his own fireside, and
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ears with his neighbors, or engaging in
suits at law, is free as the Duke of Venice.
Montaigne.
17. Some persons can be everywhere at
home; others can sit musingly at home and
be everywhere.
G. D. Prentice.
18. A happy family, is an earlier heaven.
Sir John Bowring:
19. The future destiny of the child is al-
ways the work of the mother.
Bonaparte.
20. Every child should be taught to pay
all his debts and to fulfill his contracts ex-
actly in manner, completely in value, punc-
tually at the time. Everything he has bor-
rowed he should be obliged to return unin-
jured at the time specified, and everything
belonging to others which he has lost, he
should be required to replace.
Timothy Dwight.
21. Parents wonder why the streams are
bitter, when they themselves have poisoned
the fountain.
Locke.
22. A suspicious parent makes an artful
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23. The family is the heart's fatherland!
Hold, then, the family sacred! Look upon
it as one of the indestructible conditions of
life, and reject every attempt made to under-
mine it.
Jos. Mazzini.
24. Be it ever so humble, there is no place
like home.
J. H. Payne.
25. Home, the spot on earth supremely
blest, a dearer, sweeter spot than all the
rest.
Alexander Montgomery.
26. One good mother is worth a hundred
school masters. In the house she is a load-
stone to all hearts, and a load-star to all
eyes.
George Herbert.
27. Seven thou shalt not neglect: thy
wife as long as she lives in peace with thee;
thy livelihood as long as it provides for
thee; thy ornament as long as it adorns
thee; thy friend as long as he is just to thee;
thy table companion as long as he under-
stands thee; thy son as long as he cannot
take care of himself; and thy guest as long
as he does not molest thee.
Arabian Proverb.
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man loved and respected in his family. He
makes himself contemptible, when he talks
passionately to his servants for no reason
but to show his authority. Rule of Life.
29. The surest way of governing, both in
a private family and a kingdom, is for a
husband and a prince sometimes to drop
their prerogatives. Bishop Hughes.
30. As a looking-glass, if it is a true one,
faithfully represents the face of him that
looks in it, so a wife ought to fashion her-
self to the affection of her husband; not to
be cheerful when he is sad, nor sad when
he is cheerful.
Erasmus.
31. Discord is everywhere a troublesome
companion, but when it is shut up within a
family, and happens among relations that it
cannot easily part, it is harder to deal with.
Cannot be traced.
32. Some men are at home everywhere;
others are at home nowhere. E. P. Day.
33. It is very dangerous for any man to
find any spot on this broad globe that is
sweeter to him than his home.
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34. Where there is room in the heart,
there is always room in the house.
Thomas Moore.
35. Do not act the lion in thy house; be
not tyrannical and cruel toward thy in-
feriors.
Jewish Proverb.
36. A man is, in general, better pleased
when he has got a good dinner than when
his wife talks Greek.
Johnson.


CHAPTER VIII.
VIRTUE.
'Tis not to any rank•confined,
But dwells in every honest mind;
Be justice then your sole pursuit;
Plant virtue, and content's the fruit.
Gay.
1. If a man is not virtuous, be becomes
vicious.
La Bruyère.
2. The flower of youth never appears
more beautiful than when it bends toward
the Sun of Righteousness.
Matthew Henry.
3. Recommend to your children virtue;
that alone can make them happy, not gold.
Beethoven.
4. Virtue is doing justice, loving mercy,
and endeavoring to make our fellow crea-
tures happy.
Thos. Paine.
5. If virtue keeps court within, honor
will attend without. Old Proverb.


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6. The good opinion of our fellow men is
the strongest, though not the purest, motive
to virtue.
Colton.
7. Virtue is the politeness of the soul.
Balzac.
8. Virtue and genuine graces in them-
selves speak what no words can utter.
Shakespeare.
9. Virtue is the greatest ornament, and
good sense the best equipage.
Sir Henry Saville.
10. A straight line is the shortest in mor-
als as well as in geometry. C. Rahel.
11. Know then this truth, enough for
man to know, virtue alone is happiness be-
low.
Pope.
12. Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and
whatever is virtuous is graceful. Cicero.
13. There is but one virtue—the eternal
sacrifice of self.
G. Sands.
14. A man that is desirious to excel,
should endeavor it in those things that are
in themselves most excellent. Epictetus.
15. Men are not to be judged by their
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character of their lives and conversations
and by their works. It is better that a
man's own works, than that another man's
words, should praise him. L'Estrange.
16. Virtue often trips and falls on the
sharp-edged rock of poverty.
Eugéne Sue.
17. That virtue which requires to be ever
guarded, is scarce worth the sentinel.
Goldsmith.
18. Virtue has many preachers, but few
martyrs.
C. A. Helvetius.
19. A virtuous and well disposed person
is like good metal; the more he is fired, the
more he is fined; the more he is opposed,
the more he is approved. Wrongs may well
try him and touch him, but cannot imprint
in him a false stamp.
Cardinal Richelieu.
20. A man of virtue is an honor to his
country, a glory to humanity, a satisfaction
to himself, and a benefactor to the whole
world. He is rich without oppression or
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courteous without deceit, and brave without
vice.
Rule of Life.
21. A man that hath no virtue in himself
• 22. It is difficult to convince mankind
that the love of virtue is the love of them-
selves.
Cicero.
23. Virtue maketh men on earth famous,
in their graves illustrious, in the heavens
immortal.
Chilo.
it is, the less noise it makes.
Lord Halifax.
25. Vice stings us even in our pleasures,
but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
Colton.
26. To be innocent is to be not guilty; but
to be virtuous is to overcome our evil in-
tentions.
Penn.
27. Love virtue, without austerity; pleas-
ure, without effeminacy, and life, without
fearing its end.
St. Evremond.
28. Every virtue gives a man a degree of
felicity in some kind; honesty gives a man
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dence, respect; courtesy and liberality, af-
fection ; temperance gives health; fortitude,
a quiet mind, not to be moved by any ad-
versity.
Washington.
29. Be not ashamed of thy virtues; honor
is a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at
all times.
Ben Jonson.
30. The four cardinal virtues are pru-
dence, fortitude, temperance, and justice.
William Paley.
31. The virtue of young persons consists
chiefly in not doing anything to an excess.
Socrates.
32. Everything great is not always good,
but all good things are great.
Demosthenes.
33. Live virtuously, and you cannot die
too soon, nor live too long. Lady Russel.
34. Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has
more admirers than followers.
Lady Blessington.
35. If you can be well without health, you
may be happy without virtue.
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that contents himself with being virtuous
without seeking to appear so. Plato.
37. Virtue by calculation is the virtue of
vice.
Joseph Joubert.
38. No man has a right to do as he
pleases, except when he pleases to do right.
C. Simmons.


CHAPTER IX.
NOBILITY.
Superior worth your rank requires,
For this, mankind reveres your sires;
If you degenerate from your race,
Their merit heightens your disgrace.
Gay.
1. Mere family never made a man great.
Thought and deed, not word, not pedigree,
are the passports to enduring fame.
Skobeleff.
2. Titles of honor add not to his worth
who is an honor to his title. John Ford.
3. Pride in boasting of family antiquity
makes duration stand for merit.
Zimmerman.
4. Be noble-minded! Our own heart, and
not other men's opinions of us, forms our
true honor.
Schiller.
5. Man is to be known by the place where
he firmly stands, not where he was planted;
by the place where he is found, not where
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6. He is the best gentleman that is the
son of his own deserts, and not the degen-
erated heir of another's virtue.
Victor Hugo.
7. Worth makes the man, and want of it
the fellow; the rest is all but leather or
prunello.
Pope.
8. One of the greatest advantages which
"noblemen” (or the aristocracy) possess
over other men is that of being often at-
tended by servants of more talent than
themselves.
Lord Beaconsfield.
9. If men were to consider their own dig-
nity as men, they would spurn at titles and
look on them as nick-names.
Thomas Paine.
10. Of all vanities and fopperies, the
vanity of high birth is the greatest. True
nobility is derived from virtue, not from
birth. Titles, indeed, may be purchased, but
virtue is the only coin that makes the bar-
gain valid.
Robert Burton.
II. He who has no intrinsic nobility, will
derive no benefit from the noble pedigree of
his ancestors.
Ovid.


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:
12. What is birth to a man, if it shall be
a stain to his dead ancestors to have left
such an offspring ? Sir P. Sydney.
13. The original of all men is the same:
and virtue is the only nobility. Seneca.
14. Title and ancestry render a good man
more illustrious, but an ill one, more con-
temptible. Vice is infamous, though in a
prince; and virtue honorable, though in a
peasant.
Addison.
15. To be of noble parentage, and not to
be endowed with noble qualities, is rather a
defamation than a glory. R. Dodsley.
16. He that boasteth of his ancestors con-
fesseth he hath no virtue of his own. No
other person hath lived for our honor, nor
ought that to be reputed ours which was
long before we had a being. For what ad-
vantage can it be to a blind man that his
parents had good eyes? Does he see one
whit the better?
R. de Charron.
17. The wise man replied to the fool,
who despised him on account of the lowness
of his family: “Thou art the blemish of thy
family; and my family is the blemish in
me.”
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be called noted or notorious than noble per-
sons.
Seneca.
25. All nobility, in its beginnings, was
somebody's natural superiority.
Emerson.
26. It is with antiquity as with ancestry,
nations are proud of the one, and individ-
uals of the other ; but if they are nothing in
themselves, that which is their pride, ought
to be their humiliation.
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4. You play the spaniel, and think with
wagging of your tongue to win me.
Shakespeare.
5. Praise undeserved is scandal in dis-
guise.
Pope.
6. Flattery is never so agreeable as to our
blind side ; commend a fool for his wit, or a
knave for his honesty, and they will receive
you into their bosoms.
Henry Fielding.
7. A man finds no sweeter voice in all the
world than that which chants his praise.
Fontènelle.
8. Those are generally good at flattery
who are good for nothing else.
Robert South.
9. Think not those faithful who praise all
thy words and actions, but those who kind-
ly reprove thy faults.
Socrates.
10. He that is much flattered, soon learns
to flatter himself.
Johnson.
II. Flatterers are cats that lick before
and scratch behind. German Proverb.
12. We swallow at one draught the lie
that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the
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13. Flattery is praise insincerely given
for an interested purpose.
H. W. Beecher.
14. He who praises you for what you
have not, wishes to take from you what you
have.
J. A. Manuel.
15. The love that a man gains by flattery
is worth just about as much as the flatterer.
H. W. Shaw.
16. Those who are greedy of praise prove
that they are poor in merit. Plutarch.
17. The rich man despises those who flat-
ter him too much, and hates those who do
not flatter him at all.
P. A. A. de Talleyrand.
18. The man who flatters a woman hopes
either to find her a fool, or to make her one.
Samuel Richardson.
19. We always love those who admire us,
but do not always love those we admire.
La Rochefoucauld.
20. Do not praise thy friend too much,
for in speaking of his good qualities thou
wilt touch upon his bad ones.
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21. Praise no man too liberally before his
presence, nor censure him too lavishly be-
hind his back; the one savors of flattery, the
other of malice, and both are reprehensible.
Quarles.
22. It is better to fall among crows than
flatterers; for those only devour the dead,
these the living.
Antisthenes.
23. Some there are who profess to despise
all flattery, but even these are, nevertheless,
to be flattered by being told that they do
despise it.
Colton.
24. Flattery is a sort of bad money to
which our vanity gives currency.
La Rochefoucauld.
25. Love those who reprove thee, and
hate those who flatter thee. Pythagoras.
26. It is base to be praised by those who
are undeserving of praise. Anon.
27. Flattery corrupts both the receiver
and the giver; and adulation is not of more
service to the people than to kings.
Edmund Burke.
28. Flattery, though a base coin, is the
necessary pocket-money at court, where, by
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currency that it is no longer a fraudulent,
but a legal payment. Lord Chesterfield.
29. Crows devour the eyes of the dead,
when the dead have no longer need of them.
But flatterers destroy the souls of the living
and blind their eyes.
Epictetus.
30. Flattery is like friendship in show,
but not in fruit.
Socrates.
31. Wherever there is flattery, there is a
fool in the case. Arabian Proverb.
32. A flatterer is said to be a beast that
biteth smiling. But it is hard to know them
from friends, they are so obsequious and
full of protestations ; for as a wolf resem-
bles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend.
Sir Walter Raleigh.
33. When flatterers meet, the devil goes
to dinner.
De Foe.
34. Flattery is like champagne; it soon
goes to the head.
W. Browne.
35. Praise not people in their faces, to
the end that they may pay thee in the same
coin. This is so thin a cobweb, that it may,
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rarely strong enough to catch flies of any
considerable magnitude. Thomas Fuller.
36. Flattery is often a traffic of mutual
meanness, where, although both parties in-
tend deception, neither are deceived.
Colton.
37. Of all wild beasts preserve me from
a tyrant; and of all tame, from a flatterer.
Ben Jonson.


CHAPTER XI.
CONSCIENCE.
Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself, can find
A fiercer torment than a guilty mind,
Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse,
Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
Dryden.
1. If you would relish food, labor for it
before you take it; if you would enjoy
clothing, pay for it before you wear it; if
you would sleep soundly, take a clear con-
science to bed with you. Franklin.
2. If any speak ill of thee, flee home to
thine own conscience, and examine thine
heart. If thou be guilty, it is a just correc-
tion; if not guilty, it is a fair instruction.
Quarles.
3. The glory of a good man is the tes-
timony of a good conscience; have a good
conscience and thou shalt ever have joy.
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4. Every man has a paradise around him
till he sins, and the angel of an accusing
conscience drives him from his Eden.
Longfellow.
5. Conscience is the voice of the soul; the
passions are the voice of the body.
J. J. Rousseau.
6. He who commits a wrong will himself
inevitably see the writing on the wall,
though the world may not count him guilty.
M. F. Tupper.
7. The torture of a bad conscience is the
hell of a living soul. John Calvin.
8. Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.
Johnson.
9. Conscience and wealth are not always
neighbors.
Philip Massinger.
10. A wounded conscience is able to un-
paradise paradise itself. Thomas Fuller.
II. A good conscience is a soft pillow.
German Proverb.
12. Conscience is the chamber of justice.
A. Origen.
13. A firm faith is the best divinity; a
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20. Money dishonestly acquired, is never
worth its cost, while a good conscience
never costs as much as it is worth.
J. P. Senn."
21. A man who sells his conscience for
his interest will sell it for his pleasure. A
man who will betray his country will be-
tray his friend. - Miss Edgeworth.
22. He that loses his conscience has noth-
ing left that is worth keeping.
1. Walton.
23. Trust that man in nothing who has
not a conscience in everything.
Lawrence Sterne.
24. Cowardice asks, "Is it safe?” Expe-
diency asks, "Is it politic?" Vanity asks,
"Is it popular?” Conscience asks, "Is it
right?”
W. M. Punshon.
25. There is no witness so terrible, no ac-
cuser so powerful, as conscience which
dwells within us.
Sophocles.
26. Conscience warns us as a friend, be-
fore it punishes us as a judge.
L. Stanislaus.
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ΙΟΙ
our actions do not disclose. The most con-
summate hyprocrite cannot, at all times,
conceal the workings of the mind.
French Proverb.
28. It is astonishing how soon the whole
conscience begins to unravel, if a single
stitch is dropped. Charles Buxton.


CHAPTER XII.
PRECEPT AND EXAMPLE.
Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time.
Longfellow.
1. Thinking well is wise; planning well,
wiser; doing well, wisest and best of all.
Persian Proverb.
2. Example is more forcible than precept.
People look at my six days in the week to
see what I mean on the seventh.
Richard Cecil.
3. He that would teach men to die, should,
at the same time, teach them how to live.
Montaigne.
4. Of all the commentaries upon the
Scriptures, good examples are the best and
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5. If you convince a man that he does
wrong, do right. Men will believe what
they see. Let them see.
Henry D. Thoreau.
6. The actions of men are the best inter-
preters of their thoughts. Locke.
7. Measure not men by Sundays, without
regarding what they do all the week after.
Thomas Fuller.
8. The road by precept is tedious, by ex-
ample, short and efficacious. Seneca.
9. It is not the number of facts he knows,
but how much of a fact he is himself that
proves the man.
C. N. Bovee.
· 10. If we would amend the world, we
should mend ourselves.
Penn.
11. None ought to govern who is not bet-
ter than the governed. Publius Syrus.
12. It was said of one who preached very
well, and lived very ill, that when he was
out of the pulpit, it was a pity he should ever
go in; and when in the pulpit, it was a pity
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ample. We reform others unconsciously,
when we walk uprightly.
Mme. Swetchine.
21. Precept and example, like the blades
of a scissors, are admirably adapted to their
end when conjoined ; separated, they lose
the greater portion of their utility.
G. E. Jewsbury.
22. Whatever parent gives his children
good instruction and sets them, at the same
time, a bad example, may be considered as
bringing them food in one hand, and poison
in the other.
John Balguy.
23. He that gives good advice builds with
one hand; he that gives good counsel and
example, builds with both; but he that
gives good admonition and bad example,
builds with one hand, and pulls down with
the other.
Lord Bacon.
24. Parents who wish to train up their
children in the way they should go, must go
in the way in which they would train up
their children. Mrs. Sigourney.
25. The example of good men is visible
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26. Be a pattern to others, and then all
will go well; for as a whole city is infected
by the licentious passions and vices of great
men, so it is likewise reformed by their
moderation.
Cicero.
27. No man is so insignificant as to be
sure his example can do no hurt.
Lord Clarendon.
28. Ill examples are like contagious dis-
eases.
La Rochefoucauld.
29. One watch set right will do to try
many by; but, on the other hand, one going
wrong may be the means of misleading a
whole neighborhood; and the same may be
said of the example we individually set to
those around us.
L. W. Dilwyn.
30. Noble examples stir us up to noble
actions, and the very history of large and
public souls inspires a man with generous
thoughts.
Seneca.
31. He whose wisdom exceeds his deeds,
is like a tree having many branches and few
roots.
Mishma.
32. It is easier to make the indigent
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make a rebel loyal, lawyers preach what
they practice, or parsons practice what they
preach.
W. S. Downey.
33. Such as have virtue always in their
mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like
a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to
others, while itself is insensible to the music.
Diogenes.
34. He that gives good precepts and fol-
lows them by a bad example, is like a foolish
man who should take great pains to kindle
a fire, and when it is kindled, throw cold
water upon it to quench it.
Archbishop Secker.
35. You can preach a better sermon with
your life than with your lips. Anon.
36. Be not of those who publicly curse
the devil and secretly serve him.
Arabian Proverb.
37. He that cleanses a blot with blotted
fingers, makes a greater blur. Quarles.
38. One may understand like an angel,
and yet act as a devil.
J. A. Jablonowski.
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thought. Suit the action to the word, and
the word to the action. Shakespeare.
40. We ought to judge of preachers, not
only from what they do say, but from
what they do not say.
Nathaniel Emmons.


CHAPTER XIII.
CIVILITY AND GOOD MANNERS.
It chills my heart to hear the blest supreme
Lightly appealed to on each trifling theme.
Maintain your rank, vulgarity despise;
To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.
Cowper.
1. There is no policy like politeness; and
a good manner is the best thing in the
world, either to get a good name or to sup-
ply the want of it. Bulwer Lytton.
2. Manners should bespeak the man, in-
dependent of fine clothing. The general
does not need a fine coat. Emerson.
3. Manner is everything with some peo-
ple, and something with everybody.
Bishop Middleton.
4. True politeness consists in being easy
one's self, and in making everybody about
one as easy as can be.
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gar.
5. Politeness is an easy virtue, costs lit-
tle, and has great purchasing power.
Dr. Alcott.
6. The summary of good breeding may
be reduced to this rule: Behave to all others
as you would they should behave to you.
Henry Fielding.
7. In character, in manners, in style, in
all things, the supreme excellence is sim-
plicity.
Longfellow.
8. Be thou familiar, but by no means vul-
Shakespeare.
9. The horse-laugh indicates brutality of
character.
Lavater.
10. Compliments of congratulation are
always kindly taken, and cost nothing but
pen, ink and paper. I consider them as
draughts upon good breeding, where the
exchange is always greatly in favor of the
drawer.
Lord Chesterfield.
II. To make enemies by unnecessary and
wilful incivility, is just as insane a proceed-
ing as to set your house on fire.
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III
upon the tailor or the toilet. Good manners
count for more than good clothes. A gen-
tleman is just a gentle-man-no more, no
less.
Bishop Doane.
13. The foolish and wicked practice of
profane cursing and swearing is a vice so
mean and low, that every person of sense
and character detests and despises it.
Washington.
14. One of the best rules in conversation
is never to say a thing which any of the
company can reasonably wish we had rather
left unsaid.
Dean Swift.
15. He that makes his business not to
know, but to be known, is like a foolish
tradesman who makes all the haste he can
to sell off his old stock but makes no
thought of laying in any new.
R. de Charron.
16. It is never permissible to say “I say.”
Mme. Necker.
17. Do not sit down in a place where they
might command thee, "Get up.”
Arabian Proverb.
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serves to be hated; if from brutishness, it is
only contemptible.
Gratian.
19. When two goats met on a bridge
which was too narrow to allow either to
pass or return, the goat which lay down that
the other might walk over it, was a finer
gentleman than Lord Chesterfield.
Richard Cecil.
20. It is by vivacity and wit that man
shines in company, but trite jokes and loud
laughter reduce him to a buffoon.
Lord Chesterfield.
21. As a man's salutation, so is the total
of his character; in nothing do we lay our-
selves so open as in our manner of meeting
and salutation.
Lavater.
22. Politeness is the flower of humanity.
Joseph Joubert.
23. Excess of ceremony shows want of
breeding. That civilty is best which ex-
cludes all superfluous formality.
Sam. Houston.
24. Excess in laughter drives away re-
spect; excess in jesting drives away polite-
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25. Whoever pays a visit that is not de-
sired, or talks longer than the listener is
willing to attend, is guilty of an injur; that
he cannot repair, and takes away that which
he cannot give.
Johnson.
26. It is a barbarous incivilty to sport
with what others count religion.
Archbishop Tillotson.
27. They asked Lucman the fabulist,
“From whom did you learn manners?" He
answered, “From the unmannerly.”
Saadi.
28. Improper words admit of no defense;
a want of decency is want of sense.
Pope.
29. Fine manners are like personal
beauty—a letter of credit everywhere.
C. A. Bartol.
30. To be always thinking about your
manners is not the way to make them good,
because the very perfection of manners is
not to think about yourself.
Archbishop Whately.
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38. Good humor is one of the best articles
of dress one can wear in society.
Thackeray.
39. Let not a man be merry among
mourners, nor mourn among the merry.
Hebrew Proverb.
40. Excessive laughter denotes folly, and
he who exposes his teeth lessens his respect.
Arabian Proverb.
41. Respect to age and kindness to chil-
dren are among the tests of an amiable dis-
position. Undeviating civility to those of
inferior station and courtesy to all, are the
emanations of a well educated mind and
finely balanced feelings. Mrs. Sigourney.
42. Politeness is like an air cushion;
there may be nothing in it, but it eases our
jolts wonderfully.
Emile Vezin.
43. Coolness and absence of heat and
haste indicate fine qualities. A gentleman
Emerson.
44. Fine manners are intelligible to all
mankind, and a passport in every country.
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45. He who sedulously attends, pointedly
asks, calmly speaks, coolly answers, and
ceases when he has no more to say, is in pos-
session of some of the best requisites of
man.
Lavater.
46. The great business of man is to im-
prove his mind, and govern his manners.
Marcus Aurelius.
47. Our conversation should be such that
youth may therein find improvement,
women modesty, the aged respect, and all
men civility.
St. Guerin.
48. A man has no more right to say an
uncivil thing than to act one; no more right
to say a rude thing to another than to
knock him down.
Johnson.
49. The best rules to form a young man
are to talk little, to hear much, to reflect
alone upon what has passed in company, to
distrust one's own opinion, and to value
others that deserve it. Sir W. Temple.
50. One principal point of good breeding
is to suit our behavior to the three several
degrees of men-our superiors, our equals,
and those below us. Dean Swift.
51. Complaisance pleases all; adorns wit;
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60. Behavior is a mirror in which every
one displays his image.
Gamthe.
61. There can be no greater rudeness
than to interrupt another in the current of
his discourse.
Locke.
62. Of all the dark catalogues of sin,
there is not one more vile and execrable than
profaneness.
S. H. Cox.
63. A blockhead cannot come in, nor go
away, nor sit, nor rise, like a man of sense.
La Bruyère.
64. To smile at a jest which plants a
thorn in another's breast, is to become a
principal in the mischief.
R. B. Sheridan.
65. Have you known how to compose
your manners? You have done a great deal
more than he who has composed books.
Montaigne.
66. “Politeness," says Witherspoon, “is
real kindness kindly expressed”; an admir-
able definition, and so brief, that all may
easily remember it. This is the sum and
substance of all true politeness. Put it in
practice, and all will be charmed with your
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67. Never risk a joke, even the least of-
fensive in its nature and the most common,
with a person who is not well bred, and
possessed of sense to comprehend it.
La Bruyère.
68. As the sword of the best-tempered
metal is most flexible, so the truly generous
are most pliant and courteous in their be-
havior to their inferiors. Thomas Fuller.


CHAPTER XIV.
GRATITUDE AND INGRATITUDE.
I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds
With coldness still returning;
Alas! the ingratitude of men
Hath oftener left me mourning.
Wordsworth.
1. Ingratitude and compassion never co-
habit in the same breast. Robert South.
2. You may rest upon this as an unfail-
ing truth, that there neither is, nor ever
was, any person remarkably ungrateful who
was not also insufferably proud; nor any
one proud who was not equally ungrateful.
Robert South.
3. To do good to an ungrateful person, is
to sow corn on the sand. John Banks.
4. We are always much better pleased to
see those whom we have obliged than those
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14. Gratitude is the memory of the heart.
N. P. Willis.
15. He that receives a benefit without be-
ing thankful, robs the giver of his just re-
ward.
Seneca.
16. He that conceals a benefit, is to be
held but one degree from denying it.
Seneca.
17. To do good to the ungrateful, is to
throw rose water into the sea.
Old Proverb.
18. Not to return one good office for an-
other is inhuman, but to return evil for
good is diabolical. There are too many
even of this sort, who, the more they owe,
the more they hate. There is nothing more
dangerous than to oblige these people, for
when they are conscious of not paying the
debt, they wish the creditor out of the way.
Seneca.
19. The earth produces nothing worse
than an ungrateful man. D. M. Ausonius.
20. It is better to be called over-liberal
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plaud; the latter, even bad men will con-
demn.
Old Proverb.
21. Liberality and thankfulness are the
bonds of friendship.
Cicero.
22. Friendship is the medicine for all
misfortunes, but ingratitude dries up the
fountain of all goodness.
Cardinal Richelieu.
23. He who receives a good turn should
never forget it; he who does one should
never remember it. R. de Charron.
24. Ingratitude makes the receiver worse,
but the benefactor better.
Anon.
25. One ungrateful man does an injury
to all who stand in need of aid.
Publius Syrus.
26. A grateful mind is not only the great-
est of all virtues, but the parent of all other
virtues.
Cicero.
27. An ungrateful man is like a hog un-
der a tree eating acorns, but never looking
up to see where they come from.
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28. The animal with long ears, after hav-
ing drunk, gives a kick to the bucket.
Italian Proverb.
29. Whenever I find a great deal of grati-
tude in a poor man, I take it for granted
there would be as much generosity if he
were a rich man.
Pope.


CHAPTER XV.
LEARNING AND WISDOM.
For learning is the fountain pure
Out from which all glory springs:
Whoso therefore will glory win,
With learning first must needs begin.
Francis Kinwelmarsh.
1. Wisdom is the right use of knowledge.
To know is not to be wise. Many men know
a great deal, and are all the greater fools
for it. There is no fool so great as a
knowing fool. But to know how to use
knowledge is to have wisdom.
Spurgeon.
2. A wise man's day is worth a fool's life.
Arabian Proverb.
3. As the soil, however rich it may be,
cannot be productive without culture, so the
mind without cultivation can never produce
good fruit.
Seneca.
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college; ask if a college has been through
him—if he is a walking university.
H. E. Chapin.
5. What sculpture is to a block of mar-
ble, education is to the human soul.
Addison.
6. Nothing is so good as a university edu-
cation, nor worse than a university without
its education.
Bulwer.
7. Just as you can ruin the stomach, and
impair the whole body by taking too much
nourishment, so you can overfill and choke
the mind by feeding it too much.
Schopenhauer.
8. He who learns and makes no use of
his learning, is a beast of burden with a
load of books. Does the ass comprehend
whether he carries on his back a library or
a bundle of faggots?
Saadi.
as impertinent men.
Seneca.
10. Jails and State prisons are the com-
plement of schools ; so many less as you
have of the latter, so many you must have
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II. Capacity without education is de-
plorable, and education without capacity is
thrown away.
Saadi.
12. Those only who know little can be
said to know anything. The greater the
knowledge, the greater the doubt.
Gathe.
13. The more we have read, the more we
have learned; the more we have meditated,
the better conditioned we are to affirm that
we know nothing.
Voltaire.
14. Alexander the Great valued learning
so highly that he used to say he was more
indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowl-
edge than to his father Philip for life.
Samuel Smiles.
15. The sublimity of wisdom is to do
those things living, which are to be desired
when dying.
Jeremy Taylor.
16. Instruction ends in the school-room,
but education ends only with life.
F. W. Robertson.
17. Knowledge without justice, ought to
be called cunning rather than wisdom.
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18. If you have knowledge, let others
light their candles at it. Thomas Fuller.
19. He that knoweth not that which he
ought to know, is a brute beast amongst
men; he that knoweth no more than he hath
need of, is a man amongst brute beasts; and
he that knoweth all that may be known, is
a god amongst men. Pythagoras.
20. It is not a question how much a man
knows, but what use he makes of what he
knows.
J. G. Holland.
21. True wisdom is to know what is best
worth knowing, and to do what is best
worth doing.
E. P. Humphrey.
22. It is not hoary hairs that bring wis-
dom; some have an old head on young
shoulders.
Menander.
23. I envy no man that knows more than
I do, but pity those who know less.
Sir Thomas Browne.
24. Knowledge is silver among the poor,
gold among the nobles, and a jewel among
princes.
Italian Proverb.
25. Knowledge is the knowing that we
cannot know.
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of the universe, but to find out what he has
to do, and to restrain himself within the
limits of his comprehension. Gæthe.
34. He who attempts to show his learn-
ing to the ignorant, exposes his ignorance
to the learned.
I. R. Aiken. (?)
35. Learning is wealth to the poor, an
honor to the rich, an aid to the young, and
a support and comfort to the aged.
S. Colfax.
36. Learning is an ornament in pros-
perity, a refuge in adversity, an entertain-
ment at all times. It cheers in solitude, and
gives moderation and wisdom in all circum-
stances.
R. Palmer.
37. If a man empties his purse into his
head, no man can take it away from him.
An investment in knowledge always pays
the best interest.
Franklin.
38. An industrious and virtuous educa-
tion of children, is a better inheritance for
them than a great estate. Addison.
39. Wisdom is to the mind what health is
to the body.
La Rochefoucauld.
40. A man's wisdom is his best friend;
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41. Man without wisdom is like a house
without a foundation. Arabian Proverb.
42. Wisdom is the delight of the wise ;
folly, of the fool. Arabian Proverb.
43. The fool has his understanding in his
mouth; but the wise man has his mouth
filled with understanding.
Arabian Proverb.
44. We read of a philosopher who de-
clared of himself that the first year he en-
tered upon the study of philosophy he knew
everything; the second year he knew some-
thing, but the third nothing. The more
he studied the more he declined in the opin-
ion of his own knowledge, and saw more of
the shortness of his understanding.
Cannot be traced.
45. Education is a better safeguard of
liberty than a standing army. If we re-
trench the wages of the schoolmaster, we
must raise those of the recruiting sergeant.
Edward Everett.
46. One part of knowledge consists in be-
ing ignorant of such things as are not
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47. Knowledge is a treasure, but practice
is the key to it.
Penn.
48. Learning is like mercury, one of the
most powerful and excellent things in the
world in skilful hands; in unskilful, the
most mischievous.
Pope.
49. The true order of learning should be,
first, what is necessary; second, what is use-
ful; and third, what is ornamental. To re-
verse this arrangement is like beginning to
build at the top of the edifice.
Mrs. Sigourney.
50. It is better to be unborn than un-
taught, for ignorance is the root of misfor-
tune.
Plato.
51. It happens to men truly learned, as to
ears of corn; they shoot up and raise their
heads high while they are empty; when full
and swelled with grain, they begin to flag
and droop.
Montaigne.
52. He who acquires knowledge without
imparting it to others, is like a myrtle in the
desert, where there is no one to enjoy it.
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53. The wisest man may always learn
something from the humblest peasant.
J. P. Senn.
54. The wise man has his foibles as well
as the fool. But the difference between
them is, that the foibles of the one are
known to himself and concealed from the
world, and the foibles of the other, are
known to the world and concealed from
himself.
Colton.
55. Very few men are wise by their own
counsel, or learned by their own teaching,
for he that was only taught by himself had
a fool for his master. Ben Jonson.
56. A college educațion shows a man
how little other people know.
Thomas C. Haliburton.
57. All wisdom consists in this: not to
think that we know what we do not know.
Richard Cecil.
58. It is the highest advantage for one
that is wise not to seem to be wise.
Æschylus.
59. A man of learning who makes no use
of what he knows, is like a cloud which
gives no rain.
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60. There are three classes of people in
the world: The first learn from their own
experience—these are wise; the second
learn from the experience of others—these
are the happy; the third neither learn from
their own experience nor the experience of
others—these are fools.
Arabian Proverb.
61. We should not ask who is the most
learned, but who is the best learned.
Montaigne.
62. It is easy to learn something about
everything, but difficult to learn everything
about anything. Nathaniel Emmons.
63. Some will never learn anything, be-
cause they understand everything too soon.
Sir T. B. Blount.
64. A man cannot leave a better legacy
to the world than a well-educated family.
Thomas Scott.
65. Beauty is the wisdom of women, and
wisdom is the beauty of men.
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know, the more shall you know what to
practice.
W. Jenkin.
67. There is nothing more imprudent
than excessive prudence. Colton.
68. Fools with bookish knowledge are
children with edged weapons; they hurt
themselves, and put others in pain. The
half-learned is more dangerous than, the
simpleton.
Zimmerman.
69. The wise man is but a clever infant,
spelling letters from a hieroglyphical
prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in
eternity.
Carlyle.
70. The only jewel which you can carry
beyond the grave is wisdom.
J. A. Langford.
71. You read of but one wise man, and
all he knew was—that he knew nothing.
William Congreve.
72. Never seem wiser or more learned
than the people you are with. Wear your
learning, like your watch, in a private
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73. Some are so very studious of learn-
ing what was done by the ancients, that they
know not how to live with the modern.
Penn.
74. The best part of our knowledge is
that which teaches us where knowledge
O. W. Holmes.


CHAPTER XVI.
WEALTH.
Abundance is a blessing to the wise;
The use of riches in discretion lies;
Learn this, ye men of wealth-a heavy purse
In a fool's pocket is a curse.
Cumberland.
1. The wheel of fortune turns incessantly
round; and who can say within himself, I
shall to-day be uppermost. Confucius.
2. He who thinks money will do any-
thing, may be suspected of doing anything
for money.
A. W. Thayer.
3. Prosperity gains friends; and adversity
tries them.
Marcus Pacuvius.
4. The wealth of a man is the number of
things he loves and blesses, which he is
loved and blessed by.
Carlyle.
5. Gold is an idol that can boast of two
peculiarities; it is worshipped in all climates,
without a single temple, and by all classes,
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6. There is no place so high that an ass
laden with gold cannot reach it.
F. Rojas.
7. Gold is the fool's curtain, which hides
all his defects from the world.
Owen Feltham.
8. Money does all things for reward.
Some are pious and honest as long as they
thrive upon it, but if the devil himself gives
better wages, they soon change their party.
Seneca.
9. The cares which are the keys of riches,
hang often so heavily at the rich man's
girdle, that they clog him with weary days
and restless nights, when others sleep
quietly.
Izaac Walton.
10. No man can tell whether he is rich
or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the
heart that makes man rich. He is rich ac-
cording to what he is, not according to what
he has.
H. W. Beecher.
11. The way to wealth is as plain as the
way to market. It depends chiefly on two
words, industry and frugality; that is, waste
neither time nor money, but make the best
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12. Wealth breeds a pleurisy, ambition a
fever, liberty a vertigo, and poverty is a
dead palsy.
Gælic Proverb.
13. Rich men without wisdom and learn-
ing, are called sheep with golden fleeces.
Solon.
14. There is a burden of care in getting
riches ; fear in keeping them; temptation in
using them; sorrow in losing them; and a
burden of account at last to be given up
concerning them. Matthew Henry.
15. Gold, like the sun, which melts wax
and hardens clay, expands great souls and
contracts bad hearts.
A. Rivarol.
16. Prize not thyself by what thou hast,
but by what thou art; he that values a jewel
by its golden frame, or a book by its golden
clasps, or a man by his vast estate-errs.
Quarles.
17. There is no society, however free and
democratic, where wealth will not create
an aristocracy.
Bulwer Lytton.
18. Money is a handmaiden, if thou
knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou
knowest not.
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19. As riches and favor forsake a man we
discover him to be a fool, but nobody could
find it out in his prosperity. La Bruyère.
20. Be persuaded that your only treas-
ures are those which you carry in your
heart.
Demophilus.
21. The golden age was the age in which
gold did not reign.
Anon.
22. The golden age, which a blind tra-
dition has hitherto placed behind us, is be-
fore us.
St. Simon.
23. Worldly riches are like nuts; many
clothes are torn in getting them, many a
tooth broke in cracking them, but never a
nature satisfied with eating them.
Ralph Venning.
24. This truly is the golden age; much
honor cometh by gold. S. A. Propertius.
25. The generality of men sink in virtue
as they rise in fortune. Sir J. Beaumont.
26. Gold gives an appearance of beauty
even to ugliness. Nicholas Boileau.
27. The goose that lays the golden eggs
likes to lay where there are eggs already.
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28. There are two metals, one of which
is omnipotent in the cabinet, and the other
in the camp,-gold and iron. He that
knows how to apply them both may, indeed,
attain the highest station. Colton.
29. With money you would not know
yourself; without money nobody would
know you.
Spanish Proverb.
30. There is one god whom Christians,
Jews, and Gentiles alike adore—that is
money.
Hierocles.
31. Fortune does not change men; it only
unmasks them. Mme. Riccoboni.
32. He that will not permit his wealth to
do any good to others while he is living,
prevents it from doing any good to himself
when he is dead; and by an egotism that is
suicidal and has a double edge, cuts himself
off from the truest pleasure here and the
highest happiness hereafter. Colton.
33. A great fortune in the hands of a fool
is a great misfortune. The more riches a
fool has, the greater fool he is.
Marcus Aurelius.
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that the chief power of wealth is to supply
wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hun-
dred, it creates more wants than it supplies.
Mme. Chatelete.
35. Moderate riches will carry you; if you
have more, you must carry them.
Old Proverb.
36. Physicians' faults are covered with
earth, and rich men's with money. Anon.
37. Some people are nothing else but
money, pride, and pleasure. These three
things engross their thoughts, and take up
the whole soul of them. Coleridge.
38. Our wealth is often a snare to our-
selves, and always a temptation to others.
Colton.
39. Be not penny-wise; riches have wings,
and sometimes they fly away of themselves,
sometimes they must be set flying to bring
in more.
Lord Bacon.
40. The gaining of wealth is a work of
great labor; the possession, a source of
great apprehension; the loss, a source of
great grief.
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his expenses, and he is poor whose expenses
exceed his income.
La Bruyère.
42. Money and time are the heaviest bur-
dens of life, and the unhappiest of all mor-
tals are those who have more of either than
they know how to use.
Johnson.
43. Without a rich heart wealth is an
ugly beggar.
Emerson.
44. A wealthy man who obtains his
wealth honestly, and uses it rightly, is a
great blessing to the community.
H. Winslow.
45. If thou desire to purchase honor with
thy wealth, consider first how that wealth
became thine ; if thy labor got it, let thy
wisdom keep it; if oppression found it, let
repentance restore it; if thy parent left it,
let thy virtue deserve it; so shall thy honor
be safer, better, and cheaper. Quarles.
46. To acquire wealth is difficult; to pre-
serve it, more difficult; but to spend it wise-
ly, most difficult of all. E. P. Day.
47. The accumulation of wealth is fol-
lowed by an increase of care, and by an ap-
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48. The man who possesses wealth pos-
sesses power, but it is a power to do evil as
well as good.
A. S. Roe.
49. It is far more easy to acquire a for-
tune like a knave, than to expend it like a
gentleman.
Colton.
50. There is a vast difference in one's re-
spect for the man who has made himself,
and the man who has only made his money.
Miss Mulock.
51. Riches should be admitted into our
houses, but not into our hearts; we may
take them into our possession, but not into
our affections.
R. de Charron.
52. Riches rightly used breed delight,
pleasure, profit, and praise; but to him that
abuseth them, they procure envy, hatred,
dishonor, and contempt. Plautus.
53. Though authority be a stubborn bear,
yet he is oft led by the nose with gold.
Shakespeare.
54. When vice is united to fortune she
changes her name. Thos. Maorgorus.
55. There are some men who are For-
tune's favorites, and who, like cats, light
forever on their feet.
Colton.


AVARICE AND COVETOUSNESS.
CHAPTER XVII.
That man may last, but never lives,
Who much receives but nothing gives;
Whom none can love, whom none can thank-
Creation's blot, creation's blank.
T. Gibbons.
1. The avaricious is the guardian of his
riches, and the treasurer of his heir.
Arabian Proverb.
2. We are ruined, not by what we really
want, but by what we think we do; there-
fore, never go abroad in search of your
wants; for if they be really wants, they will
come in search of you.
Colton.
3. The relief that is afforded to mere
want, as want, tends to increase that want.
Archbishop Whately.
4. Covetousness swells the principal to no
purpose, and lessens the use to all purposes.
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5. Covetous men are fools, miserable
wretches, buzzards, madmen, who live by
themselves in perpetual slavery, fear, sus-
picion, sorrow, discontent, with more of gall
than honey in their enjoyments, who are
rather possessed by their money than pos-
sessors of it.
Robert Burton.
6. You may as soon fill a bag with wis-
dom, a chest with virtue, or a circle with a
triangle, as the heart of man with anything
here below. A man may have enough of
the world to sink him, but he can never have
enough to satisfy him. T. Brooks.
7. The miser is a riddle; what he possess-
es he has not, and what he leaves behind
him, he never had. H. W. Shaw.
8. The miser is as much in want of that
which he has, as of that which he has not.
Publius Syrus.
9. Some men have more affection for a
piece of metal, if it only represents money,
than they have for their nearest ties of
kindred.
James Ellis.
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rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult
matter to prove that he is also a fool.
Henry Fielding.
18. The covetous man never has money;
the prodigal will have none shortly.
Ben Jonson.
19. Covetousness, by a greediness of get-
ting more, deprives itself of the true end of
getting; it loses the enjoyment of what it
had got.
Thomas Spratt.
20. It is a great shame for a man to have
a poor heart and a rich purse.
M. P. Cato.
21. He who gives a trifle meanly, is
meaner than the trifle.
Lavater.
22. He who loves his wealth better than
his friends, does not deserve to be loved by
any one.
French Proverb.
23. Nothing but a handful of dust will
fill the eye of man. Arabian Proverb.
24. The deepest depth of vulgarism is
that of setting up money as the ark of the
covenant.
Carlyle.
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store to store; enough requires too much;
too much craves more.
Quarles.
26. It is much better to have your gold in
the hand than in the heart.
Thomas Fuller.
27. If you make money your god, it will
plague you like a devil. Henry Fielding.
28. It is not sinful to be poor, but to be
dishonest; neither is it sinful to be rich, but
to be sordid.
W. S. Downey.
29. Avarice is like a graveyard; it takes
all that it can get, and nothing back.
H. W. Shaw.
30. He who is not liberal with what he
has, does but deceive himself when he thinks
he would be liberal if he had more.
W. S. Plumer.
31. Covetous persons are like the sponges,
which greedily drink in water, but return
very little until they are squeezed.
G. S. Bowes.
32. What madness it is for a man to
starve himself to enrich his heir, and to turn
a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your
death will be proportioned to what you leave
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33. Poverty wants some, luxury many,
avarice all things. Abraham Cowley.
34. It is a much easier task to dig metal
out of its native mine than to get it out of
the covetous man's coffer. Death only has
the key of the miser's chest.
Rule of Life.
35. The avaricious man is like barren,
sandy ground, which sucks in the rain and
dew with greediness and thirst; but yields
no fruitful herbs or plants to the inhabit-
ants.
Zeno.
36. He hath most that coveteth least. A
wise man wants but little, because he de-
sires not much.
Sir P. Sidney.
37. A wise man will desire no more than
what he can get justly, use soberly, dis-
tribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.
. Lord Bacon.
38. If money be not thy servant, it will be
thy master. The covetous man cannot so
properly be said to possess wealth, as that
may be said to possess him. Lord Bacon.
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ricious is like him who attempts to catch
fish in the desert. Jewish Proverb.
40. Some men are called sagacious merely
on account of their avarice; whereas, a child
can clench its fist the moment it is born.
William Shenstone.
41. The covetous person lives as if the
world were made altogether for him, and
not he for the world; to take everything
and part with nothing. Robert South.
42 The birds of the air despise a miser.
Talmud..
43. Some men are as covetous, as if they
were to live forever; and others as profuse,
as if they were to die the next moment.
Aristotle.
44. A miser grows rich by seeming poor ;
an extravagant man grows poor by seem-
ing rich.
William Shenstone.
45. The prodigal robs his heir, the miser
robs himself. The middle way is, justice to
ourselves and others. La Bruyère.
46. An avaricious man is a great lover of
generosity—in everybody except himself.
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47. “It is a great blessing to possess what
one wishes,” said some one to an ancient
philosopher, who replied: “It is a greater
blessing still not to desire what one does not
possess."
Old Proverb.
48. A man's desires always disappoint
him; for though he meets with something
that gives him satisfaction, yet it never
thoroughly answers his expectations.
La Rochefoucauld.
49. The only gratification a covetous man
gives his neighbors is, to let them see that
he himself is as little better for what he has,
as they are.
Penn.
50. Four great enemies to peace inhabit
with us, viz., avarice, ambition, envy, and
pride. If those enemies were to be ban-
ished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual
peace.
Petrarch.
51. A man that keeps riches and enjoys
them not, is like an ass that carries gold and
eats thistles.
Anon.
52. A mere madness—to live like a
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53. No estate can make him rich that has
a poor heart.
Anon.
54. If we did but know how little some
enjoy of the great things that they possess,
there would not be such envy in the world.
Edward Young.
55. The difference between the philan-
thropist and the miser is this: the former
lives to give, but the latter dies to give.
W. S. Downey.
56. The heart is a small thing, but de-
sireth great matters. It is not sufficient for
a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not
sufficient for it.
Quarles.
57. Avarice is always poor, but poor by
her own fault.
Johnson.
58. He who lives only to benefit himself,
confers on the world a favor when he dies.
Q. S. F. Tertullian.
59. It matters not how wrinkled the face
may be, so long as it is not wrinkled by
selfishness. . Don José Zorilla.
60. The covetous man pines in plenty,
like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and
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61. There is a perpetual frost in the pock-
ets of some rich people; as soon as they put
their hands into them, they are frozen, so
they cannot draw out their purses. Had I
my way, I would hang all misers, but re-
versing the common mode, I would hang
them by the heels, that their money might
run out of their pockets.
Rowland Hill.
62. The avarice of the miser may be
termed the grand sepulchre of all his other
passions, as they successively decay. But,
unlike other tombs, it is enlarged by re-
pletion, and strengthened by age.
Colton.
63. It is not so sad to be drunken with
wine as with covetousness. For he that is
seized with illness from wine, after the
night is over may get sober, but the covet-
ous person is always drunken, day and
night, watching or sleeping.
St. Chrysostom.
64. The glutton's mind is of his belly, the
lecher's of his lust, and the covetous man's
of his gold.
St. Bernard.


CHAPTER XVIII.
THE TONGUE.
How few respect or use thee as they ought!
But all shall give account of every wrong,
Who dare dishonor or defile the tongue.
Cowper.
1. It has been said in praise of some men,
that they could talk whole hours together
upon anything ; but it must be owned to the
honor of the other sex, that there are many
among them who can talk whole hours to-
gether upon nothing.
Addison.
2. The tongue of a fool is the key of his
counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath
its keeping.
Socrates.
3. Speaking too much is a sign of vanity;
for he that is lavish in words, is a niggard
in deed.
Sir W. Raleigh.
4. Wise men talk because they have some-
thing to say; fools, because they would like
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and a foolish man is this—the former sees
much, thinks much, and speaks little; but
the latter speaks more than he either sees
or thinks.
W. S. Downey.
14. Fools, to talking ever prone, are sure
to make their follies known. John Gay.
15. It is a great misfortune not to possess
talent enough to speak well, or sense enough
to hold one's tongue. La Bruyère.
16. What a pity it is that some animals
cannot talk; a greater pity that some men
can!
G. D. Prentice.
17. A man's tongue is the key of his
heart; how few know how to guard it from
being picked.
St. Ado.
18. A man's mouth was made to talk and
eat; yet he often hurts himself by talking,
and kills himself by eating.
G. D. Prentice.
19. Many a sweetly fashioned mouth has
been disfigured and made hideous by the
fiery tongue within it. G. D. Prentice.
20. He who knows nothing, knows
enough if he knows when to be silent.
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21. Talkative persons are like barrels; the
less there is in them, the more noise they
make.
J. G. Millingen.
22. Think before you speak, think before
whom you speak, think why you speak, and
think what you speak. Eliza Cook.
23. Most men speak when they do not
know how to be silent. He is wise who
knows how to hold his peace. Tie your
tongue, lest it be wanton and luxuriate;
keep it within banks; a rapidly flowing river
soon collects mud. St. Ambrose.
24. Open your mouth and purse cau-
tiously; and your stock of wealth and repu-
tation shall, at least in repute, be great.
Zimmerman.
25. The loquacity of fools is a lecture to
the wise.
Anon.
26. Restrain thy tongue always, except in
four things: in telling the truth, in refuting
the lie, in thanking for benefits, and in utter-
ing a word of wisdom. Arabian Proverb.
27. To use too many circumstances ere
one come to the matter, is wearisome; to
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28. A talkative fellow may be compared
to an unbraced drum, which beats a wise
man out of his wits. Owen Feltham.
29. There is such a torture, happily un-
known to the ancient tyranny, as talking a
man to death. Lawrence Sterne.
30. Infants are sometimes tongue-tied,
but what a pity it is that adults could not
often become likewise.
Acton.
31. A great talker will always speak,
though nobody minds him; nor does he
mind anybody, when they speak to him.
T. Randolph.
32. To speak to a purpose, one must
speak with a purpose. C. N. Bovee.
33. Deliver your words, not by number,
but by weight. Arabian Proverb.
34. Never hold any one by the button or
the hand, in order to be heard out; for if
people are unwilling to hear you, you had
better hold your tongue than them.
Lord Chesterfield.
35. The tongue is, at the same time, the
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good government, none is more useful; and
without it, none is more mischievous.
Anacharsis.
36. Zeno, hearing a young man speaking
too freely, told him: “For this reason we
have two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue,
that we should hear and see much, and
speak little.”
37. As men of sense say a great deal in a
few words, so the half-witted have a talent
of talking much and yet saying nothing.
La Rochefoucauld.
38. There is a time when nothing, a time
when something, but no time when all things
are to be spoken. A Monkish Adage.
39. Accustom thy tongue to say: “I
know not.”
Talmud.
40. Speech is the messenger of the heart.
Jewish Proverb.
41. A narrow mind has a broad tongue.
Arabian Proverb.
42. A slip of the tongue is more danger-
ous than a slip of the foot; for the slip of
the tongue may cost thy head, whilst the slip
of the foot may easily be cured.
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43. Give not thy tongue too great liberty,
lest it take thee a prisoner. A word un-
spoken is, like the sword in the scabbard,
thine. If vented, thy word is in another's
hand. If thou desirest to be held wise, be
so wise as to hold thy tongue. Quarles.
44. Think before you speak, and con-
sider before you promise. Take time to de-
liberate and advise, but lose no time in ex-
ecuting your resolutions.
Anon.
45. He who says what he likes, will hear
what he does not like. Terence.
46. A fool's tongue is long enough to cut
his own throat. Arabian Proverb.
47. The tongue should not be suffered to
outrun the mind.
Chilo.
48. Fire and sword are but slow engines
of destruction, in comparison with the bab-
bler.
Sir Richard Steele.
49. The tongue of idle persons is never
idle.
Old Proverb.
50. The greatest wisdom of speech is to
know when, and what, and where to speak;
the time, matter, and manner. The next
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51. A bridle for the tongue is a neces-
sary piece of furniture. Old Proverb.
52. To talk without thinking is to shoot
without aiming. Spanish Proverb.
53. Let not thy tongue be a thorny bush,
pricking and hurting those who are around
thee; not altogether a barren tree, yielding
nothing; but a fruitful tree, a tree of life
to thy neighbor. Archbishop Leighton.
54. The deepest waters are most silent;
empty vessels make the greatest sound, and
tinkling crystals the worst music. They
who think least commonly speak most.
Johnson.
55. Be not too brief in conversation, lest
you be not understood; nor too diffuse, lest
you be troublesome. Pythagoras.
56. Men are born with two eyes and but
one tongue, in order that they should see
twice as much as they say. But from their
conduct one would suppose they were born
with two tongues and one eye; for those
talk the most who have observed the least,
and they obtrude their remarks upon every-
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57. By examining the tongue of a patient,
physicians find out the diseases of the body,
and wise men, the diseases of the mind.
St. Justin.
58. The tongue is but three inches long,
yet it can kill a man six feet high.
Japanese Proverb.
59. It is the wise head that makes the
tongue still.
W. J. Lucas.
60. Half the sorrows of women would be
averted, if they could repress the speech
they know to be useless-nay, the speech
George Eliot.
61. Blessed is the man who, having noth-
ing to say, abstains from giving no wordy
evidence of the fact. George Eliot.
62. Long talking begets short hearing,
for people go away.
Richter.
63. The tongue is the instrument on
which human thoughts are played.
G. S. Bowes.
64. There are two sciences which every
man ought to learn: first, the science of
speech, and second, the more difficult one,
of silence.
Socrates.


us.
CHAPTER XIX.
SECRETIVENESS.
Think all you speak,
But speak not all you think;
Thoughts are your own,
Your words are so no more.
Delany.
I. Let us have a care not to disclose our
hearts to those who shut up theirs against
Beaumont.
2. Never put much confidence in such as
put no confidence in others.
J. C. Hare.
3. Never confide your secrets to paper; it
is like throwing a stone in the air, you do
not know where it may fall.
B. de La Calderon.
4. What you keep by you, you may
change and mend; but words, once spoken,
can never be recalled.
Earl of Roscommon.
5. If thou be subject to any great vanity
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man's folly ought to be his greatest secret.
Sir W. Raleigh.
6. How can we expect another to keep
our secret if we cannot keep it ourselves ?
La Rochefoucauld.
7. A secret in a fool's mouth is like a
wild bird put into the cage; whose door no
sooner opens, but it is out. Ben Jonson.
8. Thy friend has a friend, and thy
friend's friend has a friend: be discreet.
Talmud.
9. Nothing is so oppressive as a secret; it
is difficult for ladies to keep it long; and I
know even in this matter of a good number
of men who are women. La Fontaine.
10. The man who is inquisitive into the
secrets of your affairs, with which he has no
concern, should be an object of your cau-
tion. Men no more desire another's secrets
to conceal them, than they would another's
purse, for the pleasure only of carrying it.
Henry Fielding.
II. I have played the fool, the gross fool,
to believe the bosom of a friend would hold
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12. A man should be careful never to tell
tales of himself to his own disadvantage;
people may be amused, and laugh at the
time, but they will be remembered, and
brought up against him upon some subse-
quent occasion.
Johnson.
13. Nobody knows who may be listening;
say nothing which you would not wish to
put in the daily papers. Spurgeon.
14. Whoever wishes to keep a secret,
must hide from us that he possesses one.
Gathe.
15. An indiscreet man is an unsealed let-
ter: every one can read it.
S. R. N. Chamfort.
16. The only secret that has ever been
kept is—well, that is a secret. E. P. Day.
17. When a secret is revealed, it is the
fault of the man who has intrusted it.
La Bruyère.
18. He who gives up the smallest part of
a secret, has the rest no longer in his power.
Richter.
19. Never reveal your secrets to any, ex-
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them, as it is yours they should be kept.
betray you.
Arabian Proverb.
20. Three may keep a secret, if two of
them are dead.
Franklin.
21. Thy secret is thy slave; if thou let it
loose, thou becomest its slave.
Eastern Proverb.
22. They are many who may inquire after
thy welfare; yet only to one of a thousand
reveal thy secret.
Talmud.
23. None are so fond of secrets as those
who do not mean to keep them; such persons
covet secrets as a spendthrift does money,
for the purpose of circulation. Colton.
24. Avoid the inquisitive person, for he is
a babbler; nor do ears which are always
open, faithfully retain what is intrusted to
their keeping.
Horace.
25. Do not speak of secret matters in a
field that is full of little hills. Talmud.
26. If a fool knows a secret, he tells it
because he is a fool; if a knave knows one,
he tells it whenever it is his interest to tell
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34. A secret is too little for one, enough
for two, and too much for three.
James Howell.
35. The public affairs of the prudent is a
secret; the secret of the fool is a public af-
fair.
Arabian Proverb.
36. Washington, having been asked by an
officer on the morning of a battle, what
were his plans for the day, replied in a whis-
per : “Can you keep a secret?” On being
answered in the affirmative, the General ad-
ded—“So can I.”
37. A man is more faithful to the secret
of another than to his own; a woman, on the
contrary, preserves her own secret better
than that of another. La Bruyère.
38. Trust him little who praises all; him
less who censures all; and him least who is
indifferent to all.
Lavater.
39. The good husband keeps his wife in
the wholesome ignorance of unnecessary
secrets. He knows little who will tell his
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6. By the streets of “by and by,” one ar-
rives at the house of “never.”
Cervantes.
7. Since time is not a person we can over-
take when he is gone, let us honor him with
mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he
is passing.
Gethe.
8. The hours of a wise man are length-
ened by his ideas, as those of a fool are by
his passions..
Addison.
9. Know the true value of time; search,
seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No
idleness, no delay, no procrastination ; never
put off till to-morrow what you can do to-
day.
Lord Chesterfield.
10. There is no saying that shocks me so
much as that which I hear very often, “that
a man does not know how to pass his time.”
It would have been but ill-spoken by Me-
thusaleh in the nine hundred and sixty-ninth
year of his life. Abraham Cowley.
II. A man that is young in years may be
old in hours, if he has not lost time.
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of their fortune, and still fewer of their
time.
Lord Chesterfield.
13. Man is the servant of time, and time
is the enemy of man. Arabian Proverb.
14. Call on a business man only at busi-
ness times, and on business; transact your
business, and go about your business, in
order to give him time to finish his business.
Duke of Wellington.
15. Make use of time, if thou lovest eter-
nity: know, yesterday cannot be recalled,
to-morrow cannot be assured, to-day is only
thine; which if thou procrastinate, thou
losest; which lost, is lost forever : one to-day
is worth two to-morrows. Quarles.
16. Time wasted is existence; used, is
life.
Edward Young.
17. Time is the king of men; he is both
their parent, and he is their grave, and gives
them what he will, not what they crave.
Shakespeare.
18. When young, our years are ages; in
mature life, they are three and sixty-five
days; in old age, they have dwindled to a
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26. Many people take no care of their
money till they have come nearly to the end
of it, and others do just the same with their
time.
Gethe.
27. The three things most difficult are-
to keep a secret, to forget an injury, and to
make good use of leisure. Chilo.
28. The advantage of living does not con-
sist in length of days, but in the right im-
provement of them. As many days as we
pass without doing some good, are so many
days entirely lost.
Montaigne.
29. If we calculate the time of life for sev-
enty years, and take from it the time of our
infancy and childhood, sleep and recreation,
eating and drinking, sickness and old age,
but a very little will remain for service.
Cannot be traced.
30. Make the most of your minute; and
be good for something while it is in your
power.
Marcus Aurelius.
31. As every thread of gold is valuable,
so is every minute of time; and as it would
be great folly to shoe horses (as Nero did)
with gold, so it is to spend time in trifles.
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32. Time is the greatest of all tyrants.
As we go on towards age, he taxes our
health, limbs, faculties, strength and fea-
tures.
J. Foster.
33. Time is the old justice that examines
all offenders.
Shakespeare.
34. Time, with all its celerity, moves
slowly on to him whose whole employment
is to watch its flight.
Johnson.
35. Nothing is more precious than time,
yet nothing less valued. St. Bernard.
36. Actions measured by time, seldom
prove bitter by repentance. L. Murray.
37. Be busy about some rational thing,
so that Satan may always find thee occu-
St. Jerome.
38. He is idle that might be better em-
ployed. The idle man is more perplexed
what to do, than the industrious is doing
what he ought.
Socrates.
39. “There is a time to be born, and a
time to die,” says Solomon, and it is the
memento of a truly wise man; but there is
an interval between these two times of in-
finite importance. Leigh Richmond.
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tained without industry, so there can be no
persevering industry, without deep sense of
the value of time. Mrs. Sigourney.
41. We all complain of the shortness of
time, and yet have much more than we
know what to do with. Our lives are spent
either in doing nothing at all, or in doing
nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing
what we ought to do; we are always com-
plaining our days are few, and acting as
though there would be no end of them.
Seneca.
42. Life, however short, is made still
shorter by the waste of time. Johnson.
43. If you have time, do not wait for
time.
Franklin.
44. Dost thou love life? Then do not
squander time; for that is the stuff life is
made of.
Archbishop Whately.
45. Time consists of two days, one for
thee, the other against thee.
Arabian Proverb.
46. Defer not till to-morrow to be wise ;
to-morrow's sun to thee may never rise.
William Congreve.


CHAPTER XXI.
VANITY AND PLEASURE.
Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife!
To all the sensual world proclaim,
One crowded hour of glorious life
Is worth an age without a name.
Scott.
1. Enjoy present pleasures in such a way
as not to injure future ones. Seneca.
2. Temper your enjoyments with pru-
dence, lest there be written on your heart
that fearful word, "satiety.” Quarles.
3. Our pleasant vices are made the whip
to scourge us.
Shakespeare.
4. In diving to the bottom of pleasures,
we bring up more gravel than pearls.
Balsac.
5. He buys honey too dear, who licks it
from thorns.
French Proverb.
6. Put this restriction on your pleasures :
“Be cautious that they injure no being that
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the effect of enjoying ; but impossible de-
sires are punished in the desire itself.
Sir P. Sidney.
24. A day of feasting may prove worse
than a day of fasting.
Al-Aziz.
25. It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure
in order to avoid pain. Schopenhauer.
26. It is a great piece of folly to sacrifice
the inner for the outer man.
Schopenhauer.
27. A pack of cards is the devil's prayer-
book.
German Proverb.
28. When I see a young profligate squan-
dering his fortune in bagnios, or at the gam-
ing-table, I cannot help looking on him as
hastening his own death, and in a manner
digging his own grave. Goldsmith.
29. He who seeks to embitter innocent
pleasure, has cancer in his heart.
Lavater.
30. He that follows his recreation instead
of his business, shall, in a little time, have no
business to follow.
Quarles.
31. One should make a serious study of a
pastime.
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32. Let us teach ourselves that honorable
step, not to outdo discretion.
Shakespeare.
33. Let pleasure be ever so innocent, the
excess is always criminal.
St. Evremond.
34. It is a sober truth that people who
live only to amuse themselves, work harder
at the task than most people do in earning
their daily bread.
H. More.
35. Live only for to-day, and you ruin
to-morrow.
C. Simmons.
36. Violent delights have violent ends,
and in their triumph die ; like fire and pow-
der, which, as they kiss, consume.
Shakespeare.
37. The man who will live above his
present circumstances, is in great danger of
living in a little time much beneath them;
or, as the Italian Proverb says: “The man
who lives by hope, will die by despair.”
Addison.
38. Consider pleasures as they depart, not
as they come.
Aristotle.
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in pleasure and vanity, will scarcely take
any other color.
J. P. Woronicz.
40. Pleasures unduly taken enervate the
soul, make fools of the wise, and cowards
of the brave. A libertine life is not a life
of liberty.
Aristotle.
41. As dreams are the fancies of those
that sleep, so fancies are but the dreams of
men awake.
Sir T. B. Blount.
42. Nothing is more ridiculous than to
be serious about trifles, and to be trifling
about serious matters.
Anon.
43. Of all our infirmities, vanity is the
dearest to us. A man will starve his other
vices to keep that alive. Franklin.
44. The roses of pleasure seldom last
long enough to adorn the brow of him who
plucks them; and they are the only roses
which do not retain their sweetness after
they have lost their beauty.
Hugh Blair.
45. He that feasts his body with banquets
and delicate fare, and starves his soul for
want of spiritual food, is like him that feasts
his slave and starves his wife.
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54. Pleasure's coach is virtue's grave.
A. G. H. Duganne.
55. Pleasures become bitter as soon as
they become abused. French Proverb.
56. Vanity is a confounded donkey, ever
apt to put his head between his legs, and
chuck us over. Frederick Marryatt.
57. To be a man's own fool is bad
enough; but the vain man is everybody's
fool.
Penn.
58. It is well to possess pleasure, but not
to be possessed by it. Aristippus.
59. Pleasure is like a cordial; a little of
it is not injurious, but too much destroys.
W. Talbot.
60. Indulging in dangerous pleasure is
licking honey from a knife, and cutting the
tongue with the edge.
Buddha.
61. Whenever we drink too deeply of
pleasure, we find a sediment at the bottom
which pollutes and embitters that we rei-
ished at first.
E. S. Barrett.
62. Dwell not too long upon sports; for
as they refresh a man that is weary, so they
weary a man that is refreshed.
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63. Vanity is the quicksand of reason.
George Sand.
64. She neglects her heart who studies
the glass.
Lavater.
65. He repents on thorns that sleeps in
beds of roses.
Quarles.
66. We first make our habits, and then
our habits make us.
Anon.
67. The body of a sensualist is the coffin
of a dead soul.
C. N. Bovee.
68. A joyful evening may follow a sor-
rowful morning.
Old Proverb.
69. The follies of youth are food for re-
pentance in old age.
H. Hody.
70. To live long it is necessary to live
slowly.
Cicero.
71. Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till
you know there is no hook beneath it.
Thomas Jefferson.
72. A coquette is a young lady of more
beauty than sense, more accomplishments
than learning, more charms of person than
graces of mind, more admirers than friends,
more fools than wise men for attendants.
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73. Amusements are to virtue, like
breezes of air to the flame; gentle ones will
fan it, but strong ones will put it out.
David Thomas.
74. Wisdom is the talent of buying vir-
tuous pleasure at the cheapest rate.
Henry Fielding.


CHAPTER XXII.
SELF-CONTROL.
Who here with life would sport,
In life shall prosper never;
And he who ne'er will rule himself,
A slave shall be forever.
Gethe.
1. Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-
control, these three alone lead life to sover-
eign power.
Tennyson.
2. The way to avoid evil is not by maim-
ing our passions, but by compelling them
H. W. Beecher.
3. Learn to say "No!” It will be of
more use to you than to be able to read
Latin.
Spurgeon.
4. No man is free who is not a master of
himself.
Epictetus.
5. The mind by passion driven from its
firm hold, becomes a feather to each wind
that blows.
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6. The vicious obey their passions, as
it.
7. Habit is a cable. We weave a thread
of it every day, and at last we cannot break
Horace Mann.
8. This is the very perfection of man, to
find out his own imperfection.
St. Augustine.'
9. Our chief wisdom consists in knowing
our follies and faults, that we may correct
them.
L. J. M. Columella.
10. Before we passionately desire any-
thing which another enjoys, we should ex-
amine into the happiness of its possessor.
La Rochefoucauld.
II. When vice knocks at your door, be
able to say: "No room for your ladyship-
pass on.”
Bulwer Lytton.
12. He only employs his passion who can
make no use of his reason. Cicero.
13. He who is lord of himself, and exists
upon his own resources, is a noble but a
fare being.
Sir S. E. Brydges.
14. A man must stand erect, not to be
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15. Which is the best government? That
which teaches self-government. Gæthe.
16. All men would be masters of others,
and no man is lord of himself. Gæthe.
17. He conquers twice who conquers him-
self in victory.
Publius Syrus.
18. The value of a man, as of a horse,
consists in your being able to bridle him, or,
what is better, in his being able to bridle
himself.
Ruskin.
19. Great passions are incurable diseases ;
the very remedies make them worse.
| Gethe.
20. He who overlooks one crime, invites
the commission of another.
Publius Syrus.
21. It is far better to be innocent than
penitent;—to prevent the malady than in-
vent the remedy. Archbishop Secker.
22. When a man gives himself up to the
government of a ruling passion-or, in
other words, when his hobby-horse grows
headstrong-farewell cool reason and fair
discretion.
Lawrence Sterne.
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tion rather than your inclination you, you
have something to rejoice at. Plautus.
24. A man can always conquer his pas-
sions if he pleases; but he cannot always
please to conquer his passion. D. Booth.
25. One master-passion in the breast, like
Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.
Pope.
26. Bad men excuse their faults; good
men will leave them. Ben Jonson.
27. To expose one's self to great dangers
for trivial advantages, is to fish with a gol-
den hook, where more may be lost than
gained.
Augustus Cæsar.
28. Most men spend their lives in the
service of their passions, instead of employ-
ing their passions in the service of their
lives.
Sir Richard Steele.
29. Our passions are like convulsive fits,
which, though they make us stronger for
the time, leave us weaker ever after.
Pope.
30. It is a miserable folly to be wise in
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31. If a man does not control his pas-
sions, they will control him. D. Hartley.
32. Not he who can extricate himself
from difficulties is the prudent, but he who
cautiously bewares not to intricate himself.
Arabian Proverb.
33. One of the very best of all earthly
possessions is self-possession.
G. D. Prentice.
34. No person who has once yielded up
the government of his mind, and given
loose rein to his desires and passions, can
tell how far they may carry him. Anon.
35. The slave of passions is lower than
the slave of a master. Diogenes.
36. Passion may not unfitly be termed the
mob of the man that commits a riot on his
reason.
Penn.
37. He submits to be seen through a mi-
croscope, who suffers himself to be caught
in a fit of passion.
Lavater.
. 38. He is the best accountant, who casts
up correctly the sum of his own errors.
Old Proverb.
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safety, as thou wouldst fly from an enemy
for thy life.
Richard Baxter.
40. Never open the door to a little vice,
lest a great one enter with it. Anon.
41. Let your pleasures be taken as Dan-
iel took his prayer, with his windows open-
pleasures which need not cause a single
blush on an ingenuous cheek.
Theodore Parker.
42. He that cannot live well to-day, will
be less qualified to live well to-morrow.
Arabian Proverb.
43. No man is master of himself, so long
as he is a slave to anything else.
Pythagoras.
44. A man's strongest passion, is gen-
erally his weaker side. Rule of Life.
45. A man must first govern himself ere
he be fit to govern a family; and his family,
ere he be fit to bear the government in the
commonwealth.
Sir W. Raleigh.
46. He that overcomes his passions con-
quers his greatest enemies.
Gælic Proverb.
47. The eye strays not while under the
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48. The most precious of all possessions
is power over ourselves; power to with-
stand trial, to bear sufferings, to front dan-
ger; power over pleasure and pain; power
to follow our convictions, however resisted
by menace and scorn; the power of calm
reliance in scenes of darkness and storms.
Mary Ann Radcliffe.
49. Our passions, like heavy bodies down
steep hills, once in motion, move themselves,
and know no ground but the bottom.
Anon.
50. Most powerful is he who has himself
in his own power.
Seneca.
51. Who to himself is law, no law doth
need.
George Chapman.
52. Do you want to know the man against
whom you have most reason to guard your-
self? Your looking-glass will give you a
fair likeness of his face.
Archbishop Whately.
53. He who has no mind to trade with
the devil, should be so wise to keep away
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54. Unless your cask is perfectly clean,
whatever you pour into it turns sour.
Horace.
55. The reason that so many want their
desires is, that they want reason. He may
do what he will, who will do but what he
may.
A. Warwick.
56. One learns more metaphysics from a
single temptation than from all the philoso-
phers.
Lowell.
57. Lawless are they who make their
wills their law.
Shakespeare.
58. To fall into error is human; to per-
sist in it satanic; to flee from it angelic.
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6. If once you find a woman gluttonous,
expect from her very little virtue ; her mind
is enslaved in the lowest and grossest temp-
tation.
Johnson.
7. O thou invisible spirit of wine! if thou
hast no name to be known by, let us call
thee—devil.
Shakespeare.
8. Go not for every grief to the physician,
for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for
every thirst to the bottle.
Italian Proverb.
9. Use, do not abuse: neither abstinence
nor excess renders man happy. Voltaire.
10. Call things by their right name-
“Glass of brandy and water !” That is the
current, but not the appropriate name; ask
for “A glass of liquid fire and distilled dam-
nation.”
Robert Hall.
II. Wine and youth are fire upon fire.
Wine is a turncoat; first, a friend ; then, a
deceiver; then, an enemy.
Henry Fielding.
12. Beware of drunkenness, lest all good
men beware of thee.
Quarles.
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drown'd man, a fool, and a mad man: one
draught above heat makes him a fool; the
second mads him, and a third drowns him.
Shakespeare.
14. He who would keep himself to him-
self, should imitate the dumb animals and
drink water.
Bulwer.
15. I have four reasons for being an ab-
stainer-my head is clearer, my health is
better, my heart is lighter, and my purse is
heavier.
Thomas Guthrie.
16. He that is drunk is not a man, be-
cause he is void of reason that distinguishes
a man from a beast.
Penn.
17. Every inordinate cup is unblessed,
and the ingredient is a devil.
Shakespeare.
18. The first glass for myself ; the second
for my friends; the third for humor, and
the fourth for mine enemies.
Sir W. Temple.
19. In the mirror we see the face; in
wine, the heart. German Proverb.
20. The bar-room as a bank: You de-
posit your money—and lose it; your time-


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and lose it; your character—and lose it;
your manly independence—and lose it; your
home comfort—and lose it; your self-con-
trol-and lose it; your children's happiness
—and lose it; your own soul—and lose it.
Strong drink is not only the devil's way into
a man, but man's way to the devil.
Adam Clarke.
21. Everything that exceeds the bounds
of moderation has an unstable foundation.
Seneca.
22. A vine bears three grapes; the first
of pleasure, the second of drunkenness, and
the third of repentance. Anacharsis.
23. Drunkenness takes away the man,
and leaves only the brute; it dethrones rea-
son from its seat, stupefies conscience, ruins
health, wastes property, covers the wretch
with rags, reduces wife and children to
want and beggary, and gives such power to
appetite that physically, as well as morally,
it is next to impossible to cure it.
W. Jay.
24. “Fortune knocks at every man's door
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the man is in a neighboring saloon, and does
not hear her.
Mark Twain.
25. Some men are like musical glasses ;
to produce their finest tones you must keep
them wet.
Coleridge.
26. If it is a small sacrifice to discontinue
the use of wine, do it for the sake of others;
if it is a great sacrifice, do it for your own.
Samuel J. May.
27. Thirst teaches all animals to drink,
but drunkenness belongs only to man.
Henry Fielding.
28. The whole duty of man is embraced
in the two principles of abstinence and pa-
tience: temperance in prosperity, and cour-
age in adversity.
Seneca.
29. Wine is like anger, for it makes us
strong, blind and impatient, and it leads us
to wrong; the strength is quickly lost, we
feel the error long. George Crabbe.
30. A youth of sensuality and intemper-
ance delivers over a worn-out body to old
age.
Cicero.
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live.
ning through the pearl-chain of all virtues.
Thomas Fuller.
32. It is better for young men to meet to
exchange ideas, than to meet to exchange
drinks.
Robert G. Ingersoll.
33. The luxurious live to eat and drink;
but the wise and temperate eat and drink to
Plutarch.
34. Those men who destroy a healthful
constitution of body by intemperance and
an irregular life, do as manifestly kill them-
selves as those who hang or poison, or
drown themselves. Richard Sherlock.
35. A man is known by his cup, by his
purse, and by his temperament. Talmud.
36. When wine goes in the secret goes
out.
Talmud.
37. When Satan cannot come himself, he
sends wine as a messenger. Talmud.
38. Wise men mingle innocent mirth with
their cares, as a help either to forget or
overcome them; but to resort to intoxication
for the ease of one's mind, is to cure melan-
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39. The smaller the drink, the cooler the
blood, and the clearer the head, which are
great benefits in temper and business.
Penn.
40. The first draught serveth for health,
the second for pleasure, the third for shame,
and the fourth for madness. Anacharsis.
41. Drunkenness is a pair of spectacles
to see the devil and all his works.
Henry Fielding.
42. Temperance puts wood on the fire,
meal in the barrel, flour in the tub, money
vigor in the body, intelligence in the brain,
and spirit in the whole constitution.
Franklin.
43. For drunkenness drink cold water ;
for health, rise early; to be happy, be hon-
est; to please all, mind your own business.
Selected.
44. Drunkenness makes some men fools,
some beasts, and some devils.
A. Origen.
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fort; cowardice for courage; bashfulness
for confidence; sadness for joy; and all find
ruin.
Johnson.
46. Drinking water neither makes a man
sick, nor in debt, nor his wife a widow.
John Neal.
47. Every moderate drinker could aban-
don the intoxicating cup if he would; every
inebriate would if he could.
J. B. Gough.
48. As smoke drives away the bees from
their hive, so gluttony expelleth all spiritual
gifts and excellent endowments of the mind.
St. Basil.
49. Strong drinks are like wars, making
cripples of some men, and sending others to
the grave.
W. S. Downey.
50. The contrast which exists between the
abstemious man and the drunkard is this-
the former governs his affairs, but the af-
fairs of the latter govern him.
W. S. Downey.
51. The use of strong drinks, to many
persons, is as pills of arsenic disguised in
honeycomb; although palatable at first, it is
ruin at last.
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52. Of the glutton it is said that the
kitchen is his shrine, the cook his priest, the
table his altar, and his belly his god.
Charles Buck.
53. The sight of a drunkard, is a better
sermon against that vice than the best that
was ever preached upon that subject.
Sir Henry Saville.
54. Temperance in eating, as well as in
drinking, is a cardinal virtue; the great ma-
jority of mankind saturate their death war-
rants with their cups, and dig their graves
with their teeth.
E. L. Magoon.
55. Let the poor hang up the amulet of
temperence in their homes.
Horace Mann.
56. The Japanese say: "A man takes a
drink, then the drink takes a drink, and the
next drink takes the man.”
57. Whisky is a good thing in its place.
There is nothing like it for preserving a
man when he is dead. If you want to keep
a dead man, put him in whisky; if you want
to kill a live man, put whisky in him.
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58. Choose rather to punish your appe-
tites than to be punished by them.
Tyrius Maximus.
59. An epicure has no sinecure; he is un-
made, and eventually dished by unmade
dishes.
Paul Chatfield.
60. He that is a drunkard is qualified for
all vice.
Quarles.
61. The youth who stands with a glass
of liquor in his hand would do well to con-
sider which he had best throw away—the
liquor or himself. .
Anon.
62. Joy, temperature, and repose, slam
the door on the doctor's nose.
Longfellow.
63. Wine often turns the good-natured
into an idiot, and the choleric into an as-
sassin.
Addison.
64. People say, “Do not regard what he
says, now he is in liquor.” Perhaps it is the
only time he ought to be regarded.
William Shenstone.
65. The best cure for drunkenness is,
whilst sober, to observe a drunken man.
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13. Truth sometimes tastes like medicine,
but that is an evidence that we are ill.
J. Metz.
14. He that conceals a useful truth, is
equally guilty with the propagator of an in-
15. The pen of the tongue should be
dipped in the ink of the heart.
Italian Proverb.
16. Let the tongue speak the language of
the heart.
Elizabeth Rowe.
17. Truth is the foundation of all knowl-
edge, and the cement of all societies.
Isaac Casaubon.
18. Sincerity is to speak as we think; be-
lieve as we perform; act as we profess; per-
form as we promise, and really be what we
would seem and appear to be.
Archbishop Tillotson.
19. Truth may be expressed without art
or affectation; but a lie stands in need of
both.
N. Grew.
20. Sincerity and truth form the basis of
every virtue.
Hugh Blair.
21. Plain truth must have plain words;
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be seen naked; whereas the hypocrite or
double-dealer, shelters and hides himself in
ambiguities and reserves. Bonaparte.
22. Truth is always consistent with itself,
and needs nothing to help it out; it is always
near at hand and sits upon our lips, and is
ready to drop out before we are aware;
whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a
man's invention on the rack, and one needs
a great many more of the same kind to make
it good.
Archbishop Tillotson.
23. One of the sublimest things in the
world is plain truth.
Bulwer.
24. It is not enough that we swallow
truth. We must feed upon it, as insects do
on the leaf, till the whole heart be colored
by its qualities, and show its food in every
fibre.
Coleridge.
25. It would be an unspeakable advan-
tage, both to the public and private, if men
would consider that great truth, that no
man is wise or safe but he that is honest.
Sir W. Raleigh.
26. He that finds truth, without loving
her, is like a bat, which, though it have
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so evil eyes, that it cannot delight in the
sun.
Sir P. Sidney.
27. Nature loves truth so well that it
hardly ever admits of flourishing. Conceit
is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not
only needless, but impairs what it would
improve.
Pope.
28. Nothing is more noble, nothing more
venerable, than truth. Faithfulness and
truth are the most sacred excellencies and
endowments of the human mind.
Cicero.
29. The greatest homage we can pay to
truth is to use it.
Emerson.
30. Accustom your children to a strict
attention to truth, even in the most minute
particulars. If a thing happened at one
window, and they, when relating it, say that
it happened at another, do not let it pass, but
instantly check them: you do not know
where deviation from truth will end.
Johnson.
31. Every one wishes to have truth on
his side, but it is not every one that sincerely
wishes to be on the side of truth.
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CHAPTER XXV.
FALSEHOOD AND HYPOCRISY.
Ah! doom'd indeed to worse than death,
To teach those sweet lips hourly guile;
And smile with falsehood's smile!
To breathe through life but falsehood's breath,
Mrs. Osgood.
1. A young liar will be an old one; and a
young knave will only be a greater knave as
he grows older. Lord Chesterfield.
2. Never chase a lie; if you let it alone, it
will soon run itself to death. E. Nott.
3. A lie has always a certain amount of
weight with those who wish to believe it.
E. W. Rice.
4. Every violation of truth is not only a
sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the
health of human society.
G. W. Thornbury.
5. Do not let us lie at all. Do not think
of one falsity as harmless, and another as
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6. No man can, for any considerable
time, wear one face to himself, and another
to the multitude, without finally getting be-
wildered as to which is the true one.
Hawthorne.
7. Either be what thou seemest, or else
be what thou art. William Dyer.
8. There are some persons who would
not, for their lives, tell a direct and wilful
lie, but whơ so exaggerate that it seems as
if, for their lives, they could not tell the
exact truth.
F. E. Paget.
9. The heart of a liar lies more than his
tongue.
Arabian Proverb.
10. The more honesty a man has, the less
he affects the air of a saint. Lavater.
11. Men will wrangle for religion ; write
for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but
live for it.
Colton.
12. The upright minister asks “what rec-
ommends a man;" a corrupt minister,
"who?"
Colton.
13. He who prays as he ought, will en-
deavor to live as he prays. J. B. Owen.
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hypocrites: they are the greatest dupes he
has; they serve him better than any others,
but rceive no wages.
Colton.
15. The world looks at ministers out of
the pulpit to know what they mean when in
it.
Richard Cecil.
16. The only vice that cannot be forgiven
is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite
is in itself hypocrisy. William Hazlitt.
17. It is too much proved, that, with de-
votion's visage and pious actions, we do
sugar over the devil himself.
Shakespeare.
18. Many an honest man practices upon
himself an amount of deceit sufficient, if
practiced upon another, and in a little dif-
ferent way, to send him to the State prison.
C. N. Bovee.
19. Some men will not shave on Sunday,
and yet they spend all the week in shaving
their fellow-men; and many folks think it
very wicked to black their boots on Sunday
morning, yet they do not hesitate to black
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they can live upon it, and desert it when it
must live upon them. Thomas Secker.
27. If some men could rise from the dead
and read the inscriptions on their tomb-
stones, they would think they had got into
the wrong grave.
Anon.
28. He is but the counterfeit of a man
who has not the life of a man.
Shakespeare.
29. He has not a little devil in him who
prays and bites.
Lavater.
30. The good man's heart speaks with-
out the tongue; the hypocrite's tongue with-
out his heart.
A. Warwick.
31. When you see a man with a great deal
of religion displayed in his window, you
may depend on it, he keeps a very small
stock of it within.
Spurgeon.
32. Some men have a Sunday-soul,
which they screw on in due time, and take
off again every Monday morning.
J. Hall.
33. There are some human tongues with
two sides, like those of certain quadrupeds;
one smooth, the other very rough.
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34. Custon, though ever so ancient, with-
out truth, is but an old error.
St. Cyprian.
35. We must not always speak all that we
know; that were folly. But what a man
says should be what he thinks; otherwise it
is knavery. All a man can get by lying and
dissembling is, that he shall not be believed
when he speaks the truth. Montaigne.
36. Never carry two faces under one
hood.
Old Proverb.
37. He who tells a lie is not sensible how
great a task he undertakes; for he must be
forced to invent twenty more to maintain
that one.
Pope.
38. A liar begins with making falsehood
appear like truth, and ends with making
truth appear like falsehood.
William Shenstone.
39. He who has not a good memory,
should never take upon him the trade of
lying.
Montaigne.
40. If a man deceives you once, shame
on him; if he deceives you twice, shame on
you.
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41. A liar is subject to two misfortunes;
neither to believe, nor to be believed.
Sir W. Raleigh.
42. There was never a hypocrite so dis-
figured but he had some mark or other to be
known by.
Old Proverb.
43. Not to intend what thou speakest, is
to give thine heart the lie with thy tongue;
not to perform what thou promisest, is to
give thy tongue the lie with thine actions.
Rule of Life.
44. There is no vice that doth cover a man
with shame as to be found false and per-
fidious.
Lord Bacon.
45. There cannot be a greater treachery
than first to raise a confidence and deceive it.
Addison.
46. Although the devil be the father of
lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to
have lost much of his reputation by the con-
tinual improvements that have been made
upon him.
Dean Swift.
47. A hypocrite is under perpetual con-
straint. And what a torment must it be for
a man always to appear different from what
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56. Hypocrisy has become a fashionable
vice, and all fashionable vices pass for vir-
tue.
Molière.
57. Many come to bring their clothes to
church rather than themselves.
Old Proverb.
through selfish motives, are generally such
as have no religion to change. Anon.
59. It is necessary to the happiness of
man that he be mentally faithful to himself.
Infidelity does not consist in believing or
disbelieving; it consists in professing to be-
lieve what he does not believe.
Cannot be traced.
60. A hearty greeting does not always de-
note friendship.
Anon.
61. Some men can never state an ordi-
nary fact in ordinary terms. All their
geese are swans, till you see the birds.
J. B. Owen.
62. There is a Sunday conscience, as well
as a Sunday coat; and those who make re-
ligion a secondary concern, put the coat and
conscience carefully by to put on only once a
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63. There is no lie that many men will
not believe; there is no man who does not
believe many lies; and there is no man who
believes only lies. John Sterling.
64. He that does evil that good may
come, pays a toll to the devil to let him into
heaven.
J. C. Hare.
65. Were we to take as much pains to be
what we ought, as we do to disguise what
we are, we might appear like ourselves
without being at the trouble of any disguise
at all.
La Rochefoucauld.
66. Plays and romances sell as well as
books of devotion, but with this difference:
more people read the former than buy them;
and more buy the latter than read them
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6. Arrogance creates disgust in some, and
ridicule in others, more especially if it be
shown by an inferior toward a superior.
Livy.
7. Pride is a flower that grows in the
devil's garden.
J. B. Howell.
8. There is no passion that steals into the
heart more imperceptibly and covers itself
under more disguise than pride.
Addison.
9. The most disagreeable two-legged ani-
mal I know is a little great man, and the
next great man's factotum and friend.
Lavater.
10. It is with narrow-souled people as
with narrow-necked bottles; the less they
have in them the more noise they make in
pouring it out.
Pope.
11. Every man, however little, makes a
figure in his own eyes. Henry Home.
12. Proud men never have friends,
neither in prosperity, because they know no-
body; nor in adversity, because then nobody
knows them.
Anon.
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points to one object, self; but, unlike the
magnet, it has no attractive pole, but at all
points repels.
Colton.
14. The more you speak of yourself, the
more you are likely to lie. Zimmerman.
15. When flowers are full of heaven-de-
scended dews, they always hang their
heads; but men hold theirs the higher the
more they receive, getting proud as they
get full.
H. W. Beecher.
16. Wind puffs up empty bladders ; opin-
ion, fools.
Socrates.
17. Nothing is more hateful to a poor
man than the purse-proud arrogance of the
rich. But let the poor man become rich,
and he runs at once into the vice against
which he so feelingly declaimed. There are
strange contradictions in human character.
Richard Cumberland.
18. Every man is his own greatest dupe.
W. R. Alger.
19. Be what nature intended you for, and
you will succeed; be anything else, and you
will be ten thousand times worse than noth-
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20. If he could only see how small a va-
cancy his death would leave, the proud man
would think less of the place he occupies in
his lifetime.
E. W. Legouve.
21. Affectation is a greater enemy to the
face than smallpox. St. Evremond.
22. A man's praises have very musical
and charming accents in the mouth of an-
other, but sound very flat and untunable in
his own.
Xenophon.
23. Ostentation is the signal flag of hy-
pocrisy.
E. H. Chapin.
24. A proud man is seldom a grateful
man, for he never thinks he gets as much as
he deserves.
H. W. Beecher.
25. Be yourself. Ape no greatness. Be
willing to pass for what you are.
Abraham Cowley.
26. He who boasts of being perfect, is
perfect in folly.
Spurgeon.
27. Do you wish men to speak well of
you? Then never speak well of yourself.
Pascal.
28. Never sound the trumpet of your own
praise.
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29. He who humiliates himself will be
lifted up; he who raises himself up will be
humiliated. .
Talmud.
30. Where there is much pretension,
much has been borrowed; nature never pre-
tends.
Lavater.
31. If thou seest anything in thyself
which may make thee proud, look a little
further and thou shalt find enough to hum-
ble thee; if thou be wise, view the peacock's
feathers with his feet, and weigh thy best
parts with thy imperfections. Quarles.
32. Be wise; soar not too high to fall, but
stoop to rise.
Philip Massinger.
33. Pride and weakness are Siamese
twins, knit together by indissoluble hyphen.
J. R. Lowell.
34. Thou art in the end what thou art.
Put on wigs with millions of curls, set thy
foot upon all-high rocks. Thou abidest ever
—what thou art.
Gamthe.
35. Haughty people seem to me to have,
like the dwarfs, the stature of a child, and
the face of a man. Joseph Joubert.
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it is the attempt of poverty to appear rich.
Lavater.
37. Men are sometimes accused of pride,
merely because their accusers would be
proud themselves were they in their place.
William Shenstone.
38. Pride hath no other glass to show it-
self but pride.
Shakespeare.
39. The truest self-respect is not to think
of self.
H. W. Beecher.
40. Four persons are intolerable: A poor
man who is proud ; a rich man who is a liar;
an old man who is incontinent, and a leader
who behaves haughtily toward a community
for whom he has done nothing. Talmud.
41. He who thinks his place below him,
will certainly be below his place.
J. F. Saville.
42. Vain-glorious men are the scorn of
the wise men, the admiration of fools, the
idols of parasites, and the slaves of their
own vaunts.
Lord Bacon.
43. It is always a sign of poverty of
mind where men are ever aiming to appear
great; for they who are really great never
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44. Arrogance is a kingdom without a
crown.
Talmud.
45. It is not the height to which men are
advanced that makes them giddy; it is the
looking down with contempt upon those be-
low them.
Rule of Life.
56. A wise man has dignity without
pride; a fool has pride without dignity.
Confucius.
47. He who swells in prosperity, will
shrink in adversity.
Colton.
48. Arrogance is a weed that grows most-
ly on a dunghill. . Owen Feltham.
49. Pride is increased by ignorance;
those assume most who know the least.
J. Gay.
50. A man inflated with pride, is equal to
an idolator.
. Talmud.
51. To be proud of knowledge, is to be
blind in the light; to be proud of virtue, is
to poison yourself with antidote; to be
proud of authority, is to make your rise your
downfall.
Rule of Life.
52. Vain-glory blossoms, but never bears
fruit.
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53. If a man has a right to be proud of
anything, it is of a good action done as it
ought to be, without any base interest lurk-
ing at the bottom of it.
Lawrence Sterne.
54. He who gives himself airs of im-
portance, exhibits the credentials of impo-
tence.
Lavater.
55. Poor is the man who can boast of
nothing more than gold; and equally so
must the woman be, who can boast of noth-
ing more than her beauty.
: W. S. Downey.
56. He who seems not to himself more
than he is, is more than he seems. Anon.
57. Usually the greatest boasters are the
smallest workers. The deep rivers pay a
larger tribute to the sea than shallow
brooks, and yet empty themselves with less
noise.
W. Secker.
58. As in a pair of bellows there is a
forced breath without life, so in those that
are puffed up with the wind of ostentation,
there may be charitable words without
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59. When a proud man forbids you his
presence, he awkwardly confers a favor
upon you.
Zimmerman.
60. Dignity and pride are of a too near
relationship for intermarriage.
Mme. Deluzy.
61. The infinitely little have a pride in-
finitely great
Voltaire.
62. There are four kinds of pride of
which we should beware: Race pride, pride
in our ancestors; face pride, pride in our
beauty; place pride, pride in our position;
grace pride, pride in our religion.
Robert Bolton.
63. He who hardens his heart with pride,
softens his brains with the same.
Talmud.
64. Pride that dines on vanity, sups on
contempt.
Franklin.
65. The mind of a proud man is like a
mushroom, which starts up in a night.. His
business is first to forget himself, and then
his friends.
Robert South.
66. He who knows himself best, exalteth
himself least. A. A. T. Macrobius.


CHAPTER XXVII.
OBDURACY.
Fools are stubborn in their way,
As coins are harden'd by th' alloy;
And obstinacy's ne'er so stiff
As when 'tis in a wrong belief.
Butler.
1. Obstinacy and heat in argument are
the surest proof of folly. Is there anything
so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contem-
plative, grave or serious, as an ass ?
Montaigne.
2. Do not think of knocking out another
person's brains becauses he differs in opin-
ion from you. It would be as rational to
knock yourself on the head because you dif-
fer from yourself ten years ago.
Horace Mann.
3. We may print, but not stereotype, our
opinions.
Archbishop Whately.
4. He that is not open for conviction, is
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5. A man must be both stupid and un-
charitable, who believes there is no virtue or
truth but on his own side. Addison.
6. It is useless to attempt to reason a man
out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
Dean Swift.
7. Obstinacy and vehemency in opinion
are the surest proofs of stupidity.
Miss Lucy Barton.
8. We think very few people sensible, ex-
cept those who are of our opinion.
La Rochefoucauld.
9. We should always keep a corner of
our heads open and free, that we may make
room for the opinions of our friends. Let
us have heart and head hospitality.
Joseph Joubert.
10. The difference between perseverance
and obstinacy is that one often comes from
a strong will, and the other from a strong
won't.
H. W. Beecher.
II. He that will not reflect is a ruined
· man.
Old Proverb.
12. If you do what you should not, you
must bear what you would not.
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13. We must always think our opinions
are right, but not think our opinions right
always.
Archbishop Whately.
14. He who establishes his argument by
noise and command, shows that his reason is
weak.
Montaigne.
15. To maintain an opinion because it is
thine, and not because it is true, is to prefer
thyself above truth. Ralph Venning.
16. Obstinacy is ever most positive, when
it is most in the wrong. Mme. Necker.
17. Stiff in opinion, always in the wrong.
Dryden.
18. It is an argument of great wisdom to
do nothing rashly—nor to be obstinate and
inflexible in our opinions.
Thomas à Kempis.
19. The foolish and the dead alone never
change their opinions.
Lowell.
20. He who deals in contradictions will
never be contradicted. Lavater.
21. Men who are self-willed are in de-
meanor perverse and forward, stiff and
stubborn, with much inconvenience to oth-
ers, and commonly with more to themselves.
I. Barrow,


CHAPTER XXVIII.
ANGER AND REVENGE.
The yielding heart knows least of pain:
'Tis wisest to forget, forgive;
And dwell in love and peace again.
Eliza Cook.
1. Revenge is the abject pleasure of an
abject mind.
Juvenal.
2. When passion is on the throne, reason
is out of doors. Matthew Henry.
3. The great remedy for anger is de-
lay.
Seneca.
4. Vengeance is the sweetest morsel to
the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.
Sir Walter Scott.
5. Some act first, think afterward, and
then repent forever. C. Simmons.
6. An irritable man lies like a hedgehog,
rolled up the wrong way, tormenting him-
self with his own prickles. E. P. Hood.
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things when thou art alone; suffer not thy
thoughts to feed upon them.
Richard Baxter.
8. There is no dispute managed without
a passion, and yet there is scarce a dispute
worth a passion. William Sherlock.
9. Prudence appears in two things; in
moderation when we are angry, and in for-
giveness when we have the power to pun-
ish.
Arabian Proverb.
10. What men want of reason for their
opinions, they usually supply and make up
in rage.
Archbishop Tillotson.
II. Receive no satisfaction for premedi-
tated impertinence; forget it-forgive it-
but we should keep him inexorably at a dis-
tance who offers it.
Lavater.
12. Revenge, at first though sweet, bitter
ere long, back on itself recoils. Milton.
13. If you are affronted, it is better to
pass it by in silence, or with a jest, though
with some dishonor, than to endeavor re-
venge.
Thomas Newton.
14. Fire in the heart, sends smoke into
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15. Revenge is a debt, in the payment of
which the greatest knave is honest and sin-
cere, and, so far as he is able, punctual.
Colton.
16. Who, in the midst of just provoca-
tion to anger, instantly finds the fit word
which settles those around him in silence, is
more than wise or just; he is, were he a
beggar, of more than royal blood—he is of
celestial descent.
Lavater.
17. Two things, well considered, would
prevent many quarrels; first, to have it well
ascertained whether we are disputing about
terms rather than things; and, secondly, to
examine whether that on which we differ is
worth contending about. Colton.
18. When the tongue or the pen is let
loose in a frenzy of passion, it is the man,
and not the subject, that becomes exhaust-
ed.
Thomas Paine.
19. He is a fool who cannot be angry;
but he is a wise man who will not.
Seneca.
20. Of all the ills by which mankind are
cursed, their own bad tempers are the worst.
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21. Many men are angry with them that
tell them of their faults, when they should
be angry only with the faults that are told
them.
Ralph Venning.
22. Keep thy temper, keep thy purse, and
keep thy tongue, if thou wouldst be healthy,
wealthy, and wise. P. M. Andrews.
some call it, but is rather doghood; the
manlier any man is, the milder and more
merciful.
J. Trapp.
24. While thou art yet in thy senses, let
the wrath of another be a lesson to thyself.
R. Dodsley.
25. He that lets the sun go down upon
his wrath, and goes angry to bed, is like to
have the devil for his bedfellow.
V. Borghini.
26. Be not angry that you cannot make
others as you wish them to be, since you
cannot make yourself what you wish to be.
Thomas à Kempis.
27. Women are sooner angry than men,
the sick than the healthy, and old men than
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28. The passionate are like men standing
on their heads; they see all things the
wrong way.
Plato.
29. He that will be angry for anything,
will be angry for nothing. Sallust.
30. By taking revenge a man is but even
with his enemy; but in passing over it he is
superior.
Lord Bacon.
31. An angry man who suppresses his
passions thinks worse than he speaks; and
an angry man that will chide speaks worse
than he thinks.
Lord Bacon.
32. Better to prevent a quarrel before-
hand than to revenge it afterward.
F. B. Zincke.
33. He who cannot control his anger
does not possess perfect wisdom.
Arabian Proverb.
34. Anger begins with folly, and ends
with repentance.
Pythagoras.
35. He that cannot forgive others, breaks
the bridge over which he must pass himself;
for every man has need to be forgiven.
Lord Herbert.
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angry at: at what he can help, and what he
Ancient Proverb.
37. He that would be angry and sin not,
must not be angry with anything but sin.
Thomas Secker.
38. Keep yourself from the anger of a
great man, from the tumult of a mob, from
a man of ill fame, from a widow that has
been thrice married, from a wind that
comes in at a hole, and from a reconciled
enemy.
German Maxim.
39. To be angry is to revenge the faults
of others upon ourselves. Pope.
40. Angry and choleric men are as un-
grateful and unsociable as thunder and
lightning, being in themselves all storm and
tempests; but quiet and easy natures are
like fair weather, welcome to all, and accept-
able to all men. Earl of Clarendon.
41. When angry, count ten before you
speak; if very angry, a hundred.
Jefferson.
42. An angry man is again angry with
himself when he returns to reason.
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49. Heat not a furnace for your foe so
hot that it do singe thyself. Shakespeare.
50. Have not to do with any man in his
passion; for men are not, like iron, to be
wrought upon when they are hot.
Old Proverb.
51. Lamentation is the only musician that
always, like a screech-owl, alights and sits
on the roof of an angry man. Plutarch.
52. Inflict not on an enemy every injury
in your power, for he may become your
friend.
Saadi.
53. I never love those salamanders that
are never well but when they are in the fire
of contention. I will rather suffer a thou-
sand wrongs than offer one. Bishop Hall.
54. Those passionate persons, who carry
their heart in their mouth, are rather to be
pitied than feared; their threatenings serv-
ing no other purpose than to forearm him
that is threatened. Thomas Fuller.
55. A more glorious victory cannot be
gained over another man than this, that
when the injury began on his part, the kind-
ness should begin on ours.
Archbishop Tillotson.


CHAPTER XXIX.
SLANDER.
If you desire length of days,
And peace to crown your mortal state,
Restrain your feet from wicked ways,
Your tongue from slander and deceit.
Dr. Watts.
1. The meanest and most contemptible
kind of praise is that which first speaks well
of a man and then qualifies it with a "but.”
H. W. Beecher.
2. Close your ears against him that opens
his mouth against another. If thou receiv-
est not his words, they fly back and wound
him. If thou dost receive them, they fly
forward and wound thee. Lavater.
3. Think of your own faults the first part
of the night when you are awake, and of the
faults of others the latter part of the night
when you are asleep. Chinese Proverb.
4. Listen not to the tale-bearer or slan-
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than a wound from the sword; for the lat-
ter affects only the body, the former the
spirit—the soul.
Pythagoras.
22. There are a set of malicious, prating,
prudent gossips, both male and female, who
murder characters to kill time, and will rob
a young fellow of his good name before he
has years to know the value of it.
R. B. Sheridan.
23. We should be as careful of our words
as of our actions, and as far from speaking
ill as from doing ill.
Cicero.
24. He who sees his own faults is too
much occupied to see the faults of others.
Arabian Proverb.
25. The cure of an evil tongue must be
done at the heart. A guileful heart makes
a guileful tongue and lips.
Archbishop Leighton.
26. The lowest people are generally the
first to find fault with show or equipage;
especially that of a person lately emerged
from his obscurity. They never once con-
sider that they are breaking the ice for
themselves.
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27. A good word is an easy obligation ;
but not to speak ill requires only our silence,
which costs us nothing.
Archbishop Tillotson.
28. If any one tells you that such a per-
son speaks ill of you, do not make excuse
about what he said of you, but answer:
"He was ignorant of my other faults, else
he would not have mentioned these alone.”
Epictetus.
29. Calumny is cutting honest throats by
whispers.
Sir Walter Scott.
30. Slanderers are like flies that pass all
over a man's good parts, to light only on his
sores,
Archbishop Tillotson.
31. The most dangerous of all beasts is
a slanderer; of tame ones, the flatterer.
Diogenes.
32. They who slander the dead, are like
envious dogs that bark and bite at bones.
Zeno.
34. No one sees the wallet on his own
back, though every one carries two packs,
one before, stuffed with the faults of his
neighbors; the other behind, filled with his
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49. No greater damage can be done to a
man than to damage his character.
Old Proverb.
* 50. Praise is life in death; vituperation is
death in life.
Arabian Proverb.
51. Great numbers of moderately good
people think it fine to talk scandal ; they re-
gard it as a sort of evidence of their own
goodness.
F. W. Faber.
52. He who stabs you in the dark with a
pen, would do the same with a penknife,
were he equally safe from detection and the
law.
Quintilian.
53. A cruel story runs on wheels, and
every hand oils the wheels as they run.
George Eliot.


CHAPTER XXX.
LIFE, OLD AGE AND DEATH.
Life's a short summer, man a flower;
He dies, alas; how soon he dies !
Catch, then, O catch the transient hour;
Improve each moment as it flies.
Johnson.
1. A good man doubles the length of his
existence; to have lived so as to look back
with pleasure on our past existence is to
live twice.
Martial.
2. We live in deeds, not in years; in
thoughts, not in breaths; in feelings, not in
figures on a dial. We should count time by
heart-throbs. He most lives who thinks
most, feels the noblest, and acts the best.
P. J. Bailey.
3. The great fact is that life is a service.
The only question is: “Whom will we
serve ?”
F. W. Faber.
4. That life is long which answers life's
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serves no name; the man of wisdom is the
man of years.
Edward Young.
5. It is impossible to live pleasurably
without living prudently, and honorably, and
justly; or to live prudently, and honorably
and justly without living pleasurably.
Epicurus.
6. Life is composed of two parts: That
which is passed-a dream; and that which
is to come—a wish. Arabian Proverb.
7. With most men life is like a backgam-
mon-half skill and half luck.
0. W. Holmes.
8. What is life but a circulation of little
mean actions ? We lie down and rise again,
dress and undress, feed and grow hungry,
work or play, and are weary; and then we
lie down again and the circle returns.
Bishop Burnet.
9. One should never think of death. One
should think of life; that is real piety.
Lord Beaconsfield.
10. The life of man is a journey; a jour-
ney that must be travelled, however bad the
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11. There are in the history of a man
only three epochs, his birth, his life, and his
death; he is not conscious of being born;
he submits to die; and he forgets to live.
La Bruyère.
12. The easiest thing for our friends to
discover in us, and the hardest thing for us
to discover in ourselves, is that we are grow-
ing old.
H. W. Shaw.
13. Youth is a blunder ; manhood a strug-
gle; old age, a regret. Lord Beaconsfield.
14. Years following years steal some-
thing every day; at last they steal us from
ourselves away.
Pope.
15. Man spends his life in reasoning on
the past, complaining of the present, and
trembling for the future. Rivarol.
16. By medicine life may be prolonged,
yet death will seize the doctor too.
Shakespeare.
17. Death is the liberator of him whom
freedom cannot release; the physician of
him whom medicine cannot cure; and the
comforter of him whom time cannot con-
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18. Death is as near to the young as to
the old; here is the difference: Death stands
behind the young man's back, before the old
man's face.
Rev. T. Adams.
19. It matters not how a man dies, but
how he lives.
Johnson.
20. An old man once said: “When I was
young I was poor ; when old I became rich;
but in each condition I found disappoint-
ment. When the faculties of enjoyment
were, I had not the means; when the means
came, the faculties were gone.”
Mme. de Gasparin.
21. Earth's highest station ends in-
"Here he lies.”
Edward Young.
22. Men are but children, too, though
they have gray hairs; they are only of a
larger size.
Seneca.
23. Youthful follies growing on old age,
are like the few young shoots on the bare
top of an old stump of an oak.
John Foster.
24. It is an infamy to die and not to be
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25. To be seventy years young, is some-
times far more cheerful and hopeful than to
be forty years old. O. W. Holmes.
26. Death comes equally to all, and makes
us equal when it comes. John Donne.
27. Death borders upon our birth, and
our cradle stands in the grave.
Bishop Hall.
28. An old man hath the almanac in his
body.
Italian Proverb.
29. We come and cry, and that is life;
we cry and go, and that is death.
French Proverb.
30. Death is the finishing touch in the
picture of life.
French Proverb.
31. If wrinkles must be written upon our
brows, let them not be written upon the
heart. The spirit should not grow old.
James A. Garfield.
32. Forty is the old age of youth; fifty
is the youth of old age. Victor Hugo.
33. A person is always startled when he
hears himself seriously called old for the
first time.
O. W. Holmes.
34. Life is but a loan to man; death is
the creditor who will one day claim it.
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35. He is not dead who departs from life
with a high and noble fame; but he is dead,
even while living, whose brow is branded
with infamy.
Ludwig Tieck.
36. Consider the lillies of the field, whose
bloom is brief. We are as they ; like them
we fade away, as doth the leaf.
Constantine Rossetti.
37. It is not by the gray of the hair that
one knows the age of the heart. Bulwer.
38. As we grow old, we become more
foolish and more wise.
La Rochefoucauld.
39. Years do not make sages; they only
make old men. Mme. Swetchine.
40. To live is a gift; to die is a debt.
Seneca.
41. That old man dies prematurely whose
memory records no benefits conferred. They
only have lived long who have lived virtu-
ously.
R. B. Sheridan.
42. A useless life is only an early death.
Gathe.
43. Many old camels carry the skins of
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44. The record of life runs thus: Man
creeps into childhood, bounds into youth,
sobers into manhood, softens into age, tot-
ters into second childhood, and slumbers in-
to the cradle prepared for him.
Henry Giles.
45. By common consent gray hairs are a
crown of glory; the only object of respect
than can never excite envy.
George Bancroft.
46. Age and youth look upon life from
the opposite ends of the telescope; it is ex-
ceedingly long—it is exceedingly short.
H. W. Beecher.
47. Death possesses a good deal of real
estate; namely, the graveyard in every
town.
Hawthorne.
48. A man is thirty years old before he
has any settled thoughts of his fortune; it
is not completed before fifty. He falls to
building in his old age, and dies by the time
his house is in condition to be painted and
glazed.
La Bruyère.
49. Men in general do not live as they
looked to die; and therefore do not die as
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50. When we are young, we are slavishly
employed in procuring something whereby
we may live comfortably when we grow old;
and when we are old, we perceive it too late
to live as we proposed.
Pope.
51. There cannot live a more unhappy
creature than an ill natured old man, who
is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor
sensible of doing them to others.
Sir W. Temple.
52. We hope to grow old, yet we fear old
age; that is, we are willing to live, and
afraid to die.
La Bruyère.
53. A comfortable old age is the reward
of a well-spent youth. R. Palmer.
54 An honorable death is better than an
inglorious life.
Socrates.
55. In childhood be modest, in youth
temperate, in manhood just, in old age pru-
dent.
Socrates.
56. The old man's staff is the rapper at
death's door.
Spanish Proverb.
57. We are born crying, live complain-
ing, and die disappointed.
Sir W. Temple.
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58. There is but this difference between
the death of old men and of young men ;
that old men go to death, and death comes
to young men.
Old Maxim.
59. The grave is the common treasury to
which we must all be taken.
Edmund Burke.
60. There appears to exist a greater de-
sire to live long than to live well! Measure
by man's desires, he cannot live long
enough; measure by his good deeds, and he
has not lived long enough; measure by his
evil deeds, and he has lived too long.
Zimmerman.
61. Though we seem grieved at the
shortness of life in general, we are wishing
every period of it at an end. The minor
longs to be at age, then to be a man of busi-
ness, then to make up an estate, then to ar-
rive at honors, then to retire. Addison.
62. He who increases the endearments of
life, increases, at the same time, the terrors
of death.
Thomas Young.
63. When we think of death, a thousand
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hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously
seek after the whole world while we are
living.
Philip of Macedon.
71. Time's chariot wheels make their
carriage road in the fairest faces.
La Rochefoucauld.
72. No snow falls lighter than the snow
of age; but none lies heavier, for it never
melts.
Anon.
73. Death brings to the righteous rest,
and the death of the wicked brings rest to
mankind.
Arabian Proverb.
74. All die who have lived; all have not
lived who die.
Zimmerman.
75. “When I am a man" is the poetry of
childhood; “When I was young" is the
poetry of old age. Camille Flammarion.
76. The age of man resembles a book; in-
fancy and old age are the blank leaves,
youth the preface, and manhood the body or
most important part of life's volume.
E. P. Day.
77. When our vices leave us, we flatter
ourselves that we leave them.
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78. When we were children, we deemed
ourselves men; now that we are old, we are
deemed as children.
Talmud.
79. Old age has deformities enough of
its own; do not add to it the deformities of
vice.
Cato.
80. Youth is a crown of roses; old age
is a crown of thorns.
Talmud.
81. Gray hairs are churchyard flowers.
German Proverb.
82. Every returning birthday is a mile-
stone in the journey of life.
Old Proverb.
83. The man who lives in vain, lives more
than in vain. He who lives to no purpose,
lives to a bad purpose. William Nevins.
84. Life is not dated merely by years.
Events are sometimes the best calendars.
Lord Beaconsfield.
85. When all is done, human life is, at the
greatest and best, but like a froward child
that must be played with, and humored a
little to keep it quiet, till it falls asleep, and
the care is over. Miss Lucy Barton.
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WISE SAYINGS OF NOTED AUTHORS.
The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs
which are brief and pithy. Collect and learn
them; they are notable measures and directions
for human life; you have much in little; they
save time in speaking, and upon occasion, may
be the fullest and safest answers.
-Wm. Penn.





UNCLASSIFIED QUOTATIONS.
1. He that will not economize will have
to agonize.
Confucius.
2. Neither great poverty nor great riches
will hear reason. Henry Fielding.
3. A small debt produces a debtor ; a large
one an enemy.
Publius Syrus.
4. Curiosity is looking over other people's
affairs, and overlooking our own.
H. L. Wayland.
5. The eye of the master will do more
work than both of his hands : not to oversee
workmen, is to leave your purse open.
Franklin.
6. A little nonsense, now and then, is rel-
ished by the wisest men. Old Proverb.
7. When a man becomes familiar with his
goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman.
Addison.
8. Faith is like love: it cannot be forced.
As trying to force love begets hatred, so
trying to compel religious belief leads to un-
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9. A fool can no more see his folly than
he can see his ears.
Thackeray.
10. If you would know the value of
money, go and borrow some. He that goes
a-borrowing, goes a-sorrowing.
Franklin.
11. To preach more than half an hour, a
man should be an angel himself, or have an-
gels for hearers. George Whitefield.
12. Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but
it is confoundedly inconvenient.
Sydney Smith.
13. The darkest hour in the history of any
young man is, when he sits down to study
how to get money without honestly earn-
ing it.
Horace Greeley.
14. When a man has not a good reason
for doing a thing, he has one good reason
for letting it alone. Thomas Scott.
15. Every man's task is his life-preserver.
Emerson.
16. The difference between a puppy and
a fool is this—the one is born blind and con-
tinues so for nine days only, while the other
remains with his eyes shut all his life.
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17. The jest loses its point when he who
makes it, is the first to laugh.
Schiller.
18. He who can conceal his joys, is great-
er than he who can hide his griefs.
Lavater.
19. A man's best friends are his ten fin-
gers.
Robert Collyer.
20. Society is composed of two great
classes: those who have more dinners than
appetite, and those who have more appetite
than dinners. S. R. N. Chamfort.
21. I1l-luck is, in nine cases out of ten, the
result of saying pleasure first and duty sec-
ond, instead of duty first and pleasure
second.
T. T. Munger.
22. The doctor sees all the weakness of
mankind, the lawyer all the wickedness, the
theologian all the stupidity.
Schopenhauer.
23. In every action reflect upon the end;
and in your undertaking it, consider why
you do it.
Jeremy Taylor.
24. Make yourself an honest man, and
then you may be sure that there is one rascal
less in the world.
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25. There are two perfectly good men;
one is dead, and the other unborn.
Chinese Proverb.
26. Whatever you lend, let it be your
money, and not your name. Bulwer. .
27. The weak may be joked out of any-
thing but their weakness. Zimmerman.
28. Carve your name on hearts, and not
on marble.
Spurgeon.
29. He that will believe only what he can
fully comprehend, must have a very long
head, or a very short creed. Colton.
30. A little neglect may breed great mis-
chief; for want of a nail the shoe was lost,
for want of a shoe the horse was lost, and
for want of a horse the rider was lost, being
overtaken and slain by an enemy: all for
want of care about a horseshoe nail.
Franklin.
31. With time and patience, the mulberry
leaf becomes silk. Chinese Proverb.
32. He that visits the sick in hopes of a
legacy, let him be ever so friendly in all
other cases, I look upon him in this to be
no better than a raven, that watches a weak
sheep only to pick out its eyes.
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"I cannot do it” never accomplished any-
thing. “I will try” has wrought wonders.
J. Hawes.
41. Use law and physic only for neces-
sity; they that use them otherwise, abuse
themselves into weak bodies and light
purses.
Quarles.
42. There are three things a wise man
will not trust—the wind, the sunshine of an
April day, and a woman's plighted faith.
Robert Southey.
43. A man's reception depends upon his
coat; his dismissal, upon the wit he shows.
.: P. J. Beranger.
44. If you wish success in life, make per-
severance your bosom friend, experience
your wise counsellor, caution your elder
brother, and hope your guardian genius.
Addison.
45. He who loves with purity, considers
not the gift of the lover, but the love of the
giver.
Thomas à Kempis.
46. Easy-crying widows take new hus-
bands soonest; there is nothing like wet
weather for transplanting.
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47. Superstition changes a man to a
beast, fanaticism makes him a wild beast,
and despotism a beast of burden.
J. F. La Harpe.
48. The reason why borrowed books are
so seldom returned to their owners is, that
it is much easier to retain the books than
what is in them.
Montaigne.
49. Some people pass through life soberly
and religiously enough, without knowing
why, or reasoning about it; but, from the
force of habit only, go to heaven like fools.
Lawrence Sterne.
50. Something of a person's character
may be discovered by observing when and
how he smiles. Some people never smile;
they merely grin.
C. N. Bovee.
51. Scoff not at the natural defects of
any which are not in their power to amend.
O, it is cruel to beat a cripple with his own
crutches !
Thomas Fuller.
52. The way to avoid the imputation of
impudence is, not to be ashamed of what
we do, but never to do what we ought to be
ashamed of.
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qadi.
61. A fool always finds a greater fool to
admire him.
Nicholas Boileau.
62. If the eye does not admire, the heart
will not desire. Italian Proverb.
63. The dearest things in the world are
our neighbors eyes; they cost everybody
more than anything else in housekeping.
Horace Smith.
64. Absence of occupation is not rest; a
bok, but
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65. Some are born great, some achieve
greatness, and some have greatness thrust
upon them.
Shakespeare.
66. The evidence of others is not compar-
able to personal experience; nor is “I heard”
so good as "I saw." Chinese Proverb.
67. Envy's memory is nothing but a row
of hooks to hang up grudges on.
John Foster.
68. Wise men are instructed by reason;
men of understanding, by experience; the
most ignorant, by necessity; and beasts, by
nature.
Cicero.
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increases his knowledge; he who believes
blindly increases his errors.
Arabian Proverb.
70. The fool is willing to pay for any-
thing but wisdom. No man buys that of
which he supposes himself to have an abun-
dance already.
W. G. Simms.
70. Men show their character in nothing
more clearly than by what they think laugh-
able.
Gathe.
71. No man may be both accuser and
judge.
Solon.
72. Be not too familiar with thy servants.
At first it may beget love, but in the end it
will breed contempt. Richard Fuller.
73. Wisdom prepares for the worst, but
folly leaves the worst for the day when it
comes.
Richard Cecil.
74. If we would perpetuate our fame or
reputation, we must do things worth writ-
ing, or write things worth doing. Pliny.
75. A wise man is never less alone than
when he is alone.
Dean Swift.
76. If I ever reach heaven, I expect to
find three wonders there: first, to meet
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to miss some I had expected to see there;
and third, the greatest wonder of all, to find
myself there.
John Newton.
77. Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, and
he will come out with a fish in his mouth.
Arabian Proverb.
78. It is easy to open a shop, but hard to
keep it open.
Chinese Proverb.
79. It is a great pity when the man who
should be the head figure, is a mere figure-
head.
Spurgeon.
80. “Can you tell a plain man the plain
road to heaven?” “Surely. Turn at once
to your right, then go straight forward.”
Bishop Wilberforce.
81. The man who invented "if” and
"but,” must surely have chopped straw into
gold.
G. A. Burger.
82. The ring makes marriages, and rings
make a chain.
Schiller.
83. One would what he should, but he
can't; one could what he should, but he
won't; one would and could, but he knows
not what he should.
Gamthe.
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breast, himself a priest, his heart a sacrifice,
and the earth he treads on an altar.
Jeremy Taylor.
85. Gain at the expense of reputation
should be called loss. Publius Syrus.
86. Trust was a good man; Trust not a
better.
Italian Proverb.
87. Luck inspires pluck. Gæthe.
88. Do not trust or contend, nor borrow
or lend, and you will be happy in the end.
Spanish Proverb.
89. To ask what is unreasonable from the
reasonable is not right; to ask what is rea-
sonable from the unreasonable is folly.
Plautus.
90. In the land of promise a man may die
of hunger.
Dutch Proverb.
91. In a lawsuit nothing is certain but the
expense.
A. Butler.
92. It is better to live in a haunted forest
than to live amongst relations, after the loss
of wealth.
Hitopadesa.
93. It is advisable that a man should
know at least three things: First, where he
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stances.
Ruskin.
94. Of four things every man has more
than he knows, of sins, and debts, and years,
and foes.
Persian Proverb.
95. Young people talk of what they are
doing, old people talk of what they have
done, and fools of what they have a mind to
do.
French Proverb.
96. One man's eyes are spectacles to an-
other to read his heart with. Johnson.
97. The rich patient cures the poor phy-
sician much more often than the poor phy-
sician the rich patient.
Colton.
98. When he to whom a man speaks does
not understand, and he who speaks does not
understand himself, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire.
99. A boy was once asked what meekness
was. He thought for a moment and said:
"Meekness gives smooth answers to rough
questions."
Mrs. Balfour.
100. He that can please nobody, is not so
much to be pitied as he that nobody can
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101. The beginning of all good law, and
very nearly the end of it, is that every man
shall do good work for his bread, and that
every man shall have good bread for his
work.
Ruskin.
102. Vices are contagious, and there is
no trusting the sick and the well.
Seneca
103. If many a man knew who many a
man was, many a man would do many a
time more honor to many a man.
German Proverb.
104. The men I am afraid of are the men
who believe everything, subscribe to every-
thing, and vote for everything.
Bishop Shipley.
105. There are three classes of authors-
those who write without thinking, those
who think while writing, and those who
think before writing. Schopenhauer.
106. The clergy are at present divided
into three sections: an immense body who
are ignorant; a small proportion who know
and are silent; and a minute minority who
know and speak according to their knowl-
edge.
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E lie and
s Ellis
Es a poor?
ath, and
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grace
old people say; and where there is danger,
keep out of the way. Old Proverb.
122. Four things belong to a judge: to
hear courteously, to answer wisely, to con-
sider soberly, and to give judgment without
partiality.
Socrates.
123. Fools learn nothing from wise men,
but wise men learn much from fools.
Lavater.
124. Do not close a letter without read-
ing, nor drink water without seeing it.
Spanish Proverb.
125. Four things are grievously empty: a
head without brains, a wit without judg-
ment, a heart without honesty, and a purse
without money.
Bishop Earle.
126. There are three persons you should
never deceive: your physician, your con-
fessor, and your lawyer.
Horace Walpole.
127. Censure is the tax a man pays to the
public for being eminent. Dean Swift.
128. Never live in hope or expectation,
while your arms are folded.
Old Proverb.
2011.
is a
is a
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and
best


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129. All is but lip-wisdom which wants
experience.
Sir P. Sidney.
130. Fashion is, for the most part, noth-
ing but the ostentation of riches.
Locke.
131. He that thinks of many things thinks
of nothing, and he that would go several
ways stands still.
Anon.
132. He that blows the coals in quarrels
he has nothing to do with, has no right to
complain if the sparks fly in his face.
Franklin.
133. Reason cannot show itself more rea-
above reason.
Sir P. Sidney.
134. A good fame is better than a good
face.
Old Proverb.
135. He who trusts all things to chance,
makes a lottery of his life. Anon.
136. Lawmakers should not be law-
breakers.
Bias.
137. Men may blush to hear what they
were not ashamed to act.
Arabian Proverb.
138. The stone that lieth not in thy way,
need not offend thee.
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h wants
t, noth
ocke.
- think
severa
10%.
quarrels
ght to
139. Have pity upon the honorable man
that is despised, upon the rich man that is
impoverished, and upon the wise man who
hath fallen among fools.
Eastern Proverb.
140. He that scoffs at the crooked, had
need to go very upright himself.
Arabian Proverb.
141. To make an empire durable, the
magistrates must obey the laws, and the
people the magistrates.
Solon.
142. It is not your posterity, but your ac-
tions, that will perpetuate your memory.
Bonaparte.
143. Creditors have better memories than
debtors; and creditors are a superstitious
sect, great observers of set days and times.
Franklin.
144. Though you are commanded to love
your enemy, you are not bound to put a
sword in his hand. Old Proverb.
145. Too much asseveration is a good
ground for suspicion. Truth and honesty
have no need of loud protestations.
Anon.
ce rea
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good
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146. You will never have a friend if you
must have one without fault.
Arabian Proverb.
147. Of all the pests the greatest pest is
superstition.
Anon.
148. Deliberate long of what thou canst
do but once.
Publius Syrus.
149. He that is not handsome at twenty,
strong at thirty, wise at forty, and rich at
fifty, will never be handsome, strong, wise
or rich.
Italian Proverb.
150. If you would be known and not
know, vegetate in a village; if you would
know and not be known, live in a city.
Colton.
151. The traveler with empty pockets will
sing in the presence of the robber.
Juvenal.
152. Those who cross the sea change
their clime, but not their nature. A man
that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail him-
self into common sense. Addison.
153. Men generally are willing to believe
what they wish to be true. Cæsar.
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riend is
Prover.
atest peste
AROM
thou care
mis Syrus.
at twent
and rich a
Crong, må
Proveró.
and me
J'ou wozi
a city.
Colton.
Ockets w
delight to give presents than to pay debts.
Sir P. Sidney.
155. Many get into dispute well that
cannot get out well. Old Proverb.
156. He that makes a question where
there is no doubt, must make an answer
where there is no reason. Anon.
· 157. He is doubly sinful who congratu-
lates a successful knave. Publius Syrus.
158. There are four good mothers, of
whom are often born four unhappy daugh-
ters: Truth begets hatred, prosperity pride,
security danger, and familiarity contempt.
Cicero.
159. He that will sell his fame, will also
sell the public interest.
Solon.
160. A fool may ask more questions in
an hour than a wise man can answer in
seven years.
G. D. Prentice.
161. A good presence is the best letter of
recommendation. Queen Elizabeth.
162. The way to gain a good reputation
is to endeavor to be what you desire to ap-
pear.
Socrates.
163. Our greatest glory consists not in
uvenal
a chang
A mai
sail hit
ddison
co believe
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173. He that is not sensible of his loss,
has lost nothing. Arabian Proverb.
174. Keep aloof from quarrels; be neither
a witness nor a party. Spanish Proverb.
175. Honor thy physician before thou
hast need of him.
Talmud.
176. Beware of him who regards not his
reputation.
Old Proverb.
177. This world is a great book, of which
they that never stir from home, read only a
page.
St. Austin
178. One doth the blame, another bears
the shame.
Old Proverb.
179. A person with a bad name is already
half hanged.
Old Proverb.
dom.
Arabian Proverb.
181. Vice is most dangerous when it puts
on the garb of virtue. Publius Syrus.
182. Light cares speak; great ones are
dumb.
Seneca.
183. To read without reflecting, is like
eating without digesting.
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SOON het
es Roma
zipon their
Ettempting
oes not e
buy
Colti
t overwis
Vassing
pt to be
runken 2
193. It is as great a point of wisdom to
hide ignorance, as to discover knowledge.
J. Yorke.
194. Live in peace with all men; never-
theless, have but one counsellor.
Arabian Proverb.
195. He who shuts his eyes to some
things, saves his sight; but he who winks at
all things, is a fool. W. S. Downey.
196. Young men's construction is de-
struction, and old men's destruction is con-
struction.
Jewish Proverb.
197. He who injured thee was stronger
or weaker; if weaker, spare him; if strong-
er, spare yourself.
Seneca.
198. There is no place where weeds do
not grow, and there is no heart where er-
rors are not to be found.
Anon.
199. A learned fool is more foolish than
an ignorant fool.
Molière.
200. Of all theives, fools are the worst;
they rob you of time and temper.
Gathe.
201. A fool may have his coat embroid-
ered with gold, but it is a fool's coat still.
Roarol.
hough.
resterfield
our hoc
cars.
foucould.
Chan a grë
Proveró.
e not sui
the wants
Inlerniak.
fear him
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when he pleases, and the latter when he can
get it.
Sir W. Raleigh.
212. “Impossible" is a word to be found
in the dictionary of fools. Napoleon
213. A jealous man sleeps dog-sleep.
Sir Thomas Overbury.
214. Letters which are warmly sealed, are
often but coldly opened. Richter.
215. Haste makes waste, and waste
makes want, and want makes strife between
the good husband and his wife.
Old Proverb.
216. Impatience dries the blood sooner
than age and sorrow. E. H. Chapin.
217. Pity those whom nature abuses, but
never those who abuse nature.
Sir J. Vanbrugh.
218. A wise man may change his opin-
ion; but the fool changes as often as the
moon.
Anon.
219. To him nothing is possible, who is
always dreaming of his past impossibilities.
Carlyle
220. It is a great happiness to be praised
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221. Every man is a volume if you know
how to read him. W. E. Channing.
222. The worst thing an old man can be
is a lover.
Thomas Otway.
223. If thou art a master, be sometimes
blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.
Thomas Fuller.
224. Put not your trust in money, but
put your money in trust. 0. W. Holmes.
225. Fools rush in where angels fear to
tread.
Pope.
226. What I want is, not to possess re-
ligion, but to have a religion that shall
possess me.
Charles Kingsley.
227. How many people live on the repu-
tation of the reputation they might have
made!
0. W. Holmes.
228. A broad hat does not always cover a
wise head.
Henry Fielding.
229. A nobody is just the person to find
fault with everybody. E. P. Day.
230. A fool never adores himself so much
as when he has committed some great folly.
Samuel Jebb.
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W. E. Chce
an old man:
Thomas Oli
ter, be sent
mes deai.
Thomas Fai
t in money
1. W. Hold
? angels fa
world, are the very ones who imagine they
can do everything. Miss R. M. Zorlin.
232. Self-preservation is the first law of
nature, but too many in the world act as
though it were the only one. J. Hyatt.
233. Luck is the idol of the idle.
Old Proverb.
234. Beware, as long as you live, of judg-
ing men by their outward appearance.
La Fontaine,
235. Every reply is an answer, but
every answer is not a reply.
G. F. Graham.
236. Deliberately consider whether a
thing be practicable; if it be not practicable,
do not attempt it. Arabian Proverb.
237. They are never alone who are ac-
companied by noble thoughts.
Sir P. Sidney.
238. Every man, however wise, requires
the advice of some sagacious friend in the
affairs of life.
. Plautus
239. Be wise worldly, but not worldly
wise.
Quarles.
240. Leisure for men of business, and
to possessing
ion that is
es Kinguion
- on the regio
might be
- Holmes
Vays cover
Fielding
son to
P. Day
7f so muc
reat fall
1 Jobba
78 in the